| 单词 | shellfire |
| 释义 | > as lemmasshell-fire shell-fire n. ΚΠ 1900 W. S. Churchill in Morning Post 25 June 5/7 In spite of an accurate shellfire they continued to advance boldly against the highest part of the hill. 1977 Listener 28 Apr. 559/2 They had had built a reinforced concrete pillbox—a shelter against the shrapnel and the unceasing shellfire. shell-fire shell-fire n. dialect phosphorescence or lambent fire seen enveloping or issuing from bodies (see quots.). ΘΚΠ the world > matter > light > light emitted under particular conditions > [noun] > phosphorescence > phosphorescent substance or organism > phosphorus phosphorus1680 phosphor1706 shell-fire1770 phos1811 1770 J. Langhorne & W. Langhorne tr. Plutarch Lives (1879) I. 138 A bright flame was always considered as a fortunate omen, whether it were a real one issuing from an altar, or a seeming one (what we call shell-fire) from the head of a living person. 1787 F. Grose Provinc. Gloss. Suppl. Fairy-sparks, or Shel-fire, electric sparks, often seen on clothes at night. Kent. 1847 J. O. Halliwell Dict. Archaic & Provinc. Words II Shell-fire, the phosphorescence sometimes exhibited in farm-yards, &c., from decayed straw, &c. or touch~wood. < as lemmas |
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