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Waag Dictionary W - noun The grivet.
Waahoo Dictionary W - noun The burning bush; - said to be called after a quack medicine made from it.
Wabble Dictionary W - intransitive verb 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.
Wabbly Dictionary W - adjective Inclined to wabble; wabbling.
Wacke Dictionary W - noun Alt. of Wacky.
Wacky Dictionary W - noun A soft, earthy, dark-colored rock or clay derived from the alteration of basalt.
Wad Dictionary W - noun Woad.
Waded Dictionary W - imperative & past particle of Wad.
Wadding Dictionary W - past particle & verb noun of Wad.
Wadd Dictionary W - noun 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.
Waddled Dictionary W - imperative & past particle of Waddle.
Waddling Dictionary W - past particle & verb noun of Waddle.
Waddle Dictionary W - intransitive verb 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.
Waddler Dictionary W - noun One who, or that which, waddles.
Waddlingly Dictionary W - adverb In a waddling manner.
Wade Dictionary W - noun Woad.
Wading Dictionary W - past particle & verb noun of Wade.
Wader Dictionary W - noun One who, or that which, wades.
Wadmol Dictionary W - noun A coarse, hairy, woolen cloth, formerly used for garments by the poor, and for various other purposes.
Wadset Dictionary W - noun A kind of pledge or mortgage.
Wadsetter Dictionary W - noun One who holds by a wadset.
Wadies Dictionary W - pleural of Wady.
Wady Dictionary W - noun A ravine through which a brook flows; the channel of a water course, which is dry except in the rainy season.
Wae Dictionary W - noun A wave.
Waeg Dictionary W - noun The kittiwake.
Wafer Dictionary W - noun A thin cake made of flour and other ingredients.
Wafered Dictionary W - imperative & past particle of Wafer.
Wafering Dictionary W - past particle & verb noun of Wafer.
Waferer Dictionary W - noun A dealer in the cakes called wafers; a confectioner.
Waffle Dictionary W - noun A thin cake baked and then rolled; a wafer.
Wafted Dictionary W - imperative & past particle of Waft.
Wafting Dictionary W - past particle & verb noun of Waft.
Waft Dictionary W - verb transitive To give notice to by waving something; to wave the hand to; to beckon.
Waftage Dictionary W - noun Conveyance on a buoyant medium, as air or water.
Wafter Dictionary W - noun One who, or that which, wafts.
Wafture Dictionary W - noun The act of waving; a wavelike motion; a waft.
Wagged Dictionary W - imperative & past particle of Wag.
Wagging Dictionary W - past particle & verb noun of Wag.
Wag Dictionary W - verb transitive 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.
Wagati Dictionary W - noun A small East Indian wild cat (Felis wagati), regarded by some as a variety of the leopard cat.
Waged Dictionary W - imperative & past particle of Wage.
Waging Dictionary W - past particle & verb noun of Wage.
Wage Dictionary W - verb transitive To pledge; to hazard on the event of a contest; to stake; to bet, to lay; to wager; as, to wage a dollar.
Wagel Dictionary W - noun See Waggel.
Wagenboom Dictionary W - noun A south African proteaceous tree (Protea grandiflora); also, its tough wood, used for making wagon wheels.
Wager Dictionary W - verb transitive Something deposited, laid, or hazarded on the event of a contest or an unsettled question; a bet; a stake; a pledge.
Wagered Dictionary W - imperative & past particle of Wager.
Wagering Dictionary W - past particle & verb noun of Wager.
Wagerer Dictionary W - noun One who wagers, or lays a bet.
Wages Dictionary W - noun A compensation given to a hired person for services; price paid for labor; recompense; hire. See Wage, n., 2.
Waggel Dictionary W - noun The young of the great black-backed gull (Larus marinus), formerly considered a distinct species.
Waggeries Dictionary W - pleural of Waggery.
Waggery Dictionary W - noun The manner or action of a wag; mischievous merriment; sportive trick or gayety; good-humored sarcasm; pleasantry; jocularity; as, the waggery of a schoolboy.
Waggie Dictionary W - noun The pied wagtail.
Waggish Dictionary W - adjective Like a wag; mischievous in sport; roguish in merriment or good humor; frolicsome.
Waggle Dictionary W - intransitive verb To reel, sway, or move from side to side; to move with a wagging motion; to waddle.
Waggled Dictionary W - imperative & past particle of Waggle.
Waggling Dictionary W - past particle & verb noun of Waggle.
Wag-halter Dictionary W - noun One who moves or wears a halter; one likely to be hanged.
Wagnerite Dictionary W - noun A fluophosphate of magnesia, occurring in yellowish crystals, and also in massive forms.
Wagon Dictionary W - noun A wheeled carriage; a vehicle on four wheels, and usually drawn by horses; especially, one used for carrying freight or merchandise.
Wagoned Dictionary W - imperative & past particle of Wagon.
Wagoning Dictionary W - past particle & verb noun of Wagon.
Wagonage Dictionary W - noun Money paid for carriage or conveyance in wagon.
Wagoner Dictionary W - noun One who conducts a wagon; one whose business it is to drive a wagon.
Wagonette Dictionary W - noun A kind of pleasure wagon, uncovered and with seats extended along the sides, designed to carry six or eight persons besides the driver.
Wagonfuls Dictionary W - pleural of Wagonful.
Wagonful Dictionary W - noun As much as a wagon will hold; enough to fill a wagon; a wagonload.
Wagon-headed Dictionary W - adjective 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.
Wagonload Dictionary W - noun Same as Wagonful.
Wagon-roofed Dictionary W - adjective Having a roof, or top, shaped like an inverted U; wagon-headed.
Wagonry Dictionary W - noun Conveyance by means of a wagon or wagons.
Wagonwright Dictionary W - noun One who makes wagons.
Wagtail Dictionary W - noun 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.
Wah Dictionary W - noun The panda.
Wahabee Dictionary W - noun 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.
Waid Dictionary W - adjective Oppressed with weight; crushed; weighed down.
Waif Dictionary W - noun 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.
Waift Dictionary W - noun A waif.
Wail Dictionary W - verb transitive To choose; to select.
Wailed Dictionary W - imperative & past particle of Wail.
Wailing Dictionary W - past particle & verb noun of Wail.
Wailer Dictionary W - noun One who wails or laments.
Waileress Dictionary W - noun A woman who wails.
Wailful Dictionary W - adjective Sorrowful; mournful.
Wailingly Dictionary W - adverb In a wailing manner.
Wailment Dictionary W - noun Lamentation; loud weeping; wailing.
Waiment Dictionary W - Verb & noun See Wayment.
Wain Dictionary W - noun A four-wheeled vehicle for the transportation of goods, produce, etc.; a wagon.
Wainable Dictionary W - adjective Capable of being plowed or cultivated; arable; tillable.
Wainage Dictionary W - noun A finding of carriages, carts, etc., for the transportation of goods, produce, etc.
Wainbote Dictionary W - noun See Cartbote. See also the Note under Bote.
Wainscot Dictionary W - noun Oaken timber or boarding.
Wainscoted Dictionary W - imperative & past particle of Wainscot.
Wainscoting Dictionary W - past particle & verb noun of Wainscot.
Wainwright Dictionary W - noun Same as Wagonwright.
Wair Dictionary W - noun A piece of plank two yard/ long and a foot broad.
Waist Dictionary W - noun 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.
Waistband Dictionary W - noun The band which encompasses the waist; esp., one on the upper part of breeches, trousers, pantaloons, skirts, or the like.
Waistcloth Dictionary W - noun A cloth or wrapper worn about the waist; by extension, such a garment worn about the hips and passing between the thighs.
Waistcoat Dictionary W - noun A short, sleeveless coat or garment for men, worn under the coat, extending no lower than the hips, and covering the waist; a vest.
Waistcoateer Dictionary W - noun One wearing a waistcoat; esp., a woman wearing one uncovered, or thought fit for such a habit; hence, a loose woman; strumpet.
Waistcoating Dictionary W - noun A fabric designed for waistcoats; esp., one in which there is a pattern, differently colored yarns being used.
Waister Dictionary W - noun A seaman, usually a green hand or a broken-down man, stationed in the waist of a vessel of war.
Waited Dictionary W - imperative & past particle of Wait.
Waiting Dictionary W - past particle & verb noun of Wait.
Wait Dictionary W - intransitive verb To watch; to observe; to take notice.
Waiter Dictionary W - noun One who, or that which, waits; an attendant; a servant in attendance, esp. at table.
Waitingly Dictionary W - adverb By waiting.
Waitress Dictionary W - noun A female waiter or attendant; a waiting maid or waiting woman.
Waive Dictionary W - verb transitive A waif; a castaway.
Waived Dictionary W - imperative & past particle of Waive.
Waiving Dictionary W - past particle & verb noun of Waive.
Waiver Dictionary W - noun The act of waiving, or not insisting on, some right, claim, or privilege.
Waivure Dictionary W - noun See Waiver.
Waiwode Dictionary W - noun See Waywode.
Wake Dictionary W - noun The track left by a vessel in the water; by extension, any track; as, the wake of an army.
Waked Dictionary W - imperative & past particle of Wake.
Woke Dictionary W - of Wake.
Waking Dictionary W - past particle & verb noun of Wake.
Wakeful Dictionary W - adjective Not sleeping; indisposed to sleep; watchful; vigilant.
Wakened Dictionary W - imperative &particle pronoun of Waken.
Wakening Dictionary W - past particle & verb noun of Waken.
Waken Dictionary W - intransitive verb To wake; to cease to sleep; to be awakened.
Wakener Dictionary W - noun One who wakens.
Waker Dictionary W - noun One who wakes.
Wake-robin Dictionary W - noun Any plant of the genus Arum, especially, in England, the cuckoopint (Arum maculatum).
Waketime Dictionary W - noun Time during which one is awake.
Walaway Dictionary W - interjection See Welaway.
Wald Dictionary W - noun A forest; - used as a termination of names. See Weald.
Waldenses Dictionary W - noun plural 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.
Waldensian Dictionary W - adjective Of or pertaining to the Waldenses.
Waldgrave Dictionary W - noun In the old German empire, the head forest keeper.
Waldheimia Dictionary W - noun A genus of brachiopods of which many species are found in the fossil state. A few still exist in the deep sea.
Wale Dictionary W - noun A streak or mark made on the skin by a rod or whip; a stripe; a wheal. See Wheal.
Walhalla Dictionary W - noun See Valhalla.
Waling Dictionary W - noun Same as Wale, n., 4.
Walked Dictionary W - imperative & past particle of Walk.
Walking Dictionary W - past particle & verb noun of Walk.
Walk Dictionary W - intransitive verb 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.
Walkable Dictionary W - adjective Fit to be walked on; capable of being walked on or over.
Walker Dictionary W - noun One who walks; a pedestrian.
Walk-mill Dictionary W - noun A fulling mill.
Walk-over Dictionary W - noun 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.
Walkyr Dictionary W - noun See Valkyria.
Wall Dictionary W - noun A kind of knot often used at the end of a rope; a wall knot; a wale.
Walled Dictionary W - imperative & past particle of Wall.
Walling Dictionary W - past particle & verb noun of Wall.
Wallaba Dictionary W - noun 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.
Wallabies Dictionary W - pleural of Wallaby.
Wallaby Dictionary W - noun 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.
Wallah Dictionary W - noun A black variety of the jaguar; - called also tapir tiger.
Wallaroo Dictionary W - noun Any one of several species of kangaroos of the genus Macropus, especially M. robustus, sometimes called the great wallaroo.
Wallbird Dictionary W - noun The spotted flycatcher.
Waller Dictionary W - noun One who builds walls.
Wallerian degeneration Dictionary W - 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.
Wallet Dictionary W - noun 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.
Walleteer Dictionary W - noun One who carries a wallet; a foot traveler; a tramping beggar.
Wall-eye Dictionary W - noun An eye in which the iris is of a very light gray or whitish color; - said usually of horses.
Wall-eyed Dictionary W - adjective Having an eye of a very light gray or whitish color.
Wallflower Dictionary W - noun 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.
Wallhick Dictionary W - noun The lesser spotted woodpecker (Dryobates minor).
Walloons Dictionary W - noun plural 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.
Wallop Dictionary W - intransitive verb To move quickly, but with great effort; to gallop.
Walloped Dictionary W - imperative & past particle of Wallop.
Walloping Dictionary W - past particle & verb noun of Wallop.
Wallowed Dictionary W - imperative & past particle of Wallow.
Wallowing Dictionary W - past particle & verb noun of Wallow.
Wallow Dictionary W - noun 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.
Wallower Dictionary W - noun One who, or that which, wallows.
Wallowish Dictionary W - adjective Flat; insipid.
Wall-plat Dictionary W - noun The spotted flycatcher. It builds its nest on walls.
Wall-sided Dictionary W - adjective 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.).
Wallwort Dictionary W - noun The dwarf elder, or danewort (Sambucus Ebulus).
Walm Dictionary W - intransitive verb To roll; to spout; to boil up.
Walnut Dictionary W - noun 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.
Walrus Dictionary W - noun 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.
Walter Dictionary W - intransitive verb To roll or wallow; to welter.
Waltron Dictionary W - noun A walrus.
Walty Dictionary W - adjective Liable to roll over; crank; as, a walty ship.
Waltz Dictionary W - noun 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.
Waltzed Dictionary W - imperative & past particle of Waltz.
Waltzing Dictionary W - past particle & verb noun of Waltz.
Waltzer Dictionary W - noun A person who waltzes.
Walwe Dictionary W - verb To wallow.
Waly Dictionary W - interjection An exclamation of grief.
Wamble Dictionary W - intransitive verb To heave; to be disturbed by nausea; - said of the stomach.
Wamble-cropped Dictionary W - adjective Sick at the stomach; also, crestfallen; dejected.
Wammel Dictionary W - intransitive verb To move irregularly or awkwardly; to wamble, or wabble.
Wamp Dictionary W - noun The common American eider.
Wampee Dictionary W - noun 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.
Wampum Dictionary W - noun Beads made of shells, used by the North American Indians as money, and also wrought into belts, etc., as an ornament.
Wan Dictionary W - imperative Won.
Wand Dictionary W - noun A small stick; a rod; a verge.
Wandered Dictionary W - imperative & past particle of Wander.
Wandering Dictionary W - past particle & verb noun of Wander.
Wander Dictionary W - intransitive verb 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.
Wanderer Dictionary W - noun One who wanders; a rambler; one who roves; hence, one who deviates from duty.
Wanderingly Dictionary W - adverb In a wandering manner.
Wanderment Dictionary W - noun The act of wandering, or roaming.
Wanderoo Dictionary W - noun 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.
Wandy Dictionary W - adjective Long and flexible, like a wand.
Waned Dictionary W - imperative & past particle of Wane.
Waning Dictionary W - past particle & verb noun of Wane.
Wane Dictionary W - intransitive verb To be diminished; to decrease; - contrasted with wax, and especially applied to the illuminated part of the moon.
Waney Dictionary W - noun 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.
Wang Dictionary W - noun The jaw, jawbone, or cheek bone.
Wangan Dictionary W - noun A boat for conveying provisions, tools, etc.; - so called by Maine lumbermen.
Wanger Dictionary W - noun A pillow for the cheek; a pillow.
Wanghee Dictionary W - noun 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.
Wango Dictionary W - noun A boomerang.
Wanhope Dictionary W - noun Want of hope; despair; also, faint or delusive hope; delusion. Obs. Piers Plowman.
Wanhorn Dictionary W - noun An East Indian plant (Kaempferia Galanga) of the Ginger family. See Galanga.
Waniand Dictionary W - noun The wane of the moon.
Wanion Dictionary W - noun 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.
Wankle Dictionary W - adjective Not to be depended on; weak; unstable.
Wanly Dictionary W - adverb In a wan, or pale, manner.
Wanned Dictionary W - adjective Made wan, or pale.
Wanness Dictionary W - noun The quality or state of being wan; a sallow, dead, pale color; paleness; pallor; as, the wanness of the cheeks after a fever.
Wannish Dictionary W - adjective Somewhat wan; of a pale hue.
Want Dictionary W - intransitive verb 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.
Wanted Dictionary W - imperative & past particle of Want.
Wanting Dictionary W - past particle & verb noun of Want.
Wa'n't Dictionary W - A colloquial contraction of was not.
Wantage Dictionary W - noun That which is wanting; deficiency.
Wantless Dictionary W - adjective Having no want; abundant; fruitful.
Wanton Dictionary W - verb transitive Untrained; undisciplined; unrestrained; hence, loose; free; luxuriant; roving; sportive.
Wantoned Dictionary W - imperative & past particle of Wanton.
Wantoning Dictionary W - past particle & verb noun of Wanton.
Wantonize Dictionary W - intransitive verb To behave wantonly; to frolic; to wanton.
Wantonly Dictionary W - adverb In a wanton manner; without regularity or restraint; loosely; sportively; gayly; playfully; recklessly; lasciviously.
Wantonness Dictionary W - noun The quality or state of being wanton; negligence of restraint; sportiveness; recklessness; lasciviousness.
Wantrust Dictionary W - noun Failing or diminishing trust; want of trust or confidence; distrust.
Wantwit Dictionary W - noun One destitute of wit or sense; a blockhead; a fool.
Wanty Dictionary W - noun 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.
Wany Dictionary W - intransitive verb To wane.
Wanze Dictionary W - intransitive verb To wane; to wither.
Wap Dictionary W - verb transitive & intransitive To beat; to whap.
Wapacut Dictionary W - noun The American hawk owl. See under Hawk.
Wapatoo Dictionary W - noun The edible tuber of a species of arrowhead (Sagittaria variabilis); - so called by the Indians of Oregon.
Waped Dictionary W - adjective Cast down; crushed by misery; dejected.
Wapentake Dictionary W - noun 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.
Wapinschaw Dictionary W - noun An exhibition of arms. according to the rank of the individual, by all persons bearing arms; - formerly made at certain seasons in each district.
Wapiti Dictionary W - noun The American elk (Cervus Canadensis). It is closely related to the European red deer, which it somewhat exceeds in size.
Wapp Dictionary W - noun A fair-leader.
Wappato Dictionary W - noun See Wapatoo.
Wappened Dictionary W - adjective A word of doubtful meaning used once by Shakespeare.
Wapper Dictionary W - verb transitive & intransitive To cause to shake; to tremble; to move tremulously, as from weakness; to totter.
Wappet Dictionary W - noun A small yelping cur.
Wapping Dictionary W - noun Yelping.
War Dictionary W - adjective Ware; aware.
Warred Dictionary W - imperative & past particle of War.
Warring Dictionary W - past particle & verb noun of War.
War-beaten Dictionary W - adjective Warworn.
Warble Dictionary W - noun A small, hard tumor which is produced on the back of a horse by the heat or pressure of the saddle in traveling.
Warbled Dictionary W - imperative & past particle of Warble.
Warbling Dictionary W - past particle & verb noun of Warble.
Warbler Dictionary W - noun One who, or that which, warbles; a singer; a songster; - applied chiefly to birds.
Warblingly Dictionary W - adverb In a warbling manner.
Warburg's tincture Dictionary W - A preparation containing quinine and many other ingredients, often used in the treatment of malarial affections. It was invented by Dr. Warburg of London.
-ward Dictionary W - intransitive verb Alt. of -wards.
-wards Dictionary W - intransitive verb Suffixes denoting course or direction to; motion or tendency toward; as in backward, or backwards; toward, or towards, etc.
Ward Dictionary W - adjective The act of guarding; watch; guard; guardianship; specifically, a guarding during the day. See the Note under Watch, n., 1.
Warded Dictionary W - imperative & past particle of Ward.
Warding Dictionary W - past particle & verb noun of Ward.
Ward-corn Dictionary W - noun 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.
Wardcorps Dictionary W - noun Guardian; one set to watch over another.
Warden Dictionary W - noun A keeper; a guardian; a watchman.
Wardenry Dictionary W - noun Alt. of Wardenship.
Wardenship Dictionary W - noun The office or jurisdiction of a warden.
Warder Dictionary W - noun One who wards or keeps; a keeper; a guard.
Wardian Dictionary W - adjective 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.
Wardmote Dictionary W - noun 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.
Wardrobe Dictionary W - verb transitive A room or apartment where clothes are kept, or wearing apparel is stored; a portable closet for hanging up clothes.
Wardroom Dictionary W - noun A room occupied as a messroom by the commissioned officers of a war vessel. See Gunroom.
Wardship Dictionary W - noun The office of a ward or keeper; care and protection of a ward; guardianship; right of guardianship.
Wardsmen Dictionary W - pleural of Wardsman.
Wardsman Dictionary W - noun A man who keeps ward; a guard.
Ware Dictionary W - imperative Wore.
Wareful Dictionary W - adjective Wary; watchful; cautious.
Warefulness Dictionary W - noun Wariness; cautiousness.
Warega fly Dictionary W - A Brazilian fly whose larvae live in the skin of man and animals, producing painful sores.
Warehouses Dictionary W - pleural of Warehouse.
Warehouse Dictionary W - noun A storehouse for wares, or goods.
Warehoused Dictionary W - imperative & past particle of Warehouse.
Warehousing Dictionary W - past particle & verb noun of Warehouse.
Warehousemen Dictionary W - pleural of Warehouseman.
Warehouseman Dictionary W - noun One who keeps a warehouse; the owner or keeper of a dock warehouse or wharf store.
Wareless Dictionary W - noun Unwary; incautious; unheeding; careless; unaware.
Warely Dictionary W - adverb Cautiously; warily.
Warence Dictionary W - noun Madder.
Wareroom Dictionary W - noun A room in which goods are stored or exhibited for sale.
Wares Dictionary W - noun plural See 4th Ware.
Warfare Dictionary W - noun Military service; military life; contest carried on by enemies; hostilities; war.
Warfarer Dictionary W - noun One engaged in warfare; a military man; a soldier; a warrior.
Warhable Dictionary W - adjective Fit for war.
Wariangle Dictionary W - noun The red-backed shrike (Lanius collurio); - called also wurger, worrier, and throttler.
Warily Dictionary W - adverb In a wary manner.
Wariment Dictionary W - noun Wariness.
Warine Dictionary W - noun A South American monkey, one of the sapajous.
Wariness Dictionary W - noun The quality or state of being wary; care to foresee and guard against evil; cautiousness.
Warish Dictionary W - verb transitive To protect from the effects of; hence, to cure; to heal.
Warison Dictionary W - verb transitive Preparation; protection; provision; supply.
Wark Dictionary W - noun Work; a building.
Warkloom Dictionary W - noun A tool; an implement.
Warlike Dictionary W - adjective Fit for war; disposed for war; as, a warlike state; a warlike disposition.
Warlikeness Dictionary W - noun Quality of being warlike.
Warling Dictionary W - noun One often quarreled with; - / word coined, perhaps, to rhyme with darling.
Warlock Dictionary W - noun A male witch; a wizard; a sprite; an imp.
Warlockry Dictionary W - noun Impishness; magic.
Warly Dictionary W - adjective Warlike.
Warm Dictionary W - superlative Having heat in a moderate degree; not cold as, warm milk.
Warmed Dictionary W - imperative & past particle of Warm.
Warming Dictionary W - past particle & verb noun of Warm.
Warm-blooded Dictionary W - adjective 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.
Warmer Dictionary W - noun One who, or that which, warms.
Warmful Dictionary W - adjective Abounding in capacity to warm; giving warmth; as, a warmful garment.
Warm-hearted Dictionary W - adjective Having strong affection; cordial; sincere; hearty; sympathetic.
Warmly Dictionary W - adverb In a warm manner; ardently.
Warmness Dictionary W - noun Warmth.
Warmonger Dictionary W - noun One who makes ar a trade or business; a mercenary.
