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fox-fire Now only U.S.
The phosphorescent light emitted by decaying timber.
1483Cath. Angl. 140 Fox Fire, glos, glossis. 1824J. Doddridge Notes Virginia & Pennsylv. 290 If they had seen any thing like fire, between that and the fort, it must have been fox fire. 1832J. P. Kennedy Swallow Barn I. xxviii. 311 The fox-fire—as the country people call it—glowed hideously from the cold and matted bosom of the marsh. 1853Kane Grinnell Exp. xxiv. (1856) 193 The fox-fire of the Virginia meadows. 1872E. Eggleston End of World xxxii. 210 The ‘fox-fire’, rotting logs glowing with a faint luminosity, startled her several times. 1920J. M. Hunter Trail Drivers of Texas 149 There is where you could see phosphorescence (fox fire) on our horses' ears. |