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imp. & p. p. of Plight, to pledge. Chaucer.

One who, or that which, plights.

An apparatus for bringing artificial light down from a chandelier nearer to a table or desk; a pendant.

Light from a lamp. This world's artificial lamplights. Owen Meredith.

One who, or that which, lights a lamp; esp., a person who lights street lamps.

A small narrow opening or window in a tower or fortified wall; a loophole.

The act of betrothing, or plighting faith; betrothing. [Obs.] Shak.

Having fidelity pledged.

To unfold; to lay open; to explain. [Obs.] Chaucer.

imp. & p. p. of Uppluck.

Being well folded. [Obs.] "Her well-plighted frock." Spenser.

Plighted faith; marriage contract or promise.

To promise to take (as a future spouse); to plight one's troth to. What man is there that hath betrothed a wife, and hath not taken her Deut. xx. 7.

alse swearing before a committee. Mozley. Abbott. - Breach of promise, violation of one's plighted word, esp. of a promise to marry. -- Breach of trust, violation of one's duty or faith in a matter entrusted to one.

y a combination of circumstances; complication or combination of events or circumstances; plight resulting from various conditions. He [Chesterfield] had recently governed Ireland, at a momentous conjuncture, with eminent firmness, wisdom, and humanity. Macaulay.

To release from espousal or plighted faith. [Poetic] Milton.

The act of espousing or betrothing; especially, in the plural, betrothal; plighting of the troths; a contract of marriage; sometimes, the marriage ceremony.

Destitute; helpless; in pitiful plight; wretched; miserable; almost hopeless; desperate. For here forlorn and lost I tread. Goldsmith. The condition of the besieged in the mean time was forlorn in the extreme. Prescott. She cherished the forlorn hope that he was still living. Thomson. A forlorn hope Etym: [D. verloren…

ungry want is at my heels. Otway. -- To be down at the heel, to be slovenly or in a poor plight. -- To be out at the heels, to have on stockings that are worn out; hence, to be shabby, or in a poor plight. Shak. -- To cool the heels. See under Cool. -- To go heels over head, to turn over so as to bring the heels up…

In what state, condition, or plight. How, and with what reproach, shall I return Dryden.