wight

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

WIGHT, noun [g., a living being. Latin , to live.] A being; a person. It is obsolete, except in irony or burlesque. [See Aught.] The wight of all the world who lovd thee best. WIGHT, adjective Swift; nimble. [This seems to be a dialectical form of quick.]
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