Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To put off, as ornaments or apparel.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb obsolete To put off; to lay aside, as a garment.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb obsolete, transitive To
take off (a piece of clothing).
Etymologies
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Examples
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And bends his bow to shoot the shaft shall find his string undight?
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The air they breathed with love, her locks undight.
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The air they breathed with love, her locks undight;
The Revolt of Islam 1901
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Bow down all beings between her hands * As she showeth charms with her veil undight.
Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855
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What shall the hapless archer do who when he fronts his foe * And bends his bow to shoot the shaft shall find his string undight?
Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855
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Would Heaven ye wot the whole I bear for love * Of you, with vitals clean for you undight!
Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855
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The air they breathed with love, her locks undight.
The Complete Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley — Volume 1 Percy Bysshe Shelley 1807
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The air they breathed with love, her locks undight.
The Complete Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley — Complete Percy Bysshe Shelley 1807
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5 From her fair head her fillet she undight, fillet > undight > unfastened
The Faerie Queene — Volume 01 Edmund Spenser
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