If a thousand candles be all lighted from one.
--Hakewill.
And the largest lamp is lit. --Macaulay.
Absence might cure it, or a second mistress Light up
another flame, and put out this. --Addison.
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. --Pope.
One hundred years ago, to have lit this theater as
brilliantly as it is now lighted would have cost, I
suppose, fifty pounds. --F. Harrison.
The sun has set, and Vesper, to supply His absent
beams, has lighted up the sky. --Dryden.
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.
--Landor.
{To light a fire}, to kindle the material of a fire.
When she saw Isaac, she lighted off the camel.
--Gen. xxiv.
64.
Slowly rode across a withered heath, And lighted at
a ruined inn. --Tennyson.
2. To feel light; to be made happy. [Obs.]
It made all their hearts to light. --Chaucer.
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.
--Sir. J.
Davies.
On the tree tops a crested peacock lit. --Tennyson.
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. --Milton.
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. --Locke.
They shall light into atheistical company. --South.
And here we lit on Aunt Elizabeth, And Lilia with
the rest. --Tennyson.