glowverb詞源 1/ɡləʊ/

• 1

  To emit heat and light without a flame.

  • Iron glows red hot when heated to near its melting point.
• 2

  Of a fire: to emit heat and light.

  • The fire was still glowing after ten hours.
  • The mettled Steeds, vvhen from their Noſtrils flovvs / The ſcorching Fire, that in their Entrails glovvs.
• 3

  To emit light brightly and steadily as if heated to a high temperature; to shine.

  • [N]ovv glovv'd the Firmament / VVith living Saphirs: […]
  • The Temple ſhakes, the ſounding Gates unfold, / VVide Vaults appear, and Roofs of fretted Gold: / […] / Of bright, tranſparent Beryl vvere the VValls, / The Freezes Gold, and Gold the Capitals: / As Heaven vvith Stars, the Roof vvith Jevvels glovvs, / And ever living Lamps depend in Rovvs.
• 4

  To be very hot; also, to be on fire; to burn.

  • [T]he torrid Zone / Glovvs vvith the paſſing and repaſſing Sun.
  • Firſt vvith nice eye emerging Naiads cull / From leathery pods the vegetable vvool [cotton]; / VVith vviry teeth revolving cards releaſe / The tangled knots, and ſmooth the ravell'd fleece; / […] / Then fly the ſpoles, the rapid axles glovv, / And ſlovvly circumvolves the labouring vvheel belovv.
• 5

  Of a colour: to be bright; also, of a thing: to have a bright colour.

  • The new baby’s room glows with bright, loving colours.
  • To vvhom the Angel vvith a ſmile that glovv'd / Celeſtial roſie red, Loves proper hue, / Anſvver'd.
• 6

  Of a person: to display intense emotion.

  • a healthy glow
  • The zealots glowed with religious fervor.
• 7

  Of a person's body or a part of it: to feel hot and often to flush (“become suffused with a reddish colour”) as well, due to an emotional response, exertion, etc.

  • After their workout, the gymnasts’ faces were glowing.
  • Moreover, is not this an opinion generally received, That vvhen our ears do glovv and tingle, ſome there be that in our abſence doe talke of us?
• 8

  To be involved in an (chiefly online) undercover sting operation, especially by American federal agencies.

  • If this post glows any brighter I'm going to need sunglasses. 😄🕶👌

glownoun詞源 1/ɡləʊ/

• 1

  A state of heat and light being emitted by a hot object.

  • The struggling spark of good within, / Just smother'd in the strife of sin, / They quicken to a timely glow, / The pure flame spreading high and low.
  • My garden is the cloven rock, / And my manure the snow; / And drifting sand-heaps feed my stock, / In summer's scorching glow.
• 2

  A state of heat being emitted by a person or an animal's body.

  • He had so heated himself with rapid walking in the fog and frost, this nephew of Scrooge's, that he was all in a glow; his face was ruddy and handsome; his eyes sparkled, and his breath smoked again.
  • ["]You must be frozen." / "Well, Lizzie, I ain't of a glow; that's certain. And my hands seemed nailed through to the sculls. See how dead they are!"
• 3

  A state of light being emitted by something (for example, a bioluminescent animal or fungus, or a mineral) which is not hot; luminescence.

  • So if you find yourself regularly up late at night, basking in the TV's glow, you might be doing more than just depriving yourself of sleep.
• 4

  A state of brightness or warmth of colour; specifically, a reddish colour on a person's face indicating health or youth; a flush.

  • He had a bright red glow on his face.
  • If you vvill ſee a pageant truely plaid / Betvveene the pale complexion of true Loue, / And the red glovve of ſcorne and provvd diſdaine, / Goe hence a little, and I ſhall conduct you / If you vvill marke it.
• 5

  A condition of being passionate or having warm feelings; an ardour.

  • There's not a joy the world can give like that it takes away, / When the glow of early thought declines in feeling's dull decay; […]
  • […] Romola felt herself surrounded and possessed by the glow of his passionate faith.

glowverb詞源 2/ɡləʊ/

• 1

  dialectalTo look intently; to stare.

  • Borgnoyer. To vvant an eye; to looke, or ſee but vvith one eye; […] alſo, to glovv, glote, or loure.
  • [A] thouſand frantick Spirits / Peep'd from the VVatry brink, and glovv'd upon me.