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W. 1913 Webster]
W(d, the twenty-third letter of the English alphabet, is usually a consonant, but sometimes it is a vowel, forming the second element of certain diphthongs, as in few, how. It takes its written form and its name from the repetition of a V, this being the original form of the Roman capital letter which we call U. Etymologically it is most related to v and u. See V, and U. Some of the uneducated classes in England, especially in London, confuse w and v, substituting the one for the other, as weal for veal, and veal for weal; wine for vine, and vine for wine, etc. See Guide to Pronunciation, 1913 Webster]
Waag(w, n.(Zo\'94l.)The grivet. 1913 Webster]
Waa*hoo"(w, n.(Bot.)The burning bush; -- said to be called after a quack medicine made from it. 1913 Webster]
Wab"ble(w, v. i.[Cf. Prov. G. wabbeln to wabble, and E. whap. Cf. Quaver.]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.
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Wab"ble, n.A hobbling, unequal motion, as of a wheel unevenly hung; a staggering to and fro. 1913 Webster]
Wab"bly(?), a.Inclined to wabble; wabbling. 1913 Webster]
{ Wack"e(?), Wack"y(?), }n.[G. wacke, MHG. wacke a large stone, OHG. waggo a pebble.](Geol.)A soft, earthy, dark-colored rock or clay derived from the alteration of basalt. 1913 Webster]
Wad(?), n.[See Woad.]Woad. [Obs.] 1913 Webster]
Wad, n.[Probably of Scand. origin; cf. Sw. vadd wadding, Dan vat, D. & G. watte. Cf. Wadmol.] 1913 Webster]
1.A little mass, tuft, or bundle, as of hay or tow.Holland. 1913 Webster]
2.Specifically: A little mass of some soft or flexible material, such as hay, straw, tow, paper, or old rope yarn, used for retaining a charge of powder in a gun, or for keeping the powder and shot close; also, to diminish or avoid the effects of windage. Also, by extension, a dusk of felt, pasteboard, etc., serving a similar purpose. 1913 Webster]
3.A soft mass, especially of some loose, fibrous substance, used for various purposes, as for stopping an aperture, padding a garment, etc. 1913 Webster]
Wed hook, a rod with a screw or hook at the end, used for removing the wad from a gun. 1913 Webster]
Wad, v. t.[imp. & p. p.Waded; p. pr. & vb. n.Wadding.] 1913 Webster]
1.To form into a mass, or wad, or into wadding; as, to wad tow or cotton. 1913 Webster]
2.To insert or crowd a wad into; as, to wad a gun; also, to stuff or line with some soft substance, or wadding, like cotton; as, to wad a cloak. 1913 Webster]
{ Wad, Wadd, }n.(Min.)(a)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.(b)Plumbago, or black lead. 1913 Webster]
Wad"die(?), n. & v.See Waddy. Webster 1913 Suppl.]
Wad"ding(?), n.[See Wad a little mass.] 1913 Webster]
1.A wad, or the materials for wads; any pliable substance of which wads may be made. 1913 Webster]
2.Any soft stuff of loose texture, used for stuffing or padding garments; esp., sheets of carded cotton prepared for the purpose. 1913 Webster]
Wad"dle(?), v. i.[imp. & p. p.Waddled(?); p. pr. & vb. n.Waddling(?).][Freq. of wade; cf. AS. w\'91dlian to beg, from wadan to go. See Wade.]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.Shak. 1913 Webster]
She drawls her words, and waddles in her pace.Young. 1913 Webster]
Wad"dle, v. t.To trample or tread down, as high grass, by walking through it. [R.] Drayton. 1913 Webster]
Wad"dler(?), n.One who, or that which, waddles. 1913 Webster]
Wad"dling*ly, adv.In a waddling manner. 1913 Webster]
Wad"dy, n.; pl.Waddies(.[Written also waddie, whaddie.][Native name. Thought by some to be a corrup. of E. wood.] [Australia] 1.An aboriginal war club. Webster 1913 Suppl.]
2.A piece of wood; stick; peg; also, a walking stick. Webster 1913 Suppl.]
Wad"dy, v. t.[imp. & p. p.Waddied(?); p. pr. & vb. n.Waddying.]To attack or beat with a waddy. Webster 1913 Suppl.]
Wad"dy*wood`(?), n.An Australian tree (Pittosporum bicolor); also, its wood, used in making waddies. Webster 1913 Suppl.]
Wade(?), n.Woad. [Obs.] Mortimer. 1913 Webster]
Wade(?), v. i.[imp. & p. p.Waded; p. pr. & vb. n.Wading.][OE. waden to wade, to go, AS. wadan; akin to OFries. wada, D. waden, OHG. watan, Icel. va, Sw. vada, Dan. vade, L. vadere to go, walk, vadum a ford. Cf. Evade, Invade, Pervade, Waddle.] 1913 Webster]
1.To go; to move forward. [Obs.] 1913 Webster]
When might is joined unto cruelty, wade.Chaucer. 1913 Webster]
Forbear, and wade no further in this speech.Old Play. 1913 Webster]
2.To walk in a substance that yields to the feet; to move, sinking at each step, as in water, mud, sand, etc. 1913 Webster]
So eagerly the fiend . . . wades, or creeps, or flies.Milton. 1913 Webster]
3.Hence, to move with difficulty or labor; to proceed as, to wade through a dull book. 1913 Webster]
And wades through fumes, and gropes his way.Dryden. 1913 Webster]
The king's admirable conduct has waded through all these difficulties.Davenant. 1913 Webster]
Wade, v. t.To pass or cross by wading; as, he waded . 1913 Webster]
Wade(?), n.The act of wading. [Colloq.] 1913 Webster]
Wad"er(?), n.1.One who, or that which, wades. 1913 Webster]
2.(Zo\'94l.)Any long-legged bird that wades in the water in search of food, especially any species of limicoline or grallatorial birds; -- called also wading bird. See Illust.g, under Aves. 1913 Webster]
Wad"mol(?), n.[Of Scand. origin; cf. Icel. va a woollen stuff, Dan vadmel. Cf. Wad a small mass, and Woodmeil.]A coarse, hairy, woolen cloth, formerly used for garments by the poor, and for various other purposes.[Spelled also wadmal, wadmeal, wadmoll, wadmel, etc.]Beck (Draper's Dict.). Sir W. Scott. 1913 Webster]
Wad"set(?), n.[Scot. wad a pledge; akin to Sw. vad a wager. See Wed.](Scots Law)A kind of pledge or mortgage.[Written also wadsett.] 1913 Webster]
Wad"set*ter(?), n.One who holds by a wadset. 1913 Webster]
Wad"y(?), n.; pl.Wadies(#).[Ar. w\'bed\'c6 a valley, a channel of a river, a river.]A ravine through which a brook flows; the channel of a water course, which is dry except in the rainy season. 1913 Webster]
Wa"fer(?), n.[OE. wafre, OF. waufre, qaufre, F. qaufre; of Teutonic origin; cf. LG. & D. wafel, G. waffel, Dan. vaffel, Sw. v\'86ffla; all akin to G. wabe a honeycomb, OHG. waba, being named from the resemblance to a honeycomb. G. wabe is probably akin to E. weave. See Weave, and cf. Waffle, Gauffer.] 1913 Webster]
1.(Cookery)A thin cake made of flour and other ingredients. 1913 Webster]
Wafers piping hot out of the gleed.Chaucer. 1913 Webster]
The curious work in pastry, the fine cakes, wafers, and marchpanes.Holland. 1913 Webster]
A woman's oaths are wafers -- break with makingB. Jonson. 1913 Webster]
2.(Eccl.)A thin cake or piece of bread (commonly unleavened, circular, and stamped with a crucifix or with the sacred monogram) used in the Eucharist, as in the Roman Catholic Church. 1913 Webster]
3.An adhesive disk of dried paste, made of flour, gelatin, isinglass, or the like, and coloring matter, -- used in sealing letters and other documents. 1913 Webster]
4.Any thin but rigid plate of solid material, esp. of discoidal shape; -- a term used commonly to refer to the thin slices of silicon used as starting material for the manufacture of integrated circuits. PJC]
Wafer cake, a sweet, thin cake.Shak. --
Wafer irons, or
Wafer tongs(Cookery), a pincher-shaped contrivance, having flat plates, or blades, between which wafers are baked. --
Wafer woman, a woman who sold wafer cakes; also, one employed in amorous intrigues.Beau. & Fl. 1913 Webster]
Wa"fer, v. t.[imp. & p. p.Wafered(?); p. pr. & vb. n.Wafering.]To seal or close with a wafer. 1913 Webster]
Wa"fer*er(?), n.A dealer in the cakes called wafers; a confectioner. [Obs.] Chaucer. 1913 Webster]
Waffle(?), n.[D. wafel. See Wafer.]1.A thin cake baked and then rolled; a wafer. 1913 Webster]
2.A soft indented cake cooked in a waffle iron. 1913 Webster]
Waffle iron, an iron utensil or mold made in two parts shutting together, -- used for cooking waffles over a fire. 1913 Webster]
Waft(?), v. t.[imp. & p. p.Wafted; p. pr. & vb. n.Wafting.][Prob. originally imp. & p. p. of wave, v. t. See Wave to waver.]1.To give notice to by waving something; to wave the hand to; to beckon. [Obs.] 1913 Webster]
But soft: who wafts us yonder?Shak. 1913 Webster]
2.To cause to move or go in a wavy manner, or by the impulse of waves, as of water or air; to bear along on a buoyant medium; as, a balloon was wafted over the channel. 1913 Webster]
A gentle wafting to immortal life.Milton. 1913 Webster]
Speed the soft intercourse from soul to soul, waft a sigh from Indus to the pole.Pope. 1913 Webster]
3.To cause to float; to keep from sinking; to buoy. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne. 1913 Webster]
waft was formerly somwafted. 1913 Webster]
Waft, v. i.To be moved, or to pass, on a buoyant medium; to float. 1913 Webster]
And now the shouts waft near the citadel.Dryden. 1913 Webster]
Waft, n.1.A wave or current of wind. \'bdEverywaft of the air.\'b8 Longfellow. 1913 Webster]
In this dire season, oft the whirlwind's wing waft.Thomson. 1913 Webster]
2.A signal made by waving something, as a flag, in the air. 1913 Webster]
3.An unpleasant flavor. [Obs.] 1913 Webster]
4.(Naut.)A knot, or stop, in the middle of a flag.[Written also wheft.] 1913 Webster]
waft in it, when hoisted at the staff, or half way to the gaff, means, a man overboard; at the peak, a desire to communicate; at the masthead, \'bdRecall boats.\'b8 1913 Webster]
Waft"age(?), n.Conveyance on a buoyant medium, as air or water.Shak. 1913 Webster]
Boats prepared for waftage to and fro.Drayton. 1913 Webster]
Waft"er(?), n.1.One who, or that which, wafts. 1913 Webster]
O Charon, wafter of the soul to bliss or bane.Beau. & FL. 1913 Webster]
2.A boat for passage.Ainsworth. 1913 Webster]
Waf"ture(?), n.The act of waving; a wavelike motion; a waft.R. Browning. 1913 Webster]
An angry wafture of your hand.Shak. 1913 Webster]
Wag(?), v. t.[imp. & p. p.Wagged(?); p. pr. & vb. n.Wagging.][OE. waggen; probably of Scand. origin; cf. Sw. vagga to rock a cradle, vagga cradle, Icel. vagga, Dan. vugge; akin to AS. wagian to move, wag, wegan to bear, carry, G. & D. bewegen to move, and E. weigh. \'fb136. See Weigh.]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. 1913 Webster]
No discerner durst wag his tongue in censure.Shak. 1913 Webster]
Every one that passeth thereby shall be astonished, and wag his head.Jer. xviii. 16. 1913 Webster]
Wag expresses specifically the motion of the head and body used in buffoonery, mirth, derision, sport, and mockery. 1913 Webster]
Wag, v. i.1.To move one way and the other; to be shaken to and fro; to vibrate. 1913 Webster]
The resty sieve wagged ne'er the more.Dryden. 1913 Webster]
2.To be in action or motion; to move; to get along; to progress; to stir. [Colloq.] 1913 Webster]
\'bdThus we may see,\'b8 quoth he, \'bdhow the world wags.\'b8Shak. 1913 Webster]
3.To go; to depart; to pack oft. [R.] 1913 Webster]
I will provoke him to 't, or let him wag.Shak. 1913 Webster]
Wag, n.[From Wag, v.] 1913 Webster]
1.The act of wagging; a shake; as, a wag of the head. [Colloq.] 1913 Webster]
2.[Perhaps shortened from wag-halter a rogue.]A man full of sport and humor; a ludicrous fellow; a humorist; a wit; a joker. 1913 Webster]
We wink at wags when they offend.Dryden. 1913 Webster]
A counselor never pleaded without a piece of pack thread in his hand, which he used to twist about a finger all the while he was speaking; the wags used to call it the thread of his discourse.Addison. 1913 Webster]
\'d8Wa*ga"ti(?), n.(Zo\'94l.)A small East Indian wild cat (Felis wagati), regarded by some as a variety of the leopard cat. 1913 Webster]
Wage(?), v. t.[imp. & p. p.Waged(?); p. pr. & vb. n.Waging(?).][OE. wagen, OF. wagier, gagier, to pledge, promise, F. gager to wager, lay, bet, fr. LL. wadium a pledge; of Teutonic origin; cf. Goth. wadi a pledge, gawadj\'d3n to pledge, akin to E. wed, G. wette a wager. See Wed, and cf. Gage.] 1913 Webster]
1.To pledge; to hazard on the event of a contest; to stake; to bet, to lay; to wager; as, to wage a dollar.Hakluyt. 1913 Webster]
My life I never but as a pawn wage against thy enemies.Shak. 1913 Webster]
2.To expose one's self to, as a risk; to incur, as a danger; to venture; to hazard. \'bdToo weak to wage an instant trial with the king.\'b8 Shak. 1913 Webster]
To wake and wage a danger profitless.Shak. 1913 Webster]
3.To engage in, as a contest, as if by previous gage or pledge; to carry on, as a war. 1913 Webster]
[He pondered] which of all his sons was fit wage immortal war with wit.Dryden. 1913 Webster]
The two are waging war, and the one triumphs by the destruction of the other.I. Taylor. 1913 Webster]
4.To adventure, or lay out, for hire or reward; to hire out. [Obs.] \'bdThou . . . must wage thy works for wealth.\'b8 Spenser. 1913 Webster]
5.To put upon wages; to hire; to employ; to pay wages to. [Obs.] 1913 Webster]
Abundance of treasure which he had in store, wherewith he might wage soldiers.Holinshed. 1913 Webster]
I would have them waged for their labor.Latimer. 1913 Webster]
6.(O. Eng. Law)To give security for the performance of.Burrill. 1913 Webster]
To wage battle(O. Eng. Law), to give gage, or security, for joining in the duellum, or combat. See Wager of battel, under Wager, n.Burrill. --
To wage one's law(Law), to give security to make one's law. See Wager of law, under Wager, n. 1913 Webster]
Wage, v. i.To bind one's self; to engage. [Obs.] 1913 Webster]
Wage, n.[OF. wage, gage, guarantee, engagement. See Wage, v. t. ] 1913 Webster]
1.That which is staked or ventured; that for which one incurs risk or danger; prize; gage. [Obs.] \'bdThat warlike wage.\'b8 Spenser. 1913 Webster]
2.That for which one labors; meed; reward; stipulated payment for service performed; hire; pay; compensation; -- at present generally used in the plural. See Wages. \'bdMy day's wage.\'b8 Sir W. Scott. \'bdAt least I earned my wage.\'b8 Thackeray. \'bdPay them a wage in advance.\'b8 J. Morley. \'bdThe wages of virtue.\'b8 Tennyson. 1913 Webster]
By Tom Thumb, a fairy page, wage, Drayton. 1913 Webster]
Our praises are our wages.Shak. 1913 Webster]
Existing legislation on the subject of wages.Encyc. Brit. 1913 Webster]
Wage is used adjectively and as the first part of compounds which are usually self-explaining; as, wage worker, or wage-worker; wage-earner, etc. 1913 Webster]
Wa"gen*boom`(?), n.[D., literally, wagon tree.](Bot.)A south African proteaceous tree (Protea grandiflora); also, its tough wood, used for making wagon wheels. 1913 Webster]
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wa"ger(w, n.[OE. wager, wajour, OF. wagiere, or wageure, F. gageure. See Wage, v. t.] 1913 Webster]
1.Something deposited, laid, or hazarded on the event of a contest or an unsettled question; a bet; a stake; a pledge. 1913 Webster]
Besides these plates for horse races, the wagers may be as the persons please.Sir W. Temple. 1913 Webster]
If any atheist can stake his soul for a wager against such an inexhaustible disproportion, let him never hereafter accuse others of credulity.Bentley. 1913 Webster]
2.(Law)A contract by which two parties or more agree that a certain sum of money, or other thing, shall be paid or delivered to one of them, on the happening or not happening of an uncertain event.Bouvier. 1913 Webster]
Chitty.Bouvier. 1913 Webster]
3.That on which bets are laid; the subject of a bet. 1913 Webster]
Wager of battel, or
Wager of battle(O. Eng. Law), the giving of gage, or pledge, for trying a cause by single combat, formerly allowed in military, criminal, and civil causes. In writs of right, where the trial was by champions, the tenant produced his champion, who, by throwing down his glove as a gage, thus waged, or stipulated, battle with the champion of the demandant, who, by taking up the glove, accepted the challenge. The wager of battel, which has been long in disuse, was abolished in England in 1819, by a statute passed in consequence of a defendant's having waged his battle in a case which arose about that period. See Battel. --
Wager of law(Law), the giving of gage, or sureties, by a defendant in an action of debt, that at a certain day assigned he would take a law, or oath, in open court, that he did not owe the debt, and at the same time bring with him eleven neighbors (called compurgators), who should avow upon their oaths that they believed in their consciences that he spoke the truth. --
Wager policy. (Insurance Law)See under Policy. --
Wagering contractor
gambling contract. A contract which is of the nature of wager. Contracts of this nature include various common forms of valid commercial contracts, as contracts of insurance, contracts dealing in futures, options, etc. Other wagering contracts and bets are now generally made illegal by statute against betting and gambling, and wagering has in many cases been made a criminal offence. [Webster 1913 Suppl.] 1913 Webster]
wa"ger, v. t.[imp. & p. p.wagered(w; p. pr. & vb. n.wagering.]To hazard on the issue of a contest, or on some question that is to be decided, or on some eventuality; to lay; to stake; to bet. 1913 Webster]
And wagered with him Shak. 1913 Webster]
Wa"ger, v. i.To make a bet; to lay a wager. 1913 Webster]
'T was merry when wagered on your angling.Shak. 1913 Webster]
Wa"ger*er(w, n.One who wagers, or lays a bet. 1913 Webster]
Wa"ger*ing, a.Hazarding; pertaining to the act of one who wagers. 1913 Webster]
Wagering policy. (Com.)See Wager policy, under Policy. 1913 Webster]
Wa"ges(w, n.plural in termination, but singular in signification. [Plural of wage; cf. F. gages, pl., wages, hire. See Wage, n.]1.A compensation given to a hired person for services; price paid for labor; recompense; hire. See Wage, n., 2. 1913 Webster]
The wages of sin is death.Rom. vi. 23. 1913 Webster]
2.(Economics)The share of the annual product or national dividend which goes as a reward to labor, as distinct from the remuneration received by capital in its various forms. This economic or technical sense of the word wages is broader than the current sense, and includes not only amounts actually paid to laborers, but the remuneration obtained by those who sell the products of their own work, and the wages of superintendence or management, which are earned by skill in directing the work of others. Webster 1913 Suppl.]
Wages fund(Polit. Econ.), the aggregate capital existing at any time in any country, which theoretically is unconditionally destined to be paid out in wages. It was formerly held, by Mill and other political economists, that the average rate of wages in any country at any time depended upon the relation of the wages fund to the number of laborers. This theory has been greatly modified by the discovery of other conditions affecting wages, which it does not take into account.Encyc. Brit. 1913 Webster]
Syn. -- See under Wage, n. 1913 Webster]
Wag"gel(w, n.(Zo\'94l.)The young of the great black-backed gull (Larus marinus), formerly considered a distinct species. [Prov. Eng.] 1913 Webster]
Wag"ger*y(-g, n.; pl.Waggeries(#).[From Wag.]The manner or action of a wag; mischievous merriment; sportive trick or gayety; good-humored sarcasm; pleasantry; jocularity; as, the waggery of a schoolboy.Locke. 1913 Webster]
A drollery and lurking waggery of expression.W. Irving. 1913 Webster]
Wag"gish(-g, a.1.Like a wag; mischievous in sport; roguish in merriment or good humor; frolicsome. \'bdA company of waggish boys.\'b8 L'Estrange. 1913 Webster]
2.Done, made, or laid in waggery or for sport; sportive; humorous; as, a waggish trick. 1913 Webster]
-- Wag"gish*ly, adv. -- Wag"gish*ness, n. 1913 Webster]
Wag"gle(?), v. i.[Freq. of wag; cf. D. waggelen, G. wackeln.]To reel, sway, or move from side to side; to move with a wagging motion; to waddle. 1913 Webster]
Why do you go nodding and waggling so?L'Estrange. 1913 Webster]
Wag"gle, v. t.[imp. & p. p.Waggled(?); p. pr. & vb. n.Waggling(?).]To move frequently one way and the other; to wag; as, a bird waggles his tail. 1913 Webster]
Wag"gle(?), n.A waggling or wagging;specif.(Golf), the preliminary swinging of the club head back and forth over the ball in the line of the proposed stroke. Webster 1913 Suppl.]
Wag"-hal`ter(?), n.[Wag + halter.]One who moves or wears a halter; one likely to be hanged. [Colloq. & Obs.] 1913 Webster]
I can tell you, I am a mad wag-halter.Marston. 1913 Webster]
Wag*ne"ri*an(?), a.Of, pertaining to, or resembling the style of, Richard Wagner, the German musical composer. Webster 1913 Suppl.]
Wag"ner*ite(?), n.(Min.)A fluophosphate of magnesia, occurring in yellowish crystals, and also in massive forms. 1913 Webster]
Wag"on(?), n.[D. wagen. Wain.] 1913 Webster]
1.A wheeled carriage; a vehicle on four wheels, and usually drawn by horses; especially, one used for carrying freight or merchandise. 1913 Webster]
wagons are used for the conveyance of persons and light commodities. 1913 Webster]
2.A freight car on a railway. [Eng.] 1913 Webster]
3.A chariot [Obs.] Spenser. 1913 Webster]
4.(Astron.)The Dipper, or Charles's Wain. 1913 Webster]
waggon, waggonage, etc.), chiefly in England. The forms wagon, wagonage, etc., are, however, etymologically preferable, and in the United States are almost universally used. 1913 Webster]
Wagon boiler. See the Note under Boiler, 3. --
Wagon ceiling(Arch.), a semicircular, or wagon-headed, arch or ceiling; -- sometimes used also of a ceiling whose section is polygonal instead of semicircular. --
Wagon master, an officer or person in charge of one or more wagons, especially of those used for transporting freight, as the supplies of an army, and the like. --
Wagon shoe, a skid, or shoe, for retarding the motion of a wagon wheel; a drag. --
Wagon vault. (Arch.)See under 1st Vault. 1913 Webster]
Wag"on(?), v. t.[imp. & p. p.Wagoned(?); p. pr. & vb. n.Wagoning.]To transport in a wagon or wagons; as, goods are wagoned from city to city. 1913 Webster]
Wag"on, v. i.To wagon goods as a business; as, the man wagons between Philadelphia and its suburbs. 1913 Webster]
Wag"on*age(?), n.1.Money paid for carriage or conveyance in wagon. 1913 Webster]
2.A collection of wagons; wagons, collectively. 1913 Webster]
Wagonage, provender, and a piece or two of cannon.Carlyle. 1913 Webster]
Wag"on*er(?), n.1.One who conducts a wagon; one whose business it is to drive a wagon. 1913 Webster]
2.(Astron.)The constellation Charles's Wain, or Ursa Major. See Ursa major, under Ursa. 1913 Webster]
Wag`on*ette"(?), n.A kind of pleasure wagon, uncovered and with seats extended along the sides, designed to carry six or eight persons besides the driver. 1913 Webster]
Wag"on*ful(?), n.; pl.Wagonfuls(.As much as a wagon will hold; enough to fill a wagon; a wagonload. 1913 Webster]
Wag"on-head`ed(?), a.Having a top, or head, shaped like the top of a covered wagon, or resembling in section or outline an inverted U, thus as, a wagonheaded ceiling. 1913 Webster]
Wag"on*load`(?), n.Same as Wagonful. 1913 Webster]
Wag"on-roofed`(?), a.Having a roof, or top, shaped like an inverted U; wagon-headed. 1913 Webster]
Wag"on*ry(?), n.Conveyance by means of a wagon or wagons. [Obs.] Milton. 1913 Webster]
Wag"on*wright`(?), n.One who makes wagons. 1913 Webster]
Wag"tail`(?), n.(Zo\'94l.)Any one of many species of Old World singing birds belonging to Motacilla and several allied genera of the family Motacillid\'91. They have the habit of constantly jerking their long tails up and down, whence the name. 1913 Webster]
Field wagtail, any one of several species of wagtails of the genus Budytes having the tail shorter, the legs longer, and the hind claw longer and straighter, than do the water wagtails. Most of the species are yellow beneath. Called also yellow wagtail. --
Garden wagtail, the Indian black-breasted wagtail (Nemoricola Indica). --
Pied wagtail, the common European water wagtail (Motacilla lugubris). It is variegated with black and white. The name is applied also to other allied species having similar colors. Called also pied dishwasher. --
Wagtail flycatcher, a true flycatcher (Sauloprocta motacilloides) common in Southern Australia, where it is very tame, and frequents stock yards and gardens and often builds its nest about houses; -- called also black fantail. --
Water wagtail. (a)Any one of several species of wagtails of the restricted genus Motacilla. They live chiefly on the shores of ponds and streams.(b)The American water thrush. See Water thrush. --
Wood wagtail, an Asiatic wagtail; (Calobates sulphurea) having a slender bill and short legs. 1913 Webster]
Wah(w, n.(Zo\'94l.)The panda. 1913 Webster]
Wa*ha"bee(?), n.[Ar. wah\'bebi.]A follower of Abdel Wahab (b. 1691; d. 1787), a reformer of Islam. 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.[Written also Wahaby.] 1913 Webster]
Wa*hoo"(?), n.Any of various American trees or shrubs;specif.:(a)A certain shrub (Evonymus atropurpureus) having purple capsules which in dehiscence expose the scarlet-ariled seeds; -- called also burning bush.(b)Cascara buckthorn.(c)Basswood. Webster 1913 Suppl.]
Wa*hoo", n.A dark blue scombroid food fish (Acanthocibium solandriorAcanthocibium petus) of Florida and the West Indies. Webster 1913 Suppl.]
Waif(?), n.[OF. waif, gaif, as adj., lost, unclaimed, chose gaive a waif, LL. wayfium, res vaivae; of Scand. origin. See Waive.] 1913 Webster]
1.(Eng. Law.)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.Blackstone. 1913 Webster]
2.Hence, anything found, or without an owner; that which comes along, as it were, by chance. \'bdRolling in his mind old waifs of rhyme.\'b8 Tennyson. 1913 Webster]
3.A wanderer; a castaway; a stray; a homeless child. 1913 Webster]
A waif Cowper. 1913 Webster]
Waift(?), n.A waif. [Obs.] Spenser. 1913 Webster]
Wail(?), v. t.[Cf. Icel. val choice, velja to choose, akin to Goth. waljan, G. w\'84hlen.]To choose; to select. [Obs.] \'bdWailed wine and meats.\'b8 Henryson. 1913 Webster]
Wail, v. t.[imp. & p. p.Wailed(?); p. pr. & vb. n.Wailing.][OE. wailen, weilen, probably fr. Icel. v\'91la; cf. Icel. v\'91, vei, woe, and E. wayment, also OE. wai, wei, woe. Cf. Woe.]To lament; to bewail; to grieve over; as, to wail one's death.Shak. 1913 Webster]
Wail, v. i.To express sorrow audibly; to make mournful outcry; to weep. 1913 Webster]
Therefore I will wail and howl.Micah i. 8. 1913 Webster]
Wail, n.Loud weeping; violent lamentation; wailing. \'bdThe wail of the forest.\'b8 Longfellow. 1913 Webster]
Wail"er(?), n.One who wails or laments. 1913 Webster]
Wail"er*ess(?), n.A woman who wails. [Obs.] 1913 Webster]
Wai"ment(?). v. & n.See Wayment. [Obs.] 1913 Webster]
Wain(?), n.[OE. wain, AS. w\'91gn; akin to D. & G. wagen, OHG. wagan, Icel. & Sw. vagn, Dan. vogn, and E. way. Way, Weigh, and cf. Wagon.] 1913 Webster]
1.A four-wheeled vehicle for the transportation of goods, produce, etc.; a wagon. 1913 Webster]
The wardens see nothing but a wain of hay.Jeffrey. 1913 Webster]
Driving in ponderous wains their household goods to the seashore.Longfellow. 1913 Webster]
2.A chariot. [Obs.] 1913 Webster]
The Wain. (Astron.)See Charles's Wain, in the Vocabulary. --
Wain rope, a cart rope.Shak. 1913 Webster]
Wain"a*ble(?), a.Capable of being plowed or cultivated; arable; tillable. [Obs.] Cowell. 1913 Webster]
Wain"age(?; 48), n.[From Wain.]A finding of carriages, carts, etc., for the transportation of goods, produce, etc.Ainsworth. 1913 Webster]
Wain"age, n.(O. Eng. Law)See Gainage, a. 1913 Webster]
Wain"bote`(?), n.[Wain + bote.](O. Eng. Law)See Cartbote. See also the Note under Bote. 1913 Webster]
Wain"scot(?), n.[OD. waeghe-schot, D. wagen-schot, a clapboard, fr. OD. waeg, weeg, a wall (akin to AS. wah; cf. Icel. veggr) + schot a covering of boards (akin to E. shot, shoot).] 1913 Webster]
1.Oaken timber or boarding. [Obs.] 1913 Webster]
A wedge wainscot is fittest and most proper for cleaving of an oaken tree.Urquhart. 1913 Webster]
Inclosed in a chest of wainscot.J. Dart. 1913 Webster]
2.(Arch.)A wooden lining or boarding of the walls of apartments, usually made in panels. 1913 Webster]
3.(Zo\'94l.)Any one of numerous species of European moths of the family Leucanid\'91. 1913 Webster]
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Wain"scot, v. t.[imp. & p. p.Wainscoted; p. pr. & vb. n.Wainscoting.]To line with boards or panelwork, or as if with panelwork; as, to wainscot a hall. 1913 Webster]
Music soundeth better in chambers wainscoted than hanged.Bacon. 1913 Webster]
The other is wainscoted with looking-glass.Addison. 1913 Webster]
Wain"scot*ing, n.1.The act or occupation of covering or lining with boards in panel. 1913 Webster]
2.The material used to wainscot a house, or the wainscot as a whole; panelwork. 1913 Webster]
Wain"wright`(?), n.Same as Wagonwright. 1913 Webster]
Wair(?), n.(Carp.)A piece of plank two yard Bailey. 1913 Webster]
Waist(?), n.[OE. wast; originally, growth, akin to AS. weaxan to grow; cf. AS. w\'91stm growth. See Wax to grow.] 1913 Webster]
1.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.Chaucer. 1913 Webster]
I am in the waist two yards about.Shak. 1913 Webster]
2.Hence, the middle part of other bodies; especially (Naut.), that part of a vessel's deck, bulwarks, etc., which is between the quarter-deck and the forecastle; the middle part of the ship. 1913 Webster]
3.A garment, or part of a garment, which covers the body from the neck or shoulders to the waist line. 1913 Webster]
4.A girdle or belt for the waist. [Obs.] Shak. 1913 Webster]
Waist anchor. See Sheet anchor, 1, in the Vocabulary. 1913 Webster]
Waist"band(?), n.1.The band which encompasses the waist; esp., one on the upper part of breeches, trousers, pantaloons, skirts, or the like. 1913 Webster]
2.A sash worn by women around the waist. [R.] 1913 Webster]
Waist"cloth(?), n.1.A cloth or wrapper worn about the waist; by extension, such a garment worn about the hips and passing between the thighs. 1913 Webster]
2.(Naut.)A covering of canvas or tarpaulin for the hammocks, stowed on the nettings, between the quarterdeck and the forecastle. 1913 Webster]
Waist"coat(?), n.(a)A short, sleeveless coat or garment for men, worn under the coat, extending no lower than the hips, and covering the waist; a vest.(b)A garment occasionally worn by women as a part of fashionable costume. 1913 Webster]
waistcoat was a part of female attire as well as male . . . It was only when the waistcoat was worn without a gown or upper dress that it was considered the mark of a mad or profligate woman. Nares. 1913 Webster]
Syn. -- See Vest. 1913 Webster]
Waist`coat*eer"(?), n.One wearing a waistcoat; esp., a woman wearing one uncovered, or thought fit for such a habit; hence, a loose woman; strumpet. [Obs.] 1913 Webster]
Do you think you are here, sir, waistcoateers, your base wenches?Beau. & Fl. 1913 Webster]
Waist"coat*ing, n.A fabric designed for waistcoats; esp., one in which there is a pattern, differently colored yarns being used. 1913 Webster]
Waist"er(?), n.(Naut.)A seaman, usually a green hand or a broken-down man, stationed in the waist of a vessel of war.R. H. Dana, Jr. 1913 Webster]
Wait(?), v. i.[imp. & p. p.Waited; p. pr. & vb. n.Waiting.][OE. waiten, OF. waitier, gaitier, to watch, attend, F. guetter to watch, to wait for, fr. OHG. wahta a guard, watch, G. wacht, from OHG. wahh\'c7n to watch, be awake. \'fb134. See Wake, v. i.] 1913 Webster]
1.To watch; to observe; to take notice. [Obs.] 1913 Webster]
\'bdBut [unless] ye wait well and be privy, Chaucer. 1913 Webster]
2.To stay or rest in expectation; to stop or remain stationary till the arrival of some person or event; to rest in patience; to stay; not to depart. 1913 Webster]
All the days of my appointed time will I wait, till my change come.Job xiv. 14. 1913 Webster]
They also serve who only stand and wait.Milton. 1913 Webster]
Haste, my dear father; 't is no time to wait.Dryden. 1913 Webster]
<-- p. 1623 --> 1913 Webster]
To wait onor
To wait upon. (a)To attend, as a servant; to perform services for; as, to wait on a gentleman; to wait on the table. \'bdAuthority and reason on her wait.\'b8 Milton. \'bdI must wait on myself, must I?\'b8 Shak.(b)To attend; to go to see; to visit on business or for ceremony.(c)To follow, as a consequence; to await. \'bdThat ruin that waits on such a supine temper.\'b8 Dr. H. More.(d)To look watchfully at; to follow with the eye; to watch. [R.] \'bdIt is a point of cunning to wait upon him with whom you speak with your eye.\'b8 Bacon.(e)To attend to; to perform. \'bdAaron and his sons . . . shall wait on their priest's office.\'b8 Num. iii. 10.(f)(Falconry)To fly above its master, waiting till game is sprung; -- said of a hawk.Encyc. Brit. 1913 Webster]
Wait(?), v. t.1.To stay for; to rest or remain stationary in expectation of; to await; as, to wait orders. 1913 Webster]
Awed with these words, in camps they still abide, wait with longing looks their promised guide.Dryden. 1913 Webster]
2.To attend as a consequence; to follow upon; to accompany; to await. [Obs.] 1913 Webster]
3.To attend on; to accompany; especially, to attend with ceremony or respect. [Obs.] 1913 Webster]
He chose a thousand horse, the flower of all wait the funeral.Dryden. 1913 Webster]
Remorse and heaviness of heart shall wait thee, Rowe. 1913 Webster]
4.To cause to wait; to defer; to postpone; -- said of a meal; as, to wait dinner. [Colloq.] 1913 Webster]
Wait, n.[OF. waite, guaite, gaite, F. guet watch, watching, guard, from OHG. wahta. See Wait, v. i.] 1913 Webster]
1.The act of waiting; a delay; a halt. 1913 Webster]
There is a wait of three hours at the border Mexican town of El Paso.S. B. Griffin. 1913 Webster]
2.Ambush. \'bdAn enemy in wait.\'b8 Milton. 1913 Webster]
3.One who watches; a watchman. [Obs.] 1913 Webster]
4.pl.Hautboys, or oboes, played by town musicians; not used in the singular. [Obs.] Halliwell. 1913 Webster]
5.pl.Musicians who sing or play at night or in the early morning, especially at Christmas time; serenaders; musical watchmen.[Written formerly wayghtes.] 1913 Webster]
Hark! are the waits abroad?Beau. & Fl. 1913 Webster]
The sound of the waits, rude as may be their minstrelsy, breaks upon the mild watches of a winter night with the effect of perfect harmony.W. Irving. 1913 Webster]
To lay wait, to prepare an ambuscade. --
To lie in wait. See under 4th Lie. 1913 Webster]
Wait"-a-bit`, n.Any of several plants bearing thorns or stiff hooked appendages, which catch and tear the clothing,as:(a)The greenbrier.(b)Any of various species of hawthorn.(c)In South Africa, one of numerous acacias and mimosas.(d)The grapple plant.(e)The prickly ash. Webster 1913 Suppl.]
