lights

plural of light

Noun form of, plural

  1. plural of light

Noun plural, plural only

  1. The lungs, now chiefly of an animal (being lighter than adjacent parts).
    • But forst him gape and gaspe, with dread aghast, / As if his lungs and lites were nigh asunder brast. - 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book IV, Canto III”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William...
    • […] / 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...
    • 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...

Derived

according to one's lights by one's lights rising of the lights

Verb

  1. third-person singular simple present indicative of light