| 单词 | witch-fire |
| 释义 | > as lemmaswitch-fire witch-fire n. (a) a luminous electrical discharge which appears around a protruding object, such as a ship’s mast or a church spire, during a storm; = St. Elmo's fire at St. Elmo n.; (b) light seen in seawater from bioluminescent organisms. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > physics > electromagnetic radiation > electricity > discharge of electricity > [noun] > luminous glow-discharge1844 witch-fire1892 streamer1910 the world > matter > light > naturally occurring light > [noun] > lightning > bead or forked lightning > St. Elmo's fire heaven's fireOE St. Elmo's fire1561 Hermes' fire1611 corposant1650 furole1656 Castor1708 composant1751 storm-light1843 storm-firea1847 dead-fire1854 witch-fire1892 the world > matter > light > light emitted under particular conditions > [noun] > phosphorescence > of the sea > phosphorescent light on or in the sea briny1602 sea-light1755 sea-fire1815 milky sea1821 mareel1866 mar-fire1881 milk sea1898 witch-fire1947 1892 R. L. Stevenson Let. 28 Oct. in Vailima Lett. (1896) II. xxiii. 77 Belle, my mother and I rode home about midnight in a fine display of lightning and witch-fires. 1896 R. Kipling Seven Seas 28 The witch-fire climbed our channels, And flared on vane and truck. 1947 L. R. Brightwell Sea-shore Life Brit. x. 104 Stand on a pier or jetty..on a dark night, and as each little wave breaks, its curling top seems capped with a bluish green light... This was the ‘witch fire’ that awed the early mariners, and to-day sea-farers still say that the water ‘burns’. 1992 A. Wells Forbidden Magic x. 237 It was like the witch fire he had seen dancing on the masts of ships before a storm, silver as a polished blade. 2004 W. H. McAlister Life on Matagorda Island ix. 187 On rare nights every breaking wave crest ignites in witch-fire; and on moist summer nights heavy blobs of phosphor rise and course erratically across the central grassland. < as lemmas |
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