Wait"-a-while`, n.(a)One of the Australian wattle trees (Acacia colletioides), so called from the impenetrability of the thicket which it makes.(b)same as Wait-a-bit. Webster 1913 Suppl.]
Wait"er(?), n.1.One who, or that which, waits; an attendant; a servant in attendance, esp. at table. 1913 Webster]
The waiters stand in ranks; the yeomen cry, Swift. 1913 Webster]
2.A vessel or tray on which something is carried, as dishes, etc.; a salver. 1913 Webster]
Coast waiter. See under Coast, n. 1913 Webster]
Wait"ing, a. & n. from Wait, v. 1913 Webster]
In waiting, in attendance; as, lords in waiting. [Eng.] --
Waiting gentlewoman, a woman who waits upon a person of rank. --
Waiting maid,
Waiting woman, a maid or woman who waits upon another as a personal servant. 1913 Webster]
Wait"ing*ly, adv.By waiting. 1913 Webster]
Wait"ress(?), n.A female waiter or attendant; a waiting maid or waiting woman.
<-- esp. one employed in a commercial dining establishment, who takes the customers' orders, brings the meals, and otherwise serves the customers who are seated at a table or counter. --> 1913 Webster]
Waive(?), n.[See Waive, v. t. ]1.A waif; a castaway. [Obs.] Donne. 1913 Webster]
2.(O. Eng. Law)A woman put out of the protection of the law. See Waive, v. t., 3 (b), and the Note. 1913 Webster]
Waive, v. t.[imp. & p. p.Waived(?); p. pr. & vb. n.Waiving.][OE. waiven, weiven, to set aside, remove, OF. weyver, quesver, to waive, of Scand. origin; cf. Icel. veifa to wave, to vibrate, akin to Skr. vip to tremble. Cf. Vibrate, Waif.][Written also wave.] 1913 Webster]
1.To relinquish; to give up claim to; not to insist on or claim; to refuse; to forego. 1913 Webster]
He waiveth milk, and flesh, and all.Chaucer. 1913 Webster]
We absolutely do renounce or waive our own opinions, absolutely yielding to the direction of others.Barrow. 1913 Webster]
2.To throw away; to cast off; to reject; to desert. 1913 Webster]
3.(Law)(a)To throw away; to relinquish voluntarily, as a right which one may enforce if he chooses.(b)(O. Eng. Law)To desert; to abandon.Burrill. 1913 Webster]
outlaw to a man. A woman could not be outlawed, in the proper sense of the word, because, according to Bracton, she was never in law, that is, in a frankpledge or decennary; but she might be waived, and held as abandoned. Burrill. 1913 Webster]
Waive, v. i.To turn aside; to recede. [Obs.] 1913 Webster]
To waive from the word of Solomon.Chaucer. 1913 Webster]
Waiv"er(?), n.(Law)The act of waiving, or not insisting on, some right, claim, or privilege. 1913 Webster]
Waiv"ure(?), n.See Waiver. [R.] 1913 Webster]
Wai"wode(?), n.See Waywode. 1913 Webster]
\'d8Wai Wu Pu(?). [Chinese wai foreign + wu affairs + pu office.]The Department of Foreign Affairs in the Chinese government.
The Tsung-li Yamen, or Foreign Office, created by a decree of January 19, 1861, was in July, 1902, superseded by the formation of a new Foreign Office called the Wai Wu Pu, . . . with precedence before all other boards.J. Scott Keltie. Webster 1913 Suppl.]
Wake(?), n.[Originally, an open space of water sv\'94k a hole, opening in ice, Sw. vak, Dan. vaage, perhaps akin to E. humid.]The track left by a vessel in the water; by extension, any track; as, the wake of an army. 1913 Webster]
This effect followed immediately in the wake of his earliest exertions.De Quincey. 1913 Webster]
Several humbler persons . . . formed quite a procession in the dusty wake of his chariot wheels.Thackeray. 1913 Webster]
Wake, v. i.[imp. & p. p.Waked(?) or Woke (p. pr. & vb. n. Waking.][AS. wacan, wacian; akin to OFries. waka, OS. wak, D. waken, G. wachen, OHG. wahh, Icel. vaka, Sw. vaken, Dan. vaage, Goth. wakan, v. i., uswakjan, v. t., Skr. v\'bejay to rouse, to impel. Vigil, Wait, v. i., Watch, v. i.] 1913 Webster]
1.To be or to continue awake; to watch; not to sleep. 1913 Webster]
The father waketh for the daughter.Ecclus. xlii. 9. 1913 Webster]
Though wisdom wake, suspicion sleeps.Milton. 1913 Webster]
I can not think any time, waking or sleeping, without being sensible of it.Locke. 1913 Webster]
2.To sit up late festive purposes; to hold a night revel. 1913 Webster]
The king doth wake to-night, and takes his rouse, Shak. 1913 Webster]
3.To be excited or roused from sleep; to awake; to be awakened; to cease to sleep; -- often with up. 1913 Webster]
He infallibly woke up at the sound of the concluding doxology.G. Eliot. 1913 Webster]
4.To be exited or roused up; to be stirred up from a dormant, torpid, or inactive state; to be active. 1913 Webster]
Gentle airs due at their hour waked.Milton. 1913 Webster]
Then wake, my soul, to high desires.Keble. 1913 Webster]
Wake(?), v. t.1.To rouse from sleep; to awake. 1913 Webster]
The angel . . . came again and waked me.Zech. iv. 1. 1913 Webster]
2.To put in motion or action; to arouse; to excite. \'bdI shall waken all this company.\'b8 Chaucer. 1913 Webster]
Lest fierce remembrance wake my sudden rage.Milton. 1913 Webster]
Even Richard's crusade woke little interest in his island realm.J. R. Green. 1913 Webster]
3.To bring to life again, as if from the sleep of death; to reanimate; to revive. 1913 Webster]
To second life Waked in the renovation of the just.Milton. 1913 Webster]
4.To watch, or sit up with, at night, as a dead body. 1913 Webster]
Wake, n.1.The act of waking, or being awaked; also, the state of being awake. [Obs. or Poetic] 1913 Webster]
Making such difference 'twixt wake and sleep.Shak. 1913 Webster]
Singing her flatteries to my morning wake.Dryden. 1913 Webster]
2.The state of forbearing sleep, especially for solemn or festive purposes; a vigil. 1913 Webster]
The warlike wakes continued all the night, Dryden. 1913 Webster]
The wood nymphs, decked with daises trim, wakes and pastimes keep.Milton. 1913 Webster]
3. Specifically: (a)(Ch. of Eng.)An annual parish festival formerly held in commemoration of the dedication of a church. Originally, prayers were said on the evening preceding, and hymns were sung during the night, in the church; subsequently, these vigils were discontinued, and the day itself, often with succeeding days, was occupied in rural pastimes and exercises, attended by eating and drinking, often to excess. 1913 Webster]
Great solemnities were made in all churches, and great fairs and wakes throughout all England.Ld. Berners. 1913 Webster]
And every village smokes at wakes with lusty cheer.Drayton. 1913 Webster]
(b)The sitting up of persons with a dead body, often attended with a degree of festivity, chiefly among the Irish. \'bdBlithe as shepherd at a wake.\'b8 Cowper. 1913 Webster]
Wake play, the ceremonies and pastimes connected with a wake. See Wake, n., 3 (b), above. [Obs.] Chaucer. 1913 Webster]
Wake"ful(?), a.Not sleeping; indisposed to sleep; watchful; vigilant. 1913 Webster]
Dissembling sleep, but wakeful with the fright.Dryden. 1913 Webster]
-- Wake"ful*ly, adv. -- Wake"ful*ness, n. 1913 Webster]
Wak"en(?), v. i.[imp. & p. pr.Wakened(?); p. pr. & vb. n.Wakening.][OE. waknen, AS. w\'91cnan; akin to Goth. gawaknan. See Wake, v. i.]To wake; to cease to sleep; to be awakened. 1913 Webster]
Early, Turnus wakening with the light.Dryden. 1913 Webster]
Wak"en, v. t.1.To excite or rouse from sleep; to wake; to awake; to awaken. \'bdGo, waken Eve.\'b8 Milton. 1913 Webster]
2.To excite; to rouse; to move to action; to awaken. 1913 Webster]
Then Homer's and Tyrt\'91us' martial muse Wakened the world.Roscommon. 1913 Webster]
Venus now wakes, and wakens love.Milton. 1913 Webster]
They introduce waken raptures high.Milton. 1913 Webster]
Wak"en*er(?), n.One who wakens. 1913 Webster]
Wak"en*ing, n.1.The act of one who wakens; esp., the act of ceasing to sleep; an awakening. 1913 Webster]
2.(Scots Law)The revival of an action.Burrill. 1913 Webster]
They were too much ashamed to bring any wakening of the process against Janet.Sir W. Scott. 1913 Webster]
Wak"er(?), n.One who wakes. 1913 Webster]
Wake"-rob`in(?), n.(Bot.)Any plant of the genus Arum, especially, in England, the cuckoopint (Arum maculatum). 1913 Webster]
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Wake"time`(?), n.Time during which one is awake. [R.] Mrs. Browning. 1913 Webster]
Wakf(w, n.[Ar. waqf.](Moham. Law)The granting or dedication of property in trust for a pious purpose, that is, to some object that tends to the good of mankind, as to support a mosque or caravansary, to provide for support of one's family, kin, or neighbors, to benefit some particular person or persons and afterward the poor, etc.; also, the trust so created, or the property in trust. Webster 1913 Suppl.]
Wa"kif(w, n.[Ar. w\'beqif.](Moham. Law)The person creating a wakf. Webster 1913 Suppl.]
Wak"ing, n.1.The act of waking, or the state or period of being awake. 1913 Webster]
2.A watch; a watching. [Obs.] \'bdBodily pain . . . standeth in prayer, in wakings, in fastings.\'b8 Chaucer. 1913 Webster]
In the fourth waking of the night.Wyclif (Matt. xiv. 25). 1913 Webster]
Wald(?), n.[AS. weald. See Wold.]A forest; -- used as a termination of names. See Weald. 1913 Webster]
Wal*den"ses(?; 277), n. pl.[So called from Petrus Waldus, or Peter Waldo, a merchant of Lyons, who founded this sect about a. d. 1170.](Eccl. Hist.)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. 1913 Webster]
Wal*den"sian(?), a.Of or pertaining to the Waldenses. -- n.One Holding the Waldensian doctrines. 1913 Webster]
Wald"grave(?), n.[See Wald, and Margrave.]In the old German empire, the head forest keeper. 1913 Webster]
\'d8Wald*hei"mi*a(?), n.[NL.](Zo\'94l.)A genus of brachiopods of which many species are found in the fossil state. A few still exist in the deep sea. 1913 Webster]
Wale(?), n.[AS. walu a mark of stripes or blows, probably originally, a rod; akin to Icel. v\'94lr, Goth. walus a rod, staff. Goal, Weal a wale.] 1913 Webster]
1.A streak or mark made on the skin by a rod or whip; a stripe; a wheal. See Wheal.Holland. Syn. -- welt; weal; wheal. 1913 Webster]
2.A ridge or streak rising above the surface, as of cloth; hence, the texture of cloth. 1913 Webster]
3.(Carp.)A timber bolted to a row of piles to secure them together and in position.Knight. 1913 Webster]
4.(Naut.)(a)pl.Certain sets or strakes of the outside planking of a vessel; as, the main wales, or the strakes of planking under the port sills of the gun deck; channel wales, or those along the spar deck, etc.(b)A wale knot, or wall knot. 1913 Webster]
Wale knot. (Naut.)See Wall knot, under 1st Wall. 1913 Webster]
Wale, v. t.1.To mark with wales, or stripes. 1913 Webster]
2.To choose; to select; specifically (Mining), to pick out the refuse of (coal) by hand, in order to clean it. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.] 1913 Webster]
Wal"er(?), n.[From Wales, i.e., New South Wales.]A horse imported from New South Wales; also, any Australian horse. [Colloq.] Kipling.
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Wal*hal"la(?), n.[Cf. G. walhalla, See Valhalla.]See Valhalla. 1913 Webster]
Wal"ing(?), n.(Naut.)Same as Wale, n., 4. 1913 Webster]
Walk(w, v. i.[imp. & p. p.Walked(?); p. pr. & vb. n.Walking.][OE. walken, probably from AS. wealcan to roll, turn, revolve, akin to D. walken to felt hats, to work a hat, G. walken to full, OHG. walchan to beat, to full, Icel. v\'belka to roll, to stamp, Sw. valka to full, to roll, Dan. valke to full; cf. Skr. valg to spring; but cf. also AS. weallian to roam, ramble, G. wallen. 1913 Webster]
1.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. 1913 Webster]
At the end of twelve months, he walked in the palace of the kingdom of Babylon.Dan. iv. 29. 1913 Webster]
When Peter was come down out of the ship, he walked on the water, to go to Jesus.Matt. xiv. 29. 1913 Webster]
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2.To move or go on the feet for exercise or amusement; to take one's exercise; to ramble. 1913 Webster]
3.To be stirring; to be abroad; to go restlessly about; -- said of things or persons expected to remain quiet, as a sleeping person, or the spirit of a dead person; to go about as a somnambulist or a specter. 1913 Webster]
I have heard, but not believed, the spirits of the dead walk again.Shak. 1913 Webster]
When was it she last walked?Shak. 1913 Webster]
4.To be in motion; to act; to move; to wag. [Obs.] \'bdHer tongue did walk in foul reproach.\'b8 Spenser. 1913 Webster]
Do you think I'd walk in any plot?B. Jonson. 1913 Webster]
I heard a pen walking in the chimney behind the cloth.Latimer. 1913 Webster]
5.To behave; to pursue a course of life; to conduct one's self. 1913 Webster]
We walk perversely with God, and he will walk crookedly toward us.Jer. Taylor. 1913 Webster]
6.To move off; to depart. [Obs. or Colloq.] 1913 Webster]
He will make their cows and garrans to walk.Spenser. 1913 Webster]
To walk in, to go in; to enter, as into a house. --
To walk after the flesh(Script.), to indulge sensual appetites, and to live in sin.Rom. viii. 1. --
To walk after the Spirit(Script.), to be guided by the counsels and influences of the Spirit, and by the word of God.Rom. viii. 1. --
To walk by faith(Script.), to live in the firm belief of the gospel and its promises, and to rely on Christ for salvation.2 Cor. v. 7. --
To walk in darkness(Script.), to live in ignorance, error, and sin.1 John i. 6. --
To walk in the flesh(Script.), to live this natural life, which is subject to infirmities and calamities.2 Cor. x. 3. --
To walk in the light(Script.), to live in the practice of religion, and to enjoy its consolations.1 John i. 7. --
To walk over, in racing, to go over a course at a walk; -- said of a horse when there is no other entry; hence, colloquially, to gain an easy victory in any contest.<-- = to win in a walk. --> --
To walk through the fire(Script.), to be exercised with severe afflictions.Isa. xliii. 2. --
To walk with God(Script.), to live in obedience to his commands, and have communion with him. 1913 Webster]
Walk, v. t.1.To pass through, over, or upon; to traverse; to perambulate; as, to walk the streets. 1913 Webster]
As we walk our earthly round.Keble. 1913 Webster]
2.To cause to walk; to lead, drive, or ride with a slow pace; as, to walk one's horses; to walk the dog. \'bd I will rather trust . . . a thief to walk my ambling gelding.\'b8 Shak. 1913 Webster +PJC]
3.[AS. wealcan to roll. See Walk to move on foot.]To subject, as cloth or yarn, to the fulling process; to full. [Obs. or Scot.] 1913 Webster]
4.(Sporting)To put or keep (a puppy) in a walk; to train (puppies) in a walk. [Cant] Webster 1913 Suppl.]
5.To move in a manner likened to walking. [Colloq.]
She walked a spinning wheel into the house, making it use first one and then the other of its own spindling legs to achieve progression rather than lifting it by main force.C. E. Craddock.
To walk one's chalks, to make off; take French leave. --
To walk the plank, to walk off the plank into the water and be drowned; -- an expression derived from the practice of pirates who extended a plank from the side of a ship, and compelled those whom they would drown to walk off into the water; figuratively, to vacate an office by compulsion.Bartlett. 1913 Webster]
Walk, n.1.The act of walking, or moving on the feet with a slow pace; advance without running or leaping. 1913 Webster]
2.The act of walking for recreation or exercise; as, a morning walk; an evening walk. 1913 Webster]
3.Manner of walking; gait; step; as, we often know a person at a distance by his walk. 1913 Webster]
4.That in or through which one walks; place or distance walked over; a place for walking; a path or avenue prepared for foot passengers, or for taking air and exercise; way; road; hence, a place or region in which animals may graze; place of wandering; range; as, a sheep walk. 1913 Webster]
A woody mountain . . . with goodliest trees walks and bowers.Milton. 1913 Webster]
He had walk for a hundred sheep.Latimer. 1913 Webster]
Amid the sound of steps that beat walks like rain.Bryant. 1913 Webster]
5.A frequented track; habitual place of action; sphere; as, the walk of the historian. 1913 Webster]
The mountains are his walks.Sandys. 1913 Webster]
He opened a boundless walk for his imagination.Pope. 1913 Webster]
6.Conduct; course of action; behavior. 1913 Webster]
7.The route or district regularly served by a vender; as, a milkman's walk. [Eng.] 1913 Webster]
8.In coffee, coconut, and other plantations, the space between them. Webster 1913 Suppl.]
9.(Sporting)(a)A place for keeping and training puppies.(b)An inclosed area of some extent to which a gamecock is confined to prepare him for fighting. Webster 1913 Suppl.]
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Walk"a*ble(?), a.Fit to be walked on; capable of being walked on or over. [R.] Swift. 1913 Webster]
Walk"er(?), n.1.One who walks; a pedestrian. 1913 Webster]
2.That with which one walks; a foot. [Obs.] 1913 Webster]
Lame Mulciber, his walkers quite misgrown.Chapman. 1913 Webster]
3.(Law)A forest officer appointed to walk over a certain space for inspection; a forester. 1913 Webster]
4.[AS. wealcere. See Walk, v. t., 3.]A fuller of cloth. [Obs. or Prov. Eng. & Scot.] 1913 Webster]
She cursed the weaver and the walker Percy's Reliques. 1913 Webster]
5.(Zo\'94l.)Any ambulatorial orthopterous insect, as a stick insect. 1913 Webster]
6.(construction, tunneling)A shift superintendent or assistant superintendent who supervises several shifters(4} and their crews. Since these crews are usually separated by some distance, the walker is frequently seen walking between them. Also called walking boss. RH]
Walk"ing, a. & n. from Walk, v. 1913 Webster]
Walking beam. See Beam, 10. --
Walking crane, a kind of traveling crane. See under Crane. --
Walking fern. (Bot.)See Walking leaf, below. --
Walking fish(Zo\'94l.), any one of numerous species of Asiatic fishes of the genus Ophiocephalus, some of which, as Ophiocephalus marulius, become over four feet long. They have a special cavity over the gills lined with a membrane adapted to retain moisture to aid in respiration, and are thus able to travel considerable distances over the land at night, whence the name. They construct a curious nest for their young. Called also langya. --
Walking gentleman(Theater), an actor who usually fills subordinate parts which require a gentlemanly appearance but few words. [Cant] --
Walking lady(Theater), an actress who usually fills such parts as require only a ladylike appearance on the stage. [Cant] --
Walking leaf. (a)(Bot.)A little American fern (Camptosorus rhizophyllus); -- so called because the fronds taper into slender prolongations which often root at the apex, thus producing new plants.(b)(Zo\'94l.)A leaf insect. See under Leaf. --
Walking papers, or
Walking ticket, an order to leave; dismissal, as from office; as, to get one's walking papers, i. e. to be dismissed or fired. [Colloq.] Bartlett. --
Walking stick. (a)A stick or staff carried in the hand for hand for support or amusement when walking; a cane.(b)(Zo\'94l.)A stick insect; -- called also walking straw. See Illust. of Stick insect, under Stick. --
Walking wheel(Mach.), a prime mover consisting of a wheel driven by the weight of men or animals walking either in it or on it; a treadwheel. 1913 Webster]
Walk"-mill`(?), n.[Walk to Walking Leaf, or full + mill.]A fulling mill. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell. 1913 Webster]
walk"-off`(?), a.(Baseball)Game-ending and game-winning; such as to end the game immediately, and allow the players to walk off the field; -- of hits, especially home runs, which occur in the last half of the ninth or a later inning, which put the home team ahead of the visiting team and thereby end the game immediatey. This occurs in baseball because, when the last half of the ninth inning arrives, if the home team (which bats last) is already ahead in the score the last half of that inning is not played, the winner of the game having already been decided. Likewise, as soon as the home team gets ahead in the score after the visiting team has batted in the ninth inning, the game is ended. [Baseball jargon] PJC]
Curtis's homer over the left-center-field fence beat the Braves and was the first walk-off homer by a Yankee in the World Series since Mickey Mantle slugged one against the St. Louis Cardinals in game 3 in 1964.Jack Curry (New York Times, Oct. 28, 1999 p. D4) PJC]
There are so many people in here who are happy for Chad. We know what he's been through. Those hits could make Chad Curtis's whole year. When you hit a walk-off homer in the World Series, that's something he's going to remember for a long time.Paul O'Neill (the Yankee outfielder, quoted by Jack Curry in the New York Times, Oct. 27, 1999 p. D4) PJC]
Walk"-o`ver(?), n.In racing, the going over a course by a horse which has no competitor for the prize. 1913 Webster]
2.Hence: (colloquially) A one-sided contest; an uncontested, or an easy, victory. Syn. -- walk; cake-walk. 1913 Webster +PJC]
Wall(?), n.(Naut.)A kind of knot often used at the end of a rope; a wall knot; a wale. 1913 Webster]
Wall knot, a knot made by unlaying the strands of a rope, and making a bight with the first strand, then passing the second over the end of the first, and the third over the end of the second and through the bight of the first; a wale knot. Wall knots may be single or double, crowned or double-crowned. 1913 Webster]
Wall(?), n.[AS. weall, from L. vallum a wall, vallus a stake, pale, palisade; akin to Gr. Interval.] 1913 Webster]
1.A work or structure of stone, brick, or other materials, raised to some height, and intended for defense or security, solid and permanent inclosing fence, as around a field, a park, a town, etc., also, one of the upright inclosing parts of a building or a room. 1913 Webster]
The plaster of the wall of the King's palace.Dan. v. 5. 1913 Webster]
2.A defense; a rampart; a means of protection; in the plural, fortifications, in general; works for defense. 1913 Webster]
The waters were a wall unto them on their right hand, and on their left.Ex. xiv. 22. 1913 Webster]
In such a night, walls.Shak. 1913 Webster]
To rush undaunted to defend the walls.Dryden. 1913 Webster]
3.An inclosing part of a receptacle or vessel; as, the walls of a steam-engine cylinder. 1913 Webster]
4.(Mining)(a)The side of a level or drift.(b)The country rock bounding a vein laterally.Raymond. 1913 Webster]
Wall is often used adjectively, and also in the formation of compounds, usually of obvious signification; as in wall paper, or wall-paper; wall fruit, or wall-fruit; wallflower, etc. 1913 Webster]
Blank wall, Blind wall, etc. See under Blank, Blind, etc. --
To drive to the wall, to bring to extremities; to push to extremes; to get the advantage of, or mastery over. --
To go to the wall, to be hard pressed or driven; to be the weaker party; to be pushed to extremes. --
To take the wall. to take the inner side of a walk, that is, the side next the wall; hence, to take the precedence. \'bdI will take the wall of any man or maid of Montague's.\'b8 Shak. --
Wall barley(Bot.), a kind of grass (Hordeum murinum) much resembling barley; squirrel grass. See under Squirrel. --
Wall box. (Mach.)See Wall frame, below. --
Wall creeper(Zo\'94l.), a small bright-colored bird (Tichodroma muraria) native of Asia and Southern Europe. It climbs about over old walls and cliffs in search of insects and spiders. Its body is ash-gray above, the wing coverts are carmine-red, the primary quills are mostly red at the base and black distally, some of them with white spots, and the tail is blackish. Called also spider catcher. --
Wall cress(Bot.), a name given to several low cruciferous herbs, especially to the mouse-ear cress. See under Mouse-ear. --
Wall frame(Mach.), a frame set in a wall to receive a pillow block or bearing for a shaft passing through the wall; -- called also wall box. --
Wall fruit, fruit borne by trees trained against a wall. --
Wall gecko(Zo\'94l.), any one of several species of Old World geckos which live in or about buildings and run over the vertical surfaces of walls, to which they cling by means of suckers on the feet. --
Wall lizard(Zo\'94l.), a common European lizard (Lacerta muralis) which frequents houses, and lives in the chinks and crevices of walls; -- called also wall newt. --
Wall louse, a wood louse. --
Wall moss(Bot.), any species of moss growing on walls. --
Wall newt(Zo\'94l.), the wall lizard.Shak. --
Wall paper, paper for covering the walls of rooms; paper hangings. --
Wall pellitory(Bot.), a European plant (Parictaria officinalis) growing on old walls, and formerly esteemed medicinal. --
Wall pennywort(Bot.), a plant (Cotyledon Umbilicus) having rounded fleshy leaves. It is found on walls in Western Europe. --
Wall pepper(Bot.), a low mosslike plant (Sedum acre) with small fleshy leaves having a pungent taste and bearing yellow flowers. It is common on walls and rocks in Europe, and is sometimes seen in America. --
Wall pie(Bot.), a kind of fern; wall rue. --
Wall piece, a gun planted on a wall.H. L. Scott. --
Wall plate(Arch.), a piece of timber placed horizontally upon a wall, and supporting posts, joists, and the like. See Illust. of Roof. --
Wall rock, granular limestone used in building walls. [U. S.] Bartlett. --
Wall rue(Bot.), a species of small fern (Asplenium Ruta-muraria) growing on walls, rocks, and the like. --
Wall spring, a spring of water issuing from stratified rocks. --
Wall tent, a tent with upright cloth sides corresponding to the walls of a house. --
Wall wasp(Zo\'94l.), a common European solitary wasp (Odynerus parietus) which makes its nest in the crevices of walls. 1913 Webster]
Wall(, v. t.[imp. & p. p.Walled(; p. pr. & vb. n.Walling.]1.To inclose with a wall, or as with a wall. \'bdSeven walled towns of strength.\'b8 Shak. 1913 Webster]
The king of Thebes, Amphion, walled that city.Chaucer. 1913 Webster]
2.To defend by walls, or as if by walls; to fortify. 1913 Webster]
The terror of his name that walls us in.Denham. 1913 Webster]
3.To close or fill with a wall, as a doorway. 1913 Webster]
Wal"la*ba(?), n.(Bot.)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.J. Smith (Dict. Econ. Plants). 1913 Webster]
Wal"la*by(?), n.; pl.Wallabies(#).[From a native name.](Zo\'94l.)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 (Halmaturus Bennettii) and the pademelon (Halmaturus thetidis). The wallabies chiefly inhabit the wooded district and bushy plains.[Written also wallabee, and whallabee.] 1913 Webster]
Wal*la"chi*an(?), a.[Also Walachian, Wallach, Wallack, Vlach, etc.]Of or pertaining to Wallachia, a former principality, now part of the kingdom, of Roumania. -- n.An inhabitant of Wallachia; also, the language of the Wallachians; Roumanian. Webster 1913 Suppl.]
Wal"lack(?), a. & n.See Wallachian. Webster 1913 Suppl.]
Wal"lah(?), n.(Zo\'94l.)A black variety of the jaguar; -- called also tapir tiger.[Written also walla.] 1913 Webster]
Wal`la*roo"(?), n.(Zo\'94l.)Any one of several species of kangaroos of the genus Macropus, especially Macropus robustus, sometimes called the great wallaroo. 1913 Webster]
Wal*le"ri*an de*gen`er*a"tion(?). (Med.)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. 1913 Webster]
Wal"let(?), n.[OE. walet, probably the same word as OE. watel a bag. See Wattle.]1.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. 1913 Webster]
[His hood] was trussed up in his walet.Chaucer. 1913 Webster]
2.A pocketbook for keeping money about the person. 1913 Webster]
3.Anything protuberant and swagging. \'bdWallets of flesh.\'b8 Shak. 1913 Webster]
Wal`let*eer"(?), n.One who carries a wallet; a foot traveler; a tramping beggar. [Colloq.] Wright. 1913 Webster]
Wall"-eye`(?), n.[See Wall-eyed.] 1913 Webster]
1.An eye in which the iris is of a very light gray or whitish color; -- said usually of horses.Booth. 1913 Webster]
wall-eye to be \'bda disease in the crystalline humor of the eye; glaucoma.\'b8 But glaucoma is not a disease of the crystalline humor, nor is wall-eye a disease at all, but merely a natural blemish. Tully. In the north of England, as Brockett states, persons are said to be wall-eyed when the white of the eye is very large and distorted, or on one side. 1913 Webster]
2.(Zo\'94l.)(a)An American fresh-water food fish (Stizostedion vitreum) having large and prominent eyes; -- called also glasseye, pike perch, yellow pike, and wall-eyed perch.(b)A California surf fish (Holconotus argenteus).(c)The alewife; -- called also wall-eyed herring. 1913 Webster]
Wall"-eyed`(?), a.[Icel. valdeyg, or vagleygr; fr. vagl a beam, a beam in the eye (akin to Sw. vagel a roost, a perch, a sty in the eye) + eygr having eyes (from auga eye). See Eye.]Having an eye of a very light gray or whitish color.Booth. 1913 Webster]
wall-eyed as a term of reproach (as \'bdwall-eyed rage,\'b8 a \'bdwall-eyed wretch\'b8), alludes probably to the idea of unnatural or distorted vision. See the Note under Wall-eye. It is an eye which is utterly and incurably perverted, an eye that knows no pity. 1913 Webster]
Wall"flow`er(?), n.1.(Bot.)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. 1913 Webster]
Cheiranthus and of the related genus Erysimum, especially the American Western wallflower (Erysimum asperum), a biennial herb with orange-yellow flowers. 1913 Webster]
2.A lady at a ball, who, either from choice, or because not asked to dance, remains a spectator. [Colloq.] 1913 Webster]
3.(Bot.)In Australia, the desert poison bush (Gastrolobium grandiflorum); -- called also native wallflower. Webster 1913 Suppl.]
Wall"ing, n.1.The act of making a wall or walls. 1913 Webster]
2.Walls, in general; material for walls. 1913 Webster]
Walling wax, a composition of wax and tallow used by etchers and engravers to make a bank, or wall, round the edge of a plate, so as to form a trough for holding the acid used in etching, and the like.Fairholt. 1913 Webster]
Wal*loons"(?), n. pl.; sing. Walloon(. [Cf. F. wallon.]A Romanic people inhabiting that part of Belgium which comprises the provinces of Hainaut, Namur, Li\'82ge, and Luxembourg, and about one third of Brabant; also, the language spoken by this people. Used also adjectively. [Written also Wallons.] \'bdA base Walloon . . . thrust Talbot with a spear.\'b8 Shak. 1913 Webster]
Walloon guard, the bodyguard of the Spanish monarch; -- so called because formerly consisting of Walloons. 1913 Webster]
Wal"lop(?), v. i.[Cf. OFlem. walop a gallop; of uncertain origin. Cf. Gallop.]To move quickly, but with great effort; to gallop. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.] 1913 Webster]
Wal"lop, n.A quick, rolling movement; a gallop. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.] 1913 Webster]
Wal"lop, v. i.[imp. & p. p.Walloped(?); p. pr. & vb. n.Walloping.][Probably fr. AS. weallan to spring up, to boil or bubble. Well, n. & v. i.] 1913 Webster]
1.To boil with a continued bubbling or heaving and rolling, with noise. [Prov. Eng.] Brockett. 1913 Webster]
2.To move in a rolling, cumbersome manner; to waddle. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell. 1913 Webster]
3.To be slatternly. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell. 1913 Webster]
Wal"lop, v. t.1.To beat soundly; to flog; to whip. [Prov. Eng., Scot., & Colloq. U. S.] 1913 Webster]
2.To wrap up temporarily. [Prov. Eng.] 1913 Webster]
3.To throw or tumble over. [Prov. Eng.] 1913 Webster]
Wal"lop, n.1.A thick piece of fat.Halliwell. 1913 Webster]
Wal"low(?), v. i.[imp. & p. p.Wallowed(?); p. pr. & vb. n.Wallowing.][OE. walwen, AS. wealwian; akin to Goth. walwjan (in comp.) to roll, L. volvere; cf. Skr. val to turn. \'fb147. Cf. Voluble Well, n.] 1913 Webster]
1.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. 1913 Webster]
I may wallow in the lily beds.Shak. 1913 Webster]
2.To live in filth or gross vice; to disport one's self in a beastly and unworthy manner. 1913 Webster]
God sees a man wallowing in his native impurity.South. 1913 Webster]
3.To wither; to fade. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.] 1913 Webster]
Wal"low, v. t.To roll; esp., to roll in anything defiling or unclean. \'bdWallow thyself in ashes.\'b8 Jer. vi. 26. 1913 Webster]
Wal"low, n.A kind of rolling walk. 1913 Webster]
One taught the toss, and one the new French wallow.Dryden. 1913 Webster]
2.Act of wallowing. Webster 1913 Suppl.]
3.A place to which an animal comes to wallow; also, the depression in the ground made by its wallowing; as, a buffalo wallow. Webster 1913 Suppl.]
