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Webster 1913 Edition
Rushlight
Rush′lightˊ
,Noun.
A rush candle, or its light; hence, a small, feeble light.
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rushlight
rushlight
English
Noun
rushlight (plural rushlights)
- a type of inexpensive candle, historically used, formed by soaking the dried pith of the rush plant in fat or grease, which emits light for a relatively short period of time.
- 1847-48, William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair, Chapter VII
- 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.
- 1847-48, William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair, Chapter VII