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Reillumination :: Reillumination (n.) The act or process of enlightening again.

Illumination :: Illumination (v. t.) That which illuminates or gives light; brightness; splendor; especially, intellectual light or knowledge..

Oil :: Oil (n.) Any one of a great variety of unctuous combustible substances, not miscible with water; as, olive oil, whale oil, rock oil, etc. They are of animal, vegetable, or mineral origin and of varied composition, and they are variously used for food, for solvents, for anointing, lubrication, illumination, etc. By extension, any substance of an oily consistency; as, oil of vitriol..

Shade :: Shade (v. t.) To shelter or screen by intercepting the rays of light; to keep off illumination from.

Lumination :: Lumination (n.) Illumination.

Phase :: Phase (n.) A particular appearance or state in a regularly recurring cycle of changes with respect to quantity of illumination or form of enlightened disk; as, the phases of the moon or planets. See Illust. under Moon..

Illuminating :: Illuminating (a.) Giving or producing light; used for illumination.

Irradiation :: Irradiation (n.) Fig.: Mental light or illumination.

Ligroin :: Ligroin (n.) A trade name applied somewhat indefinitely to some of the volatile products obtained in refining crude petroleum. It is a complex and variable mixture of several hydrocarbons, generally boils below 170¡ Fahr., and is more inflammable than safe kerosene. It is used as a solvent, as a carburetant for air gas, and for illumination in special lamps..

Illumination :: Illumination (n.) Adornment of books and manuscripts with colored illustrations. See Illuminate, v. t., 3..

Padella :: Padella (n.) A large cup or deep saucer, containing fatty matter in which a wick is placed, -- used for public illuminations, as at St. Peter's, in Rome. Called also padelle..

Wick :: Wick (n.) A bundle of fibers, or a loosely twisted or braided cord, tape, or tube, usually made of soft spun cotton threads, which by capillary attraction draws up a steady supply of the oil in lamps, the melted tallow or wax in candles, or other material used for illumination, in small successive portions, to be burned..

Sunshine :: Sunshine (n.) Anything which has a warming and cheering influence like that of the rays of the sun; warmth; illumination; brightness.

Irradiation :: Irradiation (n.) Illumination; irradiance; brilliancy.

Lightness :: Lightness (n.) Illumination, or degree of illumination; as, the lightness of a room..

Illumination :: Illumination (n.) Festive decoration of houses or buildings with lights.

Illumination :: Illumination (v. t.) That which is illuminated, as a house; also, an ornamented book or manuscript..

Cosmorama :: Cosmorama (n.) An exhibition in which a series of views in various parts of the world is seen reflected by mirrors through a series of lenses, with such illumination, etc., as will make the views most closely represent reality..

Theosophy :: Theosophy (n.) Any system of philosophy or mysticism which proposes to attain intercourse with God and superior spirits, and consequent superhuman knowledge, by physical processes, as by the theurgic operations of some ancient Platonists, or by the chemical processes of the German fire philosophers; also, a direct, as distinguished from a revealed, knowledge of God, supposed to be attained by extraordinary illumination; especially, a direct insight into the processes of the divine mind, and the

Penumbra :: Penumbra (n.) The shadow cast, in an eclipse, where the light is partly, but not wholly, cut off by the intervening body; the space of partial illumination between the umbra, or perfect shadow, on all sides, and the full light..

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