Wal"low*er(?), n.1.One who, or that which, wallows. 1913 Webster]
2.(Mach.)A lantern wheel; a trundle. 1913 Webster]
Wal"low*ish, a.[Scot. wallow to fade or wither.]Flat; insipid. [Obs.] Overbury. 1913 Webster]
Wall"-plat`(?), n.(Zo\'94l.)The spotted flycatcher. It builds its nest on walls. [Prov. Eng.] 1913 Webster]
Wall"-sid`ed(?), a.(Naut.)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.). 1913 Webster]
Wall Street. A street towards the southern end of the borough of Manhattan, New York City, extending from Broadway to the East River; -- so called from the old wall which extended along it when the city belonged to the Dutch. It is the chief financial center of the United States, hence the name is often used for the money market and the financial interests of the country; -- in American financial publications, also referred to as the street. Webster 1913 Suppl. +PJC]
Wall"wort`(?), n.(Bot.)The dwarf elder, or danewort (Sambucus Ebulus). 1913 Webster]
Walm(?), v. i.[AS. weallan; cf. w\'91lm, billow. \'fb147.]To roll; to spout; to boil up. [Obs.] Holland. 1913 Webster]
Wal"nut(?), n.[OE. walnot, AS. wealh-hnutu a Welsh or foreign nut, a walnut; wealh foreign, strange, n., a Welshman, Celt (akin to OHG. Walh, properly, a Celt, from the name of a Celtic tribe, in L. Volcae) + hnutu a nut; akin to D. walnoot, G. walnuss, Icel. valhnot, Sw. valn\'94t, Dan valn\'94d. See Nut, and cf. Welsh.](Bot.)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. 1913 Webster]
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walnut is given to several species of hickory (Carya), and their fruit. 1913 Webster]
Ash-leaved walnut, a tree (Juglans fraxinifolia), native in Transcaucasia. --
Black walnut, a North American tree (Juglans nigra) valuable for its purplish brown wood, which is extensively used in cabinetwork and for gunstocks. The nuts are thick-shelled, and nearly globular. --
English walnut, or
European walnut, a tree (Juglans regia), native of Asia from the Caucasus to Japan, valuable for its timber and for its excellent nuts, which are also called Madeira nuts. --
Walnut brown, a deep warm brown color, like that of the heartwood of the black walnut. --
Walnut oil, oil extracted from walnut meats. It is used in cooking, making soap, etc. --
White walnut, a North American tree (Juglans cinerea), bearing long, oval, thick-shelled, oily nuts, commonly called butternuts. See Butternut. 1913 Webster]
Wal"rus(?), n.[D. walrus; of Scand. origin; cf. Dan valros, Sw. vallross, Norw. hvalros; literally, whale horse; akin to Icel. hrosshvalr, AS. horshw\'91l. See Whale, and Horse.](Zo\'94l.)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. 1913 Webster]
Trichecus obesus) is regarded by some as a distinct species, by others as a variety of the common walrus. 1913 Webster]
Wal"ter(?), v. i.[See Welter.]To roll or wallow; to welter. [Obs. or Prov. Eng. & Scot.] 1913 Webster]
Wal"ty(?), a.[Cf. Walter to roll.]Liable to roll over; crank; as, a walty ship. [R.] Longfellow. 1913 Webster]
Waltz(?), n.[G. walzer, from walzen to roll, revolve, dance, OHG. walzan to roll; akin to AS. wealtan. See Welter.]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. 1913 Webster]
Waltz, v. i.[imp. & p. p.Waltzed(?); p. pr. & vb. n.Waltzing.]To dance a waltz. 1913 Webster]
Waltz"er(?), n.A person who waltzes. 1913 Webster]
Wa"ly(?), interj.[Cf. Welaway.]An exclamation of grief. [Obs. or Prov. Eng. & Scot.] 1913 Webster]
Wam"ble(?), v. i.[Cf. Dan. vamle, and vammel squeamish, ready to vomit, Icel. v\'91ma to feel nausea, v\'91minn nauseous.]1.To heave; to be disturbed by nausea; -- said of the stomach.L'Estrange. 1913 Webster]
2.To move irregularly to and fro; to roll. 1913 Webster]
Wam"ble, n.Disturbance of the stomach; a feeling of nausea.Holland. 1913 Webster]
Wam"ble-cropped`(?), a.Sick at the stomach; also, crestfallen; dejected. [Slang] 1913 Webster]
Wam"mel(?), v. i.To move irregularly or awkwardly; to wamble, or wabble. [Prov. Eng.] 1913 Webster]
Wamp(?), n.[From the North American Indian name.](Zo\'94l.)The common American eider. 1913 Webster]
Wam*pee"(?), n.(Bot.)(a)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.(b)The pickerel weed. [Southern U. S.] 1913 Webster]
Wam"pum(?), n.[North American Indian wampum, wompam, from the Mass. w\'a2mpi, Del. w\'bepe, white.]Beads made of shells, used by the North American Indians as money, and also wrought into belts, etc., as an ornament. 1913 Webster]
Round his waist his belt of wampum.Longfellow. 1913 Webster]
Girded with his wampum braid.Whittier. 1913 Webster]
wampum is properly applied only to the white; the dark purple ones are called suckanhock. See Seawan. \'bdIt [wampum] consisted of cylindrical pieces of the shells of testaceous fishes, a quarter of an inch long, and in diameter less than a pipestem, drilled . . . so as to be strung upon a thread. The beads of a white color, rated at half the value of the black or violet, passed each as the equivalent of a farthing in transactions between the natives and the planters.\'b8 Palfrey. 1913 Webster]
Wan(?), obs. imp. of Win. Won.Chaucer. 1913 Webster]
Wan(, a.[AS. wann, wonn, wan, won, dark, lurid, livid, perhaps originally, worn out by toil, from winnan to labor, strive. See Win.]Having a pale or sickly hue; languid of look; pale; pallid. \'bdSad to view, his visage pale and wan.\'b8 Spenser. 1913 Webster]
My color . . . [is] wan and of a leaden hue.Chaucer. 1913 Webster]
Why so pale and wan, fond lover?Suckling. 1913 Webster]
With the wan moon overhead.Longfellow. 1913 Webster]
Wan, n.The quality of being wan; wanness. [R.] 1913 Webster]
Tinged with wan from lack of sleep.Tennyson. 1913 Webster]
Wan(?), v. i.To grow wan; to become pale or sickly in looks. \'bdAll his visage wanned.\'b8 Shak. 1913 Webster]
And ever he mutter'd and madden'd, and ever wann'd with despair.Tennyson. 1913 Webster]
Wand(?), n.[Of Scand. origin; cf. Icel. v\'94ndr, akin to Dan. vaand, Goth. wandus; perhaps originally, a pliant twig, and akin to E. wind to turn.]1.A small stick; a rod; a verge. 1913 Webster]
With good smart blows of a wand on his back.Locke. 1913 Webster]
2. Specifically: (a)A staff of authority. 1913 Webster]
Though he had both spurs and wand, they seemed rather marks of sovereignty than instruments of punishment.Sir P. Sidney. 1913 Webster]
(b)A rod used by conjurers, diviners, magicians, etc. 1913 Webster]
Picus bore a buckler in his hand; wand.Dryden. 1913 Webster]
Wand of peace(Scots Law), a wand, or staff, carried by the messenger of a court, which he breaks when deforced (that is, hindered from executing process), as a symbol of the deforcement, and protest for remedy of law.Burrill. 1913 Webster]
Wan"der(?), v. i.[imp. & p. p.Wandered(?); p. pr. & vb. n.Wandering.][OE. wandren, wandrien, AS. wandrian; akin to G. wandern to wander; fr. AS. windan to turn. See Wind to turn.] 1913 Webster]
1.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. 1913 Webster]
They wandered about in sheepskins and goatskins.Heb. xi. 37. 1913 Webster]
He wandereth abroad for bread.Job xv. 23. 1913 Webster]
2.To go away; to depart; to stray off; to deviate; to go astray; as, a writer wanders from his subject. 1913 Webster]
When God caused me to wander from my father's house.Gen. xx. 13. 1913 Webster]
O, let me not wander from thy commandments.Ps. cxix. 10. 1913 Webster]
3.To be delirious; not to be under the guidance of reason; to rave; as, the mind wanders. 1913 Webster]
Wan"der, v. t.To travel over without a certain course; to traverse; to stroll through. [R.] \'bd[Elijah] wandered this barren waste.\'b8 Milton. 1913 Webster]
Wan"der*er(?), n.One who wanders; a rambler; one who roves; hence, one who deviates from duty. 1913 Webster]
Wan"der*ing, a. & n. from Wander, v. 1913 Webster]
Wandering albatross(Zo\'94l.), the great white albatross. See Illust. of Albatross. --
Wandering cell(Physiol.), an animal cell which possesses the power of spontaneous movement, as one of the white corpuscles of the blood. --
Wandering Jew(Bot.), any one of several creeping species of Tradescantia, which have alternate, pointed leaves, and a soft, herbaceous stem which roots freely at the joints. They are commonly cultivated in hanging baskets, window boxes, etc. --
Wandering kidney(Med.), a morbid condition in which one kidney, or, rarely, both kidneys, can be moved in certain directions; -- called also floating kidney, movable kidney. --
Wandering liver(Med.), a morbid condition of the liver, similar to wandering kidney. --
Wandering mouse(Zo\'94l.), the whitefooted, or deer, mouse. See Illust. of Mouse. --
Wandering spider(Zo\'94l.), any one of a tribe of spiders that wander about in search of their prey. 1913 Webster]
Wan"der*ing*ly, adv.In a wandering manner. 1913 Webster]
Wan"der*ment(?), n.The act of wandering, or roaming. [Obs.] Bp. Hall. 1913 Webster]
Wan`der*oo"(?), n.[Cingalese wanderu a monkey.](Zo\'94l.)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.[Written also ouanderoo.] 1913 Webster]
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Wand"y(?), a.Long and flexible, like a wand. [Prov. Eng.] Brockett. 1913 Webster]
Wane(?), v. i.[imp. & p. p.Waned(?); p. pr. & vb. n.Waning.][OE. wanien, AS. wanian, wonian, from wan, won, deficient, wanting; akin to D. wan-, G. wahnsinn, insanity, OHG. wan, wana-, lacking, wan to lessen, Icel. vanr lacking, Goth. vans; cf. Gr. wanting, inferior. Want lack, and Wanton.] 1913 Webster]
1.To be diminished; to decrease; -- contrasted with wax, and especially applied to the illuminated part of the moon. 1913 Webster]
Like the moon, aye wax ye and wane. Waning moons their settled periods keep.Addison. 1913 Webster]
2.To decline; to fail; to sink. 1913 Webster]
You saw but sorrow in its waning form.Dryden. 1913 Webster]
Land and trade ever will wax and wane together.Sir J. Child. 1913 Webster]
Wane, v. t.To cause to decrease. [Obs.] B. Jonson. 1913 Webster]
Wane, n.1.The decrease of the illuminated part of the moon to the eye of a spectator. 1913 Webster]
An age in which the church is in its wane.South. 1913 Webster]
Though the year be on the wane.Keble. 1913 Webster]
3.An inequality in a board. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell. 1913 Webster]
4.(Forestry)The natural curvature of a log or of the edge of a board sawed from a log. Webster 1913 Suppl.]
Wan"ey(?), n.A sharp or uneven edge on a board that is cut from a log not perfectly squared, or that is made in the process of squaring. See Wany, a. 1913 Webster]
Wang(?), n.[OE. wange, AS. wange, wonge, cheek, jaw; akin to D. wang, OS. & OHG. wanga, G. wange.] 1913 Webster]
1.The jaw, jawbone, or cheek bone. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] 1913 Webster]
So work aye the wangs in his head.Chaucer. 1913 Webster]
2.A slap; a blow. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell. 1913 Webster]
Wang tooth, a cheek tooth; a molar. [Obs.] Chaucer. 1913 Webster]
Wang(?), n.See Whang. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] 1913 Webster]
Wan"gan(?), n.[American Indian.]A boat for conveying provisions, tools, etc.; -- so called by Maine lumbermen.[Written also wangun.]Bartlett. 1913 Webster]
Wang"er(?), n.[AS. wangere. See 1st Wang.]A pillow for the cheek; a pillow. [Obs. & R.] 1913 Webster]
His bright helm was his wanger.Chaucer. 1913 Webster]
Wang*hee"(?), n.[Chin. wang yellow + he a root.](Bot.)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.[Written also whanghee.] 1913 Webster]
Wang"o(?), n.A boomerang. 1913 Webster]
Wan"hope`(?), n.[AS. wan, won, deficient, wanting + hopa hope: cf. D. wanhoop. . See Wane, and Hope.]Want of hope; despair; also, faint or delusive hope; delusion. [Obs.] Piers Plowman. \'bdWanhope and distress.\'b8 Chaucer. 1913 Webster]
Wan"horn`(?), n.[Corruption fr. Siamese wanhom.](Bot.)An East Indian plant (K\'91mpferia Galanga) of the Ginger family. See Galanga. 1913 Webster]
Wan"i*and(?), n.[See Wanion.]The wane of the moon. [Obs.] Halliwell. 1913 Webster]
Wan"ing(?), n.The act or process of waning, or decreasing. 1913 Webster]
This earthly moon, the Church, hath fulls and wanings, and sometimes her eclipses.Bp. Hall. 1913 Webster]
Wan"ion(?), n.[Probably for OE. waniand waning, p. pr. of wanien; hence, used of the waning of the moon, supposed to be an unlucky time. See Wane.]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. [Obs.] B. Jonson. Latimer. 1913 Webster]
Wan"kle(?), a.[AS. wancol.]Not to be depended on; weak; unstable. [Prov. Eng.] Grose. 1913 Webster]
Wan"ly(?), adv.In a wan, or pale, manner. 1913 Webster]
Wanned(?), a.Made wan, or pale. 1913 Webster]
Wan"ness(?), n.The quality or state of being wan; a sallow, dead, pale color; paleness; pallor; as, the wanness of the cheeks after a fever. 1913 Webster]
Wan"nish, a.Somewhat wan; of a pale hue. 1913 Webster]
No sun, but a wannish glare, Tennyson. 1913 Webster]
Want(277), n.[Originally an adj., from Icel. vant, neuter of vanr lacking, deficient. Wane, v. i.] 1913 Webster]
1.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. 1913 Webster]
And me, his parent, would full soon devour want of other prey.Milton. 1913 Webster]
From having wishes in consequence of our wants, we often feel wants in consequence of our wishes.Rambler. 1913 Webster]
Pride is as loud a beggar as want, and more saucy.Franklin. 1913 Webster]
2.Specifically, absence or lack of necessaries; destitution; poverty; penury; indigence; need. 1913 Webster]
Nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches, as to conceive how others can be in want.Swift. 1913 Webster]
3.That which is needed or desired; a thing of which the loss is felt; what is not possessed, and is necessary for use or pleasure. 1913 Webster]
Habitual superfluities become actual wants.Paley. 1913 Webster]
4.(Mining)A depression in coal strata, hollowed out before the subsequent deposition took place. [Eng.] 1913 Webster]
Want, v. t.[imp. & p. p.Wanted; p. pr. & vb. n.Wanting.] 1913 Webster]
1.To be without; to be destitute of, or deficient in; not to have; to lack; as, to want knowledge; to want judgment; to want learning; to want food and clothing. 1913 Webster]
They that want honesty, want anything.Beau. & Fl. 1913 Webster]
Nor think, though men were none, want spectators, God want praise.Milton. 1913 Webster]
The unhappy never want enemies.Richardson. 1913 Webster]
2.To have occasion for, as useful, proper, or requisite; to require; to need; as, in winter we want a fire; in summer we want cooling breezes. 1913 Webster]
3.To feel need of; to wish or long for; to desire; to crave. \'bd What wants my son?\'b8 Addison. 1913 Webster]
I want to speak to you about something.A. Trollope. 1913 Webster]
Want, v. i.[Icel. vanta to be wanting. See Want to lack.] 1913 Webster]
1.To be absent; to be deficient or lacking; to fail; not to be sufficient; to fall or come short; to lack; -- often used impersonally with of; as, it wants ten minutes of four. 1913 Webster]
The disposition, the manners, and the thoughts are all before it; where any of those are wanting or imperfect, so much wants or is imperfect in the imitation of human life.Dryden. 1913 Webster]
2.To be in a state of destitution; to be needy; to lack. 1913 Webster]
You have a gift, sir (thank your education), want.B. Jonson. 1913 Webster]
For as in bodies, thus in souls, we find wants in blood and spirits, swelled with wind.Pope. 1913 Webster]
Want was formerly used impersonally with an indirect object. \'bdHim wanted audience.\'b8Chaucer. 1913 Webster]
Wa'n't(?). A colloquial contraction of was not. 1913 Webster]
Want"age(?), n.That which is wanting; deficiency. 1913 Webster]
Want"ing, a.Absent; lacking; missing; also, deficient; destitute; needy; as, one of the twelve is wanting; I shall not be wanting in exertion. 1913 Webster]
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Want"less(?), a.Having no want; abundant; fruitful. 1913 Webster]
Wan"ton(?), a.[OE. wantoun, contr. from wantowen; pref. wan- wanting (see Wane, v. i.), hence expressing negation + towen, p. p., AS. togen, p. p. of te\'a2n to draw, to educate, bring up; hence, properly, ill bred. See Tug, v. t.] 1913 Webster]
Wan"ton, n.1.A roving, frolicsome thing; a trifler; -- used rarely as a term of endearment. 1913 Webster]
I am afeard you make a wanton of me.Shak. 1913 Webster]
Peace, my wantons; he will do B. Jonson. 1913 Webster]
2.One brought up without restraint; a pampered pet. 1913 Webster]
Anything, sir, wanton.Beau. & Fl. 1913 Webster]
3.A lewd person; a lascivious man or woman. 1913 Webster]
Wan"ton, v. i.[imp. & p. p.Wantoned(?); p. pr. & vb. n.Wantoning.] 1913 Webster]
1.To rove and ramble without restraint, rule, or limit; to revel; to play loosely; to frolic. 1913 Webster]
Nature here wantoned as in her prime.Milton. 1913 Webster]
How merrily we would sally into the fields, and strip under the first warmth of the sun, and wanton like young dace in the streams!Lamb. 1913 Webster]
2.To sport in lewdness; to play the wanton; to play lasciviously. 1913 Webster]
Wan"ton, v. t.To cause to become wanton; also, to waste in wantonness. [Obs.] 1913 Webster]
Wan"ton*ize(?), v. i.To behave wantonly; to frolic; to wanton. [R.] Lamb. 1913 Webster]
Wan"ton*ly, adv.1.In a wanton manner; without regularity or restraint; loosely; sportively; gayly; playfully; recklessly; lasciviously. 1913 Webster]
2.Unintentionally; accidentally. [Obs.] J. Dee. 1913 Webster]
Wan"ton*ness, n.The quality or state of being wanton; negligence of restraint; sportiveness; recklessness; lasciviousness.Gower. 1913 Webster]
The tumults threatened to abuse all acts of grace, and turn them into wantonness.Eikon Basilike. 1913 Webster]
Young gentlemen would be as sad as night wantonness.Shak. 1913 Webster]
Wan"trust`(?), n.[Pref. wan- as in wanton + trust.]Failing or diminishing trust; want of trust or confidence; distrust. [Obs.] Chaucer. 1913 Webster]
Want"wit`(?), n.One destitute of wit or sense; a blockhead; a fool. [Obs.] Shak. 1913 Webster]
Wan"ty(?), n.[For womb tie, that is, bellyWomb, and Tie.]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. [Prov. Eng.] 1913 Webster]
Wan"y(?), v. i.To wane. [Obs.] Chaucer. 1913 Webster]
Wan"y, a.1.Waning or diminished in some parts; not of uniform size throughout; -- said especially of sawed boards or timber when tapering or uneven, from being cut too near the outside of the log. 1913 Webster]
2.Spoiled by wet; -- said of timber.Halliwell. 1913 Webster]
Wanze, v. i.To wane; to wither. [Obs.] 1913 Webster]
Wap(?), v. t. & i.[See Whap.]To beat; to whap. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] Sir T. Malory. 1913 Webster]
Wap, n.A blow or beating; a whap. [Prov. Eng.] 1913 Webster]
Wap"a*cut(?), n.(Zo\'94l.)The American hawk owl. See under Hawk. 1913 Webster]
Wap"a*too`(?), n.(Bot.)The edible tuber of a species of arrowhead (Sagittaria variabilis); -- so called by the Indians of Oregon.[Written also wappato.] 1913 Webster]
Waped(?), a.[Prov. E. wape pale, v., to stupefy, akin to wap to beat. Cf. Whap, and Wappened.]Cast down; crushed by misery; dejected. [Obs.] 1913 Webster]
Wap"en*take(?; 277), n.[AS. w, w, from Icel. v\'bepnat\'bek, literally, a weapon taking or weapon touching, hence an expression of assent (\'bdsi displicuit sententia fremitu aspernantur; sin placuit frameas concutiunt.\'b8 Tacitus, \'bdGermania,\'b8 xi.). See Weapon, and Take. This name had its origin in a custom of touching lances or spears when the hundreder, or chief, entered on his office. \'bdCum quis accipiebat pr\'91fecturam wapentachii, die statuto in loco ubi consueverant congregari, omnes majores natu contra eum conveniebant, et descendente eo de equo suo, omnes assurgebant ei. Ipse vero, erecta lancea sua, ab omnibus secundum morem fW\'91pnu enim arma sonat; tac, tactus est -- hac de causa totus ille conventus dicitur Wapentac, eo quod per tactum armorum suorum ad invicem confL L. Edward Confessor, 33. D. Wilkins.]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.[Written also wapentac.]Selden. Blackstone. 1913 Webster]
Wap"in*schaw(?), n.[Scot. See Weapon, and Show.]An exhibition of arms. according to the rank of the individual, by all persons bearing arms; -- formerly made at certain seasons in each district. [Scot.] Jamieson. Sir W. Scott. 1913 Webster]
Wap"i*ti(?), n.[Probably the Iroquois name. Bartlett.](Zo\'94l.)The American elk (Cervus Canadensis). It is closely related to the European red deer, which it somewhat exceeds in size. 1913 Webster]
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Wapp(?), n.[CF. Prov. E. wap to wrap up.](Naut.)(a)A fair-leader.(b)A rope with wall knots in it with which the shrouds are set taut. 1913 Webster]
Wap"pa*to(?), n.(Bot.)See Wapatoo. 1913 Webster]
Wap"pened(?), a.[Cf. Waped, Wapper.]A word of doubtful meaning used once by Shakespeare. 1913 Webster]
This [gold] is it 1913 Webster]
That makes the wappen'd widow wed again. 1913 Webster]
It is conjectured by some that it is an error for wappered, meaning tremulous or exhausted. 1913 Webster]
Wap"per(?), v. t. & i.[freq. of wap, v.; cf. dial. G. wappern, wippern, to move up and down, to rock.]To cause to shake; to tremble; to move tremulously, as from weakness; to totter. [Obs.] 1913 Webster]
Wap"per(?), n.(Zo\'94l.)A gudgeon. [Prov. Eng.]
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Wap"pet(?), n.A small yelping cur. [Prov. Eng.] 1913 Webster]
War(?), n.[OE. & AS. werre; akin to OHG. werra scandal, quarrel, sedition, werran to confound, mix, D. warren, G. wirren, verwirren, to embroil, confound, disturb, and perhaps to E. worse; cf. OF. werre war, F. querre, of Teutonic origin. Cf. Guerrilla, Warrior.] 1913 Webster]
1.A contest between nations or states, carried on by force, whether for defence, for revenging insults and redressing wrongs, for the extension of commerce, for the acquisition of territory, for obtaining and establishing the superiority and dominion of one over the other, or for any other purpose; armed conflict of sovereign powers; declared and open hostilities. 1913 Webster]
Men will ever distinguish war from mere bloodshed.F. W. Robertson. 1913 Webster]
war is the contest of nations or states, it always implies that such contest is authorized by the monarch or the sovereign power of the nation. A war begun by attacking another nation, is called an offensive war, and such attack is aggressive. War undertaken to repel invasion, or the attacks of an enemy, is called defensive. 1913 Webster]
2.(Law)A condition of belligerency to be maintained by physical force. In this sense, levying war against the sovereign authority is treason. 1913 Webster]
3.Instruments of war. [Poetic] 1913 Webster]
His complement of stores, and total war.Prior. 1913 Webster]
4.Forces; army. [Poetic] 1913 Webster]
On their embattled ranks the waves return, war.Milton. 1913 Webster]
5.The profession of arms; the art of war. 1913 Webster]
Thou art but a youth, and he is a man of war from his youth.1 Sam. xvii. 33. 1913 Webster]
6.a state of opposition or contest; an act of opposition; an inimical contest, act, or action; enmity; hostility. \'bdRaised impious war in heaven.\'b8 Milton. 1913 Webster]
The words of his mouth were smoother than butter, but war was in his heart.Ps. lv. 21. 1913 Webster]
Civil war, a war between different sections or parties of the same country or nation. --
Holy war. See under Holy. --
Man of war. (Naut.)See in the Vocabulary. --
Public war, a war between independent sovereign states. --
War cry, a cry or signal used in war; as, the Indian war cry. --
War dance, a dance among savages preliminary to going to war. Among the North American Indians, it is begun by some distinguished chief, and whoever joins in it thereby enlists as one of the party engaged in a warlike excursion.Schoolcraft. --
War field, a field of war or battle. --
War horse, a horse used in war; the horse of a cavalry soldier; especially, a strong, powerful, spirited horse for military service; a charger. --
War paint, paint put on the face and other parts of the body by savages, as a token of going to war. \'bdWash the war paint from your faces.\'b8 Longfellow. --
War song, a song of or pertaining to war; especially, among the American Indians, a song at the war dance, full of incitements to military ardor. --
War whoop, a war cry, especially that uttered by the American Indians. 1913 Webster]
War, v. i.[imp. & p. p.Warred(?); p. pr. & vb. n.Warring.]1.To make war; to invade or attack a state or nation with force of arms; to carry on hostilities; to be in a state by violence. 1913 Webster]
Rezin the king of Syria, and Pekah the son of Remaliah, king of Israel, went up toward Jerusalem to war against it.Isa. vii. 1. 1913 Webster]
Why should I war without the walls of Troy?Shak. 1913 Webster]
Our countrymen were warring on that day!Byron. 1913 Webster]
2.To contend; to strive violently; to fight. \'bdLusts which war against the soul.\'b8 1 Pet. ii. 11. 1913 Webster]
War(?), v. t.1.To make war upon; to fight. [R.] 1913 Webster]
To war the Scot, and borders to defend.Daniel. 1913 Webster]
2.To carry on, as a contest; to wage. [R.] 1913 Webster]
That thou . . . mightest war a good warfare.Tim. i. 18. 1913 Webster]
War"-beat`en(?), a.Warworn. 1913 Webster]
War"ble(?), n.[Cf. Wormil.] 1913 Webster]
1.(Far.)(a)A small, hard tumor which is produced on the back of a horse by the heat or pressure of the saddle in traveling.(b)A small tumor produced by the larv\'91 of the gadfly in the backs of horses, cattle, etc. Called also warblet, warbeetle, warnles. 1913 Webster]
2.(Zo\'94l.)See Wormil. 1913 Webster]
War"ble, v. t.[imp. & p. p.Warbled(?); p. pr. & vb. n.Warbling(?).][OE. werbelen, OF. werbler; of Teutonic origin; cf. G. wirbeln to turn, to warble, D. wervelen, akin to E. whirl. See Whirl.] 1913 Webster]
1.To sing in a trilling, quavering, or vibratory manner; to modulate with turns or variations; to trill; as, certain birds are remarkable for warbling their songs. 1913 Webster]
2.To utter musically; to modulate; to carol. 1913 Webster]
If she be right invoked in warbled song.Milton. 1913 Webster]
Warbling sweet the nuptial lay.Trumbull. 1913 Webster]
3.To cause to quaver or vibrate. \'bdAnd touch the warbled string.\'b8 Milton. 1913 Webster]
War"ble, v. i.1.To be quavered or modulated; to be uttered melodiously. 1913 Webster]
Such strains ne'er warble in the linnet's throat.Gay. 1913 Webster]
3.To sing in a trilling manner, or with many turns and variations. \'bdBirds on the branches warbling.\'b8 Milton. 1913 Webster]
3.To sing with sudden changes from chest to head tones; to yodel. 1913 Webster]
War"ble, n.A quavering modulation of the voice; a musical trill; a song. 1913 Webster]
And he, the wondrous child, warble wild Emerson. 1913 Webster]
War"bler(?), n.1.One who, or that which, warbles; a singer; a songster; -- applied chiefly to birds. 1913 Webster]
In lulling strains the feathered warblers woo.Tickell. 1913 Webster]
2.(Zo\'94l.)Any one of numerous species of small Old World singing birds belonging to the family Sylviid\'91, many of which are noted songsters. The bluethroat, blackcap, reed warbler (see under Reed), and sedge warbler (see under Sedge) are well-known species. 1913 Webster]
3.(Zo\'94l.)Any one of numerous species of small, often bright colored, American singing birds of the family or subfamily Mniotiltid\'91, or Sylvicolin\'91. They are allied to the Old World warblers, but most of them are not particularly musical. 1913 Webster]
bush warblers, creeping warblers, fly-catching warblers, ground warblers, wood warblers, wormeating warblers, etc. 1913 Webster]
Bush warbler(Zo\'94l.)any American warbler of the genus Opornis, as the Connecticut warbler (Opornis agilis). --
Creeping warbler(Zo\'94l.), any one of several species of very small American warblers belonging to Parula, Mniotilta, and allied genera, as the blue yellow-backed warbler (Parula Americana), and the black-and-white creeper (Mniotilta varia). --
Fly-catching warbler(Zo\'94l.), any one of several species of warblers belonging to Setophaga, Sylvania, and allied genera having the bill hooked and notched at the tip, with strong rictal bristles at the base, as the hooded warbler (Sylvania mitrata), the black-capped warbler (Sylvania pusilla), the Canadian warbler (Sylvania Canadensis), and the American redstart (see Redstart). --
Ground warbler(Zo\'94l.), any American warbler of the genus Geothlypis, as the mourning ground warbler (G. Philadelphia), and the Maryland yellowthroat (see Yellowthroat). --
Wood warbler(Zo\'94l.), any one of numerous American warblers of the genus Dendroica. Among the most common wood warblers in the Eastern States are the yellowbird, or yellow warbler (see under Yellow), the black-throated green warbler (Dendroica virens), the yellow-rumped warbler (Dendroica coronata), the blackpoll (D. striata), the bay-breasted warbler (Dendroica castanea), the chestnut-sided warbler (Dendroica Pennsylvanica), the Cape May warbler (Dendroica tigrina), the prairie warbler (see under Prairie), and the pine warbler (Dendroica pinus). See also Magnolia warbler, under Magnolia, and Blackburnian warbler. 1913 Webster]
War"bling*ly, adv.In a warbling manner. 1913 Webster]
War"burg's tinc"ture(?). (Pharm.)A preparation containing quinine and many other ingredients, often used in the treatment of malarial affections. It was invented by Dr. Warburg of London. 1913 Webster]
{ -ward(w, -wards(w }. [AS. -weard, -weardes; akin to OS. & OFries. -ward. OHG. -wert, G. -w\'84rts, Icel. -ver\'ebr, Goth. -va\'a1r\'eds, L. vertere to turn, versus toward, and E. worth to become. \'fb143. See Worth. v. i., and cf. Verse. Adverbs ending in -wards (AS. -weardes) and some other adverbs, such as besides, betimes, since (OE. sithens). etc., were originally genitive forms used adverbially.]Suffixes denoting course or direction to; motion or tendency toward; as in backward, or backwards; toward, or towards, etc. 1913 Webster]
Ward(?), n.[AS. weard, fem., guard, weard, masc., keeper, guard; akin to OS. ward a watcher, warden, G. wart, OHG. wart, Icel. v\'94r a warden, a watch, Goth. -wards in da\'a3rawards a doorkeeper, and E. wary; cf. OF. warde guard, from the German. See Ware, a., Wary, and cf. Guard, Wraith.]1.The act of guarding; watch; guard; guardianship; specifically, a guarding during the day. See the Note under Watch, n., 1. 1913 Webster]
Still, when she slept, he kept both watch and ward.Spenser. 1913 Webster]
2.One who, or that which, guards; garrison; defender; protector; means of guarding; defense; protection. 1913 Webster]
For the best ward of mine honor.Shak. 1913 Webster]
The assieged castle's ward Spenser. 1913 Webster]
For want of other ward, Dryden. 1913 Webster]
3.The state of being under guard or guardianship; confinement under guard; the condition of a child under a guardian; custody. 1913 Webster]
And he put them in ward in the house of the captain of the guard.Gen. xl. 3. 1913 Webster]
I must attend his majesty's command, to whom I am now in ward.Shak. 1913 Webster]
It is also inconvenient, in Ireland, that the wards and marriages of gentlemen's children should be in the disposal of any of those lords.Spenser. 1913 Webster]
4.A guarding or defensive motion or position, as in fencing; guard. \'bdThou knowest my old ward; here I lay, and thus I bore my point.\'b8 Shak. 1913 Webster]
5.One who, or that which, is guarded. Specifically: -- 1913 Webster]
(a)A minor or person under the care of a guardian; as, a ward in chancery. \'bdYou know our father's ward, the fair Monimia.\'b8 Otway. 1913 Webster]
(b)A division of a county. [Eng. & Scot.] 1913 Webster]
(c)A division, district, or quarter of a town or city. 1913 Webster]
Throughout the trembling city placed a guard, ward.Dryden. 1913 Webster]
(d)A division of a forest. [Eng.] 1913 Webster]
(e)A division of a hospital; as, a fever ward. 1913 Webster]
6.(a)A projecting ridge of metal in the interior of a lock, to prevent the use of any key which has not a corresponding notch for passing it.(b)A notch or slit in a key corresponding to a ridge in the lock which it fits; a ward notch.Knight. 1913 Webster]
The lock is made . . . more secure by attaching wards to the front, as well as to the back, plate of the lock, in which case the key must be furnished with corresponding notches.Tomlinson. 1913 Webster]
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Ward penny(O. Eng. Law), money paid to the sheriff or castellan for watching and warding a castle. --
Ward staff, a constable's or watchman's staff. [Obs.] 1913 Webster]
Ward(?), v. t.[imp. & p. p.Warded; p. pr. & vb. n.Warding.][OE. wardien, AS. weardian to keep, protect; akin to OS. ward to watch, take care, OFries. wardia, OHG. wart, G. warten to wait, wait on, attend to, Icel. var to guarantee defend, Sw. v\'86rda to guard, to watch; cf. OF. warder, of German origin. See Ward, n., and cf. Award, Guard, Reward.] 1913 Webster]
1.To keep in safety; to watch; to guard; formerly, in a specific sense, to guard during the day time. 1913 Webster]
Whose gates he found fast shut, no living wight ward the same.Spenser. 1913 Webster]
2.To defend; to protect. 1913 Webster]
Tell him it was a hand that warded him Shak. 1913 Webster]
3.To defend by walls, fortifications, etc. [Obs.] 1913 Webster]
4.To fend off; to repel; to turn aside, as anything mischievous that approaches; -- usually followed by off. 1913 Webster]
Now wards a felling blow, now strikes again.Daniel. 1913 Webster]
The pointed javelin warded off his rage.Addison. 1913 Webster]
It instructs the scholar in the various methods of warding off the force of objections.I. Watts. 1913 Webster]
Ward, v. i.1.To be vigilant; to keep guard. 1913 Webster]
2.To act on the defensive with a weapon. 1913 Webster]
She redoubling her blows drove the stranger to no other shift than to ward and go back.Sir P. Sidney. 1913 Webster]
Ward"-corn`(?), n.[Ward + F. corne horn, L. cornu.](O. Eng. Law)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.Burrill. 1913 Webster]
Ward"corps`(?), n.[Wars + corps.]Guardian; one set to watch over another. [Obs.] \'bdThough thou preyedest Argus . . . to be my wardcorps.\'b8 Chaucer. 1913 Webster]
Ward"en(?), n.[OE. wardein, OF. wardein, gardein, gardain, F. gardien. See Guardian, and Ward guard.] 1913 Webster]
1.A keeper; a guardian; a watchman. 1913 Webster]
He called to the warden on the . . . battlements.Sir. W. Scott. 1913 Webster]
2.An officer who keeps or guards; a keeper; as, the warden of a prison.
