• A phosphorescent light that appears, in the night, over marshy ground, supposed to be occasioned by the decomposition of animal or vegetable substances, or by some inflammable gas; -- popularly called also Will-with-the-wisp, or Will-o`-the-wisp, and Jack-with-a-lantern, or Jack-o`-lantern. • Fig.: A misleading influence; a decoy.
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Ig'nis fat'u·us ;
plural Ignes fatui . [ Latin
ignis fire +
fatuus foolish. So called in allusion to its tendency to mislead travelers.]
1. A phosphorescent light that appears, in the night, over marshy ground, supposed to be occasioned by the decomposition of animal or vegetable sub...
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Ignis Fatuus is Latin for Foolish fire
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ignis fatuus Foolish fire. A light that misleads; a name given to a light that sometimes appears at night, usually over marshes, probably because of the combusion of marsh (methane) gas resulting from decaying vegetable matter. Other terms for it are jack-o'-lantern and will-o'-the-wisp. Anyone who attempts to follow this kind of light is misled; ...
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Another name for will-o'-the-wisp
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a flitting phosphorescent light seen at night, chiefly over marshy ground, and believed to be due to spontaneous combustion of gas from decomposed organic matter. · something deluding or misleading.
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an illusion that misleads
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