sea lights

Noun

sea light (countable and uncountable, plural sea lights)

1. Light from the sea.
   • I would lie in bed listening to the tugs hooting; I would wake up to find my painter's great north windows awash with foggy sea light.1996, Alfred Kazin, New York Jew, →ISBN, page 209
2. A light on the seacoast to warn or guide boats.
   • We shall here simply enumerate all the public or sea lights upon the coast of England and Wales, without distinguishing those which belong to the Trinity Board, or are specially under its management, as we conceive that Board, in a general way, to take cognizance, more or less, in the proper and...1819, Sir David Brewster, Second American edition of the new Edinburgh encyclopædia, page 54