<span class="searchmatch">stricken</span> <span class="searchmatch">a</span> <span class="searchmatch">light</span> (rare) past participle of strike <span class="searchmatch">a</span> <span class="searchmatch">light</span>...
struck a light, past participle struck <span class="searchmatch">a</span> <span class="searchmatch">light</span> or (rare) <span class="searchmatch">stricken</span> <span class="searchmatch">a</span> <span class="searchmatch">light</span>) (idiomatic) To create <span class="searchmatch">a</span> flame (using <span class="searchmatch">a</span> match, flint, etc.). 1681, Nahum Tate...
darkness, but had taken only <span class="searchmatch">a</span> few uncertain steps when, of <span class="searchmatch">a</span> sudden, she stopped short and for <span class="searchmatch">a</span> little stood like <span class="searchmatch">a</span> <span class="searchmatch">stricken</span> thing, quite motionless save...
darkness, but had taken only <span class="searchmatch">a</span> few uncertain steps when, of <span class="searchmatch">a</span> sudden, she stopped short and for <span class="searchmatch">a</span> little stood like <span class="searchmatch">a</span> <span class="searchmatch">stricken</span> thing, quite motionless save...
IPA(key): /ˈl(j)uːsnt/ (US) IPA(key): /ˈlus(<span class="searchmatch">ə</span>)nt/ lucent (comparative more lucent, superlative most lucent) Emitting <span class="searchmatch">light</span>; shining, luminous. 1922 (date written;...
blindfelt, yblynfeld, variants of y-blyndfalled, blyndfelled, etc. ("<span class="searchmatch">stricken</span> blind, blindfolded"), past participle of Middle English blindfellen (“to...
darkness, but had taken only <span class="searchmatch">a</span> few uncertain steps when, of <span class="searchmatch">a</span> sudden, she stopped short and for <span class="searchmatch">a</span> little stood like <span class="searchmatch">a</span> <span class="searchmatch">stricken</span> thing, quite motionless save...
and the people, and the Sidonian fathers, and your city.” (Anna, grief-<span class="searchmatch">stricken</span>, speaks in hyperbole to Dido. Syncopation: “exstīnxtī” for “exstīnx[is]tī...
darkness, but had taken only <span class="searchmatch">a</span> few uncertain steps when, of <span class="searchmatch">a</span> sudden, she stopped short and for <span class="searchmatch">a</span> little stood like <span class="searchmatch">a</span> <span class="searchmatch">stricken</span> thing, quite motionless save...
Pope of Rome on his throne, and she <span class="searchmatch">a</span> cardinal kneeling at his feet, and giving him incense. (obsolete) Terror-<span class="searchmatch">stricken</span>. See also Thesaurus:frightening awfulization...