

Specimens of New England humour laboriously light and lamentably mirthful Seneca can not be too heavy, nor Plautus too light.

(dated) Easily influenced by trifling considerations unsteady unsettled volatile.Ī light''', vain person a '''light mind.Unmarried men are best friends, best masters but not always best subjects, for they are light to run away. Not encumbered unembarrassed clear of impediments hence, active nimble swift.Light''' troops a troop of '''light horse Not heavily armed armed with light weapons.Long after lay he musing at her mood, / Much grieu'd to thinke that gentle Dame so light, / For whose defence he was to shed his blood. * 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, I.i:.travelling with no carriages, wagons attached.I made some light comment, and we moved on. Unimportant, trivial, having little value or significance.This light beer still gets you drunk if you have enough of it. Low in fat, calories, alcohol, salt, etc.Light sufferings give us leisure to complain. This artist clearly had a light, flowing touch. ( senseid)Gentle having little force or momentum.We took a light aircraft down to the city. Lightly-built designed for speed or small loads.

These weights did not exert their natural gravity insomuch that I could not guess which was light or heavy whilst I held them in my hand. My bag was much lighter once I had dropped off the books.
#And then there was light life of brian series
The series of squares reserved for the answer to a crossword clue.A window, or space for a window in architecture.A firework made by filling a case with a substance which burns brilliantly with a white or coloured flame.A flame or something used to create fire.A point of view, or aspect from which a concept, person or thing is regarded.įrequent consideration of a thing shows it in its several lights and various ways of appearance.(painting) The manner in which the light strikes a picture that part of a picture which represents those objects upon which the light is supposed to fall the more illuminated part of a landscape or other scene opposed to shade.A notable person within a specific field or discipline.Now these notions are twofold, actions or habits, which are durable lights and notions, which we may use when we will. Facts pieces of information ideas, concepts.He shall never know / That I had any light of this from thee. Spiritual or mental illumination enlightenment, useful information.She stood for a moment holding her skirt above the grimy steps, , passage=Then came a maid with hand-bag and shawls, and after her a tall young lady. (uncountable) The natural medium emanating from the Sun and other very hot sources (now recognised as electromagnetic radiation with a wavelength of 400-750 nm), within which vision is possible.