Warmouth Dictionary W - noun An American freshwater bream, or sunfish (Chaenobryttus gulosus); - called also red-eyed bream.
Warmth Dictionary W - noun The quality or state of being warm; gentle heat; as, the warmth of the sun; the warmth of the blood; vital warmth.
Warmthless Dictionary W - adjective Being without warmth; not communicating warmth; cold.
Warn Dictionary W - verb transitive To refuse.
Warned Dictionary W - imperative & past particle of Warn.
Warning Dictionary W - past particle & verb noun of Warn.
Warner Dictionary W - noun One who warns; an admonisher.
Warningly Dictionary W - adverb In a warning manner.
Warnstore Dictionary W - verb transitive To furnish.
Warped Dictionary W - imperative & past particle of Warp.
Warping Dictionary W - past particle & verb noun of Warp.
Warp Dictionary W - verb transitive To throw; hence, to send forth, or throw out, as words; to utter.
Warpage Dictionary W - noun The act of warping; also, a charge per ton made on shipping in some harbors.
Warpath Dictionary W - noun The route taken by a party of Indians going on a warlike expedition.
Warper Dictionary W - noun One who, or that which, warps or twists out of shape.
Warproof Dictionary W - noun Valor tried by war.
Warragal Dictionary W - noun The dingo.
Warrandice Dictionary W - noun 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.
Warrant Dictionary W - noun 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.
Warranted Dictionary W - imperative & past particle of Warrant.
Warranting Dictionary W - past particle & verb noun of Warrant.
Warrantable Dictionary W - adjective 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.
Warrantee Dictionary W - noun The person to whom a warrant or warranty is made.
Warranter Dictionary W - noun One who warrants, gives authority, or legally empowers.
Warrantise Dictionary W - noun Authority; security; warranty.
Warrantor Dictionary W - noun One who warrants.
Warranties Dictionary W - pleural of Warranty.
Warranty Dictionary W - noun 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.
Warray Dictionary W - verb transitive To make war upon. Obs. Fairfax.
Warre Dictionary W - adjective Worse.
Warren Dictionary W - noun 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.
Warrener Dictionary W - noun The keeper of a warren.
Warriangle Dictionary W - noun See Wariangle.
Warrie Dictionary W - verb transitive See Warye.
Warrin Dictionary W - noun An Australian lorikeet (Trichoglossus multicolor) remarkable for the variety and brilliancy of its colors; - called also blue-bellied lorikeet, and blue-bellied parrot.
Warrior Dictionary W - noun A man engaged or experienced in war, or in the military life; a soldier; a champion.
Warrioress Dictionary W - noun A female warrior.
Warry Dictionary W - verb transitive See Warye.
Warsaw Dictionary W - noun The black grouper (Epinephelus nigritus) of the southern coasts of the United States.
Wart Dictionary W - noun A small, usually hard, tumor on the skin formed by enlargement of its vascular papillae, and thickening of the epidermis which covers them.
Warted Dictionary W - adjective Having little knobs on the surface; verrucose; as, a warted capsule.
Wart hog Dictionary W - 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.
Wartless Dictionary W - adjective Having no wart.
Wartweed Dictionary W - noun Same as Wartwort.
Wartwort Dictionary W - noun 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).
Warty Dictionary W - adjective Having warts; full of warts; overgrow with warts; as, a warty leaf.
Warwickite Dictionary W - noun 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.
Warworn Dictionary W - adjective Worn with military service; as, a warworn soldier; a warworn coat.
Wary Dictionary W - adjective Cautious of danger; carefully watching and guarding against deception, artifices, and dangers; timorously or suspiciously prudent; circumspect; scrupulous; careful.
Warye Dictionary W - verb transitive To curse; to curse; to execrate; to condemn; also, to vex.
Wase Dictionary W - noun A bundle of straw, or other material, to relieve the pressure of burdens carried upon the head.
Washed Dictionary W - imperative & past particle of Wash.
Washing Dictionary W - past particle & verb noun of Wash.
Wash Dictionary W - verb transitive 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.
Washable Dictionary W - adjective Capable of being washed without damage to fabric or color.
Washboard Dictionary W - noun A fluted, or ribbed, board on which clothes are rubbed in washing them.
Washbowl Dictionary W - noun A basin, or bowl, to hold water for washing one's hands, face, etc.
Washdish Dictionary W - noun A washbowl.
Washen Dictionary W - p. p. of Wash.
Washer Dictionary W - noun One who, or that which, washes.
Washermen Dictionary W - pleural of Washerman.
Washerman Dictionary W - noun A man who washes clothes, esp. for hire, or for others.
Washerwomen Dictionary W - pleural of Washerwoman.
Washerwoman Dictionary W - noun A woman who washes clothes, especially for hire, or for others.
Washhouse Dictionary W - noun An outbuilding for washing, esp. one for washing clothes; a laundry.
Washiness Dictionary W - noun The quality or state of being washy, watery, or weak.
Washingtonian Dictionary W - adjective Pertaining to, or characteristic of, George Washington; as, a Washingtonian policy.
Wash-off Dictionary W - adjective Capable of being washed off; not permanent or durable; - said of colors not fixed by steaming or otherwise.
Washout Dictionary W - noun 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.
Washpot Dictionary W - noun A pot or vessel in which anything is washed.
Washstand Dictionary W - noun A piece of furniture holding the ewer or pitcher, basin, and other requisites for washing the person.
Washtub Dictionary W - noun A tub in which clothes are washed.
Washy Dictionary W - adjective Watery; damp; soft.
Wasite Dictionary W - noun A variety of allanite from Sweden supposed to contain wasium.
Wasium Dictionary W - noun A rare element supposed by Bahr to have been extracted from wasite, but now identified with thorium.
Wasp Dictionary W - noun 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.
Waspish Dictionary W - adjective Resembling a wasp in form; having a slender waist, like a wasp.
Wassail Dictionary W - noun An ancient expression of good wishes on a festive occasion, especially in drinking to some one.
Wassailer Dictionary W - noun One who drinks wassail; one who engages in festivity, especially in drinking; a reveler.
Wast Dictionary W - The second person singular of the verb be, in the indicative mood, imperfect tense; - now used only in solemn or poetical style. See Was.
Wastage Dictionary W - noun Loss by use, decay, evaporation, leakage, or the like; waste.
Waste Dictionary W - adjective Desolate; devastated; stripped; bare; hence, dreary; dismal; gloomy; cheerless.
Wasted Dictionary W - imperative & past particle of Waste.
Wasting Dictionary W - past particle & verb noun of Waste.
Wastebasket Dictionary W - noun A basket used in offices, libraries, etc., as a receptacle for waste paper.
Wasteboard Dictionary W - noun See Washboard, 3.
Wastebook Dictionary W - noun A book in which rough entries of transactions are made, previous to their being carried into the journal.
Wasteful Dictionary W - adjective Full of waste; destructive to property; ruinous; as, wasteful practices or negligence; wasteful expenses.
Wastel Dictionary W - noun A kind of white and fine bread or cake; - called also wastel bread, and wastel cake.
Wasteness Dictionary W - noun The quality or state of being waste; a desolate state or condition; desolation.
Waster Dictionary W - verb transitive One who, or that which, wastes; one who squanders; one who consumes or expends extravagantly; a spendthrift; a prodigal.
Wastethrift Dictionary W - noun A spendthrift.
Wasteweir Dictionary W - noun An overfall, or weir, for the escape, or overflow, of superfluous water from a canal, reservoir, pond, or the like.
Wastor Dictionary W - noun A waster; a thief.
Wastorel Dictionary W - noun See Wastrel.
Wastrel Dictionary W - noun Any waste thing or substance.
Watch Dictionary W - intransitive verb 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.
Watched Dictionary W - imperative & past particle of Watch.
Watching Dictionary W - past particle & verb noun of Watch.
Watchdog Dictionary W - noun A dog kept to watch and guard premises or property, and to give notice of the approach of intruders.
Watcher Dictionary W - noun One who watches; one who sits up or continues; a diligent observer; specifically, one who attends upon the sick during the night.
Watches Dictionary W - noun plural The leaves of Saracenia flava. See Trumpets.
Watchet Dictionary W - adjective Pale or light blue.
Watchful Dictionary W - adjective 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.
Watchhouses Dictionary W - pleural of Watchhouse.
Watchhouse Dictionary W - noun A house in which a watch or guard is placed.
Watchmaker Dictionary W - noun One whose occupation is to make and repair watches.
Watchmen Dictionary W - pleural of Watchman.
Watchman Dictionary W - noun One set to watch; a person who keeps guard; a guard; a sentinel.
Watchtower Dictionary W - noun A tower in which a sentinel is placed to watch for enemies, the approach of danger, or the like.
Watchword Dictionary W - noun 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.
Water Dictionary W - noun The fluid which descends from the clouds in rain, and which forms rivers, lakes, seas, etc.
Watered Dictionary W - imperative & past particle of Water.
Watering Dictionary W - past particle & verb noun of Water.
Water adder Dictionary W - The water moccasin.
Waterage Dictionary W - noun Money paid for transportation of goods, etc., by water.
Water agrimony Dictionary W - A kind of bur marigold (Bidens tripartita) found in wet places in Europe.
Water aloe Dictionary W - See Water soldier.
Water antelope Dictionary W - See Water buck.
Water arum Dictionary W - An aroid herb (Calla palustris) having a white spathe. It is an inhabitant of the north temperate zone.
Water back Dictionary W - See under 1st Back.
Water bailiff Dictionary W - An officer of the customs, whose duty it is to search vessels.
Water ballast Dictionary W - Water confined in specially constructed compartments in a vessel's hold, to serve as ballast.
Water barometer Dictionary W - 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.
Water bath Dictionary W - 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.
Water battery Dictionary W - A voltaic battery in which the exciting fluid is water.
Water bear Dictionary W - Any species of Tardigrada, 2. See Illust. of Tardigrada.
Water-bearer Dictionary W - noun The constellation Aquarius.
Water bed Dictionary W - A kind of mattress made of, or covered with, waterproof fabric and filled with water. It is used in hospitals for bedridden patients.
Water beech Dictionary W - The American hornbeam. See Hornbeam.
Water beetle Dictionary W - 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.
Water bellows Dictionary W - Same as Tromp.
Water bird Dictionary W - Any aquatic bird; a water fowl.
Water blackbird Dictionary W - The European water ousel, or dipper.
Waterboard Dictionary W - noun A board set up to windward in a boat, to keep out water.
Water boatman Dictionary W - A boat bug.
Waterbok Dictionary W - noun A water buck.
Water-bound Dictionary W - adjective Prevented by a flood from proceeding.
Water brain Dictionary W - A disease of sheep; gid.
Water brash Dictionary W - See under Brash.
Water breather Dictionary W - Any arthropod that breathes by means of gills.
Water bridge Dictionary W - See Water table.
Water buck Dictionary W - 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.
Water buffalo Dictionary W - The European buffalo.
Water bug Dictionary W - The Croton bug.
Water butt Dictionary W - A large, open-headed cask, set up on end, to contain water.
Water caltrop Dictionary W - The water chestnut.
Water can Dictionary W - 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.
Water canker Dictionary W - See Canker, n., 1.
Water carriage Dictionary W - Transportation or conveyance by water; means of transporting by water.
Water cart Dictionary W - A cart carrying water; esp., one carrying water for sale, or for sprinkling streets, gardens, etc.
Water cavy Dictionary W - The capybara.
Water celery Dictionary W - A very acrid herb (Ranunculus sceleratus) growing in ditches and wet places; - called also cursed crowfoot.
Water cell Dictionary W - A cell containing water; specifically (Zool.), one of the cells or chambers in which water is stored up in the stomach of a camel.
Water cement Dictionary W - Hydraulic cement.
Water chestnut Dictionary W - 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.
Water chevrotain Dictionary W - A large West African chevrotain (Hyaemoschus aquaticus). It has a larger body and shorter legs than the other allied species. Called also water deerlet.
Water chicken Dictionary W - The common American gallinule.
Water chickweed Dictionary W - A small annual plant (Montia fontana) growing in wet places in southern regions.
Water chinquapin Dictionary W - The American lotus, and its edible seeds, which somewhat resemble chinquapins. Cf. Yoncopin.
Water clock Dictionary W - An instrument or machine serving to measure time by the fall, or flow, of a certain quantity of water; a clepsydra.
Water-closet Dictionary W - noun A privy; especially, a privy furnished with a contrivance for introducing a stream of water to cleanse it.
Water cock Dictionary W - 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.
Water color Dictionary W - 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.
Water-colorist Dictionary W - noun One who paints in water colors.
Water course Dictionary W - A stream of water; a river or brook.
Water craft Dictionary W - Any vessel or boat plying on water; vessels and boats, collectively.
Water crake Dictionary W - The dipper.
Water crane Dictionary W - A goose-neck apparatus for supplying water from an elevated tank, as to the tender of a locomotive.
Water cress Dictionary W - 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.
Water crow Dictionary W - The dipper.
Water crowfoot Dictionary W - An aquatic kind of buttercup (Ranunculus aquatilis), used as food for cattle in parts of England.
Water cure Dictionary W - Hydropathy.
Water deck Dictionary W - A covering of painting canvas for the equipments of a dragoon's horse.
Water deer Dictionary W - A small Chinese deer (Hydropotes inermis). Both sexes are destitute of antlers, but the male has large, descending canine tusks.
Water deerlet Dictionary W - See Water chevrotain.
Water devil Dictionary W - The rapacious larva of a large water beetle (Hydrophilus piceus), and of other similar species. See Illust. of Water beetle.
Water dock Dictionary W - A tall, coarse dock growing in wet places. The American water dock is Rumex orbiculatus, the European is R. Hydrolapathum.
Water doctor Dictionary W - One who professes to be able to divine diseases by inspection of the urine.
Water dog Dictionary W - A dog accustomed to the water, or trained to retrieve waterfowl. Retrievers, waters spaniels, and Newfoundland dogs are so trained.
Water drain Dictionary W - A drain or channel for draining off water.
Water drainage Dictionary W - The draining off of water.
Water dressing Dictionary W - 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.
Water dropwort Dictionary W - A European poisonous umbelliferous plant (Enanthe fistulosa) with large hollow stems and finely divided leaves.
Water eagle Dictionary W - The osprey.
Water elder Dictionary W - The guelder-rose.
Water elephant Dictionary W - The hippopotamus.
Water engine Dictionary W - An engine to raise water; or an engine moved by water; also, an engine or machine for extinguishing fires; a fire engine.
Waterer Dictionary W - noun One who, or that which, waters.
Waterfall Dictionary W - noun A fall, or perpendicular descent, of the water of a river or stream, or a descent nearly perpendicular; a cascade; a cataract.
Water feather Dictionary W - Alt. of Water feather-foil.
Water feather-foil Dictionary W - The water violet (Hottonia palustris); also, the less showy American plant H. inflata.
Water flag Dictionary W - A European species of Iris (Iris Pseudacorus) having bright yellow flowers.
Water flannel Dictionary W - A floating mass formed in pools by the entangled filaments of a European fresh-water alga (Cladophora crispata).
Water flea Dictionary W - 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.
Waterflood Dictionary W - noun A flood of water; an inundation.
Water flounder Dictionary W - The windowpane (Pleuronectes maculatus).
Waterfowl Dictionary W - noun Any bird that frequents the water, or lives about rivers, lakes, etc., or on or near the sea; an aquatic fowl; - used also collectively.
Water fox Dictionary W - The carp; - so called on account of its cunning.
Water frame Dictionary W - A name given to the first power spinning machine, because driven by water power.
Water furrow Dictionary W - A deep furrow for conducting water from the ground, and keeping the surface soil dry.
Water-furrow Dictionary W - verb transitive To make water furrows in.
Water gage Dictionary W - See Water gauge.
Water gall Dictionary W - A cavity made in the earth by a torrent of water; a washout.
Water gang Dictionary W - A passage for water, such as was usually made in a sea wall, to drain water out of marshes.
Water gas Dictionary W - See under Gas.
Water gate Dictionary W - A gate, or valve, by which a flow of water is permitted, prevented, or regulated.
Water gauge Dictionary W - A wall or bank to hold water back.
Water gavel Dictionary W - A gavel or rent paid for a privilege, as of fishing, in some river or water.
Water germander Dictionary W - A labiate plant (Teucrium Scordium) found in marshy places in Europe.
Water gilding Dictionary W - 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.
Water glass Dictionary W - See Soluble glass, under Glass.
Water god Dictionary W - A fabulous deity supposed to dwell in, and preside over, some body of water.
Water gruel Dictionary W - A liquid food composed of water and a small portion of meal, or other farinaceous substance, boiled and seasoned.
Water hammer Dictionary W - 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.
Water hare Dictionary W - 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.
Water hemlock Dictionary W - A poisonous umbelliferous plant (Cicuta virosa) of Europe; also, any one of several plants of that genus.
Water hemp Dictionary W - See under Hemp.
Water hen Dictionary W - Any gallinule.
Water hog Dictionary W - The capybara.
Water horehound Dictionary W - Bugleweed.
Waterhorse Dictionary W - noun A pile of salted fish heaped up to drain.
Water hyacinth Dictionary W - Either of several tropical aquatic plants of the genus Eichhornia, related to the pickerel weed.
Water ice Dictionary W - Water flavored, sweetened, and frozen, to be eaten as a confection.
Waterie Dictionary W - noun The pied wagtail; - so called because it frequents ponds.
Water inch Dictionary W - Same as Inch of water, under Water.
Wateriness Dictionary W - noun The quality or state of being watery; moisture; humidity.
Waterish Dictionary W - adjective Resembling water; thin; watery.
Waterishness Dictionary W - noun The quality of being waterish.
Water joint Dictionary W - 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.
Water junket Dictionary W - The common sandpiper.
Water-laid Dictionary W - adjective Having a left-hand twist; - said of cordage; as, a water-laid, or left-hand, rope.
Waterlander Dictionary W - noun Alt. of Waterlandian.
Waterlandian Dictionary W - noun 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.
Water laverock Dictionary W - The common sandpiper.
Waterleaf Dictionary W - noun Any plant of the American genus Hydrophyllum, herbs having white or pale blue bell-shaped flowers.
Water leg Dictionary W - See Leg, 7.
Water lemon Dictionary W - The edible fruit of two species of passion flower (Passiflora laurifolia, and P. maliformis); - so called in the West Indies.
Waterless Dictionary W - adjective Destitute of water; dry.
Water lettuce Dictionary W - A plant (Pistia stratiotes) which floats on tropical waters, and forms a rosette of spongy, wedge-shaped leaves.
Water level Dictionary W - The level formed by the surface of still water.
Water lily Dictionary W - A blossom or plant of any species of the genus Nymphaea, distinguished for its large floating leaves and beautiful flowers. See Nymphaea.
Water lime Dictionary W - Hydraulic lime.
Water line Dictionary W - Any one of certain lines of a vessel, model, or plan, parallel with the surface of the water at various heights from the keel.
Water lizard Dictionary W - Any aquatic lizard of the genus Varanus, as the monitor of the Nile. See Monitor, n., 3.
Water locust Dictionary W - A thorny leguminous tree (Gleditschia monosperma) which grows in the swamps of the Mississippi valley.
Water-logged Dictionary W - adjective 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.
Watermen Dictionary W - pleural of Waterman.
Waterman Dictionary W - noun 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.
Watermark Dictionary W - noun A mark indicating the height to which water has risen, or at which it has stood; the usual limit of high or low water.
Water meadow Dictionary W - 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.
Water measure Dictionary W - 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.
Water measurer Dictionary W - Any one of numerous species of water; the skater. See Skater, n., 2.
Watermelon Dictionary W - noun 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.
Water meter Dictionary W - A contrivance for measuring a supply of water delivered or received for any purpose, as from a street main.
Water milfoil Dictionary W - Any plant of the genus Myriophyllum, aquatic herbs with whorled leaves, the submersed ones pinnately parted into capillary divisions.
Water mill Dictionary W - A mill whose machinery is moved by water; - distinguished from a windmill, and a steam mill.
Water mint Dictionary W - A kind of mint (Mentha aquatica) growing in wet places, and sometimes having a perfume resembling bergamot.
Water mite Dictionary W - 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.
Water moccasin Dictionary W - 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.
Water mole Dictionary W - The shrew mole. See under Shrew.
Water monitor Dictionary W - 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.
Water motor Dictionary W - A water engine.
Water mouse Dictionary W - 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.
Water murrain Dictionary W - A kind of murrain affecting cattle.
Water newt Dictionary W - Any one of numerous species of aquatic salamanders; a triton.
Water nymph Dictionary W - A goddess of any stream or other body of water, whether one of the Naiads, Nereids, or Oceanides.
Water oat Dictionary W - Indian rice. See under Rice.
Water opossum Dictionary W - See Yapock, and the Note under Opossum.
Water ordeal Dictionary W - Same as Ordeal by water. See the Note under Ordeal, n., 1.
Water ousel Dictionary W - Alt. of Water ouzel.
Water ouzel Dictionary W - 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.
Water parsnip Dictionary W - Any plant of the aquatic umbelliferous genus Sium, poisonous herbs with pinnate or dissected leaves and small white flowers.
Water partridge Dictionary W - The ruddy duck.
Water pennywort Dictionary W - Marsh pennywort. See under Marsh.
Water pepper Dictionary W - Smartweed.
Water pheasant Dictionary W - The pintail. See Pintail, n., 1.
Water piet Dictionary W - The water ousel.
Water pig Dictionary W - The capybara.
Water pillar Dictionary W - A waterspout.
Water pimpernel Dictionary W - A small white-flowered shrub; brookweed.
Water pipe Dictionary W - A pipe for conveying water.
Water pitcher Dictionary W - A pitcher for water.
Water plant Dictionary W - A plant that grows in water; an aquatic plant.
Water plantain Dictionary W - A kind of plant with acrid leaves. See under 2d Plantain.
Water plate Dictionary W - A plate heated by hot water contained in a double bottom or jacket.
Water poa Dictionary W - Meadow reed grass. See under Reed.
Water poise Dictionary W - A hydrometer.
Water pore Dictionary W - A pore by which the water tubes of various invertebrates open externally.
Waterpot Dictionary W - noun A vessel for holding or conveying water, or for sprinkling water on cloth, plants, etc.
Water power Dictionary W - The power of water employed to move machinery, etc.
Water pox Dictionary W - A variety of chicken pox, or varicella.
Water privilege Dictionary W - The advantage of using water as a mechanical power; also, the place where water is, or may be, so used. See under Privilege.
Waterproof Dictionary W - adjective Proof against penetration or permeation by water; impervious to water; as, a waterproof garment; a waterproof roof.
Waterproofing Dictionary W - noun The act or process of making waterproof.
Water purslane Dictionary W - See under Purslane.
Water qualm Dictionary W - See Water brash, under Brash.
Water rabbit Dictionary W - See Water hare.
Water radish Dictionary W - A coarse yellow-flowered plant (Nasturtium amphibium) related to the water cress and to the horse-radish.
Water rail Dictionary W - Any one of numerous species of rails of the genus Rallus, as the common European species (Rallus aquaticus). See Illust. of Rail.
Water ram Dictionary W - An hydraulic ram.
Water rat Dictionary W - The water vole. See under Vole.
Water rate Dictionary W - A rate or tax for a supply of water.
Water rattle Dictionary W - Alt. of Water rattler.
Water rattler Dictionary W - The diamond rattlesnake (Crotalus adamanteus); - so called from its preference for damp places near water.
Water-retted Dictionary W - imperative & past particle of Water-ret.
Water-retting Dictionary W - past particle & verb noun of Water-ret.
Water-ret Dictionary W - verb transitive To ret, or rot, in water, as flax; to water-rot.
Water rice Dictionary W - Indian rice. See under Rice.
