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Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Wight

Wight (wīt), n. Weight. [Obs.]

Wight, n. [OE. wight, wiht, a wight, a whit, AS. wiht, wuht, a creature, a thing; skin to D. wicht a child, OS. & OHG. wiht a creature, thing, G. wicht a creature, Icel. vættr a wight, vætta a whit, Goth. waíhts, waíht, thing; cf. Russ. veshche a thing. ?. Cf. Whit.]

1. A whit; a bit; a jot. [Obs.]

She was fallen asleep a little wight. Chaucer.

2. A supernatural being. [Obs.] Chaucer.

3. A human being; a person, either male or female; — now used chiefly in irony or burlesque, or in humorous language. "Worst of all wightes." Chaucer.

Every wight that hath discretion. Chaucer.

Oh, say me true if thou wert mortal wight. Milton.

Wight, a. [OE. wight, wiht, probably of Scand. origin; cf. Icel. vīgr in fighting condition, neut. vīgh ??? vīg war, akin to AS. wīg See Vanquish.] Swift; nimble; agile; strong and active. [Obs. or Poetic]

'T is full wight, God wot, as is a roe. Chaucer.

He was so wimble and so wight. Spenser.

They were Night and Day, and Day and Night, Pilgrims wight with steps forthright. Emerson.

Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Noah Porter, editor (Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913). Public domain. Text as transcribed by MICRA, Inc., from Project Gutenberg. Changed for Deep Dive Bible: Greek, which our source spelled in Latin letters, set in Greek letters; entries of one spelling merged into one article; Greek words our source left out (shown as “?”), read from the 1898 printing, from the same plates (the Library of Congress’s copy), where the place could be found with certainty. Of the others, 1,362 (a word or a single letter each) were inferred by AI from the context by the dictionary’s own rules and are marked with a wavy underline (tap or point at one to see the note); the rest, which could not be inferred with confidence, are left as “?”.