1  "W () the twenty-third letter of the English alphabet, is usually a consonant, but sometimes it is a vowel, forming the second element of certain diphthongs, as in few, how. It takes its written form and its name from the repetition of a V, this being the original form of the Roman capital letter which we call U. Etymologically it is most related to v and u. See V, and U. Some of the uneducated classes in England, especially in London, confuse w and v, substituting the one for the other, as weal for veal, and veal for weal; wine for vine, and vine for wine, etc. See Guide to Pronunciation, // 266-268."
   2  
   3  Waag (n.) The grivet.
   4  
   5  Waahoo (n.) The burning bush; -- said to be called after a quack medicine made from it.
   6  
   7  "Wabble (v. i.) To move staggeringly or unsteadily from one side to the other; to vacillate; to move the manner of a rotating disk when the axis of rotation is inclined to that of the disk; -- said of a turning or whirling body; as, a top wabbles; a buzz saw wabbles."
   8  
   9  "Wabble (n.) A hobbling, unequal motion, as of a wheel unevenly hung; a staggering to and fro."
  10  
  11  Wabbly (a.) Inclined to wabble; wabbling.
  12  
  13  Wacke (n.) Alt. of Wacky
  14  
  15  "Wacky (n.) A soft, earthy, dark-colored rock or clay derived from the alteration of basalt."
  16  
  17  Wad (n.) Woad.
  18  
  19  "Wad (n.) A little mass, tuft, or bundle, as of hay or tow."
  20  
  21  "Wad (n.) Specifically: A little mass of some soft or flexible material, such as hay, straw, tow, paper, or old rope yarn, used for retaining a charge of powder in a gun, or for keeping the powder and shot close; also, to diminish or avoid the effects of windage. Also, by extension, a dusk of felt, pasteboard, etc., serving a similar purpose."
  22  
  23  "Wad (n.) A soft mass, especially of some loose, fibrous substance, used for various purposes, as for stopping an aperture, padding a garment, etc."
  24  
  25  Waded (imp. & p. p.) of Wad
  26  
  27  Wadding (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Wad
  28  
  29  "Wad (v. t.) To form into a mass, or wad, or into wadding; as, to wad tow or cotton."
  30  
  31  "Wad (v. t.) To insert or crowd a wad into; as, to wad a gun; also, to stuff or line with some soft substance, or wadding, like cotton; as, to wad a cloak."
  32  
  33  Wad (n.) Alt. of Wadd
  34  
  35  "Wadd (n.) An earthy oxide of manganese, or mixture of different oxides and water, with some oxide of iron, and often silica, alumina, lime, or baryta; black ocher. There are several varieties."
  36  
  37  "Wadd (n.) Plumbago, or black lead."
  38  
  39  "Wadding (n.) A wad, or the materials for wads; any pliable substance of which wads may be made."
  40  
  41  "Wadding (n.) Any soft stuff of loose texture, used for stuffing or padding garments; esp., sheets of carded cotton prepared for the purpose."
  42  
  43  Waddled (imp. & p. p.) of Waddle
  44  
  45  Waddling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Waddle
  46  
  47  "Waddle (v. i.) To walk with short steps, swaying the body from one side to the other, like a duck or very fat person; to move clumsily and totteringly along; to toddle; to stumble; as, a child waddles when he begins to walk; a goose waddles."
  48  
  49  "Waddle (v. t.) To trample or tread down, as high grass, by walking through it."
  50  
  51  "Waddler (n.) One who, or that which, waddles."
  52  
  53  Waddlingly (adv.) In a waddling manner.
  54  
  55  Wade (n.) Woad.
  56  
  57  Waded (imp. & p. p.) of Wade
  58  
  59  Wading (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Wade
  60  
  61  Wade (v. i.) To go; to move forward.
  62  
  63  "Wade (v. i.) To walk in a substance that yields to the feet; to move, sinking at each step, as in water, mud, sand, etc."
  64  
  65  "Wade (v. i.) Hence, to move with difficulty or labor; to proceed /lowly among objects or circumstances that constantly /inder or embarrass; as, to wade through a dull book."
  66  
  67  "Wade (v. t.) To pass or cross by wading; as, he waded /he rivers and swamps."
  68  
  69  Wade (n.) The act of wading.
  70  
  71  "Wader (n.) One who, or that which, wades."
  72  
  73  "Wader (n.) Any long-legged bird that wades in the water in search of food, especially any species of limicoline or grallatorial birds; -- called also wading bird. See Illust. g, under Aves."
  74  
  75  "Wading () a. & n. from Wade, v."
  76  
  77  "Wadmol (n.) A coarse, hairy, woolen cloth, formerly used for garments by the poor, and for various other purposes."
  78  
  79  Wadset (n.) A kind of pledge or mortgage.
  80  
  81  Wadsetter (n.) One who holds by a wadset.
  82  
  83  Wadies (pl. ) of Wady
  84  
  85  "Wady (n.) A ravine through which a brook flows; the channel of a water course, which is dry except in the rainy season."
  86  
  87  Wae (n.) A wave.
  88  
  89  Waeg (n.) The kittiwake.
  90  
  91  Wafer (n.) A thin cake made of flour and other ingredients.
  92  
  93  "Wafer (n.) A thin cake or piece of bread (commonly unleavened, circular, and stamped with a crucifix or with the sacred monogram) used in the Eucharist, as in the Roman Catholic Church."
  94  
  95  "Wafer (n.) An adhesive disk of dried paste, made of flour, gelatin, isinglass, or the like, and coloring matter, -- used in sealing letters and other documents."
  96  
  97  Wafered (imp. & p. p.) of Wafer
  98  
  99  Wafering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Wafer
 100  
 101  Wafer (v. t.) To seal or close with a wafer.
 102  
 103  Waferer (n.) A dealer in the cakes called wafers; a confectioner.
 104  
 105  Waffle (n.) A thin cake baked and then rolled; a wafer.
 106  
 107  Waffle (n.) A soft indented cake cooked in a waffle iron.
 108  
 109  Wafted (imp. & p. p.) of Waft
 110  
 111  Wafting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Waft
 112  
 113  Waft (v. t.) To give notice to by waving something; to wave the hand to; to beckon.
 114  
 115  "Waft (v. t.) To cause to move or go in a wavy manner, or by the impulse of waves, as of water or air; to bear along on a buoyant medium; as, a balloon was wafted over the channel."
 116  
 117  Waft (v. t.) To cause to float; to keep from sinking; to buoy.
 118  
 119  "Waft (v. i.) To be moved, or to pass, on a buoyant medium; to float."
 120  
 121  Waft (n.) A wave or current of wind.
 122  
 123  "Waft (n.) A signal made by waving something, as a flag, in the air."
 124  
 125  Waft (n.) An unpleasant flavor.
 126  
 127  "Waft (n.) A knot, or stop, in the middle of a flag."
 128  
 129  "Waftage (n.) Conveyance on a buoyant medium, as air or water."
 130  
 131  "Wafter (n.) One who, or that which, wafts."
 132  
 133  Wafter (n.) A boat for passage.
 134  
 135  Wafture (n.) The act of waving; a wavelike motion; a waft.
 136  
 137  Wagged (imp. & p. p.) of Wag
 138  
 139  Wagging (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Wag
 140  
 141  "Wag (v. t.) To move one way and the other with quick turns; to shake to and fro; to move vibratingly; to cause to vibrate, as a part of the body; as, to wag the head."
 142  
 143  Wag (v. i.) To move one way and the other; to be shaken to and fro; to vibrate.
 144  
 145  Wag (v. i.) To be in action or motion; to move; to get along; to progress; to stir.
 146  
 147  Wag (v. i.) To go; to depart; to pack oft.
 148  
 149  "Wag (v.) The act of wagging; a shake; as, a wag of the head."
 150  
 151  Wag (v.) A man full of sport and humor; a ludicrous fellow; a humorist; a wit; a joker.
 152  
 153  "Wagati (n.) A small East Indian wild cat (Felis wagati), regarded by some as a variety of the leopard cat."
 154  
 155  Waged (imp. & p. p.) of Wage
 156  
 157  Waging (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Wage
 158  
 159  "Wage (v. t.) To pledge; to hazard on the event of a contest; to stake; to bet, to lay; to wager; as, to wage a dollar."
 160  
 161  "Wage (v. t.) To expose one's self to, as a risk; to incur, as a danger; to venture; to hazard."
 162  
 163  "Wage (v. t.) To engage in, as a contest, as if by previous gage or pledge; to carry on, as a war."
 164  
 165  "Wage (v. t.) To adventure, or lay out, for hire or reward; to hire out."
 166  
 167  Wage (v. t.) To put upon wages; to hire; to employ; to pay wages to.
 168  
 169  Wage (v. t.) To give security for the performance of.
 170  
 171  Wage (v. i.) To bind one's self; to engage.
 172  
 173  Wage (v. t.) That which is staked or ventured; that for which one incurs risk or danger; prize; gage.
 174  
 175  Wage (v. t.) That for which one labors; meed; reward; stipulated payment for service performed; hire; pay; compensation; -- at present generally used in the plural. See Wages.
 176  
 177  Wagel (n.) See Waggel.
 178  
 179  "Wagenboom (n.) A south African proteaceous tree (Protea grandiflora); also, its tough wood, used for making wagon wheels."
 180  
 181  "Wager (v. t.) Something deposited, laid, or hazarded on the event of a contest or an unsettled question; a bet; a stake; a pledge."
 182  
 183  "Wager (v. t.) A contract by which two parties or more agree that a certain sum of money, or other thing, shall be paid or delivered to one of them, on the happening or not happening of an uncertain event."
 184  
 185  Wager (v. t.) That on which bets are laid; the subject of a bet.
 186  
 187  Wagered (imp. & p. p.) of Wager
 188  
 189  Wagering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Wager
 190  
 191  "Wager (v. t.) To hazard on the issue of a contest, or on some question that is to be decided, or on some casualty; to lay; to stake; to bet."
 192  
 193  Wager (v. i.) To make a bet; to lay a wager.
 194  
 195  "Wagerer (n.) One who wagers, or lays a bet."
 196  
 197  Wagering (a.) Hazarding; pertaining to the act of one who wagers.
 198  
 199  "Wages (n.) A compensation given to a hired person for services; price paid for labor; recompense; hire. See Wage, n., 2."
 200  
 201  "Waggel (n.) The young of the great black-backed gull (Larus marinus), formerly considered a distinct species."
 202  
 203  Waggeries (pl. ) of Waggery
 204  
 205  "Waggery (n.) The manner or action of a wag; mischievous merriment; sportive trick or gayety; good-humored sarcasm; pleasantry; jocularity; as, the waggery of a schoolboy."
 206  
 207  Waggie (n.) The pied wagtail.
 208  
 209  Waggish (a.) Like a wag; mischievous in sport; roguish in merriment or good humor; frolicsome.
 210  
 211  "Waggish (a.) Done, made, or laid in waggery or for sport; sportive; humorous; as, a waggish trick."
 212  
 213  "Waggle (v. i.) To reel, sway, or move from side to side; to move with a wagging motion; to waddle."
 214  
 215  Waggled (imp. & p. p.) of Waggle
 216  
 217  Waggling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Waggle
 218  
 219  "Waggle (v. t.) To move frequently one way and the other; to wag; as, a bird waggles his tail."
 220  
 221  Wag-halter (n.) One who moves or wears a halter; one likely to be hanged.
 222  
 223  "Wagnerite (n.) A fluophosphate of magnesia, occurring in yellowish crystals, and also in massive forms."
 224  
 225  "Wagon (n.) A wheeled carriage; a vehicle on four wheels, and usually drawn by horses; especially, one used for carrying freight or merchandise."
 226  
 227  Wagon (n.) A freight car on a railway.
 228  
 229  Wagon (n.) A chariot
 230  
 231  "Wagon (n.) The Dipper, or Charles's Wain."
 232  
 233  Wagoned (imp. & p. p.) of Wagon
 234  
 235  Wagoning (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Wagon
 236  
 237  "Wagon (v. t.) To transport in a wagon or wagons; as, goods are wagoned from city to city."
 238  
 239  "Wagon (v. i.) To wagon goods as a business; as, the man wagons between Philadelphia and its suburbs."
 240  
 241  Wagonage (n.) Money paid for carriage or conveyance in wagon.
 242  
 243  "Wagonage (n.) A collection of wagons; wagons, collectively."
 244  
 245  Wagoner (n.) One who conducts a wagon; one whose business it is to drive a wagon.
 246  
 247  "Wagoner (n.) The constellation Charles's Wain, or Ursa Major. See Ursa major, under Ursa."
 248  
 249  "Wagonette (n.) A kind of pleasure wagon, uncovered and with seats extended along the sides, designed to carry six or eight persons besides the driver."
 250  
 251  Wagonfuls (pl. ) of Wagonful
 252  
 253  Wagonful (n.) As much as a wagon will hold; enough to fill a wagon; a wagonload.
 254  
 255  "Wagon-headed (a.) Having a top, or head, shaped like the top of a covered wagon, or resembling in section or outline an inverted U, thus /; as, a wagonheaded ceiling."
 256  
 257  Wagonload (n.) Same as Wagonful.
 258  
 259  "Wagon-roofed (a.) Having a roof, or top, shaped like an inverted U; wagon-headed."
 260  
 261  Wagonry (n.) Conveyance by means of a wagon or wagons.
 262  
 263  Wagonwright (n.) One who makes wagons.
 264  
 265  "Wagtail (n.) Any one of many species of Old World singing birds belonging to Motacilla and several allied genera of the family Motacillidae. They have the habit of constantly jerking their long tails up and down, whence the name."
 266  
 267  Wah (n.) The panda.
 268  
 269  "Wahabee (n.) A follower of Abdel Wahab (b. 1691; d. 1787), a reformer of Mohammedanism. His doctrines prevail particularly among the Bedouins, and the sect, though checked in its influence, extends to most parts of Arabia, and also into India."
 270  
 271  Waid (a.) Oppressed with weight; crushed; weighed down.
 272  
 273  "Waif (n.) Goods found of which the owner is not known; originally, such goods as a pursued thief threw away to prevent being apprehended, which belonged to the king unless the owner made pursuit of the felon, took him, and brought him to justice."
 274  
 275  "Waif (n.) Hence, anything found, or without an owner; that which comes along, as it were, by chance."
 276  
 277  Waif (n.) A wanderer; a castaway; a stray; a homeless child.
 278  
 279  Waift (n.) A waif.
 280  
 281  Wail (v. t.) To choose; to select.
 282  
 283  Wailed (imp. & p. p.) of Wail
 284  
 285  Wailing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Wail
 286  
 287  "Wail (v. t.) To lament; to bewail; to grieve over; as, to wail one's death."
 288  
 289  Wail (v. i.) To express sorrow audibly; to make mournful outcry; to weep.
 290  
 291  Wail (n.) Loud weeping; violent lamentation; wailing.
 292  
 293  Wailer (n.) One who wails or laments.
 294  
 295  Waileress (n.) A woman who wails.
 296  
 297  Wailful (a.) Sorrowful; mournful.
 298  
 299  Wailingly (adv.) In a wailing manner.
 300  
 301  Wailment (n.) Lamentation; loud weeping; wailing.
 302  
 303  Waiment (v. & n.) See Wayment.
 304  
 305  "Wain (n.) A four-wheeled vehicle for the transportation of goods, produce, etc.; a wagon."
 306  
 307  Wain (n.) A chariot.
 308  
 309  Wainable (a.) Capable of being plowed or cultivated; arable; tillable.
 310  
 311  "Wainage (n.) A finding of carriages, carts, etc., for the transportation of goods, produce, etc."
 312  
 313  "Wainage (n.) See Gainage, a."
 314  
 315  Wainbote (n.) See Cartbote. See also the Note under Bote.
 316  
 317  Wainscot (n.) Oaken timber or boarding.
 318  
 319  "Wainscot (n.) A wooden lining or boarding of the walls of apartments, usually made in panels."
 320  
 321  Wainscot (n.) Any one of numerous species of European moths of the family Leucanidae.
 322  
 323  Wainscoted (imp. & p. p.) of Wainscot
 324  
 325  Wainscoting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Wainscot
 326  
 327  "Wainscot (v. t.) To line with boards or panelwork, or as if with panelwork; as, to wainscot a hall."
 328  
 329  Wainscoting (n.) The act or occupation of covering or lining with boards in panel.
 330  
 331  "Wainscoting (n.) The material used to wainscot a house, or the wainscot as a whole; panelwork."
 332  
 333  Wainwright (n.) Same as Wagonwright.
 334  
 335  Wair (n.) A piece of plank two yard/ long and a foot broad.
 336  
 337  Waist (n.) That part of the human body which is immediately below the ribs or thorax; the small part of the body between the thorax and hips.
 338  
 339  "Waist (n.) Hence, the middle part of other bodies; especially (Naut.), that part of a vessel's deck, bulwarks, etc., which is between the quarter-deck and the forecastle; the middle part of the ship."
 340  
 341  "Waist (n.) A garment, or part of a garment, which covers the body from the neck or shoulders to the waist line."
 342  
 343  Waist (n.) A girdle or belt for the waist.
 344  
 345  "Waistband (n.) The band which encompasses the waist; esp., one on the upper part of breeches, trousers, pantaloons, skirts, or the like."
 346  
 347  Waistband (n.) A sash worn by women around the waist.
 348  
 349  "Waistcloth (n.) A cloth or wrapper worn about the waist; by extension, such a garment worn about the hips and passing between the thighs."
 350  
 351  "Waistcloth (n.) A covering of canvas or tarpaulin for the hammocks, stowed on the nettings, between the quarterdeck and the forecastle."
 352  
 353  "Waistcoat (n.) A short, sleeveless coat or garment for men, worn under the coat, extending no lower than the hips, and covering the waist; a vest."
 354  
 355  Waistcoat (n.) A garment occasionally worn by women as a part of fashionable costume.
 356  
 357  "Waistcoateer (n.) One wearing a waistcoat; esp., a woman wearing one uncovered, or thought fit for such a habit; hence, a loose woman; strumpet."
 358  
 359  "Waistcoating (n.) A fabric designed for waistcoats; esp., one in which there is a pattern, differently colored yarns being used."
 360  
 361  "Waister (n.) A seaman, usually a green hand or a broken-down man, stationed in the waist of a vessel of war."
 362  
 363  Waited (imp. & p. p.) of Wait
 364  
 365  Waiting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Wait
 366  
 367  Wait (v. i.) To watch; to observe; to take notice.
 368  
 369  Wait (v. i.) To stay or rest in expectation; to stop or remain stationary till the arrival of some person or event; to rest in patience; to stay; not to depart.
 370  
 371  "Wait (v. t.) To stay for; to rest or remain stationary in expectation of; to await; as, to wait orders."
 372  
 373  Wait (v. t.) To attend as a consequence; to follow upon; to accompany; to await.
 374  
 375  "Wait (v. t.) To attend on; to accompany; especially, to attend with ceremony or respect."
 376  
 377  "Wait (v. t.) To cause to wait; to defer; to postpone; -- said of a meal; as, to wait dinner."
 378  
 379  Wait (v. i.) The act of waiting; a delay; a halt.
 380  
 381  Wait (v. i.) Ambush.
 382  
 383  Wait (v. i.) One who watches; a watchman.
 384  
 385  "Wait (v. i.) Hautboys, or oboes, played by town musicians; not used in the singular."
 386  
 387  "Wait (v. i.) Musicians who sing or play at night or in the early morning, especially at Christmas time; serenaders; musical watchmen."
 388  
 389  "Waiter (n.) One who, or that which, waits; an attendant; a servant in attendance, esp. at table."
 390  
 391  "Waiter (n.) A vessel or tray on which something is carried, as dishes, etc.; a salver."
 392  
 393  "Waiting () a. & n. from Wait, v."
 394  
 395  Waitingly (adv.) By waiting.
 396  
 397  Waitress (n.) A female waiter or attendant; a waiting maid or waiting woman.
 398  
 399  Waive (v. t.) A waif; a castaway.
 400  
 401  "Waive (v. t.) A woman put out of the protection of the law. See Waive, v. t., 3 (b), and the Note."
 402  
 403  Waived (imp. & p. p.) of Waive
 404  
 405  Waiving (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Waive
 406  
 407  Waive (v. t.) To relinquish; to give up claim to; not to insist on or claim; to refuse; to forego.
 408  
 409  Waive (v. t.) To throw away; to cast off; to reject; to desert.
 410  
 411  "Waive (v. t.) To throw away; to relinquish voluntarily, as a right which one may enforce if he chooses."
 412  
 413  Waive (v. t.) To desert; to abandon.
 414  
 415  Waive (v. i.) To turn aside; to recede.
 416  
 417  "Waiver (n.) The act of waiving, or not insisting on, some right, claim, or privilege."
 418  
 419  Waivure (n.) See Waiver.
 420  
 421  Waiwode (n.) See Waywode.
 422  
 423  "Wake (n.) The track left by a vessel in the water; by extension, any track; as, the wake of an army."
 424  
 425  Waked (imp. & p. p.) of Wake
 426  
 427  Woke () of Wake
 428  
 429  Waking (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Wake
 430  
 431  Wake (v. i.) To be or to continue awake; to watch; not to sleep.
 432  
 433  Wake (v. i.) To sit up late festive purposes; to hold a night revel.
 434  
 435  Wake (v. i.) To be excited or roused from sleep; to awake; to be awakened; to cease to sleep; -- often with up.
 436  
 437  "Wake (v. i.) To be exited or roused up; to be stirred up from a dormant, torpid, or inactive state; to be active."
 438  
 439  Wake (v. t.) To rouse from sleep; to awake.
 440  
 441  Wake (v. t.) To put in motion or action; to arouse; to excite.
 442  
 443  "Wake (v. t.) To bring to life again, as if from the sleep of death; to reanimate; to revive."
 444  
 445  "Wake (v. t.) To watch, or sit up with, at night, as a dead body."
 446  
 447  "Wake (n.) The act of waking, or being awaked; also, the state of being awake."
 448  
 449  "Wake (n.) The state of forbearing sleep, especially for solemn or festive purposes; a vigil."
 450  
 451  "Wake (n.) An annual parish festival formerly held in commemoration of the dedication of a church. Originally, prayers were said on the evening preceding, and hymns were sung during the night, in the church; subsequently, these vigils were discontinued, and the day itself, often with succeeding days, was occupied in rural pastimes and exercises, attended by eating and drinking, often to excess."
 452  
 453  "Wake (n.) The sitting up of persons with a dead body, often attended with a degree of festivity, chiefly among the Irish."
 454  
 455  Wakeful (a.) Not sleeping; indisposed to sleep; watchful; vigilant.
 456  
 457  Wakened (imp. & p. pr.) of Waken
 458  
 459  Wakening (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Waken
 460  
 461  Waken (v. i.) To wake; to cease to sleep; to be awakened.
 462  
 463  Waken (v. t.) To excite or rouse from sleep; to wake; to awake; to awaken.
 464  
 465  Waken (v. t.) To excite; to rouse; to move to action; to awaken.
 466  
 467  Wakener (n.) One who wakens.
 468  
 469  "Wakening (n.) The act of one who wakens; esp., the act of ceasing to sleep; an awakening."
 470  
 471  Wakening (n.) The revival of an action.
 472  
 473  Waker (n.) One who wakes.
 474  
 475  "Wake-robin (n.) Any plant of the genus Arum, especially, in England, the cuckoopint (Arum maculatum)."
 476  
 477  Waketime (n.) Time during which one is awake.
 478  
 479  "Waking (n.) The act of waking, or the state or period of being awake."
 480  
 481  Waking (n.) A watch; a watching.
 482  
 483  Walaway (interj.) See Welaway.
 484  
 485  Wald (n.) A forest; -- used as a termination of names. See Weald.
 486  
 487  "Waldenses (n. pl.) A sect of dissenters from the ecclesiastical system of the Roman Catholic Church, who in the 13th century were driven by persecution to the valleys of Piedmont, where the sect survives. They profess substantially Protestant principles."
 488  
 489  Waldensian (a.) Of or pertaining to the Waldenses.
 490  
 491  Waldensian (n.) One Holding the Waldensian doctrines.
 492  
 493  "Waldgrave (n.) In the old German empire, the head forest keeper."
 494  
 495  Waldheimia (n.) A genus of brachiopods of which many species are found in the fossil state. A few still exist in the deep sea.
 496  
 497  Wale (n.) A streak or mark made on the skin by a rod or whip; a stripe; a wheal. See Wheal.
 498  
 499  "Wale (n.) A ridge or streak rising above the surface, as of cloth; hence, the texture of cloth."
 500  
 501  Wale (n.) A timber bolted to a row of piles to secure them together and in position.
 502  
 503  "Wale (n.) Certain sets or strakes of the outside planking of a vessel; as, the main wales, or the strakes of planking under the port sills of the gun deck; channel wales, or those along the spar deck, etc."
 504  
 505  "Wale (n.) A wale knot, or wall knot."
 506  
 507  "Wale (v. t.) To mark with wales, or stripes."
 508  
 509  "Wale (v. t.) To choose; to select; specifically (Mining), to pick out the refuse of (coal) by hand, in order to clean it."
 510  
 511  Walhalla (n.) See Valhalla.
 512  
 513  "Waling (n.) Same as Wale, n., 4."
 514  
 515  Walked (imp. & p. p.) of Walk
 516  
 517  Walking (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Walk
 518  
 519  "Walk (v. i.) To move along on foot; to advance by steps; to go on at a moderate pace; specifically, of two-legged creatures, to proceed at a slower or faster rate, but without running, or lifting one foot entirely before the other touches the ground."
 520  
 521  Walk (v. i.) To move or go on the feet for exercise or amusement; to take one's exercise; to ramble.
 522  
 523  "Walk (v. i.) To be stirring; to be abroad; to go restlessly about; -- said of things or persons expected to remain quiet, as a sleeping person, or the spirit of a dead person; to go about as a somnambulist or a specter."
 524  
 525  Walk (v. i.) To be in motion; to act; to move; to wag.
 526  
 527  Walk (v. i.) To behave; to pursue a course of life; to conduct one's self.
 528  
 529  Walk (v. i.) To move off; to depart.
 530  
 531  "Walk (v. t.) To pass through, over, or upon; to traverse; to perambulate; as, to walk the streets."
 532  
 533  "Walk (v. t.) To cause to walk; to lead, drive, or ride with a slow pace; as to walk one's horses."
 534  
 535  "Walk (v. t.) To subject, as cloth or yarn, to the fulling process; to full."
 536  
 537  "Walk (n.) The act of walking, or moving on the feet with a slow pace; advance without running or leaping."
 538  
 539  "Walk (n.) The act of walking for recreation or exercise; as, a morning walk; an evening walk."
 540  
 541  "Walk (n.) Manner of walking; gait; step; as, we often know a person at a distance by his walk."
 542  
 543  "Walk (n.) That in or through which one walks; place or distance walked over; a place for walking; a path or avenue prepared for foot passengers, or for taking air and exercise; way; road; hence, a place or region in which animals may graze; place of wandering; range; as, a sheep walk."
 544  
 545  "Walk (n.) A frequented track; habitual place of action; sphere; as, the walk of the historian."
 546  
 547  Walk (n.) Conduct; course of action; behavior.
 548  
 549  "Walk (n.) The route or district regularly served by a vender; as, a milkman's walk."
 550  
 551  Walkable (a.) Fit to be walked on; capable of being walked on or over.
 552  
 553  Walker (n.) One who walks; a pedestrian.
 554  
 555  Walker (n.) That with which one walks; a foot.
 556  
 557  Walker (n.) A forest officer appointed to walk over a certain space for inspection; a forester.
 558  
 559  Walker (v. t.) A fuller of cloth.
 560  
 561  "Walker (v. t.) Any ambulatorial orthopterous insect, as a stick insect."
 562  
 563  "Walking () a. & n. from Walk, v."
 564  
 565  Walk-mill (n.) A fulling mill.
 566  
 567  "Walk-over (n.) In racing, the going over a course by a horse which has no competitor for the prize; hence, colloquially, a one-sided contest; an uncontested, or an easy, victory."
 568  
 569  Walkyr (n.) See Valkyria.
 570  
 571  Wall (n.) A kind of knot often used at the end of a rope; a wall knot; a wale.
 572  
 573  "Wall (n.) A work or structure of stone, brick, or other materials, raised to some height, and intended for defense or security, solid and permanent inclosing fence, as around a field, a park, a town, etc., also, one of the upright inclosing parts of a building or a room."
 574  
 575  "Wall (n.) A defense; a rampart; a means of protection; in the plural, fortifications, in general; works for defense."
 576  
 577  "Wall (n.) An inclosing part of a receptacle or vessel; as, the walls of a steam-engine cylinder."
 578  
 579  Wall (n.) The side of a level or drift.
 580  
 581  Wall (n.) The country rock bounding a vein laterally.
 582  
 583  Walled (imp. & p. p.) of Wall
 584  
 585  Walling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Wall
 586  
 587  "Wall (v. t.) To inclose with a wall, or as with a wall."
 588  
 589  "Wall (v. t.) To defend by walls, or as if by walls; to fortify."
 590  
 591  "Wall (v. t.) To close or fill with a wall, as a doorway."
 592  
 593  "Wallaba (n.) A leguminous tree (Eperua falcata) of Demerara, with pinnate leaves and clusters of red flowers. The reddish brown wood is used for palings and shingles."
 594  
 595  Wallabies (pl. ) of Wallaby
 596  
 597  "Wallaby (n.) Any one of numerous species of kangaroos belonging to the genus Halmaturus, native of Australia and Tasmania, especially the smaller species, as the brush kangaroo (H. Bennettii) and the pademelon (H. thetidis). The wallabies chiefly inhabit the wooded district and bushy plains."
 598  
 599  Wallah (n.) A black variety of the jaguar; -- called also tapir tiger.
 600  
 601  "Wallaroo (n.) Any one of several species of kangaroos of the genus Macropus, especially M. robustus, sometimes called the great wallaroo."
 602  
 603  Wallbird (n.) The spotted flycatcher.
 604  
 605  Waller (n.) One who builds walls.
 606  
 607  Waller (n.) The wels.
 608  
 609  "Wallerian degeneration () A form of degeneration occurring in nerve fibers as a result of their division; -- so called from Dr. Waller, who published an account of it in 1850."
 610  
 611  "Wallet (n.) A bag or sack for carrying about the person, as a bag for carrying the necessaries for a journey; a knapsack; a beggar's receptacle for charity; a peddler's pack."
 612  
 613  Wallet (n.) A pocketbook for keeping money about the person.
 614  
 615  Wallet (n.) Anything protuberant and swagging.
 616  
 617  Walleteer (n.) One who carries a wallet; a foot traveler; a tramping beggar.
 618  
 619  Wall-eye (n.) An eye in which the iris is of a very light gray or whitish color; -- said usually of horses.
 620  
 621  "Wall-eye (n.) An American fresh-water food fish (Stizostedion vitreum) having large and prominent eyes; -- called also glasseye, pike perch, yellow pike, and wall-eyed perch."
 622  
 623  Wall-eye (n.) A California surf fish (Holconotus argenteus).
 624  
 625  Wall-eye (n.) The alewife; -- called also wall-eyed herring.
 626  
 627  Wall-eyed (a.) Having an eye of a very light gray or whitish color.
 628  
 629  "Wallflower (n.) A perennial, cruciferous plant (Cheiranthus Cheiri), with sweet-scented flowers varying in color from yellow to orange and deep red. In Europe it very common on old walls."
 630  
 631  "Wallflower (n.) A lady at a ball, who, either from choice, or because not asked to dance, remains a spectator."
 632  
 633  Wallhick (n.) The lesser spotted woodpecker (Dryobates minor).
 634  
 635  Walling (n.) The act of making a wall or walls.
 636  
 637  "Walling (n.) Walls, in general; material for walls."
 638  
 639  "Walloons (n. pl.) A Romanic people inhabiting that part of Belgium which comprises the provinces of Hainaut, Namur, Liege, and Luxembourg, and about one third of Brabant; also, the language spoken by this people. Used also adjectively."
 640  
 641  "Wallop (v. i.) To move quickly, but with great effort; to gallop."
 642  
 643  "Wallop (n.) A quick, rolling movement; a gallop."
 644  
 645  Walloped (imp. & p. p.) of Wallop
 646  
 647  Walloping (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Wallop
 648  
 649  "Wallop (v. i.) To boil with a continued bubbling or heaving and rolling, with noise."
 650  
 651  "Wallop (v. i.) To move in a rolling, cumbersome manner; to waddle."
 652  
 653  Wallop (v. i.) To be slatternly.
 654  
 655  Wallop (v. t.) To beat soundly; to flog; to whip.
 656  
 657  Wallop (v. t.) To wrap up temporarily.
 658  
 659  Wallop (v. t.) To throw or tumble over.
 660  
 661  Wallop (n.) A thick piece of fat.
 662  
 663  Wallop (n.) A blow.
 664  
 665  Wallowed (imp. & p. p.) of Wallow
 666  
 667  Wallowing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Wallow
 668  
 669  "Wallow (n.) To roll one's self about, as in mire; to tumble and roll about; to move lazily or heavily in any medium; to flounder; as, swine wallow in the mire."
 670  
 671  Wallow (n.) To live in filth or gross vice; to disport one's self in a beastly and unworthy manner.
 672  
 673  Wallow (n.) To wither; to fade.
 674  
 675  "Wallow (v. t.) To roll; esp., to roll in anything defiling or unclean."
 676  
 677  Wallow (n.) A kind of rolling walk.
 678  
 679  "Wallower (n.) One who, or that which, wallows."
 680  
 681  Wallower (n.) A lantern wheel; a trundle.
 682  
 683  Wallowish (a.) Flat; insipid.
 684  
 685  Wall-plat (n.) The spotted flycatcher. It builds its nest on walls.
 686  
 687  "Wall-sided (a.) Having sides nearly perpendicular; -- said of certain vessels to distinguish them from those having flaring sides, or sides tumbling home (see under Tumble, v. i.)."
 688  
 689  "Wallwort (n.) The dwarf elder, or danewort (Sambucus Ebulus)."
 690  
 691  Walm (v. i.) To roll; to spout; to boil up.
 692  
 693  "Walnut (n.) The fruit or nut of any tree of the genus Juglans; also, the tree, and its timber. The seven or eight known species are all natives of the north temperate zone."
 694  
 695  "Walrus (n.) A very large marine mammal (Trichecus rosmarus) of the Seal family, native of the Arctic Ocean. The male has long and powerful tusks descending from the upper jaw. It uses these in procuring food and in fighting. It is hunted for its oil, ivory, and skin. It feeds largely on mollusks. Called also morse."
 696  
 697  Walter (v. i.) To roll or wallow; to welter.
 698  
 699  Waltron (n.) A walrus.
 700  
 701  "Walty (a.) Liable to roll over; crank; as, a walty ship."
 702  
 703  "Waltz (n.) A dance performed by two persons in circular figures with a whirling motion; also, a piece of music composed in triple measure for this kind of dance."
 704  
 705  Waltzed (imp. & p. p.) of Waltz
 706  
 707  Waltzing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Waltz
 708  
 709  Waltz (v. i.) To dance a waltz.
 710  
 711  Waltzer (n.) A person who waltzes.
 712  
 713  Walwe (v.) To wallow.
 714  
 715  Waly (interj.) An exclamation of grief.
 716  
 717  Wamble (v. i.) To heave; to be disturbed by nausea; -- said of the stomach.
 718  
 719  Wamble (v. i.) To move irregularly to and fro; to roll.
 720  
 721  Wamble (n.) Disturbance of the stomach; a feeling of nausea.
 722  
 723  "Wamble-cropped (a.) Sick at the stomach; also, crestfallen; dejected."
 724  
 725  "Wammel (v. i.) To move irregularly or awkwardly; to wamble, or wabble."
 726  
 727  Wamp (n.) The common American eider.
 728  
 729  "Wampee (n.) A tree (Cookia punctata) of the Orange family, growing in China and the East Indies; also, its fruit, which is about the size of a large grape, and has a hard rind and a peculiar flavor."
 730  
 731  Wampee (n.) The pickerel weed.
 732  
 733  "Wampum (n.) Beads made of shells, used by the North American Indians as money, and also wrought into belts, etc., as an ornament."
 734  
 735  Wan (imp.) Won.
 736  
 737  Wan (a.) Having a pale or sickly hue; languid of look; pale; pallid.
 738  
 739  Wan (n.) The quality of being wan; wanness.
 740  
 741  Wan (v. i.) To grow wan; to become pale or sickly in looks.
 742  
 743  Wand (n.) A small stick; a rod; a verge.
 744  
 745  Wand (n.) A staff of authority.
 746  
 747  "Wand (n.) A rod used by conjurers, diviners, magicians, etc."
 748  
 749  Wandered (imp. & p. p.) of Wander
 750  
 751  Wandering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Wander
 752  
 753  "Wander (v. i.) To ramble here and there without any certain course or with no definite object in view; to range about; to stroll; to rove; as, to wander over the fields."
 754  
 755  "Wander (v. i.) To go away; to depart; to stray off; to deviate; to go astray; as, a writer wanders from his subject."
 756  
 757  "Wander (v. i.) To be delirious; not to be under the guidance of reason; to rave; as, the mind wanders."
 758  
 759  Wander (v. t.) To travel over without a certain course; to traverse; to stroll through.
 760  
 761  "Wanderer (n.) One who wanders; a rambler; one who roves; hence, one who deviates from duty."
 762  
 763  "Wandering () a. & n. from Wander, v."
 764  
 765  Wanderingly (adv.) In a wandering manner.
 766  
 767  "Wanderment (n.) The act of wandering, or roaming."
 768  
 769  "Wanderoo (n.) A large monkey (Macacus silenus) native of Malabar. It is black, or nearly so, but has a long white or gray beard encircling the face. Called also maha, silenus, neelbhunder, lion-tailed baboon, and great wanderoo."
 770  
 771  "Wandy (a.) Long and flexible, like a wand."
 772  
 773  Waned (imp. & p. p.) of Wane
 774  
 775  Waning (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Wane
 776  
 777  "Wane (v. i.) To be diminished; to decrease; -- contrasted with wax, and especially applied to the illuminated part of the moon."
 778  
 779  Wane (v. i.) To decline; to fail; to sink.
 780  
 781  Wane (v. t.) To cause to decrease.
 782  
 783  Wane (n.) The decrease of the illuminated part of the moon to the eye of a spectator.
 784  
 785  Wane (n.) Decline; failure; diminution; decrease; declension.
 786  
 787  Wane (n.) An inequality in a board.
 788  
 789  "Waney (n.) A sharp or uneven edge on a board that is cut from a log not perfectly squared, or that is made in the process of squaring. See Wany, a."
 790  
 791  "Wang (n.) The jaw, jawbone, or cheek bone."
 792  
 793  Wang (n.) A slap; a blow.
 794  
 795  Wang (n.) See Whang.
 796  
 797  "Wangan (n.) A boat for conveying provisions, tools, etc.; -- so called by Maine lumbermen."
 798  
 799  Wanger (n.) A pillow for the cheek; a pillow.
 800  
 801  "Wanghee (n.) The Chinese name of one or two species of bamboo, or jointed cane, of the genus Phyllostachys. The slender stems are much used for walking sticks."
 802  
 803  Wango (n.) A boomerang.
 804  
 805  "Wanhope (n.) Want of hope; despair; also, faint or delusive hope; delusion. [Obs.] Piers Plowman."
 806  
 807  Wanhorn (n.) An East Indian plant (Kaempferia Galanga) of the Ginger family. See Galanga.
 808  
 809  Waniand (n.) The wane of the moon.
 810  
 811  "Waning (n.) The act or process of waning, or decreasing."
 812  
 813  "Wanion (n.) A word of uncertain signification, used only in the phrase with a wanion, apparently equivalent to with a vengeance, with a plague, or with misfortune."
 814  
 815  Wankle (a.) Not to be depended on; weak; unstable.
 816  
 817  "Wanly (adv.) In a wan, or pale, manner."
 818  
 819  "Wanned (a.) Made wan, or pale."
 820  
 821  "Wanness (n.) The quality or state of being wan; a sallow, dead, pale color; paleness; pallor; as, the wanness of the cheeks after a fever."
 822  
 823  Wannish (a.) Somewhat wan; of a pale hue.
 824  
 825  "Want (v. i.) The state of not having; the condition of being without anything; absence or scarcity of what is needed or desired; deficiency; lack; as, a want of power or knowledge for any purpose; want of food and clothing."
 826  
 827  "Want (v. i.) Specifically, absence or lack of necessaries; destitution; poverty; penury; indigence; need."
 828  
 829  "Want (v. i.) That which is needed or desired; a thing of which the loss is felt; what is not possessed, and is necessary for use or pleasure."
 830  
 831  "Want (v. i.) A depression in coal strata, hollowed out before the subsequent deposition took place."
 832  
 833  Wanted (imp. & p. p.) of Want
 834  
 835  Wanting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Want
 836  
 837  "Want (v. t.) To be without; to be destitute of, or deficient in; not to have; to lack; as, to want knowledge; to want judgment; to want learning; to want food and clothing."
 838  
 839  "Want (v. t.) To have occasion for, as useful, proper, or requisite; to require; to need; as, in winter we want a fire; in summer we want cooling breezes."
 840  
 841  Want (v. t.) To feel need of; to wish or long for; to desire; to crave.
 842  
 843  "Want (v. i.) To be absent; to be deficient or lacking; to fail; not to be sufficient; to fall or come short; to lack; -- often used impersonally with of; as, it wants ten minutes of four."
 844  
 845  Want (v. i.) To be in a state of destitution; to be needy; to lack.
 846  
 847  Wa'n't () A colloquial contraction of was not.
 848  
 849  Wantage (n.) That which is wanting; deficiency.
 850  
 851  "Wanting (a.) Absent; lacking; missing; also, deficient; destitute; needy; as, one of the twelve is wanting; I shall not be wanting in exertion."
 852  
 853  Wantless (a.) Having no want; abundant; fruitful.
 854  
 855  "Wanton (v. t.) Untrained; undisciplined; unrestrained; hence, loose; free; luxuriant; roving; sportive."
 856  
 857  Wanton (v. t.) Wandering from moral rectitude; perverse; dissolute.
 858  
 859  Wanton (v. t.) Specifically: Deviating from the rules of chastity; lewd; lustful; lascivious; libidinous; lecherous.
 860  
 861  "Wanton (v. t.) Reckless; heedless; as, wanton mischief."
 862  
 863  "Wanton (n.) A roving, frolicsome thing; a trifler; -- used rarely as a term of endearment."
 864  
 865  Wanton (n.) One brought up without restraint; a pampered pet.
 866  
 867  Wanton (n.) A lewd person; a lascivious man or woman.
 868  
 869  Wantoned (imp. & p. p.) of Wanton
 870  
 871  Wantoning (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Wanton
 872  
 873  "Wanton (v. i.) To rove and ramble without restraint, rule, or limit; to revel; to play loosely; to frolic."
 874  
 875  Wanton (v. i.) To sport in lewdness; to play the wanton; to play lasciviously.
 876  
 877  "Wanton (v. t.) To cause to become wanton; also, to waste in wantonness."
 878  
 879  Wantonize (v. i.) To behave wantonly; to frolic; to wanton.
 880  
 881  Wantonly (adv.) In a wanton manner; without regularity or restraint; loosely; sportively; gayly; playfully; recklessly; lasciviously.
 882  
 883  Wantonly (adv.) Unintentionally; accidentally.
 884  
 885  Wantonness (n.) The quality or state of being wanton; negligence of restraint; sportiveness; recklessness; lasciviousness.
