Definition of "corposant" An electrical discharge accompanied by a corona of ionization in the surrounding atmosphere quotations examples
Quotations I said the corpusants have mercy on us all ; and I hope they will , still . But do they only have mercy on long faces ?--have they no bowels for a laugh ? […] I take that mast -head flame we saw for a sign of good luck ; for those masts are rooted in a hold that is going to be chock a ' block with sperm -oil , d 'ye see ; and so , all that sperm will work up into the masts , like sap in a tree . Yes , our three masts will yet be as three spermaceti candles --that 's the good promise we saw .
1851 November 14, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, page 498