Definition of "wite"

wite¹

/waɪt/

verb
third-person singular simple present wites, present participle witing, simple past and past participle wited
1. (chiefly Scotland) To regard (someone) as guilty, to accuse, to blame, to fault.
2. To censure (someone); to mulct, to reproach.
  Quotations
  [U]niuſtly thou doeſt vvyte them all, / For that vvhich thou miſlikedſt in a fevv.
  1595, Ed. Spencer [i.e., Edmund Spenser], Colin Clouts Come Home Againe, London: […] T[homas] C[reede] for William Ponsonbie, signature D3, verso
3. To guard (something); to keep, to observe, preserve, protect.

wite²

/waɪt/

noun
plural wites
1. (obsolete outside Scotland) Blame, responsibility, guilt.
  Quotations
  Nor I will not suffer mine indignation so to witwanton with fair justice as persuade me to put the wite on Witchland.
  1922, E. R. Eddison, The Worm Ouroboros, The Project Gutenberg, Australia
2. Punishment, penalty, fine, bote, mulct.

wite³

/waɪt/

verb
third-person singular simple present wites, present participle witing, simple past and past participle wited
1. (obsolete or poetic) To go, go away, depart, perish, vanish