green belt

green belts (plural)
greenbelt (alternative)

From green (adjective) + belt (“band worn around the waist; thing resembling a belt, a strip or stripe”).

compound

Senses relating to an area of land with plants on it.

A strip of land with plants in a place which is otherwise bare.

kasveja kasvava alue

A strip of land on which trees are planted to protect against desertification, soil erosion, etc.

suojametsäalue

A strip of land next to a building, open space, road, etc., with plants on it, intended for exercise or recreation.

viheralue

The LCC [London County Council] would initiate the campaign for the Green Belt, which the men at the top of London Transport would support.

2012, Andrew Martin, “Enter Yerkes”, in Underground Overground: A Passenger’s History of the Tube, London: Profile Books, →ISBN, page 149:

(chiefly British) An area of agricultural land around an urban area that is protected from large-scale building.

حزام أخضر

When the club is fully developed and has a reasonable spectrum of ranks in it, the training schedule should be stable to encourage the habit of training. […] The advanced (above green belt) class meets for an additional hour, three times per week (Monday, Wednesday, and Friday).

1995, Elmar T. Schmeisser, “The University Dojo: Teaching a Traditional Martial Art in a Nontraditional Setting”, in Carol A. Wiley, editor, Martial Arts Teachers on Teaching (Io Series; 53), Berkeley, Calif.: Frog, North Atlantic Books, →ISBN, page 129:

He estimates it was around 1964 when the Japanese stylists of karate brought in the green belt to bridge the gap between white and brown.

2011, Yvonne Cruz, “Cruz Karate Studios”, in Grandmaster Freddie G. Cruz: Biography of a True Legend in the Martial Arts World, [S.l.]: Bookemon, →ISBN, page 217:

Any green belt martial artist could've done that. Because they were just ordinary goons, hired guns.

2014 October, Sharit Sinha, “The Revelation”, in Blood Rush, 3rd edition, [S.l.]: Sharit Sinha, published December 2017, →ISBN, page 36:

A belt which is green in colour worn by a person who has achieved a certain (usually intermediate) level of skill in a martial art, especially judo or karate; also, the level of skill represented by this belt.

vihreä vyö

belt which is green in colour worn by a person who has achieved a certain (usually intermediate) level of skill in a martial art; the level of skill represented by this belt

After a month I distinctly remember one of the ‘green belts’ giving me a thorough but gentle working over in one of the sparring sessions, I was impressed not just with his ability to defeat me, but with the ease with which he did it.

2012, Noel C., “What Karate Means to Me”, in Tom Hill, editor, Essays for Black Belt, Luton, Bedfordshire: Andrews UK, →ISBN, page 22:

Develop a career progression ladder for black belts and green belts.

[2012, T. M. Kubiak, “Mentoring Black Belts and Green Belts”, in The Certified Six Sigma Master Black Belt Handbook, Milwaukee, Wis.: ASQ Quality Press, →ISBN, part V (Mentoring Responsibilities), page 306:

A person who has earned the rank of green belt in a martial art.


fair-haired

en-adj

fair-haired (comparative more fair-haired or fairer-haired, superlative most fair-haired or fairest-haired)

more fair-haired (comparative)
fairer-haired (comparative)
most fair-haired (superlative)
fairest-haired (superlative)
fairhaired (alternative)

Not noticeably belonging to any one group is often upsetting, and these feelings of isolation, of not fitting in, easily carry over into adolescence—a time when everyone, even the fairest-haired among us, must struggle awfully hard just to seem seminormal.

1997, Sandra Scarry, John Scarry, The Writer’s Workplace: Paragraphs to Essays; Building College Writing Skills, Fort Worth, Tex.: Harcourt Brace College Publishers, →ISBN, page 531:


footlight

footlights (plural)
foot-light (alternative)

Blinded to the astonishment of a thousand spectators by the force of the footlights, [Derek] Jacobi realised he'd dried.

2024 June 1, John Phipps, “The lamentable true history of the Red Hamlet”, in FT Weekend, Life & Arts, page 18:

A stage light located at the front edge of the stage that illuminates the actors from foot level up.


amethystine

amethystine (comparative more amethystine, superlative most amethystine)

more amethystine (comparative)
most amethystine (superlative)

His cubic forms phosphoric Fluor prints, / Or rays in spheres his amethystine tints.

1791, Erasmus Darwin, The Economy of Vegetation, J. Johnson, page 80:

Certainly […] no spot more dazzlingly becircled with blue seas, amethystine peaks, and islets magically scattered on pellucid water, could have been chosen for the greatest naval battle of modern times.

1881, James Albert Harrison, Spain, page 499:

Like amethyst, especially in colour; violet-purple.


on firecall

On call, with regard to a firefighter or unit.


chemoluminescent

chemoluminescent (comparative more chemoluminescent, superlative most chemoluminescent)

more chemoluminescent (comparative)
most chemoluminescent (superlative)


fire dog

fire dogs (plural)
firedog (alternative)

(archaeology) Bronze Age artifact used in worshipping either bulls or the moon, or as a holder for wooden logs to be used in a fire altar.


fulgurite

Glass formed by a lightning strike melting sand or other material.


testaceous

testaceous (comparative more testaceous, superlative most testaceous)

more testaceous (comparative)
most testaceous (superlative)

Of a dull orange or brownish colour, like brick.


girandole

girandoles (plural)
girandola (alternative)

/ˈd͡ʒɪɹəndəʊl/

From French girandole, from Italian girandola, from girare (“to turn, gyrate”).

1847, Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre, Chapter XVIII
As I sat in my usual nook, and looked at him with the light of the girandoles on the mantelpiece beaming full over him...

It was a scene of gaiety, glitter, and show; of richly–dressed people, handsome mirrors, chalked floors, girandoles and wax–candles; and in all parts of the scene, gliding from spot to spot in silent softness, bowing obsequiously to this party, nodding familiarly to that, and smiling complacently on all, was the sprucely–attired person of Angelo Cyrus Bantam, Esquire, the Master of the Ceremonies.

1836, Charles Dickens, The Pickwick Papers 35

An ornamental branched candle holder, sometimes with a mirror behind.


leaf green

A bright green like the usual colour of leaves.


ignis fatuus

From New Latin ignis fatuus (literally “foolish fire”).

bor

Fiery spirits or devils are such as commonly work by blazing stars, fire-drakes, or ignes fatui; which lead men often in flumina aut præcipitia, saith Bodine[…]

1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC:

An Ignis Fatuus, that bewitches, / And leads Men into Pools and Ditches

1662 (indicated as 1663), [Samuel Butler], “[The First Part of Hudibras]. Canto I.”, in Hudibras. The First and Second Parts. […], London: […] John Martyn and Henry Herringman, […], published 1678, →OCLC; republished in A[lfred] R[ayney] Waller, editor, Hudibras: Written in the Time of the Late Wars, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: University Press, 1905, →OCLC, page 16:


matchbook

My company had matchbooks printed with the corporate logo as giveaway promotional items.

A small folded sheet of cardboard containing rows of cardboard matches, generally with a striker on the outside.

luciferboekje

a small folded sheet of cardboard containing rows of cardboard matches


filemot

An anglicized form of feuillemorte / French feuille-morte.

filemot:

Synonym of feuillemorte: the color of a dead or faded leaf: dull brown or yellowish brown.


firebrand

From Middle English fyr-brand, furbrond, equivalent to fire + brand. Cognate with German Feuerbrand (“firebrand”).

The member of the college's Communist League was a firebrand who would launch a sit-in or protest march at a moment's notice.

At the same time, Mr. Irons said, it is important to separate “this very valiant and completely kosher and clean repository of public material, which we perfectly endorse, and this kind of firebrand ‘We want to show the publishers they’re wrong’ kind of attitude.”

2011 February 22, Daniel J. Wakin, “Free Trove of Music Scores on Web Hits Sensitive Copyright Note”, in New York Times:

Both Malcolm and King were firebrands. And both were disciplined organisers of people. Malcolm was able to channel the anger of a crowd into action, but then to ensure they did not descend into violence.

2015 February 20, Jesse Jackson, “In the Ferguson era, Malcolm X’s courage in fighting racism inspires more than ever”, in The Guardian (London):

(figurative) An argumentative troublemaker or revolutionary; one who agitates against the status quo.

подстрека́тел

The crowd cheered as a firebrand was tossed onto the huge pile of wood to start the traditional homecoming bonfire.

[…] he filled all their throats with it, so that those poor wretches were by it made to cough like foxes, crying, Ha, Pantagruel, how how thou addest greater heat to the firebrand that is in us.

1807, François Rabelais, Mr. Ozell (John), Sir Thomas Urquhart, The Works of Francis Rabelais - Volume 2 - Page 182

He that is inebriated with passion is unfit for any action; like Samson's foxes, he scattereth firebrands abroad, to the hurt of all that are near him.

1868, George Swinnock, Works - Volume 2 - Page 212:

A torch or other burning stick with a flame at one end.


zippo

en-verb

zippo (third-person singular simple present zippos, present participle zippoing, simple past and past participle zippoed)

zippos (present singular third-person)
zippoing (participle present)
zippoed (participle past)
zippoed (past)
Zippo (alternative)

Popular slang among American soldiers in the Vietnam War; from the Zippo brand of lighter.

I didn't want to burn 'em out, but that's policy. So we zippoed their hooch.

1987, Reuben Noel, Nancy Noel, Saigon for a song:

Once the last villagers had left Ben Suc, the buildings were doused with petrol and zippoed.

The youth climbed off, Zippoed a wick in a glass bottle and walked towards Jake's flat.


day and night

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-day and night.wav

All the time; round the clock; unceasingly.


blee

en-noun

blee (countable and uncountable, plural blees)

From Middle English blee, ble, from Old English blēo, bleoh (“color, hue; complexion, form”), from Proto-West Germanic *blīu (“color, blee”).
Cognate with Scots ble, blee, blie (“color, complexion”), Old Frisian blī, blie (“color, hue; complexion”) (whence North Frisian bläy, Saterland Frisian Bläier), Middle Dutch blie, blye (“color”). Doublet of bly.

inh

Then the captain, young Lord Leigh, with his eyes so grey of blee,— / Toll slowly.

1850, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, “Rhyme of the Duchess May”, in Poems. … In Two Volumes, new edition, volume II, London: Chapman & Hall, 193, Piccadilly. (Late, 186 Strand), →OCLC, stanza XXVI, page 57:

IT was a Mothering Sunday ; / The sky was clear to see / Above the white, white snowdrop, / And the crocus of golden blee.

1893, “A Story of Mothering Sunday.”, in The Sunday at Home, volume 40, Religious Tract Society, page 381:

The captain wonderful to see / With eyes a-change in depth and blee; / A-change, a-change for ever and aye, / Blue, and purple, and black, and gray; / And hair like the weed that finds a home / In the depth of a trail of white sea-foam.

