adv., prop. phr. [A prep.1 of state + GLOW.]

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  1.  In a glow of warmth, or of some warm color.

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1817.  Coleridge, Biogr. Lit., 118. Now all a-glow with colours not their own.

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1871.  Tyndall, Fragm. Sc. (ed. 6), I. iv. 125. The great mass of the Fletshorn was all a-glow.

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Mod.  I was all aglow with the exercise.

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  2.  fig. In a glow of (pleasurable) excitement; flushed.

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a. 1834.  Coleridge, Poems, 257. Amid the tremor of a realm aglow, Amid a mighty nation jubilant.

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1872.  Black, Adv. Phaeton, xxii. 308. All her face was aglow with delight.

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