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  • English Word Lightning Definition The act of making bright, or the state of being made bright; enlightenment; brightening, as of the mental powers.
  • English Word Lightning Definition Lightening.
  • English Word Lightroom Definition A small room from which the magazine of a naval vessel is lighted, being separated from the magazine by heavy glass windows.
  • English Word Lights Definition The lungs of an animal or bird; -- sometimes coarsely applied to the lungs of a human being.
  • English Word Lightsome Definition Having light; lighted; not dark or gloomy; bright.
  • English Word Lightsome Definition Gay; airy; cheering; exhilarating.
  • English Word Lightwood Definition Pine wood abounding in pitch, used for torches in the Southern United States; pine knots, dry sticks, and the like, for kindling a fire quickly or making a blaze.
  • English Word Lighty Definition Illuminated.
  • English Word Lign-aloes Definition Aloes wood, or agallochum. See Agallochum.
  • English Word Lign-aloes Definition A fragrant tree mentioned in the Bible.
  • English Word Ligneous Definition Made of wood; consisting of wood; of the nature of, or resembling, wood; woody.
  • English Word Ligniferous Definition Yielding or producing wood.
  • English Word Lignification Definition A change in the character of a cell wall, by which it becomes harder. It is supposed to be due to an incrustation of lignin.
  • English Word Lignified Definition of Lignify
  • English Word Ligniform Definition Like wood.
  • English Word Lignify Definition To convert into wood or into a ligneous substance.
  • English Word Lignify Definition To become wood.
  • English Word Lignifying Definition of Lignify
  • English Word Lignin Definition A substance characterizing wood cells and differing from cellulose in its conduct with certain chemical reagents.
  • English Word Ligniperdous Definition Wood-destroying; -- said of certain insects.
  • English Word Lignireose Definition See Lignin.
  • English Word Lignite Definition Mineral coal retaining the texture of the wood from which it was formed, and burning with an empyreumatic odor. It is of more recent origin than the anthracite and bituminous coal of the proper coal series. Called also brown coal, wood coal.
  • English Word Lignitic Definition Containing lignite; resembling, or of the nature of, lignite; as, lignitic clay.
  • English Word Lignitiferous Definition Producing or containing lignite; lignitic.
  • English Word Lignoceric Definition Pertaining to, or designating, an acid of the formic acid series, found in the tar, wax, or paraffine obtained by distilling certain kinds of wood, as the beech.
  • English Word Lignone Definition See Lignin.
  • English Word Lignose Definition Alt. of Lignous
  • English Word Lignose Definition See Lignin.
  • English Word Lignose Definition An explosive compound of wood fiber and nitroglycerin. See Nitroglycerin.
  • English Word Lignous Definition Ligneous.