Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A light to guide mariners during the night. See lighthouse, harbor-tight.

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Examples

  • His sea-light eyes crinkled into the sun creases as he stood, dripping wet, hands on his hips and looked down at her.

    The Rowan McCaffrey, Anne 1990

  • European language to express Light-house or sea-light.

    Illustrated Science for Boys and Girls Anonymous

  • They lit the high sea-light, and the dark began to fall.

    The Ontario High School Reader A.E. Marty

  • Plunging through green sea-light where bronze fronds wrap

    Perpetual Light : a memorial William Rose Ben��t 1918

  • Nearly all the lyrics are full of sea-light and the clash of waters, and the lyrics are usually the very soul of Euripidean tragedy.

    The Iphigenia in Tauris of Euripides 480? BC-406 BC Euripides 1911

  • Dr. Bonaday did not reply in words; but the Commandant -- who happened to be gazing just then towards North Island, where the great sea-light seemed to search the outer tides with its monstrous eye -- heard, or fancied that he heard, a sound as of a quiet chuckle.

    Major Vigoureux Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903

  • They lit the high sea-light, and the dark began to fall.

    In The Yule-Log Glow—Book 3 Christmas Poems from 'round the World Various 1902

  • I know not what rendered me on this occasion particularly sensitive to the impression, but it seemed to me that I saw him as I had never seen him before -- saw him inside and out, in the intense sea-light, in his personal, his moral totality.

    A London Life and Other Tales Henry James 1879

  • It is a faint, shimmering, airy, watery pink; the bright sea-light seems to flush with it and the pale whiteish-green of lagoon and canal to drink it in.

    Italian Hours Henry James 1879

  • I don't know what rendered me on this occasion particularly sensitive to the impression, but it struck me that I saw him as I had never seen him before, saw him, thanks to the intense sea-light, inside and out, in his personal, his moral totality.

    The Patagonia Henry James 1879

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