資料來源 : pyDict
鬼火,磷火,迷惑人之物
資料來源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
Will-o'-the-wisp \Will"-o'-the-wisp`\, n.
See {Ignis fatuus}.
Ignis fatuus \Ig"nis fat"u*us\; pl. {Ignes fatui}. [L. 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 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}.
資料來源 : WordNet®
will-o'-the-wisp
n 1: a pale light sometimes seen at night over marshy ground
[syn: {friar's lantern}, {ignis fatuus}, {jack-o'-lantern}]
2: an illusion that misleads [syn: {ignis fatuus}]