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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

LIT, pret. of light. The bird lit on a tree before me.
I lit my pipe with the paper.
[This word, though used by some good writers, is very inelegant.]

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: provided with artificial light; "illuminated advertising"; "looked up at the lighted windows"; "a brightly lit room"; "a well-lighted stairwell" [syn: illuminated, lighted, lit, well-lighted]
2: set afire or burning; "the lighted candles"; "a lighted cigarette"; "a lit firecracker" [syn: lighted, lit] [ant: unlighted, unlit] n
1: the humanistic study of a body of literature; "he took a course in Russian lit" [syn: literature, lit]

Merriam Webster's

I. past and past participle of light II. noun Etymology: by shortening Date: 1850 literature • lit adjective III. adjective Etymology: past participle of ³light Date: 1904 affected by alcohol ; drunk IV. abbreviation 1. liter 2. literal; literally

Oxford Reference Dictionary

past and past part. of LIGHT(1), LIGHT(2).

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

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.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

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.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Lit Lit, a form of the imp. & p. p. of Light.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

Lit is a past tense and past participle of light.

Airports

Landing Facility Type	AIRPORT
Airport Code	LIT
EFF_DATE	02/16/2006
FAA Region	ASW
FAA District	NONE
State	AR
State	ARKANSAS
County	PULASKI
County State	AR
City Name	LITTLE ROCK
Full Name	ADAMS FIELD
Owner Type	PU
Facility Use	PU
Facility City, State, Zip	"LITTLE ROCK, AR 72202"
Elevation	262
Aeronautical chart on which the airport facility appears	MEMPHIS
Distance from the central business district of the associated city to the airport in nautical miles	02
Direction of airport from the central business district of the associated city	E
Airport Certification Type and Date	I CS 05/1973
NASP/Federal Agreement Code	NGPSY3
Customs international airport	N
Customs Landing Rights Airport	Y
Joint Use	N
Military Landing Rights	Y
MIL_INT	R
Control Tower	Y
Based Single Engine General Aviation Aircraft	074
Based Multi-engine general aviation aircraft	057
Based Jet engine general aviation aircraft	036
Based Helicopters	002
Commercial Services	026401
General Aviation, Local Operations	009288
General Aviation - Itinerant Operations	068562
Military Aircraft Operations	038502
Latitude	34.7294444444
Longitude	-92.2243055556
State FIPS code	05
State Postal Code	AR
Total domestic enplanements (inbound plus outbound)	1138249
Version	09

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