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Glow [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. Shining heat, or white heat.

2. Brightness of color; redness; as the glow of health in the cheeks.

3. A waving glow his bloomy beds display,

4. Blushing in bright diversities of day.

5. Vehemence of passion.

Glow [Verb intransitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. To shine with intense heat; or perhaps more correctly, to shine with a white heat; to exhibit incandescence. Hence, in a more general sense, to shine with a bright luster.

2. GLOW s in the stars, and blossoms in the trees.

3. To burn with vehement heat.

4. The scorching fire that in their entrails glows.

5. To feel great heat of body; to be hot.

6. Did not his temples glow

7. In the same sultry winds and scorching heats?

8. To exhibit a strong bright color; to be red.

9. Clad in a gown that glows with Tyrian rays.

10. Fair ideas flow,

11. Strike in the sketch, or in the picture glow

12. To be bright or red with heat or animation, or with blushes; as glowing cheeks.

13. To feel the heat of passion; to be ardent; to be animated, as by intense love, zeal, anger, etc.

14. We say, the heart glows with love or zeal; the glowing breast.

15. When real virtue fires the glowing bard.

16. If you have never glowed with gratitude to the author of the christian revelation, you know nothing of christianity.

17. To burn with intense heat; to rage; as passion.

18. With pride it mounts, and with revenge it glows.

19. To heat so as to shine. [Not used.]

Glow [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. White or red heat; incandscence.

2. Brightness or warmth of color; redness; a rosy flush; as, the glow of health in the cheeks.

3. Intense excitement or earnestness; vehemence or heat of passion; ardor.

4. Heat of body; a sensation of warmth, as that produced by exercise, etc.

Glow [Verb intransitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. To shine with an intense or white heat; to give forth vivid light and heat; to be incandescent.

2. To exhibit a strong, bright color; to be brilliant, as if with heat; to be bright or red with heat or animation, with blushes, etc.

3. To feel hot; to have a burning sensation, as of the skin, from friction, exercise, etc.; to burn.

4. To feel the heat of passion; to be animated, as by intense love, zeal, anger, etc.; to rage, as passior; as, the heart glows with love, zeal, or patriotism.

Glow [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

To make hot; to flush.

Glowbard [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

The glowworm.

Glowed [Imperfect tense and past participle] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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Glower [Verb intransitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

to look intently; to stare angrily or with a scowl.

Glowered [Imperfect tense and past participle] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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Glowering [Present participle and verbal noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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Glowing [Participle present tense] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. Shining with intense heat; white with heat.

2. Burning with vehement heat.

3. Exhibiting a bright color; red; as a glowing color; glowing cheeks.

4. Ardent; vehement; animated; as glowing zeal.

5. Inflamed; as a glowing breast.

Glowing [Present participle and verbal noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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Glowingly [Adverb] Webster's Dictionary 1828

With great brightness; with ardent heat or passion.

Glowingly [Adverb] Webster's Dictionary 1913

In a glowing manner; with ardent heat or passion.

Glowlamp [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. An aphlogistic lamp. See Aphlogistic.

2. An incandescent lamp. See Incandescent, a.

Glowworm [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

The female of the Lampyris noctiluca, an insect of the order of Coleopters. It is without wings and resembles a caterpillar. It emits a shining green light from the extremity of the abdomen. The male is winged and flies about in the evening, when it is attracted by the light of the female.

Glowworm [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

A coleopterous insect of the genus Lampyris; esp., the wingless females and larvae of the two European species (L. noctiluca, and L. splendidula), which emit light from some of the abdominal segments.

Glowworm Encyclopedia Britannica

GLOWWORM. See Coleoptera, vol. vi. p. 132.

9th ed. Encyclopædia Britannica, vol. 10, p. 693
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2 Samuel 22:9

There went up a smoke out of his nostrils, and fire out of his mouth devoured: coals were kindled by it.

Smoke rose from His nostrils, and consuming fire came from His mouth; glowing coals blazed forth.

Job 18:5

Yea, the light of the wicked shall be put out, and the spark of his fire shall not shine.

Indeed, the lamp of the wicked is extinguished; the flame of his fire does not glow.

Psalms 18:8

There went up a smoke out of his nostrils, and fire out of his mouth devoured: coals were kindled by it.

Smoke rose from His nostrils, and consuming fire came from His mouth; glowing coals blazed forth.

Psalms 102:3

For my days are consumed like smoke, and my bones are burned as an hearth.

For my days vanish like smoke, and my bones burn like glowing embers.

Isaiah 4:5

And the LORD will create upon every dwelling place of mount Zion, and upon her assemblies, a cloud and smoke by day, and the shining of a flaming fire by night: for upon all the glory shall be a defence.

Then the LORD will create over all of Mount Zion and over her assemblies a cloud of smoke by day and a glowing flame of fire by night. For over all the glory there will be a canopy,

Isaiah 6:6

Then flew one of the seraphims unto me, having a live coal in his hand, which he had taken with the tongs from off the altar:

Then one of the seraphim flew to me, and in his hand was a glowing coal that he had taken with tongs from the altar.

Ezekiel 1:13

As for the likeness of the living creatures, their appearance was like burning coals of fire, and like the appearance of lamps: it went up and down among the living creatures; and the fire was bright, and out of the fire went forth lightning.

In the midst of the living creatures was the appearance of glowing coals of fire, or of torches. Fire moved back and forth between the living creatures; it was bright, and lightning flashed out of it.

Ezekiel 24:11

Then set it empty upon the coals thereof, that the brass of it may be hot, and may burn, and that the filthiness of it may be molten in it, that the scum of it may be consumed.

Set the empty pot on its coals until it becomes hot and its copper glows. Then its impurity will melt within; its rust will be consumed.