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verb Light v. t. (past & past part. lit or lighted; pres. part. lighting) 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." "And the largest lamp is lit." "Absence might cure it, or a second mistress Light up another flame, and put out this." 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." "One hundred years ago, to have lit this theater as brilliantly as it is now lighted would have cost, I suppose, fifty pounds." "The sun has set, and Vesper, to supply His absent beams, has lighted up the sky." 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." To light a fire, to kindle the material of a fire.
Light v. t. (past & past part. lighted or lit; pres. part. lighting) To lighten; to ease of a burden; to take off. (Obs.) "From his head the heavy burgonet did light."
Light v. i. (past & past part. lit or lighted; pres. part. lighting) 1.To become ignited; to take fire; as, the match will not light. 2.To be illuminated; to receive light; to brighten; with up; as, the room light up very well.
Light v. i. (past & past part. lighted or lit; pres. part. lighting) 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." "Slowly rode across a withered heath, And lighted at a ruined inn." 2.To feel light; to be made happy. (Obs.) "It made all their hearts to light." 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." "On the tree tops a crested peacock lit." 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." 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." "They shall light into atheistical company." "And here we lit on Aunt Elizabeth, And Lilia with the rest."
Lit v. 1.A form of the imp. & p. p. of Light. 2.Under the influence of alcohol; intoxicated; inebriated; drunk; often used with up. (slang)
Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48
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