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.

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