To emit heat and light without a flame.
Iron glows red hot when heated to near its melting point.
Of a fire: to emit heat and light.
The fire was still glowing after ten hours.
To look intently; to stare.
Borgnoyer. To vvant an eye; to looke, or ſee but vvith one eye; […] alſo, to glovv, glote, or loure.
A state of heat and light being emitted by a hot object.
The struggling spark of good within, / Just smother'd in the strife of sin, / They quicken to a timely glow, / The pure flame spreading high and low.
A state of heat being emitted by a person or an animal's body.
He had so heated himself with rapid walking in the fog and frost, this nephew of Scrooge's, that he was all in a glow; his face was ruddy and handsome; his eyes sparkled, and his breath smoked again.
The verb is derived from Middle English glouen, glowen (“to give off heat and light without flame; of a thing: to be heated until red hot; to be brightly coloured; to shine brightly; (figurative) to b...
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A state of light being emitted by something (for example, a bioluminescent animal or fungus, or a mineral) which is not hot; luminescence.
So if you find yourself regularly up late at night, basking in the TV's glow, you might be doing more than just depriving yourself of sleep.