a. The light given by a fire or fires. † b. Lightning (obs.). c. (quot. 1845) = AURORA 5.
Beowulf, 3037. He … Fyr-leoht ȝeseah.
a. 1300. Cursor Mundi, 22680 (Trin.). As þondir doþ wiþ fire liȝt.
1769. De Foe’s Tour Gt. Brit., III. 210. Near Burlington stands Flamborough-head, a little Promontory, which bends into the Sea, and forms the Bay of Burlington, It takes its Name from Flam, a British Word for a Fire-light.
1800. Herschel, in Phil. Trans., XC. 480. It does not appear, by looking through these glasses, that there is a difference in their disposition to transmit candle-light or fire-light.
1845. H. B. Hirst, Com. Mammoth, 21.
| Blasted and bare, its vivid beam | |
| Flashed, like the fire-lights of the North, | |
| When Winter rules the frozen earth. |
1860. Tyndall, Glac., I. v. 41. And as I sat within, musing on the experiences of the day, with my pine logs crackling, and the ruddy fire-light gleaming over the walls, and lending animation to the visages sketched upon them with charcoal by the guides, I felt that my position was in every way worthy of a student of nature.
