1. To shine brightly and steadily, especially without a flame: Embers glowed in the furnace.
2. 1. To have a bright, warm, usually reddish color: The children's cheeks glowed from the cold.
   2. To flush; blush.
3. To be exuberant or radiant: parents glowing with pride.

1. A light produced by a body heated to luminosity; incandescence.
2. 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).
3. A sensation of physical warmth.
4. A warm feeling, as of pleasure or well-being.

[Middle English glouen, from Old English glōwan.]

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