To come to rest, settle.

synonyms: light, perch.

Roget 265: be quiescent etc. adj.; stand still, lie still; keep quiet, repose, hold the breath.    remain, stay; stand, lie to, ride at anchor, remain in situ, tarry, mark time; bring to, heave to, lay to; pull up, draw up; hold, halt; stop, stop short; rest, pause, anchor; cast to an anchor, come to an anchor; rest on one's oars; repose on one's laurels, take breath; stop etc. (discontinue) 142.    stagnate; quieta non movere [Lat.]; let alone; abide, rest and be thankful; keep within doors, stay at home, go to bed.    dwell etc. (be present) 186; settle etc. (be located) 184; alight etc. (arrive) 292; stick, stick fast; stand like a post; not stir a peg, not stir a step; be at a stand etc. n.. quell, becalm, hush, stay, lull to sleep, lay an embargo on.    ... show more

Roget 306: descend; go down, drop down, come down; fall, gravitate, drop, slip, slide, rappel, settle; plunge, plummet, crash; decline, set, sink, droop, come down a peg; slump.    dismount, alight, light, get down; swoop; stoop etc. 308; fall prostrate, precipitate oneself; let fall etc. 308.    tumble, trip, stumble, titubate^†, lurch, pitch, swag, topple, topple over, tumble over, topple down, tumble down; tilt, sprawl, plump down, come down a cropper.    ... show more

Roget 267: sail; put to sea etc. (depart) 293; take ship, get under way; set sail, spread sail, spread canvas; gather way, have way on; make sail, carry sail; plow the waves, plow the deep, plow the main, plow the ocean; walk the waters.    navigate, warp, luff^†, scud, boom, kedge; drift, course, cruise, coast; hug the shore, hug the land; circumnavigate.    ply the oar, row, paddle, pull, scull, punt, steam.    swim, float; buffet the waves, ride the storm, skim, effleurer [Fr.], dive, wade.    fly, be wafted, hover, soar, flutter, jet, orbit, rocket; take wing, take a flight, take off, ascend, blast off, land, alight; wing one's flight, wing one's way; aviate; parachute, jump, glide.    ... show more

Roget 292: arrive; get to, come to; come; reach, attain; come up with, come up to; overtake, make, fetch; complete etc. 729; join, rejoin.    light, alight, dismount; land, go ashore; debark, disembark; put in, put into; visit, cast anchor, pitch one's tent; sit down etc. (be located) 184; get to one's journey's end; make the land; be in at the death; come back, get back, come home, get home; return; come in etc. (ingress) 294; make one's appearance etc. (appear) 446; drop in; detrain, deplane; outspan; de-orbit.    come to hand; come at, come across; hit; come upon, light upon, pop upon, bounce upon, plump upon, burst upon, pitch upon; meet; encounter, rencounter^†; come in contact.    ... show more

Come down:
— The birds alighted.

synonym: climb down.

Lighted up by or as by fire or flame:
— Candles alight on the tables.

synonyms: ablaze, afire, aflame, aflare, on fire.

Roget 382: hot, warm, mild, genial, tepid, lukewarm, unfrozen; thermal, thermic; calorific; fervent, fervid; ardent; aglow.    sunny, torrid, tropical, estival^†, canicular^†, steamy; close, sultry, stifling, stuffy, suffocating, oppressive; reeking etc. v.; baking etc. 384.    red hot, white hot, smoking hot, burning etc. v.. hot, piping hot; like a furnace, like an oven; burning, hot as fire, hot as pepper; hot enough to roast an ox, hot enough to boil an egg.    fiery; incandescent, incalescent^†; candent^†, ebullient, glowing, smoking; live; on fire; dazzling etc. v.; in flames, blazing, in a blaze; alight, afire, ablaze; unquenched, unextinguished^†; smoldering; in a heat, in a glow, in a fever, in a perspiration, in a sweat; sudorific^†; sweltering, sweltered; blood hot, blood warm; warm as a toast, warm as wool.    volcanic, plutonic, igneous; isothermal^†, isothermic^†, isotheral^†.    ... show more