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roundish conical shape, purplish red color, and having a large core. [Written also gilliflower.] Clove gillflower, the clove pink. -- Marsh gillyflower, the ragged robin (Lychnis Flos-cuculi). -- Queen's, or Winter, gillyflower, damewort. -- Sea gillyflower, the thrift (Armeria vulgaris). -- Wall gillyflower, the…

Europæus), found in the mountainous parts of Europe, and producing handsome globe-shaped flowers.

with an intense or white heat; to give forth vivid light and heat; to be incandenscent. Glows in the stars, and blossoms in the trees. Pope.

The glowworm. [Obs.]

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

In a glowing manner; with ardent heat or passion.

An aphlogistic lamp. See Aphlogistic.

iluca, and L. splendidula), which emit light from some of the abdominal segments. Like a glowworm in the night, The which hath fire in darkness, none in light. Shak.

Agreeable companionship; companionableness.

An intimate companion. Hail-fellow well met. Lyly.

t for holy or religious use; to consecrate; to treat or keep as sacred; to reverence. "Hallowed be thy name." Matt. vi. 9. Hallow the Sabbath day, to do no work therein. Jer. xvii. 24. His secret altar touched with hallowed fire. Milton. In a larger sense . . . we can not hallow this ground [Gettysburg]. A. Lincoln.…

The evening preceding Allhallows or All Saints' Day. [Scot.] Burns.

The feast of All Saints, or Allhallows. To speak puling, like a beggar at Hallowmas. Shak.

Inflated, as with conceit.

Elevated; proud. "High-flown hopes." Denham.

A laced boot, ankle high.

l or artificial, within a solid substance; not solid; excavated in the interior; as, a hollow tree; a hollow sphere. Hollow with boards shalt thou make it. Ex. xxvii. 8..

Insincere; deceitful; not sound and true; having a cavity or decayed spot within.

Having permanent horns with a bony core, as cattle.

Insincerely; deceitfully. Shak.