Obs. exc. dial. Forms: 1 ʓeotan, 2–4 ȝeote(n, 3 yeote, (Orm.) ȝetenn, 3–5 yhet, 3–6 ȝet, 4 yete, ȝhet, ȝit, 4–5 ȝete, ȝeete, ȝute, 5 ȝett(e, ȝut, 5–7 yet, 6 yette, 7 yeat, 9 yett, yat. Pa. t. α. 1 ʓeat, ʓet, pl. ʓuton, 3 ȝeat, yhet, pl. ȝeoten, 3–4 ȝette, 4 ȝete, yeett, yeyt, 4–6 ȝet, 5 yette, 6 yet. β. 3 yhotte, 4 yot, ȝot, 5 ȝote. γ. 2 ȝettede, 4 ȝetede, -id(e, ȝeetide, 4–5 ȝettid(e. Pa. pple. α. 1 ʓoten, 3 yhoten, -in (Orm. ȝotenn), ȝhutten, yotten, iȝoten, iȝotten, 3–4 iȝote, 4 ȝoten, ȝooten, ȝote, yȝote, 4–6 yoten, 5 yȝutte, ȝut, yat, 6 iȝotun. β. 4–5 yeten, ȝette, (4 ȝitte), 5 ȝeton, 5–6 ȝett, 6 Sc. ȝet, ȝit, ȝyt. γ. 5 ȝetted, -yd. [Com. Teut. str. vb. = to pour, to melt metal, pour out, flow: OE. ʓéotan, pa. t. ʓéat, guton, pa. pple. goten, = OFris. giata, iata, (NFris. jit, WFris. jiette, EFris. jôte), (M)LG. geten, (M)Du. gieten, OHG. gioȝan (MHG. gioȝen, G. giessen), ON. gjóta only in senses, to drop one’s young, twinkle with the eyes, Goth. giutan; f. Teut. geut- (: gaut-: gut-) :— gheud- (: ghoud-: ghud-), whence L. fūd- in fundĕre, pa. t. fūdī to pour. For other derivatives and cognates, see GOTE sb., GUSH v., GUT sb. The simpler form of the root (gheu-) is found in Gr. χέϝω I pour, χεῦμα pouring, Skr. hu, juhóti to pour in sacrifice. (Compounds are BIGETEN, INYET, OUTYET.)]

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  1.  trans. To pour. Also absol.

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c. 1000.  Ælfric, Lev. viii. 24. He ʓet þæt blod uppan þæt weofod.

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c. 1000.  Sax. Leechd., II. 98. Ʒeot on fæt, þonne hio ʓenoh þicce sie. Ibid., III. 246. Aquarius, þæt is … se þe wæter ʓyt.

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c. 1205.  Lay., 19771. Six amppullen fulle Heo ȝeoten i þan welle. Ibid., 29255. Þer biforen he gon ȝeoten Draf and chaf and aten.

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a. 1300.  Cursor M., 3805. And oyel he yeett apon þat stan And made to godd a voo onan.

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c. 1375.  Sc. Leg. Saints, xii. (Mathias), 251. [She] brocht a preciuse vnyment, Til ennownte hyme in entent, & apone cristis hed it ȝete.

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a. 1425.  trans. Arderne’s Treat. Fistula, etc. 35. Be þer ȝette in of a ȝolk of an ey.

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c. 1450.  St. Cuthbert (Surtees), 2789. With þis haly water he yode To þe seke man for his gode. In his mouthe he ȝettid thryse.

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1483.  Cath. Angl., 426/2. To ȝett be twene, jnterfundere.

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a. 1500.  Bollard, in Arnolde, Chron. (1502), 64/1. Than thou most moyst them twyes or thries in the day not yeting [v.r. ȝitteng] but dewyng or springling.

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1513.  Douglas, Æneis, VI. iv. 37. The fat olie did he ȝet and peir Apoun the entraillis, to mak thaim birn cleir.

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1666.  Despaut. Gram., F ij, (Jam.). Fundo, to yet, or power forth. Ibid., G j. Fundo..., to yeat forth.

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1866.  Edmondston, Gloss, Shetland & Orkney, Yat, to pour in large quantity, S.

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  b.  To shed (tears or blood; also light).

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a. 900.  Cynewulf, Crist, 173. Ic tearas sceal ʓeotan ʓeomormod.

