glowing

from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Glow \Glow\ (gl[=o]), v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Glowed} (gl[=o]d); p.
   pr. & vb. n. {Glowing}.] [AS. gl[=o]wan; akin to D. gloeijen,
   OHG. gluoen, G. gl["u]hen, Icel. gl[=o]a, Dan. gloende
   glowing. [root]94. Cf. {Gloom}.]
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   1. To shine with an intense or white heat; to give forth
      vivid light and heat; to be incandescent.
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            Glows in the stars, and blossoms in the trees.
                                                  --Pope.
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   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.
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            Clad in a gown that glows with Tyrian rays.
                                                  --Dryden.
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            And glow with shame of your proceedings. --Shak.
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   3. To feel hot; to have a burning sensation, as of the skin,
      from friction, exercise, etc.; to burn.
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            Did not his temples glow
            In the same sultry winds and acrching heats?
                                                  --Addison.
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            The cord slides swiftly through his glowing hands.
                                                  --Gay.
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   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.
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            With pride it mounts, and with revenge it glows.
                                                  --Dryden.
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            Burns with one love, with one resentment glows.
                                                  --Pope.
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from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

glowing \glowing\ adj.
   1. softly bright or radiant.

   Syn: aglow(predicate), lambent, luminous, lucent.
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   2. highly enthusiastic; as, glowing praise.
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   3. brilliantly colored and apparently giving off light.

   Syn: fluorescent.
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   4. afire; as, glowing embers. [prenominal]

   Syn: burning.
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from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

302 Moby Thesaurus words for "glowing":
      Titian, Titian-red, ablaze, adhesive, afire, aflame, aflicker,
      aglow, alight, ardent, avid, beaming, beamy, beatific, beatified,
      blazing, blessed, blissful, blithe, blithesome, blooming, blowzed,
      blowzy, blushing, boiling, boiling over, breathless, bricky,
      bright, bright and sunny, brilliant, burning,
      burning with excitement, burnt, candent, candescent, capering,
      cardinal, carmine, carnation, carnelian, cerise, cheerful, cheery,
      cherry, cherry-colored, cherry-red, chirping, chromatic, cold,
      colorific, coloring, comburent, complimentary, conflagrant, cool,
      cordial, crimson, damask, dancing, dazzling, delirious, desirous,
      devastating, dichromatic, divine, drunk, eager, elated, emphatic,
      encomiastic, enthused, enthusiastic, enthusiastic about,
      eulogistic, eupeptic, euphoric, exalted, excited, exciting,
      exhilarated, exuberant, favorable, febrile, ferruginous, fervent,
      fervid, fevered, feverish, fierce, fiery, fire-red, flagrant,
      flame-colored, flame-red, flaming, flaring, flickering, florid,
      flush, flushed, flushed with joy, flushing, full of enthusiasm,
      full-blooded, fuming, gay, genial, glad, gladsome, glamorous,
      gleaming, gleamy, glinting, glorious, gluey, gooey, gorgeous,
      gules, gung-ho, guttering, happy, harmonious, hearty, heated,
      heavenly, hectic, het up, high, hopeful, hot, hot-blooded,
      ignescent, ignited, illuminant, impassioned, in a blaze, in a glow,
      in flames, in good spirits, in high spirits, in rut, incandescent,
      incarmined, infatuated with, inflamed, infrared, intense,
      intoxicated, iron-red, irradiative, irrepressible, joyful, joyous,
      keen, keen on, killing, kindled, lake-colored, laky, lambent,
      lamping, lateritious, laudatory, laughing, leaping, light as day,
      live, lively, living, lobster-red, luciferous, lucific, luciform,
      luminant, luminative, luminiferous, luminificent, luminous, lurid,
      lustrous, many-colored, maroon, matching, medley, monochromatic,
      monochrome, monochromic, motley, of good cheer, on fire,
      optimistic, orient, panegyrical, parti-colored, passionate,
      pigmentary, pleasant, polychromatic, port-wine, prismatic,
      provoking, puce, purring, radiant, rainbow, raving, ravishing, red,
      red-complexioned, red-dyed, red-faced, red-fleshed, red-hot,
      red-looking, reddened, reddish, reddish-amber, reddish-brown,
      reeking, resplendent, rhapsodic, riant, rich, rosy, rosy-cheeked,
      rubicund, rubiginous, rubric, rubricose, ruby, ruby-colored,
      ruby-red, ruddied, ruddy, ruddy-complexioned, ruddy-faced,
      rufescent, rufous, rust, rust-red, rusty, rutilant, rutilous,
      sanguine, sanguineous, scarlet, scintillant, scintillating,
      seething, sexually excited, shining, shiny, singing, smiling,
      smirking, smoking, smoldering, sparking, sparkling, spectral,
      splendid, splendorous, splendrous, stammel, starbright, starlike,
      starry, starry-eyed, steaming, steamy, stimulating, stirring,
      stodgy, streaming, stunning, sublime, suffused, sunburned, sunny,
      sunshiny, thrice happy, tile-red, tinctorial, tingent, toning,
      unextinguished, unquenched, unrestrained, urgent, variegated,
      vehement, vermilion, vibrant, vigorous, vinaceous, warm, wine,
      wine-colored, wine-red, winsome, zealous