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English
Verb
kythe (third-person singular simple present kythes, present participle kything, simple past and past participle kythed)
- Alternative spelling of kithe
1818, Sir Walter Scott, chapter XII, in The Heart of Midlothian; republished as “The Heart of Midlothian”, in The Novels of Sir Walter Scott, Bart., with All His Introductions and Notes, volume 2, 1850, page 182:[…] in a dark night—it kythes bright to the ee, because all is dark around it; but when the morn comes on the mountains, it is but a puir crawling kail-worm after a’.
Middle English
Noun
kythe
- Alternative form of kith
- 1385. Geoffrey Chaucer, Legend Good Women (Prologue, 492). Sche kytheth what she is.