1896, Emily Henrietta Hickey, “The Ship from Tirnanoge”, in Poems by Emily Hickley, page 48:

1913, Francis Thompson, "Stolen Fruit of Eden-Tree (‘The Schoolmaster for God’)", in Brigid M. Boardman (ed.), The Poems of Francis Thompson: A New Edition, Continuum, 2001, lines 59 to 64.
The fruit thereof is fair and fine, / And golden of its blee, / That well the Son of God might think / It came of Paradise—tree, / Nor deem how its root with cold Pit-fire / Is suckled evilly.

"Live, live," and "Here, here," the blackbird / From the top of the bare ash-tree, / Over the acres whistles / With beak of yellow blee.

1931 October, Padraic Colum, “Before the Fair”, in Lascelles Abercrombie, editor, New English Poems: A Miscellany of Contemporary Verse Never before Published, London: Victor Gollancz Ltd., 14 Henrietta Street, Covent Garden, →OCLC, page 142:


tealight

tealights (plural)
tea light (alternative)
tea-light (alternative)
tealite (alternative)

From tea + light, since they are sometimes used to keep a teapot warm.

2004, Staffordshire Fire and Rescue Service https://web.archive.org/web/20071027212506/http://www.staffordshirefire.gov.uk/ccm/content/press-releases/2004/april-2004/tea-lights-pose-potential-danger.en
Candles and tealights can be hazardous and must be used in accordance with any instructions.

A small, typically circular candle encased in a thin metal cup, so that it liquefies completely when lit and burns as a wick immersed in molten wax.

茶燭 /茶烛

small, typically circular candle encased in thin metal cup


watchet

en-noun

watchet (countable and uncountable, plural watchets)

From Middle English wachet, waget; compare French vaciet (“whortleberry”), Latin vaccīnium (“blueberry”).

watchet:

I was going by his Highneſs's order to my Lady Iſabellas chamber: She lies in the watchet'-coloured chamber, on the right-hand, one pair of ſtairs.

1764 December 24 (indicated as 1765), Onuphrio Muralto, translated by William Marshal [pseudonyms; Horace Walpole], chapter V, in The Castle of Otranto, […], London: […] Tho[mas] Lownds […], →OCLC, pages 175–176:


cauterise

en-verb

cauterise (third-person singular simple present cauterises, present participle cauterising, simple past and past participle cauterised)

cauterises (present singular third-person)
cauterising (participle present)
cauterised (participle past)
cauterised (past)
cauterize (alternative)

[…] Lanfrank takes Notice of Tract. 3. Doct. 3. cap. 18. ſaying, "I have ſeen many who being full of Humours, have made an Iſſue under the Knee, before due Purgation had been premis'd; whence, by reaſon of the too great Defluxion of Humours, the Legs tumified, ſo that the cauterized Place corrupted, and a Cancer (or rather cacoethic Ulcer) was thereby made, with which great Difficulty was cur'd."

1732, George Smith, Institutiones Chirurgicæ: or, Principles of Surgery, … To which is Annexed, a Chirurgical Dispensatory, …, London: Printed [by William Bowyer] for Henry Lintot, at the Cross-Keys against St. Dunstan's Church in Fleetstreet, →OCLC, page 254:

Just when you think you are extricating yourself, just when you think you are cauterised and ready to leave, it resurfaces. Once you've been infected, you're never again completely free.

1996, Janette Turner Hospital, Oyster, paperback edition, Virago Press, page 198:

Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of cauterize.


towheaded

en-adj

towheaded (comparative more towheaded, superlative most towheaded)

more towheaded (comparative)
most towheaded (superlative)


aeruginous

aeruginous (comparative more aeruginous, superlative most aeruginous)

more aeruginous (comparative)
most aeruginous (superlative)
eruginous (alternative)
æruginous (alternative)

Borrowed from Middle French erugineux, from Latin aerūginōsus (“rusty”).

aeruginous:

There was definitely some aeruginous material on that door handle.

It is not possible to adequately discuss aeruginous (copper rust) corrosion products without introducing several principles of corrosion and descriptions of minerals.

2002, David A. Scott, Copper and Bronze in Art: Corrosion, Colorants, Conservation, Getty Publications, →ISBN, page 11:

Pertaining to copper rust; in particular, resembling the greenish colour of copper rust.


atrous

atrous (comparative more atrous, superlative most atrous)

more atrous (comparative)
most atrous (superlative)

Male atrous leadcolourd^([sic]) on the upper side, under side a mixture of whitish and ferruginous with cuspidate fasciae ;

1830, Jonathan Stokes, Botanical Commentaries- Volume 1:

Head atrous, viridescent on lateral frontal spaces and occiput, gulae, basal part of mentum on each side of median tooth brightly viridescent; prothorax atrous, with viridescent tints on disc and wide brassy-green basal and lateral margins.

1917, Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales:

Perithecia sparse, innate, then erumpent for apical portion, subglobose, atrous, with ostiollar portion a little enlarged.

1968, Iconographia Mycologica - Issues 22-27:

An imposing portrait of a Caucasian male holding an atrous book with a sheepish smile hung ominously over the bed.

The throng shouted, female Eligor flung flowers from the roofs as the rhythmic chiming of iron-shod riding beasts came clearer, and the first of the mighty array swung into view in the broad, atrous streets that curved round the spired Grand Union of Imperial Opal.

2014, Mark Alan Lindsley, Future Earth, page 405:


smoke eater

smoke eaters (plural)
smoke-eater (alternative)

Coordinate term: smoke blower

A device or piece of equipment designed to remove smoke from the air.


moon shot

moon shots (plural)
moonshot (alternative)

There will be many shots at the moon. Our nearest neighbor in the heavens patiently revolves around the earth, waiting for us to learn its secrets. What kind of moon shots can we use to find the answers to those secrets?

1959 December, Dan Q. Posin, “An Eye on Space”, in Roderick M. Grant, editor, Popular Mechanics, volume 112, number 6, Chicago, Ill.: Popular Mechanics Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 70:

Hand across the sea: Sir, Heartiest congratulations on your new 50,000-plus circulation. I regard your feat as comparable to the Russian moon shot. David P. Morgan, Editor, "Trains", Milwaukee, U.S.A.

1960 April, “Letters to the Editor”, in Trains Illustrated, page 256:

Rockets, moon shots / Spend it on the have-not's

1971, “Inner City Blues”, in What's Going On, performed by Marvin Gaye:

The first Air Force Moon shot would be attempted in August [1958] with Thor-Able, carrying a satellite called Pioneer 0, which was rigged to send infrared photos and radiation readings back to Earth.

2007, Michael D’Antonio, A Ball, a Dog, and a Monkey: 1957, the Space Race Begins, New York, N.Y.: Simon & Schuster, →ISBN:

The weeklong moon shot would make a close flyby of the moon's surface, "go quite a bit further out into deep space" and then loop back to Earth, [Elon] Musk said. The spacecraft will not try to land on the surface of the moon.

2017 February 27, Samantha Masunaga, Russ Mitchell, “SpaceX plans to send two private astronauts to circle the moon – on their own dime”, in Los Angeles Times, archived from the original on 2017-04-06:

The launching of a spacecraft or an object to orbit or land on the Moon.


moonless

Coordinate term: starless

And they played softly in the Aeolian mode a music that was like the wailing of wind through bare branches on a moonless night, and the Red Foliot leaned forth from his high seat and recited this lamentation: […]

1922, E[ric] R[ücker] Eddison, The Worm Ouroboros, London: Jonathan Cape, page 31:

(of a night) During which no phase of the Moon is visible to provide light, whether because of cloud cover or because of a new moon.


fluorescent lamp

en-noun

fluorescent lamp (plural fluorescent lamps)

A gas-discharge lamp that uses fluorescence to produce visible light.


heliosphere

The heliosphere isn’t really a sphere at all, more an elongated teardrop shape.

2023, Martin MacInnes, In Ascension, Atlantic Books, page 397:

(astronomy) The region of space where interstellar medium is blown away by solar wind; the boundary, heliopause, is often considered the edge of the Solar System.


jaws of life

By analogy with an actual jaw and the fact that this mechanical device allows the possibility of preserving the life of the victim being rescued.

2005, Mary Gordon, Pearl
Isn't there some machine used in car wrecks to extricate people called the jaws of life?

The power of the “jaws of life” were shown first and set aside.

2005, Chuck McCann, Short, Shorter and Shorter Stories, Volume 1, page 388

2009, Tony Evans, Tony Evan's Book of Illustrations
Even when drivers have had wrecks through no one's fault but their own, rescue crews still employ the "jaws of life" to get them out of trouble.

For the most terrible of car accidents, jaws of life have to be used to extricate the injured.

(firefighting) Emergency rescue equipment used to open a severely damaged passenger vehicle with a strong mechanical jaw function that forcibly pushes or pulls metal components apart, to quickly and somewhat safely extricate the trapped occupants.


colorway

colorways (plural)
colourway (alternative)

Each colorway has a variety of tones (light, medium, and dark) and print styles (floral, dots, stripes, abstract, and geometric).

2011, Emily Cier, Quilt Remix: Spin Traditional Favorites into 10 Fresh Projects, C&T Publishing, →ISBN, page 33:

(art) Any of the schemes of two or more colors in which a design is available.


torcher

/ˈtɔːt͡ʃə(ɹ)/

-ɔː(ɹ)tʃə(ɹ)

Ere twice the horses of the sun shall bring
 Their fiery torcher his diurnal ring, […]

c. 1604–1605 (date written), William Shakespeare, “All’s Well, that Ends Well”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i], line 162:

(obsolete) One who gives light with a torch, or as if with a torch.

[…] their set includes a Patsy Cline torcher and reaches some sort of peak with a 29-song Irving Berlin medley.

1988 August 26, Neil Tesser, “Montgomery, Plant & Stritch”, in Chicago Reader:

(science fiction) The pilot of a spacecraft propelled by a torch drive (a spacecraft engine which produces thrust by nuclear fusion).


primary colour

primary colours (plural)
primary color (alternative)

Red, blue and green are additive primary colours.

Magenta, yellow and cyan are subtractive primary colours.

(British spelling) Any of three colours which, when added to or subtracted from others in different amounts, can generate all other colours

color primari

any of three colours which can generate all other colours


waxing moon

From waxing + moon. Compare Middle English wexinge of the mone, þe waxyng of moone, waxinge of þe mone, wexinge of þe mone (literally “(the) waxing of the moon”).

A moon (usually the Moon, that is, Earth's moon) when it appears larger each night as it progresses from a new moon to a full moon: a moon in any of the increasing lunar phases.

tiltagende måne

The moon as it progresses from a new moon to a full moon


waning moon

From waning + moon. Compare Middle English waynynge of the mone, wanynge of þe mone (literally “waning of the moon”).

A moon (usually the Moon, that is, Earth's moon) when it appears smaller each night as it progresses from a full moon to a new moon: a moon in any of the diminishing lunar phases.

လဆုတ်

moon as it progresses from full moon to a new moon


pricket

From Middle English precat, preket, priket, pryket; equivalent to prick + -et. Earlier currency of the Middle English word is apparently implied by surnames and borrowings into Latin and Anglo-Norman.

