Definition of light

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Light (superl.) Not of the legal, standard, or usual weight; clipped; diminished; as, light coin..

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Graze :: Graze (v. i.) To touch something lightly in passing.
Skein :: Skein (n.) A flight of wild fowl (wild geese or the like).
Chink :: Chink (n.) A short, sharp sound, as of metal struck with a slight degree of violence..
Disport :: Disport (v. i.) To play; to wanton; to move in gayety; to move lightly and without restraint; to amuse one's self.
Water Line :: Water line () Any one of several lines marked upon the outside of a vessel, corresponding with the surface of the water when she is afloat on an even keel. The lowest line indicates the vessel's proper submergence when not loaded, and is called the light water line; the highest, called the load water line, indicates her proper submergence when loaded..
Goggle :: Goggle (v. i.) Colored glasses for relief from intense light.
Allnight :: Allnight (n.) Light, fuel, or food for the whole night..
Flighter :: Flighter (n.) A horizontal vane revolving over the surface of wort in a cooler, to produce a circular current in the liquor..
Photogenic :: Photogenic (a.) Of or pertaining to photogeny; producing or generating light.
Light :: Light (superl.) Loose; sandy; easily pulverized; as, a light soil..
Diapnoic :: Diapnoic (a.) Slightly increasing an insensible perspiration; mildly diaphoretic.
Phare :: Phare (n.) A beacon tower; a lighthouse.
Hoity-toity :: Hoity-toity (a.) Thoughtless; giddy; flighty; also, haughty; patronizing; as, to be in hoity-toity spirits, or to assume hoity-toity airs; used also as an exclamation, denoting surprise or disapprobation, with some degree of contempt..
Fulmine :: Fulmine (v. t.) To shoot; to dart like lightning; to fulminate; to utter with authority or vehemence.
Caracora :: Caracora (n.) A light vessel or proa used by the people of Borneo, etc., and by the Dutch in the East Indies..
Snick :: Snick (v. t.) To hit (a ball) lightly.
Retuse :: Retuse (a.) Having the end rounded and slightly indented; as, a retuse leaf..
Flytrap :: Flytrap (n.) A plant (Dionaea muscipula), called also Venus's flytrap, the leaves of which are fringed with stiff bristles, and fold together when certain hairs on their upper surface are touched, thus seizing insects that light on them. The insects so caught are afterwards digested by a secretion from the upper surface of the leaves..
Linstock :: Linstock (n.) A pointed forked staff, shod with iron at the foot, to hold a lighted match for firing cannon..
Blighted :: Blighted (imp. & p. p.) of Bligh.
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