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See Enlighten.

Light from a lamp. This world's artificial lamplights. Owen Meredith.

One who, or that which, lights a lamp; esp., a person who lights street lamps.

That part of the stage upon which the limelight as cast, usually where the most important action is progressing or where the leading player or players are placed and upon which the attention of the spectators is therefore concentrated. Hence, consspicuous position before the public; as, politicians who are never happy…

A small narrow opening or window in a tower or fortified wall; a loophole.

To deceive or lead astray with a false light. Herrick.

The light of the moon. -- a.

A serenader by moonlight. [Local, U. S.]

Delighted beyond measure.

Too strong a light. Bacon.

Glimmering or imperfect [R.] Bp. Warburton.

A light produced by the incandescence of some substances, esp. lime, in the oxyhydrogen flame. Coal gas (producing the oxygas light), or the vapor of ether (oxyether light) or methylated spirit (oxyspirit light), may be substituted for hydrogen.

Flight, such as gliding and soaring, accomplished without the use of motive power.

A small incandescent telltale lamp on a dynamo or battery circuit to show approximately by its brightness the voltage of the current.

imp. & p. p. of Plight, to pledge. Chaucer.

One who, or that which, plights.

eighborhood in which disorderly resorts are frequent; -- so called in allusion to the red light kept in front of many such resorts at night. [Colloq. or Cant]

To light or kindle anew.

A rush candle, or its light; hence, a small, feeble light.

An apparatus for projecting a powerful beam of light of approximately parallel rays, usually devised so that it can be swiveled about.