Near-synonyms: brocket, knobber, knobbler, spitter

he can stay / For the new-mown hay, / And startle the dappled prickets?

1816, John Keats, For there's Bishop's Teign:

A male deer in its second year, whose antlers have not yet branched.


standard lamp

A lamp supported by a tall vertical pole in order that light comes from above those seated in the vicinity.


Bambi bucket

A collapsible bucket suspended from a helicopter performing firefighting operations and used for lifting and dumping water or fire retardant chemicals.


Orange GGN

(organic chemistry) An orange azo dye, 1-(m-sulfophenylazo)-2-naphthol-6-sulfonic acid, used as a food colouring


black drop effect

black drop effect (plural black drop effects)

(astronomy) An optical effect, occurring during the transit of an object in front of the Sun, by which light is bent around the object, causing it to look stretched out.


corbeau

Borrowed from French corbeau m (“raven”).

The local corbeaux, black, heavy, hunched, hopped about the slopes of rubbish; the children of the shanty town ran between the traffic on the rubbish-strewn highway to get to the dump.

2011, V. S. Naipaul, A Way in the World, →ISBN:

A whale man, if you see a whale. It beach. It taking up the whole of La Tinta. You not see the corbeaux? The Marines say they think it must be dead.

2014, Lawrence Scott, Night Calypso, →ISBN:

Across the blue sky, a big black bird, a vulture, a corbeau. It swooped down low and landed, its long, ringed legs trembling as it anchored itself on the branch of a thick-trunked tree. Around it, more corbeaux, cemetery gargoyles guarding the dead.

2016, Elizabeth Nunez, Prospero's Daughter, →ISBN, page 317:

Coragyps atratus
Coragyps atratus#Translingual

By 8 August, it was necessary to conscript beggars to bury the dead because the corbeaux, special bearers of plague-striken corpses, no longer sufficed for the task.

1972, David Victor Glass, Roger Revelle, Population and social change, page 234:

The next day she died and her body was removed by the corbeaux (the men who carted away the dead) - an ignominious death like that of Jesus Christ, wrote the annalist.

2001, A Social History of the Cloister, →ISBN, page 212:

By late summer, the magistrates themselves admitted their helplessness. They called in the notorious and dreaded corbeaux—convicts promised a commutation of their sentence in exchange for performing the dangerous task of removing the bodies.

2012, Marie-Hélène Huet, The Culture of Disaster, →ISBN, page 28:

(historical) A man who carts away the dead plague victims.

corbeau:

A very dark shade of green, almost black.


fire axe

A special type of axe used by firefighters, typically featuring a pick-shaped pointed poll (area of the head opposite the cutting edge) and in a vivid color to make it easily visible during an emergency.


eosin

eosin (countable and uncountable, plural eosins)

Borrowed from German Eosin, coined by Heinrich Caro, from Ancient Greek ἠώς (ēṓs, “dawn”) + -in.

Thus the fluorescence of the familiar dye eosin can be excited quite well by ultra-violet or short-wave blue light, but is much better excited by visible green light with a wavelength close to that of the emitted radiation.

1999, Dan J. Goldstein, Understanding the Light Microscope, page 91:

Eosins are acid xanthene or phthalein dyes. Eosin Y, eosin B, phloxine and erythrosin (which unlike other eosins, is halogenated with iodine), are the common members of this group of dyes.

2000, J. Ochei, A. Kolhatkar, Medical Laboratory Science: Theory And Practice, page 450:

The hematoxylin and eosin stain (H&E) is the most widely used histological stain.

2012, John D. Bancroft, Christopher Layton, “10: The hemotoxylins and eosin”, in S. Kim Suvarna, Christopher Layton, John D. Bancroft, editors, Bancroft's Theory and Practice of Histological Techniques, 7th edition, page 173:

(organic chemistry) A red, acidic dye commonly used in histological stains.


oil lamp

The West Clare Railway is, I suppose, one of the most primitive in the whole C.I.E. system, for its coaches date entirely from 1887 to 1890, and are still lit with oil lamps.

1948 March and April, “Notes and News: Narrow-Gauge in Western Eire”, in Railway Magazine, page 129:

A simple vessel used to produce light continuously for a period of time from a liquid fuel source, especially lamp oil.


shoot the moon

en-verb

shoot the moon (third-person singular simple present shoots the moon, present participle shooting the moon, simple past and past participle shot the moon)

shoots the moon (present singular third-person)
shooting the moon (participle present)
shot the moon (participle past)
shot the moon (past)

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-shoot the moon.wav

The Army, making its first attempt to shoot the moon, had spent weeks fussing over the Juno II, a 60-ton Jupiter IRBM with a spike of high-speed rockets.

1958 December 15, “Juno's Gold Cone”, in Time:

To hit the moon, with a rocket or by other means.


pull an all-nighter

pull an all-nighter (third-person singular simple present pulls an all-nighter, present participle pulling an all-nighter, simple past and past participle pulled an all-nighter)

pulls an all-nighter (present singular third-person)
pulling an all-nighter (participle present)
pulled an all-nighter (participle past)
pulled an all-nighter (past)

(idiomatic, informal) To stay awake throughout the night, usually when working or studying.


probie

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A probie never complains. A probie keeps his mouth shut, his eyes open. A probie is never idle. A probie is always learning or drilling or cleaning. That's why you're still called a probie: for one year after you leave training school.

1997. Steve Delson. "The Fire Inside: Firefighters Talk About Their Lives", Page 41

(slang, firefighting) A neophyte firefighter.


geru

An earthy red color, used in India to paint flowerpots and tree bases.


fire chief

fire chiefs (plural)
firechief (alternative)

A leader of a fire station; an officer in charge of firemen and fighting fires.


all night

Coordinate term: all day

We stayed up all night.

I wanna rock and roll all night and party every day.


rose gold

en-noun

rose gold (countable and uncountable, plural rose golds)

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A gold-copper alloy used in jewelry for its reddish color.


sonoluminescence

(physics) The emission of short bursts of light from imploding bubbles in a liquid when excited by sound.


pyrophile

An organism that thrives in the presence of fire.


fog lamp

(automotive) A bright red lamp (normally one of a pair) at the rear of a motor car that can be switched on during foggy weather so as to avoid collisions from cars approaching from behind

takasumuvalo

a bright red lamp at the rear of a motor car


luminaria

A vigil fire used in ceremonies in Native American and Hispanic cultures.

A makeshift lantern used as a holiday decoration, especially in Hispanic culture.


table lamp

Many will have pleasing recollections of the attractive effect, especially on a winter evening, of a dining car or Pullman train, with its shaded table-lamps throwing their light on napery, cutlery, and glass to give a heartening picture of well-being.

1949 September and October, “The New Tavern Cars”, in Railway Magazine, page 282:


navy blue

navy blue (countable and uncountable, plural navy blues)

navy blue:


pea soup

pea soup (countable and uncountable, plural pea soups)

A greyish green or dull chartreuse colour, like the colour of pea soup.


firestarter

firestarters (plural)
fire starter (alternative)
fire-starter (alternative)


cuprous oxide

cuprous oxide (usually uncountable, plural cuprous oxides)

copper(I) oxide, with chemical formula Cu₂O. Used as a pigment, fungicide and antifouling ingredient.


coquelicot

en-adj

coquelicot (comparative more coquelicot, superlative most coquelicot)

more coquelicot (comparative)
most coquelicot (superlative)

Borrowed from French coquelicot (“red poppy”).

I still venture to retain the narrow silver round it, put twice round without any bow, and instead of the black military feather shall put in the coquelicot one as being smarter, and besides coquelicot is to be all the fashion this winter.

1798, Jane Austen, The Letters (Annotated Edition), Jazzybee Verlag, →ISBN:


teend

en-verb

teend (third-person singular simple present teends, present participle teending, simple past and past participle teended)

teends (present singular third-person)
teending (participle present)
teended (participle past)
teended (past)

From Middle English tenden, from Old English tendan (“to kindle”). See tinder.


pyromancer

From Middle English piromauncer, equivalent to pyromancy + -er.

(fantasy) One who has a magical ability to conjure or control fire.


diamond ring

If it were not a tradition that a woman shall accept from her fiance a diamond ring which the idiot cannot, in all probability, afford to give her — well, women would not accept them.

1923, Peter Bernard Kyne, Never the Twain Shall Meet, page 19:

“Delvin, a diamond ring means you are engaged to be married. I barely know you.”

2006, Mary Slonaker, The Vinton House, page 37:

He frowned slightly, whether at the loss of a potential sale or the unnaturalness of a single woman standing beside a handsome man and not lusting after a diamond ring I couldn't be sure.

2010, Juliet Blackwell, If Walls Could Talk: A Haunted Home Renovation Mystery:

By extension, an engagement ring, usually one given by a man to a woman.

鑽戒 /钻戒

finger ring on which is mounted a diamond


black as coal

I wanna see it painted / painted black / black as night / black as coal

1966, The Rolling Stones (lyrics and music), “Paint It, Black”, in Aftermath:


lampion

From French lampion, from Italian lampione, from lampa.


carbide lamp

A simple lamp that produces and burns acetylene (C₂H₂) created by the reaction of calcium carbide (CaC₂) with water.


butter lamp

A lamp that is a common feature of Tibetan Buddhist temples and monasteries throughout the Himalayas.


compact fluorescent lamp

en-noun

compact fluorescent lamp (plural compact fluorescent lamps)

A type of fluorescent lamp (that may or may not contain mercury).


plasma lamp

A kind of gas-discharge lamp: a clear glass container, often an orb, filled with a mixture of various noble gases at low pressure, and driven by high frequency alternating current at high voltage.

lampe à plasma

a clear glass container, filled with a mixture of various gases at low pressure


pyrocumulus

(volcanology, meteorology) A dense cloud associated with fire or volcanic activity.


third-degree

in the third degree (alternative)
3rd degree (alternative)

The jury found him guilty of third-degree murder since he had only meant to beat the clown, not to kill him.

At the third level of some system, particularly:

(law) The least severe level of felony, typically involving a lack of planning and/or the presence of various mitigating factors.

(of burns) An extremely severe level of damage, typically involving major scarring and damage to subcutaneous tissue as well as the epidermis.


alkanet

alkanet (countable and uncountable, plural alkanets)

Sanguinaria canadensis
Sanguinaria canadensis#Translingual


olivaceous

en-adj

olivaceous (comparative more olivaceous, superlative most olivaceous)

more olivaceous (comparative)
most olivaceous (superlative)

olivaceous:


olivaceous-umber

olivaceous-umber (comparative more olivaceous-umber, superlative most olivaceous-umber)

more olivaceous-umber (comparative)
most olivaceous-umber (superlative)

olivaceous-umber:

Having the color of a green olive with a brown tint.


fire engine red

en-noun

fire engine red (countable and uncountable, plural fire engine reds)

fire engine red:

The fireplace is currently painted fire engine red with a high gloss finish. We want to tone this down to a more natural look.

