Word Meanings - LONDONSMOKE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A neutral tint given to spectacles, shade glasses for optical instruments, etc., which reduces the intensity without materially changing the color of the transmitted light.

• 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
• Neutralize
  To render neutral; to reduce to a state of neutrality.
• LIGHTFINGERED
  Dexterous in taking and conveying away; thievish; pilfering; addicted to petty thefts. Fuller.
• Colorable
  Specious; plausible; having an appearance of right or justice.
• Intensity
  The state or quality of being intense; intenseness; extreme degree; as, intensity of heat, cold, mental application, passion, etc.
• Light-foot
  Alt. of Light-footed
• Light-o'-love
  An old tune of a dance, the name of which made it a proverbial expression of levity, especially in love matters.
• Neutralizer
  One who, or that which, neutralizes; that which destroys, disguises, or renders inert the peculiar properties of a body.
• Whichever
  Alt. of Whichsoever
• LIGHTFOOTLIGHTFOOTED
  Having a light, springy step; nimble in running or dancing; active; as, light-foot Iris. Tennyson.
• Colorado beetle
  A yellowish beetle (Doryphora decemlineata), with ten longitudinal, black, dorsal stripes. It has migrated eastwards from its original habitat in Colorado, and is very destructive to the potato plant; -- called also potato beetle and potato bug. S
• Light-footed
  Having a light, springy step; nimble in running or dancing; active; as, light-foot Iris.
• Lightroom
  A small room from which the magazine of a naval vessel is lighted, being separated from the magazine by heavy glass windows.
• Neutrally
  In a neutral manner; without taking part with either side; indifferently.
• Whichsoever
  Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one (of two or more) which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town.
• LIGHTHANDED
  Not having a full complement of men; as, a vessel light-handed.
• Colorado group
  A subdivision of the cretaceous formation of western North America, especially developed in Colorado and the upper Missouri region.

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