Emily Dickinson Lexicon

WITH-VINE, or WITH-WINE, n.

A local name for the couch-grass. Cyc.

WITH'WIND, n.

A plant. [L.convolvulus.]

WITH'Y, a.

Made of withs like a with; flexible and tough.

WITH'Y, n. [Sax. withig.]

A large species of willow. Cyc.

WIT'LESS, a. [wit and less.]

1. Destitute of wit or understanding; inconsiderate; wanting thought; as, a wille.ss swain; witless youth. Philips.
2. Indiscreet; not under the guidance of judgment; as, witless bravery. Shak.

WIT'LESS-LY, adv.

Without the exercise of judgment.

WIT'LING, n. [dim. from wit.]

A person who has little wit or understanding; a pretender to wit or smartness. A beau and witling perished in the throng. Pope.

WIT'NESS, n. [Sax. witnesse, from wizan, to know.]

1. Testimony; attestation of a fact or event. If I hear witness of myself, my witness is not true. John v.
2. That which furnishes evidence or proof. Laban said, this heap is a witness between me and thee this day. Gen. wt.
3. A person who knows or sees any thing; one personally present; as, he was witness; he was an eye-witness. 1 Pet. v. Upon my looking round, I was witness to appearances which filled me with melancholy and vegret. Rob. Hall, 2, 349.
4. One who sees the execution of an instrument, and subscribes it for the purpose of confirming its authenticity by his testimony.
5. One who gives testimony; as, the witnesses in court agreed in all essential facts. With a witness, effectually; to a great degree; with great force, so as to leave some mark as a testimony behind. He struck with a witness. [Not elegant.]

WIT'NESS, v.i.

1. To bear testimony. The men of Belial witnessed against him, even against Ea. both. I Kings set.
2. To give evidence. The shew of their countenance doth witness against them. Isa. iii.

WITNESS, v.t.

1. To see or know by personal presence. 1 witnessed the ceremonies in New York, with which the ratification of the constitution Ku celebrated in 1788. N. W. Every one has witnessed the effects of the voltaic fluid. Good. Lect. x. Gen. Washington did not live to witness the restoration of peace. Marshall, This is but a faint sketch of the incalculable calamities and horrors we must expect, should we ever witness the triumphs of modern infidelity. Rob. Hall. We have witnessed all the varieties molded to such a perfect accommodation. Bridge. Treatise. Angels that make thy church their care, Shall witness my devotion there. Watts, Ps. 138. We have lived to witness that surprising paradox. Hannah More.
2. To attest; to give testimony to; to testify to something. Behold, how many things they witness against thee. Mark xv.
3. To see the execution of an instrument, and subscribe it for the purpose of establishing its authenticity; as, to witness a bond or a deed. In the imperative mode, see, in evidence or proof; as, witness the habeas corpus, the independence of judges, &c. Ames, 429.

WIT'NESS-ED, pp.

Seen in person; testified; subscribed by persons present; as, a deed witnessed by two persons.

WIT'NESS-ING, ppr.

Seeing in person; bearing testimony; giving evidence.

WIT-SNAP-PER, n. [wit and suap.]

One who affects repartee. [Nat in use.] Shak.

WIT'-STARVED, a.

Barren of wit; destitute of genius, Examiner.

WITTED, a.

Having wit or understanding; as, a quick witted boy.

WIT'TE-NA-GE-MOTE, n. [Sax. witan, to know, and gemot, a meeting, a council.]

A meeting of wise men; the national council or legislature of England, in the days of the Saxons, before the conquest.

WITTESS-NESS, n.

Want of judgment. Sandys.

WITTI-CISM, n. [from wit.]

A sentence or phrase which is affectedly witty; a low kind of wit. He is full of conceptions, points of epigram, and witticisms; all which are below the dignity of heroic verse. Addison.

WIT'TI-LY, adv. [from wit.]

1. With wit; with a delicate turn or phrase, or with an ingenious association of ideas. Sidney.
2. Ingeniously; cunningly; artfully. Who his own harm so wittily contrives. Dryden.

WIT'TI-NESS, n. [from witty.]

The quality of being witty. Spenser.

WITTING-LY, adv. [See Wit.]

Knowingly; with knowledge; by design. Be knowingly and wittingly brought evil into the world. More.

WITTOL, n. [Sax. from witan, to know.]

A man who knows his wife's infidelity and submits to it; a tame cuckold. Shak.

WITTOL-LY, adv.

Like a tame cuckold. Shak.

WITTY, a. [from wit.]

1. Possessed of wit; full of wit; as, a witty poet.
2. Judicious; ingenious; inventive.
3. Sarcastic; full of taunts. Honeycomb was unmercifully witty upon the women. Spectator.

WITYALL, n.

A bird, the great spotted woodpecker. Ainsworth. Cyc.