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BEACON (from the O. Eng. beacn, a sign, cf. " beckon," another form of the same word)

This article appears in Volume V03, Page 563 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: BAR-BEC
BEACON (from the O. Eng. beacn, a sign, cf. " beckon," another form of the same word) , a
signal
 , especially a fire lit on a high hill, structure or building for the purpose of sending a
message
  of alarm or of important news over
long
  distances. Such was the courier-fire (6. yapos avp) that brought the news of the fall of Troy to Argos (
Aeschylus
 , Agamemnon), or the
chain
  of signals that told of the approach of the Spanish Armada, or which circled the British Isles in the
jubilee
  years of 1887 and 1897. The word occurs in many names for lofty and conspicuous hills, such as Dunkery Beacon in Somerset, the highest point on Exmoor. On many such hills the remains of old beacon towers and cressets are still found. The word is used generally of a lighthouse, but technically it means either a small unattended light, a superstructure on a floating buoy, such as a staff and cage, or staff and globe, or an unlighted structure, forming a conspicuous
object
  at sea, used in each
case
  to guide or warn sailors. (See LIGHTHOUSE and BuoY.)


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