Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- imp. of
light , to alight.
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Examples
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What kind of self respecting Warren Ellis fans makes things lighte... ::rashen frashen fricken fracken::
... and I Could Move the World Rogers 2008
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For stoned Horses thei occupie none, ne yet Gelding that is a striker, and lighte of his heles.
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Gabriel the angel cam for to speke with him; and for the gret lighte and brightnesse of the angelle, he myghte not susteyne him fro fallynge.
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And there is a lampe, that hongethe before the sepulcre, that brennethe lighte: and on the
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In that tabernacle ben no wyndowes: but it is alle made lighte with lampes, that hangen before the sepulcre.
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In the middes thei make a round windowe that giueth them lighte, and letteth out the smoke.
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Firste let him sorowe, not with a lighte forthinckinge, but with a moste earneste and bittre repentaunce in the botome of his conscience: for the puritie and innocencie that he had gotten eyther by baptisme or the benefite of former repentaunce, and nowe hathe eftsones loste, and forgone throughe sinne.
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And euery one feareth it shoulde lighte on him selfe.
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And yet vpon respecte that the heade is the place for the eyes, it ought to be of more lighte, and to bee separate with a particion, in the steade of a necke, from the body of the Churche.
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Of bodie thei are very lighte, swifte of foote, and shorte liued as not passyng xl. yeres, he that liueth longest.
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