fulgury

English

Etymology

Latin fulgur.

Noun

fulgury (uncountable)

1. (obsolete or poetic) lightning
   • c. 1918, Howard Phillips Lovecraft, The House:

     As a picture unroll'd -
     And my age-spanning sight
     Saw the time I had been there before flash like fulgury out of the night.

References

• “fulgury”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.