lightsome ( gh silent), light sum

[Eng. light, a.; -some.J 1. Luminous, light, not dark, not obscure, bright. "For the gay beams of lightsome day Gild, but to flout, the ruins gray." Scott: Lay of the Last Minstrel , ii. 1. 2. Gay, cheerful, airy, exhilarating. "Greece is no lightsome land of social mirth." Byron: Childe Harold, ii. 42. IMG:content-0561.png:[blocks in formation] or tribe lig-i-dæ, s . pl . [Mod. Lat. lig ( ea ); Lat. fem. pl. adj. suff.- idæ .] Entom.: A family of Moths, group Geometrina. The antenne are slightly pubescent in both sexes, the abdomen rather slender, the anterior wings oblong narrow, the posterior ones rounded. lign ( g silent), a. [LIGNUM.] Po e ed of wood, woody. (Used only in the subjoined compound.) lign-aloes, s. pl. 1. The fragrant wood of Aloexylum agallochum . ( Numbers xxiv. 6.) [AGALLOCH.] 2. Aquilaria agalloch a .