W (part 1)

Defn: W, the twenty-third letter of the English alphabet, is usually a consonant, but sometimes it is a vowel, forming the second element of certain diphthongs, as in few, how. It takes its written form and its name from the repetition of a V, this being the original form of the Roman capital letter which we call U. Etymologically it is most related to v and u. See V, and U. Some of the uneducated classes in England, especially in London, confuse w and v, substituting the one for the other, as weal for veal, and veal for weal; wine for vine, and vine for wine, etc. See Guide to Pronunciation, §§ 266-268.

WAAG
Waag, n. (Zoöl.)

Defn: The grivet.

WAAHOO
Waa*hoo", n. (Bot.)

Defn: The burning bush; — said to be called after a quack medicine made from it.

WABBLE
Wab"ble, v. i. Etym: [Cf. Prov. G. wabbeln to wabble, and E. whap.
Cf. Quaver.]

Defn: 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. wobble.

WABBLE
Wab"ble, n.

Defn: A hobbling, unequal motion, as of a wheel unevenly hung; a staggering to and fro.

WABBLY
Wab"bly, a.

Defn: Inclined to wabble; wabbling.

WACKE; WACKY Wack"e, Wack"y, n. Etym: [G. wacke, MHG.wacke a large stone, OHG. waggo a pebble.] (Geol.)

Defn: A soft, earthy, dark-colored rock or clay derived from the alteration of basalt.

WAD
Wad, n. Etym: [See Woad.]

Defn: Woad. [Obs.]

WAD Wad, n. Etym: [Probably of Scand. origin; cf. Sw. vadd wadding, Dan vat, D. & G. watte. Cf. Wadmol.]

1. A little mass, tuft, or bundle, as of hay or tow. Holland.

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.

3. A soft mass, especially of some loose, fibrous substance, used for various purposes, as for stopping an aperture, padding a garment, etc. Wed hook, a rod with a screw or hook at the end, used for removing the wad from a gun.

WAD
Wad, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Waded; p. pr. & vb. n. Wadding.]

1. To form into a mass, or wad, or into wadding; as, to wad tow or cotton.

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.

WAD; WADD 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.

WADDIE
Wad"die, n. & v.

Defn: See Waddy.

WADDING
Wad"ding, n. Etym: [See Wad a little mass.]

1. A wad, or the materials for wads; any pliable substance of which wads may be made.

2. Any soft stuff of loose texture, used for stuffing or padding garments; esp., sheets of carded cotton prepared for the purpose.

WADDLE
Wad"dle, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Waddled; p. pr. & vb. n. Waddling.]
Etym: [Freq. of wade; cf. AS. wædlian to beg, from wadan to go. See
Wade.]

Defn: 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. She drawls her words, and waddles in her pace. Young.

WADDLE
Wad"dle, v. t.

Defn: To trample or tread down, as high grass, by walking through it.
[R.] Drayton.

WADDLER
Wad"dler, n.

Defn: One who, or that which, waddles.

WADDLINGLY
Wad"dling*ly, adv.

Defn: In a waddling manner.

WADDY 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.

2. A piece of wood; stick; peg; also, a walking stick.

WADDY
Wad"dy, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Waddied; p. pr. & vb. n. Waddying.]

Defn: To attack or beat with a waddy.

WADDYWOOD
Wad"dy*wood`, n.

Defn: An Australian tree (Pittosporum bicolor); also, its wood, used in making waddies.

WADE
Wade, n.

Defn: Woad. [Obs.] Mortimer.

WADE Wade, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Waded; p. pr. & vb. n. Wading.] Etym: [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.]

1. To go; to move forward. [Obs.]
When might is joined unto cruelty, Alas, too deep will the venom
wade. Chaucer.
Forbear, and wade no further in this speech. Old Play.

2. To walk in a substance that yields to the feet; to move, sinking at each step, as in water, mud, sand, etc. So eagerly the fiend . . . With head, hands, wings, or feet, pursues his way, And swims, or sinks, or wades, or creeps, or flies. Milton.

3. Hence, to move with difficulty or labor; to proceed as, to wade through a dull book. And wades through fumes, and gropes his way. Dryden. The king's admirable conduct has waded through all these difficulties. Davenant.

WADE
Wade, v. t.

Defn: To pass or cross by wading; as, he waded .

WADE
Wade, n.

Defn: The act of wading. [Colloq.]

WADER
Wad"er, n.

1. One who, or that which, wades.

2. (Zoöl.)

Defn: 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.

WADING
Wad"ing,

Defn: a. & n. from Wade, v. Wading bird. (Zoöl.) See Wader, 2.

WADMOL Wad"mol, n. Etym: [Of Scand. origin; cf. Icel.va a woollen stuff, Dan vadmel. Cf. Wad a small mass, and Woodmeil.]

Defn: 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.

WADSET
Wad"set, n. Etym: [Scot. wad a pledge; akin to Sw. vad a wager. See
Wed.] (Scots Law)

Defn: A kind of pledge or mortgage. [Written also wadsett.]

WADSETTER
Wad"set*ter, n.

Defn: One who holds by a wadset.

WADY Wad"y, n.; pl. Wadies. Etym: [Ar. wadi a valley, a channel of a river, a river.]

Defn: A ravine through which a brook flows; the channel of a water course, which is dry except in the rainy season.

WAE
Wae, n.

Defn: A wave. [Obs.] Spenser.

WAEG
Waeg, n. (Zoöl.)

Defn: The kittiwake. [Scot.]

WAFER Wa"fer, n. Etym: [OE. wafre, OF. waufre, qaufre, F. qaufre; of Teutonic origin; cf. LG. & D. wafel, G. waffel, Dan. vaffel, Sw. våffla; 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.]

1. (Cookery)

Defn: A thin cake made of flour and other ingredients.
Wafers piping hot out of the gleed. Chaucer.
The curious work in pastry, the fine cakes, wafers, and marchpanes.
Holland.
A woman's oaths are wafers — break with making B. Jonson.

2. (Eccl.)

Defn: 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.

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. 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.

WAFER
Wa"fer, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Wafered; p. pr. & vb. n. Wafering.]

Defn: To seal or close with a wafer.

WAFERER
Wa"fer*er, n.

Defn: A dealer in the cakes called wafers; a confectioner. [Obs.]
Chaucer.

WAFFLE
Waffle, n. Etym: [D. wafel. See Wafer.]

1. A thin cake baked and then rolled; a wafer.

2. A soft indented cake cooked in a waffle iron. Waffle iron, an iron utensil or mold made in two parts shutting together, — used for cooking waffles over a fire.

WAFT
Waft, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Wafted; p. pr. & vb. n. Wafting.] Etym:
[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.] But soft: who wafts us yonder Shak.

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. A gentle wafting to immortal life. Milton. Speed the soft intercourse from soul to soul, And waft a sigh from Indus to the pole. Pope.

3. To cause to float; to keep from sinking; to buoy. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

Note: This verb is regular; but waft was formerly somwafted.

WAFT
Waft, v. i.

Defn: To be moved, or to pass, on a buoyant medium; to float.
And now the shouts waft near the citadel. Dryden.

WAFT
Waft, n.

1. A wave or current of wind. "Everywaft of the air." Longfellow. In this dire season, oft the whirlwind's wing Sweeps up the burden of whole wintry plains In one wide waft. Thomson.

2. A signal made by waving something, as a flag, in the air.

3. An unpleasant flavor. [Obs.]

4. (Naut.)

Defn: A knot, or stop, in the middle of a flag. [Written also wheft.]

Note: A flag with a 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, "Recall boats."

WAFTAGE
Waft"age, n.

Defn: Conveyance on a buoyant medium, as air or water. Shak.
Boats prepared for waftage to and fro. Drayton.

WAFTER
Waft"er, n.

1. One who, or that which, wafts. O Charon, Thou wafter of the soul to bliss or bane. Beau. & FL.

2. A boat for passage. Ainsworth.

WAFTURE
Waf"ture, n.

Defn: The act of waving; a wavelike motion; a waft. R. Browning.
An angry wafture of your hand. Shak.

WAG Wag, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Wagged; p. pr. & vb. n. Wagging.] Etym: [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. *136. See Weigh.]

Defn: 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.
No discerner durst wag his tongue in censure. Shak.
Every one that passeth thereby shall be astonished, and wag his head.
Jer. xviii. 16.

Note: Wag expresses specifically the motion of the head and body used in buffoonery, mirth, derision, sport, and mockery.

WAG
Wag, v. i.

1. To move one way and the other; to be shaken to and fro; to vibrate. The resty sieve wagged ne'er the more. Dryden.

2. To be in action or motion; to move; to get along; to progress; to stir. [Colloq.] "Thus we may see," quoth he, "how the world wags." Shak.

3. To go; to depart; to pack oft. [R.] I will provoke him to 't, or let him wag. Shak.

WAG
Wag, n. Etym: [From Wag, v.]

1. The act of wagging; a shake; as, a wag of the head. [Colloq.]

2. Etym: [Perhaps shortened from wag-halter a rogue.]

Defn: A man full of sport and humor; a ludicrous fellow; a humorist; a wit; a joker. We wink at wags when they offend. Dryden. 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.

WAGATI
Wa*ga"ti, n. (Zoöl.)

Defn: A small East Indian wild cat (Felis wagati), regarded by some as a variety of the leopard cat.

WAGE Wage, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Waged; p. pr. & vb. n. Waging.] Etym: [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, gawadjon to pledge, akin to E. wed, G. wette a wager. See Wed, and cf. Gage.]

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. My life I never but as a pawn To wage against thy enemies. Shak.

2. To expose one's self to, as a risk; to incur, as a danger; to venture; to hazard. "Too weak to wage an instant trial with the king." Shak. To wake and wage a danger profitless. Shak.

3. To engage in, as a contest, as if by previous gage or pledge; to carry on, as a war. [He pondered] which of all his sons was fit To reign and wage immortal war with wit. Dryden. The two are waging war, and the one triumphs by the destruction of the other. I. Taylor.

4. To adventure, or lay out, for hire or reward; to hire out. [Obs.] "Thou . . . must wage thy works for wealth." Spenser.

5. To put upon wages; to hire; to employ; to pay wages to. [Obs.]
Abundance of treasure which he had in store, wherewith he might wage
soldiers. Holinshed.
I would have them waged for their labor. Latimer.

6. (O. Eng. Law)

Defn: To give security for the performance of. Burrill. 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.

WAGE
Wage, v. i.

Defn: To bind one's self; to engage. [Obs.]

WAGE Wage, n. Etym: [OF. wage, gage, guarantee, engagement. See Wage, v. t. ]

1. That which is staked or ventured; that for which one incurs risk or danger; prize; gage. [Obs.] "That warlike wage." Spenser.

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. "My day's wage." Sir W. Scott. "At least I earned my wage." Thackeray. "Pay them a wage in advance." J. Morley. "The wages of virtue." Tennyson. By Tom Thumb, a fairy page, He sent it, and doth him engage, By promise of a mighty wage, It secretly to carry. Drayton. Our praises are our wages. Shak. Existing legislation on the subject of wages. Encyc. Brit.

Note: 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. Board wages. See under 1st Board.

Syn. — Hire; reward; stipend; salary; allowance; pay; compensation; remuneration; fruit.

WAGEL
Wag"el, n. (Zoöl.)

Defn: See Waggel.

WAGENBOOM
Wa"gen*boom`, n. Etym: [D., literally, wagon tree.] (Bot.)

Defn: A south African proteaceous tree (Protea grandiflora); also, its tough wood, used for making wagon wheels.

WAGER Wa"ger, n. Etym: [OE. wager, wajour, OF. wagiere, or wageure, E. gageure. See Wage, v. t.]

1. Something deposited, laid, or hazarded on the event of a contest or an unsettled question; a bet; a stake; a pledge. Besides these plates for horse races, the wagers may be as the persons please. Sir W. Temple. If any atheist can stake his soul for a wager against such an inexhaustible disproportion, let him never hereafter accuse others of credulity. Bentley.

2. (Law)

Defn: 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.

Note: At common law a wager is considered as a legal contract which the courts must enforce unless it be on a subject contrary to public policy, or immoral, or tending to the detriment of the public, or affecting the interest, feelings, or character of a third person. In many of the United States an action can not be sustained upon any wager or bet. Chitty. Bouvier.

3. That on which bets are laid; the subject of a bet. 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.

WAGER
Wa"ger, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Wagered; p. pr. & vb. n. Wagering.]

Defn: To hazard on the issue of a contest, or on some question that is to be decided, or on some casualty; to lay; to stake; to bet. And wagered with him Pieces of gold 'gainst this which he wore. Shak.

WAGER
Wa"ger, v. i.

Defn: To make a bet; to lay a wager.
'T was merry when You wagered on your angling. Shak.

WAGERER
Wa"ger*er, n.

Defn: One who wagers, or lays a bet.

WAGERING
Wa"ger*ing, a.

Defn: Hazarding; pertaining to the act of one who wagers. Wagering policy. (Com.) See Wager policy, under Policy.

WAGES
Wa"ges, n. plural in termination, but singular in signification.
Etym: [Plural of wage; cf. F. gages, pl., wages, hire. See Wage, n.]

Defn: A compensation given to a hired person for services; price paid for labor; recompense; hire. See Wage, n., 2. The wages of sin is death. Rom. vi. 23. 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.

Syn.
— See under Wage, n.

WAGGEL
Wag"gel, n. (Zoöl.)

Defn: The young of the great black-backed gull (Larus marinus), formerly considered a distinct species. [Prov. Eng.]

WAGGERY
Wag"ger*y, n.; pl. Waggeries. Etym: [From Wag.]

Defn: 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. A drollery and lurking waggery of expression. W. Irving.

WAGGIE
Wag"gie, n.

Defn: The pied wagtail. [Prov. Eng.]

WAGGISH
Wag"gish, a.

1. Like a wag; mischievous in sport; roguish in merriment or good humor; frolicsome. "A company of waggish boys." L'Estrange.

2. Done, made, or laid in waggery or for sport; sportive; humorous;
as, a waggish trick.
— Wag"gish*ly, adv.
— Wag"gish*ness, n.

WAGGLE
Wag"gle, v. i. Etym: [Freq. of wag; cf. D. waggelen, G. wackeln.]

Defn: To reel, sway, or move from side to side; to move with a wagging motion; to waddle. Why do you go nodding and waggling so L'Estrange.

WAGGLE
Wag"gle, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Waggled; p. pr. & vb. n. Waggling.]

Defn: To move frequently one way and the other; to wag; as, a bird waggles his tail.

WAG-HALTER
Wag"-hal`ter, n. Etym: [Wag + halter.]

Defn: One who moves or wears a halter; one likely to be hanged.
[Colloq. & Obs.]
I can tell you, I am a mad wag-halter. Marston.

WAGNERIAN
Wag*ne"ri*an, a.

Defn: Of, pertaining to, or resembling the style of, Richard Wagner, the German musical composer.

WAGNERITE
Wag"ner*ite, n. (Min.)

Defn: A fluophosphate of magnesia, occurring in yellowish crystals, and also in massive forms.

WAGON
Wag"on, n. Etym: [D. wagen. sq. root136. See Wain.]

1. A wheeled carriage; a vehicle on four wheels, and usually drawn by horses; especially, one used for carrying freight or merchandise.

Note: In the United States, light wagons are used for the conveyance of persons and light commodities.

2. A freight car on a railway. [Eng.]

3. A chariot [Obs.] Spenser.

4. (Astron.)

Defn: The Dipper, or Charles's Wain.

Note: This word and its compounds are often written with two g's (waggon, waggonage, etc.), chiefly in England. The forms wagon, wagonage, etc., are, however, etymologically preferable, and in the United States are almost universally used. 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.

WAGON
Wag"on, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Wagoned; p. pr. & vb. n. Wagoning.]

Defn: To transport in a wagon or wagons; as, goods are wagoned from city to city.

WAGON
Wag"on, v. i.

Defn: To wagon goods as a business; as, the man wagons between
Philadelphia and its suburbs.

WAGONAGE
Wag"on*age, n.

1. Money paid for carriage or conveyance in wagon.

2. A collection of wagons; wagons, collectively. Wagonage, provender, and a piece or two of cannon. Carlyle.

WAGONER
Wag"on*er, n.

1. One who conducts a wagon; one whose business it is to drive a wagon.

2. (Astron.)

Defn: The constellation Charles's Wain, or Ursa Major. See Ursa major, under Ursa.

WAGONETTE
Wag`on*ette", n.

Defn: A kind of pleasure wagon, uncovered and with seats extended along the sides, designed to carry six or eight persons besides the driver.

WAGONFUL
Wag"on*ful, n.; pl. Wagonfuls (.

Defn: As much as a wagon will hold; enough to fill a wagon; a wagonload.

WAGON-HEADED
Wag"on-head`ed, a.

Defn: Having a top, or head, shaped like the top of a covered wagon, or resembling in section or outline an inverted U, thus as, a wagonheaded ceiling.

WAGONLOAD
Wag"on*load`, n.

Defn: Same as Wagonful.

WAGON-ROOFED
Wag"on-roofed`, a.

Defn: Having a roof, or top, shaped like an inverted U; wagon-headed.

WAGONRY
Wag"on*ry, n.

Defn: Conveyance by means of a wagon or wagons. [Obs.] Milton.

WAGONWRIGHT
Wag"on*wright`, n.

Defn: One who makes wagons.

WAGTAIL
Wag"tail`, n. (Zoöl.)

Defn: Any one of many species of Old World singing birds belonging to Motacilla and several allied genera of the family Motacillidæ. They have the habit of constantly jerking their long tails up and down, whence the name. 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.

WAH
Wah (wä), n. (Zoöl.)

Defn: The panda.

WAHABEE
Wa*ha"bee, n. Etym: [Ar. wahabi.]

Defn: A follower of Abdel Wahab (b. 1691; d. 1787), a reformer of Mohammedanism. His doctrines prevail particularly among the Bedouins, and the sect, though checked in its influence, extends to most parts of Arabia, and also into India. [Written also Wahaby.]

WAHOO 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.

WAHOO
Wa*hoo", n.

Defn: A dark blue scombroid food fish (Acanthocibium solandri or petus) of Florida and the West Indies.

WAID
Waid, a. Etym: [For weighed.]

Defn: Oppressed with weight; crushed; weighed down. [Obs.] Tusser.

WAIF Waif, n. Etym: [OF. waif, gaif, as adj., lost, unclaimed, chose gaive a waif, LL. wayfium, res vaivae; of Scand. origin. See Waive.]

1. (Eng. Law.)

Defn: 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.

2. Hence, anything found, or without an owner; that which comes along, as it were, by chance. "Rolling in his mind old waifs of rhyme." Tennyson.

3. A wanderer; a castaway; a stray; a homeless child. A waif Desirous to return, and not received. Cowper.

WAIFT
Waift, n.

Defn: A waif. [Obs.] Spenser.

WAIL
Wail, v. t. Etym: [Cf. Icel. val choice, velja to choose, akin to
Goth. waljan, G. wählen.]

Defn: To choose; to select. [Obs.] "Wailed wine and meats." Henryson.

WAIL
Wail, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Wailed; p. pr. & vb. n. Wailing.] Etym:
[OE. wailen, weilen, probably fr. Icel. væla; cf. Icel. væ, vei, woe,
and E. wayment, also OE. wai, wei, woe. Cf. Woe.]

Defn: To lament; to bewail; to grieve over; as, to wail one's death.
Shak.

WAIL
Wail, v. i.

Defn: To express sorrow audibly; to make mournful outcry; to weep.
Therefore I will wail and howl. Micah i. 8.

WAIL
Wail, n.

Defn: Loud weeping; violent lamentation; wailing. "The wail of the forest." Longfellow.

WAILER
Wail"er, n.

Defn: One who wails or laments.

WAILERESS
Wail"er*ess, n.

Defn: A woman who wails. [Obs.]

WAILFUL
Wail"ful, a.

Defn: Sorrowful; mournful. " Like wailful widows." Spenser. "Wailful sonnets." Shak.

WAILINGLY
Wail"ing*ly, adv.

Defn: In a wailing manner.

WAILMENT
Wail"ment, n.

Defn: Lamentation; loud weeping; wailing. [Obs.] Bp. Hacket.

WAIMENT
Wai"ment. v. & n.

Defn: See Wayment. [Obs.]

WAIN
Wain, n. Etym: [OE. wain, AS. wægn; akin to D. & G. wagen, OHG.
wagan, Icel. & Sw. vagn, Dan. vogn, and E. way. Way, Weigh, and cf.
Wagon.]

1. A four-wheeled vehicle for the transportation of goods, produce,
etc.; a wagon.
The wardens see nothing but a wain of hay. Jeffrey.
Driving in ponderous wains their household goods to the seashore.
Longfellow.

2. A chariot. [Obs.] The Wain. (Astron.) See Charles's Wain, in the Vocabulary. — Wain rope, a cart rope. Shak.

WAINABLE
Wain"a*ble, a.

Defn: Capable of being plowed or cultivated; arable; tillable. [Obs.]
Cowell.

WAINAGE
Wain"age (; 48), n. Etym: [From Wain.]

Defn: A finding of carriages, carts, etc., for the transportation of goods, produce, etc. Ainsworth.

WAINAGE
Wain"age, n. (O. Eng. Law)

Defn: See Gainage, a.

WAINBOTE
Wain"bote`, n. Etym: [Wain + bote.] (O. Eng. Law)

Defn: See Cartbote. See also the Note under Bote.

WAINSCOT Wain"scot, n. Etym: [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).]

1. Oaken timber or boarding. [Obs.]
A wedge wainscot is fittest and most proper for cleaving of an oaken
tree. Urquhart.
Inclosed in a chest of wainscot. J. Dart.

2. (Arch.)

Defn: A wooden lining or boarding of the walls of apartments, usually made in panels.

3. 3. (Zoöl.)

Defn: Any one of numerous species of European moths of the family
Leucanidæ.

Note: They are reddish or yellowish, streaked or lined with black and white. Their larvæ feed on grasses and sedges.

WAINSCOT
Wain"scot, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Wainscoted; p. pr. & vb. n.
Wainscoting.]

Defn: To line with boards or panelwork, or as if with panelwork; as,
to wainscot a hall.
Music soundeth better in chambers wainscoted than hanged. Bacon.
The other is wainscoted with looking-glass. Addison.

WAINSCOTING
Wain"scot*ing, n.

1. The act or occupation of covering or lining with boards in panel.

2. The material used to wainscot a house, or the wainscot as a whole; panelwork.

WAINWRIGHT
Wain"wright`, n.

Defn: Same as Wagonwright.

WAIR
Wair, n. (Carp.)

Defn: A piece of plank two yard Bailey.

WAIST Waist, n. Etym: [OE. wast; originally, growth, akin to AS. weaxan to grow; cf. AS. wæstm growth. See Wax to grow.]

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. I am in the waist two yards about. Shak.

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.

3. A garment, or part of a garment, which covers the body from the neck or shoulders to the waist line.

4. A girdle or belt for the waist. [Obs.] Shak. Waist anchor. See Sheet anchor, 1, in the Vocabulary.

WAISTBAND
Waist"band, n.

1. The band which encompasses the waist; esp., one on the upper part of breeches, trousers, pantaloons, skirts, or the like.

2. A sash worn by women around the waist. [R.]

WAISTCLOTH
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.

2. (Naut.)

Defn: A covering of canvas or tarpaulin for the hammocks, stowed on the nettings, between the quarterdeck and the forecastle.

WAISTCOAT 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.

Note: The 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.

Syn.
— See Vest.

WAISTCOATEER
Waist`coat*eer", n.

Defn: One wearing a waistcoat; esp., a woman wearing one uncovered, or thought fit for such a habit; hence, a loose woman; strumpet. [Obs.] Do you think you are here, sir, Amongst your waistcoateers, your base wenches Beau. & Fl.

WAISTCOATING
Waist"coat*ing, n.

Defn: A fabric designed for waistcoats; esp., one in which there is a pattern, differently colored yarns being used.

WAISTER
Waist"er, n. (Naut.)

Defn: A seaman, usually a green hand or a broken-down man, stationed in the waist of a vessel of war. R. H. Dana, Jr.

WAIT
Wait, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Waited; p. pr. & vb. n. Waiting.] Etym:
[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. wahhen to watch, be awake. *134. See Wake, v. i.]

1. To watch; to observe; to take notice. [Obs.] "But [unless] ye wait well and be privy, I wot right well, I am but dead," quoth she. Chaucer.

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. All the days of my appointed time will I wait, till my change come. Job xiv. 14. They also serve who only stand and wait. Milton. Haste, my dear father; 't is no time to wait. Dryden.

To wait on or upon. (a) To attend, as a servant; to perform services for; as, to wait on a gentleman; to wait on the table. "Authority and reason on her wait." Milton. "I must wait on myself, must I" Shak. (b) To attend; to go to see; to visit on business or for ceremony. (c) To follow, as a consequence; to await. "That ruin that waits on such a supine temper." Dr. H. More. (d) To look watchfully at; to follow with the eye; to watch. [R.] "It is a point of cunning to wait upon him with whom you speak with your eye." Bacon. (e) To attend to; to perform. "Aaron and his sons . . . shallwait on their priest's office." Num. iii. 10. (f) (Falconry) To fly above its master, waiting till game is sprung; — said of a hawk. Encyc. Brit.

WAIT
Wait, v. t.

1. To stay for; to rest or remain stationary in expectation of; to await; as, to wait orders. Awed with these words, in camps they still abide, And wait with longing looks their promised guide. Dryden.

2. To attend as a consequence; to follow upon; to accompany; to await. [Obs.]

3. To attend on; to accompany; especially, to attend with ceremony or respect. [Obs.] He chose a thousand horse, the flower of all His warlike troops, to wait the funeral. Dryden. Remorse and heaviness of heart shall wait thee, And everlasting anguish be thy portion. Rowe.

4. To cause to wait; to defer; to postpone; — said of a meal; as, to wait dinner. [Colloq.]

WAIT Wait, n. Etym: [OF. waite, guaite, gaite, F. guet watch, watching, guard, from OHG. wahta. See Wait, v. i.]

1. The act of waiting; a delay; a halt. There is a wait of three hours at the border Mexican town of El Paso. S. B. Griffin.

2. Ambush. "An enemy in wait." Milton.

3. One who watches; a watchman. [Obs.]

4. pl.

Defn: Hautboys, or oboes, played by town musicians; not used in the singular. [Obs.] Halliwell.

5. pl.

