hyte
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of hyte
First recorded in 1715–25; origin uncertain
Example Sentences
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Ochon! for poor Castalian drinkers, When they fa’ foul o’ earthly jinkers, The witching curs’d delicious blinkers Hae put me hyte, And gart me weet my waukrife winkers, Wi’ girnan spite.
From The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. With a New Life of the Poet, and Notices, Critical and Biographical by Allan Cunningham by Robert Burns
The witching, curs'd, delicious blinkers Hae put me hyte, And gart me weet my waukrife winkers, Wi' girnin'spite.
From Poems and Songs of Robert Burns by Robert Burns
My Lord there is hyte and fykie; there's a gale in his tail, said they, light where it may.
From Ringan Gilhaize or The Covenanters by John Galt
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