Dictionary: WIT'NESS-ED – WIZ'EN

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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 snap.]

One who affects repartee. [Not in use.] Shak.

WIT'-STARV-ED, a.

Barren of wit; destitute of genius. Examiner.

WIT'TED, 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.

WIT'TI-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.

WIT'TING-LY, adv. [See Wit.]

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

WIT'TOL, n. [Sax. from witan, to know.]

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

WIT'TOL-LY, adv.

Like a tame cuckold. Shak.

WIT'TY, 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.

WIT'WALL, n.

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

WIT'-WORM, n. [wit and worm.]

One that feeds on wit. [Not in use.] B. Jonson.

WIVE, v.i. [from wife.]

To marry, [Not in use.] Shak.

WIVE, v.t.

  1. To match to a wife. Shak.
  2. To take for a wife. [Not in use.] Shak.

WIVE-HOOD, a.

Behavior becoming a wife. [Obs.] Spenser. [It should be wifehood.]

WIVE-LESS, a.

Not having a wife. [It should be wifeless.]

WIVE-LY, a.

Pertaining to a wife. [It should be wifely.] Sidney.

WIV-ER, or WIV'ER-IN, n.

A kind of heraldic dragon. Thynne.

WIVES, n. [plur. of Wife.]

WIZ'ARD, a.

  1. Enchanting; charming. Collins.
  2. Haunted by wizards. Milton.

WIZ'ARD, n. [from wise.]

A conjurer; an enchanter; a sorcerer. Lev. xx. The wily wizard must be caught. Dryden.

WIZ'EN, v.i. [Sax. wisnian, weosnian.]

To wither; to dry. [Local.]