In early use: St Elmo's fire. In later use: a globe of ball lightning. Obsolete.
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| 释义 | the world > matter > light > naturally occurring light > [noun] > lightning > bead or forked lightning > globular (5) fireball1611 In early use: St Elmo's fire. In later use: a globe of ball lightning. Obsolete. thunder-ball1686 (a) the electric phenomenon called a fire-ball or globe-lightning; (b) poetic a thunderbolt; (c) the common red poppy (Papaver rhœas) (dialect). globular lightning1843 = ball lightning n. at ball, n.1 compounds 2. ball lightning1846 a natural electrical phenomenon of unknown cause characterized by the appearance of one or (occasionally) more brightly glowing globular or… ball of fire1900 figurative. A person of great liveliness or spirit (cf. fire, n. 13). |
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