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thwite
thwite, v. Obs. exc. dial. (θwaɪt) Forms: 1 þwitan, þweoton; 4–7 thwyte, (7– dial.) thwite, (4–5 twhyte, 5 twyte, 6 thwight, 9 dial. tweet, twet, toight). pa. pple. 4–5 thwyten, 6 thwytten, thweten, 6–7 thwitten; 5–7 thwyted, 6–7 thwitted, 5– thwited. See also white v. [OE. þw{iacu}tan (*þwát, þwite...
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thwittle
▪ I. thwittle, n. Now dial. (ˈθwɪt(ə)l) Forms: 4–5 þw-, thwitel, thwytel, 5 -elle, Sc. thewtill, quhittil, 6 thwitle, 7 thwittel, 7– thwittle: see also whittle. [f. thwite v. + -el, -le.] A knife, a whittle.[c 1325 Gloss. W. de Bibbesw. in Wright Voc. 168 Coteus, thiwilet (? for thwitel).] c 1386 Ch...
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twyte
twyte var. thwite, to cut; obs. f. twit; obs. pa. tense and pple. of twitch v.1
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thwaite
thwait(e dial. (θweɪt) Also 7 twaite. [a. ON. þveit, þveiti a piece of land, a paddock, lit. a cutting, cut-piece, f. *þv{iacu}ta = OE. þw{iacu}tan to cut, cut off, thwite.] A piece of ground; esp. a piece of ground cleared from forest or reclaimed from waste. Now rare or Obs. as a separate word. (H...
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telwe
† telwe, v. Obs. rare. [a. ON. telgja to cut to shape, cut with a knife: prob. introduced into late OE. as *telᵹian, or into Early ME. as *telȝen: cf. OE. folᵹian, ME. folȝen, folwen, to follow.] trans. To thwite, to whittle (a stick).c 1440 Promp. Parv. 488/1 Telwyn, or thwytyn (H. twhytyn, S., P. ...
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tweet
▪ I. tweet, n. and int. (twiːt) [Echoic.] An imitation of the note of a small bird. Also repeated. Cf. tueit in the Compl. Scot. (1549) vi. 39.1845 Zoologist III. 1063 Its usual note is monosyllabic, and like tweet, tweet, tweet. 1851 G. Meredith S.-W.-Wind in Woodland 8 A chirp or tweet, That utter...
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th
th in words of Old English or Old Norse origin, and in words from Greek, is a consonantal digraph representing a simple sound, or rather (in Teutonic words), a pair of simple sounds, breath and voice, indicated in this dictionary by the letters (θ) and (ð); the former, as in thin, bath (θɪn, bɑːθ), ...
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white
▪ I. white, n.1 (hwaɪt) Forms: see white a. [Various absolute uses of white a. Cf. L. album, F. blanc blank n.] 1. The translucent viscous fluid surrounding the yolk of an egg, which becomes white when coagulated; = albumen 1. Usually in full, the white of an egg (or, as a substance, white or the wh...
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