[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

lambent \lam"bent\, a. l. lambens, -enlis, p. pr. of lambere to
   lick; akin to lap. see lap to drink by licking.
   1. playing on the surface; touching lightly; gliding over. "a
      lambent flame." --dryden. "a lambent style."
      --beaconsfield.
      1913 webster

   2. twinkling or gleaming; fickering. "the lambent purity of
      the stars." --w. irving.
      1913 webster
see also:
lap 

[2] : WordNet (r) 2.0

lambent
     adj : softly bright or radiant; "a house aglow with lights";
           "glowing embers"; "lambent tongues of flame"; "the
           lucent moon"; "a sky luminous with stars" syn: aglowp,
            glowing, lucent, luminous
see also:
aglowp glowing lucent luminous 

[3] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

27 moby thesaurus words for "lambent":
   aflicker, barely touching, beaming, bickering, blinking, brilliant,
   dancing, effulgent, flashing, flickering, flickery, flicky,
   fluttering, fluttery, incandescent, lucent, luminous, lustrous,
   playing, playing lightly over, quivering, quivery, radiant,
   refulgent, stroboscopic, wavering, wavery

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