firelightn.
/ˈfʌɪəlʌɪt/, U.S. /ˈfaɪ(ə)rˌlaɪt/ 1. Light produced by a fire or fires; an instance of this.
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the world > matter > light > artificial light > [noun] > light from a fire
firelightOE
fire-leamOE
flame-light1611
fireshine?1614
OE Beowulf (2008) 1516 Fyrleoht geseah, blacne leoman, beorhte scinan.
1490 W. Caxton tr. Boke yf Eneydos xii. sig. D1v The sperkell yssuyng oute of the fyre wyth the smoke..is soone reduced and broughte to noughte wythout to haue ony vygoure more ne other puyssaunte to make fyre lyghte nor flamme.
1555 W. Waterman tr. J. Boemus Fardle of Facions ii. ix. sig. N.ii A kinde of stones, that glistereth by fire light [L. lapides..ex igne perspicuos].
1654 M. Stevenson Occasions Off-spring 113 Flames I confesse there are, but black, not bright, Yea there is fire, and yet no firelight.
1747 B. Franklin Let. 11 July in Exper. & Observ. Electr. (1769) 6 This difference between fire-light and sun-light is another thing that seems new and extraordinary to us.
1748 Defoe's Tour Great Brit. (ed. 4) III. 205 It takes its Name from Flam, a British Word for a Fire-light.
1784 in Public Acts N. Carolina (1804) I. 364 Convicted..of sending his slave to hunt with a gun in the night by fire-light.
1800 W. Herschel in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 90 480 Their disposition to transmit candle-light or fire-light.
1860 J. Tyndall Glaciers of Alps i. v. 41 The ruddy fire-light gleaming over the walls.
1918 T. S. Eliot Let. 1 Apr. (1988) I. 226 Evening with baked beans and toast and cocoa and other nice things and firelight, quite as it always was.
1965 G. Jones Island of Apples ii. iii. 87 We were watching him running backwards across the grass in the firelight.
2004 A. Levy Small Island li. 468 I'd watch her fingers in the dim firelight nimbly darning socks.
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the world > matter > light > naturally occurring light > [noun] > lightning
fireOE
lightinglOE
levininga1300
lightningc1300
lightc1325
thunderlightc1374
firelighta1400
laitinga1400
lighten?a1425
Jove's or God's branda1522
fulgur1563
thunder-shot1606
whirl-fire1606
the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > bad weather > thunder and lightning > [noun] > lightning
fireOE
lightinglOE
levininga1300
levinc1300
lightningc1300
lightc1325
thunderlightc1374
firelighta1400
laitinga1400
lighten?a1425
Jove's or God's branda1522
fulgur1563
thunder-shot1606
whirl-fire1606
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Trin. Cambr.) l. 22680 As þondir doþ wiþ fire liȝt.
1600 P. Holland tr. Livy Rom. Hist. iii. 740 At Anagnia were seene in the element..divers fire-lights shooting and flashing here and there.
1649 C. Hoole Easie Entrance Lat. Tongue 152/1 Of the Elements, and Meteors..Fire light, fulgor ignis.
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the world > the universe > luminous appearance > [noun] > aurora > aurora borealis
dancing-goats1563
petty dancers1635
streaming1694
north-light1706
aurora borealis1717
dancersc1717
northern morning1717
northern lights1722
aurora septentrionalis1728
northern dawn1728
northern light1728
morris dancers1735
streamers1735
north-shine1738
fire-flaught1787
boreal dawn1805
northern morn1822
firelights1845
1845 H. B. Hirst Coming of Mammoth 21 Flashed, like the fire-lights of the North, When Winter rules the frozen earth.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2015; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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