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.

Light \Light\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Lighted} (-[e^]d) or {Lit}
   (l[i^]t); p. pr. & vb. n. {Lighting}.] [AS. l[=i]htan to
   alight, orig., to relieve (a horse) of the rider's burden, to
   make less heavy, fr. l[=i]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.

            When she saw Isaac, she lighted off the camel.
                                                  --Gen. xxiv.
                                                  64.

            Slowly rode across a withered heath, And lighted at
            a ruined inn.                         --Tennyson.

   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.

   4. To come down suddenly and forcibly; to fall; -- with on or
      upon.

            On me, me only, as the source and spring Of all
            corruption, all the blame lights due. --Milton.

   5. To come by chance; to happen; -- with on or upon; formerly
      with into.

            The several degrees of vision, which the assistance
            of glasses (casually at first lit on) has taught us
            to conceive.                          --Locke.

            They shall light into atheistical company. --South.

            And here we lit on Aunt Elizabeth, And Lilia with
            the rest.                             --Tennyson.

Source : WordNet®

lighted
     adj 1: set afire or burning; "the lighted candles"; "a lighted
            cigarette"; "a lit firecracker" [syn: {lit}] [ant: {unlighted}]
     2: provided with artificial light; "illuminated advertising";
        "looked up at the lighted windows"; "a brightly lit room";
        "a well-lighted stairwell" [syn: {illuminated}, {lit}, {well-lighted}]