Lambent

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
lambent
    adj 1: softly bright or radiant; "a house aglow with lights";
           "glowing embers"; "lambent tongues of flame"; "the lucent
           moon"; "a sky luminous with stars" [syn: {aglow(p)},
           {lambent}, {lucent}, {luminous}]
from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Lambent \Lam"bent\, a. [L. lambens, -enlis, p. pr. of lambere to
   lick; akin to lap. See {Lap} to drink by licking.]
   1. Playing on the surface; touching lightly; gliding over. "A
      lambent flame." --Dryden. "A lambent style."
      --Beaconsfield.
      [1913 Webster]

   2. Twinkling or gleaming; fickering. "The lambent purity of
      the stars." --W. Irving.
      [1913 Webster]
from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
27 Moby Thesaurus words for "lambent":
      aflicker, barely touching, beaming, bickering, blinking, brilliant,
      dancing, effulgent, flashing, flickering, flickery, flicky,
      fluttering, fluttery, incandescent, lucent, luminous, lustrous,
      playing, playing lightly over, quivering, quivery, radiant,
      refulgent, stroboscopic, wavering, wavery
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