sea-light

Noun

sea-light (countable and uncountable, plural sea-lights)

1. Light from the sea, either due to reflection off the waves or from bioluminescence.
   • A damp mist filled the room and the musty-coloured books that lined the walls were bathed in eerie sea-light.2012, Jenny Nimmo, Charlie Bone and the Wilderness Wolf, →ISBN
   • There it is: an octagonal shaped white house with a thatched roof, my bedroom with the grey sea-light streaming through slanted windows.2013, Jan Campbell, Freudian Passions: Psychoanalysis, Form and Literature, →ISBN
2. A light on the seacoast to warn or guide boats.
   • The elevation of the lantern above the sea should not, if possible, for sea-lights, exceed 200 feet ; and about 150 feet is sufficient, under almost any circumstances, to give the range which is required.1848, William Laxton, The Civil Engineer and Architect's Journal - Volume 11, page 208
   • For the good of man, his father and grandfather planted the high sea-lights upon the Inchcape and the Tyree Coast.1999, Elbert Hubbard, Elbert Hubbard's Scrap Book, →ISBN