See Also: alight(medicine)
alight(1)(dictionary)
alight(2)(dictionary)
alight 1, adjective(dictionary)
alight 2, verb(dictionary)

alight(2) (iou)



alight verb intrans. ; pa. pple also alight. OE.
[from A-1 + LIGHT verb1.]
Spring lightly down, dismount, from (or of) a horse; descend from or out of a conveyance. OE.
Clarendon His Majesty alighted out of his Coach. Joyce Our travellers..alighted from their palfreys. B. Pym Elegantly dressed people were alighting from cars.
b. Spring lightly on or upon. LME-E16.
gen. Go or come down. ME-L15.
Get down from a horse or conveyance; land, stop. ME.
Shakespeare Merchant of Venice Madam, there is alighted at your gate A young Venetian.
Descend and settle; come to earth from the air. ME.
V. Woolf That moment..when if a feather alight in the scale it will be weighed down. G. Orwell A thrush had alighted on a bough not five metres away. Times We were about to alight along the centre-line of the runway. fig.: Scott Fitzgerald So far his suspicions hadn't alighted on Tom.
Descend and strike; fall on or upon, as a blow. arch. ME.
Come by chance on, upon. M19.
S. Gillespie His eye immediately alighted on a Degas.