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Webster 1913 Edition
lights
lights
(līts)
, Noun.
pl.
[So called from their
lightness
.] The lungs of an animal or bird; – sometimes coarsely applied to the lungs of a human being.
Webster 1828 Edition
Lights
LIGHTS
,Noun.
The lungs; the organs of breathing in animals. These organs in man we call lungs; in other animals, lights.
Definition 2024
lights
lights
English
Noun
lights
- plural of light
- The lungs, now only of an animal (being lighter than adjacent parts).
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, VI.3:
- But forst him gape and gaspe, with dread aghast, / As if his lungs and lites were nigh asunder brast.
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, VI.3:
Verb
lights
- third-person singular simple present indicative form of light