Wit: Definition and part of speech

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Wit

  1. inf. of Wit
  2. t ing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Wit
  3. n. To know; to learn.
  4. v. Mind; intellect; understanding; sense.
  5. v. A mental faculty, or power of the mind; — used in this sense chiefly in the plural, and in certain phrases; as, to lose one’s wits; at one’s wits’ end, and the like.
  6. v. Felicitous association of objects not usually connected, so as to produce a pleasant surprise; also. the power of readily combining objects in such a manner.

    7. The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

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