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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. Scots Blame; fault.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. Blame; censure; reproach; fault.
  2. n. Punishment; penalty; mulct; fine: in old Eng. criminal law, a fine paid to the king or other lord in respect of an offense.
  3. l. To impute (to one) as a fault; blame for; blame (that): governing directly a noun or clause, and taking an indirect object in the dative.
  4. To impute wrong to; find fault with; blame; censure.
  5. To go.
  6. n. An obsolete form of wit.
  7. To observe; keep; guard; preserve; protect.

Wiktionary

  1. v. To blame; to regard as guilty.
  2. v. To go, go away, depart, perish, vanish
  3. n. Blame, responsibility.
  4. n. punishment, torment

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. v. To reproach; to blame; to censure; also, to impute as blame.
  2. n. Blame; reproach.

Etymologies

  1. Middle English, from Old English wīte, penalty; see weid- in Indo-European roots.

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