ˈgas-light
Also gaslight.
a. The light produced by the combustion of gas, usually coal-gas.
| 1808 Murdoch in Phil. Trans. XCVIII. 126 The time during which the gas light is used, may..be stated at least at two hours per day. 1838 Penny Cycl. XI. 86/2 The great success which attended gas-light in London has extended itself throughout Great Britain. 1857 Mrs. Carlyle Lett. II. 334, I had not been able to read then, by the gas-light, which dazzles my eyes. |
b. A jet of burning gas; chiefly pl.
| 1808 Murdoch in Phil. Trans. XCVIII. 125 A..standard for determining the advantages to be expected from the use of the gas lights under favourable circumstances. 1815 Accum Treat. Gas-Light (ed. 2) 145 The Church of St. John the Evangelist..has been illuminated with gas-lights for upwards of two years. 1831 T. P. Jones Convers. Chem. xv. 160 Such is not the case with the gas lights. 1865 Dickens Mut. Fr. iii. i, Gaslights flared in the shops with a haggard and unblest air. |
c. attrib., as gas-light company, gas-light manufactory. gaslight paper, a photographic printing-paper sufficiently insensitive to be usable in weak artificial light, without the necessity for a dark-room.
| 1809 J. Van Voorst (title) Address to the Proprietors of the intended Gas Light and Coke Company. 1826 Scott Mal. Malagr. ii. 63 It would be supposing the blessed sun himself jealous of a gas-light manufactory. 1906 R. C. Bayley Compl. Photogr. 243 Gaslight papers, as their name implies, are sufficiently insensitive to be worked in gaslight. 1963 John & Field Textbk. Photogr. Chem. ii. 24 Contact papers have long been known under the alternative name of ‘gaslight’ papers, since they can be handled cautiously in a weak domestic gas or electric light. |