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Glow   /gloʊ/   Listen
Glow

noun
1.
An alert and refreshed state.  Synonym: freshness.
2.
Light from nonthermal sources.  Synonym: luminescence.
3.
The phenomenon of light emission by a body as its temperature is raised.  Synonym: incandescence.
4.
A feeling of considerable warmth.  "A glow of regret"
5.
A steady even light without flames.
6.
The amount of electromagnetic radiation leaving or arriving at a point on a surface.  Synonyms: glowing, radiance.
7.
An appearance of reflected light.  Synonyms: gleam, gleaming, lambency.
verb
(past & past part. glowed; pres. part. glowing)
1.
Emit a steady even light without flames.
2.
Have a complexion with a strong bright color, such as red or pink.  Synonyms: beam, radiate, shine.
3.
Shine intensely, as if with heat.  Synonym: burn.  "The candles were burning"
4.
Be exuberant or high-spirited.
5.
Experience a feeling of well-being or happiness, as from good health or an intense emotion.  Synonyms: beam, radiate, shine.  "Her face radiated with happiness"



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"Glow" Quotes from Famous Books



... blessed and lighted the great bonfire before the church; and immediately, at this signal, an answering fire sprang up on a hill at the other side of the village. Then fire on fire glittered and multiplied, till all the village was in a glow. This was a custom set in memory of the old days when fires flashed intelligence, after a fixed code, across the great rivers and lakes, and from hill ...
— The Judgment House • Gilbert Parker
... rises, and we are in the depths of the Rhine; water-nymphs sport about; Alberich, an evil being of the river, tries in vain to catch them. The water grows brighter with the rising of the sun, and the Rhinegold is seen to glow on the summit of a high rock. Defeated in his attempts to capture a nymph, Alberich scales the rock, seizes the gold and makes off with it. The silly creatures have told him that their innocent toy, shaped into a ring, would ...
— Richard Wagner - Composer of Operas • John F. Runciman
... passed at length, as all nights pass. The sun rose over purple hills to glow upon the spring-stirred forest and to send golden shafts deep down into the clear heart of lake and stream. The fallen beauty of past woodland summers had tinged the water till it glowed like nut-brown wine; so brown it was that the pools of the river, where ...
— A Dozen Ways Of Love • Lily Dougall
... Ethel noted carefully the equipment of the driver's box. It was a duplicate throughout of the dummy steering gear with which she had practiced in the ship's gymnasium. One conspicuous addition, however, was an object illuminated by the small glow lamp that had attracted her attention. This proved to be chart or map mounted at either end on short rollers. As the girl watched it, she perceived that it moved slowly. A red line was drawn across the map and hovering over this was the tip of a metal pointer. A compass and a watch ...
— In the Clutch of the War-God • Milo Hastings
... vision all thy life, Of strenuous toil; the cabin low and rude; The meagre fare; the blazing logs whose glow Illumed the pages of inspired bards, Shakespeare and Bunyan; prophets, priests and seers; The darkling forest where thy ringing axe Chimed with the music of the waterfall; The eager flood bearing thy rugged raft Swift footed through an ever changing world ...
— The Poets' Lincoln - Tributes in Verse to the Martyred President • Various


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