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Webster 1913 Edition

lights

lights

(līts)

,

Noun.

pl.

[So called from their

lightness

.]

The lungs of an animal or bird; – sometimes coarsely applied to the lungs of a human being.

Webster 1828 Edition

Lights

LIGHTS

,

Noun.

lites. plu. [so called from their lightness.]

The lungs; the organs of breathing in animals. These organs in man we call lungs; in other animals, lights.