Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Light \Light\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Lighted} (-[e^]d) or {Lit}
   (l[i^]t); p. pr. & vb. n. {Lighting}.] [AS. l[=y]htan,
   l[=i]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.

            If a thousand candles be all lighted from one.
                                                  --Hakewill.

            And the largest lamp is lit.          --Macaulay.

            Absence might cure it, or a second mistress Light up
            another flame, and put out this.      --Addison.

   2. To give light to; to illuminate; to fill with light; to
      spread over with light; -- often with up.

            Ah, hopeless, lasting flames ! like those that burn
            To light the dead.                    --Pope.

            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.

            The sun has set, and Vesper, to supply His absent
            beams, has lighted up the sky.        --Dryden.

   3. To attend or conduct with a light; to show the way to by
      means of a light.

            His bishops lead him forth, and light him on.
                                                  --Landor.

   {To light a fire}, to kindle the material of a fire.