Light \Light\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Lighted (l[imac]t"[e^]d) or
Lit (l[i^]t); p. pr. & vb. n. Lighting.]
[AS. l[=y]htan,
l[imac]htan, to shine. [root]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. [1913 Webster]
And the largest lamp is lit. --Macaulay. [1913 Webster]
Absence might cure it, or a second mistress Light up another flame, and put out this. --Addison. [1913 Webster]
2. To give light to; to illuminate; to fill with light; to spread over with light; -- often with up. [1913 Webster]
Ah, hopeless, lasting flames! like those that burn To light the dead. --Pope. [1913 Webster]
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. [1913 Webster]
The sun has set, and Vesper, to supply His absent beams, has lighted up the sky. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
3. To attend or conduct with a light; to show the way to by means of a light. [1913 Webster]
His bishops lead him forth, and light him on. --Landor. [1913 Webster]
To light a fire, to kindle the material of a fire. [1913 Webster]
Light \Light\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Lighted (l[imac]t"[e^]d) or
Lit (l[i^]t); p. pr. & vb. n. Lighting.]
[AS. l[imac]htan
to alight orig., to relieve (a horse) of the rider's burden,
to make less heavy, fr. l[imac]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.
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When she saw Isaac, she lighted off the camel. --Gen. xxiv. 64. [1913 Webster]
Slowly rode across a withered heath, And lighted at a ruined inn. --Tennyson. [1913 Webster]
2. To feel light; to be made happy. [Obs.]
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It made all their hearts to light. --Chaucer. [1913 Webster]
3. To descend from flight, and rest, perch, or settle, as a bird or insect. [1913 Webster]
[The bee] lights on that, and this, and tasteth all. --Sir. J. Davies. [1913 Webster]
On the tree tops a crested peacock lit. --Tennyson. [1913 Webster]
4. To come down suddenly and forcibly; to fall; -- with on or upon. [1913 Webster]
On me, me only, as the source and spring Of all corruption, all the blame lights due. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
5. To come by chance; to happen; -- with on or upon; formerly with into. [1913 Webster]
The several degrees of vision, which the assistance of glasses (casually at first lit on) has taught us to conceive. --Locke. [1913 Webster]
They shall light into atheistical company. --South. [1913 Webster]
And here we lit on Aunt Elizabeth, And Lilia with the rest. --Tennyson. [1913 Webster]
Lit \Lit\ (l[i^]t),
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] [PJC]
lit
adj
1: provided with artificial light; "illuminated
advertising"; "looked up at the lighted windows"; "a
brightly lit room"; "a well-lighted stairwell" [syn:
illuminated, lighted, lit, well-lighted]
2: set afire or burning; "the lighted candles"; "a lighted
cigarette"; "a lit firecracker" [syn: lighted, lit] [ant:
unlighted, unlit]
noun
1: the humanistic study of a body of literature; "he took a
course in Russian lit" [syn: literature, lit]
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