lambent

Etymology
From, present participle of.

Adjective

 * 1) Brushing or flickering gently over a surface.
 * 2) * 1800, William Cowper, The Task, Book VI: "The Winter Walk at Noon", Poems, J. Johnson, page 232,
 * No foe to man / Lurks in the ſerpent now: the mother ſees, / And ſmiles to ſee, her infant's playful hand / Stretch'd forth to dally with the creſted worm, / To ſtroke his azure neck, or to receive / The lambent homage of his arrowy tongue.
 * 1) Glowing or luminous, but lacking heat.
 * 2) * 1697,, Aeneas,Book II, from The Works of Virgil:
 * [W]hile I held my son, in the short space
 * Betwixt our kisses and our last embrace;
 * Strange to relate, from young Iülus’ head
 * A lambent flame arose, which gently spread
 * Around his brows, and on his temples fed.
 * 1) * 1839, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Jonathan Birch (translator), Faust: A Tragedy, Black and Armstrong, page 127,
 * The Witch, with much ceremony, fills the basin. As FAUST is about to raise it to his lips, it emits a clear flame. MEPHISTOPHELES. Quick! quickly down with it!—no breathing time allowed! […] And does a lambent flame prevent thee quaff?
 * 1)  Exhibiting lightness or brilliance of wit; clever or witty without unkindness.
 * The Witch, with much ceremony, fills the basin. As FAUST is about to raise it to his lips, it emits a clear flame. MEPHISTOPHELES. Quick! quickly down with it!—no breathing time allowed! […] And does a lambent flame prevent thee quaff?
 * 1)  Exhibiting lightness or brilliance of wit; clever or witty without unkindness.
 * 1)  Exhibiting lightness or brilliance of wit; clever or witty without unkindness.
 * 1)  Exhibiting lightness or brilliance of wit; clever or witty without unkindness.
 * 1)  Exhibiting lightness or brilliance of wit; clever or witty without unkindness.

Translations

 * Bulgarian:, играещ (за пламък)
 * Polish:


 * Bulgarian: ,