To make light or clear; to light; to illuminate; as, to lighten an apartment with lamps or gas; to lighten the streets. (In this sense less common than light.) "A key of fire ran all along the shore, And lightened all the river with a blaze."
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"Lightening" Quotes from Famous Books — Main-Travelled Roads • Hamlin Garland — The Creators - A Comedy • May Sinclair — Tommy and Co. • Jerome K. Jerome — A History of the Japanese People - From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era • Frank Brinkley and Dairoku Kikuchi — Bull Hunter • Max Brand |
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