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▪ I. dit, n.1 arch.
Also 6 ditt.
[app. taken by Spenser from ME. dit = dite n.1, and erroneously pronounced with short vowel, perh. by association with ditty. Thence in later verse.]
A poetical composition; a ditty: see dite n.1
1590Spenser F.Q. ii. vi. 13 No song but did containe a lovely ditt. [cf.a1592T. Watson Tears Fancie li. Poems (Arb.) 204 No song but did containe a louelie dit.] 1861Mrs. Browning Paraphr. Monnus Last Poems 125 A Hamadryad sang a nuptial dit Right shrilly.
▪ II. dit, n.2 Chiefly U.S.|dit|
Also di |dɪ|.
[Imitative.]
In Morse telegraphy, etc.: = dot n.1 5 e. Cf. dah n.2
When a message is being described, di is used for a dot appearing at the beginning or in the middle of a character string, and dit for one at the end, as di-di-dah-dah-di-dit ‘question mark’.
1942,1957[see dah n.2]. 1968Radio Communication Handbk. (ed. 4) xx. 2/1 The space between parts of the same letter should be equal to one di (dit). 1977Sci. Amer. Dec. 42/3 The tapes offer a meticulous set of graded dit-dah practice sessions, half an hour each at 5, 7.5, 10 and 13 words per minute.
▪ III. dit, v. Now only Sc. and dial.|dɪt|
Forms: 1 dyttan, 3–4 dutte(n(ü), 3–6 ditt(e, 4–6 dytt, 4– dit. pa. tense and pple. ditted, Sc. dittit; also pa. tense 3 dutte; pple. 4–9 dit, 5 dytt.
[OE. dyttan to close, shut:—OTeut. type *duttjan, prob. f. *duttom, OE. dott, a small lump, a clot, a plug: see dot, dottle. Cf. fordit.]
1. trans. To stop up, close up, shut (an opening); to fill up (a hole or gap). lit. and fig.
c1000Ags. Gosp. Luke xi. 53 Ongunnun ða farisei..his muð dyttan. c1000Ags. Ps. lvii. 4 Anlic nædran..seo..dytteð hyre earan. c1200Trin. Coll. Hom. 199 We..swo ditteð þe eare and noht ne hercnið. c1200Ormin 18633 Onnȝæn þatt laþe læredd folc Forr þeȝȝre muþ to dittenn. a1225Ancr. R. 82 Me schulde dutten [v.r. ditten] his muð..mid herde fustes. c1340Gaw. & Gr. Knt. 1233 Þe dor drawen & dit with a derf haspe. 1375Barbour Bruce vi. 168 The vpcom wes then Dittit with slayn hors and men. c1460Towneley Myst. (Surtees) 194 Ayther has thou no wytt Or els ar thyne eres dytt. 1572Satir. Poems Reform. xxxiii. Lament. of Lady Scotl. 196 Dit the mouths of thame that sa dois speik. 1647H. More Cupid's Conflict lv. Philos. Poems 173 Foul sluggish fat ditts up your dullèd eye. a1758Ramsay Scots Prov. (1776) 77 When a's in and the slap dit, Rise herd and let the dog sit. 1871W. Alexander Johnny Gibb (1873) 140 Ye wud 'a keepit by the aul' proerb that says, ‘Dit your mou’ wi your meat’.
2. To stop or obstruct the course or way of.
a1300Cursor M. 11942 (Cott.) Wit nith and enst and iuel witt þe water wissing can he ditt. Ibid. 24003 (Cott.) Mi teres all mi sight þai ditte. 1362Langl. P. Pl. A. vii. 178 An Hep of Hermytes henten heom spades And doluen drit and donge to dutte honger oute. c1460Towneley Myst. (Surtees) 14 Almost had myne breth beyn dit. 1513Douglas æneis v. xiii. 96 The riueris dittit with deid corsis wox reid. 1818Scott Hrt. Midl. xxx, It..sweeps away a' my gude thoughts, and dits up my gude words.
▪ IV. dit
early form of dite n.1 Obs. composition. |