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ˈnorth-light
Also north light.
[Cf. Du. noorderlicht, G. nordlicht, ON. norðrljós (Da. nordlys).]
1. (Usu. pl.) The Aurora Borealis. Also fig.
1706Phillips (ed. Kersey), North-Light, a wonderful Meteor, which usually appears in Greenland [etc.]. 1794Mrs. Radcliffe Myst. Udolpho vi, I stood looking up at the North-lights, which shot up the heaven to a great height. 1827Clare Sheph. Cal. 111 With shooting North-lights, 'tokening bloody wars. 1839Lowell Lett. (1894) I. 47 Two north-lights are there in the Soul that beam, Truth's steady ray and Fancy's waving gleam.
2. Light coming from the north.
1870Lowell Among my Bks. Ser. i. (1873) 346 Flashes..of very different quality from the equable north-light of the artist.
3. A window, esp. in a roof, that faces north. So north-light roof.
1904F. E. Kidder Architects' & Builders' Pocket-Bk. (ed. 14) 1304 With the ‘Maze’ glass, the artist may have, in all weather and in all directions, what is in effect a much-desired ‘north-light’. 1919R. Fry Let. 29 Nov. (1972) II. 473, I went to his tiny studio..he'd simply put a high north light in the roof of a small bedroom. 1931Engineering 9 Jan. 33/2 The older bays had roofs of the saw-tooth pattern, with north lights. 1940Chambers's Techn. Dict. 583/1 North light roof, a pitched roof of unequal slopes, of which the steeper is glazed and arranged to receive light from the north. 1958Times 20 Aug. 13/6 Where only day shifts are worked the cost of installing fittings to produce the whole of the necessary illumination, instead of only those required to supplement daylight from windows or north-light roof must also be reckoned. 1961E. E. Cummings Let. 22 July (1969) 272, I asked a firstrate carpenter..to make me a real—with a North Light—studio in the barn. 1972E. Lemarchand Cyanide with Compliments ix. 117 Could be a studio... I can't make out if it's got a north light, though. |