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3.A head official; as, the warden of a college; specifically (Eccl.), a churchwarden. 1913 Webster]
4.[Properly, a keeping pear.]A large, hard pear, chiefly used for baking and roasting. [Obs.] 1913 Webster]
I would have had him roasted like a warden.Beau. & Fl. 1913 Webster]
Warden pie, a pie made of warden pears. [Obs.] Shak. 1913 Webster]
{ Ward"en*ry(?), Ward"en*ship, }n.The office or jurisdiction of a warden. 1913 Webster]
Ward"er(?), n.1.One who wards or keeps; a keeper; a guard. \'bdThe warders of the gate.\'b8 Dryden. 1913 Webster]
2.A truncheon or staff carried by a king or a commander in chief, and used in signaling his will. 1913 Webster]
When, lo! the king suddenly changed his mind, warder to arrest them there.Daniel. 1913 Webster]
Wafting his warder thrice about his head, Drayton. 1913 Webster]
Ward"i*an(?), a.Designating, or pertaining to, a kind of glass inclosure for keeping ferns, mosses, etc., or for transporting growing plants from a distance; as, a Wardian case of plants; -- so named from the inventor, Nathaniel B. Ward, an Englishman. 1913 Webster]
Ward"mote`(?), n.Anciently, a meeting of the inhabitants of a ward; also, a court formerly held in each ward of London for trying defaults in matters relating to the watch, police, and the like.Brande & C. \'bdWards and wardmotes.\'b8 Piers Plowman. 1913 Webster]
Ward"robe`(?), n.[OE. warderobe, OF. warderobe, F. garderobe; of German origin. See Ward, v. t., and Robe.] 1913 Webster]
1.A room or apartment where clothes are kept, or wearing apparel is stored; a portable closet for hanging up clothes. 1913 Webster]
2.Wearing apparel, in general; articles of dress or personal decoration. 1913 Webster]
Flowers that their gay wardrobe wear.Milton. 1913 Webster]
With a pair of saddlebags containing his wardrobe.T. Hughes. 1913 Webster]
3.A privy. [Obs.] Chaucer. 1913 Webster]
Ward"room`(?), n.1.(Naut.)A room occupied as a messroom by the commissioned officers of a war vessel. See Gunroom.Totten. 1913 Webster]
2.A room used by the citizens of a city ward, for meetings, political caucuses, elections, etc. [U. S.] 1913 Webster]
-wards(?). See -ward. 1913 Webster]
Ward"ship(?), n.1.The office of a ward or keeper; care and protection of a ward; guardianship; right of guardianship. 1913 Webster]
Wardship is incident to tenure in socage.Blackstone. 1913 Webster]
2.The state of begin under a guardian; pupilage. 1913 Webster]
It was the wisest act . . . in my wardship.B. Jonson. 1913 Webster]
Wards"man(?), n.; pl.Wardsmen(.A man who keeps ward; a guard. [R.] Sydney Smith. 1913 Webster]
Ware(?), obs. imp. of Wear. Wore. 1913 Webster]
Ware, v. t.(Naut.)To wear, or veer. See Wear. 1913 Webster]
Ware, n.[AS. w\'ber.](Bot.)Seaweed. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] 1913 Webster]
Ware goose(Zo\'94l.), the brant; -- so called because it feeds on ware, or seaweed. [Prov. Eng.] 1913 Webster]
Ware, n.[OE. ware, AS. waru; akin to D. waar, G. waare, Icel. & Sw. vara, Dan. vare; and probably to E. worth, a. See Worth, a.]Articles of merchandise; the sum of articles of a particular kind or class; style or class of manufactures; especially, in the plural, goods; commodities; merchandise. \'bdRetails his wares at wakes.\'b8 Shak. \'bdTo chaffer with them and eke to sell them their ware.\'b8 Chaucer. 1913 Webster]
It the people of the land bring ware or any victuals on the Sabbath day to sell, that we would not buy it of them on the Sabbath, or on the holy day.Neh. x. 31. 1913 Webster]
ware, glassware, tinware, etc. 1913 Webster]
Ware, a.[OE. war, AS. w\'91r. Wary.]A ware; taking notice; hence, wary; cautious; on one's guard. See Beware. [Obs.] 1913 Webster]
She was ware and knew it bet [better] than he.Chaucer. 1913 Webster]
Of whom be thou ware also.2. Tim. iv. 15. 1913 Webster]
He is ware enough; he is wily and circumspect for stirring up any sedition.Latimer. 1913 Webster]
The only good that grows of passed fear ware of like again.Spenser. 1913 Webster]
Ware, n.[AS. waru caution.]The state of being ware or aware; heed. [Obs.] Wyclif. 1913 Webster]
Ware, v. t.[As. warian.]To make ware; to warn; to take heed of; to beware of; to guard against. \'bdWare that I say.\'b8 Chaucer. 1913 Webster]
God . . . ware you for the sin of avarice.Chaucer. 1913 Webster]
Then ware a rising tempest on the main.Dryden. 1913 Webster]
Ware"ful*ness, n.Wariness; cautiousness. [Obs.] \'bdFull of warefulness.\'b8 Sir P. Sidney. 1913 Webster]
Wa*re"ga fly`(?). (Zo\'94l.)A Brazilian fly whose larv\'91 live in the skin of man and animals, producing painful sores. 1913 Webster]
Ware"house`(?), n.; pl.Warehouses(.A storehouse for wares, or goods.Addison. 1913 Webster]
Ware"house`(?), v. t.[imp. & p. p.Warehoused(?); p. pr. & vb. n.Warehousing.] 1913 Webster]
1.To deposit or secure in a warehouse. 1913 Webster]
2.To place in the warehouse of the government or customhouse stores, to be kept until duties are paid. 1913 Webster]
Ware"house`man(?), n.; pl.Warehousemen(.1.One who keeps a warehouse; the owner or keeper of a dock warehouse or wharf store. 1913 Webster]
2.One who keeps a wholesale shop or store for Manchester or woolen goods. [Eng.] 1913 Webster]
Warehouseman's itch(Med.), a form of eczema occurring on the back of the hands of warehousemen. 1913 Webster]
Ware"hous`ing(?), n.The act of placing goods in a warehouse, or in a customhouse store. 1913 Webster]
Warehousing system, an arrangement for lodging imported articles in the customhouse stores, without payment of duties until they are taken out for home consumption. If re\'89xported, they are not charged with a duty. See Bonded warehouse, under Bonded, a. 1913 Webster]
They bound him hand and foot with iron chains, warely keep.Spenser. 1913 Webster]
War"ence(?), n.[OF. warance. F. garance, LL. warentia, garantia.](Bot.)Madder. 1913 Webster]
Ware"room`(?), n.A room in which goods are stored or exhibited for sale. 1913 Webster]
Wares(?), n. pl.See 4th Ware. 1913 Webster]
War"fare`(?), n.[War + OE. fare a journey, a passage, course, AS. faru. See Fare, n.] 1913 Webster]
1.Military service; military life; contest carried on by enemies; hostilities; war. 1913 Webster]
The Philistines gathered their armies together for warfare, to fight with Israel.I Sam. xxviii. 1. 1913 Webster]
This day from battle rest; warfare.Milton. 1913 Webster]
2.Contest; struggle. 1913 Webster]
The weapons of our warfare are not carnal.2 Cor. x. 4. 1913 Webster]
War"fare`, v. i.To lead a military life; to carry on continual wars.Camden. 1913 Webster]
War"far`er(?), n.One engaged in warfare; a military man; a soldier; a warrior. 1913 Webster]
War"ha`ble(?), a.[War + hable.]Fit for war. [Obs.] \'bdWarhable youth.\'b8 Spenser. 1913 Webster]
War`i*an"gle(?), n.[OE. wariangel, weryangle; cf. AS. wearg outlaw, criminal, OHG, warg, warch, Goth. wargs (in comp.), G. w\'81rgengel, i. e., destroying angel, destroyer, killer, and E. worry.](Zo\'94l.)The red-backed shrike (Lanius collurio); -- called also w\'81rger, worrier, and throttler.[Written also warriangle, weirangle, etc.] [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] 1913 Webster]
War"ine(?), n.(Zo\'94l.)A South American monkey, one of the sapajous. 1913 Webster]
Wa"ri*ness(?), n.The quality or state of being wary; care to foresee and guard against evil; cautiousness. \'bdAn almost reptile wariness.\'b8 G. W. Cable. 1913 Webster]
To determine what are little things in religion, great wariness is to be used.Sprat. 1913 Webster]
War"ish(?), v. t.[OF. warir to protect, heal, cure, F. gu\'82ri to cure; of Teutonic origin; cf. OHG. werian, weren, to protect, to hinder. See Garret.]To protect from the effects of; hence, to cure; to heal. [Obs.] 1913 Webster]
My brother shall be warished hastily.Chaucer. 1913 Webster]
Varro testifies that even at this day there be some who warish and cure the stinging of serpents with their spittle.Holland. 1913 Webster]
War"ish, v. i.To be cured; to recover. [Obs.] 1913 Webster]
Your daughter . . . shall warish and escape.Chaucer. 1913 Webster]
War"i*son(?), n.[OF. warison safety, supplies, cure, F. gu\'82rison cure. See Warish, v. t.] 1913 Webster]
2.Reward; requital; guerdon. [Obs. or Scot.] 1913 Webster]
Wit and wisdom is good warysoun.Proverbs of Hending. 1913 Webster]
Wark(?), n.[See Work.]Work; a building. [Obs. or Scot.] Spenser. 1913 Webster]
Wark"loom(?), n.A tool; an implement. [Scot.] 1913 Webster]
War"like`(?), a.1.Fit for war; disposed for war; as, a warlike state; a warlike disposition. 1913 Webster]
Old Siward, with ten thousand warlike men.Shak. 1913 Webster]
2.Belonging or relating to war; military; martial. 1913 Webster]
The great archangel from his warlike toil Surceased.Milton. 1913 Webster]
Syn. -- Martial; hostile; soldierly. See Martial. 1913 Webster]
War"like`ness, n.Quality of being warlike. 1913 Webster]
War"ling(?), n.One often quarreled with; -- darling. [Obs.] 1913 Webster]
Better be an old man's darling than a young man's warling.Camde 1913 Webster]
War"lock(?), n.[OE. warloghe a deceiver, a name or the Devil, AS. w a belier or breaker of his agreement, word, or pledge; w covenant, troth (akiverus true; see Very) + loga a liar (in comp.), le\'a2gan to lie. See 3d Lie.]A male witch; a wizard; a sprite; an imp.[Written also warluck.]Dryden. 1913 Webster]
It was Eyvind Kallda's crew warlocks blue, Longfellow. 1913 Webster]
War"lock, a.Of or pertaining to a warlock or warlock; impish. [R.] 1913 Webster]
Thou shalt win the warlock fight.J. R. Drak 1913 Webster]
Warm(?), a.[Compar.Warmer; superl.Warmest.][AS. wearm; akin to OS., OFries., D., & G. warm, Icel. varmr, Sw. & Dan. varm, Goth. warmjan to warm; probably akin to Lith. virti to cook, boil; or perhaps to Skr. gharma heat, OL. formus warm. 1913 Webster]
1.Having heat in a moderate degree; not cold as, warm milk. \'bdWhose blood is warm within.\'b8 Shak. 1913 Webster]
Warm and still is the summer night.Longfellow. 1913 Webster]
2.Having a sensation of heat, esp. of gentle heat; glowing. 1913 Webster]
3.Subject to heat; having prevalence of heat, or little or no cold weather; as, the warm climate of Egypt. 1913 Webster]
4.Fig.: Not cool, indifferent, lukewarm, or the like, in spirit or temper; zealous; ardent; fervent; excited; sprightly; irritable; excitable. 1913 Webster]
Mirth, and youth, and warm desire!Milton. 1913 Webster]
Each warm wish springs mutual from the heart.Pope. 1913 Webster]
They say he's warm man and does not care to be mad Addison. 1913 Webster]
I had been none of the warmest of partisans.Hawthor 1913 Webster]
5.Violent; vehement; furious; excited; passionate; as, a warm contest; a warm debate. 1913 Webster]
Welcome, daylight; we shall have warm work on't.Dryden. 1913 Webster]
6.Being well off as to property, or in good circumstances; forehanded; rich. [Colloq.] 1913 Webster]
Warm householders, every one of them.W. Irving. 1913 Webster]
You shall have a draft upon him, payable at sight: and let me tell you he as warm a man as any within five miles round him.Goldsmith. 1913 Webster]
7.In children's games, being near the object sought for; hence, being close to the discovery of some person, thing, or fact concealed. [Colloq.] 1913 Webster]
Here, indeed, young Mr. Dowse was getting \'bdwarm,\'b8 Black. 1913 Webster]
8.(Paint.)Having yellow or red for a basis, or in their composition; -- said of colors, and opposed to cold which is of blue and its compounds. 1913 Webster]
Warm, v. t.[imp. & p. p.Warmed(; p. pr. & vb. n.Warming.][AS. wearmian. See Warm, a.] 1913 Webster]
1.To communicate a moderate degree of heat to; to render warm; to supply or furnish heat to; as, a stove warms an apartment. 1913 Webster]
Then shall it [an ash tree] be for a man to burn; for he will take thereof and warm himself.Isa. xliv 15 1913 Webster]
Enough to warm, but not enough to burn.Longfellow. 1913 Webster]
2.To make engaged or earnest; to interest; to engage; to excite ardor or zeal; to enliven. 1913 Webster]
I formerly warmed my head with reading controversial writings.Pope. 1913 Webster]
Bright hopes, that erst bosom warmed.Keble. 1913 Webster]
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Warm(?), v. i.[AS. wearmian.] 1913 Webster]
1.To become warm, or moderately heated; as, the earth soon warms in a clear day summer. 1913 Webster]
There shall not be a coal to warm at.Isa. xlvii. 14. 1913 Webster]
2.To become ardent or animated; as, the speakewarms as he proceeds. 1913 Webster]
Warm, n.The act of warming, or the state of being warmed; a warming; a heating. [Colloq.] Dickens. 1913 Webster]
Warm"-blood`ed(?), a.(Physiol.)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. 1913 Webster]
Warm"er(?), n.One who, or that which, warms. 1913 Webster]
Warm"ful(?), a.Abounding in capacity to warm; giving warmth; as, a warmful garment. [R.] Chapman. 1913 Webster]
Warming pan, a long-handled covered pan into which live coals are put, -- used for warming beds.Shak. 1913 Webster]
Warm"ly, adv.In a warm manner; ardently. 1913 Webster]
Warm"ness, n.Warmth.Chaucer. 1913 Webster]
War"mon`ger(?), n.One who makes ar a trade or business; a mercenary. [R.] Spenser. 1913 Webster]
War"mouth(?), n.(Zo\'94l.)An American freshwater bream, or sunfish (Ch\'91nobryttus gulosus); -- called also red-eyed bream. 1913 Webster]
Warmth(?), n.1.The quality or state of being warm; gentle heat; as, the warmth of the sun; the warmth of the blood; vital warmth. 1913 Webster]
Here kindly warmth their mounting juice ferments.Addison. 1913 Webster]
2.A state of lively and excited interest; zeal; ardor; fervor; passion; enthusiasm; earnestness; as, the warmth of love or piety; he replied with much warmth. \'bdSpiritual warmth, and holy fires.\'b8 Jer. Taylor. 1913 Webster]
That warmth . . . which agrees with Christian zeal.Sprat. 1913 Webster]
3.(Paint.)The glowing effect which arises from the use of warm colors; hence, any similar appearance or effect in a painting, or work of color. 1913 Webster]
Warmth"less, a.Being without warmth; not communicating warmth; cold. [R.] Coleridge. 1913 Webster]
Warn(w, v. t.[OE. wernen, AS. weornan, wyrnan. Cf. Warn to admonish.]To refuse.[Written also wern, worn.] [Obs.] Chaucer. 1913 Webster]
Warn, v. t.[imp. & p. p.Warned(?); p. pr. & vb. n.Warning.][OE. warnen, warnien, AS. warnian, wearnian, to take heed, to warn; akin to AS. wearn denial, refusal, OS. warning, wernian, to refuse, OHG. warnen, G. warnen to warn, OFries. warna, werna, Icel. varna to refuse; and probably to E. wary. 1913 Webster]
1.To make ware or aware; to give previous information to; to give notice to; to notify; to admonish; hence, to notify or summon by authority; as, to warn a town meeting; to warn a tenant to quit a house. \'bdWarned of the ensuing fight.\'b8 Dryden. 1913 Webster]
Cornelius the centurion . . . was warned from God by an holy angel to send for thee.Acts x. 22. 1913 Webster]
Who is it that hath warned us to the walls?Shak. 1913 Webster]
2.To give notice to, of approaching or probable danger or evil; to caution against anything that may prove injurious. \'bdJuturna warns the Daunian chief of Lausus' danger, urging swift relief.\'b8 Dryden. 1913 Webster]
3.To ward off. [Obs.] Spenser. 1913 Webster]
Warn"er(?), n.One who warns; an admonisher. 1913 Webster]
That warning timepiece never ceased.Longfellow. 1913 Webster]
Warning piece,
Warning wheel(Horol.), a piece or wheel which produces a sound shortly before the clock strikes. 1913 Webster]
Warn"ing, n.1.Previous notice. \'bdAt a month's warning.\'b8 Dryden. 1913 Webster]
A great journey to take upon so short a warning.L'Estrange. 1913 Webster]
2.Caution against danger, or against faults or evil practices which incur danger; admonition; monition. 1913 Webster]
Could warning make the world more just or wise.Dryden. 1913 Webster]
Warn"ing*ly, adv.In a warning manner. 1913 Webster]
Warn"store(?), v. t.[Cf. OF. warnesture, garnesture, provisions, supplies, and E. garnish.]To furnish. [Obs.] \'bdTo warnstore your house.\'b8 Chaucer. 1913 Webster]
Warp(w, v. t.[imp. & p. p.Warped(w; p. pr. & vb. n.Warping.][OE. warpen; fr. Icel. varpa to throw, cast, varp a casting, fr. verpa to throw; akin to Dan. varpe to warp a ship, Sw. varpa, AS. weorpan to cast, OS. werpan, OFries. werpa, D. & LG. werpen, G. werfen, Goth. wa\'a1rpan; cf. Skr. v to twist. Wrap.] 1913 Webster]
1.To throw; hence, to send forth, or throw out, as words; to utter. [Obs.] Piers Plowman. 1913 Webster]
2.To turn or twist out of shape; esp., to twist or bend out of a flat plane by contraction or otherwise. 1913 Webster]
The planks looked warped.Coleridge. 1913 Webster]
Walter warped his mouth at this Tennyson. 1913 Webster]
3.To turn aside from the true direction; to cause to bend or incline; to pervert. 1913 Webster]
This first avowed, nor folly warped my mind.Dryden. 1913 Webster]
I have no private considerations to warp me in this controversy.Addison. 1913 Webster]
We are divested of all those passions which cloud the intellects, and warp the understandings, of men.Southey. 1913 Webster]
4.To weave; to fabricate. [R. & Poetic.] Nares. 1913 Webster]
While doth he mischief warp.Sternhold. 1913 Webster]
5.(Naut.)To tow or move, as a vessel, with a line, or warp, attached to a buoy, anchor, or other fixed object. 1913 Webster]
6.To cast prematurely, as young; -- said of cattle, sheep, etc. [Prov. Eng.] 1913 Webster]
7.(Agric.)To let the tide or other water in upon (lowlying land), for the purpose of fertilization, by a deposit of warp, or slimy substance. [Prov. Eng.] 1913 Webster]
8.(Rope Making)To run off the reel into hauls to be tarred, as yarns. 1913 Webster]
9.(Weaving)To arrange (yarns) on a warp beam. 1913 Webster]
10.(A\'89ronautics)To twist the end surfaces of (an a\'89rocurve in an airfoil) in order to restore or maintain equilibrium. Webster 1913 Suppl.]
Warped surface(Geom.), a surface generated by a straight line moving so that no two of its consecutive positions shall be in the same plane.Davies & Peck. 1913 Webster]
Warp(?), v. i.1.To turn, twist, or be twisted out of shape; esp., to be twisted or bent out of a flat plane; as, a board warps in seasoning or shrinking. 1913 Webster]
One of you will prove a shrunk panel, and, like green timber, warp, warp.Shak. 1913 Webster]
They clamp one piece of wood to the end of another, to keep it from casting, or warping.Moxon. 1913 Webster]
2.to turn or incline from a straight, true, or proper course; to deviate; to swerve. 1913 Webster]
There is our commission, warp.Shak. 1913 Webster]
3.To fly with a bending or waving motion; to turn and wave, like a flock of birds or insects. 1913 Webster]
A pitchy cloud warping on the eastern wind.Milton. 1913 Webster]
4.To cast the young prematurely; to slink; -- said of cattle, sheep, etc. [Prov. Eng.] 1913 Webster]
5.(Weaving)To wind yarn off bobbins for forming the warp of a web; to wind a warp on a warp beam. 1913 Webster]
Warp, n.[AS. wearp; akin to Icel. varp a casting, throwing, Sw. varp the draught of a net, Dan. varp a towline, OHG. warf warp, G. werft. See Warp, v.] 1913 Webster]
1.(Weaving)The threads which are extended lengthwise in the loom, and crossed by the woof. 1913 Webster]
2.(Naut.)A rope used in hauling or moving a vessel, usually with one end attached to an anchor, a post, or other fixed object; a towing line; a warping hawser. 1913 Webster]
3.(Agric.)A slimy substance deposited on land by tides, etc., by which a rich alluvial soil is formed.Lyell. 1913 Webster]
4.A premature casting of young; -- said of cattle, sheep, etc. [Prov. Eng.] 1913 Webster]
5.Four; esp., four herrings; a cast. See Cast, n., 17. [Prov. Eng.] Wright. 1913 Webster]
6.[From Warp, v.]The state of being warped or twisted; as, the warp of a board. 1913 Webster]
Warp beam, the roller on which the warp is wound in a loom. --
Warp fabric, fabric produced by warp knitting. --
Warp frame, or
Warp-net frame, a machine for making warp lace having a number of needles and employing a thread for each needle. --
Warp knitting, a kind of knitting in which a number of threads are interchained each with one or more contiguous threads on either side; -- also called warp weaving. --
Warp lace, or
Warp net, lace having a warp crossed by weft threads. 1913 Webster]
Warp"age(?), n.The act of warping; also, a charge per ton made on shipping in some harbors. 1913 Webster]
War"path`(?), n.The route taken by a party of Indians going on a warlike expedition.Schoolcraft. 1913 Webster]
On the warpath, on a hostile expedition; hence, colloquially, about to attack a person or measure. 1913 Webster]
Warp"er(?), n.1.One who, or that which, warps or twists out of shape. 1913 Webster]
2.One who, or that which, forms yarn or thread into warps or webs for the loom. 1913 Webster]
Warp"ing, n.1.The act or process of one who, or that which, warps. 1913 Webster]
2.The art or occupation of preparing warp or webs for the weaver.Craig. 1913 Webster]
Warping bank, a bank of earth raised round a field to retain water let in for the purpose of enriching land.Craig. --
Warping hook, a hook used by rope makers for hanging the yarn on, when warping it into hauls for tarring. --
Warping mill, a machine for warping yarn. --
Warping penny, money, varying according to the length of the thread, paid to the weaver by the spinner on laying the warp. [Prov. Eng.] Wright. --
Warping post, a strong post used in warping rope-yarn. 1913 Webster]
Warp knitting. A kind of knitting in which a number of threads are interchained each with one or more contiguous threads on either side. Webster 1913 Suppl.]
War"proof`(?), n.Valor tried by war. 1913 Webster]
Warp speed. [From science fiction tales of spaceship drives operating by warping the shape of space or of time.]literally, a speed faster than the speed of light; fig., an extremely high speed, usually the fastest possible; -- used only in the figurative sense except in fiction. PJC]
War"ran*dice(?), n.[See Warrantise.](Scots Law)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.[Written also warrandise.]Craig. 1913 Webster]
War"rant(?), n.[OE. warant, OF. warant a warrant, a defender, protector, F. garant, originally a p. pr. pf German origin, fr. OHG. wer to grant, warrant, G. gew\'84hren; akin to OFries. wera. Cf. Guarantee.] 1913 Webster]
1.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. Specifically: -- 1913 Webster]
(a)A writing which authorizes a person to receive money or other thing. 1913 Webster]
(b)(Law)A precept issued by a magistrate authorizing an officer to make an arrest, a seizure, or a search, or do other acts incident to the administration of justice. 1913 Webster]
(c)(Mil. & Nav.)An official certificate of appointment issued to an officer of lower rank than a commissioned officer. See Warrant officer, below. 1913 Webster]
2.That which vouches or insures for anything; guaranty; security. 1913 Webster]
I give thee warrant of thy place.Shak. 1913 Webster]
His worth is warrant for his welcome hither.Shak. 1913 Webster]
3.That which attests or proves; a voucher. 1913 Webster]
Dock warrant(Com.), a customhouse license or authority. --
General warrant. (Law)See under General. --
Land warrant. See under Land. --
Search warrant. (Law)See under Search, n. --
Warrant of attorney(Law), written authority given by one person to another empowering him to transact business for him; specifically, written authority given by a client to his attorney to appear for him in court, and to suffer judgment to pass against him by confession in favor of some specified person.Bouvier. --
Warrant officer, a noncommissioned officer, as a sergeant, corporal, bandmaster, etc., in the army, or a quartermaster, gunner, boatswain, etc., in the navy. --
Warrant to sue and defend. (a)(O. Eng. Law)A special warrant from the crown, authorizing a party to appoint an attorney to sue or defend for him.(b)A special authority given by a party to his attorney to commence a suit, or to appear and defend a suit in his behalf. This warrant is now disused.Burrill. 1913 Webster]
War"rant(?), v. t.[imp. & p. p.Warranted; p. pr. & vb. n.Warranting.][OE. waranten, OF. warantir, garantir, guarantir, garentir, garandir, F. garantir to warrant, fr. OF. warant, garant, guarant, a warrant, a protector, a defender, F. garant. Warrant, n.] 1913 Webster]
1.To make secure; to give assurance against harm; to guarantee safety to; to give authority or power to do, or forbear to do, anything by which the person authorized is secured, or saved harmless, from any loss or damage by his action. 1913 Webster]
That show I first my body to warrant.Chaucer. 1913 Webster]
I'll warrant him from drowning.Shak. 1913 Webster]
In a place warranted than this, or less secure, Milton. 1913 Webster]
2.To support by authority or proof; to justify; to maintain; to sanction; as, reason warrants it. 1913 Webster]
True fortitude is seen in great exploits, warrants, and that wisdom guides.Addison. 1913 Webster]
How little while it is since he went forth out of his study, -- chewing a Hebrew text of Scripture in his mouth, I warrant.Hawthorne. 1913 Webster]
3.To give a warrant or warranty to; to assure as if by giving a warrant to. 1913 Webster]
[My neck is] as smooth as silk, I warrant ye.L' Estrange. 1913 Webster]
4.(Law)(a)To secure to, as a grantee, an estate granted; to assure.(b)To secure to, as a purchaser of goods, the title to the same; to indemnify against loss.(c)To secure to, as a purchaser, the quality or quantity of the goods sold, as represented. See Warranty, n., 2.(d)To assure, as a thing sold, to the purchaser; that is, to engage that the thing is what it appears, or is represented, to be, which implies a covenant to make good any defect or loss incurred by it. 1913 Webster]
War"rant*a*ble(?), a.Authorized by commission, precept, or right; justifiable; defensible; as, the seizure of a thief is always warrantable by law and justice; falsehood is never warrantable. 1913 Webster]
His meals are coarse and short, his employment warrantable, his sleep certain and refreshing.South. 1913 Webster]
-- War"rant*a*ble*ness, n. -- War"rant*bly, adv. 1913 Webster]
War`ran*tee"(?), n.(Law)The person to whom a warrant or warranty is made. 1913 Webster]
War"rant*er(?), n.1.One who warrants, gives authority, or legally empowers. 1913 Webster]
2.(Law)One who assures, or covenants to assure; one who contracts to secure another in a right, or to make good any defect of title or quality; one who gives a warranty; a guarantor; as, the warranter of a horse. 1913 Webster]
War"rant*ise, v. t.To warrant. [Obs.] Hakluyt. 1913 Webster]
War"rant*or(?), n.(Law)One who warrants. 1913 Webster]
War"rant*y(?), n.; pl.Warranties(#).[OF. warantie, F. garantie. See Warrant, n., and cf. Guaranty.] 1913 Webster]
1.(Anc. Law)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.Kent. 1913 Webster]
2.(Modern Law)An engagement or undertaking, express or implied, that a certain fact regarding the subject of a contract is, or shall be, as it is expressly or impliedly declared or promised to be. In sales of goods by persons in possession, there is an implied warranty of title, but, as to the quality of goods, the rule of every sale is, Caveat emptor.Chitty. Bouvier. 1913 Webster]
3.(Insurance Law)A stipulation or engagement by a party insured, that certain things, relating to the subject of insurance, or affecting the risk, exist, or shall exist, or have been done, or shall be done. These warranties, when express, should appear in the policy; but there are certain implied warranties.Bouvier. 1913 Webster]
4.Justificatory mandate or precept; authority; warrant. [R.] Shak. 1913 Webster]
If they disobey precept, that is no excuse to us, nor gives us any warranty . . . to disobey likewise.Kettlewe 1913 Webster]
5.Security; warrant; guaranty. 1913 Webster]
The stamp was a warranty of the public.Locke. 1913 Webster]
Syn. -- See Guarantee. 1913 Webster]
War"rant*y, v. t.To warrant; to guarantee. 1913 Webster]
War"ray(?), v. t.[OF. werreier, werrier, guerroier, F. guerroyer, from OF. werre war, F. guerre; of German origin. See War.]To make war upon. [Obs.] Fairfax. \'bdWhen a man warrayeth truth.\'b8 Chaucer. 1913 Webster]
Warre(?), a.[OE. werre; of Scand. origin. See Worse.]Worse. [Obs.] 1913 Webster]
They say the world is much warre than it wont.Spenser. 1913 Webster]
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War"ren(w, n.[OF. waresne, warenne, garene, F. garenne, from OF. warer, garer, to beware, to take care; of Teutonic origin; cf. OHG. war (in comp.), OS. war to take care, to observe, akin to E. wary. Wary.] 1913 Webster]
1.(Eng Law)(a)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.Burrill.(b)A privilege which one has in his lands, by royal grant or prescription, of hunting and taking wild beasts and birds of warren, to the exclusion of any other person not entering by his permission.Spelman. 1913 Webster]
They wend both warren and in waste.Piers Plowman. 1913 Webster]
warren is the next franchise in degree to the park; and a forest, which is the highest in dignity, comprehends a chase, a park, and a free warren. 1913 Webster]
2.A piece of ground for the breeding of rabbits. 1913 Webster]
3.A place for keeping flash, in a river. 1913 Webster]
War"ren*er(?), n.The keeper of a warren. 1913 Webster]
War`ri*an"gle(?), n.(Zo\'94l.)See Wariangle. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] 1913 Webster]
War"rie(?), v. t.See Warye. [Obs.] 1913 Webster]
War"rin(?), n.[From a native name.](Zo\'94l.)An Australian lorikeet (Trichoglossus multicolor) remarkable for the variety and brilliancy of its colors; -- called also blue-bellied lorikeet, and blue-bellied parrot. 1913 Webster]
War"rior(?; 277), n.[OE. werreour, OF. werreour, guerreor, from guerre, werre, war. See War, and Warray.]A man engaged or experienced in war, or in the military life; a soldier; a champion. 1913 Webster]
Warriors old with ordered spear and shield.Milton. 1913 Webster]
Warrior ant(Zo\'94l.), a reddish ant (Formica sanguinea) native of Europe and America. It is one of the species which move in armies to capture and enslave other ants. 1913 Webster]
War" room`. 1.a room in a military headquarters to which the current status of military operations is reported from the field, and the situation is evaluated, as by use of maps showing the locations of all relevant military units, both friendly and hostile. The room may also be used to plan tactics or strategy. PJC]
2.A room at the center of operations of an organization, such as a large business enterprise, where the status of operations may be discussed, or plans made, and often containing special equipment, such as charts, maps, or computers, to assist such functions. PJC]
War story. A recounting of a memorable personal experience, especially one involving challenge, hardship, danger, or other interesting features. PJC]
War"ry(?), v. t.See Warye. [Obs.] 1913 Webster]
War"saw(?), n.(Zo\'94l.)(a)The black grouper (Epinephelus nigritus) of the southern coasts of the United States.(b)The jewfish; -- called also guasa. 1913 Webster]
Wart(?), n.[OE. werte, AS. wearte; akin to D. wrat, G. warze, OHG. warza, Icel. varta, Sw. v\'86rta, Dan. vorte; perh. orig., a growth, and akin to E. wort; or cf. L. verruca wart.] 1913 Webster]
1.(Med.)A small, usually hard, tumor on the skin formed by enlargement of its vascular papill\'91, and thickening of the epidermis which covers them. 1913 Webster]
2.An excrescence or protuberance more or less resembling a true wart; specifically (Bot.), a glandular excrescence or hardened protuberance on plants. 1913 Webster]
Fig wart,
Moist wart(Med.), a soft, bright red, pointed or tufted tumor found about the genitals, often massed into groups of large size. It is a variety of condyloma. Called also pointed wart, venereal wart.L. A. Duhring. --
Wart cress(Bot.), the swine's cress. See under Swine. --
Wart snake(Zo\'94l.), any one of several species of East Indian colubrine snakes of the genus Acrochordus, having the body covered with wartlike tubercles or spinose scales, and lacking cephalic plates and ventral scutes. --
Wart spurge(Bot.), a kind of wartwort (Euphorbia Helioscopia). 1913 Webster]
Wart"ed, a.(Bot.)Having little knobs on the surface; verrucose; as, a warted capsule. 1913 Webster]
Wart" hog`(?). (Zo\'94l.)Either one of two species of large, savage African wild hogs of the genus Phacoch. 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) is the best known. Called also vlacke vark. The second species (Phacoch) is native of the coasts of the Red Sea. 1913 Webster]
Wart"less, a.Having no wart. 1913 Webster]
Wart"weed`(?), n.(Bot.)Same as Wartwort. 1913 Webster]
Wart"wort`(?), n.(Bot.)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). 1913 Webster]
Wart"y(?), a.1.Having warts; full of warts; overgrow with warts; as, a warty leaf. 1913 Webster]
2.Of the nature of warts; as, a warty excrescence. 1913 Webster]
Warty egg(Zo\'94l.), a marine univalve shell (Ovulum verrucosum), having the surface covered with wartlike elevations. 1913 Webster]
Wart"y-back`, n.An American fresh-water mussel (Quadrula pustulosa). Its shell is used in making buttons. Webster 1913 Suppl.]
