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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
dight .
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Examples
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Then Beowulf dights him and leaps into the water, and is a day's while reaching the bottom.
The Tale of Beowulf Sometime King of the Folk of the Weder Geats Anonymous
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She dights her grunzie wi 'a hushion; [wipes, snout, stocking-leg]
Robert Burns How To Know Him William Allan Neilson 1907
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I'm jealous of the very clothes she dights upon her side, For that upon her body soft and delicate they've lain;
The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume III Anonymous 1879
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So a man's honour be unstained and free of all impair, Lo, every garment that he dights on him is fit and fair.
The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume III Anonymous 1879
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Night wanes, and heaven dights her for the kiss of sun and earth;
The House of the Wolfings William Morris 1865
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Strange is the charm which dights her brows like Luna's disk that shine, ii.
Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855
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But even aside from such possibilities, the digital dights management technology employed by ebook readers such as the Kindle presents other concerns.
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18 "With which his hideous club aloft he dights"—one of the odd Victorian features of the OED is its deferential inclusion of hapax mistakes by Great Writers, which have no more linguistic significance than similar errors made by the man on the Clapham omnibus; I also want to point out definition 4.b.
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Strange is the charm which dights her brows like Luna’s disk that shine, ii.
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4 With which his hideous club aloft he dights, hideous > terrific; immense; odious dights > prepares; _hence: _ raises
The Faerie Queene — Volume 01 Edmund Spenser
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