Slight /(?)/

1. Sleight.

1. To overthrow; to demolish. [Obs.]
2. To make even or level. [Obs.]
3. To throw heedlessly. [Obs.]

   The rogue slighted me into the river.

1. Not decidedly marked; not forcible; inconsiderable; unimportant; insignificant; not severe; weak; gentle; -- applied in a great variety of circumstances; as, a slight (i. e., feeble) effort; a slight (i. e., perishable) structure; a slight (i. e., not deep) impression; a slight (i. e., not convincing) argument; a slight (i. e., not thorough) examination; slight (i. e., not severe) pain, and the like.

   Slight is the subject, but not so the praise.

   Some firmly embrace doctrines upon slight grounds.

2. Not stout or heavy; slender.

   His own figure, which was formerly so slight.

3. Foolish; silly; weak in intellect.

imp. & p. p. Slighted; p. pr. & vb. n. Slighting

1. To disregard, as of little value and unworthy of notice; to make light of; as, to slight the divine commands.

   The wretch who slights the bounty of the skies.

   Beware . . . lest the like befall . . . If they transgress and slight that sole command.

   This my long-sufferance, and my day of grace, Those who neglect and scorn shall never taste.

1. The act of slighting; the manifestation of a moderate degree of contempt, as by neglect or oversight; neglect; indignity.

1. Slightly. [Obs. or Poetic]

   Think not so slight of glory.