War"wick*ite(?), n.(Min.)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. 1913 Webster]
War"worn`(?), a.Worn with military service; as, a warworn soldier; a warworn coat.Shak. 1913 Webster]
Wa"ry(?), a.[Compar.Warier(?); superl.Wariest.][OE. war, AS. w\'91r; akin to Icel. v, Dan. & Sw. var, Goth. wars, G. gewahr aware, OHG. wara notice, attention, Gr. Aware, Garment, Garnish, Garrison, Panorama, Ward, v. t.Ware, a., Warren.] 1913 Webster]
1.Cautious of danger; carefully watching and guarding against deception, artifices, and dangers; timorously or suspiciously prudent; circumspect; scrupulous; careful. \'bdBear a wary eye.\'b8 Shak. 1913 Webster]
We should be wary, therefore, what persecution we raise against the living labors of public men.Milton. 1913 Webster]
2.Characterized by caution; guarded; careful. 1913 Webster]
It behoveth our words to be wary and few.Hooker. 1913 Webster]
Syn. -- Cautious; circumspect; watchful. See Cautious. 1913 Webster]
War"ye(?), v. t.[AS. wergian, wyrgean. Cf. Worry.]To curse; to curse; to execrate; to condemn; also, to vex. [Obs.] [Spelled also warrie, warry, and wary.] \'bdWhom I thus blame and warye.\'b8 Chaucer. 1913 Webster]
Was(w. [AS. w\'91s, 2d pers. w, 3d pers. w\'91s, pl. w, with the inf. wesan to be; akin to D. wezen, imp. was, OHG. wesan, imp. was, G. wesen, n., a being, essence, war was, Icel. vera to be, imp. var, Goth. wisan to be, to dwell, to remain, imp. was, Skr. vas to remain, to dwell. Vernacular, Wassail, Were, v.]The first and third persons singular of the verb be, in the indicative mood, preterit (imperfect) tense; as, I was; he was. 1913 Webster]
Wase(w, n.[Cf. Sw. vase a sheaf.]A bundle of straw, or other material, to relieve the pressure of burdens carried upon the head. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell. 1913 Webster]
Wash(w, v. t.[imp. & p. p.Washed(?); p. pr. & vb. n.Washing.][OE. waschen, AS. wascan; akin to D. wasschen, G. waschen, OHG. wascan, Icel. & Sw. vaska, Dan. vaske, and perhaps to E. water. 1.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. 1913 Webster]
When Pilate saw that he could prevail nothing, . . . he took water and washed his hands before the multitude, saying, I am innocent of the blood of this just person.Matt. xxvii. 24. 1913 Webster]
2.To cover with water or any liquid; to wet; to fall on and moisten; hence, to overflow or dash against; as, waves wash the shore. 1913 Webster]
Fresh-blown roses washed with dew.Milton. 1913 Webster]
[The landscape] washed with a cold, gray mist.Longfellow. 1913 Webster]
3.To waste or abrade by the force of water in motion; as, heavy rains wash a road or an embankment.<-- now, wash out. --> 1913 Webster]
4.To remove by washing to take away by, or as by, the action of water; to drag or draw off as by the tide; -- often with away, off, out, etc.; as, to wash dirt from the hands. 1913 Webster]
Arise, and be baptized, and wash away thy sins.Acts xxii. 16. 1913 Webster]
The tide will wash you off.Shak. 1913 Webster]
5.To cover with a thin or watery coat of color; to tint lightly and thinly. 1913 Webster]
6.To overlay with a thin coat of metal; as, steel washed with silver. 1913 Webster]
7.To cause dephosphorisation of (molten pig iron) by adding substances containing iron oxide, and sometimes manganese oxide. Webster 1913 Suppl.]
8.To pass (a gas or gaseous mixture) through or over a liquid for the purpose of purifying it, esp. by removing soluble constituents. Webster 1913 Suppl.]
To wash gold, etc., to treat earth or gravel, or crushed ore, with water, in order to separate the gold or other metal, or metallic ore, through their higher density. --
To wash the hands of. See under Hand. 1913 Webster]
Wash, v. i.1.To perform the act of ablution. 1913 Webster]
Wash in Jordan seven times.2 Kings v. 10. 1913 Webster]
2.To clean anything by rubbing or dipping it in water; to perform the business of cleansing clothes, ore, etc., in water. \'bdShe can wash and scour.\'b8 Shak. 1913 Webster]
3.To bear without injury the operation of being washed; as, some calicoes do not wash. [Colloq.] 1913 Webster]
4.To be wasted or worn away by the action of water, as by a running or overflowing stream, or by the dashing of the sea; -- said of road, a beach, etc. 1913 Webster]
5.To use washes, as for the face or hair. Webster 1913 Suppl.]
6.To move with a lapping or swashing sound, or the like; to lap; splash; as, to hear the water washing. Webster 1913 Suppl.]
7.to be accepted as true or valid; to be proven true by subsequent evidence; -- usually used in the negative; as, his alibi won't wash. [informal] PJC]
Wash, n.1.The act of washing; an ablution; a cleansing, wetting, or dashing with water; hence, a quantity, as of clothes, washed at once. 1913 Webster]
2.A piece of ground washed by the action of a sea or river, or sometimes covered and sometimes left dry; the shallowest part of a river, or arm of the sea; also, a bog; a marsh; a fen; as, the washes in Lincolnshire. \'bdThe Wash of Edmonton so gay.\'b8 Cowper. 1913 Webster]
These Lincoln washes have devoured them.Shak. 1913 Webster]
3.Substances collected and deposited by the action of water; as, the wash of a sewer, of a river, etc. 1913 Webster]
The wash of pastures, fields, commons, and roads, where rain water hath a long time settled.Mortimer. 1913 Webster]
4.Waste liquid, the refuse of food, the collection from washed dishes, etc., from a kitchen, often used as food for pigs.Shak. 1913 Webster]
5.(Distilling)(a)The fermented wort before the spirit is extracted.(b)A mixture of dunder, molasses, water, and scummings, used in the West Indies for distillation.B. Edwards. 1913 Webster]
6.That with which anything is washed, or wetted, smeared, tinted, etc., upon the surface.Specifically: -- 1913 Webster]
(a)A liquid cosmetic for the complexion. 1913 Webster]
(b)A liquid dentifrice. 1913 Webster]
(c)A liquid preparation for the hair; as, a hair wash. 1913 Webster]
(d)A medical preparation in a liquid form for external application; a lotion. 1913 Webster]
(e)(Painting)A thin coat of color, esp. water color. 1913 Webster]
(j)A thin coat of metal applied in a liquid form on any object, for beauty or preservation; -- called also washing. 1913 Webster +PJC]
7.(Naut.)(a)The blade of an oar, or the thin part which enters the water.(b)The backward current or disturbed water caused by the action of oars, or of a steamer's screw or paddles, etc. 1913 Webster]
8.The flow, swash, or breaking of a body of water, as a wave; also, the sound of it. 1913 Webster]
9.Ten strikes, or bushels, of oysters. [Prov. Eng.] 1913 Webster]
10. [Western U. S.] (Geol.)(a)Gravel and other rock d\'82bris transported and deposited by running water; coarse alluvium.(b)An alluvial cone formed by a stream at the base of a mountain. Webster 1913 Suppl.]
11.The dry bed of an intermittent stream, sometimes at the bottom of a ca\'a4on; as, the Amargosa wash, Diamond wash; -- called also dry wash. [Western U. S.] Webster 1913 Suppl.]
12.(Arch.)The upper surface of a member or material when given a slope to shed water. Hence, a structure or receptacle shaped so as to receive and carry off water, as a carriage wash in a stable. Webster 1913 Suppl.]
13.an action or situation in which the gains and losses are equal, or closely compensate each other. PJC]
14.(Aeronautics)the disturbance of the air left behind in the wake of a moving airplane or one of its parts. PJC]
Wash ball, a ball of soap to be used in washing the hands or face.Swift. --
Wash barrel(Fisheries), a barrel nearly full of split mackerel, loosely put in, and afterward filled with salt water in order to soak the blood from the fish before salting. --
Wash bottle. (Chem.)(a)A bottle partially filled with some liquid through which gases are passed for the purpose of purifying them, especially by removing soluble constituents.(b)A washing bottle. See under Washing. --
Wash gilding. See Water gilding. --
Wash leather, split sheepskin dressed with oil, in imitation of chamois, or shammy, and used for dusting, cleaning glass or plate, etc.; also, alumed, or buff, leather for soldiers' belts. 1913 Webster]
Wash, a.1.Washy; weak. [Obs.] 1913 Webster]
Their bodies of so weak and wash a temper.Beau. & Fl. 1913 Webster]
2.Capable of being washed without injury; washable; as, wash goods. [Colloq.] 1913 Webster]
Wash"a*ble(?), a.Capable of being washed without damage to fabric or color. 1913 Webster]
Wash"board`(?), n.1.A fluted, or ribbed, board on which clothes are rubbed in washing them. 1913 Webster]
2.A board running round, and serving as a facing for, the walls of a room, next to the floor; a mopboard. 1913 Webster]
3.(Naut.)A broad, thin plank, fixed along the gunwale of boat to keep the sea from breaking inboard; also, a plank on the sill of a lower deck port, for the same purpose; -- called also wasteboard.Mar. Dict. 1913 Webster]
Wash"bowl`(?), n.A basin, or bowl, to hold water for washing one's hands, face, etc. 1913 Webster]
Wash"dish`(?), n.1.A washbowl. 1913 Webster]
2.(Zo\'94l.)Same as Washerwoman, 2. [Prov. Eng.] 1913 Webster]
Wash drawing. (Art)In water-color painting, work in, or a work done chiefly in, washes, as distinguished from that done in stipple, in body color, etc. Webster 1913 Suppl.]
Washed(?), a.(Zo\'94l.)Appearing as if overlaid with a thin layer of different color; -- said of the colors of certain birds and insects. 1913 Webster]
Washed sale. Same as Wash sale. Webster 1913 Suppl.]
Wash"en(?), obs. p. p. of Wash.Chaucer. 1913 Webster]
Wash"er(?), n.[AS. w\'91scere.]1.One who, or that which, washes. 1913 Webster]
2.A ring of metal, leather, or other material, or a perforated plate, used for various purposes, as around a bolt or screw to form a seat for the head or nut, or around a wagon axle to prevent endwise motion of the hub of the wheel and relieve friction, or in a joint to form a packing, etc. 1913 Webster]
3.(Plumbing)A fitting, usually having a plug, applied to a cistern, tub, sink, or the like, and forming the outlet opening. 1913 Webster]
4.(Zo\'94l.)The common raccoon. 1913 Webster]
5.(Zo\'94l.)Same as Washerwoman, 2. [Prov. Eng.] 1913 Webster]
Wash"er*man(?), n.; pl.Washermen(.A man who washes clothes, esp. for hire, or for others. 1913 Webster]
1.A woman who washes clothes, especially for hire, or for others. 1913 Webster]
2.(Zo\'94l.)The pied wagtail; -- so called in allusion to its beating the water with its tail while tripping along the leaves of water plants. [Prov. Eng.] 1913 Webster]
Wash"house`(?), n.An outbuilding for washing, esp. one for washing clothes; a laundry. 1913 Webster]
Wash"i*ness(?), n.The quality or state of being washy, watery, or weak. 1913 Webster]
Wash"ing, n.1.The act of one who washes; the act of cleansing with water; ablution. 1913 Webster]
2.The clothes washed, esp. at one time; a wash. 1913 Webster]
3.(Mining)Gold dust procured by washing; also, a place where this is done; a washery. Webster 1913 Suppl.]
4.A thin covering or coat; as, a washing of silver. Webster 1913 Suppl.]
5.(Stock Exchanges)The operation of simultaneously buying and selling the same stock for the purpose of manipulating the market. The transaction is fictitious, and is prohibited by stock-exchange rules. Webster 1913 Suppl.]
6.(Pottery)The covering of a piece with an infusible powder, which prevents it from sticking to its supports, while receiving the glaze. Webster 1913 Suppl.]
Washing bear(Zo\'94l.), the raccoon. --
Washing bottle(Chem.), a bottle fitted with glass tubes passing through the cork, so that on blowing into one of the tubes a stream of water issuing from the other may be directed upon anything to be washed or rinsed, as a precipitate upon a filter, etc. --
Washing fluid, a liquid used as a cleanser, and consisting usually of alkaline salts resembling soaps in their action. --
Washing machine, a machine for washing; specifically, a machine for washing clothes. --
Washing soda. (Chem.)See Sodium carbonate, under Sodium. --
Washing stuff, any earthy deposit containing gold enough to pay for washing it; -- so called among gold miners. 1913 Webster]
Wash`ing*to"ni*an(?), a.1.Pertaining to, or characteristic of, George Washington; as, a Washingtonian policy.Lowell. 1913 Webster]
2.Designating, or pertaining to, a temperance society and movement started in Baltimore in 1840 on the principle of total abstinence. -- n.A member of the Washingtonian Society. 1913 Webster]
Wash"oe proc`ess(?). [From the Washoe district, Nevada.]The process of treating silver ores by grinding in pans or tubs with the addition of mercury, and sometimes of chemicals such as blue vitriol and salt. Webster 1913 Suppl.]
Wash"-off`(?), a.(Calico Printing)Capable of being washed off; not permanent or durable; -- said of colors not fixed by steaming or otherwise. 1913 Webster]
Wash"out`(?), n.1.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. 1913 Webster]
2.a complete failure; -- of an enterprise. PJC]
3.a person who has failed a course of study or training, leaving the program before its completion. PJC]
Wash out(?), v. i. & t.1.to be removed by washing; -- of spots and stains, especially on clothing. PJC]
2.to be removed, broken, or destroyed by the action of flowing water; as, the bridge was washed out by the flood. PJC]
3.to fail in a course of study or training, especially to leave before completion of the course. PJC]
Wash"pot`(?), n.1.A pot or vessel in which anything is washed. 1913 Webster]
2.(Tin-Plate Manuf.)A pot containing melted tin into which the plates are dipped to be coated. 1913 Webster]
Wash sale. (Stock Exchange)A sale made in washing. See Washing, n., 3, above. Webster 1913 Suppl.]
Wash"stand`(?), n.A piece of furniture holding the ewer or pitcher, basin, and other requisites for washing the person. 1913 Webster]
Wash stand. In a stable or garage, a place in the floor prepared so that carriages or automobiles may be washed there and the water run off. [Cant] Webster 1913 Suppl.]
Wash"tub`(?), n.A tub in which clothes are washed. 1913 Webster]
A polish . . . not over thin and washy.Sir H. Wotton. 1913 Webster]
3.Not firm or hardy; liable to sweat profusely with labor; as, a washy horse. [Local, U. S.] 1913 Webster]
Wa"site(?), n.[See Wasium.](Min.)A variety of allanite from Sweden supposed to contain wasium. 1913 Webster]
Wa"si*um(?), n.[NL. So called from Wasa, or Vasa, the name of a former royal family of Sweden.](Chem.)A rare element supposed by Bahr to have been extracted from wasite, but now identified with thorium. 1913 Webster]
Wasp(?), n.[OE. waspe, AS. w\'91ps, w\'91fs; akin to D. wesp, G. wespe, OHG. wafsa, wefsa, Lith. vapsa gadfly, Russ. osa wasp, L. vespa, and perhaps to E. weave.](Zo\'94l.)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. 1913 Webster]
Illust. in Appendix. 1913 Webster]
Digger wasp, any one of numerous species of solitary wasps that make their nests in burrows which they dig in the ground, as the sand wasps. See Sand wasp, under Sand. --
Mud wasp. See under Mud. --
Potter wasp. See under Potter. --
Wasp fly, a species of fly resembling a wasp, but without a sting. 1913 Webster]
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Wasp"ish(?), a.1.Resembling a wasp in form; having a slender waist, like a wasp. 1913 Webster]
2.Quick to resent a trifling affront; characterized by snappishness; irritable; irascible; petulant; snappish. 1913 Webster]
He was naturally a waspish and hot man.Bp. Hall. 1913 Webster]
Much do I suffer, much, to keep in peace waspish, wrong-head, rhyming race.Pope. 1913 Webster]
-- Wasp"ish*ly, adv. -- Wasp"ish*ness, n. 1913 Webster]
Was"sail(?), n.[AS. wes h\'bel (or an equivalent form in another dialect) be in health, which was the form of drinking a health. The form wes is imperative. See Was, and Whole.] 1913 Webster]
1.An ancient expression of good wishes on a festive occasion, especially in drinking to some one. 1913 Webster]
Geoffrey of Monmouth relates, on the authority of Walter Calenius, that this lady [Rowena], the daughter of Hengist, knelt down on the approach of the king, and, presenting him with a cup of wine, exclaimed, Lord king w\'91s heil, that is, literally, Health be to you.N. Drake. 1913 Webster]
2.An occasion on which such good wishes are expressed in drinking; a drinking bout; a carouse. \'bdIn merry wassail he . . . peals his loud song.\'b8 Sir W. Scott. 1913 Webster]
The king doth wake to-night and takes his rouse, wassail.Shak. 1913 Webster]
The victors abandoned themselves to feasting and wassail.Prescott. 1913 Webster]
3.The liquor used for a wassail; esp., a beverage formerly much used in England at Christmas and other festivals, made of ale (or wine) flavored with spices, sugar, toast, roasted apples, etc.; -- called also lamb's wool. 1913 Webster]
A jolly wassail bowl, wassail of good ale.Old Song. 1913 Webster]
4.A festive or drinking song or glee. [Obs.] 1913 Webster]
Have you done your wassail! 'T is a handsome, drowsy ditty, I'll assure you.Beau. & Fl. 1913 Webster]
Was"sail, a.Of or pertaining to wassail, or to a wassail; convivial; as, a wassail bowl. \'bdAwassail candle, my lord, all tallow.\'b8 Shak. 1913 Webster]
Wassail bowl, a bowl in which wassail was mixed, and placed upon the table. \'bdSpiced wassail bowl.\'b8 J. Fletcher. \'bdWhen the cloth was removed, the butler brought in a huge silver vessel . . . Its appearance was hailed with acclamation, being the wassail bowl so renowned in Christmas festivity.\'b8 W. Irving. --
Wassail cup, a cup from which wassail was drunk. 1913 Webster]
Was"sail, v. i.To hold a wassail; to carouse. 1913 Webster]
Spending all the day, and good part of the night, in dancing, caroling, and wassailing.Sir P. Sidney. 1913 Webster]
Was"sail*er(?), n.One who drinks wassail; one who engages in festivity, especially in drinking; a reveler. 1913 Webster]
The rudeness and swilled insolence wassailers.Milton. 1913 Webster]
Wast(?). The second person singular of the verb be, in the indicative mood, imperfect tense; -- now used only in solemn or poetical style. See Was. 1913 Webster]
Wast"age(?), n.Loss by use, decay, evaporation, leakage, or the like; waste. 1913 Webster]
Waste(?), a.[OE. wast, OF. wast, from L. vastus, influenced by the kindred German word; cf. OHG. wuosti, G. w\'81st, OS. w, D. woest, AS. w. Cf. Vast.] 1913 Webster]
But his waste words returned to him in vain.Spenser. 1913 Webster]
Not a waste or needless sound, Milton. 1913 Webster]
Ill day which made this beauty waste.Emerson. 1913 Webster]
3.Lost for want of occupiers or use; superfluous. 1913 Webster]
And strangled with her waste fertility.Milton. 1913 Webster]
Waste gate, a gate by which the superfluous water of a reservoir, or the like, is discharged. --
Waste paper. See under Paper. --
Waste pipe, a pipe for carrying off waste, or superfluous, water or other fluids. Specifically: (a)(Steam Boilers)An escape pipe. See under Escape.(b)(Plumbing)The outlet pipe at the bottom of a bowl, tub, sink, or the like. --
Waste steam. (a)Steam which escapes the air.(b)Exhaust steam. --
Waste trap, a trap for a waste pipe, as of a sink. 1913 Webster]
Waste, v. t.[imp. & p. p.Wasted; p. pr. & vb. n.Wasting.][OE. wasten, OF. waster, guaster, gaster, F. g\'83ter to spoil, L. vastare to devastate, to lay waste, fr. vastus waste, desert, uncultivated, ravaged, vast, but influenced by a kindred German word; cf. OHG. wuosten, G. w\'81sten, AS. w. See Waste, a.] 1913 Webster]
1.To bring to ruin; to devastate; to desolate; to destroy. 1913 Webster]
The Tiber wastes our fruitful grounds.Dryden. 1913 Webster]
2.To wear away by degrees; to impair gradually; to diminish by constant loss; to use up; to consume; to spend; to wear out. 1913 Webster]
Until your carcasses be wasted in the wilderness.Num. xiv. 33. 1913 Webster]
O, were I able waste it all myself, and leave ye none!Milton. 1913 Webster]
Here condemned waste eternal days in woe and pain.Milton. 1913 Webster]
Wasted by such a course of life, the infirmities of age daily grew on him.Robertson. 1913 Webster]
3.To spend unnecessarily or carelessly; to employ prodigally; to expend without valuable result; to apply to useless purposes; to lavish vainly; to squander; to cause to be lost; to destroy by scattering or injury. 1913 Webster]
The younger son gathered all together, and . . . wasted his substance with riotous living.Luke xv. 13. 1913 Webster]
Full many a flower is born to blush unseen, waste its sweetness on the desert air.Gray. 1913 Webster]
4.(Law)To damage, impair, or injure, as an estate, voluntarily, or by suffering the buildings, fences, etc., to go to decay. 1913 Webster]
Syn. -- To squander; dissipate; lavish; desolate. 1913 Webster]
Waste(w, v. i.1.To be diminished; to lose bulk, substance, strength, value, or the like, gradually; to be consumed; to dwindle; to grow less; -- commonly used with away. 1913 Webster +PJC]
The time wasteth night and day.Chaucer. 1913 Webster]
The barrel of meal shall not waste.1 Kings xvii. 14. 1913 Webster]
But man dieth, and wasteth away.Job xiv. 10. 1913 Webster]
2.(Sporting)To procure or sustain a reduction of flesh; -- said of a jockey in preparation for a race, etc. 1913 Webster]
Waste, n.[OE. waste; cf. the kindred AS. w, OHG. w, wuost\'c6, G. w\'81ste. See Waste, a. & v.] 1913 Webster]
1.The act of wasting, or the state of being wasted; a squandering; needless destruction; useless consumption or expenditure; devastation; loss without equivalent gain; gradual loss or decrease, by use, wear, or decay; as, a waste of property, time, labor, words, etc. \'bdWaste . . . of catel and of time.\'b8 Chaucer. 1913 Webster]
For all this waste of wealth loss of blood.Milton. 1913 Webster]
He will never . . . in the way of waste, attempt us again.Shak. 1913 Webster]
Little wastes in great establishments, constantly occurring, may defeat the energies of a mighty capital.L. Beecher. 1913 Webster]
2.That which is wasted or desolate; a devastated, uncultivated, or wild country; a deserted region; an unoccupied or unemployed space; a dreary void; a desert; a wilderness. \'bdThe wastes of Nature.\'b8 Emerson. 1913 Webster]
All the leafy nation sinks at last, waste.Dryden. 1913 Webster]
The gloomy waste of waters which bears his name is his tomb and his monument.Bancroft. 1913 Webster]
3.That which is of no value; worthless remnants; refuse. Specifically: Remnants of cops, or other refuse resulting from the working of cotton, wool, hemp, and the like, used for wiping machinery, absorbing oil in the axle boxes of railway cars, etc. 1913 Webster]
4.(Law)Spoil, destruction, or injury, done to houses, woods, fences, lands, etc., by a tenant for life or for years, to the prejudice of the heir, or of him in reversion or remainder. 1913 Webster]
voluntary, as by pulling down buildings; or permissive, as by suffering them to fall for want of necessary repairs. Whatever does a lasting damage to the freehold is a waste.Blackstone. 1913 Webster]
5.(Mining)Old or abandoned workings, whether left as vacant space or filled with refuse. 1913 Webster]
6.(Phys. Geog.)Material derived by mechanical and chemical erosion from the land, carried by streams to the sea. Webster 1913 Suppl.]
Waste"book`(?), n.(Com.)A book in which rough entries of transactions are made, previous to their being carried into the journal. 1913 Webster]
Waste"ful(?), a.1.Full of waste; destructive to property; ruinous; as, wasteful practices or negligence; wasteful expenses. 1913 Webster]
2.Expending, or tending to expend, property, or that which is valuable, in a needless or useless manner; lavish; prodigal; as, a wasteful person; a wasteful disposition. 1913 Webster]
-- Waste"ful*ly, adv. -- Waste"ful*ness, n. 1913 Webster]
Was"tel(?), n.[OF. wastel, gastel, F. g\'83teau, LL. wastellus, fr. MHG. wastel a kind of bread; cf. OHG. & AS. wist food.]A kind of white and fine bread or cake; -- called also wastel bread, and wastel cake. [Obs.] 1913 Webster]
Roasted flesh or milk and wasted bread.Chaucer. 1913 Webster]
The simnel bread and wastel cakes, which were only used at the tables of the highest nobility.Sir W. Scott. 1913 Webster]
Waste"ness(?), n.1.The quality or state of being waste; a desolate state or condition; desolation. 1913 Webster]
A day of trouble and distress, a day of wasteness.Zeph. i. 15. 1913 Webster]
2.That which is waste; a desert; a waste. [R.] 1913 Webster]
Through woods and wasteness wide him daily sought.Spenser. 1913 Webster]
Wast"er(?), n.[OE. wastour, OF. wasteor, gasteor. See Waste, v. t.] 1913 Webster]
1.One who, or that which, wastes; one who squanders; one who consumes or expends extravagantly; a spendthrift; a prodigal. 1913 Webster]
He also that is slothful in his work is brother to him that is a great waster.Prov. xviii. 9. 1913 Webster]
Sconces are great wasters of candles.Swift. 1913 Webster]
2.An imperfection in the wick of a candle, causing it to waste; -- called also a thief.Halliwell. 1913 Webster]
3.A kind of cudgel; also, a blunt-edged sword used as a foil. 1913 Webster]
Half a dozen of veneys at wasters with a good fellow for a broken head.Beau. & Fl. 1913 Webster]
Being unable to wield the intellectual arms of reason, they are fain to betake them unto wasters.Sir T. Browne. 1913 Webster]
Wast"rel(?), n.1.Any waste thing or substance; as: (a)Waste land or common land. [Obs.] Carew.(b)A profligate. [Prov. Eng.] (c)A neglected child; a street Arab. [Eng.] 1913 Webster]
2.Anything cast away as bad or useless, as imperfect bricks, china, etc. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] 1913 Webster]
Watch(w, n.[OE. wacche, AS. w\'91cce, fr. wacian to wake; akin to D. wacht, waak, G. wacht, wache. Wake, v. i. ] 1913 Webster]
1.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. 1913 Webster]
Shepherds keeping watch by night.Milton. 1913 Webster]
All the long night their mournful watch they keep.Addison. 1913 Webster]
Watch was formerly distinguished from ward, the former signifying a watching or guarding by night, and the latter a watching, guarding, or protecting by day Hence, they were not unfrequently used together, especially in the phrase to keep watch and ward, to denote continuous and uninterrupted vigilance or protection, or both watching and guarding. This distinction is now rarely recognized, watch being used to signify a watching or guarding both by night and by day, and ward, which is now rarely used, having simply the meaning of guard, or protection, without reference to time. 1913 Webster]
Still, when she slept, he kept both watch and ward.Spenser. 1913 Webster]
Ward, guard, or custodia, is chiefly applied to the daytime, in order to apprehend rioters, and robbers on the highway . . . Watch, is properly applicable to the night only, . . . and it begins when ward ends, and ends when that begins.Blackstone. 1913 Webster]
2.One who watches, or those who watch; a watchman, or a body of watchmen; a sentry; a guard. 1913 Webster]
Pilate said unto them, Ye have a watch; go your way, make it as sure as ye can.Matt. xxvii. 65. 1913 Webster]
3.The post or office of a watchman; also, the place where a watchman is posted, or where a guard is kept. 1913 Webster]
He upbraids Iago, that he made him watch.Shak. 1913 Webster]
4.The period of the night during which a person does duty as a sentinel, or guard; the time from the placing of a sentinel till his relief; hence, a division of the night. 1913 Webster]
I did stand my watch upon the hill.Shak. 1913 Webster]
Might we but hear . . . watches to his feathery dames.Milton. 1913 Webster]
5.A small timepiece, or chronometer, to be carried about the person, the machinery of which is moved by a spring.<-- or electric or electronic mechanisms. --> 1913 Webster]
anchor watch, a lever watch, a chronometer watch, etc. (see the Note under Escapement, n., 3); also, by the kind of case, as a gold or silver watch, an open-faced watch, a hunting watch, or hunter, etc. 1913 Webster]
6.(Naut.)(a)An allotted portion of time, usually four hour for standing watch, or being on deck ready for duty. Cf. Dogwatch.(b)That part, usually one half, of the officers and crew, who together attend to the working of a vessel for an allotted time, usually four hours. The watches are designated as the port watch, and the starboard watch. 1913 Webster]
Anchor watch(Naut.), a detail of one or more men who keep watch on deck when a vessel is at anchor. --
To be on the watch, to be looking steadily for some event. --
Watch and ward(Law), the charge or care of certain officers to keep a watch by night and a guard by day in towns, cities, and other districts, for the preservation of the public peace.Wharton.Burrill. --
Watch and watch(Naut.), the regular alternation in being on watch and off watch of the two watches into which a ship's crew is commonly divided. --
Watch barrel, the brass box in a watch, containing the mainspring. --
Watch bell(Naut.), a bell struck when the half-hour glass is run out, or at the end of each half hour.Craig. --
Watch bill(Naut.), a list of the officers and crew of a ship as divided into watches, with their stations.Totten. --
Watch case, the case, or outside covering, of a watch; also, a case for holding a watch, or in which it is kept. --
Watch chain. Same as watch guard, below. --
Watch clock, a watchman's clock; see under Watchman. --
Watch fire, a fire lighted at night, as a signal, or for the use of a watch or guard. --
Watch glass. (a)A concavo-convex glass for covering the face, or dial, of a watch; -- also called watch crystal.(b)(Naut.)A half-hour glass used to measure the time of a watch on deck.<-- (c) (Chem.)A round concavo-convex glass of shallow depth used for certain manipulations of chemicals in a laboratory. --> --
Watch guard, a chain or cord by which a watch is attached to the person. --
Watch gun(Naut.), a gun sometimes fired on shipboard at 8 p. m., when the night watch begins. --
Watch light, a low-burning lamp used by watchers at night; formerly, a candle having a rush wick. --
Watch night, The last night of the year; -- so called by the Methodists, Moravians, and others, who observe it by holding religious meetings lasting until after midnight. --
Watch paper, an old-fashioned ornament for the inside of a watch case, made of paper cut in some fanciful design, as a vase with flowers, etc. --
Watch tackle(Naut.), a small, handy purchase, consisting of a tailed double block, and a single block with a hook. 1913 Webster]
Watch(?), v. i.[Cf. AS. w, wacian. Watch, n., Wake, v. i. ] 1913 Webster]
1.To be awake; to be or continue without sleep; to wake; to keep vigil. 1913 Webster]
I have two nights watched with you.Shak. 1913 Webster]
Couldest thou not watch one hour ?Mark xiv. 37. 1913 Webster]
2.To be attentive or vigilant; to give heed; to be on the lookout; to keep guard; to act as sentinel. 1913 Webster]
Take ye heed, watch and pray.Mark xiii. 33. 1913 Webster]
The Son gave signal high watched.Milton. 1913 Webster]
3.To be expectant; to look with expectation; to wait; to seek opportunity. 1913 Webster]
My soul waiteth for the Lord more than they that watch for the morning.Ps. cxxx. 6. 1913 Webster]
4.To remain awake with any one as nurse or attendant; to attend on the sick during the night; as, to watch with a man in a fever. 1913 Webster]
5.(Naut.)To serve the purpose of a watchman by floating properly in its place; -- said of a buoy. 1913 Webster]
To watch over, to be cautiously observant of; to inspect, superintend, and guard. 1913 Webster]
Watch, v. t.[imp. & p. p.Watched(?); p. pr. & vb. n.Watching.] 1913 Webster]
1.To give heed to; to observe the actions or motions of, for any purpose; to keep in view; not to lose from sight and observation; as, to watch the progress of a bill in the legislature. 1913 Webster]
Saul also sent messengers unto David's house to watch him, and to slay him.1 Sam. xix. 11 1913 Webster]
I must cool a little, and watch my opportunity.Landor. 1913 Webster]
In lazy mood I watched the little circles die.Longfellow. 1913 Webster]
2.To tend; to guard; to have in keeping. 1913 Webster]
And flaming ministers, to watch and tend Milton. 1913 Webster]
Paris watched the flocks in the groves of Ida.Broome. 1913 Webster]
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Watch"dog`(w, n.A dog kept to watch and guard premises or property, and to give notice of the approach of intruders. 1913 Webster]
Watch"er(-, n.One who watches; one who sits up or continues; a diligent observer; specifically, one who attends upon the sick during the night. 1913 Webster]
Watch"es(-, n. pl.(Bot.)The leaves of Saracenia flava. See Trumpets. 1913 Webster]
Watchet(-, a.[Probably from F. vaciet bilberry, whortleberry; cf. L. vaccinium blueberry, whortleberry.]Pale or light blue. [Obs.] \'bdWatchet mantles.\'b8 Spenser. 1913 Webster]
Who stares in Germany at watchet eyes?Dryden. 1913 Webster]
Watch"ful(?), a.Full of watch; vigilant; attentive; careful to observe closely; observant; cautious; -- with of before the thing to be regulated or guarded; as, to be watchful of one's behavior; and with against before the thing to be avoided; as, to be watchful against the growth of vicious habits. \'bdMany a watchful night.\'b8 Shak. \'bdHappy watchful shepherds.\'b8 Milton. 1913 Webster]
'Twixt prayer and watchful love his heart dividing.Keble. 1913 Webster]
-- Watch"ful*ly, adv. -- Watch"ful*ness, n. 1913 Webster]
Watch"house`(?), n.; pl.Watchhouses(.1.A house in which a watch or guard is placed. 1913 Webster]
2.A place where persons under temporary arrest by the police of a city are kept; a police station; a lockup. 1913 Webster]
Watch"mak`er(?), n.One whose occupation is to make and repair watches. 1913 Webster]
Watch"man(?), n.; pl.Watchmen(. 1913 Webster]
1.One set to watch; a person who keeps guard; a guard; a sentinel. 1913 Webster]
2.Specifically, one who guards a building, or the streets of a city, by night. 1913 Webster]
Watchman beetle(Zo\'94l.), the European dor. --
Watchman's clock, a watchman's detector in which the apparatus for recording the times of visiting several stations is contained within a single clock. --
Watchman's detector, or
Watchman's time detector, an apparatus for recording the time when a watchman visits a station on his rounds. --
Watchman's rattle, an instrument having at the end of a handle a revolving arm, which, by the action of a strong spring upon cogs, produces, when in motion, a loud, harsh, rattling sound. 1913 Webster]
Watch meeting. A religious meeting held in the closing hours of the year. Webster 1913 Suppl.]
