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ˈwatch-light
[watch n.]
1. = night-light 2 b, esp. in the form of a slow-burning candle with a rush wick.
1628Digby's Private Mem. (1827) 67 After she was in bed..she read it by the help of the watch-light which stood burning by her. 1695Congreve Love for L. iii. xiii, Nurse, let me have a Watch-Light. 1715Addison Drummer ii. i, Item, a dozen Pound of Watch-Lights for the Use of the Servants. a1732Gay Story of Apparition 88 Swift retir'd the maid, The watch-lights burn, tuckt warm in bed was laid The hardy stranger. 1775G. White Selborne, To Barrington 1 Nov., These rushes give a good clear light. Watch⁓lights (coated with tallow), it is true, shed a dismal one, ‘darkness visible’. 1823J. Badcock Dom. Amusem. 204 Luminous Bottle, or Watch-light. c1865Letheby in J. Wylde Circ. Sci. I. 94/2 The rushes are peeled on three sides for the best light, and on two only for watch-lights.
2. A light carried by a watchman.
1855Browning Andrea del Sarto 209 See, it is settled dusk now; there's a star; Morello's gone, the watch-lights show the wall. |