 886  
 887  Wantrust (n.) Failing or diminishing trust; want of trust or confidence; distrust.
 888  
 889  Wantwit (n.) One destitute of wit or sense; a blockhead; a fool.
 890  
 891  "Wanty (n.) A surcingle, or strap of leather, used for binding a load upon the back of a beast; also, a leather tie; a short wagon rope."
 892  
 893  Wany (v. i.) To wane.
 894  
 895  "Wany (a.) Waning or diminished in some parts; not of uniform size throughout; -- said especially of sawed boards or timber when tapering or uneven, from being cut too near the outside of the log."
 896  
 897  Wany (a.) Spoiled by wet; -- said of timber.
 898  
 899  Wanze (v. i.) To wane; to wither.
 900  
 901  Wap (v. t. & i.) To beat; to whap.
 902  
 903  Wap (n.) A blow or beating; a whap.
 904  
 905  Wapacut (n.) The American hawk owl. See under Hawk.
 906  
 907  Wapatoo (n.) The edible tuber of a species of arrowhead (Sagittaria variabilis); -- so called by the Indians of Oregon.
 908  
 909  Waped (a.) Cast down; crushed by misery; dejected.
 910  
 911  "Wapentake (n.) In some northern counties of England, a division, or district, answering to the hundred in other counties. Yorkshire, Lincolnshire, and Nottinghamshire are divided into wapentakes, instead of hundreds."
 912  
 913  "Wapinschaw (n.) An exhibition of arms. according to the rank of the individual, by all persons bearing arms; -- formerly made at certain seasons in each district."
 914  
 915  "Wapiti (n.) The American elk (Cervus Canadensis). It is closely related to the European red deer, which it somewhat exceeds in size."
 916  
 917  Wapp (n.) A fair-leader.
 918  
 919  Wapp (n.) A rope with wall knots in it with which the shrouds are set taut.
 920  
 921  Wappato (n.) See Wapatoo.
 922  
 923  Wappened (a.) A word of doubtful meaning used once by Shakespeare.
 924  
 925  "Wapper (v. t. & i.) To cause to shake; to tremble; to move tremulously, as from weakness; to totter."
 926  
 927  Wapper (n.) A gudgeon.
 928  
 929  Wappet (n.) A small yelping cur.
 930  
 931  Wapping (n.) Yelping.
 932  
 933  War (a.) Ware; aware.
 934  
 935  "War (n.) A contest between nations or states, carried on by force, whether for defence, for revenging insults and redressing wrongs, for the extension of commerce, for the acquisition of territory, for obtaining and establishing the superiority and dominion of one over the other, or for any other purpose; armed conflict of sovereign powers; declared and open hostilities."
 936  
 937  "War (n.) A condition of belligerency to be maintained by physical force. In this sense, levying war against the sovereign authority is treason."
 938  
 939  War (n.) Instruments of war.
 940  
 941  War (n.) Forces; army.
 942  
 943  War (n.) The profession of arms; the art of war.
 944  
 945  "War (n.) a state of opposition or contest; an act of opposition; an inimical contest, act, or action; enmity; hostility."
 946  
 947  Warred (imp. & p. p.) of War
 948  
 949  Warring (p. pr. & vb. n.) of War
 950  
 951  War (v. i.) To make war; to invade or attack a state or nation with force of arms; to carry on hostilities; to be in a state by violence.
 952  
 953  War (v. i.) To contend; to strive violently; to fight.
 954  
 955  War (v. t.) To make war upon; to fight.
 956  
 957  "War (v. t.) To carry on, as a contest; to wage."
 958  
 959  War-beaten (a.) Warworn.
 960  
 961  "Warble (n.) A small, hard tumor which is produced on the back of a horse by the heat or pressure of the saddle in traveling."
 962  
 963  "Warble (n.) A small tumor produced by the larvae of the gadfly in the backs of horses, cattle, etc. Called also warblet, warbeetle, warnles."
 964  
 965  Warble (n.) See Wormil.
 966  
 967  Warbled (imp. & p. p.) of Warble
 968  
 969  Warbling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Warble
 970  
 971  "Warble (v. t.) To sing in a trilling, quavering, or vibratory manner; to modulate with turns or variations; to trill; as, certain birds are remarkable for warbling their songs."
 972  
 973  Warble (v. t.) To utter musically; to modulate; to carol.
 974  
 975  Warble (v. t.) To cause to quaver or vibrate.
 976  
 977  Warble (v. i.) To be quavered or modulated; to be uttered melodiously.
 978  
 979  "Warble (v. i.) To sing in a trilling manner, or with many turns and variations."
 980  
 981  Warble (v. i.) To sing with sudden changes from chest to head tones; to yodel.
 982  
 983  Warble (n.) A quavering modulation of the voice; a musical trill; a song.
 984  
 985  "Warbler (n.) One who, or that which, warbles; a singer; a songster; -- applied chiefly to birds."
 986  
 987  "Warbler (n.) Any one of numerous species of small Old World singing birds belonging to the family Sylviidae, many of which are noted songsters. The bluethroat, blackcap, reed warbler (see under Reed), and sedge warbler (see under Sedge) are well-known species."
 988  
 989  "Warbler (n.) Any one of numerous species of small, often bright colored, American singing birds of the family or subfamily Mniotiltidae, or Sylvicolinae. They are allied to the Old World warblers, but most of them are not particularly musical."
 990  
 991  Warblingly (adv.) In a warbling manner.
 992  
 993  "Warburg's tincture () A preparation containing quinine and many other ingredients, often used in the treatment of malarial affections. It was invented by Dr. Warburg of London."
 994  
 995  -ward (v. i.) Alt. of -wards
 996  
 997  "-wards (v. i.) Suffixes denoting course or direction to; motion or tendency toward; as in backward, or backwards; toward, or towards, etc."
 998  
 999  "Ward (a.) The act of guarding; watch; guard; guardianship; specifically, a guarding during the day. See the Note under Watch, n., 1."
1000  
1001  "Ward (n.) One who, or that which, guards; garrison; defender; protector; means of guarding; defense; protection."
1002  
1003  Ward (n.) The state of being under guard or guardianship; confinement under guard; the condition of a child under a guardian; custody.
1004  
1005  "Ward (n.) A guarding or defensive motion or position, as in fencing; guard."
1006  
1007  "Ward (n.) One who, or that which, is guarded."
1008  
1009  "Ward (n.) A minor or person under the care of a guardian; as, a ward in chancery."
1010  
1011  Ward (n.) A division of a county.
1012  
1013  "Ward (n.) A division, district, or quarter of a town or city."
1014  
1015  Ward (n.) A division of a forest.
1016  
1017  "Ward (n.) A division of a hospital; as, a fever ward."
1018  
1019  "Ward (n.) A projecting ridge of metal in the interior of a lock, to prevent the use of any key which has not a corresponding notch for passing it."
1020  
1021  Ward (n.) A notch or slit in a key corresponding to a ridge in the lock which it fits; a ward notch.
1022  
1023  Warded (imp. & p. p.) of Ward
1024  
1025  Warding (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Ward
1026  
1027  "Ward (n.) To keep in safety; to watch; to guard; formerly, in a specific sense, to guard during the day time."
1028  
1029  Ward (n.) To defend; to protect.
1030  
1031  "Ward (n.) To defend by walls, fortifications, etc."
1032  
1033  "Ward (n.) To fend off; to repel; to turn aside, as anything mischievous that approaches; -- usually followed by off."
1034  
1035  Ward (v. i.) To be vigilant; to keep guard.
1036  
1037  Ward (v. i.) To act on the defensive with a weapon.
1038  
1039  "Ward-corn (n.) The duty of keeping watch and ward (see the Note under Watch, n., 1) with a horn to be blown upon any occasion of surprise."
1040  
1041  Wardcorps (n.) Guardian; one set to watch over another.
1042  
1043  Warden (n.) A keeper; a guardian; a watchman.
1044  
1045  "Warden (n.) An officer who keeps or guards; a keeper; as, the warden of a prison."
1046  
1047  "Warden (n.) A head official; as, the warden of a college; specifically (Eccl.), a churchwarden."
1048  
1049  "Warden (n.) A large, hard pear, chiefly used for baking and roasting."
1050  
1051  Wardenry (n.) Alt. of Wardenship
1052  
1053  Wardenship (n.) The office or jurisdiction of a warden.
1054  
1055  Warder (n.) One who wards or keeps; a keeper; a guard.
1056  
1057  "Warder (n.) A truncheon or staff carried by a king or a commander in chief, and used in signaling his will."
1058  
1059  "Wardian (a.) Designating, or pertaining to, a kind of glass inclosure for keeping ferns, mosses, etc., or for transporting growing plants from a distance; as, a Wardian case of plants; -- so named from the inventor, Nathaniel B. Ward, an Englishman."
1060  
1061  "Wardmote (n.) Anciently, a meeting of the inhabitants of a ward; also, a court formerly held in each ward of London for trying defaults in matters relating to the watch, police, and the like."
1062  
1063  "Wardrobe (v. t.) A room or apartment where clothes are kept, or wearing apparel is stored; a portable closet for hanging up clothes."
1064  
1065  "Wardrobe (v. t.) Wearing apparel, in general; articles of dress or personal decoration."
1066  
1067  Wardrobe (v. t.) A privy.
1068  
1069  Wardroom (n.) A room occupied as a messroom by the commissioned officers of a war vessel. See Gunroom.
1070  
1071  "Wardroom (n.) A room used by the citizens of a city ward, for meetings, political caucuses, elections, etc."
1072  
1073  -wards () See -ward.
1074  
1075  Wardship (n.) The office of a ward or keeper; care and protection of a ward; guardianship; right of guardianship.
1076  
1077  Wardship (n.) The state of begin under a guardian; pupilage.
1078  
1079  Wardsmen (pl. ) of Wardsman
1080  
1081  Wardsman (n.) A man who keeps ward; a guard.
1082  
1083  Ware (imp.) Wore.
1084  
1085  "Ware (v. t.) To wear, or veer. See Wear."
1086  
1087  Ware (n.) Seaweed.
1088  
1089  "Ware (a.) Articles of merchandise; the sum of articles of a particular kind or class; style or class of manufactures; especially, in the plural, goods; commodities; merchandise."
1090  
1091  "Ware (a.) A ware; taking notice; hence, wary; cautious; on one's guard. See Beware."
1092  
1093  Ware (n.) The state of being ware or aware; heed.
1094  
1095  Ware (v. t.) To make ware; to warn; to take heed of; to beware of; to guard against.
1096  
1097  Wareful (a.) Wary; watchful; cautious.
1098  
1099  Warefulness (n.) Wariness; cautiousness.
1100  
1101  "Warega fly () A Brazilian fly whose larvae live in the skin of man and animals, producing painful sores."
1102  
1103  Warehouses (pl. ) of Warehouse
1104  
1105  "Warehouse (n.) A storehouse for wares, or goods."
1106  
1107  Warehoused (imp. & p. p.) of Warehouse
1108  
1109  Warehousing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Warehouse
1110  
1111  Warehouse (v. t.) To deposit or secure in a warehouse.
1112  
1113  "Warehouse (v. t.) To place in the warehouse of the government or customhouse stores, to be kept until duties are paid."
1114  
1115  Warehousemen (pl. ) of Warehouseman
1116  
1117  Warehouseman (n.) One who keeps a warehouse; the owner or keeper of a dock warehouse or wharf store.
1118  
1119  Warehouseman (n.) One who keeps a wholesale shop or store for Manchester or woolen goods.
1120  
1121  "Warehousing (n.) The act of placing goods in a warehouse, or in a customhouse store."
1122  
1123  Wareless (n.) Unwary; incautious; unheeding; careless; unaware.
1124  
1125  Warely (adv.) Cautiously; warily.
1126  
1127  Warence (n.) Madder.
1128  
1129  Wareroom (n.) A room in which goods are stored or exhibited for sale.
1130  
1131  Wares (n. pl.) See 4th Ware.
1132  
1133  Warfare (n.) Military service; military life; contest carried on by enemies; hostilities; war.
1134  
1135  Warfare (n.) Contest; struggle.
1136  
1137  Warfare (v. i.) To lead a military life; to carry on continual wars.
1138  
1139  Warfarer (n.) One engaged in warfare; a military man; a soldier; a warrior.
1140  
1141  Warhable (a.) Fit for war.
1142  
1143  "Wariangle (n.) The red-backed shrike (Lanius collurio); -- called also wurger, worrier, and throttler."
1144  
1145  Warily (adv.) In a wary manner.
1146  
1147  Wariment (n.) Wariness.
1148  
1149  "Warine (n.) A South American monkey, one of the sapajous."
1150  
1151  Wariness (n.) The quality or state of being wary; care to foresee and guard against evil; cautiousness.
1152  
1153  "Warish (v. t.) To protect from the effects of; hence, to cure; to heal."
1154  
1155  Warish (v. i.) To be cured; to recover.
1156  
1157  Warison (v. t.) Preparation; protection; provision; supply.
1158  
1159  Warison (v. t.) Reward; requital; guerdon.
1160  
1161  Wark (n.) Work; a building.
1162  
1163  Warkloom (n.) A tool; an implement.
1164  
1165  "Warlike (a.) Fit for war; disposed for war; as, a warlike state; a warlike disposition."
1166  
1167  Warlike (a.) Belonging or relating to war; military; martial.
1168  
1169  Warlikeness (n.) Quality of being warlike.
1170  
1171  "Warling (n.) One often quarreled with; -- / word coined, perhaps, to rhyme with darling."
1172  
1173  Warlock (n.) A male witch; a wizard; a sprite; an imp.
1174  
1175  Warlock (a.) Of or pertaining to a warlock or warlock; impish.
1176  
1177  Warlockry (n.) Impishness; magic.
1178  
1179  Warly (a.) Warlike.
1180  
1181  "Warm (superl.) Having heat in a moderate degree; not cold as, warm milk."
1182  
1183  "Warm (superl.) Having a sensation of heat, esp. of gentle heat; glowing."
1184  
1185  "Warm (superl.) Subject to heat; having prevalence of heat, or little or no cold weather; as, the warm climate of Egypt."
1186  
1187  "Warm (superl.) Fig.: Not cool, indifferent, lukewarm, or the like, in spirit or temper; zealous; ardent; fervent; excited; sprightly; irritable; excitable."
1188  
1189  "Warm (superl.) Violent; vehement; furious; excited; passionate; as, a warm contest; a warm debate."
1190  
1191  "Warm (superl.) Being well off as to property, or in good circumstances; forehanded; rich."
1192  
1193  "Warm (superl.) In children's games, being near the object sought for; hence, being close to the discovery of some person, thing, or fact concealed."
1194  
1195  "Warm (superl.) Having yellow or red for a basis, or in their composition; -- said of colors, and opposed to cold which is of blue and its compounds."
1196  
1197  Warmed (imp. & p. p.) of Warm
1198  
1199  Warming (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Warm
1200  
1201  "Warm (a.) To communicate a moderate degree of heat to; to render warm; to supply or furnish heat to; as, a stove warms an apartment."
1202  
1203  Warm (a.) To make engaged or earnest; to interest; to engage; to excite ardor or zeal; to enliven.
1204  
1205  "Warm (v. i.) To become warm, or moderately heated; as, the earth soon warms in a clear day summer."
1206  
1207  "Warm (v. i.) To become ardent or animated; as, the speake/ warms as he proceeds."
1208  
1209  "Warm (n.) The act of warming, or the state of being warmed; a warming; a heating."
1210  
1211  "Warm-blooded (a.) Having warm blood; -- applied especially to those animals, as birds and mammals, which have warm blood, or, more properly, the power of maintaining a nearly uniform temperature whatever the temperature of the surrounding air. See Homoiothermal."
1212  
1213  "Warmer (n.) One who, or that which, warms."
1214  
1215  "Warmful (a.) Abounding in capacity to warm; giving warmth; as, a warmful garment."
1216  
1217  Warm-hearted (a.) Having strong affection; cordial; sincere; hearty; sympathetic.
1218  
1219  "Warming () a. & n. from Warm, v."
1220  
1221  Warmly (adv.) In a warm manner; ardently.
1222  
1223  Warmness (n.) Warmth.
1224  
1225  Warmonger (n.) One who makes ar a trade or business; a mercenary.
1226  
1227  "Warmouth (n.) An American freshwater bream, or sunfish (Chaenobryttus gulosus); -- called also red-eyed bream."
1228  
1229  "Warmth (n.) The quality or state of being warm; gentle heat; as, the warmth of the sun; the warmth of the blood; vital warmth."
1230  
1231  "Warmth (n.) A state of lively and excited interest; zeal; ardor; fervor; passion; enthusiasm; earnestness; as, the warmth of love or piety; he replied with much warmth."
1232  
1233  "Warmth (n.) The glowing effect which arises from the use of warm colors; hence, any similar appearance or effect in a painting, or work of color."
1234  
1235  Warmthless (a.) Being without warmth; not communicating warmth; cold.
1236  
1237  Warn (v. t.) To refuse.
1238  
1239  Warned (imp. & p. p.) of Warn
1240  
1241  Warning (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Warn
1242  
1243  "Warn (v. t.) To make ware or aware; to give previous information to; to give notice to; to notify; to admonish; hence, to notify or summon by authority; as, to warn a town meeting; to warn a tenant to quit a house."
1244  
1245  "Warn (v. t.) To give notice to, of approaching or probable danger or evil; to caution against anything that may prove injurious."
1246  
1247  Warn (v. t.) To ward off.
1248  
1249  Warner (n.) One who warns; an admonisher.
1250  
1251  Warner (n.) A warrener.
1252  
1253  "Warning (a.) Giving previous notice; cautioning; admonishing; as, a warning voice."
1254  
1255  Warning (n.) Previous notice.
1256  
1257  "Warning (n.) Caution against danger, or against faults or evil practices which incur danger; admonition; monition."
1258  
1259  Warningly (adv.) In a warning manner.
1260  
1261  Warnstore (v. t.) To furnish.
1262  
1263  Warped (imp. & p. p.) of Warp
1264  
1265  Warping (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Warp
1266  
1267  "Warp (v. t.) To throw; hence, to send forth, or throw out, as words; to utter."
1268  
1269  "Warp (v. t.) To turn or twist out of shape; esp., to twist or bend out of a flat plane by contraction or otherwise."
1270  
1271  Warp (v. t.) To turn aside from the true direction; to cause to bend or incline; to pervert.
1272  
1273  Warp (v. t.) To weave; to fabricate.
1274  
1275  "Warp (v. t.) To tow or move, as a vessel, with a line, or warp, attached to a buoy, anchor, or other fixed object."
1276  
1277  "Warp (v. t.) To cast prematurely, as young; -- said of cattle, sheep, etc."
1278  
1279  "Warp (v. t.) To let the tide or other water in upon (lowlying land), for the purpose of fertilization, by a deposit of warp, or slimy substance."
1280  
1281  "Warp (v. t.) To run off the reel into hauls to be tarred, as yarns."
1282  
1283  Warp (v. t.) To arrange (yarns) on a warp beam.
1284  
1285  "Warp (v. i.) To turn, twist, or be twisted out of shape; esp., to be twisted or bent out of a flat plane; as, a board warps in seasoning or shrinking."
1286  
1287  "Warp (v. i.) to turn or incline from a straight, true, or proper course; to deviate; to swerve."
1288  
1289  "Warp (v. i.) To fly with a bending or waving motion; to turn and wave, like a flock of birds or insects."
1290  
1291  "Warp (v. i.) To cast the young prematurely; to slink; -- said of cattle, sheep, etc."
1292  
1293  Warp (v. i.) To wind yarn off bobbins for forming the warp of a web; to wind a warp on a warp beam.
1294  
1295  "Warp (v.) The threads which are extended lengthwise in the loom, and crossed by the woof."
1296  
1297  "Warp (v.) A rope used in hauling or moving a vessel, usually with one end attached to an anchor, a post, or other fixed object; a towing line; a warping hawser."
1298  
1299  "Warp (v.) A slimy substance deposited on land by tides, etc., by which a rich alluvial soil is formed."
1300  
1301  "Warp (v.) A premature casting of young; -- said of cattle, sheep, etc."
1302  
1303  "Warp (v.) Four; esp., four herrings; a cast. See Cast, n., 17."
1304  
1305  "Warp (v.) The state of being warped or twisted; as, the warp of a board."
1306  
1307  "Warpage (n.) The act of warping; also, a charge per ton made on shipping in some harbors."
1308  
1309  Warpath (n.) The route taken by a party of Indians going on a warlike expedition.
1310  
1311  "Warper (n.) One who, or that which, warps or twists out of shape."
1312  
1313  "Warper (n.) One who, or that which, forms yarn or thread into warps or webs for the loom."
1314  
1315  "Warping (n.) The act or process of one who, or that which, warps."
1316  
1317  Warping (n.) The art or occupation of preparing warp or webs for the weaver.
1318  
1319  Warproof (n.) Valor tried by war.
1320  
1321  Warragal (n.) The dingo.
1322  
1323  "Warrandice (n.) The obligation by which a person, conveying a subject or a right, is bound to uphold that subject or right against every claim, challenge, or burden arising from circumstances prior to the conveyance; warranty."
1324  
1325  "Warrant (n.) That which warrants or authorizes; a commission giving authority, or justifying the doing of anything; an act, instrument, or obligation, by which one person authorizes another to do something which he has not otherwise a right to do; an act or instrument investing one with a right or authority, and thus securing him from loss or damage; commission; authority."
1326  
1327  Warrant (n.) A writing which authorizes a person to receive money or other thing.
1328  
1329  "Warrant (n.) A precept issued by a magistrate authorizing an officer to make an arrest, a seizure, or a search, or do other acts incident to the administration of justice."
1330  
1331  "Warrant (n.) An official certificate of appointment issued to an officer of lower rank than a commissioned officer. See Warrant officer, below."
1332  
1333  Warrant (n.) That which vouches or insures for anything; guaranty; security.
1334  
1335  Warrant (n.) That which attests or proves; a voucher.
1336  
1337  Warrant (n.) Right; legality; allowance.
1338  
1339  Warranted (imp. & p. p.) of Warrant
1340  
1341  Warranting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Warrant
1342  
1343  "Warrant (n.) To make secure; to give assurance against harm; to guarantee safety to; to give authority or power to do, or forbear to do, anything by which the person authorized is secured, or saved harmless, from any loss or damage by his action."
1344  
1345  "Warrant (n.) To support by authority or proof; to justify; to maintain; to sanction; as, reason warrants it."
1346  
1347  Warrant (n.) To give a warrant or warranty to; to assure as if by giving a warrant to.
1348  
1349  "Warrant (n.) To secure to, as a grantee, an estate granted; to assure."
1350  
1351  "Warrant (n.) To secure to, as a purchaser of goods, the title to the same; to indemnify against loss."
1352  
1353  "Warrant (n.) To secure to, as a purchaser, the quality or quantity of the goods sold, as represented. See Warranty, n., 2."
1354  
1355  "Warrant (n.) To assure, as a thing sold, to the purchaser; that is, to engage that the thing is what it appears, or is represented, to be, which implies a covenant to make good any defect or loss incurred by it."
1356  
1357  "Warrantable (a.) Authorized by commission, precept, or right; justifiable; defensible; as, the seizure of a thief is always warrantable by law and justice; falsehood is never warrantable."
1358  
1359  Warrantee (n.) The person to whom a warrant or warranty is made.
1360  
1361  "Warranter (n.) One who warrants, gives authority, or legally empowers."
1362  
1363  "Warranter (n.) One who assures, or covenants to assure; one who contracts to secure another in a right, or to make good any defect of title or quality; one who gives a warranty; a guarantor; as, the warranter of a horse."
1364  
1365  Warrantise (n.) Authority; security; warranty.
1366  
1367  Warrantise (v. t.) To warrant.
1368  
1369  Warrantor (n.) One who warrants.
1370  
1371  Warranties (pl. ) of Warranty
1372  
1373  "Warranty (n.) A covenant real, whereby the grantor of an estate of freehold and his heirs were bound to warrant and defend the title, and, in case of eviction by title paramount, to yield other lands of equal value in recompense. This warranty has long singe become obsolete, and its place supplied by personal covenants for title. Among these is the covenant of warranty, which runs with the land, and is in the nature of a real covenant."
1374  
1375  "Warranty (n.) An engagement or undertaking, express or implied, that a certain fact regarding the subject of a contract is, or shall be, as it is expressly or impliedly declared or promised to be. In sales of goods by persons in possession, there is an implied warranty of title, but, as to the quality of goods, the rule of every sale is, Caveat emptor."
1376  
1377  "Warranty (n.) A stipulation or engagement by a party insured, that certain things, relating to the subject of insurance, or affecting the risk, exist, or shall exist, or have been done, or shall be done. These warranties, when express, should appear in the policy; but there are certain implied warranties."
1378  
1379  Warranty (n.) Justificatory mandate or precept; authority; warrant.
1380  
1381  Warranty (n.) Security; warrant; guaranty.
1382  
1383  Warranty (v. t.) To warrant; to guarantee.
1384  
1385  Warray (v. t.) To make war upon. [Obs.] Fairfax.
1386  
1387  Warre (a.) Worse.
1388  
1389  "Warren (n.) A place privileged, by prescription or grant the king, for keeping certain animals (as hares, conies, partridges, pheasants, etc.) called beasts and fowls of warren."
1390  
1391  "Warren (n.) A privilege which one has in his lands, by royal grant or prescription, of hunting and taking wild beasts and birds of warren, to the exclusion of any other person not entering by his permission."
1392  
1393  Warren (n.) A piece of ground for the breeding of rabbits.
1394  
1395  "Warren (n.) A place for keeping flash, in a river."
1396  
1397  Warrener (n.) The keeper of a warren.
1398  
1399  Warriangle (n.) See Wariangle.
1400  
1401  Warrie (v. t.) See Warye.
1402  
1403  "Warrin (n.) An Australian lorikeet (Trichoglossus multicolor) remarkable for the variety and brilliancy of its colors; -- called also blue-bellied lorikeet, and blue-bellied parrot."
1404  
1405  "Warrior (n.) A man engaged or experienced in war, or in the military life; a soldier; a champion."
1406  
1407  Warrioress (n.) A female warrior.
1408  
1409  Warry (v. t.) See Warye.
1410  
1411  Warsaw (n.) The black grouper (Epinephelus nigritus) of the southern coasts of the United States.
1412  
1413  Warsaw (n.) The jewfish; -- called also guasa.
1414  
1415  "Wart (n.) A small, usually hard, tumor on the skin formed by enlargement of its vascular papillae, and thickening of the epidermis which covers them."
1416  
1417  "Wart (n.) An excrescence or protuberance more or less resembling a true wart; specifically (Bot.), a glandular excrescence or hardened protuberance on plants."
1418  
1419  "Warted (a.) Having little knobs on the surface; verrucose; as, a warted capsule."
1420  
1421  "Wart hog () Either one of two species of large, savage African wild hogs of the genus Phacoch/rus. These animals have a pair of large, rough, fleshy tubercles behind the tusks and second pair behind the eyes. The tusks are large and strong, and both pairs curve upward. The body is scantily covered with bristles, but there is long dorsal mane. The South African species (Phacoch/rus Aethiopicus) is the best known. Called also vlacke vark. The second species (P. Aeliani) is native of the coasts of the Red Sea."
1422  
1423  Wartless (a.) Having no wart.
1424  
1425  Wartweed (n.) Same as Wartwort.
1426  
1427  "Wartwort (n.) A name given to several plants because they were thought to be a cure for warts, as a kind of spurge (Euphorbia Helioscopia), and the nipplewort (Lampsana communis)."
1428  
1429  "Warty (a.) Having warts; full of warts; overgrow with warts; as, a warty leaf."
1430  
1431  "Warty (a.) Of the nature of warts; as, a warty excrescence."
1432  
1433  "Warwickite (n.) A dark brown or black mineral, occurring in prismatic crystals imbedded in limestone near Warwick, New York. It consists of the borate and titanate of magnesia and iron."
1434  
1435  "Warworn (a.) Worn with military service; as, a warworn soldier; a warworn coat."
1436  
1437  "Wary (a.) Cautious of danger; carefully watching and guarding against deception, artifices, and dangers; timorously or suspiciously prudent; circumspect; scrupulous; careful."
1438  
1439  Wary (a.) Characterized by caution; guarded; careful.
1440  
1441  "Warye (v. t.) To curse; to curse; to execrate; to condemn; also, to vex."
1442  
1443  "Was (v.) The first and third persons singular of the verb be, in the indicative mood, preterit (imperfect) tense; as, I was; he was."
1444  
1445  "Wase (n.) A bundle of straw, or other material, to relieve the pressure of burdens carried upon the head."
1446  
1447  Washed (imp. & p. p.) of Wash
1448  
1449  Washing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Wash
1450  
1451  "Wash (v. t.) To cleanse by ablution, or dipping or rubbing in water; to apply water or other liquid to for the purpose of cleansing; to scrub with water, etc., or as with water; as, to wash the hands or body; to wash garments; to wash sheep or wool; to wash the pavement or floor; to wash the bark of trees."
1452  
1453  "Wash (v. t.) To cover with water or any liquid; to wet; to fall on and moisten; hence, to overflow or dash against; as, waves wash the shore."
1454  
1455  "Wash (v. t.) To waste or abrade by the force of water in motion; as, heavy rains wash a road or an embankment."
1456  
1457  "Wash (v. t.) To remove by washing to take away by, or as by, the action of water; to drag or draw off as by the tide; -- often with away, off, out, etc.; as, to wash dirt from the hands."
1458  
1459  Wash (v. t.) To cover with a thin or watery coat of color; to tint lightly and thinly.
1460  
1461  "Wash (v. t.) To overlay with a thin coat of metal; as, steel washed with silver."
1462  
1463  Wash (v. i.) To perform the act of ablution.
1464  
1465  "Wash (v. i.) To clean anything by rubbing or dipping it in water; to perform the business of cleansing clothes, ore, etc., in water."
1466  
1467  "Wash (v. i.) To bear without injury the operation of being washed; as, some calicoes do not wash."
1468  
1469  "Wash (v. i.) To be wasted or worn away by the action of water, as by a running or overflowing stream, or by the dashing of the sea; -- said of road, a beach, etc."
1470  
1471  "Wash (n.) The act of washing; an ablution; a cleansing, wetting, or dashing with water; hence, a quantity, as of clothes, washed at once."
1472  
1473  "Wash (n.) A piece of ground washed by the action of a sea or river, or sometimes covered and sometimes left dry; the shallowest part of a river, or arm of the sea; also, a bog; a marsh; a fen; as, the washes in Lincolnshire."
1474  
1475  "Wash (n.) Substances collected and deposited by the action of water; as, the wash of a sewer, of a river, etc."
1476  
1477  "Wash (n.) Waste liquid, the refuse of food, the collection from washed dishes, etc., from a kitchen, often used as food for pigs."
1478  
1479  Wash (n.) The fermented wort before the spirit is extracted.
1480  
1481  "Wash (n.) A mixture of dunder, molasses, water, and scummings, used in the West Indies for distillation."
1482  
1483  "Wash (n.) That with which anything is washed, or wetted, smeared, tinted, etc., upon the surface."
1484  
1485  Wash (n.) A liquid cosmetic for the complexion.
1486  
1487  Wash (n.) A liquid dentifrice.
1488  
1489  "Wash (n.) A liquid preparation for the hair; as, a hair wash."
1490  
1491  Wash (n.) A medical preparation in a liquid form for external application; a lotion.
1492  
1493  "Wash (n.) A thin coat of color, esp. water color."
1494  
1495  Wash (n.) A thin coat of metal laid on anything for beauty or preservation.
1496  
1497  "Wash (n.) The blade of an oar, or the thin part which enters the water."
1498  
1499  "Wash (n.) The backward current or disturbed water caused by the action of oars, or of a steamer's screw or paddles, etc."
1500  
1501  "Wash (n.) The flow, swash, or breaking of a body of water, as a wave; also, the sound of it."
1502  
1503  "Wash (n.) Ten strikes, or bushels, of oysters."
1504  
1505  Wash (a.) Washy; weak.
1506  
1507  "Wash (a.) Capable of being washed without injury; washable; as, wash goods."
1508  
1509  Washable (a.) Capable of being washed without damage to fabric or color.
1510  
1511  "Washboard (n.) A fluted, or ribbed, board on which clothes are rubbed in washing them."
1512  
1513  "Washboard (n.) A board running round, and serving as a facing for, the walls of a room, next to the floor; a mopboard."
1514  
1515  "Washboard (n.) A broad, thin plank, fixed along the gunwale of boat to keep the sea from breaking inboard; also, a plank on the sill of a lower deck port, for the same purpose; -- called also wasteboard."
1516  
1517  "Washbowl (n.) A basin, or bowl, to hold water for washing one's hands, face, etc."
1518  
1519  Washdish (n.) A washbowl.
1520  
1521  "Washdish (n.) Same as Washerwoman, 2."
1522  
1523  Washed (a.) Appearing as if overlaid with a thin layer of different color; -- said of the colors of certain birds and insects.
1524  
1525  Washen () p. p. of Wash.
1526  
1527  "Washer (n.) One who, or that which, washes."
1528  
1529  "Washer (n.) A ring of metal, leather, or other material, or a perforated plate, used for various purposes, as around a bolt or screw to form a seat for the head or nut, or around a wagon axle to prevent endwise motion of the hub of the wheel and relieve friction, or in a joint to form a packing, etc."
1530  
1531  "Washer (n.) A fitting, usually having a plug, applied to a cistern, tub, sink, or the like, and forming the outlet opening."
1532  
1533  Washer (n.) The common raccoon.
1534  
1535  "Washer (n.) Same as Washerwoman, 2."
1536  
1537  Washermen (pl. ) of Washerman
1538  
1539  "Washerman (n.) A man who washes clothes, esp. for hire, or for others."
1540  
1541  Washerwomen (pl. ) of Washerwoman
1542  
1543  "Washerwoman (n.) A woman who washes clothes, especially for hire, or for others."
1544  
1545  Washerwoman (n.) The pied wagtail; -- so called in allusion to its beating the water with its tail while tripping along the leaves of water plants.
1546  
1547  "Washhouse (n.) An outbuilding for washing, esp. one for washing clothes; a laundry."
1548  
1549  "Washiness (n.) The quality or state of being washy, watery, or weak."
1550  
1551  Washing (n.) The act of one who washes; the act of cleansing with water; ablution.
1552  
1553  "Washing (n.) The clothes washed, esp. at one time; a wash."
1554  
1555  "Washingtonian (a.) Pertaining to, or characteristic of, George Washington; as, a Washingtonian policy."
1556  
1557  "Washingtonian (a.) Designating, or pertaining to, a temperance society and movement started in Baltimore in 1840 on the principle of total abstinence."
1558  
1559  Washingtonian (n.) A member of the Washingtonian Society.
1560  
1561  Wash-off (a.) Capable of being washed off; not permanent or durable; -- said of colors not fixed by steaming or otherwise.
1562  
1563  "Washout (n.) The washing out or away of earth, etc., especially of a portion of the bed of a road or railroad by a fall of rain or a freshet; also, a place, especially in the bed of a road or railroad, where the earth has been washed away."
1564  
1565  Washpot (n.) A pot or vessel in which anything is washed.
1566  
1567  Washpot (n.) A pot containing melted tin into which the plates are dipped to be coated.
1568  
1569  "Washstand (n.) A piece of furniture holding the ewer or pitcher, basin, and other requisites for washing the person."
1570  
1571  Washtub (n.) A tub in which clothes are washed.
1572  
1573  Washy (a.) Watery; damp; soft.
1574  
1575  "Washy (a.) Lacking substance or strength; weak; thin; dilute; feeble; as, washy tea; washy resolutions."
1576  
1577  "Washy (a.) Not firm or hardy; liable to sweat profusely with labor; as, a washy horse."
1578  
1579  Wasite (n.) A variety of allanite from Sweden supposed to contain wasium.
1580  
1581  "Wasium (n.) A rare element supposed by Bahr to have been extracted from wasite, but now identified with thorium."
1582  
1583  "Wasp (n.) Any one of numerous species of stinging hymenopterous insects, esp. any of the numerous species of the genus Vespa, which includes the true, or social, wasps, some of which are called yellow jackets."
1584  
1585  "Waspish (a.) Resembling a wasp in form; having a slender waist, like a wasp."
1586  
1587  Waspish (a.) Quick to resent a trifling affront; characterized by snappishness; irritable; irascible; petulant; snappish.
1588  
1589  "Wassail (n.) An ancient expression of good wishes on a festive occasion, especially in drinking to some one."
1590  
1591  Wassail (n.) An occasion on which such good wishes are expressed in drinking; a drinking bout; a carouse.
1592  
1593  "Wassail (n.) The liquor used for a wassail; esp., a beverage formerly much used in England at Christmas and other festivals, made of ale (or wine) flavored with spices, sugar, toast, roasted apples, etc.; -- called also lamb's wool."
1594  
1595  Wassail (n.) A festive or drinking song or glee.
1596  
1597  "Wassail (a.) Of or pertaining to wassail, or to a wassail; convivial; as, a wassail bowl."
1598  
1599  Wassail (v. i.) To hold a wassail; to carouse.
1600  
1601  "Wassailer (n.) One who drinks wassail; one who engages in festivity, especially in drinking; a reveler."
1602  
1603  "Wast () The second person singular of the verb be, in the indicative mood, imperfect tense; -- now used only in solemn or poetical style. See Was."
1604  
1605  "Wastage (n.) Loss by use, decay, evaporation, leakage, or the like; waste."
1606  
1607  "Waste (a.) Desolate; devastated; stripped; bare; hence, dreary; dismal; gloomy; cheerless."
1608  
1609  "Waste (a.) Lying unused; unproductive; worthless; valueless; refuse; rejected; as, waste land; waste paper."
1610  
1611  Waste (a.) Lost for want of occupiers or use; superfluous.
1612  
1613  Wasted (imp. & p. p.) of Waste
1614  
1615  Wasting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Waste
1616  
1617  Waste (a.) To bring to ruin; to devastate; to desolate; to destroy.
1618  
1619  Waste (a.) To wear away by degrees; to impair gradually; to diminish by constant loss; to use up; to consume; to spend; to wear out.
1620  
1621  Waste (a.) To spend unnecessarily or carelessly; to employ prodigally; to expend without valuable result; to apply to useless purposes; to lavish vainly; to squander; to cause to be lost; to destroy by scattering or injury.
1622  
1623  "Waste (a.) To damage, impair, or injure, as an estate, voluntarily, or by suffering the buildings, fences, etc., to go to decay."
1624  
1625  "Waste (v. i.) To be diminished; to lose bulk, substance, strength, value, or the like, gradually; to be consumed; to dwindle; to grow less."
1626  
1627  "Waste (v. i.) To procure or sustain a reduction of flesh; -- said of a jockey in preparation for a race, etc."
1628  
1629  "Waste (v.) The act of wasting, or the state of being wasted; a squandering; needless destruction; useless consumption or expenditure; devastation; loss without equivalent gain; gradual loss or decrease, by use, wear, or decay; as, a waste of property, time, labor, words, etc."
1630  
1631  "Waste (v.) That which is wasted or desolate; a devastated, uncultivated, or wild country; a deserted region; an unoccupied or unemployed space; a dreary void; a desert; a wilderness."
1632  
1633  "Waste (v.) That which is of no value; worthless remnants; refuse. Specifically: Remnants of cops, or other refuse resulting from the working of cotton, wool, hemp, and the like, used for wiping machinery, absorbing oil in the axle boxes of railway cars, etc."
1634  
1635  "Waste (v.) Spoil, destruction, or injury, done to houses, woods, fences, lands, etc., by a tenant for life or for years, to the prejudice of the heir, or of him in reversion or remainder."
1636  
1637  "Waste (v.) Old or abandoned workings, whether left as vacant space or filled with refuse."
1638  
1639  "Wastebasket (n.) A basket used in offices, libraries, etc., as a receptacle for waste paper."
1640  
1641  "Wasteboard (n.) See Washboard, 3."
1642  
1643  "Wastebook (n.) A book in which rough entries of transactions are made, previous to their being carried into the journal."
1644  
1645  "Wasteful (a.) Full of waste; destructive to property; ruinous; as, wasteful practices or negligence; wasteful expenses."
1646  
1647  "Wasteful (a.) Expending, or tending to expend, property, or that which is valuable, in a needless or useless manner; lavish; prodigal; as, a wasteful person; a wasteful disposition."
1648  
1649  Wasteful (a.) Waste; desolate; unoccupied; untilled.
1650  
1651  "Wastel (n.) A kind of white and fine bread or cake; -- called also wastel bread, and wastel cake."
1652  
1653  Wasteness (n.) The quality or state of being waste; a desolate state or condition; desolation.
1654  
1655  Wasteness (n.) That which is waste; a desert; a waste.
1656  
1657  "Waster (v. t.) One who, or that which, wastes; one who squanders; one who consumes or expends extravagantly; a spendthrift; a prodigal."
1658  
1659  "Waster (v. t.) An imperfection in the wick of a candle, causing it to waste; -- called also a thief."
1660  
1661  "Waster (v. t.) A kind of cudgel; also, a blunt-edged sword used as a foil."
1662  
1663  Wastethrift (n.) A spendthrift.
1664  
1665  "Wasteweir (n.) An overfall, or weir, for the escape, or overflow, of superfluous water from a canal, reservoir, pond, or the like."
1666  
1667  "Wasting (a.) Causing waste; also, undergoing waste; diminishing; as, a wasting disease; a wasting fortune."
1668  
1669  Wastor (n.) A waster; a thief.
1670  
1671  Wastorel (n.) See Wastrel.
1672  
1673  Wastrel (n.) Any waste thing or substance
1674  
1675  Wastrel (n.) Waste land or common land.
1676  
1677  Wastrel (n.) A profligate.
1678  
1679  Wastrel (n.) A neglected child; a street Arab.
1680  
1681  "Wastrel (n.) Anything cast away as bad or useless, as imperfect bricks, china, etc."
1682  
1683  "Watch (v. i.) The act of watching; forbearance of sleep; vigil; wakeful, vigilant, or constantly observant attention; close observation; guard; preservative or preventive vigilance; formerly, a watching or guarding by night."
1684  
1685  "Watch (v. i.) One who watches, or those who watch; a watchman, or a body of watchmen; a sentry; a guard."
1686  
1687  "Watch (v. i.) The post or office of a watchman; also, the place where a watchman is posted, or where a guard is kept."
1688  
1689  "Watch (v. i.) The period of the night during which a person does duty as a sentinel, or guard; the time from the placing of a sentinel till his relief; hence, a division of the night."
1690  
1691  "Watch (v. i.) A small timepiece, or chronometer, to be carried about the person, the machinery of which is moved by a spring."
1692  
1693  "Watch (n.) An allotted portion of time, usually four hour for standing watch, or being on deck ready for duty. Cf. Dogwatch."
1694  
1695  "Watch (n.) That part, usually one half, of the officers and crew, who together attend to the working of a vessel for an allotted time, usually four hours. The watches are designated as the port watch, and the starboard watch."
1696  
1697  Watch (v. i.) To be awake; to be or continue without sleep; to wake; to keep vigil.
1698  
1699  Watch (v. i.) To be attentive or vigilant; to give heed; to be on the lookout; to keep guard; to act as sentinel.
1700  
1701  Watch (v. i.) To be expectant; to look with expectation; to wait; to seek opportunity.
1702  
1703  "Watch (v. i.) To remain awake with any one as nurse or attendant; to attend on the sick during the night; as, to watch with a man in a fever."
1704  
1705  Watch (v. i.) To serve the purpose of a watchman by floating properly in its place; -- said of a buoy.
1706  
1707  Watched (imp. & p. p.) of Watch
1708  
1709  Watching (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Watch
1710  
1711  "Watch (v. t.) To give heed to; to observe the actions or motions of, for any purpose; to keep in view; not to lose from sight and observation; as, to watch the progress of a bill in the legislature."
