The next year, Samir hit the word corposant, which refers to an electrical phenomenon.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript May 30, 2007] Reference

The next year, Samir hit the word corposant which refers to an electrical phenomenon and he shocked the crowd by finishing 27th.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript May 31, 2007] Reference

The mariners believed them to be the souls of the departed, whence they are also called corposant (corpo santo).    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip] Reference

It was a bronze statue, Greek or Roman, of a torchbearer whose branch flared with sudden cold corposant fire.    From Wordnik.com.  [Operation Luna]

I looked, and saw a corposant, as it is called at sea, -- a St. Elmo's fire, -- burning at the end of the crossjack-yard.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stories by English Authors: the Sea] Reference

The sailor at the helm said he lately saw a corposant at the head of the mast.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Journal of John Woolman]

They had played around him as the corposant flickers around the mast-head of a ship.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Wind Bloweth] Reference

I had seen a ship, and there she was to leeward of us, with the corposant clinging to one of her spars.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Log of a Privateersman] Reference

We were off the yard in good season, for it is held a fatal sign to have the pale light of the corposant thrown upon one's face.    From Wordnik.com.  [Two Years Before the Mast] Reference

We were off the yard in good season, for it is held a fatal sign to have the pale light of the corposant thrown upon one’s face.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter XXXIV. Narrow Escapes-The Equator-Tropical Squalls-A Thunder Storm] Reference

Meanwhile, determined Paul flew hither and thither like the meteoric corposant-ball, which shiftingly dances on the tips and verges of ships 'rigging in storms.    From Wordnik.com.  [Israel Potter] Reference

Everybody knows nowadays that a corposant is nothing whatever but an electrical phenomenon, and therefore merely an indication that the atmosphere is surcharged with electricity.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Log of a Privateersman] Reference

At any other time I should have known this to be a St. Elmo's fire, a corposant, the ignis fatuus of the deep, and hailed it with a seaman's faith in its promise of gentle weather.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Frozen Pirate] Reference

They were all watching it carefully, for sailors have a notion that if the corposant rises in the rigging it is a sign of fair weather, but if it comes lower down there will be a storm.    From Wordnik.com.  [Two Years Before the Mast] Reference

They were all watching it carefully, for sailors have a notion that if the corposant rises in the rigging, it is a sign of fair weather, but if it comes lower down, there will be a storm.    From Wordnik.com.  [Two Years Before the Mast] Reference

I therefore turned to Saunders with some remark upon my lips in reply to his, when I saw the corposant suddenly leave the gaff - end and go driving away to leeward on the wings of the gale.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Log of a Privateersman] Reference

I had just time to give the order to bear up in pursuit, and to get the schooner before the wind, when the corposant seemed to settle down nearer to the water, and in another instant it had vanished.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Log of a Privateersman] Reference

While this was happening, the corposant on the bowsprit-end also let go its hold and came floating inboard along the spar, causing a regular stampede of the watch, who incontinently came rushing aft as far as the mainmast, to get out of the way of their uncanny visitor, which, however, vanished as it reached the knightheads.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Middy in Command A Tale of the Slave Squadron] Reference

With the disappearance of the corposant there was nothing whatever to betray the presence of a strange sail in our vicinity; for now, strain my eyes as I would, I could not be at all certain that I saw anything, although there were times when the same vague, shapeless blot of deeper darkness that had previously attracted my attention seemed to loom up momentarily out of the Stygian murkiness ahead.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Log of a Privateersman] Reference

S hull sparked with a corposant discharge as it slid across into a high inclination orbit.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Dreaming Void]

They say that if a corposant appears aboard a vessel and stays aloft, or travels upwards, it's all right; but if it comes down from aloft, it means a heavy gale of wind at the very least, "answered Saunders.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Log of a Privateersman] Reference

I have doubled the Horn, brothers, in a King's ship, and I have seen the bright cloud that never sets, and have held a living corposant in my own hand: But these are things which any man may look on, who will go upon a yard in a gale, or ship aboard a Southseaman: Still, I pronounce it uncommon for a vessel to see her shadow in the haze, as we have ours at this moment for there it comes again!.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Red Rover] Reference

Within the next half-hour the wind had increased so greatly in strength that I began to think there really might be something in Saunders's theory after all, and I was inwardly debating whether I should haul the fore-sheet to windward and heave the schooner to, or whether it would be better to up helm and run before it until the weather should moderate a bit, when a third corposant suddenly appeared, this time on the boom-foresail gaff-end.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Log of a Privateersman] Reference