Defn: Musicians who sing or play at night or in the early morning,
especially at Christmas time; serenaders; musical watchmen. [Written
formerly wayghtes.]
Hark! are the waits abroad Beau & Fl.
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.
To lay wait, to prepare an ambuscade.
— To lie in wait. See under 4th Lie.

WAIT-A-BIT
Wait"-a-bit`, n.

Defn: 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.

WAITER
Wait"er, n.

1. One who, or that which, waits; an attendant; a servant in attendance, esp. at table. The waiters stand in ranks; the yeomen cry, "Make room," as if a duke were passing by. Swift.

2. A vessel or tray on which something is carried, as dishes, etc.; a salver. Coast waiter. See under Coast, n.

WAITING
Wait"ing,

Defn: a. & n. from Wait, v. 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.

WAITINGLY
Wait"ing*ly, adv.

Defn: By waiting.

WAITRESS
Wait"ress, n.

Defn: A female waiter or attendant; a waiting maid or waiting woman.

WAIT—WHILE 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) = Wait-a-bit.

WAIVE
Waive, n. Etym: [See Waive, v. t. ]

1. A waif; a castaway. [Obs.] Donne.

2. (O. Eng. Law)

Defn: A woman put out of the protection of the law. See Waive, v. t., 3 (b), and the Note.

WAIVE
Waive, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Waived; p. pr. & vb. n. Waiving.] Etym:
[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.]

1. To relinquish; to give up claim to; not to insist on or claim; to refuse; to forego. He waiveth milk, and flesh, and all. Chaucer. We absolutely do renounce or waive our own opinions, absolutely yielding to the direction of others. Barrow.

2. To throw away; to cast off; to reject; to desert.

3. (Law) (a) To throw away; to relinquish voluntarily, as a right which one may enforce if he chooses. (b) (O. Eng. Law)

Defn: To desert; to abandon. Burrill.

Note: The term was applied to a woman, in the same sense as 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.

WAIVE
Waive, v. i.

Defn: To turn aside; to recede. [Obs.]
To waive from the word of Solomon. Chaucer.

WAIVER
Waiv"er, n. (Law)

Defn: The act of waiving, or not insisting on, some right, claim, or privilege.

WAIVURE
Waiv"ure, n.

Defn: See Waiver. [R.]

WAIWODE
Wai"wode, n.

Defn: See Waywode.

WAI WU PU
Wai Wu Pu. [Chinese wai foreign + wu affairs + pu office.]

Defn: 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.

WAKE Wake, n. Etym: [Originally, an open space of water svök a hole, opening in ice, Sw. vak, Dan. vaage, perhaps akin to E. humid.]

Defn: The track left by a vessel in the water; by extension, any track; as, the wake of an army. This effect followed immediately in the wake of his earliest exertions. De Quincey. Several humbler persons . . . formed quite a procession in the dusty wake of his chariot wheels. Thackeray.

WAKE Wake, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Waked or Woke (p. pr. & vb. n. Waking.] Etym: [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. vajay to rouse, to impel. Vigil, Wait, v. i., Watch, v. i.]

1. To be or to continue awake; to watch; not to sleep. The father waketh for the daughter. Ecclus. xlii. 9. Though wisdom wake, suspicion sleeps. Milton. I can not think any time, waking or sleeping, without being sensible of it. Locke.

2. To sit up late festive purposes; to hold a night revel. The king doth wake to-night, and takes his rouse, Keeps wassail, and the swaggering upspring reels. Shak.

3. To be excited or roused from sleep; to awake; to be awakened; to cease to sleep; — often with up. He infallibly woke up at the sound of the concluding doxology. G. Eliot.

4. To be exited or roused up; to be stirred up from a dormant, torpid, or inactive state; to be active. Gentle airs due at their hour To fan the earth now waked. Milton. Then wake, my soul, to high desires. Keble.

WAKE
Wake, v. t.

1. To rouse from sleep; to awake. The angel . . . came again and waked me. Zech. iv. 1.

2. To put in motion or action; to arouse; to excite. "I shall waken all this company." Chaucer. Lest fierce remembrance wake my sudden rage. Milton. Even Richard's crusade woke little interest in his island realm. J. R. Green.

3. To bring to life again, as if from the sleep of death; to reanimate; to revive. To second life Waked in the renovation of the just. Milton.

4. To watch, or sit up with, at night, as a dead body.

WAKE
Wake, n.

1. The act of waking, or being awaked; also, the state of being awake. [Obs. or Poetic] Making such difference 'twixt wake and sleep. Shak. Singing her flatteries to my morning wake. Dryden.

2. The state of forbearing sleep, especially for solemn or festive purposes; a vigil. The warlike wakes continued all the night, And funeral games played at new returning light. Dryden. The wood nymphs, decked with daises trim, Their merry wakes and pastimes keep. Milton.

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. Great solemnities were made in all churches, and great fairs and wakes throughout all England. Ld. Berners. And every village smokes at wakes with lusty cheer. Drayton.

(b) The sitting up of persons with a dead body, often attended with a degree of festivity, chiefly among the Irish. "Blithe as shepherd at a wake." Cowper. Wake play, the ceremonies and pastimes connected with a wake. See Wake, n., 3 (b), above. [Obs.] Chaucer.

WAKEFUL
Wake"ful, a.

Defn: Not sleeping; indisposed to sleep; watchful; vigilant.
Dissembling sleep, but wakeful with the fright. Dryden.
— Wake"ful*ly, adv.
— Wake"ful*ness, n.

WAKEN
Wak"en, v. i. [imp. & p. pr. Wakened; p. pr. & vb. n. Wakening.]
Etym: [OE. waknen, AS. wæcnan; akin to Goth. gawaknan. See Wake, v.
i.]

Defn: To wake; to cease to sleep; to be awakened.
Early, Turnus wakening with the light. Dryden.

WAKEN
Wak"en, v. t.

1. To excite or rouse from sleep; to wake; to awake; to awaken. "Go, waken Eve." Milton.

2. To excite; to rouse; to move to action; to awaken.
Then Homer's and Tyrtæus' martial muse Wakened the world. Roscommon.
Venus now wakes, and wakens love. Milton.
They introduce Their sacred song, and waken raptures high. Milton.

WAKENER
Wak"en*er, n.

Defn: One who wakens.

WAKENING
Wak"en*ing, n.

1. The act of one who wakens; esp., the act of ceasing to sleep; an awakening.

2. (Scots Law)

Defn: The revival of an action. Burrill. They were too much ashamed to bring any wakening of the process against Janet. Sir W. Scott.

WAKER
Wak"er, n.

Defn: One who wakes.

WAKE-ROBIN
Wake"-rob`in, n. (Bot.)

Defn: Any plant of the genus Arum, especially, in England, the cuckoopint (Arum maculatum).

Note: In America the name is given to several species of Trillium, and sometimes to the Jack-in-the-pulpit.

WAKETIME
Wake"time`, n.

Defn: Time during which one is awake. [R.] Mrs. Browning.

WAKF
Wakf (wukf), n. [Ar. waqf.] (Moham. Law)

Defn: 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.

WAKIF
Wa"kif (wä"kif), n. [Ar. waqif.] (Moham. Law)

Defn: The person creating a wakf.

WAKING
Wak"ing, n.

1. The act of waking, or the state or period of being awake.

2. A watch; a watching. [Obs.] "Bodily pain . . . standeth in prayer, in wakings, in fastings." Chaucer. In the fourth waking of the night. Wyclif (Matt. xiv. 25).

WALAWAY
Wa"la*way, interj.

Defn: See Welaway. [Obs.]

WALD
Wald, n. Etym: [AS. weald. See Wold.]

Defn: A forest; — used as a termination of names. See Weald.

WALDENSES
Wal*den"ses, n. pl. Etym: [So called from Petrus Waldus, or Peter
Waldo, a merchant of Lyons, who founded this sect about a. d. 1170.]
(Eccl. Hist.)

Defn: A sect of dissenters from the ecclesiastical system of the Roman Catholic Church, who in the 13th century were driven by persecution to the valleys of Piedmont, where the sect survives. They profess substantially Protestant principles.

WALDENSIAN
Wal*den"sian, a.

Defn: Of or pertaining to the Waldenses.
— n.

Defn: One Holding the Waldensian doctrines.

WALDGRAVE
Wald"grave, n. Etym: [See Wald, and Margrave.]

Defn: In the old German empire, the head forest keeper.

WALDHEIMIA
Wald*hei"mi*a, n. Etym: [NL.] (Zoöl.)

Defn: A genus of brachiopods of which many species are found in the fossil state. A few still exist in the deep sea.

WALE Wale, n. Etym: [AS. walu a mark of stripes or blows, probably originally, a rod; akin to Icel. völr, Goth. walus a rod, staff. sq. root146. Cf. Goal, Weal a wale.]

1. A streak or mark made on the skin by a rod or whip; a stripe; a wheal. See Wheal. Holland.

2. A ridge or streak rising above the surface, as of cloth; hence,
the texture of cloth.
Thou 'rt rougher far, And of a coarser wale, fuller of pride. Beau &
Fl.

3. (Carp.)

Defn: A timber bolted to a row of piles to secure them together and in position. Knight.

4. (Naut.) (a) pl.

Defn: 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. Wale knot. (Naut.) See Wall knot, under 1st Wall.

WALE
Wale, v. t.

1. To mark with wales, or stripes.

2. To choose; to select; specifically (Mining), to pick out the refuse of (coal) by hand, in order to clean it. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.]

WALER
Wal"er, n. [From Wales, i.e., New South Wales.]

Defn: A horse imported from New South Wales; also, any Australian horse. [Colloq.] Kipling.

The term originated in India, whither many horses are exported from Australia (mostly from New South Wales), especially for the use of cavalry.

WALHALLA
Wal*hal"la, n. Etym: [Cf. G. walhalla, See Valhalla.]

Defn: See Valhalla.

WALING
Wal"ing, n. (Naut.)

Defn: Same as Wale, n., 4.

WALK Walk (wask), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Walked; p. pr. & vb. n. Walking.] Etym: [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. valka 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. sq. root130.]

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. At the end of twelve months, he walked in the palace of the kingdom of Babylon. Dan. iv. 29. When Peter was come down out of the ship, he walked on the water, to go to Jesus. Matt. xiv. 29.

Note: In the walk of quadrupeds, there are always two, and for a brief space there are three, feet on the ground at once, but never four.

2. To move or go on the feet for exercise or amusement; to take one's exercise; to ramble.

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. I have heard, but not believed, the spirits of the dead May walk again. Shak. When was it she last walked Shak.

4. To be in motion; to act; to move; to wag. [Obs.] "Her tongue did walk in foul reproach." Spenser. Do you think I'd walk in any plot B. Jonson. I heard a pen walking in the chimney behind the cloth. Latimer.

5. To behave; to pursue a course of life; to conduct one's self. We walk perversely with God, and he will walk crookedly toward us. Jer. Taylor.

6. To move off; to depart. [Obs. or Colloq.] He will make their cows and garrans to walk. Spenser. 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 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.

WALK
Walk, v. t.

1. To pass through, over, or upon; to traverse; to perambulate; as, to walk the streets. As we walk our earthly round. Keble.

2. To cause to walk; to lead, drive, or ride with a slow pace; as to walk one's horses. " I will rather trust . . . a thief to walk my ambling gelding." Shak.

3. Etym: [AS. wealcan to roll. See Walk to move on foot.]

Defn: To subject, as cloth or yarn, to the fulling process; to full. [Obs. or Scot.] 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.

WALK
Walk, n.

1. The act of walking, or moving on the feet with a slow pace; advance without running or leaping.

2. The act of walking for recreation or exercise; as, a morning walk; an evening walk.

3. Manner of walking; gait; step; as, we often know a person at a distance by his walk.

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. A woody mountain . . . with goodliest trees Planted, with walks and bowers. Milton. He had walk for a hundred sheep. Latimer. Amid the sound of steps that beat The murmuring walks like rain. Bryant.

5. A frequented track; habitual place of action; sphere; as, the walk
of the historian.
The mountains are his walks. Sandys.
He opened a boundless walk for his imagination. Pope.

6. Conduct; course of action; behavior.

7. The route or district regularly served by a vender; as, a milkman's walk. [Eng.]

WALKABLE
Walk"a*ble, a.

Defn: Fit to be walked on; capable of being walked on or over. [R.]
Swift.

WALKER
Walk"er, n.

1. One who walks; a pedestrian.

2. That with which one walks; a foot. [Obs.] Lame Mulciber, his walkers quite misgrown. Chapman.

3. (Law)

Defn: A forest officer appointed to walk over a certain space for inspection; a forester.

4. Etym: [AS. wealcere. See Walk, v. t., 3.]

Defn: A fuller of cloth. [Obs. or Prov. Eng. & Scot.]
She cursed the weaver and the walker The cloth that had wrought.
Percy's Reliques.

5. (Zoöl.)

Defn: Any ambulatorial orthopterous insect, as a stick insect.

WALKING
Walk"ing,

Defn: a. & n. from Walk, v. Walking beam. See Beam, 10. — Walking crane, a kind of traveling crane. See under Crane. — Walking fern. (Bot.) See Walking leaf, below. — Walking fish (Zoöl.), any one of numerous species of Asiatic fishes of the genus Ophiocephalus, some of which, as O. 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) (Zoöl.) A leaf insect. See under Leaf. — Walking papers, or Walking ticket, an order to leave; dismissal, as from office. [Colloq.] Bartlett. — Walking stick. (a) A stick or staff carried in the hand for hand for support or amusement when walking; a cane. (b) (Zoöl.) 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.

WALK-MILL
Walk"-mill`, n. Etym: [Walk to Walking Leaf, or full + mill.]

Defn: A fulling mill. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.

WALK-OVER
Walk"-o`ver, n.

Defn: In racing, the going over a course by a horse which has no competitor for the prize; hence, colloquially, a one-sided contest; an uncontested, or an easy, victory.

WALKYR
Wal"kyr, n. (Scand. Myth.)

Defn: See Valkyria.

WALL
Wall, n. (Naut.)

Defn: A kind of knot often used at the end of a rope; a wall knot; a wale. 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.

WALL Wall, n. Etym: [AS. weall, from L. vallum a wall, vallus a stake, pale, palisade; akin to Gr. Interval.]

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. The plaster of the wall of the King's palace. Dan. v. 5.

2. A defense; a rampart; a means of protection; in the plural, fortifications, in general; works for defense. The waters were a wall unto them on their right hand, and on their left. Ex. xiv. 22. In such a night, Troilus, methinks, mounted the Troyan walls. Shak. To rush undaunted to defend the walls. Dryden.

3. An inclosing part of a receptacle or vessel; as, the walls of a steam-engine cylinder.

4. (Mining) (a) The side of a level or drift. (b) The country rock bounding a vein laterally. Raymond.

Note: 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. 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. "I will take the wall of any man or maid of Montague's." 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 (Zoöl.), 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 (Zoöl.), 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 (Zoöl.), 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 (Zoöl.), 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 (Zoöl.), a common European solitary wasp (Odynerus parietus) which makes its nest in the crevices of walls.

WALL
Wall (, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Walled (; p. pr. & vb. n. Walling.]

1. To inclose with a wall, or as with a wall. "Seven walled towns of
strength." Shak.
The king of Thebes, Amphion, That with his singing walled that city.
Chaucer.

2. To defend by walls, or as if by walls; to fortify. The terror of his name that walls us in. Denham.

3. To close or fill with a wall, as a doorway.

WALLABA
Wal"la*ba, n. (Bot.)

Defn: 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).

WALLABY
Wal"la*by, n.; pl. Wallabies. Etym: [From a native name.] (Zoöl.)

Defn: Any one of numerous species of kangaroos belonging to the genus Halmaturus, native of Australia and Tasmania, especially the smaller species, as the brush kangaroo (H. Bennettii) and the pademelon (H. thetidis). The wallabies chiefly inhabit the wooded district and bushy plains. [Written also wallabee, and whallabee.]

WALLACHIAN
Wal*la"chi*an, a. [Also Walachian, Wallach, Wallack, Vlach, etc.]

Defn: Of or pertaining to Wallachia, a former principality, now part of the kingdom, of Roumania. — n.

Defn: An inhabitant of Wallachia; also, the language of the
Wallachians; Roumanian.

WALLACK
Wal"lack, a. & n.

Defn: See Wallachian.

WALLAH
Wal"lah, n. (Zoöl.)

Defn: A black variety of the jaguar; — called also tapir tiger.
[Written also walla.]

WALLAROO
Wal`la*roo", n. (Zoöl.)

Defn: Any one of several species of kangaroos of the genus Macropus, especially M. robustus, sometimes called the great wallaroo.

WALLBIRD
Wall"bird`, n. (Zoöl.)

Defn: The spotted flycatcher. [Prov. Eng.]

WALLER
Wall"er, n.

Defn: One who builds walls.

WALLER
Wall"er, n. Etym: [G.] (Zoöl.)

Defn: The wels.

WALLERIAN DEGENERATION
Wal*le"ri*an de*gen`er*a"tion. (Med.)

Defn: A form of degeneration occurring in nerve fibers as a result of their division; — so called from Dr. Waller, who published an account of it in 1850.

WALLET Wal"let, n. Etym: [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. [His hood] was trussed up in his walet. Chaucer.

2. A pocketbook for keeping money about the person.

3. Anything protuberant and swagging. "Wallets of flesh." Shak.

WALLETEER
Wal`let*eer", n.

Defn: One who carries a wallet; a foot traveler; a tramping beggar.
[Colloq.] Wright.

WALL-EYE
Wall"-eye`, n. Etym: [See Wall-eyed.]

1. An eye in which the iris is of a very light gray or whitish color; — said usually of horses. Booth.

Note: Jonson has defined wall-eye to be "a disease in the crystalline humor of the eye; glaucoma." 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.

2. (Zoöl.) (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.

WALL-EYED Wall"-eyed`, a. Etym: [Icel. valdeygedhr, 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.]

Defn: Having an eye of a very light gray or whitish color. Booth.

Note: Shakespeare, in using wall-eyed as a term of reproach (as "wall-eyed rage," a "wall-eyed wretch"), 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.

WALLFLOWER
Wall"flow`er, n.

1. (Bot.)

Defn: 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.

Note: The name is sometimes extended to other species of Cheiranthus and of the related genus Erysimum, especially the American Western wallflower (Erysimum asperum), a biennial herb with orange-yellow flowers.

2. A lady at a ball, who, either from choice, or because not asked to dance, remains a spectator. [Colloq.]

WALLHICK
Wall"hick`, n. (Zoöl.)

Defn: The lesser spotted woodpecker (Dryobates minor). [Prov. Eng.]

WALLING
Wall"ing, n.

1. The act of making a wall or walls.

2. Walls, in general; material for walls. 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.

WALLOONS
Wal*loons", n. pl.; sing. Walloon (. Etym: [Cf. F. wallon.]

Defn: A Romanic people inhabiting that part of Belgium which comprises the provinces of Hainaut, Namur, Liége, and Luxembourg, and about one third of Brabant; also, the language spoken by this people. Used also adjectively. [Written also Wallons.] "A base Walloon . . . thrust Talbot with a spear." Shak. Walloon guard, the bodyguard of the Spanish monarch; — so called because formerly consisting of Walloons.

WALLOP
Wal"lop, v. i. Etym: [Cf. OFlem. walop a gallop; of uncertain origin.
Cf. Gallop.]

Defn: To move quickly, but with great effort; to gallop. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.]

WALLOP
Wal"lop, n.

Defn: A quick, rolling movement; a gallop. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.]

WALLOP
Wal"lop, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Walloped; p. pr. & vb. n. Walloping.]
Etym: [Probably fr. AS. weallan to spring up, to boil or bubble. sq.
root147. See Well, n. & v. i.]

1. To boil with a continued bubbling or heaving and rolling, with noise. [Prov. Eng.] Brockett.

2. To move in a rolling, cumbersome manner; to waddle. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.

3. To be slatternly. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.

WALLOP
Wal"lop, v. t.

1. To beat soundly; to flog; to whip. [Prov. Eng., Scot., & Colloq. U. S.]

2. To wrap up temporarily. [Prov. Eng.]

3. To throw or tumble over. [Prov. Eng.]

WALLOP
Wal"lop, n.

1. A thick piece of fat. Halliwell.

2. A blow. [Prov. Eng., Scot., & Colloq. U.S.]

WALLOW
Wal"low, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Wallowed; p. pr. & vb. n. Wallowing.]
Etym: [OE. walwen, AS. wealwian; akin to Goth. walwjan (in comp.) to
roll, L. volvere; cf. Skr. val to turn. *147. Cf. Voluble Well, n.]

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. I may wallow in the lily beds. Shak.

2. To live in filth or gross vice; to disport one's self in a beastly and unworthy manner. God sees a man wallowing in his native impurity. South.

3. To wither; to fade. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.]

WALLOW
Wal"low, v. t.

Defn: To roll; esp., to roll in anything defiling or unclean. "Wallow thyself in ashes." Jer. vi. 26.

WALLOW
Wal"low, n.

Defn: A kind of rolling walk.
One taught the toss, and one the new French wallow. Dryden.

WALLOWER
Wal"low*er, n.

1. One who, or that which, wallows.

2. (Mach.)

Defn: A lantern wheel; a trundle.

WALLOWISH
Wal"low*ish, a. Etym: [Scot. wallow to fade or wither.]

Defn: Flat; insipid. [Obs.] Overbury.

WALL-PLAT
Wall"-plat`, n. (Zoöl.)

Defn: The spotted flycatcher. It builds its nest on walls. [Prov.
Eng.]

WALL-SIDED
Wall"-sid`ed, a. (Naut.)

Defn: 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.).

WALL STREET
Wall Street.

Defn: 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.

WALLWORT
Wall"wort`, n. (Bot.)

Defn: The dwarf elder, or danewort (Sambucus Ebulus).

WALM
Walm, v. i. Etym: [AS. weallan; cf. wælm, billow. *147.]

Defn: To roll; to spout; to boil up. [Obs.] Holland.

WALNUT
Wal"nut, n. Etym: [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. valnöt, Dan valnöd. See Nut, and cf. Welsh.] (Bot.)

Defn: 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.

Note: In some parts of America, especially in New England, the name walnut is given to several species of hickory (Carya), and their fruit. Ash-leaved walnut, a tree (Juglans fraxinifolia), native in Transcaucasia. — Black walnut, a North American tree (J. 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, or European, walnut, a tree (J. 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 (J. cinerea), bearing long, oval, thick-shelled, oily nuts, commonly called butternuts. See Butternut.

WALRUS Wal"rus, n. Etym: [D. walrus; of Scand. origin; cf. Dan valros, Sw. vallross, Norw. hvalros; literally, whale horse; akin to Icel. hrosshvalr, AS. horshwæl. See Whale, and Horse.] (Zoöl.)

Defn: 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.

Note: The walrus of the North Pacific and Behring Strait (Trichecus obesus) is regarded by some as a distinct species, by others as a variety of the common walrus.

WALTER
Wal"ter, v. i. Etym: [See Welter.]

Defn: To roll or wallow; to welter. [Obs. or Prov. Eng. & Scot.]

WALTRON
Wal"tron, n.

Defn: A walrus. [Obs.] Woodward.

WALTY
Wal"ty, a. Etym: [Cf. Walter to roll.]

Defn: Liable to roll over; crank; as, a walty ship. [R.] Longfellow.

WALTZ Waltz, n. Etym: [G. walzer, from walzen to roll, revolve, dance, OHG. walzan to roll; akin to AS. wealtan. See Welter.]

Defn: 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.

WALTZ
Waltz, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Waltzed; p. pr. & vb. n. Waltzing.]

Defn: To dance a waltz.

WALTZER
Waltz"er, n.

Defn: A person who waltzes.

WALWE
Wal"we, v.

Defn: To wallow. [Obs.] Chaucer.

WALY
Wa"ly, interj. Etym: [Cf. Welaway.]

Defn: An exclamation of grief. [Obs. or Prov. Eng. & Scot.]

WAMBLE Wam"ble, v. i. Etym: [Cf. Dan. vamle, and vammel squeamish, ready to vomit, Icel. væma to feel nausea, væminn nauseous.]

1. To heave; to be disturbed by nausea; — said of the stomach. L'Estrange.

2. To move irregularly to and fro; to roll.

WAMBLE
Wam"ble, n.

Defn: Disturbance of the stomach; a feeling of nausea. Holland.

WAMBLE-CROPPED
Wam"ble-cropped`, a.

Defn: Sick at the stomach; also, crestfallen; dejected. [Slang]

WAMMEL
Wam"mel, v. i.

Defn: To move irregularly or awkwardly; to wamble, or wabble. [Prov.
Eng.]

WAMP
Wamp, n. Etym: [From the North American Indian name.] (Zoöl.)

Defn: The common American eider.

WAMPEE 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.]

WAMPUM
Wam"pum, n. Etym: [North American Indian wampum, wompam, from the
Mass. wómpi, Del. wape, white.]

Defn: Beads made of shells, used by the North American Indians as
money, and also wrought into belts, etc., as an ornament.
Round his waist his belt of wampum. Longfellow.
Girded with his wampum braid. Whittier.

Note: These beads were of two kinds, one white, and the other black or dark purple. The term wampum is properly applied only to the white; the dark purple ones are called suckanhock. See Seawan. "It [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." Palfrey.

WAN
Wan, obs. imp. of Win.

Defn: Won. Chaucer.

WAN
Wan (, a. Etym: [AS. wann, wonn, wan, won, dark, lurid, livid,
perhaps originally, worn out by toil, from winnan to labor, strive.
See Win.]

Defn: Having a pale or sickly hue; languid of look; pale; pallid.
"Sad to view, his visage pale and wan." Spenser.
My color . . . [is] wan and of a leaden hue. Chaucer.
Why so pale and wan, fond lover Suckling.
With the wan moon overhead. Longfellow.

WAN
Wan, n.

Defn: The quality of being wan; wanness. [R.]
Tinged with wan from lack of sleep. Tennyson.

WAN
Wan, v. i.

Defn: To grow wan; to become pale or sickly in looks. "All his visage
wanned." Shak.
And ever he mutter'd and madden'd, and ever wann'd with despair.
Tennyson.

WAND
Wand, n. Etym: [Of Scand. origin; cf. Icel. vöndr, 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. With good smart blows of a wand on his back. Locke.

2. Specifically: (a) A staff of authority. Though he had both spurs and wand, they seemed rather marks of sovereignty than instruments of punishment. Sir P. Sidney.

