alight

from The Century Dictionary.

• Provided with light; lighted up; illuminated.
• To make light or less heavy; lighten; alleviate.
• To get down or descend, as from horseback or from a carriage; dismount.
• To settle or lodge after descending: as, a bird alights on a tree; snow alights on a roof.
• To fall (upon); come (upon) accidentally, or without design; light: as, to alight on a particular passage in a book, or on a particular fact; to alight on a rare plant.
• To light; light up; illuminate.
• To set light to; light (a fire, lamp, etc.).

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• intransitive verb To spring down, get down, or descend, as from on horseback or from a carriage; to dismount.
• intransitive verb To descend and settle, lodge, rest, or stop
• intransitive verb rare To come or chance (upon).
• adjective Lighted; lighted up; in a flame.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

• verb transitive To make light or less heavy; lighten; alleviate.
• verb intransitive To spring down, get down, or descend, as from on horseback or from a carriage; to dismount.
• verb intransitive, with on To descend and settle, lodge, rest, or stop.
• verb intransitive To come or chance (upon).
• verb transitive To light; light up; illuminate.
• verb transitive To set light to; light.
• adjective Lit, on fire, switched on.
• adjective figuratively Lit; on fire, burning.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

• verb to come to rest, settle
• adjective lighted up by or as by fire or flame
• verb come down