dight
/dahyt/US // daɪt //UK // (daɪt) //
昏暗的,昏暗,昏昏欲睡,昏昏沉沉的
Definitions
v.有主动词 verb
- 1
dight or dight·ed, dight·ing.
- : Archaic. to dress; adorn.
Examples
Dight were her head and the crook all over with gold, and the bulwarks thereof were as high as on sea-faring ships.
We shall be hang'd anon, away good wenches, and have a care you dight things handsomly, I will look over you.
And there on the dais was a table dight with dainty meats and drinks, and the lady bade us thereto, and we sat to it.
Chaucer never rimes -ight with -yt, as in the case of dight, delyt; Rom.
But what would be Chartres, his spot of election for prayer, were it unsoftened by its storied windows richly dight?
Level 2Browse all words →