wit meaning

• Noun: wit  wit
  1. A message whose ingenuity or verbal skill or incongruity has the power to evoke laughter
     - humor [US], humour [Brit, Cdn], witticism, wittiness, drollness 
  2. Mental ability
     - brain, brainpower, learning ability, mental capacity, mentality 
  3. A witty amusing person who makes jokes
     - wag, card
  Verb: wit (wist,witting,wot)  wit
  Usage: archaic
  
  1. Know

  Sounds like: whit

  Derived forms: wist, witting, wits, wot

  See also: witty

  Type of: content, humorist, humourist [Brit, Cdn], intelligence, message, subject matter, substance

  Encyclopedia: Wit

• 
  [Defence]
  weapons intelligence team
• 
  [Medicine]
  The faculty of expressing the amusing,clever,or comical or the keen perception and cleverly apt expression of connections between ideas that awaken amusement and pleasure. (From Random House Unabridged Dictionary,2d ed)

• to wit:    Adverb: to witAs f ...
• a sharp wit:    [American slang]Fi ...
• blood-wit:     or bloodˈ-wit nou ...

Examples

1. she said she collected her wits somehow.
2. the victim had no originality, no wit.
3. it's good to meet a girl who's got wit.
4. he is a nimble and versatile wit.
5. he took a stride to inspirit his wits.