sea-light

plural sea-lights · alternative sealight · alternative sea light

1. countableuncountableLight from the sea, either due to reflection off the waves or from bioluminescence.

   It is she, they say, who is waving festival lanterns down there, making such beautiful sea-lights.

   2014, Alexander Cordell, The Dreams of Fair Women, →ISBN

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   A damp mist filled the room and the musty-coloured books that lined the walls were bathed in eerie sea-light.

   2012, Jenny Nimmo, Charlie Bone and the Wilderness Wolf, →ISBN

   There it is: an octagonal shaped white house with a thatched roof, my bedroom with the grey sea-light streaming through slanted windows.

   2013, Jan Campbell, Freudian Passions: Psychoanalysis, Form and Literature, →ISBN

2. countableuncountableA light on the seacoast to warn or guide boats.

   For the good of man, his father and grandfather planted the high sea-lights upon the Inchcape and the Tyree Coast.

   1999, Elbert Hubbard, Elbert Hubbard's Scrap Book, →ISBN

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   The elevation of the lantern above the sea should not, if possible, for sea-lights, exceed 200 feet ; and about 150 feet is sufficient, under almost any circumstances, to give the range which is required.

   1848, William Laxton, The Civil Engineer and Architect's Journal - Volume 11, page 208

   On it's trial as a sea-light at Havre the result was unsatisfactory, as the compromise of merging two different curves in the design halved the concentration of light obtainable from a complete parabolic reflector without gaining sufficient compensation from the wider spread of weak light from the elliptic portion.

   2013, D. Alan Stevenson, The World's Lighthouses: From Ancient Times to 1820, →ISBN, page 1809