Chapter Gloppen to Glow of G by Webster's Dictionary (1913 Edition)

2. A boxing glove.

Boxing glove. See under Boxing. — Glove fight, a pugilistic contest in which the fighters wear boxing gloves. — Glovemoney 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 (Zoöl.), 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
(Glove), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Gloved ; p. pr. & vb. n. Gloving.] To cover with, or as with, a glove.

Glover
(Glov"er) n. One whose trade it is to make or sell gloves.

Glover'ssuture 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
(Glow) v. i. [imp. & p. p. Glowed (glod); p. pr. & vb. n. Glowing.] [AS. glowan; akin to D. gloeijen, OHG. gluoen, G. glühen, Icel. gloa, Dan. gloende glowing. &radic94. 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.

Glow
(Glow), v. t. To make hot; to flush. [Poetic]

Fans, whose wind did seem
To glow the delicate cheeks which they did cool.

Shak.

Glow
(Glow), n.

1. White or red heat; incandscence.

2. Brightness or warmth of color; redness; a rosy flush; as, the glow of health in the cheeks.