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A crew cut
Very dark-skinned Black people. Usually used among lighter-skinned African-Americans to refer to ones of very dark complexion. Made popular in the 1975 movie "Cooley High." Often shortened to "Jig."
n. any part with lots of holes drilled in it to make it lighter.
a lighter boat used to take fish to a loading vessel
flamethrower. Pg. 523. Also refers to the popular cigarette lighter of that brandname.
Ronson lighter is British slang for the anus (shiter).
A flat-bottomed barge used to transfer goods and passengers to and from moored ships, traditionally unpowered and moved and steered using "sweeps" (long oars), with their motive power provided by water currents.
Referring to the color of skin. Used mainly by darker-skinned Blacks to lighter-skinned Blacks. Also Ink Baby or Inkspot.
[from crank, because of the amphetamine-like stimulant effect + lite, meaning lighter, as in low-alcohol beer] ephedrine, a stimulant used in nonprescription medicines as a decongestant, which is lighter than amphetamines
A style of training where you perform a set with heavy weights, then immediately perform another set with lighter weights. Awesome for hypertrophy when used correctly
A large flat-bottomed boat, generally used as a ferry boat, or as a lighter for loading and unloading vessels when they cannot approach the wharf.
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Degree or variation of color, as darker or lighter, stronger or paler; as, a delicate shade of pink.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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of Lighterman
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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.
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The price paid for conveyance of goods on a lighter.
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The lighter parts of grain separated from the seed threshing and winnowing; chaff.
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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.
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The act of unloading into a lighter, or of conveying by a lighter.
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To convey by a lighter, as to or from the shore; as, to lighter the cargo of a ship.
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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.
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To immerse in water that the lighter parts may float; as, to swim wheat in order to select seed.
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An agricultural implement resembling a scarifier, but usually lighter.
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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.
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A division of the Caucasian races, comprising the lighter-colored members.
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One who, or that which, lights; as, a lighter of lamps.
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A person employed on, or who manages, a lighter.
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