different between lights vs embellishment

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /la?ts/
• Rhymes: -a?ts

Etymology 1

Alternative forms

• lites

Noun

lights

1. plural of light

Noun

lights pl (plural only)

1. The lungs, now chiefly 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.

   • 1838, William Tennant, Anster fair, a poem, page 22:

     […] / hard puffing breasts and dance-o'erwearied lungs. / And truly had the crier will'd to shout / The doughty Piper's name through polish's trump, / His breath had not suffic'd to twang it out, / So did the poor man's lights puff, pant, and jump: / Wherefore to rest them from that dancing-bout, / […]

   • 2013, Dean King, The Feud: The Hatfields and McCoys: The True Story, Little, Brown (?ISBN):

     A hog's lights (or lungs), spleen, and brain found their way into dishes, as did the heart, liver, kidneys, and head, all considered delicacies. Even the feet, ears, and tail were eaten. The hooves were boiled to make glue.

Derived terms

• rising of the lights

Etymology 2

Verb

lights

1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of light

Anagrams

• slight

English

Etymology

embellish +? -ment

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?m?b?l??m?nt/

Noun

embellishment (countable and uncountable, plural embellishments)

1. An added touch; an ornamental addition; a flourish.
   • 1811, Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility, Section 3, Chapter 1:

     Reflection had given calmness to her judgment, and sobered her own opinion of Willoughby's deserts; — she wished, therefore, to declare only the simple truth, and lay open such facts as were really due to his character, without any embellishment of tenderness to lead the fancy astray.

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