Alight

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Alight \A*light"\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Alighted}sometimes
     {Alit}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Alighting}.] [OE. alihten, fr. AS.
     [=a]l[imac]htan; pref. [=a]- (cf. Goth. us-, G. er-, orig.
     meaning out) + l[imac]htan, to alight, orig. to render light,
     to remove a burden from, fr. l[imac]ht, leoht, light. See
     {Light}, v. i.]


     1. To spring down, get down, or descend, as from on horseback
        or from a carriage; to dismount.
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     2. To descend and settle, lodge, rest, or stop; as, a flying
        bird alights on a tree; snow alights on a roof.
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     3. To come or chance (upon). [R.]
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Alight \A*light"\, a. [Pref. a- + light.]
     Lighted; lighted up; in a flame. "The lamps were alight."
     --Dickens.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  alight
       adj : lighted up by or as by fire or flame; "forests set ablaze
             (or afire) by lightning"; "even the car's tires were
             aflame"; "a night aflare with fireworks"; "candles
             alight on the tables"; "blazing logs in the fireplace";
             "a burning cigarette"; "a flaming crackling fire";
             "houses on fire" [syn: {ablaze(p)}, {afire(p)}, {aflame(p)},
              {aflare(p)}, {alight(p)}, {blazing}, {burning}, {flaming},
              {on fire(p)}]
       v 1: to come to rest, settle; "Misfortune lighted upon him" [syn:
             {light}, {perch}]
       2: come down; "the birds alighted" [syn: {climb down}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  115 Moby Thesaurus words for "alight":
     ablaze, afire, aflame, aflicker, aglow, ardent, bathed with light,
     bespangled, blazing, bright, brightened, burning, candent,
     candescent, candlelit, climb down, comburent, come down, come in,
     come to land, conflagrant, crash-land, debark, debus, deplane,
     descend, detrain, disembark, disemplane, dismount, ditch, dock,
     downwind, drop, drop anchor, effulgent, enlightened, fall, fiery,
     firelit, flagrant, flaming, flaring, flickering, fulgent, fuming,
     gaslit, get down, get off, glowing, go ashore, guttering,
     ignescent, ignited, illuminated, in a blaze, in a glow, in flames,
     incandescent, inflamed, irradiate, irradiated, kindled, lamplit,
     land, lanternlit, level off, light, lighted, lightened, lit,
     lit up, live, living, luminous, make a landfall, make land,
     make port, moonlit, moor, on fire, overshoot, pancake, perch,
     put in, put into port, reach land, reeking, refulgent, roost,
     scintillant, scintillating, set down, settle, settle down,
     sit down, smoking, smoldering, spangled, sparking, star-spangled,
     star-studded, starlit, studded, sunlit, talk down, tie up,
     tinseled, touch down, tumble, unboat, unextinguished, unhorse,
     unquenched, upwind