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Show L Tursing it 0'cr, he mutter'd with difdain How vaft a head is here without a brain ! Addifon A weaker man may fometimes /ight on notion Watts on the Mind which bave efcaped a wifer 2. T fall in an particular diretion with oz 'The wounded fteed curvets; and rais'd upright Lights on his feet before: his hoofs behin Spring up in air aloft, and lath the wind. Dryden 3. To fall ; to/ftrike on: with oz He at his foe'with furious rigour fmites That ftrongeft oak might feem to overthrow The ftroke #pon his fhield {o heavy /ights That to the ground it doubleth him full low Spenfe At an uncertain lot none can find themfelve Hooker grieved o7 whomfoever it Zightetb They fhall hunger no more; neither thall th Rew. vii. 16 fun /ight on them, nor any heat On me, me only, as the fource and fprin ©f all corruption, all the blame Zights due Milton's Paradife Loft A curfe lights apon him prefently after: hi ‘great army is utterly ruined, he himfelf flain i , it, and his head and right hand cut off, and hun up before Jerufalem 4. [ Alighean, Sax. South To defcend from horfe or carriage When Naaman faw him running after him ke Jighted down from the chariot to meet him V. 21 2 Kings I faw *em falute on horfeback Beheld them when they /ighted, how they clun In ‘their embracement Shakefpeare Rebekah lifted up her eyes, and whe fhe fa Xfaac, the lighted off the camel Gen. xxive 64 The god laid down his feeble rays Then /ighted from his glittering coach Savift 5. T flight fettle t to ftoo reft I plac'd a quire of fuch enticing birds That the will /ight to liften to their lays fro Shakefp She /ights o/ that, and this, and tafteth all But pleas'd with none, doth rife, and foar away Dawies Plant trees and fhrubs near home, for bees t pitch on at their fwarming, that they may not b in danger of being loft for want of a lighting place Mortimer's Hufbandry t ! r f f c a i r a r w ‘a{'{l/'h;l: mariner wares that were in the fhip into the fc;y to /fgb"' Jnaby 1. 7 it of them 3. To make lefs heavy Long fince with wo Nearer acquainted, now I feel by proo That fellowfhip in pain divides not'fmflrt Nor /ightens aught each man's p‘ccullar load. Milton Striv In offices of love how we may lighte too unadvis'd too fudden "Too like the light'ning, which doth ceafe to b Erc one can fay it lightens. Shak. Romeo and Fuliet The lightning that Jighteneth out of the on part under heaven, fheweth unto the other part Luke, xvils 24 2. To thine like lightning "Yet looks he like a king: behold his eye As bright as is the eagle's, /ightens fort Controlling majefty 3. To fall; to light Shake[peare O Lord, let thy mercy Jighten upon us, as w do put our truft in thee Comimon Prayer . 4. [from light. Upon his bloody finger he doth wea A precious ring, that /ightens all the hole Shake[peare O light, which mak'# the light which make the day Which fett'ft the eye without, and mind within Lighten my fpirit with one clear heav'nly ray ‘Which now to view itfelf doth firft begin. Dawics A key of fire ran all along the thore And Jighten'd all the river with a blaze Dryden The foft ideas of the cheerful note Lightly receiv'd, bwere eafily< forgot Priy, 3. Bafily; readily; without dxfliculty;gf courfe If they write or {fpeak publickly but fiv on of the is /ightl ‘\'(Ords dangeroy S eftat about th of the church of England in refpe@t of abufe] ceremonies Hogle Believe 't not /ightly that your fo : Will not exceed the common, or be caugh With cautelous baits and practice Sbalzefpgm A trufty villain, very oft When I am dull with care and melancholy Lightens my humour with his merry jcfl: Sl){:hjf/ Let every man that hath a calling be diligentj purfuance of its employment, fo as not Iigbt{y, 4. To exhilarate ; to cheer "Th audienc wear grow ar continue o melancholy feenes 5 and few tragedies f!mll fuccee in this age, if they are not Jightened with a courf Dryden of mirth Ly cuTer.n /. [fromlight,tomake /ight. A heavy boat into which fhips are lightened or unloaded They have cock boats for pafiengers, and /ighter Carew for burthen He climb'd a ftranded Zighter's height Shot to the black abyfs, and plung'd downrig‘l;)t ope Li'cuaTerMax. z f [lighter and man. One' who manages a lighter Where much fhipping is employed, whateve becomes of the merchant, multitudes of peopl will be gainers; as fhipwrights, butchers, carmen and Zightermen Child Nimble at conveyance ; thievifh Him fo far had born his lightfoot fteed Pricked with wrath and fiery fierce difdain That him to follow was but fruitlefs pain. Fairy Q Walade And all the troop of light foc Flock all about to fee her lovely, face Spenfer loofe ; thoughtlefs weak The Englith Liturgy, how pioufly and wifely foever framed, had found great oppofition; the ceremonies had wrought only upon lightheaded, wea ‘men, yet learned men excepted againft fome particulars Clarendon 2. Delirious ; difordered in the mind b difeafe LicuTur apEpNEss. 