Water rocket Dictionary W - A cruciferous plant (Nasturtium sylvestre) with small yellow flowers.
Water-rotted Dictionary W - imperative & past particle of Water-rot.
Water-rotting Dictionary W - past particle & verb noun of Water-rot.
Water-rot Dictionary W - verb transitive To rot by steeping in water; to water-ret; as, to water-rot hemp or flax.
Water sail Dictionary W - A small sail sometimes set under a studding sail or under a driver boom, and reaching nearly to the water.
Water sapphire Dictionary W - A deep blue variety of iolite, sometimes used as a gem; - called also saphir d'eau.
Waterscape Dictionary W - noun A sea view; - distinguished from landscape.
Water scorpion Dictionary W - See Nepa.
Water screw Dictionary W - A screw propeller.
Watershed Dictionary W - noun The whole region or extent of country which contributes to the supply of a river or lake.
Water shield Dictionary W - An aquatic American plant (Brasenia peltata) having floating oval leaves, and the covered with a clear jelly.
Watershoot Dictionary W - noun A sprig or shoot from the root or stock of a tree.
Water shrew Dictionary W - 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.
Water snail Dictionary W - Any aquatic pulmonate gastropod belonging to Planorbis, Limnaea, and allied genera; a pond snail.
Water snake Dictionary W - A common North American colubrine snake (Tropidonotus sipedon) which lives chiefly in the water.
Water-soak Dictionary W - verb transitive To soak water; to fill the interstices of with water.
Water soldier Dictionary W - An aquatic European plant (Stratiotes aloides) with bayonet-shaped leaves.
Water souchy Dictionary W - A dish consisting of small fish stewed and served in a little water.
Water spaniel Dictionary W - A curly-haired breed of spaniels, naturally very fond of the water.
Water sparrow Dictionary W - The reed warbler.
Water speedwell Dictionary W - A kind of speedwell (Veronica Anagallis) found in wet places in Europe and America.
Water spider Dictionary W - 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.
Water spinner Dictionary W - The water spider.
Waterspout Dictionary W - noun A remarkable meteorological phenomenon, of the nature of a tornado or whirlwind, usually observed over the sea, but sometimes over the land.
Water sprite Dictionary W - A sprite, or spirit, imagined as inhabiting the water.
Water-standing Dictionary W - adjective Tear-filled.
Water star grass Dictionary W - An aquatic plant (Schollera graminea) with grassy leaves, and yellow star-shaped blossoms.
Water starwort Dictionary W - See under Starwort.
Water supply Dictionary W - A supply of water; specifically, water collected, as in reservoirs, and conveyed, as by pipes, for use in a city, mill, or the like.
Water tabby Dictionary W - A kind of waved or watered tabby. See Tabby, n., 1.
Water table Dictionary W - 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.
Watertath Dictionary W - noun A kind of coarse grass growing in wet grounds, and supposed to be injurious to sheep.
Water thermometer Dictionary W - 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.
Water thief Dictionary W - A pirate.
Water thrush Dictionary W - A North American bird of the genus Seiurus, belonging to the Warbler family, especially the common species (S. Noveboracensis).
Water thyme Dictionary W - See Anacharis.
Water tick Dictionary W - Same as Water mite.
Water tiger Dictionary W - A diving, or water, beetle, especially the larva of a water beetle. See Illust. b of Water beetle.
Water-tight Dictionary W - adjective So tight as to retain, or not to admit, water; not leaky.
Water torch Dictionary W - The common cat-tail (Typha latifolia), the spike of which makes a good torch soaked in oil.
Water tower Dictionary W - A large metal pipe made to be extended vertically by sections, and used for discharging water upon burning buildings.
Water tree Dictionary W - A climbing shrub (Tetracera alnifolia, / potatoria) of Western Africa, which pours out a watery sap from the freshly cut stems.
Water trefoil Dictionary W - The buck bean.
Water tube Dictionary W - 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.
Water tupelo Dictionary W - A species of large tupelo (Nyssa aquatica) growing in swamps in the southern of the United States. See Ogeechee lime.
Water turkey Dictionary W - The American snakebird. See Snakebird.
Water tu tuyere Dictionary W - A tuyere kept cool by water circulating within a casing. It is used for hot blast.
Water tu twist Dictionary W - Yarn made by the throstle, or water frame.
Water vine Dictionary W - 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.
Water violet Dictionary W - See under Violet.
Water viper Dictionary W - See Water moccasin.
Water vole Dictionary W - See under Vole.
Water wagtail Dictionary W - See under Wagtail.
Waterway Dictionary W - noun 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.
Water way Dictionary W - Same as Water course.
Waterweed Dictionary W - noun See Anacharis.
Water wheel Dictionary W - 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.
Water willow Dictionary W - An American aquatic plant (Dianthera Americana) with long willowlike leaves, and spikes of small purplish flowers.
Water wing Dictionary W - 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.
Water witch Dictionary W - The dabchick.
Water-white Dictionary W - noun 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.
Waterwork Dictionary W - noun Painting executed in size or distemper, on canvas or walls, - formerly, frequently taking the place of tapestry.
Waterworn Dictionary W - adjective Worn, smoothed, or polished by the action of water; as, waterworn stones.
Waterwort Dictionary W - noun 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.
Watery Dictionary W - adjective Of or pertaining to water; consisting of water.
Watt Dictionary W - noun 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.
Wattmeter Dictionary W - noun An instrument for measuring power in watts, - much used in measuring the energy of an electric current.
Wattle Dictionary W - noun A twig or flexible rod; hence, a hurdle made of such rods.
Wattled Dictionary W - imperative & past particle of Wattle.
Wattling Dictionary W - past particle & verb noun of Wattle.
Wattlebird Dictionary W - noun 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.
Waucht Dictionary W - noun Alt. of Waught.
Waught Dictionary W - noun A large draught of any liquid.
Waul Dictionary W - intransitive verb To cry as a cat; to squall; to wail.
Waur Dictionary W - adjective Worse.
Wave Dictionary W - verb transitive See Waive.
Waved Dictionary W - imperative & past particle of Wave.
Waving Dictionary W - past particle & verb noun of Wave.
Waveless Dictionary W - adjective Free from waves; undisturbed; not agitated; as, the waveless sea.
Wavelet Dictionary W - noun A little wave; a ripple.
Wavellite Dictionary W - noun A hydrous phosphate of alumina, occurring usually in hemispherical radiated forms varying in color from white to yellow, green, or black.
Wavered Dictionary W - imperative & past particle of Waver.
Wavering Dictionary W - past particle & verb noun of Waver.
Waver Dictionary W - intransitive verb To play or move to and fro; to move one way and the other; hence, to totter; to reel; to swing; to flutter.
Waverer Dictionary W - noun One who wavers; one who is unsettled in doctrine, faith, opinion, or the like.
Waveringly Dictionary W - adverb In a wavering manner.
Waveringness Dictionary W - noun The quality or state of wavering.
Waveson Dictionary W - noun Goods which, after shipwreck, appear floating on the waves, or sea.
Waveworn Dictionary W - adjective Worn by the waves.
Wavey Dictionary W - noun The snow goose.
Waviness Dictionary W - noun The quality or state of being wavy.
Wavure Dictionary W - noun See Waivure.
Wavy Dictionary W - adjective Rising or swelling in waves; full of waves.
Wawaskeesh Dictionary W - noun The wapiti, or wapiti, or American elk.
Wawe Dictionary W - noun A wave.
Wawl Dictionary W - intransitive verb See Waul.
Waxed Dictionary W - imperative of Wax.
Waxen Dictionary W - of Wax.
Waxing Dictionary W - past particle & verb noun of Wax.
Wax Dictionary W - intransitive verb To increase in size; to grow bigger; to become larger or fuller; - opposed to wane.
Waxberry Dictionary W - noun The wax-covered fruit of the wax myrtle, or bayberry. See Bayberry, and Candleberry tree.
Waxbill Dictionary W - noun 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.
Waxbird Dictionary W - The waxwing.
Waxiness Dictionary W - noun Quality or state of being waxy.
Waxwing Dictionary W - noun 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.
Waxwork Dictionary W - noun Work made of wax; especially, a figure or figures formed or partly of wax, in imitation of real beings.
Waxworker Dictionary W - noun One who works in wax; one who makes waxwork.
Waxy Dictionary W - adjective Resembling wax in appearance or consistency; viscid; adhesive; soft; hence, yielding; pliable; impressible.
Way Dictionary W - adverb Away.
Waybill Dictionary W - noun 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.
Waybread Dictionary W - noun The common dooryard plantain (Plantago major).
Waybung Dictionary W - noun 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.
Wayed Dictionary W - adjective Used to the way; broken.
Wayfare Dictionary W - intransitive verb To journey; to travel; to go to and fro.
Wayfarer Dictionary W - noun One who travels; a traveler; a passenger.
Wayfaring Dictionary W - adjective Traveling; passing; being on a journey.
Waygate Dictionary W - noun The tailrace of a mill.
Way-going Dictionary W - adjective Going away; departing; of or pertaining to one who goes away.
Way-goose Dictionary W - noun See Wayz-goose, n., 2.
Wayk Dictionary W - adjective Weak.
Waylaid Dictionary W - imperative & past particle of Waylay.
Waylaying Dictionary W - past particle & verb noun of Waylay.
Waylay Dictionary W - verb transitive 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.
Waylayer Dictionary W - noun One who waylays another.
Wayless Dictionary W - adjective Having no road or path; pathless.
Wayleway Dictionary W - interjection See Welaway.
Waymaker Dictionary W - noun One who makes a way; a precursor.
Waymark Dictionary W - noun A mark to guide in traveling.
Waymented Dictionary W - imperative & past particle of Wayment.
Waymenting Dictionary W - past particle & verb noun of Wayment.
Wayment Dictionary W - intransitive verb To lament; to grieve; to wail.
Way shaft Dictionary W - A rock shaft.
-ways Dictionary W - 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.
Wayside Dictionary W - noun The side of the way; the edge or border of a road or path.
Wayward Dictionary W - adjective Taking one's own way; disobedient; froward; perverse; willful.
Way-wise Dictionary W - adjective Skillful in finding the way; well acquainted with the way or route; wise from having traveled.
Waywiser Dictionary W - noun An instrument for measuring the distance which one has traveled on the road; an odometer, pedometer, or perambulator.
Waywode Dictionary W - noun 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.
Waywodeship Dictionary W - noun The office, province, or jurisdiction of a waywode.
Wayworn Dictionary W - adjective Wearied by traveling.
Wayz-goose Dictionary W - noun A stubble goose.
Weak Dictionary W - intransitive verb Wanting physical strength.
Weakened Dictionary W - imperative & past particle of Weaken.
Weakening Dictionary W - past particle & verb noun of Weaken.
Weaken Dictionary W - verb transitive 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.
Weakener Dictionary W - noun One who, or that which, weakens.
Weakfish Dictionary W - noun Any fish of the genus Cynoscion; a squeteague; - so called from its tender mouth. See Squeteague.
Weak-hearted Dictionary W - adjective Having little courage; of feeble spirit; dispirited; faint-hearted.
Weakish Dictionary W - adjective Somewhat weak; rather weak.
Weakishness Dictionary W - noun Quality or state of being weakish.
Weak-kneed Dictionary W - adjective Having weak knees; hence, easily yielding; wanting resolution.
Weakling Dictionary W - noun A weak or feeble creature.
Weakly Dictionary W - adverb In a weak manner; with little strength or vigor; feebly.
Weak-minded Dictionary W - adjective Having a weak mind, either naturally or by reason of disease; feebleminded; foolish; idiotic.
Weakness Dictionary W - noun The quality or state of being weak; want of strength or firmness; lack of vigor; want of resolution or of moral strength; feebleness.
Weal Dictionary W - noun The mark of a stripe. See Wale.
Weal-balanced Dictionary W - adjective Balanced or considered with reference to public weal.
Weald Dictionary W - noun A wood or forest; a wooded land or region; also, an open country; - often used in place names.
Wealden Dictionary W - adjective Of or pertaining to the lowest division of the Cretaceous formation in England and on the Continent, which overlies the Oolitic series.
Wealdish Dictionary W - adjective Of or pertaining to a weald, esp. to the weald in the county of Kent, England.
Wealful Dictionary W - adjective Weleful.
Wealsmen Dictionary W - pleural of Wealsman.
Wealsman Dictionary W - noun A statesman; a politician.
Wealth Dictionary W - noun Weal; welfare; prosperity; good.
Wealthful Dictionary W - adjective Full of wealth; wealthy; prosperous.
Wealthily Dictionary W - adverb In a wealthy manner; richly.
Wealthiness Dictionary W - noun The quality or state of being wealthy, or rich; richness; opulence.
Wealthy Dictionary W - superlative Having wealth; having large possessions, or larger than most men, as lands, goods, money, or securities; opulent; affluent; rich.
Weaned Dictionary W - imperative & past particle of Wean.
Weaning Dictionary W - past particle & verb noun of Wean.
Wean Dictionary W - adjective 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.
Weanedness Dictionary W - noun Quality or state of being weaned.
Weanel Dictionary W - noun A weanling.
Weanling Dictionary W - Adjective & noun from Wean, v.
Weapon Dictionary W - noun 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.
Weaponed Dictionary W - adjective Furnished with weapons, or arms; armed; equipped.
Weaponless Dictionary W - adjective Having no weapon.
Weaponry Dictionary W - noun Weapons, collectively; as, an array of weaponry.
Wear Dictionary W - noun Same as Weir.
Wore Dictionary W - imperative of Wear.
Worn Dictionary W - past participle of Wear.
Wearing Dictionary W - past particle & verb noun of Wear.
Weared Dictionary W - imperative & past particle of Wear.
Wearable Dictionary W - adjective Capable of being worn; suitable to be worn.
Wearer Dictionary W - noun One who wears or carries as appendant to the body; as, the wearer of a cloak, a sword, a crown, a shackle, etc.
Weariable Dictionary W - adjective That may be wearied.
Weariful Dictionary W - adjective Abounding in qualities which cause weariness; wearisome.
Weariless Dictionary W - adjective Incapable of being wearied.
Wearily Dictionary W - adverb In a weary manner.
Weariness Dictionary W - noun The quality or state of being weary or tried; lassitude; exhaustion of strength; fatigue.
Wearish Dictionary W - adjective Weak; withered; shrunk.
Wearisome Dictionary W - adjective Causing weariness; tiresome; tedious; weariful; as, a wearisome march; a wearisome day's work; a wearisome book.
Weary Dictionary W - superlative Having the strength exhausted by toil or exertion; worn out in respect to strength, endurance, etc.; tired; fatigued.
Wearied Dictionary W - imperative & past particle of Weary.
Wearying Dictionary W - past particle & verb noun of Weary.
Weasand Dictionary W - noun The windpipe; - called also, formerly, wesil.
Weasel Dictionary W - noun 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.
Weasel-faced Dictionary W - adjective Having a thin, sharp face, like a weasel.
Weaser Dictionary W - noun The American merganser; - called also weaser sheldrake.
Weasiness Dictionary W - noun Quality or state of being weasy; full feeding; sensual indulgence.
Weasy Dictionary W - adjective Given to sensual indulgence; gluttonous.
Weather Dictionary W - noun 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.
Weathered Dictionary W - imperative & past particle of Weather.
Weathering Dictionary W - past particle & verb noun of Weather.
Weather-beaten Dictionary W - adjective Beaten or harassed by the weather; worn by exposure to the weather, especially to severe weather.
Weather-bit Dictionary W - noun A turn of the cable about the end of the windlass, without the bits.
Weatherbit Dictionary W - verb transitive To take another turn with, as a cable around a windlass.
Weather-bitten Dictionary W - adjective Eaten into, defaced, or worn, by exposure to the weather.
Weatherboard Dictionary W - noun That side of a vessel which is toward the wind; the windward side.
Weather-board Dictionary W - verb transitive To nail boards upon so as to lap one over another, in order to exclude rain, snow, etc.
Weatherboarding Dictionary W - noun The covering or siding of a building, formed of boards lapping over one another, to exclude rain, snow, etc.
Weather-bound Dictionary W - adjective Kept in port or at anchor by storms; delayed by bad weather; as, a weather-bound vessel.
Weathercock Dictionary W - noun 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.
Weather-driven Dictionary W - adjective Driven by winds or storms; forced by stress of weather.
Weather-fend Dictionary W - verb transitive To defend from the weather; to shelter.
Weatherglass Dictionary W - noun An instrument to indicate the state of the atmosphere, especially changes of atmospheric pressure, and hence changes of weather, as a barometer or baroscope.
Weatherliness Dictionary W - noun The quality of being weatherly.
Weatherly Dictionary W - adjective Working, or able to sail, close to the wind; as, a weatherly ship.
Weathermost Dictionary W - adjective Being farthest to the windward.
Weatherproof Dictionary W - adjective Proof against rough weather.
Weatherwise Dictionary W - adjective Skillful in forecasting the changes of the weather.
Weatherwiser Dictionary W - noun Something that foreshows the weather.
Weatherworn Dictionary W - adjective Worn by the action of, or by exposure to, the weather.
Wove Dictionary W - imperative of Weave.
Woven Dictionary W - past participle of Weave.
Weaving Dictionary W - past particle & verb noun of Weave.
Weaved Dictionary W - imperative & past particle of Weave.
Weave Dictionary W - verb transitive 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.
Weaver Dictionary W - noun One who weaves, or whose occupation is to weave.
Weaverfish Dictionary W - noun See Weever.
Weazand Dictionary W - noun See Weasand.
Weazen Dictionary W - adjective Thin; sharp; withered; wizened; as, a weazen face.
Weazeny Dictionary W - adjective Somewhat weazen; shriveled.
Web Dictionary W - noun A weaver.
Webbed Dictionary W - imperative & past particle of Web.
Webbing Dictionary W - past particle & verb noun of Web.
Webber Dictionary W - noun One who forms webs; a weaver; a webster.
Webby Dictionary W - adjective Of or pertaining to a web or webs; like a web; filled or covered with webs.
Weber Dictionary W - noun The standard unit of electrical quantity, and also of current. See Coulomb, and Amp/re.
Webeye Dictionary W - noun See Web, n., 8.
Web-fingered Dictionary W - adjective Having the fingers united by a web for a considerable part of their length.
Webfeet Dictionary W - pleural of Webfoot.
Webfoot Dictionary W - noun A foot the toes of which are connected by a membrane.
Web-footed Dictionary W - adjective Having webbed feet; palmiped; as, a goose or a duck is a web-footed fowl.
Webster Dictionary W - noun A weaver; originally, a female weaver.
Websterite Dictionary W - noun A hydrous sulphate of alumina occurring in white reniform masses.
Web-toed Dictionary W - adjective Having the toes united by a web for a considerable part of their length.
Webform Dictionary W - noun 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.
Wed Dictionary W - noun A pledge; a pawn.
Wedded Dictionary W - imperative of Wed.
Wedding Dictionary W - past particle & verb noun of Wed.
Weddahs Dictionary W - noun plural See Veddahs.
Wedder Dictionary W - noun See Wether.
Weder Dictionary W - noun Weather.
Wedge Dictionary W - noun 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.
Wedged Dictionary W - imperative & past particle of Wedge.
Wedging Dictionary W - past particle & verb noun of Wedge.
Wedgebill Dictionary W - noun 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.
Wedge-formed Dictionary W - adjective Having the form of a wedge; cuneiform.
Wedge-shaped Dictionary W - adjective Having the shape of a wedge; cuneiform.
Wedge-shell Dictionary W - noun Any one of numerous species of small marine bivalves belonging to Donax and allied genera in which the shell is wedge-shaped.
Wedge-tailed Dictionary W - adjective 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.
Wedgewise Dictionary W - adverb In the manner of a wedge.
Wedgwood ware Dictionary W - 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.
Wedgy Dictionary W - adjective Like a wedge; wedge-shaped.
Wedlock Dictionary W - intransitive verb The ceremony, or the state, of marriage; matrimony.
Wednesday Dictionary W - adjective The fourth day of the week; the next day after Tuesday.
Wee Dictionary W - noun A little; a bit, as of space, time, or distance.
Weech-elm Dictionary W - noun The wych-elm.
Weed Dictionary W - noun A garment; clothing; especially, an upper or outer garment.
Weeded Dictionary W - imperative & past particle of Weed.
Weeding Dictionary W - past particle & verb noun of Weed.
Weeder Dictionary W - noun One who, or that which, weeds, or frees from anything noxious.
Weedery Dictionary W - noun Weeds, collectively; also, a place full of weeds or for growing weeds.
Weeding-rhim Dictionary W - noun A kind of implement used for tearing up weeds esp. on summer fallows.
Weedless Dictionary W - adjective Free from weeds or noxious matter.
Weedy Dictionary W - superlative Of or pertaining to weeds; consisting of weeds.
Week Dictionary W - noun A period of seven days, usually that reckoned from one Sabbath or Sunday to the next.
Weekly Dictionary W - adjective Of or pertaining to a week, or week days; as, weekly labor.
Weeklies Dictionary W - pleural of Weekly.
Weekwam Dictionary W - noun See Wigwam.
Weel Dictionary W - adjective & adverb Well.
Weely Dictionary W - A kind of trap or snare for fish, made of twigs.
Ween Dictionary W - intransitive verb To think; to imagine; to fancy.
Weep Dictionary W - noun The lapwing; the wipe; - so called from its cry.
Wept Dictionary W - imperative & past particle of Weep.
Weeping Dictionary W - past particle & verb noun of Weep.
Weeper Dictionary W - noun One who weeps; esp., one who sheds tears.
Weepful Dictionary W - adjective Full of weeping or lamentation; grieving.
Weepingly Dictionary W - adverb In a weeping manner.
Weeping-ripe Dictionary W - adjective Ripe for weeping; ready to weep.
Weerish Dictionary W - adjective See Wearish.
Weesel Dictionary W - noun See Weasel.
Weet Dictionary W - adjective & noun Wet.
Wot Dictionary W - imperative of Weet.
Weet-bird Dictionary W - noun The wryneck; - so called from its cry.
Weetingly Dictionary W - adverb Knowingly.
Weetless Dictionary W - adjective Unknowing; also, unknown; unmeaning.
Weet-weet Dictionary W - noun The common European sandpiper.
Weever Dictionary W - noun 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.
Weevil Dictionary W - noun 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.
Weeviled Dictionary W - adjective Infested by weevils; as, weeviled grain.
Weevily Dictionary W - adjective Having weevils; weeviled.
Weezel Dictionary W - noun See Weasel.
Weft Dictionary W - imp. & p. p. of Wave.
Weftage Dictionary W - noun Texture.
Wegotism Dictionary W - noun Excessive use of the pronoun we; - called also weism.
Wehrgeld Dictionary W - noun Alt. of Wehrgelt.
Wehrgelt Dictionary W - noun See Weregild.
Wehrwolf Dictionary W - noun See Werewolf.
Weigela Dictionary W - noun Alt. of Weigelia.
Weigelia Dictionary W - noun A hardy garden shrub (Diervilla Japonica) belonging to the Honeysuckle family, with white or red flowers. It was introduced from China.
Weigh Dictionary W - noun A corruption of Way, used only in the phrase under weigh.
Weighed Dictionary W - imperative & past particle of Weigh.
Weighing Dictionary W - past particle & verb noun of Weigh.
Weighable Dictionary W - adjective Capable of being weighed.
Weighage Dictionary W - noun A duty or toil paid for weighing merchandise.
Weighbeam Dictionary W - noun A kind of large steelyard for weighing merchandise; - also called weighmaster's beam.
Weighboard Dictionary W - noun Clay intersecting a vein.
Weighbridge Dictionary W - noun A weighing machine on which loaded carts may be weighed; platform scales.
