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A person who has little wit or understanding; a pretender to wit or smartness. A beau and witing perished in the forming. Pope. Ye newspaper witlings! ye pert scribbling folks! Goldsmith.

Attestation of a fact or an event; testimony. May we with . . . the witness of a good conscience, pursue him with any further revenge Shak. If I bear witness of myself, my witness is not true. John v. 31.

One who witness.

Having (such) a wit or understanding; as, a quick-witted boy.

A witling. [R.] Milton.

A witty saying; a sentence or phrase which is affectedly witty; an attempt at wit; a conceit. Milton. He is full of conceptions, points of epigram, and witticisms; all which are below the dignity of heroic verse. Addison.

Possessed of wit; witty. [R.] R. North.

In a witty manner; wisely; ingeniously; artfully; with it; with a delicate turn or phrase, or with an ingenious association of ideas. Who his own harm so wittily contrives. Dryden.

The quality of being witty.

Knowingly; with knowledge; by design.

y and submits to it; a tame cuckold; -- so called because the cuckoo lays its eggs in the wittol's nest. [Obs.] Shak.

Like a wittol; cuckoldly. [Obs.] Shak.

Tin ore freed from earthy matter by stamping. Knight.

Possessed of wit; knowing; wise; skillful; judicious; clever; cunning. [Obs.] "The deep-revolving witty Buckingham." Shak.

The golden oriole.

One who, or that which, feeds on or destroys wit. [Obs.] B. Jonson.

Wisdom or perception that comes after it can be of use. "After- wit comes too late when the mischief is done." L'Estrange.

Characterized by afterwit; slow-witted. Tyndale.

To speak reproachfully of; to twit; to upbraid. [Obs.]

Stupid; dull. Shak.