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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
ablaze, afflicted, aglow, alight, bathed with light, bent, bespangled, boiled, bombed, boozy, brightened, candlelit, canned, cockeyed, cockeyed drunk, crocked, crocko, disguised, drunk, elevated, enlightened, firelit, fried, fuddled, gaslit, half-seas over, high, illuminated, in a blaze, inebriated, irradiate, irradiated, lamplit, lanternlit, lighted, lightened, lit up, loaded, lubricated, luminous, lushy, moonlit, muddled, muzzy, oiled, organized, pickled, pie-eyed, pissed, pissy-eyed, pixilated, plastered, polluted, potted, raddled, shellacked, skunk-drunk, smashed, soaked, soused, spangled, squiffy, star-spangled, star-studded, starlit, stewed, stinko, studded, sunlit, swacked, tanked, tight, tinseled
Dictionary Results for lit:
1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)
lit
    adj 1: provided with artificial light; "illuminated
           advertising"; "looked up at the lighted windows"; "a
           brightly lit room"; "a well-lighted stairwell" [syn:
           illuminated, lighted, lit, well-lighted]
    2: set afire or burning; "the lighted candles"; "a lighted
       cigarette"; "a lit firecracker" [syn: lighted, lit] [ant:
       unlighted, unlit]
    n 1: the humanistic study of a body of literature; "he took a
         course in Russian lit" [syn: literature, lit]

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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[imac]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.
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            If a thousand candles be all lighted from one.
                                                  --Hakewill.
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            And the largest lamp is lit.          --Macaulay.
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            Absence might cure it, or a second mistress
            Light up another flame, and put out this. --Addison.
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   2. To give light to; to illuminate; to fill with light; to
      spread over with light; -- often with up.
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            Ah, hopeless, lasting flames! like those that burn
            To light the dead.                    --Pope.
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            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.
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            The sun has set, and Vesper, to supply
            His absent beams, has lighted up the sky. --Dryden.
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   3. To attend or conduct with a light; to show the way to by
      means of a light.
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            His bishops lead him forth, and light him on.
                                                  --Landor.
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   To light a fire, to kindle the material of a fire.
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3. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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[imac]htan
   to alight orig., to relieve (a horse) of the rider's burden,
   to make less heavy, fr. l[imac]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.
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            When she saw Isaac, she lighted off the camel.
                                                  --Gen. xxiv.
                                                  64.
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            Slowly rode across a withered heath,
            And lighted at a ruined inn.          --Tennyson.
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   2. To feel light; to be made happy. [Obs.]
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            It made all their hearts to light.    --Chaucer.
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   3. To descend from flight, and rest, perch, or settle, as a
      bird or insect.
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            [The bee] lights on that, and this, and tasteth all.
                                                  --Sir. J.
                                                  Davies.
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            On the tree tops a crested peacock lit. --Tennyson.
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   4. To come down suddenly and forcibly; to fall; -- with on or
      upon.
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            On me, me only, as the source and spring
            Of all corruption, all the blame lights due.
                                                  --Milton.
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   5. To come by chance; to happen; -- with on or upon; formerly
      with into.
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            The several degrees of vision, which the assistance
            of glasses (casually at first lit on) has taught us
            to conceive.                          --Locke.
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            They shall light into atheistical company. --South.
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            And here we lit on Aunt Elizabeth,
            And Lilia with the rest.              --Tennyson.
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4. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Lit \Lit\ (l[i^]t),
   1. a form of the imp. & p. p. of Light.
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   2. Under the influence of alcohol; intoxicated; inebriated;
      drunk; -- often used with up. [slang]
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