Watch"tow`er(?), n.A tower in which a sentinel is placed to watch for enemies, the approach of danger, or the like. 1913 Webster]
Watch"word`(?), n.1.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. 1913 Webster]
2.A sentiment or motto; esp., one used as a rallying cry or a signal for action. 1913 Webster]
Nor deal in watchwords overmuch.Tennyson. 1913 Webster]
Wa"ter(w, n.[AS. w\'91ter; akin to OS. watar, OFries. wetir, weter, LG. & D. water, G. wasser, OHG. wazzar, Icel. vatn, Sw. vatten, Dan. vand, Goth. wat, O. Slav. & Russ. voda, Gr. 'y`dwr, Skr. udan water, ud to wet, and perhaps to L. unda wave. Dropsy, Hydra, Otter, Wet, Whisky.]1.The fluid which descends from the clouds in rain, and which forms rivers, lakes, seas, etc. \'bdWe will drink water.\'b8 Shak. \'bdPowers of fire, air, water, and earth.\'b8 Milton. 1913 Webster]
H2O, and is a colorless, odorless, tasteless, transparent liquid, which is very slightly compressible. At its maximum density, 39Ice, Steam). It is the most important natural solvent, and is frequently impregnated with foreign matter which is mostly removed by distillation; hence, rain water is nearly pure. It is an important ingredient in the tissue of animals and plants, the human body containing about two thirds its weight of water. 1913 Webster]
2.A body of water, standing or flowing; a lake, river, or other collection of water. 1913 Webster]
Remembering he had passed over a small water a poor scholar when first coming to the university, he kneeled.Fuller. 1913 Webster]
3.Any liquid secretion, humor, or the like, resembling water; esp., the urine. 1913 Webster]
4.(Pharm.)A solution in water of a gaseous or readily volatile substance; as, ammonia water.U. S. Pharm. 1913 Webster]
5.The limpidity and luster of a precious stone, especially a diamond; as, a diamond of the first water, that is, perfectly pure and transparent. Hence, of the first water, that is, of the first excellence. 1913 Webster]
6.A wavy, lustrous pattern or decoration such as is imparted to linen, silk, metals, etc. See Water, v. t., 3, Damask, v. t., and Damaskeen. 1913 Webster]
7.An addition to the shares representing the capital of a stock company so that the aggregate par value of the shares is increased while their value for investment is diminished, or \'bddiluted.\'b8 [Brokers' Cant] 1913 Webster]
Water is often used adjectively and in the formation of many self-explaining compounds; as, water drainage; water gauge, or water-gauge; waterfowl, water-fowl, or water fowl; water-beaten; water-borne, water-circled, water-girdled, water-rocked, etc. 1913 Webster]
Hard water. See under Hard. --
Inch of water, a unit of measure of quantity of water, being the quantity which will flow through an orifice one inch square, or a circular orifice one inch in diameter, in a vertical surface, under a stated constant head; also called miner's inch, and water inch. The shape of the orifice and the head vary in different localities. In the Western United States, for hydraulic mining, the standard aperture is square and the head from 4 to 9 inches above its center. In Europe, for experimental hydraulics, the orifice is usually round and the head from --
Mineral water, waters which are so impregnated with foreign ingredients, such as gaseous, sulphureous, and saline substances, as to give them medicinal properties, or a particular flavor or temperature. --
Soft water, water not impregnated with lime or mineral salts. --
To hold water. See under Hold, v. t. --
To keep one's head above water, to keep afloat; fig., to avoid failure or sinking in the struggles of life. [Colloq.] --
To make water. (a)To pass urine.Swift.(b)(Naut.)To admit water; to leak. --
Water of crystallization(Chem.), the water combined with many salts in their crystalline form. This water is loosely, but, nevertheless, chemically, combined, for it is held in fixed and definite amount for each substance containing it. Thus, while pure copper sulphate, CuSO4, is a white amorphous substance, blue vitriol, the crystallized form, CuSO4.5H2O, contains five molecules of water of crystallization. --
Water on the brain(Med.), hydrocephalus. --
Water on the chest(Med.), hydrothorax. 1913 Webster]
water occurs as the first element, will be found in alphabetical order in the Vocabulary. 1913 Webster]
Wa"ter(?), v. t.[imp. & p. p.Watered(?); p. pr. & vb. n.Watering.][AS. w\'91terian, gew\'91terian.] 1913 Webster]
1.To wet or supply with water; to moisten; to overflow with water; to irrigate; as, to water land; to water flowers. 1913 Webster]
With tears watering the ground.Milton. 1913 Webster]
Men whose lives gilded on like rivers that water the woodlands.Longfellow. 1913 Webster]
2.To supply with water for drink; to cause or allow to drink; as, to water cattle and horses. 1913 Webster]
3.To wet and calender, as cloth, so as to impart to it a lustrous appearance in wavy lines; to diversify with wavelike lines; as, to water silk. Cf. Water, n., 6. 1913 Webster]
4.To add water to (anything), thereby extending the quantity or bulk while reducing the strength or quality; to extend; to dilute; to weaken. 1913 Webster]
To water stock, to increase the capital stock of a company by issuing new stock, thus diminishing the value of the individual shares. Cf. Water, n., 7. [Brokers' Cant] 1913 Webster]
Wa"ter, v. i.1.To shed, secrete, or fill with, water or liquid matter; as, his eyes began to water. 1913 Webster]
If thine eyes can water for his death.Shak. 1913 Webster]
2.To get or take in water; as, the ship put into port to water. 1913 Webster]
The mouth waters, a phrase denoting that a person or animal has a longing desire for something, since the sight of food often causes one who is hungry to have an increased flow of saliva. 1913 Webster]
Wa"ter ad"der(?). (Zo\'94l.)(a)The water moccasin.(b)The common, harmless American water snake (Tropidonotus sipedon). See Illust. under Water Snake. 1913 Webster]
Wa"ter*age(?; 48), n.Money paid for transportation of goods, etc., by water. [Eng.] 1913 Webster]
Wa"ter ag"ri*mo*ny(?). (Bot.)A kind of bur marigold (Bidens tripartita) found in wet places in Europe. 1913 Webster]
Wa"ter al"oe(?). (Bot.)See Water soldier. 1913 Webster]
Wa"ter an"te*lope(?). See Water buck. 1913 Webster]
Wa"ter a"rum(?). (Bot.)An aroid herb (Calla palustris) having a white spathe. It is an inhabitant of the north temperate zone. 1913 Webster]
Wa"ter back`(?). See under 1st Back. 1913 Webster]
Wa"ter bail"iff(?). An officer of the customs, whose duty it is to search vessels. [Eng.] 1913 Webster]
Wa"ter bal"last(?). (Naut.)Water confined in specially constructed compartments in a vessel's hold, to serve as ballast. 1913 Webster]
Wa"ter ba*rom"e*ter(?). (Physics)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. 1913 Webster]
Wa"ter bath`(?). A device for regulating the temperature of anything subjected to heat, by surrounding the vessel containing it with another vessel containing water which can be kept at a desired temperature; also, a vessel designed for this purpose. 1913 Webster]
Wa"ter bat"ter*y(?). 1.(Elec.)A voltaic battery in which the exciting fluid is water. 1913 Webster]
2.(Mil.)A battery nearly on a level with the water. 1913 Webster]
Wa"ter bear`(?). (Zo\'94l.)Any species of Tardigrada, 2. See Illust. of Tardigrada. 1913 Webster]
Wa"ter bed`(?). A kind of mattress made of, or covered with, waterproof fabric and filled with water, thus providing uniform support to the body lying on it; -- also a bed constructed so as to contain such a mattress. It is used in hospitals for bedridden patients, as well as in some private homes. 1913 Webster +PJC]
Wa"ter beech`(?). (Bot.)The American hornbeam. See Hornbeam. 1913 Webster]
Wa"ter bee"tle(?). (Zo\'94l.)Any one of numerous species of aquatic beetles belonging to Dytiscus and allied genera of the family Dytiscid\'91, and to various genera of the family Hydrophilid\'91. These beetles swim with great agility, the fringed hind legs acting together like oars. 1913 Webster]
Wa"ter bel"lows(?). Same as Tromp. 1913 Webster]
Wa"ter bird`(?). (Zo\'94l.)Any aquatic bird; a water fowl. 1913 Webster]
Wa"ter black"bird(?). (Zo\'94l.)The European water ousel, or dipper. 1913 Webster]
Wa"ter*board`(?), n.A board set up to windward in a boat, to keep out water.Ham. Nav. Encyc. 1913 Webster]
Wa"ter*bok`(?), n.[D.](Zo\'94l.)A water buck. 1913 Webster]
Wa"ter-bound`(?), a.Prevented by a flood from proceeding. 1913 Webster]
Wa"ter brain`(?). A disease of sheep; gid. 1913 Webster]
Wa"ter brash`(?). (Med.)See under Brash. 1913 Webster]
Wa"ter breath"er(?). (Zo\'94l.)Any arthropod that breathes by means of gills. 1913 Webster]
Wa"ter bridge`(?). (Steam Boilers)See Water table. 1913 Webster]
Wa"ter buck`(?). (Zo\'94l.)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. 1913 Webster]
Kobus leche), which has similar habits. 1913 Webster]
Wa"ter buf"fa*lo(?). (Zo\'94l.)The European buffalo. 1913 Webster]
Wa"ter bug`(?). (Zo\'94l.)(a)The Croton bug.(b)Any one of numerous species of large, rapacious, aquatic, hemipterous insects belonging to Belostoma, Benacus, Zaitha, and other genera of the family Belostomatid\'91. Their hind legs are long and fringed, and act like oars. Some of these insects are of great size, being among the largest existing Hemiptera. Many of them come out of the water and fly about at night. 1913 Webster]
Wa"ter butt`(?). A large, open-headed cask, set up on end, to contain water.Dickens. 1913 Webster]
Wa"ter cal"trop(?). (Bot.)The water chestnut. 1913 Webster]
Wa"ter can`(?). (Bot.)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.Dr. Prior. 1913 Webster]
Wa"ter cel"er*y(?). (Bot.)A very acrid herb (Ranunculus sceleratus) growing in ditches and wet places; -- called also cursed crowfoot. 1913 Webster]
Wa"ter cell`(?). A cell containing water; specifically (Zo\'94l.), one of the cells or chambers in which water is stored up in the stomach of a camel. 1913 Webster]
Wa"ter chest"nut(?). (Bot.)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. 1913 Webster]
Wa"ter chev`ro*tain"(?). (Zo\'94l.)A large West African chevrotain (Hy\'91moschus aquaticus). It has a larger body and shorter legs than the other allied species. Called also water deerlet. 1913 Webster]
Wa"ter chick"en(?). (Zo\'94l.)The common American gallinule. 1913 Webster]
Wa"ter chick"weed`(?). (Bot.)A small annual plant (Montia fontana) growing in wet places in southern regions. 1913 Webster]
Wa"ter chin"qua*pin(?). (Bot.)The American lotus, and its edible seeds, which somewhat resemble chinquapins. Cf. Yoncopin. 1913 Webster]
Wa"ter clock`(?). An instrument or machine serving to measure time by the fall, or flow, of a certain quantity of water; a clepsydra. 1913 Webster]
Wa"ter-clos`et(?), n.A privy; especially, a privy furnished with a contrivance for introducing a stream of water to cleanse it. 1913 Webster]
Wa"ter cock`(?). (Zo\'94l.)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. 1913 Webster]
Wa"ter col`or(?). (Paint.)1.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. 1913 Webster]
Moist water colors are water colors kept in a semifluid or pasty state in little metal tubes or pans. 1913 Webster]
2.A picture painted with such colors. 1913 Webster]
Wa"ter-col`or*ist, n.One who paints in water colors. 1913 Webster]
Wa"ter*course`(?), n.(Shipbuilding)One of the holes in floor or other plates to permit water to flow through. Webster 1913 Suppl.]
Wa"ter course`(?). 1.A stream of water; a river or brook.Isa. xliv. 4. 1913 Webster]
2.A natural channel for water; also, a canal for the conveyance of water, especially in draining lands. 1913 Webster]
3.(Law)A running stream of water having a bed and banks; the easement one may have in the flowing of such a stream in its accustomed course. A water course may be sometimes dry.Angell.Burrill. 1913 Webster]
Wa"ter craft`(?). Any vessel or boat plying on water; vessels and boats, collectively. 1913 Webster]
Wa"ter crake`(?). (Zo\'94l.)(a)The dipper.(b)The spotted crake (Porzana maruetta). See Illust. of Crake.(c)The swamp hen, or crake, of Australia. 1913 Webster]
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Wa"ter crane`(?). A goose-neck apparatus for supplying water from an elevated tank, as to the tender of a locomotive. 1913 Webster]
Wa"ter cress`(?). (Bot.)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. 1913 Webster]
Wa"ter crow`(?). [So called in allusion to its dark plumage.](Zo\'94l.)(a)The dipper.(b)The European coot. 1913 Webster]
Wa"ter crow"foot`(?). (Bot.)An aquatic kind of buttercup (Ranunculus aquatilis), used as food for cattle in parts of England. 1913 Webster]
Great water crowfoot, an American water plant (Ranunculus multifidus), having deep yellow flowers. 1913 Webster]
Wa"ter deck`(?). A covering of painting canvas for the equipments of a dragoon's horse.Wilhelm. 1913 Webster]
Wa"ter deer`(?). (Zo\'94l.)(a)A small Chinese deer (Hydropotes inermis). Both sexes are destitute of antlers, but the male has large, descending canine tusks.(b)The water chevrotain. 1913 Webster]
Wa"ter deer"let(?). See Water chevrotain. 1913 Webster]
Wa"ter dev"il(?). (Zo\'94l.)The rapacious larva of a large water beetle (Hydrophilus piceus), and of other similar species. See Illust. of Water beetle. 1913 Webster]
Wa"ter dock`(?). (Bot.)A tall, coarse dock growing in wet places. The American water dock is Rumex orbiculatus, the European is Rumex Hydrolapathum. 1913 Webster]
Wa"ter doc"tor(?). (Med.)(a)One who professes to be able to divine diseases by inspection of the urine.(b)A physician who treats diseases with water; an hydropathist. 1913 Webster]
Wa"ter dog`(?). 1.(Zo\'94l.)A dog accustomed to the water, or trained to retrieve waterfowl. Retrievers, waters spaniels, and Newfoundland dogs are so trained. 1913 Webster]
2.(Zo\'94l.)The menobranchus. 1913 Webster]
3.A small floating cloud, supposed to indicate rain. 1913 Webster]
4.A sailor, esp. an old sailor; an old salt. [Colloq.] 1913 Webster]
Wa"ter drain`(?). A drain or channel for draining off water. 1913 Webster]
Wa"ter drain"age(?; 48). The draining off of water. 1913 Webster]
Wa"ter dress"ing(?). (Med.)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. 1913 Webster]
Wa"ter drop"wort`(?). (Bot.)A European poisonous umbelliferous plant (Enanthe fistulosa) with large hollow stems and finely divided leaves. 1913 Webster]
Wa"ter en"gine(?). An engine to raise water; or an engine moved by water; also, an engine or machine for extinguishing fires; a fire engine. 1913 Webster]
Wa"ter*er(?), n.One who, or that which, waters. 1913 Webster]
Wa"ter*fall`(?), n.1.A fall, or perpendicular descent, of the water of a river or stream, or a descent nearly perpendicular; a cascade; a cataract. 1913 Webster]
2.(Hairdressing)An arrangement of a woman's back hair over a cushion or frame in some resemblance to a waterfall.<-- = a fall? --> 1913 Webster]
3.A certain kind of neck scarf.T. Hughes. 1913 Webster]
{ Wa"ter feath"er(?). Wa"ter feath"er-foil`(?). }(Bot.)The water violet (Hottonia palustris); also, the less showy American plant Hottonia inflata. 1913 Webster]
Wa"ter flag`(?). (Bot.)A European species of Iris (Iris Pseudacorus) having bright yellow flowers. 1913 Webster]
Wa"ter flan"nel(?). (Bot.)A floating mass formed in pools by the entangled filaments of a European fresh-water alga (Cladophora crispata). 1913 Webster]
Wa"ter flea`(?). (Zo\'94l.)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. 1913 Webster]
Wa"ter*flood`(?), n.[AS. w\'91terfl.]A flood of water; an inundation. 1913 Webster]
Wa"ter*fowl`(?), n.Any bird that frequents the water, or lives about rivers, lakes, etc., or on or near the sea; an aquatic fowl; -- used also collectively. 1913 Webster]
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Wa"ter fox`(?). (Zo\'94l.)The carp; -- so called on account of its cunning.Walton. 1913 Webster]
Wa"ter frame`(?). A name given to the first power spinning machine, because driven by water power. 1913 Webster]
Wa"ter fur"row(?). (Agric.)A deep furrow for conducting water from the ground, and keeping the surface soil dry. 1913 Webster]
Wa"ter-fur"row, v. t.To make water furrows in. 1913 Webster]
Wa"ter gage`(?). See Water gauge. 1913 Webster]
Wa"ter gall`(?). 1.A cavity made in the earth by a torrent of water; a washout. 1913 Webster]
2.A watery appearance in the sky, accompanying the rainbow; a secondary or broken rainbow. 1913 Webster]
These water galls, in her dim element, Shak. 1913 Webster]
False good news are [is] always produced by true good, like the water gall by the rainbow.Walpole. 1913 Webster]
Wa"ter gang`(?). (O. E. Law)A passage for water, such as was usually made in a sea wall, to drain water out of marshes.Burrill. 1913 Webster]
Wa"ter gas`(?). (Chem.)See under Gas. 1913 Webster]
Wa"ter gate`(?). A gate, or valve, by which a flow of water is permitted, prevented, or regulated. 1913 Webster]
Wa"ter gauge`(?). [Written also water gage.] 1913 Webster]
1.A wall or bank to hold water back.Craig. 1913 Webster]
2.An instrument for measuring or ascertaining the depth or quantity of water, or for indicating the height of its surface, as in the boiler of a steam engine. See Gauge. 1913 Webster]
Wa"ter gav"el(?). (O. Eng. Law)A gavel or rent paid for a privilege, as of fishing, in some river or water. 1913 Webster]
Wa"ter ger*man"der(?). (Bot.)A labiate plant (Teucrium Scordium) found in marshy places in Europe. 1913 Webster]
Wa"ter gild"ing(?). 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. 1913 Webster]
Wa"ter glass`(?). 1.(Chem.)See Soluble glass, under Glass. 1913 Webster]
2.A clepsydra. Webster 1913 Suppl.]
3.An instrument consisting of an open box or tube with a glass bottom, used for examining objects in the water, as upon the sea bottom in shallow places. Webster 1913 Suppl.]
4.A water gauge for a steam boiler. Webster 1913 Suppl.]
Wa"ter god`(?). (Myth.)A fabulous deity supposed to dwell in, and preside over, some body of water. 1913 Webster]
Water grass. (a)A tall march perennial grass (Paspalum dilatatum) of the southern United States and the American tropics.(b)Manna grass.(c)The grass Chloris elegans.(d) [Dial. Eng.] (1) Velvet grass. (2) The water cress. (3) One of various horsetails. Webster 1913 Suppl.]
Wa"ter gru"el(?). A liquid food composed of water and a small portion of meal, or other farinaceous substance, boiled and seasoned. 1913 Webster]
Wa"ter ham"mer(?). (Physics)1.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. 1913 Webster]
2.A concussion, or blow, made by water in striking, as against the sides of a pipe or vessel containing it. 1913 Webster]
3.A metal hammer used when heated, as by dipping in hot water, to blister the skin, as for counterritation. Webster 1913 Suppl.]
Wa"ter hare(?). (Zo\'94l.)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. 1913 Webster]
Wa"ter hem"lock(?). (Bot)(a)A poisonous umbelliferous plant (Cicuta virosa) of Europe; also, any one of several plants of that genus.(b)A poisonous plant () resembling the above. 1913 Webster]
Wa"ter hemp`(?). (Bot.)See under Hemp. 1913 Webster]
Wa"ter*horse`(?), n.A pile of salted fish heaped up to drain. 1913 Webster]
Wa"ter hy"a*cinth(?). (Bot.)Either of several tropical aquatic plants of the genus Eichhornia, related to the pickerel weed. 1913 Webster]
Wa"ter ice`(?). Water flavored, sweetened, and frozen, to be eaten as a confection. 1913 Webster]
Wa"ter*ie(?), n.(Zo\'94l.)The pied wagtail; -- so called because it frequents ponds. 1913 Webster]
Wa"ter inch`(?). Same as Inch of water, under Water. 1913 Webster]
Wa"ter*i*ness(?), n.The quality or state of being watery; moisture; humidity. 1913 Webster]
Wa"ter*ing, a. & n. from Water, v. 1913 Webster]
Watering call(Mil.), a sound of trumpet or bugle summoning cavalry soldiers to assemble for the purpose of watering their horses. --
Watering cart, a sprinkling cart. See Water. --
Watering place. (a)A place where water may be obtained, as for a ship, for cattle, etc.(b)A place where there are springs of medicinal water, or a place by the sea, or by some large body of water, to which people resort for bathing, recreation, boating, etc. --
Watering pot. (a)A kind of bucket fitted with a rose, or perforated nozzle, -- used for watering flowers, paths, etc.(b)(Zo\'94l.)Any one of several species of marine bivalve shells of the genus Aspergillum, or Brechites. The valves are small, and consolidated with the capacious calcareous tube which incases the entire animal. The tube is closed at the anterior end by a convex disk perforated by numerous pores, or tubules, and resembling the rose of a watering pot. --
Watering trough, a trough from which cattle, horses, and other animals drink. 1913 Webster]
Wa"ter*ish*ness, n.The quality of being waterish. 1913 Webster]
<-- water jacket. A chamber surrounding a vessel or tube in which water may be circulated, thereby regulating the temperature or supply of heat to the vessel. Used in laboratory and manufacturing equipment. 1913 Webster]
water-jacketed. adj. Having a water jacket; -- as, a water-jacketed condenser. --> 1913 Webster]
Wa"ter joint`(?). (Arch.)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. 1913 Webster]
Wa"ter jun"ket(?). (Zo\'94l.)The common sandpiper. 1913 Webster]
Wa"ter-laid`(?), a.Having a left-hand twist; -- said of cordage; as, a water-laid, or left-hand, rope. 1913 Webster]
{ Wa`ter*land"er(?), Wa`ter*land"i*an(?) }n.(Eccl. Hist.)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. 1913 Webster]
Wa"ter la"ver*ock(?). (Zo\'94l.)The common sandpiper. 1913 Webster]
Wa"ter*leaf`(?), n.(Bot.)Any plant of the American genus Hydrophyllum, herbs having white or pale blue bell-shaped flowers.Gray. 1913 Webster]
Wa"ter lem"on(?). (Bot.)The edible fruit of two species of passion flower (Passiflora laurifolia, and Passiflora maliformis); -- so called in the West Indies. 1913 Webster]
Wa"ter*less, a.Destitute of water; dry.Chaucer. 1913 Webster]
Wa"ter let"tuce(?). (Bot.)A plant (Pistia stratiotes) which floats on tropical waters, and forms a rosette of spongy, wedge-shaped leaves.J. Smith (Dict. Econ. Plants). 1913 Webster]
Wa"ter lev"el(?). 1.The level formed by the surface of still water. 1913 Webster]
2.A kind of leveling instrument. See under Level, n. 1913 Webster]
Wa"ter lil`y(?). (Bot.)A blossom or plant of any species of the genus Nymph\'91a, distinguished for its large floating leaves and beautiful flowers. See Nymph\'91a. 1913 Webster]
Nuphar, Euryale, Nelumbo, and Victoria. See Euryale, Lotus, and Victoria, 1. 1913 Webster]
Wa"ter lime`(?). Hydraulic lime. 1913 Webster]
Wa"ter line`(?). 1.(Shipbuilding)Any one of certain lines of a vessel, model, or plan, parallel with the surface of the water at various heights from the keel. 1913 Webster]
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2.(Naut.)Any one of several lines marked upon the outside of a vessel, corresponding with the surface of the water when she is afloat on an even keel. The lowest line indicates the vessel's proper submergence when not loaded, and is called the light water line; the highest, called the load water line, indicates her proper submergence when loaded. 1913 Webster]
Water-line model(Shipbuilding), a model of a vessel formed of boards which are shaped according to the water lines as shown in the plans and laid upon each other to form a solid model. 1913 Webster]
Wa"ter liz"ard(?). (Zo\'94l.)Any aquatic lizard of the genus Varanus, as the monitor of the Nile. See Monitor, n., 3. 1913 Webster]
Wa"ter lo"cust(?). (Bot.)A thorny leguminous tree (Gleditschia monosperma) which grows in the swamps of the Mississippi valley. 1913 Webster]
Wa"ter-logged(?), a.Filled or saturated with water so as to be heavy, unmanageable, or loglike; -- said of a vessel, when, by receiving a great quantity of water into her hold, she has become so heavy as not to be manageable by the helm. 1913 Webster]
Wa"ter*man, n.; pl.Watermen(. 1913 Webster]
1.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. 1913 Webster]
2.An attendant on cab stands, etc., who supplies water to the horses. [Eng.] Dickens. 1913 Webster]
3.A water demon.Tylor. 1913 Webster]
Wa"ter*man*ship`, n.1.The business or skill of a waterman. Webster 1913 Suppl.]
2.Art of, or skill in, rowing; oarsmanship; specif., skill in managing the blade in the water, as distinguished from managing arms, body, etc., in the stroke. Webster 1913 Suppl.]
Wa"ter*mark`(?), n.1.A mark indicating the height to which water has risen, or at which it has stood; the usual limit of high or low water. 1913 Webster]
2.A letter, device, or the like, wrought into paper during the process of manufacture. 1913 Webster]
watermarks of an eccentric kind. Those of Caxton and other early printers were an oxhead and star, a collared dog's head, a crown, a shield, a jug, etc. A fool's cap and bells, employed as a watermark, gave the name to foolscap paper; a postman's horn, such as was formerly in use, gave the name to post paper.\'b8 Tomlinson. 1913 Webster]
3.(Naut.)See Water line, 2. [R.] 1913 Webster]
Wa"ter mead"ow(?). (Agric.)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. 1913 Webster]
Wa"ter meas"ure(?). 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.Cowell. 1913 Webster]
Wa"ter meas"ur*er(?). (Zo\'94l.)Any one of numerous species of water; the skater. See Skater, n., 2. 1913 Webster]
Wa"ter*mel`on(?), n.(Bot.)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. 1913 Webster]
Wa"ter me"ter(?). A contrivance for measuring a supply of water delivered or received for any purpose, as from a street main. 1913 Webster]
Wa"ter mil"foil(?). (Bot.)Any plant of the genus Myriophyllum, aquatic herbs with whorled leaves, the submersed ones pinnately parted into capillary divisions. 1913 Webster]
Wa"ter mill`(?). A mill whose machinery is moved by water; -- distinguished from a windmill, and a steam mill. 1913 Webster]
Wa"ter mint`(?). A kind of mint (Mentha aquatica) growing in wet places, and sometimes having a perfume resembling bergamot. 1913 Webster]
Wa"ter mite`(?). (Zo\'94l.)Any of numerous species of aquatic mites belonging to Hydrachna and allied genera of the family Hydrachnid\'91, 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. 1913 Webster]
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Wa"ter moc"ca*sin(?). (Zo\'94l.)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.<-- called also cottonmouth, cottonmouth moccasin, and cottonmouth water moccasin. --> 1913 Webster]
Wa"ter mole`(?). (Zo\'94l.)(a)The shrew mole. See under Shrew.(b)The duck mole. See under Duck. 1913 Webster]
Wa"ter mon"i*tor(?). (Zo\'94l.)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. 1913 Webster]
Water monkey. A jar or bottle, as of porous earthenware, in which water is cooled by evaporation. Webster 1913 Suppl.]
Wa"ter mo"tor(?). 1.A water engine. 1913 Webster]
2.A water wheel; especially, a small water wheel driven by water from a street main. 1913 Webster]
Wa"ter mouse`(?). (Zo\'94l.)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. 1913 Webster]
Wa"ter mur"rain(?). A kind of murrain affecting cattle.Crabb. 1913 Webster]
Wa"ter newt`(?). (Zo\'94l.)Any one of numerous species of aquatic salamanders; a triton. 1913 Webster]
Wa"ter nymph`(?). 1.(Myth.)A goddess of any stream or other body of water, whether one of the Naiads, Nereids, or Oceanides. 1913 Webster]
2.(Bot.)A water lily (Nymph\'91a). 1913 Webster]
Wa"ter oat`(?). Indian rice. See under Rice. 1913 Webster]
Wa"ter o*pos"sum(?). (Zo\'94l.)See Yapock, and the Note under Opossum. 1913 Webster]
Wa"ter or"de*al(?). Same as Ordeal by water. See the Note under Ordeal, n., 1. 1913 Webster]
{ Wa"ter ou"sel(?), Wa"ter ou"zel }. (Zo\'94l.)Any one of several species of small insessorial birds of the genus Cinclus (or Hydrobates), especially the European water ousel (Cinclus aquaticus), and the American water ousel (Cinclus 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. 1913 Webster]
Wa"ter pars"nip(?). (Bot.)Any plant of the aquatic umbelliferous genus Sium, poisonous herbs with pinnate or dissected leaves and small white flowers. 1913 Webster]
Water parting. (Phys. Geog.)A summit from the opposite sides of which rain waters flow to different streams; a line separating the drainage districts of two streams or coasts; a divide; a watershed. Webster 1913 Suppl.]
Wa"ter par"tridge(?). (Zo\'94l.)The ruddy duck. [Local, U. S.] 1913 Webster]
Wa"ter pen"ny*wort`(?). (Bot.)Marsh pennywort. See under Marsh. 1913 Webster]
Wa"ter pil"lar(?). A waterspout. [Obs.] 1913 Webster]
Wa"ter pim"per*nel(?). (Bot.)A small white-flowered shrub; brookweed. 1913 Webster]
Wa"ter pipe(?). A pipe for conveying water. 1913 Webster]
Wa"ter pitch"er(?). 1.A pitcher for water. 1913 Webster]
2.(Bot.)One of a family of plants having pitcher-shaped leaves. The sidesaddle flower (Sarracenia purpurea) is the type. 1913 Webster]
Wa"ter plant`(?). A plant that grows in water; an aquatic plant. 1913 Webster]
Wa"ter plan"tain(?). (Bot.)A kind of plant with acrid leaves. See under 2d Plantain. 1913 Webster]
Wa"ter plate`(?). A plate heated by hot water contained in a double bottom or jacket.Knight. 1913 Webster]
Wa"ter po"a(?). (Bot.)Meadow reed grass. See under Reed. 1913 Webster]
Water pocket. A water hole in the bed of an intermittent stream, esp. the bowl at the foot of a cliff over which the stream leaps when in the flood stage. [Western U. S.] Webster 1913 Suppl.]
Wa"ter poise`(?). A hydrometer. 1913 Webster]
Wa"ter pore`(?), 1.(Zo\'94l.)A pore by which the water tubes of various invertebrates open externally. 1913 Webster]
2.(Bot.)One of certain minute pores in the leaves of some plants. They are without true guardian cells, but in other respects closely resemble ordinary stomata.Goodale. 1913 Webster]
Wa"ter*pot`(?), n.A vessel for holding or conveying water, or for sprinkling water on cloth, plants, etc. 1913 Webster]
Wa"ter pow"er(?). 1.The power of water employed to move machinery, etc. 1913 Webster]
2.A fall of water which may be used to drive machinery; a site for a water mill; a water privilege. 1913 Webster]
Wa"ter pox`(?). (Med.)A variety of chicken pox, or varicella.Dunglison. 1913 Webster]
Wa"ter priv"i*lege(?). The advantage of using water as a mechanical power; also, the place where water is, or may be, so used. See under Privilege. 1913 Webster]
Wa"ter*proof`(?), a.Proof against penetration or permeation by water; impervious to water; as, a waterproof garment; a waterproof roof. 1913 Webster]
Wa"ter*proof`, n.1.A substance or preparation for rendering cloth, leather, etc., impervious to water. 1913 Webster]
2.Cloth made waterproof, or any article made of such cloth, or of other waterproof material, as rubber; esp., an outer garment made of such material. 1913 Webster]
Wa"ter*proof`(?), v. t.To render impervious to water, as cloth, leather, etc. 1913 Webster]
Wa"ter*proof`ing, n.1.The act or process of making waterproof. 1913 Webster]
2.Same as Waterproof, n., 1. 1913 Webster]
Wa"ter purs"lane(?). (Bot.)See under Purslane. 1913 Webster]
Wa"ter qualm`(?). (Med.)See Water brash, under Brash. 1913 Webster]
Wa"ter rab"bit(?). (Zo\'94l.)See Water hare. 1913 Webster]
Wa"ter rad"ish(?). (Bot.)A coarse yellow-flowered plant (Nasturtium amphibium) related to the water cress and to the horse-radish. 1913 Webster]
Wa"ter rail`(?). (Zo\'94l.)Any one of numerous species of rails of the genus Rallus, as the common European species (Rallus aquaticus). See Illust. of Rail. 1913 Webster]
Wa"ter ram`(?). An hydraulic ram. 1913 Webster]
Wa"ter rat`(?). 1.(Zo\'94l.)(a)The water vole. See under Vole.(b)The muskrat.(c)The beaver rat. See under Beaver. 1913 Webster]
2.A thief on the water; a pirate. 1913 Webster]
Wa"ter rate`(?). A rate or tax for a supply of water. 1913 Webster]
{ Wa"ter rat"tle(?). Wa"ter rat"tler(?). }(Zo\'94l.)The diamond rattlesnake (Crotalus adamanteus); -- so called from its preference for damp places near water. 1913 Webster]
Wa"ter-ret`(?), v. t.[imp. & p. p.Water-retted; p. pr. & vb. n.Water-retting.]To ret, or rot, in water, as flax; to water-rot. 1913 Webster]
Wa"ter rice"(?). Indian rice. See under Rice. 1913 Webster]
Wa"ter rock"et(?). 1.(Bot.)A cruciferous plant (Nasturtium sylvestre) with small yellow flowers. 1913 Webster]
2.A kind of firework to be discharged in the water. 1913 Webster]
Wa"ter-rot`(?), v. t.[imp. & p. p.Water-rotted; p. pr. & vb. n.Water-rotting.]To rot by steeping in water; to water-ret; as, to water-rot hemp or flax. 1913 Webster]
Wa"ter sail`(?). (Naut.)A small sail sometimes set under a studding sail or under a driver boom, and reaching nearly to the water. 1913 Webster]
Wa"ter sap"phire(?). [Equiv. to F. saphir d'eau.](Min.)A deep blue variety of iolite, sometimes used as a gem; -- called also saphir d'eau. 1913 Webster]
Wa"ter screw`(?). A screw propeller. 1913 Webster]
Wa"ter*shed`(?), n.[Cf. G. wasserscheide; wasser water + scheide a place where two things separate, fr. scheiden to separate.] 1913 Webster]
1.The whole region or extent of country which contributes to the supply of a river or lake. 1913 Webster]
2.The line of division between two adjacent rivers or lakes with respect to the flow of water by natural channels into them; the natural boundary of a basin; -- called also divide and water parting. 1913 Webster +PJC]
3.a point in time marking an important transition between two situations, or phases of an activity; a turning point. PJC]
Wa"ter shield`(?). (Bot.)An aquatic American plant (Brasenia peltata) having floating oval leaves, and the covered with a clear jelly. 1913 Webster]
Wa"ter*shoot`(?), n.1.A sprig or shoot from the root or stock of a tree. [Obs.] 1913 Webster]
2.(Arch.)That which serves to guard from falling water; a drip or dripstone. 1913 Webster]
3.A trough for discharging water. 1913 Webster]
Wa"ter shrew`(?). (Zo\'94l.)Any one of several species of shrews having fringed feet and capable of swimming actively. The two common European species (Crossopus fodiens, and Crossopus ciliatus) are the best known. The most common American water shrew, or marsh shrew (Neosorex palustris), is rarely seen, owing to its nocturnal habits. 1913 Webster]
Wa"ter snail`(?). 1.(Zo\'94l.)Any aquatic pulmonate gastropod belonging to Planorbis, Limn\'91a, and allied genera; a pond snail. 1913 Webster]
Wa"ter snake`(?). (Zo\'94l.)(a)A common North American colubrine snake (Tropidonotus sipedon) which lives chiefly in the water.(b)Any species of snakes of the family Homalopsid\'91, all of which are aquatic in their habits. 1913 Webster]
Wa"ter-soak`(?), v. t.To soak water; to fill the interstices of with water. 1913 Webster]
Wa"ter sol`dier(?). (Bot.)An aquatic European plant (Stratiotes aloides) with bayonet-shaped leaves. 1913 Webster]
Wa"ter souch`y(?). (Cookery)A dish consisting of small fish stewed and served in a little water.[Written also water souchet.] See Zoutch. 1913 Webster]
Wa"ter span"iel(?). A curly-haired breed of spaniels, naturally very fond of the water. 1913 Webster]
Wa"ter speed"well(?). (Bot.)A kind of speedwell (Veronica Anagallis) found in wet places in Europe and America. 1913 Webster]
Wa"ter spi"der(?). (Zo\'94l.)(a)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.(b)A water mite.(c)Any spider that habitually lives on or about the water, especially the large American species (Dolomedes lanceolatus) which runs rapidly on the surface of water; -- called also raft spider. 1913 Webster]
Wa"ter spin`ner(?). (Zo\'94l.)The water spider. 1913 Webster]
Wa"ter*spout`(?), n.A remarkable meteorological phenomenon, of the nature of a tornado or whirlwind, usually observed over the sea, but sometimes over the land. 1913 Webster]
Sir J. Herschel. 1913 Webster]
Wa"ter sprite`(?). A sprite, or spirit, imagined as inhabiting the water.J. R. Drake. 1913 Webster]
Wa"ter star" grass`(?). (Bot.)An aquatic plant (Schollera graminea) with grassy leaves, and yellow star-shaped blossoms. 1913 Webster]
Wa"ter star"wort`(?). See under Starwort. 1913 Webster]
Wa"ter sup*ply"(?). A supply of water; specifically, water collected, as in reservoirs, and conveyed, as by pipes, for use in a city, mill, or the like. 1913 Webster]
Wa"ter tab"by(?). A kind of waved or watered tabby. See Tabby, n., 1. 1913 Webster]
Wa"ter ta"ble(?). 1.(Arch.)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. 1913 Webster]
2.(Hydraulic Engin.)The upper limit of the portion of the ground wholly saturated with water. The water table may be within a few inches of the surface or many feet below it. Webster 1913 Suppl.]
