# Dictionary

Topic: Waft
Definition:
WAFT, v.t.
1. To bear through a fluid or bouyant medium; to convey through water or air; as, a balloon was wafted over the channel.
Speed the soft intercourse from soul to soul, and waft a sigh from Indus to the pole.
2. To convey; as ships.
3. To bouy; to cause to float; to keep from sinking.
4. To beckon; to give notice by something in motion. [Not in use.]
[This verb is regular. But waft was formerly used by some writers for wafted.]
WAFT, v.i. To float; to be moved or to pass in a bouyant medium.
And now the shouts waft near the citadel.
WAFT, n. A floating body; also, a signal displayed from a ships stern, by hoisting an ensign furled in a roll, to the head of the staff.


Topic: Wafter
Definition:
WAFTER, n. 
1. He or that which wafts; a passage boat.
2. The conductor of vessels at sea; an old word.


Topic: Wag
Definition:
WAG, v.t. To move one way and the other with quick turns; to move a little way, and then turn the other way; as, to wag the head.
Every one that passeth thereby shall be astonished, and wag his head. Jer. 18. Matt 27. [Wag expresses particulary the motion of the head and body used in buffoonery, mirth, derision, sport and mockery. It is applied also to birds and beasts; as, to wag the tail.]
WAG, v.i. 
1. To be quick in ludicrous motion; to stir.
Tis merry in hall, where beards wag all.
Tremble and start at wagging of a straw.
2. To go; to depart; to pack offf.
I will provoke him tot, or let him wag.
3. To be moved one way and the other.
The resty sieve waggd neer the more.
WAG, n. A droll; a man full of low sport and humor; a ludicrous fellow.
We wink at wags, when they offend.
The counselor never pleaded without a piece of packthread in his hand, which he used to twist about his finger all the while he was speaking; the wags used to call it the thread of his discourse.


Topic: Wage
Definition:
WAGE, v.t.
1. To lay; to bet; to throw down as a pledge; to stake; to put at hazard on the event of a contest. Thisis the common popular sense of the word in New England; as, to wage a dollar; to wage a horse.
2. To venture; to hazard.
To wake and wage a danger profitless.
3. To make; to begin; to carry on; that is, to go forward or advance to attack, as in invasion or aggression; used in the phrase, to wage war. he waged war with all his enemies.
He ponderd which of all his sons was fit
To reign, and wage immortal war with wit.
4. To set to hire.
Thou must wage Thy works for wealth. [Not in use.]
5. To take to hire; to hire for pay; to employ for wages; as eaged soldiers. He was well waged and rewarded.
To wage oness law, to give security to make ones law. The defendent is then to swear that he owes nothing to the plaintiff, and eleven neighbors, called compurgators, are to avow upon their oaths, that they believe in their consciences he has declared the truth. This is called wager of law.


Topic: Wagel
Definition:
WAGEL,  n. 
1. A name given in Cornwall to the martinazzo, dunghunter, or dungbird, a species of Larus or seagull.


Topic: Wager
Definition:
WAGER, n. 
1. Something deposited, laid or hazarded on the event of a contest or some unsettled question; a bet.
Besides these plates for horseraces, the wagers may be as the persons please.
If any atheist can stake his soul for a wager against such an inexhaustible disproportion
2. Subject on which bets are laid.
3. In law, an offer to make oath of innocence or nonindebtedness; or the act of making oath, together with the oaths of eleven compurgators, to fortify the defendents oath.
Wager of battle, is when the tenant in a writ of right, offers to prove his right by the body of his champion, and throwing down his glove as a gage or pledge, thus wages or stipulates battle with the champion or demandant, who by taking up the glove, accepts the challenge. The champions, armed with batons enter the list, and taking each other by the hand, each swears to the justice of the cause of the party for whom he appears; they then fight till the stars appear, and if the champion of the tenant can defend himself till that time, his cause prevails.
WAGER, v.t. To lay; to bet; to hazard on the issue of a contest; or on some question that is to be decided, or on some casualty.


