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A whit; a bit; a jot. [Obs.] She was fallen asleep a little wight. Chaucer.

Swiftly; nimbly; quickly. [Obs.]

To twit. [Obs.] Spenser.

imp. of Twitch. Chaucer.

That which is washed off. [R.] Dwight.

The expressive emphasis and shading of a passage. J. S. Dwight.

To weaken; to enfeeble; to reduce; as, an old appalled wight. [Obs.] Chaucer. Whine, of its own nature, will not congeal and freeze, only it will lose the strength, and become appalled in extremity of cold. Holland.

My voice or hands deny, These hands let useful skill forsake, This voice in silence die. Dwight.

A chink or cleft; a narrow and deep ravine; as, Shanklin Chine in the Isle of Wight, a quarter of a mile long and 230 feet deep. [Prov. Eng.] "The cottage in a chine." J. Ingelow.

. [Obs.] That by his fellowship he color might Both his estate and love from skill of any wight. Spenser.

ted States; -- a poetical appellation given in honor of Columbus, the discoverer. Dr. T. Dwight.

ther liquid matter; to give out. Our forests exude turpentine in . . . abundance. Dr. T. Dwight.

nce" exercised toward the moral character of God, and particularly of the Savior. Dr. T. Dwight. Faith is an affectionate, practical confidence in the testimony of God. J. Hawes.

Having no fancy; without ideas or imagination. [R.] A pert or bluff important wight, Whose brain is fanciless, whose blood is white. Armstrong.

a forthright man. [Archaic] Lowell. They were Night and Day, and Day and Night, Piligrims wight with steps forthright. Emerson.

ildish levity. Giggling and laughing with all their might At the piteous hap of the fairy wight. J. R. Drake.

fulness. Abhor the swinish grossness that delights to wound the' ear of delicacy. Dr. T. Dwight.

n, office, and the like; dignified; as, she was welcomed in the highest circles. He was a wight of high renown. Shak.

White or gray with age; hoar; as, hoary hairs. Reverence the hoary head. Dr. T. Dwight.

; inadequateness. The inadequacy and consequent inefficacy of the alleged causes. Dr. T. Dwight.