Definitions for wite

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Spelling: [wahyt]
IPA: /waɪt/

Wite is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 7 points.

You can make 23 anagrams from letters in wite (eitw).

Definitions for wite

noun

  1. a fine imposed by a king or lord on a subject who committed a serious crime. a fee demanded for granting a special privilege.
  2. Chiefly Scot. responsibility for a crime, fault, or misfortune; blame.

verb

  1. a present plural of wit2 .

Idioms

  1. to wit, that is to say; namely:

verb (used with object)

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

verb (used with or without object)

  1. Archaic. to know.

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

Examples for wite

Bi nu wslicor t gehwa is wite and cunne his geleafan, weald hwa a micclan yrme gebidan sceole.

The idea was no doubt derived from the old tariffs of were, bot and wite, in which the valuations were elaborate.

"To wite" is to blame; "I me wreke" is "I revenge myself;" and "tho" is then.

For this fourteen year I never discovered one thing that I have used, and that may I now wite my shame and my disadventure.

You just wite till you see the ballet at Vere Street, Lambeth—we'll knock 'em!'

If you commit an act of violence you must pay a wite to the king.

Se eadiga diacon cw, "u ungesliga, as estmettas ic symle gewilnode: h beo me to wuldre, and e to wite."

Se mann e for gylpe hwt to gde de, him sylfum to herunge, nf he s nane mede t Gode, ac hf his wite.

The overloaded metre points to a shorter word like wite for vnderstond.

wite eac gehw, t lc man hf reo ing on him sylfum untodledlice and togdere wyrcende, swa swa God cw, aa h rest mann gesceop.

Word Value for wite
Scrable

7

Words with friends

7

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