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Hights vs Dights - What's the difference?

hights | dights |

As verbs the difference between hights and dights

is that hights is (hight) while dights is (dight).

hights

English

Verb

(head)
  • (hight)

  • hight

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) .

    Verb

  • (archaic) To call, name.
  • (archaic) To be called or named.
  • Adjective

    (-)
  • (archaic) Called, named.
  • Etymology 2

    See height

    Anagrams

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    Alternative forms

    *highte

    dights

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (dight)

  • 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