Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The older and proper spelling of
scythe . - To journey; travel.
- To sigh.
- noun A sigh.
- noun An amended (restored) spelling of
scythe . - noun Way; path; course; figuratively, course of action; conduct.
- noun Way; manner; mode.
- noun Time; season; occasion.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- intransitive verb To sigh.
- transitive verb obsolete To cut with a scythe; to scythe.
- noun obsolete A scythe.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb Obsolete form of
scythe .
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Examples
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Vt. July 15, 1846, while repairing to Grind a sithe on a stone atach'd to the
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Yiyo loo nto iinduli zeNqadu sithe cwaka, yasweleka ingoma yemilonji yehlathi.
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Yiyo loo nto iinduli zeNqadu sithe cwaka, yasweleka ingoma yemilonji yehlathi.
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Now sithe I have devysed zou the londes and the kyngdoms toward the parties septentrionales, in comynge down from the lond of Cathay, unto the londes of the Cristene, towardes Pruysse and Rossye; now schalle I devyse zou of other londes and kyngdomes, comynge doun be other costes, toward the right syde, unto the see of Grece, toward the lond of Cristene men: and therfore that, aftre Ynde and aftre
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In that hille and in that same place, at the day of doom, 4 aungeles, with 4 trompes, schulle blowen and reysen alle men, that hadden suffred dethe, sithe that the world was formed, from dethe to lyve; and schnlle comen in body and soule in juggement; before the face of oure Lord, in the Vale of
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And sithe that foules, that han no kyndely wytt ne resoun, gon thidre to seche that gloriouse virgyne; wel more oughten men than to seche hire and to worschipen hire.
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But it is fulle long, sithe that ony man durste neyhe to the tour; for it is alle deserte and fulle of dragouns and grete serpentes, and fulle of dyverse venymouse bestes alle abouten.
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And thei seye, that it hathe ben there sithe the beginnynge of the world; and was sumtyme grene, and bare leves, unto the tyme that oure Lord dyede on the cros; and thanne it dryede; and so dyden alle trees, that weren thanne in the
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And upward to the see, upon the watre, was wont to be the grete cytee of Troye, in a fulle fayr playn: but that cytee was destroyed by hem of Grece, and lytylle apperethe there of, be cause it so longe sithe it was destroyed.
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Calyffeez, ne noughte han ben, sithe the tyme of Sowdan Sahaladyn.
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