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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.]

The act or operation of smearing the body with mud, especially with the sediment from mineral springs; a mud bath.

Not luxurious. [R.] Orrery.

Etym: [A word not fully approved, but sometimes used for the adverb ill.]

Resembling Achilles, the hero of the Iliad; invincible.

, an inserted into the bone of the heel; -- so called from the mythological account of Achilles being held by the heel when dipped in the River Styx.

Hanging at the cathead, ready to let go, as an anchor.

A Spanish red wine made of the first ripe grapes.

Near to the maxilla or jawbone.

Asphodel. [Obs.]

A needle-shaped peak.