uplight
verbEtymology From up- + light. Compare Saterland Frisian apljuchte (“to illuminate”), West Frisian opljochtsje (“to illuminate”), Dutch oplichten (“to illuminate”), German Low German upluchten, uplüchten (“to illuminate”), German aufleuchten (“to illuminate”).
1
To light up, illuminate.
- Save in the withered woods alone, where flashing bolts from Heaven Uplit the scene, and poured the fire, amid the branches riven.1858, The Knickerbocker, volume 51, page 80:
2
To illuminate from below.