Definition of light

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Light (n.) To give light to; to illuminate; to fill with light; to spread over with light; -- often with up.

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Enough :: Enough (adv.) Fully; quite; -- used to express slight augmentation of the positive degree, and sometimes equivalent to very; as, he is ready enough to embrace the offer..
Smack :: Smack (v. i.) Taste or flavor, esp. a slight taste or flavor; savor; tincture; as, a smack of bitter in the medicine. Also used figuratively..
Melanoscope :: Melanoscope (n.) An instrument containing a combination of colored glasses such that they transmit only red light, so that objects of other colors, as green leaves, appear black when seen through it. It is used for viewing colored flames, to detect the presence of potassium, lithium, etc., by the red light which they emit..
Transparent :: Transparent (a.) Admitting the passage of light; open; porous; as, a transparent veil..
Lampless :: Lampless (a.) Being without a lamp, or without light; hence, being without appreciation; dull..
Disparage :: Disparage (v. t.) To dishonor by a comparison with what is inferior; to lower in rank or estimation by actions or words; to speak slightingly of; to depreciate; to undervalue.
Light-legged :: Light-legged (a.) Nimble; swift of foot.
Transcend :: Transcend (v. t.) To rise above; to surmount; as, lights in the heavens transcending the region of the clouds..
Airy :: Airy (a.) Relating or belonging to air; high in air; aerial; as, an airy flight..
Extinguish :: Extinguish (v. t.) To quench; to put out, as a light or fire; to stifle; to cause to die out; to put an end to; to destroy; as, to extinguish a flame, or life, or love, or hope, a pretense or a right..
Companion :: Companion (n.) A skylight on an upper deck with frames and sashes of various shapes, to admit light to a cabin or lower deck..
Twilight :: Twilight (n.) faint light; a dubious or uncertain medium through which anything is viewed.
Brigand :: Brigand (n.) A light-armed, irregular foot soldier..
Fantail :: Fantail (n.) Any bird of the Australian genus Rhipidura, in which the tail is spread in the form of a fan during flight. They belong to the family of flycatchers..
Aflame :: Aflame (adv. & a.) Inflames; glowing with light or passion; ablaze.
Dark :: Dark (n.) A dark shade or dark passage in a painting, engraving, or the like; as, the light and darks are well contrasted..
Deadlight :: Deadlight (n.) A strong shutter, made to fit open ports and keep out water in a storm..
Trothplight :: Trothplight (n.) The act of betrothing, or plighting faith; betrothing..
Spat :: Spat (n.) A light blow with something flat.
Ridicule :: Ridicule (n.) Remarks concerning a subject or a person designed to excite laughter with a degree of contempt; wit of that species which provokes contemptuous laughter; disparagement by making a person an object of laughter; banter; -- a term lighter than derision.
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