(·inf) of Wit.
II. Wit ·v Mind; intellect; understanding; sense.
III. Wit ·noun To Know; to Learn.
IV. Wit ·v A person of eminent sense or knowledge; a man of genius, fancy, or humor; one distinguished for bright or amusing sayings, for repartee, and the like.
V. Wit ·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.
VI. Wit ·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.