Word Meanings - CANDESCENT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Glowing; luminous; incandescent.

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• GLOWLAMP
  An aphlogistic lamp. See Aphlogistic.
• GLOWBARD
  The glowworm.
• LUMINOUS
  1. Shining; emitting or reflecting light; brilliant; bright; as, the is a luminous body; a luminous color. Fire burneth wood, making it . . . luminous. Bacon. The mountains lift . . . their lofty and luminous heads. Longfellow. 2. Illuminated;
• GLOWWORM
  A coleopterous insect of the genus Lampyris; esp., the wingless females and larvæ of the two European species (L. noctiluca, and L. splendidula), which emit light from some of the abdominal segments. Like a glowworm in the night, The which hath
• GLOWER
  to look intently; to stare angrily or with a scowl. Thackeray. (more info) Etym:
• GLOW
  1. To shine with an intense or white heat; to give forth vivid light and heat; to be incandenscent. Glows in the stars, and blossoms in the trees. Pope. 2. To exhibit a strong, bright color; to be brilliant, as if with heat; to be bright or red
• INCANDESCENT
  White, glowing, or luminous, with intense heat; as, incandescent carbon or platinum; hence, clear; shining; brilliant. Holy Scripture become resplendent; or, as one might say, incandescent throughout. I. Taylor. Incandescent lamp or light , a kind
• GLOWINGLY
  In a glowing manner; with ardent heat or passion.
• SELF-LUMINOUS
  Possessing in itself the property of emitting light. Sir D. Brewster.
• AGLOW
  In a glow; glowing; as, cheeks aglow; the landscape all aglow.
• ILLUMINOUS
  Bright; clear. H. Taylor.
• ALUMINOUS
  Pertaining to or containing alum, or alumina; as, aluminous minerals, aluminous solution.
• FLUMINOUS
  Pertaining to rivers; abounding in streama.
• AFTER-GLOW
  A glow of refulgence in the western sky after sunset.
• VOLUMINOUS
  Of or pertaining to volume or volumes. Specifically: -- Consisting of many folds, coils, or convolutions. But ended foul in many a scaly fold, Voluminous and vast. Milton. Over which dusky draperies are hanging, and voluminous curtains have long
• TRILUMINAR; TRILUMINOUS
  Having three lights
• COUNTERGLOW
  An exceedingly faint roundish or somewhat oblong nebulous light near the ecliptic and opposite the sun, best seen during September and October, when in the constellations Sagittarius and Pisces. Its cause is not yet understood. Called
• ALPENGLOW
  A reddish glow seen near sunset or sunrise on the summits of mountains; specif., a reillumination sometimes observed after the summits have passed into shadow, supposed to be due to a curving downward of the light rays from the west resulting
• SUNGLOW
  A rosy flush in the sky seen after sunset.