"dead light" is correct and usable in written English.
It is usually used as a noun to describe a light that is not working or is burnt out. Example: The hallway was dark and ominous, illuminated only dimly by a single dead light.
A wicked, bearded queen, in her dead light!
In that distant chamber, a bearded queen, wicked in her dead light.
He complains to his landlord, Mills, about the dead light bulbs in the vestibule.
It had been afternoon and the dead light bulb in the hall had been replaced since the first time he had passed her.
At the top of the stairs, he tried the dead light switch again, then closed the iron door behind him and walked out into the empty street.
Sam Cooper, the technical director of the museum, said that the production system has been programmed to send automated e-mail messages each day if there are mechanical problems, from installing a dead light bulb to investigating a computer malfunction.
Based on Andy Merriman's Hattie: The Authorised Biography of Hattie Jacques, and bearing marked similarities to previous standalone BBC dramas on, among others, Tony Hancock, Hughie Green, Frankie Howerd and Fanny Cradock, Hattie is the latest example of Auntie's enduring preoccupation with the closets of our dead light-ent favourites.
I thought of Bulgakov's Margarita, flying on her broom above the dead lights of Moscow: "Invisible and free!
Meanwhile on Monday, Israelis mourned their dead, lighting memorial candles to those slain Sunday, observing a minute of silence in schools and streaming by the thousands to Har Herzl national cemetery for the funerals of nine soldiers and three civilians.
If your eye lights run out, you can replace them by pulling the eyes further in and replacing your dead lights with new ones.
Light Flashed from his matted head and marble feet, He grappled at the net With the coiled, hurdling muscles of his thighs: The corpse was bloodless, a botch of reds and whites, Its open, staring eyes Were lustreless dead-lights Or cabin-windows on a stranded hulk Heavy with sand.
