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Lighting   /lˈaɪtɪŋ/   Listen
noun
Lighting  n.  (Metal.) A name sometimes applied to the process of annealing metals.


verb
Light  v. t.  (past & past part. lit or lighted; pres. part. lighting)  
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. "If a thousand candles be all lighted from one." "And the largest lamp is lit." "Absence might cure it, or a second mistress Light up another flame, and put out this."
2.
To give light to; to illuminate; to fill with light; to spread over with light; often with up. "Ah, hopeless, lasting flames! like those that burn To light the dead." "One hundred years ago, to have lit this theater as brilliantly as it is now lighted would have cost, I suppose, fifty pounds." "The sun has set, and Vesper, to supply His absent beams, has lighted up the sky."
3.
To attend or conduct with a light; to show the way to by means of a light. "His bishops lead him forth, and light him on."
To light a fire, to kindle the material of a fire.


Light  v. t.  (past & past part. lighted or lit; pres. part. lighting)  To lighten; to ease of a burden; to take off. (Obs.) "From his head the heavy burgonet did light."


Light  v. i.  (past & past part. lit or lighted; pres. part. lighting)  
1.
To become ignited; to take fire; as, the match will not light.
2.
To be illuminated; to receive light; to brighten; with up; as, the room light up very well.


Light  v. i.  (past & past part. lighted or lit; pres. part. lighting)  
1.
To dismount; to descend, as from a horse or carriage; to alight; with from, off, on, upon, at, in. "When she saw Isaac, she lighted off the camel." "Slowly rode across a withered heath, And lighted at a ruined inn."
2.
To feel light; to be made happy. (Obs.) "It made all their hearts to light."
3.
To descend from flight, and rest, perch, or settle, as a bird or insect. "(The bee) lights on that, and this, and tasteth all." "On the tree tops a crested peacock lit."
4.
To come down suddenly and forcibly; to fall; with on or upon. "On me, me only, as the source and spring Of all corruption, all the blame lights due."
5.
To come by chance; to happen; with on or upon; formerly with into. "The several degrees of vision, which the assistance of glasses (casually at first lit on) has taught us to conceive." "They shall light into atheistical company." "And here we lit on Aunt Elizabeth, And Lilia with the rest."





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"Lighting" Quotes from Famous Books



... puzzling where or how they were to go. One after another of them came up, looked down through the hole, and drew back. Curdie thought if he let Lina down, perhaps that would suggest something; possibly they did not see the opening on the other side. He did so, and Lina stood lighting up the entrance of the passage ...
— The Princess and the Curdie • George MacDonald
... little only after attaining a distant apartment and lighting a lamp. Here he remained a long time seated and buried in thought; various expressions of fear, anger, and even raillery flitted ...
— The Amulet • Hendrik Conscience
... plan," said Paul. "In a great city like New York there must be a great many things to do which I can't do here. I don't feel strong enough to work on a farm. Besides, I don't like it. O, it must be a fine thing to live in a great city. Then too," pursued Paul, his face lighting up with the hopeful confidence of youth, "I may become rich. If I do, Aunt Lucy, I will build a fine house, and you shall ...
— Paul Prescott's Charge • Horatio Alger
... to be rather shorter than Zachary Heigh wished. His candle stub, set on a crate, was burning very low and he had only a few more moments in which—that night at any rate—to decide where he would hide the lighting end of the fuse. Just before the candle went out, Zachary's fuse coil reached a group of molasses barrels, and here the young man decided that the fuse, when the time came, would be hidden and lit. He made a mark ...
— Mr. Wicker's Window • Carley Dawson
... neither my father nor myself were sufficiently skilled in mechanics to understand whence came the power to operate the ship, or to maintain the soft beautiful lights that answered the same purpose of our present methods of lighting the streets of our cities, our houses ...
— The Smoky God • Willis George Emerson


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