Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A living being; a creature.
- adjective Valorous; brave.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A Middle English form of
weight . - Having warlike prowess; valiant; courageous; strong and active; agile; nimble; swift.
- noun See
wite . - noun A person, whether male or female; a human being: as, an unlucky wight.
- noun A preternatural, unearthly, or uncanny creature; an elf, sprite, witch, or the like.
- noun A space of time; a whit; a while.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete Weight.
- noun obsolete A whit; a bit; a jot.
- noun obsolete A supernatural being.
- noun A human being; a person, either male or female; -- now used chiefly in irony or burlesque, or in humorous language.
- adjective Obs. or Poetic Swift; nimble; agile; strong and active.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective
Brave ,valorous ,strong . - adjective
Strong ;stout ;active . - noun archaic A
living creature , especially ahuman being . - noun paganism A being of one of the Nine Worlds of
heathen belief, especially a nature spirit, elf or ancestor. - noun poetic A
ghost or othersupernatural entity. - noun fantasy A
wraith -like creature.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun an isle and county of southern England in the English Channel
- noun a human being; `wight' is an archaic term
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The unfortunate wight is the one who can take many glasses without betraying a sign, who must take numerous glasses in order to get the "kick."
Chapter 6 2010
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The unfortunate wight is the one who can take many glasses without betraying a sign, who must take numerous glasses in order to get the "kick."
Chapter VI 1913
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Meantime the hump of that awful bump Into the heavens contrived to get To so great a height that they called the wight The man with the minaret.
INTERNET WIRETAP: The Devil's Dictionary, by Ambrose Bierce (1993 Edition) 1911
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The wight is a stranger, never before did I see him about this quarter or this street.
Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855
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That's about 220 live wight, very big for a PA mountain deer.
what's the biggest whitetail deer you have ever shot- points and weight if poss. typical or not. 2009
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Yes | No | Report from gman3186 wrote 1 day 48 min ago johnycakes i hunt in isle of wight county
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Or you could use Wraith, but the words wight and wraith have identical meanings in fantasy literature.
Superhero Nation: how to write superhero novels and comic books » Open Writing Forum 2009
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Yes | No | Report from gman3186 wrote 1 day 48 min ago johnycakes i hunt in isle of wight county
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Nor was he ever really himself until he felt the mellow warmth of the vine singing in his blood He was an artist, it is true, always an artist; but somehow, sober the high pitch and lilt went out of his thought-processes and he was prone to be as deadly dull as a British Sunday — not dull as other men are dull, but dull when measured by the sprightly wight that
WHEN GOD LAUGHS 2010
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That's about 220 live wight, very big for a PA mountain deer.
what's the biggest whitetail deer you have ever shot- points and weight if poss. typical or not. 2009
treeseed commented on the word wight
Also a ghost or spirit that haunts a barrow
barrow wight
February 18, 2008
sionnach commented on the word wight
Two wongs don't make a wight.
February 18, 2008
morganscorpion commented on the word wight
Found with monotonous regularity in Spenser's "Faerie Queene" where it seems to just mean "person" - whether human or faerie.
February 8, 2009