Illuminant: alternatives and connections

Whatever supplies a want or affords ease, refreshment, or convenience; anything furnished which is desired or needful; -- often in the…

To give forth; to supply, yield, or produce as the natural result, fruit, or issue; as, grapes afford wine; olives afford oil; the ear…

Made or decorated after the fanciful style of the ornamentation in the Alhambra, which affords an unusually fine exhibition of Saracen…

A liquid consisting mainly of the lighter and more volatile hydrocarbons of petroleum or kerosene oil, used as a solvent and for clean…

The deeper part of a river, harbor, strait, etc., where the main current flows, or which affords the best and safest passage for vesse…

The bridge piece which affords a bearing for the pivot of a balance in a clock or watch.

In yachts and other small vessels, a space lower than the rest of the deck, which affords easy access to the cabin.

Encouragement; solace; consolation in trouble; also, that which affords consolation.

That which affords convenience, advantage, or profit, especially in commerce, including everything movable that is bought and sold (ex…

A substance obtained from the residues of the distillation of petroleum, essentially the same as vaseline, but of somewhat stiffer con…

Destitute, or partially destitute, of light; not receiving, reflecting, or radiating light; wholly or partially black, or of some deep…

The light of day as opposed to the darkness of night; the light of the sun, as opposed to that of the moon or to artificial light.

The science of the refraction of light; that part of geometrical optics which treats of the laws of the refraction of light in passing…

That which is made of down, as a bed or pillow; that which affords ease and repose, like a bed of down

One who enlightens or illuminates; one who, or that which, communicates light to the eye, or clear views to the mind.

That which furnishes or affords food, especially for animals; pasture land.

That property which some transparent bodies have of producing at their surface, or within their substance, light different in color fr…

That which affords pleasure; satisfaction; enjoyment; fruition: delight.