lights
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- IPA: /laɪts/
- plural form of light
- The lungs, now chiefly 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.
- 1838, William Tennant, Anster fair, a poem, page 22:
- […] / hard puffing breasts and dance-o'erwearied lungs. / And truly had the crier will'd to shout / The doughty Piper's name through polish's trump, / His breath had not suffic'd to twang it out, / So did the poor man's lights puff, pant, and jump: / Wherefore to rest them from that dancing-bout, / […]
- 2013, Dean King, The Feud: The Hatfields and McCoys: The True Story, Little, Brown (ISBN 9780316224789):
- A hog's lights (or lungs), spleen, and brain found their way into dishes, as did the heart, liver, kidneys, and head, all considered delicacies. Even the feet, ears, and tail were eaten. The hooves were boiled to make glue.
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, VI.3:
- third-person singular form of light
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