Wa"ter*tath`(?), n.[Water + tath, n.]A kind of coarse grass growing in wet grounds, and supposed to be injurious to sheep. [Prov. Eng.] 1913 Webster]
Water telescope. 1.(Optics)A telescope in which the medium between the objective and the eye piece is water instead of air, used in some experiments in aberration. Webster 1913 Suppl.]
2.A telescope devised for looking into a body of water. Webster 1913 Suppl.]
Water tender. (Nav.)In the United States navy, a first-class petty officer in charge in a fireroom. He \'bdtends\'b8 water to the boilers, sees that fires are properly cleaned and stoked, etc. There is also a rating of chief water tender, who is a chief petty officer. Webster 1913 Suppl.]
Wa"ter ther*mom"e*ter(?). (Physics)A thermometer filled with water instead of mercury, for ascertaining the precise temperature at which water attains its maximum density. This is about 39 1913 Webster]
Wa"ter thief`(?). A pirate. [R.] Shak. 1913 Webster]
Wa"ter thrush`(?). (Zo\'94l.)(a)A North American bird of the genus Seiurus, belonging to the Warbler family, especially the common species (Seiurus Noveboracensis).(b)The European water ousel.(b)The pied wagtail. 1913 Webster]
Wa"ter tick`(?). Same as Water mite. 1913 Webster]
Wa"ter ti"ger(?). (Zo\'94l.)A diving, or water, beetle, especially the larva of a water beetle. See Illust.b of Water beetle. 1913 Webster]
Wa"ter-tight`(?), a.So tight as to retain, or not to admit, water; not leaky. 1913 Webster]
Wa"ter torch`(?). (Bot.)The common cat-tail (Typha latifolia), the spike of which makes a good torch soaked in oil.Dr. Prior. 1913 Webster]
Wa"ter tow"er(?). 1.A large metal pipe made to be extended vertically by sections, and used for discharging water upon burning buildings. 1913 Webster]
2.A tower or standpipe used as a water storage reservoir, to deliver water at a required head of pressure, as to a fountain. Webster 1913 Suppl. +PJC]
Wa"ter tree`(?). (Bot.)A climbing shrub (Tetracera alnifolia syn. Tetracera potatoria) of Western Africa, which pours out a watery sap from the freshly cut stems. 1913 Webster]
Wa"ter tube`(?). 1.(Zo\'94l.)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. 1913 Webster]
2.Any tube for passing or holding water; specif., in some steam boilers, a tube in which water circulates and steam is generated. Webster 1913 Suppl.]
Wa"ter tu"pe*lo(?). (Bot.)A species of large tupelo (Nyssa aquatica) growing in swamps in the southern of the United States. See Ogeechee lime. 1913 Webster]
Wa"ter tur"key(?). (Zo\'94l.)The American snakebird. See Snakebird. 1913 Webster]
Wa"ter tu tu`y\'8are"(?). A tuy\'8are kept cool by water circulating within a casing. It is used for hot blast. 1913 Webster]
Wa"ter tu twist`(?). Yarn made by the throstle, or water frame. 1913 Webster]
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Wa"ter vine`(?). (Bot.)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. 1913 Webster]
Wa"ter vi"o*let(?). (Bot.)See under Violet. 1913 Webster]
Wa"ter vi"per(?). (Zo\'94l.)See Water moccasin. 1913 Webster]
Wa"ter vole`(?). (Zo\'94l.)See under Vole. 1913 Webster]
Wa"ter wag"tail`(?). See under Wagtail. 1913 Webster]
Wa"ter*way`(?), n.(Naut.)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. 1913 Webster]
Wa"ter wheel`(?). 1.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. 1913 Webster]
2.The paddle wheel of a steam vessel. 1913 Webster]
3.A wheel for raising water; a noria, or the like. 1913 Webster]
Wa"ter wil`low(?). (Bot.)An American aquatic plant (Dianthera Americana) with long willowlike leaves, and spikes of small purplish flowers. 1913 Webster]
Wa"ter wing`(?). (Arch.)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. 1913 Webster]
Wa"ter-withe`(?), n.(Bot.)A vinelike plant (Vitis Carib\'91a) growing in parched districts in the West Indies, and containing a great amount of sap which is sometimes used for quenching thirst. 1913 Webster]
Wa"ter*work`(?), n.1.(Paint.)Painting executed in size or distemper, on canvas or walls, -- formerly, frequently taking the place of tapestry.Shak. Fairholt. 1913 Webster]
2.An hydraulic apparatus, or a system of works or fixtures, by which a supply of water is furnished for useful or ornamental purposes, including dams, sluices, pumps, aqueducts, distributing pipes, fountains, etc.; -- used chiefly in the plural. 1913 Webster]
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Wa"ter*worn`(?), a.Worn, smoothed, or polished by the action of water; as, waterworn stones. 1913 Webster]
Wa"ter*wort`(?), n.(Bot.)Any plant of the natural order Elatine\'91, consisting of two genera (Elatine, and Bergia), mostly small annual herbs growing in the edges of ponds. Some have a peppery or acrid taste. 1913 Webster]
Wa"ter*y(?), a.[AS. w\'91terig.] 1913 Webster]
1.Of or pertaining to water; consisting of water. \'bdThe watery god.\'b8 Dryden. \'bdFish within their watery residence.\'b8 Milton. 1913 Webster]
2.Abounding with water; wet; hence, tearful. 1913 Webster]
3.Resembling water; thin or transparent, as a liquid; as, watery humors. 1913 Webster]
The oily and watery parts of the aliment.Arbuthnot. 1913 Webster]
4.Hence, abounding in thin, tasteless, or insipid fluid; tasteless; insipid; vapid; spiritless. 1913 Webster]
Watt(?), n.[From the distinguished mechanician and scientist, James Watt.](Physics)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. 1913 Webster]
Wat*teau"(?), a.(Art)Having the appearance of that which is seen in pictures by Antoine Watteau, a French painter of the eighteenth century; -- said esp. of women's garments; as, a Watteau bodice. Webster 1913 Suppl.]
Watteau back. The back of a woman's gown in which one or more very broad folds are carried from the neck to the floor without being held in at the waist, while the front and sides of the gown are shaped to the person and have a belt or its equivalent. Webster 1913 Suppl.]
Watt"me`ter(?), n.[Watt + meter.](Physics)An instrument for measuring power in watts, -- much used in measuring the energy of an electric current. 1913 Webster]
1.A twig or flexible rod; hence, a hurdle made of such rods. 1913 Webster]
And there he built with wattles from the marsh Tennyson. 1913 Webster]
2.A rod laid on a roof to support the thatch. 1913 Webster]
3.(Zo\'94l.)(a)A naked fleshy, and usually wrinkled and highly colored, process of the skin hanging from the chin or throat of a bird or reptile.(b)Barbel of a fish. 1913 Webster]
4.(a)The astringent bark of several Australian trees of the genus Acacia, used in tanning; -- called also wattle bark. 1913 Webster]
5.Material consisting of wattled twigs, withes, etc., used for walls, fences, and the like. \'bdThe pailsade of wattle.\'b8 Frances Macnab. Webster 1913 Suppl.]
6.(Bot.)In Australasia, any tree of the genus Acacia; -- so called from the wattles, or hurdles, which the early settlers made of the long, pliable branches or of the split stems of the slender species. The bark of such trees is also called wattle. See also Savanna wattle, under Savanna. Webster 1913 Suppl. +PJC]
Wattle turkey. (Zo\'94l.)Same as Brush turkey. 1913 Webster]
Wat"tle, v. t.[imp. & p. p.Wattled(?); p. pr. & vb. n.Wattling(?).] 1913 Webster]
1.To bind with twigs. 1913 Webster]
2.To twist or interweave, one with another, as twigs; to form a network with; to plat; as, to wattle branches. 1913 Webster]
3.To form, by interweaving or platting twigs. 1913 Webster]
The folded flocks, penned in their wattled cotes.Milton. 1913 Webster]
Wat"tle*bird`(?), n.1.(Zo\'94l.)Any one of several species of honey eaters belonging to Anthoch\'91ra and allied genera of the family Meliphagid\'91. 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. 1913 Webster]
Anthoch\'91ra carunculata) has the upper parts grayish brown, with a white stripe on each feather, and the wing and tail quills dark brown or blackish, tipped with withe. Its wattles, in life, are light blood-red. Called also wattled crow, wattled bee-eater, wattled honey eater. Another species (Anthoch\'91ra inauris) is streaked with black, gray, and white, and its long wattles are white, tipped with orange. The bush wattlebirds, belonging to the genus Anellobia, are closely related, but lack conspicuous wattles. The most common species (Anthoch\'91ra mellivora) is dark brown, finely streaked with white. Called also goruck creeper. 1913 Webster]
2.(Zo\'94l.)The Australian brush turkey. 1913 Webster]
Wat"tled(?), a.Furnished with wattles, or pendent fleshy processes at the chin or throat. 1913 Webster]
The wattled cocks strut to and fro.Longfellow. 1913 Webster]
Watt"less(?), a.(Elec.)Without any power (cf. Watt); -- said of an alternating current or component of current when it differs in phase by ninety degrees from the electromotive force which produces it, or of an electromotive force or component thereof when the current it produces differs from it in phase by 90 degrees. Webster 1913 Suppl.]
Wat"tling(?), n.The act or process of binding or platting with twigs; also, the network so formed. 1913 Webster]
Made with a wattling of canes or sticks.Dampier. 1913 Webster]
{ Waucht, Waught }(?), n.[Cf. Quaff.]A large draught of any liquid. [Scot.] Jamieson. 1913 Webster]
Waul(?), v. i.[Of imitative origin.]To cry as a cat; to squall; to wail.[Written also wawl.] 1913 Webster]
The helpless infant, coming wauling and crying into the world.Sir W. Scott. 1913 Webster]
Murder and waur than murder.Sir W. Scott. 1913 Webster]
Wave(w, v. t.See Waive.Sir H. Wotton.Burke. 1913 Webster]
Wave, v. i.[imp. & p. p.Waved(?); p. pr. & vb. n.Waving.][OE. waven, AS. wafian to waver, to hesitate, to wonder; akin to w\'91fre wavering, restless, MHG. wabern to be in motion, Icel. vafra to hover about; cf. Icel. v\'befa to vibrate. Cf. Waft, Waver.] 1913 Webster]
1.To play loosely; to move like a wave, one way and the other; to float; to flutter; to undulate. 1913 Webster]
His purple robes waved careless to the winds.Trumbull. 1913 Webster]
Where the flags of three nations has successively waved.Hawthorne. 1913 Webster]
2.To be moved to and fro as a signal.B. Jonson. 1913 Webster]
3.To fluctuate; to waver; to be in an unsettled state; to vacillate. [Obs.] 1913 Webster]
He waved indifferently 'twixt doing them neither good nor harm.Shak. 1913 Webster]
Wave, v. t.1.To move one way and the other; to brandish. \'bd[\'92neas] waved his fatal sword.\'b8 Dryden. 1913 Webster]
2.To raise into inequalities of surface; to give an undulating form a surface to. 1913 Webster]
Horns whelked and waved like the enridged sea.Shak. 1913 Webster]
3.To move like a wave, or by floating; to waft. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne. 1913 Webster]
4.To call attention to, or give a direction or command to, by a waving motion, as of the hand; to signify by waving; to beckon; to signal; to indicate. 1913 Webster]
Look, with what courteous action waves you to a more removed ground.Shak. 1913 Webster]
She spoke, and bowing waved Tennyson. 1913 Webster]
Wave, n.[From Wave, v.; not the same word as OE. wawe, waghe, a wave, which is akin to E. wag to move. Wave, v. i.] 1913 Webster]
1.An advancing ridge or swell on the surface of a liquid, as of the sea, resulting from the oscillatory motion of the particles composing it when disturbed by any force their position of rest; an undulation. 1913 Webster]
The wave behind impels the wave before.Pope. 1913 Webster]
2.(Physics)A vibration propagated from particle to particle through a body or elastic medium, as in the transmission of sound; an assemblage of vibrating molecules in all phases of a vibration, with no phase repeated; a wave of vibration; an undulation. See Undulation. 1913 Webster]
3.Water; a body of water. [Poetic] \'bdDeep drank Lord Marmion of the wave.\'b8 Sir W. Scott. 1913 Webster]
Build a ship to save thee from the flood, wave, bread, and wine.Chapman. 1913 Webster]
4.Unevenness; inequality of surface.Sir I. Newton. 1913 Webster]
5.A waving or undulating motion; a signal made with the hand, a flag, etc. 1913 Webster]
6.The undulating line or streak of luster on cloth watered, or calendered, or on damask steel. 1913 Webster]
7.Something resembling or likened to a water wave, as in rising unusually high, in being of unusual extent, or in progressive motion; a swelling or excitement, as of feeling or energy; a tide; flood; period of intensity, usual activity, or the like; as, a wave of enthusiasm; waves of applause. Webster 1913 Suppl.]
Wave front(Physics), the surface of initial displacement of the particles in a medium, as a wave of vibration advances. --
Wave length(Physics), the space, reckoned in the direction of propagation, occupied by a complete wave or undulation, as of light, sound, etc.; the distance from a point or phase in a wave to the nearest point at which the same phase occurs. --
Wave line(Shipbuilding), a line of a vessel's hull, shaped in accordance with the wave-line system. --
Wave-line system,
Wave-line theory(Shipbuilding), a system or theory of designing the lines of a vessel, which takes into consideration the length and shape of a wave which travels at a certain speed. --
Wave loaf, a loaf for a wave offering.Lev. viii. 27. --
Wave moth(Zo\'94l.), any one of numerous species of small geometrid moths belonging to Acidalia and allied genera; -- so called from the wavelike color markings on the wings. --
Wave offering, an offering made in the Jewish services by waving the object, as a loaf of bread, toward the four cardinal points.Num. xviii. 11. --
Wave of vibration(Physics), a wave which consists in, or is occasioned by, the production and transmission of a vibratory state from particle to particle through a body. --
Wave surface. (a)(Physics)A surface of simultaneous and equal displacement of the particles composing a wave of vibration.(b)(Geom.)A mathematical surface of the fourth order which, upon certain hypotheses, is the locus of a wave surface of light in the interior of crystals. It is used in explaining the phenomena of double refraction. See under Refraction. --
Wave theory. (Physics)See Undulatory theory, under Undulatory. 1913 Webster]
Waved(?), a.1.Exhibiting a wavelike form or outline; undulating; intended; wavy; as, waved edge. 1913 Webster]
2.Having a wavelike appearance; marked with wavelike lines of color; as, waved, or watered, silk. 1913 Webster]
3.(Her.)Having undulations like waves; -- said of one of the lines in heraldry which serve as outlines to the ordinaries, etc. 1913 Webster]
Wave"less(?), a.Free from waves; undisturbed; not agitated; as, the waveless sea. 1913 Webster]
Wave"let(?), n.A little wave; a ripple. 1913 Webster]
Wa"vel*lite(?), n.[After Dr. Wm. Wavel, the discoverer.](Min.)A hydrous phosphate of alumina, occurring usually in hemispherical radiated forms varying in color from white to yellow, green, or black. 1913 Webster]
Wa"ver(?), v. i.[imp. & p. p.Wavered(?); p. pr. & vb. n.Wavering.][OE. waveren, from AS. w\'91fre wavering, restless. See Wave, v. i.] 1913 Webster]
1.To play or move to and fro; to move one way and the other; hence, to totter; to reel; to swing; to flutter. 1913 Webster]
With banners and pennons wavering with the wind.Ld. Berners. 1913 Webster]
Thou wouldst waver on one of these trees as a terror to all evil speakers against dignities.Sir W. Scott. 1913 Webster]
2.To be unsettled in opinion; to vacillate; to be undetermined; to fluctuate; as, to water in judgment. 1913 Webster]
Let us hold fast . . . without wavering.Heb. x. 23. 1913 Webster]
In feeble hearts, propense enough before waver, or fall off and join with idols.Milton. 1913 Webster]
Syn. -- To reel; totter; vacillate. See Fluctuate. 1913 Webster]
Wa"ver, n.[From Wave, or Waver, v.]A sapling left standing in a fallen wood. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell. 1913 Webster]
Wa"ver*er(?), n.One who wavers; one who is unsettled in doctrine, faith, opinion, or the like.Shak. 1913 Webster]
Wa"ver*ing*ly, adv.In a wavering manner. 1913 Webster]
Wa"ver*ing*ness, n.The quality or state of wavering. 1913 Webster]
Wave"son(?), n.[From Wave; cf. Jetsam.](O. Eng. Law)Goods which, after shipwreck, appear floating on the waves, or sea. 1913 Webster]
Wave"-worn`(?), a.Worn by the waves. 1913 Webster]
The shore that o'er his wave-worn basis bowed.Shak. 1913 Webster]
Wa"vey(?), n.(Zo\'94l.)The snow goose. [Canadian, & Local U. S.] 1913 Webster]
Wav"i*ness(?), n.The quality or state of being wavy. 1913 Webster]
Wav"ure(?), n.See Waivure. [R.] 1913 Webster]
Wav"y(?), a.1.Rising or swelling in waves; full of waves. \'bdThe wavy seas.\'b8 Chapman. 1913 Webster]
2.Playing to and fro; undulating; as, wavy flames. 1913 Webster]
Let her glad valleys smile with wavy corn.Prior. 1913 Webster]
3.(Bot.)Undulating on the border or surface; waved. 1913 Webster]
\'d8Wa*was"keesh(?), n.[From an Indian name.](Zo\'94l.)The wapiti, or wapiti, or American elk. 1913 Webster]
Wawe(w, n.[See Woe.]Woe. [Obs.] 1913 Webster]
Wawe(w, n.[OE. wawe, waghe; cf. Icel. v\'begr; akin to E. wag; not the same word as wave.]A wave. [Obs.] Chaucer. Spenser. 1913 Webster]
Wawl(w, v. i.See Waul.Shak. 1913 Webster]
Wax(w, v. i.[imp.Waxed(?); p. p.Waxed, and Obs. or Poetic Waxen(; p. pr. & vb. n.Waxing.][AS. weaxan; akin to OFries. waxa, D. wassen, OS. & OHG. wahsan, G. wachsen, Icel. vaxa, Sw. v\'84xa, Dan. voxe, Goth. wahsjan, Gr. waksh, uksh, to grow. Waist.] 1913 Webster]
1.To increase in size; to grow bigger; to become larger or fuller; -- opposed to wane. 1913 Webster]
The waxing and the waning of the moon.Hakewill. 1913 Webster]
Truth's treasures . . . never shall wax ne wane.P. Plowman. 1913 Webster]
2.To pass from one state to another; to become; to grow; as, to wax strong; to wax warmer or colder; to wax feeble; to wax old; to wax worse and worse. 1913 Webster]
Your clothes are not waxen old upon you.Deut. xxix. 5. 1913 Webster]
Where young Adonis oft reposes, Waxing well of his deep wound.Milton. 1913 Webster]
Waxing kernels(Med.), small tumors formed by the enlargement of the lymphatic glands, especially in the groins of children; -- popularly so called, because supposed to be caused by growth of the body.Dunglison. 1913 Webster]
Wax, n.[AS. weax; akin to OFries. wax, D. was, G. wachs, OHG. wahs, Icel. & Sw. vax, Dan. vox, Lith. vaszkas, Russ. vosk'.] 1913 Webster]
1.A fatty, solid substance, produced by bees, and employed by them in the construction of their comb; -- usually called beeswax. It is first excreted, from a row of pouches along their sides, in the form of scales, which, being masticated and mixed with saliva, become whitened and tenacious. Its natural color is pale or dull yellow. 1913 Webster]
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2.Hence, any substance resembling beeswax in consistency or appearance. Specifically: -- 1913 Webster]
(a)(Physiol.)Cerumen, or earwax. See Cerumen. 1913 Webster]
(b)A waxlike composition used for uniting surfaces, for excluding air, and for other purposes; as, sealing wax, grafting wax, etching wax, etc. 1913 Webster]
(c)A waxlike composition used by shoemakers for rubbing their thread. 1913 Webster]
(d)(Zo\'94l.)A substance similar to beeswax, secreted by several species of scale insects, as the Chinese wax. See Wax insect, below. 1913 Webster]
(e)(Bot.)A waxlike product secreted by certain plants. See Vegetable wax, under Vegetable. 1913 Webster]
(f)(Min.)A substance, somewhat resembling wax, found in connection with certain deposits of rock salt and coal; -- called also mineral wax, and ozocerite. 1913 Webster]
(g)Thick sirup made by boiling down the sap of the sugar maple, and then cooling. [Local U. S.] 1913 Webster]
(h)any of numerous substances or mixtures composed predominantly of the longer-chain saturated hydrocarbons such as the paraffins, which are solid at room teperature, or their alcohol, carboxylic acid, or ester derivatives. PJC]
Japanese wax, a waxlike substance made in Japan from the berries of certain species of Rhus, esp. Rhus succedanea. --
Mineral wax. (Min.)See Wax, 2 (f), above. --
Wax cloth. See Waxed cloth, under Waxed. --
Wax end. See Waxed end, under Waxed. --
Wax flower, a flower made of, or resembling, wax. --
Wax insect(Zo\'94l.), any one of several species of scale insects belonging to the family Coccid\'91, which secrete from their bodies a waxlike substance, especially the Chinese wax insect (Coccus Sinensis) from which a large amount of the commercial Chinese wax is obtained. Called also pela. --
Wax light, a candle or taper of wax. --
Wax moth(Zo\'94l.), a pyralid moth (Galleria cereana) whose larv\'91 feed upon honeycomb, and construct silken galleries among the fragments. The moth has dusky gray wings streaked with brown near the outer edge. The larva is yellowish white with brownish dots. Called also bee moth. --
Wax myrtle. (Bot.)See Bayberry. --
Wax painting, a kind of painting practiced by the ancients, under the name of encaustic. The pigments were ground with wax, and diluted. After being applied, the wax was melted with hot irons and the color thus fixed. --
Wax palm. (Bot.)(a)A species of palm (Ceroxylon Andicola) native of the Andes, the stem of which is covered with a secretion, consisting of two thirds resin and one third wax, which, when melted with a third of fat, makes excellent candles.(b)A Brazilian tree (Copernicia cerifera) the young leaves of which are covered with a useful waxy secretion. --
Wax paper, paper prepared with a coating of white wax and other ingredients. --
Wax plant(Bot.), a name given to several plants, as: (a)The Indian pipe (see under Indian).(b)The Hoya carnosa, a climbing plant with polished, fleshy leaves.(c)Certain species of Begonia with similar foliage. --
Wax tree(Bot.)(a)A tree or shrub (Ligustrum lucidum) of China, on which certain insects make a thick deposit of a substance resembling white wax.(b)A kind of sumac (Rhus succedanea) of Japan, the berries of which yield a sort of wax.(c)A rubiaceous tree (El\'91agia utilis) of New Grenada, called by the inhabitants \'bdarbol del cera.\'b8 --
Wax yellow, a dull yellow, resembling the natural color of beeswax. 1913 Webster]
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Wax(?), v. t.[imp. & p. p.Waxed(?); p. pr. & vb. n.Waxing.]To smear or rub with wax; to treat with wax; as, to wax a thread or a table. 1913 Webster]
Waxed cloth, cloth covered with a coating of wax, used as a cover, of tables and for other purposes; -- called also wax cloth. --
Waxed end, a thread pointed with a bristle and covered with shoemaker's wax, used in sewing leather, as for boots, shoes, and the like; -- called also wax end.Brockett. 1913 Webster]
Wax"ber`ry(?), n.(Bot.)The wax-covered fruit of the wax myrtle, or bayberry. See Bayberry, and Candleberry tree. 1913 Webster]
Wax"bill`(?), n.(Zo\'94l.)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. 1913 Webster]
Men have marble, women waxen, minds.Shak. 1913 Webster]
Waxen chatterer(Zo\'94l.), the Bohemian chatterer. 1913 Webster]
Wax"i*ness(?), n.Quality or state of being waxy. 1913 Webster]
Wax"wing`(?), n.(Zo\'94l.)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. 1913 Webster]
Wax"work`(?), n.1.Work made of wax; especially, a figure or figures formed or partly of wax, in imitation of real beings. 1913 Webster]
2.(Bot.)An American climbing shrub (Celastrus scandens). It bears a profusion of yellow berrylike pods, which open in the autumn, and display the scarlet coverings of the seeds. 1913 Webster]
Wax"works`(?), n. pl.An exhibition of wax figures, or the place of exhibition; as, Madame Toussaud's Waxworks. Webster 1913 Suppl.]
Wax"work`er(?), n.1.One who works in wax; one who makes waxwork. 1913 Webster]
2.A bee that makes or produces wax. 1913 Webster]
Wax"y(?), a.Resembling wax in appearance or consistency; viscid; adhesive; soft; hence, yielding; pliable; impressible. \'bdWaxy to persuasion.\'b8 Bp. Hall. 1913 Webster]
Waxy degeneration(Med.), amyloid degeneration. See under Amyloid. --
Waxy kidney,
Waxy liver, etc. (Med.), a kidney or liver affected by waxy degeneration. 1913 Webster]
Way(?), adv.[Aphetic form of away.]Away. [Obs. or Archaic] Chaucer. 1913 Webster]
To do way, to take away; to remove. [Obs.] \'bdDo way your hands.\'b8 Chaucer. --
To make way with, to make away with. See under Away. [Archaic] 1913 Webster]
Way, n.[OE. wey, way, AS. weg; akin to OS., D., OHG., & G. weg, Icel. vegr, Sw. v\'84g, Dan. vei, Goth. wigs, L. via, and AS. wegan to move, L. vehere to carry, Skr. vah. Convex, Inveigh, Vehicle, Vex, Via, Voyage, Wag, Wagon, Wee, Weigh.] 1913 Webster]
1.That by, upon, or along, which one passes or processes; opportunity or room to pass; place of passing; passage; road, street, track, or path of any kind; as, they built a way to the mine. \'bdTo find the way to heaven.\'b8 Shak. 1913 Webster]
I shall him seek by way and eke by street.Chaucer. 1913 Webster]
The way seems difficult, and steep to scale.Milton. 1913 Webster]
The season and ways were very improper for his majesty's forces to march so great a distance.Evelyn. 1913 Webster]
2.Length of space; distance; interval; as, a great way; a long way. 1913 Webster]
And whenever the way seemed long, Longfellow. 1913 Webster]
4.Course or direction of motion or process; tendency of action; advance. 1913 Webster]
If that way be your walk, you have not far.Milton. 1913 Webster]
And let eternal justice take the way.Dryden. 1913 Webster]
5.The means by which anything is reached, or anything is accomplished; scheme; device; plan. 1913 Webster]
My best way is to creep under his gaberdine.Shak. 1913 Webster]
By noble ways we conquest will prepare.Dryden. 1913 Webster]
What impious ways my wishes took!Prior. 1913 Webster]
6.Manner; method; mode; fashion; style; as, the way of expressing one's ideas. 1913 Webster]
7.Regular course; habitual method of life or action; plan of conduct; mode of dealing. \'bdHaving lost the way of nobleness.\'b8 Sir. P. Sidney. 1913 Webster]
Her ways are ways of pleasantness, and all her paths are peace.Prov. iii. 17. 1913 Webster]
When men lived in a grander way.Longfellow. 1913 Webster]
8.Sphere or scope of observation.Jer. Taylor. 1913 Webster]
The public ministers that fell in my way.Sir W. Temple. 1913 Webster]
9.Determined course; resolved mode of action or conduct; as, to have one's way. 1913 Webster]
10.(Naut.)(a)Progress; as, a ship has way.(b)pl.The timbers on which a ship is launched. 1913 Webster]
11.pl.(Mach.)The longitudinal guides, or guiding surfaces, on the bed of a planer, lathe, or the like, along which a table or carriage moves. 1913 Webster]
12.(Law)Right of way. See below. 1913 Webster]
By the way, in passing; apropos; aside; apart from, though connected with, the main object or subject of discourse. --
By way of, for the purpose of; as being; in character of. --
Covert way. (Fort.)See Covered way, under Covered. --
In the family way. See under Family. --
In the way, so as to meet, fall in with, obstruct, hinder, etc. --
In the way with, traveling or going with; meeting or being with; in the presence of. --
Milky way. (Astron.)See Galaxy, 1. --
No way,
No ways. See Noway, Noways, in the Vocabulary. --
On the way, traveling or going; hence, in process; advancing toward completion; as, on the way to this country; on the way to success. --
Out of the way. See under Out. --
Right of way(Law), a right of private passage over another's ground. It may arise either by grant or prescription. It may be attached to a house, entry, gate, well, or city lot, as well as to a country farm.Kent. --
To be under way, or
To have way(Naut.), to be in motion, as when a ship begins to move. --
To give way. See under Give. --
To go one's way, or
To come one's way, to go or come; to depart or come along.Shak. --
To go one's wayto proceed in a manner favorable to one; -- of events. --
To come one's wayto come into one's possession (of objects) or to become available, as an opportunity; as, good things will come your way. --
To go the way of all the earthor
to go the way of all fleshto die. --
To make one's way, to advance in life by one's personal efforts. --
To make way. See under Make, v. t. --
Ways and means. (a)Methods; resources; facilities.(b)(Legislation)Means for raising money; resources for revenue. --
Way leave, permission to cross, or a right of way across, land; also, rent paid for such right. [Eng] --
Way of the cross(Eccl.), the course taken in visiting in rotation the stations of the cross. See Station, n., 7 (c). --
Way of the rounds(Fort.), a space left for the passage of the rounds between a rampart and the wall of a fortified town. --
Way pane, a pane for cartage in irrigated land. See Pane, n., 4. [Prov. Eng.] --
Way passenger, a passenger taken up, or set down, at some intermediate place between the principal stations on a line of travel. --
Ways of God, his providential government, or his works. --
Way station, an intermediate station between principal stations on a line of travel, especially on a railroad. --
Way train, a train which stops at the intermediate, or way, stations; an accommodation train. --
Way warden, the surveyor of a road. 1913 Webster]
Syn. -- Street; highway; road. -- Way, Street, Highway, Road. Way is generic, denoting any line for passage or conveyance; a highway is literally one raised for the sake of dryness and convenience in traveling; a road is, strictly, a way for horses and carriages; a street is, etymologically, a paved way, as early made in towns and cities; and, hence, the word is distinctively applied to roads or highways in compact settlements. 1913 Webster]
All keep the broad highway, and take delight Spenser. 1913 Webster]
There is but one road by which to climb up.Addison. 1913 Webster]
When night streets, then wander forth the sons Milton. 1913 Webster]
Way(?), v. t.To go or travel to; to go in, as a way or path. [Obs.] \'bdIn land not wayed.\'b8 Wyclif. 1913 Webster]
Way, v. i.To move; to progress; to go. [R.] 1913 Webster]
On a time as they together wayed.Spenser. 1913 Webster]
Way"bill`(?), n.A list of passengers in a public vehicle, or of the baggage or gods transported by a common carrier on a land route. When the goods are transported by water, the list is called a bill of lading. 1913 Webster]
Way"bread`(?), n.[AS. wegbr. See Way, and Broad.](Bot.)The common dooryard plantain (Plantago major). 1913 Webster]
Way"bung`(?), n.(Zo\'94l.)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. 1913 Webster]
Wayed(?), a.Used to the way; broken. [R.] 1913 Webster]
A horse that is not well wayed; he starts at every bird that flies out the hedge.Selden. 1913 Webster]
Way"fare`(?), v. i.[Way + fare to go.]To journey; to travel; to go to and fro. [Obs.] 1913 Webster]
A certain Laconian, as he wayfared, came unto a place where there dwelt an old friend of his.Holland. 1913 Webster]
Way"far`er(?), n.One who travels; a traveler; a passenger. 1913 Webster]
Way"far`ing, a.Traveling; passing; being on a journey. \'bdA wayfaring man.\'b8 Judg. xix. 17. 1913 Webster]
Wayfaring tree(Bot.), a European shrub (Viburnum lantana) having large ovate leaves and dense cymes of small white flowers. --
American wayfaring tree(Bot.), the (Viburnum lantanoides). 1913 Webster]
Way"gate`(?), n.The tailrace of a mill.Knight. 1913 Webster]
Way"-go`ing(?), a.Going away; departing; of or pertaining to one who goes away. 1913 Webster]
Way-going crop(Law of Leases), a crop of grain to which tenants for years are sometimes entitled by custom; grain sown in the fall to be reaped at the next harvest; a crop which will not ripen until after the termination of the lease.Burrill. 1913 Webster]
Way"lay`(?; 277), v. t.[imp. & p. p.Waylaid(?); p. pr. & vb. n.Waylaying.][Way + lay.]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. 1913 Webster]
Falstaff, Bardolph, Peto, and Gadshill shall rob those men that we have already waylaid.Shak. 1913 Webster]
She often contrived to waylay him in his walks.Sir W. Scott. 1913 Webster]
Way"lay`er(?), n.One who waylays another. 1913 Webster]
Way"less, a.Having no road or path; pathless. 1913 Webster]
Way"mak`er(?), n.One who makes a way; a precursor. [R.] Bacon. 1913 Webster]
Way"mark`(?), n.A mark to guide in traveling. 1913 Webster]
Way"ment(?), v. i.[imp. & p. p.Waymented; p. pr. & vb. n.Waymenting.][OE. waymenten, OF. waimenter, gaimenter, guaimenter, from wai, guai, woe! (of Teutonic origin; see Woe) and L. lamentari to lament. See Lament.]To lament; to grieve; to wail.[Written also waiment.] [Obs.] 1913 Webster]
Thilke science . . . maketh a man to waymenten.Chaucer. 1913 Webster]
For what boots it to weep and wayment, Spenser. 1913 Webster]
Way"ment, n.Grief; lamentation; mourning.[Written also waiment.] [Obs.] Spenser. 1913 Webster]
-ways(?). A suffix formed from way by the addition of the adverbial -s (see -wards). It is often used interchangeably with wise; as, endways or endwise; noways or nowise, etc. 1913 Webster]
Way" shaft`(?). 1.(Mach.)A rock shaft. 1913 Webster]
2.(Mining)An interior shaft, usually one connecting two levels.Raymond. 1913 Webster]
Way"side`(?), n.The side of the way; the edge or border of a road or path. 1913 Webster]
Way"side`, a.Of or pertaining to the wayside; as, wayside flowers. \'bdA wayside inn.\'b8 Longfellow. 1913 Webster]
Way"ward(?), a.[OE. weiward, for aweiward, i. e., turned away. See Away, and -ward.]Taking one's own way; disobedient; froward; perverse; willful. 1913 Webster]
My wife is in a wayward mood.Shak. 1913 Webster]
Wayward beauty doth not fancy move.Fairfax. 1913 Webster]
Wilt thou forgive the wayward thought?Keble. 1913 Webster]
-- Way"ward*ly, adv. -- Way"ward*ness, n. 1913 Webster]
Way"-wise`(?), a.Skillful in finding the way; well acquainted with the way or route; wise from having traveled. 1913 Webster]
Way"wis`er(?), n.[Cf. G. wegweiser a waymark, a guide; weg way + weisen to show, direct.]An instrument for measuring the distance which one has traveled on the road; an odometer, pedometer, or perambulator. 1913 Webster]
The waywiser to a coach, exactly measuring the miles, and showing them by an index.Evelyn. 1913 Webster]
Way"wode(?), n.[Russ. voevoda, or Pol. woiewoda; properly, a leader of an army, a leader in war. Cf. Vaivode.]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.[Written also vaivode, voivode, waiwode, and woiwode.] 1913 Webster]
Way"wode*ship, n.The office, province, or jurisdiction of a waywode. 1913 Webster]
Way"worn`(?), a.Wearied by traveling. 1913 Webster]
1.A stubble goose. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] 1913 Webster]
2.An annual feast of the persons employed in a printing office.[Written also way-goose.] [Eng.] 1913 Webster]
We(w, pron.; pl. of I.[Poss.Our(our) or Ours(ourz); obj.Us(. See I.][As. w; akin to OS. w\'c6, OFries. & LG. wi, D. wij, G. wir, Icel. v, Sw. & Dan. vi, Goth. weis, Skr. vayam. The plural nominative case of the pronoun of the first person; the word with which a person in speaking or writing denotes a number or company of which he is one, as the subject of an action expressed by a verb. 1913 Webster]
We is frequently used to express men in general, including the speaker. We is also often used by individuals, as authors, editors, etc., in speaking of themselves, in order to avoid the appearance of egotism in the too frequent repetition of the pronoun I. The plural style is also in use among kings and other sovereigns, and is said to have been begun by King John of England. Before that time, monarchs used the singular number in their edicts. The German and the French sovereigns followed the example of King John in a. d. 1200. 1913 Webster]
Weak(w, a.[Compar.Weaker(w; superl.Weakest.][OE. weik, Icel. veikr; akin to Sw. vek, Dan. veg soft, flexible, pliant, AS. w\'bec weak, soft, pliant, D. week, G. weich, OHG. weih; all from the verb seen in Icel. v\'c6kja to turn, veer, recede, AS. w\'c6can to yield, give way, G. weichen, OHG. w\'c6hhan, akin to Skr. vij, and probably to E. week, L. vicis a change, turn, Gr. e'i`kein to yield, give way. \'fb132. Cf. Week, Wink, v. i.Vicissitude.] 1913 Webster]
(a)Deficient in strength of body; feeble; infirm; sickly; debilitated; enfeebled; exhausted. 1913 Webster]
A poor, infirm, weak, and despised old man.Shak. 1913 Webster]
Weak with hunger, mad with love.Dryden. 1913 Webster]
(b)Not able to sustain a great weight, pressure, or strain; as, a weak timber; a weak rope. 1913 Webster]
(c)Not firmly united or adhesive; easily broken or separated into pieces; not compact; as, a weak ship. 1913 Webster]
(d)Not stiff; pliant; frail; soft; as, the weak stalk of a plant. 1913 Webster]
(e)Not able to resist external force or onset; easily subdued or overcome; as, a weak barrier; as, a weak fortress. 1913 Webster]
(f)Lacking force of utterance or sound; not sonorous; low; small; feeble; faint. 1913 Webster]
A voice not soft, weak, piping, and womanish.Ascham. 1913 Webster]
(g)Not thoroughly or abundantly impregnated with the usual or required ingredients, or with stimulating and nourishing substances; of less than the usual strength; as, weak tea, broth, or liquor; a weak decoction or solution; a weak dose of medicine. 1913 Webster]
(h)Lacking ability for an appropriate function or office; as, weak eyes; a weak stomach; a weak magistrate; a weak regiment, or army. 1913 Webster]
2.Not possessing or manifesting intellectual, logical, moral, or political strength, vigor, etc. Specifically: - 1913 Webster]
(a)Feeble of mind; wanting discernment; lacking vigor; spiritless; as, a weak king or magistrate. 1913 Webster]
To think every thing disputable is a proof of a weak mind and captious temper.Beattie. 1913 Webster]
Origen was never weak enough to imagine that there were two Gods.Waterland. 1913 Webster]
(b)Resulting from, or indicating, lack of judgment, discernment, or firmness; unwise; hence, foolish. 1913 Webster]
If evil thence ensue, weak indulgence will accuse.Milton. 1913 Webster]
(c)Not having full confidence or conviction; not decided or confirmed; vacillating; wavering. 1913 Webster]
Him that is weak in the faith receive ye, but not to doubtful disputations.Rom. xiv. 1. 1913 Webster]
(d)Not able to withstand temptation, urgency, persuasion, etc.; easily impressed, moved, or overcome; accessible; vulnerable; as, weak resolutions; weak virtue. 1913 Webster]
Guard thy heart weak side, where most our nature fails.Addison. 1913 Webster]
(e)Wanting in power to influence or bind; as, weak ties; a weak sense of honor of duty. 1913 Webster]
(f)Not having power to convince; not supported by force of reason or truth; unsustained; as, a weak argument or case. \'bdConvinced of his weak arguing.\'b8 Milton. 1913 Webster]
A case so weak . . . hath much persisted in.Hooker. 1913 Webster]
(g)Wanting in point or vigor of expression; as, a weak sentence; a weak style. 1913 Webster]
(h)Not prevalent or effective, or not felt to be prevalent; not potent; feeble. \'bdWeak prayers.\'b8 Shak. 1913 Webster]
(i)Lacking in elements of political strength; not wielding or having authority or energy; deficient in the resources that are essential to a ruler or nation; as, a weak monarch; a weak government or state. 1913 Webster]
I must make fair weather yet awhile, weak, and I more strong.Shak. 1913 Webster]
(k)(Stock Exchange)Tending towards lower prices; as, a weak market. 1913 Webster]
3.(Gram.)(a)Pertaining to, or designating, a verb which forms its preterit (imperfect) and past participle by adding to the present the suffix -ed, -d, or the variant form -t; as in the verbs abash, abashed; abate, abated; deny, denied; feel, felt. See Strong, 19 (a).(b)Pertaining to, or designating, a noun in Anglo-Saxon, etc., the stem of which ends in -n. See Strong, 19 (b). 1913 Webster]
4.(Stock Exchange)Tending toward a lower price or lower prices; as, wheat is weak; a weak market. Webster 1913 Suppl.]
