Word Meanings - DARKNESS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The absence of light; blackness; obscurity; gloom.

• LIGHTWEIGHT
  Light in weight, as a coin; specif., applied to a man or animal who is a lightweight.
• Light-boat
  Light-ship.
• Light-heeled
  Lively in walking or running; brisk; light-footed.
• Light-winged
  Having light and active wings; volatile; fleeting.
• LIGHTWINGED
  Having light and active wings; volatile; fleeting. Shak.
• 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.
• 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.
• Lighten
  To descend; to light.
• Lighthouses
  of Lighthouse
• 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.
• Blackness
  The quality or state of being black; black color; atrociousness or enormity in wickedness.
• Lightened
  of Lighten
• 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.
• Obscurity
  The quality or state of being obscure; darkness; privacy; inconspicuousness; unintelligibleness; uncertainty.
• Lightening
  of Lighten

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