1712  
1713  Watch (v. t.) To tend; to guard; to have in keeping.
1714  
1715  "Watchdog (n.) A dog kept to watch and guard premises or property, and to give notice of the approach of intruders."
1716  
1717  "Watcher (n.) One who watches; one who sits up or continues; a diligent observer; specifically, one who attends upon the sick during the night."
1718  
1719  Watches (n. pl.) The leaves of Saracenia flava. See Trumpets.
1720  
1721  Watchet (a.) Pale or light blue.
1722  
1723  "Watchful (a.) Full of watch; vigilant; attentive; careful to observe closely; observant; cautious; -- with of before the thing to be regulated or guarded; as, to be watchful of one's behavior; and with against before the thing to be avoided; as, to be watchful against the growth of vicious habits."
1724  
1725  Watchhouses (pl. ) of Watchhouse
1726  
1727  Watchhouse (n.) A house in which a watch or guard is placed.
1728  
1729  Watchhouse (n.) A place where persons under temporary arrest by the police of a city are kept; a police station; a lockup.
1730  
1731  Watchmaker (n.) One whose occupation is to make and repair watches.
1732  
1733  Watchmen (pl. ) of Watchman
1734  
1735  Watchman (n.) One set to watch; a person who keeps guard; a guard; a sentinel.
1736  
1737  "Watchman (n.) Specifically, one who guards a building, or the streets of a city, by night."
1738  
1739  "Watchtower (n.) A tower in which a sentinel is placed to watch for enemies, the approach of danger, or the like."
1740  
1741  "Watchword (n.) A word given to sentinels, and to such as have occasion to visit the guards, used as a signal by which a friend is known from an enemy, or a person who has a right to pass the watch from one who has not; a countersign; a password."
1742  
1743  "Watchword (n.) A sentiment or motto; esp., one used as a rallying cry or a signal for action."
1744  
1745  "Water (n.) The fluid which descends from the clouds in rain, and which forms rivers, lakes, seas, etc."
1746  
1747  "Water (n.) A body of water, standing or flowing; a lake, river, or other collection of water."
1748  
1749  "Water (n.) Any liquid secretion, humor, or the like, resembling water; esp., the urine."
1750  
1751  "Water (n.) A solution in water of a gaseous or readily volatile substance; as, ammonia water."
1752  
1753  "Water (n.) The limpidity and luster of a precious stone, especially a diamond; as, a diamond of the first water, that is, perfectly pure and transparent. Hence, of the first water, that is, of the first excellence."
1754  
1755  "Water (n.) A wavy, lustrous pattern or decoration such as is imparted to linen, silk, metals, etc. See Water, v. t., 3, Damask, v. t., and Damaskeen."
1756  
1757  "Water (v. t.) An addition to the shares representing the capital of a stock company so that the aggregate par value of the shares is increased while their value for investment is diminished, or ""diluted."""
1758  
1759  Watered (imp. & p. p.) of Water
1760  
1761  Watering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Water
1762  
1763  "Water (v. t.) To wet or supply with water; to moisten; to overflow with water; to irrigate; as, to water land; to water flowers."
1764  
1765  "Water (v. t.) To supply with water for drink; to cause or allow to drink; as, to water cattle and horses."
1766  
1767  "Water (v. t.) To wet and calender, as cloth, so as to impart to it a lustrous appearance in wavy lines; to diversify with wavelike lines; as, to water silk. Cf. Water, n., 6."
1768  
1769  "Water (n.) To add water to (anything), thereby extending the quantity or bulk while reducing the strength or quality; to extend; to dilute; to weaken."
1770  
1771  "Water (v. i.) To shed, secrete, or fill with, water or liquid matter; as, his eyes began to water."
1772  
1773  "Water (v. i.) To get or take in water; as, the ship put into port to water."
1774  
1775  Water adder () The water moccasin.
1776  
1777  "Water adder () The common, harmless American water snake (Tropidonotus sipedon). See Illust. under Water Snake."
1778  
1779  "Waterage (n.) Money paid for transportation of goods, etc., by water."
1780  
1781  Water agrimony () A kind of bur marigold (Bidens tripartita) found in wet places in Europe.
1782  
1783  Water aloe () See Water soldier.
1784  
1785  Water antelope () See Water buck.
1786  
1787  Water arum () An aroid herb (Calla palustris) having a white spathe. It is an inhabitant of the north temperate zone.
1788  
1789  Water back () See under 1st Back.
1790  
1791  "Water bailiff () An officer of the customs, whose duty it is to search vessels."
1792  
1793  "Water ballast () Water confined in specially constructed compartments in a vessel's hold, to serve as ballast."
1794  
1795  Water barometer () A barometer in which the changes of atmospheric pressure are indicated by the motion of a column of water instead of mercury. It requires a column of water about thirty-three feet in height.
1796  
1797  "Water bath () A device for regulating the temperature of anything subjected to heat, by surrounding the vessel containing it with another vessel containing water which can be kept at a desired temperature; also, a vessel designed for this purpose."
1798  
1799  Water battery () A voltaic battery in which the exciting fluid is water.
1800  
1801  Water battery () A battery nearly on a level with the water.
1802  
1803  "Water bear () Any species of Tardigrada, 2. See Illust. of Tardigrada."
1804  
1805  Water-bearer (n.) The constellation Aquarius.
1806  
1807  "Water bed () A kind of mattress made of, or covered with, waterproof fabric and filled with water. It is used in hospitals for bedridden patients."
1808  
1809  Water beech () The American hornbeam. See Hornbeam.
1810  
1811  "Water beetle () Any one of numerous species of aquatic beetles belonging to Dytiscus and allied genera of the family Dytiscidae, and to various genera of the family Hydrophilidae. These beetles swim with great agility, the fringed hind legs acting together like oars."
1812  
1813  Water bellows () Same as Tromp.
1814  
1815  Water bird () Any aquatic bird; a water fowl.
1816  
1817  "Water blackbird () The European water ousel, or dipper."
1818  
1819  "Waterboard (n.) A board set up to windward in a boat, to keep out water."
1820  
1821  Water boatman () A boat bug.
1822  
1823  Waterbok (n.) A water buck.
1824  
1825  Water-bound (a.) Prevented by a flood from proceeding.
1826  
1827  Water brain () A disease of sheep; gid.
1828  
1829  Water brash () See under Brash.
1830  
1831  Water breather () Any arthropod that breathes by means of gills.
1832  
1833  Water bridge () See Water table.
1834  
1835  "Water buck () A large, heavy antelope (Kobus ellipsiprymnus) native of Central Africa. It frequents the banks of rivers and is a good swimmer. It has a white ring around the rump. Called also photomok, water antelope, and waterbok."
1836  
1837  Water buffalo () The European buffalo.
1838  
1839  Water bug () The Croton bug.
1840  
1841  "Water bug () Any one of numerous species of large, rapacious, aquatic, hemipterous insects belonging to Belostoma, Benacus, Zaitha, and other genera of the family Belostomatidae. Their hind legs are long and fringed, and act like oars. Some of these insects are of great size, being among the largest existing Hemiptera. Many of them come out of the water and fly about at night."
1842  
1843  "Water butt () A large, open-headed cask, set up on end, to contain water."
1844  
1845  Water caltrop () The water chestnut.
1846  
1847  "Water can () Any one of several species of Nuphar; the yellow frog lily; -- so called from the shape of the seed vessel. See Nuphar, and cf. Candock."
1848  
1849  "Water canker () See Canker, n., 1."
1850  
1851  Water carriage () Transportation or conveyance by water; means of transporting by water.
1852  
1853  Water carriage () A vessel or boat.
1854  
1855  "Water cart () A cart carrying water; esp., one carrying water for sale, or for sprinkling streets, gardens, etc."
1856  
1857  Water cavy () The capybara.
1858  
1859  Water celery () A very acrid herb (Ranunculus sceleratus) growing in ditches and wet places; -- called also cursed crowfoot.
1860  
1861  "Water cell () A cell containing water; specifically (Zool.), one of the cells or chambers in which water is stored up in the stomach of a camel."
1862  
1863  Water cement () Hydraulic cement.
1864  
1865  "Water chestnut () The fruit of Trapa natans and Trapa bicornis, Old World water plants bearing edible nutlike fruits armed with several hard and sharp points; also, the plant itself; -- called also water caltrop."
1866  
1867  Water chevrotain () A large West African chevrotain (Hyaemoschus aquaticus). It has a larger body and shorter legs than the other allied species. Called also water deerlet.
1868  
1869  Water chicken () The common American gallinule.
1870  
1871  Water chickweed () A small annual plant (Montia fontana) growing in wet places in southern regions.
1872  
1873  "Water chinquapin () The American lotus, and its edible seeds, which somewhat resemble chinquapins. Cf. Yoncopin."
1874  
1875  "Water clock () An instrument or machine serving to measure time by the fall, or flow, of a certain quantity of water; a clepsydra."
1876  
1877  "Water-closet (n.) A privy; especially, a privy furnished with a contrivance for introducing a stream of water to cleanse it."
1878  
1879  "Water cock () A large gallinule (Gallicrex cristatus) native of Australia, India, and the East Indies. In the breeding season the male is black and has a fleshy red caruncle, or horn, on the top of its head. Called also kora."
1880  
1881  Water color () A color ground with water and gum or other glutinous medium; a color the vehicle of which is water; -- so called in distinction from oil color.
1882  
1883  Water color () A picture painted with such colors.
1884  
1885  Water-colorist (n.) One who paints in water colors.
1886  
1887  Water course () A stream of water; a river or brook.
1888  
1889  "Water course () A natural channel for water; also, a canal for the conveyance of water, especially in draining lands."
1890  
1891  Water course () A running stream of water having a bed and banks; the easement one may have in the flowing of such a stream in its accustomed course. A water course may be sometimes dry.
1892  
1893  "Water craft () Any vessel or boat plying on water; vessels and boats, collectively."
1894  
1895  Water crake () The dipper.
1896  
1897  Water crake () The spotted crake (Porzana maruetta). See Illust. of Crake.
1898  
1899  "Water crake () The swamp hen, or crake, of Australia."
1900  
1901  "Water crane () A goose-neck apparatus for supplying water from an elevated tank, as to the tender of a locomotive."
1902  
1903  "Water cress () A perennial cruciferous herb (Nasturtium officinale) growing usually in clear running or spring water. The leaves are pungent, and used for salad and as an antiscorbutic."
1904  
1905  Water crow () The dipper.
1906  
1907  Water crow () The European coot.
1908  
1909  "Water crowfoot () An aquatic kind of buttercup (Ranunculus aquatilis), used as food for cattle in parts of England."
1910  
1911  Water cure () Hydropathy.
1912  
1913  Water cure () A hydropathic institution.
1914  
1915  Water deck () A covering of painting canvas for the equipments of a dragoon's horse.
1916  
1917  "Water deer () A small Chinese deer (Hydropotes inermis). Both sexes are destitute of antlers, but the male has large, descending canine tusks."
1918  
1919  Water deer () The water chevrotain.
1920  
1921  Water deerlet () See Water chevrotain.
1922  
1923  "Water devil () The rapacious larva of a large water beetle (Hydrophilus piceus), and of other similar species. See Illust. of Water beetle."
1924  
1925  "Water dock () A tall, coarse dock growing in wet places. The American water dock is Rumex orbiculatus, the European is R. Hydrolapathum."
1926  
1927  Water doctor () One who professes to be able to divine diseases by inspection of the urine.
1928  
1929  Water doctor () A physician who treats diseases with water; an hydropathist.
1930  
1931  "Water dog () A dog accustomed to the water, or trained to retrieve waterfowl. Retrievers, waters spaniels, and Newfoundland dogs are so trained."
1932  
1933  Water dog () The menobranchus.
1934  
1935  "Water dog () A small floating cloud, supposed to indicate rain."
1936  
1937  "Water dog () A sailor, esp. an old sailor; an old salt."
1938  
1939  Water drain () A drain or channel for draining off water.
1940  
1941  Water drainage () The draining off of water.
1942  
1943  "Water dressing () The treatment of wounds or ulcers by the application of water; also, a dressing saturated with water only, for application to a wound or an ulcer."
1944  
1945  Water dropwort () A European poisonous umbelliferous plant (Enanthe fistulosa) with large hollow stems and finely divided leaves.
1946  
1947  Water eagle () The osprey.
1948  
1949  Water elder () The guelder-rose.
1950  
1951  Water elephant () The hippopotamus.
1952  
1953  "Water engine () An engine to raise water; or an engine moved by water; also, an engine or machine for extinguishing fires; a fire engine."
1954  
1955  "Waterer (n.) One who, or that which, waters."
1956  
1957  "Waterfall (n.) A fall, or perpendicular descent, of the water of a river or stream, or a descent nearly perpendicular; a cascade; a cataract."
1958  
1959  Waterfall (n.) An arrangement of a woman's back hair over a cushion or frame in some resemblance to a waterfall.
1960  
1961  Waterfall (n.) A certain kind of neck scarf.
1962  
1963  Water feather () Alt. of Water feather-foil
1964  
1965  "Water feather-foil () The water violet (Hottonia palustris); also, the less showy American plant H. inflata."
1966  
1967  Water flag () A European species of Iris (Iris Pseudacorus) having bright yellow flowers.
1968  
1969  Water flannel () A floating mass formed in pools by the entangled filaments of a European fresh-water alga (Cladophora crispata).
1970  
1971  "Water flea () Any one of numerous species of small aquatic Entomostraca belonging to the genera Cyclops, Daphnia, etc; -- so called because they swim with sudden leaps, or starts."
1972  
1973  Waterflood (n.) A flood of water; an inundation.
1974  
1975  Water flounder () The windowpane (Pleuronectes maculatus).
1976  
1977  "Waterfowl (n.) Any bird that frequents the water, or lives about rivers, lakes, etc., or on or near the sea; an aquatic fowl; -- used also collectively."
1978  
1979  Water fox () The carp; -- so called on account of its cunning.
1980  
1981  "Water frame () A name given to the first power spinning machine, because driven by water power."
1982  
1983  "Water furrow () A deep furrow for conducting water from the ground, and keeping the surface soil dry."
1984  
1985  Water-furrow (v. t.) To make water furrows in.
1986  
1987  Water gage () See Water gauge.
1988  
1989  Water gall () A cavity made in the earth by a torrent of water; a washout.
1990  
1991  "Water gall () A watery appearance in the sky, accompanying the rainbow; a secondary or broken rainbow."
1992  
1993  "Water gang () A passage for water, such as was usually made in a sea wall, to drain water out of marshes."
1994  
1995  Water gas () See under Gas.
1996  
1997  "Water gate () A gate, or valve, by which a flow of water is permitted, prevented, or regulated."
1998  
1999  Water gauge () A wall or bank to hold water back.
2000  
2001  "Water gauge () An instrument for measuring or ascertaining the depth or quantity of water, or for indicating the height of its surface, as in the boiler of a steam engine. See Gauge."
2002  
2003  "Water gavel () A gavel or rent paid for a privilege, as of fishing, in some river or water."
2004  
2005  Water germander () A labiate plant (Teucrium Scordium) found in marshy places in Europe.
2006  
2007  "Water gilding () The act, or the process, of gilding metallic surfaces by covering them with a thin coating of amalgam of gold, and then volatilizing the mercury by heat; -- called also wash gilding."
2008  
2009  "Water glass () See Soluble glass, under Glass."
2010  
2011  "Water god () A fabulous deity supposed to dwell in, and preside over, some body of water."
2012  
2013  "Water gruel () A liquid food composed of water and a small portion of meal, or other farinaceous substance, boiled and seasoned."
2014  
2015  "Water hammer () A vessel partly filled with water, exhausted of air, and hermetically sealed. When reversed or shaken, the water being unimpeded by air, strikes the sides in solid mass with a sound like that of a hammer."
2016  
2017  "Water hammer () A concussion, or blow, made by water in striking, as against the sides of a pipe or vessel containing it."
2018  
2019  "Water hare () A small American hare or rabbit (Lepus aquaticus) found on or near the southern coasts of the United States; -- called also water rabbit, and swamp hare."
2020  
2021  "Water hemlock () A poisonous umbelliferous plant (Cicuta virosa) of Europe; also, any one of several plants of that genus."
2022  
2023  Water hemlock () A poisonous plant (/nanthe crocata) resembling the above.
2024  
2025  Water hemp () See under Hemp.
2026  
2027  Water hen () Any gallinule.
2028  
2029  Water hen () The common American coot.
2030  
2031  Water hog () The capybara.
2032  
2033  Water horehound () Bugleweed.
2034  
2035  Waterhorse (n.) A pile of salted fish heaped up to drain.
2036  
2037  "Water hyacinth () Either of several tropical aquatic plants of the genus Eichhornia, related to the pickerel weed."
2038  
2039  "Water ice () Water flavored, sweetened, and frozen, to be eaten as a confection."
2040  
2041  Waterie (n.) The pied wagtail; -- so called because it frequents ponds.
2042  
2043  "Water inch () Same as Inch of water, under Water."
2044  
2045  Wateriness (n.) The quality or state of being watery; moisture; humidity.
2046  
2047  "Watering () a. & n. from Water, v."
2048  
2049  Waterish (a.) Resembling water; thin; watery.
2050  
2051  "Waterish (a.) Somewhat watery; moist; as, waterish land."
2052  
2053  Waterishness (n.) The quality of being waterish.
2054  
2055  "Water joint () A joint in a stone pavement where the stones are left slightly higher than elsewhere, the rest of the surface being sunken or dished. The raised surface is intended to prevent the settling of water in the joints."
2056  
2057  Water junket () The common sandpiper.
2058  
2059  "Water-laid (a.) Having a left-hand twist; -- said of cordage; as, a water-laid, or left-hand, rope."
2060  
2061  Waterlander (n.) Alt. of Waterlandian
2062  
2063  Waterlandian (n.) One of a body of Dutch Anabaptists who separated from the Mennonites in the sixteenth century; -- so called from a district in North Holland denominated Waterland.
2064  
2065  Water laverock () The common sandpiper.
2066  
2067  "Waterleaf (n.) Any plant of the American genus Hydrophyllum, herbs having white or pale blue bell-shaped flowers."
2068  
2069  "Water leg () See Leg, 7."
2070  
2071  "Water lemon () The edible fruit of two species of passion flower (Passiflora laurifolia, and P. maliformis); -- so called in the West Indies."
2072  
2073  Waterless (a.) Destitute of water; dry.
2074  
2075  "Water lettuce () A plant (Pistia stratiotes) which floats on tropical waters, and forms a rosette of spongy, wedge-shaped leaves."
2076  
2077  Water level () The level formed by the surface of still water.
2078  
2079  "Water level () A kind of leveling instrument. See under Level, n."
2080  
2081  "Water lily () A blossom or plant of any species of the genus Nymphaea, distinguished for its large floating leaves and beautiful flowers. See Nymphaea."
2082  
2083  Water lime () Hydraulic lime.
2084  
2085  "Water line () Any one of certain lines of a vessel, model, or plan, parallel with the surface of the water at various heights from the keel."
2086  
2087  "Water line () Any one of several lines marked upon the outside of a vessel, corresponding with the surface of the water when she is afloat on an even keel. The lowest line indicates the vessel's proper submergence when not loaded, and is called the light water line; the highest, called the load water line, indicates her proper submergence when loaded."
2088  
2089  "Water lizard () Any aquatic lizard of the genus Varanus, as the monitor of the Nile. See Monitor, n., 3."
2090  
2091  Water locust () A thorny leguminous tree (Gleditschia monosperma) which grows in the swamps of the Mississippi valley.
2092  
2093  "Water-logged (a.) Filled or saturated with water so as to be heavy, unmanageable, or loglike; -- said of a vessel, when, by receiving a great quantity of water into her hold, she has become so heavy as not to be manageable by the helm."
2094  
2095  Watermen (pl. ) of Waterman
2096  
2097  "Waterman (n.) A man who plies for hire on rivers, lakes, or canals, or in harbors, in distinction from a seaman who is engaged on the high seas; a man who manages fresh-water craft; a boatman; a ferryman."
2098  
2099  "Waterman (n.) An attendant on cab stands, etc., who supplies water to the horses."
2100  
2101  Waterman (n.) A water demon.
2102  
2103  "Watermark (n.) A mark indicating the height to which water has risen, or at which it has stood; the usual limit of high or low water."
2104  
2105  "Watermark (n.) A letter, device, or the like, wrought into paper during the process of manufacture."
2106  
2107  "Watermark (n.) See Water line, 2."
2108  
2109  "Water meadow () A meadow, or piece of low, flat land, capable of being kept in a state of fertility by being overflowed with water from some adjoining river or stream."
2110  
2111  "Water measure () A measure formerly used for articles brought by water, as coals, oysters, etc. The water-measure bushel was three gallons larger than the Winchester bushel."
2112  
2113  "Water measurer () Any one of numerous species of water; the skater. See Skater, n., 2."
2114  
2115  "Watermelon (n.) The very large ovoid or roundish fruit of a cucurbitaceous plant (Citrullus vulgaris) of many varieties; also, the plant itself. The fruit sometimes weighs many pounds; its pulp is usually pink in color, and full of a sweet watery juice. It is a native of tropical Africa, but is now cultivated in many countries. See Illust. of Melon."
2116  
2117  "Water meter () A contrivance for measuring a supply of water delivered or received for any purpose, as from a street main."
2118  
2119  "Water milfoil () Any plant of the genus Myriophyllum, aquatic herbs with whorled leaves, the submersed ones pinnately parted into capillary divisions."
2120  
2121  "Water mill () A mill whose machinery is moved by water; -- distinguished from a windmill, and a steam mill."
2122  
2123  "Water mint () A kind of mint (Mentha aquatica) growing in wet places, and sometimes having a perfume resembling bergamot."
2124  
2125  "Water mite () Any of numerous species of aquatic mites belonging to Hydrachna and allied genera of the family Hydrachnidae, usually having the legs fringed and adapted for swimming. They are often red or red and black in color, and while young are parasites of fresh-water insects and mussels. Called also water tick, and water spider."
2126  
2127  "Water moccasin () A venomous North American snake (Ancistrodon piscivorus) allied to the rattlesnake but destitute of a rattle. It lives in or about pools and ponds, and feeds largely of fishes. Called also water snake, water adder, water viper."
2128  
2129  Water mole () The shrew mole. See under Shrew.
2130  
2131  Water mole () The duck mole. See under Duck.
2132  
2133  "Water monitor () A very large lizard (Varanaus salvator) native of India. It frequents the borders of streams and swims actively. It becomes five or six feet long. Called also two-banded monitor, and kabaragoya. The name is also applied to other aquatic monitors."
2134  
2135  Water motor () A water engine.
2136  
2137  "Water motor () A water wheel; especially, a small water wheel driven by water from a street main."
2138  
2139  "Water mouse () Any one of several species of mice belonging to the genus Hydromys, native of Australia and Tasmania. Their hind legs are strong and their toes partially webbed. They live on the borders of streams, and swim well. They are remarkable as being the only rodents found in Australia."
2140  
2141  Water murrain () A kind of murrain affecting cattle.
2142  
2143  Water newt () Any one of numerous species of aquatic salamanders; a triton.
2144  
2145  "Water nymph () A goddess of any stream or other body of water, whether one of the Naiads, Nereids, or Oceanides."
2146  
2147  Water nymph () A water lily (Nymphaea).
2148  
2149  Water oat () Indian rice. See under Rice.
2150  
2151  "Water opossum () See Yapock, and the Note under Opossum."
2152  
2153  "Water ordeal () Same as Ordeal by water. See the Note under Ordeal, n., 1."
2154  
2155  Water ousel () Alt. of Water ouzel
2156  
2157  "Water ouzel () Any one of several species of small insessorial birds of the genus Cinclus (or Hydrobates), especially the European water ousel (C. aquaticus), and the American water ousel (C. Mexicanus). These birds live about the water, and are in the habit of walking on the bottom of streams beneath the water in search of food."
2158  
2159  "Water parsnip () Any plant of the aquatic umbelliferous genus Sium, poisonous herbs with pinnate or dissected leaves and small white flowers."
2160  
2161  Water partridge () The ruddy duck.
2162  
2163  Water pennywort () Marsh pennywort. See under Marsh.
2164  
2165  Water pepper () Smartweed.
2166  
2167  Water pepper () Waterwort.
2168  
2169  "Water pheasant () The pintail. See Pintail, n., 1."
2170  
2171  Water pheasant (n.) The goosander.
2172  
2173  Water pheasant (n.) The hooded merganser.
2174  
2175  Water piet () The water ousel.
2176  
2177  Water pig () The capybara.
2178  
2179  Water pig () The gourami.
2180  
2181  Water pillar () A waterspout.
2182  
2183  Water pimpernel () A small white-flowered shrub; brookweed.
2184  
2185  Water pipe () A pipe for conveying water.
2186  
2187  Water pitcher () A pitcher for water.
2188  
2189  Water pitcher () One of a family of plants having pitcher-shaped leaves. The sidesaddle flower (Sarracenia purpurea) is the type.
2190  
2191  Water plant () A plant that grows in water; an aquatic plant.
2192  
2193  Water plantain () A kind of plant with acrid leaves. See under 2d Plantain.
2194  
2195  Water plate () A plate heated by hot water contained in a double bottom or jacket.
2196  
2197  Water poa () Meadow reed grass. See under Reed.
2198  
2199  Water poise () A hydrometer.
2200  
2201  Water pore () A pore by which the water tubes of various invertebrates open externally.
2202  
2203  "Water pore () One of certain minute pores in the leaves of some plants. They are without true guardian cells, but in other respects closely resemble ordinary stomata."
2204  
2205  "Waterpot (n.) A vessel for holding or conveying water, or for sprinkling water on cloth, plants, etc."
2206  
2207  "Water power () The power of water employed to move machinery, etc."
2208  
2209  Water power () A fall of water which may be used to drive machinery; a site for a water mill; a water privilege.
2210  
2211  "Water pox () A variety of chicken pox, or varicella."
2212  
2213  "Water privilege () The advantage of using water as a mechanical power; also, the place where water is, or may be, so used. See under Privilege."
2214  
2215  "Waterproof (a.) Proof against penetration or permeation by water; impervious to water; as, a waterproof garment; a waterproof roof."
2216  
2217  "Waterproof (n.) A substance or preparation for rendering cloth, leather, etc., impervious to water."
2218  
2219  "Waterproof (n.) Cloth made waterproof, or any article made of such cloth, or of other waterproof material, as rubber; esp., an outer garment made of such material."
2220  
2221  "Waterproof (v. t.) To render impervious to water, as cloth, leather, etc."
2222  
2223  Waterproofing (n.) The act or process of making waterproof.
2224  
2225  "Waterproofing (n.) Same as Waterproof, n., 1."
2226  
2227  Water purslane () See under Purslane.
2228  
2229  "Water qualm () See Water brash, under Brash."
2230  
2231  Water rabbit () See Water hare.
2232  
2233  Water radish () A coarse yellow-flowered plant (Nasturtium amphibium) related to the water cress and to the horse-radish.
2234  
2235  "Water rail () Any one of numerous species of rails of the genus Rallus, as the common European species (Rallus aquaticus). See Illust. of Rail."
2236  
2237  Water ram () An hydraulic ram.
2238  
2239  Water rat () The water vole. See under Vole.
2240  
2241  Water rat () The muskrat.
2242  
2243  Water rat () The beaver rat. See under Beaver.
2244  
2245  Water rat () A thief on the water; a pirate.
2246  
2247  Water rate () A rate or tax for a supply of water.
2248  
2249  Water rattle () Alt. of Water rattler
2250  
2251  Water rattler () The diamond rattlesnake (Crotalus adamanteus); -- so called from its preference for damp places near water.
2252  
2253  Water-retted (imp. & p. p.) of Water-ret
2254  
2255  Water-retting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Water-ret
2256  
2257  "Water-ret (v. t.) To ret, or rot, in water, as flax; to water-rot."
2258  
2259  Water rice () Indian rice. See under Rice.
2260  
2261  Water rocket () A cruciferous plant (Nasturtium sylvestre) with small yellow flowers.
2262  
2263  Water rocket () A kind of firework to be discharged in the water.
2264  
2265  Water-rotted (imp. & p. p.) of Water-rot
2266  
2267  Water-rotting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Water-rot
2268  
2269  "Water-rot (v. t.) To rot by steeping in water; to water-ret; as, to water-rot hemp or flax."
2270  
2271  "Water sail () A small sail sometimes set under a studding sail or under a driver boom, and reaching nearly to the water."
2272  
2273  "Water sapphire () A deep blue variety of iolite, sometimes used as a gem; -- called also saphir d'eau."
2274  
2275  Waterscape (n.) A sea view; -- distinguished from landscape.
2276  
2277  Water scorpion () See Nepa.
2278  
2279  Water screw () A screw propeller.
2280  
2281  Watershed (n.) The whole region or extent of country which contributes to the supply of a river or lake.
2282  
2283  Watershed (n.) The line of division between two adjacent rivers or lakes with respect to the flow of water by natural channels into them; the natural boundary of a basin.
2284  
2285  "Water shield () An aquatic American plant (Brasenia peltata) having floating oval leaves, and the covered with a clear jelly."
2286  
2287  Watershoot (n.) A sprig or shoot from the root or stock of a tree.
2288  
2289  Watershoot (n.) That which serves to guard from falling water; a drip or dripstone.
2290  
2291  Watershoot (n.) A trough for discharging water.
2292  
2293  "Water shrew () Any one of several species of shrews having fringed feet and capable of swimming actively. The two common European species (Crossopus fodiens, and C. ciliatus) are the best known. The most common American water shrew, or marsh shrew (Neosorex palustris), is rarely seen, owing to its nocturnal habits."
2294  
2295  "Water snail () Any aquatic pulmonate gastropod belonging to Planorbis, Limnaea, and allied genera; a pond snail."
2296  
2297  Water snail () The Archimedean screw.
2298  
2299  Water snake () A common North American colubrine snake (Tropidonotus sipedon) which lives chiefly in the water.
2300  
2301  "Water snake () Any species of snakes of the family Homalopsidae, all of which are aquatic in their habits."
2302  
2303  Water-soak (v. t.) To soak water; to fill the interstices of with water.
2304  
2305  Water soldier () An aquatic European plant (Stratiotes aloides) with bayonet-shaped leaves.
2306  
2307  Water souchy () A dish consisting of small fish stewed and served in a little water.
2308  
2309  "Water spaniel () A curly-haired breed of spaniels, naturally very fond of the water."
2310  
2311  Water sparrow () The reed warbler.
2312  
2313  Water sparrow () The reed bunting.
2314  
2315  Water speedwell () A kind of speedwell (Veronica Anagallis) found in wet places in Europe and America.
2316  
2317  "Water spider () An aquatic European spider (Argyoneta aquatica) which constructs its web beneath the surface of the water on water plants. It lives in a bell-shaped structure of silk, open beneath like a diving bell, and filled with air which the spider carries down in the form of small bubbles attached one at a time to the spinnerets and hind feet. Called also diving spider."
2318  
2319  Water spider () A water mite.
2320  
2321  "Water spider () Any spider that habitually lives on or about the water, especially the large American species (Dolomedes lanceolatus) which runs rapidly on the surface of water; -- called also raft spider."
2322  
2323  Water spinner () The water spider.
2324  
2325  "Waterspout (n.) A remarkable meteorological phenomenon, of the nature of a tornado or whirlwind, usually observed over the sea, but sometimes over the land."
2326  
2327  "Water sprite () A sprite, or spirit, imagined as inhabiting the water."
2328  
2329  Water-standing (a.) Tear-filled.
2330  
2331  "Water star grass () An aquatic plant (Schollera graminea) with grassy leaves, and yellow star-shaped blossoms."
2332  
2333  Water starwort () See under Starwort.
2334  
2335  "Water supply () A supply of water; specifically, water collected, as in reservoirs, and conveyed, as by pipes, for use in a city, mill, or the like."
2336  
2337  "Water tabby () A kind of waved or watered tabby. See Tabby, n., 1."
2338  
2339  "Water table () A molding, or other projection, in the wall of a building, to throw off the water, -- generally used in the United States for the first table above the surface of the ground (see Table, n., 9), that is, for the table at the top of the foundation and the beginning of the upper wall."
2340  
2341  "Watertath (n.) A kind of coarse grass growing in wet grounds, and supposed to be injurious to sheep."
2342  
2343  "Water thermometer () A thermometer filled with water instead of mercury, for ascertaining the precise temperature at which water attains its maximum density. This is about 39? Fahr., or 4? Centigrade; and from that point down to 32? Fahr., or 0? Centigrade, or the freezing point, it expands."
2344  
2345  Water thief () A pirate.
2346  
2347  "Water thrush () A North American bird of the genus Seiurus, belonging to the Warbler family, especially the common species (S. Noveboracensis)."
2348  
2349  Water thrush () The European water ousel.
2350  
2351  Water thrush () The pied wagtail.
2352  
2353  Water thyme () See Anacharis.
2354  
2355  Water tick () Same as Water mite.
2356  
2357  "Water tiger () A diving, or water, beetle, especially the larva of a water beetle. See Illust. b of Water beetle."
2358  
2359  "Water-tight (a.) So tight as to retain, or not to admit, water; not leaky."
2360  
2361  "Water torch () The common cat-tail (Typha latifolia), the spike of which makes a good torch soaked in oil."
2362  
2363  "Water tower () A large metal pipe made to be extended vertically by sections, and used for discharging water upon burning buildings."
2364  
2365  "Water tree () A climbing shrub (Tetracera alnifolia, / potatoria) of Western Africa, which pours out a watery sap from the freshly cut stems."
2366  
2367  Water trefoil () The buck bean.
2368  
2369  "Water tube () One of a system of tubular excretory organs having external openings, found in many invertebrates. They are believed to be analogous in function to the kidneys of vertebrates. See Illust. under Trematodea, and Sporocyst."
2370  
2371  Water tupelo () A species of large tupelo (Nyssa aquatica) growing in swamps in the southern of the United States. See Ogeechee lime.
2372  
2373  Water turkey () The American snakebird. See Snakebird.
2374  
2375  Water tu tuyere () A tuyere kept cool by water circulating within a casing. It is used for hot blast.
2376  
2377  "Water tu twist () Yarn made by the throstle, or water frame."
2378  
2379  "Water vine () Any plant of the genus Phytocrene, climbing shrubs of Asia and Africa, the stems of which are singularly porous, and when cut stream with a limpid potable juice."
2380  
2381  Water violet () See under Violet.
2382  
2383  Water viper () See Water moccasin.
2384  
2385  Water vole () See under Vole.
2386  
2387  Water wagtail () See under Wagtail.
2388  
2389  "Waterway (n.) Heavy plank or timber extending fore and aft the whole length of a vessel's deck at the line of junction with the sides, forming a channel to the scuppers, which are cut through it. In iron vessels the waterway is variously constructed."
2390  
2391  Water way () Same as Water course.
2392  
2393  Waterweed (n.) See Anacharis.
2394  
2395  "Water wheel () Any wheel for propelling machinery or for other purposes, that is made to rotate by the direct action of water; -- called an overshot wheel when the water is applied at the top, an undershot wheel when at the bottom, a breast wheel when at an intermediate point; other forms are called reaction wheel, vortex wheel, turbine wheel, etc."
2396  
2397  Water wheel () The paddle wheel of a steam vessel.
2398  
2399  "Water wheel () A wheel for raising water; a noria, or the like."
2400  
2401  "Water willow () An American aquatic plant (Dianthera Americana) with long willowlike leaves, and spikes of small purplish flowers."
2402  
2403  "Water wing () One of two walls built on either side of the junction of a bridge with the bank of a river, to protect the abutment of the bridge and the bank from the action of the current."
2404  
2405  Water witch () The dabchick.
2406  
2407  Water witch () The stormy petrel.
2408  
2409  "Water-white (n.) A vinelike plant (Vitis Caribaea) growing in parched districts in the West Indies, and containing a great amount of sap which is sometimes used for quenching thirst."
2410  
2411  "Waterwork (n.) Painting executed in size or distemper, on canvas or walls, -- formerly, frequently taking the place of tapestry."
2412  
2413  "Waterwork (n.) An hydraulic apparatus, or a system of works or fixtures, by which a supply of water is furnished for useful or ornamental purposes, including dams, sluices, pumps, aqueducts, distributing pipes, fountains, etc.; -- used chiefly in the plural."
2414  
2415  "Waterworn (a.) Worn, smoothed, or polished by the action of water; as, waterworn stones."
2416  
2417  "Waterwort (n.) Any plant of the natural order Elatineae, consisting of two genera (Elatine, and Bergia), mostly small annual herbs growing in the edges of ponds. Some have a peppery or acrid taste."
2418  
2419  Watery (a.) Of or pertaining to water; consisting of water.
2420  
2421  "Watery (a.) Abounding with water; wet; hence, tearful."
2422  
2423  "Watery (a.) Resembling water; thin or transparent, as a liquid; as, watery humors."
2424  
2425  "Watery (a.) Hence, abounding in thin, tasteless, or insipid fluid; tasteless; insipid; vapid; spiritless."
2426  
2427  "Watt (n.) A unit of power or activity equal to 107 C.G.S. units of power, or to work done at the rate of one joule a second. An English horse power is approximately equal to 746 watts."
2428  
2429  "Wattmeter (n.) An instrument for measuring power in watts, -- much used in measuring the energy of an electric current."
2430  
2431  "Wattle (n.) A twig or flexible rod; hence, a hurdle made of such rods."
2432  
2433  Wattle (n.) A rod laid on a roof to support the thatch.
2434  
2435  "Wattle (n.) A naked fleshy, and usually wrinkled and highly colored, process of the skin hanging from the chin or throat of a bird or reptile."
2436  
2437  Wattle (n.) Barbel of a fish.
2438  
2439  "Wattle (n.) The astringent bark of several Australian trees of the genus Acacia, used in tanning; -- called also wattle bark."
2440  
2441  "Wattle (n.) The trees from which the bark is obtained. See Savanna wattle, under Savanna."
2442  
2443  Wattled (imp. & p. p.) of Wattle
2444  
2445  Wattling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Wattle
2446  
2447  Wattle (v. t.) To bind with twigs.
2448  
2449  "Wattle (v. t.) To twist or interweave, one with another, as twigs; to form a network with; to plat; as, to wattle branches."
2450  
2451  "Wattle (v. t.) To form, by interweaving or platting twigs."
2452  
2453  Wattlebird (n.) Any one of several species of honey eaters belonging to Anthochaera and allied genera of the family Meliphagidae. These birds usually have a large and conspicuous wattle of naked skin hanging down below each ear. They are natives of Australia and adjacent islands.
2454  
2455  Wattlebird (n.) The Australian brush turkey.
2456  
2457  "Wattled (a.) Furnished with wattles, or pendent fleshy processes at the chin or throat."
2458  
2459  "Wattling (n.) The act or process of binding or platting with twigs; also, the network so formed."
2460  
2461  Waucht (n.) Alt. of Waught
2462  
2463  Waught (n.) A large draught of any liquid.
2464  
2465  Waul (v. i.) To cry as a cat; to squall; to wail.
2466  
2467  Waur (a.) Worse.
2468  
2469  Wave (v. t.) See Waive.
2470  
2471  Waved (imp. & p. p.) of Wave
2472  
2473  Waving (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Wave
2474  
2475  "Wave (v. i.) To play loosely; to move like a wave, one way and the other; to float; to flutter; to undulate."
2476  
2477  Wave (v. i.) To be moved to and fro as a signal.
2478  
2479  Wave (v. i.) To fluctuate; to waver; to be in an unsettled state; to vacillate.
2480  
2481  Wave (v. t.) To move one way and the other; to brandish.
2482  
2483  Wave (v. t.) To raise into inequalities of surface; to give an undulating form a surface to.
2484  
2485  "Wave (v. t.) To move like a wave, or by floating; to waft."
2486  
2487  "Wave (v. t.) To call attention to, or give a direction or command to, by a waving motion, as of the hand; to signify by waving; to beckon; to signal; to indicate."
2488  
2489  "Wave (v. i.) An advancing ridge or swell on the surface of a liquid, as of the sea, resulting from the oscillatory motion of the particles composing it when disturbed by any force their position of rest; an undulation."
2490  
2491  "Wave (v. i.) A vibration propagated from particle to particle through a body or elastic medium, as in the transmission of sound; an assemblage of vibrating molecules in all phases of a vibration, with no phase repeated; a wave of vibration; an undulation. See Undulation."
2492  
2493  Wave (v. i.) Water; a body of water.
2494  
2495  Wave (v. i.) Unevenness; inequality of surface.
2496  
2497  "Wave (v. i.) A waving or undulating motion; a signal made with the hand, a flag, etc."
2498  
2499  "Wave (v. i.) The undulating line or streak of luster on cloth watered, or calendered, or on damask steel."
2500  
2501  "Wave (v. i.) Fig.: A swelling or excitement of thought, feeling, or energy; a tide; as, waves of enthusiasm."
2502  
2503  "Waved (a.) Exhibiting a wavelike form or outline; undulating; intended; wavy; as, waved edge."
2504  
2505  "Waved (a.) Having a wavelike appearance; marked with wavelike lines of color; as, waved, or watered, silk."
2506  
2507  "Waved (a.) Having undulations like waves; -- said of one of the lines in heraldry which serve as outlines to the ordinaries, etc."
2508  
2509  "Waveless (a.) Free from waves; undisturbed; not agitated; as, the waveless sea."
2510  
2511  Wavelet (n.) A little wave; a ripple.
2512  
2513  "Wavellite (n.) A hydrous phosphate of alumina, occurring usually in hemispherical radiated forms varying in color from white to yellow, green, or black."
2514  
2515  Wavered (imp. & p. p.) of Waver
2516  
2517  Wavering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Waver
2518  
2519  "Waver (v. i.) To play or move to and fro; to move one way and the other; hence, to totter; to reel; to swing; to flutter."
2520  
2521  "Waver (v. i.) To be unsettled in opinion; to vacillate; to be undetermined; to fluctuate; as, to water in judgment."
2522  
2523  Waver (v.) A sapling left standing in a fallen wood.
2524  
2525  "Waverer (n.) One who wavers; one who is unsettled in doctrine, faith, opinion, or the like."
2526  
2527  Waveringly (adv.) In a wavering manner.
2528  
2529  Waveringness (n.) The quality or state of wavering.
2530  
2531  "Waveson (n.) Goods which, after shipwreck, appear floating on the waves, or sea."
2532  
2533  Waveworn (a.) Worn by the waves.
2534  
2535  Wavey (n.) The snow goose.
2536  
2537  Waviness (n.) The quality or state of being wavy.
2538  
2539  Wavure (n.) See Waivure.
2540  
2541  Wavy (a.) Rising or swelling in waves; full of waves.
2542  
2543  "Wavy (a.) Playing to and fro; undulating; as, wavy flames."
2544  
2545  Wavy (a.) Undulating on the border or surface; waved.
2546  
2547  "Wawaskeesh (n.) The wapiti, or wapiti, or American elk."
2548  
2549  Wave (n.) Woe.
2550  
2551  Wawe (n.) A wave.
2552  
2553  Wawl (v. i.) See Waul.
2554  
2555  Waxed (imp.) of Wax
2556  
2557  Waxed (p. p.) of Wax
2558  
2559  Waxen () of Wax
2560  
2561  Waxing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Wax
2562  
2563  Wax (v. i.) To increase in size; to grow bigger; to become larger or fuller; -- opposed to wane.
2564  
2565  "Wax (v. i.) To pass from one state to another; to become; to grow; as, to wax strong; to wax warmer or colder; to wax feeble; to wax old; to wax worse and worse."
