Meanings
verbkythe (third-person singular simple present kythes, present participle kything, simple past and past participle kythed)
present singular third person kythes · participle present kything · participle past kythed · past kythed
- alternativeAlternative spelling of kithe.
[…] 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’.
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
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