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To make clear, bright, or luminous. Here, when the moon illustrates all the sky. Chapman.

The act of illustrating; the act of making clear and distinct; education; also, the state of being illustrated, or of being made clear and distinct.

Tending or designed to illustrate, exemplify, or elucidate.

By way of illustration or elucidation. [R.] Sir T. Browne.

One who illustrates.

Serving to illustrate.

Possessing luster or brightness; brilliant; luminous; splendid. Quench the light; thine eyes are guides illustrious. Beau. & Fl.

In a illustrious manner; conspicuously; eminently; famously. Milton.

The state or quality of being eminent; greatness; grandeur; glory; fame.

Without luster. [Obs. & R.]

A want of luster. -- a.

To excel in brightness or luster. Shak.

Too lusty, or lively. Shak.

Of or pertaining to a bog or marsh; boggy. [R.]

Of, pertaining to, or living in, a marsh or swamp; marshy.

The act of viewing all over. [Archaic] Howell.

Listlessness; disinclination. [Obs.] "Idleness and unlust." Chaucer.

Heaped, or growing in heaps, or closely compacted clusters.

Having the form of a cluster of grapes; clustered like grapes.

One of the pedestals, for vases or statues, forming a part roof balustrade.