Noah Webster's Dictionary 1. (v. i.) To spring down, get down, or descend, as from on horseback or from a carriage; to dismount. 2. (v. i.) To descend and settle, lodge, rest, or stop; as, a flying bird alights on a tree; snow alights on a roof. 3. (v. i.) To come or chance (upon). 4. (a.) Lighted; lighted up; in a flame.

Multi-Version Concordance Alight (3 Occurrences) Luke 12:35 "Have your girdles on, and let your lamps be alight; (WEY) Proverbs 26:2 As the sparrow in her wandering, as the swallow in her flying, So the curse that is causeless alighteth not. (Root in ASV NAS RSV) Isaiah 50:11 See, all you who make a fire, arming yourselves with burning branches: go in the flame of your fire, and among the branches you have put a light to. This will you have from my hand, you will make your bed in sorrow. (See RSV)