GNU Collaborative International Dictionary of English

last match results

Found one definition

1.       
   Quoth (kwōth or kwŭth), v. t. [AS. cweðan, imp cwæð, pl. cwǣdon; akin to OS. queðan, OHG. quethan, quedan, Icel. kveða, Goth. qiþan. √22.  Cf. Bequeath.] Said; spoke; uttered; -- used only in the first and third persons in the past tenses, and always followed by its nominative, the word or words said being the object; as, “quoth I, quoth he”. “Let me not live, quoth he.”  Shak.
   
   [1913 Webster]