Wit

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(·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.

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