kythe

English

Verb

kythe (third-person singular simple present kythes, present participle kything, simple past and past participle kythed)

1. 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’.

Related terms

• kything

Middle English

Noun

kythe

1. alternative form of kith
   • 1380, Chaucer, “II.19”, in The House of Fame‎:

     To tellen al my drem aryght. Now kythe thyn engyn and myght!

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   • 1385. Geoffrey Chaucer, Legend Good Women (Prologue, 492). Sche kytheth what she is.