wite

¹ American  

[wahyt] / waɪt /

Or wyte

noun

1. (in Anglo-Saxon law)

   1. a fine imposed by a king or lord on a subject who committed a serious crime.

   2. a fee demanded for granting a special privilege.

2. Chiefly Scot. responsibility for a crime, fault, or misfortune; blame.

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verb (used with object)

wited, witing

1. Chiefly Scot. to blame for; declare guilty of.

wite ² American  

[wahyt] / waɪt /

verb

1. a present plural of wit.

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Etymology

Origin of wite

before 900; (noun) Middle English, Old English wīte penalty; cognate with Old High German wīzi, Old Norse vīti; (v.) Middle English witen, Old English wītan to blame

Example Sentences

They wud go into the wite boxes and wate there until there Kars were redy to go home?

From The Guardian • Oct. 21, 2017

Terns out, what they were making is: sevral big wite boxes, with, written upon them, mistery werds.

From The Guardian • Oct. 21, 2017

A man came up to the tabel all in wite and with a wite cloth on his face like in TV shows and rubber glovs and he said rilax Charlie its me Dr Strauss.

From "Flowers for Algernon" by Daniel Keyes

He had a wite coat like a docter but I dont think he was no docter because he dint tell me to opin my mouth and say ah.

From "Flowers for Algernon" by Daniel Keyes

I closd my eyes for a long time to pretend and then I said I pretend a bottel of ink spilld all over a wite card.

From "Flowers for Algernon" by Daniel Keyes