wit
51wit — noun 1) he needed all his wits to escape Syn: intelligence, shrewdness, astuteness, cleverness, canniness, sense, judgement, acumen, insight, brains, mind; informal nous 2) my sparkling wit Syn …
52wit — see brevity is the soul of wit when the wine is in, the wit is out …
53wit — Now more commonly used in the form ‘half wit’, but ‘wit’ itself could once be used vocatively. The Wild Goose Chase, by Beaumont and Fletcher, has Mirabel greeting two young gentlewomen with: ‘Bless ye, sweet beauties, sweet incomparable… …
54Wit — Wịt, Jacob de, niederländischer Maler, getauft Amsterdam 19. 12. 1695, ✝ ebenda 12. 11. 1754; schuf Deckenbilder, Kaminstücke, Sopraporten und Teppichentwürfe mit mythologischen und allegorischen Themen. Reliefartige Grisaillestücke (»Witjes«) …
55wit — See humor. See humor, wit …
56wit — 1. dual 1st pers pron we two; gen uncer; dat unc; acc uncit; wit Æthered Æthered and I; 2. wit1 see witt …
57wit — See: at one s wit s end, keep one s head or keep one s wits about one, scare out of one s wits …
58wit — sb. == knowledge, sense. RG. 457, 526; [i wit]. O. and N. 772 …
59wit — n. 1. Intellect, understanding, mind, sense, reason, genius, mental power, intellectual faculties, thinking principle, mother wit. 2. Quick perception (as of partial resemblance in things mostly unlike), keen discernment, acumen, penetration,… …
60wit — [wɪt] noun 1) [singular/U] the ability to use words in a clever way that makes people laugh a novel of great inventiveness and wit[/ex] 2) wits [plural] the ability to think quickly and make sensible decisions Nurses can t afford to make mistakes …
