<noun.cognition> he took a course in Russian lit [ adj ]
set afire or burning
<adj.all> the lighted candles a lighted cigarette a lit firecracker
provided with artificial light
<adj.all> illuminated advertising looked up at the lighted windows a brightly lit room a well-lighted stairwell
Light \Light\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Lighted} (l[imac]t"[e^]d) or {Lit} (l[i^]t); p. pr. & vb. n. {Lighting}.] [AS. l[=i]htan to alight orig., to relieve (a horse) of the rider's burden, to make less heavy, fr. l[=i]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.
Light \Light\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Lighted} (l[imac]t"[e^]d) or {Lit} (l[i^]t); p. pr. & vb. n. {Lighting}.] [AS. l[=y]htan, l[=i]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.
Lit \Lit\ (l[i^]t), a form of the imp. & p. p. of {Light}.
They lit out," Mitchell said.
Relatives of American and British hostages held in Lebanon lit candles Sunday night to honor the captives and appeal for their release.
The fuse was lit; soon his head was exploding.
It features mountains, towering trees, foliage and wildlife lit in bright, jewel-like colors.
That decision was made Monday after customers lit up switchboards complaining that their bills didn't reflect how long the storm left them in the dark.
By dawn, a pall of smoke lit by the flames of dying fires covered the capital.
Atlantis lit up the sky in a rare launch in darkness Thursday as it streaked into orbit on a secret military mission that reportedly will send a satellite to spy on Iraq.
The entrance hall of the gallery is lit by floor-to-ceiling windows and serves as a transition between the simple and modern interior and the classical architecture of the surrounding Place de la Concorde and Tuileries gardens.
Once into English-language songs by Walton, Copland and Bolcom, the face lit up and so did the words.
Each beacon will be lit by runners moving in relay with an Olympic torch.
A light will be lit as each of the victims' names is read, Polec said.
The crowd, by midnight swollen to 500 people, lit a bonfire in the street and began smashing shop windows.
They bellowed loudly, held aloft lit matches and didn't budge.
In the haunting mural on the wall of the family's dimly lit workshop, the painter has pasted a small photograph of himself, which he thinks someday will commemorate his own killing.
But they often exchange their complaints over late suppers in crowded Santiago restaurants and then make their way to new cars parked on dimly lit streetssomething the middle class would fear doing in most other large cities anywhere in the hemisphere.
The nation's largest tobacco maker said its new ultra-low-tar cigarette will emit 70% less smoke from the lit end than conventional cigarettes through a special combination of porous and nonporous paper.
They lit candles and listened to an organ playing somber music inside the small red brick church.
This year, a newly hired lawyer who somehow wasn't made aware of the policy lit up a cigarette in the office.
He lit into America's economic leadership, giving the assembled analysts a message they won't soon forget.
Each of its five movements is enchanting, lit up by eager, well-schooled imagination and by judicious orchestral hints from Berlioz and Wagner.
It has a carbon tip that, when lit, warms air drawn through not only tobacco but a "flavor capsule" and a tobacco filter, in addition to a regular filter.
Starting with a customary single candle when the holiday began last Saturday, an additional one was lit on each successive night until the full-orbed tier of eight shines this weekend.
On this level it succeeds, although I suspect it contains more information than most people want to know about what went on behind closed doors when club owners lit their big cigars.
There was the set, basically lit, with drifting clouds of dry ice - doubtless the slaves were having a quick puff before the main bout of the evening.
Smith said the pilot spoke poor English and did not seem to understand, but veered away immediately when the flares lit up.
But after a few days, or the end of Lent, or her sister's hospitalization, she always lit up again, despite her vows and prayers.
Many factories have little or no safety gear, and workers spend up to 12 hours a day in deafening, poorly lit and overheated workspaces where they become fatigued and easily make mistakes that cause accidents, activists said.
"I hate it when movie stars want to be beautifully lit when they're patients in a mental ward," the actress said.
If I had the time I would go to Cambridge and do a degree in English lit.