corposant
IPA: kˈɔrpoʊsʌnt
noun
- An electrical discharge accompanied by a corona of ionization in the surrounding atmosphere
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Examples of "corposant" in Sentences
- The next year, Samir hit the word corposant, which refers to an electrical phenomenon.
- It was a bronze statue, Greek or Roman, of a torchbearer whose branch flared with sudden cold corposant fire.
- The mariners believed them to be the souls of the departed, whence they are also called corposant (corpo santo).
- I looked, and saw a corposant, as it is called at sea, -- a St. Elmo's fire, -- burning at the end of the crossjack-yard.
- The next year, Samir hit the word corposant which refers to an electrical phenomenon and he shocked the crowd by finishing 27th.
- We were off the yard in good season, for it is held a fatal sign to have the pale light of the corposant thrown upon ones face.
- Gaggii kept chanting until he was surrounded by a half circle of bobbing, corposant shapes, each yellow or red-orange, each an individually expressive nimbus.
- When we got down we found all hands looking aloft, and there, directly over where we had been standing, upon the main top-gallant mast-head, was a ball of light, which the sailors call a corposant
- When we got down we found all hands looking aloft, and there, directly over where we had been standing, upon the main top-gallant-mast-head, was a ball of light, which the sailors name a corposant (corpus sancti), and which the mate had called out to us to look at.
- The salt air smothers the coastal lights, but the mast, the shipped oars, ignite with the corposant, and all through the water a green incandescence, and often at night the coastline is dark, obscured by the luminous reef by the Phoenix of Habbakuk, low in the canceling west, and the wind and the water are borrowed and inward as light.