Weigher Dictionary W - noun One who weighs; specifically, an officer whose duty it is to weigh commodities.
Weigh-houses Dictionary W - pleural of Weigh-house.
Weigh-house Dictionary W - noun A building at or within which goods, and the like, are weighed.
Weighlock Dictionary W - noun A lock, as on a canal, in which boats are weighed and their tonnage is settled.
Weighmaster Dictionary W - noun One whose business it is to weigh ore, hay, merchandise, etc.; one licensed as a public weigher.
Weight Dictionary W - verb transitive 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.
Weighted Dictionary W - imperative & past particle of Weight.
Weighting Dictionary W - past particle & verb noun of Weight.
Weightily Dictionary W - adverb In a weighty manner.
Weightiness Dictionary W - noun The quality or state of being weighty; weight; force; importance; impressiveness.
Weightless Dictionary W - adjective Having no weight; imponderable; hence, light.
Weighty Dictionary W - superlative Having weight; heavy; ponderous; as, a weighty body.
Weir Dictionary W - noun Alt. of Wear.
Weird Dictionary W - noun Fate; destiny; one of the Fates, or Norns; also, a prediction.
Weirdness Dictionary W - noun The quality or state of being weird.
Weism Dictionary W - noun Same as Wegotism.
Weive Dictionary W - verb transitive See Waive.
Weka Dictionary W - noun A New Zealand rail (Ocydromus australis) which has wings so short as to be incapable of flight.
Wekau Dictionary W - noun A small New Zealand owl (Sceloglaux albifacies). It has short wings and long legs, and lives chiefly on the ground.
Wekeen Dictionary W - noun The meadow pipit.
Welaway Dictionary W - interjection Alas!.
Wel-begone Dictionary W - adjective Surrounded with happiness or prosperity.
Welch Dictionary W - adjective See Welsh.
Welcher Dictionary W - noun See Welsher.
Welchman Dictionary W - noun See Welshman.
Welcome Dictionary W - noun Received with gladness; admitted willingly to the house, entertainment, or company; as, a welcome visitor.
Welcomed Dictionary W - imperative & past particle of Welcome.
Welcoming Dictionary W - past particle & verb noun of Welcome.
Welcomely Dictionary W - adverb In a welcome manner.
Welcomeness Dictionary W - noun The quality or state of being welcome; gratefulness; agreeableness; kind reception.
Welcomer Dictionary W - noun One who welcomes; one who salutes, or receives kindly, a newcomer.
Weld Dictionary W - verb transitive To wield.
Welded Dictionary W - imperative & past particle of Weld.
Welding Dictionary W - past particle & verb noun of Weld.
Weldable Dictionary W - adjective Capable of being welded.
Welder Dictionary W - noun One who welds, or unites pieces of iron, etc., by welding.
Weldon's process Dictionary W - 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.
Wele Dictionary W - noun Prosperity; happiness; well-being; weal.
Weleful Dictionary W - adjective Producing prosperity or happiness; blessed.
Welew Dictionary W - verb transitive To welk, or wither.
Welfare Dictionary W - noun 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.
Welfaring Dictionary W - adjective Faring well; prosperous; thriving.
Welked Dictionary W - imperative & past particle of Welk.
Welking Dictionary W - past particle & verb noun of Welk.
Welk Dictionary W - intransitive verb To wither; to fade; also, to decay; to decline; to wane.
Welkin Dictionary W - noun The visible regions of the air; the vault of heaven; the sky.
Well Dictionary W - intransitive verb An issue of water from the earth; a spring; a fountain.
Welled Dictionary W - imperative & past particle of Well.
Welling Dictionary W - past particle & verb noun of Well.
Welladay Dictionary W - interjection Alas! Welaway!.
Wellat Dictionary W - noun The king parrakeet See under King.
Well-being Dictionary W - noun The state or condition of being well; welfare; happiness; prosperity; as, virtue is essential to the well-being of men or of society.
Well-born Dictionary W - adjective Born of a noble or respect able family; not of mean birth.
Well-bred Dictionary W - adjective Having good breeding; refined in manners; polite; cultivated.
Welldoer Dictionary W - noun One who does well; one who does good to another; a benefactor.
Welldoing Dictionary W - noun A doing well; right performance of duties. Also used adjectively.
Welldrained Dictionary W - imperative & past particle of Welldrain.
Well-draining Dictionary W - past particle & verb noun of Welldrain.
Welldrain Dictionary W - verb transitive To drain, as land; by means of wells, or pits, which receive the water, and from which it is discharged by machinery.
Wellfare Dictionary W - noun See Welfare.
Well-favored Dictionary W - adjective Handsome; wellformed; beautiful; pleasing to the eye.
Wellhead Dictionary W - noun A source, spring, or fountain.
Wellhole Dictionary W - noun The open space in a floor, to accommodate a staircase.
Well-informed Dictionary W - adjective Correctly informed; provided with information; well furnished with authentic knowledge; intelligent.
Wellingtonia Dictionary W - noun A name given to the "big trees" (Sequoia gigantea) of California, and still used in England. See Sequoia.
Wellingtons Dictionary W - noun plural A kind of long boots for men.
Well-intentioned Dictionary W - adjective Having upright intentions or honorable purposes.
Well-known Dictionary W - adjective Fully known; generally known or acknowledged.
Well-liking Dictionary W - adjective Being in good condition.
Well-mannered Dictionary W - adjective Polite; well-bred; complaisant; courteous.
Well-meaner Dictionary W - noun One whose intention is good.
Well-meaning Dictionary W - adjective Having a good intention.
Well-natured Dictionary W - adjective Good-natured; kind.
Well-nigh Dictionary W - adverb Almost; nearly.
Well-plighted Dictionary W - adjective Being well folded.
Well-read Dictionary W - adjective Of extensive reading; deeply versed; - often followed by in.
Well-seen Dictionary W - adjective Having seen much; hence, accomplished; experienced.
Well-set Dictionary W - adjective Properly or firmly set.
Well-sped Dictionary W - adjective Having good success.
Well-spoken Dictionary W - adjective Speaking well; speaking with fitness or grace; speaking kindly.
Wellspring Dictionary W - noun A fountain; a spring; a source of continual supply.
Well-willer Dictionary W - noun One who wishes well, or means kindly.
Well-wish Dictionary W - noun A wish of happiness.
Wellwisher Dictionary W - noun One who wishes another well; one who is benevolently or friendlily inclined.
We'll Dictionary W - Contraction for we will or we shall.
Wels Dictionary W - noun The sheatfish; - called also waller.
Welsh Dictionary W - adjective Of or pertaining to Wales, or its inhabitants.
Welsher Dictionary W - noun 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.
Welshmen Dictionary W - pleural of Welshman.
Welshman Dictionary W - noun A native or inhabitant of Wales; one of the Welsh.
Welsome Dictionary W - adjective Prosperous; well.
Welt Dictionary W - noun That which, being sewed or otherwise fastened to an edge or border, serves to guard, strengthen, or adorn it.
Welted Dictionary W - imperative & past particle of Welt.
Welting Dictionary W - past particle & verb noun of Welt.
Welte Dictionary W - imp. of Weld, to wield.
Weltered Dictionary W - imperative & past particle of Welter.
Weltering Dictionary W - past particle & verb noun of Welter.
Welter Dictionary W - intransitive verb To roll, as the body of an animal; to tumble about, especially in anything foul or defiling; to wallow.
Welwitschia Dictionary W - noun 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.
Wem Dictionary W - noun The abdomen; the uterus; the womb.
Wemless Dictionary W - adjective Having no wem, or blemish; spotless.
Wench Dictionary W - noun A young woman; a girl; a maiden.
Wenched Dictionary W - imperative & past particle of Wench.
Wenching Dictionary W - past particle & verb noun of Wench.
Wencher Dictionary W - noun One who wenches; a lewd man.
Wenchless Dictionary W - adjective Being without a wench.
Wend Dictionary W - p. p. of Wene.
Wended Dictionary W - imperative & past particle of Wend.
Wending Dictionary W - past particle & verb noun of Wend.
Wende Dictionary W - imp. of Wene.
Wendic Dictionary W - adjective Alt. of Wendish.
Wendish Dictionary W - adjective Of or pertaining the Wends, or their language.
Wends Dictionary W - noun plural A Slavic tribe which once occupied the northern and eastern parts of Germany, of which a small remnant exists.
Wene Dictionary W - intransitive verb To ween.
Wenlock group Dictionary W - The middle subdivision of the Upper Silurian in Great Britain; - so named from the typical locality in Shropshire.
Wennel Dictionary W - noun See Weanel.
Wennish Dictionary W - adjective Alt. of Wenny.
Wenny Dictionary W - adjective Having the nature of a wen; resembling a wen; as, a wennish excrescence.
Wenona Dictionary W - noun A sand snake (Charina plumbea) of Western North America, of the family Erycidae.
Wentletrap Dictionary W - noun 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.
Wep Dictionary W - imp. of Weep.
Wepen Dictionary W - noun Weapon.
Werche Dictionary W - verb transitive & intransitive To work.
Were Dictionary W - verb transitive & intransitive To wear. See 3d Wear.
Weregild Dictionary W - noun 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.
Werewolves Dictionary W - pleural of Werewolf.
Werewolf Dictionary W - noun 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.
Werk Dictionary W - verb Alt. of Werke.
Werke Dictionary W - verb See Work.
Wern Dictionary W - verb transitive To refuse.
Wernerian Dictionary W - adjective 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.
Wernerite Dictionary W - noun The common grayish or white variety of soapolite.
Weroole Dictionary W - noun An Australian lorikeet (Ptilosclera versicolor) noted for the variety of its colors; - called also varied lorikeet.
Werre Dictionary W - noun War.
Werrey Dictionary W - verb transitive To warray.
Werst Dictionary W - noun See Verst.
Wert Dictionary W - 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.
Weryangle Dictionary W - noun See Wariangle.
Wesand Dictionary W - noun See Weasand.
Wesh Dictionary W - imperative Washed.
Wesil Dictionary W - noun See Weasand.
Wesleyan Dictionary W - adjective Of or pertaining to Wesley or Wesleyanism.
Wesleyanism Dictionary W - noun 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.
West Dictionary W - noun 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.
Westering Dictionary W - adjective Passing to the west.
Westerly Dictionary W - adjective Of or pertaining to the west; toward the west; coming from the west; western.
Western Dictionary W - adjective 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.
Westerner Dictionary W - noun A native or inhabitant of the west.
Westernmost Dictionary W - adjective Situated the farthest towards the west; most western.
West India Dictionary W - Alt. of West Indian.
West Indian Dictionary W - Belonging or relating to the West Indies.
Westing Dictionary W - noun 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.
Westling Dictionary W - noun A westerner.
Westminster Assembly Dictionary W - See under Assembly.
Westmost Dictionary W - adjective Lying farthest to the west; westernmost.
Westward Dictionary W - adverb Alt. of Westwards.
Westwards Dictionary W - adverb Toward the west; as, to ride or sail westward.
Westwardly Dictionary W - adverb In a westward direction.
Westy Dictionary W - adjective Dizzy; giddy.
Wet Dictionary W - superlative 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.
Wetted Dictionary W - of Wet.
Wetting Dictionary W - past particle & verb noun of Wet.
Wetbird Dictionary W - noun The chaffinch, whose cry is thought to foretell rain.
Wether Dictionary W - noun A castrated ram.
Westness Dictionary W - noun The quality or state of being wet; moisture; humidity; as, the wetness of land; the wetness of a cloth.
Wet nurse Dictionary W - A nurse who suckles a child, especially the child of another woman. Cf. Dry nurse.
Wet-shod Dictionary W - adjective Having the feet, or the shoes on the feet, wet.
Wettish Dictionary W - adjective Somewhat wet; moist; humid.
Wevil Dictionary W - noun See Weevil.
Wex Dictionary W - verb transitive & intransitive To grow; to wax.
Wey Dictionary W - noun Way; road; path.
Weyle Dictionary W - verb transitive & intransitive To wail.
Weyleway Dictionary W - interjection See Welaway.
Weyve Dictionary W - verb transitive To waive.
Wezand Dictionary W - noun See Weasand.
Whaap Dictionary W - noun The European curlew; - called also awp, whaup, great whaup, and stock whaup.
Whacked Dictionary W - imperative & past particle of Whack.
Whacking Dictionary W - past particle & verb noun of Whack.
Whack Dictionary W - verb transitive To strike; to beat; to give a heavy or resounding blow to; to thrash; to make with whacks.
Whacker Dictionary W - noun One who whacks.
Whahoo Dictionary W - noun An American tree, the winged elm. (Ulmus alata).
Whaled Dictionary W - imperative & past particle of Whala.
Whaling Dictionary W - past particle & verb noun of Whala.
Whala Dictionary W - verb transitive To lash with stripes; to wale; to thrash; to drub.
Whale Dictionary W - noun 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.
Whaleboat Dictionary W - noun A long, narrow boat, sharp at both ends, used by whalemen.
Whalebone Dictionary W - noun 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.
Whalemen Dictionary W - pleural of Whaleman.
Whaleman Dictionary W - noun A man employed in the whale fishery.
Whaler Dictionary W - noun A vessel or person employed in the whale fishery.
Whall Dictionary W - noun A light color of the iris in horses; wall-eye.
Whally Dictionary W - adjective Having the iris of light color; - said of horses.
Whame Dictionary W - noun A breeze fly.
Whammel Dictionary W - verb transitive To turn over.
Whan Dictionary W - adverb When.
Whang Dictionary W - noun A leather thong.
Whanghee Dictionary W - noun See Wanghee.
Whap Dictionary W - intransitive verb Alt. of Whop.
Whop Dictionary W - intransitive verb 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.
Whapped Dictionary W - imperative & past particle of Whop.
Whapping Dictionary W - past particle & verb noun of Whop.
Whapper Dictionary W - noun Alt. of Whopper.
Whopper Dictionary W - noun Something uncommonly large of the kind; something astonishing; - applied especially to a bold lie.
Whopping Dictionary W - adjective Very large; monstrous; astonishing; as, a whapping story.
Wharfs Dictionary W - pleural of Wharf.
Wharves Dictionary W - pleural of Wharf.
Wharf Dictionary W - noun 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.
Wharfed Dictionary W - imperative & past particle of Wharf.
Wharfing Dictionary W - past particle & verb noun of Wharf.
Wharfage Dictionary W - noun The fee or duty paid for the privilege of using a wharf for loading or unloading goods; pierage, collectively; quayage.
Wharfinger Dictionary W - noun A man who owns, or has the care of, a wharf.
Wharl Dictionary W - noun Alt. of Wharling.
Wharling Dictionary W - noun A guttural pronunciation of the letter r; a burr. See Burr, n., 6.
Wharp Dictionary W - noun A kind of fine sand from the banks of the Trent, used as a polishing powder.
What Dictionary W - [[pron., a., & adverb 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?.
Whate'er Dictionary W - pronoun A contraction of what-ever; - used in poetry.
Whatever Dictionary W - pronoun 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.
Whatnot Dictionary W - noun A kind of stand, or piece of furniture, having shelves for books, ornaments, etc.; an etagere.
Whatso Dictionary W - [[indef. pronoun Whatsoever; whosoever; whatever; anything that.
Whatsoe'er Dictionary W - pronoun A contraction of whatsoever; - used in poetry.
Whatsoever Dictionary W - pronoun & adjective Whatever.
Whaul Dictionary W - noun Same as Whall.
Whaup Dictionary W - noun See Whaap.
Wheal Dictionary W - noun A pustule; a whelk.
Whealworm Dictionary W - noun The harvest mite; - so called from the wheals, caused by its bite.
Wheat Dictionary W - noun 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.
Wheatbird Dictionary W - noun A bird that feeds on wheat, especially the chaffinch.
Wheatear Dictionary W - noun 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.
Wheaten Dictionary W - adjective Made of wheat; as, wheaten bread.
Wheatsel bird Dictionary W - The male of the chaffinch.
Wheatstone's bridge Dictionary W - See under Bridge.
Wheatworm Dictionary W - noun 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.
Wheder Dictionary W - pronoun & conjecture Whether.
Wheedled Dictionary W - imperative & past particle of Wheedle.
Wheedling Dictionary W - past particle & verb noun of Wheedle.
Wheedle Dictionary W - verb transitive To entice by soft words; to cajole; to flatter; to coax.
Wheel Dictionary W - noun 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.
Wheeled Dictionary W - imperative & past particle of Wheel.
Wheeling Dictionary W - past particle & verb noun of Wheel.
Wheelband Dictionary W - noun The tire of a wheel.
Wheelbarrow Dictionary W - noun A light vehicle for conveying small loads. It has two handles and one wheel, and is rolled by a single person.
Wheelbird Dictionary W - noun The European goatsucker.
Wheeler Dictionary W - noun One who wheels, or turns.
Wheelhouse Dictionary W - noun A small house on or above a vessel's deck, containing the steering wheel.
Wheelmen Dictionary W - pleural of Wheelman.
Wheelman Dictionary W - noun One who rides a bicycle or tricycle; a cycler, or cyclist.
Wheel-shaped Dictionary W - adjective Shaped like a wheel.
Wheelswarf Dictionary W - noun See Swarf.
Wheelwork Dictionary W - noun A combination of wheels, and their connection, in a machine or mechanism.
Wheel-worn Dictionary W - adjective Worn by the action of wheels; as, a wheel-worn road.
Wheelwright Dictionary W - noun A man whose occupation is to make or repair wheels and wheeled vehicles, as carts, wagons, and the like.
Wheely Dictionary W - adjective Circular; suitable to rotation.
Wheen Dictionary W - noun A quantity; a goodly number.
Wheezed Dictionary W - imperative & past particle of Wheeze.
Wheezing Dictionary W - past particle & verb noun of Wheeze.
Wheeze Dictionary W - intransitive verb To breathe hard, and with an audible piping or whistling sound, as persons affected with asthma.
Wheezy Dictionary W - adjective Breathing with difficulty and with a wheeze; wheezing. Used also figuratively.
Wheft Dictionary W - noun See Waft, n., 4.
Whelk Dictionary W - noun 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.
Whelked Dictionary W - adjective Having whelks; whelky; as, whelked horns.
Whelky Dictionary W - adjective Having whelks, ridges, or protuberances; hence, streaked; striated.
Whelmed Dictionary W - imperative & past particle of Whelm.
Whelming Dictionary W - past particle & verb noun of Whelm.
Whelm Dictionary W - verb transitive To cover with water or other fluid; to cover by immersion in something that envelops on all sides; to overwhelm; to ingulf.
Whelp Dictionary W - noun One of the young of a dog or a beast of prey; a puppy; a cub; as, a lion's whelps.
Whelped Dictionary W - imperative & past particle of Whelp.
Whelping Dictionary W - past particle & verb noun of Whelp.
When Dictionary W - adverb At what time; - used interrogatively.
Whenas Dictionary W - conjecture Whereas; while.
Whence Dictionary W - adverb From what place; hence, from what or which source, origin, antecedent, premise, or the like; how; - used interrogatively.
Whenceever Dictionary W - adverb & conjecture Whencesoever.
Whenceforth Dictionary W - adverb From, or forth from, what or which place; whence.
Whencesoever Dictionary W - adverb & conjecture From what place soever; from what cause or source soever.
Whene'er Dictionary W - adverb & conjecture Whenever.
Whenever Dictionary W - adverb & conjecture At whatever time.
Whennes Dictionary W - adverb Whence.
Whensoever Dictionary W - adverb & conjecture At what time soever; at whatever time; whenever.
Where Dictionary W - pronoun & conjecture Whether.
Whereabout Dictionary W - adverb Alt. of Whereabouts.
Whereabouts Dictionary W - adverb About where; near what or which place; - used interrogatively and relatively; as, whereabouts did you meet him?.
Whereas Dictionary W - adverb At which place; where.
Whereat Dictionary W - adverb At which; upon which; whereupon; - used relatively.
Whereby Dictionary W - adverb By which; - used relatively.
Where'er Dictionary W - adverb Wherever; - a contracted and poetical form.
Wherefore Dictionary W - adverb & conjecture For which reason; so; - used relatively.
Whereform Dictionary W - adverb From which; from which or what place.
Wherein Dictionary W - adverb In which; in which place, thing, time, respect, or the like; - used relatively.
Whereinto Dictionary W - adverb Into which; - used relatively.
Whereness Dictionary W - noun The quality or state of having a place; ubiety; situation; position.
Whereof Dictionary W - adverb Of which; of whom; formerly, also, with which; - used relatively.
Whereon Dictionary W - adverb On which; - used relatively; as, the earth whereon we live.
Whereout Dictionary W - adverb Out of which.
Whereso Dictionary W - adverb Wheresoever.
Wheresoe'er Dictionary W - adverb Wheresoever.
Wheresoever Dictionary W - adverb In what place soever; in whatever place; wherever.
Wherethrough Dictionary W - adverb Through which.
Whereto Dictionary W - adverb To which; - used relatively.
Whereunto Dictionary W - adverb Same as Whereto.
Whereupon Dictionary W - adverb Upon which; in consequence of which; after which.
Wherever Dictionary W - adverb At or in whatever place; wheresoever.
Wherewith Dictionary W - adverb With which; - used relatively.
Wherewithal Dictionary W - adverb & noun Wherewith.
Whereret Dictionary W - verb transitive To hurry; to trouble; to tease.
Wherret Dictionary W - noun A box on the ear.
Wherries Dictionary W - pleural of Wherry.
Wherry Dictionary W - noun A passenger barge or lighter plying on rivers; also, a kind of light, half-decked vessel used in fishing.
Wherso Dictionary W - adverb Wheresoever.
Whetted Dictionary W - imperative & past particle of Whet.
Whetting Dictionary W - past particle & verb noun of Whet.
Whet Dictionary W - verb transitive 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.
Whether Dictionary W - pronoun Which (of two); which one (of two); - used interrogatively and relatively.
Whethering Dictionary W - noun The retention of the afterbirth in cows.
Whetile Dictionary W - noun The green woodpecker, or yaffle. See Yaffle.
Whetstone Dictionary W - noun A piece of stone, natural or artificial, used for whetting, or sharpening, edge tools.
Whetter Dictionary W - noun One who, or that which, whets, sharpens, or stimulates.
Whettlebones Dictionary W - noun plural The vertebrae of the back.
Whew Dictionary W - noun & interjection A sound like a half-formed whistle, expressing astonishment, scorn, or dislike.
Whewellite Dictionary W - noun Calcium oxalate, occurring in colorless or white monoclinic crystals.
Whewer Dictionary W - noun The European widgeon.
Whey Dictionary W - noun The serum, or watery part, of milk, separated from the more thick or coagulable part, esp. in the process of making cheese.
Wheyey Dictionary W - adjective Of the nature of, or containing, whey; resembling whey; wheyish.
Wheyface Dictionary W - noun One who is pale, as from fear.
Whey-faced Dictionary W - adjective Having a pale or white face, as from fright.
Wheyish Dictionary W - adjective Somewhat like whey; wheyey.
Which Dictionary W - adjective Of what sort or kind; what; what a; who.
Whichever Dictionary W - pronoun & adjective Alt. of Whichsoever.
Whichsoever Dictionary W - pronoun & adjective 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.
Whidah bird Dictionary W - 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.
Whider Dictionary W - adverb Whither.
Whiff Dictionary W - noun A sudden expulsion of air from the mouth; a quick puff or slight gust, as of air or smoke.
Whiffed Dictionary W - imperative & past particle of Whiff.
Whiffing Dictionary W - past particle & verb noun of Whiff.
Whiffet Dictionary W - noun A little whiff or puff.
Whiffled Dictionary W - imperative & past particle of Whiffle.
Whiffling Dictionary W - past particle & verb noun of Whiffle.
