Word Meanings - TOUCH-BOX - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A box containing lighted tinder, formerly carried by soldiers who used matchlocks, to kindle the match.

• LIGHTFOOTLIGHTFOOTED
  Having a light, springy step; nimble in running or dancing; active; as, light-foot Iris. Tennyson.
• 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.
• Containant
  A container.
• 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.
• LIGHTHANDED
  Not having a full complement of men; as, a vessel light-handed.
• Container
  One who, or that which, contains.
• Lightening
  of Lighten
• Light-legged
  Nimble; swift of foot.
• Matched
  of Match
• LIGHTHEARTED
  Free from grief or anxiety; gay; cheerful; merry. -- Light"-heart`ed*ly, adv. -- Light"-heart"ed*ness, n.
• Carrigeen
  A small, purplish, branching, cartilaginous seaweed (Chondrus crispus), which, when bleached, is the Irish moss of commerce.
• Containment
  That which is contained; the extent; the substance.
• Lighter
  One who, or that which, lights; as, a lighter of lamps.
• Lightless
  Destitute of light; dark.
• Matching
  of Match
• LIGHTHEELED
  Lively in walking or running; brisk; light-footed.
• Carriable
  Capable of being carried.
• Formerly
  In time past, either in time immediately preceding or at any indefinite distance; of old; heretofore.

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