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Astrometer :: Astrometer (n.) An instrument for comparing the relative amount of the light of stars.

Demitint :: Demitint (n.) The shade itself; neither the darkest nor the lightest in a composition. Also called half tint.

Irradiate :: Irradiate (v. t.) To animate by heat or light.

Crayon :: Crayon (n.) A pencil of carbon used in producing electric light.

Luminous :: Luminous (a.) Enlightened; intelligent; also, clear; intelligible; as, a luminous mind..

Lit :: Lit () a form of the imp. & p. p. of Light.

Incidence :: Incidence (n.) The direction in which a body, or a ray of light or heat, falls on any surface..

Giddy-paced :: Giddy-paced (a.) Moving irregularly; flighty; fickle.

Thorough-lighted :: Thorough-lighted (a.) Provided with thorough lights or windows at opposite sides, as a room or building..

Owllight :: Owllight (n.) Glimmering or imperfect light.

Velocipede :: Velocipede (n.) A light road carriage propelled by the feet of the rider. Originally it was propelled by striking the tips of the toes on the roadway, but commonly now by the action of the feet on a pedal or pedals connected with the axle of one or more of the wheels, and causing their revolution. They are made in many forms, with two, three, or four wheels. See Bicycle, and Tricycle..

Refractor :: Refractor (n.) A refracting telescope, in which the image to be viewed is formed by the refraction of light in passing through a convex lens..

Flicker :: Flicker (v. i.) To waver unsteadily, like a flame in a current of air, or when about to expire; as, the flickering light..

Slighting :: Slighting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Sligh.

Paramatta :: Paramatta (n.) A light fabric of cotton and worsted, resembling bombazine or merino..

Etiolate :: Etiolate (v. i.) To become white or whiter; to be whitened or blanched by excluding the light of the sun, as, plants..

Drummond Light :: Drummond light () A very intense light, produced by turning two streams of gas, one oxygen and the other hydrogen, or coal gas, in a state of ignition, upon a ball of lime; or a stream of oxygen gas through a flame of alcohol upon a ball or disk of lime; -- called also oxycalcium light, or lime light..

Tucket :: Tucket (n.) A slight flourish on a trumpet; a fanfare.

Buoyancy :: Buoyancy (n.) The property of floating on the surface of a liquid, or in a fluid, as in the atmosphere; specific lightness, which is inversely as the weight compared with that of an equal volume of water..

Apheliotropism :: Apheliotropism (n.) The habit of bending from the sunlight; -- said of certain plants.

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