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To illuminate. [Obs.]

A compound formed from the hydrate of aluminium by the substitution of a metal for the hydrogen.

Combined with alumina.

ar; to dispel the obscurity to by knowledge or reason; to explain; to elucidate; as, to illuminate a text, a problem, or a duty.

To enlighten again; to reillumine.

To illuminate. [Obs.] Cowley.

small evergreen tree, set up indoors, to be decorated with bonbons, presents, etc., and illuminated on Christmas eve.

To make clear; to free from obscurities; to brighten or illuminate. To clarify his reason, and to rectify his will. South.

A flash of intellectual brilliancy. He might have illuminated his times with the incessant cor of his genius. I. Taylor.

f some other body, either between it and the eye, or between the luminous body and that illuminated by it. A lunar eclipse is caused by the moon passing through the earth's shadow; a solar eclipse, by the moon coming between the sun and the observer. A satellite is eclipsed by entering the shadow of its primary. The ob…

To supply with light; to illuminate; as, the sun enlightens the earth. His lightnings enlightened the world. Ps. xcvii. 4.

One who enlightens or illuminates; one who, or that which, communicates light to the eye, or clear views to the mind.

To light up as if by fire; to illuminate. [The sun] fires the proud tops of the eastern pines. Shak.

nd (Poker), three of a kind and a pair. -- Full moon. (a) The moon with its whole disk illuminated, as when opposite to the sun. (b) The time when the moon is full. -- Full organ (Mus.), the organ when all or most stops are out. -- Full score (Mus.), a score in which all the parts for voices and instruments are give…

Having the orb or disk complete or fully illuminated; like the full moon.

Imperfectly illuminated; dismal through obscurity or darkness; dusky; dim; clouded; as, the cavern was gloomy. "Though hid in gloomiest shade." Milton.

The moon at the quarters, when half its disk appears illuminated.

To throw or spread light upon; to make light or bright; to illuminate; to illumine. Shak. The mountain's brow, Illumed with fluid gold. Thomson.

Capable of being illuminated.

That which illuminates or affords light; as, gas and petroleum are illuminants. Boyle.