illume

IPA: ɪɫˈum

(archaic, usually poetic or figurative) To throw or spread light upon; to make light or bright.

Examples of "illume" in Sentences

Should be the light which streams here, to illume
To illume my lone path through the valley of death --
Should illume the sky with beauty; aged sires with heads of white,
That you probably seldom illume with the light of your beautiful face.
As Emily Dickinson once wrote, “Better an Ignius Fatuus than no illume at all”!
And that phosphorus fire -- the illume is what the forces call it -- puts that huge light right over the city.
At this period, missionaries were rife about Paris, and endeavored to re-illume the zeal of the faithful by public preachings in the churches.
Now, the only illume from the yellow eyes of alligators, the ghost wane of gases and thereafter, the last sounds of Pierrots echoed throughout the valleys.
(Illume is a slang term used for illumination mortar rounds that are used by both sides to turn the night into daytime.) It was quiet again until another illume went up and there was more shooting.
In service weapons that generate 45-60 ftlb of recoil are pump shotguns M870 or M500 w/the tactical slug or buckshot rds, M203 40mm grenade launchers especially when shooting illume rounds, and M82 or M107 .50 cal SASR.