Word Meanings - LIGHTER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

One who, or that which, lights; as, a lighter of lamps.

Related words: (words related to LIGHTER)

• 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
• 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.
• WHICHEVER; WHICHSOEVER
  Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town.
• WHICH
  the root of hwa who + lic body; hence properly, of what sort or kind; akin to OS. hwilik which, OFries. hwelik, D. welk, G. welch, OHG. welih, hwelih, Icel. hvilikr, Dan. & Sw. hvilken, Goth. hwileiks, 1. Of what sort or kind; what; what a; who.
• LIGHTERMAN
  A person employed on, or who manages, a lighter.
• LIGHTSTRUCK
  Damaged by accidental exposure to light; light-fogged; -- said of plates or films.
• LIGHTER
  One who, or that which, lights; as, a lighter of lamps.
• LIGHTS
  The lungs of an animal or bird; -- sometimes coarsely applied to the lungs of a human being.
• 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.
• ECLAMPSIA
  A fancied perception of flashes of light, a symptom of epilepsy; hence, epilepsy itself; convulsions. Note: The term is generally restricted to a convulsive affection attending pregnancy and parturition, and to infantile convulsions.
• COSTON LIGHTS
  Signals made by burning lights of different colors and used by vessels at sea, and in the life-saving service; -- named after their inventor.
• PLIGHTER
  One who, or that which, plights.
• DELIGHTSOME
  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.
• SLIGHTER
  One who slights.
• MOONLIGHTER
  moonlight; as: A moonshiner. In Ireland, one of a band that engaged in agrarian outrages by night. A serenader by moonlight.
• DELIGHTER
  One who gives or takes delight.
• ECLAMPSY
  See ECLAMPSIA