foxfire

foxfire englanniksi

1. Bioluminescence created by some types of fungus, particularly those growing on rotting wood.

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2. (quote-book)|year=1832|volume=I|page=311|pageurl=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=nyp.33433082294624&view=1up&seq=327|oclc=2064650|passage=The foxfire,—as the country people call it,—glowed hideously from the cold and matted bosom of the marsh; and, far from us, in the depths of darkness, the screech-owl sat upon his perch, brooding over the slimy pool, and whooping out a dismal curfew, that fell upon the ear like the cries of a tortured ghost.

3. (quote-journal)|location=New York, N.Y.|publisher=Sheldon|Sheldon & Co.|month=June|year=1874|volume=XVII|issue=6|page=842|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=YOoFnBhKbk8C&pg=PA842|column=2|oclc=909430306|passage=Perhaps you've seen a foxfire in the woods. Well, in the dark, it looks like a live, burning coal; but when you go to it, and take it up, it's only a piece of rotten wood.

4. (quote-journal)|date=9 January 1894|volume=XV|issue=741|page=189|pageurl=https://archive.org/details/harpersyoungpeop00newy1894/page/189/mode/1up|column=1|oclc=775111362|passage=Hawthorne|Nathaniel Hawthorne in one of his books records a remarkable personal encounter with this weird fox-fire, and one which cost him dearly. He was on a journey by canal-boat, which had stopped ''en route'' for a brief period at midnight. During the interval he had stepped ashore, and was decoyed into a neighboring wood by the bright glow, which proved to be a fallen tree ablaze with phosphorescence. In his surprise and interest he lost all account of time, and thus missed his boat, ... Almost any damp woods, especially after a rain, is likely to disclose its fox-fire, but it occasionally appears under circumstances where we little expect it.

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6. Wood exhibiting fungal bioluminescence; torchwood.

7. (quote-book), Esq., Killingsworth, Nov. 9, 1775.|title=The Beginning of Modern Submarine Warfare, under Captain-Lieutenant (w), Sappers and Miners, Army of the Revolution. Being a Historical Compilation|series=Engineer School of Application, Willets Point, New York Harbor, Paper|seriesvolume=no. III|location=New York, N.Y.|publisher=Printed on the Battalion Press, Sergt. Carmichael and Pvt. Beck, printers|date=9 November 1775|year_published=1881|pages=176–177|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=TfE3AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA177|oclc=21994978|passage=On the inside is fixed a Barometer, by which he can tell the depth he is under water; a Compass, by which he knows the course he steers. In the barometer and on the needles of the compass is fixed fox-fire, i.e. wood that gives light in the dark.

8. (quote-journal), a Native of Saybrook, at the Commencement of the American Revolutionary War, for the Purpose of Submarine Navigation,(nb...)|editor=Benjamin Silliman|journal=Journal of Science|The American Journal of Science, and Arts|location=New Haven, Conn.|publisher=S. Converse|date=21 February 1820|year_published=April 1820|volume=II|issue=I (number VI overall)|page=96|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=WLkoAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA96|oclc=937044202|passage=The navigator steered by a rudder, the tiller of which was passed through the back of the machine at a water joint, and in one side was fixed a small pocket compass, with two pieces of shining wood, (sometimes called foxfire,) crossed upon its north point, and a single piece upon the last point. In the night, when no light entered through the head, this compass thus lighted, was all that served to guide the helmsman in his course.

9. (quote-journal)|location=New Orleans, La.; Washington, D.C.|publisher=D. B. De Bow|month=September|year=1859|volume=II (New Series; volume XXVII (Old Series))|issue=3|page=268|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=Oa42AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA268|oclc=9332366|passage=American university is the house and home of American civilization—a dwelling place not lighted with foxfire tapers or artificial lights to disguise nature, as the institutions of learning in Europe are, but with the light inherent in nature's truths and in the revealed word of God, honestly translated and interpreted.

10. (quote-book)|location=New York, N.Y.|publisher=James Miller|year=1876|section=book VI (Steel Traps and the Art of Trapping)|page=218|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=6iCwZOHUEtwC&pg=PA218|oclc=84045072|passage=There is still another method of night hunting by the salt lick. ... When night approaches, the hunter finds a piece of phosphorescent wood or "fox fire," and places it on the ground, at a point which he has previously determined to be on a direct line of the aim of his gun. The "fox fire" is plainly seen from the tree, and as soon as it is darkened he knows that it is obscured by the deer, and he pulls the trigger and kills his game.

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