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Definition of Lightish
1. somewhat light [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Lightish
Literary usage of Lightish
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. British Mineralogy:: Or Coloured Figures Intended to Elucidate the by James Sowerby (1811)
"... is rather brittle, may be scratched with difficulty by a knife, and melts
easily without addition by the blowpipe into a lightish green glass. Spec. ..."
2. British Phaenogamous Botany, Or, Figures and Descriptions of the Genera of ...by W. (William) Baxter by W. (William) Baxter (1835)
"... widely spreading, of a beautiful lightish blue colour, rarely varying to pink
or white. Stamens thread-shaped, equal, shorter than the petals, ..."
3. Chamber's Encyclopaedia: A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge (1891)
"These Mediterranean varieties have large single combs, a lightish body, and
include Anconas (speckled), ..."
4. The London Encyclopaedia, Or, Universal Dictionary of Science, Art by Thomas Tegg (1829)
"... alumine, a large quantity of silica, and generally a small portion of carbonate
of lime ; hardish, lightish, and porous; of an earthy texture; ..."
5. Winston's Cumulative ... Encyclopedia: A Comprehensive Reference Bookby Charles Morris by Charles Morris (1918)
"... and extensive shortened thumbs, and its elongated one and has been much utilized
in ac- tail. The general color is a lightish red. calculating ..."
6. The Negro in Pennsylvania: Slavery--servitude--freedom, 1639-1861, by Edward Raymond Turner (1912)
"A negro from Chester County wore " a lightish coloured cloath coat, with metal
buttons, and lined with striped linsey, a lightish linsey jacket with sleeves ..."
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