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Corposant   Listen
noun
Corposant  n.  St. Elmo's fire. See under Saint.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Corposant" Quotes from Famous Books



... nobly, but the laterals buffet her left and right like the pinions of angry angels. She is jolted off her course in four ways at once, and cuffed into place again, only to be swung aside and dropped into a new chaos. We are never without a corposant grinning on our bows or rolling head over heels from nose to midships, and to the crackle of electricity around and within us is added once or twice the rattle of hail—hail that will never fall on any sea. Slow we must or we may break our ...
— With The Night Mail - A Story of 2000 A.D. (Together with extracts from the - comtemporary magazine in which it appeared) • Rudyard Kipling



Words linked to "Corposant" :   corona, corona discharge, Saint Ulmo's fire, arc, Saint Elmo's fire, Saint Ulmo's light



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