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wight(2) (iou)



wight noun.

a. A living being; a creature. OE-L16.
b. A supernatural being. Now chiefly arch. & Scot. OE.
W. Morris Our protection against uncouth wights.
c. A human being; a person. Now arch., dial., & literary. ME.
Motor The poor wight in Paris..struggling to bend his limited English to..complex technical terminology.
A certain (esp. small) amount. Usu. in neg. contexts. Cf. WHIT noun1. OE-LME.
no wight not at all, not in the least.