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ˈnight-fire
[f. night n. + fire n.]
†1. An ignis fatuus, will o' the wisp. Obs. rare—1.
1633G. Herbert Temple, Dotage i, Foolish night-fires,..Chases in Arras, guilded emptinesse.
2. A fire kindled at, or for the, night; a fire which burns by night.
1812Byron Ch. Har. ii. lxxi, On the smooth shore the night-fires brightly blazed. 1839–52Bailey Festus 18 Unsaid thoughts, Which prey upon the breast like night-fires on A heath. 1851Zoologist IX. 3125 Rough notes of a day's gleanings, scrawled by the light of the hissing night-fire. |