5.(Card Playing)Lacking in good cards; deficient as to number or strength; as, a hand weak in trumps. Webster 1913 Suppl.]
6.(Photog.)Lacking contrast; as, a weak negative. Webster 1913 Suppl.]
Weak is often used in the formation of self-explaining compounds; as, weak-eyed, weak-handed, weak-hearted, weak-minded, weak-spirited, and the like. 1913 Webster]
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Weak conjugation(Gram.), the conjugation of weak verbs; -- called also new conjugation, orregular conjugation, and distinguished from the old conjugation, or irregular conjugation. --
Weak declension(Anglo-Saxon Gram.), the declension of weak nouns; also, one of the declensions of adjectives. --
Weak side, the side or aspect of a person's character or disposition by which he is most easily affected or influenced; weakness; infirmity. --
weak soreor
weak ulcer(Med.), a sore covered with pale, flabby, sluggish granulations. 1913 Webster]
Weak(?), v. t. & i.[Cf. AS. w. w\'becian. See Weak, a.]To make or become weak; to weaken. [R.] 1913 Webster]
Never to seek weaking variety.Marston. 1913 Webster]
Weak"en(?), v. t.[imp. & p. p.Weakened(?); p. pr. & vb. n.Weakening.] 1913 Webster]
1.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. 1913 Webster]
Their hands shall be weakened from the work, that it be not done.Neh. vi. 9. 1913 Webster]
2.To reduce in quality, strength, or spirit; as, to weaken tea; to weaken any solution or decoction. 1913 Webster]
Weak"en, v. i.To become weak or weaker; to lose strength, spirit, or determination; to become less positive or resolute; as, the patient weakened; the witness weakened on cross-examination. \'bdHis notion weakens, his discernings are lethargied.\'b8 Shak. 1913 Webster]
Weak"en*er(?), n.One who, or that which, weakens. \'bd[Fastings] weakeners of sin.\'b8 South. 1913 Webster]
Weak"fish`(?), n.(Zo\'94l.)Any fish of the genus Cynoscion; a squeteague; -- so called from its tender mouth. See Squeteague. 1913 Webster]
Spotted weakfish(Zo\'94l.), the spotted squeteague. 1913 Webster]
Weak"-heart`ed(?), a.Having little courage; of feeble spirit; dispirited; faint-hearted. \'bdWeak-hearted enemies.\'b8 Shak. 1913 Webster]
Weak"ish, a.Somewhat weak; rather weak. 1913 Webster]
Weak"ish*ness, n.Quality or state of being weakish. 1913 Webster]
Weak"ling(?), n.[Weak + -ling.]A weak or feeble creature.Shak. \'bdAll looking on him as a weakling, which would post to the grave.\'b8 Fuller. 1913 Webster]
We may not be weaklings because we have a strong enemy.Latimer. 1913 Webster]
Weak"ling, a.Weak; feeble.Sir T. North. 1913 Webster]
Weak"ly, adv.In a weak manner; with little strength or vigor; feebly. 1913 Webster]
Weak"ly, a.[Compar.Weaklier(?); superl.Weakliest.]Not strong of constitution; infirm; feeble; as, a weakly woman; a man of a weakly constitution. 1913 Webster]
Weak"-mind`ed(?), a.Having a weak mind, either naturally or by reason of disease; feebleminded; foolish; idiotic. -- Weak"-mind`ed*ness, n. 1913 Webster]
Weak"ness, n.1.The quality or state of being weak; want of strength or firmness; lack of vigor; want of resolution or of moral strength; feebleness. 1913 Webster]
2.That which is a mark of lack of strength or resolution; a fault; a defect. 1913 Webster]
Many take pleasure in spreading abroad the weakness of an exalted character.Spectator. 1913 Webster]
Weal(?), n.The mark of a stripe. See Wale. 1913 Webster]
Weal, v. t.To mark with stripes. See Wale. 1913 Webster]
Weal, n.[OE. wele, AS. wela, weola, wealth, from wel well. See Well, adv., and cf. Wealth.] 1913 Webster]
1.A sound, healthy, or prosperous state of a person or thing; prosperity; happiness; welfare. 1913 Webster]
God . . . grant you wele and prosperity.Chaucer. 1913 Webster]
As we love the weal of our souls and bodies.Bacon. 1913 Webster]
To him linked in weal or woe.Milton. 1913 Webster]
Never was there a time when it more concerned the public weal that the character of the Parliament should stand high.Macaulay. 1913 Webster]
2.The body politic; the state; common wealth. [Obs.] 1913 Webster]
The special watchmen of our English weal.Shak. 1913 Webster]
Weal, v. t.To promote the weal of; to cause to be prosperous. [Obs.] Beau. & Fl. 1913 Webster]
Weal"-bal`anced(?), a.Balanced or considered with reference to public weal. [Obs.] Shak. 1913 Webster]
Weald(?), n.[AS. See Wold.]A wood or forest; a wooded land or region; also, an open country; -- often used in place names. 1913 Webster]
Fled all night long by glimmering waste and weald, weald Tennyson. 1913 Webster]
Weald clay(Geol.), the uppermost member of the Wealden strata. See Wealden. 1913 Webster]
Weald"en(?; 277), a.[AS. weald, wald, a forest, a wood. So called because this formation occurs in the wealds, or woods, of Kent and Sussex. See Weald.](Geol.)Of or pertaining to the lowest division of the Cretaceous formation in England and on the Continent, which overlies the O\'94litic series. 1913 Webster]
Weald"en, n.(Geol.)The Wealden group or strata. 1913 Webster]
Weald"ish, a.Of or pertaining to a weald, esp. to the weald in the county of Kent, England. [Obs.] Fuller. 1913 Webster]
Wealth(?), n.[OE. welthe, from wele; cf. D. weelde luxury. See Weal prosperity.] 1913 Webster]
1.Weal; welfare; prosperity; good. [Obs.] \'bdLet no man seek his own, but every man another's wealth.\'b8 1 Cor. x. 24. 1913 Webster]
2.Large possessions; a comparative abundance of things which are objects of human desire; esp., abundance of worldly estate; affluence; opulence; riches. 1913 Webster]
I have little wealth to lose.Shak. 1913 Webster]
Each day new wealth, without their care, provides.Dryden. 1913 Webster]
Wealth comprises all articles of value and nothing else.F. A. Walker. 1913 Webster]
3.(Econ.)(a)In the private sense, all pooperty which has a money value.(b)In the public sense, all objects, esp. material objects, which have economic utility.(c) Specif. called personal wealth. Those energies, faculties, and habits directly contributing to make people industrially efficient. Webster 1913 Suppl.]
The wealthy witness of my pen.B. Jonson. 1913 Webster]
Wean(?), v. t.[imp. & p. p.Weaned(?); p. pr. & vb. n.Weaning.][OE. wenen, AS. wenian, wennan, to accustom; akin to D. wennen, G. gew\'94hnen, OHG. giwennan, Icel. venja, Sw. v\'84nja, Dan. v\'91nne, Icel. vanr accustomed, wont; cf. AS. \'bewenian to wean, G. entw\'94hnen. See Wont, a.] 1913 Webster]
1.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. 1913 Webster]
And the child grew, and was weaned; and Abraham made a great feast the same day that Isaac was weaned.Gen. xxi. 8. 1913 Webster]
2.Hence, to detach or alienate the affections of, from any object of desire; to reconcile to the want or loss of anything. \'bdWean them from themselves.\'b8 Shak. 1913 Webster]
The troubles of age were intended . . . to wean us gradually from our fondness of life.Swift. 1913 Webster]
Wean, n.A weanling; a young child. 1913 Webster]
I, being but a yearling wean.Mrs. Browning. 1913 Webster]
Wean"ed*ness, n.Quality or state of being weaned. 1913 Webster]
Weap"on(w, n.[OE. wepen, AS. w; akin to OS. w, OFries. w, w, D. wapen, G. waffe, OHG. waffan, w\'befan, Icel. v\'bepn, Dan. vaaben, Sw. vapen, Goth. w, pl.; of uncertain origin. Cf. Wapentake.] 1913 Webster]
1.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. 1913 Webster]
The weapons of our warfare are not carnal.2 Cor. x. 4. 1913 Webster]
They, astonished, all resistance lost, weapons dropped.Milton. 1913 Webster]
2.Fig.: The means or instrument with which one contends against another; as, argument was his only weapon. \'bdWoman's weapons, water drops.\'b8 Shak. 1913 Webster]
3.(Bot.)A thorn, prickle, or sting with which many plants are furnished. 1913 Webster]
Concealed weapons. See under Concealed. --
Weapon salve, a salve which was supposed to cure a wound by being applied to the weapon that made it. [Obs.] Boyle. 1913 Webster]
Weap"oned(?), a.Furnished with weapons, or arms; armed; equipped. 1913 Webster]
Weap"on*less(?), a.Having no weapon. 1913 Webster]
Weap"on*ry(?), n.Weapons, collectively; as, an array of weaponry. [Poetic] 1913 Webster]
Wear(w, n.Same as Weir. 1913 Webster]
Wear(w, v. t.[Cf. Veer.](Naut.)To cause to go about, as a vessel, by putting the helm up, instead of alee as in tacking, so that the vessel's bow is turned away from, and her stern is presented to, the wind, and, as she turns still farther, her sails fill on the other side; to veer. 1913 Webster]
Wear, v. t.[imp.Wore(w; p. p.Worn(w; p. pr. & vb. n.Wearing. Before the 15th century wear was a weak verb, the imp. & p. p. being Weared.][OE. weren, werien, AS. werian to carry, to wear, as arms or clothes; akin to OHG. werien, weren, to clothe, Goth. wasjan, L. vestis clothing, vestire to clothe, Gr. "enny`nai, Skr. vas. Cf. Vest.] 1913 Webster]
1.To carry or bear upon the person; to bear upon one's self, as an article of clothing, decoration, warfare, bondage, etc.; to have appendant to one's body; to have on; as, to wear a coat; to wear a shackle. 1913 Webster]
What compass will you wear your farthingale?Shak. 1913 Webster]
On her white breast a sparkling cross she wore, Pope. 1913 Webster]
2.To have or exhibit an appearance of, as an aspect or manner; to bear; as, she wears a smile on her countenance. \'bdHe wears the rose of youth upon him.\'b8 Shak. 1913 Webster]
His innocent gestures wear Keble. 1913 Webster]
3.To use up by carrying or having upon one's self; hence, to consume by use; to waste; to use up; as, to wear clothes rapidly. 1913 Webster]
4.To impair, waste, or diminish, by continual attrition, scraping, percussion, on the like; to consume gradually; to cause to lower or disappear; to spend. 1913 Webster]
That wicked wight his days doth wear.Spenser. 1913 Webster]
The waters wear the stones.Job xiv. 19. 1913 Webster]
5.To cause or make by friction or wasting; as, to wear a channel; to wear a hole. 1913 Webster]
6.To form or shape by, or as by, attrition. 1913 Webster]
Trials wear us into a liking of what, possibly, in the first essay, displeased us.Locke. 1913 Webster]
To wear away, to consume; to impair, diminish, or destroy, by gradual attrition or decay. --
To wear off, to diminish or remove by attrition or slow decay; as, to wear off the nap of cloth. --
To wear onor
To wear upon, to wear. [Obs.] \'bd[I] weared upon my gay scarlet gites [gowns.]\'b8 Chaucer. --
To wear out. (a)To consume, or render useless, by attrition or decay; as, to wear out a coat or a book.(b)To consume tediously. \'bdTo wear out miserable days.\'b8 Milton.(c)To harass; to tire. \'bd[He] shall wear out the saints of the Most High.\'b8 Dan vii. 25.(d)To waste the strength of; as, an old man worn out in military service. --
To wear the breeches. See under Breeches. [Colloq.] 1913 Webster]
Wear, v. i.1.To endure or suffer use; to last under employment; to bear the consequences of use, as waste, consumption, or attrition; as, a coat wears well or ill; -- hence, sometimes applied to character, qualifications, etc.; as, a man wears well as an acquaintance. 1913 Webster]
2.To be wasted, consumed, or diminished, by being used; to suffer injury, loss, or extinction by use or time; to decay, or be spent, gradually. \'bdThus wore out night.\'b8 Milton. 1913 Webster]
Away, I say; time wears.Shak. 1913 Webster]
Thou wilt surely wear away, both thou and this people that is with thee.Ex. xviii. 18. 1913 Webster]
His stock of money began to wear very low.Sir W. Scott. 1913 Webster]
The family . . . wore out in the earlier part of the century.Beaconsfield. 1913 Webster]
To wear off, to pass away by degrees; as, the follies of youth wear off with age. --
To wear on, to pass on; as, time wears on.G. Eliot. --
To wear weary, to become weary, as by wear, long occupation, tedious employment, etc. 1913 Webster]
Wear, n.1.The act of wearing, or the state of being worn; consumption by use; diminution by friction; as, the wear of a garment. 1913 Webster]
2.The thing worn; style of dress; the fashion. 1913 Webster]
Motley 's the only wear.Shak. 1913 Webster]
3.The result of wearing or use; consumption, diminution, or impairment due to use, friction, or the like; as, the wear of this coat has been good. Webster 1913 Suppl.]
Wear and tear, the loss by wearing, as of machinery in use; the loss or injury to which anything is subjected by use, accident, etc. 1913 Webster]
Wear"a*ble(?), a.Capable of being worn; suitable to be worn. 1913 Webster]
Wear"er(?), n.1.One who wears or carries as appendant to the body; as, the wearer of a cloak, a sword, a crown, a shackle, etc. 1913 Webster]
Cowls, hoods, and habits, with their wearers, tossed, Milton. 1913 Webster]
2.That which wastes or diminishes. 1913 Webster]
Wea"ri*a*ble(?), a.That may be wearied. 1913 Webster]
Wea"ri*ful(?), a.Abounding in qualities which cause weariness; wearisome. -- Wea"ri*ful*ly, adv. 1913 Webster]
Wea"ri*less, a.Incapable of being wearied. 1913 Webster]
Wea"ri*ly, adv.In a weary manner. 1913 Webster]
Wea"ri*ness, n.The quality or state of being weary or tried; lassitude; exhaustion of strength; fatigue. 1913 Webster]
With weariness and wine oppressed.Dryden. 1913 Webster]
A man would die, though he were neither valiant nor miserable, only upon a weariness to do the same thing so oft over and over.Bacon. 1913 Webster]
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Wear"ing(?), n.1.The act of one who wears; the manner in which a thing wears; use; conduct; consumption. 1913 Webster]
Belike he meant to ward, and there to see his wearing.Latimer. 1913 Webster]
2.That which is worn; clothes; garments. [Obs.] 1913 Webster]
Give me my nightly wearing and adieu.Shak. 1913 Webster]
Wear"ing(?), a.Pertaining to, or designed for, wear; as, wearing apparel. 1913 Webster]
Wear"ish(?), a.[Etymol. uncertain, but perhaps akin to weary.] 1913 Webster]
3.Having one's patience, relish, or contentment exhausted; tired; sick; -- with of before the cause; as, weary of marching, or of confinement; weary of study. 1913 Webster]
Wea"ry, v. t.[imp. & p. p.Wearied(?); p. pr. & vb. n.Wearying.] 1913 Webster]
1.To reduce or exhaust the physical strength or endurance of; to tire; to fatigue; as, to weary one's self with labor or traveling. 1913 Webster]
So shall he waste his means, weary his soldiers.Shak. 1913 Webster]
2.To make weary of anything; to exhaust the patience of, as by continuance. 1913 Webster]
I stay too long by thee; I weary thee.Shak. 1913 Webster]
3.To harass by anything irksome. 1913 Webster]
I would not cease weary him with my assiduous cries.Milton. 1913 Webster]
To weary out, to subdue or exhaust by fatigue. 1913 Webster]
Syn. -- To jade; tire; fatigue; fag. See Jade. 1913 Webster]
Wea"ry, v. i.To grow tired; to become exhausted or impatient; as, to weary of an undertaking. 1913 Webster]
Wea"sand(?), n.[OE. wesand, AS. w\'besend; akin to OFries. w\'besende, w\'besande; cf. OHG. weisunt.]The windpipe; -- called also, formerly, wesil.[Formerly, written also, wesand, and wezand.] 1913 Webster]
Cut his weasand with thy knife.Shak. 1913 Webster]
Wea"sel(?), n.[OE. wesele, AS. wesle; akin to D. wezel, G. wiesel, OHG. wisala, Icel. hreyiv\'c6sla, Dan. v\'84sel, Sw. vessla; of uncertain origin; cf. Gr. (Zo\'94l.)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. 1913 Webster]
Malacca weasel, the rasse. --
Weasel coot, a female or young male of the smew; -- so called from the resemblance of the head to that of a weasel. Called also weasel duck. --
Weasel lemur, a short-tailed lemur (Lepilemur mustelinus). It is reddish brown above, grayish brown below, with the throat white. 1913 Webster]
Wea"sel-faced`(?), a.Having a thin, sharp face, like a weasel. 1913 Webster]
Wea"ser(?), n.(Zo\'94l.)The American merganser; -- called also weaser sheldrake. [Local, U. S.] 1913 Webster]
Wea"si*ness(?), n.Quality or state of being weasy; full feeding; sensual indulgence. [Obs.] Joye. 1913 Webster]
Weath"er(?), n.[OE. weder, AS. weder; akin to OS. wedar, OFries. weder, D. weder, we\'88r, G. wetter, OHG. wetar, Icel. ve, Dan. veir, Sw. v\'84der wind, air, weather, and perhaps to OSlav. vedro fair weather; or perhaps to Lith. vetra storm, Russ. vieter', vietr', wind, and E. wind. Cf. Wither.] 1913 Webster]
1.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. 1913 Webster]
Not amiss to cool a man's stomach this hot weather.Shak. 1913 Webster]
Fair weather cometh out of the north.Job xxxvii. 22. 1913 Webster]
2.Vicissitude of season; meteorological change; alternation of the state of the air.Bacon. 1913 Webster]
3.Storm; tempest. 1913 Webster]
What gusts of weather from that gathering cloud Dryden. 1913 Webster]
4.A light rain; a shower. [Obs.] Wyclif. 1913 Webster]
Stress of weather, violent winds; force of tempests. --
To make fair weather, to flatter; to give flattering representations. [R.] --
To make good weather, or
To make bad weather(Naut.), to endure a gale well or ill; -- said of a vessel.Shak. --
Under the weather, ill; also, financially embarrassed. [Colloq. U. S.] Bartlett. --
Weather box. Same as Weather house, below.Thackeray. --
Weather breeder, a fine day which is supposed to presage foul weather. --
Weather bureau, a popular name for the signal service. See Signal service, under Signal, a. [U. S.] --
Weather cloth(Naut.), a long piece of canvas of tarpaulin used to preserve the hammocks from injury by the weather when stowed in the nettings. --
Weather door. (Mining)See Trapdoor, 2. --
Weather gall. Same as Water gall, 2. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell. --
Weather house, a mechanical contrivance in the form of a house, which indicates changes in atmospheric conditions by the appearance or retirement of toy images. 1913 Webster]
Peace to the artist whose ingenious thought weather house, that useful toy!Cowper. 1913 Webster]
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Weather molding, or
Weather moulding(Arch.), a canopy or cornice over a door or a window, to throw off the rain. --
Weather of a windmill sail, the obliquity of the sail, or the angle which it makes with its plane of revolution. --
Weather report, a daily report of meteorological observations, and of probable changes in the weather; esp., one published by government authority. --
Weather spy, a stargazer; one who foretells the weather. [R.] Donne. --
Weather strip(Arch.), a strip of wood, rubber, or other material, applied to an outer door or window so as to cover the joint made by it with the sill, casings, or threshold, in order to exclude rain, snow, cold air, etc. 1913 Webster]
Weath"er(?), v. t.[imp. & p. p.Weathered(?); p. pr. & vb. n.Weathering.] 1913 Webster]
1.To expose to the air; to air; to season by exposure to air. 1913 Webster]
[An eagle] soaring through his wide empire of the air weather his broad sails.Spenser. 1913 Webster]
This gear lacks weathering.Latimer. 1913 Webster]
2.Hence, to sustain the trying effect of; to bear up against and overcome; to sustain; to endure; to resist; as, to weather the storm. 1913 Webster]
For I can weather the roughest gale.Longfellow. 1913 Webster]
You will weather the difficulties yet.F. W. Robertson. 1913 Webster]
3.(Naut.)To sail or pass to the windward of; as, to weather a cape; to weather another ship. 1913 Webster]
4.(Falconry)To place (a hawk) unhooded in the open air.Encyc. Brit. 1913 Webster]
To weather a point. (a)(Naut.)To pass a point of land, leaving it on the lee side.(b)Hence, to gain or accomplish anything against opposition. --
To weather out, to encounter successfully, though with difficulty; as, to weather out a storm. 1913 Webster]
Weath"er, v. i.To undergo or endure the action of the atmosphere; to suffer meteorological influences; sometimes, to wear away, or alter, under atmospheric influences; to suffer waste by weather. 1913 Webster]
The organisms . . . seem indestructible, while the hard matrix in which they are imbedded has weathered from around them.H. Miller. 1913 Webster]
Weath"er, a.(Naut.)Being toward the wind, or windward -- opposed to lee; as, weather bow, weather braces, weather gauge, weather lifts, weather quarter, weather shrouds, etc. 1913 Webster]
Weather gauge. (a)(Naut.)The position of a ship to the windward of another.(b)Fig.: A position of advantage or superiority; advantage in position. 1913 Webster]
To veer, and tack, and steer a cause weather gauge of laws.Hudibras. 1913 Webster]
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Weather helm(Naut.), a tendency on the part of a sailing vessel to come up into the wind, rendering it necessary to put the helm up, that is, toward the weather side. --
Weather shore(Naut.), the shore to the windward of a ship.Totten. --
Weather tide(Naut.), the tide which sets against the lee side of a ship, impelling her to the windward.Mar. Dict. 1913 Webster]
Weath"er-beat`en(?), a.Beaten or harassed by the weather; worn by exposure to the weather, especially to severe weather.Shak. 1913 Webster]
Weath"er-bit`(?), n.(Naut.)A turn of the cable about the end of the windlass, without the bits. 1913 Webster]
Weath"er*bit`, v. t.(Naut.)To take another turn with, as a cable around a windlass.Totten. 1913 Webster]
Weath"er-bit`ten(?), a.Eaten into, defaced, or worn, by exposure to the weather.Coleridge. 1913 Webster]
Weath"er*board`(?), n.1.(Naut.)(a)That side of a vessel which is toward the wind; the windward side.(b)A piece of plank placed in a porthole, or other opening, to keep out water. 1913 Webster]
2.(a)(Arch.)A board extending from the ridge to the eaves along the slope of the gable, and forming a close junction between the shingling of a roof and the side of the building beneath.(b)A clapboard or feather-edged board used in weatherboarding. 1913 Webster]
Weath"er-board`, v. t.(Arch.)To nail boards upon so as to lap one over another, in order to exclude rain, snow, etc.Gwilt. 1913 Webster]
Weath"er*board`ing, n.(Arch.)(a)The covering or siding of a building, formed of boards lapping over one another, to exclude rain, snow, etc.(b)Boards adapted or intended for such use. 1913 Webster]
Weath"er-bound`(?), a.Kept in port or at anchor by storms; delayed by bad weather; as, a weather-bound vessel. 1913 Webster]
Weath"er*cock`(?), n.1.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. \'bdAs a wedercok that turneth his face with every wind.\'b8 Chaucer. 1913 Webster]
Noisy weathercocks rattled and sang of mutation.Longfellow. 1913 Webster]
2.Hence, any thing or person that turns easily and frequently; one who veers with every change of current opinion; a fickle, inconstant person. 1913 Webster]
Weath"er*cock`, v. t.To supply with a weathercock; to serve as a weathercock for. 1913 Webster]
Whose blazing wyvern weathercock the spire.Tennyson. 1913 Webster]
Weath"er-driv`en(?), a.Driven by winds or storms; forced by stress of weather.Carew. 1913 Webster]
Weath"ered(?), a.1.(Arch.)Made sloping, so as to throw off water; as, a weathered cornice or window sill. 1913 Webster]
2.(Geol.)Having the surface altered in color, texture, or composition, or the edges rounded off by exposure to the elements. 1913 Webster]
Weath"er-fend`(?), v. t.To defend from the weather; to shelter.Shak. 1913 Webster]
[We] barked the white spruce to weather-fend the roof.Emerson. 1913 Webster]
Weath"er*glass`(?), n.An instrument to indicate the state of the atmosphere, especially changes of atmospheric pressure, and hence changes of weather, as a barometer or baroscope. 1913 Webster]
Poor man's weatherglass. (Bot.)See under Poor. 1913 Webster]
Weath"er*ing, n.(Geol.)The action of the elements on a rock in altering its color, texture, or composition, or in rounding off its edges. 1913 Webster]
Weath"er*li*ness(?), n.(Naut.)The quality of being weatherly. 1913 Webster]
Weath"er*ly, a.(Naut.)Working, or able to sail, close to the wind; as, a weatherly ship.Cooper. 1913 Webster]
Weath"er map. A map or chart showing the principal meteorological elements at a given hour and over an extended region. Such maps usually show the height of the barometer, the temperature of the air, the relative humidity, the state of the weather, and the direction and velocity of the wind. Isobars and isotherms outline the general distribution of temperature and pressure, while shaded areas indicate the sections over which rain has just fallen. Other lines inclose areas where the temperature has fallen or risen markedly. In tabular form are shown changes of pressure and of temperature, maximum and minimum temperatures, and total rain for each weather station since the last issue, usually 12 hours. Webster 1913 Suppl.]
Weath"er*most`(?), a.(Naut.)Being farthest to the windward. 1913 Webster]
Weath"er*proof`(?), a.Proof against rough weather. 1913 Webster]
Weather signal. Any signal giving information about the weather. The system used by the United States Weather Bureau includes temperature, cold or hot wave, rain or snow, wind direction, storm, and hurricane signals. Webster 1913 Suppl.]
Weather station. (Meteor.)A station for taking meteorological observations, making weather forecasts, or disseminating such information. Such stations are of the first order when they make observations of all the important elements either hourly or by self-registering instruments; of the second order when only important observations are taken; of the third order when simpler work is done, as to record rainfall and maximum and minimum temperatures. Webster 1913 Suppl.]
Weath"er*wise`(?), a.Skillful in forecasting the changes of the weather.Hakluyt. 1913 Webster]
Weath"er*wis`er(?), n.[Cf. Waywiser.]Something that foreshows the weather. [Obs.] Derham. 1913 Webster]
Weath"er*worn`(?), a.Worn by the action of, or by exposure to, the weather. 1913 Webster]
Weave(w, v. t.[imp.Wove(w; p. p.Woven(w, Wove; p. pr. & vb. n.Weaving. The regular imp. & p. p.Weaved(w, is rarely used.][OE. weven, AS. wefan; akin to D. weven, G. weben, OHG. weban, Icel. vefa, Sw. v\'84fva, Dan. v\'91ve, Gr. "yfai`nein, v., "y`fos web, Skr. spider, lit., wool weaver. Cf. Waper, Waffle, Web, Weevil, Weft, Woof.] 1913 Webster]
1.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. 1913 Webster]
This weaves itself, perforce, into my business.Shak. 1913 Webster]
That in their green shops weave the smooth-haired silk Milton. 1913 Webster]
And for these words, thus woven into song.Byron. 1913 Webster]
2.To form, as cloth, by interlacing threads; to compose, as a texture of any kind, by putting together textile materials; as, to weave broadcloth; to weave a carpet; hence, to form into a fabric; to compose; to fabricate; as, to weave the plot of a story. 1913 Webster]
When she weaved the sleided silk.Shak. 1913 Webster]
Her starry wreaths the virgin jasmin weaves.Ld. Lytton. 1913 Webster]
Weave, v. i.1.To practice weaving; to work with a loom. 1913 Webster]
2.To become woven or interwoven. 1913 Webster]
Weave, n.A particular method or pattern of weaving; as, the cassimere weave. 1913 Webster]
Weav"er(?), n.1.One who weaves, or whose occupation is to weave. \'bdWeavers of linen.\'b8 P. Plowman. 1913 Webster]
2.(Zo\'94l.)A weaver bird. 1913 Webster]
3.(Zo\'94l.)An aquatic beetle of the genus Gyrinus. See Whirling. 1913 Webster]
Weaver bird(Zo\'94l.), any one of numerous species of Asiatic, Fast Indian, and African birds belonging to Ploceus and allied genera of the family Ploceid\'91. Weaver birds resemble finches and sparrows in size, colors, and shape of the bill. They construct pensile nests composed of interlaced grass and other similar materials. In some of the species the nest is retort-shaped, with the opening at the bottom of the tube. --
Weavers' shuttle(Zo\'94l.), an East Indian marine univalve shell (Radius volva); -- so called from its shape. See Illust. of Shuttle shell, under Shuttle. 1913 Webster]
Weav"ing, n.1.The act of one who, or that which, weaves; the act or art of forming cloth in a loom by the union or intertexture of threads. 1913 Webster]
2.(Far.)An incessant motion of a horse's head, neck, and body, from side to side, fancied to resemble the motion of a hand weaver in throwing the shuttle.Youatt. 1913 Webster]
The somber spirit of our forefathers, who wove their web of life with hardly a . . . thread of rose-color or gold.Hawthorne. 1913 Webster]
Such has been the perplexing ingenuity of commentators that it is difficult to extricate the truth from the web of conjectures.W. Irving. 1913 Webster]
5.(Carriages)A band of webbing used to regulate the extension of the hood. 1913 Webster]
6.A thin metal sheet, plate, or strip, as of lead. 1913 Webster]
And Christians slain roll up in webs of lead.Fairfax. 1913 Webster]<