2006, Mi-Ling Stone Poole, Ask Mi-ling!: When You Want the Truth About Decorating, page 2:

A bright red colour typically used on fire engines


gentian violet

gentian violet (countable and uncountable, plural gentian violets)

(chemistry) Also known as crystal violet, a chemical dye used in the Gram stain test, and is also a fungicide. Chemically: hexamethyl pararosaniline chloride, C₂₅H₃₀ClN₃


fire load

The quantity of combustible matter in a given area, or the quantity of heat that can be generated by its combustion.


moon landing

Throughout our discussions and searching inquiries one object figured ever more prominently—the moon. We learned that it was technologically possible to develop a program to reach the moon, and we came to realize that since the Russians did not then have the ability to reach the moon any more than we did, we had at least a fifty-fifty chance of beating them there. Moreover, a moon-landing goal would give a dramatic focus to a space program designed to develop our skills and capacities on a broad technological front.

[1971, Lyndon Johnson, The Vantage Point, Holt, Reinhart & Winston, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 281:

The safe arrival of a spacecraft on the surface of the moon.


cendrée

grey:

(heraldry, rare) Grey, ashen; the blazoning term for grey.


Maunder minimum

Maunder minimum (plural Maunder minimums or Maunder minima)

Maunder minimums (plural)
Maunder minima (plural)

(astronomy) A period similar to the Maunder Minimum observed on a star other than the Sun.


cosmic latte

cosmic latte:

We just can't leave God out of our lives even if there isn't the slightest possibility that an anthropomorphic God exists that can stand outside the universe and look on the cosmic latte color and see us.

2003, Frederick Kramer, Thickets of Qualia, page 208:

Between the walls, which have been redone a univeige, a cosmic latte shade—the floors have similarly been buffed of my traces.

2016, Joshua Cohen, Book of Numbers, page 8:

A creamy white color calculated to be the average color of the universe.


burn-clearing

Slash and burn (technique in agriculture where plant matter is roughly cut down and then burned over to prepare fields for the next crop)


dawnlight

It came from the southeast, a distant hissing, a sandwhisper. Presently he saw the faraway outline of the creature’s track against the dawnlight and realized he had never before seen a maker this large, never heard of one this size. It appeared to be more than half a league long, and the rise of the sandwave at its cresting head was like the approach of a mountain.

1965, Frank Herbert, “Book Three: The Prophet”, in Dune (Science Fiction), New York: Ace Books, →OCLC, page 402:


rose quartz

rose quartz (usually uncountable, plural rose quartzes)

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rose quartz:

A light rosy pink color like that of the gem.


heliophyte

(botany) Any plant that thrives in bright sunlight


fireman's carry

fireman's carry (usually uncountable, plural fireman's carries)

A technique that allows a person to carry another person on the shoulders without assistance.


photohydrolysis

photohydrolysis (countable and uncountable, plural photohydrolyses)

(chemistry, physics) photochemical hydrolysis


photoreversible

(physical chemistry) Describing any compound or system that can exist in two forms, and can be changed from one to the other by the appropriate influence of light


mareel

From an unattested Norn term *mareld, from Old Norse mǫrueldr, from marr (“sea”) + eldr (“fire”). Compare Icelandic maurildi, Swedish mareld.

Coordinate term: milky sea

This is especially the case in late summer when the sea is aflame with mareel and the boats come and go with illumined wakes while the ghostly fire drips from the oar-blades.

1956, The Scots Magazine, volume 65, page 200:

(Shetland) Phosphorescence on the ocean.


cubie

[…] you can see that the corner cubie in question is detachable […]

Each of the tiles is actually part of a small cube, or cubie.

1989, Dennis Merritt, Building Expert Systems in Prolog:

Each nine-cubie face is capable of being rotated en bloc.

2003, Victor Percy Snaith, Groups, Rings and Galois Theory:

One of the smaller cubes making up a Rubik's cube.


chiroptic

en-adj

chiroptic (comparative more chiroptic, superlative most chiroptic)

more chiroptic (comparative)
most chiroptic (superlative)
chiroptical (alternative)

(physical chemistry, physics) Describing any of the optical techniques for investigating chiral substances


illuminance

en-noun

illuminance (countable and uncountable, plural illuminances)

(physics) The luminous flux incident on unit area of a surface; measured in lux or lumens.


puccoon

puccoon (countable and uncountable, plural puccoons)

puccoons (plural)
paucon (alternative)
pauson (alternative)
pocones (alternative)

Borrowed from Powhatan poughkone. Doublet of poke.

The puccoon dye was used as a sort of body rouge; it rubbed off on English linen quite easily, as Byrd's men discovered.

2002, Stephen G Ausband, Byrd's line, page 62:

(countable, botany) Any one of several plants yielding a red pigment which is used by the North American Indians, such as the bloodroot and two species of Lithospermum, Lithospermum hirtum and Lithospermum canescens.


Nanna

Borrowed from Sumerian 𒀭𒋀𒆠 (ᵈnanna /Nanna/).

bor+

The god of the moon in Sumerian mythology.


Amaterasu

/ɑːmətɛɹˈɑːsuː/

Borrowed from Japanese 天照 (Amaterasu), from 天 (ama, “sky, the heavens”) + 照らす (terasu, “to illuminate something”).

(Japanese mythology, Shinto) The Japanese sun goddess, and most important Shinto deity; she is the daughter of Izanagi and Izanami and the sister of Susanoo, Tsukuyomi, Ōyamatsumi, and Kagutsuchi.


lacmus

From Dutch lakmoes, from lak (“lac”) + moes (“pulp”).


British racing green

en-noun

British racing green (countable and uncountable, plural British racing greens)

British racing greens (plural)
racing green (alternative)

Any of a range of dark green colours, originally associated with British racing cars.


pyrokinetic

Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of pyrokinesis.


heliolatry

heliolatry (usually uncountable, plural heliolatries)

The sun […] had a curious sentient, personal look, […] his present aspect […] explained the old-time heliolatries in a moment.

1891, Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles:

worship of the sun as an actual religion/mythos


ferruginous

en-adj

ferruginous (comparative more ferruginous, superlative most ferruginous)

more ferruginous (comparative)
most ferruginous (superlative)

Borrowed from Latin ferrūgineus, from ferrūgo (“rust”).


burn down

en-verb

burn down (third-person singular simple present burns down, present participle burning down, simple past and past participle burned down or burnt down)

burns down (present singular third-person)
burning down (participle present)
burned down (participle past)
burned down (past)
burnt down (participle past)
burnt down (past)

A fire which started in the bedroom caused the cottage to burn down.

The first Earl's Court station (1871) was a wooden hut in the middle of a market garden. It served a District connection between West Brompton and the West London Line. It managed to burn down in 1875, and the Earl's Court of today dates from 1878.

2012, Andrew Martin, Underground Overground: A passenger's history of the Tube, Profile Books, →ISBN, page 79:

(intransitive, of a structure) To burn completely, so that nothing remains.


unburnable

en-adj

unburnable (comparative more unburnable, superlative most unburnable)

more unburnable (comparative)
most unburnable (superlative)


supergranulation cell

en-noun

supergranulation cell (plural supergranulation cells)

(astronomy) A large region of convection in the photosphere of the sun; a supergranule


sub-light

"We are about to test sub-light engine disengage."

2017, A.K. Brown, Humans on the Menu (Champagne Universe Series: Book 2), page 36:

(science fiction) At less than the speed of light.


broad daylight

From broad (“(archaic) to the full extent”) + daylight.

compound

VVhen half a dozen ingenous Men are got together over a Glaſs of VVine, by a chearful Fire, in a Room vvell lighted, vve baniſh vvith eaſe all the Spectres of Fancy or Education, and are very clear in our Deciſions. But, as I vvas taking a ſolitary VValk before it vvas broad Day-light in yonder Grove, methought the Point vvas not quite ſo clear; nor cou'd I readily recollect the Force of thoſe Arguments, vvhich uſed to appear ſo concluſive at other Times.

1732, George Berkeley, “The Fourth Dialogue”, in Alciphron: Or, The Minute Philosopher. […], volume I, London: […] J[acob] Tonson […], →OCLC, section III, page 211:

Broad daylight illumined the apartment, for the sun was high in heaven, though obscured by rolling masses of autumnal vapour.

1848, Acton Bell [pseudonym; Anne Brontë], “The Retreat”, in The Tenant of Wildfell Hall. […], volume III, London: T[homas] C[autley] Newby, […], →OCLC, page 121:

Whilst they had been speaking, she had opened the door, a narrow iron one well hung, for it had opened easily and closed tightly without any creaking or sound of any kind. Within all was dark; but she entered as freely and with as little misgiving or restraint as if it had been broad daylight.

1911, Bram Stoker, “Exit Oolanga”, in The Lair of the White Worm, London: William Rider and Son, […], →OCLC, page 170:

We're gonna rock around the clock tonight, / We're gonna rock, rock, rock, 'til broad daylight, / We're gonna rock, gonna rock around the clock tonight.

1952 (date written), Max C[harles] Freedman, Jimmy De Knight [pseudonym; James Edward Myers] (lyrics and music), “(We’re Gonna) Rock Around the Clock”, performed by Bill Haley & His Comets, Philadelphia, Pa.: Myers Music, published 1953, recording released 20 May 1954, →OCLC, page 2:

Abundant natural illumination in daytime, producing clear visibility; hence, daytime.

大白天

abundant natural illumination in daytime


yellow-haired

I was down at the New Amsterdam / Staring at this yellow-haired girl

1993, “Mr. Jones”, performed by Counting Crows:


apricity

From the Latin aprīcitās, noun of quality from aprīcus (“warmed by the sun”).

Apricity, the warmenes of the Sunne in Winter."

1626, H. C. Gent, The English Dictionarie, London: Isaac Iaggard:

APRICITY [Apricitas, L.] Warmth in the Sun, Sun-ſhine. L."

1749, Nathan Bailey, An universal etymological English dictionary, London:

In the midst of this suspense the lady's maid entered. An apricity seemed to illume her countenance. "Well, Frances, have you found it?"

1856, George Raymond, Drafts for Acceptance, London:

(obsolete) The light or warmth of the Sun.


can man

August 29 2002, Jim Dwyer, "How the Fire Commissioner Saw It" [book review of Strong of Heart by Thomas Von Essen], The New York Times,
Mr. Feehan would reflect on the role of the "can man," the raw young firefighter assigned to haul an extinguisher up the stairs.

In ten seconds, I was dressed and walking out the door of my room at the station. . . . By the time two minutes passed,, Caesar was driving the engine onto the streets of Upper Darby; Paulie and Red were the can man and the hydrant man, riding behind.

2004, Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper, →ISBN, page 141:

Douglas Oelschlager was the can man, bringing up extinguishers.

2006, Jim Dwyer, Kevin Flynn, 102 Minutes, →ISBN, page 199:

(informal) A firefighter whose task is to haul a fire extinguisher.


microlight

I’ve flown in flimsy microlights, soaring serenely above rich farmland. I’ve ridden tactical combat helicopters missions, skimming the desert floor and banking hard around sand dunes.