(b) A rod used by conjurers, diviners, magicians, etc. Picus bore a buckler in his hand; His other waved a long divining wand. Dryden. 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.

WANDER
Wan"der, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Wandered; p. pr. & vb. n. Wandering.]
Etym: [OE. wandren, wandrien, AS. wandrian; akin to G. wandern to
wander; fr. AS. windan to turn. See Wind to turn.]

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. They wandered about in sheepskins and goatskins. Heb. xi. 37. He wandereth abroad for bread. Job xv. 23.

2. To go away; to depart; to stray off; to deviate; to go astray; as, a writer wanders from his subject. When God caused me to wander from my father's house. Gen. xx. 13. O, let me not wander from thy commandments. Ps. cxix. 10.

3. To be delirious; not to be under the guidance of reason; to rave; as, the mind wanders.

Syn. — To roam; rove; range; stroll; gad; stray; straggly; err; swerve; deviate; depart.

WANDER
Wan"der, v. t.

Defn: To travel over without a certain course; to traverse; to stroll through. [R.] "[Elijah] wandered this barren waste." Milton.

WANDERER
Wan"der*er, n.

Defn: One who wanders; a rambler; one who roves; hence, one who deviates from duty.

WANDERING
Wan"der*ing,

Defn: a. & n. from Wander, v. Wandering albatross (Zoöl.), 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 (Zoöl.), the whitefooted, or deer, mouse. See Illust. of Mouse. — Wandering spider (Zoöl.), any one of a tribe of spiders that wander about in search of their prey.

WANDERINGLY
Wan"der*ing*ly, adv.

Defn: In a wandering manner.

WANDERMENT
Wan"der*ment, n.

Defn: The act of wandering, or roaming. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.

WANDEROO
Wan`der*oo", n. Etym: [Cingalese wanderu a monkey.] (Zoöl.)

Defn: 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.]

Note: The name is sometimes applied also to other allied species.

WANDY
Wand"y, a.

Defn: Long and flexible, like a wand. [Prov. Eng.] Brockett.

WANE Wane, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Waned; p. pr. & vb. n. Waning.] Etym: [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.]

1. To be diminished; to decrease; — contrasted with wax, and especially applied to the illuminated part of the moon. Like the moon, aye wax ye and wane. Waning moons their settled periods keep. Addison.

2. To decline; to fail; to sink. You saw but sorrow in its waning form. Dryden. Land and trade ever will wax and wane together. Sir J. Child.

WANE
Wane, v. t.

Defn: To cause to decrease. [Obs.] B. Jonson.

WANE
Wane, n.

1. The decrease of the illuminated part of the moon to the eye of a spectator.

2. Decline; failure; diminution; decrease; declension. An age in which the church is in its wane. South. Though the year be on the wane. Keble.

3. An inequality in a board. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.

WANEY
Wan"ey, n.

Defn: A sharp or uneven edge on a board that is cut from a log not perfectly squared, or that is made in the process of squaring. See Wany, a.

WANG Wang, n. Etym: [OE. wange, AS. wange, wonge, cheek, jaw; akin to D. wang, OS. & OHG. wanga, G. wange.]

1. The jaw, jawbone, or cheek bone. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] So work aye the wangs in his head. Chaucer.

2. A slap; a blow. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell. Wang tooth, a cheek tooth; a molar. [Obs.] Chaucer.

WANG
Wang, n.

Defn: See Whang. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.]

WANGAN
Wan"gan, n. Etym: [American Indian.]

Defn: A boat for conveying provisions, tools, etc.; — so called by
Maine lumbermen. [Written also wangun.] Bartlett.

WANGER
Wang"er, n. Etym: [AS. wangere. See 1st Wang.]

Defn: A pillow for the cheek; a pillow. [Obs. & R.]
His bright helm was his wanger. Chaucer.

WANGHEE
Wang*hee", n. Etym: [Chin. wang yellow + he a root.] (Bot.)

Defn: 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.]

WANGO
Wang"o, n.

Defn: A boomerang.

WANHOPE Wan"hope`, n. Etym: [AS. wan, won, deficient, wanting + hopa hope: cf. D. wanhoop. . See Wane, and Hope.]

Defn: Want of hope; despair; also, faint or delusive hope; delusion.
[Obs.] Piers Plowman. "Wanhope and distress." Chaucer.

WANHORN
Wan"horn` n. Etym: [Corruption fr. Siamese wanhom.] (Bot.)

Defn: An East Indian plant (Kæmpferia Galanga) of the Ginger family.
See Galanga.

WANIAND
Wan"i*and, n. Etym: [See Wanion.]

Defn: The wane of the moon. [Obs.] Halliwell.

WANING
Wan"ing, n.

Defn: The act or process of waning, or decreasing. This earthly moon, the Church, hath fulls and wanings, and sometimes her eclipses. Bp. Hall.

WANION Wan"ion, n. Etym: [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.]

Defn: 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.

WANKLE
Wan"kle, a. Etym: [AS. wancol.]

Defn: Not to be depended on; weak; unstable. [Prov. Eng.] Grose.

WANLY
Wan"ly, adv.

Defn: In a wan, or pale, manner.

WANNED
Wanned, a.

Defn: Made wan, or pale.

WANNESS
Wan"ness, n.

Defn: The quality or state of being wan; a sallow, dead, pale color; paleness; pallor; as, the wanness of the cheeks after a fever.

WANNISH
Wan"nish, a.

Defn: Somewhat wan; of a pale hue.
No sun, but a wannish glare, In fold upon fold of hueless cloud.
Tennyson.

WANT Want (277), n. Etym: [Originally an adj., from Icel. vant, neuter of vanr lacking, deficient. sq. root139. See Wane, v. i.]

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. And me, his parent, would full soon devour For want of other prey. Milton. From having wishes in consequence of our wants, we often feel wants in consequence of our wishes. Rambler. Pride is as loud a beggar as want, and more saucy. Franklin.

2. Specifically, absence or lack of necessaries; destitution; poverty; penury; indigence; need. Nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches, as to conceive how others can be in want. Swift.

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. Habitual superfluities become actual wants. Paley.

4. (Mining)

Defn: A depression in coal strata, hollowed out before the subsequent deposition took place. [Eng.]

Syn. — Indigence; deficiency; defect; destitution; lack; failure; dearth; scarceness.

WANT
Want, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Wanted; p. pr. & vb. n. Wanting.]

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. They that want honesty, want anything. Beau. & Fl. Nor think, though men were none, That heaven would want spectators, God want praise. Milton. The unhappy never want enemies. Richardson.

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.

3. To feel need of; to wish or long for; to desire; to crave. " What wants my son" Addison. I want to speak to you about something. A. Trollope.

WANT
Want, v. i. Etym: [Icel. vanta to be wanting. See Want to lack.]

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. 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.

2. To be in a state of destitution; to be needy; to lack. You have a gift, sir (thank your education), Will never let you want. B. Jonson. For as in bodies, thus in souls, we find What wants in blood and spirits, swelled with wind. Pope.

Note: Want was formerly used impersonally with an indirect object.
"Him wanted audience." Chaucer.

WA'N'T
Wa'n't.

Defn: A colloquial contraction of was not.

WANTAGE
Want"age, n.

Defn: That which is wanting; deficiency.

WANTING
Want"ing, a.

Defn: Absent; lacking; missing; also, deficient; destitute; needy; as, one of the twelve is wanting; I shall not be wanting in exertion.

WANTLESS
Want"less, a.

Defn: Having no want; abundant; fruitful.

WANTON Wan"ton, a. Etym: [OE. wantoun, contr. from wantowen; pref. wan- wanting (see Wane, v. i.), hence expressing negation + towen, p. p., AS. togen, p. p. of teón to draw, to educate, bring up; hence, properly, ill bred. See Tug, v. t.]

1. Untrained; undisciplined; unrestrained; hence, loose; free; luxuriant; roving; sportive. "In woods and wanton wilderness." Spenser. "A wild and wanton herd." Shak. A wanton and a merry [friar]. Chaucer. [She] her unadorned golden tresses wore Disheveled, but in wanton ringlets waved. Milton. How does your tongue grow wanton in her praise! Addison.

2. Wandering from moral rectitude; perverse; dissolute. "Men grown wanton by prosperity." Roscommon.

3. Specifically: Deviating from the rules of chastity; lewd; lustful; lascivious; libidinous; lecherous. Not with wanton looking of folly. Chaucer. [Thou art] froward by nature, enemy to peace, Lascivious, wanton. Shak.

4. Reckless; heedless; as, wanton mischief.

WANTON
Wan"ton, n.

1. A roving, frolicsome thing; a trifler; — used rarely as a term of
endearment.
I am afeard you make a wanton of me. Shak.
Peace, my wantons; he will do More than you can aim unto. B. Jonson.

2. One brought up without restraint; a pampered pet. Anything, sir, That's dry and wholesome; I am no bred wanton. Beau. & Fl.

3. A lewd person; a lascivious man or woman.

WANTON
Wan"ton, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Wantoned; p. pr. & vb. n. Wantoning.]

1. To rove and ramble without restraint, rule, or limit; to revel; to play loosely; to frolic. Nature here wantoned as in her prime. Milton. 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.

2. To sport in lewdness; to play the wanton; to play lasciviously.

WANTON
Wan"ton, v. t.

Defn: To cause to become wanton; also, to waste in wantonness. [Obs.]

WANTONIZE
Wan"ton*ize, v. i.

Defn: To behave wantonly; to frolic; to wanton. [R.] Lamb.

WANTONLY
Wan"ton*ly, adv.

1. In a wanton manner; without regularity or restraint; loosely; sportively; gayly; playfully; recklessly; lasciviously.

2. Unintentionally; accidentally. [Obs.] J. Dee.

WANTONNESS
Wan"ton*ness, n.

Defn: The quality or state of being wanton; negligence of restraint; sportiveness; recklessness; lasciviousness. Gower. The tumults threatened to abuse all acts of grace, and turn them into wantonness. Eikon Basilike. Young gentlemen would be as sad as night Only for wantonness. Shak.

WANTRUST
Wan"trust`, n. Etym: [Pref. wan- as in wanton + trust.]

Defn: Failing or diminishing trust; want of trust or confidence; distrust. [Obs.] Chaucer.

WANTWIT
Want"wit`, n.

Defn: One destitute of wit or sense; a blockhead; a fool. [Obs.]
Shak.

WANTY
Wan"ty, n. Etym: [For womb tie, that is, bellyWomb, and Tie.]

Defn: 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.]

WANY
Wan"y, v. i.

Defn: To wane. [Obs.] Chaucer.

WANY
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.

2. Spoiled by wet; — said of timber. Halliwell.

WANZE
Wanze, v. i.

Defn: To wane; to wither. [Obs.]

WAP
Wap, v. t. & i. Etym: [See Whap.]

Defn: To beat; to whap. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] Sir T. Malory.

WAP
Wap, n.

Defn: A blow or beating; a whap. [Prov. Eng.]

WAPACUT
Wap"a*cut, n. (Zoöl.)

Defn: The American hawk owl. See under Hawk.

WAPATOO
Wap"a*too`, n. (Bot.)

Defn: The edible tuber of a species of arrowhead (Sagittaria variabilis); — so called by the Indians of Oregon. [Written also wappato.]

WAPED Waped, a. Etym: [Prov. E. wape pale, v., to stupefy, akin to wap to beat. Cf. Whap, and Wappened.]

Defn: Cast down; crushed by misery; dejected. [Obs.]

WAPENTAKE Wap"en*take, n. Etym: [AS. w, w, from Icel. vapnatak, literally, a weapon taking or weapon touching, hence an expression of assent ("si displicuit sententia fremitu aspernantur; sin placuit frameas concutiunt." Tacitus, "Germania," 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. "Cum quis accipiebat præfecturam 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 foedus accipiebat; omnes enim quot-quot venissent cum lanceis suis ipsius hastam tangebant, et ita se confirmabant per contactum armorum, pace palam concessa. Wæpnu enim arma sonat; tac, tactus est — hac de causa totus ille conventus dicitur Wapentac, eo quod per tactum armorum suorum ad invicem confoederati sunt." L L. Edward Confessor, 33. D. Wilkins.]

Defn: 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.

WAPINSCHAW
Wap"in*schaw, n. Etym: [Scot. See Weapon, and Show.]

Defn: 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.

WAPITI
Wap"i*ti, n. Etym: [Probably the Iroquois name. Bartlett.] (Zoöl.)

Defn: The American elk (Cervus Canadensis). It is closely related to the European red deer, which it somewhat exceeds in size.

Note: By some writers it is thought to be a variety of the red deer, but it is considered a distinct species by others. It is noted for the large, branching antlers of the male.

WAPP Wapp, n. Etym: [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.

WAPPATO
Wap"pa*to, n. (Bot.)

Defn: See Wapatoo.

WAPPENED
Wap"pened, a. Etym: [Cf. Waped, Wapper.]

Defn: A word of doubtful meaning used once by Shakespeare.
This [gold] is it
That makes the wappen'd widow wed again.

Note: It is conjectured by some that it is an error for wappered, meaning tremulous or exhausted.

WAPPER Wap"per, v. t. & i. Etym: [freq. of wap, v.; cf. dial. G. wappern, wippern, to move up and down, to rock.]

Defn: To cause to shake; to tremble; to move tremulously, as from weakness; to totter. [Obs.]

WAPPER
Wap"per, n. (Zoöl.)

Defn: A gudgeon. [Prov. Eng.]

WAPPET
Wap"pet, n.

Defn: A small yelping cur. [Prov. Eng.]

WAPPING
Wap"ping, n.

Defn: Yelping. [R.] Fuller.

WAR
War, a.

Defn: Ware; aware. [Obs.] Chaucer.

WAR War, n. Etym: [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.]

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. Men will ever distinguish war from mere bloodshed. F. W. Robertson.

Note: As 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.

2. (Law)

Defn: A condition of belligerency to be maintained by physical force. In this sense, levying war against the sovereign authority is treason.

3. Instruments of war. [Poetic] His complement of stores, and total war. Prior.

4. Forces; army. [Poetic] On their embattled ranks the waves return, And overwhelm their war. Milton.

5. The profession of arms; the art of war. Thou art but a youth, and he is a man of war from his youth. 1 Sam. xvii. 33.

6. a state of opposition or contest; an act of opposition; an
inimical contest, act, or action; enmity; hostility. "Raised impious
war in heaven." Milton.
The words of his mouth were smoother than butter, but war was in his
heart. Ps. lv. 21.
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. "Wash the war paint from your
faces." 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.

WAR
War, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Warred; p. pr. & vb. n. Warring.] 1

Defn: 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.
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.
Why should I war without the walls of Troy Shak.
Our countrymen were warring on that day! Byron.

2. To contend; to strive violently; to fight. "Lusts which war against the soul." 1 Pet. ii. 11.

WAR
War, v. t.

1. To make war upon; to fight. [R.] To war the Scot, and borders to defend. Daniel.

2. To carry on, as a contest; to wage. [R.] That thou . . . mightest war a good warfare. Tim. i. 18.

WAR-BEATEN
War"-beat`en, a.

Defn: Warworn.

WARBLE
War"ble, n. Etym: [Cf. Wormil.]

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 larvæ of the gadfly in the backs of horses, cattle, etc. Called also warblet, warbeetle, warnles.

2. (Zoöl.)

Defn: See Wormil.

WARBLE
War"ble, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Warbled; p. pr. & vb. n. Warbling.]
Etym: [OE. werbelen, OF. werbler; of Teutonic origin; cf. G. wirbeln
to turn, to warble, D. wervelen, akin to E. whirl. See Whirl.]

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.

2. To utter musically; to modulate; to carol. If she be right invoked in warbled song. Milton. Warbling sweet the nuptial lay. Trumbull.

3. To cause to quaver or vibrate. "And touch the warbled string." Milton.

WARBLE
War"ble, v. i.

1. To be quavered or modulated; to be uttered melodiously. Such strains ne'er warble in the linnet's throat. Gay.

3. To sing in a trilling manner, or with many turns and variations. "Birds on the branches warbling." Milton.

3. To sing with sudden changes from chest to head tones; to yodel.

WARBLE
War"ble, n.

Defn: A quavering modulation of the voice; a musical trill; a song. And he, the wondrous child, Whose silver warble wild Outvalued every pulsing sound. Emerson.

WARBLER
War"bler, n.

1. One who, or that which, warbles; a singer; a songster; — applied chiefly to birds. In lulling strains the feathered warblers woo. Tickell.

2. (Zoöl.)

Defn: Any one of numerous species of small Old World singing birds belonging to the family Sylviidæ, many of which are noted songsters. The bluethroat, blackcap, reed warbler (see under Reed), and sedge warbler (see under Sedge) are well-known species.

3. (Zoöl.)

Defn: Any one of numerous species of small, often bright colored,
American singing birds of the family or subfamily Mniotiltidæ, or
Sylvicolinæ. They are allied to the Old World warblers, but most of
them are not particularly musical.

Note: The American warblers are often divided, according to their habits, into bush warblers, creeping warblers, fly-catching warblers, ground warblers, wood warblers, wormeating warblers, etc. Bush warbler (Zoöl.) any American warbler of the genus Opornis, as the Connecticut warbler (O. agilis). — Creeping warbler (Zoöl.), 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 (Zoöl.), 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 (S. pusilla), the Canadian warbler (S. Canadensis), and the American redstart (see Redstart). — Ground warbler (Zoöl.), any American warbler of the genus Geothlypis, as the mourning ground warbler (G. Philadelphia), and the Maryland yellowthroat (see Yellowthroat). — Wood warbler (Zoöl.), 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 (D. coronata), the blackpoll (D. striata), the bay-breasted warbler (D. castanea), the chestnut-sided warbler (D. Pennsylvanica), the Cape May warbler (D. tigrina), the prairie warbler (see under Prairie), and the pine warbler (D. pinus). See also Magnolia warbler, under Magnolia, and Blackburnian warbler.

WARBLINGLY
War"bling*ly, adv.

Defn: In a warbling manner.

WARBURG'S TINCTURE
War"burg's tinc"ture. (Pharm.)

Defn: A preparation containing quinine and many other ingredients, often used in the treatment of malarial affections. It was invented by Dr. Warburg of London.

-WARD; -WARDS -ward, -wards. Etym: [AS. -weard, -weardes; akin to OS. & OFries. - ward. OHG. -wert, G. -wärts, Icel. -verthr, Goth. -vaírÞs, L. vertere to turn, versus toward, and E. worth to become. *143. 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.]

Defn: Suffixes denoting course or direction to; motion or tendency toward; as in backward, or backwards; toward, or towards, etc.

WARD Ward, n. Etym: [AS. weard, fem., guard, weard, ward a watcher, warden, G. wart, OHG. wart, Icel. vör a warden, a watch, Goth. -wards in daúrawards 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. Still, when she slept, he kept both watch and ward. Spenser.

2. One who, or that which, guards; garrison; defender; protector; means of guarding; defense; protection. For the best ward of mine honor. Shak. The assieged castle's ward Their steadfast stands did mightily maintain. Spenser. For want of other ward, He lifted up his hand, his front to guard. Dryden.

3. The state of being under guard or guardianship; confinement under guard; the condition of a child under a guardian; custody. And he put them in ward in the house of the captain of the guard. Gen. xl. 3. I must attend his majesty's command, to whom I am now in ward. Shak. 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.

4. A guarding or defensive motion or position, as in fencing; guard. "Thou knowest my old ward; here I lay, and thus I bore my point." Shak.

5. One who, or that which, is guarded. Specifically: — (a) A minor or person under the care of a guardian; as, a ward in chancery. "You know our father's ward, the fair Monimia." Otway. (b) A division of a county. [Eng. & Scot.] (c) A division, district, or quarter of a town or city. Throughout the trembling city placed a guard, Dealing an equal share to every ward. Dryden.

(d) A division of a forest. [Eng.] (e) A division of a hospital; as, a fever ward.

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. 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.

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.]

WARD Ward, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Warded; p. pr. & vb. n. Warding.] Etym: [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. vårda to guard, to watch; cf. OF. warder, of German origin. See Ward, n., and cf. Award, Guard, Reward.]

1. To keep in safety; to watch; to guard; formerly, in a specific sense, to guard during the day time. Whose gates he found fast shut, no living wight To ward the same. Spenser.

2. To defend; to protect. Tell him it was a hand that warded him From thousand dangers. Shak.

3. To defend by walls, fortifications, etc. [Obs.]

4. To fend off; to repel; to turn aside, as anything mischievous that approaches; — usually followed by off. Now wards a felling blow, now strikes again. Daniel. The pointed javelin warded off his rage. Addison. It instructs the scholar in the various methods of warding off the force of objections. I. Watts.

WARD
Ward, v. i.

1. To be vigilant; to keep guard.

2. To act on the defensive with a weapon. She redoubling her blows drove the stranger to no other shift than to ward and go back. Sir P. Sidney.

WARD-CORN
Ward"-corn`, n. Etym: [Ward + F. corne horn, L. cornu.] (O. Eng. Law)

Defn: 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.

WARDCORPS
Ward"corps`, n. Etym: [Wars + corps.]

Defn: Guardian; one set to watch over another. [Obs.] "Though thou preyedest Argus . . . to be my wardcorps." Chaucer.

WARDEN Ward"en, n. Etym: [OE. wardein, OF. wardein, gardein, gardain, F. gardien. See Guardian, and Ward guard.]

1. A keeper; a guardian; a watchman. He called to the warden on the . . . battlements. Sir. W. Scott.

2. An officer who keeps or guards; a keeper; as, the warden of a prison.

3. A head official; as, the warden of a college; specifically (Eccl.), a churchwarden.

4. Etym: [Properly, a keeping pear.]

Defn: A large, hard pear, chiefly used for baking and roasting.
[Obs.]
I would have had him roasted like a warden. Beau. & Fl.
Warden pie, a pie made of warden pears. [Obs.] Shak.

WARDENRY; WARDENSHIP
Ward"en*ry, Ward"en*ship, n.

Defn: The office or jurisdiction of a warden.

WARDER
Ward"er, n.

1. One who wards or keeps; a keeper; a guard. "The warders of the gate." Dryden.

2. A truncheon or staff carried by a king or a commander in chief, and used in signaling his will. When, lo! the king suddenly changed his mind, Casts down his warder to arrest them there. Daniel. Wafting his warder thrice about his head, He cast it up with his auspicious hand, Which was the signal, through the English spread, This they should charge. Drayton.

WARDIAN
Ward"i*an, a.

Defn: Designating, or pertaining to, a kind of glass inclosure for keeping ferns, mosses, etc., or for transporting growing plants from a distance; as, a Wardian case of plants; — so named from the inventor, Nathaniel B. Ward, an Englishman.

WARDMOTE
Ward"mote`, n.

Defn: 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. "Wards and wardmotes." Piers Plowman.

WARDROBE
Ward"robe`, n. Etym: [OE. warderobe, OF. warderobe, F. garderobe; of
German origin. See Ward, v. t., and Robe.]

1. A room or apartment where clothes are kept, or wearing apparel is stored; a portable closet for hanging up clothes.

2. Wearing apparel, in general; articles of dress or personal
decoration.
Flowers that their gay wardrobe wear. Milton.
With a pair of saddlebags containing his wardrobe. T. Hughes.

3. A privy. [Obs.] Chaucer.

WARDROOM
Ward"room`, n.

1. (Naut.)

Defn: A room occupied as a messroom by the commissioned officers of a war vessel. See Gunroom. Totten.

2. A room used by the citizens of a city ward, for meetings, political caucuses, elections, etc. [U.S.]

-WARDS -wards.

Defn: See -ward.

WARDSHIP
Ward"ship, n.

1. The office of a ward or keeper; care and protection of a ward; guardianship; right of guardianship. Wardship is incident to tenure in socage. Blackstone.

2. The state of begin under a guardian; pupilage. It was the wisest act . . . in my wardship. B. Jonson.

WARDSMAN
Wards"man, n.; pl. Wardsmen (.

Defn: A man who keeps ward; a guard. [R.] Sydney Smith.

WARE
Ware, obs. imp. of Wear.

Defn: Wore.

WARE
Ware, v. t. (Naut.)

Defn: To wear, or veer. See Wear.

WARE
Ware, n. Etym: [AS. war.] (Bot.)

Defn: Seaweed. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] Ware goose (Zoöl.), the brant; — so called because it feeds on ware, or seaweed. [Prov. Eng.]

WARE Ware, n. Etym: [OE. ware, AS. waru; akin to D. waar, G. waare, Icel. & Sw. vara, Dan. vare; and probably to E. worth, a. See Worth, a.]

Defn: 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. "Retails his wares at wakes." Shak. "To chaffer with them and eke to sell them their ware." Chaucer. 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.

Note: Although originally and properly a collective noun, it admits of a plural form, when articles of merchandise of different kinds are meant. It is often used in composition; as in hardware, glassware, tinware, etc.

WARE
Ware, a. Etym: [OE. war, AS. wær. sq. root142. See Wary.]

Defn: A ware; taking notice; hence, wary; cautious; on one's guard.
See Beware. [Obs.]
She was ware and knew it bet [better] than he. Chaucer.
Of whom be thou ware also. 2. Tim. iv. 15.
He is ware enough; he is wily and circumspect for stirring up any
sedition. Latimer.
The only good that grows of passed fear Is to be wise, and ware of
like again. Spenser.

WARE
Ware, n. Etym: [AS. waru caution.]

Defn: The state of being ware or aware; heed. [Obs.] Wyclif.

WARE
Ware, v. t. Etym: [As. warian.]

Defn: To make ware; to warn; to take heed of; to beware of; to guard
against. "Ware that I say." Chaucer.
God . . . ware you for the sin of avarice. Chaucer.
Then ware a rising tempest on the main. Dryden.

WAREFUL
Ware"ful, a.

Defn: Wary; watchful; cautious. [Obs.]

WAREFULNESS
Ware"ful*ness, n.

Defn: Wariness; cautiousness. [Obs.] "Full of warefulness." Sir P.
Sidney.

WAREGA FLY
Wa*re"ga fly`.

Defn: (Zoöl.) A Brazilian fly whose larvæ live in the skin of man and animals, producing painful sores.

WAREHOUSE
Ware"house`, n.; pl. Warehouses (.

Defn: A storehouse for wares, or goods. Addison.

WAREHOUSE
Ware"house`, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Warehoused; p. pr. & vb. n.
Warehousing.]

1. To deposit or secure in a warehouse.

2. To place in the warehouse of the government or customhouse stores, to be kept until duties are paid.

WAREHOUSEMAN
Ware"house`man, n.; pl. Warehousemen (.

