blood-wit
See also: bloodwit
English
Noun
blood-wit (plural blood-wits)
- Alternative form of blood-wite.
- 1885–1888, Richard F[rancis] Burton, transl. and editor, “Night 12”, in A Plain and Literal Translation of the Arabian Nights’ Entertainments, now Entituled The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night […], Shammar edition, volume (please specify the volume), [London]: […] Burton Club […], →OCLC:
- I told him all my past from first to last; and he was concerned on my account and said, "O youth, disclose not thy secret to any: the King of this city is the greatest enemy thy father hath, and there is blood-wit between them and thou hast cause to fear for thy life."