2566  
2567  "Wax (n.) A fatty, solid substance, produced by bees, and employed by them in the construction of their comb; -- usually called beeswax. It is first excreted, from a row of pouches along their sides, in the form of scales, which, being masticated and mixed with saliva, become whitened and tenacious. Its natural color is pale or dull yellow."
2568  
2569  "Wax (n.) Hence, any substance resembling beeswax in consistency or appearance."
2570  
2571  "Wax (n.) Cerumen, or earwax."
2572  
2573  "Wax (n.) A waxlike composition used for uniting surfaces, for excluding air, and for other purposes; as, sealing wax, grafting wax, etching wax, etc."
2574  
2575  Wax (n.) A waxlike composition used by shoemakers for rubbing their thread.
2576  
2577  "Wax (n.) A substance similar to beeswax, secreted by several species of scale insects, as the Chinese wax. See Wax insect, below."
2578  
2579  "Wax (n.) A waxlike product secreted by certain plants. See Vegetable wax, under Vegetable."
2580  
2581  "Wax (n.) A substance, somewhat resembling wax, found in connection with certain deposits of rock salt and coal; -- called also mineral wax, and ozocerite."
2582  
2583  "Wax (n.) Thick sirup made by boiling down the sap of the sugar maple, and then cooling."
2584  
2585  Waxed (imp. & p. p.) of Wax
2586  
2587  Waxing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Wax
2588  
2589  "Wax (v. t.) To smear or rub with wax; to treat with wax; as, to wax a thread or a table."
2590  
2591  "Waxberry (n.) The wax-covered fruit of the wax myrtle, or bayberry. See Bayberry, and Candleberry tree."
2592  
2593  "Waxbill (n.) Any one of numerous species of finchlike birds belonging to Estrelda and allied genera, native of Asia, Africa, and Australia. The bill is large, conical, and usually red in color, resembling sealing wax. Several of the species are often kept as cage birds."
2594  
2595  Waxbird () The waxwing.
2596  
2597  Waxen (a.) Made of wax.
2598  
2599  "Waxen (a.) Covered with wax; waxed; as, a waxen tablet."
2600  
2601  "Waxen (a.) Resembling wax; waxy; hence, soft; yielding."
2602  
2603  Waxiness (n.) Quality or state of being waxy.
2604  
2605  "Waxwing (n.) Any one of several species of small birds of the genus Ampelis, in which some of the secondary quills are usually tipped with small horny ornaments resembling red sealing wax. The Bohemian waxwing (see under Bohemian) and the cedar bird are examples. Called also waxbird."
2606  
2607  "Waxwork (n.) Work made of wax; especially, a figure or figures formed or partly of wax, in imitation of real beings."
2608  
2609  "Waxwork (n.) An American climbing shrub (Celastrus scandens). It bears a profusion of yellow berrylike pods, which open in the autumn, and display the scarlet coverings of the seeds."
2610  
2611  Waxworker (n.) One who works in wax; one who makes waxwork.
2612  
2613  Waxworker (n.) A bee that makes or produces wax.
2614  
2615  "Waxy (a.) Resembling wax in appearance or consistency; viscid; adhesive; soft; hence, yielding; pliable; impressible."
2616  
2617  Way (adv.) Away.
2618  
2619  "Way (n.) That by, upon, or along, which one passes or processes; opportunity or room to pass; place of passing; passage; road, street, track, or path of any kind; as, they built a way to the mine."
2620  
2621  "Way (n.) Length of space; distance; interval; as, a great way; a long way."
2622  
2623  Way (n.) A moving; passage; procession; journey.
2624  
2625  Way (n.) Course or direction of motion or process; tendency of action; advance.
2626  
2627  "Way (n.) The means by which anything is reached, or anything is accomplished; scheme; device; plan."
2628  
2629  "Way (n.) Manner; method; mode; fashion; style; as, the way of expressing one's ideas."
2630  
2631  Way (n.) Regular course; habitual method of life or action; plan of conduct; mode of dealing.
2632  
2633  Way (n.) Sphere or scope of observation.
2634  
2635  "Way (n.) Determined course; resolved mode of action or conduct; as, to have one's way."
2636  
2637  "Way (n.) Progress; as, a ship has way."
2638  
2639  Way (n.) The timbers on which a ship is launched.
2640  
2641  "Way (n.) The longitudinal guides, or guiding surfaces, on the bed of a planer, lathe, or the like, along which a table or carriage moves."
2642  
2643  Way (n.) Right of way. See below.
2644  
2645  "Way (v. t.) To go or travel to; to go in, as a way or path."
2646  
2647  Way (v. i.) To move; to progress; to go.
2648  
2649  "Waybill (n.) A list of passengers in a public vehicle, or of the baggage or gods transported by a common carrier on a land route. When the goods are transported by water, the list is called a bill of lading."
2650  
2651  Waybread (n.) The common dooryard plantain (Plantago major).
2652  
2653  Waybung (n.) An Australian insessorial bird (Corcorax melanorhamphus) noted for the curious actions of the male during the breeding season. It is black with a white patch on each wing.
2654  
2655  Wayed (a.) Used to the way; broken.
2656  
2657  Wayfare (v. i.) To journey; to travel; to go to and fro.
2658  
2659  Wayfare (n.) The act of journeying; travel; passage.
2660  
2661  Wayfarer (n.) One who travels; a traveler; a passenger.
2662  
2663  Wayfaring (a.) Traveling; passing; being on a journey.
2664  
2665  Waygate (n.) The tailrace of a mill.
2666  
2667  Way-going (a.) Going away; departing; of or pertaining to one who goes away.
2668  
2669  "Way-goose (n.) See Wayz-goose, n., 2."
2670  
2671  Wayk (a.) Weak.
2672  
2673  Waylaid (imp. & p. p.) of Waylay
2674  
2675  Waylaying (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Waylay
2676  
2677  "Waylay (v. t.) To lie in wait for; to meet or encounter in the way; especially, to watch for the passing of, with a view to seize, rob, or slay; to beset in ambush."
2678  
2679  Waylayer (n.) One who waylays another.
2680  
2681  Wayless (a.) Having no road or path; pathless.
2682  
2683  Wayleway (interj.) See Welaway.
2684  
2685  Waymaker (n.) One who makes a way; a precursor.
2686  
2687  Waymark (n.) A mark to guide in traveling.
2688  
2689  Waymented (imp. & p. p.) of Wayment
2690  
2691  Waymenting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Wayment
2692  
2693  Wayment (v. i.) To lament; to grieve; to wail.
2694  
2695  Wayment (n.) Grief; lamentation; mourning.
2696  
2697  Way shaft () A rock shaft.
2698  
2699  "Way shaft () An interior shaft, usually one connecting two levels."
2700  
2701  "-ways () A suffix formed from way by the addition of the adverbial -s (see -wards). It is often used interchangeably with wise; as, endways or endwise; noways or nowise, etc."
2702  
2703  Wayside (n.) The side of the way; the edge or border of a road or path.
2704  
2705  "Wayside (a.) Of or pertaining to the wayside; as, wayside flowers."
2706  
2707  Wayward (a.) Taking one's own way; disobedient; froward; perverse; willful.
2708  
2709  Way-wise (a.) Skillful in finding the way; well acquainted with the way or route; wise from having traveled.
2710  
2711  "Waywiser (n.) An instrument for measuring the distance which one has traveled on the road; an odometer, pedometer, or perambulator."
2712  
2713  "Waywode (n.) Originally, the title of a military commander in various Slavonic countries; afterwards applied to governors of towns or provinces. It was assumed for a time by the rulers of Moldavia and Wallachia, who were afterwards called hospodars, and has also been given to some inferior Turkish officers."
2714  
2715  "Waywodeship (n.) The office, province, or jurisdiction of a waywode."
2716  
2717  Wayworn (a.) Wearied by traveling.
2718  
2719  Wayz-goose (n.) A stubble goose.
2720  
2721  Wayz-goose (n.) An annual feast of the persons employed in a printing office.
2722  
2723  "We (obj.) The plural nominative case of the pronoun of the first person; the word with which a person in speaking or writing denotes a number or company of which he is one, as the subject of an action expressed by a verb."
2724  
2725  Weak (v. i.) Wanting physical strength.
2726  
2727  Weak (v. i.) Deficient in strength of body; feeble; infirm; sickly; debilitated; enfeebled; exhausted.
2728  
2729  "Weak (v. i.) Not able to sustain a great weight, pressure, or strain; as, a weak timber; a weak rope."
2730  
2731  "Weak (v. i.) Not firmly united or adhesive; easily broken or separated into pieces; not compact; as, a weak ship."
2732  
2733  "Weak (v. i.) Not stiff; pliant; frail; soft; as, the weak stalk of a plant."
2734  
2735  "Weak (v. i.) Not able to resist external force or onset; easily subdued or overcome; as, a weak barrier; as, a weak fortress."
2736  
2737  Weak (v. i.) Lacking force of utterance or sound; not sonorous; low; small; feeble; faint.
2738  
2739  "Weak (v. i.) Not thoroughly or abundantly impregnated with the usual or required ingredients, or with stimulating and nourishing substances; of less than the usual strength; as, weak tea, broth, or liquor; a weak decoction or solution; a weak dose of medicine."
2740  
2741  "Weak (v. i.) Lacking ability for an appropriate function or office; as, weak eyes; a weak stomach; a weak magistrate; a weak regiment, or army."
2742  
2743  "Weak (v. i.) Not possessing or manifesting intellectual, logical, moral, or political strength, vigor, etc."
2744  
2745  "Weak (v. i.) Feeble of mind; wanting discernment; lacking vigor; spiritless; as, a weak king or magistrate."
2746  
2747  "Weak (v. i.) Resulting from, or indicating, lack of judgment, discernment, or firmness; unwise; hence, foolish."
2748  
2749  Weak (v. i.) Not having full confidence or conviction; not decided or confirmed; vacillating; wavering.
2750  
2751  "Weak (v. i.) Not able to withstand temptation, urgency, persuasion, etc.; easily impressed, moved, or overcome; accessible; vulnerable; as, weak resolutions; weak virtue."
2752  
2753  "Weak (v. i.) Wanting in power to influence or bind; as, weak ties; a weak sense of honor of duty."
2754  
2755  "Weak (v. i.) Not having power to convince; not supported by force of reason or truth; unsustained; as, a weak argument or case."
2756  
2757  "Weak (v. i.) Wanting in point or vigor of expression; as, a weak sentence; a weak style."
2758  
2759  "Weak (v. i.) Not prevalent or effective, or not felt to be prevalent; not potent; feeble."
2760  
2761  "Weak (v. i.) Lacking in elements of political strength; not wielding or having authority or energy; deficient in the resources that are essential to a ruler or nation; as, a weak monarch; a weak government or state."
2762  
2763  "Weak (v. i.) Tending towards lower prices; as, a weak market."
2764  
2765  "Weak (v. i.) Pertaining to, or designating, a verb which forms its preterit (imperfect) and past participle by adding to the present the suffix -ed, -d, or the variant form -t; as in the verbs abash, abashed; abate, abated; deny, denied; feel, felt. See Strong, 19 (a)."
2766  
2767  "Weak (v. i.) Pertaining to, or designating, a noun in Anglo-Saxon, etc., the stem of which ends in -n. See Strong, 19 (b)."
2768  
2769  Weak (a.) To make or become weak; to weaken.
2770  
2771  Weakened (imp. & p. p.) of Weaken
2772  
2773  Weakening (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Weaken
2774  
2775  "Weaken (v. t.) To make weak; to lessen the strength of; to deprive of strength; to debilitate; to enfeeble; to enervate; as, to weaken the body or the mind; to weaken the hands of a magistrate; to weaken the force of an objection or an argument."
2776  
2777  "Weaken (v. t.) To reduce in quality, strength, or spirit; as, to weaken tea; to weaken any solution or decoction."
2778  
2779  "Weaken (v. i.) To become weak or weaker; to lose strength, spirit, or determination; to become less positive or resolute; as, the patient weakened; the witness weakened on cross-examination."
2780  
2781  "Weakener (n.) One who, or that which, weakens."
2782  
2783  Weakfish (n.) Any fish of the genus Cynoscion; a squeteague; -- so called from its tender mouth. See Squeteague.
2784  
2785  Weak-hearted (a.) Having little courage; of feeble spirit; dispirited; faint-hearted.
2786  
2787  Weakish (a.) Somewhat weak; rather weak.
2788  
2789  Weakishness (n.) Quality or state of being weakish.
2790  
2791  "Weak-kneed (a.) Having weak knees; hence, easily yielding; wanting resolution."
2792  
2793  Weakling (n.) A weak or feeble creature.
2794  
2795  Weakling (a.) Weak; feeble.
2796  
2797  Weakly (adv.) In a weak manner; with little strength or vigor; feebly.
2798  
2799  "Weakly (superl.) Not strong of constitution; infirm; feeble; as, a weakly woman; a man of a weakly constitution."
2800  
2801  "Weak-minded (a.) Having a weak mind, either naturally or by reason of disease; feebleminded; foolish; idiotic."
2802  
2803  Weakness (n.) The quality or state of being weak; want of strength or firmness; lack of vigor; want of resolution or of moral strength; feebleness.
2804  
2805  Weakness (n.) That which is a mark of lack of strength or resolution; a fault; a defect.
2806  
2807  Weal (n.) The mark of a stripe. See Wale.
2808  
2809  Weal (v. t.) To mark with stripes. See Wale.
2810  
2811  "Weal (adv.) A sound, healthy, or prosperous state of a person or thing; prosperity; happiness; welfare."
2812  
2813  Weal (adv.) The body politic; the state; common wealth.
2814  
2815  Weal (v. t.) To promote the weal of; to cause to be prosperous.
2816  
2817  Weal-balanced (a.) Balanced or considered with reference to public weal.
2818  
2819  "Weald (n.) A wood or forest; a wooded land or region; also, an open country; -- often used in place names."
2820  
2821  "Wealden (a.) Of or pertaining to the lowest division of the Cretaceous formation in England and on the Continent, which overlies the Oolitic series."
2822  
2823  Wealden (n.) The Wealden group or strata.
2824  
2825  "Wealdish (a.) Of or pertaining to a weald, esp. to the weald in the county of Kent, England."
2826  
2827  Wealful (a.) Weleful.
2828  
2829  Wealsmen (pl. ) of Wealsman
2830  
2831  Wealsman (n.) A statesman; a politician.
2832  
2833  Wealth (n.) Weal; welfare; prosperity; good.
2834  
2835  "Wealth (n.) Large possessions; a comparative abundance of things which are objects of human desire; esp., abundance of worldly estate; affluence; opulence; riches."
2836  
2837  Wealthful (a.) Full of wealth; wealthy; prosperous.
2838  
2839  Wealthily (adv.) In a wealthy manner; richly.
2840  
2841  "Wealthiness (n.) The quality or state of being wealthy, or rich; richness; opulence."
2842  
2843  "Wealthy (superl.) Having wealth; having large possessions, or larger than most men, as lands, goods, money, or securities; opulent; affluent; rich."
2844  
2845  "Wealthy (superl.) Hence, ample; full; satisfactory; abundant."
2846  
2847  Weaned (imp. & p. p.) of Wean
2848  
2849  Weaning (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Wean
2850  
2851  "Wean (a.) To accustom and reconcile, as a child or other young animal, to a want or deprivation of mother's milk; to take from the breast or udder; to cause to cease to depend on the mother nourishment."
2852  
2853  "Wean (a.) Hence, to detach or alienate the affections of, from any object of desire; to reconcile to the want or loss of anything."
2854  
2855  Wean (n.) A weanling; a young child.
2856  
2857  Weanedness (n.) Quality or state of being weaned.
2858  
2859  Weanel (n.) A weanling.
2860  
2861  "Weanling () a. & n. from Wean, v."
2862  
2863  Weanling (n.) A child or animal newly weaned; a wean.
2864  
2865  Weanling (a.) Recently weaned.
2866  
2867  "Weapon (n.) An instrument of offensive of defensive combat; something to fight with; anything used, or designed to be used, in destroying, defeating, or injuring an enemy, as a gun, a sword, etc."
2868  
2869  "Weapon (n.) Fig.: The means or instrument with which one contends against another; as, argument was his only weapon."
2870  
2871  "Weapon (n.) A thorn, prickle, or sting with which many plants are furnished."
2872  
2873  "Weaponed (a.) Furnished with weapons, or arms; armed; equipped."
2874  
2875  Weaponless (a.) Having no weapon.
2876  
2877  "Weaponry (n.) Weapons, collectively; as, an array of weaponry."
2878  
2879  Wear (n.) Same as Weir.
2880  
2881  "Wear (v. t.) To cause to go about, as a vessel, by putting the helm up, instead of alee as in tacking, so that the vessel's bow is turned away from, and her stern is presented to, the wind, and, as she turns still farther, her sails fill on the other side; to veer."
2882  
2883  Wore (imp.) of Wear
2884  
2885  Worn (p. p.) of Wear
2886  
2887  Wearing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Wear
2888  
2889  Weared (imp. & p. p.) of Wear
2890  
2891  "Wear (v. t.) To carry or bear upon the person; to bear upon one's self, as an article of clothing, decoration, warfare, bondage, etc.; to have appendant to one's body; to have on; as, to wear a coat; to wear a shackle."
2892  
2893  "Wear (v. t.) To have or exhibit an appearance of, as an aspect or manner; to bear; as, she wears a smile on her countenance."
2894  
2895  "Wear (v. t.) To use up by carrying or having upon one's self; hence, to consume by use; to waste; to use up; as, to wear clothes rapidly."
2896  
2897  "Wear (v. t.) To impair, waste, or diminish, by continual attrition, scraping, percussion, on the like; to consume gradually; to cause to lower or disappear; to spend."
2898  
2899  "Wear (v. t.) To cause or make by friction or wasting; as, to wear a channel; to wear a hole."
2900  
2901  "Wear (v. t.) To form or shape by, or as by, attrition."
2902  
2903  "Wear (v. i.) To endure or suffer use; to last under employment; to bear the consequences of use, as waste, consumption, or attrition; as, a coat wears well or ill; -- hence, sometimes applied to character, qualifications, etc.; as, a man wears well as an acquaintance."
2904  
2905  "Wear (v. i.) To be wasted, consumed, or diminished, by being used; to suffer injury, loss, or extinction by use or time; to decay, or be spent, gradually."
2906  
2907  "Wear (n.) The act of wearing, or the state of being worn; consumption by use; diminution by friction; as, the wear of a garment."
2908  
2909  Wear (n.) The thing worn; style of dress; the fashion.
2910  
2911  Wearable (a.) Capable of being worn; suitable to be worn.
2912  
2913  "Wearer (n.) One who wears or carries as appendant to the body; as, the wearer of a cloak, a sword, a crown, a shackle, etc."
2914  
2915  Wearer (n.) That which wastes or diminishes.
2916  
2917  Weariable (a.) That may be wearied.
2918  
2919  Weariful (a.) Abounding in qualities which cause weariness; wearisome.
2920  
2921  Weariless (a.) Incapable of being wearied.
2922  
2923  Wearily (adv.) In a weary manner.
2924  
2925  Weariness (n.) The quality or state of being weary or tried; lassitude; exhaustion of strength; fatigue.
2926  
2927  Wearing (n.) The act of one who wears; the manner in which a thing wears; use; conduct; consumption.
2928  
2929  Wearing (n.) That which is worn; clothes; garments.
2930  
2931  "Wearing (a.) Pertaining to, or designed for, wear; as, wearing apparel."
2932  
2933  Wearish (a.) Weak; withered; shrunk.
2934  
2935  Wearish (a.) Insipid; tasteless; unsavory.
2936  
2937  "Wearisome (a.) Causing weariness; tiresome; tedious; weariful; as, a wearisome march; a wearisome day's work; a wearisome book."
2938  
2939  "Weary (superl.) Having the strength exhausted by toil or exertion; worn out in respect to strength, endurance, etc.; tired; fatigued."
2940  
2941  Weary (superl.) Causing weariness; tiresome.
2942  
2943  "Weary (superl.) Having one's patience, relish, or contentment exhausted; tired; sick; -- with of before the cause; as, weary of marching, or of confinement; weary of study."
2944  
2945  Wearied (imp. & p. p.) of Weary
2946  
2947  Wearying (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Weary
2948  
2949  "Weary (v. t.) To reduce or exhaust the physical strength or endurance of; to tire; to fatigue; as, to weary one's self with labor or traveling."
2950  
2951  "Weary (v. t.) To make weary of anything; to exhaust the patience of, as by continuance."
2952  
2953  Weary (v. t.) To harass by anything irksome.
2954  
2955  "Weary (v. i.) To grow tired; to become exhausted or impatient; as, to weary of an undertaking."
2956  
2957  "Weasand (n.) The windpipe; -- called also, formerly, wesil."
2958  
2959  "Weasel (n.) Any one of various species of small carnivores belonging to the genus Putorius, as the ermine and ferret. They have a slender, elongated body, and are noted for the quickness of their movements and for their bloodthirsty habit in destroying poultry, rats, etc. The ermine and some other species are brown in summer, and turn white in winter; others are brown at all seasons."
2960  
2961  "Weasel-faced (a.) Having a thin, sharp face, like a weasel."
2962  
2963  Weaser (n.) The American merganser; -- called also weaser sheldrake.
2964  
2965  Weasiness (n.) Quality or state of being weasy; full feeding; sensual indulgence.
2966  
2967  Weasy (a.) Given to sensual indulgence; gluttonous.
2968  
2969  "Weather (n.) The state of the air or atmosphere with respect to heat or cold, wetness or dryness, calm or storm, clearness or cloudiness, or any other meteorological phenomena; meteorological condition of the atmosphere; as, warm weather; cold weather; wet weather; dry weather, etc."
2970  
2971  Weather (n.) Vicissitude of season; meteorological change; alternation of the state of the air.
2972  
2973  Weather (n.) Storm; tempest.
2974  
2975  Weather (n.) A light rain; a shower.
2976  
2977  Weathered (imp. & p. p.) of Weather
2978  
2979  Weathering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Weather
2980  
2981  Weather (v. t.) To expose to the air; to air; to season by exposure to air.
2982  
2983  "Weather (v. t.) Hence, to sustain the trying effect of; to bear up against and overcome; to sustain; to endure; to resist; as, to weather the storm."
2984  
2985  "Weather (v. t.) To sail or pass to the windward of; as, to weather a cape; to weather another ship."
2986  
2987  Weather (v. t.) To place (a hawk) unhooded in the open air.
2988  
2989  "Weather (v. i.) To undergo or endure the action of the atmosphere; to suffer meteorological influences; sometimes, to wear away, or alter, under atmospheric influences; to suffer waste by weather."
2990  
2991  "Weather (a.) Being toward the wind, or windward -- opposed to lee; as, weather bow, weather braces, weather gauge, weather lifts, weather quarter, weather shrouds, etc."
2992  
2993  "Weather-beaten (a.) Beaten or harassed by the weather; worn by exposure to the weather, especially to severe weather."
2994  
2995  "Weather-bit (n.) A turn of the cable about the end of the windlass, without the bits."
2996  
2997  "Weatherbit (v. t.) To take another turn with, as a cable around a windlass."
2998  
2999  "Weather-bitten (a.) Eaten into, defaced, or worn, by exposure to the weather."
3000  
3001  Weatherboard (n.) That side of a vessel which is toward the wind; the windward side.
3002  
3003  "Weatherboard (n.) A piece of plank placed in a porthole, or other opening, to keep out water."
3004  
3005  "Weatherboard (n.) A board extending from the ridge to the eaves along the slope of the gable, and forming a close junction between the shingling of a roof and the side of the building beneath."
3006  
3007  Weatherboard (n.) A clapboard or feather-edged board used in weatherboarding.
3008  
3009  "Weather-board (v. t.) To nail boards upon so as to lap one over another, in order to exclude rain, snow, etc."
3010  
3011  "Weatherboarding (n.) The covering or siding of a building, formed of boards lapping over one another, to exclude rain, snow, etc."
3012  
3013  Weatherboarding (n.) Boards adapted or intended for such use.
3014  
3015  "Weather-bound (a.) Kept in port or at anchor by storms; delayed by bad weather; as, a weather-bound vessel."
3016  
3017  "Weathercock (n.) A vane, or weather vane; -- so called because originally often in the figure of a cock, turning on the top of a spire with the wind, and showing its direction."
3018  
3019  "Weathercock (n.) Hence, any thing or person that turns easily and frequently; one who veers with every change of current opinion; a fickle, inconstant person."
3020  
3021  Weathercock (v. t.) To supply with a weathercock; to serve as a weathercock for.
3022  
3023  Weather-driven (a.) Driven by winds or storms; forced by stress of weather.
3024  
3025  "Weathered (a.) Made sloping, so as to throw off water; as, a weathered cornice or window sill."
3026  
3027  "Weathered (a.) Having the surface altered in color, texture, or composition, or the edges rounded off by exposure to the elements."
3028  
3029  Weather-fend (v. t.) To defend from the weather; to shelter.
3030  
3031  "Weatherglass (n.) An instrument to indicate the state of the atmosphere, especially changes of atmospheric pressure, and hence changes of weather, as a barometer or baroscope."
3032  
3033  "Weathering (n.) The action of the elements on a rock in altering its color, texture, or composition, or in rounding off its edges."
3034  
3035  Weatherliness (n.) The quality of being weatherly.
3036  
3037  "Weatherly (a.) Working, or able to sail, close to the wind; as, a weatherly ship."
3038  
3039  Weathermost (a.) Being farthest to the windward.
3040  
3041  Weatherproof (a.) Proof against rough weather.
3042  
3043  Weatherwise (a.) Skillful in forecasting the changes of the weather.
3044  
3045  Weatherwiser (n.) Something that foreshows the weather.
3046  
3047  "Weatherworn (a.) Worn by the action of, or by exposure to, the weather."
3048  
3049  Wove (imp.) of Weave
3050  
3051  Woven (p. p.) of Weave
3052  
3053  Wove () of Weave
3054  
3055  Weaving (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Weave
3056  
3057  Weaved (imp. & p. p.) of Weave
3058  
3059  "Weave (v. t.) To unite, as threads of any kind, in such a manner as to form a texture; to entwine or interlace into a fabric; as, to weave wool, silk, etc.; hence, to unite by close connection or intermixture; to unite intimately."
3060  
3061  "Weave (v. t.) To form, as cloth, by interlacing threads; to compose, as a texture of any kind, by putting together textile materials; as, to weave broadcloth; to weave a carpet; hence, to form into a fabric; to compose; to fabricate; as, to weave the plot of a story."
3062  
3063  Weave (v. i.) To practice weaving; to work with a loom.
3064  
3065  Weave (v. i.) To become woven or interwoven.
3066  
3067  "Weave (n.) A particular method or pattern of weaving; as, the cassimere weave."
3068  
3069  "Weaver (n.) One who weaves, or whose occupation is to weave."
3070  
3071  Weaver (n.) A weaver bird.
3072  
3073  Weaver (n.) An aquatic beetle of the genus Gyrinus. See Whirling.
3074  
3075  Weaverfish (n.) See Weever.
3076  
3077  "Weaving (n.) The act of one who, or that which, weaves; the act or art of forming cloth in a loom by the union or intertexture of threads."
3078  
3079  "Weaving (n.) An incessant motion of a horse's head, neck, and body, from side to side, fancied to resemble the motion of a hand weaver in throwing the shuttle."
3080  
3081  Weazand (n.) See Weasand.
3082  
3083  "Weazen (a.) Thin; sharp; withered; wizened; as, a weazen face."
3084  
3085  Weazeny (a.) Somewhat weazen; shriveled.
3086  
3087  Web (n.) A weaver.
3088  
3089  "Web (n.) That which is woven; a texture; textile fabric; esp., something woven in a loom."
3090  
3091  Web (n.) A whole piece of linen cloth as woven.
3092  
3093  Web (n.) The texture of very fine thread spun by a spider for catching insects at its prey; a cobweb.
3094  
3095  Web (n.) Fig.: Tissue; texture; complicated fabrication.
3096  
3097  Web (n.) A band of webbing used to regulate the extension of the hood.
3098  
3099  "Web (n.) A thin metal sheet, plate, or strip, as of lead."
3100  
3101  Web (n.) The blade of a sword.
3102  
3103  Web (n.) The blade of a saw.
3104  
3105  "Web (n.) The thin, sharp part of a colter."
3106  
3107  Web (n.) The bit of a key.
3108  
3109  "Web (n.) A plate or thin portion, continuous or perforated, connecting stiffening ribs or flanges, or other parts of an object."
3110  
3111  "Web (n.) The thin vertical plate or portion connecting the upper and lower flanges of an lower flanges of an iron girder, rolled beam, or railroad rail."
3112  
3113  "Web (n.) A disk or solid construction serving, instead of spokes, for connecting the rim and hub, in some kinds of car wheels, sheaves, etc."
3114  
3115  Web (n.) The arm of a crank between the shaft and the wrist.
3116  
3117  Web (n.) The part of a blackmith's anvil between the face and the foot.
3118  
3119  Web (n.) Pterygium; -- called also webeye.
3120  
3121  "Web (n.) The membrane which unites the fingers or toes, either at their bases, as in man, or for a greater part of their length, as in many water birds and amphibians."
3122  
3123  "Web (n.) The series of barbs implanted on each side of the shaft of a feather, whether stiff and united together by barbules, as in ordinary feathers, or soft and separate, as in downy feathers. See Feather."
3124  
3125  Webbed (imp. & p. p.) of Web
3126  
3127  Webbing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Web
3128  
3129  "Web (v. t.) To unite or surround with a web, or as if with a web; to envelop; to entangle."
3130  
3131  Webbed (a.) Provided with a web.
3132  
3133  "Webbed (a.) Having the toes united by a membrane, or web; as, the webbed feet of aquatic fowls."
3134  
3135  Webber (n.) One who forms webs; a weaver; a webster.
3136  
3137  "Webbing (n.) A woven band of cotton or flax, used for reins, girths, bed bottoms, etc."
3138  
3139  Webby (a.) Of or pertaining to a web or webs; like a web; filled or covered with webs.
3140  
3141  "Weber (n.) The standard unit of electrical quantity, and also of current. See Coulomb, and Amp/re."
3142  
3143  "Webeye (n.) See Web, n., 8."
3144  
3145  Web-fingered (a.) Having the fingers united by a web for a considerable part of their length.
3146  
3147  Webfeet (pl. ) of Webfoot
3148  
3149  Webfoot (n.) A foot the toes of which are connected by a membrane.
3150  
3151  Webfoot (n.) Any web-footed bird.
3152  
3153  "Web-footed (a.) Having webbed feet; palmiped; as, a goose or a duck is a web-footed fowl."
3154  
3155  "Webster (n.) A weaver; originally, a female weaver."
3156  
3157  Websterite (n.) A hydrous sulphate of alumina occurring in white reniform masses.
3158  
3159  Web-toed (a.) Having the toes united by a web for a considerable part of their length.
3160  
3161  "Webform (n.) Any one of various species of moths whose gregarious larvae eat the leaves of trees, and construct a large web to which they retreat when not feeding."
3162  
3163  Wed (n.) A pledge; a pawn.
3164  
3165  Wedded (imp.) of Wed
3166  
3167  Wedded (p. p.) of Wed
3168  
3169  Wed () of Wed
3170  
3171  Wedding (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Wed
3172  
3173  Wed (n.) To take for husband or for wife by a formal ceremony; to marry; to espouse.
3174  
3175  Wed (n.) To join in marriage; to give in wedlock.
3176  
3177  Wed (n.) Fig.: To unite as if by the affections or the bond of marriage; to attach firmly or indissolubly.
3178  
3179  Wed (n.) To take to one's self and support; to espouse.
3180  
3181  Wed (v. i.) To contact matrimony; to marry.
3182  
3183  Weddahs (n. pl.) See Veddahs.
3184  
3185  Wedded (a.) Joined in wedlock; married.
3186  
3187  "Wedded (a.) Of or pertaining to wedlock, or marriage."
3188  
3189  Wedder (n.) See Wether.
3190  
3191  Wedding (n.) Nuptial ceremony; nuptial festivities; marriage; nuptials.
3192  
3193  Weder (n.) Weather.
3194  
3195  "Wedge (n.) A piece of metal, or other hard material, thick at one end, and tapering to a thin edge at the other, used in splitting wood, rocks, etc., in raising heavy bodies, and the like. It is one of the six elementary machines called the mechanical powers. See Illust. of Mechanical powers, under Mechanical."
3196  
3197  "Wedge (n.) A solid of five sides, having a rectangular base, two rectangular or trapezoidal sides meeting in an edge, and two triangular ends."
3198  
3199  "Wedge (n.) A mass of metal, especially when of a wedgelike form."
3200  
3201  "Wedge (n.) Anything in the form of a wedge, as a body of troops drawn up in such a form."
3202  
3203  Wedge (n.) The person whose name stands lowest on the list of the classical tripos; -- so called after a person (Wedgewood) who occupied this position on the first list of 1828.
3204  
3205  Wedged (imp. & p. p.) of Wedge
3206  
3207  Wedging (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Wedge
3208  
3209  "Wedge (v. t.) To cleave or separate with a wedge or wedges, or as with a wedge; to rive."
3210  
3211  Wedge (v. t.) To force or drive as a wedge is driven.
3212  
3213  "Wedge (v. t.) To force by crowding and pushing as a wedge does; as, to wedge one's way."
3214  
3215  "Wedge (v. t.) To press closely; to fix, or make fast, in the manner of a wedge that is driven into something."
3216  
3217  "Wedge (v. t.) To fasten with a wedge, or with wedges; as, to wedge a scythe on the snath; to wedge a rail or a piece of timber in its place."
3218  
3219  "Wedge (v. t.) To cut, as clay, into wedgelike masses, and work by dashing together, in order to expel air bubbles, etc."
3220  
3221  "Wedgebill (n.) An Australian crested insessorial bird (Sphenostoma cristatum) having a wedge-shaped bill. Its color is dull brown, like the earth of the plains where it lives."
3222  
3223  Wedge-formed (a.) Having the form of a wedge; cuneiform.
3224  
3225  Wedge-shaped (a.) Having the shape of a wedge; cuneiform.
3226  
3227  "Wedge-shaped (a.) Broad and truncate at the summit, and tapering down to the base; as, a wedge-shaped leaf."
3228  
3229  Wedge-shell (n.) Any one of numerous species of small marine bivalves belonging to Donax and allied genera in which the shell is wedge-shaped.
3230  
3231  "Wedge-tailed (a.) Having a tail which has the middle pair of feathers longest, the rest successively and decidedly shorter, and all more or less attenuate; -- said of certain birds. See Illust. of Wood hoopoe, under Wood."
3232  
3233  Wedgewise (adv.) In the manner of a wedge.
3234  
3235  "Wedgwood ware () A kind of fine pottery, the most remarkable being what is called jasper, either white, or colored throughout the body, and capable of being molded into the most delicate forms, so that fine and minute bas-reliefs like cameos were made of it, fit even for being set as jewels."
3236  
3237  Wedgy (a.) Like a wedge; wedge-shaped.
3238  
3239  "Wedlock (v. i.) The ceremony, or the state, of marriage; matrimony."
3240  
3241  Wedlock (v. i.) A wife; a married woman.
3242  
3243  Wedlock (v. t.) To marry; to unite in marriage; to wed.
3244  
3245  Wednesday (a.) The fourth day of the week; the next day after Tuesday.
3246  
3247  "Wee (n.) A little; a bit, as of space, time, or distance."
3248  
3249  Wee (a.) Very small; little.
3250  
3251  Weech-elm (n.) The wych-elm.
3252  
3253  "Weed (n.) A garment; clothing; especially, an upper or outer garment."
3254  
3255  "Weed (n.) An article of dress worn in token of grief; a mourning garment or badge; as, he wore a weed on his hat; especially, in the plural, mourning garb, as of a woman; as, a widow's weeds."
3256  
3257  "Weed (n.) A sudden illness or relapse, often attended with fever, which attacks women in childbed."
3258  
3259  Weed (n.) Underbrush; low shrubs.
3260  
3261  "Weed (n.) Any plant growing in cultivated ground to the injury of the crop or desired vegetation, or to the disfigurement of the place; an unsightly, useless, or injurious plant."
3262  
3263  Weed (n.) Fig.: Something unprofitable or troublesome; anything useless.
3264  
3265  Weed (n.) An animal unfit to breed from.
3266  
3267  "Weed (n.) Tobacco, or a cigar."
3268  
3269  Weeded (imp. & p. p.) of Weed
3270  
3271  Weeding (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Weed
3272  
3273  "Weed (v. t.) To free from noxious plants; to clear of weeds; as, to weed corn or onions; to weed a garden."
3274  
3275  "Weed (v. t.) To take away, as noxious plants; to remove, as something hurtful; to extirpate."
3276  
3277  Weed (v. t.) To free from anything hurtful or offensive.
3278  
3279  Weed (v. t.) To reject as unfit for breeding purposes.
3280  
3281  "Weeder (n.) One who, or that which, weeds, or frees from anything noxious."
3282  
3283  "Weedery (n.) Weeds, collectively; also, a place full of weeds or for growing weeds."
3284  
3285  "Weeding () a. & n. from Weed, v."
3286  
3287  Weeding-rhim (n.) A kind of implement used for tearing up weeds esp. on summer fallows.
3288  
3289  Weedless (a.) Free from weeds or noxious matter.
3290  
3291  Weedy (superl.) Of or pertaining to weeds; consisting of weeds.
3292  
3293  "Weedy (superl.) Abounding with weeds; as, weedy grounds; a weedy garden; weedy corn."
3294  
3295  "Weedy (superl.) Scraggy; ill-shaped; ungainly; -- said of colts or horses, and also of persons."
3296  
3297  "Weedy (a.) Dressed in weeds, or mourning garments."
3298  
3299  "Week (n.) A period of seven days, usually that reckoned from one Sabbath or Sunday to the next."
3300  
3301  "Weekly (a.) Of or pertaining to a week, or week days; as, weekly labor."
3302  
3303  "Weekly (a.) Coming, happening, or done once a week; hebdomadary; as, a weekly payment; a weekly gazette."
3304  
3305  Weeklies (pl. ) of Weekly
3306  
3307  "Weekly (n.) A publication issued once in seven days, or appearing once a week."
3308  
3309  "Weekly (adv.) Once a week; by hebdomadal periods; as, each performs service weekly."
3310  
3311  Weekwam (n.) See Wigwam.
3312  
3313  Weel (a. & adv.) Well.
3314  
3315  Weel (n.) A whirlpool.
3316  
3317  Weel () Alt. of Weely
3318  
3319  "Weely () A kind of trap or snare for fish, made of twigs."
3320  
3321  Ween (v. i.) To think; to imagine; to fancy.
3322  
3323  Weep (n.) The lapwing; the wipe; -- so called from its cry.
3324  
3325  "Weep () imp. of Weep, for wept."
3326  
3327  Wept (imp. & p. p.) of Weep
3328  
3329  Weeping (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Weep
3330  
3331  "Weep (v. i.) Formerly, to express sorrow, grief, or anguish, by outcry, or by other manifest signs; in modern use, to show grief or other passions by shedding tears; to shed tears; to cry."
3332  
3333  Weep (v. i.) To lament; to complain.
3334  
3335  Weep (v. i.) To flow in drops; to run in drops.
3336  
3337  "Weep (v. i.) To drop water, or the like; to drip; to be soaked."
3338  
3339  "Weep (v. i.) To hang the branches, as if in sorrow; to be pendent; to droop; -- said of a plant or its branches."
3340  
3341  Weep (v. t.) To lament; to bewail; to bemoan.
3342  
3343  "Weep (v. t.) To shed, or pour forth, as tears; to shed drop by drop, as if tears; as, to weep tears of joy."
3344  
3345  "Weeper (n.) One who weeps; esp., one who sheds tears."
3346  
3347  Weeper (n.) A white band or border worn on the sleeve as a badge of mourning.
3348  
3349  "Weeper (n.) The capuchin. See Capuchin, 3 (a)."
3350  
3351  Weepful (a.) Full of weeping or lamentation; grieving.
3352  
3353  Weeping (n.) The act of one who weeps; lamentation with tears; shedding of tears.
3354  
3355  Weeping (a.) Grieving; lamenting; shedding tears.
3356  
3357  "Weeping (a.) Discharging water, or other liquid, in drops or very slowly; surcharged with water."
3358  
3359  "Weeping (a.) Having slender, pendent branches; -- said of trees; as, weeping willow; a weeping ash."
3360  
3361  "Weeping (a.) Pertaining to lamentation, or those who weep."
3362  
3363  Weepingly (adv.) In a weeping manner.
3364  
3365  Weeping-ripe (a.) Ripe for weeping; ready to weep.
3366  
3367  Weerish (a.) See Wearish.
3368  
3369  Weesel (n.) See Weasel.
3370  
3371  Weet (a. & n.) Wet.
3372  
3373  Wot (imp.) of Weet
3374  
3375  Weet (v. i.) To know; to wit.
3376  
3377  Weet-bird (n.) The wryneck; -- so called from its cry.
3378  
3379  Weetingly (adv.) Knowingly.
3380  
3381  "Weetless (a.) Unknowing; also, unknown; unmeaning."
3382  
3383  Weet-weet (n.) The common European sandpiper.
3384  
3385  Weet-weet (n.) The chaffinch.
3386  
3387  "Weever (n.) Any one of several species of edible marine fishes belonging to the genus Trachinus, of the family Trachinidae. They have a broad spinose head, with the eyes looking upward. The long dorsal fin is supported by numerous strong, sharp spines which cause painful wounds."
3388  
3389  "Weevil (n.) Any one of numerous species of snout beetles, or Rhynchophora, in which the head is elongated and usually curved downward. Many of the species are very injurious to cultivated plants. The larvae of some of the species live in nuts, fruit, and grain by eating out the interior, as the plum weevil, or curculio, the nut weevils, and the grain weevil (see under Plum, Nut, and Grain). The larvae of other species bore under the bark and into the pith of trees and various other plants, as the pine weevils (see under Pine). See also Pea weevil, Rice weevil, Seed weevil, under Pea, Rice, and Seed."
3390  
3391  "Weeviled (a.) Infested by weevils; as, weeviled grain."
3392  
3393  Weevily (a.) Having weevils; weeviled.
3394  
3395  Weezel (n.) See Weasel.
3396  
3397  Weft () imp. & p. p. of Wave.
3398  
3399  "Weft (n.) A thing waved, waived, or cast away; a waif."
3400  
3401  Weft (n.) The woof of cloth; the threads that cross the warp from selvage to selvage; the thread carried by the shuttle in weaving.
3402  
3403  Weft (n.) A web; a thing woven.
3404  
3405  Weftage (n.) Texture.
3406  
3407  Wegotism (n.) Excessive use of the pronoun we; -- called also weism.
3408  
3409  Wehrgeld (n.) Alt. of Wehrgelt
3410  
3411  Wehrgelt (n.) See Weregild.
3412  
3413  Wehrwolf (n.) See Werewolf.
3414  
3415  Weigela (n.) Alt. of Weigelia
3416  
3417  "Weigelia (n.) A hardy garden shrub (Diervilla Japonica) belonging to the Honeysuckle family, with white or red flowers. It was introduced from China."
3418  
3419  "Weigh (n.) A corruption of Way, used only in the phrase under weigh."
3420  
3421  Weighed (imp. & p. p.) of Weigh
3422  
3423  Weighing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Weigh
3424  
3425  "Weigh (v. t.) To bear up; to raise; to lift into the air; to swing up; as, to weigh anchor."