1. One who keeps a warehouse; the owner or keeper of a dock warehouse or wharf store.

2. One who keeps a wholesale shop or store for Manchester or woolen goods. [Eng.] Warehouseman's itch (Med.), a form of eczema occurring on the back of the hands of warehousemen.

WAREHOUSING
Ware"hous`ing, n.

Defn: The act of placing goods in a warehouse, or in a customhouse store. 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 reëxported, they are not charged with a duty. See Bonded warehouse, under Bonded, a.

WARELESS
Ware"less, a. Etym: [See Ware, n.]

Defn: Unwary; incautious; unheeding; careless; unaware. [Obs.] And wareless of the evil That by themselves unto themselves is wrought. Spenser.

WARELY
Ware"ly, adv.

Defn: Cautiously; warily. [Obs.] They bound him hand and foot with iron chains, And with continual watch did warely keep. Spenser.

WARENCE
War"ence, n. Etym: [OF. warance. F. garance, LL. warentia, garantia.]
(Bot.)

Defn: Madder.

WAREROOM
Ware"room`, n.

Defn: A room in which goods are stored or exhibited for sale.

WARES
Wares, n. pl.

Defn: See 4th Ware.

WARFARE War"fare`, n. Etym: [War + OE. fare a journey, a passage, course, AS. faru. See Fare, n.]

1. Military service; military life; contest carried on by enemies; hostilities; war. The Philistines gathered their armies together for warfare, to fight with Israel. I Sam. xxviii. 1. This day from battle rest; Faithful hath been your warfare. Milton.

2. Contest; struggle. The weapons of our warfare are not carnal. 2 Cor. x. 4.

WARFARE
War"fare`, v. i.

Defn: To lead a military life; to carry on continual wars. Camden.

WARFARER
War"far`er, n.

Defn: One engaged in warfare; a military man; a soldier; a warrior.

WARHABLE
War"ha`ble, a. Etym: [War + hable.]

Defn: Fit for war. [Obs.] "Warhable youth." Spenser.

WARIANGLE War`i*an"gle, n. Etym: [OE. wariangel, weryangle; cf. AS. wearg outlaw, criminal, OHG, warg, warch, Goth. wargs (in comp.), G. würgengel, i. e., destroying angel, destroyer, killer, and E. worry.] (Zoöl.)

Defn: The red-backed shrike (Lanius collurio); — called also würger, worrier, and throttler. [Written also warriangle, weirangle, etc.] [Obs. or Prov. Eng.]

WARILY
Wa"ri*ly, adv.

Defn: In a wary manner.

WARIMENT
Wa"ri*ment, n.

Defn: Wariness. [Obs.] Spenser.

WARINE
War"ine, n. (Zoöl.)

Defn: A South American monkey, one of the sapajous.

WARINESS
Wa"ri*ness, n.

Defn: The quality or state of being wary; care to foresee and guard against evil; cautiousness. "An almost reptile wariness." G. W. Cable. To determine what are little things in religion, great wariness is to be used. Sprat.

Syn. — Caution; watchfulness; circumspection; foresight; care; vigilance; scrupulousness.

WARISH War"ish, v. t. Etym: [OF. warir to protect, heal, cure, F. guéri to cure; of Teutonic origin; cf. OHG. werian, weren, to protect, to hinder. See Garret.]

Defn: To protect from the effects of; hence, to cure; to heal. [Obs.]
My brother shall be warished hastily. Chaucer.
Varro testifies that even at this day there be some who warish and
cure the stinging of serpents with their spittle. Holland.

WARISH
War"ish, v. i.

Defn: To be cured; to recover. [Obs.]
Your daughter . . . shall warish and escape. Chaucer.

WARISON War"i*son, n. Etym: [OF. warison safety, supplies, cure, F. guérison cure. See Warish, v. t.]

1. Preparation; protection; provision; supply. [Obs.]

2. Reward; requital; guerdon. [Obs. or Scot.] Wit and wisdom is good warysoun. Proverbs of Hending.

WARK
Wark, n. Etym: [See Work.]

Defn: Work; a building. [Obs. or Scot.] Spenser.

WARKLOOM
Wark"loom, n.

Defn: A tool; an implement. [Scot.]

WARLIKE
War"like`, a.

1. Fit for war; disposed for war; as, a warlike state; a warlike disposition. Old Siward, with ten thousand warlike men. Shak.

2. Belonging or relating to war; military; martial. The great archangel from his warlike toil Surceased. Milton.

Syn.
— Martial; hostile; soldierly. See Martial.

WARLIKENESS
War"like`ness, n.

Defn: Quality of being warlike.

WARLING
War"ling, n.

Defn: One often quarreled with; — darling. [Obs.]
Better be an old man's darling than a young man's warling. Camde

WARLOCK War"lock, n. Etym: [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.), leógan to lie. See 3d Lie.]

Defn: A male witch; a wizard; a sprite; an imp. [Written also
warluck.] Dryden.
It was Eyvind Kallda's crew Of warlocks blue, With their caps of
darkness hooded! Longfellow.

WARLOCK
War"lock, a.

Defn: Of or pertaining to a warlock or warlock; impish. [R.]
Thou shalt win the warlock fight. J. R. Drak

WARLOCKRY
War"lock*ry, n.

Defn: Impishness; magic.

WARLY
War"ly, a.

Defn: Warlike. Burns.

WARM Warm, a. [Compar. Warmer; superl. Warmest.] Etym: [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.

1. Having heat in a moderate degree; not cold as, warm milk. "Whose blood is warm within." Shak. Warm and still is the summer night. Longfellow.

2. Having a sensation of heat, esp. of gentle heat; glowing.

3. Subject to heat; having prevalence of heat, or little or no cold weather; as, the warm climate of Egypt.

4. Fig.: Not cool, indifferent, lukewarm, or the like, in spirit or temper; zealous; ardent; fervent; excited; sprightly; irritable; excitable. Mirth, and youth, and warm desire! Milton. Each warm wish springs mutual from the heart. Pope. They say he's warm man and does not care to be madAddison. I had been none of the warmest of partisans. Hawthor

5. Violent; vehement; furious; excited; passionate; as, a warm contest; a warm debate. Welcome, daylight; we shall have warm work on't. Dryden.

6. Being well off as to property, or in good circumstances; forehanded; rich. [Colloq.] Warm householders, every one of them. W. Irving. 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.

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.] Here, indeed, young Mr. Dowse was getting "warm," Black.

8. (Paint.)

Defn: 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.

Syn. — Ardent; zealous; fervent; glowing; enthusiastic; cordial; keen; violent; furious; hot.

WARM
Warm, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Warmed (; p. pr. & vb. n. Warming.] Etym:
[AS. wearmian. See Warm, a.]

1. To communicate a moderate degree of heat to; to render warm; to supply or furnish heat to; as, a stove warms an apartment. Then shall it [an ash tree] be for a man to burn; for he will take thereof and warm himself. Isa. xliv 15 Enough to warm, but not enough to burn. Longfellow.

2. To make engaged or earnest; to interest; to engage; to excite
ardor or zeal; to enliven.
I formerly warmed my head with reading controversial writings. Pope.
Bright hopes, that erst bosom warmed. Keble.

WARM
Warm, v. i. Etym: [AS. wearmian.]

1. To become warm, or moderately heated; as, the earth soon warms in a clear day summer. There shall not be a coal to warm at. Isa. xlvii. 14.

2. To become ardent or animated; as, the speakewarms as he proceeds.

WARM
Warm, n.

Defn: The act of warming, or the state of being warmed; a warming; a heating. [Colloq.] Dickens.

WARM-BLOODED
Warm"-blood`ed, a. (Physiol.)

Defn: Having warm blood; — applied especially to those animals, as birds and mammals, which have warm blood, or, more properly, the power of maintaining a nearly uniform temperature whatever the temperature of the surrounding air. See Homoiothermal.

WARMER
Warm"er, n.

Defn: One who, or that which, warms.

WARMFUL
Warm"ful, a.

Defn: Abounding in capacity to warm; giving warmth; as, a warmful garment. [R.] Chapman.

WARM-HEARTED
Warm"-heart`ed, a.

Defn: Having strong affection; cordial; sincere; hearty; sympathetic.
— Warm"-heart`ed*ness, n.

WARMING
Warm"ing,

Defn: a. & n. from Warm, v. Warming pan, a long-handled covered pan into which live coals are put, — used for warming beds. Shak.

WARMLY
Warm"ly, adv.

Defn: In a warm manner; ardently.

WARMNESS
Warm"ness, n.

Defn: Warmth. Chaucer.

WARMONGER
War"mon`ger, n.

Defn: One who makes ar a trade or business; a mercenary. [R.]
Spenser.

WARMOUTH
War"mouth, n. (Zoöl.)

Defn: An American freshwater bream, or sunfish (Chænobryttus gulosus); — called also red-eyed bream.

WARMTH
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. Here kindly warmth their mounting juice ferments. Addison.

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. "Spiritual warmth, and holy fires." Jer. Taylor. That warmth . . . which agrees with Christian zeal. Sprat.

3. (Paint.)

Defn: The glowing effect which arises from the use of warm colors; hence, any similar appearance or effect in a painting, or work of color.

Syn. — Zeal; ardor; fervor; fervency; heat; glow; earnestness; cordiality; animation; eagerness; excitement; vehemence.

WARMTHLESS
Warmth"less, a.

Defn: Being without warmth; not communicating warmth; cold. [R.]
Coleridge.

WARN Warn (wasrn), v. t. Etym: [OE. wernen, AS. weornan, wyrnan. Cf. Warn to admonish.]

Defn: To refuse. [Written also wern, worn.] [Obs.] Chaucer.

WARN Warn, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Warned; p. pr. & vb. n. Warning.] Etym: [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.

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. "Warned of the ensuing fight." Dryden. Cornelius the centurion . . . was warned from God by an holy angel to send for thee. Acts x. 22. Who is it that hath warned us to the walls Shak.

2. To give notice to, of approaching or probable danger or evil; to caution against anything that may prove injurious. "Juturna warns the Daunian chief of Lausus' danger, urging swift relief." Dryden.

3. To ward off. [Obs.] Spenser.

WARNER
Warn"er, n.

Defn: One who warns; an admonisher.

WARNER
Warn"er, n.

Defn: A warrener. [Obs.] Piers Plowman.

WARNING
Warn"ing, a.

Defn: Giving previous notice; cautioning; admonishing; as, a warning
voice.
That warning timepiece never ceased. Longfellow.
Warning piece, Warning wheel (Horol.), a piece or wheel which
produces a sound shortly before the clock strikes.

WARNING
Warn"ing, n.

1. Previous notice. "At a month's warning." Dryden. A great journey to take upon so short a warning. L'Estrange.

2. Caution against danger, or against faults or evil practices which incur danger; admonition; monition. Could warning make the world more just or wise. Dryden.

WARNINGLY
Warn"ing*ly, adv.

Defn: In a warning manner.

WARNSTORE Warn"store, v. t. Etym: [Cf. OF. warnesture, garnesture, provisions, supplies, and E. garnish.]

Defn: To furnish. [Obs.] "To warnstore your house." Chaucer.

WARP Warp, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Warped; p. pr. & vb. n. Warping.] Etym: [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. waírpan; cf. Skr. vrj to twist. Wrap.]

1. To throw; hence, to send forth, or throw out, as words; to utter. [Obs.] Piers Plowman.

2. To turn or twist out of shape; esp., to twist or bend out of a flat plane by contraction or otherwise. The planks looked warped. Coleridge. Walter warped his mouth at this To something so mock solemn, that I laughed. Tennyson.

3. To turn aside from the true direction; to cause to bend or incline; to pervert. This first avowed, nor folly warped my mind. Dryden. I have no private considerations to warp me in this controversy. Addison. We are divested of all those passions which cloud the intellects, and warp the understandings, of men. Southey.

4. To weave; to fabricate. [R. & Poetic.] Nares. While doth he mischief warp. Sternhold.

5. (Naut.)

Defn: To tow or move, as a vessel, with a line, or warp, attached to a buoy, anchor, or other fixed object.

6. To cast prematurely, as young; — said of cattle, sheep, etc. [Prov. Eng.]

7. (Agric.)

Defn: 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.]

8. (Rope Making)

Defn: To run off the reel into hauls to be tarred, as yarns.

9. (Weaving)

Defn: To arrange (yarns) on a warp beam. 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.

WARP
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. One of you will prove a shrunk panel, and, like green timber, warp, warp. Shak. They clamp one piece of wood to the end of another, to keep it from casting, or warping. Moxon.

2. to turn or incline from a straight, true, or proper course; to deviate; to swerve. There is our commission, From which we would not have you warp. Shak.

3. To fly with a bending or waving motion; to turn and wave, like a flock of birds or insects. A pitchy cloud Of locusts, warping on the eastern wind. Milton.

4. To cast the young prematurely; to slink; — said of cattle, sheep, etc. [Prov. Eng.]

5. (Weaving)

Defn: To wind yarn off bobbins for forming the warp of a web; to wind a warp on a warp beam.

WARP
Warp, n. Etym: [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.]

1. (Weaving)

Defn: The threads which are extended lengthwise in the loom, and crossed by the woof.

2. (Naut.)

Defn: 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.

3. (Agric.)

Defn: A slimy substance deposited on land by tides, etc., by which a rich alluvial soil is formed. Lyell.

4. A premature casting of young; — said of cattle, sheep, etc. [Prov. Eng.]

5. Four; esp., four herrings; a cast. See Cast, n., 17. [Prov. Eng.] Wright.

6. Etym: [From Warp, v.]

Defn: The state of being warped or twisted; as, the warp of a board. 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.

WARPAGE
Warp"age, n.

Defn: The act of warping; also, a charge per ton made on shipping in some harbors.

WARPATH
War"path`, n.

Defn: The route taken by a party of Indians going on a warlike expedition. Schoolcraft. On the warpath, on a hostile expedition; hence, colloquially, about to attack a person or measure.

WARPER
Warp"er, n.

1. One who, or that which, warps or twists out of shape.

2. One who, or that which, forms yarn or thread into warps or webs for the loom.

WARPING
Warp"ing, n.

1. The act or process of one who, or that which, warps.

2. The art or occupation of preparing warp or webs for the weaver. Craig. 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.

WARP KNITTING
Warp knitting.

Defn: A kind of knitting in which a number of threads are interchained each with one or more contiguous threads on either side.

WARPROOF
War"proof`, n.

Defn: Valor tried by war.

WARRAGAL
War"ra*gal, n. (Zoöl.)

Defn: The dingo.

WARRANDICE
War"ran*dice, n. Etym: [See Warrantise.] (Scots Law)

Defn: 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.

WARRANT War"rant, n. Etym: [OE. warant, OF. warant a warrant, a defender, protector, F. garant, originally a p. pr. pf German origin, fr. OHG. weren to grant, warrant, G. gewähren; akin to OFries. wera. Cf. Guarantee.]

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: — (a) A writing which authorizes a person to receive money or other thing. (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. (c) (Mil. & Nav.) An official certificate of appointment issued to an officer of lower rank than a commissioned officer. See Warrant officer, below.

2. That which vouches or insures for anything; guaranty; security. I give thee warrant of thy place. Shak. His worth is warrant for his welcome hither. Shak.

3. That which attests or proves; a voucher.

4. Right; legality; allowance. [Obs.] Shak. Bench warrant. (Law) See in the Vocabulary. — 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.

WARRANT War"rant, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Warranted; p. pr. & vb. n. Warranting.] Etym: [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. sq. root142. See Warrant, n.]

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. That show I first my body to warrant. Chaucer. I'll warrant him from drowning. Shak. In a place Less warranted than this, or less secure, I can not be. Milton.

2. To support by authority or proof; to justify; to maintain; to sanction; as, reason warrants it. True fortitude is seen in great exploits, That justice warrants, and that wisdom guides. Addison. 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.

3. To give a warrant or warranty to; to assure as if by giving a warrant to. [My neck is] as smooth as silk, I warrant ye. L' Estrange.

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.

WARRANTABLE
War"rant*a*ble, a.

Defn: 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. His meals are coarse and short, his employment warrantable, his sleep certain and refreshing. South. — War"rant*a*ble*ness, n. — War"rant*bly, adv.

WARRANTEE
War`ran*tee", n. (Law)

Defn: The person to whom a warrant or warranty is made.

WARRANTER
War"rant*er, n.

1. One who warrants, gives authority, or legally empowers.

2. (Law)

Defn: 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.

WARRANTISE
War"rant*ise, n. Etym: [OF. warentise, warandise, garantise. See
Warrant, n.]

Defn: Authority; security; warranty. [Obs.] Shak.

WARRANTISE
War"rant*ise, v. t.

Defn: To warrant. [Obs.] Hakluyt.

WARRANTOR
War"rant*or, n. (Law)

Defn: One who warrants.

WARRANTY
War"rant*y, n.; pl. Warranties. Etym: [OF. warantie, F. garantie. See
Warrant, n., and cf. Guaranty.]

1. (Anc. Law)

Defn: 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.

2. (Modern Law)

Defn: 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.

3. (Insurance Law)

Defn: 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.

4. Justificatory mandate or precept; authority; warrant. [R.] Shak. If they disobey precept, that is no excuse to us, nor gives us any warranty . . . to disobey likewise. Kettlewe

5. Security; warrant; guaranty. The stamp was a warranty of the public. Locke.

Syn.
— See Guarantee.

WARRANTY
War"rant*y, v. t.

Defn: To warrant; to guarantee.

WARRAY War"ray, v. t. Etym: [OF. werreier, werrier, guerroier, F. guerroyer, from OF. werre war, F. guerre; of German origin. See War.]

Defn: To make war upon. [Obs.] Fairfax. "When a man warrayeth truth."
Chaucer.

WARRE
Warre, a. Etym: [OE. werre; of Scand. origin. See Worse.]

Defn: Worse. [Obs.]
They say the world is much warre than it wont. Spenser.

WARREN War"ren, n. Etym: [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.]

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. They wend both warren and in waste. Piers Plowman.

Note: The 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.

2. A piece of ground for the breeding of rabbits.

3. A place for keeping flash, in a river.

WARRENER
War"ren*er, n.

Defn: The keeper of a warren.

WARRIANGLE
War`ri*an"gle, n. (Zoöl.)

Defn: See Wariangle. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.]

WARRIE
War"rie, v. t.

Defn: See Warye. [Obs.]

WARRIN
War"rin, n. Etym: [From a native name.] (Zoöl.)

Defn: An Australian lorikeet (Trichoglossus multicolor) remarkable for the variety and brilliancy of its colors; — called also blue- bellied lorikeet, and blue-bellied parrot.

WARRIOR War"rior, n. Etym: [OE. werreour, OF. werreour, guerreor, from guerre, werre, war. See War, and Warray.]

Defn: A man engaged or experienced in war, or in the military life; a
soldier; a champion.
Warriors old with ordered spear and shield. Milton.
Warrior ant (Zoöl.), 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.

WARRIORESS
War"rior*ess, n.

Defn: A female warrior. [Obs.] Spenser.

WARRY
War"ry, v. t.

Defn: See Warye. [Obs.]

WARSAW War"saw, n. (Zoöl.) (a) The black grouper (Epinephelus nigritus) of the southern coasts of the United States. (b) The jewfish; — called also guasa.

WART
Wart, n. Etym: [OE. werte, AS. wearte; akin to D. wrat, G. warze,
OHG. warza, Icel. varta, Sw. vårta, Dan. vorte; perh. orig., a
growth, and akin to E. wort; or cf. L. verruca wart.]

1. (Med.)

Defn: A small, usually hard, tumor on the skin formed by enlargement of its vascular papillæ, and thickening of the epidermis which covers them.

2. An excrescence or protuberance more or less resembling a true wart; specifically (Bot.), a glandular excrescence or hardened protuberance on plants. 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 (Zoöl.), 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).

WARTED
Wart"ed, a. (Bot.)

Defn: Having little knobs on the surface; verrucose; as, a warted capsule.

WART HOG
Wart" hog`. (Zoöl.)

Defn: Either one of two species of large, savage African wild hogs of the genus Phacochoerus. 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 (Phacochoerus Æthiopicus) is the best known. Called also vlacke vark. The second species (P. Æliani) is native of the coasts of the Red Sea.

WARTLESS
Wart"less, a.

Defn: Having no wart.

WARTWEED
Wart"weed`, n. (Bot.)

Defn: Same as Wartwort.

WARTWORT
Wart"wort`, n. (Bot.)

Defn: A name given to several plants because they were thought to be a cure for warts, as a kind of spurge (Euphorbia Helioscopia), and the nipplewort (Lampsana communis).

WARTY
Wart"y, a.

1. Having warts; full of warts; overgrow with warts; as, a warty leaf.

2. Of the nature of warts; as, a warty excrescence. Warty egg (Zoöl.), a marine univalve shell (Ovulum verrucosum), having the surface covered with wartlike elevations.

WARTY-BACK
Wart"y-back`, n.

Defn: An American fresh-water mussel (Quadrula pustulosa). Its shell is used in making buttons.

WARWICKITE
War"wick*ite, n. (Min.)

Defn: A dark brown or black mineral, occurring in prismatic crystals imbedded in limestone near Warwick, New York. It consists of the borate and titanate of magnesia and iron.

WARWORN
War"worn`, a.

Defn: Worn with military service; as, a warworn soldier; a warworn coat. Shak.

WARY Wa"ry, a. [Compar. Warier; superl. Wariest.] Etym: [OE. war, AS. wær; 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.]

1. Cautious of danger; carefully watching and guarding against deception, artifices, and dangers; timorously or suspiciously prudent; circumspect; scrupulous; careful. "Bear a wary eye." Shak. We should be wary, therefore, what persecution we raise against the living labors of public men. Milton.

2. Characterized by caution; guarded; careful. It behoveth our words to be wary and few. Hooker.

Syn.
— Cautious; circumspect; watchful. See Cautious.

WARYE
War"ye, v. t. Etym: [AS. wergian, wyrgean. Cf. Worry.]

Defn: To curse; to curse; to execrate; to condemn; also, to vex. [Obs.] [Spelled also warrie, warry, and wary.] "Whom I thus blame and warye." Chaucer.

WAS Was. Etym: [AS. wæs, 2d pers. wære, 3d pers. wæs, pl. wæron, 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. sq. root148. Cf. Vernacular, Wassail, Were, v.]

Defn: The first and third persons singular of the verb be, in the indicative mood, preterit (imperfect) tense; as, I was; he was.

WASE
Wase, n. Etym: [Cf. Sw. vase a sheaf.]

Defn: A bundle of straw, or other material, to relieve the pressure of burdens carried upon the head. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.

WASH Wash, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Washed; p. pr. & vb. n. Washing.] Etym: [OE. waschen, AS. wascan; akin to D. wasschen, G. waschen, OHG. wascan, Icel. & Sw. vaska, Dan. vaske, and perhaps to E. water. sq. root150.]

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. 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.

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. Fresh-blown roses washed with dew. Milton. [The landscape] washed with a cold, gray mist. Longfellow.

3. To waste or abrade by the force of water in motion; as, heavy rains wash a road or an embankment.

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. Arise, and be baptized, and wash away thy sins. Acts xxii. 16. The tide will wash you off. Shak.

5. To cover with a thin or watery coat of color; to tint lightly and thinly.

6. To overlay with a thin coat of metal; as, steel washed with silver. 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 superior gravity. — To wash the hands of. See under Hand.

WASH
Wash, v. i.

1. To perform the act of ablution. Wash in Jordan seven times. 2 Kings v. 10.

2. To clean anything by rubbing or dipping it in water; to perform the business of cleansing clothes, ore, etc., in water. "She can wash and scour." Shak.

3. To bear without injury the operation of being washed; as, some calicoes do not wash. [Colloq.]

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.

WASH
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.

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. "The Wash of Edmonton so gay." Cowper. These Lincoln washes have devoured them. Shak.

3. Substances collected and deposited by the action of water; as, the wash of a sewer, of a river, etc. The wash of pastures, fields, commons, and roads, where rain water hath a long time settled. Mortimer.

4. Waste liquid, the refuse of food, the collection from washed dishes, etc., from a kitchen, often used as food for pigs. Shak.

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.

6. That with which anything is washed, or wetted, smeared, tinted, etc., upon the surface. Specifically: — (a) A liquid cosmetic for the complexion. (b) A liquid dentifrice. (c) A liquid preparation for the hair; as, a hair wash. (d) A medical preparation in a liquid form for external application; a lotion. (e) (Painting) A thin coat of color, esp. water color. (j) A thin coat of metal laid on anything for beauty or preservation.

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.

8. The flow, swash, or breaking of a body of water, as a wave; also, the sound of it.

9. Ten strikes, or bushels, of oysters. [Prov. Eng.] 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.

WASH
Wash, a.

1

Defn: Washy; weak. [Obs.]
Their bodies of so weak and wash a temper. Beau. & Fl.

2. Capable of being washed without injury; washable; as, wash goods. [Colloq.]

WASHABLE
Wash"a*ble, a.

Defn: Capable of being washed without damage to fabric or color.

WASHBOARD
Wash"board`, n.

1. A fluted, or ribbed, board on which clothes are rubbed in washing them.

2. A board running round, and serving as a facing for, the walls of a room, next to the floor; a mopboard.

3. (Naut.)

Defn: 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. Di

WASHBOWL
Wash"bowl`, n.

Defn: A basin, or bowl, to hold water for washing one's hands, face, etc.

WASHDISH
Wash"dish`, n.

1. A washbowl.

2. (Zoöl.)

Defn: Same as Washerwoman, 2. [Prov. Eng.]

WASH DRAWING
Wash drawing. (Art)

Defn: In water-color painting, work in, or a work done chiefly in, washes, as distinguished from that done in stipple, in body color, etc.

WASHED
Washed, a. (Zoöl.)

Defn: Appearing as if overlaid with a thin layer of different color; — said of the colors of certain birds and insects.

WASHED SALE
Washed sale.

Defn: Same as Wash sale.

WASHEN
Wash"en, obs.

Defn: p. p. of Wash. Chaucer.

WASHER
Wash"er, n. Etym: [AS. wæscere.]

1. One who, or that which, washes.

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.

3. (Plumbing)

Defn: A fitting, usually having a plug, applied to a cistern, tub, sink, or the like, and forming the outlet opening.

4. (Zoöl.)

Defn: The common raccoon.

5. (Zoöl.)

Defn: Same as Washerwoman, 2. [Prov. Eng.]

