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<blockquote>Seneca can not be too heavy, nor Plautus too <b>light</b>. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>Specimens of New England humor laboriously <b>light</b> and lamentably mirthful. <i>Hawthorne.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>15.</b> <def>Not quite sound or normal; somewhat impaired or deranged; dizzy; giddy.</def>

<blockquote>Are his wits safe? Is he not <b>light</b> of brain ? <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>16.</b> <def>Easily bestowed; inconsiderately rendered.</def>

<blockquote>To a fair semblance doth <b>light</b> annex. <i>Spenser.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>17.</b> <def>Wanton; unchaste; <as>as, a woman of <ex>light character</ex></as>.</def>

<blockquote>A <b>light</b> wife doth make a heavy husband. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>18.</b> <def>Not of the legal, standard, or usual weight; clipped; diminished; <as>as, <ex>light</ex> coin</as>.</def>

<p><b>19.</b> <def>Loose; sandy; easily pulverized; <as>as, a <ex>light</ex> soil</as>.</def>

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

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<hw>Light</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>adv.</tt> <def>Lightly; cheaply.</def>

<i>Hooker.</i>

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<hw>Light</hw>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <ety>[See <er>Light</er> not heavy, and cf. <er>Light</er> to alight, and <er>Lighten</er> to make less heavy.]</ety> <def>To lighten; to ease of a burden; to take off.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<blockquote>From his head the heavy burgonet did <b>light</b>. <i>Spenser.</i></blockquote>

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<hw>Light</hw>, <tt>v. i.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Lighted</er> <tt>(?)</tt> &or; <er>Lit</er> (<?/); <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Lighting</er>.]</wordforms> <ety>[AS. <ets>l\'c6htan</ets> to alight orig., to relieve (a horse) of the rider's burden, to make less heavy, fr. <ets>l\'c6ht</ets> light. See <er>Light</er> not heavy, and cf. <er>Alight</er>, <er>Lighten</er> to make light.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>To dismount; to descend, as from a horse or carriage; to alight; -- with <ptcl>from</ptcl>, <ptcl>off</ptcl>, <ptcl>on</ptcl>, <ptcl>upon</ptcl>, <ptcl>at</ptcl>, <ptcl>in</ptcl>.</def>

<blockquote>When she saw Isaac, she <b>lighted</b> off the camel. <i>Gen. xxiv. 64.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>Slowly rode across a withered heath, And <b>lighted</b> at a ruined inn. <i>Tennyson.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>To feel light; to be made happy.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<blockquote>It made all their hearts to <b>light</b>. <i>Chaucer.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>To descend from flight, and rest, perch, or settle, as a bird or insect.</def>

<blockquote>[The bee] <b>lights</b> on that, and this, and tasteth all. <i>Sir. J. Davies.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>On the tree tops a crested peacock <b>lit</b>. <i>Tennyson.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>4.</b> <def>To come down suddenly and forcibly; to fall; -- with <ptcl>on</ptcl> or <ptcl>upon</ptcl>.</def>