| 单词 | merry dancers |
| 释义 | > as lemmasmerry dancers 5. plural. A local name for the aurora borealis or northern lights. Also merry dancers. ΘΚΠ 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 c1717 Lett. from Mist's Jrnl. (1722) I. 99 In the North of Scotland..they are seen continually every Summer in the Evening..they call them Dancers. 1728 Philos. Trans. 1727–8 (Royal Soc.) 35 304 The Meteor call'd by our Sailors, Merry Dancers, was visible, and very bright. 1863 C. St. John Nat. Hist. Moray 86 April 7th (1847)..we saw a very brilliant aurora borealis, or as they term it here, ‘The Merry Dancers’. < as lemmas |
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