levin

1. (archaic, poetic) Lightning; a bolt of lightning; also, a bright flame or light.Examples: "His soul was like the night around us now, dark, and sultry, and silent, but lighted up by the red levin of wrath and torn by the bellowings of thunder-passion."; "And forth rith al so leuin fares."; "[N]either blood in face nor life in hart / It left, but both did quite drye vp, and blaſt; / As percing leuin, which the inner part / Of euery thing conſumes, and calcineth by art."archaiccountablepoeticuncountable