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To be illuminated; to receive light; to brighten; -- with up; as, the room light up very well.

To grow lighter; to become less dark or lowering; to brighten; to clear, as the sky.

The act of making bright, or the state of being made bright; enlightenment; brightening, as of the mental powers. [R.] Ball lightning, a rare form of lightning sometimes seen as a globe of fire moving from the clouds to the earth. -- Chain lightning, lightning in angular, zigzag, or forked flashes. -- Heat lightning,…

A bell used in fowling at night, to frighten birds, and, with a sudden light, to make them fly into a net. The fowler's lowbell robs the lark of sleep. King.

The brightening of a metal in the crucible when it becomes pure, as in certain refining processes.

Frightened into madness; raving. [Obs.]

sand, scale rust, etc., from the surface of castings, or other articles of metal, or to brighten them or improve their color.

Timid; easily frightened; chicken-hearted. Beau. & Fl.

upward; as, to put up goods for sale. (d) To start from a cover, as game. "She has been frightened; she has been put up." C. Kingsley.

A specter mentioned to frighten children; as, rawhead and bloodybones.

ce, and mended his stories. Dryden. But let a lord once own the happy lines, How the wit brightens! How the style refines! Pope.

A rubbing up afresh; a brightening. [Obs.] A continual refrication of the memory. Bp. Hall.

To scour; to burnish; to polish; to brighten; to cleanse; -- often with up or over; as, to rub up silver. The whole business of our redemption is to rub over the defaced copy of the creation. South.

To frighten; to strike with sudden fear; to alarm. The noise of thy crossbow Will scare the herd, and so my shoot is lost. Shak. To scare away, to drive away by frightening. -- To scare up, to find by search, as if by beating for game. [Slang]

Anything set up to frighten crows or other birds from cornfields; hence, anything terifying without danger. A scarecrow set to frighten fools away. Dryden.

rub with a wet brush, or with something coarse or rough, for the purpose of cleaning or brightening; as, to scrub a floor, a doorplate.

Frightened at or by one's self. Shak.

Begone; away; -- an expression used in frightening away animals, especially fowls.

Easily frightened; timid; as, a shy bird. The horses of the army . . . were no longer shy, but would come up to my very feet without starting. Swift.

Easily frightened; timorous; shy; untrustworthy; as, a skittish colt. "A restiff, skittish jade." L'Estrange.