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plural sithes
Obsolete form of scythe. quotations examples
[…] and, whatever thing the sithe of time mows down, devour unspared.
1669, John Milton, Paradise Lost, Samuel Simmons, Book X
Jupiter with his eagle, Juno with her peacock, Time with his sithe, had much outgrown their original proportions;...
1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter I, in Romance and Reality. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], page 7
third-person singular simple present sithes, present participle sithing, simple past and past participle sithed
Obsolete form of scythe. examples
Alternative spelling of sith examples
(obsolete) To journey, travel, wayfare.
(dialect, dated) To sigh. quotations examples
I may both sithe and sob; this is a piteous remembrance
c1475, The Macro Plays, Mankindː
(obsolete) A sigh.
Alternative spelling of sith (“since”) quotations examples
Wherefore (O kyng) I speake as one for all, / Sithe all as one do beare you egall faith:
1561, Thomas Norton, Thomas Sackville, Gorboduc; or, Ferrex and Porrex, Smith, Lucy Toulmin, editor, Heilbronn, published 1883, act 1, scene 2, page 13