2020 December 5, Nic Robertson, “Saudi Arabia has changed beyond recognition. But will tourists want to visit?”, in CNN:

One of the things making the trip possible is Rutherford’s microlight aircraft. Microlights are small one or two-seat planes used for leisure or personal transport. If she completes her trip, Rutherford will also claim the record for the youngest person to circumnavigate the world solo in a microlight aircraft.

2021 August 18, Rebecca Cairns, “This teenage aviator hopes to be the youngest woman to fly solo around the world”, in CNN:

(aviation) The smallest manned aircraft classification, composed of ultralights and verylights; smaller than light aircraft.

"I took $100, bought microlights and made the gloves myself," said Lim.

2015 June 5, Parija Kavilanz, “His $13 million secret: 'Gloving'”, in CNN:


go up in smoke

en-verb

go up in smoke (third-person singular simple present goes up in smoke, present participle going up in smoke, simple past went up in smoke, past participle gone up in smoke)

goes up in smoke (present singular third-person)
going up in smoke (participle present)
went up in smoke (past)
gone up in smoke (participle past)


graveyard shift

en-noun

graveyard shift (plural graveyard shifts)

By association of the spooky, cold and silent properties of both the night and graveyards.

Near-synonym: night shift (sometimes synonymous; sometimes coordinate)

I had to work the graveyard shift for most of that year, and at first I hated it, but eventually I even kind of liked it, in some ways.

Now she's workin' the graveyard shift at the hospital. She'll be comin' home in less than an hour and a half. Make your phone calls, talk to your people, then get the fuck out of my house.

1994, Quentin Tarantino, Roger Avary, Pulp Fiction, spoken by Jimmie (Quentin Tarantino):

It is generally believed that when rotating shifts are necessary the rotation should move clockwise (that is, day shift first, then swing shift, then graveyard shift, then back to day shift, and so on)

2006, Roberto Refinetti, Circadian physiology, volume 1, page 580:

A work shift late at night, especially one from midnight to 8 AM on a three-shift schedule.

You'll have to ask the graveyard shift — the equipment was here when we left.

A group of workers who work during this time slot.


Chinese lantern

Chinese lantern (plural Chinese lanterns)

Alkekengi officinarum
Alkekengi officinarum#Translingual

Physalis alkekengi
Physalis alkekengi#Translingual

A bladder cherry (Alkekengi officinarum, syn. Physalis alkekengi).


dyewood

dyewood (countable and uncountable, plural dyewoods)

dyewoods (plural)
dye-wood (alternative)

Cochineal was cultivated in individual households, indigo was common, and several dyewoods were indigenous.

1979, Kax Wilson, A History of Textiles, Westview Press, →ISBN, page 336:

He would take with him red brasilwood from the East Indies – a dye-wood that was so valued that when a few years later the Portuguese found it in the New World, they would name a country after it.

2002, Victoria Finlay, Colour, Sceptre, published 2003, page 198:

Any wood from which colouring matter is extracted for dyeing.


night shift

night shifts (plural)
nightshift (alternative)

Near-synonym: graveyard shift (sometimes coordinate)

I prefer to work the night shift, but I take the day shift in stride.

A regularly scheduled period of work, during evening or night hours.

You'll have to ask the night shift — the equipment was here when we left.

A group of workers who work during the night.


grey-haired

gray-haired (alternative)
grayhaired (alternative)
greyhaired (alternative)

Now, I'm a grey-haired git with a sense of arrogance born of surviving this long in RAIL.

2024 January 10, Christian Wolmar, “A time for change? ... just as it was back in issue 262”, in RAIL, number 1000, page 60:


graviphoton

(physics) a hypothetical particle that emerges as an excitation of the gravitational field but whose physical properties are virtually indistinguishable from a photon


lampstand

What the fuck are you doing with a buddha as a lampstand?

1967, R. D. Laing, The Politics of Experience and the Bird of Paradise:

A menorah or other holder or stand for a lamp.


antimoon

The hypothetical analog of the Moon, revolving around the antiearth.


fog light

(automotive) One of a pair of lights, mounted at the front of a car, below the headlights, usually white or yellow in colour, for increased visibility ahead in foggy driving conditions.

霧燈 /雾灯

one of a pair of lights, mounted at the front of a car


tetramethylrhodamine

(organic chemistry) A rhodamine in which four hydrogens have been replaced by methyl groups. Forms such as tetramethylrhodamine dextran are often used as fluorescent tracer dyes in cell research.


calcein

(organic chemistry) A fluorescent dye, with chemical formula C₃₀H₂₆N₂O₁₃; related to fluorescein; used in some contexts as a calcium indicator


sulforhodamine

sulforhodamines (plural)
sulphorhodamine (alternative)

(organic chemistry) Any derivative of a rhodamine formed by adding one or more sulfonate groups. Often used as fluorescent dyes.


dome light

An interior cabin light with a dome-shaped cover attached to the ceiling of a car, vehicle, room or building. In a vehicle it is considered a safety feature, though usually fitted as standard.


firebombing

On November 9, anti-abortion crusader Curtis Beseda confessed in U.S. District Court to three successive firebombings that destroyed the Feminist Women's Health Center in Everett, Wash., and to torching a doctor's clinic in nearby Bellingham.

1984 December 29, Luma Nichol, “Fighting Fire With Ire”, in Gay Community News, volume 12, number 25, page 4:


glow stick

A single-use translucent plastic tube containing isolated substances which when combined are capable of producing light through chemoluminescence without an electrical power source; used as an emergency light source or in recreational contexts such as camping and nightclubs.

熒光棒 /荧光棒

a single-use tube with glowing chemicals


chula

chulas (plural)
choola (alternative)
choolah (alternative)
chulha (alternative)

From Hindi चूल्हा (cūlhā), Bengali চুলা (cula).

After conducting feed back surveys, it was established that success will not depend on maximum number of chulhas installed but also on after installation care and follow up measures to ensure that skill transfer in installation and operation of chulhas has appropriately taken place and any other difficulty and problem has been overcome.

1996, Rahul Mudgal, Economic Dimensions of Rural Development, page 228:

When the basket was full, she carried it back and emptied it next to the outdoor chula where she did most of her cooking.

2008, Amitav Ghosh, Sea of Poppies, Penguin 2015, page 6:

Saroj was crouched over her small choolah, flattening dough between her palms, stretching it with her fingers, before slapping it onto the hot tawa to make chapattis.

2023, Radhika Iyengar, Fire on the Ganges, Fourth Estate, page 68:

(Bangladesh, India) A hearth, stove, or other traditional cooking-place.


LTO

LTO (countable and uncountable, plural LTOs)

Coordinate term: DLT

(computing) Initialism of Linear Tape-Open, an open standard computer storage tape format having a single spooled cartridge with half-inch tape.

Linear Tape-Open

(software compilation) Initialism of link-time optimization.

Coordinate term: TLI

lunar transfer orbit
lunar transfer orbit#English

(space science, countable) Initialism of lunar transfer orbit.

lithium titanate oxide
lithium titanate oxide#English

(electrochemistry, uncountable) Initialism of lithium titanate oxide (“Li₄Ti₅O₁₂”).


LTO

w:Land Transportation Office (Philippines)

(Philippines) Initialism of Land Transportation Office.


carboxyfluorescein

(organic chemistry) A fluorescent dye that is used as a biological tracer


dijon

This is one of those dishes where you need to find a place in each bite for every flavour – intense jus, raw honey, dijon, blue cheese […].

2009 January 24, Corey Mintz, “Lunching well at Forte bistro and lounge”, in Toronto Star:

Dijon mustard, a prepared mustard containing white wine in place of vinegar


moonwalker

One who moonwalks; an astronaut who has walked on the Moon.


cathodoluminescence

cathodoluminescence (countable and uncountable, plural cathodoluminescences)

(physics) A form of luminescence produced by the bombardment of a metal or a phosphor by electrons (as in a traditional television).


cramoisie

en-adj

cramoisie (comparative more cramoisie, superlative most cramoisie)

more cramoisie (comparative)
most cramoisie (superlative)
cramoisy (alternative)


cramoisie

en-noun

cramoisie (countable and uncountable, plural cramoisies)

cramoisies (plural)
cramoisy (alternative)


grassfire

grassfires (plural)
grass fire (alternative)

FIREFIGHTERS have controlled a grassfire which threatened houses in a heavily populated area in Melbourne's south.

2009 January 20, Anne Wright with AAP, “Grassfire under control after burning property in Frankston North”, in Herald Sun, archived from the original on 2009-02-24:


waterbomber

waterbombers (plural)
water-bomber (alternative)
water bomber (alternative)

Some 50 firefighters, 10 tankers and waterbombers battled the grass and scrub blaze, which began about 12.30pm.

2009 February 28, Anthony Dowsley, Jane Metlikovec, “Relief for Victorians as weather fails to hit extremes”, in Herald Sun, archived from the original on 2009-02-28:

(firefighting, aviation) An aircraft that engages in waterbombing, usually in the course of fighting a wildfire.


wenge

wenge:

A reddish shade of brown associated with this wood.


moondust

The fine regolith found on the surface of the Moon.

Mondstaub

the fine regolith found on the surface of the Moon


fireperson

fireperson (plural firepersons or firepeople)

firepersons (plural)
firepeople (plural)

(nonstandard, rare) A firefighter of any gender.


sealed beam

The new Sealed Beam Headlights are designed to maintain substantially their initial efficiency throughout their life.

1940, Ralph A. Richardson, Optics and Wheels, General Motors Corporation, p. 25

(technology) A type of electric lamp for producing a beam of light in which the filament is sealed inside a unit consisting of the reflector and lens so as to ensure the alignment of the beam and to protect the reflector from becoming dirty or tarnished.


headlighting

headlighting (countable and uncountable, plural headlightings)

Fortunately, reflectors can be polished or replaced if found defective, thereby considerably improving the efficiency of headlighting on older cars.

1940, Ralph A. Richardson, Optics and Wheels, General Motors Corporation, p. 13


burnoff

burnoff (countable and uncountable, plural burnoffs)

The burnoff was started by DSE staff yesterday at Harrison’s track, near the Anglesea Flora Reserve.

2009 March 28, Mitchell Toy, “DSE burnoff goes out of control near Anglesea”, in Herald Sun, archived from the original on 2009-03-31:

A controlled burn of vegetation, either to clear land, or to remove fuel and mitigate future uncontrolled fires.


bronzy

en-adj

bronzy (comparative bronzier, superlative bronziest)

bronzier (comparative)
bronziest (superlative)

Her bronzy tan spoke of hours spent in the sun.

Her skin had a bronzy polish under the pale dusting powder.

1963, Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar, Faber and Faber:


polaski

Named for a forester, Edward Pulaski, who designed the tool.

A polaski is a cross between a pick, an^([sic]) standard axe, and a broad axe. It is used to cut through buried roots.

2002, Kent J. Johnson, Garden Railroading: Getting Started in the Hobby:

A shovel, a polaski (fire axe) and a gieke can for putting out campfires, disinfectant for cleaning outhouses and picnic tables.

