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Word Meanings - LIGHT-HEADED - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Disordered in the head; dilirious. Walpole. 2. Thoughtless; heedless; volatile; unsteady; fickle; loose. "Light- headed, weak men." Clarendon. -- Light"-head`ed*ness, n.

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  • CRACKAJACK
    1. An individual of marked ability or excellence, esp. in some sport; as, he is a crackajack at tennis. 2. A preparation of popped corn, candied and pressed into small cakes.
  • SILLYHOW
    A caul. See Caul, n., 3.
  • CRACK-BRAINED
    Having an impaired intellect; whimsical; crazy. Pope.
  • INNOCENTLY
    In an innocent manner.
  • CRACKER STATE
    Georgia; -- a nickname. See Cracker, n. 5.
  • CRACKLE
    To make slight cracks; to make small, sharp, sudden noises, rapidly or frequently repeated; to crepitate; as, burning thorns crackle. The unknown ice that crackles underneath them. Dryden.
  • CRACKLED
    Covered with minute cracks in the glaze; -- said of some kinds of porcelain and fine earthenware.
  • CRACKSMAN
    A burglar.
  • IDIOTICON
    A dictionary of a peculiar dialect, or of the words and phrases peculiar to one part of a country; a glossary.
  • CRACK
    cracian, cearcian, to crack; akin to D. kraken, G. krachen; cf. Skr. garj to rattle, or perh. of imitative origin. Cf. Crake, Cracknel, 1. To break or burst, with or without entire separation of the parts; as, to crack glass; to crack nuts. 2.
  • CRACKLING
    Food for dogs, made from the refuse of tallow melting. (more info) 1. The making of small, sharp cracks or reports, frequently repeated. As the crackling of thorns under a pot, so is the laughter of the fool. Eccl. vii. 6. 2. The well-browned,
  • CRACKNEL
    A hard brittle cake or biscuit. Spenser.
  • SILLY
    sely, AS. s, ges, happy, good, fr. s, s, good, happy, s good fortune, happines; akin to OS. salig, a, good, happy, D. zalig blessed, G. selig, OHG. salig, Icel. s, Sw. säll, Dan. salig, Goth. s good, kind, 1. Happy; fortunate; blessed. Chaucer.
  • CRACKLEWARE
    See 3
  • CRACK-LOO; CRACKALOO
    A kind of gambling game consisting in pitching coins to or towards the ceiling of a room so that they shall fall as near as possible to a certain crack in the floor.
  • LIGHT-HEADED
    1. Disordered in the head; dilirious. Walpole. 2. Thoughtless; heedless; volatile; unsteady; fickle; loose. "Light- headed, weak men." Clarendon. -- Light"-head`ed*ness, n.
  • INNOCENT
    1. Not harmful; free from that which can injure; innoxious; innocuous; harmless; as, an innocent medicine or remedy. The spear Sung innocent,and spent its force in air. Pope. 2. Morally free from guilt; guiltless; not tainted with sin;
  • CRACKER
    The pintail duck. 7. pl. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, cracks. 2. A noisy boaster; a swaggering fellow. What cracker is this same that deafs our ears Shak. 3. A small firework, consisting of a little powder inclossed in a thick
  • LUNATIC
    1. Affected by lunacy; insane; mad. Lord, have mercy on my son; for he is lunatic. Wyclif (Matt. xvii.
  • IDIOTIC; IDIOTICAL
    1. Common; simple. Blackwall. 2. Pertaining to, or like, an idiot; characterized by idiocy; foolish; fatuous; as, an idiotic person, speech, laugh, or action.
  • WIT-CRACKER
    One who breaks jests; a joker. Shak.
  • HALF-CRACKED
    Half-demented; half-witted.
  • UNSILLY
    See UNSELY
  • JIMCRACK
    See GIMCRACK

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