[f. LIGHT a.1 + HEAD sb.] A light-headed person. Also quasi-adj., light-headed.

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[1587.  Fleming, Contn. Holinshed, III. 1954/1. He was induced to attempt such follie … by some light heads that were then about him.

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1609.  W. Biddulph, in Lavendar, Trav. (1612), 44. This thiefe [Mahomet] perswadeth light heads … how he is the messenger of God.]

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1751.  Fielding, Amelia, II. iv. (1898), I. 98. Whilst I sat by her in her lighthead fits, she repeated scarce any other name but mine.

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1825.  J. Wilson, Noct. Ambr., Wks. 1855, I. 9. Thou canst make lubbard and lighthead agree.

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