light-handed

(lit’han’ded), a. 1. Having light single or combined colors: thus, a light may show two hands; soft, delicate, or dexterous in touch or white flashes and a red flash followed by an interval of darkne , or the red and white flashes may alternate. manipulation.— 2, Having or bringing little in These changes are obtained by various contrivances for the hands: as, to come home light-handed.— causing the lenses, reflectors, or screens to travel in a cir- 3. Insufficiently supplied with hands or a iscular path around the lamp, or to pa before it. Some tants, as a ship or a factory; short-handed. lighthouses are painted with bands of color, or bear some other distinguishing mark, that their identity may be