Emily Dickinson Lexicon
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.]
- With wit; with a delicate turn or phrase, or with an ingenious association of ideas. Sidney.
- 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.]
- Possessed of wit; full of wit; as, a witty poet.
- Judicious; ingenious; inventive.
- 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.
- To match to a wife. Shak.
- 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.
A kind of heraldic dragon. Thynne.
WIVES, n. [plur. of Wife.]
WIZ'ARD, a.
- Enchanting; charming. Collins.
- 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.]