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- [1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
light \light\, v. t. imp. p. p. lighted limact"e^d or
lit li^t; p. pr. vb. n. lighting. as. l=yhtan,
limachtan, to shine. root122. see light, n.
1. to set fire to; to cause to burn; to set burning; to
ignite; to kindle; as, to light a candle or lamp; to light
the gas; -- sometimes with up.
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if a thousand candles be all lighted from one.
--hakewill.
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and the largest lamp is lit. --macaulay.
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absence might cure it, or a second mistress
light up another flame, and put out this. --addison.
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2. to give light to; to illuminate; to fill with light; to
spread over with light; -- often with up.
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ah, hopeless, lasting flames like those that burn
to light the dead. --pope.
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one hundred years ago, to have lit this theater as
brilliantly as it is now lighted would have cost, i
suppose, fifty pounds. --f. harrison.
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the sun has set, and vesper, to supply
his absent beams, has lighted up the sky. --dryden.
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3. to attend or conduct with a light; to show the way to by
means of a light.
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his bishops lead him forth, and light him on.
--landor.
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to light a fire, to kindle the material of a fire.
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see also:
lighted lit lighting light to light a fire
- [2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
light \light\, v. i. imp. p. p. lighted limact"e^d or
lit li^t; p. pr. vb. n. lighting. as. limachtan
to alight orig., to relieve a horse of the rider's burden,
to make less heavy, fr. limacht light. see light not
heavy, and cf. alight, lighten to make light.
1. to dismount; to descend, as from a horse or carriage; to
alight; -- with from, off, on, upon, at, in.
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when she saw isaac, she lighted off the camel.
--gen. xxiv.
64.
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slowly rode across a withered heath,
and lighted at a ruined inn. --tennyson.
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2. to feel light; to be made happy. obs.
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it made all their hearts to light. --chaucer.
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3. to descend from flight, and rest, perch, or settle, as a
bird or insect.
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the bee lights on that, and this, and tasteth all.
--sir. j.
davies.
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on the tree tops a crested peacock lit. --tennyson.
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4. to come down suddenly and forcibly; to fall; -- with on or
upon.
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on me, me only, as the source and spring
of all corruption, all the blame lights due.
--milton.
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5. to come by chance; to happen; -- with on or upon; formerly
with into.
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the several degrees of vision, which the assistance
of glasses casually at first lit on has taught us
to conceive. --locke.
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they shall light into atheistical company. --south.
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and here we lit on aunt elizabeth,
and lilia with the rest. --tennyson.
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see also:
lighted lit lighting light alight lighten
- [3] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
lighted \lighted\ adj.
1. set afire or burning.
syn: ignited, enkindled, kindled, lit.
wordnet 1.5 +pjc
2. illuminated by artificial light; as, lighted by a
high-powered searchligh.
syn: illuminated, lit, well-lighted.
wordnet 1.5
- [4] : WordNet (r) 2.0
lighted
adj 1: set afire or burning; "the lighted candles"; "a lighted
cigarette"; "a lit firecracker" syn: lit ant: unlighted
2: provided with artificial light; "illuminated advertising";
"looked up at the lighted windows"; "a brightly lit room";
"a well-lighted stairwell" syn: illuminated, lit, well-lighted
see also:
lit unlighted illuminated well-lighted
- [5] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
35 moby thesaurus words for "lighted":
ablaze, afire, aflame, aglow, alight, bathed with light,
bespangled, blazing, brightened, candlelit, enlightened, fiery,
firelit, flaming, flaring, gaslit, ignited, illuminated,
in a blaze, irradiate, irradiated, lamplit, lanternlit, lightened,
lit, lit up, luminous, moonlit, spangled, star-spangled,
star-studded, starlit, studded, sunlit, tinseled
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