▪ I. † unˈdight, v. Obs.
[un-2 4, 4 b.]
1. trans. To divest (of clothing, armour, etc.); to disarray, strip. Also refl. and with of.
| a 1400 Sir Beues (E.) 2064 Beues anon þo doun lyȝte, And þe palmere hym vndyȝte. c 1400 Laud Troy Bk. 7030 The stedis..ar vndight and set in stable. Ibid. 10348 Ector..wolde not him vndyght Off his armure & his a-tire. 1611 Florio, Disornare, to disadorne, to vndight. |
2. To unfasten, undo; to unclench or open.
| 1590 Spenser F.Q. i. iii. 4 From her faire head her fillet she vndight, And laid her stole aside. Ibid. iii. v. 31 His mayled haberieon she did vndight. 1633 P. Fletcher Purple Isl. x. xxxvi, When she deignes those precious bones undight, Soon heav'nly notes from those divisions flow. |
▪ II. unˈdight, ppl. a. dial. or arch.
[un-1 8 b.]
1. Not adorned, decked, or put in order.
| 1555 Richmond. Wills (Surtees) 86, xxxvij dight dishes viij{supd}; xviij undight dishes viij{supd}. 1558 T. Phaer æneid vi. Q ij, His hoary bushe and beard both ouergrown and foule vndight. 1593 Drayton Ecl. viii. 98 Sayth she, I may not stay till night, And leaue my summer hall vndight. 1811 Willan in Archaeol. XVII. 162 Undight, undressed, or undecked. 1817 Shelley Rev. Islam ix. xxxvi, Her dark deep eyes, her lips,..her locks undight. |
2. Sc. Unwinnowed. (See dight v. 14 e.)
| 1574 Reg. Privy Council Scot. II. 341, xvi bollis of beir or thairby undicht in the said Archibaldis barne. |