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Shade :: Shade (n.) The darker portion of a picture; a less illuminated part. See Def. 1, above..

Illuminant :: Illuminant (n.) That which illuminates or affords light; as, gas and petroleum are illuminants..

Gloomy :: Gloomy (superl.) Imperfectly illuminated; dismal through obscurity or darkness; dusky; dim; clouded; as, the cavern was gloomy..

Enlighten :: Enlighten (v. t.) To supply with light; to illuminate; as, the sun enlightens the earth..

Reflex :: Reflex (n.) Reflection; the light reflected from an illuminated surface to one in shade.

Lighten :: Lighten (v. t.) To make light or clear; to light; to illuminate; as, to lighten an apartment with lamps or gas; to lighten the streets..

Light :: Light (n.) The manner in which the light strikes upon a picture; that part of a picture which represents those objects upon which the light is supposed to fall; the more illuminated part of a landscape or other scene; -- opposed to shade. Cf. Chiaroscuro.

Illuminate :: Illuminate (v. t.) To make plain or clear; to dispel the obscurity to by knowledge or reason; to explain; to elucidate; as, to illuminate a text, a problem, or a duty..

Illuminative :: Illuminative (a.) Tending to illuminate or illustrate; throwing light; illustrative.

Terminator :: Terminator (n.) The dividing line between the illuminated and the unilluminated part of the moon.

Rayless :: Rayless (a.) Destitute of rays; hence, dark; not illuminated; blind; as, a rayless sky; rayless eyes..

Relumine :: Relumine (v. t.) To illuminate again.

Illuminate :: Illuminate (n.) One who enlightened; esp., a pretender to extraordinary light and knowledge..

Illumination :: Illumination (n.) The act of illuminating, or supplying with light; the state of being illuminated..

Photodrome :: Photodrome (n.) An apparatus consisting of a large wheel with spokes, which when turning very rapidly is illuminated by momentary flashes of light passing through slits in a rotating disk. By properly timing the succession of flashes the wheel is made to appear to be motionless, or to rotate more or less slowly in either direction..

Belight :: Belight (v. t.) To illuminate.

Illuminate :: Illuminate (a.) Enlightened.

Half-moon :: Half-moon (n.) The moon at the quarters, when half its disk appears illuminated..

Eclipse :: Eclipse (n.) An interception or obscuration of the light of the sun, moon, or other luminous body, by the intervention of some other body, either between it and the eye, or between the luminous body and that illuminated by it. A lunar eclipse is caused by the moon passing through the earth's shadow; a solar eclipse, by the moon coming between the sun and the observer. A satellite is eclipsed by entering the shadow of its primary. The obscuration of a planet or star by the moon or a planet, thoug

Illume :: Illume (v. t.) To throw or spread light upon; to make light or bright; to illuminate; to illumine.

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