Word Meanings - SMALLSWORD - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A light sword used for thrusting only; especially, the sword worn by civilians of rank in the eighteenth century.

• Sworder
  One who uses, or fights with, a sword; a swordsman; a soldier; a cutthroat.
• Thruster
  One who thrusts or stabs.
• 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.
• Lighterage
  The price paid for conveyance of goods on a lighter.
• Lightman
  A man who carries or takes care of a light.
• Swordfish
  A very large oceanic fish (Xiphias gladius), the only representative of the family Xiphiidae. It is highly valued as a food fish. The bones of the upper jaw are consolidated, and form a long, rigid, swordlike beak; the dorsal fin is high and witho
• Thrustle
  The throstle, or song thrust.
• SWORDSHAPED
  Shaped like a sword; ensiform, as the long, flat leaves of the Iris, cattail, and the like.
• Lightermen
  of Lighterman
• Light-minded
  Unsettled; unsteady; volatile; not considerate.
• Swordick
  The spotted gunnel (Muraenoides gunnellus).
• LIGHTARMED
  Armed with light weapons or accouterments.
• 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.
• Lighterman
  A person employed on, or who manages, a lighter.
• Lightness
  The state, condition, or quality, of being light or not heavy; buoyancy; levity; fickleness; nimbleness; delicacy; grace.
• Swording
  Slashing with a sword.
• LIGHTBOAT
  Light-ship.
• Eighteenth
  Next in order after the seventeenth.

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