WASHERMAN
Wash"er*man, n.; pl. Washermen (.

Defn: A man who washes clothes, esp. for hire, or for others.

WASHERWOMAN
Wash"er*wom`an, n.; pl. Washerwomen (.

1. A woman who washes clothes, especially for hire, or for others.

2. (Zoöl.)

Defn: 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.]

WASHHOUSE
Wash"house`, n.

Defn: An outbuilding for washing, esp. one for washing clothes; a laundry.

WASHINESS
Wash"i*ness, n.

Defn: The quality or state of being washy, watery, or weak.

WASHING
Wash"ing, n.

1. The act of one who washes; the act of cleansing with water; ablution.

2. The clothes washed, esp. at one time; a wash. Washing bear (Zoöl.), 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.

WASHINGTONIAN
Wash`ing*to"ni*an, a.

1. Pertaining to, or characteristic of, George Washington; as, a Washingtonian policy. Lowell.

2. Designating, or pertaining to, a temperance society and movement started in Baltimore in 1840 on the principle of total abstinence. — n.

Defn: A member of the Washingtonian Society.

WASHOE PROCESS
Wash"oe proc`ess. [From the Washoe district, Nevada.]

Defn: 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.

WASH-OFF
Wash"-off`, a. (Calico Printing)

Defn: Capable of being washed off; not permanent or durable; — said of colors not fixed by steaming or otherwise.

WASHOUT
Wash"out`, n.

Defn: The washing out or away of earth, etc., especially of a portion of the bed of a road or railroad by a fall of rain or a freshet; also, a place, especially in the bed of a road or railroad, where the earth has been washed away.

WASHPOT
Wash"pot`, n.

1. A pot or vessel in which anything is washed.

2. (Tin-Plate Manuf.)

Defn: A pot containing melted tin into which the plates are dipped to be coated.

WASH SALE
Wash sale. (Stock Exchange)

Defn: A sale made in washing. See Washing, n., 3, above.

WASHSTAND
Wash"stand`, n.

Defn: A piece of furniture holding the ewer or pitcher, basin, and other requisites for washing the person.

WASH STAND
Wash stand.

Defn: 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]

WASHTUB
Wash"tub`, n.

Defn: A tub in which clothes are washed.

WASHY
Wash"y, a. Etym: [From Wash.]

1. Watery; damp; soft. "Washy ooze." Milton.

2. Lacking substance or strength; weak; thin; dilute; feeble; as, washy tea; washy resolutions. A polish . . . not over thin and washy. Sir H. Wotton.

3. Not firm or hardy; liable to sweat profusely with labor; as, a washy horse. [Local, U. S.]

WASITE
Wa"site, n. Etym: [See Wasium.] (Min.)

Defn: A variety of allanite from Sweden supposed to contain wasium.

WASIUM Wa"si*um, n. Etym: [NL. So called from Wasa, or Vasa, the name of a former royal family of Sweden.] (Chem.)

Defn: A rare element supposed by Bahr to have been extracted from wasite, but now identified with thorium.

WASP
Wasp, n. Etym: [OE. waspe, AS. wæps, wæfs; akin to D. wesp, G. wespe,
OHG. wafsa, wefsa, Lith. vapsa gadfly, Russ. osa wasp, L. vespa, and
perhaps to E. weave.] (Zoöl.)

Defn: 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.

Note: The social wasps make a complex series of combs, of a substance like stiff paper, often of large size, and protect them by a paperlike covering. The larvæ are reared in the cells of the combs, and eat insects and insect larvæ brought to them by the adults, but the latter feed mainly on the honey and pollen of flowers, and on the sweet juices of fruit. See Illust. in Appendix. 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.

WASPISH
Wasp"ish, a.

1. Resembling a wasp in form; having a slender waist, like a wasp.

2. Quick to resent a trifling affront; characterized by snappishness; irritable; irascible; petulant; snappish. He was naturally a waspish and hot man. Bp. Hall. Much do I suffer, much, to keep in peace This jealous, waspish, wrong-head, rhyming race. Pope.

Syn.
— Snappish; petulant; irritable; irascible; testy; peevish;
captious.
— Wasp"ish*ly, adv.
— Wasp"ish*ness, n.

WASSAIL Was"sail, n. Etym: [AS. wes hal (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.]

1. An ancient expression of good wishes on a festive occasion, especially in drinking to some one. 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 wæs heil, that is, literally, Health be to you. N. Drake.

2. An occasion on which such good wishes are expressed in drinking; a drinking bout; a carouse. "In merry wassail he . . . peals his loud song." Sir W. Scott. The king doth wake to-night and takes his rouse, Keeps wassail. Shak. The victors abandoned themselves to feasting and wassail. Prescott.

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. A jolly wassail bowl, A wassail of good ale. Old Song.

4. A festive or drinking song or glee. [Obs.] Have you done your wassail! 'T is a handsome, drowsy ditty, I'll assure you. Beau. & Fl.

WASSAIL
Was"sail, a.

Defn: Of or pertaining to wassail, or to a wassail; convivial; as, a wassail bowl. "Awassail candle, my lord, all tallow." Shak. Wassail bowl, a bowl in which wassail was mixed, and placed upon the table. "Spiced wassail bowl." J. Fletcher. "When 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." W. Irving. — Wassail cup, a cup from which wassail was drunk.

WASSAIL
Was"sail, v. i.

Defn: To hold a wassail; to carouse. Spending all the day, and good part of the night, in dancing, caroling, and wassailing. Sir P. Sidney.

WASSAILER
Was"sail*er, n.

Defn: One who drinks wassail; one who engages in festivity, especially in drinking; a reveler. The rudeness and swilled insolence Of such late wassailers. Milton.

WAST
Wast.

Defn: The second person singular of the verb be, in the indicative mood, imperfect tense; — now used only in solemn or poetical style. See Was.

WASTAGE
Wast"age, n.

Defn: Loss by use, decay, evaporation, leakage, or the like; waste.

WASTE
Waste, a. Etym: [OE. wast, OF. wast, from L. vastus, influenced by
the kindred German word; cf. OHG. wuosti, G. wüst, OS. w, D. woest,
AS. weste. Cf. Vast.]

1. Desolate; devastated; stripped; bare; hence, dreary; dismal; gloomy; cheerless. The dismal situation waste and wild. Milton. His heart became appalled as he gazed forward into the waste darkness of futurity. Sir W. Scott.

2. Lying unused; unproductive; worthless; valueless; refuse; rejected; as, waste land; waste paper. But his waste words returned to him in vain. Spenser. Not a waste or needless sound, Till we come to holier ground. Milton. Ill day which made this beauty waste. Emerson.

3. Lost for want of occupiers or use; superfluous. And strangled with her waste fertility. Milton. 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.

WASTE Waste, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Wasted; p. pr. & vb. n. Wasting.] Etym: [OE. wasten, OF. waster, guaster, gaster, F. gâter 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. wüsten, AS. westan. See Waste, a.]

1. To bring to ruin; to devastate; to desolate; to destroy. Thou barren ground, whom winter's wrath hath wasted, Art made a mirror to behold my plight. Spenser. The Tiber Insults our walls, and wastes our fruitful grounds. Dryden.

2. To wear away by degrees; to impair gradually; to diminish by constant loss; to use up; to consume; to spend; to wear out. Until your carcasses be wasted in the wilderness. Num. xiv. 33. O, were I able To waste it all myself, and leave ye none! Milton. Here condemned To waste eternal days in woe and pain. Milton. Wasted by such a course of life, the infirmities of age daily grew on him. Robertson.

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. The younger son gathered all together, and . . . wasted his substance with riotous living. Luke xv. 13. Full many a flower is born to blush unseen, And waste its sweetness on the desert air. Gray.

4. (Law)

Defn: To damage, impair, or injure, as an estate, voluntarily, or by suffering the buildings, fences, etc., to go to decay.

Syn.
— To squander; dissipate; lavish; desolate.

WASTE
Waste, v. i.

1. To be diminished; to lose bulk, substance, strength, value, or the like, gradually; to be consumed; to dwindle; to grow less. The time wasteth night and day. Chaucer. The barrel of meal shall not waste. 1 Kings xvii. 14. But man dieth, and wasteth away. Job xiv. 10.

2. (Sporting)

Defn: To procure or sustain a reduction of flesh; — said of a jockey in preparation for a race, etc.

WASTE Waste, n. Etym: [OE. waste; cf. the kindred AS. w, OHG. w, wuosti, G. wüste. See Waste, a. & v.]

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. "Waste . . . of catel and of time." Chaucer. For all this waste of wealth loss of blood. Milton. He will never . . . in the way of waste, attempt us again. Shak. Little wastes in great establishments, constantly occurring, may defeat the energies of a mighty capital. L. Beecher.

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. "The wastes of Nature." Emerson. All the leafy nation sinks at last, And Vulcan rides in triumph o'er the waste. Dryden. The gloomy waste of waters which bears his name is his tomb and his monument. Bancroft.

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.

4. (Law)

Defn: 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.

Note: Waste is 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.

5. (Mining)

Defn: Old or abandoned workings, whether left as vacant space or filled with refuse.

Syn. — Prodigality; diminution; loss; dissipation; destruction; devastation; havoc; desolation; ravage.

WASTEBASKET
Waste"bas`ket, n.

Defn: A basket used in offices, libraries, etc., as a receptacle for waste paper.

WASTEBOARD
Waste"board`, n. (Naut.)

Defn: See Washboard, 3.

WASTEBOOK
Waste"book`, n. (Com.)

Defn: A book in which rough entries of transactions are made, previous to their being carried into the journal.

WASTEFUL
Waste"ful, c.

1. Full of waste; destructive to property; ruinous; as; wasteful practices or negligence; wasteful expenses.

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.

3. Waste; desolate; unoccupied; untilled. [Obs.] In wilderness and wasteful desert strayed. Spenser.

Syn.
— Lavish; profuse; prodigal; extravagant.
— Waste"ful*ly, adv.
— Waste"ful*ness, n.

WASTEL
Was"tel, n. Etym: [OF. wastel, gastel, F. gâteau, LL. wastellus, fr.
MHG. wastel a kind of bread; cf. OHG. & AS. wist food.]

Defn: A kind of white and fine bread or cake; — called also wastel bread, and wastel cake. [Obs.] Roasted flesh or milk and wasted bread. Chaucer. The simnel bread and wastel cakes, which were only used at the tables of the highest nobility. Sir W. Scott.

WASTENESS
Waste"ness, n.

1. The quality or state of being waste; a desolate state or condition; desolation. A day of trouble and distress, a day of wasteness. Zeph. i. 15.

2. That which is waste; a desert; a waste. [R.] Through woods and wasteness wide him daily sought. Spenser.

WASTER Wast"er, n. Etym: [OE. wastour, OF. wasteor, gasteor. See Waste, v. t.]

1. One who, or that which, wastes; one who squanders; one who consumes or expends extravagantly; a spendthrift; a prodigal. He also that is slothful in his work is brother to him that is a great waster. Prov. xviii. 9. Sconces are great wasters of candles. Swift.

2. An imperfection in the wick of a candle, causing it to waste; — called also a thief. Halliwell.

3. A kind of cudgel; also, a blunt-edged sword used as a foil. Half a dozen of veneys at wasters with a good fellow for a broken head. Beau. & Fl. Being unable to wield the intellectual arms of reason, they are fain to betake them unto wasters. Sir T. Browne.

WASTETHRIFT
Waste"thrift`, n.

Defn: A spendthrift. [Obs.]

WASTEWEIR
Waste"weir`, n.

Defn: An overfall, or weir, for the escape, or overflow, of superfluous water from a canal, reservoir, pond, or the like.

WASTING
Wast"ing, a.

Defn: Causing waste; also, undergoing waste; diminishing; as, a wasting disease; a wasting fortune. Wasting palsy (Med.), progressive muscular atrophy. See under Progressive.

WASTOR
Wast"or, n.

Defn: A waster; a thief. [Obs. or R.] [Written also wastour.]
Chaucer. Southey.

WASTOREL
Wast"o*rel, n.

Defn: See Wastrel. [Obs.]

WASTREL
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.]

2. Anything cast away as bad or useless, as imperfect bricks, china, etc. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.]

WATCH
Watch, n. Etym: [OE. wacche, AS. wæcce, fr. wacian to wake; akin to
D. wacht, waak, G. wacht, wache. Wake, v. i. ]

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. Shepherds keeping watch by night. Milton. All the long night their mournful watch they keep. Addison.

Note: 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. Still, when she slept, he kept both watch and ward. Spenser. 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.

2. One who watches, or those who watch; a watchman, or a body of watchmen; a sentry; a guard. Pilate said unto them, Ye have a watch; go your way, make it as sure as ye can. Matt. xxvii. 65.

3. The post or office of a watchman; also, the place where a watchman is posted, or where a guard is kept. He upbraids Iago, that he made him Brave me upon the watch. Shak.

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. I did stand my watch upon the hill. Shak. Might we but hear . . . Or whistle from the lodge, or village cock Count the night watches to his feathery dames. Milton.

5. A small timepiece, or chronometer, to be carried about the person, the machinery of which is moved by a spring.

Note: Watches are often distinguished by the kind of escapement used, as an 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.

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. 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.(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.

WATCH Watch, v. i. Etym: [Cf. AS. woeccan, wacian. sq. root134. See Watch, n., Wake, v. i. ]

1. To be awake; to be or continue without sleep; to wake; to keep
vigil.
I have two nights watched with you. Shak.
Couldest thou not watch one hour Mark xiv. 37.

2. To be attentive or vigilant; to give heed; to be on the lookout; to keep guard; to act as sentinel. Take ye heed, watch and pray. Mark xiii. 33. The Son gave signal high To the bright minister that watched. Milton.

3. To be expectant; to look with expectation; to wait; to seek opportunity. My soul waiteth for the Lord more than they that watch for the morning. Ps. cxxx. 6.

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.

5. (Naut.)

Defn: To serve the purpose of a watchman by floating properly in its place; — said of a buoy. To watch over, to be cautiously observant of; to inspect, superintend, and guard.

WATCH
Watch, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Watched; p. pr. & vb. n. Watching.]

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. Saul also sent messengers unto David's house to watch him, and to slay him. 1 Sam. xix. 11 I must cool a little, and watch my opportunity. Landor. In lazy mood I watched the little circles die. Longfellow.

2. To tend; to guard; to have in keeping. And flaming ministers, to watch and tend Their earthy charge. Milton. Paris watched the flocks in the groves of Ida. Broome.

WATCHDOG
Watch"dog`, n.

Defn: A dog kept to watch and guard premises or property, and to give notice of the approach of intruders.

WATCHER
Watch"er, n.

Defn: One who watches; one who sits up or continues; a diligent observer; specifically, one who attends upon the sick during the night.

WATCHES
Watch"es, n. pl. (Bot.)

Defn: The leaves of Sarace. See Trumpets.

WATCHET Watchet, a. Etym: [Probably from F. vaciet bilberry, whortleberry; cf. L. vaccinium blueberry, whortleberry.]

Defn: Pale or light blue. [Obs.] "Watchet mantles." Spenser.
Who stares in Germany at watchet eyes Dryden.

WATCHFUL
Watch"ful, a.

Defn: 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. "Many a watchful night." Shak. "Happy watchful shepherds." Milton. 'Twixt prayer and watchful love his heart dividing. Keble.

Syn.
— Vigilant; attentive; cautious; observant; circumspect; wakeful;
heedful.
— Watch"ful*ly, adv.
— Watch"ful*ness, n.

WATCHHOUSE
Watch"house`, n.; pl. Watchhouses (.

1. A house in which a watch or guard is placed.

2. A place where persons under temporary arrest by the police of a city are kept; a police station; a lockup.

WATCHMAKER
Watch"mak`er, n.

Defn: One whose occupation is to make and repair watches.

WATCHMAN
Watch"man, n.; pl. Watchmen (.

1. One set to watch; a person who keeps guard; a guard; a sentinel.

2. Specifically, one who guards a building, or the streets of a city, by night. Watchman beetle (Zoöl.), 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.

WATCH MEETING
Watch meeting.

Defn: A religious meeting held in the closing hours of the year.

WATCHTOWER
Watch"tow`er, n.

Defn: A tower in which a sentinel is placed to watch for enemies, the approach of danger, or the like.

WATCHWORD
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.

2. A sentiment or motto; esp., one used as a rallying cry or a signal for action. Nor deal in watchwords overmuch. Tennyson.

WATER Wa"ter, n. Etym: [AS. wæter; 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. 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. "We will drink water." Shak."Powers of fire, air, water, and earth." Milton.

Note: Pure water consists of hydrogen and oxygen, H2O, and is a colorless, odorless, tasteless, transparent liquid, which is very slightly compressible. At its maximum density, 39º Fahr. or 4º C., it is the standard for specific gravities, one cubic centimeter weighing one gram. It freezes at 32º Fahr. or 0º C. and boils at 212º Fahr. or 100º C. (see Ice, 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.

2. A body of water, standing or flowing; a lake, river, or other collection of water. Remembering he had passed over a small water a poor scholar when first coming to the university, he kneeled. Fuller.

3. Any liquid secretion, humor, or the like, resembling water; esp., the urine.

4. (Pharm.)

Defn: A solution in water of a gaseous or readily volatile substance; as, ammonia water. U. S. Pharm.

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.

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.

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 "diluted." [Brokers' Cant]

Note: 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. 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.

Note: Other phrases, in which water occurs as the first element, will be found in alphabetical order in the Vocabulary.

WATER
Wa"ter, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Watered; p. pr. & vb. n. Watering.] Etym:
[AS. wæterian, gewæterian.]

1. To wet or supply with water; to moisten; to overflow with water; to irrigate; as, to water land; to water flowers. With tears watering the ground. Milton. Men whose lives gilded on like rivers that water the woodlands. Longfellow.

2. To supply with water for drink; to cause or allow to drink; as, to water cattle and horses.

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.

4. To add water to (anything), thereby extending the quantity or bulk while reducing the strength or quality; to extend; to dilute; to weaken. 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]

WATER
Wa"ter, v. i.

1. To shed, secrete, or fill with, water or liquid matter; as, his eyes began to water. If thine eyes can water for his death. Shak.

2. To get or take in water; as, the ship put into port to water. 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.

WATER ADDER Wa"ter ad"der. (Zoöl.) (a) The water moccasin. (b) The common, harmless American water snake (Tropidonotus sipedon). See Illust. under Water Snake.

WATERAGE
Wa"ter*age (; 48), n.

Defn: Money paid for transportation of goods, etc., by water. [Eng.]

WATER AGRIMONY
Wa"ter ag"ri*mo*ny. (Bot.)

Defn: A kind of bur marigold (Bidens tripartita) found in wet places in Europe.

WATER ALOE
Wa"ter al"oe. (Bot.)

Defn: See Water soldier.

WATER ANTELOPE
Wa"ter an"te*lope.

Defn: See Water buck.

WATER ARUM
Wa"ter a"rum. (Bot.)

Defn: An aroid herb (Calla palustris) having a white spathe. It is an inhabitant of the north temperate zone.

WATER BACK
Wa"ter back`.

Defn: See under 1st Back.

WATER BAILIFF
Wa"ter bail"iff.

Defn: An officer of the customs, whose duty it is to search vessels.
[Eng.]

WATER BALLAST
Wa"ter bal"last. (Naut.)

Defn: Water confined in specially constructed compartments in a vessel's hold, to serve as ballast.

WATER BAROMETER
Wa"ter ba*rom"e*ter. (Physics)

Defn: A barometer in which the changes of atmospheric pressure are indicated by the motion of a column of water instead of mercury. It requires a column of water about thirty-three feet in height.

WATER BATH
Wa"ter bath`.

Defn: A device for regulating the temperature of anything subjected to heat, by surrounding the vessel containing it with another vessel containing water which can be kept at a desired temperature; also, a vessel designed for this purpose.

WATER BATTERY
Wa"ter bat"ter*y.

1. (Elec.)

Defn: A voltaic battery in which the exciting fluid is water.

2. (Mil.)

Defn: A battery nearly on a level with the water.

WATER BEAR
Wa"ter bear`. (Zoöl.)

Defn: Any species of Tardigrada, 2. See Illust. of Tardigrada.

WATER-BEARER
Wa"ter-bear`er, n. (Astron.)

Defn: The constellation Aquarius.

WATER BED
Wa"ter bed`.

Defn: A kind of mattress made of, or covered with, waterproof fabric and filled with water. It is used in hospitals for bedridden patients.

WATER BEECH
Wa"ter beech`. (Bot.)

Defn: The American hornbeam. See Hornbeam.

WATER BEETLE
Wa"ter bee"tle. (Zoöl.)

Defn: Any one of numerous species of aquatic beetles belonging to Dytiscus and allied genera of the family Dytiscidæ, and to various genera of the family Hydrophilidæ. These beetles swim with great agility, the fringed hind legs acting together like oars.

WATER BELLOWS
Wa"ter bel"lows.

Defn: Same as Tromp.

WATER BIRD
Wa"ter bird`. (Zoöl.)

Defn: Any aquatic bird; a water fowl.

WATER BLACKBIRD
Wa"ter black"*bird. (Zoöl.)

Defn: The European water ousel, or dipper.

WATERBOARD
Wa"ter*board`, n.

Defn: A board set up to windward in a boat, to keep out water. Ham.
Nav. Encyc.

WATER BOATMAN
Wa"ter boat`man. (Zoöl.)

Defn: A boat bug.

WATERBOK
Wa"ter*bok`, n. Etym: [D.] (Zoöl.)

Defn: A water buck.

WATER-BOUND
Wa"ter-bound`, a.

Defn: Prevented by a flood from proceeding.

WATER BRAIN
Wa"ter brain`.

Defn: A disease of sheep; gid.

WATER BRASH
Wa"ter brash`. (Med.)

Defn: See under Brash.

WATER BREATHER
Wa"ter breath"er. (Zoöl.)

Defn: Any arthropod that breathes by means of gills.

WATER BRIDGE
Wa"ter bridge`. (Steam Boilers)

Defn: See Water table.

WATER BUCK
Wa"ter buck`. (Zoöl.)

Defn: 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.

Note: The name is also applied to other related species, as the leche
(Kobus leche), which has similar habits.

WATER BUFFALO
Wa"ter buf"fa*lo. (Zoöl.)

Defn: The European buffalo.

WATER BUG Wa"ter bug`. (Zoöl.) (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 Belostomatidæ. 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.

WATER BUTT
Wa"ter butt`.

Defn: A large, open-headed cask, set up on end, to contain water.
Dickens.

WATER CALTROP
Wa"ter cal"trop. (Bot.)

Defn: The water chestnut.

WATER CAN
Wa"ter can`. (Bot.)

Defn: 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.

WATER CANKER
Wa"ter can"ker. (Med.)

Defn: See Canker, n., 1.

WATER CARRIAGE
Wa"ter car"riage.

1. Transportation or conveyance by water; means of transporting by water.

2. A vessel or boat. [Obs.] Arbuthnot.

WATER CART
Wa"ter cart`.

Defn: A cart carrying water; esp., one carrying water for sale, or for sprinkling streets, gardens, etc.

WATER CAVY
Wa"ter ca"vy. (Zoöl.)

Defn: The capybara.

WATER CELERY
Wa"ter cel"er*y. (Bot.)

Defn: A very acrid herb (Ranunculus sceleratus) growing in ditches and wet places; — called also cursed crowfoot.

WATER CELL
Wa"ter cell`.

Defn: A cell containing water; specifically (Zoöl.), one of the cells or chambers in which water is stored up in the stomach of a camel.

WATER CEMENT
Wa"ter ce*ment".

Defn: Hydraulic cement.

WATER CHESTNUT
Wa"ter chest"nut. (Bot.)

Defn: The fruit of Trapa natans and Trapa bicornis, Old World water plants bearing edible nutlike fruits armed with several hard and sharp points; also, the plant itself; — called also water caltrop.

WATER CHEVROTAIN
Wa"ter chev`ro*tain". (Zoöl.)

Defn: A large West African chevrotain (Hyæmoschus aquaticus). It has a larger body and shorter legs than the other allied species. Called also water deerlet.

WATER CHICKEN
Wa"ter chick"en. (Zoöl.)

Defn: The common American gallinule.

WATER CHICKWEED
Wa"ter chick"weed`. (Bot.)

Defn: A small annual plant (Montia fontana) growing in wet places in southern regions.

WATER CHINQUAPIN
Wa"ter chin"qua*pin. (Bot.)

Defn: The American lotus, and its edible seeds, which somewhat resemble chinquapins. Cf. Yoncopin.

WATER CLOCK
Wa"ter clock`.

Defn: An instrument or machine serving to measure time by the fall, or flow, of a certain quantity of water; a clepsydra.

WATER-CLOSET
Wa"ter-clos`et, n.

Defn: A privy; especially, a privy furnished with a contrivance for introducing a stream of water to cleanse it.

WATER COCK
Wa"ter cock`. (Zoöl.)

Defn: A large gallinule (Gallicrex cristatus) native of Australia,
India, and the East Indies. In the breeding season the male is black
and has a fleshy red caruncle, or horn, on the top of its head.
Called also kora.

WATER COLOR
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.

Note: It preserves its consistency when dried in a solid cake, which is used by rubbing off a portion on a moistened palette. Moist water colors are water colors kept in a semifluid or pasty state in little metal tubes or pans.

2. A picture painted with such colors.

WATER-COLORIST
Wa"ter-col`or*ist, n.

Defn: One who paints in water colors.

WATER COURSE
Wa"ter course`.

1. A stream of water; a river or brook. Isa. xliv. 4.

2. A natural channel for water; also, a canal for the conveyance of water, especially in draining lands.

3. (Law)

Defn: 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.

WATERCOURSE
Wa"ter*course`, n. (Shipbuilding)

Defn: One of the holes in floor or other plates to permit water to flow through.

WATER CRAFT
Wa"ter craft`.

Defn: Any vessel or boat plying on water; vessels and boats, collectively.

WATER CRAKE Wa"ter crake`. (Zoöl.) (a) The dipper. (b) The spotted crake (Porzana maruetta). See Illust. of Crake. (c) The swamp hen, or crake, of Australia.

WATER CRANE
Wa"ter crane`.

Defn: A goose-neck apparatus for supplying water from an elevated tank, as to the tender of a locomotive.

WATER CRESS
Wa"ter cress`. (Bot.)

Defn: A perennial cruciferous herb (Nasturtium officinale) growing usually in clear running or spring water. The leaves are pungent, and used for salad and as an antiscorbutic.

