Definition: (noun) A pale light sometimes seen at night over marshy ground.
Synonyms: friar's lantern, ignis fatuus, jack-o'-lantern.
Usage: The white face of a dying man seemed suddenly to have floated up out of the darkness, to have come to him like a will-o'-the-wisp from the swamp.
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