The horses ran up and down with their tails and manes on a light fire. Knolles. 15. Not dark; tending to whiteness.

In painting, the light and a white colour are but one and the same thing: no colour more resembles the air than white, and by consequence no colour which is lighter. Dryden. Two cylindrick bodies with annular sulci, found with sharks teeth, and other shells, in a light coloured clay. Woodward. LIGHT. adv. [for lightly, by colloquial corruption.] Lightly; cheaply.

Shall we set light by that custom of reading, from whence so precious a benefit hath grown? Hooker.

To LIGHT. V. a. [from the noun.] 1. To kindle; to enflame; to set on fire; to make flame.

Swinging coals about in the wire, thoroughly lighted them.

Boyle. This truth shines so clear, that to go about to prove it, were to light a candle to seek the sun. Glanville.

The maids, who waited her commands, Ran in with lighted tapers in their hands. Dryd. Be witness, gods, and strike Jocasta dead, If an immodest thought, or low desire, Inflam'd my breast since first our loves were lighted. Dryden. Absence might cure it, or a second mistress Light up another flame, and put out this. Addison.

2. To give light to; to guide by light.
A beam that falls

Fresh from the pure glance of thine eye,
Lighting to eternity.

Crashar.

Ah hopeless, lasting flames! like those that

burn

Dryden.

5. [from the adjective.] To lighten to ease of a burden.

Land some of our passengers,

And light this weary vessel of her load. Fairy Q. To LIGHT. V. n. [lickt, chance, Dutch; preter. lighted, or light, or lit.]

1. To happen to find; to fall upon by chance it has on before the thing found.

No more settled in valour than disposed to justice, if either they had lighted on a better friend, or could have learned to make friendship a child, and not the father of virtue. Sidney. The prince, by chance, did on a lady light, That was right fair, and fresh as morning rose. Spenser Haply your eye shall light upon some toy You have desire to purchase." Shakspears. As in the tides of people once up, there want not stirring winds to make them more rough; so this people did light upon two ringleaders. Bacon. Of late years, the royal oak did light upon count Rhodophil.

Howel.

The way of producing such a change on colours may be easily enough lighted on, by those conversant in the solutions of mercury. Boyle. He sought by arguments to sooth her pain; Nor those avail'd: at length he lights on one, Before two moons their orb with light adorn, If heav'n allow me life, I will return. Dryden.

Truth, light upon this way, is of no more avail to us than error; for what is so taken up by us, may be false as well as true: and he has not done his duty, who has thus stumbled upon truth in his way to preferment. Locke.

Whosoever first lit on a parcel of that substance we call gold, could not rationally take the bulk and figure to depend on its real essence. Locke.

As wily reynard walk'd the streets at night, On a tragedian's mask he chanc'd to light; Turning it o'er, he mutter'd with disdain, How vast a head is here without a brain! Addis.

A weaker man may sometimes light on notions which had escaped a wiser. Watts on the Mind. 2. To fall in any particular direction : with on.

The wounded steed curvets; and rais'd upright,

Lights on his feet before; his hoofs behind Spring up in air aloft, and lash the wind. Dryd. 3. To fall; to strike on: with on.

He at his foe with furious rigour smites, That strongest oak might seem to overthrow; The stroke upon his shield so heavy lights, That to the ground it doubleth him full low. Spenser.

At an uncertain lot none can find themselves grieved on whomsoever it lighteth. Hooker. They shall hunger no more; neither shall the sun light on them, nor any heat. Revelations. On me, me only, as the source and spring Of all corruption, all the blame lights due.

Milton.

A curse lights upon him presently after his great arm is utterly ruined, he himself slain in it, and his head and right hand cut off, and hung up before Jerusalem. South. 4. [alightan, Sax.] To descend from a horse or carriage.

When Naaman saw him running after him, he lighted down from the chariot to meet him. 2 Kings.

I saw 'em salute on horseback, Beheld them when they lighted, how they clung In their embracement. Shaksp. Henry VIII. Rebekah lifted up her eyes, and when she saw Isaac, she lighted off the camel. Genesis.

The god laid down his feeble rays, Then lighted from his glittering coach. Swift. 5. To settle; to rest; to stoop from flight. I plac'd a quire of such enticing birds, That she will light to listen to their lays. Shak. Then as a bee which among weeds doth fall, Which seem sweet flow'rs, with lustre fresh and

Yet looks he like a king: behold his eye, As bright as is the eagle's, lightens forth Controlling majesty. Shakspeare's Richard 11. 3. To fall; to light. [from light.]

