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单词 bale-fire
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bale-firen.

/ˈbeɪlfʌɪə/
Forms: Old English bǽl-fýr, Middle English– bale-; also ScottishMiddle English bayle-, 1500s baill-, bald-, 1500s–1800s bail-, 1700s beal-, 1800s bele-, beal-, bael-, baal-fire.
Etymology: Found in Old English poetry: then not till the 14th cent.; and till lately confined to Scotch. Not in Johnson, nor in Todd 1818. Compound of bale n.2 + fire n. and int.; the former part was apparently at times confused with bale n.1: compare balowe-fire ‘fatal or evil fire’ already in 15th cent., and the use of bale-fire by various modern writers as if = ‘lurid, ghastly fire.’ Antiquaries, with theories of Celtic or Canaanitish idolatry, have written beal- , Baal-fire : compare Beltane n.
1. A great fire in the open air, a blazing pile or heap kindled to consume anything. In Old English spec. the fire of a funeral pile.
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the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > heat > burning > a fire > [noun] > a kind of fire > immense
baleOE
bale-firec1400
balowe-firec1430
Mongibel1632
inferno1894
OE Beowulf 3143 Ongunnon þá on beorge bǽlfýra mæst..weccan.
c1400 Melayne 488 Thay tuke þe grete lordes with Ire, And brynte þam in þat bale fire.
1488 (c1478) Hary Actis & Deidis Schir William Wallace (Adv.) (1968–9) iv. l. 722 Bot thou tell in bayle-fir sall thou de.
1535 W. Stewart tr. H. Boethius Bk. Cron. Scotl. (1858) I. 355 In ane baill fyre thai brint it all in as.
c1550 Complaynt Scotl. (1979) vi. 33 As plutois paleis hed been birnand in ane bald fyir.
1812 Ld. Byron Childe Harold: Cantos I & II i. xxxviii. 27 The fires of death, The bale-fires flash on high.
1813 J. Hogg Queen's Wake i. viii. 86 They set ane bele-fire him about, To burn him skin and bone.
1882 F. W. Farrar Early Days Christianity II. 190 The horrible illumination flung by the bale-fires of martyrdom upon the palace and gardens of the Beast.
2. 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.)
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society > communication > indication > signalling > visual signalling > luminous signals > [noun] > fire signal > beacon
beacon1377
lightc1425
firebome1440
bale1455
cresset-light1525
flambeau1688
coal-light1775
bale-fire1805
needfire1805
ward-fire1859
beaconage1862
fanal-
1805 W. Scott Lay of Last Minstrel iv. i. 93 Sweet Teviot! on thy silver tide, The glaring bale-fires blaze no more.
1861 Black's Guide Sussex 536 Crowborough was one of the beacon stations..where the bale-fire was lighted.
1864 C. M. Yonge Cameos lxvii, in Monthly Packet Feb. 143 The bail fire announced the appearance of the enemy.
3. Any great fire, a bonfire, feu de joie.
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the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > heat > burning > a fire > [noun] > a kind of fire > immense > for celebration
fire of joy1554
feu de joie1609
tandle1788
bale-fire1810
joy-fire1845
1810 T. Campbell Poems in Two Vols. I. 79 Beal-fires for your jubilee, Upon an hundred mountains glow'd.
1851 C. Merivale Hist. Romans under Empire III. xxiii. 16 He caused the city to be illuminated with torches and balefires.
1852 D. M. Moir Burns Fest. in Wks. II. 7 Stir the beal-fire, wave the banner, Bid the thundering cannon sound.
4. ? Associated with bale n.1
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the mind > goodness and badness > badness or evil > [noun]
woughc888
naughteOE
manOE
evilness1000
fakenOE
witherfulnessc1200
lithera1225
villainy?c1225
lithernessa1240
unwrastshipa1250
felonyc1290
shrewheadc1290
litherhead1297
illa1300
wicknessa1300
follyc1300
iniquity13..
shrewdom13..
wickhedec1305
shrewdheadc1315
shrewdnessc1315
unwrastnessc1315
wickednessa1340
malicea1382
unequityc1384
lewdnessa1387
mischiefa1387
wickedleka1400
wickedredea1400
badnessc1400
shrewdshipc1400
shrewnessc1425
ungoodlihead1430
wickdomc1440
rudenessc1451
mauvasty1474
unkindliness1488
noughtinessa1500
perversenessa1500
illnessc1500
filthiness?1504
noisomeness1506
naughtiness?1529
noughtihoodc1540
inexcellence1590
improbity1593
flagition1598
meschancy1609
scelerateness1613
pravity1620
meschantnessa1630
flagitiousness1692
flagitiosity1727
nefariousness1727
bale-fire1855
ill-conditionedness1866
iniquitousness1870
the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > [noun] > quality
loathnessc1175
grievousness1303
malicea1382
noyfulnessa1398
mischievousness1567
harmfulnessa1586
balefulness1590
illnessc1595
hurt1608
hurtfulness1611
mischief1646
noxiousness1655
deleteriousness1758
maleficence1796
vice1837
bale-fire1855
disutility1879
nocuousness1894
disvalue1925
1855 J. L. Motley Rise Dutch Republic III. vi. i. 377 The focus of discord..from whence radiated..the bale-fires of murderous licence and savage anarchy.
1872 C. H. Spurgeon Treasury of David III. Ps. lxxvii. 17 With blue bale-fires revealing the innermost caverns of the hungry sea.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1885; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
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