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Heated to whiteness; glowing with heat. "A candent vessel." Boyle.

Glowing; luminous; incandescent.

vas. To suit his canvas to the roughness of the see. Goldsmith. Light, rich as that which glows on the canvas of Claude. Macaulay.

, her complexion dark. Wordswoorth. Between the pale complexion of true love, And the red glow of scron and proud disdain. Shak.

to place, by sea or land; an escort, for protection or guidance. When every morn my bosom glowed To watch the convoy on the road. Emerson.

The dark space within the negative-pole glow at the cathode of a vacuum tube, observed only when the pressure is low enough to give a striated discharge; -- called also Crookes layer.

A growing hot; a white or glowing heat; incandescence. [R.]

White or glowing with heat. [R.] Ure.

Hot; glowing; boiling; burning; as, a fervent summer. The elements shall melt with fervent heat. 2 Pet. iii. 10.

Intensity of feeling or expression; glowing ardor; passion; holy zeal; earnestness. Hooker. Winged with fervor of her love. Shak.

Flaming; inflamed; glowing; burning; ardent. The beadle's lash still flagrant on their back. Prior. A young man yet flagrant from the lash of the executioner or the beadle. De Quincey. Flagrant desires and affections. Hooker.

Burning zeal or passion; elevated and noble enthusiasm; glowing imagination; passionate excitement or anger. "In a flame of zeal severe." Milton. Where flames refin'd in breasts seraphic glow. Pope. Smit with the love of sister arts we came, And met congenial, mingling flame with flame. Pope.

To snow red; to shine suddenly; to glow. In her cheek, distemper flushing glowed. Milton.

Heat or glow, as from drinking; agitation mingled with confusion; disorder.

To checker; to diversify. [R. & Poet.] The painted windows, frecking gloom with glow. Lowell.

isitely bright; shining; dazzling; effulgent. Other Thracians . . . fulgent morions wore. Glower.

ack out in a cowardly fashion. [Colloq.] To funk right out o' political strife. Lowell (Biglow Papers).

A live or glowing coal; a glede. [Archaic] Chaucer. Longfellow.

A glowworm. {Obs.] Holland.

To glare; to glower. [Obs.] Halliwell.