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{
"ref": "2015, Bertrand Harris Bronson, The Traditional Tunes of the Child Ballads",
"text": "Unlight, unlight, you gay Lady Unlight of your middle quite speed Deliver it unto me For I seems it looks too rich and too gay To melder all in the salt sea.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To alight; dismount"
],
"links": [
[
"alight",
"alight"
],
[
"dismount",
"dismount"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(intransitive, now dialectal) To alight; dismount"
],
"tags": [
"dialectal",
"intransitive"
]
}
],
"word": "unlight"
}
{
"categories": [
"English adjectives",
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English lemmas",
"English terms derived from Middle English",
"English terms inherited from Middle English",
"English terms prefixed with un- (negative)"
],
"etymology_number": 3,
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{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "enm",
"3": "unlight"
},
"expansion": "Middle English unlight",
"name": "inh"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "enm",
"2": "unlyght"
},
"expansion": "unlyght",
"name": "m"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "enm",
"2": "unliȝt",
"t": "not light (in weight)"
},
"expansion": "unliȝt (“not light (in weight)”)",
"name": "m"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "un-",
"3": "light",
"id1": "negative"
},
"expansion": "un- + light",
"name": "af"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From Middle English unlight, unlyght, unliȝt (“not light (in weight)”), equivalent to un- + light.",
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{
"args": {
"1": "?"
},
"expansion": "unlight",
"name": "en-adj"
}
],
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"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "adj",
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{
"categories": [
"English terms with quotations",
"English terms with rare senses",
"Quotation templates to be cleaned"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1821, Walter Scott, The Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott, Baronet, page 58",
"text": "And thought to bere him doun; With a launce unlight, He smote him in the lyoun; And Tristrem that was wight […]",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2018, Runas C. Powers III, A Right to Write, Xlibris Corporation",
"text": "Heavy shoulders, of a burden so unlight. Yet because of you, I can see your way through. To now I see through the darkness, with your light. By making my heavy burdens so light. And so my spirit, and my soul, are so bright.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Not light (“having little weight”)."
],
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[
"light",
"light#English"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(rare) Not light (“having little weight”)."
],
"tags": [
"rare"
]
}
],
"word": "unlight"
}
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