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Lightening

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Lighten

To descend to light

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Fulguration

The act of lightening

Coin

coin; to impair or lighten coin; to have in unlawful possession filings or clippings produced by impairing or lightening coin; to buy or sell or import or utter counterfeit coin. There were numerous other provisions tending to

jetsam

jetsam : the part of a ship, its equipment, or its cargo that is cast overboard to lighten the load in time of distress and that sinks or is washed ashore compare flotsam

Foulder

To flash as lightning to lighten to gleam to thunder

Average

in respect of a ship or cargo for its safety, e.g., goods thrown overboard in a storm to lighten the ship. Such loss by maritime law is shared proportionately between the shipowners and the owners of the

Jettison

Jettison, means the act of voluntarily throwing cargo overboard to lighten or stabilise a ship that is in immediate danger. Also termed jacture, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p.

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