alight+ (alit)

t. [ Having alighted his lamp. Shelton , tr. of Don Quixote. (N. E. D.) alight1 (a-lit'), p . a ., or prep . phr . as adv . or a. [ alight , alizt , aliht (early mod. E. alighted ), alihted , pp. ihted , pp. of alihtan , E. alight1 , v., q. v.; but now regarded as parallel to afire , ablaze , etc., light , n.] das parovided with lighted up; illuminated. The chapel was scarcely alight . Thackeray, Four Georges (1862), p. 169. (N. E. D.) Set The lamps alight , and call For golden music. Tennyson, Ancient Sage.