wite

verb

1. (Scotland, archaic, obsolete, transitive)To regard (someone) as guilty, to accuse, to blame, to fault.

   “[H]e gan fovvly vvyte / His vvicked fortune, that had turnd aſlope, / And curſed night, that reſt from him ſo goodly ſcope.”

2. (archaic, obsolete, transitive)To censure (someone); to mulct, to reproach.

   “[U]niuſtly thou doeſt vvyte them all, / For that vvhich thou miſlikedſt in a fevv.”

3. (archaic, obsolete, transitive)To guard (something); to keep, to observe, preserve, protect.
4. (archaic, obsolete, poetic, transitive)To go, go away, depart, perish, vanish

noun

1. (archaic, obsolete, transitive)Blame, responsibility, guilt.

   “Nor I will not suffer mine indignation so to witwanton with fair justice as persuade me to put the wite on Witchland.”

2. (archaic, obsolete, transitive)Punishment, penalty, fine, bote, mulct.