释义 |
ˈdeath-fire 1. A luminous appearance supposed to be seen over a dead body, etc.: = dead-light 3.
1796Coleridge Ode Departing Year, Mighty armies of the dead, Dance like death-fires round her tomb. 1818Shelley Rev. Islam xi. xii, From the choked well, whence a bright death-fire sprung. 2. A fire for burning a person to death.
1857T. Flanagan Hist. R.C. Church Eng. II. 81 A large wooden statue of the blessed Virgin was brought..to make the death-fire. |