A signal; spec. a signal-fire. A fire, of wood, pitch, or other material, lighted on an eminence and serving as a signal (of danger, etc.); by a…

A source of illumination. A lamp or fire serving as a signal or beacon, esp. on a ship or in a lighthouse.

(perhaps) a beacon.

spec. A signal- or beacon-fire. (Scottish) archaic.

A blazing cresset; the light of a cresset; a beacon-light.

A fire-signal or beacon.

a beacon or lighthouse signal light fuelled with coal.

A great fire kindled as a signal; a beacon-fire. (Only 19th cent.: apparently first used by Sir W. Scott. The contemporary name was simply bale.)

A beacon, a bonfire.

A system of beacons.

A beacon, a lighthouse.