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51lambency — /lam beuhn see/, n., pl. lambencies for 2. 1. the quality of being lambent. 2. something that is lambent. [1810 20; LAMB(ENT) + ENCY] * * * …
52bright — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. brilliant, shining, glistening; luminous; clever, intelligent; gay, flashing, sparkling. See color, intelligence, light. Ant., dark, dim; stupid; clouded, dismal. II (Roget s IV) modif. 1. [Shining] …
53light — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) I adj. airy (see levity); frivolous, jesting, jocular, lightsome; giddy, dizzy, flighty; wanton; nimble, agile; flippant, pert, insouciant; humorous; trivial. See cheerfulness, unimportance, impurity,… …
54Touch — (Roget s Thesaurus) >Sensation of pressure. < N PARAG:Touch >N GRP: N 1 Sgm: N 1 touch touch Sgm: N 1 tact tact taction tactility Sgm: N 1 feeling feeling Sgm: N 1 palpation palpation palpability Sgm …
55Light — (Roget s Thesaurus) < N PARAG:Light >N GRP: N 1 Sgm: N 1 light light ray beam stream gleam streak pencil Sgm: N 1 sunbeam sunbeam moonbeam Sgm: N 1 aurora aurora GRP: N 2 …
56lamprey — [12] The words lamprey and limpet [OE] come from the same source: medieval Latin lamprēda. This was an alteration of an earlier, 5th century lampetra, which has been plausibly explained as literally ‘stone licker’ (from Latin lambēre ‘lick’,… …
57lap — English now has three distinct words lap, but probably two of them are ultimately related. Lap ‘upper legs of a seated person’ [OE] originally meant ‘flap of a garment’, and it goes back to a prehistoric Germanic source which also produced German …
58lambency — 1817, from LAMBENT (Cf. lambent) + CY (Cf. cy) …
59lambency — lam•ben•cy [[t]ˈlæm bən si[/t]] n. pl. cies 1) the quality of being lambent 2) something that is lambent • Etymology: 1810–20 …
60lambency — /ˈlæmbənsi/ (say lambuhnsee) noun (plural lambencies) 1. the quality of being lambent. 2. that which is lambent …
