Word Meanings - FLYAWAY - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Disposed to fly away; flighty; unrestrained; light and free; -- used of both persons and things. -- n.
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- DISPOSEMENT
Disposal. Goodwin. - LIGHT
licht, OHG. lioht, Goth. liuhap, Icel. lj, L. lux light, lucere to 1. That agent, force, or action in nature by the operation of which upon the organs of sight, objects are rendered visible or luminous. Note: Light was regarded formerly - DISPOSURE
1. The act of disposing; power to dispose of; disposal; direction. Give up My estate to his disposure. Massinger. 2. Disposition; arrangement; position; posture. In a kind of warlike disposure. Sir H. Wotton. - DISPOSITED
Disposed. Glanvill. - LIGHTSOME
1. Having light; lighted; not dark or gloomy; bright. White walls make rooms more lightsome than black. Bacon. 2. Gay; airy; cheering; exhilarating. That lightsome affection of joy. Hooker. -- Light"some*ly, adv. -- Light"some*ness, n. Happiness - LIGHTNESS
The state, condition, or quality, of being light or not heavy; buoyancy; levity; fickleness; delicacy; grace. Syn. -- Levity; volatility; instability; inconstancy; unsteadiness; giddiness; flightiness; airiness; gayety; liveliness; agility; - DISPOSITOR
The planet which is lord of the sign where another planet is. Crabb. (more info) 1. A disposer. - LIGHT-ARMED
Armed with light weapons or accouterments. - DISPOSE
Etym: 1. To distribute and put in place; to arrange; to set in order; as, to dispose the ships in the form of a crescent. Who hath disposed the whole world Job xxxiv. 13. All ranged in order and disposed with grace. Pope. The rest themselves in - DISPOSEDNESS
The state of being disposed or inclined; inclination; propensity. - DISPOSSESS
To put out of possession; to deprive of the actual occupancy of, particularly of land or real estate; to disseize; to eject; -- usually followed by of before the thing taken away; as, to dispossess a king of his crown. Usurp the land, and dispossess - LIGHTERAGE
1. The price paid for conveyance of goods on a lighter. 2. The act of unloading into a lighter, or of conveying by a lighter. - LIGHT-O'-LOVE
1. An old tune of a dance, the name of which made it a proverbial expression of levity, especially in love matters. Nares. "Best sing it to the tune of light-o'-love." Shak. 2. Hence: A light or wanton woman. Beau. & Fl. - DISPOSED
1. Inclined; minded. When he was disposed to pass into Achaia. Acts xviii. 27. 2. Inclined to mirth; jolly. Beau. & Fl. Well disposed, in good condition; in good health. Chaucer. - LIGHT-FOOT; LIGHT-FOOTED
Having a light, springy step; nimble in running or dancing; active; as, light-foot Iris. Tennyson. - DISPOSINGLY
In a manner to dispose. - LIGHTHOUSE
A tower or other building with a powerful light at top, erected at the entrance of a port, or at some important point on a coast, to serve as a guide to mariners at night; a pharos. - DISPOSSESSOR
One who dispossesses. Cowley. - DISPOSSESSION
The putting out of possession, wrongfully or otherwise, of one who is in possession of a freehold, no matter in what title; -- called also ouster. (more info) 1. The act of putting out of possession; the state of being dispossessed. Bp. Hall. - LIGHTWOOD
Pine wood abounding 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. - SLIGHTNESS
The quality or state of being slight; slenderness; feebleness; superficiality; also, formerly, negligence; indifference; disregard. - DELIGHTING
Giving delight; gladdening. -- De*light"ing*ly, adv. Jer. Taylor. - DRUMMOND LIGHT
A very intense light, produced by turning two streams of gas, one oxygen and the other hydrogen, or coal gas, in a state of ignition, upon a ball of lime; or a stream of oxygen gas through a flame of alcohol upon a ball or disk of lime; -- called - DELIGHTLESS
Void of delight. Thomson. - SLIGHTEN
To slight. B. Jonson. - LAMPLIGHTER
The calico bass. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, lights a lamp; esp., a person who lights street lamps. - FLIGHTER
A horizontal vane revolving over the surface of wort in a cooler, to produce a circular current in the liquor. Knight. - SUNLIGHT
The light of the sun. Milton. - DROPLIGHT
An apparatus for bringing artificial light down from a chandelier nearer to a table or desk; a pendant. - SLIGHTINGLY
In a slighting manner.