3426  
3427  "Weigh (v. t.) To examine by the balance; to ascertain the weight of, that is, the force with which a thing tends to the center of the earth; to determine the heaviness, or quantity of matter of; as, to weigh sugar; to weigh gold."
3428  
3429  Weigh (v. t.) To be equivalent to in weight; to counterbalance; to have the heaviness of.
3430  
3431  "Weigh (v. t.) To pay, allot, take, or give by weight."
3432  
3433  Weigh (v. t.) To examine or test as if by the balance; to ponder in the mind; to consider or examine for the purpose of forming an opinion or coming to a conclusion; to estimate deliberately and maturely; to balance.
3434  
3435  Weigh (v. t.) To consider as worthy of notice; to regard.
3436  
3437  Weigh (v. i.) To have weight; to be heavy.
3438  
3439  Weigh (v. i.) To be considered as important; to have weight in the intellectual balance.
3440  
3441  Weigh (v. i.) To bear heavily; to press hard.
3442  
3443  Weigh (v. i.) To judge; to estimate.
3444  
3445  Weigh (n.) A certain quantity estimated by weight; an English measure of weight. See Wey.
3446  
3447  Weighable (a.) Capable of being weighed.
3448  
3449  Weighage (n.) A duty or toil paid for weighing merchandise.
3450  
3451  Weighbeam (n.) A kind of large steelyard for weighing merchandise; -- also called weighmaster's beam.
3452  
3453  Weighboard (n.) Clay intersecting a vein.
3454  
3455  Weighbridge (n.) A weighing machine on which loaded carts may be weighed; platform scales.
3456  
3457  "Weigher (n.) One who weighs; specifically, an officer whose duty it is to weigh commodities."
3458  
3459  Weigh-houses (pl. ) of Weigh-house
3460  
3461  "Weigh-house (n.) A building at or within which goods, and the like, are weighed."
3462  
3463  "Weighing () a. & n. from Weigh, v."
3464  
3465  "Weighlock (n.) A lock, as on a canal, in which boats are weighed and their tonnage is settled."
3466  
3467  "Weighmaster (n.) One whose business it is to weigh ore, hay, merchandise, etc.; one licensed as a public weigher."
3468  
3469  "Weight (v. t.) The quality of being heavy; that property of bodies by which they tend toward the center of the earth; the effect of gravitative force, especially when expressed in certain units or standards, as pounds, grams, etc."
3470  
3471  "Weight (v. t.) The quantity of heaviness; comparative tendency to the center of the earth; the quantity of matter as estimated by the balance, or expressed numerically with reference to some standard unit; as, a mass of stone having the weight of five hundred pounds."
3472  
3473  "Weight (v. t.) Hence, pressure; burden; as, the weight of care or business."
3474  
3475  "Weight (v. t.) Importance; power; influence; efficacy; consequence; moment; impressiveness; as, a consideration of vast weight."
3476  
3477  "Weight (v. t.) A scale, or graduated standard, of heaviness; a mode of estimating weight; as, avoirdupois weight; troy weight; apothecaries' weight."
3478  
3479  "Weight (v. t.) A ponderous mass; something heavy; as, a clock weight; a paper weight."
3480  
3481  "Weight (v. t.) A definite mass of iron, lead, brass, or other metal, to be used for ascertaining the weight of other bodies; as, an ounce weight."
3482  
3483  "Weight (v. t.) The resistance against which a machine acts, as opposed to the power which moves it."
3484  
3485  Weighted (imp. & p. p.) of Weight
3486  
3487  Weighting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Weight
3488  
3489  "Weight (v. t.) To load with a weight or weights; to load down; to make heavy; to attach weights to; as, to weight a horse or a jockey at a race; to weight a whip handle."
3490  
3491  "Weight (v. t.) To assign a weight to; to express by a number the probable accuracy of, as an observation. See Weight of observations, under Weight."
3492  
3493  Weightily (adv.) In a weighty manner.
3494  
3495  Weightiness (n.) The quality or state of being weighty; weight; force; importance; impressiveness.
3496  
3497  "Weightless (a.) Having no weight; imponderable; hence, light."
3498  
3499  "Weighty (superl.) Having weight; heavy; ponderous; as, a weighty body."
3500  
3501  "Weighty (superl.) Adapted to turn the balance in the mind, or to convince; important; forcible; serious; momentous."
3502  
3503  Weighty (superl.) Rigorous; severe; afflictive.
3504  
3505  Weir (n.) Alt. of Wear
3506  
3507  "Wear (n.) A dam in a river to stop and raise the water, for the purpose of conducting it to a mill, forming a fish pond, or the like."
3508  
3509  "Wear (n.) A fence of stakes, brushwood, or the like, set in a stream, tideway, or inlet of the sea, for taking fish."
3510  
3511  "Wear (n.) A long notch with a horizontal edge, as in the top of a vertical plate or plank, through which water flows, -- used in measuring the quantity of flowing water."
3512  
3513  "Weird (n.) Fate; destiny; one of the Fates, or Norns; also, a prediction."
3514  
3515  Weird (n.) A spell or charm.
3516  
3517  Weird (a.) Of or pertaining to fate; concerned with destiny.
3518  
3519  "Weird (a.) Of or pertaining to witchcraft; caused by, or suggesting, magical influence; supernatural; unearthly; wild; as, a weird appearance, look, sound, etc."
3520  
3521  Weird (v. t.) To foretell the fate of; to predict; to destine to.
3522  
3523  Weirdness (n.) The quality or state of being weird.
3524  
3525  Weism (n.) Same as Wegotism.
3526  
3527  Weive (v. t.) See Waive.
3528  
3529  Weka (n.) A New Zealand rail (Ocydromus australis) which has wings so short as to be incapable of flight.
3530  
3531  "Wekau (n.) A small New Zealand owl (Sceloglaux albifacies). It has short wings and long legs, and lives chiefly on the ground."
3532  
3533  Wekeen (n.) The meadow pipit.
3534  
3535  Welaway (interj.) Alas!
3536  
3537  Wel-begone (a.) Surrounded with happiness or prosperity.
3538  
3539  Welch (a.) See Welsh.
3540  
3541  Welcher (n.) See Welsher.
3542  
3543  Welchman (n.) See Welshman.
3544  
3545  "Welcome (n.) Received with gladness; admitted willingly to the house, entertainment, or company; as, a welcome visitor."
3546  
3547  "Welcome (n.) Producing gladness; grateful; as, a welcome present; welcome news."
3548  
3549  "Welcome (n.) Free to have or enjoy gratuitously; as, you are welcome to the use of my library."
3550  
3551  Welcome (n.) Salutation to a newcomer.
3552  
3553  "Welcome (n.) Kind reception of a guest or newcomer; as, we entered the house and found a ready welcome."
3554  
3555  Welcomed (imp. & p. p.) of Welcome
3556  
3557  Welcoming (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Welcome
3558  
3559  "Welcome (v. t.) To salute with kindness, as a newcomer; to receive and entertain hospitably and cheerfully; as, to welcome a visitor; to welcome a new idea."
3560  
3561  Welcomely (adv.) In a welcome manner.
3562  
3563  Welcomeness (n.) The quality or state of being welcome; gratefulness; agreeableness; kind reception.
3564  
3565  "Welcomer (n.) One who welcomes; one who salutes, or receives kindly, a newcomer."
3566  
3567  Weld (v. t.) To wield.
3568  
3569  "Weld (n.) An herb (Reseda luteola) related to mignonette, growing in Europe, and to some extent in America; dyer's broom; dyer's rocket; dyer's weed; wild woad. It is used by dyers to give a yellow color."
3570  
3571  Weld (n.) Coloring matter or dye extracted from this plant.
3572  
3573  Welded (imp. & p. p.) of Weld
3574  
3575  Welding (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Weld
3576  
3577  "Weld (v. t.) To press or beat into intimate and permanent union, as two pieces of iron when heated almost to fusion."
3578  
3579  Weld (v. t.) Fig.: To unite closely or intimately.
3580  
3581  Weld (n.) The state of being welded; the joint made by welding.
3582  
3583  Weldable (a.) Capable of being welded.
3584  
3585  "Welder (n.) One who welds, or unites pieces of iron, etc., by welding."
3586  
3587  "Welder (n.) One who welds, or wields."
3588  
3589  Welder (n.) A manager; an actual occupant.
3590  
3591  "Weldon's process () A process for the recovery or regeneration of manganese dioxide in the manufacture of chlorine, by means of milk of lime and the oxygen of the air; -- so called after the inventor."
3592  
3593  Wele (n.) Prosperity; happiness; well-being; weal.
3594  
3595  Weleful (a.) Producing prosperity or happiness; blessed.
3596  
3597  "Welew (v. t.) To welk, or wither."
3598  
3599  Welfare (n.) Well-doing or well-being in any respect; the enjoyment of health and the common blessings of life; exemption from any evil or calamity; prosperity; happiness.
3600  
3601  Welfaring (a.) Faring well; prosperous; thriving.
3602  
3603  Welked (imp. & p. p.) of Welk
3604  
3605  Welking (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Welk
3606  
3607  "Welk (v. i.) To wither; to fade; also, to decay; to decline; to wane."
3608  
3609  Welk (v. t.) To cause to wither; to wilt.
3610  
3611  Welk (v. t.) To contract; to shorten.
3612  
3613  "Welk (v. t.) To soak; also, to beat severely."
3614  
3615  Welk (n.) A pustule. See 2d Whelk.
3616  
3617  Welk (n.) A whelk.
3618  
3619  Welked (v. t.) See Whelked.
3620  
3621  Welkin (n.) The visible regions of the air; the vault of heaven; the sky.
3622  
3623  Well (v. i.) An issue of water from the earth; a spring; a fountain.
3624  
3625  "Well (v. i.) A pit or hole sunk into the earth to such a depth as to reach a supply of water, generally of a cylindrical form, and often walled with stone or bricks to prevent the earth from caving in."
3626  
3627  Well (v. i.) A shaft made in the earth to obtain oil or brine.
3628  
3629  Well (v. i.) Fig.: A source of supply; fountain; wellspring.
3630  
3631  "Well (v. i.) An inclosure in the middle of a vessel's hold, around the pumps, from the bottom to the lower deck, to preserve the pumps from damage and facilitate their inspection."
3632  
3633  "Well (v. i.) A compartment in the middle of the hold of a fishing vessel, made tight at the sides, but having holes perforated in the bottom to let in water for the preservation of fish alive while they are transported to market."
3634  
3635  Well (v. i.) A vertical passage in the stern into which an auxiliary screw propeller may be drawn up out of water.
3636  
3637  Well (v. i.) A depressed space in the after part of the deck; -- often called the cockpit.
3638  
3639  "Well (v. i.) A hole or excavation in the earth, in mining, from which run branches or galleries."
3640  
3641  "Well (v. i.) An opening through the floors of a building, as for a staircase or an elevator; a wellhole."
3642  
3643  "Well (v. i.) The lower part of a furnace, into which the metal falls."
3644  
3645  Welled (imp. & p. p.) of Well
3646  
3647  Welling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Well
3648  
3649  "Well (v. i.) To issue forth, as water from the earth; to flow; to spring."
3650  
3651  "Well (v. t.) To pour forth, as from a well."
3652  
3653  Well (v. t.) In a good or proper manner; justly; rightly; not ill or wickedly.
3654  
3655  "Well (v. t.) Suitably to one's condition, to the occasion, or to a proposed end or use; suitably; abundantly; fully; adequately; thoroughly."
3656  
3657  Well (v. t.) Fully or about; -- used with numbers.
3658  
3659  Well (v. t.) In such manner as is desirable; so as one could wish; satisfactorily; favorably; advantageously; conveniently.
3660  
3661  Well (v. t.) Considerably; not a little; far.
3662  
3663  "Well (a.) Good in condition or circumstances; desirable, either in a natural or moral sense; fortunate; convenient; advantageous; happy; as, it is well for the country that the crops did not fail; it is well that the mistake was discovered."
3664  
3665  "Well (a.) Being in health; sound in body; not ailing, diseased, or sick; healthy; as, a well man; the patient is perfectly well."
3666  
3667  Well (a.) Being in favor; favored; fortunate.
3668  
3669  "Well (a.) Safe; as, a chip warranted well at a certain day and place."
3670  
3671  Welladay (interj.) Alas! Welaway!
3672  
3673  Wellat (n.) The king parrakeet See under King.
3674  
3675  "Well-being (n.) The state or condition of being well; welfare; happiness; prosperity; as, virtue is essential to the well-being of men or of society."
3676  
3677  Well-born (a.) Born of a noble or respect able family; not of mean birth.
3678  
3679  Well-bred (a.) Having good breeding; refined in manners; polite; cultivated.
3680  
3681  Welldoer (n.) One who does well; one who does good to another; a benefactor.
3682  
3683  Welldoing (n.) A doing well; right performance of duties. Also used adjectively.
3684  
3685  Welldrained (imp. & p. p.) of Welldrain
3686  
3687  Well-draining (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Welldrain
3688  
3689  "Welldrain (v. t.) To drain, as land; by means of wells, or pits, which receive the water, and from which it is discharged by machinery."
3690  
3691  Wellfare (n.) See Welfare.
3692  
3693  Well-favored (a.) Handsome; wellformed; beautiful; pleasing to the eye.
3694  
3695  "Wellhead (n.) A source, spring, or fountain."
3696  
3697  "Wellhole (n.) The open space in a floor, to accommodate a staircase."
3698  
3699  Wellhole (n.) The open space left beyond the ends of the steps of a staircase.
3700  
3701  "Wellhole (n.) A cavity which receives a counterbalancing weight in certain mechanical contrivances, and is adapted also for other purposes."
3702  
3703  Well-informed (a.) Correctly informed; provided with information; well furnished with authentic knowledge; intelligent.
3704  
3705  "Wellingtonia (n.) A name given to the ""big trees"" (Sequoia gigantea) of California, and still used in England. See Sequoia."
3706  
3707  Wellingtons (n. pl.) A kind of long boots for men.
3708  
3709  Well-intentioned (a.) Having upright intentions or honorable purposes.
3710  
3711  Well-known (a.) Fully known; generally known or acknowledged.
3712  
3713  Well-liking (a.) Being in good condition.
3714  
3715  Well-mannered (a.) Polite; well-bred; complaisant; courteous.
3716  
3717  Well-meaner (n.) One whose intention is good.
3718  
3719  Well-meaning (a.) Having a good intention.
3720  
3721  Well-natured (a.) Good-natured; kind.
3722  
3723  Well-nigh (adv.) Almost; nearly.
3724  
3725  Well-plighted (a.) Being well folded.
3726  
3727  Well-read (a.) Of extensive reading; deeply versed; -- often followed by in.
3728  
3729  "Well-seen (a.) Having seen much; hence, accomplished; experienced."
3730  
3731  Well-set (a.) Properly or firmly set.
3732  
3733  Well-set (a.) Well put together; having symmetry of parts.
3734  
3735  Well-sped (a.) Having good success.
3736  
3737  Well-spoken (a.) Speaking well; speaking with fitness or grace; speaking kindly.
3738  
3739  "Well-spoken (a.) Spoken with propriety; as, well-spoken words."
3740  
3741  Wellspring (n.) A fountain; a spring; a source of continual supply.
3742  
3743  "Well-willer (n.) One who wishes well, or means kindly."
3744  
3745  Well-wish (n.) A wish of happiness.
3746  
3747  Wellwisher (n.) One who wishes another well; one who is benevolently or friendlily inclined.
3748  
3749  We'll () Contraction for we will or we shall.
3750  
3751  Wels (n.) The sheatfish; -- called also waller.
3752  
3753  "Welsh (a.) Of or pertaining to Wales, or its inhabitants."
3754  
3755  "Welsh (n.) The language of Wales, or of the Welsh people."
3756  
3757  Welsh (n.) The natives or inhabitants of Wales.
3758  
3759  "Welsher (n.) One who cheats at a horse race; one who bets, without a chance of being able to pay; one who receives money to back certain horses and absconds with it."
3760  
3761  Welshmen (pl. ) of Welshman
3762  
3763  Welshman (n.) A native or inhabitant of Wales; one of the Welsh.
3764  
3765  Welshman (n.) A squirrel fish.
3766  
3767  Welshman (n.) The large-mouthed black bass. See Black bass.
3768  
3769  Welsome (a.) Prosperous; well.
3770  
3771  "Welt (n.) That which, being sewed or otherwise fastened to an edge or border, serves to guard, strengthen, or adorn it"
3772  
3773  "Welt (n.) A small cord covered with cloth and sewed on a seam or border to strengthen it; an edge of cloth folded on itself, usually over a cord, and sewed down."
3774  
3775  "Welt (n.) A hem, border, or fringe."
3776  
3777  "Welt (n.) In shoemaking, a narrow strip of leather around a shoe, between the upper leather and sole."
3778  
3779  "Welt (n.) In steam boilers and sheet-iron work, a strip riveted upon the edges of plates that form a butt joint."
3780  
3781  "Welt (n.) In carpentry, a strip of wood fastened over a flush seam or joint, or an angle, to strengthen it."
3782  
3783  "Welt (n.) In machine-made stockings, a strip, or flap, of which the heel is formed."
3784  
3785  "Welt (n.) A narrow border, as of an ordinary, but not extending around the ends."
3786  
3787  Welted (imp. & p. p.) of Welt
3788  
3789  Welting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Welt
3790  
3791  "Welt (v. t.) To furnish with a welt; to sew or fasten a welt on; as, to welt a boot or a shoe; to welt a sleeve."
3792  
3793  Welt (v. t.) To wilt.
3794  
3795  "Welte () imp. of Weld, to wield."
3796  
3797  Weltered (imp. & p. p.) of Welter
3798  
3799  Weltering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Welter
3800  
3801  "Welter (v. i.) To roll, as the body of an animal; to tumble about, especially in anything foul or defiling; to wallow."
3802  
3803  "Welter (v. i.) To rise and fall, as waves; to tumble over, as billows."
3804  
3805  Welter (v. i.) To wither; to wilt.
3806  
3807  "Welter (a.) Of, pertaining to, or designating, the most heavily weighted race in a meeting; as, a welter race; the welter stakes."
3808  
3809  "Welter (n.) That in which any person or thing welters, or wallows; filth; mire; slough."
3810  
3811  "Welter (n.) A rising or falling, as of waves; as, the welter of the billows; the welter of a tempest."
3812  
3813  "Welwitschia (n.) An African plant (Welwitschia mirabilis) belonging to the order Gnetaceae. It consists of a short, woody, topshaped stem, and never more than two leaves, which are the cotyledons enormously developed, and at length split into diverging segments."
3814  
3815  Wem (n.) The abdomen; the uterus; the womb.
3816  
3817  Wem (n.) Spot; blemish; harm; hurt.
3818  
3819  Wem (v. t.) To stain; to blemish; to harm; to corrupt.
3820  
3821  "Wemless (a.) Having no wem, or blemish; spotless."
3822  
3823  "Wem (n.) An indolent, encysted tumor of the skin; especially, a sebaceous cyst."
3824  
3825  Wench (n.) A young woman; a girl; a maiden.
3826  
3827  "Wench (n.) A low, vicious young woman; a drab; a strumpet."
3828  
3829  Wench (n.) A colored woman; a negress.
3830  
3831  Wenched (imp. & p. p.) of Wench
3832  
3833  Wenching (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Wench
3834  
3835  "Wench (v. i.) To frequent the company of wenches, or women of ill fame."
3836  
3837  Wencher (n.) One who wenches; a lewd man.
3838  
3839  Wenchless (a.) Being without a wench.
3840  
3841  Wend () p. p. of Wene.
3842  
3843  Wended (imp. & p. p.) of Wend
3844  
3845  Went () of Wend
3846  
3847  Wending (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Wend
3848  
3849  Wend (v. i.) To go; to pass; to betake one's self.
3850  
3851  Wend (v. i.) To turn round.
3852  
3853  Wend (v. t.) To direct; to betake; -- used chiefly in the phrase to wend one's way. Also used reflexively.
3854  
3855  Wend (n.) A large extent of ground; a perambulation; a circuit.
3856  
3857  Wende () imp. of Wene.
3858  
3859  Wendic (a.) Alt. of Wendish
3860  
3861  "Wendish (a.) Of or pertaining the Wends, or their language."
3862  
3863  Wendic (n.) The language of the Wends.
3864  
3865  "Wends (n. pl.) A Slavic tribe which once occupied the northern and eastern parts of Germany, of which a small remnant exists."
3866  
3867  Wene (v. i.) To ween.
3868  
3869  Wenlock group () The middle subdivision of the Upper Silurian in Great Britain; -- so named from the typical locality in Shropshire.
3870  
3871  Wennel (n.) See Weanel.
3872  
3873  Wennish (a.) Alt. of Wenny
3874  
3875  "Wenny (a.) Having the nature of a wen; resembling a wen; as, a wennish excrescence."
3876  
3877  "Wenona (n.) A sand snake (Charina plumbea) of Western North America, of the family Erycidae."
3878  
3879  "Went () imp. & p. p. of Wend; -- now obsolete except as the imperfect of go, with which it has no etymological connection. See Go."
3880  
3881  Went (n.) Course; way; path; journey; direction.
3882  
3883  "Wentletrap (n.) Any one of numerous species of elegant, usually white, marine shells of the genus Scalaria, especially Scalaria pretiosa, which was formerly highly valued; -- called also staircase shell. See Scalaria."
3884  
3885  Wep () imp. of Weep.
3886  
3887  Wepen (n.) Weapon.
3888  
3889  Wept () imp. & p. p. of Weep.
3890  
3891  Werche (v. t. & i.) To work.
3892  
3893  Were (v. t. & i.) To wear. See 3d Wear.
3894  
3895  Were (n.) A weir. See Weir.
3896  
3897  Were (v. t.) To guard; to protect.
3898  
3899  "Were () The imperfect indicative plural, and imperfect subjunctive singular and plural, of the verb be. See Be."
3900  
3901  Were (n.) A man.
3902  
3903  Were (n.) A fine for slaying a man; the money value set upon a man's life; weregild.
3904  
3905  "Weregild (n.) The price of a man's head; a compensation paid of a man killed, partly to the king for the loss of a subject, partly to the lord of a vassal, and partly to the next of kin. It was paid by the murderer."
3906  
3907  Werewolves (pl. ) of Werewolf
3908  
3909  "Werewolf (n.) A person transformed into a wolf in form and appetite, either temporarily or permanently, whether by supernatural influences, by witchcraft, or voluntarily; a lycanthrope. Belief in werewolves, formerly general, is not now extinct."
3910  
3911  Werk (v.) Alt. of Werke
3912  
3913  Werke (v.) See Work.
3914  
3915  Wern (v. t.) To refuse.
3916  
3917  "Wernerian (a.) Of or pertaining to A. G. Werner, The German mineralogist and geologist, who classified minerals according to their external characters, and advocated the theory that the strata of the earth's crust were formed by depositions from water; designating, or according to, Werner's system."
3918  
3919  Wernerite (n.) The common grayish or white variety of soapolite.
3920  
3921  Weroole (n.) An Australian lorikeet (Ptilosclera versicolor) noted for the variety of its colors; -- called also varied lorikeet.
3922  
3923  Werre (n.) War.
3924  
3925  Werrey (v. t.) To warray.
3926  
3927  Werst (n.) See Verst.
3928  
3929  "Wert () The second person singular, indicative and subjunctive moods, imperfect tense, of the verb be. It is formed from were, with the ending -t, after the analogy of wast. Now used only in solemn or poetic style."
3930  
3931  Wert (n.) A wart.
3932  
3933  Weryangle (n.) See Wariangle.
3934  
3935  Wesand (n.) See Weasand.
3936  
3937  Wesh (imp.) Washed.
3938  
3939  Wesil (n.) See Weasand.
3940  
3941  Wesleyan (a.) Of or pertaining to Wesley or Wesleyanism.
3942  
3943  Wesleyan (n.) One who adopts the principles of Wesleyanism; a Methodist.
3944  
3945  "Wesleyanism (n.) The system of doctrines and church polity inculcated by John Wesley (b. 1703; d. 1791), the founder of the religious sect called Methodist; Methodism. See Methodist, n., 2."
3946  
3947  "West (n.) The point in the heavens where the sun is seen to set at the equinox; or, the corresponding point on the earth; that one of the four cardinal points of the compass which is in a direction at right angles to that of north and south, and on the left hand of a person facing north; the point directly opposite to east."
3948  
3949  "West (n.) A country, or region of country, which, with regard to some other country or region, is situated in the direction toward the west."
3950  
3951  "West (n.) The Westen hemisphere, or the New World so called, it having been discovered by sailing westward from Europe; the Occident."
3952  
3953  "West (n.) Formerly, that part of the United States west of the Alleghany mountains; now, commonly, the whole region west of the Mississippi river; esp., that part which is north of the Indian Territory, New Mexico, etc. Usually with the definite article."
3954  
3955  "West (a.) Lying toward the west; situated at the west, or in a western direction from the point of observation or reckoning; proceeding toward the west, or coming from the west; as, a west course is one toward the west; an east and west line; a west wind blows from the west."
3956  
3957  West (adv.) Westward.
3958  
3959  "West (v. i.) To pass to the west; to set, as the sun."
3960  
3961  West (v. i.) To turn or move toward the west; to veer from the north or south toward the west.
3962  
3963  Westering (a.) Passing to the west.
3964  
3965  Westerly (a.) Of or pertaining to the west; toward the west; coming from the west; western.
3966  
3967  Westerly (adv.) Toward the west; westward.
3968  
3969  "Western (a.) Of or pertaining to the west; situated in the west, or in the region nearly in the direction of west; being in that quarter where the sun sets; as, the western shore of France; the western ocean."
3970  
3971  "Western (a.) Moving toward the west; as, a ship makes a western course; coming from the west; as, a western breeze."
3972  
3973  Westerner (n.) A native or inhabitant of the west.
3974  
3975  Westernmost (a.) Situated the farthest towards the west; most western.
3976  
3977  West India () Alt. of West Indian
3978  
3979  West Indian () Belonging or relating to the West Indies.
3980  
3981  "West Indian () A native of, or a dweller in, the West Indies."
3982  
3983  "Westing (n.) The distance, reckoned toward the west, between the two meridians passing through the extremities of a course, or portion of a ship's path; the departure of a course which lies to the west of north."
3984  
3985  Westling (n.) A westerner.
3986  
3987  Westminster Assembly () See under Assembly.
3988  
3989  Westmost (a.) Lying farthest to the west; westernmost.
3990  
3991  Westward (adv.) Alt. of Westwards
3992  
3993  "Westwards (adv.) Toward the west; as, to ride or sail westward."
3994  
3995  Westward (a.) Lying toward the west.
3996  
3997  Westward (n.) The western region or countries; the west.
3998  
3999  Westwardly (adv.) In a westward direction.
4000  
4001  Westy (a.) Dizzy; giddy.
4002  
4003  "Wet (superl.) Containing, or consisting of, water or other liquid; moist; soaked with a liquid; having water or other liquid upon the surface; as, wet land; a wet cloth; a wet table."
4004  
4005  "Wet (superl.) Very damp; rainy; as, wet weather; a wet season."
4006  
4007  "Wet (superl.) Employing, or done by means of, water or some other liquid; as, the wet extraction of copper, in distinction from dry extraction in which dry heat or fusion is employed."
4008  
4009  Wet (superl.) Refreshed with liquor; drunk.
4010  
4011  Wet (a.) Water or wetness; moisture or humidity in considerable degree.
4012  
4013  Wet (a.) Rainy weather; foggy or misty weather.
4014  
4015  Wet (a.) A dram; a drink.
4016  
4017  Wet (imp. & p. p.) of Wet
4018  
4019  Wetted () of Wet
4020  
4021  Wetting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Wet
4022  
4023  "Wet (v. t.) To fill or moisten with water or other liquid; to sprinkle; to cause to have water or other fluid adherent to the surface; to dip or soak in a liquid; as, to wet a sponge; to wet the hands; to wet cloth."
4024  
4025  "Wetbird (n.) The chaffinch, whose cry is thought to foretell rain."
4026  
4027  Wether (n.) A castrated ram.
4028  
4029  "Westness (n.) The quality or state of being wet; moisture; humidity; as, the wetness of land; the wetness of a cloth."
4030  
4031  "Westness (n.) A watery or moist state of the atmosphere; a state of being rainy, foggy, or misty; as, the wetness of weather or the season."
4032  
4033  "Wet nurse () A nurse who suckles a child, especially the child of another woman. Cf. Dry nurse."
4034  
4035  "Wet-shod (a.) Having the feet, or the shoes on the feet, wet."
4036  
4037  Wettish (a.) Somewhat wet; moist; humid.
4038  
4039  Wevil (n.) See Weevil.
4040  
4041  Wex (v. t. & i.) To grow; to wax.
4042  
4043  Wex (imp.) Waxed.
4044  
4045  Wex (n.) Wax.
4046  
4047  Wey (n.) Way; road; path.
4048  
4049  Wey (v. t. & i.) To weigh.
4050  
4051  Wey (n.) A certain measure of weight.
4052  
4053  Weyle (v. t. & i.) To wail.
4054  
4055  Weyleway (interj.) See Welaway.
4056  
4057  Weyve (v. t.) To waive.
4058  
4059  Wezand (n.) See Weasand.
4060  
4061  "Whaap (n.) The European curlew; -- called also awp, whaup, great whaup, and stock whaup."
4062  
4063  "Whaap (n.) The whimbrel; -- called also May whaup, little whaup, and tang whaup."
4064  
4065  Whacked (imp. & p. p.) of Whack
4066  
4067  Whacking (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Whack
4068  
4069  Whack (v. t.) To strike; to beat; to give a heavy or resounding blow to; to thrash; to make with whacks.
4070  
4071  Whack (v. i.) To strike anything with a smart blow.
4072  
4073  Whack (n.) A smart resounding blow.
4074  
4075  Whacker (n.) One who whacks.
4076  
4077  "Whacker (n.) Anything very large; specif., a great lie; a whapper."
4078  
4079  Whacking (a.) Very large; whapping.
4080  
4081  "Whahoo (n.) An American tree, the winged elm. (Ulmus alata)."
4082  
4083  Whaled (imp. & p. p.) of Whala
4084  
4085  Whaling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Whala
4086  
4087  Whala (v. t.) To lash with stripes; to wale; to thrash; to drub.
4088  
4089  "Whale (n.) Any aquatic mammal of the order Cetacea, especially any one of the large species, some of which become nearly one hundred feet long. Whales are hunted chiefly for their oil and baleen, or whalebone."
4090  
4091  "Whaleboat (n.) A long, narrow boat, sharp at both ends, used by whalemen."
4092  
4093  "Whalebone (n.) A firm, elastic substance resembling horn, taken from the upper jaw of the right whale; baleen. It is used as a stiffening in stays, fans, screens, and for various other purposes. See Baleen."
4094  
4095  Whalemen (pl. ) of Whaleman
4096  
4097  Whaleman (n.) A man employed in the whale fishery.
4098  
4099  Whaler (n.) A vessel or person employed in the whale fishery.
4100  
4101  "Whaler (n.) One who whales, or beats; a big, strong fellow; hence, anything of great or unusual size."
4102  
4103  Whaling (n.) The hunting of whales.
4104  
4105  "Whaling (a.) Pertaining to, or employed in, the pursuit of whales; as, a whaling voyage; a whaling vessel."
4106  
4107  Whall (n.) A light color of the iris in horses; wall-eye.
4108  
4109  Whally (a.) Having the iris of light color; -- said of horses.
4110  
4111  Whame (n.) A breeze fly.
4112  
4113  Whammel (v. t.) To turn over.
4114  
4115  Whan (adv.) When.
4116  
4117  Whang (n.) A leather thong.
4118  
4119  Whang (v. t.) To beat.
4120  
4121  Whanghee (n.) See Wanghee.
4122  
4123  Whap (v. i.) Alt. of Whop
4124  
4125  "Whop (v. i.) To throw one's self quickly, or by an abrupt motion; to turn suddenly; as, she whapped down on the floor; the fish whapped over."
4126  
4127  Whapped (imp. & p. p.) of Whop
4128  
4129  Whapping (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Whop
4130  
4131  Whap (v. t.) Alt. of Whop
4132  
4133  Whop (v. t.) To beat or strike.
4134  
4135  Whap (n.) Alt. of Whop
4136  
4137  "Whop (n.) A blow, or quick, smart stroke."
4138  
4139  Whapper (n.) Alt. of Whopper
4140  
4141  Whopper (n.) Something uncommonly large of the kind; something astonishing; -- applied especially to a bold lie.
4142  
4143  Whapping (a.) Alt. of Whopping
4144  
4145  "Whopping (a.) Very large; monstrous; astonishing; as, a whapping story."
4146  
4147  Wharfs (pl. ) of Wharf
4148  
4149  Wharves (pl. ) of Wharf
4150  
4151  "Wharf (n.) A structure or platform of timber, masonry, iron, earth, or other material, built on the shore of a harbor, river, canal, or the like, and usually extending from the shore to deep water, so that vessels may lie close alongside to receive and discharge cargo, passengers, etc.; a quay; a pier."
4152  
4153  "Wharf (n.) The bank of a river, or the shore of the sea."
4154  
4155  Wharfed (imp. & p. p.) of Wharf
4156  
4157  Wharfing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Wharf
4158  
4159  Wharf (v. t.) To guard or secure by a firm wall of timber or stone constructed like a wharf; to furnish with a wharf or wharfs.
4160  
4161  Wharf (v. t.) To place upon a wharf; to bring to a wharf.
4162  
4163  "Wharfage (n.) The fee or duty paid for the privilege of using a wharf for loading or unloading goods; pierage, collectively; quayage."
4164  
4165  "Wharfage (n.) A wharf or wharfs, collectively; wharfing."
4166  
4167  "Wharfing (n.) Wharfs, collectively."
4168  
4169  Wharfing (n.) A mode of facing sea walls and embankments with planks driven as piles and secured by ties.
4170  
4171  "Wharfinger (n.) A man who owns, or has the care of, a wharf."
4172  
4173  Wharl (n.) Alt. of Wharling
4174  
4175  "Wharling (n.) A guttural pronunciation of the letter r; a burr. See Burr, n., 6."
4176  
4177  "Wharp (n.) A kind of fine sand from the banks of the Trent, used as a polishing powder."
4178  
4179  "What (pron., a., & adv.) As an interrogative pronoun, used in asking questions regarding either persons or things; as, what is this? what did you say? what poem is this? what child is lost?"
4180  
4181  "What (pron., a., & adv.) As an exclamatory word: -- (a) Used absolutely or independently; -- often with a question following."
4182  
4183  "What (pron., a., & adv.) Used adjectively, meaning how remarkable, or how great; as, what folly! what eloquence! what courage!"
4184  
4185  "What (pron., a., & adv.) Sometimes prefixed to adjectives in an adverbial sense, as nearly equivalent to how; as, what happy boys!"
4186  
4187  "What (pron., a., & adv.) As a relative pronoun"
4188  
4189  "What (pron., a., & adv.) Used substantively with the antecedent suppressed, equivalent to that which, or those [persons] who, or those [things] which; -- called a compound relative."
4190  
4191  "What (pron., a., & adv.) Used adjectively, equivalent to the . . . which; the sort or kind of . . . which; rarely, the . . . on, or at, which."
4192  
4193  "What (pron., a., & adv.) Used adverbially in a sense corresponding to the adjectival use; as, he picked what good fruit he saw."
4194  
4195  "What (pron., a., & adv.) Whatever; whatsoever; what thing soever; -- used indefinitely."
4196  
4197  "What (pron., a., & adv.) Used adverbially, in part; partly; somewhat; -- with a following preposition, especially, with, and commonly with repetition."
4198  
4199  What (n.) Something; thing; stuff.
4200  
4201  What (interrog. adv.) Why? For what purpose? On what account?
4202  
4203  Whate'er (pron.) A contraction of what-ever; -- used in poetry.
4204  
4205  Whatever (pron.) Anything soever which; the thing or things of any kind; being this or that; of one nature or another; one thing or another; anything that may be; all that; the whole that; all particulars that; -- used both substantively and adjectively.
4206  
4207  "Whatnot (n.) A kind of stand, or piece of furniture, having shelves for books, ornaments, etc.; an etagere."
4208  
4209  Whatso (indef. pron.) Whatsoever; whosoever; whatever; anything that.
4210  
4211  Whatsoe'er (pron.) A contraction of whatsoever; -- used in poetry.
4212  
4213  Whatsoever (pron. & a.) Whatever.
4214  
4215  Whaul (n.) Same as Whall.
4216  
4217  Whaup (n.) See Whaap.
4218  
4219  Wheal (n.) A pustule; a whelk.
4220  
4221  "Wheal (n.) A more or less elongated mark raised by a stroke; also, a similar mark made by any cause; a weal; a wale."
4222  
4223  "Wheal (n.) Specifically (Med.), a flat, burning or itching eminence on the skin, such as is produced by a mosquito bite, or in urticaria."
4224  
4225  Wheal (n.) A mine.
4226  
4227  "Whealworm (n.) The harvest mite; -- so called from the wheals, caused by its bite."
4228  
4229  "Wheat (n.) A cereal grass (Triticum vulgare) and its grain, which furnishes a white flour for bread, and, next to rice, is the grain most largely used by the human race."
4230  
4231  "Wheatbird (n.) A bird that feeds on wheat, especially the chaffinch."
4232  
4233  "Wheatear (n.) A small European singing bird (Saxicola /nanthe). The male is white beneath, bluish gray above, with black wings and a black stripe through each eye. The tail is black at the tip and in the middle, but white at the base and on each side. Called also checkbird, chickell, dykehopper, fallow chat, fallow finch, stonechat, and whitetail."
4234  
4235  "Wheaten (a.) Made of wheat; as, wheaten bread."
4236  
4237  Wheatsel bird () The male of the chaffinch.
4238  
4239  Wheatstone's bridge () See under Bridge.
4240  
4241  "Wheatworm (n.) A small nematode worm (Anguillula tritici) which attacks the grains of wheat in the ear. It is found in wheat affected with smut, each of the diseased grains containing a large number of the minute young of the worm."
4242  
4243  Wheder (pron. & conj.) Whether.
4244  
4245  Wheedled (imp. & p. p.) of Wheedle
4246  
4247  Wheedling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Wheedle
4248  
4249  Wheedle (v. t.) To entice by soft words; to cajole; to flatter; to coax.
4250  
4251  "Wheedle (v. t.) To grain, or get away, by flattery."
4252  
4253  Wheedle (v. i.) To flatter; to coax; to cajole.
4254  
4255  "Wheel (n.) A circular frame turning about an axis; a rotating disk, whether solid, or a frame composed of an outer rim, spokes or radii, and a central hub or nave, in which is inserted the axle, -- used for supporting and conveying vehicles, in machinery, and for various purposes; as, the wheel of a wagon, of a locomotive, of a mill, of a watch, etc."
4256  
4257  "Wheel (n.) Any instrument having the form of, or chiefly consisting of, a wheel."
4258  
4259  Wheel (n.) A spinning wheel. See under Spinning.
4260  
4261  Wheel (n.) An instrument of torture formerly used.
4262  
4263  "Wheel (n.) A circular frame having handles on the periphery, and an axle which is so connected with the tiller as to form a means of controlling the rudder for the purpose of steering."
4264  
4265  Wheel (n.) A potter's wheel. See under Potter.
4266  
4267  "Wheel (n.) A firework which, while burning, is caused to revolve on an axis by the reaction of the escaping gases."
4268  
4269  Wheel (n.) The burden or refrain of a song.
4270  
4271  Wheel (n.) A bicycle or a tricycle; a velocipede.
4272  
4273  Wheel (n.) A rolling or revolving body; anything of a circular form; a disk; an orb.
4274  
4275  Wheel (n.) A turn revolution; rotation; compass.
4276  
4277  Wheeled (imp. & p. p.) of Wheel
4278  
4279  Wheeling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Wheel
4280  
4281  "Wheel (v. t.) To convey on wheels, or in a wheeled vehicle; as, to wheel a load of hay or wood."
4282  
4283  Wheel (v. t.) To put into a rotatory motion; to cause to turn or revolve; to cause to gyrate; to make or perform in a circle.
4284  
4285  "Wheel (v. i.) To turn on an axis, or as on an axis; to revolve; to more about; to rotate; to gyrate."
4286  
4287  "Wheel (v. i.) To change direction, as if revolving upon an axis or pivot; to turn; as, the troops wheeled to the right."
4288  
4289  Wheel (v. i.) To go round in a circuit; to fetch a compass.
4290  
4291  Wheel (v. i.) To roll forward.
4292  
4293  Wheelband (n.) The tire of a wheel.
4294  
4295  "Wheelbarrow (n.) A light vehicle for conveying small loads. It has two handles and one wheel, and is rolled by a single person."
4296  
4297  Wheelbird (n.) The European goatsucker.
4298  
4299  "Wheeled (a.) Having wheels; -- used chiefly in composition; as, a four-wheeled carriage."
4300  
4301  "Wheeler (n.) One who wheels, or turns."
4302  
4303  Wheeler (n.) A maker of wheels; a wheelwright.
4304  
4305  Wheeler (n.) A wheel horse. See under Wheel.
4306  
4307  Wheeler (n.) A steam vessel propelled by a paddle wheel or by paddle wheels; -- used chiefly in the terms side-wheeler and stern-wheeler.
4308  
4309  Wheeler (n.) A worker on sewed muslin.
4310  
4311  Wheeler (n.) The European goatsucker.
4312  
4313  "Wheelhouse (n.) A small house on or above a vessel's deck, containing the steering wheel."
4314  
4315  Wheelhouse (n.) A paddle box. See under Paddle.
4316  
4317  "Wheeling (n.) The act of conveying anything, or traveling, on wheels, or in a wheeled vehicle."
4318  
4319  Wheeling (n.) The act or practice of using a cycle; cycling.
4320  
4321  "Wheeling (n.) Condition of a road or roads, which admits of passing on wheels; as, it is good wheeling, or bad wheeling."
4322  
4323  "Wheeling (n.) A turning, or circular movement."
4324  
4325  Wheelmen (pl. ) of Wheelman
4326  
4327  "Wheelman (n.) One who rides a bicycle or tricycle; a cycler, or cyclist."
4328  
4329  Wheel-shaped (a.) Shaped like a wheel.
4330  
4331  "Wheel-shaped (a.) Expanding into a flat, circular border at top, with scarcely any tube; as, a wheel-shaped corolla."
4332  
4333  Wheelswarf (n.) See Swarf.
4334  
4335  "Wheelwork (n.) A combination of wheels, and their connection, in a machine or mechanism."
4336  
4337  "Wheel-worn (a.) Worn by the action of wheels; as, a wheel-worn road."
4338  
4339  "Wheelwright (n.) A man whose occupation is to make or repair wheels and wheeled vehicles, as carts, wagons, and the like."
4340  
4341  Wheely (a.) Circular; suitable to rotation.
4342  
4343  Wheen (n.) A quantity; a goodly number.
4344  
4345  Wheezed (imp. & p. p.) of Wheeze
4346  
4347  Wheezing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Wheeze
4348  
4349  "Wheeze (v. i.) To breathe hard, and with an audible piping or whistling sound, as persons affected with asthma."
4350  
4351  Wheeze (n.) A piping or whistling sound caused by difficult respiration.
4352  
4353  "Wheeze (n.) An ordinary whisper exaggerated so as to produce the hoarse sound known as the ""stage whisper."" It is a forcible whisper with some admixture of tone."
4354  
4355  Wheezy (a.) Breathing with difficulty and with a wheeze; wheezing. Used also figuratively.
4356  
4357  "Wheft (n.) See Waft, n., 4."