7 /. Delirioufnefs diforder of the mind Licarue aARTED. adj. [light and heart. Gay; merry; airy ; cheerful Licurno'vse. n. /. [light and houfe. An high building, at the top of whic lights are hung to guide fhips at fea He charged himfelf with the rifque of fuch vefiil as carried corn in winter; and built a pharos o tw psles to the meridian i lighthoufes on the top of them LIGHTLE GGED Nimble {wift Lightlegge Arbuthrot with immenf Arbuthnot and Pope adj [Loh an Ieo Pas has got the middle {pace LicuTLEss. adj. [from light. light; dark Lr'curLy. adv [from laht. 1. Without weight Sidney Wantin without reafonable occafion, to neglet it Taylr 5. Without dejection ; cheerfully Bid that welcom Which comes to punifh us, and we punith it Seeming to bear it Zightly Shakefpean, 6. Not chaftely IfT were /ightly difpofed, T could fill perhay have offers, that fome, who hold their heads higher would be glad to accept. 3 Swift 7. Nimbly; with agility; not heavily o tardily Methought I ftood on a wide river's bank When on a fudden, Torifmond appear'd Gave me his hand and led me /ightly o'er Leaping and bounding on the billows heads Till fafely we had reach'd the farther fhore. Dryd, 8. Gaily ; airily ; with levity without heed or care LicaTMI'NDED adj. [light and mind Unfettled ; unfteady He that is hafty to give credit is /ightminded Eccls xiXe 4 Li'cuTrooT. adj. [light and foot.] Nimble in running or dancing; ative Buil Short fummer /ightly has a forward fpring."Spy Flatter not the rich; mneither do thou willingl or lightly appear before great perfonages Tayly ligl'fb"‘f" 1. To illaminate ; to enlighten 2. Without deep impreflion Milton Each other's burden 1. Unfteady' and roar 4. Without reafon This dreadful night Jightcns, opens graves 7o LU'cHTEN [from /ight @. 7. [prc ligz, Saxon. As doth the lion Shake[peare Although T joy in thee o4 have no joy of this contra& to-night It is too rafh l c r e c a r A hiiggher luft re Difi'u?}vc tremble a l u t 2. T birg Which cover /ightly, gentle earti; Licurroor. #./ Venifon A can word LicuTHEADED. adj. [light and head. i. To flath, with thunder That thunders This grave partakes the flefhl Nature from the flor a t g Z t a Shines out afref LicHTFI'NGERED. adj. [light and finger. "Then as a bee which among weeds doth fall ‘Which feem fiveet flow'rs, with luftre frefh and igay 7o LY'GHTEN L1 Li'cuTNEss z /. [from light. 1. Want of weight; abfenc the contrary to heavine/s Som are for maft of fhips of weight a fir and pine, becaufe of their length, ftraightnefs, and fightnefss Bacon's Natural Hiffy Suppofe many degrees of littlenefs and /Jightief in particles, fo as many might float in theair good while before they fell Burnet 2. Inconftancy ; unfteadinefs Fory unto knight there is no greater thame Than /ightnefs and inconftancy in love. Fairy Quetn O tw thing the muf chuf one namely whether they would, to their endlefs difgrace, wit ridiculous Zightrefs, difmifs him, whofe reftitutio they had in fo importunate manner defired, or ¢lf condefcend unto that demand As 1 blow this feather from my face Obeying with my wind when'I do blow And yielding to another when it blows Commanded always by the greateft guft Hooker Such is the Zightuefs of you common men. Shakefp 3. Unchaftity ; want of conduét in women Is it the difdain of my eftate, or the opinio of my Zightrefs, that emboldened fuch bafe fancie towards me Sidney Can it be That modefty may more betray our fenfe Than woman's lightnef Shakefpeare 4. Agility5 nimblenefs Li'curNinG. 2. /. [from lighten, lighten ing, lightning. 1. 'The flath that attends thunder Lightning is a great flame, very bright, extending every way to a grea diftance fuddenl dartin upwards, and there' ending, fo that it is only momentaneous Mifchenbrock Senfe thinks the lightning born before the thunder What tells us then they both together are Dawics Salmoneus |
