Definition of "dight"

dight

/daɪt/

verb
third-person singular simple present dights, present participle dighting, simple past and past participle dight or dighted
1. (obsolete, transitive) To deal with, handle.
2. (obsolete, transitive) To dispose, put (in a given state or condition).
3. (archaic, transitive, of facial features) To be formed or composed (of).
  Quotations
  […] nor is there found, in sea or on land, a sweeter or pleasanter of gifts than she; for she is prime in comeliness and seemlihead of face and symmetrical shape of perfect grace; her check is ruddy dight, her brow flower white, her teeth gem-bright, her eyes blackest black and whitest white, her hips of heavy weight, her waist slight and her favour exquisite.
  1885, Richard F. Burton, The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night
4. (archaic, transitive) To dress, array; to adorn.
  Quotations
  Right against the eastern gate, / Where the great sun begins his state, / Robed in flames, and amber light, / The clouds in thousand liveries dight […].
  1645, John Milton, L'Allegro
  After an hour or so the veil lifted and discovered beneath it fifty horsemen, ravening lions to the sight, in steel armour dight. We observed them straightly, and lo! they were cutters-off of the highway, wild as wild Arabs.
  1885, Richard F. Burton, chapter XII, in The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, volume I, The Burton Club, page 114
5. (archaic, transitive) To make ready, prepare.
adjective
1. (obsolete) Disposed; adorned.
adverb
1. (obsolete) Finely.

Definition of "dight"

dight

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