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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



... when this subject was again brought before the House by him, in language which, although he claims to be courteous, I could not regard as such, when I was, by implication, but with a disclaimer of personal offense, charged with disseminating treason, with lighting the torch in the dwelling of my southern brethren, and of crimes of which, if I was guilty, I should not be entitled to a seat upon this floor, I then rose in my place and told the gentleman from Missouri that if he would withdraw that resolution I would answer this ...
— Recollections of Forty Years in the House, Senate and Cabinet - An Autobiography. • John Sherman
... up by the soft light which came from the gentlemen's tent, in which a lamp was burning, while some twenty yards away another was lighting up the opening of the Sheikh's big tent, showing the figures of the chief and his visitors seated comfortably smoking, as they conversed ...
— In the Mahdi's Grasp • George Manville Fenn
... are the servants of the Lord God," the old clergyman had said. And there came a bluish dazzling flash of lightning, a lighting up as if of the sun itself, which could burst blocks of rock asunder. The lightning struck and split to the roots the old venerable oak. The crown fell asunder. It seemed as if the tree were stretching forth its arms to clasp the messengers of ...
— Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen • Hans Christian Andersen
... much of such good advice had been twisted into tapers for the lighting of Reuben's cigars! Not because it was absolutely scorned; not because it was held in contempt, or its giver held in contempt; but because there was so much of it. If the old gentleman had been in any imminent bodily peril, it is certain that Reuben would have rushed far and wide to aid him. ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 97, November, 1865 • Various
... The English traveller lighting upon so many of the essentially English riches as are conserved in American libraries, and particularly when he has not a meagre share of national pride, cannot but pause to wonder how it came about—and comes about—that so much that ought to be in its own ...
— Roving East and Roving West • E.V. Lucas


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