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olor, form, or qualities; blooming; red; blushing; also, adorned with roses. A smile that glowed Celestial rosy-red, love's proper hue. Milton. While blooming youth and gay delight Sit thy rosy cheeks confessed. Prior.

Having a reddish glow; shining. Parchments . . . colored with this rutilant mixture. Evelin.

colors. A mule . . . streaked and dappled with white and black. Sandys. Now streaked and glowing with the morning red. Prior.

trouble. Bk. of Com. Prayer. It was not the transitory light of a comet, which shines and glows for a wile, and then . . . vanishes into nothing. South. Transitory action (Law), an action which may be brought in any county, as actions for debt, and the like; -- opposed to local action. Blackstone. Bouvier.…

An electric glow lamp having filaments of metallic tungsten. Such lamps, owing to the refractory nature of the metal, may be maintained at a very high temperature and require an expenditure of only about 1.25 watts per candle power.

Having a sensation of heat, esp. of gentle heat; glowing.

The glowing effect which arises from the use of warm colors; hence, any similar appearance or effect in a painting, or work of color.

rter where the sun sets; as, the western shore of France; the western ocean. Far o'er the glowing western main. Keble.