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▪ I. glowing, vbl. n.|ˈgləʊɪŋ|
[f. glow v. + -ing1.]
The action of the vb. glow, in its various senses.
c1440Promp. Parv. 200/1 Glowynge of hoote fyre, or yryn, or oþer lyke, candor. 1562Turner Baths 11 b, They are good for..the glowyng or sounde of the eares. 1579Lyly Euphues (Arb.) 171 And God grant thee that glowing and sting in conscience. 1704Addison Italy (1733) 52 You have no Concern in..the Glowings of Summer. 1733Cheyne Eng. Malady ii. xi. §2 (1734) 229 Uncertain Fits of Coldness and Rigour, with succeeding Glowings. 1862W. Branks Life in Heaven iv. (1865) 58 Their Souls are warmed with the glowings of divine love. 1866Odling Anim. Chem. 63 The glowing is soon succeeded by a brilliant combustion. 1891Athenæum 22 Aug. 245/3 The luminosity..is due to a simple glowing.
†b. In transitive sense: The action of causing to glow. Obs.
1683Pettus Fleta Min. i. 140 The glowing must be done in a golden little half Pipkin.
▪ II. glowing, ppl. a.|ˈgləʊɪŋ|
[f. glow v. + -ing2.]
That glows, in senses of the vb.
1. That is in a glow from the action of heat; burning, incandescent.
c1000Sax. Leechd. II. 216 Gemeng togædere mid glowende isene. c1200Ormin 1067 O þatt allterr haffdenn þeȝȝ Glowennde gledess ȝarrkedd. c1290S. Eng. Leg. I. 187/81 He let nime platus of Ire..þo heo glowinde were. a1300Cursor M. 23438 If it war scoit into þi hefd, A glouand iren þar in beleued, and [etc.]. c1450ME. Med. Bk. (Heinrich) 70 Ley hem on a glowynge tylston. 1535Stewart Cron. Scot. II. 512 Richt oft he fell into ane glowand heit. 1597A. M. tr. Guillemeau's Fr. Chirurg. 24 b/2 A glowinge or redde-hotte Cauterium. 1621T. Williamson tr. Goulart's Wise Vieillard 52 But old men are like..a small gloing fire, which dyes and goes out of it selfe. 1704Addison Italy 240 Like a vast Caldron fill'd with glowing and melted Matter. 1848Lytton Harold viii. vi, The Vala paused..gazing in awe on the glowing stone. 1879Proctor Pleas. Ways Sci. i. 3 The glowing vapour of the familiar metal, iron.
2. Brilliantly luminous; brilliant, rich, and warm in colouring; also, having the glow or exuberant colouring of excitement or health.
13..E.E. Allit. P. C. 94 Our syre syttes..on sege so hyȝe In his glwande glorye. 1637Milton Lycidas 145 The glowing violet. 1697Dryden Alexander's Feast 70 The master saw the madness rise; His glowing cheeks, his ardent eyes. 1712Addison Spect. No. 477 ⁋1 The glowing redness of the berries. 1727–46Thomson Summer 1315 Her naked limbs of glowing white. 1794Mrs. Radcliffe Myst. Udolpho i, Nor was it in the soft and glowing landscape that she most delighted. 1800Asiat. Ann. Reg., Misc. Tr. 231/1 Female musicians, with glowing cheeks and faces like the sun. 1833Tennyson Lady Clara Vere de Vere viii, In glowing health, with boundless wealth, But sickening of a vague disease. 1860Tyndall Glac. i. iii. 24 As he stood in the glowing light of the fire. 1879G. A. Sala in Daily Tel. 8 May, Sir John's glowing canvas might be mistaken for a moment for some Bacchanalian triumph.
b. fig.
1827H. Steuart Planter's G. (1828) 32 The glowing colours of the historian. 1851–5G. Brimley Ess., Tennyson 50 The dramatic colouring throughout is maintained at a glowing tone. 1871Freeman Norm. Conq. (1876) IV. xvii. 80 A glowing description of the wealth of England.
3. That glows with passion; ardent, impassioned, fervid.
a1577Gascoigne Absent Dame Complaineth Wks. Herbs (1587) 138 The priuie coales, of glowing ielousie. 1747Collins Passions 7 By turns they felt the glowing mind. 1805N. Nicholls Let. in Corr. w. Gray (1843) 45 He was much struck with the glowing eloquence..of Rousseau. 1835Ure Philos. Manuf. 15 Arkwright..had the..boldness to predict in glowing language, how [etc.]. 1869Ruskin Q. of Air §53 Athena, spiritually, is the queen of all glowing virtue. 1883Sir T. Martin Ld. Lyndhurst iv. 120 It was not without cause that the fond mother wrote of her son in such glowing terms.
4. quasi-adv. in phr. glowing hot.
c1450ME. Med. Bk. (Heinrich) 115 Take an hoot tile, þat is glowynge hoot. 1523Fitzherb. Husb. §62 Take a culture..or suche an other yren, & take it glowing hote. 1664Power Exp. Philos. i. 54 A parcel of the Flint or Steel..which..is made so glowing hot, that 'tis melted into glass. 1784Cowper Tiroc. 304 The little ones, unbuttoned, glowing hot, Playing our games, and on the very spot. 1848J. A. Carlyle tr. Dante's Inferno ix, All over so glowing-hot, that iron more hot no craft requires.
Hence ˈglowingly adv., in a glowing manner, with brightness, high colour, or warmth; ardently, enthusiastically.
a1616Beaum. & Fl. Wit without M. iv. i, Out hee must breake, glowingly againe, And with a greater luster. c1815Moore Irish Melodies, When cold in the earth 15 If happiness..glowingly smil'd On his ev'ning horizon. 1822Examiner 428/2 We do not look at this group coldly but glowingly. 1871L. Stephen Playgr. Europe ii. v. 305 The tremendous cliffs..have been glowingly described in..many Alpine books. 1883Harper's Mag. Mar. 533/2 She was glowingly proud of her kitchen. a1887Jefferies Field & Hedgerow (1889) 20 Some [apples]..more glowingly beautiful than the rest. |