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Destitute of light; dark. Shak.

With little weight; with little force; as, to tread lightly; to press lightly. Yet shall thy grave with rising flowers be drest, And the green turf lie lightly on thy breast. Pope. Him thus intent Ithuriel with his spear Touched lightly. Milton.

A man who carries or takes care of a light. T. Brown.

The state, condition, or quality, of being light or not heavy; buoyancy; levity; fickleness; delicacy; grace.

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.

A small room from which the magazine of a naval vessel is lighted, being separated from the magazine by heavy glass windows.

The lungs of an animal or bird; -- sometimes coarsely applied to the lungs of a human being.

Having light; lighted; not dark or gloomy; bright. White walls make rooms more lightsome than black. Bacon.

Damaged by accidental exposure to light; light-fogged; -- said of plates or films.

In boxing, wrestling, etc., one weighingnot more than 133 pounds (U. S. amateur rules 135 pounds, Eng. 140 pounds).

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.

Illuminated. [Obs.] Wyclif.

Aloes wood, or agallochum. See Agallochum.

Made of wood; consisting of wood; of the nature of, or resembling, wood; woody. It should be tried with shoots of vines and roots of red roses; for it may be they, being of a moreligneous nature, will incorporate with the tree itself. Bacon. Ligneous marble, wood coated or prepared so as to resemble marble.…

Yielding or producing wood.

f a cell wall, by which it becomes harder. It is supposed to be due to an incrustation of lignin.

Like wood.

To convert into wood or into a ligneous substance.

A substance characterizing wood cells and differing from cellulose in its conduct with certain chemical reagents.

Wood-destroying; -- said of certain insects.