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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.

Signals made by burning lights of different colors and used by vessels at sea, and in the life-saving service; -- named after their inventor.

Very pleasing; delightful. "Delightsome vigor." Grew. Ye shall be a delightsome land, . . . saith the Lord. Mal. iii. 12. -- De*light"some*ly, adv. -- De*light"some*ness, n.

rawn from the eye perpendicular to the perspective plane meets this plane. -- Accidental lights (Paint.), secondary lights; effects of light other than ordinary daylight, such as the rays of the sun darting through a cloud, or between the leaves of trees; the effect of moonlight, candlelight, or burning bodies. Fairho…

r minor orders in the Catholic church, being ordained to carry the wine and water and the lights at the Mass.

A sickness felt by aëronauts due to high speed of flights and rapidity in changing altitudes, combining some symptoms of mountain sickness and some of seasickness.

To descend and settle, lodge, rest, or stop; as, a flying bird alights on a tree; snow alights on a roof.

A picture taken on a place of prepared glass, in which the lights are represented in silver, and the shades are produced by a dark background visible through the unsilvered portions of the glass.

sunrise a single white light forward if under 150 feet in length, and if longer, two such lights, one near the stern and one forward.

mbers, names, etc., of these were all entered in a book called Domesday Book. -- Ancient lights (Law), windows and other openings which have been enjoined without molestation for more than twenty years. In England, and in some of the United States, they acquire a prescriptive right.

The aurora borealis or aurora australis (northern or southern lights). Aurora borealis (, i. e., northern daybreak; popularly called northern lights. A luminous meteoric phenomenon, visible only at night, and supposed to be of electrical origin. This species of light usually appears in streams, ascending toward the zen…

Belonging to, or resembling, the aurora (the dawn or the northern lights); rosy. Her cheeks suffused with an auroral blush. Longfellow.

light; to blast; to prevent the growth and fertility of. [This vapor] blasts vegetables, blights corn and fruit, and is sometimes injurious even to man. Woodward.

e broad seal; to make sure; to guarantee or warrant. [Obs.] Thy presence broadseals our delights for pure. B. Jonson.

Appearing different, as in color, in different lights, or under different circumstances; as, changeable silk.

One who delights and attracts the affections.

gain; a purchase; cheapness. [Obs.] The sack that thou hast drunk me would have bought me lights as good cheap at the dearest chandler's in Europe. Shak.

To unite in one luster or radiane, as stars. [R.] Whe know how to constellate these lights. Boyle.