Definitions for dights

dights dight

Spelling: [dahyt]
IPA: /daɪt/

Dights is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 90 anagrams from letters in dights (dghist).

Definitions for dights

verb (used with object)

  1. Archaic. to dress; adorn.

Origin of dights

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

Examples for dights

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Word Value for dights
Scrable

10

Words with friends

10

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