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Ight vs Dight - What's the difference?

ight | dight |

As a noun ight

is (obsolete) (l).

As a verb dight is

(obsolete|transitive) to deal with, handle.

ight

English

Noun

(head)
  • (obsolete) (l)

    • References

    * “ Ight]” listed on page 30 of volume V (H–K), § ii (I) of '' [1st ed., 1901]
    ??Ight,''' var. ''eighte'', Aught ''sb.''¹?''Obs.'', possession.?[¶]?'''1390 Gower ''Conf.'' II. 378 This Priamus had in his ight [''MS. Fairfax     3 yhte A wife and Hecuba she hight. * “ ight]” listed in the Oxford English Dictionary [2nd ed., 1989

    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