Word Meanings - AFLAME - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Inflames; glowing with light or passion; ablaze. G. Eliot.
Related words: (words related to AFLAME)
- 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 - GLOWLAMP
An aphlogistic lamp. See Aphlogistic. - 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; - LIGHT-ARMED
Armed with light weapons or accouterments. - PASSIONAL
Of or pertaining to passion or the passions; exciting, influenced by, or ministering to, the passions. -- n. - 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. - GLOWBARD
The glowworm. - LIGHT-FOOT; LIGHT-FOOTED
Having a light, springy step; nimble in running or dancing; active; as, light-foot Iris. Tennyson. - 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. - 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. - PASSIONLESS
Void of passion; without anger or emotion; not easily excited; calm. "Self-contained and passionless." Tennyson. - LIGHT-MINDED
Unsettled; unsteady; volatile; not considerate. -- Light"-mind`ed*ness, n. - LIGHTABLE
Such as can be lighted. - LIGHT YEAR
The distance over which light can travel in a year's time; -- used as a unit in expressing stellar distances. It is more than 63,000 times as great as the distance from the earth to the sun. - LIGHTROOM
A small room from which the magazine of a naval vessel is lighted, being separated from the magazine by heavy glass windows. - LIGHTWEIGHT
In boxing, wrestling, etc., one weighingnot more than 133 pounds - LIGHTE
of Light, to alight. Chaucer. - LIGHTNING
1. A discharge of atmospheric electricity, accompanied by a vivid flash of light, commonly from one cloud to another, sometimes from a cloud to the earth. The sound produced by the electricity in passing rapidly through the atmosphere constitutes - SLIGHTNESS
The quality or state of being slight; slenderness; feebleness; superficiality; also, formerly, negligence; indifference; disregard. - COMPASSIONATELY
In a compassionate manner; mercifully. Clarendon. - 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. - OUTPASSION
To exceed in passion. - INCOMPASSIONATE
Not compassionate; void of pity or of tenderness; remorseless. -- In`com*pas"sion*ate*ly, adv. -- In`com*pas"sion*ate*ness, n. - DROPLIGHT
An apparatus for bringing artificial light down from a chandelier nearer to a table or desk; a pendant. - SLIGHTINGLY
In a slighting manner. - INLIGHTEN
See ENLIGHTEN