dight — English Dictionary

Adjective

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

   Usage

   • Archaic
   • Rare

   Examples

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

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

   More examples (1)

   […]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.

Verb

1. To deal with; to handle.

   Usage

   • Obsolete
   • Transitive

2. To adorn, decorate or furnish; to dress, array, or deck out.

   Usage

   • Archaic
   • Transitive

   Synonyms

   fit outkit outclothedonput on

   Examples

   Come, Colin, dight your cheeks and baniſh care

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

3. To make ready; to prepare

   Usage

   • Archaic
   • Transitive

   Examples

   Do thou dight thee a twenty-banked ship right good

Adverb

1. suitably, appropriately, properly

   Usage

   • Obsolete
   • Transitive

   Synonyms

   dightly