ˈdeath-light 1.= dead-light 3, death-fire 1. 1823J. Baillie Collect. Poems 105 A death-light that hovers o'er Liberty's grave. 2. A light burning in a death-chamber. 1871Carlyle in Mrs. Carlyle's Lett. I. 146 The two candles..reserved..to be her own death-lights.