levin - What does it mean?

Noun

(en-noun)

(archaic) Lightning; a bolt of lightning; also, a bright flame or light.

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|year= c1280 |year_published= 1868 |author= Anonymous |by= |title= |url= http://books.google.com/books?id=4XvmHG8pwpcC&pg=PA76 |original= |chapter= Godrich Displays Great Prowess |section= line 2690 |isbn= |edition= |publisher= N. Trübner & Company |location= London |editor= |volume= |page= 76 |passage= And forth rith al so leuin fares. }}

*1590 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , III.5:

*:neither blood in face nor life in hart / It left, but both did quite drye up and blast; / As piercing levin , which the inner part / Of every thing consumes, and calcineth by art.

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|year= 1847 |year_published= 1848 |author= |by= |title= |url= http://books.google.com/books?id=-JF64q20JJgC&pg=PR9 |original= |chapter= |section= |isbn= |edition= |publisher= |location= Leipzig |editor= Currer Bell |volume= 1 |page= ix |passage= I cannot tell; but I think if some of those amongst whom he hurls the Greek fire of his sarcasm, and over whom he flashes the levin -brand of his denunciation, were to take his warnings in time — they or their seed might escape a fatal Ramoth-Gilead. }}