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Light handed

not having a full complement of men as a vessel light handed

Pat

to strike gently with the fingers or hand to stroke lightly to tap as to pat a dog

an electric or gas light suspended from the ceiling by a flexible cord or tube allowing artificial light to be brought down from a chandelier nearer to a table or desk a pendant also an electric light bulb in a small holder which can be held in the hand or hung from a hook and attached to a long electric cord allowing light to be brought close to work in dark areas of a room

Dulcimer

an instrument having stretched metallic wires which are beaten with two light hammers held in the hands of the performer

Javelin

a sort of light spear to be thrown or cast by the hand anciently a weapon of war used by horsemen and foot soldiers now used chiefly in hunting the wild boar and other fierce game

Lampadrome

a race run by young men with lighted torches in their hands he who reached the goal first with his torch unextinguished gained the prize

Levorotation

rotation in the direction of an outgoing right handed screw counter clockwise rotation applied chiefly to the turning of the plane of polarization of light

Levorotatory

turning or rotating the plane of polarization of light towards the left applied to crystals and compounds exhibiting optical activity such as levulose left handed quartz crystals etc opposite of dextrorotatory

Executor

..... out of which he seeks to retain his debt came to his hands after decree and even though the debt be statute barred before 1926 ..... the money is required even if a later will subsequently comes to light appointing a different person executor the acts of the former executor so ..... ac 231 for the previous law that may have come to his hands money to the extent of all funeral and testamentary expenses and debts .....

Piracy

..... and are therefore no infringement of the law and on the other hand although parts may be omitted and new passages introduced yet if these ..... them to attack others they can therefore be only regarded in the light of robbers they are as cicero has truly stated the common enemies ..... is an inroad on the author s right but on the one hand the sentences and words may be so rearranged that although nothing be .....

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