kydst

English

Etymology

See kydde, imperative of kythe (“to show”). Apparently a misunderstanding by Spenser.

Verb

kydst

1. (obsolete, nonce word) knows (second-person singular)
   • 1579, Immeritô [pseudonym; Edmund Spenser], “December. Ægloga Duodecima.”, in The Shepheardes Calender: […], London: […] Iohn Wolfe for Iohn Harrison the yonger, […], →OCLC:

     But, ah! unwise and witlesse Colin Cloute, / That kydst the hidden kindes of many a weede, / Yet kydst not ene to cure thy fore heart-roote, / Whose ranckling wound as yet does rifely bleede.