lights
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• noun
Devices or fixtures, such as electric lamps, bulbs, or lanterns, that produce illumination.
"Please turn off the lights in the conference room before leaving for the evening."
A person's natural capacities, standards, or spiritual and intellectual understanding (especially in the phrase 'according to one's lights').
"He always strove to act fairly and ethically according to his own lights."
The lungs of certain animals, especially sheep, pigs, or cattle, used as food or pet feed.
"Traditional recipes from the region often call for minced liver and lights simmered in a rich gravy."
• verb
To provide a place or object with illumination, or to cause something to start burning (third-person singular simple present of 'light').
"The morning sun lights the eastern facade of the cathedral with a warm golden glow."
To descend and settle upon a surface after flight, or to come upon something by chance (third-person singular simple present of 'light').
"A monarch butterfly gently lights upon the blooming milkweed in the garden."
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Word Origin & Etymology
In its culinary and anatomical sense referring to animal lungs, the term derives from the Old English adjective 'leoht' (having little weight), because the lungs are spongy and noticeably lighter than denser internal organs like the liver or heart.
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