4358  
4359  "Whelk (n.) Any one numerous species of large marine gastropods belonging to Buccinum and allied genera; especially, Buccinum undatum, common on the coasts both of Europe and North America, and much used as food in Europe."
4360  
4361  Whelk (n.) A papule; a pustule; acne.
4362  
4363  Whelk (n.) A stripe or mark; a ridge; a wale.
4364  
4365  "Whelked (a.) Having whelks; whelky; as, whelked horns."
4366  
4367  "Whelky (a.) Having whelks, ridges, or protuberances; hence, streaked; striated."
4368  
4369  Whelky (a.) Shelly.
4370  
4371  Whelmed (imp. & p. p.) of Whelm
4372  
4373  Whelming (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Whelm
4374  
4375  Whelm (v. t.) To cover with water or other fluid; to cover by immersion in something that envelops on all sides; to overwhelm; to ingulf.
4376  
4377  "Whelm (v. t.) Fig.: To cover completely, as if with water; to immerse; to overcome; as, to whelm one in sorrows."
4378  
4379  Whelm (v. t.) To throw (something) over a thing so as to cover it.
4380  
4381  "Whelp (n.) One of the young of a dog or a beast of prey; a puppy; a cub; as, a lion's whelps."
4382  
4383  Whelp (n.) A child; a youth; -- jocosely or in contempt.
4384  
4385  "Whelp (n.) One of the longitudinal ribs or ridges on the barrel of a capstan or a windless; -- usually in the plural; as, the whelps of a windlass."
4386  
4387  Whelp (n.) One of the teeth of a sprocket wheel.
4388  
4389  Whelped (imp. & p. p.) of Whelp
4390  
4391  Whelping (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Whelp
4392  
4393  Whelp (v. i.) To bring forth young; -- said of the female of the dog and some beasts of prey.
4394  
4395  "Whelp (v. t.) To bring forth, as cubs or young; to give birth to."
4396  
4397  When (adv.) At what time; -- used interrogatively.
4398  
4399  "When (adv.) At what time; at, during, or after the time that; at or just after, the moment that; -- used relatively."
4400  
4401  "When (adv.) While; whereas; although; -- used in the manner of a conjunction to introduce a dependent adverbial sentence or clause, having a causal, conditional, or adversative relation to the principal proposition; as, he chose to turn highwayman when he might have continued an honest man; he removed the tree when it was the best in the grounds."
4402  
4403  When (adv.) Which time; then; -- used elliptically as a noun.
4404  
4405  Whenas (conj.) Whereas; while
4406  
4407  "Whence (adv.) From what place; hence, from what or which source, origin, antecedent, premise, or the like; how; -- used interrogatively."
4408  
4409  "Whence (adv.) From what or which place, source, material, cause, etc.; the place, source, etc., from which; -- used relatively."
4410  
4411  Whenceever (adv. & conj.) Whencesoever.
4412  
4413  "Whenceforth (adv.) From, or forth from, what or which place; whence."
4414  
4415  Whencesoever (adv. & conj.) From what place soever; from what cause or source soever.
4416  
4417  Whene'er (adv. & conj.) Whenever.
4418  
4419  Whenever (adv. & conj.) At whatever time.
4420  
4421  Whennes (adv.) Whence.
4422  
4423  Whensoever (adv. & conj.) At what time soever; at whatever time; whenever.
4424  
4425  Where (pron. & conj.) Whether.
4426  
4427  "Where (adv.) At or in what place; hence, in what situation, position, or circumstances; -- used interrogatively."
4428  
4429  "Where (adv.) At or in which place; at the place in which; hence, in the case or instance in which; -- used relatively."
4430  
4431  "Where (adv.) To what or which place; hence, to what goal, result, or issue; whither; -- used interrogatively and relatively; as, where are you going?"
4432  
4433  Where (conj.) Whereas.
4434  
4435  Where (n.) Place; situation.
4436  
4437  Whereabout (adv.) Alt. of Whereabouts
4438  
4439  "Whereabouts (adv.) About where; near what or which place; -- used interrogatively and relatively; as, whereabouts did you meet him?"
4440  
4441  Whereabouts (adv.) Concerning which; about which.
4442  
4443  Whereabout (n.) Alt. of Whereabouts
4444  
4445  "Whereabouts (n.) The place where a person or thing is; as, they did not know his whereabouts."
4446  
4447  Whereas (adv.) At which place; where.
4448  
4449  "Whereas (conj.) Considering that; it being the case that; since; -- used to introduce a preamble which is the basis of declarations, affirmations, commands, requests, or like, that follow."
4450  
4451  "Whereas (conj.) When in fact; while on the contrary; the case being in truth that; although; -- implying opposition to something that precedes; or implying recognition of facts, sometimes followed by a different statement, and sometimes by inferences or something consequent."
4452  
4453  Whereat (adv.) At which; upon which; whereupon; -- used relatively.
4454  
4455  "Whereat (adv.) At what; -- used interrogatively; as, whereat are you offended?"
4456  
4457  Whereby (adv.) By which; -- used relatively.
4458  
4459  Whereby (adv.) By what; how; -- used interrogatively.
4460  
4461  Where'er (adv.) Wherever; -- a contracted and poetical form.
4462  
4463  Wherefore (adv. & conj.) For which reason; so; -- used relatively.
4464  
4465  Wherefore (adv. & conj.) For what reason; why; -- used interrogatively.
4466  
4467  Wherefore (n.) the reason why.
4468  
4469  Whereform (adv.) From which; from which or what place.
4470  
4471  "Wherein (adv.) In which; in which place, thing, time, respect, or the like; -- used relatively."
4472  
4473  Wherein (adv.) In what; -- used interrogatively.
4474  
4475  Whereinto (adv.) Into which; -- used relatively.
4476  
4477  Whereinto (adv.) Into what; -- used interrogatively.
4478  
4479  Whereness (n.) The quality or state of having a place; ubiety; situation; position.
4480  
4481  "Whereof (adv.) Of which; of whom; formerly, also, with which; -- used relatively."
4482  
4483  Whereof (adv.) Of what; -- used interrogatively.
4484  
4485  "Whereon (adv.) On which; -- used relatively; as, the earth whereon we live."
4486  
4487  "Whereon (adv.) On what; -- used interrogatively; as, whereon do we stand?"
4488  
4489  Whereout (adv.) Out of which.
4490  
4491  Whereso (adv.) Wheresoever.
4492  
4493  Wheresoe'er (adv.) Wheresoever.
4494  
4495  Wheresoever (adv.) In what place soever; in whatever place; wherever.
4496  
4497  Wherethrough (adv.) Through which.
4498  
4499  Whereto (adv.) To which; -- used relatively.
4500  
4501  Whereto (adv.) To what; to what end; -- used interrogatively.
4502  
4503  Whereunto (adv.) Same as Whereto.
4504  
4505  Whereupon (adv.) Upon which; in consequence of which; after which.
4506  
4507  Wherever (adv.) At or in whatever place; wheresoever.
4508  
4509  Wherewith (adv.) With which; -- used relatively.
4510  
4511  Wherewith (adv.) With what; -- used interrogatively.
4512  
4513  Wherewith (n.) The necessary means or instrument.
4514  
4515  Wherewithal (adv. & n.) Wherewith.
4516  
4517  Whereret (v. t.) To hurry; to trouble; to tease.
4518  
4519  "Whereret (v. t.) To box (one) on the ear; to strike or box. (the ear); as, to wherret a child."
4520  
4521  Wherret (n.) A box on the ear.
4522  
4523  Wherries (pl. ) of Wherry
4524  
4525  "Wherry (n.) A passenger barge or lighter plying on rivers; also, a kind of light, half-decked vessel used in fishing."
4526  
4527  "Wherry (n.) A long, narrow, light boat, sharp at both ends, for fast rowing or sailing; esp., a racing boat rowed by one person with sculls."
4528  
4529  Wherry (n.) A liquor made from the pulp of crab apples after the verjuice is expressed; -- sometimes called crab wherry.
4530  
4531  Wherso (adv.) Wheresoever.
4532  
4533  Whetted (imp. & p. p.) of Whet
4534  
4535  Whetting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Whet
4536  
4537  "Whet (v. t.) To rub or on with some substance, as a piece of stone, for the purpose of sharpening; to sharpen by attrition; as, to whet a knife."
4538  
4539  "Whet (v. t.) To make sharp, keen, or eager; to excite; to stimulate; as, to whet the appetite or the courage."
4540  
4541  Whet (n.) The act of whetting.
4542  
4543  "Whet (n.) That which whets or sharpens; esp., an appetizer."
4544  
4545  Whether (pron.) Which (of two); which one (of two); -- used interrogatively and relatively.
4546  
4547  "Whether (conj.) In case; if; -- used to introduce the first or two or more alternative clauses, the other or others being connected by or, or by or whether. When the second of two alternatives is the simple negative of the first it is sometimes only indicated by the particle not or no after the correlative, and sometimes it is omitted entirely as being distinctly implied in the whether of the first."
4548  
4549  Whethering (n.) The retention of the afterbirth in cows.
4550  
4551  "Whetile (n.) The green woodpecker, or yaffle. See Yaffle."
4552  
4553  "Whetstone (n.) A piece of stone, natural or artificial, used for whetting, or sharpening, edge tools."
4554  
4555  "Whetter (n.) One who, or that which, whets, sharpens, or stimulates."
4556  
4557  Whetter (n.) A tippler; one who drinks whets.
4558  
4559  Whettlebones (n. pl.) The vertebrae of the back.
4560  
4561  "Whew (n. & interj.) A sound like a half-formed whistle, expressing astonishment, scorn, or dislike."
4562  
4563  "Whew (v. i.) To whistle with a shrill pipe, like a plover."
4564  
4565  "Whewellite (n.) Calcium oxalate, occurring in colorless or white monoclinic crystals."
4566  
4567  Whewer (n.) The European widgeon.
4568  
4569  "Whey (n.) The serum, or watery part, of milk, separated from the more thick or coagulable part, esp. in the process of making cheese."
4570  
4571  "Wheyey (a.) Of the nature of, or containing, whey; resembling whey; wheyish."
4572  
4573  "Wheyface (n.) One who is pale, as from fear."
4574  
4575  "Whey-faced (a.) Having a pale or white face, as from fright."
4576  
4577  Wheyish (a.) Somewhat like whey; wheyey.
4578  
4579  Which (a.) Of what sort or kind; what; what a; who.
4580  
4581  "Which (a.) A interrogative pronoun, used both substantively and adjectively, and in direct and indirect questions, to ask for, or refer to, an individual person or thing among several of a class; as, which man is it? which woman was it? which is the house? he asked which route he should take; which is best, to live or to die? See the Note under What, pron., 1."
4582  
4583  "Which (pron.) A relative pronoun, used esp. in referring to an antecedent noun or clause, but sometimes with reference to what is specified or implied in a sentence, or to a following noun or clause (generally involving a reference, however, to something which has preceded). It is used in all numbers and genders, and was formerly used of persons."
4584  
4585  "Which (pron.) A compound relative or indefinite pronoun, standing for any one which, whichever, that which, those which, the . . . which, and the like; as, take which you will."
4586  
4587  Whichever (pron. & a.) Alt. of Whichsoever
4588  
4589  "Whichsoever (pron. & a.) Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one (of two or more) which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town."
4590  
4591  "Whidah bird () Any one of several species of finchlike birds belonging to the genus Vidua, native of Asia and Africa. In the breeding season the male has very long, drooping tail feathers. Called also vida finch, whidah finch, whydah bird, whydah finch, widow bird, and widow finch."
4592  
4593  Whider (adv.) Whither.
4594  
4595  "Whiff (n.) A sudden expulsion of air from the mouth; a quick puff or slight gust, as of air or smoke."
4596  
4597  Whiff (n.) A glimpse; a hasty view.
4598  
4599  "Whiff (n.) The marysole, or sail fluke."
4600  
4601  Whiffed (imp. & p. p.) of Whiff
4602  
4603  Whiffing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Whiff
4604  
4605  Whiff (v. t.) To throw out in whiffs; to consume in whiffs; to puff.
4606  
4607  "Whiff (v. t.) To carry or convey by a whiff, or as by a whiff; to puff or blow away."
4608  
4609  "Whiff (v. i.) To emit whiffs, as of smoke; to puff."
4610  
4611  Whiffet (n.) A little whiff or puff.
4612  
4613  "Whiffing (n.) The act of one who, or that which, whiffs."
4614  
4615  "Whiffing (n.) A mode of fishing with a hand line for pollack, mackerel, and the like."
4616  
4617  Whiffled (imp. & p. p.) of Whiffle
4618  
4619  Whiffling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Whiffle
4620  
4621  "Whiffle (v. i.) To waver, or shake, as if moved by gusts of wind; to shift, turn, or veer about."
4622  
4623  Whiffle (v. i.) To change from one opinion or course to another; to use evasions; to prevaricate; to be fickle.
4624  
4625  "Whiffle (v. t.) To disperse with, or as with, a whiff, or puff; to scatter."
4626  
4627  Whiffle (v. t.) To wave or shake quickly; to cause to whiffle.
4628  
4629  Whiffle (n.) A fife or small flute.
4630  
4631  "Whiffler (n.) One who whiffles, or frequently changes his opinion or course; one who uses shifts and evasions in argument; hence, a trifler."
4632  
4633  Whiffler (n.) One who plays on a whiffle; a fifer or piper.
4634  
4635  "Whiffler (n.) An officer who went before procession to clear the way by blowing a horn, or otherwise; hence, any person who marched at the head of a procession; a harbinger."
4636  
4637  Whiffler (n.) The golden-eye.
4638  
4639  Whiffletree (n.) Same as Whippletree.
4640  
4641  "Whig (n.) Acidulated whey, sometimes mixed with buttermilk and sweet herbs, used as a cooling beverage."
4642  
4643  "Whig (n.) One of a political party which grew up in England in the seventeenth century, in the reigns of Charles I. and II., when great contests existed respecting the royal prerogatives and the rights of the people. Those who supported the king in his high claims were called Tories, and the advocates of popular rights, of parliamentary power over the crown, and of toleration to Dissenters, were, after 1679, called Whigs. The terms Liberal and Radical have now generally superseded Whig in English politics. See the note under Tory."
4644  
4645  "Whig (n.) A friend and supporter of the American Revolution; -- opposed to Tory, and Royalist."
4646  
4647  "Whig (n.) One of the political party in the United States from about 1829 to 1856, opposed in politics to the Democratic party."
4648  
4649  Whig (a.) Of or pertaining to the Whigs.
4650  
4651  Whiggamore (n.) A Whig; -- a cant term applied in contempt to Scotch Presbyterians.
4652  
4653  Whiggarchy (n.) Government by Whigs.
4654  
4655  Whiggery (n.) The principles or practices of the Whigs; Whiggism.
4656  
4657  "Whiggish (a.) Of or pertaining to Whigs; partaking of, or characterized by, the principles of Whigs."
4658  
4659  Whiggishly (adv.) In a Whiggish manner.
4660  
4661  Whiggism (n.) The principles of the Whigs.
4662  
4663  Whigling (n.) A petty or inferior Whig; -- used in contempt.
4664  
4665  "While (n.) Space of time, or continued duration, esp. when short; a time; as, one while we thought him innocent."
4666  
4667  While (n.) That which requires time; labor; pains.
4668  
4669  Whiled (imp. & p. p.) of While
4670  
4671  Whiling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of While
4672  
4673  While (v. t.) To cause to pass away pleasantly or without irksomeness or disgust; to spend or pass; -- usually followed by away.
4674  
4675  While (v. i.) To loiter.
4676  
4677  "While (conj.) During the time that; as long as; whilst; at the same time that; as, while I write, you sleep."
4678  
4679  "While (conj.) Hence, under which circumstances; in which case; though; whereas."
4680  
4681  While (prep.) Until; till.
4682  
4683  Whilere (adv.) A little while ago; recently; just now; erewhile.
4684  
4685  Whiles (n.) Meanwhile; meantime.
4686  
4687  Whiles (n.) sometimes; at times.
4688  
4689  Whiles (conj.) During the time that; while.
4690  
4691  "Whilk (n.) A kind of mollusk, a whelk."
4692  
4693  Whilk (n.) The scoter.
4694  
4695  Whilk (pron.) Which.
4696  
4697  Whilom (n.) Formerly; once; of old; erewhile; at times.
4698  
4699  Whilst (adv.) While.
4700  
4701  Whim (n.) The European widgeon.
4702  
4703  Whim (n.) A sudden turn or start of the mind; a temporary eccentricity; a freak; a fancy; a capricious notion; a humor; a caprice.
4704  
4705  "Whim (n.) A large capstan or vertical drum turned by horse power or steam power, for raising ore or water, etc., from mines, or for other purposes; -- called also whim gin, and whimsey."
4706  
4707  "Whim (v. i.) To be subject to, or indulge in, whims; to be whimsical, giddy, or freakish."
4708  
4709  "Whimbrel (n.) Any one of several species of small curlews, especially the European species (Numenius phaeopus), called also Jack curlew, half curlew, stone curlew, and tang whaup. See Illustration in Appendix."
4710  
4711  "Whimling (n.) One given to whims; hence, a weak, childish person; a child."
4712  
4713  Whimmy (a.) Full of whims; whimsical.
4714  
4715  Whimpered (imp. & p. p.) of Whimper
4716  
4717  Whimpering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Whimper
4718  
4719  "Whimper (v. i.) To cry with a low, whining, broken voice; to whine; to complain; as, a child whimpers."
4720  
4721  "Whimper (v. t.) To utter in alow, whining tone."
4722  
4723  "Whimper (n.) A low, whining, broken cry; a low, whining sound, expressive of complaint or grief."
4724  
4725  Whimperer (n.) One who whimpers.
4726  
4727  Whimple (v. t.) See Wimple.
4728  
4729  Whimple (v. i.) To whiffle; to veer.
4730  
4731  Whimseys (pl. ) of Whimsy
4732  
4733  Whimsies (pl. ) of Whimsy
4734  
4735  Whimsey (n.) Alt. of Whimsy
4736  
4737  "Whimsy (n.) A whim; a freak; a capricious notion, a fanciful or odd conceit."
4738  
4739  Whimsy (n.) A whim.
4740  
4741  "Whimsey (v. t.) To fill with whimseys, or whims; to make fantastic; to craze."
4742  
4743  "Whimsical (a.) Full of, or characterized by, whims; actuated by a whim; having peculiar notions; queer; strange; freakish."
4744  
4745  Whimsical (a.) Odd or fantastic in appearance; quaintly devised; fantastic.
4746  
4747  Whimsicality (n.) The quality or state of being whimsical; whimsicalness.
4748  
4749  Whimsically (adv.) In a whimsical manner; freakishly.
4750  
4751  Whimsicalness (n.) The quality or state of being whimsical; freakishness; whimsical disposition.
4752  
4753  Whimsy (n.) A whimsey.
4754  
4755  Whimwham (n.) A whimsical thing; an odd device; a trifle; a trinket; a gimcrack.
4756  
4757  "Whimwham (n.) A whim, or whimsey; a freak."
4758  
4759  Whin (n.) Gorse; furze. See Furze.
4760  
4761  Whin (n.) Woad-waxed.
4762  
4763  Whin (n.) Same as Whinstone.
4764  
4765  "Whinberry (n.) The English bilberry; -- so called because it grows on moors among the whins, or furze."
4766  
4767  "Whinchat (n.) A small warbler (Pratincola rubetra) common in Europe; -- called also whinchacker, whincheck, whin-clocharet."
4768  
4769  Whined (imp. & p. p.) of Whine
4770  
4771  Whining (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Whine
4772  
4773  "Whine (v. i.) To utter a plaintive cry, as some animals; to moan with a childish noise; to complain, or to tell of sorrow, distress, or the like, in a plaintive, nasal tone; hence, to complain or to beg in a mean, unmanly way; to moan basely."
4774  
4775  "Whine (v. t.) To utter or express plaintively, or in a mean, unmanly way; as, to whine out an excuse."
4776  
4777  "Whine (n.) A plaintive tone; the nasal, childish tone of mean complaint; mean or affected complaint."
4778  
4779  "Whiner (n.) One who, or that which, whines."
4780  
4781  Whinge (v. i.) To whine.
4782  
4783  Whinger (n.) A kind of hanger or sword used as a knife at meals and as a weapon.
4784  
4785  Whiningly (adv.) In a whining manner; in a tone of mean complaint.
4786  
4787  Whinner (v. i.) To whinny.
4788  
4789  Whinnied (imp. & p. p.) of Whinny
4790  
4791  Whinnying (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Whinny
4792  
4793  Whinny (v. i.) To utter the ordinary call or cry of a horse; to neigh.
4794  
4795  Whinnies (pl. ) of Whinny
4796  
4797  Whinny (n.) The ordinary cry or call of a horse; a neigh.
4798  
4799  "Whinny (a.) Abounding in whin, gorse, or furze."
4800  
4801  Whinock (n.) The small pig of a litter.
4802  
4803  "Whinstone (n.) A provincial name given in England to basaltic rocks, and applied by miners to other kind of dark-colored unstratified rocks which resist the point of the pick. -- for example, to masses of chert. Whin-dikes, and whin-sills, are names sometimes given to veins or beds of basalt."
4804  
4805  "Whinyard (n.) A sword, or hanger."
4806  
4807  Whinyard (n.) The shoveler.
4808  
4809  Whinyard (n.) The poachard.
4810  
4811  Whipped (imp. & p. p.) of Whip
4812  
4813  Whipping (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Whip
4814  
4815  "Whip (v. t.) To strike with a lash, a cord, a rod, or anything slender and lithe; to lash; to beat; as, to whip a horse, or a carpet."
4816  
4817  "Whip (v. t.) To drive with lashes or strokes of a whip; to cause to rotate by lashing with a cord; as, to whip a top."
4818  
4819  "Whip (v. t.) To punish with a whip, scourge, or rod; to flog; to beat; as, to whip a vagrant; to whip one with thirty nine lashes; to whip a perverse boy."
4820  
4821  "Whip (v. t.) To apply that which hurts keenly to; to lash, as with sarcasm, abuse, or the like; to apply cutting language to."
4822  
4823  "Whip (v. t.) To thrash; to beat out, as grain, by striking; as, to whip wheat."
4824  
4825  "Whip (v. t.) To beat (eggs, cream, or the like) into a froth, as with a whisk, fork, or the like."
4826  
4827  "Whip (v. t.) To conquer; to defeat, as in a contest or game; to beat; to surpass."
4828  
4829  "Whip (v. t.) To overlay (a cord, rope, or the like) with other cords going round and round it; to overcast, as the edge of a seam; to wrap; -- often with about, around, or over."
4830  
4831  "Whip (v. t.) To sew lightly; specifically, to form (a fabric) into gathers by loosely overcasting the rolled edge and drawing up the thread; as, to whip a ruffle."
4832  
4833  "Whip (v. t.) To take or move by a sudden motion; to jerk; to snatch; -- with into, out, up, off, and the like."
4834  
4835  Whip (v. t.) To hoist or purchase by means of a whip.
4836  
4837  "Whip (v. t.) To secure the end of (a rope, or the like) from untwisting by overcasting it with small stuff."
4838  
4839  "Whip (v. t.) To fish (a body of water) with a rod and artificial fly, the motion being that employed in using a whip."
4840  
4841  "Whip (v. i.) To move nimbly; to start or turn suddenly and do something; to whisk; as, he whipped around the corner."
4842  
4843  "Whip (v. t.) An instrument or driving horses or other animals, or for correction, consisting usually of a lash attached to a handle, or of a handle and lash so combined as to form a flexible rod."
4844  
4845  "Whip (v. t.) A coachman; a driver of a carriage; as, a good whip."
4846  
4847  "Whip (v. t.) One of the arms or frames of a windmill, on which the sails are spread."
4848  
4849  Whip (v. t.) The length of the arm reckoned from the shaft.
4850  
4851  "Whip (v. t.) A small tackle with a single rope, used to hoist light bodies."
4852  
4853  Whip (v. t.) The long pennant. See Pennant (a)
4854  
4855  Whip (v. t.) A huntsman who whips in the hounds; whipper-in.
4856  
4857  "Whip (v. t.) A person (as a member of Parliament) appointed to enforce party discipline, and secure the attendance of the members of a Parliament party at any important session, especially when their votes are needed."
4858  
4859  "Whip (v. t.) A call made upon members of a Parliament party to be in their places at a given time, as when a vote is to be taken."
4860  
4861  "Whipcord (n.) A kind of hard-twisted or braided cord, sometimes used for making whiplashes."
4862  
4863  Whipgrafted (imp. & p. p.) of Whipgraft
4864  
4865  Whipgrafting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Whipgraft
4866  
4867  "Whipgraft (v. t.) To graft by cutting the scion and stock in a certain manner. See Whip grafting, under Grafting."
4868  
4869  "Whiplash (n.) The lash of a whip, -- usually made of thongs of leather, or of cords, braided or twisted."
4870  
4871  "Whipparee (n.) A large sting ray (Dasybatis, / Trygon, Sayi) native of the Southern United States. It is destitute of large spines on the body and tail."
4872  
4873  "Whipparee (n.) A large sting ray (Rhinoptera bonasus, or R. quadriloba) of the Atlantic coast of the United States. Its snout appears to be four-lobed when viewed in front, whence it is also called cow-nosed ray."
4874  
4875  "Whipper (n.) One who whips; especially, an officer who inflicts the penalty of legal whipping."
4876  
4877  Whipper (n.) One who raises coal or merchandise with a tackle from a chip's hold.
4878  
4879  Whipper (n.) A kind of simple willow.
4880  
4881  "Whipperin (n.) A huntsman who keeps the hounds from wandering, and whips them in, if necessary, to the of chase."
4882  
4883  "Whipperin (n.) Hence, one who enforces the discipline of a party, and urges the attendance and support of the members on all necessary occasions."
4884  
4885  "Whippersnapper (n.) A diminutive, insignificant, or presumptuous person."
4886  
4887  "Whipping () a & n. from Whip, v."
4888  
4889  "Whippletree (n.) The pivoted or swinging bar to which the traces, or tugs, of a harness are fastened, and by which a carriage, a plow, or other implement or vehicle, is drawn; a whiffletree; a swingletree; a singletree. See Singletree."
4890  
4891  Whippletree (n.) The cornel tree.
4892  
4893  Whip-poor-will (n.) An American bird (Antrostomus vociferus) allied to the nighthawk and goatsucker; -- so called in imitation of the peculiar notes which it utters in the evening.
4894  
4895  "Whipsaw (n.) A saw for dividing timber lengthwise, usually set in a frame, and worked by two persons; also, a fret saw."
4896  
4897  "Whip-shaped (a.) Shaped like the lash of a whip; long, slender, round, and tapering; as, a whip-shaped root or stem."
4898  
4899  "Whipstaff (n.) A bar attached to the tiller, for convenience in steering."
4900  
4901  Whipstalk (n.) A whipstock.
4902  
4903  Whipster (n.) A nimble little fellow; a whippersnapper.
4904  
4905  Whipstick (n.) Whip handle; whipstock.
4906  
4907  Whipstitch (n.) A tailor; -- so called in contempt.
4908  
4909  "Whipstitch (n.) Anything hastily put or stitched together; hence, a hasty composition."
4910  
4911  Whipstitch (n.) The act or process of whipstitching.
4912  
4913  "Whipstitch (v. t.) To rafter; to plow in ridges, as land."
4914  
4915  Whipstock (n.) The rod or handle to which the lash of a whip is fastened.
4916  
4917  Whipt (imp. & p. p.) Whipped.
4918  
4919  Whip-tom-kelly (n.) A vireo (Vireo altiloquus) native of the West Indies and Florida; -- called also black-whiskered vireo.
4920  
4921  "Whipworm (n.) A nematode worm (Trichocephalus dispar) often found parasitic in the human intestine. Its body is thickened posteriorly, but is very long and threadlike anteriorly."
4922  
4923  Whirred (imp. & p. p.) of Whir
4924  
4925  Whirring (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Whir
4926  
4927  "Whir (v. i.) To whirl round, or revolve, with a whizzing noise; to fly or more quickly with a buzzing or whizzing sound; to whiz."
4928  
4929  Whir (v. t.) To hurry a long with a whizzing sound.
4930  
4931  "Whir (n.) A buzzing or whizzing sound produced by rapid or whirling motion; as, the whir of a partridge; the whir of a spinning wheel."
4932  
4933  Whirled (imp. & p. p.) of Whirl
4934  
4935  Whirling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Whirl
4936  
4937  Whirl (v. t.) To turn round rapidly; to cause to rotate with velocity; to make to revolve.
4938  
4939  "Whirl (v. t.) To remove or carry quickly with, or as with, a revolving motion; to snatch; to harry."
4940  
4941  Whirl (v. i.) To be turned round rapidly; to move round with velocity; to revolve or rotate with great speed; to gyrate.
4942  
4943  Whirl (v. i.) To move hastily or swiftly.
4944  
4945  "Whirl (v. t.) A turning with rapidity or velocity; rapid rotation or circumvolution; quick gyration; rapid or confusing motion; as, the whirl of a top; the whirl of a wheel."
4946  
4947  Whirl (v. t.) Anything that moves with a whirling motion.
4948  
4949  "Whirl (v. t.) A revolving hook used in twisting, as the hooked spindle of a rope machine, to which the threads to be twisted are attached."
4950  
4951  Whirl (v. t.) A whorl. See Whorl.
4952  
4953  Whirlabout (n.) Something that whirls or turns about in a rapid manner; a whirligig.
4954  
4955  "Whirlbat (n.) Anything moved with a whirl, as preparatory for a blow, or to augment the force of it; -- applied by poets to the cestus of ancient boxers."
4956  
4957  Whirl-blast (n.) A whirling blast or wind.
4958  
4959  Whirlbone (n.) The huckle bone.
4960  
4961  "Whirlbone (n.) The patella, or kneepan."
4962  
4963  "Whirler (n.) One who, or that which, whirls."
4964  
4965  Whirlicote (n.) An open car or chariot.
4966  
4967  "Whirligig (n.) A child's toy, spun or whirled around like a wheel upon an axis, or like a top."
4968  
4969  "Whirligig (n.) Anything which whirls around, or in which persons or things are whirled about, as a frame with seats or wooden horses."
4970  
4971  "Whirligig (n.) A mediaeval instrument for punishing petty offenders, being a kind of wooden cage turning on a pivot, in which the offender was whirled round with great velocity."
4972  
4973  "Whirligig (n.) Any one of numerous species of beetles belonging to Gyrinus and allied genera. The body is firm, oval or boatlike in form, and usually dark colored with a bronzelike luster. These beetles live mostly on the surface of water, and move about with great celerity in a gyrating, or circular, manner, but they are also able to dive and swim rapidly. The larva is aquatic. Called also weaver, whirlwig, and whirlwig beetle."
4974  
4975  "Whirling () a. & n. from Whirl, v. t."
4976  
4977  Whirlpit (n.) A whirlpool.
4978  
4979  "Whirlpool (n.) An eddy or vortex of water; a place in a body of water where the water moves round in a circle so as to produce a depression or cavity in the center, into which floating objects may be drawn; any body of water having a more or less circular motion caused by its flowing in an irregular channel, by the coming together of opposing currents, or the like."
4980  
4981  Whirlpool (n.) A sea monster of the whale kind.
4982  
4983  Whirlwig (n.) A whirligig.
4984  
4985  "Whirlwind (n.) A violent windstorm of limited extent, as the tornado, characterized by an inward spiral motion of the air with an upward current in the center; a vortex of air. It usually has a rapid progressive motion."
4986  
4987  Whirlwind (n.) Fig.: A body of objects sweeping violently onward.
4988  
4989  Whirry (v. i.) To whir.
4990  
4991  Whirtle (n.) A perforated steel die through which wires or tubes are drawn to form them.
4992  
4993  Whisk (n.) A game at cards; whist.
4994  
4995  "Whisk (n.) The act of whisking; a rapid, sweeping motion, as of something light; a sudden motion or quick puff."
4996  
4997  "Whisk (n.) A small bunch of grass, straw, twigs, hair, or the like, used for a brush; hence, a brush or small besom, as of broom corn."
4998  
4999  "Whisk (n.) A small culinary instrument made of wire, or the like, for whisking or beating eggs, cream, etc."
5000  
5001  "Whisk (n.) A kind of cape, forming part of a woman's dress."
5002  
5003  Whisk (n.) An impertinent fellow.
5004  
5005  Whisk (n.) A plane used by coopers for evening chines.
5006  
5007  Whisked (imp. & p. p.) of Whisk
5008  
5009  Whisking (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Whisk
5010  
5011  "Whisk (n.) To sweep, brush, or agitate, with a light, rapid motion; as, to whisk dust from a table; to whisk the white of eggs into a froth."
5012  
5013  "Whisk (n.) To move with a quick, sweeping motion."
5014  
5015  Whisk (v. i.) To move nimbly at with velocity; to make a sudden agile movement.
5016  
5017  "Whisker (n.) One who, or that which, whisks, or moves with a quick, sweeping motion."
5018  
5019  "Whisker (n.) Formerly, the hair of the upper lip; a mustache; -- usually in the plural."
5020  
5021  "Whisker (n.) That part of the beard which grows upon the sides of the face, or upon the chin, or upon both; as, side whiskers; chin whiskers."
5022  
5023  Whisker (n.) A hair of the beard.
5024  
5025  "Whisker (n.) One of the long, projecting hairs growing at the sides of the mouth of a cat, or other animal."
5026  
5027  "Whisker (n.) Iron rods extending on either side of the bowsprit, to spread, or guy out, the stays, etc."
5028  
5029  Whiskered (a.) Formed into whiskers; furnished with whiskers; having or wearing whiskers.
5030  
5031  "Whiskered (a.) Having elongated hairs, feathers, or bristles on the cheeks."
5032  
5033  Whiskerless (a.) Being without whiskers.
5034  
5035  "Whisket (n.) A basket; esp., a straw provender basket."
5036  
5037  Whisket (n.) A small lathe for turning wooden pins.
5038  
5039  "Whiskey (n.) Same as Whisky, a liquor."
5040  
5041  Whiskeys (pl. ) of Whisky
5042  
5043  Whiskies (pl. ) of Whisky
5044  
5045  Whiskey (n.) Alt. of Whisky
5046  
5047  Whisky (n.) A light carriage built for rapid motion; -- called also tim-whiskey.
5048  
5049  Whiskin (n.) A shallow drinking bowl.
5050  
5051  Whisking (a.) Sweeping along lightly.
5052  
5053  Whisking (a.) Large; great.
5054  
5055  Whisky (n.) Alt. of Whiskey
5056  
5057  "Whiskey (n.) An intoxicating liquor distilled from grain, potatoes, etc., especially in Scotland, Ireland, and the United States. In the United States, whisky is generally distilled from maize, rye, or wheat, but in Scotland and Ireland it is often made from malted barley."
5058  
5059  Whiskyfied (a.) Alt. of Whiskeyfied
5060  
5061  Whiskeyfied (a.) Drunk with whisky; intoxicated.
5062  
5063  Whisp (n.) See Wisp.
5064  
5065  Whisp (n.) A flock of snipe.
5066  
5067  Whispered (imp. & p. p.) of Whisper
5068  
5069  Whispering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Whisper
5070  
5071  "Whisper (v. i.) To speak softly, or under the breath, so as to be heard only by one near at hand; to utter words without sonant breath; to talk without that vibration in the larynx which gives sonorous, or vocal, sound. See Whisper, n."
5072  
5073  "Whisper (n.) To make a low, sibilant sound or noise."
5074  
5075  "Whisper (n.) To speak with suspicion, or timorous caution; to converse in whispers, as in secret plotting."
5076  
5077  "Whisper (v. t.) To utter in a low and nonvocal tone; to say under the breath; hence, to mention privately and confidentially, or in a whisper."
5078  
5079  "Whisper (v. t.) To address in a whisper, or low voice."
5080  
5081  Whisper (v. t.) To prompt secretly or cautiously; to inform privately.
5082  
5083  "Whisper (n.) A low, soft, sibilant voice or utterance, which can be heard only by those near at hand; voice or utterance that employs only breath sound without tone, friction against the edges of the vocal cords and arytenoid cartilages taking the place of the vibration of the cords that produces tone; sometimes, in a limited sense, the sound produced by such friction as distinguished from breath sound made by friction against parts of the mouth. See Voice, n., 2, and Guide to Pronunciation, // 5, 153, 154."
5084  
5085  Whisper (n.) A cautious or timorous speech.
5086  
5087  Whisper (n.) Something communicated in secret or by whispering; a suggestion or insinuation.
5088  
5089  "Whisper (n.) A low, sibilant sound."
5090  
5091  Whisperer (n.) One who whispers.
5092  
5093  Whisperer (n.) A tattler; one who tells secrets; a conveyer of intelligence secretly; hence; a backbiter; one who slanders secretly.
5094  
5095  Whispering () a. & n. from Whisper. v. t.
5096  
5097  "Whisperingly (adv.) In a whisper, or low voice; in a whispering manner; with whispers."
5098  
5099  Whisperously (adv.) Whisperingly.
5100  
5101  Whist (interj.) Be silent; be still; hush; silence.
5102  
5103  "Whist (n.) A certain game at cards; -- so called because it requires silence and close attention. It is played by four persons (those who sit opposite each other being partners) with a complete pack of fifty-two cards. Each player has thirteen cards, and when these are played out, he hand is finished, and the cards are again shuffled and distributed."
5104  
5105  Whist (v. t.) To hush or silence.
5106  
5107  Whist (v. i.) To be or become silent or still; to be hushed or mute.
5108  
5109  Whist (a.) Not speaking; not making a noise; silent; mute; still; quiet.
5110  
5111  Whistled (imp. & p. p.) of Whistle
5112  
5113  Whistling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Whistle
5114  
5115  "Whistle (v. i.) To make a kind of musical sound, or series of sounds, by forcing the breath through a small orifice formed by contracting the lips; also, to emit a similar sound, or series of notes, from the mouth or beak, as birds."
5116  
5117  "Whistle (v. i.) To make a shrill sound with a wind or steam instrument, somewhat like that made with the lips; to blow a sharp, shrill tone."
5118  
5119  "Whistle (v. i.) To sound shrill, or like a pipe; to make a sharp, shrill sound; as, a bullet whistles through the air."
5120  
5121  "Whistle (v. t.) To form, utter, or modulate by whistling; as, to whistle a tune or an air."
5122  
5123  "Whistle (v. t.) To send, signal, or call by a whistle."
5124  
5125  "Whistle (v. i.) A sharp, shrill, more or less musical sound, made by forcing the breath through a small orifice of the lips, or through or instrument which gives a similar sound; the sound used by a sportsman in calling his dogs; the shrill note of a bird; as, the sharp whistle of a boy, or of a boatswain's pipe; the blackbird's mellow whistle."
5126  
5127  "Whistle (v. i.) The shrill sound made by wind passing among trees or through crevices, or that made by bullet, or the like, passing rapidly through the air; the shrill noise (much used as a signal, etc.) made by steam or gas escaping through a small orifice, or impinging against the edge of a metallic bell or cup."
5128  
5129  "Whistle (v. i.) An instrument in which gas or steam forced into a cavity, or against a thin edge, produces a sound more or less like that made by one who whistles through the compressed lips; as, a child's whistle; a boatswain's whistle; a steam whistle (see Steam whistle, under Steam)."
5130  
5131  Whistle (v. i.) The mouth and throat; -- so called as being the organs of whistling.
5132  
5133  "Whistlefish (n.) A gossat, or rockling; -- called also whistler, three-bearded rockling, sea loach, and sorghe."
5134  
5135  "Whistler (n.) One who, or that which, whistles, or produces or a whistling sound."
5136  
5137  Whistler (n.) The ring ousel.
5138  
5139  Whistler (n.) The widgeon.
5140  
5141  Whistler (n.) The golden-eye.
5142  
5143  Whistler (n.) The golden plover and the gray plover.
5144  
5145  "Whistler (n.) The hoary, or northern, marmot (Arctomys pruinosus)."
5146  
5147  Whistler (n.) The whistlefish.
5148  
5149  Whistlewing (n.) The American golden-eye.
5150  
5151  "Whistlewood (n.) The moosewood, or striped maple. See Maple."
5152  
5153  "Whistling () a. & n. from Whistle, v."
5154  
5155  Whistlingly (adv.) In a whistling manner; shrilly.
5156  
5157  Whistly (adv.) In a whist manner; silently.
5158  
5159  Whit (n.) The smallest part or particle imaginable; a bit; a jot; an iota; -- generally used in an adverbial phrase in a negative sentence.
5160  
5161  "White (superl.) Reflecting to the eye all the rays of the spectrum combined; not tinted with any of the proper colors or their mixtures; having the color of pure snow; snowy; -- the opposite of black or dark; as, white paper; a white skin."
5162  
5163  "White (superl.) Destitute of color, as in the cheeks, or of the tinge of blood color; pale; pallid; as, white with fear."
5164  
5165  "White (superl.) Having the color of purity; free from spot or blemish, or from guilt or pollution; innocent; pure."
5166  
5167  "White (superl.) Gray, as from age; having silvery hair; hoary."
5168  
5169  "White (superl.) Characterized by freedom from that which disturbs, and the like; fortunate; happy; favorable."
5170  
5171  White (superl.) Regarded with especial favor; favorite; darling.
5172  
5173  "White (n.) The color of pure snow; one of the natural colors of bodies, yet not strictly a color, but a composition of all colors; the opposite of black; whiteness. See the Note under Color, n., 1."
5174  
5175  "White (n.) Something having the color of snow; something white, or nearly so; as, the white of the eye."
5176  
5177  "White (n.) Specifically, the central part of the butt in archery, which was formerly painted white; the center of a mark at which a missile is shot."
5178  
5179  "White (n.) A person with a white skin; a member of the white, or Caucasian, races of men."
5180  
5181  "White (n.) A white pigment; as, Venice white."
5182  
5183  "White (n.) Any one of numerous species of butterflies belonging to Pieris, and allied genera in which the color is usually white. See Cabbage butterfly, under Cabbage."
5184  
5185  Whited (imp. & p. p.) of White
5186  
5187  Whiting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of White
5188  
5189  White (v. t.) To make white; to whiten; to whitewash; to bleach.
5190  
5191  Whiteback (n.) The canvasback.
5192  
5193  "Whitebait (n.) The young of several species of herrings, especially of the common herring, esteemed a great delicacy by epicures in England."
5194  
5195  "Whitebait (n.) A small translucent fish (Salanx Chinensis) abundant at certain seasons on the coasts of China and Japan, and used in the same manner as the European whitebait."
5196  
5197  "Whitebeam (n.) The common beam tree of England (Pyrus Aria); -- so called from the white, woolly under surface of the leaves."
5198  
5199  Whitebeard (n.) An old man; a graybeard.
5200  
5201  "Whitebelly (n.) The American widgeon, or baldpate."
5202  
5203  Whitebelly (n.) The prairie chicken.
5204  
5205  Whitebill (n.) The American coot.
5206  
5207  White-blaze (n.) See White-face.
5208  
5209  "Whiteblow (n.) Same as Whitlow grass, under Whitlow."
5210  
5211  Whiteboy (n.) A favorite.
5212  
5213  "Whiteboy (a.) One of an association of poor Roman catholics which arose in Ireland about 1760, ostensibly to resist the collection of tithes, the members of which were so called from the white shirts they wore in their nocturnal raids."
5214  
5215  Whiteboyism (n.) The conduct or principle of the Whiteboys.
5216  
5217  Whitecap (n.) The European redstart; -- so called from its white forehead.
5218  
5219  Whitecap (n.) The whitethroat; -- so called from its gray head.
5220  
5221  Whitecap (n.) The European tree sparrow.
5222  
5223  "Whitecap (n.) A wave whose crest breaks into white foam, as when the wind is freshening."
