Word Meanings - MAGNESIA - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A light earthy white substance, consisting of magnesium oxide, and obtained by heating magnesium hydrate or carbonate, or by burning magnesium. It has a slightly alkaline reaction, and is used in medicine as a mild antacid laxative. See Magnesium.

• LIGHTFINGERED
  Dexterous in taking and conveying away; thievish; pilfering; addicted to petty thefts. Fuller.
• Laxativeness
  The quality of being laxative.
• WHITEELEPHANT
  Something requiring much care and expense and yielding little profit; any burdensome possession. [Slang]
• Light-foot
  Alt. of Light-footed
• WHITEPOT
  A kind of food made of milk or cream, eggs, sugar, bread, etc., baked in a pot. King.
• 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
• Obtainment
  The act or process of obtaining; attainment.
• Whitebill
  The American coot.
• Burnished
  of Burnish
• White-heart
  A somewhat heart-shaped cherry with a whitish skin.
• Consistorial
  Of or pertaining to a consistory.
• Whitetail
  The Virginia deer.
• Heathenishly
  In a heathenish manner.
• Heathenishness
  The state or quality of being heathenish.
• LIGHTFOOTLIGHTFOOTED
  Having a light, springy step; nimble in running or dancing; active; as, light-foot Iris. Tennyson.
• WHITEEYE
  Any one of several species of small Old World singing of the genus Zosterops, as Zosterops palpebrosus of India, and Z. coerulescens of Australia. The eyes are encircled by a ring of white feathers, whence the name. Called also bush creeper, and white-e
• Light-footed
  Having a light, springy step; nimble in running or dancing; active; as, light-foot Iris.
• WHITESLAVE
  A woman held in involuntary confinement for purposes of prostitution; loosely, any woman forced into unwilling prostitution.
• Light-o'-love
  An old tune of a dance, the name of which made it a proverbial expression of levity, especially in love matters.

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