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Webster's Dictionary (1865)

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Bale-fire

Bāle'-fire, n.

noun

n. See BALE-FIRE.

Bāle'-fire, n.

noun

n. [A-S. bel'fyr, the fire of the funeral pile. See BALE.] A signal-fire; an alarm-fire. Sweet Teviot! on thy silver tide The gloomy bale-fires blaze no more. W. Scott.