Meaning of elve | Babel Free

Definitions

A rapidly expanding disk-shaped region of red luminosity in the ionosphere, lasting less than a thousandth of a second, which occurs high above energetic cloud-to-ground lightning of positive or negative polarity.

Equivalents

Examples

“Sir Olof, he rode out at early day, / And so came he unto an Elve-dance gay.”

“Is it the offspring of thoughtless animal spirits, or the elve of fancy continually flitting round the expected pleasure?”

“It is likely that the first elve was recorded with the Space Shuttle low-light camera.”

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