Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In electricity, an incandescent lamp; a glow-lamp.
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Examples
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Several weeks before I'd met with Governor Patterson and New York City Council Speaker Christine Quinn in a rain soaked glow-light and sidewalk chalk vigil to commemorate the lives of six boys more since shamed into suicide.
Stephanie A. Jones: Out of the Rain, Into the Cathedral Stephanie A. Jones 2010
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Several weeks before I'd met with Governor Patterson and New York City Council Speaker Christine Quinn in a rain soaked glow-light and sidewalk chalk vigil to commemorate the lives of six boys more since shamed into suicide.
Stephanie A. Jones: Out of the Rain, Into the Cathedral Stephanie A. Jones 2010
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"Where are your parents, lad?" the guard asked, angling a glow-light down to shed its eerie glowing green light on them.
Dragon's Fire McCaffrey, Anne 2006
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She stood at the bow, her knife and sword naked in the glow-light, and pointed tc me land.
The Hour of the Gate Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1984
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She stood at the bow, her knife and sword naked in the glow-light, and pointed tc me land.
The Hour of the Gate Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1984
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But when she saw her husband, standing in dinted space armor against the chilly glow-light, her stride faltered.
The High Crusade Anderson, Poul, 1926- 1960
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Dr. Brende was poring over charts, illumined by a dim glow-light beside him.
Tarrano the Conqueror Ray Cummings 1922
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With the help of the pistol glow-light I made my way back to the tree where a few minutes before I had been propped up, helpless.
The Four Faces A Mystery William Le Queux 1895
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