Topic: Wagering
Definition:
WAGERING, ppr. Laying; betting.
Wagering policy, in commerce, a policy of insurance, insuring a sum of money when no property is at hazard; as a policy to insure money on a ship when no property is on board; that is, insurance, interest or no interest; or a wagering policy may be a policy to insure property that is already insured. Such policies in England, are by Statute 19 Geo. 3. made null and void.


Topic: Wages
Definition:
WAGES, n. plural in termination, but singular in signification.
1. Hire; reward; that which is paid or stipulated for services; but chiefly for services by manual labor, or for military and naval services. We speak of servants wages, a laborers wages, or soldiers wages; but we never apply the word to the rewards given to men in office, which are called fees or salary. The word is however sometimes applied to the compensation given to representatives in the legislature. [U. States]
Tell me, what shall thy wages be? Gen. 29.
Be content with your wages. Luke 3.
2. Reward; fruit; recompense; that which is given or received in return.
The wages of sin is death. Rom. 6.


Topic: Waggle
Definition:
WAGGLE, v.i. To waddle; to reel or move from side to side.
Why do you go nodding and waggling so?
WAGGLE, v.t. To move one way and the other; as, a bird waggles its tail.


Topic: Wagon
Definition:
WAGON, n.
1. A vehicle moved on four wheels, and usually drawn by horses; used for the transportation of heavy commodities. In America, light wagons are used for the conveyance of families, and for carrying light commodities to market, particulary a very light kind drawn by one horse.
2. A chariot. [Not in use.]
WAGON, v.t.  To transport in a wagon. Goods are wagoned from London to the interior.
WAGON, v.i. To practice the transportation of goods in a wagon. The man wagons between Philadelphia and Pittsburg.


Topic: Waif
Definition:
WAIF, n. Goods found, of which the owner is not known. These were originally such goods as a thief, when pursued, threw away to prevent being apprehended. They belong to the king, unless the owner makes fresh suit of the felon, takes him and brings him to justice.


Topic: Wail
Definition:
WAIL, v.t. To lament; to moan; to bewail.
Or if no more her absent lord she wails--
WAIL, v.i. To weep; to express sorrow audibly.
Therefore I will wail and howl. Micah 1.
WAIL, n. Loud weeping; violent lamentation.


Topic: Wailing
Definition:
WAILING, ppr. Lamenting with audible cries.
WAILING, n. Loud cries of sorrow; deep lamentation.
There shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth. Matthew 13.


Topic: Wain
Definition:
WAIN, n. [See Wagon.]
1. A wagon; a carriage for the transportation of goods on wheels.
2. A constellation, Charles wain.


Topic: Wainscot
Definition:
WAINSCOT, n. In building, timber-work serving to line the walls of a room, being made in panels.
WAINSCOT, v.t. 
1. To line with boards; as, to wainscot a hall.
Music sounds better in chambers wainscoted than hanged.
2. To line with different materials.
The other is wainscoted with looking-glass.


Topic: Waist
Definition:
WAIST, n. 
1. That part of the human body which is immediately below the ribs or thorax; or the small part of the body between the thorax and hips.
2. That part of a ship which is between the quarter deck and forecastle. But in many ships now built, there is no quarter deck, and in such the waist is the middle part of the ship.


Topic: Waistband
Definition:
WAISTBAND, n. The band or upper pat of breeches, trousers or pantaloons, which encompasses the waist.


Topic: Waistcloths
Definition:
WAISTCLOTHS, n. Coverings of canvas or tarpauling for the hammocks, stowed on the gangways, between the quarter deck and forecastle.


Topic: Waistcoat
Definition:
WAISTCOAT, n. [waist and coat.] A short coat or garment for men, extending no lower than the hips, and covering the waist; a vest. This under garment is now generally called in America a vest.


