glew
/ɡluː/
glew is the simple past of glow.
glew is the obsolete form of glue.
glew is the obsolete form of solder.
Meaning of glow
Verb
glow (third-person singular simple present glows, present participle glowing, simple past glowed or (dialectal) glew, past participle glowed or (dialectal) glew or (dialectal) glown)
- To emit heat and light without a flame.
- Iron glows red hot when heated to near its melting point.
- Of a fire: to emit heat and light.
- The fire was still glowing after ten hours.
- To emit light brightly and steadily as if heated to a high temperature; to shine.
- [N]ovv glovv'd the Firmament / VVith living Saphirs: […]1667, John Milton, “Book IV”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC, signature...
- To be very hot; also, to be on fire; to burn.
- [T]he torrid Zone / Glovvs vvith the paſſing and repaſſing Sun.1697, Virgil, “The First Book of the Georgics”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC, page 59, lines...
- 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.
- Of a person: to display intense emotion.
- a healthy glow
Meaning of glue
Noun
glue (countable and uncountable, plural glues)
- A hard gelatin made by boiling bones and hides, used in solution as an adhesive; or any sticky adhesive substance.
- Near-synonyms: adhesive, cement
- Anything that binds two things or people together.
- What is a kiss ? Why this, as some approve, / The sure sweet cement, glue, and lime of love.1648, Robert Herrick, “A Kiss”, in Hesperides, London: H. G. Bohn, published 1852, page 159
- A viscid secretion on the surface of certain plants.
Forms of glew
| plural | glews |
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Origin of glew
Either formed on the analogy of know, grow (and other verbs which are now weak in the standard such as crow, mow) or inherited from Middle English glew, glewe (“glowed”), in turn from Old English glēow (“glowed”), past tense of Old English glōwan (“to glow”).
From Middle English glew, glu, etc.
Phrases with glew
Questions about glew
- What is glew the simple past of?
- Glew is the simple past of glow.
- How do you pronounce glew?
- Glew is pronounced /ɡluː/.
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Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: glew (page history and authors); glow (page history and authors); glue (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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