Obs. Forms: 1 tyhtan, tihtan, 3 tuhten (ü), tuihten, tihhtenn (Orm.), 4 tyȝt. Pa. t. 1 tyhte, 1–3 tihte, 2–3 tuhte (ü), 4 tyȝt, tyht, 4–5 tiȝt, tight. Pa. pple. 1 ʓetiht, 2–3 ituht, 4 itiȝt, y-tyght, tyght, tyȝt, tiȝt, tight, Sc. tycht. [OE. tyhtan = OHG. zuhten (zuhtôn), MHG. zühten (G. züchten to breed, train):—Teut. *tuht-jan, denominative verb f. *tuht- : see TIGHT sb.1]
1. trans. To draw, pull; = TEE v.1 1; to stretch.
a. 1000. in Anglia, XIII. 421/806. Oferbrædels … onbutan ʓetiht, uelamen … in gyro tensum.
a. 1240. Ureisun, in Cott. Hom., 203. Þi sune was ituht on rode.
13[?]. Sir Beues (A.), 3215. Þanne was be-fore his bed itiȝt … A couertine on raile tre, For noman scholde on bed ise.
13[?]. Gaw. & Gr. Knt., 568. Fyrst a tule tapit, tyȝt ouer þe flet … þe styf mon steppez þeron. Ibid., 858. Tapytez tyȝt to þe woȝe, of tuly and tars, And vnder fete, on þe flet, of folȝande sute.
c. 1375. Sc. Leg. Saints, xl. (Ninian), 1331. Quhene it [his curtain] vpe ves tycht, Þane wist he he had tynt þe sycht.
2. fig. To draw, attract, entice, allure (to some action, or to do something); = TEE v.1 2.
c. 1000. Ælfric, Hom., I. 174. On ðreo wisan bið deofles costnung: þæt is on tihtinge, on Iustfullunge, on ʓeðafunge. Deofol tiht us to yfele, ac we sceolon hit onscunian.
11[?]. Departing Soul’s Addr. Body, 423. Þe [deofel] tuhte his hearpe ant tuhte þe to him. Ibid., 437. Ac efre he tuhte þe.
c. 1175. Lamb. Hom., 121. Þe deofel heom tuhte to þan werke.
c. 1200. Ormin, 7048. Tihhtenn & turrnenn hæþenn follc … To lefenn uppo Criste.
3. To train, discipline; = TEE v.1 3; to chastise.
a. 1000. Ags. Ps. (Th.) xciii[i]. 12. Þe þu hine … ʓetyhtest [quem tu erudieris].
a. 1225. Ancr. R., 184. Hwon he haueð inouh ibeaten his child, & haueð ituht hit wel. Ibid., 268. Tu ne schuldest nout tuhten, ne chasten þi meiden uor hire gult.
a. 1240. Sawles Warde, in Cott. Hom., 267. Ah efter þat wit wule þat is husebonde tuhten ant teachen þat wit ga euer biuore.
4. refl. and intr. To betake oneself; to go, proceed, advance; = TEE v.1 6 a, b.
c. 1205. Lay., 810. His horn he vastliche bleu. Iherden hit Troynisce & tuhten [c. 1275 toȝe] to þon Gricken. Ibid., 27321. Ure drihten heo bi-læueð And to Mahune heo tuhteð.
a. 1300. Cursor M., 3757. Quen he þe sted sagh þar he tight, Þe child he dide o þe ass light. Ibid., 20506. I sal far þar mi sun has tight.
13[?]. K. Alis., 7164 (Bodl. MS.). Þat neiȝ þe kyng hij ben ytiȝih.
c. 1330. R. Brunne, Chron. (1810), 93. To hunte þer he had tight in his new forest.
13[?]. E. E. Allit. P., A. 717. Do way, let chylder vnto me tyȝt.
a. 1400–50. Alexander, 2304. To þe temple he tight tithanndez to herken.
c. 1400. Destr. Troy, 1358. All right to þe tempull of þere tore goddes, For drede of the dethe.
Hence † Tighting vbl. sb., persuading, enticement.
c. 1000. [see 2].
a. 1175. Cott. Hom., 229. Þurh diofles tihtinge beswicen.
c. 1200. Trin. Coll. Hom., 29. Þat is þe defles tuihting and mislore.
