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Bengal light definitions

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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: a steady bright blue light; formerly used as a signal but now a firework

Merriam Webster's

noun Date: 1818 a usually blue light or flare used formerly especially for signaling and illumination

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. a kind of firework giving off a blue flame, used for signals.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Bengal Ben*gal", n. 1. A province in India, giving its name to various stuffs, animals, etc. 2. A thin stuff, made of silk and hair, originally brought from Bengal. 3. Striped gingham, originally brought from Bengal; Bengal stripes. Bengal light, a firework containing niter, sulphur, and antimony, and producing a sustained and vivid colored light, used in making signals and in pyrotechnics; -- called also blue light. Bengal stripes, a kind of cotton cloth woven with colored stripes. See Bengal, 3. Bengal tiger. (Zo["o]l.). See Tiger.