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One who slights.

Provided with thorough lights or windows at opposite sides, as a room or building. Gwilt.

Having fidelity pledged.

Being well folded. [Obs.] "Her well-plighted frock." Spenser.

The act of accusing or charging with a crime or with a lighter offense. We come not by the way of accusation To taint that honor every good tongue blesses. Shak.

Plighted faith; marriage contract or promise.

To allay or alleviate; to lighten. [Obs.] That shall alegge this bitter blast. Spenser.

Lighted; lighted up; in a flame. "The lamps were alight." Dickens.

To alleviate; to lighten, as a burden or a trouble. [Obs.] Wyclif.

To lighten or lessen the force or weight of. [Obs.] Should no others join capable to alleviate the expense. Evelyn. Those large bladders . . . conduce much to the alleviating of the body [of flying birds]. Ray.

The act of alleviating; a lightening of weight or severity; mitigation; relief.

To enamel. [Obs.] Enlightened all with stars, And richly ameled. Chapman.

punishment in which the offender, being led into court with a rope about his neck, and a lighted torch in his hand, begged pardon of his God, the court, etc. In popular language, the phrase now denotes a public apology or recantation, and reparation to an injured party, for improper language or treatment.…

cumstances or effects, when the things are otherwise entirely different. Thus, learning enlightens the mind, because it is to the mind what light is to the eye, enabling it to discover things before hidden.

lly the Populus tremula, so called from the trembling of its leaves, which move with the slightest impulse of the air.

A square hall lighted from above, into which rooms open at one or more levels.

culations so difficult as to have baffled, until within a . . . recent period, the most enlightened nations. Prescott. The mere intricacy of a question should not baffle us. Locke. Baffling wind (Naut.), one that frequently shifts from one point to another.

ks to 0º in pure water, and to 15º in a 15 per cent salt solution; the other, for liquids lighter than water, sinks to 0º in a 10 per cent salt solution and to 10º in pure water. In both cases the graduation, based on the distance between these fundamental points, is continued along the stem as far as desired. Since al…

s, belief of a witness; the belief of our senses. Belief admits of all degrees, from the slightest suspicion to the fullest assurance. Reid.

A liquid consisting mainly of the lighter and more volatile hydrocarbons of petroleum or kerosene oil, used as a solvent and for cleansing soiled fabrics; -- called also petroleum spirit, petroleum benzine. Varieties or similar products are gasoline, naphtha, rhigolene, ligroin, etc.