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manna: also means the resin of the cedar tree, and incense.
Derived from the Greek "phosphoros" or light bearing, the ancient name for the planet Venus when appearing before sunrise.
Bright Phosphor, fresher for the night,
By thee the world's great work is heard
Beginning, and the wakeful bird;
Behind thee comes the greater light...The market boat is on the stream,
And voices hail it from the brink;
Thou hear'st the village hammer clink,
And see'st the moving of the team.Sweet Hesper-Phosphor, double name
For what is one, the first, the last,
Thou, like my present and my past,
Thy place is changed; thou art the same.
Phosphoros mirabilis, fulgens, anglicanus
lucifers, palace flamers, reform vesuvians, flaming fusees, swan vestas, darkest england
'congreves': friction matches, where phosphorus was used to initiate a flame in sulphur match-heads. Named after William Congreve, who invented hte rocket as a weapon of war (Congreve rockets were used in the attack on Fort McHenry in Maryland during the War of 1812: 'the rockets' red glare')
phossy jaw: the disease, the flute, the compo
Tennyson,
"In Memoriam"
Greek Fire, Byzantine fire, wildfire, liquid fire, Υγρό Πυρ, marine fire, liquid fire, prepared fire, pyr thalassion, oleum incendiarium.
Willie Pete, Whisky Pete.
Chinese tumblers, plum puddings
M722. M929. M198. M34. M15. Mark 77.