Crossword-Solution: ALIGHT
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Alight | v. i. | To spring down, get down, or descend, as from on horseback or from a carriage; to dismount. |
| Alight | v. i. | To descend and settle, lodge, rest, or stop; as, a flying bird alights on a tree; snow alights on a roof. |
| Alight | v. i. | To come or chance (upon). |
| Alight | a. | Lighted; lighted up; in a flame. |
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Hint 1 meaning
The superficial contents of any figure; the surface included
within any given lines; superficial extent; as, the area of a square or
a triangle.
Hint 2 anagram
AARE
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CERTAIN BRAIN SIZE
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Sentences with ALIGHT (5)
Sometimes throughout a whole season all the swarms would alight on the lowest attainable bough—such as part of a currant-bush or espalier apple-tree; next year they would, with just the same unanimity, make straight off to the uppermost member of some tall, gaunt costard, or quarrington, and there defy all invaders who did not come armed with ladders and staves to take them.
They averred that the symbol was not mere scarlet cloth, tinged in an earthly dye-pot, but was red-hot with infernal fire, and could be seen glowing all alight whenever Hester Prynne walked abroad in the night-time.
And far away towards Knaphill I saw the flashes of trees and hedges and wooden buildings suddenly set alight.
Burn your love-token, by all means!” Sir Andrew had already twisted the paper into a long spill, and was once again holding it to the flame of the candle, which had remained alight.
Let us alight, as the birds do, and perch ourselves on the nearest twig, and consult wither we shall fly next!” Just then, as it happened, the train reached a solitary way-station.
Quotes with ALIGHT (3)
Happiness is like a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.
I wonder,” he said, “whether the stars are set alight in heaven so that one day each one of us may find his own again...
This was not the time to say “I don’t know.” The brothers had begging, hungry looks, like dogs waiting to be fed. They wanted an answer. It would be nice if it was the right answer, but if it couldn’t be, then any answer would do, because then we would stop being worried... and then his mind caught alight. That’s what the gods are! An answer that will do! Because there’s food to be caught and babies to be born and life to be lived and so there is no time for big, complicated,…
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Boston Globe, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NY Sun, NYT, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.
Used 45 times in crossword archives (1970–2024).