Word Meanings - ACTINOLOGY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The science which treats of rays of light, especially of the actinic or chemical rays.

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• 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
• 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.
• 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.
• LIGHT-FOOT; LIGHT-FOOTED
  Having a light, springy step; nimble in running or dancing; active; as, light-foot Iris. Tennyson.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• CHEMICALLY
  According to chemical principles; by chemical process or operation.
• 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
• LIGHT-HEARTED
  Free from grief or anxiety; gay; cheerful; merry. -- Light"-heart`ed*ly, adv. -- Light"-heart"ed*ness, n.
• SLIGHTNESS
  The quality or state of being slight; slenderness; feebleness; superficiality; also, formerly, negligence; indifference; disregard.
• 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.
• IATROCHEMICAL
  Of or pertaining to iatrochemistry, or to the iatrochemists.
• SUNLIGHT
  The light of the sun. Milton.
• DROPLIGHT
  An apparatus for bringing artificial light down from a chandelier nearer to a table or desk; a pendant.
• SLIGHTINGLY
  In a slighting manner.
• PRESCIENCE
  Knowledge of events before they take place; foresight. God's certain prescience of the volitions of moral agents. J. Edwards.
• INLIGHTEN
  See ENLIGHTEN
• PASSIVE FLIGHT
  Flight, such as gliding and soaring, accomplished without the use of motive power.