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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Light \Light\, verb (used without an object) [imp. & p. p. {Lighted} (l[imac]t"[e^]d) or {Lit} (l[i^]t); p. pr. & vb. n. {Lighting}.] [AS. l[=i]htan to alight orig., to relieve (a horse) of the rider's burden, to make less heavy, fr. l[=i]ht 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.
When she saw Isaac, she lighted off the camel. --Gen. xxiv. 64.
Slowly rode across a withered heath, And lighted at a ruined inn. --Tennyson.
2. To feel light; to be made happy. [Obs.]
It made all their hearts to light. --Chaucer.
3. To descend from flight, and rest, perch, or settle, as a bird or insect.
[The bee] lights on that, and this, and tasteth all. --Sir. J. Davies.
On the tree tops a crested peacock lit. --Tennyson.
4. To come down suddenly and forcibly; to fall; -- with on or upon.
On me, me only, as the source and spring Of all corruption, all the blame lights due. --Milton.
5. To come by chance; to happen; -- with on or upon; formerly with into.
The several degrees of vision, which the assistance of glasses (casually at first lit on) has taught us to conceive. --Locke.
They shall light into atheistical company. --South.
And here we lit on Aunt Elizabeth, And Lilia with the rest. --Tennyson.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Light \Light\, verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {Lighted} (l[imac]t"[e^]d) or {Lit} (l[i^]t); p. pr. & vb. n. {Lighting}.] [AS. l[=y]htan, l[=i]htan, to shine. [root]122. See {Light}, noun]
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.
If a thousand candles be all lighted from one. --Hakewill.
And the largest lamp is lit. --Macaulay.
Absence might cure it, or a second mistress Light up another flame, and put out this. --Addison.
2. To give light to; to illuminate; to fill with light; to spread over with light; -- often with up.
Ah, hopeless, lasting flames! like those that burn To light the dead. --Pope.
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.
The sun has set, and Vesper, to supply His absent beams, has lighted up the sky. --Dryden.
3. To attend or conduct with a light; to show the way to by means of a light.
His bishops lead him forth, and light him on. --Landor.
{To light a fire}, to kindle the material of a fire.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
lighted \lighted\ adjective
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]
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
lighted
adjective
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}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
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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