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to censure; also, to impute as blame. [Obs. or Scot.] Spenser. Though that I be jealous, wite me not. Chaucer. There if that I misspeak or say, Wite it the ale of Southwark, I you pray. Chaucer.

Blameless. [Obs.] Spenser.

pl. pres. of Wit. Chaucer.

A meeting of wise men; the national council, or legislature, of England in the days of the Anglo-Saxons, before the Norman Conquest.

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

A fine or amercement paid as a composition for the shedding of blood; also, a riot wherein blood was spilled.

A mulct or fine imposed on a person for making a fight or quarrel to the disturbance of the peace.

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

Having little wit; not wise; having scanty intellect or judgment.

To cut or clip with a knife; to whittle. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] Chaucer.

The European tree sparrow.

Ouvarovite.

, 1st & 3d pers. sing. of Forewite. [Obs.] Chaucer.

See Forewite. [Obs.] Chaucer.

A meeting; -- used in combination, as, Witenagemote, an assembly of the wise men.

redpoll linnet (Acanthis linaria) often has the crown and throat rosy. See Redpoll, and Twite. Green linnet (Zoöl.), the European green finch.

red standstone of Great Britain. See Chart of Geology. -- Mountain linnet (Zoöl.), the twite. -- Mountain magpie. (Zoöl.) (a) The yaffle, or green woodpecker. (b) The European gray shrike. -- Mountain mahogany (Bot.) See under Mahogany. -- Mountain meal (Min.), a light powdery variety of calcite, occurring as an e…

d a place; to have a situation; to be situated or located; as, Paris stands on the Seine. Wite ye not where there stands a little town Chaucer.

A small knife; a whittle. [Written also thwitel.] [Obs.] "A Sheffield thwittle." Chaucer.