Lexicon: wit – within

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wit, n. [OE wit.] (webplay: mind, sound, wise).

  1. Knowledge; intellect; understanding; wisdom; sense.
  2. Association of ideas in such a manner that they strike the senses as clever, unusual, or funny.

witch, n. [IE wicca, wicce.]

Enchantress; sorceress.

witchcraft, n. [witch + craft.] (webplay: nature, practice).

  1. Power; influence; attraction; charm.
  2. Sorcery; enchantment; spell-casting.

with, prep. [OE.]

  1. Seeming to have; including the feature of.
  2. Accompanying; in the presence of.
  3. Wearing.
  4. Having; owning; possessing; receiving.
  5. Holding; composed of.
  6. Because of; as a consequence of.
  7. Including; participating in.
  8. By; by means of.
  9. Using.
  10. Against; confronting; encountering.
  11. Carrying.
  12. Below; under; subjected to; in the vicinity of.

withdraw (-s, withdrawn, withdrew), v. [with + draw.] (webplay: away, leave, place, take).

  1. To remove; retreat; retire; leave.
  2. To recoil; shrink (as from something).

withdrawn, adj. [ppl. of withdraw.]

  1. Removed; secluded; separated; distant; retracted; retired.
  2. [Fig.] Dead; lacking life.

withe (-s), n. [OE wippe.]

Band; cord; string.

withhold (witholden, with[h]olden), v. [OE; the form “withholden” for “withheld” was still current in nineteenth-century English .]

Phrase. “Witholden to”: concealed from; hidden from; kept back from.

withholden (with[h]olden), v. [see withhold, v.]

within, adv. [OE withinann.]