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fire-flaught
ˈfire-flaught Orig. Sc. [f. fire n. + flaught. Cf. fireslaught.] 1. Lightning; a flash of lightning; a storm of thunder and lightning.c 1375 ? Barbour Troy-bk. i. 468 Ande fyre-flauthtis our þe feldes flee Ine syk fladdanis & flambys briht. c 1425 Wyntoun Cron. vi. v. 33 A gret fyre flawcht..Ðan hap... Oxford English Dictionary
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flaught
▪ I. flaught, n.1 Chiefly Sc. (flɔːt, Sc. flaxt) Also 4–5 flaght(e, 8–9 flaucht. [ME. flaȝt, prob. repr. either OE. *fleaht or ON. *flaht-r (Icel. fláttr, used only in the sense ‘act of flaying’: see Fritzner s.v.); the OTeut. type would be *flahtu-z, f. either of the parallel roots flah-, flak- (Ar... Oxford English Dictionary
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A Canticle for Leibowitz
Many years later, the abbey is visited by Monsignors Aguerra (God's Advocate) and Flaught (the Devil's Advocate), the Church's investigators in the case A ten-day cease-fire is issued by the World Court. wikipedia.org
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glint
▪ I. glint, n.1 (glɪnt) See also glent. [f. the vb. The text of the first quot. is insecure, and the existence of the word before 19th c. is therefore doubtful.] 1. A gleam; a faint or momentary appearance of light or of some lustrous object.a 1541 Wyatt Ps. cxliii. Prol. 13 The glint of light, that... Oxford English Dictionary
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