Word Meanings - BEAMLET - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A small beam of light.

• Light-fingered
  Dexterous in taking and conveying away; thievish; pilfering; addicted to petty thefts.
• Lightness
  The state, condition, or quality, of being light or not heavy; buoyancy; levity; fickleness; nimbleness; delicacy; grace.
• LIGHTWINGED
  Having light and active wings; volatile; fleeting. Shak.
• Light-foot
  Alt. of Light-footed
• Lightning
  A discharge of atmospheric electricity, accompanied by a vivid flash of light, commonly from one cloud to another, sometimes from a cloud to the earth. The sound produced by the electricity in passing rapidly through the atmosphere constitutes thu
• Smallsword
  A light sword used for thrusting only; especially, the sword worn by civilians of rank in the eighteenth century.
• LIGHTYEAR
  The distance over which light can travel in a year's time; -- used as a unit in expressing stellar distances. It is more than 63,000 times as great as the distance from the earth to the sun.
• Light-footed
  Having a light, springy step; nimble in running or dancing; active; as, light-foot Iris.
• Light-o'-love
  An old tune of a dance, the name of which made it a proverbial expression of levity, especially in love matters.
• LIGHTSIGNALS
  A system of signaling in which balls of red and green fire are fired from a pistol, the arrangement in groups denoting numbers having a code significance.
• Lightful
  Full of light; bright.
• Lightroom
  A small room from which the magazine of a naval vessel is lighted, being separated from the magazine by heavy glass windows.
• LIGHTARMED
  Armed with light weapons or accouterments.
• Lighting
  of Light
• Light-handed
  Not having a full complement of men; as, a vessel light-handed.

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