Word Meanings - LIGHTLY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

With little weight; with little force; as, to tread lightly; to press lightly.

• Pressure
  The act of pressing, or the condition of being pressed; compression; a squeezing; a crushing; as, a pressure of the hand.
• Weightiness
  The quality or state of being weighty; weight; force; importance; impressiveness.
• Presswork
  The art of printing from the surface of type, plates, or engravings in relief, by means of a press; the work so done.
• Weightless
  Having no weight; imponderable; hence, light.
• Pressed
  of Press
• Pressing
  of Press
• Presstriction
  Obstruction, dimness, or defect of sight.
• Weighty
  Having weight; heavy; ponderous; as, a weighty body.
• Presser
  One who, or that which, presses.
• Treading
  of Tread
• LITTLEEASE
  An old slang name for the pillory, stocks, etc., of a prison.[Eng.] Latimer.
• Pressgang
  See Press gang, under Press.
• PRESSBOARD
  A kind of highly sized rag paper or board, sometimes containing a small admixture of wood pulp; -- so called because used originally, as now, in presses for pressing and finishing knit underwear.
• Forceful
  Full of or processing force; exerting force; mighty.
• Pression
  The act of pressing; pressure.
• Treadboard
  See Tread, n., 5.

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