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To put a diaper on (a child).

Evil name; bad reputation; defamation. [Obs.] Chaucer.

To have a difference, cause of variance, or quarrel; to dispute; to contend. We 'll never differ with a crowded pit. Rowe.

To prepare; to put in order; hence, to dress, or put on; to array; to adorn. [Archaic] "She gan the house to dight." Chaucer. Two harmless turtles, dight for sacrifice. Fairfax. The clouds in thousand liveries dight. Milton.

numbers are expressed; -- so called because of the use of the fingers in counting and computing.

To finger; as, to digitize a pen. [R.] Sir T. Browne. computers to convert (information, a signal, an image) into a form expressible in binary notation

To fight like gladiators; to contend fiercely; to dispute violently. [Obs.] Digladiating like Æschines and Demosthenes. Hales.

Inclined to defer or put off what ought to be done at once; given the procrastination; delaying; procrastinating; loitering; as, a dilatory servant.

To lessen the authority or dignity of; to put down; to degrade; to abase; to weaken. This doth nothing diminish their opinion. Robynson (More's Utopia). I will diminish them, that they shall no more rule over the nations. Ezek. xxix. 15. O thou . . . at whose sight all the stars Hide their diminished heads. Milton.…

To plunge or immerse; especially, to put for a moment into a liquid; to insert into a fluid and withdraw again. The priest shall dip his finger in the blood. Lev. iv. 6. [Wat'ry fowl] now dip their pinions in the briny deep. Pope. While the prime swallow dips his wing. Tennyson.

To put a direction or address upon; to mark with the name and residence of the person to whom anything is sent; to superscribe; as, to direct a letter.

To tarnish; to sully; to scandalize; -- said of reputation, character, etc.

To put to inconvenience; to incommode. [R.] Bp. Warburton.

To put or thrust away; to reject. A man discards the follies of boyhood. I. Taylor.

Controversy; disputation; discussion. [Archaic] Verbose janglings and endless disceptations. Strype.

To put forth, or remove, as a charge or burden; to take out, as that with which anything is loaded or filled; as, to discharge a cargo.

To alter the true complexion or appearance of; to put a false hue upon. To discolor all your ideas. Wat

To scatter in fight; to put to rout; to defeat. And his proud foes discomfit in victorious field. Spenser.

To expose to censure or ill favor; to put out of the good graces of any one. A compliance will discommend me to Mr. Coventry. Pepys.

To put inconvenience; to incommode; to trouble. [R.]