5224  
5225  "Whitecoat (n.) The skin of a newborn seal; also, the seal itself."
5226  
5227  White-ear (n.) The wheatear.
5228  
5229  "White-eye (n.) Any one of several species of small Old World singing of the genus Zosterops, as Zosterops palpebrosus of India, and Z. c/rulescens of Australia. The eyes are encircled by a ring of white feathers, whence the name. Called also bush creeper, and white-eyed tit."
5230  
5231  "White-face (n.) A white mark in the forehead of a horse, descending almost to the nose; -- called also white-blaze."
5232  
5233  "Whitefish (n.) Any one of several species of Coregonus, a genus of excellent food fishes allied to the salmons. They inhabit the lakes of the colder parts of North America, Asia, and Europe. The largest and most important American species (C. clupeiformis) is abundant in the Great Lakes, and in other lakes farther north. Called also lake whitefish, and Oswego bass."
5234  
5235  Whitefish (n.) The menhaden.
5236  
5237  "Whitefish (n.) The beluga, or white whale."
5238  
5239  Whiteflaw (n.) A whitlow.
5240  
5241  "White-foot (n.) A white mark on the foot of a horse, between the fetlock and the coffin."
5242  
5243  "White friar () A mendicant monk of the Carmelite order, so called from the white cloaks worn by the order. See Carmelite."
5244  
5245  "White-fronted (a.) Having a white front; as, the white-fronted lemur."
5246  
5247  Whitehead (n.) The blue-winged snow goose.
5248  
5249  Whitehead (n.) The surf scoter.
5250  
5251  White-heart (n.) A somewhat heart-shaped cherry with a whitish skin.
5252  
5253  "White-hot (a.) White with heat; heated to whiteness, or incandescence."
5254  
5255  White-limed (a.) Whitewashed or plastered with lime.
5256  
5257  "White-livered (a.) Having a pale look; feeble; hence, cowardly; pusillanimous; dastardly."
5258  
5259  "Whitely (a.) Like, or coming near to, white."
5260  
5261  Whitened (imp. & p. p.) of Whiten
5262  
5263  Whitening (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Whiten
5264  
5265  "Whiten (v. i.) To grow white; to turn or become white or whiter; as, the hair whitens with age; the sea whitens with foam; the trees in spring whiten with blossoms."
5266  
5267  "Whiten (v. t.) To make white; to bleach; to blanch; to whitewash; as, to whiten a wall; to whiten cloth."
5268  
5269  "Whitener (n.) One who, or that which, whitens; a bleacher; a blancher; a whitewasher."
5270  
5271  "Whiteness (n.) The quality or state of being white; white color, or freedom from darkness or obscurity on the surface."
5272  
5273  "Whiteness (n.) Want of a sanguineous tinge; paleness; as from terror, grief, etc."
5274  
5275  Whiteness (n.) Freedom from stain or blemish; purity; cleanness.
5276  
5277  Whiteness (n.) Nakedness.
5278  
5279  Whiteness (n.) A flock of swans.
5280  
5281  Whitening (n.) The act or process of making or becoming white.
5282  
5283  Whitening (n.) That which is used to render white; whiting.
5284  
5285  "White-pot (n.) A kind of food made of milk or cream, eggs, sugar, bread, etc., baked in a pot."
5286  
5287  Whiterump (n.) The American black-tailed godwit.
5288  
5289  Whites (n. pl.) Leucorrh/a.
5290  
5291  Whites (n. pl.) The finest flour made from white wheat.
5292  
5293  Whites (n. pl.) Cloth or garments of a plain white color.
5294  
5295  Whiteside (n.) The golden-eye.
5296  
5297  "Whitesmith (n.) One who works in tinned or galvanized iron, or white iron; a tinsmith."
5298  
5299  "Whitesmith (n.) A worker in iron who finishes or polishes the work, in distinction from one who forges it."
5300  
5301  Whitester (n.) A bleacher of linen; a whitener; a whitster.
5302  
5303  Whitetail (n.) The Virginia deer.
5304  
5305  Whitetail (n.) The wheatear.
5306  
5307  Whitethorn (n.) The hawthorn.
5308  
5309  "Whitethroat (n.) Any one of several species of Old World warblers, esp. the common European species (Sylvia cinerea), called also strawsmear, nettlebird, muff, and whitecap, the garden whitethroat, or golden warbler (S. hortensis), and the lesser whitethroat (S. curruca)."
5310  
5311  Whitetop (n.) Fiorin.
5312  
5313  Whitewall (n.) The spotted flycatcher; -- so called from the white color of the under parts.
5314  
5315  "Whitewash (n.) Any wash or liquid composition for whitening something, as a wash for making the skin fair."
5316  
5317  "Whitewash (n.) A composition of line and water, or of whiting size, and water, or the like, used for whitening walls, ceilings, etc.; milk of lime."
5318  
5319  Whitewashed (imp. & p. p.) of Whitewash
5320  
5321  Whitewashing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Whitewash
5322  
5323  Whitewash (v. t.) To apply a white liquid composition to; to whiten with whitewash.
5324  
5325  "Whitewash (v. t.) To make white; to give a fair external appearance to; to clear from imputations or disgrace; hence, to clear (a bankrupt) from obligation to pay debts."
5326  
5327  Whitewasher (n.) One who whitewashes.
5328  
5329  White-water (n.) A dangerous disease of sheep.
5330  
5331  "Whiteweed (n.) A perennial composite herb (Chrysanthemum Leucanthemum) with conspicuous white rays and a yellow disk, a common weed in grass lands and pastures; -- called also oxeye daisy."
5332  
5333  Whitewing (n.) The chaffinch; -- so called from the white bands on the wing.
5334  
5335  Whitewing (n.) The velvet duck.
5336  
5337  "Whitewood (n.) The soft and easily-worked wood of the tulip tree (Liriodendron). It is much used in cabinetwork, carriage building, etc."
5338  
5339  Whitewort (n.) Wild camomile.
5340  
5341  Whitewort (n.) A kind of Solomon's seal (Polygonum officinale).
5342  
5343  Whitflaw (n.) Whitlow.
5344  
5345  "Whither (adv.) To what place; -- used interrogatively; as, whither goest thou?"
5346  
5347  Whither (adv.) To what or which place; -- used relatively.
5348  
5349  "Whither (adv.) To what point, degree, end, conclusion, or design; whereunto; whereto; -- used in a sense not physical."
5350  
5351  "Whithersoever (adv.) To whatever place; to what place soever; wheresoever; as, I will go whithersoever you lead."
5352  
5353  Whitherward (adv.) In what direction; toward what or which place.
5354  
5355  Whitile (v.) The yaffle.
5356  
5357  Whiting (n.) A common European food fish (Melangus vulgaris) of the Codfish family; -- called also fittin.
5358  
5359  Whiting (n.) A North American fish (Merlucius vulgaris) allied to the preceding; -- called also silver hake.
5360  
5361  "Whiting (n.) Any one of several species of North American marine sciaenoid food fishes belonging to genus Menticirrhus, especially M. Americanus, found from Maryland to Brazil, and M. littoralis, common from Virginia to Texas; -- called also silver whiting, and surf whiting."
5362  
5363  "Whiting (n.) Chalk prepared in an impalpable powder by pulverizing and repeated washing, used as a pigment, as an ingredient in putty, for cleaning silver, etc."
5364  
5365  Whiting-mop (n.) A young whiting.
5366  
5367  Whiting-mop (n.) A fair lass.
5368  
5369  Whitish (a.) Somewhat white; approaching white; white in a moderate degree.
5370  
5371  Whitish (a.) Covered with an opaque white powder.
5372  
5373  Whitishness (n.) The quality or state of being whitish or somewhat white.
5374  
5375  "Whitleather (n.) Leather dressed or tawed with alum, salt, etc., remarkable for its pliability and toughness; white leather."
5376  
5377  Whitleather (n.) The paxwax. See Paxwax.
5378  
5379  Whitling (n.) A young full trout during its second season.
5380  
5381  "Whitlow (a.) An inflammation of the fingers or toes, generally of the last phalanx, terminating usually in suppuration. The inflammation may occupy any seat between the skin and the bone, but is usually applied to a felon or inflammation of the periosteal structures of the bone."
5382  
5383  "Whitlow (a.) An inflammatory disease of the feet. It occurs round the hoof, where an acrid matter is collected."
5384  
5385  "Whitlow-wort (n.) Same as Whitlow grass, under Whitlow."
5386  
5387  Whitmonday (n.) The day following Whitsunday; -- called also Whitsun Monday.
5388  
5389  Whitneyite (n.) an arsenide of copper from Lake Superior.
5390  
5391  Whitson (a.) See Whitsun.
5392  
5393  Whitsour (n.) A sort of apple.
5394  
5395  Whitster (n.) A whitener; a bleacher; a whitester.
5396  
5397  "Whitsun (a.) Of, pertaining to, or observed at, Whitsuntide; as, Whitsun week; Whitsun Tuesday; Whitsun pastorals."
5398  
5399  "Whitsunday (n.) The seventh Sunday, and the fiftieth day, after Easter; a festival of the church in commemoration of the descent of the Holy Spirit on the day of Pentecost; Pentecost; -- so called, it is said, because, in the primitive church, those who had been newly baptized appeared at church between Easter and Pentecost in white garments."
5400  
5401  "Whitsunday (n.) See the Note under Term, n., 12."
5402  
5403  "Whitsuntide (n.) The week commencing with Whitsunday, esp. the first three days -- Whitsunday, Whitsun Monday, and Whitsun Tuesday; the time of Pentecost."
5404  
5405  "Whitten tree () Either of two shrubs (Viburnum Lantana, and V. Opulus), so called on account of their whitish branches."
5406  
5407  Whitterick (n.) The curlew.
5408  
5409  "Whittle (n.) A grayish, coarse double blanket worn by countrywomen, in the west of England, over the shoulders, like a cloak or shawl."
5410  
5411  "Whittle (n.) Same as Whittle shawl, below."
5412  
5413  "Whittle (n.) A knife; esp., a pocket, sheath, or clasp knife."
5414  
5415  Whittled (imp. & p. p.) of Whittle
5416  
5417  Whittling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Whittle
5418  
5419  "Whittle (v. t.) To pare or cut off the surface of with a small knife; to cut or shape, as a piece of wood held in the hand, with a clasp knife or pocketknife."
5420  
5421  "Whittle (v. t.) To edge; to sharpen; to render eager or excited; esp., to excite with liquor; to inebriate."
5422  
5423  Whittle (v. i.) To cut or shape a piece of wood with am small knife; to cut up a piece of wood with a knife.
5424  
5425  Whittlings (n. pl.) Chips made by one who whittles; shavings cut from a stick with a knife.
5426  
5427  Whittret (n.) A weasel.
5428  
5429  Whittuesday (n.) The day following Whitmonday; -- called also Whitsun Tuesday.
5430  
5431  Whitwall (n.) Same as Whetile.
5432  
5433  Whitworth ball () A prejectile used in the Whitworth gun.
5434  
5435  "Whitworth gun () A form of rifled cannon and small arms invented by Sir Joseph Whitworth, of Manchester, England."
5436  
5437  Whity-brown (a.) Of a color between white and brown.
5438  
5439  Whizzed (imp. & p. p.) of Whiz
5440  
5441  Whizzing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Whiz
5442  
5443  "Whiz (v. i.) To make a humming or hissing sound, like an arrow or ball flying through the air; to fly or move swiftly with a sharp hissing or whistling sound."
5444  
5445  Whiz (n.) A hissing and humming sound.
5446  
5447  Whizzingly (adv.) With a whizzing sound.
5448  
5449  "Who (object.) Originally, an interrogative pronoun, later, a relative pronoun also; -- used always substantively, and either as singular or plural. See the Note under What, pron., 1. As interrogative pronouns, who and whom ask the question: What or which person or persons? Who and whom, as relative pronouns (in the sense of that), are properly used of persons (corresponding to which, as applied to things), but are sometimes, less properly and now rarely, used of animals, plants, etc. Who and whom, as compound relatives, are also used especially of persons, meaning the person that; the persons that; the one that; whosoever."
5450  
5451  Who (pron.) One; any; one.
5452  
5453  "Whoa (interj.) Stop; stand; hold. See Ho, 2."
5454  
5455  Whobub (n.) Hubbub.
5456  
5457  "Whoever (pron.) Whatever person; any person who; be or she who; any one who; as, he shall be punished, whoever he may be."
5458  
5459  "Whole (a.) Containing the total amount, number, etc.; comprising all the parts; free from deficiency; all; total; entire; as, the whole earth; the whole solar system; the whole army; the whole nation."
5460  
5461  "Whole (a.) Complete; entire; not defective or imperfect; not broken or fractured; unimpaired; uninjured; integral; as, a whole orange; the egg is whole; the vessel is whole."
5462  
5463  "Whole (a.) Possessing, or being in a state of, heath and soundness; healthy; sound; well."
5464  
5465  "Whole (n.) The entire thing; the entire assemblage of parts; totality; all of a thing, without defect or exception; a thing complete in itself."
5466  
5467  Whole (n.) A regular combination of parts; a system.
5468  
5469  "Whole-hoofed (a.) Having an undivided hoof, as the horse."
5470  
5471  Whole-length (a.) Representing the whole figure; -- said of a picture or statue.
5472  
5473  Whole-length (n.) A portrait or statue representing the whole figure.
5474  
5475  "Wholeness (n.) The quality or state of being whole, entire, or sound; entireness; totality; completeness."
5476  
5477  "Wholesale (n.) Sale of goods by the piece or large quantity, as distinguished from retail."
5478  
5479  "Wholesale (a.) Pertaining to, or engaged in, trade by the piece or large quantity; selling to retailers or jobbers rather than to consumers; as, a wholesale merchant; the wholesale price."
5480  
5481  "Wholesale (a.) Extensive and indiscriminate; as, wholesale slaughter."
5482  
5483  Wholesome (superl.) Tending to promote health; favoring health; salubrious; salutary.
5484  
5485  "Wholesome (superl.) Contributing to the health of the mind; favorable to morals, religion, or prosperity; conducive to good; salutary; sound; as, wholesome advice; wholesome doctrines; wholesome truths; wholesome laws."
5486  
5487  Wholesome (superl.) Sound; healthy.
5488  
5489  Whole-souled (a.) Thoroughly imbued with a right spirit; noble-minded; devoted.
5490  
5491  Wholly (adv.) In a whole or complete manner; entirely; completely; perfectly.
5492  
5493  Wholly (adv.) To the exclusion of other things; totally; fully.
5494  
5495  Whom (pron.) The objective case of who. See Who.
5496  
5497  Whomsoever (pron.) The objective of whosoever. See Whosoever.
5498  
5499  Whoobub (n.) Hubbub.
5500  
5501  Whoop (n.) The hoopoe.
5502  
5503  Whooped (imp. & p. p.) of Whoop
5504  
5505  Whooping (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Whoop
5506  
5507  "Whoop (v. i.) To utter a whoop, or loud cry, as eagerness, enthusiasm, or enjoyment; to cry out; to shout; to halloo; to utter a war whoop; to hoot, as an owl."
5508  
5509  "Whoop (v. i.) To cough or breathe with a sonorous inspiration, as in whooping cough."
5510  
5511  Whoop (v. t.) To insult with shouts; to chase with derision.
5512  
5513  "Whoop (n.) A shout of pursuit or of war; a very of eagerness, enthusiasm, enjoyment, vengeance, terror, or the like; an halloo; a hoot, or cry, as of an owl."
5514  
5515  "Whoop (n.) A loud, shrill, prolonged sound or sonorous inspiration, as in whooping cough."
5516  
5517  "Whooper (n.) One who, or that which, whooops."
5518  
5519  "Whooping () a. & n. from Whoop, v. t."
5520  
5521  Whoot (v. i.) To hoot.
5522  
5523  Whop (v. t.) Same as Whap.
5524  
5525  Whop (n.) Same as Whap.
5526  
5527  "Whopper (n.) One who, or that which, whops."
5528  
5529  Whopper (n.) Same as Whapper.
5530  
5531  "Whore (n.) A woman who practices unlawful sexual commerce with men, especially one who prostitutes her body for hire; a prostitute; a harlot."
5532  
5533  Whored (imp. & p. p.) of Whore
5534  
5535  Whoring (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Whore
5536  
5537  Whore (n.) To have unlawful sexual intercourse; to practice lewdness.
5538  
5539  Whore (n.) To worship false and impure gods.
5540  
5541  Whore (v. t.) To corrupt by lewd intercourse; to make a whore of; to debauch.
5542  
5543  Whoredom (n.) The practice of unlawful intercourse with the other sex; fornication; lewdness.
5544  
5545  Whoredom (n.) The sin of worshiping idols; idolatry.
5546  
5547  Wheremaster (n.) A man who practices lewdness; a lecher; a whoremonger.
5548  
5549  Wheremaster (n.) One keeps or procures whores for others; a pimp; a procurer.
5550  
5551  Whoremasterly (a.) Having the character of a whoremaster; lecherous; libidinous.
5552  
5553  Whoremonger (n.) A whoremaster; a lecher; a man who frequents the society of whores.
5554  
5555  "Whoreson (n.) A bastard; colloquially, a low, scurvy fellow; -- used generally in contempt, or in coarse humor. Also used adjectively."
5556  
5557  Whorish (a.) Resembling a whore in character or conduct; addicted to unlawful pleasures; incontinent; lewd; unchaste.
5558  
5559  "Whorl (n. & v.) A circle of two or more leaves, flowers, or other organs, about the same part or joint of a stem."
5560  
5561  "Whorl (n. & v.) A volution, or turn, of the spire of a univalve shell."
5562  
5563  Whorl (n. & v.) The fly of a spindle.
5564  
5565  "Whorled (a.) Furnished with whorls; arranged in the form of a whorl or whorls; verticillate; as, whorled leaves."
5566  
5567  Whorler (n.) A potter's wheel.
5568  
5569  "Whort (n.) The whortleberry, or bilberry. See Whortleberry (a)."
5570  
5571  "Whortle (n.) The whortleberry, or bilberry."
5572  
5573  "Whortleberry (n.) In England, the fruit of Vaccinium Myrtillus; also, the plant itself. See Bilberry, 1."
5574  
5575  "Whortleberry (n.) The fruit of several shrubby plants of the genus Gaylussacia; also, any one of these plants. See Huckleberry."
5576  
5577  "Whose (pron.) The possessive case of who or which. See Who, and Which."
5578  
5579  Whosesoever (pron.) The possessive of whosoever. See Whosoever.
5580  
5581  Whoso (pron.) Whosoever.
5582  
5583  Whosoever (pron.) Whatsoever person; any person whatever that; whoever.
5584  
5585  Whot (a.) Hot.
5586  
5587  "Whur (v. i.) To make a rough, humming sound, like one who pronounces the letter r with too much force; to whir; to birr."
5588  
5589  "Whur (v. i.) To snarl or growl, as a dog."
5590  
5591  "Whur (n.) A humming or whirring sound, like that of a body moving through the air with velocity; a whir."
5592  
5593  Whurry (v. t.) To whisk along quickly; to hurry.
5594  
5595  Whurt (n.) See Whort.
5596  
5597  "Why (adv.) For what cause, reason, or purpose; on what account; wherefore; -- used interrogatively. See the Note under What, pron., 1."
5598  
5599  Why (adv.) For which; on account of which; -- used relatively.
5600  
5601  "Why (adv.) The reason or cause for which; that on account of which; on what account; as, I know not why he left town so suddenly; -- used as a compound relative."
5602  
5603  Why (n.) A young heifer.
5604  
5605  Whydah bird () Alt. of Whydah finch
5606  
5607  Whydah finch () The whidah bird.
5608  
5609  Why-not (n.) A violent and peremptory procedure without any assigned reason; a sudden conclusive happening.
5610  
5611  Wich (n.) A variant of 1st Wick.
5612  
5613  Wichitas (n. pl.) A tribe of Indians native of the region between the Arkansas and Red rivers. They are related to the Pawnees. See Pawnees.
5614  
5615  Wick (n.) Alt. of Wich
5616  
5617  "Wich (n.) A street; a village; a castle; a dwelling; a place of work, or exercise of authority; -- now obsolete except in composition; as, bailiwick, Warwick, Greenwick."
5618  
5619  "Wich (n.) A narrow port or passage in the rink or course, flanked by the stones of previous players."
5620  
5621  "Wick (n.) A bundle of fibers, or a loosely twisted or braided cord, tape, or tube, usually made of soft spun cotton threads, which by capillary attraction draws up a steady supply of the oil in lamps, the melted tallow or wax in candles, or other material used for illumination, in small successive portions, to be burned."
5622  
5623  Wick (v. i.) To strike a stone in an oblique direction.
5624  
5625  Wicke (a.) Wicked.
5626  
5627  "Wicked (a.) Having a wick; -- used chiefly in composition; as, a two-wicked lamp."
5628  
5629  "Wicked (a.) Evil in principle or practice; deviating from morality; contrary to the moral or divine law; addicted to vice or sin; sinful; immoral; profligate; -- said of persons and things; as, a wicked king; a wicked woman; a wicked deed; wicked designs."
5630  
5631  Wicked (a.) Cursed; baneful; hurtful; bad; pernicious; dangerous.
5632  
5633  Wicked (a.) Ludicrously or sportively mischievous; disposed to mischief; roguish.
5634  
5635  "Wickedly (adv.) In a wicked manner; in a manner, or with motives and designs, contrary to the divine law or the law of morality; viciously; corruptly; immorally."
5636  
5637  Wickedness (n.) The quality or state of being wicked; departure from the rules of the divine or the moral law; evil disposition or practices; immorality; depravity; sinfulness.
5638  
5639  Wickedness (n.) A wicked thing or act; crime; sin; iniquity.
5640  
5641  Wicken tree () Same as Quicken tree.
5642  
5643  Wicker (n.) A small pliant twig or osier; a rod for making basketwork and the like; a withe.
5644  
5645  "Wicker (n.) Wickerwork; a piece of wickerwork, esp. a basket."
5646  
5647  Wicker (n.) Same as 1st Wike.
5648  
5649  "Wicker (a.) Made of, or covered with, twigs or osiers, or wickerwork."
5650  
5651  "Wickered (a.) Made of, secured by, or covered with, wickers or wickerwork."
5652  
5653  "Wickerwork (n.) A texture of osiers, twigs, or rods; articles made of such a texture."
5654  
5655  "Wicket (n.) A small gate or door, especially one forming part of, or placed near, a larger door or gate; a narrow opening or entrance cut in or beside a door or gate, or the door which is used to close such entrance or aperture. Piers Plowman."
5656  
5657  "Wicket (n.) A small gate by which the chamber of canal locks is emptied, or by which the amount of water passing to a water wheel is regulated."
5658  
5659  "Wicket (n.) A small framework at which the ball is bowled. It consists of three rods, or stumps, set vertically in the ground, with one or two short rods, called bails, lying horizontally across the top."
5660  
5661  Wicket (n.) The ground on which the wickets are set.
5662  
5663  "Wicket (n.) A place of shelter made of the boughs of trees, -- used by lumbermen, etc."
5664  
5665  "Wicket (n.) The space between the pillars, in postand-stall working."
5666  
5667  "Wicking (n.) the material of which wicks are made; esp., a loosely braided or twisted cord or tape of cotton."
5668  
5669  Wiclifite (n.) Alt. of Wickliffite
5670  
5671  Wickliffite (n.) See Wyclifite.
5672  
5673  Wicopy (n.) See Leatherwood.
5674  
5675  "Widdy (n.) A rope or halter made of flexible twigs, or withes, as of birch."
5676  
5677  "Wide (superl.) Having considerable distance or extent between the sides; spacious across; much extended in a direction at right angles to that of length; not narrow; broad; as, wide cloth; a wide table; a wide highway; a wide bed; a wide hall or entry."
5678  
5679  "Wide (superl.) Having a great extent every way; extended; spacious; broad; vast; extensive; as, a wide plain; the wide ocean; a wide difference."
5680  
5681  "Wide (superl.) Of large scope; comprehensive; liberal; broad; as, wide views; a wide understanding."
5682  
5683  "Wide (superl.) Of a certain measure between the sides; measuring in a direction at right angles to that of length; as, a table three feet wide."
5684  
5685  Wide (superl.) Remote; distant; far.
5686  
5687  "Wide (superl.) Far from truth, from propriety, from necessity, or the like."
5688  
5689  "Wide (superl.) On one side or the other of the mark; too far side-wise from the mark, the wicket, the batsman, etc."
5690  
5691  "Wide (superl.) Made, as a vowel, with a less tense, and more open and relaxed, condition of the mouth organs; -- opposed to primary as used by Mr. Bell, and to narrow as used by Mr. Sweet. The effect, as explained by Mr. Bell, is due to the relaxation or tension of the pharynx; as explained by Mr. Sweet and others, it is due to the action of the tongue. The wide of / (/ve) is / (/ll); of a (ate) is / (/nd), etc. See Guide to Pronunciation, / 13-15."
5692  
5693  "Wide (adv.) To a distance; far; widely; to a great distance or extent; as, his fame was spread wide."
5694  
5695  Wide (adv.) So as to leave or have a great space between the sides; so as to form a large opening.
5696  
5697  "Wide (adv.) So as to be or strike far from, or on one side of, an object or purpose; aside; astray."
5698  
5699  Wide (n.) That which is wide; wide space; width; extent.
5700  
5701  "Wide (n.) That which goes wide, or to one side of the mark."
5702  
5703  "Wide-awake (a.) Fully awake; not drowsy or dull; hence, knowing; keen; alert."
5704  
5705  "Wide-awake (n.) A broad-brimmed, low-crowned felt hat."
5706  
5707  "Widegap (n.) The angler; -- called also widegab, and widegut."
5708  
5709  "Widely (adv.) In a wide manner; to a wide degree or extent; far; extensively; as, the gospel was widely disseminated by the apostles."
5710  
5711  "Widely (adv.) Very much; to a great degree or extent; as, to differ widely in opinion."
5712  
5713  Widened (imp. & p. p.) of Widen
5714  
5715  Widening (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Widen
5716  
5717  "Widen (v. t.) To make wide or wider; to extend in breadth; to increase the width of; as, to widen a field; to widen a breach; to widen a stocking."
5718  
5719  Widen (v. i.) To grow wide or wider; to enlarge; to spread; to extend.
5720  
5721  "Wideness (n.) The quality or state of being wide; breadth; width; great extent from side to side; as, the wideness of a room."
5722  
5723  "Wideness (n.) Large extent in all directions; broadness; greatness; as, the wideness of the sea or ocean."
5724  
5725  "Widespread (a.) Spread to a great distance; widely extended; extending far and wide; as, widespread wings; a widespread movement."
5726  
5727  Widewhere (adv.) Widely; far and wide.
5728  
5729  "Widgeon (n.) Any one of several species of fresh-water ducks, especially those belonging to the subgenus Mareca, of the genus Anas. The common European widgeon (Anas penelope) and the American widgeon (A. Americana) are the most important species. The latter is called also baldhead, baldpate, baldface, baldcrown, smoking duck, wheat, duck, and whitebelly."
5730  
5731  Widish (a.) Moderately wide.
5732  
5733  "Widmanstatten figures () Certain figures appearing on etched meteoric iron; -- so called after A. B. Widmanstatten, of Vienna, who first described them in 1808. See the Note and Illust. under Meteorite."
5734  
5735  "Widow (n.) A woman who has lost her husband by death, and has not married again; one living bereaved of a husband."
5736  
5737  Widow (a.) Widowed.
5738  
5739  Widowed (imp. & p. p.) of Widow
5740  
5741  Widowing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Widow
5742  
5743  Widow (v. t.) To reduce to the condition of a widow; to bereave of a husband; -- rarely used except in the past participle.
5744  
5745  Widow (v. t.) To deprive of one who is loved; to strip of anything beloved or highly esteemed; to make desolate or bare; to bereave.
5746  
5747  Widow (v. t.) To endow with a widow's right.
5748  
5749  "Widow (v. t.) To become, or survive as, the widow of."
5750  
5751  Widow bird () See Whidan bird.
5752  
5753  "Widower (n.) A man who has lost his wife by death, and has not married again."
5754  
5755  Widowerhood (n.) The state of being a widower.
5756  
5757  "Widowhood (n.) The state of being a widow; the time during which a woman is widow; also, rarely, the state of being a widower."
5758  
5759  Widowhood (n.) Estate settled on a widow.
5760  
5761  "Widow-hunter (n.) One who courts widows, seeking to marry one with a fortune."
5762  
5763  Widowly (a.) Becoming or like a widow.
5764  
5765  Widow-maker (n.) One who makes widows by destroying husbands.
5766  
5767  "Widow-wail (n.) A low, narrowleaved evergreen shrub (Cneorum tricoccon) found in Southern Europe."
5768  
5769  "Width (n.) The quality of being wide; extent from side to side; breadth; wideness; as, the width of cloth; the width of a door."
5770  
5771  Widual (a.) Of or pertaining to a widow; vidual.
5772  
5773  Widwe (n.) A widow.
5774  
5775  Wielded (imp. & p. p.) of Wield
5776  
5777  Wielding (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Wield
5778  
5779  "Wield (v. t.) To govern; to rule; to keep, or have in charge; also, to possess."
5780  
5781  Wield (v. t.) To direct or regulate by influence or authority; to manage; to control; to sway.
5782  
5783  "Wield (v. t.) To use with full command or power, as a thing not too heavy for the holder; to manage; to handle; hence, to use or employ; as, to wield a sword; to wield the scepter."
5784  
5785  Wieldable (a.) Capable of being wielded.
5786  
5787  Wieldance (n.) The act or power of wielding.
5788  
5789  Wielder (n.) One who wields or employs; a manager; a controller.
5790  
5791  Wielding (n.) Power; authority; rule.
5792  
5793  Wieldless (a.) Not to be wielded; unmanageable; unwieldy.
5794  
5795  Wieldsome (a.) Admitting of being easily wielded or managed.
5796  
5797  Wieldy (a.) Capable of being wielded; manageable; wieldable; -- opposed to unwieldy.
5798  
5799  Wier (n.) Same as Weir.
5800  
5801  Wierangle (n.) Same as Wariangle.
5802  
5803  Wiery (a.) Wet; moist; marshy.
5804  
5805  Wiery (a.) Wiry.
5806  
5807  Wives (pl. ) of Wife
5808  
5809  "Wife (n.) A woman; an adult female; -- now used in literature only in certain compounds and phrases, as alewife, fishwife, goodwife, and the like."
5810  
5811  Wife (n.) The lawful consort of a man; a woman who is united to a man in wedlock; a woman who has a husband; a married woman; -- correlative of husband.
5812  
5813  Wifehood (n.) Womanhood.
5814  
5815  Wifehood (n.) The state of being a wife; the character of a wife.
5816  
5817  Wifeless (a.) Without a wife; unmarried.
5818  
5819  "Wifelike (a.) Of, pertaining to, or like, a wife or a woman."
5820  
5821  Wifely (a.) Becoming or life; of or pertaining to a wife.
5822  
5823  "Wig (n.) A covering for the head, consisting of hair interwoven or united by a kind of network, either in imitation of the natural growth, or in abundant and flowing curls, worn to supply a deficiency of natural hair, or for ornament, or according to traditional usage, as a part of an official or professional dress, the latter especially in England by judges and barristers."
5824  
5825  Wig (n.) An old seal; -- so called by fishermen.
5826  
5827  Wigged (imp. & p. p.) of Wig
5828  
5829  Wigging (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Wig
5830  
5831  Wig (v. t.) To censure or rebuke; to hold up to reprobation; to scold.
5832  
5833  "Wigan (n.) A kind of canvaslike cotton fabric, used to stiffen and protect the lower part of trousers and of the skirts of women's dresses, etc.; -- so called from Wigan, the name of a town in Lancashire, England."
5834  
5835  Wigeon (n.) A widgeon.
5836  
5837  Wigg (n.) Alt. of Wig
5838  
5839  Wig (n.) A kind of raised seedcake.
5840  
5841  Wigged (a.) Having the head covered with a wig; wearing a wig.
5842  
5843  Wiggery (n.) A wig or wigs; false hair.
5844  
5845  "Wiggery (n.) Any cover or screen, as red-tapism."
5846  
5847  "Wiggle (v. t.) To move to and fro with a quick, jerking motion; to bend rapidly, or with a wavering motion, from side to side; to wag; to squirm; to wriggle; as, the dog wiggles his tail; the tadpole wiggles in the water."
5848  
5849  Wiggle (n.) Act of wiggling; a wriggle.
5850  
5851  "Wiggler (n.) The young, either larva or pupa, of the mosquito; -- called also wiggletail."
5852  
5853  Wigher (v. i.) To neigh; to whinny.
5854  
5855  Wight (n.) Weight.
5856  
5857  Wight (n.) A whit; a bit; a jot.
5858  
5859  Wight (n.) A supernatural being.
5860  
5861  "Wight (n.) A human being; a person, either male or female; -- now used chiefly in irony or burlesque, or in humorous language."
5862  
5863  Wight (a.) Swift; nimble; agile; strong and active.
5864  
5865  Wightly (adv.) Swiftly; nimbly; quickly.
5866  
5867  Wigless (a.) Having or wearing no wig.
5868  
5869  Wigwag (v. t.) To signal by means of a flag waved from side to side according to a code adopted for the purpose.
5870  
5871  "Wigwam (n.) An Indian cabin or hut, usually of a conical form, and made of a framework of poles covered with hides, bark, or mats; -- called also tepee."
5872  
5873  "Wike (n.) A temporary mark or boundary, as a bough of a tree set up in marking out or dividing anything, as tithes, swaths to be mowed in common ground, etc.; -- called also wicker."
5874  
5875  Wike (n.) A home; a dwelling.
5876  
5877  Wikke (a.) Wicked.
5878  
5879  "Wild (superl.) Living in a state of nature; inhabiting natural haunts, as the forest or open field; not familiar with, or not easily approached by, man; not tamed or domesticated; as, a wild boar; a wild ox; a wild cat."
5880  
5881  "Wild (superl.) Growing or produced without culture; growing or prepared without the aid and care of man; native; not cultivated; brought forth by unassisted nature or by animals not domesticated; as, wild parsnip, wild camomile, wild strawberry, wild honey."
5882  
5883  "Wild (superl.) Desert; not inhabited or cultivated; as, wild land."
5884  
5885  "Wild (superl.) Savage; uncivilized; not refined by culture; ferocious; rude; as, wild natives of Africa or America."
5886  
5887  "Wild (superl.) Not submitted to restraint, training, or regulation; turbulent; tempestuous; violent; ungoverned; licentious; inordinate; disorderly; irregular; fanciful; imaginary; visionary; crazy."
5888  
5889  "Wild (superl.) Exposed to the wind and sea; unsheltered; as, a wild roadstead."
5890  
5891  "Wild (superl.) Indicating strong emotion, intense excitement, or /ewilderment; as, a wild look."
5892  
5893  Wild (superl.) Hard to steer; -- said of a vessel.
5894  
5895  "Wild (n.) An uninhabited and uncultivated tract or region; a forest or desert; a wilderness; a waste; as, the wilds of America; the wilds of Africa."
5896  
5897  "Wild (adv.) Wildly; as, to talk wild."
5898  
5899  Wild-cat (a.) Unsound; worthless; irresponsible; unsafe; -- said to have been originally applied to the notes of an insolvent bank in Michigan upon which there was the figure of a panther.
5900  
5901  "Wild-cat (a.) Running without control; running along the line without a train; as, a wild-cat locomotive."
5902  
5903  Wildebeest (n.) The gnu.
5904  
5905  Wilded (a.) Become wild.
5906  
5907  Wildered (imp. & p. p.) of Wilder
5908  
5909  Wildering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Wilder
5910  
5911  Wilder (a.) To bewilder; to perplex.
5912  
5913  "Wildering (n.) A plant growing in a state of nature; especially, one which has run wild, or escaped from cultivation."
5914  
5915  Wilderment (n.) The state of being bewildered; confusion; bewilderment.
5916  
5917  "Wilderness (v. t.) A tract of land, or a region, uncultivated and uninhabited by human beings, whether a forest or a wide, barren plain; a wild; a waste; a desert; a pathless waste of any kind."
5918  
5919  Wilderness (v. t.) A disorderly or neglected place.
5920  
5921  Wilderness (v. t.) Quality or state of being wild; wildness.
5922  
5923  "Wildfire (n.) A composition of inflammable materials, which, kindled, is very hard to quench; Greek fire."
5924  
5925  Wildfire (n.) An old name for erysipelas.
5926  
5927  "Wildfire (n.) A disease of sheep, attended with inflammation of the skin."
5928  
5929  Wildfire (n.) A sort of lightning unaccompanied by thunder.
5930  
5931  "Wildgrave (n.) A waldgrave, or head forest keeper. See Waldgrave."
5932  
5933  "Wilding (n.) A wild or uncultivated plant; especially, a wild apple tree or crab apple; also, the fruit of such a plant."
5934  
5935  "Wilding (a.) Not tame, domesticated, or cultivated; wild."
5936  
5937  Wildish (a.) Somewhat wild; rather wild.
5938  
5939  Wildly (adv.) In a wild manner; without cultivation; with disorder; rudely; distractedly; extravagantly.
5940  
5941  Wildness (n.) The quality or state of being wild; an uncultivated or untamed state; disposition to rove or go unrestrained; rudeness; savageness; irregularity; distraction.
5942  
5943  "Wildwood (n.) A wild or unfrequented wood. Also used adjectively; as, wildwood flowers; wildwood echoes."
5944  
5945  "Wile (n.) A trick or stratagem practiced for insnaring or deception; a sly, insidious; artifice; a beguilement; an allurement."
5946  
5947  Wile (v. t.) To practice artifice upon; to deceive; to beguile; to allure.
5948  
5949  "Wile (v. t.) To draw or turn away, as by diversion; to while or while away; to cause to pass pleasantly."
5950  
5951  Wileful (a.) Full of wiles; trickish; deceitful.
5952  
5953  Wilful (n.) Alt. of Wilfulness
5954  
5955  Wilfully (n.) Alt. of Wilfulness
5956  
5957  "Wilfulness (n.) See Willful, Willfully, and Willfulness."
5958  
5959  Wiliness (n.) The quality or state of being wily; craftiness; cunning; guile.
5960  
5961  Wilk (n.) See Whelk.
5962  
5963  Will (v.) The power of choosing; the faculty or endowment of the soul by which it is capable of choosing; the faculty or power of the mind by which we decide to do or not to do; the power or faculty of preferring or selecting one of two or more objects.
5964  
5965  Will (v.) The choice which is made; a determination or preference which results from the act or exercise of the power of choice; a volition.
5966  
5967  Will (v.) The choice or determination of one who has authority; a decree; a command; discretionary pleasure.
5968  
5969  Will (v.) Strong wish or inclination; desire; purpose.
5970  
5971  Will (v.) That which is strongly wished or desired.
5972  
5973  "Will (v.) Arbitrary disposal; power to control, dispose, or determine."
5974  
5975  "Will (v.) The legal declaration of a person's mind as to the manner in which he would have his property or estate disposed of after his death; the written instrument, legally executed, by which a man makes disposition of his estate, to take effect after his death; testament; devise. See the Note under Testament, 1."
5976  
5977  Would (imp.) of Will
5978  
5979  Will (adv.) To wish; to desire; to incline to have.
5980  
5981  "Will (adv.) As an auxiliary, will is used to denote futurity dependent on the verb. Thus, in first person, ""I will"" denotes willingness, consent, promise; and when ""will"" is emphasized, it denotes determination or fixed purpose; as, I will go if you wish; I will go at all hazards. In the second and third persons, the idea of distinct volition, wish, or purpose is evanescent, and simple certainty is appropriately expressed; as, ""You will go,"" or ""He will go,"" describes a future event as a fact only. To emphasize will denotes (according to the tone or context) certain futurity or fixed determination."
5982  
5983  Will (v. i.) To be willing; to be inclined or disposed; to be pleased; to wish; to desire.
5984  
5985  Willed (imp. & p. p.) of Will
5986  
5987  Willing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Will
5988  
5989  Will (n.) To form a distinct volition of; to determine by an act of choice; to ordain; to decree.
5990  
5991  "Will (n.) To enjoin or command, as that which is determined by an act of volition; to direct; to order."
5992  
5993  "Will (n.) To give or direct the disposal of by testament; to bequeath; to devise; as, to will one's estate to a child; also, to order or direct by testament; as, he willed that his nephew should have his watch."
5994  
5995  Will (v. i.) To exercise an act of volition; to choose; to decide; to determine; to decree.
5996  
5997  "Willemite (n.) A silicate of zinc, usually occurring massive and of a greenish yellow color, also in reddish crystals (troostite) containing manganese."
5998  
5999  Willer (n.) One who wills.
6000  
6001  "Willet (n.) A large North American snipe (Symphemia semipalmata); -- called also pill-willet, will-willet, semipalmated tattler, or snipe, duck snipe, and stone curlew."
6002  
6003  "Willful (a.) Of set purpose; self-determined; voluntary; as, willful murder."
6004  
6005  "Willful (a.) Governed by the will without yielding to reason; obstinate; perverse; inflexible; stubborn; refractory; as, a willful man or horse."
6006  
6007  Willier (n.) One who works at a willying machine.
6008  
6009  Willing (v. t.) Free to do or to grant; having the mind inclined; not opposed in mind; not choosing to refuse; disposed; not averse; desirous; consenting; complying; ready.
6010  
6011  "Willing (v. t.) Received of choice, or without reluctance; submitted to voluntarily; chosen; desired."
6012  
6013  Willing (v. t.) Spontaneous; self-moved.
6014  
6015  Willingly (adv.) In a willing manner; with free will; without reluctance; cheerfully.
6016  
6017  Willingness (n.) The quality or state of being willing; free choice or consent of the will; freedom from reluctance; readiness of the mind to do or forbear.
6018  
6019  Williwaw (n.) Alt. of Willywaw
6020  
6021  "Willywaw (n.) A whirlwind, or whirlwind squall, encountered in the Straits of Magellan."
6022  
6023  Willock (n.) The common guillemot.
6024  
6025  Willock (n.) The puffin.
6026  
6027  Will-o'-the-wisp (n.) See Ignis fatuus.
6028  
6029  "Willow (n.) Any tree or shrub of the genus Salix, including many species, most of which are characterized often used as an emblem of sorrow, desolation, or desertion. ""A wreath of willow to show my forsaken plight."" Sir W. Scott. Hence, a lover forsaken by, or having lost, the person beloved, is said to wear the willow."
6030  
6031  "Willow (n.) A machine in which cotton or wool is opened and cleansed by the action of long spikes projecting from a drum which revolves within a box studded with similar spikes; -- probably so called from having been originally a cylindrical cage made of willow rods, though some derive the term from winnow, as denoting the winnowing, or cleansing, action of the machine. Called also willy, twilly, twilly devil, and devil."
6032  
6033  "Willow (v. t.) To open and cleanse, as cotton, flax, or wool, by means of a willow. See Willow, n., 2."
6034  
6035  Willowed (a.) Abounding with willows; containing willows; covered or overgrown with willows.
6036  
6037  "Willower (n.) A willow. See Willow, n., 2."
6038  
6039  Willow-herb (n.) A perennial herb (Epilobium spicatum) with narrow willowlike leaves and showy rose-purple flowers. The name is sometimes made to include other species of the same genus.
