ROGET'S THESAURUS OF ENGLISH WORDS AND PHRASES ...

spark, scintilla; facula; sparkling &c v.; emication † , scintillation, flash, blaze,
coruscation, fulguration † ; flame &c (fire) 382; lightning, levin † , ignis fatuus [Lat.], &c
(luminary) 423.
luster, sheen, shimmer, reflexion [Brit.], reflection; gloss, tinsel, spangle, brightness,
brilliancy, splendor; effulgence, refulgence; fulgor † , fulgidity † ; dazzlement † ,
resplendence, transplendency † ; luminousness &c adj.; luminosity; lucidity; renitency † ,
nitency † ; radiance, radiation; irradiation, illumination.
actinic rays, actinism; Roentgen-ray, Xray; photography, heliography; photometer &c
445.
[Science of light] optics; photology † , photometry; dioptrics † , catoptrics † .
[Distribution of light] chiaroscuro, clairobscur † , clear obscure, breadth, light and
shade, black and white, tonality.
reflection, refraction, dispersion; refractivity.
V. shine, glow, glitter; glister, glisten; twinkle, gleam; flare, flare up; glare, beam,
shimmer, glimmer, flicker, sparkle, scintillate, coruscate, flash, blaze; be bright &c adj.;
reflect light, daze, dazzle, bedazzle, radiate, shoot out beams; fulgurate.
clear up, brighten.
lighten, enlighten; levin † ; light, light up; irradiate, shine upon; give out a light, hang
out a light; cast light upon, cast light in, throw light upon, throw light in, shed light upon,
shed luster upon; illume † , illumine, illuminate; relume † , strike a light; kindle &c (set fire
to) 384.
Adj. shining &c v.; luminous, luminiferous † ; lucid, lucent, luculent † , lucific † , luciferous;
light, lightsome; bright, vivid, splendent † , nitid † , lustrous, shiny, beamy † , scintillant † ,
radiant, lambent; sheen, sheeny; glossy, burnished, glassy, sunny, orient, meridian;
noonday, tide; cloudless, clear; unclouded, unobscured † .
gairish † , garish; resplendent, transplendent † ; refulgent, effulgent; fulgid † , fulgent † ;
relucent † , splendid, blazing, in a blaze, ablaze, rutilant † , meteoric, phosphorescent; aglow.
bright as silver; light as day, bright as day, light as noonday, bright as noonday, bright
as the sun at noonday.
actinic; photogenic, graphic; heliographic; heliophagous † .
Phr. a day for gods to stoop and men to soar [Tennyson]; dark with excessive bright
[Milton].
421. Darkness -- N. darkness &c adj., absence of light; blackness &c (dark color) 431;
obscurity, gloom, murk; dusk &c (dimness) 422.
Cimmerian darkness † , Stygian darkness, Egyptian darkness; night; midnight; dead of
night, witching hour of night, witching time of night; blind man's holiday; darkness
visible, darkness that can be felt; palpable obscure; Erebus [Lat.]; the jaws of darkness
[Midsummer Night's Dream]; sablevested night [Milton].
shade, shadow, umbra, penumbra; sciagraphy † .
obscuration; occultation, adumbration, obumbration † ; obtenebration † , offuscation † ,
caligation † ; extinction; eclipse, total eclipse; gathering of the clouds.
shading; distribution of shade; chiaroscuro &c (light) 420.
noctivagation † .
[perfectly black objects] black body; hohlraum [Phys.]; black hole; dark star; dark
matter, cold dark matter.