sithe

Alternative spelling of sith (“since”).

Conjunction

  1. Alternative spelling of sith (“since”).
    • 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,...

Origin

Clipping of sithen.

Noun alt of, archaic

  1. Archaic spelling of scythe.
    • […]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:...
    • Old Klas used often to shake his head at him and say, "John! John! what are you about? The spade and sithe will be your sceptre and crown, and your bride will wear a garland of rosemary and a gown of striped drill." -...

Origin

From the Anglo-Saxon siġþe meaning scythe. The spelling with was influenced by unrelated Latin word scissor (“cutter”), and scindere (“to split”).

Forms

sithes

Noun alt of, alternative

  1. Alternative spelling of sith.

Forms

sithes

Noun obsolete

  1. A sigh.

Origin

Regional pronunciation of sigh.

Forms

sithes

Verb alt of, archaic

  1. Archaic spelling of scythe.

Forms

sithes sithing sithed

Derived

sitheman

Verb obsolete

  1. To journey, travel, wayfare.

Forms

sithes sithing sithed

Verb dated, dialectal

  1. To sigh.
    • c1475, The Macro Plays, Mankindː I may both sithe and sob; this is a piteous remembrance

Forms

sithes sithing sithed

Derived

sithingly