Boxing glove. See under Boxing. -- Glove fight, a pugilistic contest in
which the fighters wear boxing gloves. -- Glove money or silver. (a) A
tip or gratuity to servants, professedly to buy gloves with. (b) (Eng.
Law.) A reward given to officers of courts; also, a fee given by the
sheriff of a county to the clerk of assize and judge's officers, when
there are no offenders to be executed. -- Glove sponge (Zoˆl.), a fine
and soft variety of commercial sponges (Spongia officinalis). -- To be
hand and glove with, to be intimately associated or on good terms with.
"Hand and glove with traitors." J. H. Newman. -- To handle without
gloves, to treat without reserve or tenderness; to deal roughly with.
[Colloq.] -- To take up the glove, to accept a challenge or adopt a
quarrel. -- To throw down the glove, to challenge to combat.
Glove, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Gloved (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Gloving.] To
cover with, or as with, a glove.
Glov"er (?), n. One whose trade it is to make or sell gloves.
Glover's suture or stitch, a kind of stitch used in sewing up wounds,
in which the thread is drawn alternately through each side from within
outward.
Glow (gl), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Glowed (gld); p. pr. & vb. n. Glowing.]
[AS. glwan; akin to D. gloeijen, OHG. gluoen, G. gl¸hen, Icel. gla,
Dan. gloende glowing. √94. Cf. Gloom.]
1. To shine with an intense or white heat; to give forth vivid light
and heat; to be incandescent.
Glows in the stars, and blossoms in the trees.
Pope.
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.
Clad in a gown that glows with Tyrian rays.
Dryden.
And glow with shame of your proceedings.
Shak.
3. To feel hot; to have a burning sensation, as of the skin, from
friction, exercise, etc.; to burn.
Did not his temples glow In the same sultry winds and acrching
heats?
Addison.
The cord slides swiftly through his glowing hands.
Gay.
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.
With pride it mounts, and with revenge it glows.
Dryden.
Burns with one love, with one resentment glows.
Pope.