(a) A journey, way; (b) one's conduct, behavior, way of life; (c) custom; over ~, contrary to custom; (d) in adv. phrase: no ~, in no way, by no means.

(a) One's lot, fortune, experience; hard (sori, unseli, wrecche, etc.) ~, misfortune; seli ~, prosperity; sorwe ~, a misfortune, mishap; (b) misfortune; a state of misfortune or affliction; also, a misfortune, mishap [cp. site n.(1)(b)]; (c) moral evil or calamity [cp. site n.(1)(d)]; ?also, death [1st quot.].

One's life, lifetime.

(a) A specified point in time, esp. in the past; also, a particular period in time, an age, era; ani (this, that) ~, at any (this, that) time; at) som ~, at a certain time; to plesaunce of the ~, to the delight of the age; (b) a span of time; (c) one of a number of repeated instances, a recurrent or potentially recurrent occasion; -- often with cardinal or ordinal number denoting frequency or order of occurrence; on ~, o sithes, one time, once; five (seven, ten, etc.) sithes; other ~, a second time, the second time; som sithes, sometimes; (d) bi sithes, at times, from time to time; also, by turns [quot.: a1500(c1410)]; mani a ~, sithes fele, fele (mani) sithes, many times, often; repeatedly; ofte sithe(s, often sithe(s, q.v.

Pl., in expressions of multiplication: (a) joining multiplier and multiplicand: times; six sithes on, ten sithes ten, etc.; multiplien bi ccc sithes and xl, to multiply by three hundred and forty; twenti sithes of thousandes, ?twenty thousand; (b) fourti sithes the lengthe; 166 sithes as, one hundred and sixty six times as big as; seven sithes the weght; six (seven) sithes as muche as; a thousand sithes swa bright, a thousand times as bright; thre sithes double of, three times double the amount of; als he were a thousand sithes his brother, as if he were his brother a thousand times over; (c) with comparatives: seven sithes brighter, ten sithes bettre, etc.

Pl. Groups, units.