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From: DICT.TW English-Chinese Dictionary 英漢字典

 wight /ˈwaɪt/
 人類;人

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Wight n. Weight.  [Obs.]

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Wight, n.
 1. A whit; a bit; a jot.  [Obs.]
    She was fallen asleep a little wight.   --Chaucer.
 2. A supernatural being.  [Obs.]
 3. A human being; a person, either male or female; -- now used chiefly in irony or burlesque, or in humorous language.  “Worst of all wightes.”
    Every wight that hath discretion.   --Chaucer.
    Oh, say me true if thou wert mortal wight.   --Milton.

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Wight, a.  Swift; nimble; agile; strong and active.  [Obs. or Poetic]
    'T is full wight, God wot, as is a roe.   --Chaucer.
    He was so wimble and so wight.   --Spenser.
 They were Night and Day, and Day and Night,
 Pilgrims wight with steps forthright.   --Emerson.
 

From: WordNet (r) 2.0

 wight
      n 1: a human being; `wight' is an archaic term [syn: creature]
      2: an isle and county of southern England in the English
         Channel [syn: Isle of Wight]