1. Mind; intellect; understanding; sense.

Who knew the wit of the Lord? or who was his counselor?

Wyclif (Rom. xi. 34).

A prince most prudent, of an excellent And unmatched wit and judgment.

Shak.

Will puts in practice what wit deviseth.

Sir J. Davies.

He wants not wit the dander to decline.

Dryden.

2. A mental faculty, or power of the mind; — used in this sense chiefly

in the plural, and in certain phrases; as, to lose one's wits; at one's

wits' end, and the like. "Men's wittes ben so dull." Chaucer.

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