O Lord, let thy mercy lighten upon us, as we do put our trust in thee. Common Prayer. To LIGHTEN. v. a. [from light.] 1. To illuminate; to enlighten.

Upon his bloody finger he doth wear

A precious ring, that lightens all the hole. Shaks. Olight, which mak'st the light which makes the day,

Which sett'st the eye without, and mind within;
Lighten my spirit with one clear heav'nly ray,
Which now to view itself doth first begin. Dav.
A key of fire ran all along the shore,
And lighten'd all the river with a blaze. Dryden.

Nature from the storm

Shines out afresh; and through the lighten'd air A higher lustre, and a clearer calm, Diffusive tremble. Thomson's Summer. 2. To exonerate; to unload. [from light, adj.]

The mariners were afraid, and cast forth the wares that were in the ship into the sea, to lighten it of them.

3. To make less heavy.

Long since with woe

2. Delirious; disordered in the mind by disease. LIGHTHEADEDNESS. n. s. Deliriousness; disorder of the mind.

LIGHTHEARTED. adj. [light and heart.] Gay; merry; airy; cheerful. LIGHTHOUSE. n. s. [light and house.] A high building, at the top of which lights are hung to guide ships at sea.

He charged himself with the risque of such vessels as carried corn in winter; and built a pharos or lighthouse. Arbuthnot. LIGHTLEGGED. adj. [light and leg.] Nimble; swift.

LIGHTLESS. adj. [from light.] Wanting Light legged Pas has got the middle space. Sidn. light; dark.

LIGHTLY. adv. [from light.] 1. Without weight.

This grave partakes the fleshly birth, Which cover lightly, gentle earth. Ben Jenson. 2. Without deep impression.

Jonah.

3.

Nearer acquainted, now I feel by proof,
That fellowship in pain divides not smart,
Nor lightens aught each man's peculiar load.

Milton.

Milton.

When I am dull with care and melancholy, Lightens my humour with his merry jest. Shaks. The audience are grown weary of continued melancholy scenes; and few tragedies shall succeed in this age, if they are not lightened with a course of mirth. Dryden. LIGHTER. n. s. [from light, to make light.] A heavy boat into which ships are lightened or unloaded.

They have cock boats for passengers, and • lighters for burthen.

Carew.

"He climb'd a stranded lighter's height, Shot to the black abyss, and plung'd downright.

Pope.

LIGHTERMAN. n. s. [lighter and man.] One who manages a lighter.

Where much shipping is employed, whatever becomes of the merchant, multitudes of people will be gainers; as shipwrights, butchers, carmen, and lightermen. Child. LIGHTFINGERED. adj. [light and finger.] Nimble at conveyance; thievish. LIGHTFOOT. adj. [light and foot.] Nimble in running or dancing; active.

Him so far had born his libtfoot steed, Pricked with wrath and fiery fierce disdain, That him to follow was but fruitless pain. Fairy Queen.

And all the troop of lightfoot Naïades Flock all about to see her lovely face. Spenser. LIGHTFOOT. n. s. Venison. A cant word. LIGHTHE ADED. adj. [light and head.] 1. Unsteady; loose; thoughtless; weak.

The English Liturgy, how piously and wisely soever framed, had found great opposition; the ceremonies had wrought only upon lightheaded, weak men, yet learned men excepted against ⚫ some particulars. Clarendon.

4.

Prior

The soft ideas of the cheerful note, Lightly receiv'd, were easily forgot. Easily; readily; without difficulty; of

course.

If they write or speak publickly but five words, one of them is lightly about the dangerous estate of the church of England in respect of abused ceremonies. Hooker.

Believe 't not lightly that your son
Will not exceed the common, or be caught
With cautelous baits and practice.

Shakspeare's Coriolanus, Short summer lightly has a forward spring. Shakspeare

Without reason.

Flatter not the rich; neither do thou willingly or lightly appear before great personages. Tayl Let every man that hath a calling be diligent in pursuance of its employment, so as not lightly, or without reasonable occasion, to neglect it. Taylor.

5. Without dejection; cheerfully.

Bid that welcome

Which comes to punish us, and we punish it, Seeming to bear it lightly. Shak. Ant. and Cleop. 6. Not chastely.

7.

If I were lightly disposed, I could still perhaps have offers, that some, who hold their heads higher, would be glad to accept. Srvift. Nimbly; with agility; not heavily or tardily.

Methought I stood on a wide river's bank; When on a sudden, Torismond appear'd, Gave me his hand, and led me lightly o'er; Leaping and bounding on the billows heads, Till safely we had reach'd the farther shore. Drydens 8. Gayly; airily; with levity; without heed or care. LIGHTMINDED. adj. [light and mind.] Unsettled; unsteady.

