izle

plural izles · alternative aizle · alternative isel · alternative izel · alternative easle · alternative eizel

1. dialectalA spark, an ember, a hot ash or cinder.

   Izles, Dust or ashes from the fire. "The furniture is covered with izles."]

   [1815, The Monthly Magazine, page 297

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   I hied me hame to my father's ha', My dear auld mither to see; But she lay ' mang the black izles

   1880 (original 1810?), Robert Hartley Cromek, Remains of Nithsdale and Galloway Song, page 142

   I've watched many fires / Since last I sat beside this hearth—good fires : / Coal, coke, and peat, but wood-fires in the main. / There's naught like izles for dancing flames and singing: / Birch kindles best, and has the liveliest flames : / […]

   1922, Wilfrid Wilson Gibson, Krindlesyke, book II, "Bell Haggard", page 132

   […] smoke rolled up into the atmosphere, candescent at the skyline where the red flames leaped up inside it, dancing with bright izles that flared and winked out.

   2010, Ben Tripp, Rise Again: A Zombie Thriller, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN