glow
/ɡloʊ/ noun B2- A state of heat and light being emitted by a hot object.
- A state of heat being emitted by a person or an animal's body.
- A state of light being emitted by something (for example, a bioluminescent animal or fungus, or a mineral) which is not hot; luminescence.
- A state of brightness or warmth of colour; specifically, a reddish colour on a person's face indicating health or youth; a flush. · He had a bright red glow on his face.
- A condition of being passionate or having warm feelings; an ardour.
Plural glows
Phrasal verbs and expressions
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Franz had already made seven or eight similar excursions to the Colosseum, while his less favored companion trod for the first time in his life the classic ground forming the monument of Flavius Vespasian; and, to his credit be it spoken, his mind, even amid the glib loquacity of the guides, was duly and deeply touched with awe and enthusiastic admiration of all he saw; and certainly no adequate notion of these stupendous ruins can be formed save by such as have visited them, and more especially by moonlight, at which time the vast proportions of the building appear twice as large when viewed by the mysterious beams of a southern moonlit sky, whose rays are sufficiently clear and vivid to light the horizon with a glow equal to the soft twilight of a western clime.
Glow-worm in the highway rut,
Here I see it glow with day
On the very threshold she stopped short, wheeled about, came back and sat down by the table, light and glow as effectually blotted out as if some one had clapped an extinguisher on her.
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