Word Meanings - BANDBOX - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A light box of pasteboard or thin wood, usually cylindrical, for holding ruffs (the bands of the 17th century), collars, caps, bonnets, etc.

• Lightsome
  Having light; lighted; not dark or gloomy; bright.
• LIGHTSHIP
  A vessel carrying at the masthead a brilliant light, and moored off a shoal or place of dangerous navigation as a guide for mariners.
• Light-armed
  Armed with light weapons or accouterments.
• Light-hearted
  Free from grief or anxiety; gay; cheerful; merry.
• Light-heeled
  Lively in walking or running; brisk; light-footed.
• Light-winged
  Having light and active wings; volatile; fleeting.
• LIGHTSTRUCK
  Damaged by accidental exposure to light; light-fogged; -- said of plates or films.
• Light-boat
  Light-ship.
• Light-horseman
  A soldier who serves in the light horse. See under 5th Light.
• Lightwood
  Pine wood abounding in pitch, used for torches in the Southern United States; pine knots, dry sticks, and the like, for kindling a fire quickly or making a blaze.
• LIGHTWEIGHT
  Light in weight, as a coin; specif., applied to a man or animal who is a lightweight.
• Lighthouses
  of Lighthouse
• LIGHTWINGED
  Having light and active wings; volatile; fleeting. Shak.
• Cylindrical
  Having the form of a cylinder, or of a section of its convex surface; partaking of the properties of the cylinder.
• Lighten
  To descend; to light.
• Lighthouse
  A tower or other building with a powerful light at top, erected at the entrance of a port, or at some important point on a coast, to serve as a guide to mariners at night; a pharos.
• Pasteboard
  A stiff thick kind of paper board, formed of several single sheets pasted one upon another, or of paper macerated and pressed into molds, etc.

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