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bight
English
Etymology
From Middle English bight, bi?t, by?t (also bought, bowght, bou?t, see bought), from Old English byht (“bend, angle, corner; bay, bight”), from Proto-Germanic *buhtiz (“bend, curve”), from Proto-Indo-European *b??g?- (“to bend”). Cognate with Scots bicht (“bight”), Dutch bocht (“bend, curve”), Low German Bucht (“bend, bay”), German Bucht (“bay, bight”), Danish bugt (“bay”), Icelandic bugða (“curve”), Albanian butë (“soft, flabby”) . Compare bought.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ba?t/
- Rhymes: -a?t
- Homophones: bite, by't, byte
Noun
bight (plural bights)
- A corner, bend, or angle; a hollow
- the bight of a horse's knee
- the bight of an elbow
- 1905, Robert Louis Stevenson, Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes, page 166
- I spied a bight of meadow some way below the roadway in an angle of the river.
- An area of sea lying between two promontories, larger than a bay, wider than a gulf
- (geography) A bend or curve in a coastline, river, or other geographical feature.
- A curve in a rope
Related terms
- Bight of Benin
- Bight of Biafra
- German Bight
- Great Australian Bight
- New York Bight
Translations
See also
- Appendix:Parts of the knot
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dight
English
Etymology
From Middle English dighten, dihten, (also dyten, from whence dite), from Old English dihtan, dihtian (“to set in order; dispose; arrange; appoint; direct; compose”), from Proto-Germanic *diht?n? (“to compose; invent”), of disputed origin. Possibly from a derivative of Proto-Germanic *d?kan? (“to arrange; create; perform”), from Proto-Indo-European *d?ey?-, *d?ey??- (“to knead; shape; mold; build”), influenced by Latin dict?re; or perhaps from Latin dict?re (“to dictate”) itself. See dictate; and also parallel formations in German dichten, Dutch dichten, Swedish dikta.
Pronunciation
- (US, UK) IPA(key): /da?t/
- (Canada) IPA(key): [d??t]
- Rhymes: -a?t
Verb
dight (third-person singular simple present dights, present participle dighting, simple past and past participle dight or dighted)
- (obsolete, transitive) To deal with, handle.
- (obsolete, transitive) To have sexual intercourse with.
- 1387-1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, The Manciple's Prologue:
- Ne telleth nevere no man in youre lyf
- How that another man hath dight his wyf;
- 1387-1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, The Manciple's Prologue:
- (obsolete, transitive) To dispose, put (in a given state or condition).
- (obsolete, transitive) To compose, make.
- 14thc., Anonymous, The Chester Mystery Plays, Noah's Flood:
- Japhet's Wife: And I will gather chippes here / To make a fyer for you in feare, / And for to dighte your dinnere / Agayne you come in.
- 14thc., Anonymous, The Chester Mystery Plays, Noah's Flood:
- (archaic, transitive, of facial features) To be formed or composed (of).
- 1885, Richard F. Burton, The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night:
- […] nor is there found, in sea or on land, a sweeter or pleasanter of gifts than she; for she is prime in comeliness and seemlihead of face and symmetrical shape of perfect grace; her check is ruddy dight, her brow flower white, her teeth gem-bright, her eyes blackest black and whitest white, her hips of heavy weight, her waist slight and her favour exquisite.
- 1885, Richard F. Burton, The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night:
- (archaic, transitive) To furnish, equip.
- (archaic, transitive) To dress, array; to adorn.
- (archaic, transitive) To make ready, prepare.
Synonyms
- (to have sexual intercourse): bed, feague, lie with; see also Thesaurus:copulate with
- (to furnish): apparel, fit out, kit out
- (to dress, array, adorn): clothe, don, put on; see also Thesaurus:clothe
Derived terms
- dighter
- adight
- bedight
- benedight
- misdight
- maledight
- overdight
Adjective
dight
- (obsolete) Disposed; adorned.
Adverb
dight
- (obsolete) Finely.
- Synonym: dightly
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Etymology
From Middle English dighten, from Old English dihtan, from Proto-Germanic *diht?n?.
Verb
dight
- adorned, dressed
References
- Jacob Poole (1867) , William Barnes, editor, A glossary, with some pieces of verse, of the old dialect of the English colony in the baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, J. Russell Smith, ?ISBN
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