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Definition of Lightener
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Lightener
Literary usage of Lightener
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Organ: Writings and Other Utterances on Its Structure, History, Procural by John Watson Warman (1898)
"See Sketch of the Properties of the Machine Org.. Machinery.—See Tools and
Machinery; also Factory. Mackenzie's Organ Touch lightener. ..."
2. Letters from Broosa, Asia Minor by Eliza Cheney Abbott Schneider (1846)
"... who, on account of the energy and quickness which characterized his plans and
movement, was called "the lightener." It is capacious, richly carpeted, ..."
3. Handbook of Railroad Construction: For the Use of American Engineers by George Leonard Vose (1857)
"Centre-bearing truck, with inside and outside bearings, and lightener boxes. ...
To have square iron frames well braced with outside lightener boxes; ..."
4. Handbook of Railroad Construction: For the Use of American Engineers by George Leonard Vose (1857)
"Centre-bearing truck, with inside and outside bearings, and lightener boxes. ...
To have square iron frames well braced with outside lightener boxes; ..."
5. Handbook of Railroad Construction: For the Use of American Engineers by George Leonard Vose (1857)
"Centre-bearing truck, with inside and outside bearings, and lightener boxes. ...
To have square iron frames well braced with outside lightener boxes; ..."
6. The Carol: A Book of Religious Songs for the Sunday School and the Home by Charles William Wendte (1886)
"Sorrow-lightener ! Joyfully, Christian heart, sing far and wide ! re ... ( 2 O
heart-brightener I Sorrow-lightener! Soul-enrapturing Easter-tide ! ..."
7. Works of Benjamin Wills Newton by Benjamin Wills Newton (1881)
"It was the lightener of the world, although the en- lightener of few. The force
of <£wu£a> as meaning to lighten, or throw light upon an object, ..."
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