| pilot light | |
| —n | |
| 1. | a small auxiliary flame that ignites the main burner of a gas appliance when the control valve opens |
| 2. | a small electric light used as an indicator |
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
| a chattering or flighty, light-headed person. |