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English Dictionary: lighting	by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
lighting n having abundant light or illumination; "they played as long as it was light"; "as long as the lighting was good" Synonym(s): light, lighting Antonym(s): dark, darkness apparatus for supplying artificial light effects for the stage or a film the craft of providing artificial light; "an interior decorator must understand lighting" the act of setting something on fire Synonym(s): ignition, firing, lighting, kindling, inflammation
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Light \Light\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Lighted} (-[ecr]d) or {Lit} (l[icr]t); p. pr. & vb. n. {Lighting}.] [AS. l[ymac]htan, l[c6]htan, to shine. [root]122. See {Light}, n.] 1. To set fire to; to cause to burn; to set burning; to ignite; to kindle; as, to light a candle or lamp; to light the gas; -- sometimes with up. If a thousand candles be all lighted from one. --Hakewill. And the largest lamp is lit. --Macaulay. Absence might cure it, or a second mistress Light up another flame, and put out this. --Addison. 2. To give light to; to illuminate; to fill with light; to spread over with light; -- often with up. Ah, hopeless, lasting flames ! like those that burn To light the dead. --Pope. One hundred years ago, to have lit this theater as brilliantly as it is now lighted would have cost, I suppose, fifty pounds. --F. Harrison. The sun has set, and Vesper, to supply His absent beams, has lighted up the sky. --Dryden. 3. To attend or conduct with a light; to show the way to by means of a light. His bishops lead him forth, and light him on. --Landor. {To light a fire}, to kindle the material of a fire.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Light \Light\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Lighted} (-[ecr]d) [or] {Lit} (l[icr]t); p. pr. & vb. n. {Lighting}.] [AS. l[c6]htan to alight, orig., to relieve (a horse) of the rider's burden, to make less heavy, fr. l[c6]ht light. See {Light} not heavy, and cf. {Alight}, {Lighten} to make light.] 1. To dismount; to descend, as from a horse or carriage; to alight; -- with from, off, on, upon, at, in. When she saw Isaac, she lighted off the camel. --Gen. xxiv. 64. Slowly rode across a withered heath, And lighted at a ruined inn. --Tennyson. 2. To feel light; to be made happy. [Obs.] It made all their hearts to light. --Chaucer. 3. To descend from flight, and rest, perch, or settle, as a bird or insect. [The bee] lights on that, and this, and tasteth all. --Sir. J. Davies. On the tree tops a crested peacock lit. --Tennyson. 4. To come down suddenly and forcibly; to fall; -- with on or upon. On me, me only, as the source and spring Of all corruption, all the blame lights due. --Milton. 5. To come by chance; to happen; -- with on or upon; formerly with into. The several degrees of vision, which the assistance of glasses (casually at first lit on) has taught us to conceive. --Locke. They shall light into atheistical company. --South. And here we lit on Aunt Elizabeth, And Lilia with the rest. --Tennyson.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Lighting \Light"ing\, n. (Metal.) A name sometimes applied to the process of annealing metals.