Topic: Wait
Definition:
WAIT, v.i. [The sense is to stop, or to continue.]
1. To stay or rest in expectation; to stop or remain stationary, till the arrival of some person or event. Thus we say, I went to the place of meeting, and there waited an hour for the moderator or chairman. I will go to the hotel, and there wait till you come. We will wait for the mail.
2. To stay proceedings, or suspend any business, in expectation of some person, event, or the arrival of some hour. The court was obliged to wait for a witness.
3. To rest in expectation and patience.
All the days of my appointed time will I wait, till my change come. Job 14.
4. To stay; not to depart. 
Haste, my dear father, tis no time to wait.
5. To stay; to continue by reason of hindrance.
6. To lie in ambush, as an enemy.
Such ambush waited to intercept thy way.
To wait on or upon, to attend, as a servant; to perform menial services for; as, to wait on a gentleman; to wait on the table.
To wait on, 
1. To attend; to go to see; to visit on business or for ceremony. Tell the gentleman I will wait on him at ten oclock.
2. To pay servile or submissive attendance.
3. To follow, as a consequence; as the ruin that waits on such a supine temper. [Instead of this, we use await.]
4. To look watchfully.
It is a point of cunning to wait on him with whom you speak, with your eye. [Unusual.]
5. To attend to; to perform.
Aaron and his sons shall wait on their priests office. Numbers 3, 8. Romans 12.
6. To be ready to serve; to obey. Psalm 25. Proverbs 20.
To wait at, to attend in service; to perform service at. 1 Corinthians 9.
To wait for, to watch, as an enemy. Job 15.


Topic: Waiter
Definition:
WAITER, n. 
1. One who waits; an attendant; a servant in attendance.
The waiters stand in ranks; the yeoman cry, make room, as if a duke were passing by.
2. A server; a vessel on which tea furniture, &c. is carried.


Topic: Waiting
Definition:
WAITING, ppr. Staying in expectation.
Waiting on, attending; accompanying; serving.
Waiting for, staying for the arrival of.
Waiting at, staying or attending at in expectation or in service.
In waiting, in attendance.


Topic: Waiting-maid
Definition:
WAITING-MAID, WAITING-WOMAN, n. An upper servant who attends a lady. Waiting-gentlewoman is sometimes, though less commonly used.


Topic: Waits
Definition:
WAITS, n. 
1. Itinerant nocturnal musicians. [Not in use.]
2. Nocturnal musicians who attended great men.


Topic: Wake
Definition:
WAKE, v.i. [G. The primary sense is to stir, to rouse, to excite.]
1. To be awake; to continue awake; to watch; not to sleep. Psalm 127.
The father waketh for the daughter.
Though wisdom wakes, suspicion sleeps.
I cannot think any time, waking or sleeping, without being sensible of it.
2. To be excited or roused from sleep; to awake; to be awakened. He wakes at the slightest noise.
3. To cease to sleep; to awake.
4. To be quick; to be alive or active.
5. To be excited from a torpid state; to be put in motion. The dormant powers of nature wake from their frosty slumbers.
Gentle airs to fan the earth now wakd.
WAKE, v.t.
1. To rouse from sleep.
The angel that talked with me, came again and waked me. Zechariah 4.
2. To arouse; to excite; to put in motion or action.
Prepare war, wake up the mighty men. Joel 3.
[The use of up is common, but not necessary.]
To wake the soul by tender strokes of art.
3. To bring to life again, as if from the sleep of death.
To second life wakd in the renovation of the just.
WAKE, n. 
1. The feast of the dedication of the church, formerly kept by watching all night.
2. Vigils; state of forbearing sleep.
--Their merry wakes and pastimes keep.
3. Act of waking. [Old song.] 
Wake of a ship, the track it leaves in the water, formed by the meeting of the water, which rushes from each side to fill the space which the ship makes in passing through it.
To be in the wake of a ship, is to be in her track, or in a line with her keel.


Topic: Wakeful
Definition:
WAKEFUL, a. 
1. Not sleeping; indisposed to sleep.
Dissembling sleep, but wakeful with the fright--
2. Watchful; vigilant.


