dight
/dʌɪt
/adjective
archaic Clothed or equipped.Oft he had seene her faire, but never so faire dight.
verb [with object] literary
1Make ready for a use or purpose; prepare.This palace was hung with fine tapestry and arrasses of silk and dighted with fine glass windows in all directions....
- But the next spring he dights his ship for Denmark, and there he was for another winter, and was well beholden withal, though tidings be not told thereof.
- In the gospel of Saint Luke it is written, that when our Lord was in the house of Martha her sister, all the time that Martha made her busy about the dighting of His meat, Mary her sister sat at His feet.
1.1Scottish & Northern English Wipe clean or dry: take a cloth and dight it up
1.2Scottish & Northern English Winnow (corn).
Origin
Middle English: past participle of archaic dight 'order, deal with', based on Latin dictare 'compose (in language), order'. The wide and varied use of the word in Middle English is reflected dialectally.
Rhymes
- golden goal
- golden goose
- golden groundsel
- golden-haired
- golden handcuffs
- golden handshake
- golden hello
- Golden Hind
- Golden Horde
- Golden Horn
- golden hour
- golden jubilee
- goldenly
- golden mean
- golden mole
- golden number
- golden oldie
- golden orfe
- golden oriole
- golden parachute
- golden perch
- golden plover
- golden ragwort
- golden raisin
- golden retriever