aglow, adv., prop. phr.
(əˈgləʊ)
[a prep.1 of state + glow.]
1. In a glow of warmth, or of some warm colour.
1817 Coleridge Biogr. Lit. 118 Now all a-glow with colours not their own. 1871 Tyndall Fragm. Sc. (ed. 6) I. iv. 125 The great mass of the Fletshorn was all a-glow. Mod. I was all aglow with the exercise. |
2. fig. In a glow of (pleasurable) excitement; flushed.
a 1834 Coleridge Poems 257 Amid the tremor of a realm aglow, Amid a mighty nation jubilant. 1872 Black Adv. Phaeton xxii. 308 All her face was aglow with delight. |