Pharos

( Phare, Fr. ) a light-house or pile raised near a port, where a fire is kept burning in the night to direct ve els near at hand. The Pharos of Alexandria, built at the mouth of the Nile, was anciently very famous; whence the name was derived to all the rest. Ozanam says, Pharos anciently denoted a streight, as the Pharos or Pharo of Me ina.