Whiffle Dictionary W - intransitive verb To waver, or shake, as if moved by gusts of wind; to shift, turn, or veer about.
Whiffler Dictionary W - noun One who whiffles, or frequently changes his opinion or course; one who uses shifts and evasions in argument; hence, a trifler.
Whiffletree Dictionary W - noun Same as Whippletree.
Whig Dictionary W - noun Acidulated whey, sometimes mixed with buttermilk and sweet herbs, used as a cooling beverage.
Whiggamore Dictionary W - noun A Whig; - a cant term applied in contempt to Scotch Presbyterians.
Whiggarchy Dictionary W - noun Government by Whigs.
Whiggery Dictionary W - noun The principles or practices of the Whigs; Whiggism.
Whiggish Dictionary W - adjective Of or pertaining to Whigs; partaking of, or characterized by, the principles of Whigs.
Whiggishly Dictionary W - adverb In a Whiggish manner.
Whiggism Dictionary W - noun The principles of the Whigs.
Whigling Dictionary W - noun A petty or inferior Whig; - used in contempt.
While Dictionary W - noun Space of time, or continued duration, esp. when short; a time; as, one while we thought him innocent.
Whiled Dictionary W - imperative & past particle of While.
Whiling Dictionary W - past particle & verb noun of While.
Whilere Dictionary W - adverb A little while ago; recently; just now; erewhile.
Whiles Dictionary W - noun Meanwhile; meantime.
Whilk Dictionary W - noun A kind of mollusk, a whelk.
Whilom Dictionary W - noun Formerly; once; of old; erewhile; at times.
Whilst Dictionary W - adverb While.
Whim Dictionary W - noun The European widgeon.
Whimbrel Dictionary W - noun 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.
Whimling Dictionary W - noun One given to whims; hence, a weak, childish person; a child.
Whimmy Dictionary W - adjective Full of whims; whimsical.
Whimpered Dictionary W - imperative & past particle of Whimper.
Whimpering Dictionary W - past particle & verb noun of Whimper.
Whimper Dictionary W - intransitive verb To cry with a low, whining, broken voice; to whine; to complain; as, a child whimpers.
Whimperer Dictionary W - noun One who whimpers.
Whimple Dictionary W - verb transitive See Wimple.
Whimseys Dictionary W - pleural of Whimsy.
Whimsies Dictionary W - pleural of Whimsy.
Whimsey Dictionary W - noun Alt. of Whimsy.
Whimsy Dictionary W - noun A whim; a freak; a capricious notion, a fanciful or odd conceit.
Whimsical Dictionary W - adjective Full of, or characterized by, whims; actuated by a whim; having peculiar notions; queer; strange; freakish.
Whimsicality Dictionary W - noun The quality or state of being whimsical; whimsicalness.
Whimsically Dictionary W - adverb In a whimsical manner; freakishly.
Whimsicalness Dictionary W - noun The quality or state of being whimsical; freakishness; whimsical disposition.
Whimwham Dictionary W - noun A whimsical thing; an odd device; a trifle; a trinket; a gimcrack.
Whin Dictionary W - noun Gorse; furze. See Furze.
Whinberry Dictionary W - noun The English bilberry; - so called because it grows on moors among the whins, or furze.
Whinchat Dictionary W - noun A small warbler (Pratincola rubetra) common in Europe; - called also whinchacker, whincheck, whin-clocharet.
Whined Dictionary W - imperative & past particle of Whine.
Whining Dictionary W - past particle & verb noun of Whine.
Whine Dictionary W - intransitive verb 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.
Whiner Dictionary W - noun One who, or that which, whines.
Whinge Dictionary W - intransitive verb To whine.
Whinger Dictionary W - noun A kind of hanger or sword used as a knife at meals and as a weapon.
Whiningly Dictionary W - adverb In a whining manner; in a tone of mean complaint.
Whinner Dictionary W - intransitive verb To whinny.
Whinnied Dictionary W - imperative & past particle of Whinny.
Whinnying Dictionary W - past particle & verb noun of Whinny.
Whinny Dictionary W - intransitive verb To utter the ordinary call or cry of a horse; to neigh.
Whinnies Dictionary W - pleural of Whinny.
Whinock Dictionary W - noun The small pig of a litter.
Whinstone Dictionary W - noun 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.
Whinyard Dictionary W - noun A sword, or hanger.
Whipped Dictionary W - imperative & past particle of Whip.
Whipping Dictionary W - past particle & verb noun of Whip.
Whip Dictionary W - verb transitive 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.
Whipcord Dictionary W - noun A kind of hard-twisted or braided cord, sometimes used for making whiplashes.
Whipgrafted Dictionary W - imperative & past particle of Whipgraft.
Whipgrafting Dictionary W - past particle & verb noun of Whipgraft.
Whipgraft Dictionary W - verb transitive To graft by cutting the scion and stock in a certain manner. See Whip grafting, under Grafting.
Whiplash Dictionary W - noun The lash of a whip, - usually made of thongs of leather, or of cords, braided or twisted.
Whipparee Dictionary W - noun A large sting ray (Dasybatis, / Trygon, Sayi) native of the Southern United States. It is destitute of large spines on the body and tail.
Whipper Dictionary W - noun One who whips; especially, an officer who inflicts the penalty of legal whipping.
Whipperin Dictionary W - noun A huntsman who keeps the hounds from wandering, and whips them in, if necessary, to the of chase.
Whippersnapper Dictionary W - noun A diminutive, insignificant, or presumptuous person.
Whippletree Dictionary W - noun 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.
Whip-poor-will Dictionary W - noun 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.
Whipsaw Dictionary W - noun A saw for dividing timber lengthwise, usually set in a frame, and worked by two persons; also, a fret saw.
Whip-shaped Dictionary W - adjective Shaped like the lash of a whip; long, slender, round, and tapering; as, a whip-shaped root or stem.
Whipstaff Dictionary W - noun A bar attached to the tiller, for convenience in steering.
Whipstalk Dictionary W - noun A whipstock.
Whipster Dictionary W - noun A nimble little fellow; a whippersnapper.
Whipstick Dictionary W - noun Whip handle; whipstock.
Whipstitch Dictionary W - noun A tailor; - so called in contempt.
Whipstock Dictionary W - noun The rod or handle to which the lash of a whip is fastened.
Whipt Dictionary W - imperative & past particle Whipped.
Whip-tom-kelly Dictionary W - noun A vireo (Vireo altiloquus) native of the West Indies and Florida; - called also black-whiskered vireo.
Whipworm Dictionary W - noun A nematode worm (Trichocephalus dispar) often found parasitic in the human intestine. Its body is thickened posteriorly, but is very long and threadlike anteriorly.
Whirred Dictionary W - imperative & past particle of Whir.
Whirring Dictionary W - past particle & verb noun of Whir.
Whir Dictionary W - intransitive verb To whirl round, or revolve, with a whizzing noise; to fly or more quickly with a buzzing or whizzing sound; to whiz.
Whirled Dictionary W - imperative & past particle of Whirl.
Whirling Dictionary W - past particle & verb noun of Whirl.
Whirl Dictionary W - verb transitive To turn round rapidly; to cause to rotate with velocity; to make to revolve.
Whirlabout Dictionary W - noun Something that whirls or turns about in a rapid manner; a whirligig.
Whirlbat Dictionary W - noun 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.
Whirl-blast Dictionary W - noun A whirling blast or wind.
Whirlbone Dictionary W - noun The huckle bone.
Whirler Dictionary W - noun One who, or that which, whirls.
Whirlicote Dictionary W - noun An open car or chariot.
Whirligig Dictionary W - noun A child's toy, spun or whirled around like a wheel upon an axis, or like a top.
Whirlpit Dictionary W - noun A whirlpool.
Whirlpool Dictionary W - noun 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.
Whirlwig Dictionary W - noun A whirligig.
Whirlwind Dictionary W - noun 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.
Whirry Dictionary W - intransitive verb To whir.
Whirtle Dictionary W - noun A perforated steel die through which wires or tubes are drawn to form them.
Whisk Dictionary W - noun A game at cards; whist.
Whisked Dictionary W - imperative & past particle of Whisk.
Whisking Dictionary W - past particle & verb noun of Whisk.
Whisker Dictionary W - noun One who, or that which, whisks, or moves with a quick, sweeping motion.
Whiskered Dictionary W - adjective Formed into whiskers; furnished with whiskers; having or wearing whiskers.
Whiskerless Dictionary W - adjective Being without whiskers.
Whisket Dictionary W - noun A basket; esp., a straw provender basket.
Whiskey Dictionary W - noun Same as Whisky, a liquor.
Whiskeys Dictionary W - pleural of Whisky.
Whiskies Dictionary W - pleural of Whisky.
Whisky Dictionary W - noun A light carriage built for rapid motion; - called also tim-whiskey.
Whiskin Dictionary W - noun A shallow drinking bowl.
Whiskyfied Dictionary W - adjective Alt. of Whiskeyfied.
Whiskeyfied Dictionary W - adjective Drunk with whisky; intoxicated.
Whisp Dictionary W - noun See Wisp.
Whispered Dictionary W - imperative & past particle of Whisper.
Whispering Dictionary W - past particle & verb noun of Whisper.
Whisper Dictionary W - intransitive verb 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.
Whisperer Dictionary W - noun One who whispers.
Whisperingly Dictionary W - adverb In a whisper, or low voice; in a whispering manner; with whispers.
Whisperously Dictionary W - adverb Whisperingly.
Whist Dictionary W - interjection Be silent; be still; hush; silence.
Whistled Dictionary W - imperative & past particle of Whistle.
Whistling Dictionary W - past particle & verb noun of Whistle.
Whistle Dictionary W - intransitive verb 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.
Whistlefish Dictionary W - noun A gossat, or rockling; - called also whistler, three-bearded rockling, sea loach, and sorghe.
Whistler Dictionary W - noun One who, or that which, whistles, or produces or a whistling sound.
Whistlewing Dictionary W - noun The American golden-eye.
Whistlewood Dictionary W - noun The moosewood, or striped maple. See Maple.
Whistlingly Dictionary W - adverb In a whistling manner; shrilly.
Whistly Dictionary W - adverb In a whist manner; silently.
Whit Dictionary W - noun The smallest part or particle imaginable; a bit; a jot; an iota; - generally used in an adverbial phrase in a negative sentence.
White Dictionary W - superlative 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.
Whited Dictionary W - imperative & past particle of White.
Whiting Dictionary W - past particle & verb noun of White.
Whiteback Dictionary W - noun The canvasback.
Whitebait Dictionary W - noun The young of several species of herrings, especially of the common herring, esteemed a great delicacy by epicures in England.
Whitebeam Dictionary W - noun The common beam tree of England (Pyrus Aria); - so called from the white, woolly under surface of the leaves.
Whitebeard Dictionary W - noun An old man; a graybeard.
Whitebelly Dictionary W - noun The American widgeon, or baldpate.
Whitebill Dictionary W - noun The American coot.
White-blaze Dictionary W - noun See White-face.
Whiteblow Dictionary W - noun Same as Whitlow grass, under Whitlow.
Whiteboy Dictionary W - noun A favorite.
Whiteboyism Dictionary W - noun The conduct or principle of the Whiteboys.
Whitecap Dictionary W - noun The European redstart; - so called from its white forehead.
Whitecoat Dictionary W - noun The skin of a newborn seal; also, the seal itself.
White-ear Dictionary W - noun The wheatear.
White-eye Dictionary W - noun 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.
White-face Dictionary W - noun A white mark in the forehead of a horse, descending almost to the nose; - called also white-blaze.
Whitefish Dictionary W - noun 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.
Whiteflaw Dictionary W - noun A whitlow.
White-foot Dictionary W - noun A white mark on the foot of a horse, between the fetlock and the coffin.
White friar Dictionary W - A mendicant monk of the Carmelite order, so called from the white cloaks worn by the order. See Carmelite.
White-fronted Dictionary W - adjective Having a white front; as, the white-fronted lemur.
Whitehead Dictionary W - noun The blue-winged snow goose.
White-heart Dictionary W - noun A somewhat heart-shaped cherry with a whitish skin.
White-hot Dictionary W - adjective White with heat; heated to whiteness, or incandescence.
White-limed Dictionary W - adjective Whitewashed or plastered with lime.
White-livered Dictionary W - adjective Having a pale look; feeble; hence, cowardly; pusillanimous; dastardly.
Whitely Dictionary W - adjective Like, or coming near to, white.
Whitened Dictionary W - imperative & past particle of Whiten.
Whitening Dictionary W - past particle & verb noun of Whiten.
Whiten Dictionary W - intransitive verb 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.
Whitener Dictionary W - noun One who, or that which, whitens; a bleacher; a blancher; a whitewasher.
Whiteness Dictionary W - noun The quality or state of being white; white color, or freedom from darkness or obscurity on the surface.
White-pot Dictionary W - noun A kind of food made of milk or cream, eggs, sugar, bread, etc., baked in a pot.
Whiterump Dictionary W - noun The American black-tailed godwit.
Whites Dictionary W - noun plural Leucorrh/a.
Whiteside Dictionary W - noun The golden-eye.
Whitesmith Dictionary W - noun One who works in tinned or galvanized iron, or white iron; a tinsmith.
Whitester Dictionary W - noun A bleacher of linen; a whitener; a whitster.
Whitetail Dictionary W - noun The Virginia deer.
Whitethorn Dictionary W - noun The hawthorn.
Whitethroat Dictionary W - noun 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).
Whitetop Dictionary W - noun Fiorin.
Whitewall Dictionary W - noun The spotted flycatcher; - so called from the white color of the under parts.
Whitewash Dictionary W - noun Any wash or liquid composition for whitening something, as a wash for making the skin fair.
Whitewashed Dictionary W - imperative & past particle of Whitewash.
Whitewashing Dictionary W - past particle & verb noun of Whitewash.
Whitewasher Dictionary W - noun One who whitewashes.
White-water Dictionary W - noun A dangerous disease of sheep.
Whiteweed Dictionary W - noun 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.
Whitewing Dictionary W - noun The chaffinch; - so called from the white bands on the wing.
Whitewood Dictionary W - noun The soft and easily-worked wood of the tulip tree (Liriodendron). It is much used in cabinetwork, carriage building, etc.
Whitewort Dictionary W - noun Wild camomile.
Whitflaw Dictionary W - noun Whitlow.
Whither Dictionary W - adverb To what place; - used interrogatively; as, whither goest thou?.
Whithersoever Dictionary W - adverb To whatever place; to what place soever; wheresoever; as, I will go whithersoever you lead.
Whitherward Dictionary W - adverb In what direction; toward what or which place.
Whitile Dictionary W - verb The yaffle.
Whiting-mop Dictionary W - noun A young whiting.
Whitish Dictionary W - adjective Somewhat white; approaching white; white in a moderate degree.
Whitishness Dictionary W - noun The quality or state of being whitish or somewhat white.
Whitleather Dictionary W - noun Leather dressed or tawed with alum, salt, etc., remarkable for its pliability and toughness; white leather.
Whitling Dictionary W - noun A young full trout during its second season.
Whitlow Dictionary W - adjective 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.
Whitlow-wort Dictionary W - noun Same as Whitlow grass, under Whitlow.
Whitmonday Dictionary W - noun The day following Whitsunday; - called also Whitsun Monday.
Whitneyite Dictionary W - noun an arsenide of copper from Lake Superior.
Whitson Dictionary W - adjective See Whitsun.
Whitsour Dictionary W - noun A sort of apple.
Whitster Dictionary W - noun A whitener; a bleacher; a whitester.
Whitsun Dictionary W - adjective Of, pertaining to, or observed at, Whitsuntide; as, Whitsun week; Whitsun Tuesday; Whitsun pastorals.
Whitsunday Dictionary W - noun 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.
Whitsuntide Dictionary W - noun The week commencing with Whitsunday, esp. the first three days - Whitsunday, Whitsun Monday, and Whitsun Tuesday; the time of Pentecost.
Whitten tree Dictionary W - Either of two shrubs (Viburnum Lantana, and V. Opulus), so called on account of their whitish branches.
Whitterick Dictionary W - noun The curlew.
Whittle Dictionary W - noun A grayish, coarse double blanket worn by countrywomen, in the west of England, over the shoulders, like a cloak or shawl.
Whittled Dictionary W - imperative & past particle of Whittle.
Whittling Dictionary W - past particle & verb noun of Whittle.
Whittlings Dictionary W - noun plural Chips made by one who whittles; shavings cut from a stick with a knife.
Whittret Dictionary W - noun A weasel.
Whittuesday Dictionary W - noun The day following Whitmonday; - called also Whitsun Tuesday.
Whitwall Dictionary W - noun Same as Whetile.
Whitworth ball Dictionary W - A prejectile used in the Whitworth gun.
Whitworth gun Dictionary W - A form of rifled cannon and small arms invented by Sir Joseph Whitworth, of Manchester, England.
Whity-brown Dictionary W - adjective Of a color between white and brown.
Whizzed Dictionary W - imperative & past particle of Whiz.
Whizzing Dictionary W - past particle & verb noun of Whiz.
Whiz Dictionary W - intransitive verb 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.
Whizzingly Dictionary W - adverb With a whizzing sound.
Who Dictionary W - 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.
Whoa Dictionary W - interjection Stop; stand; hold. See Ho, 2.
Whobub Dictionary W - noun Hubbub.
Whoever Dictionary W - pronoun Whatever person; any person who; be or she who; any one who; as, he shall be punished, whoever he may be.
Whole Dictionary W - adjective 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.
Whole-hoofed Dictionary W - adjective Having an undivided hoof, as the horse.
Whole-length Dictionary W - adjective Representing the whole figure; - said of a picture or statue.
Wholeness Dictionary W - noun The quality or state of being whole, entire, or sound; entireness; totality; completeness.
Wholesale Dictionary W - noun Sale of goods by the piece or large quantity, as distinguished from retail.
Wholesome Dictionary W - superlative Tending to promote health; favoring health; salubrious; salutary.
Whole-souled Dictionary W - adjective Thoroughly imbued with a right spirit; noble-minded; devoted.
Wholly Dictionary W - adverb In a whole or complete manner; entirely; completely; perfectly.
Whom Dictionary W - pronoun The objective case of who. See Who.
Whomsoever Dictionary W - pronoun The objective of whosoever. See Whosoever.
Whoobub Dictionary W - noun Hubbub.
Whoop Dictionary W - noun The hoopoe.
Whooped Dictionary W - imperative & past particle of Whoop.
Whooping Dictionary W - past particle & verb noun of Whoop.
Whooper Dictionary W - noun One who, or that which, whooops.
Whoot Dictionary W - intransitive verb To hoot.
Whore Dictionary W - noun A woman who practices unlawful sexual commerce with men, especially one who prostitutes her body for hire; a prostitute; a harlot.
Whored Dictionary W - imperative & past particle of Whore.
Whoring Dictionary W - past particle & verb noun of Whore.
Whoredom Dictionary W - noun The practice of unlawful intercourse with the other sex; fornication; lewdness.
Wheremaster Dictionary W - noun A man who practices lewdness; a lecher; a whoremonger.
Whoremasterly Dictionary W - adjective Having the character of a whoremaster; lecherous; libidinous.
Whoremonger Dictionary W - noun A whoremaster; a lecher; a man who frequents the society of whores.
Whoreson Dictionary W - noun A bastard; colloquially, a low, scurvy fellow; - used generally in contempt, or in coarse humor. Also used adjectively.
Whorish Dictionary W - adjective Resembling a whore in character or conduct; addicted to unlawful pleasures; incontinent; lewd; unchaste.
Whorl Dictionary W - noun & verb A circle of two or more leaves, flowers, or other organs, about the same part or joint of a stem.
Whorled Dictionary W - adjective Furnished with whorls; arranged in the form of a whorl or whorls; verticillate; as, whorled leaves.
Whorler Dictionary W - noun A potter's wheel.
Whort Dictionary W - noun The whortleberry, or bilberry. See Whortleberry (a).
Whortle Dictionary W - noun The whortleberry, or bilberry.
Whortleberry Dictionary W - noun In England, the fruit of Vaccinium Myrtillus; also, the plant itself. See Bilberry, 1.
Whose Dictionary W - pronoun The possessive case of who or which. See Who, and Which.
Whosesoever Dictionary W - pronoun The possessive of whosoever. See Whosoever.
Whoso Dictionary W - pronoun Whosoever.
Whosoever Dictionary W - pronoun Whatsoever person; any person whatever that; whoever.
Whot Dictionary W - adjective Hot.
Whur Dictionary W - intransitive verb To make a rough, humming sound, like one who pronounces the letter r with too much force; to whir; to birr.
Whurry Dictionary W - verb transitive To whisk along quickly; to hurry.
Whurt Dictionary W - noun See Whort.
Why Dictionary W - adverb For what cause, reason, or purpose; on what account; wherefore; - used interrogatively. See the Note under What, pron., 1.
Whydah bird Dictionary W - Alt. of Whydah finch.
Whydah finch Dictionary W - The whidah bird.
Why-not Dictionary W - noun A violent and peremptory procedure without any assigned reason; a sudden conclusive happening.
Wich Dictionary W - noun A variant of 1st Wick.
Wichitas Dictionary W - noun plural A tribe of Indians native of the region between the Arkansas and Red rivers. They are related to the Pawnees. See Pawnees.
Wick Dictionary W - noun Alt. of Wich.
Wicke Dictionary W - adjective Wicked.
Wicked Dictionary W - adjective Having a wick; - used chiefly in composition; as, a two-wicked lamp.
Wickedly Dictionary W - adverb 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.
Wickedness Dictionary W - noun 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.
Wicken tree Dictionary W - Same as Quicken tree.
Wicker Dictionary W - noun A small pliant twig or osier; a rod for making basketwork and the like; a withe.
Wickered Dictionary W - adjective Made of, secured by, or covered with, wickers or wickerwork.
Wickerwork Dictionary W - noun A texture of osiers, twigs, or rods; articles made of such a texture.
Wicket Dictionary W - noun 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.
Wicking Dictionary W - noun the material of which wicks are made; esp., a loosely braided or twisted cord or tape of cotton.
Wiclifite Dictionary W - noun Alt. of Wickliffite.
Wickliffite Dictionary W - noun See Wyclifite.
Wicopy Dictionary W - noun See Leatherwood.
Widdy Dictionary W - noun A rope or halter made of flexible twigs, or withes, as of birch.
Wide Dictionary W - superlative 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.
Wide-awake Dictionary W - adjective Fully awake; not drowsy or dull; hence, knowing; keen; alert.
Widegap Dictionary W - noun The angler; - called also widegab, and widegut.
Widely Dictionary W - adverb In a wide manner; to a wide degree or extent; far; extensively; as, the gospel was widely disseminated by the apostles.
Widened Dictionary W - imperative & past particle of Widen.
Widening Dictionary W - past particle & verb noun of Widen.
Widen Dictionary W - verb transitive 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.
Wideness Dictionary W - noun The quality or state of being wide; breadth; width; great extent from side to side; as, the wideness of a room.
Widespread Dictionary W - adjective Spread to a great distance; widely extended; extending far and wide; as, widespread wings; a widespread movement.
Widewhere Dictionary W - adverb Widely; far and wide.
Widgeon Dictionary W - noun 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.
Widish Dictionary W - adjective Moderately wide.
Widmanstatten figures Dictionary W - 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.
Widow Dictionary W - noun A woman who has lost her husband by death, and has not married again; one living bereaved of a husband.
Widowed Dictionary W - imperative & past particle of Widow.
Widowing Dictionary W - past particle & verb noun of Widow.
Widow bird Dictionary W - See Whidan bird.
Widower Dictionary W - noun A man who has lost his wife by death, and has not married again.
Widowerhood Dictionary W - noun The state of being a widower.
