Definitions for dight

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Spelling: [dahyt]
IPA: /daɪt/

Dight is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 42 anagrams from letters in dight (dghit).

Definitions for dight

verb (used with object)

  1. Archaic. to dress; adorn.

Origin of dight

before 1000; Middle English dighten, Old English dihtan to arrange, compose Latin dīctāre (see dictate); cognate with German dichten

Examples for dight

She nodded yeasay, and began by seeming to dight the craft for return.

She was not dight to go nor ride She had no joy of the summer-tide.

Rhymes like dight, be-taught, draught, right can by no means be admitted.

dight is the participle of the verb to dight, meaning to adorn.

Ne'er kiss a man's wife, or dight his knife, for he'll do baith after you.

If a man will marry, let him marry, but let no patient Griselda gin the hous to dight for the newe lady.

But lo, now were they dight in fresh and fair raiment and gleaming war-array.

Chaucer never rimes -ight with -yt, as in the case of dight, delyt; Rom.

Its storied windows are among the richest ever dight by medival guildsmen.

The morning of the Sabbath day—in dight Of many a hallowed strain it comes.

Word Value for dight
Scrable

10

Words with friends

10

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