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rs; one who, or that which, gladdens. "Thou cheerer of our days." Wotton. "Prime cheerer, light." Thomson.

lelds, and is often erroneously regarded as degenerate or changed wheat; it bears a very slight resemblance to oats, and if reaped and ground up with wheat, so as to be used for food, is said to produce narcotic effects; -- called also cheat and Willard's bromus. [U. S.]

The board used in the game of chess, having eight rows of alternate light and dark squares, eight in each row. See Checkerboard.

The tree itself, or its light, coarse-grained timber, used for ornamental work, furniture, etc.

A painter who cares for and studies light and shade rather than color.

The arrangement of light and dark parts in a work of art, such as a drawing or painting, whether in monochrome or in color.

bs.] A boy or a child, I wonder Shak. To be with child, to be pregnant. -- Child's play, light work; a trifling contest.

A short, sharp sound, as of metal struck with a slight degree of violence. "Chink of bell." Cowper.

into (seams or chinks) with a chisel , the point of a knife, or a chinsing iron; to calk slightly. Chinsing iron, a light calking iron.

ack; illustrious warriors, collectively; cavalry. "His Memphian chivalry." Milton. By his light Did all the chivalry of England move, To do brave acts. Shak.

A variety of fluor spar, which, when heated, gives a beautiful emerald green light.

en; a green granular matter formed in the cells of the leaves (and other parts exposed to light) of plants, to which they owe their green color, and through which all ordinary assimilation of plant food takes place. Similar chlorophyll granules have been found in the tissues of the lower animals. [Written also chloroph…

A plastid containing chlorophyll, developed only in cells exposed to the light. Chloroplasts are minute flattened granules, usually occurring in great numbers in the cytoplasm near the cell wall, and consist of a colorless ground substance saturated with chlorophyll pigments. Under light of varying intensity they exhib…

In a shotgun, a bore which is tapered to a slightly smaller diameter at a short distance (usually 2½ to 3 inches) to the rear of the muzzle, in order to prevent the rapid dispersion of the shot.

A licensed lighter employed in the transportation of goods to and from vessels. [China] S. W. Williams.

A small job; in the pl., the regular or daily light work of a household or farm, either within or without doors. [U. S.]

A kind of light pastry, usually in the form of a small round cake, and with a filling, as of jelly or cream.

An instrument for exhibiting certain chromatic effects of light (depending upon the persistence of vision and mixture of colors) by means of rapidly rotating disks variously colored.

segments in the cones of the retina, held in solution by fats, and slowly decolorized by light; distinct from the photochemical pigments of the rods of the retina.

A slight blow or pat under the chin.