Light-hearted, a. Gladsome, cheerful, joyful, joyous, gay, merry, glad, blithe, blithesome, gleeful, jovial, jolly, jocund, frolicsome.
Light-horse, n. Light-armed cavalry.
Light-house, n. Pharos.
Lightning-rod, n. Paratonnerre.
Light on.
- 1. Happen upon, fall upon by chance, happen to find, light upon, strike upon.
- 2. Alight on.
Lights, n. pl. Lungs (of a brute).
Lightsome, a.
- 1. Luminous, full of light.
- 2. Gay, buoyant, lively, cheerful, blithesome, blithe, merry. See Light-hearted.
Light upon. See Light on.
Lign-aloes, n. Agalloch, agallochum, agillochum, aloes-wood, agal-wood, eagle-wood, calambac.
Ligneous, a. Woody.
Lignine, n. (Chem.) Woody fibre.
Lignite, n. (Min.) Fossil-wood.
Like, a.
- 1. Similar, resembling, analogous, allied, parallel, cognate, of a piece.
- 2. Equal, same.
- 3. Likely, probable.
Like, n.
- 1. Equal.
- 2. Preference, partiality, liking.