[f. LIGHTEN v.2 + -ER1.] One who lightens or illuminates; an illuminator; one who flashes lightning.
1382. Wyclif, Prov. xxix. 13. The pore and the creaunsour metten togidere; of either the liȝtnere is the Lord.
1513. Douglas, Æneis, I. Prol. 63. Phebus lychtnar of the planetis all.
1587. Golding, De Mornay, ii. 20. The same Sunne is the lightner of our eyes.
1678. Cudworth, Intell. Syst., I. iv. § 32. 482. The Thunderer and Lightner.
1898. Academy, 26 Nov., 337/1. Aryan speech could express agents only—rainers, not rain; lighteners, not lightning.
