kight

kight (plural kights)

1. Obsolete spelling of kite (“bird of prey”).
   • 1575, George Gascoigne, “Councell to Duglasse Diue Written vpon This Occasion. [...]”, in The Posies of George Gascoigne Esquire. […], printed at London: For Richard Smith, […], →OCLC; republished in William Carew Hazlitt, compiler, The Complete Poems of George Gascoigne […] In Two Volumes, volume I, [London]: Printed for the Roxburghe Library, 1869, →OCLC, page 370:

     And yet the ſillie kight, well weyde in each degree,
     May ſerue ſometimes (as in his kinde) for mans commoditie.
     The kight can weede the worme from corne and coſtly ſeedes,
     The kight cã kill the mowldiwarpe, in pleaſant meads yͭ breeds:
     Out of the ſtately ſtreetes the kight can clenſe the filth,
     As mẽ can clẽſe the worthleſſe weedes frõ fruteful fallow tilth; […]

   • 1600, Thomas Danett, chapter 13, in A Continuation of the Historie of France, from the Death of Charles the Eight where Comines [i.e., Philippe de Commines] Endeth, till the Death of Henry the Second, London: Printed by Thomas East for Thomas Charde, →OCLC, page 91:

     […] Monſieur de Sanſſac was appointed to attend vpon him [Francis I of France] with all ſorts of Haukes, wherein the ſaide Emperour ſemed to take great delight, eſpecially with flying at the Kight, which the French call Voler le Milan, […]