Word Meanings - LIGHTSHIP - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A vessel carrying at the masthead a brilliant light, and moored off a shoal or place of dangerous navigation as a guide for mariners.

• Moorage
  A place for mooring.
• Placemen
  of Placeman
• LIGHTHORSEMAN
  A West Indian fish of the genus Ephippus, remarkable for its high dorsal fin and brilliant colors.
• Guidepost
  A post at the fork of a road, with a guideboard on it, to direct travelers.
• Lighterman
  A person employed on, or who manages, a lighter.
• Light-minded
  Unsettled; unsteady; volatile; not considerate.
• Lightness
  The state, condition, or quality, of being light or not heavy; buoyancy; levity; fickleness; nimbleness; delicacy; grace.
• Moorball
  A fresh-water alga (Cladophora Aegagropila) which forms a globular mass.
• Placeman
  One who holds or occupies a place; one who has office under government.
• Shoaled
  of Shoal
• LIGHTLEGGED
  Nimble; swift of foot. Sir P. Sidney.
• Light-fingered
  Dexterous in taking and conveying away; thievish; pilfering; addicted to petty thefts.
• 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
• Moorband
  See Moorpan.
• Placement
  The act of placing, or the state of being placed.
• Shoaling
  of Shoal
• LIGHTMINDED
  Unsettled; unsteady; volatile; not considerate. -- Light"-mind`ed*ness, n.
• Brilliant
  Sparkling with luster; glittering; very bright; as, a brilliant star.

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