1. Flaming as it burns
   "forests set alight by lightning"; "candles alight on the tables";
   - ablaze, afire [literary], aflame, aflare [rare], on fire, burning, in flames

1. Get out or a vehicle or off a horse
   "She alighted from the train"
    
2. To come to rest, settle
   "The butterfly alighted on the flower";
   - light, perch

Derived forms: alit, alights, alighting, alighted

See also: lighted, lit

Type of: come down, descend, go down, land, set down

Encyclopedia: Alight