Widowhood Dictionary W - noun The state of being a widow; the time during which a woman is widow; also, rarely, the state of being a widower.
Widow-hunter Dictionary W - noun One who courts widows, seeking to marry one with a fortune.
Widowly Dictionary W - adjective Becoming or like a widow.
Widow-maker Dictionary W - noun One who makes widows by destroying husbands.
Widow-wail Dictionary W - noun A low, narrowleaved evergreen shrub (Cneorum tricoccon) found in Southern Europe.
Width Dictionary W - noun The quality of being wide; extent from side to side; breadth; wideness; as, the width of cloth; the width of a door.
Widual Dictionary W - adjective Of or pertaining to a widow; vidual.
Widwe Dictionary W - noun A widow.
Wielded Dictionary W - imperative & past particle of Wield.
Wielding Dictionary W - past particle & verb noun of Wield.
Wield Dictionary W - verb transitive To govern; to rule; to keep, or have in charge; also, to possess.
Wieldable Dictionary W - adjective Capable of being wielded.
Wieldance Dictionary W - noun The act or power of wielding.
Wielder Dictionary W - noun One who wields or employs; a manager; a controller.
Wieldless Dictionary W - adjective Not to be wielded; unmanageable; unwieldy.
Wieldsome Dictionary W - adjective Admitting of being easily wielded or managed.
Wieldy Dictionary W - adjective Capable of being wielded; manageable; wieldable; - opposed to unwieldy.
Wier Dictionary W - noun Same as Weir.
Wierangle Dictionary W - noun Same as Wariangle.
Wiery Dictionary W - adjective Wet; moist; marshy.
Wives Dictionary W - pleural of Wife.
Wife Dictionary W - noun A woman; an adult female; - now used in literature only in certain compounds and phrases, as alewife, fishwife, goodwife, and the like.
Wifehood Dictionary W - noun Womanhood.
Wifeless Dictionary W - adjective Without a wife; unmarried.
Wifelike Dictionary W - adjective Of, pertaining to, or like, a wife or a woman.
Wifely Dictionary W - adjective Becoming or life; of or pertaining to a wife.
Wig Dictionary W - noun 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.
Wigged Dictionary W - imperative & past particle of Wig.
Wigging Dictionary W - past particle & verb noun of Wig.
Wigan Dictionary W - noun 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.
Wigeon Dictionary W - noun A widgeon.
Wigg Dictionary W - noun Alt. of Wig.
Wiggery Dictionary W - noun A wig or wigs; false hair.
Wiggle Dictionary W - verb transitive 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.
Wiggler Dictionary W - noun The young, either larva or pupa, of the mosquito; - called also wiggletail.
Wigher Dictionary W - intransitive verb To neigh; to whinny.
Wight Dictionary W - noun Weight.
Wightly Dictionary W - adverb Swiftly; nimbly; quickly.
Wigless Dictionary W - adjective Having or wearing no wig.
Wigwag Dictionary W - verb transitive To signal by means of a flag waved from side to side according to a code adopted for the purpose.
Wigwam Dictionary W - noun 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.
Wike Dictionary W - noun 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.
Wikke Dictionary W - adjective Wicked.
Wild Dictionary W - superlative 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.
Wild-cat Dictionary W - adjective 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.
Wildebeest Dictionary W - noun The gnu.
Wilded Dictionary W - adjective Become wild.
Wildered Dictionary W - imperative & past particle of Wilder.
Wildering Dictionary W - past particle & verb noun of Wilder.
Wilder Dictionary W - adjective To bewilder; to perplex.
Wilderment Dictionary W - noun The state of being bewildered; confusion; bewilderment.
Wilderness Dictionary W - verb transitive 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.
Wildfire Dictionary W - noun A composition of inflammable materials, which, kindled, is very hard to quench; Greek fire.
Wildgrave Dictionary W - noun A waldgrave, or head forest keeper. See Waldgrave.
Wilding Dictionary W - noun A wild or uncultivated plant; especially, a wild apple tree or crab apple; also, the fruit of such a plant.
Wildish Dictionary W - adjective Somewhat wild; rather wild.
Wildly Dictionary W - adverb In a wild manner; without cultivation; with disorder; rudely; distractedly; extravagantly.
Wildness Dictionary W - noun The quality or state of being wild; an uncultivated or untamed state; disposition to rove or go unrestrained; rudeness; savageness; irregularity; distraction.
Wildwood Dictionary W - noun A wild or unfrequented wood. Also used adjectively; as, wildwood flowers; wildwood echoes.
Wile Dictionary W - noun A trick or stratagem practiced for insnaring or deception; a sly, insidious; artifice; a beguilement; an allurement.
Wileful Dictionary W - adjective Full of wiles; trickish; deceitful.
Wilful Dictionary W - noun Alt. of Wilfulness.
Wilfully Dictionary W - noun Alt. of Wilfulness.
Wilfulness Dictionary W - noun See Willful, Willfully, and Willfulness.
Wiliness Dictionary W - noun The quality or state of being wily; craftiness; cunning; guile.
Wilk Dictionary W - noun See Whelk.
Will Dictionary W - verb 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.
Would Dictionary W - imperative of Will.
Willed Dictionary W - imperative & past particle of Will.
Willing Dictionary W - past particle & verb noun of Will.
Willemite Dictionary W - noun A silicate of zinc, usually occurring massive and of a greenish yellow color, also in reddish crystals (troostite) containing manganese.
Willer Dictionary W - noun One who wills.
Willet Dictionary W - noun A large North American snipe (Symphemia semipalmata); - called also pill-willet, will-willet, semipalmated tattler, or snipe, duck snipe, and stone curlew.
Willful Dictionary W - adjective Of set purpose; self-determined; voluntary; as, willful murder.
Willier Dictionary W - noun One who works at a willying machine.
Willingly Dictionary W - adverb In a willing manner; with free will; without reluctance; cheerfully.
Willingness Dictionary W - noun 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.
Williwaw Dictionary W - noun Alt. of Willywaw.
Willywaw Dictionary W - noun A whirlwind, or whirlwind squall, encountered in the Straits of Magellan.
Willock Dictionary W - noun The common guillemot.
Will-o'-the-wisp Dictionary W - noun See Ignis fatuus.
Willow Dictionary W - noun 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.
Willowed Dictionary W - adjective Abounding with willows; containing willows; covered or overgrown with willows.
Willower Dictionary W - noun A willow. See Willow, n., 2.
Willow-herb Dictionary W - noun 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.
Willowish Dictionary W - adjective Having the color of the willow; resembling the willow; willowy.
Willow-thorn Dictionary W - noun A thorny European shrub (Hippophae rhamnoides) resembling a willow.
Willow-weed Dictionary W - noun A European species of loosestrife (Lysimachia vulgaris).
Willow-wort Dictionary W - noun Same as Willow-weed.
Willowy Dictionary W - adjective Abounding with willows.
Willsome Dictionary W - adjective Willful; obstinate.
Willy Dictionary W - noun A large wicker basket.
Willying Dictionary W - noun The process of cleansing wool, cotton, or the like, with a willy, or willow.
Willy nilly Dictionary W - See Will I, nill I, etc., under 3d Will.
Wilne Dictionary W - verb transitive To wish; to desire.
Wilt Dictionary W - 2d pers. sing. of Will.
Wilting Dictionary W - imperative & past particle of Wilt.
Wilton carpet Dictionary W - 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.
Wilwe Dictionary W - noun Willow.
Wily Dictionary W - superlative Full of wiles, tricks, or stratagems; using craft or stratagem to accomplish a purpose; mischievously artful; subtle.
Wimble Dictionary W - noun An instrument for boring holes, turned by a handle.
Wimbled Dictionary W - imperative & past particle of Wimble.
Wimbling Dictionary W - past particle & verb noun of Wimble.
Wimbrel Dictionary W - noun The whimbrel.
Wimple Dictionary W - noun 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.
Wimpled Dictionary W - imperative & past particle of Wimple.
Wimpling Dictionary W - past particle & verb noun of Wimple.
Won Dictionary W - imperative & past particle of Win.
Winning Dictionary W - past particle & verb noun of Win.
Win Dictionary W - adjective 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.
Winced Dictionary W - imperative & past particle of Wince.
Wincing Dictionary W - past particle & verb noun of Wince.
Wince Dictionary W - intransitive verb To shrink, as from a blow, or from pain; to flinch; to start back.
Wincer Dictionary W - noun One who, or that which, winces, shrinks, or kicks.
Wincey Dictionary W - noun Linsey-woolsey.
Winch Dictionary W - intransitive verb To wince; to shrink; to kick with impatience or uneasiness.
Wincopipe Dictionary W - noun A little red flower, no doubt the pimpernel, which, when it opens in the morning, is supposed to bode a fair day. See Pimpernel.
Wound Dictionary W - imperative & past particle of Wind.
Winded Dictionary W - of Wind.
Winding Dictionary W - past particle & verb noun of Wind.
Wind Dictionary W - verb transitive 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.
Windage Dictionary W - noun The difference between the diameter of the bore of a gun and that of the shot fired from it.
Windas Dictionary W - noun See 3d Windlass.
Windbore Dictionary W - noun The lower, or bottom, pipe in a lift of pumps in a mine.
Windbound Dictionary W - adjective prevented from sailing, by a contrary wind. See Weatherbound.
Wind-break Dictionary W - verb transitive To break the wind of; to cause to lose breath; to exhaust.
Wind-broken Dictionary W - adjective 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.
Winder Dictionary W - noun One who, or that which, winds; hence, a creeping or winding plant.
Windfall Dictionary W - noun 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.
Windfallen Dictionary W - adjective Blown down by the wind.
Wind-fertilized Dictionary W - adjective Anemophilous; fertilized by pollen borne by the wind.
Windflower Dictionary W - noun The anemone; - so called because formerly supposed to open only when the wind was blowing. See Anemone.
Windgall Dictionary W - noun A soft tumor or synovial swelling on the fetlock joint of a horse; - so called from having formerly been supposed to contain air.
Windhover Dictionary W - noun The kestrel; - called also windbibber, windcuffer, windfanner.
Windiness Dictionary W - noun The quality or state of being windy or tempestuous; as, the windiness of the weather or the season.
Windingly Dictionary W - adverb In a winding manner.
Windlace Dictionary W - noun & verb See Windlass.
Windlass Dictionary W - noun A winding and circuitous way; a roundabout course; a shift.
Windle Dictionary W - noun A spindle; a kind of reel; a winch.
Windless Dictionary W - adjective Having no wind; calm.
Windlestrae Dictionary W - noun Alt. of Windlestraw.
Windlestraw Dictionary W - noun A grass used for making ropes or for plaiting, esp. Agrostis Spica-ventis.
Windmill Dictionary W - noun 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.
Windore Dictionary W - noun A window.
Window Dictionary W - noun 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.
Windowed Dictionary W - imperative & past particle of Window.
Windowing Dictionary W - past particle & verb noun of Window.
Windowless Dictionary W - adjective Destitute of a window.
Windowpane Dictionary W - noun See Pane, n., -3 b.
Windowy Dictionary W - adjective Having little crossings or openings like the sashes of a window.
Windpipe Dictionary W - noun The passage for the breath from the larynx to the lungs; the trachea; the weasand. See Illust. under Lung.
Wind-plant Dictionary W - noun A windflower.
Wind-rode Dictionary W - adjective 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.
Windrow Dictionary W - noun A row or line of hay raked together for the purpose of being rolled into cocks or heaps.
Windrowed Dictionary W - imperative & past particle of Windrow.
Windrowing Dictionary W - past particle & verb noun of Windrow.
Windsor Dictionary W - noun A town in Berkshire, England.
Windstorm Dictionary W - noun A storm characterized by high wind with little or no rain.
Wind-sucker Dictionary W - noun A horse given to wind-sucking.
Wind-sucking Dictionary W - noun A vicious habit of a horse, consisting in the swallowing of air; - usually associated with crib-biting, or cribbing. See Cribbing, 4.
Windtight Dictionary W - adjective So tight as to prevent the passing through of wind.
Windward Dictionary W - noun The point or side from which the wind blows; as, to ply to the windward; - opposed to leeward.
Windy Dictionary W - superlative Consisting of wind; accompanied or characterized by wind; exposed to wind.
Wine Dictionary W - noun 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.
Wineberry Dictionary W - noun The red currant.
Winebibber Dictionary W - noun One who drinks much wine.
Wineglass Dictionary W - noun A small glass from which to drink wine.
Wineglassfuls Dictionary W - pleural of Wineglassful.
Wineglassful Dictionary W - As much as a wineglass will hold; enough to fill a wineglass. It is usually reckoned at two fluid ounces, or four tablespoonfuls.
Wineless Dictionary W - adjective destitute of wine; as, wineless life.
Winery Dictionary W - noun A place where grapes are converted into wine.
Wing Dictionary W - noun 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.
Winged Dictionary W - imperative & past particle of Wing.
Winging Dictionary W - past particle & verb noun of Wing.
Winger Dictionary W - noun One of the casks stowed in the wings of a vessel's hold, being smaller than such as are stowed more amidships.
Wingfish Dictionary W - noun A sea robin having large, winglike pectoral fins. See Sea robin, under Robin.
Wing-footed Dictionary W - adjective Having wings attached to the feet; as, wing-footed Mercury; hence, swift; moving with rapidity; fleet.
Wing-handed Dictionary W - adjective Having the anterior limbs or hands adapted for flight, as the bats and pterodactyls.
Wing-leaved Dictionary W - adjective Having pinnate or pinnately divided leaves.
Wingless Dictionary W - adjective Having no wings; not able to ascend or fly.
Winglet Dictionary W - noun A little wing; a very small wing.
Wingmanship Dictionary W - noun Power or skill in flying.
Wing-shell Dictionary W - noun Any one of various species of marine bivalve shells belonging to the genus Avicula, in which the hinge border projects like a wing.
Wingy Dictionary W - adjective Having wings; rapid.
Winked Dictionary W - imperative & past particle of Wink.
Winking Dictionary W - past particle & verb noun of Wink.
Wink Dictionary W - intransitive verb To nod; to sleep; to nap.
Winker Dictionary W - noun One who winks.
Winkingly Dictionary W - adverb In a winking manner; with the eye almost closed.
Winkle Dictionary W - noun Any periwinkle.
Winkle-hawk Dictionary W - noun A rectangular rent made in cloth; - called also winkle-hole.
Winnard 2 Dictionary W - noun The redwing.
Winnebagoes Dictionary W - noun 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.
Winner Dictionary W - noun One who wins, or gains by success in competition, contest, or gaming.
Winningly Dictionary W - adverb In a winning manner.
Winningness Dictionary W - noun The quality or state of being winning.
Winninish Dictionary W - noun The land-locked variety of the common salmon.
Winnowed Dictionary W - imperative & past particle of Winnew.
Winnowing Dictionary W - past particle & verb noun of Winnew.
Winnew Dictionary W - noun To separate, and drive off, the chaff from by means of wind; to fan; as, to winnow grain.
Winnow Dictionary W - intransitive verb To separate chaff from grain.
Winnower Dictionary W - noun One who, or that which, winnows; specifically, a winnowing machine.
Winrow Dictionary W - noun A windrow.
Winsing Dictionary W - adjective Winsome.
Winsome Dictionary W - adjective Cheerful; merry; gay; light-hearted.
Winsomeness Dictionary W - noun The characteristic of being winsome; attractiveness of manner.
Winter Dictionary W - noun The season of the year in which the sun shines most obliquely upon any region; the coldest season of the year.
Wintered Dictionary W - imperative & past particle of Winter.
Wintering Dictionary W - past particle & verb noun of Winter.
Winter-beaten Dictionary W - adjective Beaten or harassed by the severe weather of winter.
Wintergreen Dictionary W - noun A plant which keeps its leaves green through the winter.
Winter-ground Dictionary W - verb transitive To coved over in the season of winter, as for protection or shelter; as, to winter-ground the roods of a plant.
Winterkilled Dictionary W - imperative & past particle of Winterkill.
Winterkilling Dictionary W - past particle & verb noun of Winterkill.
Winterkill Dictionary W - verb transitive To kill by the cold, or exposure to the inclemency of winter; as, the wheat was winterkilled.
Winterly Dictionary W - adjective Like winter; wintry; cold; hence, disagreeable, cheerless; as, winterly news.
Winter-proud Dictionary W - adjective Having too rank or forward a growth for winter.
Winter-rig Dictionary W - verb transitive To fallow or till in winter.
Winter's bark Dictionary W - 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.
Wintertide Dictionary W - noun Winter time.
Winterweed Dictionary W - noun A kind of speedwell (Veronica hederifolia) which spreads chiefly in winter.
Wintery Dictionary W - adjective Wintry.
Wintry Dictionary W - adjective Suitable to winter; resembling winter, or what belongs to winter; brumal; hyemal; cold; stormy; wintery.
Winy Dictionary W - adjective Having the taste or qualities of wine; vinous; as, grapes of a winy taste.
Winze Dictionary W - noun A small shaft sunk from one level to another, as for the purpose of ventilation.
Wipe Dictionary W - noun The lapwing.
Wiped Dictionary W - imperative & past particle of Wipe.
Wiping Dictionary W - past particle & verb noun of Wipe.
Wiper Dictionary W - noun One who, or that which, wipes.
Wirbled Dictionary W - imperative & past particle of Wirble.
Wirbling Dictionary W - past particle & verb noun of Wirble.
Wirble Dictionary W - intransitive verb To whirl; to eddy.
Wirche Dictionary W - verb intransitive & transitive To work.
Wire Dictionary W - noun 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.
Wired Dictionary W - imperative & past particle of Wire.
Wiring Dictionary W - past particle & verb noun of Wire.
Wiredrew Dictionary W - imperative of Wiredraw.
Wiredrawn Dictionary W - past participle of Wiredraw.
Wiredrawing Dictionary W - past particle & verb noun of Wiredraw.
Wiredraw Dictionary W - verb transitive To form (a piece of metal) into wire, by drawing it through a hole in a plate of steel.
Wire-drawer Dictionary W - noun One who draws metal into wire.
Wire-heel Dictionary W - noun A disease in the feet of a horse or other beast.
Wire-puller Dictionary W - noun One who pulls the wires, as of a puppet; hence, one who operates by secret means; an intriguer.
Wire-pulling Dictionary W - noun The act of pulling the wires, as of a puppet; hence, secret influence or management, especially in politics; intrigue.
Wire-tailed Dictionary W - adjective Having some or all of the tail quills terminated in a long, slender, pointed shaft, without a web or barbules.
Wirework Dictionary W - noun Work, especially openwork, formed of wires.
Wire-worker Dictionary W - noun One who manufactures articles from wire.
Wireworm Dictionary W - noun 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.
Wiriness Dictionary W - noun The quality of being wiry.
Wiry Dictionary W - adjective Made of wire; like wire; drawn out like wire.
Wis Dictionary W - adverb Certainly; really; indeed.
Wisard Dictionary W - noun See Wizard.
Wisdom Dictionary W - adjective 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.
Wise Dictionary W - verb Having knowledge; knowing; enlightened; of extensive information; erudite; learned.
Wiseacre Dictionary W - verb A learned or wise man.
Wise-hearted Dictionary W - adjective Wise; knowing; skillful; sapient; erudite; prudent.
Wise-like Dictionary W - adjective Resembling that which is wise or sensible; judicious.
Wiseling Dictionary W - noun One who pretends to be wise; a wiseacre; a witling.
Wisely Dictionary W - adverb In a wise manner; prudently; judiciously; discreetly; with wisdom.
Wiseness Dictionary W - noun Wisdom.
Wished Dictionary W - imperative & past particle of Wish.
Wishing Dictionary W - past particle & verb noun of Wish.
Wish Dictionary W - verb transitive To have a desire or yearning; to long; to hanker.
Wishable Dictionary W - adjective Capable or worthy of being wished for; desirable.
Wishbone Dictionary W - noun The forked bone in front of the breastbone in birds; - called also merrythought, and wishing bone. See Merrythought, and Furculum.
Wishedly Dictionary W - adverb According to wish; conformably to desire.
Wisher Dictionary W - noun One who wishes or desires; one who expresses a wish.
Wishful Dictionary W - adjective Having desire, or ardent desire; longing.
Wishly Dictionary W - adverb According to desire; longingly; with wishes.
Wishtonwish Dictionary W - noun The prairie dog.
Wish-wash Dictionary W - noun Any weak, thin drink.
Wishy-washy Dictionary W - adjective Thin and pale; weak; without strength or substance; - originally said of liquids. Fig., weak-minded; spiritless.
Wisket Dictionary W - noun A whisket, or basket.
Wisly Dictionary W - adverb Certainly.
Wisp Dictionary W - noun A small bundle, as of straw or other like substance.
Wisped Dictionary W - imperative & past particle of Wisp.
Wisping Dictionary W - past particle & verb noun of Wisp.
Wispen Dictionary W - adjective Formed of a wisp, or of wisp; as, a wispen broom.
Wisse Dictionary W - adjective To show; to teach; to inform; to guide; to direct.
Wist Dictionary W - verb Knew.
Wistaria Dictionary W - noun A genus of climbing leguminous plants bearing long, pendulous clusters of pale bluish flowers.
Wistful Dictionary W - adjective Longing; wishful; desirous.
Wistit Dictionary W - noun A small South American monkey; a marmoset.
Wistly Dictionary W - adverb Attentively; observingly.
Wistonwish Dictionary W - noun See Wishtonwish.
Wit Dictionary W - inf. of Wit.
Wite Dictionary W - pl. of Wit.
Wist(e) Dictionary W - imperative of Wit.
Wit(t)ing Dictionary W - past particle & verb noun of Wit.
Witch Dictionary W - noun A cone of paper which is placed in a vessel of lard or other fat, and used as a taper.
Witched Dictionary W - imperative & past particle of Witch.
Witching Dictionary W - past particle & verb noun of Witch.
Witchcraft Dictionary W - noun The practices or art of witches; sorcery; enchantments; intercourse with evil spirits.
Witch-elm Dictionary W - noun See Wych-elm.
Witcheries Dictionary W - pleural of Witchery.
Witchery Dictionary W - noun Sorcery; enchantment; witchcraft.
Witch-hazel Dictionary W - noun The wych-elm.
Witch-tree Dictionary W - noun The witch-hazel.
Witchuck Dictionary W - noun The sand martin, or bank swallow.
Wit-cracker Dictionary W - noun One who breaks jests; a joker.
Witcraft Dictionary W - noun Art or skill of the mind; contrivance; invention; wit.
Witeless Dictionary W - adjective Blameless.
Witen Dictionary W - pl. pres. of Wit.
Witenagemote Dictionary W - noun A meeting of wise men; the national council, or legislature, of England in the days of the Anglo-Saxons, before the Norman Conquest.
Witfish Dictionary W - noun The ladyfish (a).
Witful Dictionary W - adjective Wise; sensible.
With Dictionary W - noun See Withe.
Withal Dictionary W - adverb With this; with that.
Withamite Dictionary W - noun A variety of epidote, of a reddish color, found in Scotland.
Withdrew Dictionary W - imperative of Withdraw.
Withdrawn Dictionary W - past participle of Withdraw.
Withdrawing Dictionary W - past particle & verb noun of Withdraw.
Withdraw Dictionary W - verb transitive 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.
Withdrawal Dictionary W - noun The act of withdrawing; withdrawment; retreat; retraction.
Withdrawer Dictionary W - noun One who withdraws; one who takes back, or retracts.
Withdrawing-room Dictionary W - noun A room for retirement from another room, as from a dining room; a drawing-room.
Withdrawment Dictionary W - noun The act of withdrawing; withdrawal.
Withe Dictionary W - noun A flexible, slender twig or branch used as a band; a willow or osier twig; a withy.
Withed Dictionary W - imperative & past particle of Withe.