Topic: Waken
Definition:
WAKEN, v.i. wakn. To wake; to cease to sleep; to be awakened.
Early Turnus wakning with the light.
WAKEN, v.t. wakn.
1. To excite or rouse from sleep.
Go, waken Eve.
2. To excite to action or motion.
Then Homers and Tyraeus martial muse wakend the world.
3. To excite; to produce; to rouse into action.
They introduce their sacred song, and waken raptures high.


Topic: Waking
Definition:
WAKING, ppr. 
1. Being awake; not sleeping.
2. Rousing from sleep; exciting into motion or action.
WAKING, n. 
1. The period of being awake. 
2. Watch.


Topic: Wale
Definition:
WALE, n. 
1. In cloth, a ridge or streak rising above the rest. We say, cloth is wove with a wale.
2. A streak or stripe; the mark of a rod or whip on animal flesh.
Wales of a ship, an assemblage of strong planks, extending along a ships sides throughout the whole length, at different heights, and serving to strengthen the decks and form the curves. They are distinguished into the main wale and the channel wale.


Topic: Wale-knot
Definition:
WALE-KNOT, WALL-KNOT, n. A single wale-knot is made by untwisting the ends 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. The double is made by passing the ends, singly, close underneath the first wale, and thrusting them upwards through the middle, only the last end comes up under two bights.


Topic: Walk
Definition:
WALK, v.i. [G., to full, to felt hats; a fuller; to stir, to be agitated, to rove, to travel, to wander, to roll. Our ancestors appropriated the verb to moving on the feet, and the word is peculiarly expressive of that rolling or wagging motion which marks the walk of clownish people.]
1. To move slowly on the feet; to step slowly along; to advance by steps moderately repeated; as animals. Walking in men differs from running only in the rapidity and length of the steps; but in quadrupeds, the motion or order of the feet is sometimes changed.
At the end of twelve months, he walked in the palace of the kingdom of Babylon. Daniel 4.
When Peter had come down out of the ship, he walked on the water, to go to Jesus. Matthew 14. 
2. To move or go on the feet for exercise or amusement. Hundreds of students daily walk on Downing terrace in Cambridge.
3. To appear, as a specter.
The spirits of the dead may walk again.
4. To act on any occasion.
Do you think Id walk in any plot?
5. To be in motion, as a clamorous tongue.
Her tongue did walk in foul reproach.
6. To act or move on the feet in sleep.
When was it she last walkd? [But this is unusual. When we speak of noctambulation, we say, to walk in sleep.]
7. To range; to be stirring.
Affairs that walk, as they say spirits do at midnight. [Unusual.]
8. To move off; to depart.
When he comes forth he will make their cows and garrans walk. [Not elegant.
9. In Scripture, to live and act or behave; to pursue a particular course of life.
To walk with God, to live in obedience to his commands, and have communion with him. Genesis 5.
To walk in darkness, to live in ignorance, error and sin, without comfort. 1 John 1.
To walk in the light, to live int he practice of religion, and to enjoy its consolations. 1 John 1.
To walk by faith, to live in the firm belief of the gospel and its promises, and to rely on Christ for salvation. 2 Corinthians 5.
To walk through the fire, to be exercised with severe afflictions. Isaiah 43.
To walk after the flesh, to indulge sensual appetites, and to live in sin. Romans 8. 
To walk after the Spirit, to be guided by the counsels and influences of the Spirit and by the word of God, and to live a life of holy deportment.
To walk in the flesh, to live this natural life, which is subject to infirmities and calamities. 2 Corinthians 10.
To walk in, to enter, as a house. Walk in, gentlemen.
WALK, v.t. wauk.
1. To pass through or upon; as, to walk the streets. [This is elliptical for to walk in or through the street.]
2. To cause to walk or step slowly; to lead, drive or ride with a slow pace. He found the road so bad he was obliged to walk his horse. The coachman walked his horses from Woodbridge to Princeton.
WALK, n. Wauk.
1. The act of walking; the act of moving on the feet with a slow pace.
2. The act of walking for air or exercise; as a morning walk; an evening walk.
3. Manner of walking; gait; step. We often know a person in a distant apartment by his walk.
4. Length of way or circuit through which one walks; or a place for walking; as a long walk; a short walk. The gardens of the Tuilerie and of the Luxemburgh are very pleasant walks.
5. An avenue set with trees.
6. Way; road; range; place of wandering.
The mountains are his walks. 
The starry walks above.
7. Region; space.
He opened a boundless walk for his imagination.
8. Course of life or pursuit. This is not within the walk of the historian.
9. The slowest pace of a horse, ox or other quadruped.
10. A fish. [A mistake for whelk.]
11. In the West Indies, a plantation of canes, &c.
A sheep walk, so called, is high and dry land where sheep pasture.


