Obs. or arch. A blazing cresset; the light of a cresset; a beacon-light.
1525. in Vicary’s Anat. (1888), App. iii. 170. To be furnyssed with his Watche … with Cressett light borne before them.
1587. Fleming, Contn. Holinshed, III. 1271/2. John Cassimere … conueied by cresset light and torch light to sir Thomas Greshams house.
1610. Histrio-m., II. 269. Come Cressida, my Cresset light, Thy face, doth shine both day and night.
1729. Shelvocke, Artillery, V. 356. Those who … ran about like mad People with Cresset-Lights of Sulphur and Dirt.
1832. Motherwell, Merry Gallant, Poems 194. Yet in the midnight watch, I trow, When cresset lights all feebly burn.
