[pseudo-archaic pple. of LIGHT v.2] = LIGHTED. Usually in comb. e.g., dim-, gray-, red-litten.
a. 1849. Poe, Haunted Palace, vi. And travellers now within that valley, Through red-litten windows, see Vast forms that move fantastically To a discordant melody.
1861. Lytton & Fane, Tannhäuser, 72. And salvum me fac Domine they sung Sonorous, in the ghostly going out Of the red-litten eve along the land.
1870. Morris, Earthly Par., III. 9. After the weary tossing of the night And close dim-litten chamber.
1896. Crockett, Cleg Kelly, 407. Sal Kavannah moved into the gray-litten space.
1899. M. Hewlett, in Blackw. Mag., Feb., 319/1. It [yellow hair] sprayed out like a cloud of litten gold.