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Light, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Lighted (lītˈĕd) or Lit (lĭt); p. pr. & vb. n. Lighting.] [AS. lȳhtan, līhtan, to shine. √122. 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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Light, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Lighted (lītˈĕd) or Lit (lĭt); p. pr. & vb. n. Lighting.] [AS. līhtan to alight orig., to relieve (a horse) of the rider's burden, to make less heavy, fr. līht 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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Lit (lĭt),
1. a form of the imp. & p. p. of Light.
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2. Under the influence of alcohol; intoxicated; inebriated; drunk; -- often used with up. [slang]
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