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1st & 3d pers. sing. pres. of Wit, to know. See the Note under Wit, v. [Obs.] Brethren, I wot that through ignorance ye did it. Acts iii. 17.

2d pers. sing. pres. of Wit, to know. [Obs.]

3d pers. sing. pres. of Wit, to know. [Obs.] "He wotteth neither what he babbleth, nor what he meaneth." Tyndale.

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

pres. indic. 1st & 3d pers. sing. of Forwete. [Obs.] Chaucer.

An untimely birth. [Obs.] Sir H. Wotton.

Acquired. [Obs.] He died not in his acquisitive, but in his native soil. Wotton.

A person joined to another in some duty or service; a colleague; an associate. Wotton.

The lively representation of any emotion. Wotton.

or towards; a concourse; an influx. The affluence of young nobles from hence into Spain. Wotton. There is an unusual affluence of strangers this year. Carlyle.

A second game; hence, a subsequent scheme or expedient. Wotton. Aftergame at Irish, an ancient game very nearly resembling backgammon. Beau. & Fl.

An ally; a confederate. [Obs. & R.] Sir H. Wotton.

A mass; a heap. [Obs.] Sir H. Wotton.

Something that surrounds or invests; as, air . . . being a perpetual ambient. Sir H. Wotton.

walk. [R.] The princess of whom his majesty had an ambulatory view in his travels. Sir H. Wotton.

To bring low; to abase. [Obs.] Sir H. Wotton.

etitors arriving to a sufficient number of balls, they fell to ballot some others. Sir H. Wotton.

Voting by ballot. [Obs.] Sir H. Wotton.

ice and blanch his danger. Bacon. I suppose you will not blanch Paris in your way. Reliq. Wot.

ad against; to strike with the head. Two harmless lambs are butting one the other. Sir H. Wotton.