lights

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /laɪts/

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• Rhymes: -aɪts

Noun

lights

1. plural of light
2. The lungs, now only of an animal (being lighter than adjacent parts).
   • 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, VI.3:

     But forst him gape and gaspe, with dread aghast, / As if his lungs and lites were nigh asunder brast.

Verb

lights

1. third-person singular simple present indicative of light

Anagrams

• slight