6040  
6041  Willowish (a.) Having the color of the willow; resembling the willow; willowy.
6042  
6043  Willow-thorn (n.) A thorny European shrub (Hippophae rhamnoides) resembling a willow.
6044  
6045  Willow-weed (n.) A European species of loosestrife (Lysimachia vulgaris).
6046  
6047  Willow-weed (n.) Any kind of Polygonum with willowlike foliage.
6048  
6049  Willow-wort (n.) Same as Willow-weed.
6050  
6051  "Willow-wort (n.) Any plant of the order Salicaceae, or the Willow family."
6052  
6053  Willowy (a.) Abounding with willows.
6054  
6055  Willowy (a.) Resembling a willow; pliant; flexible; pendent; drooping; graceful.
6056  
6057  Willsome (a.) Willful; obstinate.
6058  
6059  Willsome (a.) Fat; indolent.
6060  
6061  Willsome (a.) Doubtful; uncertain.
6062  
6063  Willy (n.) A large wicker basket.
6064  
6065  "Willy (n.) Same as 1st Willow, 2."
6066  
6067  "Willying (n.) The process of cleansing wool, cotton, or the like, with a willy, or willow."
6068  
6069  "Willy nilly () See Will I, nill I, etc., under 3d Will."
6070  
6071  Wilne (v. t.) To wish; to desire.
6072  
6073  Wilt () 2d pers. sing. of Will.
6074  
6075  Wilting (imp. & p. p.) of Wilt
6076  
6077  "Wilt (v. i.) To begin to wither; to lose freshness and become flaccid, as a plant when exposed when exposed to drought, or to great heat in a dry day, or when separated from its root; to droop;. to wither."
6078  
6079  "Wilt (v. t.) To cause to begin to wither; to make flaccid, as a green plant."
6080  
6081  "Wilt (v. t.) Hence, to cause to languish; to depress or destroy the vigor and energy of."
6082  
6083  "Wilton carpet () A kind of carpet woven with loops like the Brussels, but differing from it in having the loops cut so as to form an elastic velvet pile; -- so called because made originally at Wilton, England."
6084  
6085  Wilwe (n.) Willow.
6086  
6087  "Wily (superl.) Full of wiles, tricks, or stratagems; using craft or stratagem to accomplish a purpose; mischievously artful; subtle."
6088  
6089  "Wimble (n.) An instrument for boring holes, turned by a handle."
6090  
6091  Wimble (n.) A gimlet.
6092  
6093  Wimble (n.) A stonecutter's brace for boring holes in stone.
6094  
6095  Wimble (n.) An auger used for boring in earth.
6096  
6097  Wimbled (imp. & p. p.) of Wimble
6098  
6099  Wimbling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Wimble
6100  
6101  "Wimble (v. t.) To bore or pierce, as with a wimble."
6102  
6103  Wimble (a.) Active; nimble.
6104  
6105  Wimbrel (n.) The whimbrel.
6106  
6107  "Wimple (n.) A covering of silk, linen, or other material, for the neck and chin, formerly worn by women as an outdoor protection, and still retained in the dress of nuns."
6108  
6109  Wimple (n.) A flag or streamer.
6110  
6111  Wimpled (imp. & p. p.) of Wimple
6112  
6113  Wimpling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Wimple
6114  
6115  "Wimple (v. t.) To clothe with a wimple; to cover, as with a veil; hence, to hoodwink."
6116  
6117  "Wimple (v. t.) To draw down, as a veil; to lay in folds or plaits, as a veil."
6118  
6119  "Wimple (v. t.) To cause to appear as if laid in folds or plaits; to cause to ripple or undulate; as, the wind wimples the surface of water."
6120  
6121  "Wimple (v. i.) To lie in folds; also, to appear as if laid in folds or plaits; to ripple; to undulate."
6122  
6123  Won (imp. & p. p.) of Win
6124  
6125  Wan () of Win
6126  
6127  Winning (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Win
6128  
6129  "Win (a.) To gain by superiority in competition or contest; to obtain by victory over competitors or rivals; as, to win the prize in a gate; to win money; to win a battle, or to win a country."
6130  
6131  "Win (a.) To allure to kindness; to bring to compliance; to gain or obtain, as by solicitation or courtship."
6132  
6133  "Win (a.) To gain over to one's side or party; to obtain the favor, friendship, or support of; to render friendly or approving; as, to win an enemy; to win a jury."
6134  
6135  Win (a.) To come to by toil or effort; to reach; to overtake.
6136  
6137  "Win (a.) To extract, as ore or coal."
6138  
6139  Win (v. i.) To gain the victory; to be successful; to triumph; to prevail.
6140  
6141  Winced (imp. & p. p.) of Wince
6142  
6143  Wincing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Wince
6144  
6145  "Wince (v. i.) To shrink, as from a blow, or from pain; to flinch; to start back."
6146  
6147  "Wince (v. i.) To kick or flounce when unsteady, or impatient at a rider; as, a horse winces."
6148  
6149  Wince (n.) The act of one who winces.
6150  
6151  "Wince (n.) A reel used in dyeing, steeping, or washing cloth; a winch. It is placed over the division wall between two wince pits so as to allow the cloth to descend into either compartment. at will."
6152  
6153  "Wincer (n.) One who, or that which, winces, shrinks, or kicks."
6154  
6155  Wincey (n.) Linsey-woolsey.
6156  
6157  Winch (v. i.) To wince; to shrink; to kick with impatience or uneasiness.
6158  
6159  "Winch (n.) A kick, as of a beast, from impatience or uneasiness."
6160  
6161  "Winch (n.) A crank with a handle, for giving motion to a machine, a grindstone, etc."
6162  
6163  Winch (n.) An instrument with which to turn or strain something forcibly.
6164  
6165  "Winch (n.) An axle or drum turned by a crank with a handle, or by power, for raising weights, as from the hold of a ship, from mines, etc.; a windlass."
6166  
6167  Winch (n.) A wince.
6168  
6169  "Wincing (n.) The act of washing cloth, dipping it in dye, etc., with a wince."
6170  
6171  "Wincopipe (n.) A little red flower, no doubt the pimpernel, which, when it opens in the morning, is supposed to bode a fair day. See Pimpernel."
6172  
6173  Wound (imp. & p. p.) of Wind
6174  
6175  Winded () of Wind
6176  
6177  Winding (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Wind
6178  
6179  "Wind (v. t.) To turn completely, or with repeated turns; especially, to turn about something fixed; to cause to form convolutions about anything; to coil; to twine; to twist; to wreathe; as, to wind thread on a spool or into a ball."
6180  
6181  Wind (v. t.) To entwist; to infold; to encircle.
6182  
6183  Wind (v. t.) To have complete control over; to turn and bend at one's pleasure; to vary or alter or will; to regulate; to govern.
6184  
6185  Wind (v. t.) To introduce by insinuation; to insinuate.
6186  
6187  "Wind (v. t.) To cover or surround with something coiled about; as, to wind a rope with twine."
6188  
6189  "Wind (v. i.) To turn completely or repeatedly; to become coiled about anything; to assume a convolved or spiral form; as, vines wind round a pole."
6190  
6191  "Wind (v. i.) To have a circular course or direction; to crook; to bend; to meander; as, to wind in and out among trees."
6192  
6193  "Wind (v. i.) To go to the one side or the other; to move this way and that; to double on one's course; as, a hare pursued turns and winds."
6194  
6195  Wind (n.) The act of winding or turning; a turn; a bend; a twist; a winding.
6196  
6197  Wind (n.) Air naturally in motion with any degree of velocity; a current of air.
6198  
6199  "Wind (n.) Air artificially put in motion by any force or action; as, the wind of a cannon ball; the wind of a bellows."
6200  
6201  "Wind (n.) Breath modulated by the respiratory and vocal organs, or by an instrument."
6202  
6203  Wind (n.) Power of respiration; breath.
6204  
6205  "Wind (n.) Air or gas generated in the stomach or bowels; flatulence; as, to be troubled with wind."
6206  
6207  Wind (n.) Air impregnated with an odor or scent.
6208  
6209  "Wind (n.) A direction from which the wind may blow; a point of the compass; especially, one of the cardinal points, which are often called the four winds."
6210  
6211  "Wind (n.) A disease of sheep, in which the intestines are distended with air, or rather affected with a violent inflammation. It occurs immediately after shearing."
6212  
6213  Wind (n.) Mere breath or talk; empty effort; idle words.
6214  
6215  Wind (n.) The dotterel.
6216  
6217  Winded (imp. & p. p.) of Wind
6218  
6219  Winding (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Wind
6220  
6221  Wind (v. t.) To expose to the wind; to winnow; to ventilate.
6222  
6223  "Wind (v. t.) To perceive or follow by the scent; to scent; to nose; as, the hounds winded the game."
6224  
6225  "Wind (v. t.) To drive hard, or force to violent exertion, as a horse, so as to render scant of wind; to put out of breath."
6226  
6227  "Wind (v. t.) To rest, as a horse, in order to allow the breath to be recovered; to breathe."
6228  
6229  Wound (imp. & p. p.) of Wind
6230  
6231  Winded () of Wind
6232  
6233  Winding (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Wind
6234  
6235  "Wind (v. t.) To blow; to sound by blowing; esp., to sound with prolonged and mutually involved notes."
6236  
6237  Windage (n.) The difference between the diameter of the bore of a gun and that of the shot fired from it.
6238  
6239  Windage (n.) The sudden compression of the air caused by a projectile in passing close to another body.
6240  
6241  Windas (n.) See 3d Windlass.
6242  
6243  "Windbore (n.) The lower, or bottom, pipe in a lift of pumps in a mine."
6244  
6245  "Windbound (a.) prevented from sailing, by a contrary wind. See Weatherbound."
6246  
6247  Wind-break (v. t.) To break the wind of; to cause to lose breath; to exhaust.
6248  
6249  Wind-break (n.) A clump of trees serving for a protection against the force of wind.
6250  
6251  "Wind-broken (a.) Having the power of breathing impaired by the rupture, dilatation, or running together of air cells of the lungs, so that while the inspiration is by one effort, the expiration is by two; affected with pulmonary emphysema or with heaves; -- said of a horse."
6252  
6253  "Winder (n.) One who, or that which, winds; hence, a creeping or winding plant."
6254  
6255  "Winder (n.) An apparatus used for winding silk, cotton, etc., on spools, bobbins, reels, or the like."
6256  
6257  "Winder (n.) One in a flight of steps which are curved in plan, so that each tread is broader at one end than at the other; -- distinguished from flyer."
6258  
6259  Winder (v. t. & i.) To fan; to clean grain with a fan.
6260  
6261  Winder (n.) A blow taking away the breath.
6262  
6263  Winder (v. i.) To wither; to fail.
6264  
6265  "Windfall (n.) Anything blown down or off by the wind, as fruit from a tree, or the tree itself, or a portion of a forest prostrated by a violent wind, etc."
6266  
6267  "Windfall (n.) An unexpected legacy, or other gain."
6268  
6269  Windfallen (a.) Blown down by the wind.
6270  
6271  Wind-fertilized (a.) Anemophilous; fertilized by pollen borne by the wind.
6272  
6273  Windflower (n.) The anemone; -- so called because formerly supposed to open only when the wind was blowing. See Anemone.
6274  
6275  Windgall (n.) A soft tumor or synovial swelling on the fetlock joint of a horse; -- so called from having formerly been supposed to contain air.
6276  
6277  "Windhover (n.) The kestrel; -- called also windbibber, windcuffer, windfanner."
6278  
6279  "Windiness (n.) The quality or state of being windy or tempestuous; as, the windiness of the weather or the season."
6280  
6281  Windiness (n.) Fullness of wind; flatulence.
6282  
6283  "Windiness (n.) Tendency to generate wind or gas; tendency to produce flatulence; as, the windiness of vegetables."
6284  
6285  Windiness (n.) Tumor; puffiness.
6286  
6287  Winding (n.) A call by the boatswain's whistle.
6288  
6289  Winding (a.) Twisting from a direct line or an even surface; circuitous.
6290  
6291  "Winding (n.) A turn or turning; a bend; a curve; flexure; meander; as, the windings of a road or stream."
6292  
6293  "Winding (n.) A line- or ribbon-shaped material (as wire, string, or bandaging) wound around an object; as, the windings (conducting wires) wound around the armature of an electric motor or generator."
6294  
6295  Windingly (adv.) In a winding manner.
6296  
6297  Windlace (n. & v.) See Windlass.
6298  
6299  Windlass (n.) A winding and circuitous way; a roundabout course; a shift.
6300  
6301  Windlass (v. i.) To take a roundabout course; to work warily or by indirect means.
6302  
6303  "Windlass (n.) A machine for raising weights, consisting of a horizontal cylinder or roller moving on its axis, and turned by a crank, lever, or similar means, so as to wind up a rope or chain attached to the weight. In vessels the windlass is often used instead of the capstan for raising the anchor. It is usually set upon the forecastle, and is worked by hand or steam."
6304  
6305  "Windlass (n.) An apparatus resembling a winch or windlass, for bending the bow of an arblast, or crossbow."
6306  
6307  "Windlass (v. t. & i.) To raise with, or as with, a windlass; to use a windlass."
6308  
6309  Windle (n.) A spindle; a kind of reel; a winch.
6310  
6311  Windle (n.) The redwing.
6312  
6313  Windless (a.) Having no wind; calm.
6314  
6315  Windless (a.) Wanting wind; out of breath.
6316  
6317  Windlestrae (n.) Alt. of Windlestraw
6318  
6319  "Windlestraw (n.) A grass used for making ropes or for plaiting, esp. Agrostis Spica-ventis."
6320  
6321  "Windmill (n.) A mill operated by the power of the wind, usually by the action of the wind upon oblique vanes or sails which radiate from a horizontal shaft."
6322  
6323  Windore (n.) A window.
6324  
6325  "Window (n.) An opening in the wall of a building for the admission of light and air, usually closed by casements or sashes containing some transparent material, as glass, and capable of being opened and shut at pleasure."
6326  
6327  "Window (n.) The shutter, casement, sash with its fittings, or other framework, which closes a window opening."
6328  
6329  Window (n.) A figure formed of lines crossing each other.
6330  
6331  Windowed (imp. & p. p.) of Window
6332  
6333  Windowing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Window
6334  
6335  Window (v. t.) To furnish with windows.
6336  
6337  Window (v. t.) To place at or in a window.
6338  
6339  Windowed (a.) Having windows or openings.
6340  
6341  Windowless (a.) Destitute of a window.
6342  
6343  "Windowpane (n.) See Pane, n., (3) b."
6344  
6345  "Windowpane (n.) A thin, spotted American turbot (Pleuronectes maculatus) remarkable for its translucency. It is not valued as a food fish. Called also spotted turbot, daylight, spotted sand flounder, and water flounder."
6346  
6347  Windowy (a.) Having little crossings or openings like the sashes of a window.
6348  
6349  Windpipe (n.) The passage for the breath from the larynx to the lungs; the trachea; the weasand. See Illust. under Lung.
6350  
6351  Wind-plant (n.) A windflower.
6352  
6353  "Wind-rode (a.) Caused to ride or drive by the wind in opposition to the course of the tide; -- said of a vessel lying at anchor, with wind and tide opposed to each other."
6354  
6355  Windrow (n.) A row or line of hay raked together for the purpose of being rolled into cocks or heaps.
6356  
6357  "Windrow (n.) Sheaves of grain set up in a row, one against another, that the wind may blow between them."
6358  
6359  "Windrow (n.) The green border of a field, dug up in order to carry the earth on other land to mend it."
6360  
6361  Windrowed (imp. & p. p.) of Windrow
6362  
6363  Windrowing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Windrow
6364  
6365  "Windrow (v. t.) To arrange in lines or windrows, as hay when newly made."
6366  
6367  "Windsor (n.) A town in Berkshire, England."
6368  
6369  Windstorm (n.) A storm characterized by high wind with little or no rain.
6370  
6371  Wind-sucker (n.) A horse given to wind-sucking
6372  
6373  Wind-sucker (n.) The kestrel.
6374  
6375  "Wind-sucking (n.) A vicious habit of a horse, consisting in the swallowing of air; -- usually associated with crib-biting, or cribbing. See Cribbing, 4."
6376  
6377  Windtight (a.) So tight as to prevent the passing through of wind.
6378  
6379  "Windward (n.) The point or side from which the wind blows; as, to ply to the windward; -- opposed to leeward."
6380  
6381  "Windward (a.) Situated toward the point from which the wind blows; as, the Windward Islands."
6382  
6383  Windward (adv.) Toward the wind; in the direction from which the wind blows.
6384  
6385  Windy (superl.) Consisting of wind; accompanied or characterized by wind; exposed to wind.
6386  
6387  Windy (superl.) Next the wind; windward.
6388  
6389  "Windy (superl.) Tempestuous; boisterous; as, windy weather."
6390  
6391  "Windy (superl.) Serving to occasion wind or gas in the intestines; flatulent; as, windy food."
6392  
6393  "Windy (superl.) Attended or caused by wind, or gas, in the intestines."
6394  
6395  Windy (superl.) Fig.: Empty; airy.
6396  
6397  "Wine (n.) The expressed juice of grapes, esp. when fermented; a beverage or liquor prepared from grapes by squeezing out their juice, and (usually) allowing it to ferment."
6398  
6399  "Wine (n.) A liquor or beverage prepared from the juice of any fruit or plant by a process similar to that for grape wine; as, currant wine; gooseberry wine; palm wine."
6400  
6401  Wine (n.) The effect of drinking wine in excess; intoxication.
6402  
6403  Wineberry (n.) The red currant.
6404  
6405  Wineberry (n.) The bilberry.
6406  
6407  "Wineberry (n.) A peculiar New Zealand shrub (Coriaria ruscifolia), in which the petals ripen and afford an abundant purple juice from which a kind of wine is made. The plant also grows in Chili."
6408  
6409  Winebibber (n.) One who drinks much wine.
6410  
6411  Wineglass (n.) A small glass from which to drink wine.
6412  
6413  Wineglassfuls (pl. ) of Wineglassful
6414  
6415  "Wineglassful () As much as a wineglass will hold; enough to fill a wineglass. It is usually reckoned at two fluid ounces, or four tablespoonfuls."
6416  
6417  "Wineless (a.) destitute of wine; as, wineless life."
6418  
6419  Winery (n.) A place where grapes are converted into wine.
6420  
6421  "Wing (n.) One of the two anterior limbs of a bird, pterodactyl, or bat. They correspond to the arms of man, and are usually modified for flight, but in the case of a few species of birds, as the ostrich, auk, etc., the wings are used only as an assistance in running or swimming."
6422  
6423  Wing (n.) Any similar member or instrument used for the purpose of flying.
6424  
6425  "Wing (n.) One of the two pairs of upper thoracic appendages of most hexapod insects. They are broad, fanlike organs formed of a double membrane and strengthened by chitinous veins or nervures."
6426  
6427  Wing (n.) One of the large pectoral fins of the flying fishes.
6428  
6429  "Wing (n.) Passage by flying; flight; as, to take wing."
6430  
6431  Wing (n.) Motive or instrument of flight; means of flight or of rapid motion.
6432  
6433  "Wing (n.) Anything which agitates the air as a wing does, or which is put in winglike motion by the action of the air, as a fan or vane for winnowing grain, the vane or sail of a windmill, etc."
6434  
6435  Wing (n.) An ornament worn on the shoulder; a small epaulet or shoulder knot.
6436  
6437  Wing (n.) Any appendage resembling the wing of a bird or insect in shape or appearance.
6438  
6439  "Wing (n.) One of the broad, thin, anterior lobes of the foot of a pteropod, used as an organ in swimming."
6440  
6441  "Wing (n.) Any membranaceous expansion, as that along the sides of certain stems, or of a fruit of the kind called samara."
6442  
6443  Wing (n.) Either of the two side petals of a papilionaceous flower.
6444  
6445  Wing (n.) One of two corresponding appendages attached; a sidepiece.
6446  
6447  "Wing (n.) A side building, less than the main edifice; as, one of the wings of a palace."
6448  
6449  "Wing (n.) The longer side of crownworks, etc., connecting them with the main work."
6450  
6451  Wing (n.) A side shoot of a tree or plant; a branch growing up by the side of another.
6452  
6453  "Wing (n.) The right or left division of an army, regiment, etc."
6454  
6455  "Wing (n.) That part of the hold or orlop of a vessel which is nearest the sides. In a fleet, one of the extremities when the ships are drawn up in line, or when forming the two sides of a triangle."
6456  
6457  Wing (n.) One of the sides of the stags in a theater.
6458  
6459  Winged (imp. & p. p.) of Wing
6460  
6461  Winging (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Wing
6462  
6463  "Wing (v. t.) To furnish with wings; to enable to fly, or to move with celerity."
6464  
6465  Wing (v. t.) To supply with wings or sidepieces.
6466  
6467  Wing (v. t.) To transport by flight; to cause to fly.
6468  
6469  Wing (v. t.) To move through in flight; to fly through.
6470  
6471  "Wing (v. t.) To cut off the wings of; to wound in the wing; to disable a wing of; as, to wing a bird."
6472  
6473  Winged (a.) Furnished with wings; transported by flying; having winglike expansions.
6474  
6475  "Winged (a.) Soaring with wings, or as if with wings; hence, elevated; lofty; sublime."
6476  
6477  Winged (a.) Swift; rapid.
6478  
6479  Winged (a.) Wounded or hurt in the wing.
6480  
6481  "Winged (a.) Furnished with a leaflike appendage, as the fruit of the elm and the ash, or the stem in certain plants; alate."
6482  
6483  "Winged (a.) Represented with wings, or having wings, of a different tincture from the body."
6484  
6485  Winged (a.) Fanned with wings; swarming with birds.
6486  
6487  "Winger (n.) One of the casks stowed in the wings of a vessel's hold, being smaller than such as are stowed more amidships."
6488  
6489  "Wingfish (n.) A sea robin having large, winglike pectoral fins. See Sea robin, under Robin."
6490  
6491  "Wing-footed (a.) Having wings attached to the feet; as, wing-footed Mercury; hence, swift; moving with rapidity; fleet."
6492  
6493  Wing-footed (a.) Having part or all of the feet adapted for flying.
6494  
6495  Wing-footed (a.) Having the anterior lobes of the foot so modified as to form a pair of winglike swimming organs; -- said of the pteropod mollusks.
6496  
6497  "Wing-handed (a.) Having the anterior limbs or hands adapted for flight, as the bats and pterodactyls."
6498  
6499  Wing-leaved (a.) Having pinnate or pinnately divided leaves.
6500  
6501  Wingless (a.) Having no wings; not able to ascend or fly.
6502  
6503  Winglet (n.) A little wing; a very small wing.
6504  
6505  "Winglet (n.) A bastard wing, or alula."
6506  
6507  Wingmanship (n.) Power or skill in flying.
6508  
6509  "Wing-shell (n.) Any one of various species of marine bivalve shells belonging to the genus Avicula, in which the hinge border projects like a wing."
6510  
6511  Wing-shell (n.) Any marine gastropod shell of the genus Strombus. See Strombus.
6512  
6513  Wing-shell (n.) Any pteropod shell.
6514  
6515  Wingy (a.) Having wings; rapid.
6516  
6517  "Wingy (a.) Soaring with wings, or as if with wings; volatile airy."
6518  
6519  Winked (imp. & p. p.) of Wink
6520  
6521  Winking (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Wink
6522  
6523  Wink (v. i.) To nod; to sleep; to nap.
6524  
6525  Wink (v. i.) To shut the eyes quickly; to close the eyelids with a quick motion.
6526  
6527  Wink (v. i.) To close and open the eyelids quickly; to nictitate; to blink.
6528  
6529  "Wink (v. i.) To give a hint by a motion of the eyelids, often those of one eye only."
6530  
6531  "Wink (v. i.) To avoid taking notice, as if by shutting the eyes; to connive at anything; to be tolerant; -- generally with at."
6532  
6533  "Wink (v. i.) To be dim and flicker; as, the light winks."
6534  
6535  Wink (v. t.) To cause (the eyes) to wink.
6536  
6537  "Wink (n.) The act of closing, or closing and opening, the eyelids quickly; hence, the time necessary for such an act; a moment."
6538  
6539  Wink (n.) A hint given by shutting the eye with a significant cast.
6540  
6541  Winker (n.) One who winks.
6542  
6543  Winker (n.) A horse's blinder; a blinker.
6544  
6545  Winkingly (adv.) In a winking manner; with the eye almost closed.
6546  
6547  Winkle (n.) Any periwinkle.
6548  
6549  "Winkle (n.) Any one of various marine spiral gastropods, esp., in the United States, either of two species of Fulgar (F. canaliculata, and F. carica)."
6550  
6551  Winkle-hawk (n.) A rectangular rent made in cloth; -- called also winkle-hole.
6552  
6553  Winnard 2 (n.) The redwing.
6554  
6555  "Winnebagoes (n.) A tribe of North American Indians who originally occupied the region about Green Bay, Lake Michigan, but were driven back from the lake and nearly exterminated in 1640 by the IIlinnois."
6556  
6557  "Winner (n.) One who wins, or gains by success in competition, contest, or gaming."
6558  
6559  "Winning (a.) Attracting; adapted to gain favor; charming; as, a winning address."
6560  
6561  "Winning (n.) The act of obtaining something, as in a contest or by competition."
6562  
6563  "Winning (n.) The money, etc., gained by success in competition or contest, esp, in gambling; -- usually in the plural."
6564  
6565  Winning (n.) A new opening.
6566  
6567  Winning (n.) The portion of a coal field out for working.
6568  
6569  Winningly (adv.) In a winning manner.
6570  
6571  Winningness (n.) The quality or state of being winning.
6572  
6573  Winninish (n.) The land-locked variety of the common salmon.
6574  
6575  Winnowed (imp. & p. p.) of Winnew
6576  
6577  Winnowing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Winnew
6578  
6579  "Winnew (n.) To separate, and drive off, the chaff from by means of wind; to fan; as, to winnow grain."
6580  
6581  "Winnew (n.) To sift, as for the purpose of separating falsehood from truth; to separate, as had from good."
6582  
6583  "Winnew (n.) To beat with wings, or as with wings."
6584  
6585  Winnow (v. i.) To separate chaff from grain.
6586  
6587  "Winnower (n.) One who, or that which, winnows; specifically, a winnowing machine."
6588  
6589  "Winnowing (n.) The act of one who, or that which, winnows."
6590  
6591  Winrow (n.) A windrow.
6592  
6593  Winsing (a.) Winsome.
6594  
6595  Winsome (a.) Cheerful; merry; gay; light-hearted.
6596  
6597  Winsome (a.) Causing joy or pleasure; gladsome; pleasant.
6598  
6599  Winsomeness (n.) The characteristic of being winsome; attractiveness of manner.
6600  
6601  Winter (n.) The season of the year in which the sun shines most obliquely upon any region; the coldest season of the year.
6602  
6603  "Winter (n.) The period of decay, old age, death, or the like."
6604  
6605  Wintered (imp. & p. p.) of Winter
6606  
6607  Wintering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Winter
6608  
6609  "Winter (v. i.) To pass the winter; to hibernate; as, to winter in Florida."
6610  
6611  "Winter (v. i.) To keep, feed or manage, during the winter; as, to winter young cattle on straw."
6612  
6613  Winter-beaten (a.) Beaten or harassed by the severe weather of winter.
6614  
6615  Wintergreen (n.) A plant which keeps its leaves green through the winter.
6616  
6617  "Winter-ground (v. t.) To coved over in the season of winter, as for protection or shelter; as, to winter-ground the roods of a plant."
6618  
6619  Winterkilled (imp. & p. p.) of Winterkill
6620  
6621  Winterkilling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Winterkill
6622  
6623  "Winterkill (v. t.) To kill by the cold, or exposure to the inclemency of winter; as, the wheat was winterkilled."
6624  
6625  "Winterly (a.) Like winter; wintry; cold; hence, disagreeable, cheerless; as, winterly news."
6626  
6627  Winter-proud (a.) Having too rank or forward a growth for winter.
6628  
6629  Winter-rig (v. t.) To fallow or till in winter.
6630  
6631  "Winter's bark () The aromatic bark of tree (Drimys, / Drymis, Winteri) of the Magnolia family, which is found in Southern Chili. It was first used as a cure for scurvy by its discoverer, Captain John Winter, vice admiral to sir Francis Drake, in 1577."
6632  
6633  Wintertide (n.) Winter time.
6634  
6635  Winterweed (n.) A kind of speedwell (Veronica hederifolia) which spreads chiefly in winter.
6636  
6637  Wintery (a.) Wintry.
6638  
6639  "Wintry (a.) Suitable to winter; resembling winter, or what belongs to winter; brumal; hyemal; cold; stormy; wintery."
6640  
6641  "Winy (a.) Having the taste or qualities of wine; vinous; as, grapes of a winy taste."
6642  
6643  "Winze (n.) A small shaft sunk from one level to another, as for the purpose of ventilation."
6644  
6645  Wipe (n.) The lapwing.
6646  
6647  Wiped (imp. & p. p.) of Wipe
6648  
6649  Wiping (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Wipe
6650  
6651  "Wipe (v. t.) To rub with something soft for cleaning; to clean or dry by rubbing; as, to wipe the hands or face with a towel."
6652  
6653  "Wipe (v. t.) To remove by rubbing; to rub off; to obliterate; -- usually followed by away, off or out. Also used figuratively."
6654  
6655  Wipe (v. t.) To cheat; to defraud; to trick; -- usually followed by out.
6656  
6657  "Wipe (n.) Act of rubbing, esp. in order to clean."
6658  
6659  Wipe (n.) A blow; a stroke; a hit; a swipe.
6660  
6661  Wipe (n.) A gibe; a jeer; a severe sarcasm.
6662  
6663  Wipe (n.) A handkerchief.
6664  
6665  Wipe (n.) Stain; brand.
6666  
6667  "Wiper (n.) One who, or that which, wipes."
6668  
6669  "Wiper (n.) Something used for wiping, as a towel or rag."
6670  
6671  "Wiper (n.) A piece generally projecting from a rotating or swinging piece, as an axle or rock shaft, for the purpose of raising stampers, lifting rods, or the like, and leaving them to fall by their own weight; a kind of cam."
6672  
6673  "Wiper (n.) A rod, or an attachment for a rod, for holding a rag with which to wipe out the bore of the barrel."
6674  
6675  Wirbled (imp. & p. p.) of Wirble
6676  
6677  Wirbling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Wirble
6678  
6679  Wirble (v. i.) To whirl; to eddy.
6680  
6681  Wirche (v. i. & t.) To work
6682  
6683  "Wire (n.) A thread or slender rod of metal; a metallic substance formed to an even thread by being passed between grooved rollers, or drawn through holes in a plate of steel."
6684  
6685  "Wire (n.) A telegraph wire or cable; hence, an electric telegraph; as, to send a message by wire."
6686  
6687  Wired (imp. & p. p.) of Wire
6688  
6689  Wiring (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Wire
6690  
6691  "Wire (v. t.) To bind with wire; to attach with wires; to apply wire to; as, to wire corks in bottling liquors."
6692  
6693  "Wire (v. t.) To put upon a wire; as, to wire beads."
6694  
6695  Wire (v. t.) To snare by means of a wire or wires.
6696  
6697  Wire (v. t.) To send (a message) by telegraph.
6698  
6699  "Wire (v. i.) To pass like a wire; to flow in a wirelike form, or in a tenuous stream."
6700  
6701  Wire (v. i.) To send a telegraphic message.
6702  
6703  Wiredrew (imp.) of Wiredraw
6704  
6705  Wiredrawn (p. p.) of Wiredraw
6706  
6707  Wiredrawing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Wiredraw
6708  
6709  "Wiredraw (v. t.) To form (a piece of metal) into wire, by drawing it through a hole in a plate of steel."
6710  
6711  "Wiredraw (v. t.) Hence, to draw by art or violence."
6712  
6713  "Wiredraw (v. t.) Hence, also, to draw or spin out to great length and tenuity; as, to wiredraw an argument."
6714  
6715  "Wiredraw (v. t.) To pass, or to draw off, (as steam) through narrow ports, or the like, thus reducing its pressure or force by friction."
6716  
6717  Wire-drawer (n.) One who draws metal into wire.
6718  
6719  Wire-heel (n.) A disease in the feet of a horse or other beast.
6720  
6721  "Wire-puller (n.) One who pulls the wires, as of a puppet; hence, one who operates by secret means; an intriguer."
6722  
6723  "Wire-pulling (n.) The act of pulling the wires, as of a puppet; hence, secret influence or management, especially in politics; intrigue."
6724  
6725  "Wire-tailed (a.) Having some or all of the tail quills terminated in a long, slender, pointed shaft, without a web or barbules."
6726  
6727  "Wirework (n.) Work, especially openwork, formed of wires."
6728  
6729  Wire-worker (n.) One who manufactures articles from wire.
6730  
6731  "Wireworm (n.) One of the larvae of various species of snapping beetles, or elaters; -- so called from their slenderness and the uncommon hardness of the integument. Wireworms are sometimes very destructive to the roots of plants. Called also wire grub."
6732  
6733  Wireworm (n.) A galleyworm.
6734  
6735  Wiriness (n.) The quality of being wiry.
6736  
6737  Wiry (a.) Made of wire; like wire; drawn out like wire.
6738  
6739  "Wiry (a.) Capable of endurance; tough; sinewy; as, a wiry frame or constitution."
6740  
6741  Wis (adv.) Certainly; really; indeed.
6742  
6743  "Wis (v. t.) To think; to suppose; to imagine; -- used chiefly in the first person sing. present tense, I wis. See the Note under Ywis."
6744  
6745  Wisard (n.) See Wizard.
6746  
6747  "Wisdom (a.) The quality of being wise; knowledge, and the capacity to make due use of it; knowledge of the best ends and the best means; discernment and judgment; discretion; sagacity; skill; dexterity."
6748  
6749  Wisdom (a.) The results of wise judgments; scientific or practical truth; acquired knowledge; erudition.
6750  
6751  Wise (v.) Having knowledge; knowing; enlightened; of extensive information; erudite; learned.
6752  
6753  "Wise (v.) Hence, especially, making due use of knowledge; discerning and judging soundly concerning what is true or false, proper or improper; choosing the best ends and the best means for accomplishing them; sagacious."
6754  
6755  "Wise (v.) Versed in art or science; skillful; dexterous; specifically, skilled in divination."
6756  
6757  "Wise (v.) Hence, prudent; calculating; shrewd; wary; subtle; crafty."
6758  
6759  "Wise (v.) Dictated or guided by wisdom; containing or exhibiting wisdom; well adapted to produce good effects; judicious; discreet; as, a wise saying; a wise scheme or plan; wise conduct or management; a wise determination."
6760  
6761  Wise (v.) Way of being or acting; manner; mode; fashion.
6762  
6763  Wiseacre (v.) A learned or wise man.
6764  
6765  "Wiseacre (v.) One who makes undue pretensions to wisdom; a would-be-wise person; hence, in contempt, a simpleton; a dunce."
6766  
6767  Wise-hearted (a.) Wise; knowing; skillful; sapient; erudite; prudent.
6768  
6769  Wise-like (a.) Resembling that which is wise or sensible; judicious.
6770  
6771  Wiseling (n.) One who pretends to be wise; a wiseacre; a witling.
6772  
6773  Wisely (adv.) In a wise manner; prudently; judiciously; discreetly; with wisdom.
6774  
6775  Wiseness (n.) Wisdom.
6776  
6777  Wished (imp. & p. p.) of Wish
6778  
6779  Wishing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Wish
6780  
6781  Wish (v. t.) To have a desire or yearning; to long; to hanker.
6782  
6783  Wish (v. t.) To desire; to long for; to hanker after; to have a mind or disposition toward.
6784  
6785  "Wish (v. t.) To frame or express desires concerning; to invoke in favor of, or against, any one; to attribute, or cal down, in desire; to invoke; to imprecate."
6786  
6787  Wish (v. t.) To recommend; to seek confidence or favor in behalf of.
6788  
6789  Wish (n.) Desire; eager desire; longing.
6790  
6791  "Wish (n.) Expression of desire; request; petition; hence, invocation or imprecation."
6792  
6793  Wish (n.) A thing desired; an object of desire.
6794  
6795  Wishable (a.) Capable or worthy of being wished for; desirable.
6796  
6797  "Wishbone (n.) The forked bone in front of the breastbone in birds; -- called also merrythought, and wishing bone. See Merrythought, and Furculum."
6798  
6799  Wishedly (adv.) According to wish; conformably to desire.
6800  
6801  Wisher (n.) One who wishes or desires; one who expresses a wish.
6802  
6803  "Wishful (a.) Having desire, or ardent desire; longing."
6804  
6805  "Wishful (a.) Showing desire; as, wishful eyes."
6806  
6807  Wishful (a.) Desirable; exciting wishes.
6808  
6809  "Wishing () a. & n. from Wish, v. t."
6810  
6811  Wishly (adv.) According to desire; longingly; with wishes.
6812  
6813  Wishtonwish (n.) The prairie dog.
6814  
6815  "Wish-wash (n.) Any weak, thin drink."
6816  
6817  "Wishy-washy (a.) Thin and pale; weak; without strength or substance; -- originally said of liquids. Fig., weak-minded; spiritless."
6818  
6819  Wishy-washy (n.) A weak or thin drink or liquor; wish-wash.
6820  
6821  "Wisket (n.) A whisket, or basket."
6822  
6823  Wisly (adv.) Certainly.
6824  
6825  "Wisp (n.) A small bundle, as of straw or other like substance."
6826  
6827  "Wisp (n.) A whisk, or small broom."
6828  
6829  Wisp (n.) A Will-o'-the-wisp; an ignis fatuus.
6830  
6831  Wisped (imp. & p. p.) of Wisp
6832  
6833  Wisping (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Wisp
6834  
6835  "Wisp (v. t.) To brush or dress, an with a wisp."
6836  
6837  Wisp (v. t.) To rumple.
6838  
6839  "Wispen (a.) Formed of a wisp, or of wisp; as, a wispen broom."
6840  
6841  Wisse (a.) To show; to teach; to inform; to guide; to direct.
6842  
6843  Wist (v.) Knew.
6844  
6845  "Wistaria (n.) A genus of climbing leguminous plants bearing long, pendulous clusters of pale bluish flowers."
6846  
6847  Wistful (a.) Longing; wishful; desirous.
6848  
6849  Wistful (a.) Full of thought; eagerly attentive; meditative; musing; pensive; contemplative.
6850  
6851  Wistit (n.) A small South American monkey; a marmoset.
6852  
6853  Wistly (adv.) Attentively; observingly.
6854  
6855  Wistonwish (n.) See Wishtonwish.
6856  
6857  Wit (inf.) of Wit
6858  
6859  Wot (pres. sing.) of Wit
6860  
6861  Wite (pl.) of Wit
6862  
6863  Wist(e) (imp.) of Wit
6864  
6865  Wist (p. p.) of Wit
6866  
6867  Wit(t)ing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Wit
6868  
6869  Wit (n.) To know; to learn.
6870  
6871  Wit (v.) Mind; intellect; understanding; sense.
6872  
6873  "Wit (v.) A mental faculty, or power of the mind; -- used in this sense chiefly in the plural, and in certain phrases; as, to lose one's wits; at one's wits' end, and the like."
6874  
6875  "Wit (v.) Felicitous association of objects not usually connected, so as to produce a pleasant surprise; also. the power of readily combining objects in such a manner."
6876  
6877  "Wit (v.) A person of eminent sense or knowledge; a man of genius, fancy, or humor; one distinguished for bright or amusing sayings, for repartee, and the like."
6878  
6879  "Witch (n.) A cone of paper which is placed in a vessel of lard or other fat, and used as a taper."
6880  
6881  "Witch (n.) One who practices the black art, or magic; one regarded as possessing supernatural or magical power by compact with an evil spirit, esp. with the Devil; a sorcerer or sorceress; -- now applied chiefly or only to women, but formerly used of men as well."
6882  
6883  Witch (n.) An ugly old woman; a hag.
6884  
6885  "Witch (n.) One who exercises more than common power of attraction; a charming or bewitching person; also, one given to mischief; -- said especially of a woman or child."
6886  
6887  "Witch (n.) A certain curve of the third order, described by Maria Agnesi under the name versiera."
6888  
6889  Witch (n.) The stormy petrel.
6890  
6891  Witched (imp. & p. p.) of Witch
6892  
6893  Witching (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Witch
6894  
6895  Witch (v. t.) To bewitch; to fascinate; to enchant.
6896  
6897  Witchcraft (n.) The practices or art of witches; sorcery; enchantments; intercourse with evil spirits.
6898  
6899  Witchcraft (n.) Power more than natural; irresistible influence.
6900  
6901  Witch-elm (n.) See Wych-elm.
6902  
6903  Witcheries (pl. ) of Witchery
6904  
6905  Witchery (n.) Sorcery; enchantment; witchcraft.
6906  
6907  Witchery (n.) Fascination; irresistible influence; enchantment.
6908  
6909  Witch-hazel (n.) The wych-elm.
6910  
6911  "Witch-hazel (n.) An American shrub or small tree (Hamamelis Virginica), which blossoms late in autumn."
6912  
6913  Witching (a.) That witches or enchants; suited to enchantment or witchcraft; bewitching.
6914  
6915  Witch-tree (n.) The witch-hazel.
6916  
6917  "Witchuck (n.) The sand martin, or bank swallow."
6918  
6919  Wit-cracker (n.) One who breaks jests; a joker.
6920  
6921  Witcraft (n.) Art or skill of the mind; contrivance; invention; wit.
6922  
6923  Witcraft (n.) The art of reasoning; logic.
6924  
6925  "Wite (v.) To reproach; to blame; to censure; also, to impute as blame."
6926  
6927  Wite (v.) Blame; reproach.
6928  
6929  Witeless (a.) Blameless.
6930  
6931  Witen () pl. pres. of Wit.
6932  
6933  "Witenagemote (n.) A meeting of wise men; the national council, or legislature, of England in the days of the Anglo-Saxons, before the Norman Conquest."
6934  
6935  Witfish (n.) The ladyfish (a).
6936  
6937  Witful (a.) Wise; sensible.
6938  
6939  With (n.) See Withe.
6940  
6941  "With (prep.) With denotes or expresses some situation or relation of nearness, proximity, association, connection, or the like."
6942  
6943  With (prep.) To denote a close or direct relation of opposition or hostility; -- equivalent to against.
6944  
6945  "With (prep.) To denote association in respect of situation or environment; hence, among; in the company of."
6946  
6947  "With (prep.) To denote a connection of friendship, support, alliance, assistance, countenance, etc.; hence, on the side of."
6948  
6949  "With (prep.) To denote the accomplishment of cause, means, instrument, etc; -- sometimes equivalent to by."
6950  
6951  "With (prep.) To denote association in thought, as for comparison or contrast."
6952  
6953  "With (prep.) To denote simultaneous happening, or immediate succession or consequence."
6954  
6955  "With (prep.) To denote having as a possession or an appendage; as, the firmament with its stars; a bride with a large fortune."
6956  
6957  Withal (adv.) With this; with that.
6958  
6959  Withal (adv.) Together with this; likewise; at the same time; in addition; also.
6960  
6961  "Withal (prep.) With; -- put after its object, at the end of sentence or clause in which it stands."
6962  
6963  "Withamite (n.) A variety of epidote, of a reddish color, found in Scotland."
6964  
6965  Withdrew (imp.) of Withdraw
6966  
6967  Withdrawn (p. p.) of Withdraw
6968  
6969  Withdrawing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Withdraw
6970  
6971  "Withdraw (v. t.) To take back or away, as what has been bestowed or enjoyed; to draw back; to cause to move away or retire; as, to withdraw aid, favor, capital, or the like."
6972  
6973  "Withdraw (v. t.) To take back; to recall or retract; as, to withdraw