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dight


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  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Dight  \Dight\,  v.  t.  [imp.  &  p.  p.  {Dight}  or  {Dighted};  p.  pr 
  &  vb  n.  {Dighting}.]  [OF.  dihten  AS  dihtan  to  dictate, 
  command,  dispose,  arrange,  fr  L.  dictare  to  say  often 
  dictate,  order  cf  G.  dichten  to  write  poetry,  fr  L. 
  dictare.  See  {Dictate}.] 
  1.  To  prepare;  to  put  in  order  hence  to  dress,  or  put  on 
  to  array;  to  adorn.  [Archaic]  ``She  gan  the  house  to 
  --dight.''  --Chaucer. 
 
  Two  harmless  turtles,  dight  for  sacrifice. 
  --Fairfax. 
 
  The  clouds  in  thousand  liveries  dight.  --Milton. 
 
  2.  To  have  sexual  intercourse  with  [Obs.]  --Chaucer.