Dight

Quick meaning: Dight is an adjective meaning (rare, archaic) Adorned, decorated, or furnished (with); dressed, arrayed, or decked out.

Meaning

(rare, archaic) Adorned, decorated, or furnished (with); dressed, arrayed, or decked out.

More Meanings

1. (obsolete) To deal with; to handle.
2. (archaic) To adorn, decorate or furnish; to dress, array, or deck out.
3. (archaic) To make ready; to prepare.
4. (obsolete) Finely.

Example Sentences

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

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

Right against the eastern gate, / Where the great sun begins his state, / Robed in flames, and amber light, / The clouds in thousand liveries dight[…].

[…]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.

Word Forms

• dighter
• dightest
• dights
• dighting
• dighted

Synonyms for dight

Depending on context, synonyms include apparel, fit out, clothe, don, put on.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include clad, clothed, delt, dicker, deale, dirk.

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