2011, Sid Marty, Leaning on the Wind: Under the Spell of the Great Chinook, page 285:

It was equipped with two water tanks, a pump and one inch rubber hose, plus the normal shovels, polaskis, first aid equipment, and radios.

(firefighting) A fire fighting hand tool consisting of ax or adz head on a wooden handle, used to dig a fireline.


mauveine

en-noun

mauveine (countable and uncountable, plural mauveines)

A purple dye, the first synthetic organic dye created.


Brown HT

(organic chemistry) A brown synthetic coal tar diazo dye.


firelike

en-adj

firelike (comparative more firelike, superlative most firelike)

more firelike (comparative)
most firelike (superlative)

Resembling or characteristic of fire; fiery.


helitanker

MORE than a dozen fire crews and two helitankers are battling a grass fire west of Geelong as temperatures across the state hit 40C.

2009 January 28, Sarah Wotherspoon, “Mercury rising as firefighters battle grass blaze”, in Herald Sun, archived from the original on 2009-03-04:

A helicopter used in firefighting, especially against forest fires, which drops water or other fire retardant on the fire.


emblaze

en-verb

emblaze (third-person singular simple present emblazes, present participle emblazing, simple past and past participle emblazed)

emblazes (present singular third-person)
emblazing (participle present)
emblazed (participle past)
emblazed (past)
imblaze (alternative)

(transitive) To adorn with glittering embellishments; cause to glitter or shine.

When a window screen is emblazed with a pretty design, one cannot look into the room beyond because of arrest of vision by the figure upon the screen.

1915, Robert Tuttle Morris, Doctors Versus Folks:

This feeling emblazed inside. / Every nerve like a firefly.

1997, “Euphoria (Firefly)”, performed by Delirium:

(transitive, poetic) To illuminate; to etch or display in a bright, fiery way; blazon.


phthalo blue

en-noun

phthalo blue (countable and uncountable, plural phthalo blues)

From phthalo and blue, from phthalocyanine.

phthalo blue:

A bright greenish-blue crystalline synthetic pigment from the group of phthalocyanine dyes.


lightning mapper

lightning mapper (plural lightning mappers)

(instrumentation) The component of such a system that gathers the required data, comprising an interconnected network of electric field change sensors that measure the time of arrival of electric field pulses from the strokes in a lightning flash. Two-dimensional maps require three such sensors, and three-dimensional maps require four.


IC lightning

Intracloud lightning; lightning which occurs within a cloud, resulting in the discharge of electricity between regions of the cloud. (Often, but not always, this takes the form of sheet lightning.)


photolyte

(chemistry) Any substance that is decomposed by photolysis


ashes of rose

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There are star-fish, sea-urchins, and sea-anemones, — gorgeous creatures in ashes of rose and orange, or in pink and brown with dashes of yellow.

1883 (December), Julia C. R. Dorr, "Bermudian Days", The Atlantic Monthly, page 789

White and black added to the above combinations result in the quieter tones and tints of these — such as old rose, ashes of rose, salmon, red-brown, terra-cotta, brick red and the series of pinkish to orange greys.

1922, Edward Stratton Holloway, The practical book of furnishing the small house and apartment, page 47:

ashes of rose:


sinople

sinople (countable and uncountable, plural sinoples)

sinoples (plural)
cinople (alternative)
sinoper (alternative)
sinopre (alternative)
sinoper (alternative)
synopre (alternative)
synopar (alternative)
synopeir (alternative)
synapour (alternative)
sinaper (alternative)
synaper (alternative)

From Old French sinople, from Latin Sinōpis, from Ancient Greek Σινωπίς (Sinōpís, “of Sinope”), a town that exported a red ocher. The unexpected change to meaning "green" in heraldry occurred in French texts around 1350 for unclear reasons.

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In heraldry, sinople (the green of blazonry) also signified love, joy, abundance.

1903, George Field, Ellis A. Davidson, A grammar of colouring, applied to decorative painting and the arts:

Espinosa (Spain and Flanders) : Argent, a tree terrassé sinople, accosted by two wolves affrontés, sable […]

1903, Isidore Singer, Cyrus Adler, The Jewish Encyclopedia: A Descriptive Record of the History, Religion, Literature, and Customs of the Jewish People from the Earliest Times to the Present Day, page 128:

This shield argent with three lions sinople (green) has remained the coat of arms of the House of Lannoy. The young knight built a home in the woods around the seigneurie of Lys.

1984, Lucile Kathryn Delano, Charles De Lannoy, Victor of Pavia, →ISBN:


lunar module

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The spacecraft used in the Apollo missions that was designed for the landing on the surface of the Moon; the lunar excursion module.


helicopter bucket

en-noun

helicopter bucket (plural helicopter buckets)

A bucket, often collapsible, which is suspended from a helicopter performing firefighting operations and is used for lifting and dumping water or fire retardant chemicals.


international orange

The width of the chrome-yellow or international orange bands should be one-seventh the height of the structure for all structures less than 250 feet […]

1937, United States Bureau of Air Commerce, Aeronautics Bulletin:

This specification covers the general requirements for international orange paint for use on steel, concrete and wood surfaces, such as galvanized steel […]

1945, United States Civil Aeronautics Administration, Civil Aeronautics Bulletin:

Colors such as black lettering on an international orange background are common and are easily visible in most conditions.

1993, Robert J. Johnson, C. Daniel Mote, John Zelcer, Skiing Trauma and Safety: Ninth International Symposium:

A reddish-orange colour used to set things apart from their surroundings, especially in the aerospace industry.


depaint

en-verb

depaint (third-person singular simple present depaints, present participle depainting, simple past depainted, past participle depainted or (archaic, rare) depainten)

depaints (present singular third-person)
depainting (participle present)
depainted (past)
depainted (participle past)
depainten (archaic participle past rare)

(archaic, transitive) To colour; to decorate with colours.


malachite green

(organic chemistry) A toxic chemical used as a dye, as a treatment for infections in fish (when diluted), and as a bacteriological stain


methylene blue

(organic chemistry) A heterocyclic aromatic chemical compound with many uses in biology and chemistry.


safranin

en-noun

safranin (countable and uncountable, plural safranins)

A biological stain used in histology and cytology.


thymolsulphonephthalein

Thymol blue, a brownish-green or reddish-brown crystalline powder used as a pH indicator.


para red

para red (countable and uncountable, plural para reds)


paranitraniline red

paranitraniline red (countable and uncountable, plural paranitraniline reds)

The first azo dye discovered (in 1880), which dyes cellulose fabrics a brilliant red but is not very fast.


bleu celeste

Borrowed from French bleu céleste (“sky blue”).

(heraldry) A rarely-occurring sky-blue tincture, lighter than azure.


circumlunar

Surrounding, or traveling around the Moon

circumlunaire

surrounding, or traveling around the Moon


circumsolar

According to the reigning hypothesis, about 4.5 billion years ago, shortly after Earth had accreted down into a sphere from its little slub of circumsolar material, another newborn planet [Theia], still shaky on its feet, slammed obliquely into Earth with terrifying force.

2014 September 7, Natalie Angier, “The Moon comes around again [print version: Revisiting a moon that still has secrets to reveal: Supermoon revives interest in its violent origins and hidden face, International New York Times, 10 September 2014, p. 8]”, in The New York Times:


firelit

We took a few puffs, he watching the fire, and I his firelit face.

1897, E. W. Hornung, Dead Men Tell No Tales:

Shall I make a gentle song Here in my firelit study, When outside the winds blow strong And the lanes are muddy?

1918, Robert Graves, Fairies and Fusiliers:

The locomotive was the now inevitable American 2-8-0, No. 2623. There she stood, effectively blocking the level crossing, simmering gently, massively inert. It was almost dark, and one's final sight was of her high, firelit cab, the enginemen nonchalantly leaning out, waiting for the right-away, while impatient road convoys piled up on both sides of the crossing.

1945 January and February, “Notes and News: American Locomotives in France”, in Railway Magazine, page 46:


interlunation

interlunation (countable and uncountable, plural interlunations)

The interlunar period; the dark time between the old moon and new moon phases.


enflame

en-verb

enflame (third-person singular simple present enflames, present participle enflaming, simple past and past participle enflamed)

enflames (present singular third-person)
enflaming (participle present)
enflamed (participle past)
enflamed (past)

To VVrangle the Devil, out of the Country, vvill be truly a Nevv Experiment! Alas, vve are not Avvare of the Devil, if vve do not think, that he aims at Enflaming us one againſt another; & ſhall vve ſuffer our ſelves to be Devil-Ridden? or, by any Vnadviſableneſs, contribute unto the VVidening of our Breaches?

1692 (indicated as 1693), Cotton Mather, “Enchantments Encountred”, in The Wonders of the Invisible World. Observations as well Historical as Theological, upon the Nature, the Number, and the Operations of the Devils. […], Boston, Mass.: […] Benjamin Harris, →OCLC:


burn to a crisp

burn to a crisp (third-person singular simple present burns to a crisp, present participle burning to a crisp, simple past and past participle burnt to a crisp or burned to a crisp)

burns to a crisp (present singular third-person)
burning to a crisp (participle present)
burnt to a crisp (participle past)
burnt to a crisp (past)
burned to a crisp (participle past)
burned to a crisp (past)

(ambitransitive) To burn (usually food) very severely.


elve

elves (plural)
ELVE (alternative)
ELVES (alternative)

From e(mission of) l(ight and) v(ery low-frequency perturbations from) e(lectromagnetic pulse sources), and to avoid clashing with the acronym ELF (extremely low frequency) used in the same field of science.

It is likely that the first elve was recorded with the Space Shuttle low-light camera.

2006, Martin Füllekrug, Eugene A. Mareev, Michael J. Rycroft, Sprites, elves and intense lightning discharges, page 37:

(astronomy, meteorology) A rapidly expanding disk-shaped region of red luminosity in the ionosphere, lasting less than a thousandth of a second, which occurs high above energetic cloud-to-ground lightning of positive or negative polarity.


pyrogeography

(rare) The geographical study of the spread of fire


solar sail

(astronautics) A sail-like structure on a spacecraft consisting of very large ultrathin mirrors, with propulsion being achieved by the radiation pressure of light from a star or laser.


light sail

light sails (plural)
lightsail (alternative)


ray of light

(physics) A path a photon or a group of photons takes through space, visible as a column of light.


incinerable

incinerable waste

That can be incinerated (destroyed by burning).


nozzleman

A man responsible for controlling a nozzle, as when spraying concrete or in firefighting.


bead lightning

A relatively rare form of cloud-to-ground lightning which appears to break up into a string of short, bright sections, and lasts longer than the usual discharge channel.


set fire

set fire (third-person singular simple present sets fire, present participle setting fire, simple past and past participle set fire)

sets fire (present singular third-person)
setting fire (participle present)
set fire (participle past)
set fire (past)

From Middle English setten fyre, equivalent to set + fire.