Withing Dictionary W - past particle & verb noun of Withe.
Withered Dictionary W - imperative & past particle of Wither.
Withering Dictionary W - past particle & verb noun of Wither.
Wither Dictionary W - noun To fade; to lose freshness; to become sapless; to become sapless; to dry or shrivel up.
Witherband Dictionary W - noun A piece of iron in a saddle near a horse's withers, to strengthen the bow.
Witherite Dictionary W - noun Barium carbonate occurring in white or gray six-sided twin crystals, and also in columnar or granular masses.
Witherling Dictionary W - noun A withered person; one who is decrepit.
Withernam Dictionary W - noun A second or reciprocal distress of other goods in lieu of goods which were taken by a first distress and have been eloigned; a taking by way of reprisal; - chiefly used in the expression capias in withernam, which is the name of a writ used in connection with the action of replevin (sometimes called a writ of reprisal), which issues to a defendant in replevin when he has obtained judgment for a return of the chattels replevied, and fails to obtain them on the writ of return.
Withe-rod Dictionary W - noun A North American shrub (Viburnum nudum) whose tough osierlike shoots are sometimes used for binding sheaves.
Withers Dictionary W - preposition The ridge between the shoulder bones of a horse, at the base of the neck. See Illust. of Horse.
Wither-wrung Dictionary W - adjective Injured or hurt in the withers, as a horse.
Withheld Dictionary W - imperative of Withhold.
Withholden Dictionary W - of Withhold.
Withholding Dictionary W - past particle & verb noun of Withhold.
Withhold Dictionary W - verb transitive To hold back; to restrain; to keep from action.
Withholder Dictionary W - noun One who withholds.
Withholdment Dictionary W - noun The act of withholding.
Within Dictionary W - preposition In the inner or interior part of; inside of; not without; as, within doors.
Withinforth Dictionary W - adverb Within; inside; inwardly.
Withinside Dictionary W - adverb In the inner parts; inside.
Without Dictionary W - preposition On or at the outside of; out of; not within; as, without doors.
Without-door Dictionary W - adjective Outdoor; exterior.
Withouten Dictionary W - preposition Without.
Withoutforth Dictionary W - adverb Without; outside' outwardly. Cf. Withinforth.
Withsay Dictionary W - verb transitive To contradict; to gainsay; to deny; to renounce.
Withset Dictionary W - verb transitive To set against; to oppose.
Withstood Dictionary W - imperative & past particle of Withstand.
Withstanding Dictionary W - past particle & verb noun of Withstand.
Withstand Dictionary W - preposition To stand against; to oppose; to resist, either with physical or moral force; as, to withstand an attack of troops; to withstand eloquence or arguments.
Withstander Dictionary W - noun One who withstands, or opposes; an opponent; a resisting power.
Withvine Dictionary W - noun Quitch grass.
Withwind Dictionary W - noun A kind of bindweed (Convolvulus arvensis).
Withwine Dictionary W - noun Same as Withvine.
Withies Dictionary W - pleural of Withy.
Withy Dictionary W - noun The osier willow (Salix viminalis). See Osier, n. (a).
Witing Dictionary W - verb Knowledge.
Witless Dictionary W - adjective Destitute of wit or understanding; wanting thought; hence, indiscreet; not under the guidance of judgment.
Witling Dictionary W - noun A person who has little wit or understanding; a pretender to wit or smartness.
Witness Dictionary W - intransitive verb Attestation of a fact or an event; testimony.
Witnessed Dictionary W - imperative & past particle of Witness.
Witnessing Dictionary W - past particle & verb noun of Witness.
Witnesser Dictionary W - noun One who witness.
Wit-snapper Dictionary W - noun One who affects repartee; a wit-cracker.
Wit-starved Dictionary W - adjective Barren of wit; destitute of genius.
Witted Dictionary W - adjective Having (such) a wit or understanding; as, a quick-witted boy.
Witticaster Dictionary W - noun A witling.
Witticism Dictionary W - noun A witty saying; a sentence or phrase which is affectedly witty; an attempt at wit; a conceit.
Wittified Dictionary W - adjective Possessed of wit; witty.
Witily Dictionary W - adverb In a witty manner; wisely; ingeniously; artfully; with it; with a delicate turn or phrase, or with an ingenious association of ideas.
Wittiness Dictionary W - noun The quality of being witty.
Wittingly Dictionary W - verb Knowingly; with knowledge; by design.
Wittol Dictionary W - noun The wheatear.
Wittolly Dictionary W - adjective Like a wittol; cuckoldly.
Witts Dictionary W - noun Tin ore freed from earthy matter by stamping.
Witty Dictionary W - noun Possessed of wit; knowing; wise; skillful; judicious; clever; cunning.
Witwal Dictionary W - noun Alt. of Witwall.
Witwall Dictionary W - noun The golden oriole.
Witworm Dictionary W - noun One who, or that which, feeds on or destroys wit.
Wived Dictionary W - imperative & past particle of Wive.
Wiving Dictionary W - past particle & verb noun of Wive.
Wive Dictionary W - intransitive verb To marry, as a man; to take a wife.
Wivehood Dictionary W - noun Wifehood.
Wiveless Dictionary W - adjective Wifeless.
Wively Dictionary W - adjective Wifely.
Wiver Dictionary W - noun Alt. of Wivern.
Wivern Dictionary W - noun A fabulous two-legged, winged creature, like a cockatrice, but having the head of a dragon, and without spurs.
Wizard Dictionary W - noun A wise man; a sage.
Wizardly Dictionary W - adjective Resembling or becoming a wizard; wizardlike; weird.
Wizardry Dictionary W - noun The character or practices o/ wizards; sorcery; magic.
Wizen Dictionary W - intransitive verb To wither; to dry.
Wizened Dictionary W - adjective Dried; shriveled; withered; shrunken; weazen; as, a wizened old man.
Wizen-faced Dictionary W - adjective Having a shriveled, thin, withered face.
Wlatsome Dictionary W - adjective Loathsome; disgusting; hateful.
Wo Dictionary W - noun & adjective See Woe.
Woad Dictionary W - noun An herbaceous cruciferous plant (Isatis tinctoria). It was formerly cultivated for the blue coloring matter derived from its leaves.
Woaded Dictionary W - adjective Colored or stained with woad.
Woad-waxen Dictionary W - noun A leguminous plant (Genista tinctoria) of Europe and Russian Asia, and adventitious in America; - called also greenwood, greenweed, dyer's greenweed, and whin, wood-wash, wood-wax, and wood-waxen.
Woald Dictionary W - noun See Weld.
Wobble Dictionary W - intransitive verb See Wabble.
Wode Dictionary W - adjective Mad. See Wood, a.
Wodegeld Dictionary W - noun A geld, or payment, for wood.
Woden Dictionary W - noun A deity corresponding to Odin, the supreme deity of the Scandinavians. Wednesday is named for him. See Odin.
Woe Dictionary W - noun Grief; sorrow; misery; heavy calamity.
Woe-begone Dictionary W - adjective Beset or overwhelmed with woe; immersed in grief or sorrow; woeful.
Woeful Dictionary W - adjective Alt. of Woful.
Woful Dictionary W - adjective Full of woe; sorrowful; distressed with grief or calamity; afflicted; wretched; unhappy; sad.
Woefully Dictionary W - adverb Alt. of Wofully.
Wofully Dictionary W - adverb In a woeful manner; sorrowfully; mournfully; miserably; dolefully.
Woefulness Dictionary W - noun Alt. of Wofulness.
Wofulness Dictionary W - noun The quality or state of being woeful; misery; wretchedness.
Woesome Dictionary W - adjective Woeful.
Wol Dictionary W - verb transitive & intransitive See 2d Will.
Wold Dictionary W - noun A wood; a forest.
Wolde Dictionary W - imp. of Will. See Would.
Wolves Dictionary W - pleural of Wolf.
Wolf Dictionary W - adjective Any one of several species of wild and savage carnivores belonging to the genus Canis and closely allied to the common dog. The best-known and most destructive species are the European wolf (Canis lupus), the American gray, or timber, wolf (C. occidentalis), and the prairie wolf, or coyote. Wolves often hunt in packs, and may thus attack large animals and even man.
Wolfberry Dictionary W - noun An American shrub (Symphoricarpus occidentalis) which bears soft white berries.
Wolffian Dictionary W - adjective Discovered, or first described, by Caspar Friedrich Wolff (1733-1794), the founder of modern embryology.
Wolfish Dictionary W - adjective Like a wolf; having the qualities or form of a wolf; as, a wolfish visage; wolfish designs.
Wolfkin Dictionary W - noun A little or young wolf.
Wolfling Dictionary W - noun A young wolf.
Wolfram Dictionary W - noun Same as Wolframite.
Wolframate Dictionary W - noun A salt of wolframic acid; a tungstate.
Wolframic Dictionary W - adjective Of or pertaining to wolframium. See Tungstic.
Wolframite Dictionary W - noun Tungstate of iron and manganese, generally of a brownish or grayish black color, submetallic luster, and high specific gravity. It occurs in cleavable masses, and also crystallized. Called also wolfram.
Wolframium Dictionary W - noun The technical name of the element tungsten. See Tungsten.
Wolfsbane Dictionary W - noun A poisonous plant (Aconitum Lycoctonum), a kind of monkshood; also, by extension, any plant or species of the genus Aconitum. See Aconite.
Wolf's-claw Dictionary W - noun A kind of club moss. See Lycopodium.
Wolf's-foot Dictionary W - noun Club moss. See Lycopodium.
Wolf's-milk Dictionary W - noun Any kind of spurge (Euphorbia); - so called from its acrid milky juice.
Woll Dictionary W - verb transitive & intransitive See 2d Will.
Wollastonite Dictionary W - noun A silicate of lime of a white to gray, red, or yellow color, occurring generally in cleavable masses, rarely in tabular crystals; tabular spar.
Wolle Dictionary W - noun Wool.
Wolverene Dictionary W - noun Alt. of Wolverine.
Wolverine Dictionary W - noun The glutton.
Wolvish Dictionary W - adjective Wolfish.
Woman Dictionary W - noun An adult female person; a grown-up female person, as distinguished from a man or a child; sometimes, any female person.
Womanhead Dictionary W - noun Alt. of Womanhede.
Womanhede Dictionary W - noun Womanhood.
Womanhood Dictionary W - noun The state of being a woman; the distinguishing character or qualities of a woman, or of womankind.
Womanish Dictionary W - adjective Suitable to a woman, having the qualities of a woman; effeminate; not becoming a man; - usually in a reproachful sense. See the Note under Effeminate.
Womanize Dictionary W - verb transitive To make like a woman; to make effeminate.
Womankind Dictionary W - noun The females of the human race; women, collectively.
Womanless Dictionary W - adjective Without a woman or women.
Womanlike Dictionary W - adjective Like a woman; womanly.
Womanliness Dictionary W - noun The quality or state of being womanly.
Womanly Dictionary W - adjective Becoming a woman; feminine; as, womanly behavior.
Womb Dictionary W - noun The belly; the abdomen.
Wombat Dictionary W - noun Any one of three species of Australian burrowing marsupials of the genus Phascolomys, especially the common species (P. ursinus). They are nocturnal in their habits, and feed mostly on roots.
Womby Dictionary W - adjective Capacious.
Wonder Dictionary W - noun That emotion which is excited by novelty, or the presentation to the sight or mind of something new, unusual, strange, great, extraordinary, or not well understood; surprise; astonishment; admiration; amazement.
Wondered Dictionary W - imperative & past particle of Wonder.
Wondering Dictionary W - past particle & verb noun of Wonder.
Wonderer Dictionary W - noun One who wonders.
Wonderful Dictionary W - adjective Adapted to excite wonder or admiration; surprising; strange; astonishing.
Wonderingly Dictionary W - adverb In a wondering manner.
Wonderland Dictionary W - noun A land full of wonders, or marvels.
Wonderly Dictionary W - adverb Wonderfully; wondrously.
Wonderment Dictionary W - noun Surprise; astonishment; a wonderful appearance; a wonder.
Wonderous Dictionary W - adjective Same as Wondrous.
Wonders Dictionary W - adverb See Wondrous.
Wonderstruck Dictionary W - adjective Struck with wonder, admiration, or surprise.
Wonderwork Dictionary W - noun A wonderful work or act; a prodigy; a miracle.
Wonder-worker Dictionary W - noun One who performs wonders, or miracles.
Wonder-working Dictionary W - adjective Doing wonders or surprising things.
Wondrous Dictionary W - noun In a wonderful or surprising manner or degree; wonderfully.
Wone Dictionary W - adjective To dwell; to abide.
Wong Dictionary W - noun A field.
Wonger Dictionary W - noun See Wanger.
Woning Dictionary W - noun Dwelling.
Won't Dictionary W - A colloquial contraction of woll not. Will not. See Will.
Wont Dictionary W - adjective Using or doing customarily; accustomed; habituated; used.
Wonted Dictionary W - of Wont.
Wonting Dictionary W - past particle & verb noun of Wont.
Wontedness Dictionary W - noun The quality or state of being accustomed.
Wontless Dictionary W - adjective Unaccustomed.
Wooed Dictionary W - imperative & past particle of Woo.
Wooing Dictionary W - past particle & verb noun of Woo.
Woo Dictionary W - verb transitive To solicit in love; to court.
Wood Dictionary W - adjective Mad; insane; possessed; rabid; furious; frantic.
Wooded Dictionary W - imperative & past particle of Wood.
Wooding Dictionary W - past particle & verb noun of Wood.
Woodbind Dictionary W - noun Woodbine.
Woodbine Dictionary W - verb transitive A climbing plant having flowers of great fragrance (Lonicera Periclymenum); the honeysuckle.
Wood-bound Dictionary W - adjective Incumbered with tall, woody hedgerows.
Woodbury-type Dictionary W - noun A process in photographic printing, in which a relief pattern in gelatin, which has been hardened after certain operations, is pressed upon a plate of lead or other soft metal. An intaglio impression in thus produced, from which pictures may be directly printed, but by a slower process than in common printing.
Woodchat Dictionary W - noun Any one of several species of Asiatic singing birds belonging to the genera Ianthia and Larvivora. They are closely allied to the European robin. The males are usually bright blue above, and more or less red or rufous beneath.
Woodchuck Dictionary W - noun A common large North American marmot (Arctomys monax). It is usually reddish brown, more or less grizzled with gray. It makes extensive burrows, and is often injurious to growing crops. Called also ground hog.
Woodcock Dictionary W - noun Any one of several species of long-billed limicoline birds belonging to the genera Scolopax and Philohela. They are mostly nocturnal in their habits, and are highly esteemed as game birds.
Woodcracker Dictionary W - noun The nuthatch.
Woodcraft Dictionary W - noun Skill and practice in anything pertaining to the woods, especially in shooting, and other sports in the woods.
Woodcut Dictionary W - noun An engraving on wood; also, a print from it. Same as Wood cut, under Wood.
Woodcutter Dictionary W - noun A person who cuts wood.
Woodcutting Dictionary W - noun The act or employment of cutting wood or timber.
Wooden Dictionary W - adjective Made or consisting of wood; pertaining to, or resembling, wood; as, a wooden box; a wooden leg; a wooden wedding.
Woodenly Dictionary W - adverb Clumsily; stupidly; blockishly.
Woodenness Dictionary W - noun Quality of being wooden; clumsiness; stupidity; blockishness.
Woodhack Dictionary W - noun Alt. of Woodhacker.
Woodhacker Dictionary W - noun The yaffle.
Woodnewer Dictionary W - noun A woodpecker.
Woodhole Dictionary W - noun A place where wood is stored.
Woodhouse Dictionary W - noun A house or shed in which wood is stored, and sheltered from the weather.
Woodiness Dictionary W - noun The quality or state of being woody.
Woodknacker Dictionary W - noun The yaffle.
Woodland Dictionary W - noun Land covered with wood or trees; forest; land on which trees are suffered to grow, either for fuel or timber.
Woodlander Dictionary W - noun A dweller in a woodland.
Wood-layer Dictionary W - noun A young oak, or other timber plant, laid down in a hedge among the whitethorn or other plants used in hedges.
Woodless Dictionary W - adjective Having no wood; destitute of wood.
Woodly Dictionary W - adverb In a wood, mad, or raving manner; madly; furiously.
Woodmen Dictionary W - pleural of Woodman.
Woodman Dictionary W - noun A forest officer appointed to take care of the king's woods; a forester.
Woodmeil Dictionary W - noun See Wadmol.
Woodmonger Dictionary W - noun A wood seller.
Woodness Dictionary W - noun Anger; madness; insanity; rage.
Wood-note Dictionary W - noun A wild or natural note, as of a forest bird.
Woodpeck Dictionary W - noun A woodpecker.
Woodpecker Dictionary W - noun Any one of numerous species of scansorial birds belonging to Picus and many allied genera of the family Picidae.
Woodrock Dictionary W - noun A compact woodlike variety of asbestus.
Woodruff Dictionary W - noun Alt. of Woodroof.
Woodroof Dictionary W - noun A little European herb (Asperula odorata) having a pleasant taste. It is sometimes used for flavoring wine. See Illust. of Whorl.
Wood-sare Dictionary W - noun A kind of froth seen on herbs.
Wood-sere Dictionary W - noun The time when there no sap in the trees; the winter season.
Woodsmen Dictionary W - pleural of Woodsman.
Woodsman Dictionary W - noun A woodman; especially, one who lives in the forest.
Wood's metal Dictionary W - A fusible alloy consisting of one or two parts of cadmium, two parts of tin, four of lead, with seven or eight part of bismuth. It melts at from 66? to 71? C. See Fusible metal, under Fusible.
Woodstone Dictionary W - noun A striped variety of hornstone, resembling wood in appearance.
Woodsy Dictionary W - adjective Of or pertaining to the woods or forest.
Wood tick Dictionary W - Any one of several species of ticks of the genus Ixodes whose young cling to bushes, but quickly fasten themselves upon the bodies of any animal with which they come in contact. When they attach themselves to the human body they often produce troublesome sores. The common species of the Northern United States is Ixodes unipunctata.
Woodwall Dictionary W - noun The yaffle.
Woodward Dictionary W - noun An officer of the forest, whose duty it was to guard the woods.
Woodwardia Dictionary W - noun A genus of ferns, one species of which (Woodwardia radicans) is a showy plant in California, the Azores, etc.
Wood-wash Dictionary W - noun Alt. of Wood-waxen.
Wood-wax Dictionary W - noun Alt. of Wood-waxen.
Wood-waxen Dictionary W - noun Same as Woadwaxen.
Woodwork Dictionary W - noun Work made of wood; that part of any structure which is wrought of wood.
Woodworm Dictionary W - noun See Wood worm, under Wood.
Woody Dictionary W - adjective Abounding with wood or woods; as, woody land.
Wooer Dictionary W - verb transitive One who wooes; one who courts or solicits in love; a suitor.
Woof Dictionary W - noun The threads that cross the warp in a woven fabric; the weft; the filling; the thread usually carried by the shuttle in weaving.
Woofell Dictionary W - noun The European blackbird.
Woofy Dictionary W - adjective Having a close texture; dense; as, a woofy cloud.
Woohoo Dictionary W - noun The sailfish.
Wooingly Dictionary W - adverb In a wooing manner; enticingly; with persuasiveness.
Wook Dictionary W - imperative Woke.
Wool Dictionary W - noun The soft and curled, or crisped, species of hair which grows on sheep and some other animals, and which in fineness sometimes approaches to fur; - chiefly applied to the fleecy coat of the sheep, which constitutes a most essential material of clothing in all cold and temperate climates.
Woolded Dictionary W - imperative & past particle of Woold.
Woolding Dictionary W - past particle & verb noun of Woold.
Woold Dictionary W - verb transitive To wind, or wrap; especially, to wind a rope round, as a mast or yard made of two or more pieces, at the place where it has been fished or scarfed, in order to strengthen it.
Woolder Dictionary W - noun A stick used to tighten the rope in woolding.
Wool-dyed Dictionary W - adjective Dyed before being made into cloth, in distinction from piece-dyed; ingrain.
Wooled Dictionary W - adjective Having (such) wool; as, a fine-wooled sheep.
Woolen Dictionary W - adjective Made of wool; consisting of wool; as, woolen goods.
Woolenet Dictionary W - noun A thin, light fabric of wool.
Woolert Dictionary W - noun The barn owl.
Woolfell Dictionary W - noun A skin with the wool; a skin from which the wool has not been sheared or pulled.
Woolgathering Dictionary W - adjective Indulging in a vagrant or idle exercise of the imagination; roaming upon a fruitless quest; idly fanciful.
Woolgrower Dictionary W - noun One who raises sheep for the production of wool.
Wool-hall Dictionary W - noun A trade market in the woolen districts.
Woolhead Dictionary W - noun The buffel duck.
Woolliness Dictionary W - noun The quality or state of being woolly.
Woolly Dictionary W - adjective Consisting of wool; as, a woolly covering; a woolly fleece.
Woolly-head Dictionary W - noun A negro.
Woolmen Dictionary W - pleural of Woolman.
Woolman Dictionary W - noun One who deals in wool.
Woolpack Dictionary W - noun A pack or bag of wool weighing two hundred and forty pounds.
Woolsack Dictionary W - noun A sack or bag of wool; specifically, the seat of the lord chancellor of England in the House of Lords, being a large, square sack of wool resembling a divan in form.
Woolsey Dictionary W - noun Linsey-woolsey.
Woolstock Dictionary W - noun A heavy wooden hammer for milling cloth.
Woolward Dictionary W - adverb In wool; with woolen raiment next the skin.
Woolward-going Dictionary W - noun A wearing of woolen clothes next the skin as a matter of penance.
Woon Dictionary W - noun Dwelling. See Wone.
Woorali Dictionary W - noun Same as Curare.
Woosy Dictionary W - adjective Oozy; wet.
Wootz Dictionary W - noun A species of steel imported from the East Indies, valued for making edge tools; Indian steel. It has in combination a minute portion of alumina and silica.
Wooyen Dictionary W - noun See Yuen.
Wopen Dictionary W - past participle Wept.
Worble Dictionary W - noun See Wormil.
Word Dictionary W - noun The spoken sign of a conception or an idea; an articulate or vocal sound, or a combination of articulate and vocal sounds, uttered by the human voice, and by custom expressing an idea or ideas; a single component part of human speech or language; a constituent part of a sentence; a term; a vocable.
Worded Dictionary W - imperative & past particle of Word.
Wording Dictionary W - past particle & verb noun of Word.
Wordbook Dictionary W - noun A collection of words; a vocabulary; a dictionary; a lexicon.
Word-catcher Dictionary W - noun One who cavils at words.
Worder Dictionary W - noun A speaker.
Wordily Dictionary W - adverb In a wordy manner.
Wordiness Dictionary W - noun The quality or state of being wordy, or abounding with words; verboseness.
Wordish Dictionary W - adjective Respecting words; full of words; wordy.
Wordle Dictionary W - noun One of several pivoted pieces forming the throat of an adjustable die used in drawing wire, lead pipe, etc.
Wordless Dictionary W - adjective Not using words; not speaking; silent; speechless.
Wordsman Dictionary W - noun One who deals in words, or in mere words; a verbalist.
Wordy Dictionary W - superlative Of or pertaining to words; consisting of words; verbal; as, a wordy war.
Work Dictionary W - noun Exertion of strength or faculties; physical or intellectual effort directed to an end; industrial activity; toil; employment; sometimes, specifically, physically labor.
Worked Dictionary W - imperative & past particle of Work.
Wrought Dictionary W - of Work.
Working Dictionary W - past particle & verb noun of Work.
Workable Dictionary W - adjective Capable of being worked, or worth working; as, a workable mine; workable clay.
