relume

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Huntress, arrowy to pursue, In and out of woody glen, Under cliffs that tear the blue, Over torrent, over fen, She and forest, where she skims Feathery, darken and relume: Those are her white-lightning limbs Cleaving loads of leafy gloom.

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  1. transitive verb To make bright or clear again; illuminate again.

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  1. re- + (il)lume.

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  1. from Old French relumer, from Latin reluminare, light up again: see relumine.
 

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/rəˈljum/
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