They set fire to the house.

A freight train became completely derailed, blocking the tunnel entrance, and six of the wagons rolled down the mountainside, demolishing and setting fire on their way to a guard house, in which three soldiers were killed.

1941 October, “Notes and News: A Serious Swiss Derailment”, in Railway Magazine, page 469:

(intransitive) Followed by to: to cause to be on fire; to light using fire; to set alight.


helioseismologist

A scientist who studies helioseismology.


mode-locked

(physics) Describing a laser in which several modes of oscillation are synchronized so as to generate a strong, short pulse of light.


deliquium

Borrowed from Latin deliquium, from Latin delinquere (“to lack, to fail”).

(rare) An abrupt absence of sunlight, e.g. caused by an eclipse.


rufescent

en-adj

rufescent (comparative more rufescent, superlative most rufescent)

more rufescent (comparative)
most rufescent (superlative)

Circa 1820, from Latin rufescens, present participle of rufescere (“to become reddish”), from rufus (“red”).

The more inland, lighter race is distinguished from A. u. uropygialis in being much paler on the back, by the edgings of the forehead scallopings and auriculars being paler, and by having the brown of the forehead less deep and less rufescent.

1937, The Emu: Official Organ of the Australasian Ornithologists' Union:

Flesh unchanging or slowly rufescent.

1972, Edred John Henry Corner, Boletus in Malaysia, page 42:

Flesh white, but quickly rufescent where cut, at first full, becoming more spongy stuffed, and frequently hollow in old specimens, [...]

1975, Michael Jordan, A Guide to Mushrooms, page 72:


heliographic

Of or pertaining to heliography; transmitted by heliograph


Paris green

en-noun

Paris green (countable and uncountable, plural Paris greens)

Copper(II) acetoarsenite, a highly toxic blue-green compound used as a pigment, colorant, insecticide and rodenticide.


night vision

The ability, either naturally, by technology or by superpowers, to see in a low light or even dark environment.


coronium

From corona + -ium, coined by a certain A. Gruenwald.

(historical) A supposed chemical element, hypothesized in the 19th century in order to explain a green emission line seen during the total solar eclipse of 7 August 1869 (actually highly ionized iron).


banker's lamp

banker's lamp (plural banker's lamps or bankers' lamps)

banker's lamps (plural)
bankers' lamps (plural)
banker lamp (alternative)

A distinctive type of desklamp, usually with a solid ornate base and a single stem leading to a horizontal (usually green) cover.


stay the night

en-verb

stay the night (third-person singular simple present stays the night, present participle staying the night, simple past and past participle stayed the night)

stays the night (present singular third-person)
staying the night (participle present)
stayed the night (participle past)
stayed the night (past)

If you can't find another place to crash, you can stay the night at mine if you like.

To spend a night at someone else's home.


adret

Borrowed from French adret or Occitan adret, adré, adrech, adreit (“sun-facing side of a mountain”), from Old Occitan adreg, adreit, from a (“to, towards”) (from Latin ad (“to, towards”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₂éd (“at; to”)) + dreg, dreit (“just; right”) (from Latin dīrectus (“direct, straight”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₃reǵ- (“to straighten, right oneself; just, right”)); compare French adroit.

refn

From Images de l’Himalaya [Images of the Himalayas] (Encyclopédie Alpina Illustrée [Encyclopedia Alpina Illustrated]; 2), [Paris]: [Encyclopédie Alpina Illustrée], [1935], →OCLC.

der

The distribution of barley is generally on the adret slope, the ubac seeming to be disregarded. A sunny slope is the most important natural factor in the cultivation of barley and wheat. Very rarely they are cultivated in ubac fields, but close investigation showed them to be of secondary adret nature. In this case seeds are sown a month earlier and mown ten days later than on the adret slope.

1942, Japanese Journal of Geology and Geography: Transactions, Titles and Abstracts, Tokyo: Nihon Gakujutsu Kaigi [Science Council of Japan], →ISSN, →OCLC, page 34:

Viticulure in an alpine (Savoie) or sub-alpine environment (like the Jura) is a precarious activity […] Exposure, by contrast, exaggerates or modifies the quantity of the altitudinal elements in terms of ubac (shady) versus adret (sunny) positions, wet and dry positions, or windy and protected positions, respectively. The advantages of adret slopes, which are usually drier and more protected, are evident and of paramount importance. Adret aspects receive much higher levels of direct sunlight, which produces higher soil and plant temperatures.

1987, John J. Baxevanis, “The Wines of Savoie”, in The Wines of Champagne, Burgundy, Eastern and Southern France, Totowa, N.J.: Rowman & Littlefield, →ISBN, pages 70–71:

The vegetation of the Bachelard Valley mainly consists of forests and alpine pastures. Above the tree limit, alpine pastures and bare rock outcrops dominate the landscape. The location of the tree limit depends on factors like slope aspect and lithology. On south-facing slopes (adrets) the tree limit can reach as high as 2400 m, but on the shadowy north-facing slopes it is usually near 2200 m.

1998, Harry Blijenberg, Rolling Stones?: Triggering and Frequency of Hillslope Debris Flows in the Bachelard Valley, Southern French Alps (Nederlandse Geografische Studies; 246), Utrecht: Koninklijk Nederlands Aardrijkskundig Genootschap/Faculteit Ruimtelijke Wetenschappen Universiteit Utrecht, →ISBN, page 72:

(geography) The sun-facing side of a mountain; in the northern hemisphere, especially south-facing slope.


candleshine

LOVELOCKS I watched the Lady Caroline Bind up her dark and beauteous hair; Her face was rosy in the glass, And 'twixt the coils her hands would pass, White in the candleshine.

1920, Walter de la Mare, Collected Poems 1901-1918 in Two Volumes:


first-degree

in the first degree (alternative)
1st degree (alternative)

The jury found her guilty of 6 counts of first-degree murder, one for each of the victims of her rampage.

At the first level of some system, particularly:

(law) The most severe level of felony, typically involving planning or other aggravating factors.

(of burns) The least severe damage from a burn, typically involving only damage to the outer layer of skin.


second-degree

in the second degree (alternative)
2nd degree (alternative)

The jury found her guilty of second-degree murder for accidentally killing her victim as she mugged him.

At the second level of some system, particularly:

(law) A level of felony somewhat mitigated by various factors.


fourth-degree

At the fourth level of some system, particularly:

(of burns) The most severe level of damage, typically involving major damage to muscles, tendons, and ligaments as well as the skin.


biphoton

(quantum mechanics) A quantum-entangled state comprising two photons.


pilot light

A small, persistent flame used to ignite gas.

A small telltale lamp on a dynamo or battery circuit whose brightness indicates the voltage of the current.


chrome yellow

en-noun

chrome yellow (countable and uncountable, plural chrome yellows)

A natural yellow pigment derived from lead(II) chromate.


sweal

en-verb

sweal (third-person singular simple present sweals, present participle swealing, simple past and past participle swealed)

sweals (present singular third-person)
swealing (participle present)
swealed (participle past)
swealed (past)
swale (alternative)

From Middle English swelen, from Old English swelan (“to burn, be burnt up, inflame”) (compare Old English swǣlan (“to burn”)), from Proto-West Germanic *swelan, from Proto-Germanic *swelaną (“to smoulder, burn slowly, create a burningly cold sensation”), from Proto-Indo-European *swel- (“to shine, warm, smoulder, burn”). Cognate with Dutch zwelen (“to smoulder”), Low German swelen (“to smoulder”), German schwelen (“to smoulder”), Icelandic svala (“to cool”). Related to swelter.

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[M]ind ye dinna let the candle sweal as ye gang alang the wainscot parlour, and haud a' the house scouring to get out the grease again.

1816, Jedadiah Cleishbotham [pseudonym; Walter Scott], chapter V, in Tales of My Landlord, […], volume II (Old Mortality), Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne and Co.] for William Blackwood, […]; London: John Murray, […], →OCLC, page 104:

(intransitive) To melt and run down, as the tallow of a candle; waste away without feeding the flame.

(transitive) To singe; scorch; dress (as a hog) with burning or singeing.

(transitive, dialectal) To consume with fire; burn.

"He thinks it's only a tumour!" cried Annie to her mother. "And he can sweal it away."

1913, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, “Baxter Dawes”, in Sons and Lovers, London: Duckworth & Co. […], →OCLC, part II, page 377:

(transitive, dialectal) To make disappear; cause to waste away; diminish; reduce.


desklamp

desklamps (plural)
desk lamp (alternative)

A lamp which sits on and is used to illuminate a desk.


firebreather

firebreathers (plural)
fire-breather (alternative)
fire breather (alternative)

Our new boss is a real firebreather!

(colloquial) A verbally aggressive person.


biblical blue

A particular bluish color mentioned in the Hebrew Bible.


flesh-colored

en-adj

flesh-colored (comparative more flesh-colored, superlative most flesh-colored)

more flesh-colored (comparative)
most flesh-colored (superlative)
flesh-coloured (alternative)
fleshcoloured (alternative)
fleshcolored (alternative)

a flesh-colored crayon

Of the color of flesh, especially a white person's skin.


increaser

(firefighting) An adapter for connecting hoses of differing diameters.


purpurin

en-noun

purpurin (countable and uncountable, plural purpurins)

purpurins (plural)
purpurine (alternative)

A red anthraquinone dye, extracted from madder, that is used as a biological stain


Solar

We have not yet the instruments that we want for that work, but I have asked for a Solar spectrograph, and I am already in the preliminary talkings to order a spectroheliograph […]

1906, Filipe Valle, in Arthur Schuster (editor), Transactions of the International Union for Co-operation in Solar Research, Volume I, [Victoria] University [of Manchester] Press, page 115

Values at the Solar location (Merrifield, 1992) are denoted by the subscript ○, and the present epoch is t ≡ 0, […]

2001, John J. Matese et al., "Oort cloud flux due to the Galactic tide", in Mikhail Ya. Marov and Hans Rickman (editors), Collisional Processes in the Solar System, Kluwer Academic Publishers, page 93

Here our knowledge is somewhat more certain, especially in the local Solar neighbourhood.

2004, M. A. C. Perryman, “Our Galaxy in three-dimensions: the Jeremiah Horrocks Memorial Lecture”, in D.W. Kurtz, editor, Transits of Venus: New Views of the Solar System and Galaxy, Cambridge University Press, published 2005, →ISBN, page 318:

Data on absolute values of Solar flux in the wave-range λ < 130nm and in the hydrogen line L_α (λ = 121.6nm) were obtained on-board both CORONAS satellites.

2004, T. V. Kazachevskaya et al., “Measurments^([sic]) of Solar EUV fluxes on board the ‘CORONAS’ satellites: equipment and main results”, in Alexander V. Stepanov et al., editors, Multi-Wavelength Investigations of Solar Activity: Proceedings IAU Symposium No. 223, 2004, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 633:


electric blue

electric blue:


iceblink

iceblink (countable and uncountable, plural iceblinks)

A glare in the sky caused by reflection of light from an ice field.


carbeam

(rare, poetic) A beam of light from the front of an automobile.


flocculus

Borrowed from Latin flocculus, from floccus.

