Lambent

3 definitions found

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

  Lambent \Lam"bent\, a. [L. lambens, -enlis, p. pr. of lambere to
     lick; akin to lap. See {Lap} to drink by licking.]
     1. Playing on the surface; touching lightly; gliding over. "A
        lambent flame." --Dryden. "A lambent style."
        --Beaconsfield.
        [1913 Webster]


  
     2. Twinkling or gleaming; fickering. "The lambent purity of
        the stars." --W. Irving.
        [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  lambent
       adj : softly bright or radiant; "a house aglow with lights";
             "glowing embers"; "lambent tongues of flame"; "the
             lucent moon"; "a sky luminous with stars" [syn: {aglow(p)},
              {glowing}, {lucent}, {luminous}]

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

  27 Moby Thesaurus words for "lambent":
     aflicker, barely touching, beaming, bickering, blinking, brilliant,
     dancing, effulgent, flashing, flickering, flickery, flicky,
     fluttering, fluttery, incandescent, lucent, luminous, lustrous,
     playing, playing lightly over, quivering, quivery, radiant,
     refulgent, stroboscopic, wavering, wavery