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dight

(dīt)

tr.v. dight or dight·ed, dight·ing, dights Archaic

To dress; adorn.

[Middle English dighten, from Old English dihtan, to arrange, from Latin dictāre, to dictate, order; see dictate.]

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dight

(daɪt)

vb (tr) , dights, dighting, dight or dighted

(Military) to adorn or equip, as for battle

[Old English dihtan to compose, from Latin dictāre to dictate]

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dight

(daɪt)

v.t. dight dight•ed, dight•ing.

Archaic. to adorn.

[before 1000; Middle English; Old English dihtan to arrange, compose < Latin dīctāre (see dictate)]

dight

Past participle: dight/dighted
Gerund: dighting

Imperative
dight
dight

Present
I dight
you dight
he/she/it dights
we dight
you dight
they dight

Preterite
I dight/dighted
you dight/dighted
he/she/it dight/dighted
we dight/dighted
you dight/dighted
they dight/dighted

Present Continuous
I am dighting
you are dighting
he/she/it is dighting
we are dighting
you are dighting
they are dighting

Present Perfect
I have dight/dighted
you have dight/dighted
he/she/it has dight/dighted
we have dight/dighted
you have dight/dighted
they have dight/dighted

Past Continuous
I was dighting
you were dighting
he/she/it was dighting
we were dighting
you were dighting
they were dighting

Past Perfect
I had dight/dighted
you had dight/dighted
he/she/it had dight/dighted
we had dight/dighted
you had dight/dighted
they had dight/dighted

Future
I will dight
you will dight
he/she/it will dight
we will dight
you will dight
they will dight

Future Perfect
I will have dight/dighted
you will have dight/dighted
he/she/it will have dight/dighted
we will have dight/dighted
you will have dight/dighted
they will have dight/dighted

Future Continuous
I will be dighting
you will be dighting
he/she/it will be dighting
we will be dighting
you will be dighting
they will be dighting

Present Perfect Continuous
I have been dighting
you have been dighting
he/she/it has been dighting
we have been dighting
you have been dighting
they have been dighting

Future Perfect Continuous
I will have been dighting
you will have been dighting
he/she/it will have been dighting
we will have been dighting
you will have been dighting
they will have been dighting

Past Perfect Continuous
I had been dighting
you had been dighting
he/she/it had been dighting
we had been dighting
you had been dighting
they had been dighting

Conditional
I would dight
you would dight
he/she/it would dight
we would dight
you would dight
they would dight

Past Conditional
I would have dight/dighted
you would have dight/dighted
he/she/it would have dight/dighted
we would have dight/dighted
you would have dight/dighted
they would have dight/dighted

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"And how strange is this marvel, and how awful -- that to the one per- ception it is enchanted and dight in a base and shame- ful aspect; yet to the perception of the other it is not enchanted, hath suffered no change, but stands firm and stately still, girt with its moat and waving its ban- ners in the blue air from its towers.

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"So every spirit, as it is most pure, And hath in it the more of heavenly light, So it the fairer body doth procure To habit in, and it more fairly dight, With cheerful grace and amiable sight.

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In the Yarra catchment, the frequency of sightings generally increased in the downstream direction, with 7% of records obtained along the river and streams located upstream of Yarra Glen, 45% occurring between Yarra Glen and Dights Falls, and 48% occurring downstream of Dights Falls.

In the greater Melbourne area, nearly half of all Water-rat sightings in the Yarra basin were recorded in the highly urbanised habitats found downstream of Dights Falls; one-third of sightings made in the Werribee basin originated either in ponds at the Werribee Sewage Treatment Plant or artificial lakes developed in conjunction with housing estates at Point Cook.

Distribution of the Australian Water-rat Hydromys chrysogaster in Victoria: findings from community-based sightings and live-trapping surveys

It is not immediately obvious whether the new edition includes more or different sites, as many have been relabelled: William Street Falls is now Yarra Yarra Falls; Dights Falls: Mission School is now Merri Creek Aboriginal School; and so on.

Melbourne Dreaming: a guide to important places of the past and present (2nd edn)

As well as shrinking the travelling time between Birmingham city centre and St Pancras to as little as 45 minutes (with a similarly rapid link to Heathrow), a high-speed network has the potential to supplant many domestic dights in Britain, with signigcant savings in carbon emissions.

The rail debate: New Street and its future; The Bigger Picture After years of inexorable decline Britain's railways are suddenly poised on the verge of an exciting new era of development. Terry Grimley looks at the national issues and the way they could impact on the West Midlands

Favourite subjects included views of the outskirts of Melbourne, such as St Kilda, Jackson's Creek at Sunbury and Merri Creek near Dights Falls.

Robert Hoddle and nineteenth-century genre painting

Dights hit four balls clean out of the ground and it was impossible to bowl to him.'

Cricket: MacRae hails mighty Mike's super hundred

This pump was superseded in 1892 by a newer installation at Dights' Falls, and was the same that supplied fresh water to the Botanic Gardens, over the same period.