subs.—Anybody or anything brilliant, gay, or lively: see SPARK.
1713. ADDISON, The Guardian, No. 120, 29 July. What would you say, should you see the SPARKLER shaking her elbow for a whole night together, and thumping the table with a dice-box?
1879. H. W. WARREN, Recreations in Astronomy, 113. [Mercury] keeps so near the sun that very few people have ever seen the brilliant SPARKLER.
