Lewis Short
candesco, ui, 3
* V. inch. n. [candeo], to become of a bright, glittering white, to begin to glisten or radiate (rare; mostly poet.): ut solet aër candescere solis ab ortu,Ov. M. 6, 49; Tib. 1, 10, 43.
* To begin to glow, to grow red hot: ferrum candescit in igni,Lucr. 1, 491; Ov. M. 2, 230; Vitr. 7, 9fin; cf. candeo fin.
Charlton T. Lewis, Charles Short, A Latin Dictionary