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E. Cobham Brewer 1810–1897. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898.
 
Fox-fire
 
—i.e. fause or “false fire,” the phosphoric light, without heat, which plays round decaying matter.   1
 


 Fox (To).Fox-tail. 

 
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