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▪ I. lightener1|ˈlaɪt(ə)nə(r)|
[f. lighten v.1 + -er1.]
1. One who lightens, makes light, easy, or less grievous; an alleviator.
c1611Chapman Iliad Ep. Ded. 78 Learning and her lightener Poesy. 1760–72H. Brooke Fool of Qual. (1809) II. 108 A sweet lightener of my afflictions. 1789F. Burney Diary 9 Jan., What a lightener..would it not be, to this burthening period. 1884Sala Journ. due South i. iv. (1887) 55 An accomplished lightener of the traveller's purse.
†2. = lighter n.1 Obs. (north. dial.)
1558Wills & Inv. N.C. (Surtees 1835) 168, ij kealles & a half a lightner & a botte. 1592Ibid. 252 My clinkere lightner, with all her geare. 1789Brand Hist. Newcastle II. 261 note, Their [the keelmen's] vessels are called keels or lightners.
▪ II. lightener2|ˈlaɪt(ə)nə(r)|
[f. lighten v.2 + -er1.]
One who lightens or illuminates; an illuminator; one who flashes lightning.
1382Wyclif Prov. xxix. 13 The pore and the creaunsour metten togidere; of either the liȝtnere is the Lord. 1513Douglas æneis i. Prol. 63 Phebus lychtnar of the planetis all. 1587Golding De Mornay ii. 20 The same Sunne is the lightner of our eyes. 1678Cudworth Intell. Syst. i. iv. §32. 482 The Thunderer and Lightner. 1898Academy 26 Nov. 337/1 Aryan speech could express agents only—rainers, not rain; lighteners, not lightning. |