lambent
\ LAM-buhnt \, adjective;
1.dealing lightly and gracefully with a subject; brilliantly playful: lambent wit .
2.running or moving lightly over a surface: lambent tongues of flame .
3.softly bright or radiant: a lambent light .
Quotes:
American Literature would surely be the poorer if the great Boston Brahmin had not enlivened it with his rich humor, his lambent wit and his sincere pathos…
-- William Lyon Phelps (1865–1943), edited by Harold Bloom, "Mark Twain," Mark Twain , 2009
The sea that night gleamed with the moon's lambent silver and drew to its surface many squids dazed and fascinated by the light.
-- Rachel Carson, "The Edge of the Sea," Life , Vol. 32, No. 15, 1952
Origin:
Lambent comes from the Latin term lambere meaning "to lick." It entered English in the mid-1600s.
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