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First published 2000 (DOST Vol. VIII).
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S(c)hit(t, S(c)hyt, S(c)hite, v. Also: schyte. P.t. schete, scheate. P.p. schittin. [ME and e.m.E. schite(n (a1300), p.t. schote, schoot (1387), OE scítan, p.t. *scát, p.p. -sciten (in besciten). See also Beschite v.]

1. tr. a. To void as excrement. b. To defile with excrement.a. c1500-c1512 Dunb. Flyt. 195 (M).
Ma wormes hes thow schittin Than thair is gers on grund a1628 Carmichael Prov. No. 1394.
Stand abak burges, your meirs schytis minonnsb. a1585 Polwart Flyt. 774 (T).
Lik laidill, husche paidill, schyt the saidill, thowis be drest

2. intr. To void excrement. a1628 Carmichael Prov. No. 865.
Thome … followit me to the well and pished [v.r. scheate] in my pig Ib. No. 990.
It [sc. the fire] is beginnand to reik, as the tod said quhen he schete on the yse Ib. No. 1491.
They schite al in a nute shell ?a1648 Polemo-Mid. 22.
Shyttavit in undis 1657 R. Moray Lett. fol. 64.
Seing you eat well, you sleep well, you pisse well & shite well, you cannot but be very well a1663 Pappity Stampoy 15.
Clap a carle on the culs and he will shit in your louf 1681 Colvil Whig's Suppl. (1681) i 5.
When folks by physick seldom shite