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c. 900.  trans. Bæda’s Hist., II. vi. (1890), 114. Ond þa ærest longe nihtes in halȝum ʓebedum [he] wæs, & his tearas ʓeat.

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c. 1175.  Lamb. Hom., 39. Þu scalt … ȝeoten þine teres swiðe sariliche.

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c. 1200.  Ormin, 1773. Þatt blod tacnede Cristess blod Þatt ȝotenn wass o rode.

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c. 1205.  Lay., 19142. Þar was mochel blod iȝote.

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a. 1300.  E. E. Psalter lxxviii[i]. 3. Þai yhotten blode, als watre strem, In vmgange of Ierusalem.

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c. 1374.  Chaucer, Boeth., I. met. vii. (1868), 29. Þe sterres couered wiþ blak cloudes ne mowen geten a doun no lyȝt.

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1501.  Douglas, Pal. Hon., Prol. 47. Phebus furth ȝet depured bemis cleir. Ibid. (1513), Æneis, III. v. 121. And with lang sobbis furth ȝettand teris in vane.

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  Const. inf.  a. 1400–50.  Wars Alex., 5042. So did his princes … With ȝedire ȝoskingis & ȝerre ȝett out to grete.

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  c.  To pour forth or cause to flow in a flood. Sc.

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1513.  Douglas, Æneis, V. xii. 36. Thar wes na strenth of valeant men to waill, Nor large fludis on ȝet that mycht avail.

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1533.  Bellenden, Livy, I. ii. (S. T. S.), I. 17. This Ryver be divyne purviance was ȝett furth with large flude abone þe brayis. Ibid. (1536), Cron. Scot. (1821), I. p. xlviii. The see, be contrarius stremes, makis collision; sum times yettand out the tid, and sum times swelleand and soukand it in agane.

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  d.  fig. To pour, shed, infuse. Often rendering L. fundere and its compounds in mere literalisms.

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c. 897.  K. Ælfred, Gregory’s Past. C., xxxix. 282. Sio slæwð ʓiett slæp on ðone monnan.

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a. 1000.  Guthlac, 1206. Þy læs þæt wundredan weras & idesa & on ʓeað ʓutan.

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a. 1240.  Lofsong, in O. E. Hom., I. 209. Þe holi goste þet þu … sendest þine deorewurðe deciples and ȝettedest to þeo þet rith luuieð þe.

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a. 1300.  E. E. Psalter xliv. 3 [xlv. 2]. Yhotin es hap in þi lippes twai [Vulg. diffusa est gratia in labiis tuis].

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1393.  Langl., P. Pl., C. II. 151. Heuene holde hit [sc. love] ne myȝte so heuy hit semede, Til hit hadde on erthe ȝoten [v.r. I-ȝotun, ȝeten] hym-selue.

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c. 1450.  Mirour Saluacioun (Roxb.), 20. For in hir moders wombe whils this virgine was shette On hire the haly Gast his speciell blissing yette.

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1502.  Atkynson, trans. De Imitatione, III. xxx. (1893), 221. For all carnall loue yet into my soule the loue of thyne holy name.

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1509.  Barclay, Shyp of Folys, 219. Some with a fals herte,… Into his lordes erys yetyth secretly Lyes venomous.

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1563.  Winȝet, trans. Vincent. Lirin., v. Wks. (S. T. S.), II. 21. A certane mist wes ȝet vpon the myndis of al the Bischopes of the Latin toung.

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  e.  transf. To pour fluid into (a cavity).

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1560.  Rolland, Seven Sages (Bann. Cl.), 157. Thay ȝet his mouth full of het meltit gold.

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  2.  intr. To gash forth or flow in a stream, as water, tears, blood.

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a. 900.  Cynewulf, Elene, 1132. Hat heafodwylm ofer hleor ʓoten.

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a. 1000.  Guthlac, 1029. He hate let torn þoliende tearas ʓeotan.

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a. 1225.  Juliana, 17. Me nom hire & dude swa þat hit [sc. blood] ȝeat adun of þe ȝerden.

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c. 1250.  Gen. & Ex., 582. Reyn ȝette dun on euerilk stede.

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c. 1400.  Laud Troy Bk., 12941. For so faste doun the water ȝet, That thei were alle thorow wet.

