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

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

Illuminated :: Illuminated (imp. & p. p.) of Illuminat.

Illuminer :: Illuminer (n.) One who, or that which, illuminates..

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

Obscure :: Obscure (superl.) Covered over, shaded, or darkened; destitute of light; imperfectly illuminated; dusky; dim..

Spectrum :: Spectrum (n.) A luminous appearance, or an image seen after the eye has been exposed to an intense light or a strongly illuminated object. When the object is colored, the image appears of the complementary color, as a green image seen after viewing a red wafer lying on white paper. Called also ocular spectrum..

Wane :: Wane (n.) The decrease of the illuminated part of the moon to the eye of a spectator.

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..

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

Clarify :: Clarify (v. t.) To make clear; to free from obscurities; to brighten or illuminate.

Full :: Full (v. i.) To become full or wholly illuminated; as, the moon fulls at midnight..

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.

Wane :: Wane (v. i.) To be diminished; to decrease; -- contrasted with wax, and especially applied to the illuminated part of the moon..

Illumination :: Illumination (v. t.) That which is illuminated, as a house; also, an ornamented book or manuscript..

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..

Twilight :: Twilight (a.) Imperfectly illuminated; shaded; obscure.

Illuminate :: Illuminate (v. t.) To adorn, as a book or page with borders, initial letters, or miniature pictures in colors and gold, as was done in manuscripts of the Middle Ages..

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

Irradiate :: Irradiate (a.) Illuminated; irradiated.

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