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Webster's Unabridged Dictionary: Library in Itself

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Plight

Plight (plight)
imp. & p. p.(?)
Plight
obs.
  1. imp. & p. p. of Plight, to pledge.
    Chaucer.

Plight

Plight (plight)
imp. & p. p., obs. )
Plight
  1. imp. & p. p. of Pluck.
    Chaucer.

Plight

Plight (plight)
v. t.
Plight
  1. To weave; to braid; to fold; to plait.
    [Obs.] "To sew and plight." Chaucer.

    A plighted garment of divers colors. Milton.

Plight

Plight (plight)
n.(?)
Plight
  1. A network; a plait; a fold; rarely a garment.
    [Obs.] "Many a folded plight." Spenser.

Plight

Plight (plight)
n.
Plight
  1. That which is exposed to risk; that which is plighted or pledged; security; a gage; a pledge.
    "That lord whose hand must take my plight." Shak.
  2. Condition; state; -- risk, or exposure to danger, often being implied; as, a luckless plight.
    "Your plight is pitied." Shak.

    To bring our craft all in another plight Chaucer.

Plight

Plight (plight)
v. t.
Plight
  1. To pledge; to give as a pledge for the performance of some act; as, to plight faith, honor, word; -- never applied to property or goods.
    " To do them plighte their troth." Piers Plowman.

    He plighted his right hand
    Unto another love, and to another land.     Spenser.

    Here my inviolable faith I plight. Dryden.

  2. To promise; to engage; to betroth.

    Before its setting hour, divide
    The bridegroom from the plighted bride.     Sir W. Scott.













Webster's Unabridged Dictionary: Library in Itself

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