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Webster 1913 Edition
Weyve
Weyve
,Verb.
T.
To waive.
[Obs.]
Chaucer.
Definition 2024
weyve
weyve
English
Verb
weyve (third-person singular simple present weyves, present participle weyving, simple past and past participle weyved)
- Obsolete form of weave.
- Obsolete form of waive.
- c.1386 Geoffrey Chaucer, The Wife of Bath's Tale, line 1176.
- "To lyven vertuously and weyve synne"
- c.1386 Geoffrey Chaucer, The Wife of Bath's Tale, line 1176.
Noun
weyve (plural weyves)
- (obsolete) a female outlaw
- 1958 T.H. White, The Once and Future King, p.107
- "She was a true Weyve - except for her long hair, which most of the female outlaws in those days used to clip."
- 1958 T.H. White, The Once and Future King, p.107