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Dight vs Pight - What's the difference?

dight | pight |

As verbs the difference between dight and pight

is that dight is (obsolete|transitive) to deal with, handle while pight is (obsolete) (pitch).

dight

English

Verb

  • (obsolete) To deal with, handle.
  • (obsolete) To have sexual intercourse with.
  • (obsolete) To dispose, put (in a given state or condition).
  • (obsolete) 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.
  • (archaic) To furnish, equip.
  • *:
  • *:And whan balyn was wepenles he ranne in to a chamber for to seke somme wepen / and soo fro chamber to chamber / and no wepen he coude fynde / and alweyes kynge Pellam after hym / And at the last he entryd in to a chambyr that was merueillously wel dy?te and rychely
  • (archaic) To dress, array; to adorn.
  • *1645 , John Milton, L'Allegro :
  • *:Right against the eastern gate, / Where the great sun begins his state, / Robed in flames, and amber light, / The clouds in thousand liveries dight .
  • (archaic) To make ready, prepare.

    • Derived terms

    *bedight

    pight

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (obsolete) (pitch)
  • *1634 , , "New Heaven, New War"
  • *:My soul, with Christ join thou in fight;
  • *:Stick to the tents that He hath pight ;
  • *1819 , , Otho the Great , Act V, Scene V, verses 163-165
    • I will
    When I have finish’d it — now! now! I’m pight ,
    Tight-footed for the deed !