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c. 1450.  St. Cuthbert (Surtees), 7811. Teris oute of þaire eyen ȝote.

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1533.  Bellenden, Livy, V. ii. (S. T. S.), II. 152. The teris for blyithnes … ȝet fra þe ene of faderis.

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  3.  trans. To form (an object) by running molten metal into a mold; to found; = CAST v. 51.

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c. 1000.  Ags. Ps. (Th.), cxxxiv. [cxxxv.] 15. Gold and seolfur, þe her ʓeotað menn, and mid heora folmum fæʓere wyrceað.

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c. 1000.  Ælfric, Deut. ix. 12. Hiʓ ʓuton him hæðenne god.

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c. 1200.  Ormin, 17418. Drihhtinn … badd he shollde melltenn brass & ȝetenn himm a neddre.

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a. 1225.  Juliana, 38. Ich makede nabugodonosor … makien þe mawmez igoten of golde.

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c. 1300.  in T. North’s Engl. Bells (1888), 8. [Inscription on bell] IOH:ME:YEYT.

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1382.  Wyclif, Isa. xliv. 10. Who foormede God, and a grauen thing ȝetede, to no thing profitable?

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1387.  Trevisa, Higden (Rolls), VI. 185. Þis picher het ȝit [v.r. ȝute] Dunstan.

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c. 1449.  Pecock, Repr., II. v. 163. Ymagis graued, coruun, or ȝut.

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c. 1450.  St. Cuthbert (Surtees), 6021. He made it [sc. a bell] to be ȝett.

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1533.  Acc. Ld. High Treas. Scot., VI. 104. To Peris and the laif of the werkmen ȝettand the gunnis in the castell.

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  b.  To form (metal) into a shape, by pouring it when melted into a mold; = CAST v. 50.

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1387.  Trevisa, Higden (Rolls), I. 235. And wonderliche by craft of ȝetynge þat bras is i-ȝote.

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c. 1425.  Wyntoun, Cron., I. v. 252 (Edin. MS.). To wirk metall, Yrne and steill, leid and tyn, To ȝet [v.r. ȝett] or bet or graif þar in.

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c. 1475.  Promp. Parv., 538/1 (MS. K.). Ȝetyn metall.

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1513.  Douglas, Æneis, VIII. Prol. 94. Sum goukis quhill the glas pyg grow full of gold ȝit.

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1531.  Elyot, Gov., I. viii. (1883), I. 48. A commune painter or keruer,… stained or embrued with sondry colours,… or perfumed with tedious sauours of the metalles by him yoten.

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1552.  Huloet, Yet, or caste mettall, fundo.

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  4.  To melt down (metal). Also fig.

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1382.  Wyclif, Jer. ix. 7. Lo! I shall ȝeete and preue them.

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1387.  Trevisa, Higden (Rolls), VIII. 129. Vessel, croyses, and chalys were y-take, and golde i-schave of seyntes schrynes and i-ȝote.

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1570.  Levins, Manip., 86/16. To Yette metal, fundere, liquefacere.

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  5.  To set or fasten (as iron in stone) by means of molten lead. Hence, to fix firmly.

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1387.  Trevisa, Higden (Rolls), IV. 185. Þe stakes were grete, i-schape as a manis þigh, and i-ȝote aboute wiþ leed.

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1554–5.  Burgh Rec. Edin. (1871), II. 302. Item for vj greit cruks fra Johne Alhanny,… Item for ane stane of leid to yet thame with,… viijs.

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1808.  Jamieson, To yett, v. a., to fasten in the firmest manner, to rivet, Loth.

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  Hence Yet, Yetted ppl. a., poured; molten, cast; Yetting vbl. sb., casting, founding.

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1387.  Ȝetynge [see 3 b].

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c. 1450.  Mirour Saluacioun (Roxb.), 5. The mawmetiers vnto ye ȝette [printed ȝerte] calf of gold prefigured thes thinges.

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1483.  Cath. Angl., 426/2. Ȝettyd, fusilis.

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1504–5.  Acc. Ld. High Treas. Scot., II. 294. Item, for lede to ȝet the pulleis and the pais, and for ȝetting of thaim,… ij s. viij d.

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1513.  Douglas, Æneis, IX. xi. 12. Als violent as euyr the ȝet doun rane Furth of the west dois smyte apon the wald.

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