WATER CROW Wa"ter crow`. Etym: [So called in allusion to its dark plumage.] (Zoöl.) (a) The dipper. (b) The European coot.

WATER CROWFOOT
Wa"ter crow"foot`. (Bot.)

Defn: An aquatic kind of buttercup (Ranunculus aquatilis), used as food for cattle in parts of England. Great water crowfoot, an American water plant (Ranunculus multifidus), having deep yellow flowers.

WATER CURE
Wa"ter cure`.

1. (Med.)

Defn: Hydropathy.

2. A hydropathic institution.

WATER DECK
Wa"ter deck`.

Defn: A covering of painting canvas for the equipments of a dragoon's horse. Wilhelm.

WATER DEER Wa"ter deer`. (Zoöl.) (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.

WATER DEERLET
Wa"ter deer"let.

Defn: See Water chevrotain.

WATER DEVIL
Wa"ter dev"il. (Zoöl.)

Defn: The rapacious larva of a large water beetle (Hydrophilus piceus), and of other similar species. See Illust. of Water beetle.

WATER DOCK
Wa"ter dock`. (Bot.)

Defn: A tall, coarse dock growing in wet places. The American water dock is Rumex orbiculatus, the European is R. Hydrolapathum.

WATER DOCTOR 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.

WATER DOG
Wa"ter dog`.

1. (Zoöl.)

Defn: A dog accustomed to the water, or trained to retrieve waterfowl. Retrievers, waters spaniels, and Newfoundland dogs are so trained.

2. (Zoöl.)

Defn: The menobranchus.

3. A small floating cloud, supposed to indicate rain.

4. A sailor, esp. an old sailor; an old salt. [Colloq.]

WATER DRAIN
Wa"ter drain`.

Defn: A drain or channel for draining off water.

WATER DRAINAGE
Wa"ter drain"age (; 48).

Defn: The draining off of water.

WATER DRESSING
Wa"ter dress"ing. (Med.)

Defn: The treatment of wounds or ulcers by the application of water; also, a dressing saturated with water only, for application to a wound or an ulcer.

WATER DROPWORT
Wa"ter drop"wort`. (Bot.)

Defn: A European poisonous umbelliferous plant (Enanthe fistulosa) with large hollow stems and finely divided leaves.

WATER EAGLE
Wa"ter ea"gle. (Zoöl.)

Defn: The osprey.

WATER ELDER
Wa"ter el"der. (Bot.)

Defn: The guelder-rose.

WATER ELEPHANT
Wa"ter el"e*phant. (Zoöl.)

Defn: The hippopotamus. [R.]

WATER ENGINE
Wa"ter en"gine.

Defn: An engine to raise water; or an engine moved by water; also, an engine or machine for extinguishing fires; a fire engine.

WATERER
Wa"ter*er, n.

Defn: One who, or that which, waters.

WATERFALL
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.

2. (Hairdressing)

Defn: An arrangement of a woman's back hair over a cushion or frame in some resemblance to a waterfall.

3. A certain kind of neck scarf. T. Hughes.

WATER FEATHER; WATER FEATHER-FOIL
Wa"ter feath"er or Wa"ter feath"er-foil`. (Bot.)

Defn: The water violet (Hottonia palustris); also, the less showy
American plant H. inflata.

WATER FLAG
Wa"ter flag`. (Bot.)

Defn: A European species of Iris (Iris Pseudacorus) having bright yellow flowers.

WATER FLANNEL
Wa"ter flan"nel. (Bot.)

Defn: A floating mass formed in pools by the entangled filaments of a
European fresh-water alga (Cladophora crispata).

WATER FLEA
Wa"ter flea`. (Zoöl.)

Defn: Any one of numerous species of small aquatic Entomostraca belonging to the genera Cyclops, Daphnia, etc; — so called because they swim with sudden leaps, or starts.

WATERFLOOD
Wa"ter*flood`, n. Etym: [AS. wæterflod.]

Defn: A flood of water; an inundation.

WATER FLOUNDER
Wa"ter floun"der. (Zoöl.)

Defn: The windowpane (Pleuronectes maculatus). [Local, U. S.]

WATERFOWL
Wa"ter*fowl`, n.

Defn: Any bird that frequents the water, or lives about rivers, lakes, etc., or on or near the sea; an aquatic fowl; — used also collectively.

Note: Of aquatic fowls, some are waders, or furnished with long legs; others are swimmers, or furnished with webbed feet.

WATER FOX
Wa"ter fox`. (Zoöl.)

Defn: The carp; — so called on account of its cunning. Walton.

WATER FRAME
Wa"ter frame`.

Defn: A name given to the first power spinning machine, because driven by water power.

WATER FURROW
Wa"ter fur"row. (Agric.)

Defn: A deep furrow for conducting water from the ground, and keeping the surface soil dry.

WATER-FURROW
Wa"ter-fur"row, v. t.

Defn: To make water furrows in.

WATER GAGE
Wa"ter gage`.

Defn: See Water gauge.

WATER GALL
Wa"ter gall`.

1. A cavity made in the earth by a torrent of water; a washout.

2. A watery appearance in the sky, accompanying the rainbow; a secondary or broken rainbow. These water galls, in her dim element, Foretell new storms to those already spent. Shak. False good news are [is] always produced by true good, like the water gall by the rainbow. Walpole.

WATER GANG
Wa"ter gang`. (O. E. Law)

Defn: A passage for water, such as was usually made in a sea wall, to drain water out of marshes. Burrill.

WATER GAS
Wa"ter gas`. (Chem.)

Defn: See under Gas.

WATER GATE
Wa"ter gate`.

Defn: A gate, or valve, by which a flow of water is permitted, prevented, or regulated.

WATER GAUGE
Wa"ter gauge`. [Written also water gage.]

1. A wall or bank to hold water back. Craig.

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.

WATER GAVEL
Wa"ter gav"el. (O. Eng. Law)

Defn: A gavel or rent paid for a privilege, as of fishing, in some river or water.

WATER GERMANDER
Wa"ter ger*man"der. (Bot.)

Defn: A labiate plant (Teucrium Scordium) found in marshy places in
Europe.

WATER GILDING
Wa"ter gild"ing.

Defn: The act, or the process, of gilding metallic surfaces by covering them with a thin coating of amalgam of gold, and then volatilizing the mercury by heat; — called also wash gilding.

WATER GLASS
Wa"ter glass`. (Chem.)

Defn: See Soluble glass, under Glass.

WATER GOD
Wa"ter god`. (Myth.)

Defn: A fabulous deity supposed to dwell in, and preside over, some body of water.

WATER GRASS
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)

Defn: The water cress. (3)

Defn: One of various horsetails.

WATER GRUEL
Wa"ter gru"el.

Defn: A liquid food composed of water and a small portion of meal, or other farinaceous substance, boiled and seasoned.

WATER HAMMER
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.

2. A concussion, or blow, made by water in striking, as against the sides of a pipe or vessel containing it.

WATER HARE
Wa"ter hare. (Zoöl.)

Defn: A small American hare or rabbit (Lepus aquaticus) found on or near the southern coasts of the United States; — called also water rabbit, and swamp hare.

WATER HEMLOCK 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.

WATER HEMP
Wa"ter hemp`. (Bot.)

Defn: See under Hemp.

WATER HEN
Wa"ter hen`.

1. (Zoöl.)

Defn: Any gallinule.

2. (Zoöl.)

Defn: The common American coot.

WATER HOG
Wa"ter hog`. (Zoöl.)

Defn: The capybara.

WATER HOREHOUND
Wa"ter hore"hound`. (Bot.)

Defn: Bugleweed.

WATERHORSE
Wa"ter*horse`, n.

Defn: A pile of salted fish heaped up to drain.

WATER HYACINTH
Wa"ter hy"a*cinth. (Bot.)

Defn: Either of several tropical aquatic plants of the genus
Eichhornia, related to the pickerel weed.

WATER ICE
Wa"ter ice`.

Defn: Water flavored, sweetened, and frozen, to be eaten as a confection.

WATERIE
Wa"ter*ie, n. (Zoöl.)

Defn: The pied wagtail; — so called because it frequents ponds.

WATER INCH
Wa"ter inch`.

Defn: Same as Inch of water, under Water.

WATERINESS
Wa"ter*i*ness, n.

Defn: The quality or state of being watery; moisture; humidity.

WATERING
Wa"ter*ing,

Defn: a. & n. from Water, v. 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) (Zoöl.) 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.

WATERISH
Wa"ter*ish, a. Etym: [AS. wæterisc.]

1. Resembling water; thin; watery. Feed upon such nice and waterish diet. Shak.

2. Somewhat watery; moist; as, waterish land.

WATERISHNESS
Wa"ter*ish*ness, n.

Defn: The quality of being waterish.

WATER JACKET
Wa"ter jac"ket.

Defn: 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. water- jacketed. Having a water jacket; — as, a water-jacketed condenser.

WATER JOINT
Wa"ter joint`. (Arch.)

Defn: A joint in a stone pavement where the stones are left slightly higher than elsewhere, the rest of the surface being sunken or dished. The raised surface is intended to prevent the settling of water in the joints.

WATER JUNKET
Wa"ter jun"ket. (Zoöl.)

Defn: The common sandpiper.

WATER-LAID
Wa"ter-laid`, a.

Defn: Having a left-hand twist; — said of cordage; as, a water-laid, or left-hand, rope.

WATERLANDER; WATERLANDIAN
Wa`ter*land"er, Wa`ter*land"i*an n. (Eccl. Hist.)

Defn: One of a body of Dutch Anabaptists who separated from the
Mennonites in the sixteenth century; — so called from a district in
North Holland denominated Waterland.

WATER LAVEROCK
Wa"ter la"ver*ock. (Zoöl.)

Defn: The common sandpiper.

WATERLEAF
Wa"ter*leaf`, n. (Bot.)

Defn: Any plant of the American genus Hydrophyllum, herbs having white or pale blue bell-shaped flowers. Gray.

WATER LEG
Wa"ter leg`. (Steam Boilers)

Defn: See Leg, 7.

WATER LEMON
Wa"ter lem"on. (Bot.)

Defn: The edible fruit of two species of passion flower (Passiflora laurifolia, and P. maliformis); — so called in the West Indies.

WATERLESS
Wa"ter*less, a.

Defn: Destitute of water; dry. Chaucer.

WATER LETTUCE
Wa"ter let"tuce. (Bot.)

Defn: A plant (Pistia stratiotes) which floats on tropical waters, and forms a rosette of spongy, wedge-shaped leaves. J. Smith (Dict. Econ. Plants).

WATER LEVEL
Wa"ter lev"el.

1. The level formed by the surface of still water.

2. A kind of leveling instrument. See under Level, n.

WATER LILY
Wa"ter lil`y. (Bot.)

Defn: A blossom or plant of any species of the genus Nymphæa, distinguished for its large floating leaves and beautiful flowers. See Nymphæa.

Note: The name is extended to various plants of other related genera, as Nuphar, Euryale, Nelumbo, and Victoria. See Euryale, Lotus, and Victoria, 1.

WATER LIME
Wa"ter lime`.

Defn: Hydraulic lime.

WATER LINE
Wa"ter line`.

1. (Shipbuilding)

Defn: Any one of certain lines of a vessel, model, or plan, parallel with the surface of the water at various heights from the keel.

Note: In a half-breadth plan, the water lines are outward curves showing the horizontal form of the ship at their several heights; in a sheer plan, they are projected as straight horizontal lines.

2. (Naut.)

Defn: 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. 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.

WATER LIZARD
Wa"ter liz"ard. (Zoöl.)

Defn: Any aquatic lizard of the genus Varanus, as the monitor of the
Nile. See Monitor, n., 3.

WATER LOCUST
Wa"ter lo"cust. (Bot.)

Defn: A thorny leguminous tree (Gleditschia monosperma) which grows in the swamps of the Mississippi valley.

WATER-LOGGED
Wa"ter-logged, a.

Defn: 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.

WATERMAN
Wa"ter*man, n.; pl. Watermen (.

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.

2. An attendant on cab stands, etc., who supplies water to the horses. [Eng.] Dickens.

3. A water demon. Tylor.

WATERMANSHIP
Wa"ter*man*ship`, n.

1. The business or skill of a waterman.

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.

WATERMARK
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.

2. A letter, device, or the like, wrought into paper during the process of manufacture.

Note: "The watermark in paper is produced by bending the wires of the mold, or by wires bent into the shape of the required letter or device, and sewed to the surface of the mold; — it has the effect of making the paper thinner in places. The old makers employed 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." Tomlinson.

3. (Naut.)

Defn: See Water line, 2. [R.]

WATER MEADOW
Wa"ter mead"ow. (Agric.)

Defn: A meadow, or piece of low, flat land, capable of being kept in a state of fertility by being overflowed with water from some adjoining river or stream.

WATER MEASURE
Wa"ter meas"ure.

Defn: 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.

WATER MEASURER
Wa"ter meas"ur*er. (Zoöl.)

Defn: Any one of numerous species of water; the skater. See Skater, n., 2.

WATERMELON
Wa"ter*mel`on, n. (Bot.)

Defn: The very large ovoid or roundish fruit of a cucurbitaceous plant (Citrullus vulgaris) of many varieties; also, the plant itself. The fruit sometimes weighs many pounds; its pulp is usually pink in color, and full of a sweet watery juice. It is a native of tropical Africa, but is now cultivated in many countries. See Illust. of Melon.

WATER METER
Wa"ter me"ter.

Defn: A contrivance for measuring a supply of water delivered or received for any purpose, as from a street main.

WATER MILFOIL
Wa"ter mil"foil. (Bot.)

Defn: Any plant of the genus Myriophyllum, aquatic herbs with whorled leaves, the submersed ones pinnately parted into capillary divisions.

WATER MILL
Wa"ter mill`.

Defn: A mill whose machinery is moved by water; — distinguished from a windmill, and a steam mill.

WATER MINT
Wa"ter mint`.

Defn: A kind of mint (Mentha aquatica) growing in wet places, and sometimes having a perfume resembling bergamot.

WATER MITE
Wa"ter mite`. (Zoöl.)

Defn: Any of numerous species of aquatic mites belonging to Hydrachna and allied genera of the family Hydrachnidæ, usually having the legs fringed and adapted for swimming. They are often red or red and black in color, and while young are parasites of fresh-water insects and mussels. Called also water tick, and water spider.

WATER MOCCASIN
Wa"ter moc"ca*sin. (Zoöl.)

Defn: A venomous North American snake (Ancistrodon piscivorus) allied to the rattlesnake but destitute of a rattle. It lives in or about pools and ponds, and feeds largely of fishes. Called also water snake, water adder, water viper.

WATER MOLE Wa"ter mole`. (Zoöl.) (a) The shrew mole. See under Shrew. (b) The duck mole. See under Duck.

WATER MONITOR
Wa"ter mon"i*tor. (Zoöl.)

Defn: A very large lizard (Varanaus salvator) native of India. It frequents the borders of streams and swims actively. It becomes five or six feet long. Called also two-banded monitor, and kabaragoya. The name is also applied to other aquatic monitors.

WATER MONKEY
Water monkey.

Defn: A jar or bottle, as of porous earthenware, in which water is cooled by evaporation.

WATER MOTOR
Wa"ter mo"tor.

1. A water engine.

2. A water wheel; especially, a small water wheel driven by water from a street main.

WATER MOUSE
Wa"ter mouse`. (Zoöl.)

Defn: Any one of several species of mice belonging to the genus Hydromys, native of Australia and Tasmania. Their hind legs are strong and their toes partially webbed. They live on the borders of streams, and swim well. They are remarkable as being the only rodents found in Australia.

WATER MURRAIN
Wa"ter mur"rain.

Defn: A kind of murrain affecting cattle. Crabb.

WATER NEWT
Wa"ter newt`. (Zoöl.)

Defn: Any one of numerous species of aquatic salamanders; a triton.

WATER NYMPH
Wa"ter nymph`.

1. (Myth.)

Defn: A goddess of any stream or other body of water, whether one of the Naiads, Nereids, or Oceanides.

2. (Bot.)

Defn: A water lily (Nymphæa).

WATER OAT
Wa"ter oat`.

Defn: Indian rice. See under Rice.

WATER OPOSSUM
Wa"ter o*pos"sum. (Zoöl.)

Defn: See Yapock, and the Note under Opossum.

WATER ORDEAL
Wa"ter or"de*al.

Defn: Same as Ordeal by water. See the Note under Ordeal, n., 1.

WATER OUSEL; WATER OUZEL
Wa"ter ou"sel, Wa"ter ou"zel. (Zoöl.)

Defn: Any one of several species of small insessorial birds of the genus Cinclus (or Hydrobates), especially the European water ousel (C. aquaticus), and the American water ousel (C. Mexicanus). These birds live about the water, and are in the habit of walking on the bottom of streams beneath the water in search of food.

WATER PARSNIP
Wa"ter pars"nip. (Bot.)

Defn: Any plant of the aquatic umbelliferous genus Sium, poisonous herbs with pinnate or dissected leaves and small white flowers.

WATER PARTING
Water parting. (Phys. Geog.)

Defn: 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.

WATER PARTRIDGE
Wa"ter par"tridge. (Zoöl.)

Defn: The ruddy duck. [Local, U. S.]

WATER PENNYWORT
Wa"ter pen"ny*wort`. (Bot.)

Defn: Marsh pennywort. See under Marsh.

WATER PEPPER Wa"ter pep"per. (Bot.) (a) Smartweed. (b) Waterwort.

WATER PHEASANT Wa"ter pheas"ant. (Zoöl.) (a) The pintail. See Pintail, n., 1. (b) The goosander. (c) The hooded merganser.

WATER PIET
Wa"ter pi"et. (Zoöl.)

Defn: The water ousel.

WATER PIG
Wa"ter pig`.

1. (Zoöl.)

Defn: The capybara.

2. (Zoöl.)

Defn: The gourami.

WATER PILLAR
Wa"ter pil"lar.

Defn: A waterspout. [Obs.]

WATER PIMPERNEL
Wa"ter pim"per*nel. (Bot.)

Defn: A small white-flowered shrub; brookweed.

WATER PIPE
Wa"ter pipe.

Defn: A pipe for conveying water.

WATER PITCHER
Wa"ter pitch"er.

1. A pitcher for water.

2. (Bot.)

Defn: One of a family of plants having pitcher-shaped leaves. The sidesaddle flower (Sarracenia purpurea) is the type.

WATER PLANT
Wa"ter plant`.

Defn: A plant that grows in water; an aquatic plant.

WATER PLANTAIN
Wa"ter plan"tain. (Bot.)

Defn: A kind of plant with acrid leaves. See under 2d Plantain.

WATER PLATE
Wa"ter plate`.

Defn: A plate heated by hot water contained in a double bottom or jacket. Knight.

WATER POA
Wa"ter po"a. (Bot.)

Defn: Meadow reed grass. See under Reed.

WATER POCKET
Water pocket.

Defn: 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.]

WATER POISE
Wa"ter poise`.

Defn: A hydrometer.

WATER PORE
Wa"ter pore`

1. (Zoöl.)

Defn: A pore by which the water tubes of various invertebrates open externally.

2. (Bot.)

Defn: 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.

WATERPOT
Wa"ter*pot`, n.

Defn: A vessel for holding or conveying water, or for sprinkling water on cloth, plants, etc.

WATER POWER
Wa"ter pow"er.

1. The power of water employed to move machinery, etc.

2. A fall of water which may be used to drive machinery; a site for a water mill; a water privilege.

WATER POX
Wa"ter pox`. (Med.)

Defn: A variety of chicken pox, or varicella. Dunglison.

WATER PRIVILEGE
Wa"ter priv"i*lege.

Defn: The advantage of using water as a mechanical power; also, the place where water is, or may be, so used. See under Privilege.

WATERPROOF
Wa"ter*proof`, a.

Defn: Proof against penetration or permeation by water; impervious to water; as, a waterproof garment; a waterproof roof.

WATERPROOF
Wa"ter*proof`, n.

1. A substance or preparation for rendering cloth, leather, etc., impervious to water.

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.

WATERPROOF
Wa"ter*proof`, v. t.

Defn: To render impervious to water, as cloth, leather, etc.

WATERPROOFING
Wa"ter*proof`ing, n.

1. The act or process of making waterproof.

2. Same as Waterproof, n., 1.

WATER PURSLANE
Wa"ter purs"lane. (Bot.)

Defn: See under Purslane.

WATER QUALM
Wa"ter qualm`. (Med.)

Defn: See Water brash, under Brash.

WATER RABBIT
Wa"ter rab"bit. (Zoöl.)

Defn: See Water hare.

WATER RADISH
Wa"ter rad"ish. (Bot.)

Defn: A coarse yellow-flowered plant (Nasturtium amphibium) related to the water cress and to the horse-radish.

WATER RAIL
Wa"ter rail`. (Zoöl.)

Defn: Any one of numerous species of rails of the genus Rallus, as the common European species (Rallus aquaticus). See Illust. of Rail.

WATER RAM
Wa"ter ram`.

Defn: An hydraulic ram.

WATER RAT
Wa"ter rat`.

1. (Zoöl.) (a) The water vole. See under Vole. (b) The muskrat. (c) The beaver rat. See under Beaver.

2. A thief on the water; a pirate.

WATER RATE
Wa"ter rate`.

Defn: A rate or tax for a supply of water.

WATER RATTLE; WATER RATTLER
Wa"ter rat"tle or Wa"ter rat"tler. (Zoöl.)

Defn: The diamond rattlesnake (Crotalus adamanteus); — so called from its preference for damp places near water.

WATER-RET Wa"ter-ret`, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Water-retted; p. pr. & vb. n. Water- retting.]

Defn: To ret, or rot, in water, as flax; to water-rot.

WATER RICE
Wa"ter rice".

Defn: Indian rice. See under Rice.

WATER ROCKET
Wa"ter rock"et.

1. (Bot.)

Defn: A cruciferous plant (Nasturtium sylvestre) with small yellow flowers.

2. A kind of firework to be discharged in the water.

WATER-ROT Wa"ter-rot`, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Water-rotted; p. pr. & vb. n. Water- rotting.]

Defn: To rot by steeping in water; to water-ret; as, to water-rot hemp or flax.

WATER SAIL
Wa"ter sail`. (Naut.)

Defn: A small sail sometimes set under a studding sail or under a driver boom, and reaching nearly to the water.

WATER SAPPHIRE
Wa"ter sap"phire. Etym: [Equiv. to F. saphir d'eau.] (Min.)

Defn: A deep blue variety of iolite, sometimes used as a gem; — called also saphir d'eau.

WATERSCAPE
Wa"ter*scape", n. Etym: [Cf. Landscape.]

Defn: A sea view; — distinguished from landscape. [Jocose] Fairholt.

WATER SCORPION
Wa"ter scor"pi*on. (Zoöl.)

Defn: See Nepa.

WATER SCREW
Wa"ter screw`.

Defn: A screw propeller.

WATERSHED Wa"ter*shed`, n. Etym: [Cf. G. wasserscheide; wasser water + scheide a place where two things separate, fr. scheiden to separate.]

1. The whole region or extent of country which contributes to the supply of a river or lake.

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.

WATER SHIELD
Wa"ter shield`. (Bot.)

Defn: An aquatic American plant (Brasenia peltata) having floating oval leaves, and the covered with a clear jelly.

WATERSHOOT
Wa"ter*shoot`, n.

1. A sprig or shoot from the root or stock of a tree. [Obs.]

2. (Arch.)

Defn: That which serves to guard from falling water; a drip or dripstone.

3. A trough for discharging water.

WATER SHREW
Wa"ter shrew`. (Zoöl.)

Defn: Any one of several species of shrews having fringed feet and capable of swimming actively. The two common European species (Crossopus fodiens, and C. ciliatus) are the best known. The most common American water shrew, or marsh shrew (Neosorex palustris), is rarely seen, owing to its nocturnal habits.

WATER SNAIL
Wa"ter snail`.

1. (Zoöl.)

Defn: Any aquatic pulmonate gastropod belonging to Planorbis, Limnæa, and allied genera; a pond snail.

2. (Mech.)

Defn: The Archimedean screw. [R.]

WATER SNAKE Wa"ter snake`. (Zoöl.) (a) A common North American colubrine snake (Tropidonotus sipedon) which lives chiefly in the water. (b) Any species of snakes of the family Homalopsidæ, all of which are aquatic in their habits.

WATER-SOAK
Wa"ter-soak`, v. t.

Defn: To soak water; to fill the interstices of with water.

WATER SOLDIER
Wa"ter sol`dier. (Bot.)

Defn: An aquatic European plant (Stratiotes aloides) with bayonet- shaped leaves.

WATER SOUCHY
Wa"ter souch`y. (Cookery)

Defn: A dish consisting of small fish stewed and served in a little water. [Written also water souchet.] See Zoutch.

WATER SPANIEL
Wa"ter span"iel.

Defn: A curly-haired breed of spaniels, naturally very fond of the water.

WATER SPARROW Wa"ter spar"row. (Zoöl.) (a) The reed warbler. [Prov. Eng.] (b) The reed bunting. [Prov. Eng.]

WATER SPEEDWELL
Wa"ter speed"well. (Bot.)

Defn: A kind of speedwell (Veronica Anagallis) found in wet places in
Europe and America.

WATER SPIDER Wa"ter spi"der. (Zoöl.) (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.

WATER SPINNER
Wa"ter spin`ner. (Zoöl.)

Defn: The water spider.

WATERSPOUT
Wa"ter*spout`, n.

Defn: A remarkable meteorological phenomenon, of the nature of a tornado or whirlwind, usually observed over the sea, but sometimes over the land.

Note: Tall columns, apparently of cloud, and reaching from the sea to the clouds, are seen moving along, often several at once, sometimes straight and vertical, at other times inclined and tortuous, but always in rapid rotation. At their bases, the sea is violently agitated and heaped up with a leaping or boiling motion, water, at least in some cases, being actually carried up in considerable quantity, and scattered round from a great height, as solid bodies are by tornadoes on land. Sir J. Herschel.

WATER SPRITE
Wa"ter sprite`.

Defn: A sprite, or spirit, imagined as inhabiting the water. J. R.
Drake.

WATER-STANDING
Wa"ter-stand`ing, a.

Defn: Tear-filled. [R.] "Many an orphan's water-standing eye." Shak.

WATER STAR GRASS
Wa"ter star" grass`. (Bot.)

Defn: An aquatic plant (Schollera graminea) with grassy leaves, and yellow star-shaped blossoms.

WATER STARWORT
Wa"ter star"wort`.

