LIGHTNING
LIGHTNING, noun li'tening. [that is, lightening, the participle present of lighten.]1. A sudden discharge of electricity from a cloud to the earth, or from the earth to a cloud,...
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American Dictionary of the English Language, Noah Webster, 1828.
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LIGHTROOM
LI'GHTROOM, noun In a ship of war, a small apartment, having double glass windows towards the magazine, and containing lights by which the gunner fills cartridges.
LIGHTS
LIGHTS, noun lites. plural [so called from their lightness.]The lungs; the organs of breathing in animals. These organs in man we call lungs; in other animals, lights
LIGHTSOME
LIGHTSOME, adjective li'tesome.1. Luminous; not dark; not obscure.White walls make rooms more lightsome than black. [Little used.]The lightsome realms of love.[In the latter pas...
LIGHTSOMENESS
LI'GHTSOMENESS, noun1. Luminousness; the quality of being light; opposed to darkness or darksomeness.2. Cheerfulness; merriment; levity. [This word is little used.]
LIGN-ALOES
LIGN-AL'OES, noun [Latin lignum, wood, and aloes.] Aloes-wood. Numbers 24:1.
LIGNEOUS
LIG'NEOUS, adjective [Latin ligneus.] Wooden; made of wood; consisting of wood; resembling wood. The harder part of a plant is ligneous
LIGNIFICATION
LIGNIFICA'TION, noun The process of becoming or of converting into wood, or the hard substance of a vegetable.
LIGNIFORM
LIG'NIFORMadjective [Latin lignum, wood, and form.] Like wood; resembling wood.
LIGNIFY
LIG'NIFY, verb transitive [Latin lignum, wood, and facio, to make.] To convert into wood.LIG'NIFY, verb intransitive To become wood.
LIGNITE
LIG'NITE, noun [Latin lignum.] Fossil or bituminous wood, a mineral combustible substance.
LIGNOUS
LIG'NOUS, adjective Ligneous. [Little used.]
LIGNUM-VITAE
LIGNUM-VIT'AE, noun [Latin] Guaiacum or pockwood, a genus of plants, natives of warm climates. The common Lignumvitae is a native of the warm latitudes of America. If becomes a ...
LIGULATE
LIG'ULATE,LIG'ULATED, adjective [Latin ligula, a strap.] Like a bandage or strap; as a ligulate flower, a species of compound flower, the florets of which have their corollets f...
LIGURE
LIG'URE, noun A kind of precious stone.
LIGURITE
LIG'URITE, noun [from Liguria.] A mineral occurring in oblique rhombic prisms, of an apple green color, occasionally speckled.
LIKE
LIKE, adjective [Latin, Heb., Gr. See Lick and Lickerish.]1. Equal in quantity, quality or degree; as a territory of like extent with another; men of like excellence.More clergy...
LIKE-MINDED
LIKE-MINDED, adjective Having a like disposition or purpose. Romans 15:1.
LIKELIHOOD
LI'KELIHOOD, noun [likely and hod.]1. Probability; verisimilitude; appearance of truth or reality. There is little likelihood that an habitual drunkard will become temperate. Th...
LIKELINESS
LI'KELINESS, noun [from likely.]1. Probability.2. The qualities that please. [See Likely.]
LIKELY
LI'KELY, adjective [that is, like-like.]1. Probable; that may be rationally though or believed to have taken place in time past, or to be true now or hereafter; such as is more ...
LIKEN
LIKEN, verb transitive li'kn.To compare; to represent as resembling or similar.Whosoever heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them, I will liken him unto a wise man, that bu...
LIKENED
LI'KENED, participle passive Compared.
LIKENESS
LI'KENESS, noun1. Resemblance in form; similitude. The picture is a good likeness of the original.2. Resemblance; form; external appearance. Guard against an enemy in the likene...
LIKENING
LI'KENING, participle present tense Comparing; representing as similar.
LIKEWISE
LI'KEWISE, adverb [like and wise.] In like manner; also; moreover; too.For he seeth that wise men die, likewise the fool and the brutish person perish, and leave their wealth to...
LIKING
LI'KING, participle present tense of like.1. Approving; being pleased with.2.adjective Plump; full; of a good appearance. Daniel 1:10. obsoleteLI'KING, noun1. A good state of bo...