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adjective

Alight adj. Lighted; lighted up; in a flame. "The lamps were alight."

verb

Alight v. i. (past & past part. alighted, sometimes alit; pres. part. alighting)

To spring down, get down, or descend, as from on horseback or from a carriage; to dismount.

To descend and settle, lodge, rest, or stop; as, a flying bird alights on a tree; snow alights on a roof.

To come or chance (upon). (R.)

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Etymology of 'Alight'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Alight" Quotes from Famous Books

... "I saw alight beneath your door," said Jerkley, and Sir Charles made room for him to enter. He closed the door cautiously, and setting his candle down upon a chest of ...

— Ensign Knightley and Other Stories • A. E. W. Mason

... were alert at such a time (I confess mine were dormant), he would have known there could be no trains at Cannon Street Station, for if there was not enough oxygen in the air to keep a man alive, or a gas-jet alight, there would certainly not be enough to enable an engine fire to burn, even if the engineer retained sufficient energy to attend to his task. At times instinct is better than reason, and it proved so in this case. The railway from Ealing in those days came ...

— The Face And The Mask • Robert Barr

... opened the second door, beyond which appeared a vast desert. Then the twain passed through the door into that desert and the old man said to him, "O my son, take this scroll and wend thou whither this steed will carry thee. When thou seest him stop at the door of a cavern like this, alight and throw the reins over the saddle-bow and let him go. He will enter the cavern, which do thou not enter with him, but tarry at the door five days, without being weary of waiting. On the sixth day there will come forth to thee a black ...

— The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Volume 8 • Richard F. Burton

... little tongues of flame which could not take hold of them because of the clay which filled the spaces between the great timbers and was daubed over them. And they saw that all the other houses were either alight or smouldering, down to the smallest cot of a thrall, and even the barns and booths both ...

— The House of the Wolfings - A Tale of the House of the Wolfings and All the Kindreds of the Mark Written in Prose and in Verse • William Morris

... it in her dress, and he turned away; and she turned towards the boat. La Tribe stood beside the stern, holding it for her to enter, and as her fingers rested an instant on his arm their eyes met. His were alight, his arm even quivered; and ...

— Count Hannibal - A Romance of the Court of France • Stanley J. Weyman

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