He that is hasty to give credit is lightminded. LIGHTNESS. n. s. [from light.] Ecclesiasticuse 1. Want of weight; absence of weight: the contrary to heaviness.

Some are for masts of ships, as fir and pine, because of their length, straightness, and lightness. Bacon's Natural History Suppose many degrees of littleness and light ness in particles, so as many might float in the air a good while before they fell, Burnet.

Davies.

Salmoneus, suff'ring cruel pains I found For emulating Jove; the rattling sound Of mimick thunder, and the glitt'ring blaze Of pointed lightnings, and their forky rays.

Dryden.

No warning of the approach of flame, Swiftly, like sudden death, it came; Like travellers by lightning kill'd, I burnt the moment I beheld. 2. Mitigation; abatement. [from to lighten, to make less heavy.]

Glanville.

How oft when men are at the point of death, Have they been merry? which their keepers call A lightning before death. Shak. Romeo and Juliet. We were once in hopes of his recovery, upon a kind message from the widow; but this only proved a lightning before death. Spectator. LIGHTS. n. s. (supposed to be called so from their lightness in proportion to their bulk.] The lungs; the organs of breathing we say, lights of other animals, and lungs of men.

The complaint was chiefly from the lights, a part as of no quick sense, so no seat for any sharp disease. Hayward.

LIGHTSQME. adj. [from light.] 3. Luminous; not dark; not obscure; not opake.

Neither the sun, nor any thing sensible is that light itself, which is the cause that things are lightsome, though it make itself, and all things else, visible; but a body most enlightened, by whom the neighbouring region, which the Greeks call æther, the place of the supposed element of fire, is affected and qualified. Raleigh. White walls make rooms more lightsome than black. Bacon. Equal posture, and quick spirits, are required to make colours lightsame. Bacon's Nat. Hist.

It is to our atmosphere that the variety of colours, which are painted on the skies, the lightsomeness of our air, and the twilight, are owing. Cheyne. 2. Cheerfulness; merriment; levity. LIGNA LOES. H. S. [lignum aloes, Lat.] Aloes wood.

The vallies spread forth as gardens by the river's side, as the trees of lignaloes which the Lord hath planted, and as cedar trees beside the Numbers.

water.

LIGNEOUS. adj. [ligneus, Latin; ligneux, French.] Made of wood; wooden; resembling wood.

It should be tried with shoots of vines, and roots of red roses; for it may be they, being of a more ligneous nature, will incorporate with the tree itself. Bacon's Nat. History.

Ten thousand seeds of the plant harts-tongue, hardly make the bulk of a pepper-corn: now the covers, and the true body each seed, the parenchymous and ligneous part of both, and the fibres of those parts, multiplied one by another, afford a hundred thousand millions of formed atoms, but how many more we cannot define. LIGNUMVITÆ. n. s. [Latin.] Guiacum; Grew. a very hard wood. LIGURE. n. s.

A precious stone.
The third row a ligure, an agate, and an ame-
Exodus.

LIKE. adj. [lic, Saxon; liik, Dutch.]
thyst.
1. Resembling; having resemblance.
Whom art thou like in thy greatness? Ezek.
His son, or one of his illustrious name,
How like the former, and almost the same!

2.

Dryden.

As the earth was designed for the being of men, why might not all other planets be created for the like uses, each for their own inhabitants? Bentley.

This plan, as laid down by him, looks liker an universal art than a distinct logick. Baker. Equal; of the same quantity.

More clergymen were impoverished by the late war, than ever in the like space before. Spratt.

3. [for likely.] Probable; credible.

The trials were made, and it is like that the `experiment would have been effectual. Bacon. 4. Likely; in a state that gives probable expectations. This is, I think, an improper, though frequent, use.

If the duke continues these favours towards you, you are like to be much advanced. Shaksp. He is Mke to die for hunger, for there is no more bread. The yearly value thereof is already increased Jeremiah.

double of that it was within these few years, and is like daily to rise higher till it amount to the price of our land in England. Davies. Hopton resolved to visit Waller's quarters, that he might judge whether he were like to pursue his purpose. Clarendon. Many were not easy to be governed, nor like to conform themselves to strict rules. Clarendon. If his rules of reason be not better suited to the mind than his rules for health are fitted to our bodies, he is not like to be much followed. Baker. LIKE. z. S. [This substantive is seldom more than the adjective used elliptically; the like for the like thing, or like person.]

