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

And a nice man was in one of the rooms and he had some wite cards with ink spilld all over them.

From "Flowers for Algernon" by Daniel Keyes

And there was other pepul in wite coats playing with the animils so I thot it was like a pet store but their wasnt no customers.

From "Flowers for Algernon" by Daniel Keyes

Burt took a wite mouse out of the cage and showd him to me.

From "Flowers for Algernon" by Daniel Keyes