A glow-worm.
1797. (Allusively.) These may be more properly stiled Fire Bugs; they are differently formed from common Bugs, having but two legs, walk erect, carry the illumination near the nose, which is composed of a tube of three inches long, projecting from the mouth, with the fire at the end.—Mass. Spy, Aug. 30.
a. 1872. It [the lamp] don’t give no more light than a fire-bug.—J. M. Bailey, ‘Folks in Danbury,’ p. 40.