Topic: Walker
Definition:
WALKER, n. Wauker.
1. One who walks.
2. In our mother tongue, a fuller.
3. In law, a forest officer appointed to walk over a certain space for inspection; a forester.
4. One who deports himself in a particular manner.
5. A fulling-mill. [Not in use or local.]


Topic: Walking
Definition:
WALKING, ppr. Wauking. Moving on the legs with a slow pace; moving; conducting ones self.
WALKING, n. Wauking. The act of moving on the feet with a slow pace.


Topic: Walking-staff
Definition:
WALKING-STAFF, WALKING-STICK, n. A staff or stick carried in the hand for support or amusement in walking.


Topic: Wall
Definition:
WALL, n. [L., stake, post, probably originally a fence of stakes, a palisade or stockade; the first rude fortification of uncivilized men.]
1. A work or structure of stone, brick or other materials, raised to some highth, and intended for a defense or security. Walls of stone, with or without cement, are much used in America for fences on farms; walls are laid as the foundations of houses and the security of cellars. Walls of stone or brick form the exterior of buildings, and they are often raised round cities and forts as a defense against enemies.
2. Walls, in the plural, is used for fortifications in general; works for defense.
I rush undaunted to defend the walls.
3. A defense; means of security or protection. 1 Samuel 25.
To take the wall, to take the upper or most honorable place.
I will take the wall of any man or maid of Montagues.


Topic: Wall-eye
Definition:
WALL-EYE, n. [wall and eye.] 
1. A disease in the crystaline humor of the eye; the glaucoma.
2. In horses, an eye in which the iris is of a very light gray color.


Topic: Wall-flower
Definition:
WALL-FLOWER, n. [wall and flower.] A plant of the genus Cheiranthus; a species of stock gillyflower.


Topic: Wallerite
Definition:
WALLERITE, n. A mineral, or variety of clay, found in small compact masses of the size of a nut,  white and opake, or yellowish and translucent.


Topic: Wallet
Definition:
WALLET, n. 
1. A bag for carrying the necessaries for a journey or march; a knapsack.
2. Any thing protuberant and swagging; as wallets of flesh.


Topic: Walling
Definition:
WALLING, ppr. Inclosing or fortifying with a wall.
WALLING, n. Walls in general; materials for walls.


Topic: Wallop
Definition:
WALLOP, v.i. [See Well.] To boil with a continued bubbling or heaving and rolling of the liquor, with noise.


Topic: Wallow
Definition:
WALLOW, v.i. [L., G. This verb seems to be connected with well, walk, &c.]
1. To roll ones body on the earth, in mire, or on other substance; to tumble and roll in water. Swine wallow in the mire.
2. To move heavily and clumsily.
Part huge of bulk, wallowing unwieldy, enormous in their gait, tempest the ocean. [Unusual.]
3. To live in filth or gross vice; as man wallowing in his native impurity.
WALLOW, v.t. To roll ones body.
Wallow thyself in ashes. Jeremiah 6.
WALLOW, n. A kind of rolling walk.


Topic: Walnut
Definition:
WALNUT, n. A tree and its fruit, of the genus Juglans. The black walnut, so called, grows in America, and is indigenous in the southern and middle states, as far north as the Hudson. That is said to be the limit of tis indigenous growth, gut when transplanted, it grows well in the eastern states. In America there are several species of hickory nut, called by this name.


