sunbeam, moonbeam; aurora.
day; sunshine; light of day, light of heaven; moonlight,
starlight, sunlight &c (luminary) 432; daylight, broad daylight,
noontide light; noontide, noonday, noonday sun.
glow &c v.; glimmering &c v.; glint; play of light, flood of
light; phosphorescence, lambent flame.
flush, halo, glory, nimbus, aureola.
spark, scintilla; facula; sparkling &c v.; emication†,
scintillation, flash, blaze, coruscation, fulguration†; flame &c (fire)
382; lightning, levin†, ignis fatuus [Lat.], &c (luminary) 423.
luster, sheen, shimmer, reflexion [Brit.], reflection; gloss,
tinsel, spangle, brightness, brilliancy, splendor; effulgence,
refulgence; fulgor†, fulgidity†; dazzlement†, resplendence,
transplendency†; luminousness &c adj.; luminosity; lucidity; renitency†,
nitency†; radiance, radiation; irradiation, illumination.
actinic rays, actinism; Roentgen-ray, Xray; photography,
heliography; photometer &c 445.
[Science of light] optics; photology†, photometry; dioptrics†,
catoptrics†.
[Distribution of light] chiaroscuro, clairobscur†, clear obscure,
breadth, light and shade, black and white, tonality.
reflection, refraction, dispersion; refractivity.
V. shine, glow, glitter; glister, glisten; twinkle, gleam; flare, flare
up; glare, beam, shimmer, glimmer, flicker, sparkle, scintillate,
coruscate, flash, blaze; be bright &c adj.; reflect light, daze,
dazzle, bedazzle, radiate, shoot out beams; fulgurate.
clear up, brighten.
lighten, enlighten; levin†; light, light up; irradiate, shine upon;
give out a light, hang out a light; cast light upon, cast light in,
throw light upon, throw light in, shed light upon, shed luster upon;
illume†, illumine, illuminate; relume†, strike a light; kindle &c (set
fire to) 384.
Adj. shining &c v.; luminous, luminiferous†; lucid, lucent, luculent†,
lucific†, luciferous; light, lightsome; bright, vivid, splendent†,
nitid†, lustrous, shiny, beamy†, scintillant†, radiant, lambent; sheen,
sheeny; glossy, burnished, glassy, sunny, orient, meridian; noonday,
tide; cloudless, clear; unclouded, unobscured†.
gairish†, garish; resplendent, transplendent†; refulgent,
effulgent; fulgid†, fulgent†; relucent†, splendid, blazing, in a blaze,
ablaze, rutilant†, meteoric, phosphorescent; aglow.
bright as silver; light as day, bright as day, light as noonday,
bright as noonday, bright as the sun at noonday.
actinic; photogenic, graphic; heliographic; heliophagous†.
Phr. a day for gods to stoop and men to soar [Tennyson]; dark with
excessive bright [Milton].