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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: 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. [1913 Webster] 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] From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: 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. [1913 Webster] 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.] [1913 Webster] 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] From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Lighting \Light"ing\, n. (Metal.) A name sometimes applied to the process of annealing metals. [1913 Webster] From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: lighting n 1: having abundant light or illumination; "they played as long as it was light"; "as long as the lighting was good" [syn: {light}, {lighting}] [ant: {dark}, {darkness}] 2: apparatus for supplying artificial light effects for the stage or a film 3: the craft of providing artificial light; "an interior decorator must understand lighting" 4: the act of setting something on fire [syn: {ignition}, {firing}, {lighting}, {kindling}, {inflammation}]