Word Meanings - LIGHTEN - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To descend; to light.

• 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.
• Descended
  of Descend
• 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.
• Descending
  of Descend
• 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.
• LIGHTARMED
  Armed with light weapons or accouterments.
• Lightening
  of Lighten
• Light-legged
  Nimble; swift of foot.

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