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- noun Plural form of
kyte .
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Examples
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Their buriall for all menne (sauinge the kinge) is the dogges bealy, and the kytes.
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Till a 'their weel-swall'd kytes belyve [well-swelled bellies soon]
Robert Burns How To Know Him William Allan Neilson 1907
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(sauinge the kinge) is the dogges bealy, and the kytes.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 06 Madiera, the Canaries, Ancient Asia, Africa, etc. Richard Hakluyt 1584
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(deil = devil) (swall'd = swollen, kytes = bellies, belyve = soon) (rive = tear, ie burst)
a Brit different 2009
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