To make light or clear; to light; to illuminate; as, to lighten an apartment with lamps or gas; to lighten the streets. (In this sense less common than light.) "A key of fire ran all along the shore, And lightened all the river with a blaze."
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"Lightening" Quotes from Famous Books — Ben Hadden - or, Do Right Whatever Comes Of It • W.H.G. Kingston — An Historical Journal of the Transactions at Port Jackson and Norfolk Island • John Hunter — The Cleveland Era - A Chronicle of the New Order in Politics, Volume 44 in The - Chronicles of America Series • Henry Jones Ford — Trial of Mary Blandy • William Roughead — Indian Unrest • Valentine Chirol |
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