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.
      
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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 \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.
      
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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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lighted \lighted\ adj.
   1. set afire or burning.

   Syn: ignited, enkindled, kindled, lit.
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   2. Illuminated by artificial light; as, lighted by a
      high-powered searchligh.

   Syn: illuminated, lit, well-lighted.
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