Definition of "wits" []

• Plural form of wit. (noun)
• Senses. (noun)

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• "We have been called so _of many_; not that our heads are some brown, some black, some auburn, some bald, _but that our wits are so diversely coloured_: and truly I think, if ALL _our wits_ were to issue out of ONE skull, they would fly east, west, north, south; and _their consent_ of _one direct_ way should be at once to ALL the points o'the compass."
• "Ascham, in his elegant description of those whom in modern language we term wits, says, that they are "open flatterers, and private mockers.""
• "Ascham, in his elegant description of those whom, in modern language, we term wits, says, that they are "open flatterers, and privy mockers.""