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Up M'Iver put his shoulders, dighted his blade on a tuft of bog-grass, and whistled a stave of the tune they call "The Desperate Battle."
From John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn by Munro, Neil
I dighted ay her een sae blue, wiped, eyes And bann'd the cruel randy; cursed, scoundrel And weel I wat her willing mou' wot, mouth Was e'en like sugar-candy.
From Robert Burns How To Know Him by Neilson, William Allan
He took down the fiddle as dowie it hung, An' put a' the thairms in tune, The young widow dighted her cheeks an' she sung, For her heart lap her sorrows aboon.
From The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume I. The Songs of Scotland of the past half century by Rogers, Charles
Probably corrupted from the word decked, or the nearly obsolete dighted.
From A Collection of College Words and Customs by Hall, Benjamin Homer
There Beowulf was not; 1300 Another house soothly had erewhile been dighted After gift of that treasure to that great one of Geats.
From The Tale of Beowulf Sometime King of the Folk of the Weder Geats by Anonymous
