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

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Example Sentences

See Examples For:

wite witing

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

From The Guardian ● Oct. 21, 2017

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

From The Guardian ● Oct. 21, 2017

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

From "Flowers for Algernon" by Daniel Keyes

I tolld Burt I saw ink spilld on a wite card.

From "Flowers for Algernon" by Daniel Keyes

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 looked gloomily in Rostov's face and said: "I am witing to her."

From War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy, Count

I hope he will make as favouwable an impwession as his witing has done.

From The Garies and Their Friends by Frank J. Webb

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