lit

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

LIT, preterit tense 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.]
Source: Webster's 1828 American Dictionary ↗ · public-domain · returned verbatim, no AI

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