dight

comparative dighter · superlative dightest

1. archaicrareAdorned, decorated, or furnished (with); dressed, arrayed, or decked out.

   […]the veil lifted and discovered beneath it fifty horsemen, ravening lions to the sight, in steel armour dight.

   1885, Richard F. Burton, chapter XII, in The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, volume I, The Burton Club, page 114

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   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

   […]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 cheek 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

present singular third person dights · participle present dighting · participle past dighted · past dighted

1. obsoletetransitiveTo deal with; to handle.
2. archaictransitiveTo adorn, decorate or furnish; to dress, array, or deck out.

   Come, Colin, dight your cheeks and baniſh care

   1776, Ramsay, Allan, Poems on Several Occasions, volume 1, Aberdeen: J. Boyle, page 176

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   […]It sways upon a billow foam-befrilled, / Dighted with precious gems[…]

   1898, Florence G. Attenborough, "An Opium Dream"

   Synonyms: fit out, kit out, clothe, don, put on, accouter, address, apparel

3. archaictransitiveTo make ready; to prepare

   Do thou dight thee a twenty-banked ship right good

   1887, Morris, William, The Odyssey of Homer: Done Into English Verse, volume I, London: Reeves & Turner, page 11

1. obsoletetransitivesuitably, appropriately, properly

   Synonyms: dightly