(astronomy) A marking on the surface of the sun associated with a solar prominence.


sunray

A beam of artificial light, especially one rich in ultraviolet.

Any of various Australian plants of the genus Rhodanthe.


luminousness

luminousness (countable and uncountable, plural luminousnesses)

The full moon, hidden by veils of cloud, threw a pale phosphorescent luminousness over the heavens, and the towers of the church stood up black against this silvery fleece.

1927, Willa Cather, Death Comes for the Archbishop, Book VII, section 2, page 212:


SEAT

(US, aviation, firefighting) Acronym of single-engine air tanker.


proxigean spring tide

proxigean spring tide (plural proxigean spring tides)

An unusually high high tide that occurs when the Moon is at its closest point in its orbit to the Earth and in its new or full moon phase


firedrake

From Middle English firdrake, from Old English fȳrdraca (“fire-spewing dragon”), equivalent to fire + drake.

inh

A fiery meteor, an ignis fatuus, a rocket


firepit

firepits (plural)
fire pit (alternative)

A pit dug in the ground, or constructed from stones, in which a fire is made, principally for cooking.


Gehenna

heaven

antonym(s) of “Christianity, uncountable”

Hawaiian: kehena

Borrowed from Ecclesiastical Latin gehenna, from Ancient Greek γέεννα (géenna), from Hebrew גֵּיהִנּוֹם (ge'henom, “hell”, literally “valley of Hinnom”), named after the Valley of Hinnom outside Jerusalem, which was constantly filled with the waste of the city, which was then burnt. Heinous deeds are also associated with this valley, as during the time when Jerusalem was ruled by non-Jews (referred to in scriptures simply as 'pagans') child sacrifice was practiced there.

der

Ye serpents, ye generation of vipers, how can ye escape the damnation of Gehenna?

In rabbinical literature and Christian and Islamic scripture, the place where the souls of the wicked go after death, where they suffer eternal damnation or annihilation.


levogyre

laevogyre (alternative)
lævogyre (alternative)


coronal mass ejection

en-noun

coronal mass ejection (plural coronal mass ejections)

(astronomy) A massive burst of solar wind, other light isotope plasma, and magnetic fields rising above the solar corona or being released into space.


light second

(astronomy, physics) A unit of length equal to the distance light travels in one second: about 300 megameters


heliotomography

(astronomy, physics) The three-dimensional analysis of the structure of the sun, especially of convection currents


9-1-1
Federal Communication Commission
National Emergency Number Association
United States

The official form of the service's name in regulations and materials from the United States National Emergency Number Association and Federal Communication Commission.


9-1-1 (countable and uncountable, plural 9-1-1s)


red-haired

It is observed, that the red haired of both sexes are more libidinous and mischievous than the rest, whom yet they much exceed in strength and activity.

1726, Jonathan Swift, chapter VIII, in Gulliver's Travels, Part IV:

Talk to that noble sage at Pylos, Nestor, / then go to Meneláos, the red-haired king / at Sparta, last man home of all the Akhaians.

1961, Homer, translated by Robert Fitzgerald, The Odyssey, Book One, Prentice Hall, published 2001, lines 320–22:


grow light

electromagnetic spectrum
electromagnetic spectrum

An electric lamp designed to promote plant growth by emitting an electromagnetic spectrum appropriate for photosynthesis.


underburn

en-verb

underburn (third-person singular simple present underburns, present participle underburning, simple past and past participle underburned or underburnt)

underburns (present singular third-person)
underburning (participle present)
underburned (participle past)
underburned (past)
underburnt (participle past)
underburnt (past)

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From Middle English underbrennen (“to set on fire, burn up”), equivalent to under- + burn.


stop, drop and roll

A safety technique to be used by a person who is on fire: halting one's movements, dropping to the ground, then rolling.


supermoon

supermoons (plural)
super moon (alternative)
super-moon (alternative)
Supermoon (alternative)
SuperMoon (alternative)
Super Moon (alternative)
Super-Moon (alternative)

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From super- + moon. Coined by astrologer Richard Nolle in 1979.

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And should the moon happen to hit its ever-shifting orbital perigee at the same time that it lies athwart from the sun, we are treated to a so-called supermoon, a full moon that can seem close enough to embrace – as much as 12 percent bigger and 30 percent brighter than the average full moon. […] Some astronomers dislike the whole supermoon hoopla. They point out that the term originated with astrology, not astronomy; that perigee full moons are not all that rare, coming an average of every 13 months; and that their apparently swollen dimensions are often as much a matter of optical illusion and wishful blinking as of relative lunar nearness.

2014 September 7, Natalie Angier, “The Moon comes around again [print version: Revisiting a moon that still has secrets to reveal: Supermoon revives interest in its violent origins and hidden face, International New York Times, 10 September 2014, p. 8]”, in The New York Times:

(astrology, astronomy) A full moon or new moon, when the Earth–Moon distance is in the lowest tenth of its range.

superlluna

a full moon or new moon, when the Earth–Moon distance is in the lowest tenth of its range


bromocresol purple

(organic chemistry) A sulfonephthalein derived from a brominated derivative of cresol; it is used as an acid-base indicator


rushlight

The rushlight was her friend, and aided her to pass the long, long hours before midnight, for it was enclosed within its accustomed tin cage; […]

1842, [Katherine] Thomson, chapter XI, in Widows and Widowers. A Romance of Real Life., volume III, London: Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, pages 198–199:

After supper Sir Pitt Crawley began to smoke his pipe; and when it became quite dark, he lighted the rushlight in the tin candlestick, and producing from an interminable pocket a huge mass of papers, began reading them, and putting them in order.

1847 January – 1848 July, William Makepeace Thackeray, “Crawley of Queen’s Crawley”, in Vanity Fair […], London: Bradbury and Evans […], published 1848, →OCLC, page 61:

As I had asked for a night-light, the chamberlain had brought me in, before he left me, the good old constitutional rushlight of those virtuous days.

1861, Charles Dickens, Great Expectations:

The nights were almost at their longest now, and the cold was very great; but the watchers piled fresh logs upon the fire, and talked quietly to each other as they sat in the dancing glow--for the rushlight had long since gone out.

1901, Evelyn Everett-Green, In the Wars of the Roses:

(historical) A type of inexpensive candle formed by soaking the dried pith of the rush plant in fat or grease, which emits light for a relatively short period of time.


lightstick

When he woke, he became frightened, fired tracer bullets into the air and waved a fluorescent lightstick to identify himself.

2007 July 30, Steven Erlanger, “Israeli Soldier Is Briefly Left Behind in Gaza”, in New York Times:


foglamp

foglamps (plural)
fog lamp (alternative)

And the XR versions were stuffed with standard gear, including side- and head-curtain air bags, stability control, antilock brakes, 17-inch alloy wheels, a tire pressure monitor, active whiplash-preventing head restraints, foglamps, roof rails, the OnStar communications system and three free months of XM Satellite Radio.

2007 August 26, Lawrence Ulrich, “Germans Land on Saturn and Things Shape Up”, in New York Times:

A wide automotive lamp intended to increase visibility in poor weather conditions.


betine

en-verb

betine (third-person singular simple present betines, present participle betining, simple past and past participle betined)

betines (present singular third-person)
betining (participle present)
betined (participle past)
betined (past)
betyne (alternative)
betune (alternative)
betun (alternative)

From Middle English betinen, betynen, bitunen, bituinen, from Old English betȳnan (“to hedge in, enclose, shut, bury; shut out; conclude, end”), from Proto-West Germanic *bitūnijan (“to inclose, hedge about”), equivalent to be- + tine. Cognate with Middle Dutch betuinen, Middle Low German betü̂nen, Middle High German beziunen (German bezäunen (“to fence in, surround, border”)).

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This year began Ida to reign, from whom arose the royal race of Northumbria; and he reigned twelve years and 'getimbered' Bebbanburh, which at first was 'betined' with a wall.

1904, The Eagle, volumes 25-26, page 325:

(transitive, obsolete) To hedge about; enclose; shut up.


prasine

From Middle English [Term?], from a combination of Middle French prame (inherited from Late Latin prasinus) and Middle French prasine (borrowed from Late Latin prasinum), both ultimately from Latin prasinus (“leek-green”), from Ancient Greek πράσινος (prásinos), from πράσον (práson, “leek”).

It is possible that just as chrysocolla is silicated malachite, so prasine is phosphated malachite; the physical appearance of these minerals strongly confirms this view.

1864 November 5, William Crookes, editor, The Chemical News and Journal of Physical Science: […] , volume 10, number 257, London: J. H. Dutton, […] , →OCLC, Revision of the Mineral Phosphates, page 217, column 1:


prasine

en-adj

prasine (comparative more prasine, superlative most prasine)

more prasine (comparative)
most prasine (superlative)

He recalled, in passing, the sweetness in his lap, her round little bottom, her prasine eyes as she turned toward him and the receding road.

1969, Vladimir Nabokov, chapter 5, in Ada, or, Ardor: A Family Chronicle, Harmondsworth, London: Penguin Books, published 1970, →ISBN, part 2, page 287:

prasine:


kilocandela

luminous intensity
luminous intensity#English

(metrology) An SI unit of luminous intensity equal to 10³ candelas. Symbol: kcd


aniline green

en-noun

aniline green (countable and uncountable, plural aniline greens)


VES

Initialism of vent, enter, search (“a firefighting and rescue strategy”).


Chartres blue

Chartres blue (usually uncountable, plural Chartres blues)

Chartres blue:

(glassworking) A shade of blue created for the stained glass windows of Chartres Cathedral, containing traces of red for enhancement.

bleu de Chartres

blue used for the windows of Chartres Cathedral


ultrablond

en-adj

ultrablond (comparative more ultrablond, superlative most ultrablond)

more ultrablond (comparative)
most ultrablond (superlative)

Of course, there was the requisite shot from when they both appeared on Oprah, hand-holding shots on red carpets with Celia in a flame of an orange dress and Kick in a smooth tuxedo sporting the ultrablond hair from one of his summer blockbuster movies.

2007, Sharon Naylor, It's Not My Wedding (But I'm in Charge), page 50:

As her partner, Maxim Beloserkovsky has too little freshness and too much calculated charm in his dancing; and he is distractingly ultrablond in a way that strongly recalls too many Soviet male dancers of yesteryear.

2009 May 21, Alastair Macaulay, “Adrift in a Spectacle of Balanchine and Tchaikovsky”, in New York Times:


steel blue

steel blues (plural)
steel-blue (alternative)

steel blue:

A grayish shade of the color blue, like the metal steel

blau acer

a grayish shade of the color blue, like the metal steel


fire service

en-noun

fire service (countable and uncountable, plural fire services)

(firefighting) Service in a fire department or other firefighting organization, whether as a chosen career, or as a result of volunteering or a form of prison labor.


the night before last

During the night before last night; two nights ago.

vorgestern Nacht (compare vorgestern Abend)