1. Some person or thing resembling another.

He was a man, take him for all in all, I shall not look upon his like again. Shaksp. Every like is not the same, Ŏ Cæsar! Shaksp. Though there have been greater fleets for number, yet for the bulk of the ships never the like. Bacon's War with Spain. Albeit an eagle did bear away a lamb in her talons, yet a raven endeavouring to do the like was held entangled. Hayward.

One offers, and in offering makes a stay; Another forward sets, and doth no more; A third the like. Daniel's Civil War.

His desire

By conversation with his like to help,
Or solace his defects. Milton's Par. Lost.
L'Estrange.

Two likes may be mistaken.
She'd study to reform the men,
Or add some grains of folly more
To women than they had before;
This might their mutual fancy strike,
Since ev'ry being loves its like.

Swift.

2. Used with bad; near approach; a state like to another state. A sense common, but not just: perhaps had is a corruption for was.

Report being carried secretly from one to another in my ship, bad like to have been my utter overthrow. Raleigh.

LIKE. adv.

:

1. In the same manner; in the same manner as it is not always easy to determine whether it be adverb or adjective.

The joyous nymphs, and lightfoot fairies, Which thither came to hear their musick sweet, Now hearing them so heavily lament, Like heavily lamenting from them went. Spens. Like as a father pitieth his children, so the Lord pitieth them that fear him. Psalms.

Are we proud and passionate, malicious and revengeful? Is this to be like-minded with Christ, who was meek and lowly? Tillotson.

What will be my confusion, when he sees me Neglected, and forsaken like himself. Philips. They roar'd like lions caught in toils, and rag'd: The man knew what they were, who heretofore Had seen the like lie murther'd on the shore.

1. To choose with some degree of preference.

As nothing can be so reasonably spoken as to content all men, so this speech was not of them. all liked. Knalles. He gave such an account as made it appear that he liked the design. Clarendon. We like our present circumstances well, and dream of no change. Atterbury. 2. To approve; to view with approbation, not fondness.

3.

Though they did not like the evil he did, yet they liked him that did the evil.

Sidney.

He grew content to mark their speeches, then to marvel at such wit in shepherds, after to like their company. He proceeded from looking to liking, and from liking to loving.

For several virtues

I have lik'd several women; never any With so full soul.

Sidney. Sidney.

Shakspeare's Tempest.

I look'd upon her with a soldier's eye;
That lik'd, but had a rougher task in hand
Than to drive liking to the name of love. Shak.

Scarce any man passes to a liking of sin in
others, but by first practising it himself. South.
Beasts can like, but not distinguish too,
Nor their own liking by reflection know. Dryd.
To please; to be agreeable to. Now
disused.

Well hoped he, ere long that hardy guest,
If ever covetous hand, or lustful eye,
Or lips he laid on thing that lik'd him best,
Should be his prey. Spenser's Fairy Queen.

Say, my fair brother now, if this device Dolike you, or may you to like entice. Hubberd, This desire being recommended to her majesty, it liked her to include the same within one entire lease. Bacon.

He shall dwell where it liketh him best. Deut.
There let them learn, as likes them, to despise
God and Messiah.
Milton's Par. Lost,

To LIKE. v. n.
1. To be pleased with: with of before the
thing approved. Obsolete.

Of any thing more than of God they could not by any means like, as long as whatsoever they knew besides God, they apprehended it not in itself without dependency upon God. Hooker. The young soldiers did with such cheerfulness like of this resolution, that they thought two days a long delay. Knolles.

2. To choose; to list; to be pleased. The man likes not to take his brother's wife. Deuteronomy. He that has the prison doors set opeu is perfectly at liberty, because he may either go or stay, as he best likes. LIKELIHOOD. LIKELINESS.

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n. s. [from likely.]

Locke.

1. Appearance; show. Obsolete.
What of his heart perceive you in his face,
By any likelihood he show'd to-day?
That with no man here he is offended. Shak.
Obsolete.

2. Resemblance; likeness.

The mayor and all his brethren in best sort, Like to the senators of antique Rome, Go forth and fetch their conqu'ring Cæsar in. As by a low, but loving likelihood, Were now the general of our gracious empress, As in good time he may, from Ireland coming, How many would the peaceful city quit To welcome him?

Shakspeare's Henry v. There is no likelihood between pure light and black darkness, or between righteousness and

reprobation.

Raleigh.

3. Probability; verisimilitude; appear. ance of truth.

As it noteth one such to have been in that age, so had there been more, it would by likeli bood as well have noted many. Hooker. Many of likelihood informed me of this before, which hung so tottering in the balance, that I could neither believe nor misdoubt. Shaksp.

