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To foreknow. [Obs.] [Written also forwete.] Chaucer.

Immediately; without delay; directly. Immediately there fell from his eyes as it had been scales; and he received sight forthwith. Acts ix. 18.

lled, wading birds of the genus Limosa, and family Tringidæ. The European black-tailed godwit (Limosa limosa), the American marbled godwit (L. fedoa), the Hudsonian godwit (L. hæmastica), and others, are valued as game birds. Called also godwin.

A foolish; a dolt; a blockhead; a dunce. Dryden.

Weak in intellect; silly.

With this.

A howitzer. [Obs.]

er of smaller diameter than the rest of the bore, and intended to throw large projectiles with comparatively small charges.

Inward sense; mind; understanding; conscience. [Obs.] Wyclif.

Within. [Obs.] This purse hath she inwith her bosom hid. Chaucer.

A switch consisting of one or more knifelike pieces hinged at one end and making contact near the other with flat gripping springs.

Having but little sense or shrewdness.

Without prevention, or obstruction from or by; in spite of. We gentil women bee Loth to displease any wight, Notwithstanding our great right. Chaucer's Dream. Those on whom Christ bestowed miraculous cures were so transported that their gratitude made them, notwithstanding his prohibition, proclaim the wonders he had d…

in wisdom, esp. in cunning; to defeat or overreach by superior craft. They did so much outwit and outwealth us ! Gauden.

To outwit. Swift.

See Pewit.

The pewee. [Written also peevit, peewit, pewet.]

A switch made up of a rail from each track, both rails being tapered far back and connected to throw alongside the through rail of either track.

Having ready wit Shak.

Readiness of wit. "Celtic quick-wittedness." M. Arnold.