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Definitions

Adjective

1. 1
   Oppressed with weight; crushed; weighed down. obsolete

   "This being waid, as may delight, be not afraid, the countrey wight"

Proper Noun

1. 1
   A surname.

Example

More examples

"This being waid, as may delight, be not afraid, the countrey wight"

Etymology

Etymology 1

For weighed.

Etymology 2

From the German surname. See Weide (“pasture”), also derived from Middle High German weit (“woad”), see English woad.

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