lowe
/ləʊ
/noun Scottish & Northern English
A warm light, especially one produced by fire: a lowe that crackled to yellow and red...
- Any excuse for a lowe in the chimney!
- As it wore on to midnight, a lowe in mauve and gold crept and slipped and wavered upon the sky.
- His ship's all lighted in a lowe.
Origin
Middle English: of Scandinavian origin, from an Indo-European base shared with light1.