Defn: See under Starwort.

WATER SUPPLY
Wa"ter sup*ply".

Defn: A supply of water; specifically, water collected, as in reservoirs, and conveyed, as by pipes, for use in a city, mill, or the like.

WATER TABBY
Wa"ter tab"by.

Defn: A kind of waved or watered tabby. See Tabby, n., 1.

WATER TABLE
Wa"ter ta"ble. (Arch.)

Defn: A molding, or other projection, in the wall of a building, to throw off the water, — generally used in the United States for the first table above the surface of the ground (see Table, n., 9), that is, for the table at the top of the foundation and the beginning of the upper wall.

WATERTATH
Wa"ter*tath`, n. Etym: [Water + tath, n.]

Defn: A kind of coarse grass growing in wet grounds, and supposed to be injurious to sheep. [Prov. Eng.]

WATER TELESCOPE
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.

2. A telescope devised for looking into a body of water.

WATER TENDER
Water tender. (Nav.)

Defn: In the United States navy, a first-class petty officer in charge in a fireroom. He "tends" 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.

WATER THERMOMETER
Wa"ter ther*mom"e*ter. (Physics)

Defn: A thermometer filled with water instead of mercury, for ascertaining the precise temperature at which water attains its maximum density. This is about 39º Fahr., or 4º Centigrade; and from that point down to 32º Fahr., or 0º Centigrade, or the freezing point, it expands.

WATER THIEF
Wa"ter thief`.

Defn: A pirate. [R.] Shak.

WATER THRUSH Wa"ter thrush`. (Zoöl.) (a) A North American bird of the genus Seiurus, belonging to the Warbler family, especially the common species (S. Noveboracensis). (b) The European water ousel. (b) The pied wagtail.

WATER THYME
Wa"ter thyme`. (Bot.)

Defn: See Anacharis.

WATER TICK
Wa"ter tick`.

Defn: Same as Water mite.

WATER TIGER
Wa"ter ti"ger. (Zoöl.)

Defn: A diving, or water, beetle, especially the larva of a water beetle. See Illust. b of Water beetle.

WATER-TIGHT
Wa"ter-tight`, a.

Defn: So tight as to retain, or not to admit, water; not leaky.

WATER TORCH
Wa"ter torch`. (Bot.)

Defn: The common cat-tail (Typha latifolia), the spike of which makes a good torch soaked in oil. Dr. Prior.

WATER TOWER
Wa"ter tow"er.

Defn: A large metal pipe made to be extended vertically by sections, and used for discharging water upon burning buildings.

WATER TREE
Wa"ter tree`. (Bot.)

Defn: A climbing shrub (Tetracera alnifolia, or potatoria) of Western
Africa, which pours out a watery sap from the freshly cut stems.

WATER TREFOIL
Wa"ter tre"foil`. (Bot.)

Defn: The buck bean.

WATER TUBE
Wa"ter tube`. (Zoöl.)

Defn: One of a system of tubular excretory organs having external openings, found in many invertebrates. They are believed to be analogous in function to the kidneys of vertebrates. See Illust. under Trematodea, and Sporocyst.

WATER TUPELO
Wa"ter tu"pe*lo. (Bot.)

Defn: A species of large tupelo (Nyssa aquatica) growing in swamps in the southern of the United States. See Ogeechee lime.

WATER TURKEY
Wa"ter tur"key. (Zoöl.)

Defn: The American snakebird. See Snakebird.

WATER TU TUYERE
Wa"ter tu tu`yère".

Defn: A tuyère kept cool by water circulating within a casing. It is used for hot blast.

WATER TU TWIST
Wa"ter tu twist`.

Defn: Yarn made by the throstle, or water frame.

WATER VINE
Wa"ter vine`. (Bot.)

Defn: Any plant of the genus Phytocrene, climbing shrubs of Asia and Africa, the stems of which are singularly porous, and when cut stream with a limpid potable juice.

WATER VIOLET
Wa"ter vi"o*let. (Bot.)

Defn: See under Violet.

WATER VIPER
Wa"ter vi"per. (Zoöl.)

Defn: See Water moccasin.

WATER VOLE
Wa"ter vole`. (Zoöl.)

Defn: See under Vole.

WATER WAGTAIL
Wa"ter wag"tail`.

Defn: See under Wagtail.

WATERWAY
Wa"ter*way`, n. (Naut.)

Defn: Heavy plank or timber extending fore and aft the whole length of a vessel's deck at the line of junction with the sides, forming a channel to the scuppers, which are cut through it. In iron vessels the waterway is variously constructed.

WATER WAY
Wa"ter way`.

Defn: Same as Water course.

WATERWEED
Wa"ter*weed`, n. (Bot.)

Defn: See Anacharis.

WATER WHEEL
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.

2. The paddle wheel of a steam vessel.

3. A wheel for raising water; a noria, or the like.

WATER-WHITE
Wa"ter-white`, n. (Bot.)

Defn: A vinelike plant (Vitis Caribæa) growing in parched districts in the West Indies, and containing a great amount of sap which is sometimes used for quenching thirst.

WATER WILLOW
Wa"ter wil`low. (Bot.)

Defn: An American aquatic plant (Dianthera Americana) with long willowlike leaves, and spikes of small purplish flowers.

WATER WING
Wa"ter wing`. (Arch.)

Defn: One of two walls built on either side of the junction of a bridge with the bank of a river, to protect the abutment of the bridge and the bank from the action of the current.

WATER WITCH Wa"ter witch`. (Zoöl.) (a) The dabchick. (b) The stormy petrel. [Prov. Eng.]

WATER-WITHE
Wa"ter-withe`, n. (Bot.)

Defn: A vinelike plant (Vitis Caribæa) growing in parched districts in the West Indies, and containing a great amount of sap which is sometimes used for quenching thirst.

WATERWORK
Wa"ter*work`, n.

1. (Paint.)

Defn: Painting executed in size or distemper, on canvas or walls, — formerly, frequently taking the place of tapestry. Shak. Fairholt.

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.

WATERWORN
Wa"ter*worn`, a.

Defn: Worn, smoothed, or polished by the action of water; as, waterworn stones.

WATERWORT
Wa"ter*wort`, n. (Bot.)

Defn: Any plant of the natural order Elatineæ, consisting of two genera (Elatine, and Bergia), mostly small annual herbs growing in the edges of ponds. Some have a peppery or acrid taste.

WATERY
Wa"ter*y, a. Etym: [AS. wæterig.]

1. Of or pertaining to water; consisting of water. "The watery god." Dryden. "Fish within their watery residence." Milton.

2. Abounding with water; wet; hence, tearful.

3. Resembling water; thin or transparent, as a liquid; as, watery humors. The oily and watery parts of the aliment. Arbuthnot.

4. Hence, abounding in thin, tasteless, or insipid fluid; tasteless; insipid; vapid; spiritless.

WATT
Watt, n. Etym: [From the distinguished mechanician and scientist,
James Watt.] (Physics)

Defn: 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.

WATTEAU
Wat*teau", a. (Art)

Defn: 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.

WATTEAU BACK
Watteau back.

Defn: 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.

WATTLE Wat"tle, n. Etym: [AS. watel, watul, watol, hurdle, covering, wattle; cf. OE. watel a bag. Cf. Wallet.]

1. A twig or flexible rod; hence, a hurdle made of such rods. And there he built with wattles from the marsh A little lonely church in days of yore. Tennyson.

2. A rod laid on a roof to support the thatch.

3. (Zoöl.) (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.

4. (a) The astringent bark of several Australian trees of the genus Acacia, used in tanning; — called also wattle bark. (b) (Bot.) The trees from which the bark is obtained. See Savanna wattle, under Savanna. Wattle turkey. (Zoöl.) Same as Brush turkey.

WATTLE
Wat"tle, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Wattled; p. pr. & vb. n. Wattling.]

1. To bind with twigs.

2. To twist or interweave, one with another, as twigs; to form a network with; to plat; as, to wattle branches.

3. To form, by interweaving or platting twigs. The folded flocks, penned in their wattled cotes. Milton.

WATTLEBIRD
Wat"tle*bird`, n.

1. (Zoöl.)

Defn: Any one of several species of honey eaters belonging to Anthochæra and allied genera of the family Meliphagidæ. 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.

Note: The best-known species (Anthochæra 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 (A. 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 (A. mellivora) is dark brown, finely streaked with white. Called also goruck creeper.

2. (Zoöl.)

Defn: The Australian brush turkey.

WATTLED
Wat"tled, a.

Defn: Furnished with wattles, or pendent fleshy processes at the chin
or throat.
The wattled cocks strut to and fro. Longfellow.

WATTLESS
Watt"less, a. (Elec.)

Defn: 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.

WATTLING
Wat"tling, n.

Defn: The act or process of binding or platting with twigs; also, the
network so formed.
Made with a wattling of canes or sticks. Dampier.

WATTMETER
Watt"me`ter, n. Etym: [Watt + meter.] (Physics)

Defn: An instrument for measuring power in watts, — much used in measuring the energy of an electric current.

WAUCHT; WAUGHT
Waucht, Waught, n. Etym: [Cf. Quaff.]

Defn: A large draught of any liquid. [Scot.] Jamieson.

WAUL
Waul, v. i. Etym: [Of imitative origin.]

Defn: To cry as a cat; to squall; to wail. [Written also wawl.]
The helpless infant, coming wauling and crying into the world. Sir W.
Scott.

WAUR
Waur, a. Etym: [See Worse.]

Defn: Worse. [Scot.]
Murder and waur than number. Sir W. Scott.

WAVE
Wave, v. t.

Defn: See Wave. Sir H. Wotton. Burke.

WAVE Wave, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Waved; p. pr. & vb. n. Waving.] Etym: [OE. waven, AS. wafian to waver, to hesitate, to wonder; akin to wæfre wavering, restless, MHG. wabern to be in motion, Icel. vafra to hover about; cf. Icel. vafa to vibrate. Cf. Waft, Waver.]

1. To play loosely; to move like a wave, one way and the other; to float; to flutter; to undulate. His purple robes waved careless to the winds. Trumbull. Where the flags of three nations has successively waved. Hawthorne.

2. To be moved to and fro as a signal. B. Jonson.

3. To fluctuate; to waver; to be in an unsettled state; to vacillate. [Obs.] He waved indifferently 'twixt doing them neither good nor harm. Shak.

WAVE
Wave, v. t.

1. To move one way and the other; to brandish. "[Æneas] waved his fatal sword." Dryden.

2. To raise into inequalities of surface; to give an undulating form a surface to. Horns whelked and waved like the enridged sea. Shak.

3. To move like a wave, or by floating; to waft. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

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. Look, with what courteous action It waves you to a more removed ground. Shak. She spoke, and bowing waved Dismissal. Tennyson.

WAVE Wave, n. Etym: [From Wave, v.; not the same word as OE. wawe, waghe, a wave, which is akin to E. wag to move. Wave, v. i.]

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. The wave behind impels the wave before. Pope.

2. (Physics)

Defn: 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.

3. Water; a body of water. [Poetic] "Deep drank Lord Marmion of the wave." Sir W. Scott. Build a ship to save thee from the flood, I 'll furnish thee with fresh wave, bread, and wine. Chapman.

4. Unevenness; inequality of surface. Sir I. Newton.

5. A waving or undulating motion; a signal made with the hand, a flag, etc.

6. The undulating line or streak of luster on cloth watered, or calendered, or on damask steel.

7. Fig.: A swelling or excitement of thought, feeling, or energy; a tide; as, waves of enthusiasm. 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 (Zoöl.), 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.

WAVED
Waved, a.

1. Exhibiting a wavelike form or outline; undulating; intended; wavy; as, waved edge.

2. Having a wavelike appearance; marked with wavelike lines of color; as, waved, or watered, silk.

3. (Her.)

Defn: Having undulations like waves; — said of one of the lines in heraldry which serve as outlines to the ordinaries, etc.

WAVELESS
Wave"less, a.

Defn: Free from waves; undisturbed; not agitated; as, the waveless sea.

WAVELET
Wave"let, n.

Defn: A little wave; a ripple.

WAVELLITE
Wa"vel*lite, n. Etym: [After Dr. Wm. Wavel, the discoverer.] (Min.)

Defn: A hydrous phosphate of alumina, occurring usually in hemispherical radiated forms varying in color from white to yellow, green, or black.

WAVER
Wa"ver, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Wavered; p. pr. & vb. n. Wavering.] Etym:
[OE. waveren, from AS. wæfre wavering, restless. See Wave, v. i.]

1. To play or move to and fro; to move one way and the other; hence, to totter; to reel; to swing; to flutter. With banners and pennons wavering with the wind. Ld. Berners. Thou wouldst waver on one of these trees as a terror to all evil speakers against dignities. Sir W. Scott.

2. To be unsettled in opinion; to vacillate; to be undetermined; to fluctuate; as, to water in judgment. Let us hold fast . . . without wavering. Heb. x. 23. In feeble hearts, propense enough before To waver, or fall off and join with idols. Milton.

Syn.
— To reel; totter; vacillate. See Fluctuate.

WAVER
Wa"ver, n. Etym: [From Wave, or Waver, v.]

Defn: A sapling left standing in a fallen wood. [Prov. Eng.]
Halliwell.

WAVERER
Wa"ver*er, n.

Defn: One who wavers; one who is unsettled in doctrine, faith, opinion, or the like. Shak.

WAVERINGLY
Wa"ver*ing*ly, adv.

Defn: In a wavering manner.

WAVERINGNESS
Wa"ver*ing*ness, n.

Defn: The quality or state of wavering.

WAVESON
Wave"son, n. Etym: [From Wave; cf. Jetsam.] (O. Eng. Law)

Defn: Goods which, after shipwreck, appear floating on the waves, or sea.

WAVE-WORN
Wave"-*worn`, a.

Defn: Worn by the waves.
The shore that o'er his wave-worn basis bowed. Shak.

WAVEY
Wa"vey, n. (Zoöl.)

Defn: The snow goose. [Canadian, & Local U. S.]

WAVINESS
Wav"i*ness, n.

Defn: The quality or state of being wavy.

WAVURE
Wav"ure, n.

Defn: See Waivure. [R.]

WAVY
Wav"y, a.

1. Rising or swelling in waves; full of waves. "The wavy seas." Chapman.

2. Playing to and fro; undulating; as, wavy flames. Let her glad valleys smile with wavy corn. Prior.

3. (Bot.)

Defn: Undulating on the border or surface; waved.

WAWASKEESH
Wa*was"keesh, n. Etym: [From an Indian name.] (Zoöl.)

Defn: The wapiti, or wapiti, or American elk.

WAWE
Wawe, n. Etym: [See Woe.]

Defn: Woe. [Obs.]

WAWE Wawe, n. Etym: [OE. wawe, waghe; cf. Icel. vagr; akin to E. wag; not the same word as wave.]

Defn: A wave. [Obs.] Chaucer. Spenser.

WAWL
Wawl, v. i.

Defn: See Waul. Shak.

WAX Wax, v. i. [imp. Waxed; p. p. Waxed, and Obs. or Poetic Waxen (; p. pr. & vb. n. Waxing.] Etym: [AS. weaxan; akin to OFries. waxa, D. wassen, OS. & OHG. wahsan, G. wachsen, Icel. vaxa, Sw. växa, Dan. voxe, Goth. wahsjan, Gr. waksh, uksh, to grow. Waist.]

1. To increase in size; to grow bigger; to become larger or fuller; -
- opposed to wane.
The waxing and the waning of the moon. Hakewill.
Truth's treasures . . . never shall wax ne wane. P. Plowman.

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. Your clothes are not waxen old upon you. Deut. xxix. 5. Where young Adonis oft reposes, Waxing well of his deep wound. Milton. 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.

WAX Wax, n. Etym: [AS. weax; akin to OFries. wax, D. was, G. wachs, OHG. wahs, Icel. & Sw. vax, Dan. vox, Lith. vaszkas, Russ. vosk'.]

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.

Note: Beeswax consists essentially of cerotic acid (constituting the more soluble part) and of myricyl palmitate (constituting the less soluble part).

2. Hence, any substance resembling beeswax in consistency or appearance. Specifically: —(a) (Physiol.)

Defn: Cerumen, or earwax. See Cerumen. (b) A waxlike composition used for uniting surfaces, for excluding air, and for other purposes; as, sealing wax, grafting wax, etching wax, etc. (c) A waxlike composition used by shoemakers for rubbing their thread. (d) (Zoöl.) A substance similar to beeswax, secreted by several species of scale insects, as the Chinese wax. See Wax insect, below. (e) (Bot.) A waxlike product secreted by certain plants. See Vegetable wax, under Vegetable. (f) (Min.)

Defn: A substance, somewhat resembling wax, found in connection with certain deposits of rock salt and coal; — called also mineral wax, and ozocerite. (g) Thick sirup made by boiling down the sap of the sugar maple, and then cooling. [Local U.S.] Japanese wax, a waxlike substance made in Japan from the berries of certain species of Rhus, esp. R. 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 (Zoöl.), any one of several species of scale insects belonging to the family Coccidæ, 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 (Zoöl.), a pyralid moth (Galleria cereana) whose larvæ 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 (Elæagia utilis) of New Grenada, called by the inhabitants "arbol del cera." — Wax yellow, a dull yellow, resembling the natural color of beeswax.

WAX
Wax, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Waxed; p. pr. & vb. n. Waxing.]

Defn: To smear or rub with wax; to treat with wax; as, to wax a thread or a table. 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.

WAXBERRY
Wax"ber`ry, n. (Bot.)

Defn: The wax-covered fruit of the wax myrtle, or bayberry. See
Bayberry, and Candleberry tree.

WAXBILL
Wax"bill`, n. (Zoöl.)

Defn: Any one of numerous species of finchlike birds belonging to
Estrelda and allied genera, native of Asia, Africa, and Australia.
The bill is large, conical, and usually red in color, resembling
sealing wax. Several of the species are often kept as cage birds.

WAXBIRD
Wax"bird`, (Zoöl.)

Defn: The waxwing.

WAXEN
Wax"en, a.

1. Made of wax. "The female bee, that . . . builds her waxen cells." Milton.

2. Covered with wax; waxed; as, a waxen tablet.

3. Resembling wax; waxy; hence, soft; yielding. Men have marble, women waxen, minds. Shak. Waxen chatterer (Zoöl.), the Bohemian chatterer.

WAXINESS
Wax"i*ness, n.

Defn: Quality or state of being waxy.

WAXWING
Wax"wing`, n. (Zoöl.)

Defn: Any one of several species of small birds of the genus Ampelis, in which some of the secondary quills are usually tipped with small horny ornaments resembling red sealing wax. The Bohemian waxwing (see under Bohemian) and the cedar bird are examples. Called also waxbird.

WAXWORK
Wax"work`, n.

1. Work made of wax; especially, a figure or figures formed or partly of wax, in imitation of real beings.

2. (Bot.)

Defn: 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.

WAXWORKER
Wax"work`er, n.

1. One who works in wax; one who makes waxwork.

2. A bee that makes or produces wax.

WAXWORKS
Wax"works`, n. pl.

Defn: An exhibition of wax figures, or the place of exhibition.

WAXY
Wax"y, a.

Defn: Resembling wax in appearance or consistency; viscid; adhesive; soft; hence, yielding; pliable; impressible. "Waxy to persuasion." Bp. Hall. Waxy degeneration (Med.), amyloid degeneration. See under Amyloid. — Waxy kidney, Waxy liver, etc. (Med.), a kidney or liver affected by waxy degeneration.

WAY
Way, adv. Etym: [Aphetic form of away.]

Defn: Away. [Obs. or Archaic] Chaucer. To do way, to take away; to remove. [Obs.] "Do way your hands." Chaucer. — To make way with, to make away with. See under Away. [Archaic]

WAY Way, n. Etym: [OE. wey, way, AS. weg; akin to OS., D., OHG., & G. weg, Icel. vegr, Sw. väg, Dan. vei, Goth. wigs, L. via, and AS. wegan to move, L. vehere to carry, Skr. vah. sq. root136. Cf. Convex, Inveigh, Vehicle, Vex, Via, Voyage, Wag, Wagon, Wee, Weigh.]

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. "To find the way to heaven." Shak. I shall him seek by way and eke by street. Chaucer. The way seems difficult, and steep to scale. Milton. The season and ways were very improper for his majesty's forces to march so great a distance. Evelyn.

2. Length of space; distance; interval; as, a great way; a long way. And whenever the way seemed long, Or his heart began to fail. Longfellow.

3. A moving; passage; procession; journey. I prythee, now, lead the way. Shak.

4. Course or direction of motion or process; tendency of action;
advance.
If that way be your walk, you have not far. Milton.
And let eternal justice take the way. Dryden.

5. The means by which anything is reached, or anything is accomplished; scheme; device; plan. My best way is to creep under his gaberdine. Shak. By noble ways we conquest will prepare. Dryden. What impious ways my wishes took! Prior.

6. Manner; method; mode; fashion; style; as, the way of expressing one's ideas.

7. Regular course; habitual method of life or action; plan of conduct; mode of dealing. "Having lost the way of nobleness." Sir. P. Sidney. Her ways are ways of pleasantness, and all her paths are peace. Prov. iii. 17. When men lived in a grander way. Longfellow.

8. Sphere or scope of observation. Jer. Taylor. The public ministers that fell in my way. Sir W. Temple.

9. Determined course; resolved mode of action or conduct; as, to have one's way.

10. (Naut.) (a) Progress; as, a ship has way. (b) pl.

Defn: The timbers on which a ship is launched.

11. pl. (Mach.)

Defn: The longitudinal guides, or guiding surfaces, on the bed of a planer, lathe, or the like, along which a table or carriage moves.

12. (Law)

Defn: Right of way. See below. 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 the way of all the earth, to 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.

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. All keep the broad highway, and take delight With many rather for to go astray. Spenser. There is but one road by which to climb up. Addison. When night Darkens the streets, then wander forth the sons Of Belial, flown with insolence and wine. Milton.

WAY
Way, v. t.

Defn: To go or travel to; to go in, as a way or path. [Obs.] "In land not wayed." Wyclif.

WAY
Way, v. i.

Defn: To move; to progress; to go. [R.]
On a time as they together wayed. Spenser.

WAYBILL
Way"bill`, n.

Defn: A list of passengers in a public vehicle, or of the baggage or gods transported by a common carrier on a land route. When the goods are transported by water, the list is called a bill of lading.

WAYBREAD
Way"bread`, n. Etym: [AS. wegbr. See Way, and Broad.] (Bot.)

Defn: The common dooryard plantain (Plantago major).

WAYBUNG
Way"bung`, n. (Zoöl.)

Defn: An Australian insessorial bird (Corcorax melanorhamphus) noted for the curious actions of the male during the breeding season. It is black with a white patch on each wing.

WAYED
Wayed, a.

Defn: Used to the way; broken. [R.] A horse that is not well wayed; he starts at every bird that flies out the hedge. Selden.

WAYFARE
Way"fare`, v. i. Etym: [Way + fare to go.]

Defn: To journey; to travel; to go to and fro. [Obs.] A certain Laconian, as he wayfared, came unto a place where there dwelt an old friend of his. Holland.

WAYFARE
Way"fare`, n.

Defn: The act of journeying; travel; passage. [Obs.] Holland.

WAYFARER
Way"far`er, n.

Defn: One who travels; a traveler; a passenger.

WAYFARING
Way"far`ing, a.

Defn: Traveling; passing; being on a journey. "A wayfaring man."
Judg. xix. 17. 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).

WAYGATE
Way"gate`, n.

Defn: The tailrace of a mill. Knight.

WAY-GOING
Way"-go`ing, a.

Defn: Going away; departing; of or pertaining to one who goes away. 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.

WAY-GOOSE
Way"-goose`, n.

Defn: See Wayz-goose, n., 2. [Eng.]

WAYK
Wayk, a.

Defn: Weak. [Obs.] Chaucer.

WAYLAY
Way"lay`, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Waylaid; p. pr. & vb. n. Waylaying.]
Etym: [Way + lay.]

Defn: 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. Falstaff, Bardolph, Peto, and Gadshill shall rob those men that we have already waylaid. Shak. She often contrived to waylay him in his walks. Sir W. Scott.

WAYLAYER
Way"lay`er, n.

Defn: One who waylays another.

WAYLESS
Way"less, a.

Defn: Having no road or path; pathless.

WAYLEWAY
Way"le*way, interj.

Defn: See Welaway. [Obs.]

WAYMAKER
Way"mak`er, n.

Defn: One who makes a way; a precursor. [R.] Bacon.

WAYMARK
Way"mark`, n.

Defn: A mark to guide in traveling.

WAYMENT
Way"ment, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Waymented; p. pr. & vb. n. Waymenting.]
Etym: [OE. waymenten, OF. waimenter, gaimenter, guaimenter, from wai,
guai, woe! (of Teutonic origin; see Woe) and L. lamentari to lament.
See Lament.]

Defn: To lament; to grieve; to wail. [Written also waiment.] [Obs.]
Thilke science . . . maketh a man to waymenten. Chaucer.
For what boots it to weep and wayment, When ill is chanced Spenser.

WAYMENT
Way"ment, n.

Defn: Grief; lamentation; mourning. [Written also waiment.] [Obs.]
Spenser.

-WAYS -ways.

Defn: 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.

WAY SHAFT
Way" shaft`.

1. (Mach.)

Defn: A rock shaft.

2. (Mining)

Defn: An interior shaft, usually one connecting two levels. Raymond.

WAYSIDE
Way"side`, n.

Defn: The side of the way; the edge or border of a road or path.

WAYSIDE
Way"side`, a.

Defn: Of or pertaining to the wayside; as, wayside flowers. "A wayside inn." Longfellow.

WAYWARD
Way"ward, a. Etym: [OE. weiward, for aweiward, i. e., turned away.
See Away, and -ward.]

Defn: Taking one's own way; disobedient; froward; perverse; willful.
My wife is in a wayward mood. Shak.
Wayward beauty doth not fancy move. Fairfax.
Wilt thou forgive the wayward thought Keble.
— Way"ward*ly, adv.
— Way"ward*ness, n.

WAY-WISE
Way"-wise`, a.

Defn: Skillful in finding the way; well acquainted with the way or route; wise from having traveled.

WAYWISER Way"wis`er, n. Etym: [Cf. G. wegweiser a waymark, a guide; weg way + weisen to show, direct.]

Defn: An instrument for measuring the distance which one has traveled on the road; an odometer, pedometer, or perambulator. The waywiser to a coach, exactly measuring the miles, and showing them by an index. Evelyn.

