Part 692

Light cavalry, Light horse (Mil.), light-armed soldiers mounted on strong and active horses. -- Light eater, one who eats but little. -- Light infantry, infantry soldiers selected and trained for rapid evolutions. -- Light of foot. (a) Having a light step. (b) Fleet. -- Light of heart, gay, cheerful. -- Light oil (Chem.), the oily product, lighter than water, forming the chief part of the first distillate of coal tar, and consisting largely of benzene and toluene. -- Light sails (Naut.), all the sails above the topsails, with, also, the studding sails and flying jib. Dana. -- Light sleeper, one easily wakened. -- Light weight, a prize fighter, boxer, wrestler, or jockey, who is below a standard medium weight. Cf. Feather weight, under Feather. -- To make light of, to treat as of little consequence; to slight; to disregard. -- To set light by, to undervalue; to slight; to treat as of no importance; to despise.

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Light (lt), adv. Lightly; cheaply. Hooker.

Light, v. t. [See Light not heavy, and cf. Light to alight, and Lighten to make less heavy.] To lighten; to ease of a burden; to take off. [Obs.]

From his head the heavy burgonet did light.

Spenser.

Light, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Lighted (-d) or Lit (lt); p. pr. & vb. n. Lighting.] [AS. lhtan to alight, orig., to relieve (a horse) of the rider's burden, to make less heavy, fr. lht light. See Light not heavy, and cf. Alight, Lighten to make light.] 1. To dismount; to descend, as from a horse or carriage; to alight; -- with from, off, on, upon, at, in.

When she saw Isaac, she lighted off the camel.

Gen. xxiv. 64.

Slowly rode across a withered heath, And lighted at a ruined inn.

Tennyson.

2. To feel light; to be made happy. [Obs.]

It made all their hearts to light.

Chaucer.

3. To descend from flight, and rest, perch, or settle, as a bird or insect.

Sir. J. Davies.

On the tree tops a crested peacock lit.

Tennyson.

4. To come down suddenly and forcibly; to fall; -- with on or upon.

On me, me only, as the source and spring Of all corruption, all the blame lights due.

Milton.

5. To come by chance; to happen; -- with on or upon; formerly with into.

The several degrees of vision, which the assistance of glasses (casually at first lit on) has taught us to conceive.

Locke.

They shall light into atheistical company.

South.

And here we lit on Aunt Elizabeth, And Lilia with the rest.

Tennyson.