It never yet did hurt,

itterbury.

Thus, in all likelihood, would it be with a libertine, who should have a visit from the other world: the first horror it raised would go off, as new diversions come on. LIKELY. adj. [from like.] 1. Such as may be liked; such as may please. Obsolete.

These young companions make themselves believe they love at the first looking of a likely beauty. Sidney.

Shaksp.

Sir John, they are your likeliest men; I would have you served with the best. 2. Probable; such as may in reason be thought or believed; such as may be thought more reasonably than the contrary: as, a likely story, that is, a credible story. LIKELY. adv. sonably be thought.

Probably; as may rea

While man was innocent, he was likely igno rant of nothing that imported him to know. Glanville.

To LIKEN. v. a. [from like.] To represent as having resemblance; to compare.

The prince broke your head for likening him
to a singing man of Windsor. Shaksp. Henry IV.
For who, though with the tongue
Of angels, can relate; or to what things
Liken on earth conspicuous, that may lift
Human imagination to such height

Of God-like power? Milton's Par. Lost. LIKENESS. n. s. [from like.] 1. Resemblance; similitude.

They all do live, and moved are To multiply the likeness of their kind. Spenser. A translator is to make his author appear as charming as he can, provided he maintains his character, and makes him not unlike himself. Translation is a kind of drawing after the life, where there is a double sort of likeness, a good one and a bad one. Dryden.

There will be found a better likeness, and a worse; and the better is constantly to be chosen. Dryden.

2. Form; appearance.

Never came trouble to my house in the likeness of your grace; for trouble being gone, comfort should remain. Shakspeare.

It is safer to stand upon our guard against an enemy in the likeness of a friend, than to embrace any man for a friend in the likeness of an enemy.

L'Estran e

3. One who resembles another; a copy ; a counterpart.

Poor Cupid, sobbing, scarce could speak, Indeed, mamma, I do not know ye:

Prior.

Alas! how easy my mistake? I took you for your likeness Cloe. LIKEWISE. adv. [like and wise.] In like manner; also; moreover; too.

Jesus said unto them, I also will ask one thing, which if ye tell me, I likewise will tell you by what authority I do these things. Matthew.

So was it in the decay of the Roman empire, and likewise in the empire of Almaigne, after Charles the Great, every bird taking a feather. Bacon.

Spirit of vitriol poured to pure unmixed serum, coagulates as if it had been boiled. Spirit of seasalt makes a perfect coagulation of the serum likewise, but with some different phænomena. Arbuthnot. LIKING. adj. [perhaps because plumpness is agreeable to the sight.] Plump; in a state of plumpness.

I fear my lord the king, who hath appointed your meat and your drink; for why should he see your faces worse liking, than the children which are of your sort? Daniel.

LIKING. n. s. [from like.]

1. Good state of body; plumpness.

I'll repent, and that suddenly, while I'm in some liking; I shall be out of heart shortly, and then I shall have no strength to repent. Shaksp. Their young ones are in good liking; they grow up with corn.

Job.

Cappadocian slaves were famous for their lus tiness; and, being in good liking, were set on a stall, when exposed to sale, to shew the good habit of their body. Dryden's Notes to Pers. 2. State of trial.

The royal soul, that, like the lab'ring moon, By charms of art was hurried down; Forc'd with regret to leave her native sphere, Came but a while on liking here. Dryden,

3. Inclination.

Why do you longer feed on loathed light, Or liking find to gaze on earthly mold? Fairy Queen. LIKING. n. s. [from the verb.] Delight in; pleasure in with to.

There are limits to be set betwixt the boldness and rashness of a poet; but he must understand those limits who pretends to judge, as well as he who undertakes to write: and he who has no liking to the whole, ought in reason to be excluded from censuring of the parts. Dryden, LILACH. n. s. [lilac, lilas, Fr.] A tree.

The white thorn is in leaf, and the lilach tree.
Bacon.

LILIED. adj. [from lily.] Embellished with lilies.

Nymphs and shepherds dance no more
By sandy Ladon's lilied banks.
LILY. n. s. [lilium, Latin.]

Milton.

There are thirty-two species of this plant, including white lilies, orange lilies, and martagons of various sorts. Miller.

Oh! had the monster seen those lily hands Tremble, like aspen leaves, upon a lute, And make the silken strings delight to kiss them; He would not then have touch'd them for his life! Shakspeare.

Shipwreck'd upon a kingdom where no pity! No friends! no hope! no kindred weep for me! Almost no grave allow'd me! like the lily, That once was mistress of the field, and flourish❜d, I'll hang my head, and perish. Shakspeare,