WAYWODE Way"wode, n. Etym: [Russ. voevoda, or Pol. woiewoda; properly, a leader of an army, a leader in war. Cf. Vaivode.]

Defn: 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.]

WAYWODESHIP
Way"wode*ship, n.

Defn: The office, province, or jurisdiction of a waywode.

WAYWORN
Way"worn`, a.

Defn: Wearied by traveling.

WAYZ-GOOSE
Wayz"-goose`, n. Etym: [Wase stubble + goose.]

1. A stubble goose. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.]

2. An annual feast of the persons employed in a printing office. [Written also way-goose.] [Eng.]

WE
We, pron.; pl. of I. [Poss. Our (our) or Ours (; obj. Us (. See I.]
Etym: [As. w; akin to OS. wi, OFries. & LG. wi, D. wij, G. wir, Icel.
v, Sw. & Dan. vi, Goth. weis, Skr. vayam. sq. root190.]

Defn: 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.

Note: 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.

WEAK Weak, a. [Compar. Weaker; superl. Weakest.] Etym: [OE. weik, Icel. veikr; akin to Sw. vek, Dan. veg soft, flexible, pliant, AS. wac weak, soft, pliant, D. week, G. weich, OHG. weih; all from the verb seen in Icel. vikja to turn, veer, recede, AS. wican to yield, give way, G. weichen, OHG. wihhan, akin to Skr. vij, and probably to E. week, L. vicis a change, turn, Gr. Week, Wink, v. i. Vicissitude.]

1. Wanting physical strength. Specifically: — (a) Deficient in strength of body; feeble; infirm; sickly; debilitated; enfeebled; exhausted. A poor, infirm, weak, and despised old man. Shak. Weak with hunger, mad with love. Dryden.

(b) Not able to sustain a great weight, pressure, or strain; as, a weak timber; a weak rope. (c) Not firmly united or adhesive; easily broken or separated into pieces; not compact; as, a weak ship. (d) Not stiff; pliant; frail; soft; as, the weak stalk of a plant. (e) Not able to resist external force or onset; easily subdued or overcome; as, a weak barrier; as, a weak fortress. (f) Lacking force of utterance or sound; not sonorous; low; small; feeble; faint. A voice not soft, weak, piping, and womanish. Ascham.

(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. (h) Lacking ability for an appropriate function or office; as, weak eyes; a weak stomach; a weak magistrate; a weak regiment, or army.

2. Not possessing or manifesting intellectual, logical, moral, or political strength, vigor, etc. Specifically: - (a) Feeble of mind; wanting discernment; lacking vigor; spiritless; as, a weak king or magistrate. To think every thing disputable is a proof of a weak mind and captious temper. Beattie. Origen was never weak enough to imagine that there were two Gods. Waterland.

(b) Resulting from, or indicating, lack of judgment, discernment, or firmness; unwise; hence, foolish. If evil thence ensue, She first his weak indulgence will accuse. Milton.

(c) Not having full confidence or conviction; not decided or confirmed; vacillating; wavering. Him that is weak in the faith receive ye, but not to doubtful disputations. Rom. xiv. 1.

(d) Not able to withstand temptation, urgency, persuasion, etc.; easily impressed, moved, or overcome; accessible; vulnerable; as, weak resolutions; weak virtue. Guard thy heart On this weak side, where most our nature fails. Addison.

(e) Wanting in power to influence or bind; as, weak ties; a weak sense of honor of duty. (f) Not having power to convince; not supported by force of reason or truth; unsustained; as, a weak argument or case. "Convinced of his weak arguing." Milton. A case so weak . . . hath much persisted in. Hooker.

(g) Wanting in point or vigor of expression; as, a weak sentence; a weak style. (h) Not prevalent or effective, or not felt to be prevalent; not potent; feeble. "Weak prayers." Shak. (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. I must make fair weather yet awhile, Till Henry be more weak, and I more strong. Shak. (k) (Stock Exchange)

Defn: Tending towards lower prices; as, a weak market.

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).

Note: 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.

Weak conjugation (Gram.), the conjugation of weak verbs; — called also new, or regular, conjugation, and distinguished from the old, 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 sore or ulcer (Med.), a sore covered with pale, flabby, sluggish granulations.

WEAK
Weak, v. t. & i. Etym: [Cf. AS. w. wacian. See Weak, a.]

Defn: To make or become weak; to weaken. [R.]
Never to seek weaking variety. Marston.

WEAKEN
Weak"en, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Weakened; p. pr. & vb. n. Weakening.]

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. Their hands shall be weakened from the work, that it be not done. Neh. vi. 9.

2. To reduce in quality, strength, or spirit; as, to weaken tea; to weaken any solution or decoction.

WEAKEN
Weak"en, v. i.

Defn: 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. "His notion weakens, his discernings are lethargied." Shak.

WEAKENER
Weak"en*er, n.

Defn: One who, or that which, weakens. "[Fastings] weakeners of sin."
South.

WEAKFISH
Weak"fish`, n. (Zoöl.)

Defn: Any fish of the genus Cynoscion; a squeteague; — so called from its tender mouth. See Squeteague. Spotted weakfish (Zoöl.), the spotted squeteague.

WEAK-HEARTED
Weak"-heart`ed, a.

Defn: Having little courage; of feeble spirit; dispirited; faint- hearted. "Weak-hearted enemies." Shak.

WEAKISH
Weak"ish, a.

Defn: Somewhat weak; rather weak.

WEAKISHNESS
Weak"ish*ness, n.

Defn: Quality or state of being weakish.

WEAK-KNEED
Weak"-kneed`, a.

Defn: Having weak knees; hence, easily yielding; wanting resolution.
H. James.

WEAKLING
Weak"ling, n. Etym: [Weak + -ling.]

Defn: A weak or feeble creature. Shak. "All looking on him as a weakling, which would post to the grave." Fuller. We may not be weaklings because we have a strong enemy. Latimer.

WEAKLING
Weak"ling, a.

Defn: Weak; feeble. Sir T. North.

WEAKLY
Weak"ly, adv.

Defn: In a weak manner; with little strength or vigor; feebly.

WEAKLY
Weak"ly, a. [Compar. Weaklier; superl. Weakliest.]

Defn: Not strong of constitution; infirm; feeble; as, a weakly woman; a man of a weakly constitution.

WEAK-MINDED
Weak"-mind`ed, a.

Defn: Having a weak mind, either naturally or by reason of disease; feebleminded; foolish; idiotic. — Weak"-mind`ed*ness, n.

WEAKNESS
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.

2. That which is a mark of lack of strength or resolution; a fault; a defect. Many take pleasure in spreading abroad the weakness of an exalted character. Spectator.

Syn. — Feebleness; debility; languor; imbecility; infirmness; infirmity; decrepitude; frailty; faintness.

WEAL
Weal, n.

Defn: The mark of a stripe. See Wale.

WEAL
Weal, v. t.

Defn: To mark with stripes. See Wale.

WEAL
Weal, n. Etym: [OE. wele, AS. wela, weola, wealth, from wel well. See
Well, adv., and cf. Wealth.]

1. A sound, healthy, or prosperous state of a person or thing; prosperity; happiness; welfare. God . . . grant you wele and prosperity. Chaucer. As we love the weal of our souls and bodies. Bacon. To him linked in weal or woe. Milton. Never was there a time when it more concerned the public weal that the character of the Parliament should stand high. Macaulay.

2. The body politic; the state; common wealth. [Obs.] The special watchmen of our English weal. Shak.

WEAL
Weal, v. t.

Defn: To promote the weal of; to cause to be prosperous. [Obs.] Beau. & Fl.

WEAL-BALANCED
Weal"-bal`anced, a.

Defn: Balanced or considered with reference to public weal. [Obs.]
Shak.

WEALD
Weald, n. Etym: [AS. See Wold.]

Defn: A wood or forest; a wooded land or region; also, an open country; — often used in place names. Fled all night long by glimmering waste and weald, And heard the spirits of the waste and weald Moan as she fled. Tennyson. Weald clay (Geol.), the uppermost member of the Wealden strata. See Wealden.

WEALDEN
Weald"en, a. Etym: [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.)

Defn: Of or pertaining to the lowest division of the Cretaceous formation in England and on the Continent, which overlies the Oölitic series.

WEALDEN
Weald"en, n. (Geol.)

Defn: The Wealden group or strata.

WEALDISH
Weald"ish, a.

Defn: Of or pertaining to a weald, esp. to the weald in the county of
Kent, England. [Obs.] Fuller.

WEALFUL
Weal"ful, a.

Defn: Weleful. [Obs.] Chaucer.

WEALSMAN
Weals"man, n.; pl. Wealsmen. Etym: [Weal + man.]

Defn: A statesman; a politician. [R.] Shak.

WEALTH
Wealth, n. Etym: [OE. welthe, from wele; cf. D. weelde luxury. See
Weal prosperity.]

1. Weal; welfare; prosperity; good. [Obs.] "Let no man seek his own, but every man another's wealth." 1 Cor. x. 24.

2. Large possessions; a comparative abundance of things which are objects of human desire; esp., abundance of worldly estate; affluence; opulence; riches. I have little wealth to lose. Shak. Each day new wealth, without their care, provides. Dryden. Wealth comprises all articles of value and nothing else. F. A. Walker. Active wealth. See under Active.

Syn.
— Riches; affluence; opulence; abundance.

WEALTHFUL
Wealth"ful, a.

Defn: Full of wealth; wealthy; prosperous. [R.] Sir T. More.
— Wealth"ful*ly, adv. [R.]

WEALTHILY
Wealth"i*ly, adv.

Defn: In a wealthy manner; richly.
I come to wive it wealthily in Padua. Shak.

WEALTHINESS
Wealth"i*ness, n.

Defn: The quality or state of being wealthy, or rich; richness; opulence.

WEALTHY
Wealth"y, a. [Compar. Wealthier; superl. Wealthiest.]

1. Having wealth; having large possessions, or larger than most men, as lands, goods, money, or securities; opulent; affluent; rich. A wealthy Hebrew of my tribe. Shak. Thou broughtest us out into a wealthy place. Ps. lxvi. 12.

2. Hence, ample; full; satisfactory; abundant. [R.] The wealthy witness of my pen. B. Jonson.

WEAN Wean, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Weaned; p. pr. & vb. n. Weaning.] Etym: [OE. wenen, AS. wenian, wennan, to accustom; akin to D. wennen, G. gewöhnen, OHG. giwennan, Icel. venja, Sw. vänja, Dan. vænne, Icel. vanr accustomed, wont; cf. AS. awenian to wean, G. entwöhnen. See Wont, a.]

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. And the child grew, and was weaned; and Abraham made a great feast the same day that Isaac was weaned. Gen. xxi. 8.

2. Hence, to detach or alienate the affections of, from any object of desire; to reconcile to the want or loss of anything. "Wean them from themselves." Shak. The troubles of age were intended . . . to wean us gradually from our fondness of life. Swift.

WEAN
Wean, n.

Defn: A weanling; a young child.
I, being but a yearling wean. Mrs. Browning.

WEANEDNESS
Wean"ed*ness, n.

Defn: Quality or state of being weaned.

WEANEL
Wean"el, n.

Defn: A weanling. [Obs.] Spenser.

WEANLING
Wean"ling,

Defn: a. & n. from Wean, v.
The weaning of the whelp is the great test of the skill of the kennel
man. J. H. Walsh.
Weaning brash. (Med.) See under Brash.

WEANLING
Wean"ling, n. Etym: [Wean + -ling.]

Defn: A child or animal newly weaned; a wean.

WEANLING
Wean"ling, a.

Defn: Recently weaned. Milton.

WEAPON Weap"on, n. Etym: [OE. wepen, AS. w; akin to OS. w, OFries. w, w, D. wapen, G. waffe, OHG. waffan, wafan, Icel. vapn, Dan. vaaben, Sw. vapen, Goth. w, pl.; of uncertain origin. Cf. Wapentake.]

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. The weapons of our warfare are not carnal. 2 Cor. x. 4. They, astonished, all resistance lost, All courage; down their idle weapons dropped. Milton.

2. Fig.: The means or instrument with which one contends against another; as, argument was his only weapon. "Woman's weapons, water drops." Shak.

3. (Bot.)

Defn: A thorn, prickle, or sting with which many plants are furnished. 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.

WEAPONED
Weap"oned, a.

Defn: Furnished with weapons, or arms; armed; equipped.

WEAPONLESS
Weap"on*less, a.

Defn: Having no weapon.

WEAPONRY
Weap"on*ry, n.

Defn: Weapons, collectively; as, an array of weaponry. [Poetic]

WEAR
Wear, n.

Defn: Same as Weir.

WEAR
Wear, v. t. Etym: [Cf. Veer.] (Naut.)

Defn: 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.

WEAR Wear, v. t. [imp. Wore; p. p. Worn; p. pr. & vb. n. Wearing. Before the 15th century wear was a weak verb, the imp. & p. p. being Weared.] Etym: [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. vas. Cf. Vest.]

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. What compass will you wear your farthingale Shak. On her white breast a sparkling cross swore, Which Jews might kiss, and infidels adore. Pope.

2. To have or exhibit an appearance of, as an aspect or manner; to bear; as, she wears a smile on her countenance. "He wears the rose of youth upon him." Shak. His innocent gestures wear A meaning half divine. Keble.

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.

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. That wicked wight his days doth wear. Spenser. The waters wear the stones. Job xiv. 19.

5. To cause or make by friction or wasting; as, to wear a channel; to wear a hole.

6. To form or shape by, or as by, attrition. Trials wear us into a liking of what, possibly, in the first essay, displeased us. Locke. 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 on or upon, to wear. [Obs.] "[I] weared upon my gay scarlet gites [gowns.]" 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. "To wear out miserable days." Milton. (c) To harass; to tire. "[He] shall wear out the saints of the Most High." 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.]

WEAR
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.

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. "Thus wore out night." Milton. Away, I say; time wears. Shak. Thou wilt surely wear away, both thou and this people that is with thee. Ex. xviii. 18. His stock of money began to wear very low. Sir W. Scott. The family . . . wore out in the earlier part of the century. Beaconsfield. 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.

WEAR
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.

2. The thing worn; style of dress; the fashion. Motley wear. Shak. 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.

WEARABLE
Wear"a*ble, a.

Defn: Capable of being worn; suitable to be worn.

WEARER
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. Cowls, hoods, and habits, with their wearers, tossed, And fluttered into rags. Milton.

2. That which wastes or diminishes.

WEARIABLE
Wea"ri*a*ble, a.

Defn: That may be wearied.

WEARIFUL
Wea"ri*ful, a.

Defn: Abounding in qualities which cause weariness; wearisome.
— Wea"ri*ful*ly, adv.

WEARILESS
Wea"ri*less, a.

Defn: Incapable of being wearied.

WEARILY
Wea"ri*ly, adv.

Defn: In a weary manner.

WEARINESS
Wea"ri*ness, n.

Defn: The quality or state of being weary or tried; lassitude; exhaustion of strength; fatigue. With weariness and wine oppressed. Dryden. 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.

WEARING
Wear"ing, n.

1. The act of one who wears; the manner in which a thing wears; use; conduct; consumption. Belike he meant to ward, and there to see his wearing. Latimer.

2. That which is worn; clothes; garments. [Obs.] Give me my nightly wearing and adieu. Shak.

WEARING
Wear"ing, a.

Defn: Pertaining to, or designed for, wear; as, wearing apparel.

WEARISH
Wear"ish, a. Etym: [Etymol. uncertain, but perhaps akin to weary.]

1. Weak; withered; shrunk. [Obs.] "A wearish hand." Ford. A little, wearish old man, very melancholy by nature. Burton.

2. Insipid; tasteless; unsavory. [Obs.] Wearish as meat is that is not well tasted. Palsgrave.

WEARISOME
Wea"ri*some, a.

Defn: Causing weariness; tiresome; tedious; weariful; as, a wearisome march; a wearisome day's work; a wearisome book. These high wild hills and rough uneven ways Draws out our miles, and makes them wearisome. Shak.

Syn.
— Irksome; tiresome; tedious; fatiguing; annoying; vexatious. See
Irksome.
— Wea"ri*some*ly, adv.
— Wea"ri*some*ness, n.

WEARY Wea"ry, a. [Compar. Wearier; superl. Weariest.] Etym: [OE. weri, AS. w; akin to OS. w, OHG. wu; of uncertain origin; cf. AS. w to ramble.]

1. Having the strength exhausted by toil or exertion; worn out in respect to strength, endurance, etc.; tired; fatigued. I care not for my spirits if my legs were not weary. Shak. [I] am weary, thinking of your task. Longfellow.

2. Causing weariness; tiresome. "Weary way." Spenser. "There passed a weary time." Coleridge.

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.

Syn.
— Fatigued; tiresome; irksome; wearisome.

WEARY
Wea"ry, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Wearied; p. pr. & vb. n. Wearying.]

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. So shall he waste his means, weary his soldiers. Shak.

2. To make weary of anything; to exhaust the patience of, as by continuance. I stay too long by thee; I weary thee. Shak.

3. To harass by anything irksome. I would not cease To weary him with my assiduous cries. Milton. To weary out, to subdue or exhaust by fatigue.

Syn.
— To jade; tire; fatigue; fag. See Jade.

WEARY
Wea"ry, v. i.

Defn: To grow tired; to become exhausted or impatient; as, to weary of an undertaking.

WEASAND Wea"sand, n. Etym: [OE. wesand, AS. wasend; akin to OFries. wasende, wasande; cf. OHG. weisunt.]

Defn: The windpipe; — called also, formerly, wesil. [Formerly, written also, wesand, and wezand.] Cut his weasand with thy knife. Shak.

WEASEL Wea"sel, n. Etym: [OE. wesele, AS. wesle; akin to D. wezel, G. wiesel, OHG. wisala, Icel. hreyivisla, Dan. väsel, Sw. vessla; of uncertain origin; cf. Gr. (Zoöl.)

Defn: 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. 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.

WEASEL-FACED
Wea"sel-faced`, a.

Defn: Having a thin, sharp face, like a weasel.

WEASER
Wea"ser, n. (Zoöl.)

Defn: The American merganser; — called also weaser sheldrake.
[Local, U. S.]

WEASINESS
Wea"si*ness, n.

Defn: Quality or state of being weasy; full feeding; sensual indulgence. [Obs.] Joye.

WEASY
Wea"sy, a. Etym: [Cf. Weasand.]

Defn: Given to sensual indulgence; gluttonous. [Obs.] Joye.

WEATHER Weath"er, n. Etym: [OE. weder, AS. weder; akin to OS. wedar, OFries. weder, D. weder, weêr, G. wetter, OHG. wetar, Icel. veedhr, Dan. veir, Sw. väder 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.]

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. Not amiss to cool a man's stomach this hot weather. Shak. Fair weather cometh out of the north. Job xxxvii. 22.

2. Vicissitude of season; meteorological change; alternation of the state of the air. Bacon.

3. Storm; tempest.
What gusts of weather from that gathering cloud My thoughts presage!
Dryden.

4. A light rain; a shower. [Obs.] Wyclif. Stress of weather, violent winds; force of tempests. — To make fair weather, to flatter; to give flattering representations. [R.] — To make good, or 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. Peace to the artist whose ingenious thought Devised the weather house, that useful toy! Cowper. — 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.

WEATHER
Weath"er, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Weathered; p. pr. & vb. n. Weathering.]

1. To expose to the air; to air; to season by exposure to air.
[An eagle] soaring through his wide empire of the air To weather his
broad sails. Spenser.
This gear lacks weathering. Latimer.

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. For I can weather the roughest gale. Longfellow. You will weather the difficulties yet. F. W. Robertson.

3. (Naut.)

Defn: To sail or pass to the windward of; as, to weather a cape; to weather another ship.

4. (Falconry)

Defn: To place (a hawk) unhooded in the open air. Encyc. Brit. 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.

WEATHER
Weath"er, v. i.

Defn: 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. The organisms . . . seem indestructible, while the hard matrix in which they are imbedded has weathered from around them. H. Miller.

WEATHER
Weath"er, a. (Naut.)

Defn: Being toward the wind, or windward — opposed to lee; as, weather bow, weather braces, weather gauge, weather lifts, weather quarter, weather shrouds, etc. 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. To veer, and tack, and steer a cause Against the weather gauge of laws. Hudibras. — 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.

WEATHER-BEATEN
Weath"er-beat`en, a.

Defn: Beaten or harassed by the weather; worn by exposure to the weather, especially to severe weather. Shak.

WEATHER-BIT
Weath"er-bit`, n. (Naut.)

Defn: A turn of the cable about the end of the windlass, without the bits.

WEATHERBIT
Weath"er*bit`, v. t. (Naut.)

Defn: To take another turn with, as a cable around a windlass.
Totten.

WEATHER-BITTEN
Weath"er-bit`ten, a.

Defn: Eaten into, defaced, or worn, by exposure to the weather.
Coleridge.

WEATHERBOARD
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.

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.

WEATHER-BOARD
Weath"er-board`, v. t. (Arch.)

Defn: To nail boards upon so as to lap one over another, in order to exclude rain, snow, etc. Gwilt.

WEATHERBOARDING 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.

WEATHER-BOUND
Weath"er-bound`, a.

Defn: Kept in port or at anchor by storms; delayed by bad weather; as, a weather-bound vessel.

WEATHERCOCK
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. "As a wedercok that turneth his face with every wind." Chaucer. Noisy weathercocks rattled and sang of mutation. Longfellow.

2. Hence, any thing or person that turns easily and frequently; one who veers with every change of current opinion; a fickle, inconstant person.

WEATHERCOCK
Weath"er*cock`, v. t.

Defn: To supply with a weathercock; to serve as a weathercock for.
Whose blazing wyvern weathercock the spire. Tennyson.

WEATHER-DRIVEN
Weath"er-driv`en, a.

Defn: Driven by winds or storms; forced by stress of weather. Carew.

WEATHERED
Weath"ered, a.

1. (Arch.)

Defn: Made sloping, so as to throw off water; as, a weathered cornice or window sill.

2. (Geol.)

Defn: Having the surface altered in color, texture, or composition, or the edges rounded off by exposure to the elements.

WEATHER-FEND
Weath"er-fend`, v. t.

Defn: To defend from the weather; to shelter. Shak.
[We] barked the white spruce to weather-fend the roof. Emerson.

WEATHERGLASS
Weath"er*glass`, n.

Defn: An instrument to indicate the state of the atmosphere, especially changes of atmospheric pressure, and hence changes of weather, as a barometer or baroscope. Poor man's weatherglass. (Bot.) See under Poor.

WEATHERING
Weath"er*ing, n. (Geol.)

Defn: The action of the elements on a rock in altering its color, texture, or composition, or in rounding off its edges.

WEATHERLINESS
Weath"er*li*ness, n. (Naut.)

Defn: The quality of being weatherly.

WEATHERLY
Weath"er*ly, a. (Naut.)

Defn: Working, or able to sail, close to the wind; as, a weatherly ship. Cooper.

WEATHER MAP
Weath"er map.

Defn: 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.

WEATHERMOST
Weath"er*most`, a. (Naut.)

Defn: Being farthest to the windward.

WEATHERPROOF
Weath"er*proof`, a.

Defn: Proof against rough weather.

WEATHER SIGNAL
Weather signal.

Defn: 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.

WEATHER STATION
Weather station. (Meteor.)

Defn: 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.

WEATHERWISE
Weath"er*wise`, a.

Defn: Skillful in forecasting the changes of the weather. Hakluyt.

WEATHERWISER
Weath"er*wis`er, n. Etym: [Cf. Waywiser.]

Defn: Something that foreshows the weather. [Obs.] Derham.

WEATHERWORN
Weath"er*worn`, a.

Defn: Worn by the action of, or by exposure to, the weather.

WEAVE
Weave, v. t. [imp. Wove; p. p. Woven, Wove; p. pr. & vb. n. Weaving.
The regular imp. & p. p. Weaved (, is rarely used.] Etym: [OE. weven,
AS. wefan; akin to D. weven, G. weben, OHG. weban, Icel. vefa, Sw.
väfva, Dan. væve, Gr. spider, lit., wool weaver. Cf. Waper, Waffle,
Web, Weevil, Weft, Woof.]

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. This weaves itself, perforce, into my business. Shak. That in their green shops weave the smooth-haired silk To deck her sons. Milton. And for these words, thus woven into song. Byron.

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. When she weaved the sleided silk. Shak. Her starry wreaths the virgin jasmin weaves. Ld. Lytton.

WEAVE
Weave, v. i.

1. To practice weaving; to work with a loom.

2. To become woven or interwoven.

WEAVE
Weave, n.

Defn: A particular method or pattern of weaving; as, the cassimere weave.

WEAVER
Weav"er, n.

1. One who weaves, or whose occupation is to weave. "Weavers of linen." P. Plowman.

2. (Zoöl.)

Defn: A weaver bird.

3. (Zoöl.)

Defn: An aquatic beetle of the genus Gyrinus. See Whirling. Weaver bird (Zoöl.), any one of numerous species of Asiatic, Fast Indian, and African birds belonging to Ploceus and allied genera of the family Ploceidæ. 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 (Zoöl.), an East Indian marine univalve shell (Radius volva); — so called from its shape. See Illust. of Shuttle shell, under Shuttle.

WEAVERFISH
Weav"er*fish`, n. Etym: [See Weever.] (Zoöl.)

Defn: See Weever.

WEAVING
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.

2. (Far.)

Defn: 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.

WEAZAND
Wea"zand, n.

Defn: See Weasand. [Obs.]

WEAZEN
Wea"zen, a. Etym: [See Wizen.]

Defn: Thin; sharp; withered; wizened; as, a weazen face.
They were weazen and shriveled. Dickens.

WEAZENY
Wea"zen*y, a.

Defn: Somewhat weazen; shriveled. [Colloq.] "Weazeny, baked pears."
Lowell.

WEB
Web, n. Etym: [OE. webbe, AS. webba. See Weave.]

Defn: A weaver. [Obs.] Chaucer.

WEB
Web, n. Etym: [OE. web, AS. webb; akin to D. web, webbe, OHG. weppi,
G. gewebe, Icel. vefr, Sw. väf, Dan. væv. See Weave.]

1. That which is woven; a texture; textile fabric; esp., something
woven in a loom.
Penelope, for her Ulysses' sake, Devised a web her wooers to deceive.
Spenser.
Not web might be woven, not a shuttle thrown, or penalty of exile.
Bancroft.

2. A whole piece of linen cloth as woven.