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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



... through the hole like an arrow, crossed a big kitchen, and disappeared through another hole on the opposite side near the range. As one sees telegraph posts out of the train so Bubi saw that kitchen. By the hearth, in the glow of the fire, lay an enormous cat, the dreadful Don Pedro, its great whiskers heaving up ...
— Perez the Mouse • Luis Coloma
... block. The great writer, moreover, takes us with him into new places, among new scenes, so that Rugby becomes for a time our own school, and from Tim's poor hearth there enters a warm Christmas glow into our doubting hearts. Although the plot is important, yet all stories that enthral the mind with exciting incidents must be regarded with suspicion until they prove their right to be considered real literature by furnishing ...
— Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 10 - The Guide • Charles Herbert Sylvester
... keenly cold, but windless; and in the purplish sky, the wintry crown of stars burned with silvery lustre, unlike the golden glow of constellations throbbing in sultry summer, and their white fires sparkled, flared as if blown by interstellar storms. The large family of Lazarus huddled over dying embers on darkening hearths, and ...
— At the Mercy of Tiberius • August Evans Wilson
... is not narrow, it takes in every phase of training that is essential to produce a well developed and useful life. It touches and tints industrial training with a brighter and richer glow. It quickens the faculties of the mind, adds keenness to the power of perception, forms permanent habits of industry and strengthens the will or ...
— The Choctaw Freedmen - and The Story of Oak Hill Industrial Academy • Robert Elliott Flickinger
... over the Llano Estacado, his beams gilding with ruddy glow the brown basaltic cliffs that enclose the valley of ...
— The Lone Ranche • Captain Mayne Reid


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