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Lambent definitions

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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

LAM'BENT, a. [L. lambens, lambo, to lick.] Playing about; touching lightly; gliding over; as a lambent flame.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: softly bright or radiant; "a house aglow with lights"; "glowing embers"; "lambent tongues of flame"; "the lucent moon"; "a sky luminous with stars" [syn: aglow, lambent, lucent, luminous]

Merriam Webster's

adjective Etymology: Latin lambent-, lambens, present participle of lambere to lick — more at lap Date: 1647 1. playing lightly on or over a surface ; flickering 2. softly bright or radiant 3. marked by lightness or brilliance especially of expression • lambently adverb

Oxford Reference Dictionary

adj. 1 (of a flame or a light) playing on a surface with a soft radiance but without burning. 2 (of the eyes, sky, etc.) softly radiant. 3 (of wit etc.) lightly brilliant. Derivatives: lambency n. lambently adv. Etymology: L lambere lambent- lick

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Lambent Lam"bent, a. [L. lambens, -enlis, p. pr. of lambere to lick; akin to lap. See Lap to drink by licking.] 1. Playing on the surface; touching lightly; gliding over. ``A lambent flame.'' --Dryden. ``A lambent style.'' --Beaconsfield. 2. Twinkling or gleaming; fickering. ``The lambent purity of the stars.'' --W. Irving.

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

a. 1. Playing about (like the tongue in licking), touching lightly, gliding over, licking. 2. Gleaming, flickering, twinkling.

Moby Thesaurus

aflicker, barely touching, beaming, bickering, blinking, brilliant, dancing, effulgent, flashing, flickering, flickery, flicky, fluttering, fluttery, incandescent, lucent, luminous, lustrous, playing, playing lightly over, quivering, quivery, radiant, refulgent, stroboscopic, wavering, wavery