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To illuminate; to provide light for when it is dark.
"I used my torch to light the way home through the woods in the night."
To find by chance.
"I lit upon a rare book in a second-hand bookseller's."
To stop upon (of eyes or a glance); to notice
To alight; to land or come down.
"She fell out of the window but luckily lit on her feet."
To run or light (alight).
Little.
Little.
Colour; blee; dye; stain.
To colour; dye.
The body of all written works.
The collected creative writing of a nation, people, group or culture.
(usually preceded by the) All the papers, treatises etc. published in academic journals on a particular subject.
Written fiction of a high standard.
"However, even “literary” science fiction rarely qualifies as literature, because it treats characters as sets of traits rather than as fully realized human beings with unique life stories. —Adam Cadre, 2008"