glow
(glō)
[Middle English glouen, from Old English glōwan.]
intransitive verb: glowed, glow·ing, glows.
- To shine brightly and steadily, especially without a flame: Embers glowed in the furnace.
- To have a bright, warm, usually reddish color: The children's cheeks glowed from the cold.
- To flush; blush.
- To be exuberant or radiant: parents glowing with pride.
noun
- A light produced by a body heated to luminosity; incandescence.
- Brilliance or warmth of color, especially redness: “the evening glow of the city streets when the sun has gone behind the tallest houses” (Seán O'Faoláin)
- A sensation of physical warmth.
- A warm feeling, as of pleasure or well-being.