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Surname or Lastname
English
English : nickname for the smaller of two men with the same forename, from the comparative of Light.Perhaps an Americanized spelling of German Leiter.
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n.
Degree or variation of color, as darker or lighter, stronger or paler; as, a delicate shade of pink.
n. pl.
A division of the Caucasian races, comprising the lighter-colored members.
n.
A covering for the human foot, usually made of leather, having a thick and somewhat stiff sole and a lighter top. It differs from a boot on not extending so far up the leg.
v. t.
To convey by a lighter, as to or from the shore; as, to lighter the cargo of a ship.
n.
The collective lighter equipments or outfit of a bride, including clothes, jewelry, and the like; especially, that which is provided for her by her family.
n.
A process which consists in washing ores by violent agitation in water, in order to separate the lighter or earhy particles; -- called also tozing, and treloobing, in Cornwall.
n.
The price paid for conveyance of goods on a lighter.
pl.
of Lighterman
n.
A gaseous element, colorless, tasteless, and odorless, the lightest known substance, being fourteen and a half times lighter than air (hence its use in filling balloons), and over eleven thousand times lighter than water. It is very abundant, being an ingredient of water and of many other substances, especially those of animal or vegetable origin. It may by produced in many ways, but is chiefly obtained by the action of acids (as sulphuric) on metals, as zinc, iron, etc. It is very inflammable, and is an ingredient of coal gas and water gas. It is standard of chemical equivalents or combining weights, and also of valence, being the typical monad. Symbol H. Atomic weight 1.
n.
One who, or that which, lights; as, a lighter of lamps.
n.
A beautiful Australian parrakeet (Platycercus eximius) often kept as a cage bird. The head and back of the neck are scarlet, the throat is white, the back dark green varied with lighter green, and the breast yellow.
n.
A passenger barge or lighter plying on rivers; also, a kind of light, half-decked vessel used in fishing.
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The pulverized matter from a quartz mill, or the lighter soil of hydraulic mines.
n.
The lighter parts of grain separated from the seed threshing and winnowing; chaff.
n.
The act of unloading into a lighter, or of conveying by a lighter.
n.
The lighter woodwork in the interior of a building; especially, that used around openings, generally in the form of a molded architrave, to protect the plastering at those points.
n.
A person employed on, or who manages, a lighter.
n.
Remarks concerning a subject or a person designed to excite laughter with a degree of contempt; wit of that species which provokes contemptuous laughter; disparagement by making a person an object of laughter; banter; -- a term lighter than derision.
n.
An agricultural implement resembling a scarifier, but usually lighter.
v. t.
To immerse in water that the lighter parts may float; as, to swim wheat in order to select seed.