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light(3) (iou) and Stegner, Wallace (Earle) (sh)


light(3) (iou)



light adjective2.
[Old English leoht, liht = Old Frisian liacht, Old Saxon, Old High German liht (Dutch, German licht), ult. formed as LIGHT noun.]
a. Bright, shining, luminous; esp. (of a fire) burning brightly, blazing. OE-M18.
J. Jortin He piled these ancient books together and set them all on a light fire.
b. Of a place, the time of day, etc.: having a considerable or sufficient amount of light, not dark. Formerly also, brightly illuminated. OE.
R. Hughes If only it had been light they could have been happy enough exploring.
Pale, approaching white in colour. LME.
light knotgrass: see KNOTGRASS 3. light red spec. (of) a pale red or reddish-orange pigment produced from iron oxide; light red silver ore: see SILVER noun & adjective. Light Sussex (a bird of) a white variety of domestic fowl.
G. Vidal Not a dark sullen blue but a light and casual blue. J. Barnes The dining hall..where the light pine of my youth had been darkened by time.

Stegner, Wallace (Earle) (sh)




born Feb. 18, 1909, Lake Mills, Iowa, U.S.
died April 13, 1993, Santa Fe, N.M.

U.S. writer.

Stegner studied at the University of Iowa and later taught at several universities, notably Stanford. The Big Rock Candy Mountain (1943), a novel about a family traveling around the West seeking their fortune, was his first critical and popular Success. His later novels include A Shooting Star (1961), Angle of Repose (1971, Pulitzer Prize), and The Spectator Bird (1976, National Book Award). His nonfiction includes two histories of the settlement of Utah, Mormon Country (1942) and The Gathering of Zion (1964), and Beyond the Hundredth Meridian (1954), a biography of John Wesley Powell.