Word Meanings - FLASHBURNER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A gas burner with a device for lighting by an electric spark.

• Lightable
  Such as can be lighted.
• Light-headed
  Disordered in the head; dizzy; delirious.
• Light-ship
  A vessel carrying at the masthead a brilliant light, and moored off a shoal or place of dangerous navigation as a guide for mariners.
• LIGHTBOAT
  Light-ship.
• 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.
• Light-armed
  Armed with light weapons or accouterments.
• Light-hearted
  Free from grief or anxiety; gay; cheerful; merry.
• Lightsome
  Having light; lighted; not dark or gloomy; bright.
• LIGHTFINGERED
  Dexterous in taking and conveying away; thievish; pilfering; addicted to petty thefts. Fuller.
• Light-boat
  Light-ship.
• Light-heeled
  Lively in walking or running; brisk; light-footed.
• Light-winged
  Having light and active wings; volatile; fleeting.
• LIGHTFOOTLIGHTFOOTED
  Having a light, springy step; nimble in running or dancing; active; as, light-foot Iris. Tennyson.
• 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.
• LIGHTHANDED
  Not having a full complement of men; as, a vessel light-handed.
• Deviceful
  Full of devices; inventive.

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