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noun

Wight n. Weight. (Obs.)

Wight n.

A whit; a bit; a jot. (Obs.) "She was fallen asleep a little wight."

A supernatural being. (Obs.)

A human being; a person, either male or female; now used chiefly in irony or burlesque, or in humorous language. "Worst of all wightes." "Every wight that hath discretion." "Oh, say me true if thou wert mortal wight."

adjective

Wight adj. Swift; nimble; agile; strong and active. (Obs. or Poetic) "'T is full wight, God wot, as is a roe." "He was so wimble and so wight." "They were Night and Day, and Day and Night, Pilgrims wight with steps forthright."

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"Wight" Quotes from Famous Books

... the world doth the wealthy man seem Like the sun which doth warm everything with its beam; Whilst the poor needy wight with his pitiable case Resembles the moon which ...

— Wild Wales - Its People, Language and Scenery • George Borrow

... here a guidebook to the summer and winter resorts of the North Atlantic, from the desolate rocks called the Magdalen Islands in the Gulf of St. Lawrence to the ever-bland Madeira and the over-bright Bahamas. The varied company of the isles embraces even Wight, where Cockney consumptives go to get out of the mist, and the Norman group consecrated to cream and Victor Hugo. The author's good descriptive powers are assisted by a number of drawings, many of which are finely done and well discriminate ...

— Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, September, 1878 • Various

... Isle of Wight Railway has appeared in any comic paper for at least a month, it is supposed that either a new engine has been bought or that the old ...

— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 156, May 14, 1919 • Various

... loved by Salem lads and lasses, always bore—indeed, do still bear—too strong a flavor of liquorice, too haunting a medicinal suggestion to be loved by other children of the Puritans. As an instance, on a large scale, of the retributive fate that always pursues the candy-eating wight, I state that the good ship Ann and Hope brought into Providence one hundred years ago, as part of her cargo, eight boxes of sweetmeats and twenty tubs of sugar candy, and on the succeeding voyage sternly fetched no sweets, ...

— Customs and Fashions in Old New England • Alice Morse Earle

... Allah! never soft to lover-wight, * Who sighs for union only with his friends, his sprite! Who with tear-ulcered eyelids evermore must bide, * When falleth upon earth first darkness of the night: Be just, be gen'rous, lend thy ruth and deign give alms * To love-molested lover, ...

— The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Volume 7 • Richard F. Burton

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