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

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

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

That same nite I dreamed about my mother and father only I coudnt see her face it was all wite and she was blurry.

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