false light

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false light [¦fȯls ′līt]

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A light which is unavoidably exhibited by an aid to navigation and which is not intended to be a part of the proper characteristic of the light, such as reflections from storm panes.

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No references found			Now, whilst cheerfully admitting that you have done your best to fulfil that condition, I cannot help feeling that, in presenting the facts in the guise of fiction, you have, in spite of yourself, shown them in a false light. An Unsocial Socialist by Shaw, George Bernard View in context And he himself in so far as he shows himself in a false light, becomes a shadow, or, indeed, ceases to exist. The Scarlet Letter by Hawthorne, Nathaniel View in context Her mind in this instance, and, as I feared, in other instances besides, confusedly presented to her something which she had only intended to do in the false light of something which she had really done. The Woman in White by Collins, Wilkie View in context			false color False Cross False Decretals False Dmitrii, First False Dmitrii, Second false door false drop false drops false drumlin false ellipse False Etymology false form false front false galena false half-timbering false header false heartwood false horizon false ice foot false imprisonment False Intonation false joint False Killer Whale false lapis false ligament false light false machicolation false negative false ogive false oolith false overhang false pile false plate false positive False Pregnancy false proscenium false pyroelectricity false rejection False Relation False Report false retrieval false rib false ring false roof false set false smut false Solomon's-seal false sorts false stull false sunbird false target			false information to obtain credit False Intonation false ipecac False Jacob's Ladder False jalap false joint false joint false joint false joint false joint False keel False key False Key Pulse False Killer Whale False Killer Whale False Killer Whale false knot false labor false labor false labor false labor False labour False labour false lapis false layer false layer false layer false layer False leg false ligament false light false lily of the valley False lily-of-the-valley false logic False loosestrife False Lucid Dream false lupine false lupine false lupine false lupine false machicolation false macula false mallow False Mangrove False Match Rate false membrane false membrane false membrane False Memories False memory False memory False Memory Syndrome False Memory Syndrome False Memory Syndrome False Memory Syndrome Facts False Memory Syndrome Foundation False memorys false mildew false mistletoe false miterwort false miterwort

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