Word Meanings - TRANSPARENT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Having the property of transmitting rays of light, so that bodies can be distinctly seen through; pervious to light; diaphanous; pellucid; as, transparent glass; a transparent diamond; -- opposed to opaque.

• Haversack
  A bag for oats or oatmeal.
• Lighterage
  The price paid for conveyance of goods on a lighter.
• Lightly
  With little weight; with little force; as, to tread lightly; to press lightly.
• Opposable
  Capable of being opposed or resisted.
• Pellucid
  Transparent; clear; limpid; translucent; not opaque.
• Transparent
  Having the property of transmitting rays of light, so that bodies can be distinctly seen through; pervious to light; diaphanous; pellucid; as, transparent glass; a transparent diamond; -- opposed to opaque.
• Glasseye
  A fish of the great lakes; the wall-eyed pike.
• LIGHTFINGERED
  Dexterous in taking and conveying away; thievish; pilfering; addicted to petty thefts. Fuller.
• Glasswork
  Manufacture of glass; articles or ornamentation made of glass.
• Glasswort
  A seashore plant of the Spinach family (Salicornia herbacea), with succulent jointed stems; also, a prickly plant of the same family (Salsola Kali), both formerly burned for the sake of the ashes, which yield soda for making glass and soap.
• Haversian
  Pertaining to, or discovered by, Clopton Havers, an English physician of the seventeenth century.
• Lightermen
  of Lighterman
• Lightman
  A man who carries or takes care of a light.
• Opposal
  Opposition.
• Pellucidity
  Alt. of Pellucidness
• DIAMONDANNIVERSARYDIAMONDJUBILEE
  One celebrated upon the completion of sixty, or, according to some, seventy-five, years from the beginning of the thing commemorated.
• Glass-faced
  Mirror-faced; reflecting the sentiments of another.
• LIGHTFOOTLIGHTFOOTED
  Having a light, springy step; nimble in running or dancing; active; as, light-foot Iris. Tennyson.
• Havildar
  In the British Indian armies, a noncommissioned officer of native soldiers, corresponding to a sergeant.

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