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Jack-o'-lantern

noun

A pale light sometimes seen at night over marshy ground. Synonyms: friar's lantern, ignis fatuus, will-o'-the-wisp.

Lantern carved from a pumpkin.

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"Jack-o'-lantern" Quotes from Famous Books

... tortured by their words. Troffater knew not where to turn his little earthen eyes, for fear of encountering accusers; and he fixed them on the moon, and whistled a snatch or two of his addicted music; then bit his lips, and blowed, and hitched around on his seat, and blushed like a jack-o'-lantern. ...

— Summerfield - or, Life on a Farm • Day Kellogg Lee

... without force of arms. I am aware that general disarmament is not popular among statesmen, that it has been denounced by an eminent authority as a "will-o'-the wisp", that arbitration has been styled a "Jack-o'-lantern", but this is not the first time a good and workable scheme has been branded with opprobrious names. The abolition of slavery was at one time considered to be an insane man's dream; now all people believe in it. Will the twentieth century ...

— America Through the Spectacles of an Oriental Diplomat • Wu Tingfang

Words linked to "Jack-o'-lantern" : lantern, visible radiation, friar's lantern, will-o'-the-wisp, ignis fatuus, visible light, light