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  • English Word Lightening Definition of Lighten
  • English Word Lighter Definition One who, or that which, lights; as, a lighter of lamps.
  • English Word Lighter Definition A large boat or barge, mainly used in unloading or loading vessels which can not reach the wharves at the place of shipment or delivery.
  • English Word Lighter Definition To convey by a lighter, as to or from the shore; as, to lighter the cargo of a ship.
  • English Word Lighterage Definition The price paid for conveyance of goods on a lighter.
  • English Word Lighterage Definition The act of unloading into a lighter, or of conveying by a lighter.
  • English Word Lighterman Definition A person employed on, or who manages, a lighter.
  • English Word Lightermen Definition of Lighterman
  • English Word Lightful Definition Full of light; bright.
  • English Word Lighthouse Definition 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.
  • English Word Lighthouses Definition of Lighthouse
  • English Word Lighting Definition of Light
  • English Word Lighting Definition of Light
  • English Word Lighting Definition A name sometimes applied to the process of annealing metals.
  • English Word Lightless Definition Destitute of light; dark.
  • English Word Lightly Definition With little weight; with little force; as, to tread lightly; to press lightly.
  • English Word Lightly Definition Swiftly; nimbly; with agility.
  • English Word Lightly Definition Without deep impression.
  • English Word Lightly Definition In a small degree; slightly; not severely.
  • English Word Lightly Definition With little effort or difficulty; easily; readily.
  • English Word Lightly Definition Without reason, or for reasons of little weight.
  • English Word Lightly Definition Commonly; usually.
  • English Word Lightly Definition Without dejection; cheerfully.
  • English Word Lightly Definition Without heed or care; with levity; gayly; airily.
  • English Word Lightly Definition Not chastely; wantonly.
  • English Word Lightman Definition A man who carries or takes care of a light.
  • English Word Lightness Definition The state, condition, or quality, of being light or not heavy; buoyancy; levity; fickleness; nimbleness; delicacy; grace.
  • English Word Lightness Definition Illumination, or degree of illumination; as, the lightness of a room.
  • English Word Lightness Definition Absence of depth or of duskiness in color; as, the lightness of a tint; lightness of complexion.
  • English Word Lightning Definition A discharge of atmospheric electricity, accompanied by a vivid flash of light, commonly from one cloud to another, sometimes from a cloud to the earth. The sound produced by the electricity in passing rapidly through the atmosphere constitutes thunder.