Obs. [? Imitative; cf. OE. writian and WRITELING.] intr. To pipe, chirp, warble.
c. 1200. Trin. Coll. Hom., 215. Ȝif he wliteð mid stefne for to liken wimmannen.
a. 1310. in Wright, Lyric P., xiii. 43. This foules singeth ferly fele, Ant wlyteth on huere wynter [? read wynne] wele.