Workaday Dictionary W - noun See Workyday.
Workbag Dictionary W - noun A bag for holding implements or materials for work; especially, a reticule, or bag for holding needlework, and the like.
Workbasket Dictionary W - noun A basket for holding materials for needlework, or the like.
Workbench Dictionary W - noun A bench on which work is performed, as in a carpenter's shop.
Workbox Dictionary W - noun A box for holding instruments or materials for work.
Workday Dictionary W - noun & adjective A day on which work is performed, as distinguished from Sunday, festivals, etc., a working day.
Worker Dictionary W - noun One who, or that which, works; a laborer; a performer; as, a worker in brass.
Workfellow Dictionary W - noun One engaged in the same work with another; a companion in work.
Workfolk Dictionary W - noun People that labor.
Workful Dictionary W - adjective Full of work; diligent.
Workhouses Dictionary W - pleural of Workhouse.
Workhouse Dictionary W - noun A house where any manufacture is carried on; a workshop.
Working-day Dictionary W - adjective Pertaining to, or characteristic of, working days, or workdays; everyday; hence, plodding; hard-working.
Workingmen Dictionary W - pleural of Workingman.
Workingman Dictionary W - noun A laboring man; a man who earns his daily support by manual labor.
Workless Dictionary W - adjective Without work; not laboring; as, many people were still workless.
Workmen Dictionary W - pleural of Workman.
Workman Dictionary W - noun A man employed in labor, whether in tillage or manufactures; a worker.
Workmanlike Dictionary W - adjective Becoming a workman, especially a skillful one; skillful; well performed.
Workmanly Dictionary W - adjective Becoming a skillful workman; skillful; well performed; workmanlike.
Workmanship Dictionary W - noun The art or skill of a workman; the execution or manner of making anything.
Workmaster Dictionary W - noun The performer of any work; a master workman.
Workroom Dictionary W - noun Any room or apartment used especially for labor.
Workship Dictionary W - noun Workmanship.
Workshop Dictionary W - noun A shop where any manufacture or handiwork is carried on.
Worktable Dictionary W - noun A table for holding working materials and implements; esp., a small table with drawers and other conveniences for needlework, etc.
Workwomen Dictionary W - pleural of Workwoman.
Workwoman Dictionary W - noun A woman who performs any work; especially, a woman skilled in needlework.
Workyday Dictionary W - noun A week day or working day, as distinguished from Sunday or a holiday. Also used adjectively.
World Dictionary W - noun The earth and the surrounding heavens; the creation; the system of created things; existent creation; the universe.
Worldliness Dictionary W - noun The quality of being worldly; a predominant passion for obtaining the good things of this life; covetousness; addictedness to gain and temporal enjoyments; worldly-mindedness.
Worldling Dictionary W - A person whose soul is set upon gaining temporal possessions; one devoted to this world and its enjoyments.
Worldly Dictionary W - adjective Relating to the world; human; common; as, worldly maxims; worldly actions.
Worldly-minded Dictionary W - adjective Devoted to worldly interests; mindful of the affairs of the present life, and forgetful of those of the future; loving and pursuing this world's goods, to the exclusion of piety and attention to spiritual concerns.
World-wide Dictionary W - adjective Extended throughout the world; as, world-wide fame.
Worldlywise Dictionary W - adjective Wise in regard to things of this world.
Worm Dictionary W - noun A creeping or a crawling animal of any kind or size, as a serpent, caterpillar, snail, or the like.
Wormed Dictionary W - imperative & past particle of Worm.
Worming Dictionary W - past particle & verb noun of Worm.
Wormal Dictionary W - noun See Wormil.
Worm-eaten Dictionary W - adjective Eaten, or eaten into, by a worm or by worms; as, worm-eaten timber.
Wormhole Dictionary W - noun A burrow made by a worm.
Wormian Dictionary W - adjective Discovered or described by Olanus Wormius, a Danish anatomist.
Wormil Dictionary W - noun Any botfly larva which burrows in or beneath the skin of domestic and wild animals, thus producing sores. They belong to various species of Hypoderma and allied genera. Domestic cattle are often infested by a large species. See Gadfly. Called also warble, and worble.
Wormling Dictionary W - noun A little worm.
Wormseed Dictionary W - noun Any one of several plants, as Artemisia santonica, and Chenopodium anthelminticum, whose seeds have the property of expelling worms from the stomach and intestines.
Worm-shaped Dictionary W - adjective Shaped like a worm; /hick and almost cylindrical, but variously curved or bent; as, a worm-shaped root.
Worm-shell Dictionary W - noun Any species of Vermetus.
Wormul Dictionary W - noun See Wornil.
Wormwood Dictionary W - noun A composite plant (Artemisia Absinthium), having a bitter and slightly aromatic taste, formerly used as a tonic and a vermifuge, and to protect woolen garments from moths. It gives the peculiar flavor to the cordial called absinthe. The volatile oil is a narcotic poison. The term is often extended to other species of the same genus.
Wormy Dictionary W - superlative Containing a worm; abounding with worms.
Wornil Dictionary W - noun See Wormil.
Worn-out Dictionary W - adjective Consumed, or rendered useless, by wearing; as, worn-out garments.
Worral Dictionary W - noun Alt. of Worrel.
Worrel Dictionary W - noun An Egyptian fork-tongued lizard, about four feet long when full grown.
Worrier Dictionary W - noun One who worries.
Worriment Dictionary W - noun Trouble; anxiety; worry.
Worrisome Dictionary W - adjective Inclined to worry or fret; also, causing worry or annoyance.
Worrit Dictionary W - verb transitive To worry; to annoy.
Worried Dictionary W - imperative & past particle of Worry.
Worrying Dictionary W - past particle & verb noun of Worry.
Worry Dictionary W - verb transitive To harass by pursuit and barking; to attack repeatedly; also, to tear or mangle with the teeth.
Worries Dictionary W - pleural of Worry.
Worryingly Dictionary W - adverb In a worrying manner.
Worse Dictionary W - compar. Bad, ill, evil, or corrupt, in a greater degree; more bad or evil; less good; specifically, in poorer health; more sick; - used both in a physical and moral sense.
Worsen Dictionary W - verb transitive To make worse; to deteriorate; to impair.
Worser Dictionary W - adjective Worse.
Worship Dictionary W - adjective Excellence of character; dignity; worth; worthiness.
Worshiped Dictionary W - imperative & past particle of Worship.
Worshipped Dictionary W - of Worship.
Worshiping Dictionary W - past particle & verb noun of Worship.
Worshipping Dictionary W - of Worship.
Worshipability Dictionary W - noun The quality of being worthy to be worshiped.
Worshipable Dictionary W - adjective Capable of being worshiped; worthy of worship.
Worshiper Dictionary W - noun One who worships; one who pays divine honors to any being or thing; one who adores.
Worshipful Dictionary W - adjective Entitled to worship, reverence, or high respect; claiming respect; worthy of honor; - often used as a term of respect, sometimes ironically.
Worst Dictionary W - adjective Bad, evil, or pernicious, in the highest degree, whether in a physical or moral sense. See Worse.
Worsted Dictionary W - imperative & past particle of Worst.
Worsting Dictionary W - past particle & verb noun of Worst.
Wort Dictionary W - noun A plant of any kind.
Worth Dictionary W - intransitive verb To be; to become; to betide; - now used only in the phrases, woe worth the day, woe worth the man, etc., in which the verb is in the imperative, and the nouns day, man, etc., are in the dative. Woe be to the day, woe be to the man, etc., are equivalent phrases.
Worthful Dictionary W - adjective Full of worth; worthy; deserving.
Worthily Dictionary W - adverb In a worthy manner; excellently; deservedly; according to merit; justly; suitably; becomingly.
Worthiness Dictionary W - noun The quality or state of being worthy; desert; merit; excellence; dignity; virtue; worth.
Worthless Dictionary W - adjective Destitute of worth; having no value, virtue, excellence, dignity, or the like; undeserving; valueless; useless; vile; mean; as, a worthless garment; a worthless ship; a worthless man or woman; a worthless magistrate.
worthwhile Dictionary W - adjective Worth the time or effort spent.
Worthy Dictionary W - noun Having worth or excellence; possessing merit; valuable; deserving; estimable; excellent; virtuous.
Worthies Dictionary W - pleural of Worthy.
Wost Dictionary W - 2d pers. sing. pres. of Wit, to know.
Wotest Dictionary W - Alt. of Wottest.
Wottest Dictionary W - 2d pers. sing. pres. of Wit, to know.
Woteth Dictionary W - Alt. of Wotteth.
Wotteth Dictionary W - 3d pers. sing. pres. of Wit, to know.
Woul Dictionary W - intransitive verb To howl.
Would-be Dictionary W - adjective Desiring or professing to be; vainly pretending to be; as, a would-be poet.
Woulding Dictionary W - noun Emotion of desire; inclination; velleity.
Wouldingness Dictionary W - noun Willingness; desire.
Woulfe bottle Dictionary W - noun A kind of wash bottle with two or three necks; - so called after the inventor, Peter Woulfe, an English chemist.
Wounded Dictionary W - imperative & past particle of Wound.
Wounding Dictionary W - past particle & verb noun of Wound.
Woundable Dictionary W - adjective Capable of being wounded; vulnerable.
Wounder Dictionary W - noun One who, or that which, wounds.
Woundily Dictionary W - adverb In a woundy manner; excessively; woundy.
Woundless Dictionary W - adjective Free from wound or hurt; exempt from being wounded; invulnerable.
Woundwort Dictionary W - noun Any one of certain plants whose soft, downy leaves have been used for dressing wounds, as the kidney vetch, and several species of the labiate genus Stachys.
Woundy Dictionary W - adjective Excessive.
Wourali Dictionary W - noun Same as Curare.
Wou-wou Dictionary W - noun The agile, or silvery, gibbon; - called also camper. See Gibbon.
Wowe Dictionary W - verb transitive & intransitive To woo.
Wowf Dictionary W - adjective Disordered or unsettled in intellect; deranged.
Wowke Dictionary W - noun Week.
Wow-wow Dictionary W - noun See Wou-wou.
Wox Dictionary W - imp. of Wax.
Woxen Dictionary W - p. p. of Wax.
Wrack Dictionary W - noun A thin, flying cloud; a rack.
Wrackful Dictionary W - adjective Ruinous; destructive.
Wrain-bolt Dictionary W - noun Same as Wringbolt.
Wraith Dictionary W - noun An apparition of a person in his exact likeness, seen before death, or a little after; hence, an apparition; a specter; a vision; an unreal image.
Wrangled Dictionary W - imperative & past particle of Wrangle.
Wrangling Dictionary W - past particle & verb noun of Wrangle.
Wrangle Dictionary W - intransitive verb To argue; to debate; to dispute.
Wrangler Dictionary W - noun An angry disputant; one who disputes with heat or peevishness.
Wranglership Dictionary W - noun The honor or position of being a wrangler at the University of Cambridge, England.
Wranglesome Dictionary W - adjective Contentious; quarrelsome.
Wrannock Dictionary W - noun Alt. of Wranny.
Wranny Dictionary W - noun The common wren.
Wrap Dictionary W - verb transitive To snatch up; transport; - chiefly used in the p. p. wrapt.
Wrapped Dictionary W - imperative & past particle of Wrap.
Wrapt Dictionary W - of Wrap.
Wrapping Dictionary W - past particle & verb noun of Wrap.
Wrappage Dictionary W - noun The act of wrapping.
Wrapper Dictionary W - noun One who, or that which, wraps.
Wraprascal Dictionary W - noun A kind of coarse upper coat, or overcoat, formerly worn.
Wrasse Dictionary W - noun Any one of numerous edible, marine, spiny-finned fishes of the genus Labrus, of which several species are found in the Mediterranean and on the Atlantic coast of Europe. Many of the species are bright-colored.
Wrastle Dictionary W - intransitive verb To wrestle.
Wrath Dictionary W - adjective Violent anger; vehement exasperation; indignation; rage; fury; ire.
Wrathful Dictionary W - adjective Full of wrath; very angry; greatly incensed; ireful; passionate; as, a wrathful man.
Wrathily Dictionary W - adverb In a wrathy manner; very angrily; wrathfully.
Wrathless Dictionary W - adjective Free from anger or wrath.
Wrathy Dictionary W - adjective Very angry.
Wraw Dictionary W - adjective Angry; vexed; wrathful.
Wrawful Dictionary W - adjective Ill-tempered.
Wrawl Dictionary W - intransitive verb To cry, as a cat; to waul.
Wrawness Dictionary W - noun Peevishness; ill temper; anger.
Wray Dictionary W - verb transitive To reveal; to disclose.
Wreak Dictionary W - intransitive verb To reck; to care.
Wreaked Dictionary W - imperative & past particle of Wreak.
Wreaking Dictionary W - past particle & verb noun of Wreak.
Wreaken Dictionary W - p. p. of Wreak.
Wreaker Dictionary W - noun Avenger.
Wreakful Dictionary W - adjective Revengeful; angry; furious.
Wreakless Dictionary W - adjective Unrevengeful; weak.
Wreaths Dictionary W - pleural of Wreath.
Wreath Dictionary W - noun Something twisted, intertwined, or curled; as, a wreath of smoke; a wreath of flowers.
Wreathed Dictionary W - imperative of Wreathe.
Wreathen Dictionary W - Archaic of Wreathe.
Wreathing Dictionary W - past particle & verb noun of Wreathe.
Wreathe Dictionary W - noun To cause to revolve or writhe; to twist about; to turn.
Wreathless Dictionary W - adjective Destitute of a wreath.
Wreath-shell Dictionary W - noun A marine shell of the genus Turbo. See Turbo.
Wreathy Dictionary W - adjective Wreathed; twisted; curled; spiral; also, full of wreaths.
Wrecche Dictionary W - noun A wretch.
Wreche Dictionary W - noun Wreak.
Wreck Dictionary W - verb transitive & noun See 2d & 3d Wreak.
Wrecked Dictionary W - imperative & past particle of Wreck.
Wrecking Dictionary W - past particle & verb noun of Wreck.
Wreckage Dictionary W - noun The act of wrecking, or state of being wrecked.
Wrecker Dictionary W - noun One who causes a wreck, as by false lights, and the like.
Wreckfish Dictionary W - noun A stone bass.
Wreckful Dictionary W - adjective Causing wreck; involving ruin; destructive.
Wreck-master Dictionary W - noun A person appointed by law to take charge of goods, etc., thrown on shore after a shipwreck.
Wreke Dictionary W - verb transitive Alt. of Wreeke.
Wreeke Dictionary W - verb transitive See 2d Wreak.
Wren Dictionary W - noun Any one of numerous species of small singing birds belonging to Troglodytes and numerous allied of the family Troglodytidae.
Wrench Dictionary W - verb transitive Trick; deceit; fraud; stratagem.
Wrenched Dictionary W - imperative & past particle of Wrench.
Wrenching Dictionary W - past particle & verb noun of Wrench.
Wrested Dictionary W - imperative & past particle of Wrest.
Wresting Dictionary W - past particle & verb noun of Wrest.
Wrest Dictionary W - verb transitive To turn; to twist; esp., to twist or extort by violence; to pull of force away by, or as if by, violent wringing or twisting.
Wrester Dictionary W - noun One who wrests.
Wrestled Dictionary W - imperative & past particle of Wrestle.
Wrestling Dictionary W - past particle & verb noun of Wrestle.
Wrestle Dictionary W - verb transitive To contend, by grappling with, and striving to trip or throw down, an opponent; as, they wrestled skillfully.
Wrestler Dictionary W - noun One who wrestles; one who is skillful in wrestling.
Wretch Dictionary W - verb transitive A miserable person; one profoundly unhappy.
Wretched Dictionary W - adjective Very miserable; sunk in, or accompanied by, deep affliction or distress, as from want, anxiety, or grief; calamitous; woeful; very afflicting.
Wretchedly Dictionary W - adverb In a wretched manner; miserably; despicable.
Wretchedness Dictionary W - noun The quality or state of being wretched; utter misery.
Wretchful Dictionary W - adjective Wretched.
Wretchless Dictionary W - adjective Reckless; hence, disregarded.
Wrey Dictionary W - verb transitive See Wray.
Wrie Dictionary W - adjective & verb See Wry.
Wrig Dictionary W - intransitive verb To wriggle.
Wriggled Dictionary W - imperative & past particle of Wriggle.
Wriggling Dictionary W - past particle & verb noun of Wriggle.
Wriggle Dictionary W - intransitive verb To move the body to and fro with short, writhing motions, like a worm; to squirm; to twist uneasily or quickly about.
Wriggler Dictionary W - noun One who, or that which, wriggles.
Wright Dictionary W - noun One who is engaged in a mechanical or manufacturing business; an artificer; a workman; a manufacturer; a mechanic; esp., a worker in wood; - now chiefly used in compounds, as in millwright, wheelwright, etc.
Wrightine Dictionary W - noun A rare alkaloid found in the bark of an East Indian apocynaceous tree (Wrightia antidysenterica), and extracted as a bitter white crystalline substance. It was formerly used as a remedy for diarrh/a. Called also conessine, and neriine.
Wrung Dictionary W - imperative & past particle of Wring.
Wringed Dictionary W - of Wring.
Wringing Dictionary W - past particle & verb noun of Wring.
Wring Dictionary W - verb transitive To twist and compress; to turn and strain with violence; to writhe; to squeeze hard; to pinch; as, to wring clothes in washing.
Wringbolt Dictionary W - noun A bolt used by shipwrights, to bend and secure the planks against the timbers till they are fastened by bolts, spikes, or treenails; - not to be confounded with ringbolt.
Wringer Dictionary W - noun One who, or that which, wrings; hence, an extortioner.
Wringstaves Dictionary W - pleural of Wringstaff.
Wringstaff Dictionary W - noun A strong piece of plank used in applying wringbolts.
Wrinkle Dictionary W - noun A winkle.
Wrinkled Dictionary W - imperative & past particle of Wrinkle.
Wrinkling Dictionary W - past particle & verb noun of Wrinkle.
Wrinkly Dictionary W - adjective Full of wrinkles; having a tendency to be wrinkled; corrugated; puckered.
Wrist Dictionary W - noun The joint, or the region of the joint, between the hand and the arm; the carpus. See Carpus.
Wristband Dictionary W - noun The band of the sleeve of a shirt, or other garment, which covers the wrist.
Wrister Dictionary W - noun A covering for the wrist.
Wristlet Dictionary W - noun An elastic band worn around the wrist, as for the purpose of securing the upper part of a glove.
Writ Dictionary W - obs. 3d pers. sing. pres. of Write, for writeth.
Writability Dictionary W - noun Ability or capacity to write.
Writable Dictionary W - adjective Capable of, or suitable for, being written down.
Writative Dictionary W - adjective Inclined to much writing; - correlative to talkative.
Wrote Dictionary W - imperative of Write.
Written Dictionary W - past participle of Write.
Writing Dictionary W - past particle & verb noun of Write.
Write Dictionary W - verb transitive To set down, as legible characters; to form the conveyance of meaning; to inscribe on any material by a suitable instrument; as, to write the characters called letters; to write figures.
Writer Dictionary W - noun One who writes, or has written; a scribe; a clerk.
Writership Dictionary W - noun The office of a writer.
Writhed Dictionary W - imperative of Writhe.
Writhen Dictionary W - of Writhe.
Writhing Dictionary W - past particle & verb noun of Writhe.
Writhe Dictionary W - verb transitive To twist; to turn; now, usually, to twist or turn so as to distort; to wring.
Writhle Dictionary W - verb transitive To wrinkle.
Wrizzle Dictionary W - verb transitive To wrinkle.
Wroken Dictionary W - p. p. of Wreak.
Wrong Dictionary W - imp. of Wring. Wrung.
Wronged Dictionary W - imperative & past particle of Wrong.
Wronging Dictionary W - past particle & verb noun of Wrong.
Wrongdoer Dictionary W - noun One who injures another, or who does wrong.
Wrongdoing Dictionary W - noun Evil or wicked behavior or action.
Wronger Dictionary W - noun One who wrongs or injures another.
Wrongful Dictionary W - adjective Full of wrong; injurious; unjust; unfair; as, a wrongful taking of property; wrongful dealing.
Wronghead Dictionary W - noun A person of a perverse understanding or obstinate character.
Wrongheaded Dictionary W - adjective Wrong in opinion or principle; having a perverse understanding; perverse.
Wrongless Dictionary W - adjective Not wrong; void or free from wrong.
Wrongly Dictionary W - adverb In a wrong manner; unjustly; erroneously; wrong; amiss; as, he judges wrongly of my motives.
Wrongness Dictionary W - noun The quality or state of being wrong; wrongfulness; error; fault.
Wrongous Dictionary W - adjective Constituting, or of the nature of, a wrong; unjust; wrongful.
Wrong-timed Dictionary W - adjective Done at an improper time; ill-timed.
Wroot Dictionary W - imp. of Write. Wrote.
Wroth Dictionary W - adjective Full of wrath; angry; incensed; much exasperated; wrathful.
Wry Dictionary W - verb transitive To cover.
Wried Dictionary W - imperative & past particle of Wry.
Wrying Dictionary W - past particle & verb noun of Wry.
Wrybill Dictionary W - noun See Crookbill.
Wrymouth Dictionary W - noun Any one of several species of large, elongated, marine fishes of the genus Cryptacanthodes, especially C. maculatus of the American coast. A whitish variety is called ghostfish.
Wryneck Dictionary W - noun A twisted or distorted neck; a deformity in which the neck is drawn to one side by a rigid contraction of one of the muscles of the neck; torticollis.
Wrynecked Dictionary W - adjective Having a distorted neck; having the deformity called wryneck.
Wryness Dictionary W - noun The quality or state of being wry, or distorted.
Wrythen Dictionary W - past participle Writhen.
Wulfenite Dictionary W - noun Native lead molybdate occurring in tetragonal crystals, usually tabular, and of a bright orange-yellow to red, gray, or brown color; - also called yellow lead ore.
Wull Dictionary W - verb transitive & intransitive See 2d Will.
Wung-out Dictionary W - adjective Having the sails set in the manner called wing-and-wing.
Wurbagool Dictionary W - noun A fruit bat (Pteropus medius) native of India. It is similar to the flying fox, but smaller.
Wurmal Dictionary W - noun See Wormil.
Wurraluh Dictionary W - noun The Australian white-quilled honey eater (Entomyza albipennis).
Wust Dictionary W - Alt. of Wuste.
Wuste Dictionary W - imp. of Wit.
Wyandots Dictionary W - noun plural Same as Hurons.
Wych-elm Dictionary W - noun A species of elm (Ulmus montana) found in Northern and Western Europe; Scotch elm.
Wych-hazel Dictionary W - noun The wych-elm; - so called because its leaves are like those of the hazel.
Wyclifite Dictionary W - noun Alt. of Wycliffite.
Wycliffite Dictionary W - noun A follower of Wyclif, the English reformer; a Lollard.
Wyd Dictionary W - adjective Wide.
Wyes Dictionary W - pleural of Wye.
Wye Dictionary W - noun The letter Y.
Wyke Dictionary W - noun Week.
Wyla Dictionary W - noun A helmeted Australian cockatoo (Calyptorhynchus funereus); - called also funeral cockatoo.
Wynd Dictionary W - noun A narrow lane or alley.
Wynkernel Dictionary W - noun The European moor hen.
Wynn Dictionary W - noun A kind of timber truck, or carriage.
Wype Dictionary W - noun The wipe, or lapwing.
Wythe Dictionary W - noun Same as Withe, n., 4.
Wys Dictionary W - adjective Wise.
Wyte Dictionary W - Alt. of Wyten.
Wyten Dictionary W - pl. pres. of Wit.
Wyvern Dictionary W - noun Same as Wiver.

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