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glow(1) (iou)



glow noun. LME.
[from the verb.]
The state or condition of glowing, esp. with heat or light. LME.
in a glow hot, flushed.
R. W. Emerson Summer's scorching glow. A. MacLean On a dark night the glow from a torch can be seen from a considerable distance.
Brightness and warmth of colour; esp. a warm redness of the cheeks indicating youth or health. L16.
G. Stein The heat gave a pretty pink glow to her..attractive face.
Warmth of feeling; ardour, passion. M18.
M. Drabble I went upstairs..in a glow of contentment.
Comb. (partly from the verb): glow discharge a sparkless electrical discharge, esp. in a low-pressure gas, producing a diffuse luminous glow; glow-fly a firefly; glow-lamp an electric lamp containing a high-resistance filament, esp. one in which most of the light is produced by the incandescence of an enclosed gas (usu. neon or argon); glow-light a glowing light; spec. a glow-lamp; glow plug an electrically heated plug used to ignite the gas in a gas turbine or diesel engine; glow-worm a beetle, Lampyris noctiluca, the wingless female and other stages of which emit light from the abdomen; any of numerous similar beetles constituting the family Lampyridae.