Topic: Walrus
Definition:
WALRUS, n. [G., a whale, a horse.] The morse or sea horse, an animal of the northern seas, of the genus Trichechus.


Topic: Waltz
Definition:
WALTZ, n. [G., to roll.] A modern dance and tune, the measure of whose music is triple; three quavers in a bar.


Topic: Wampum
Definition:
WAMPUM, n. Shells or strings of shells, used by the American Indians as money or a medium of commerce. These strings of shells when united, form a broad belt, which is worn as an ornament or girdle. It is sometimes called wampumpeague, and wompeague, or wampampeague, of which wampum seems to be a contraction.


Topic: Wan
Definition:
WAN, a. Pale; having a sickly hue; languid of look. 
Sad to view, his visage pale and wan.
Why so pale and wan, fond lover?
WAN, for won; pret. of win.


Topic: Wand
Definition:
WAND, n. 
1. A small stick; a rod. If a child runs away, a few strokes of a wand will bring him back.
2. A staff of authority; as a silver wand.
3. A rod used by conjurers or diviners.
Picus bore a buckler in his hand, his other wavd a long diving in wand.


Topic: Wander
Definition:
WANDER, v.i. [G., to wander, to walk, to change, exchange or transform.]
1. To rove; to ramble here and there without any certain course or object in view; as, to wander over the fields; to wander about the town, or about the country. Men may sometimes wander for amusement or exercise. Persons sometimes wander because they have no home and are wretched, and sometimes because they have no occupation.
They wandered about in sheep-skins and goat-skins. Hebrews 11.
He wandereth abroad for bread. Job 15.
He was wandering in the field. Genesis 37.
2. To leave home; to depart; to migrate.
When God caused me to wander from my fathers house-- Genesis 20.
3. To depart from the subject in discussion; as, to wander from the point.
4. In a moral sense, to stray; to deviate; to depart from duty or rectitude.
O let me not wander from they commandments. Psalm 119.
5. To be delirious; not to be under the guidance of reason; as, the mind wanders.
WANDER, v.t. To travel over without a certain course.
Wandring many a famous realm. [Elliptical.]


Topic: Wandering
Definition:
WANDERING, ppr. Roving; rambling; deviating from duty.
WANDERING, n. 
1. Peregrination; a traveling without a settled course.
2. Aberration; mistaken way; deviation from rectitude; as a wandering from duty.
3. A roving of the mind or thoughts from the point or business in which one ought to be engaged.
4. The roving of the mind in a dream.
5. The roving of the mind in delirium.
6. Uncertainty; want of being fixed.


Topic: Wane
Definition:
WANE, v.i. 
1. To be diminished; to decrease; particularly applied to the illuminated part of the moon. WE say, the moon wanes, that is, the visible or illuminated part decreases.
Waning moons their settled periods keep.
2. To decline; to fail; to sink; as the waning age of life.
You saw but sorrow in its waning form.
Land and trade ever will wax and wane together.
WANE, v.t. To cause to decrease.
WANE, n. 
1. Decrease of the illuminated part of the moon, to the eye of a spectator.
2. Decline; failure; diminution; decrease; declension.
You are cast upon an age in which the church is in its wane.


Topic: Wang
Definition:
WANG, n. 
1. The jaw, jaw-bone or cheek bone. [Little used or vulgar.]
2. The latchet of a shoe. [Not in use.]


Topic: Want
Definition:
WANT, n. 
1. Deficiency; defect; the absence of that which is necessary or useful; as a want of power or knowledge fro any purpose; want of food and clothing. The want of money is a common want. 2 Corinthians 8, 9.
From having wishes in consequence of our wants, we often feel wants in consequence of our wishes.
2. Need; necessity; the effect of deficiency.
Pride is as loud a beggar as want, and more saucy.
3. Poverty; penury; indigence.
Nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches as to conceive how others can be in want.
4. The state of not having. I cannot write a letter at present for want of time.
5. That which is not possessed, but is desired or necessary for use or pleasure.
Habitual superfluities become actual wants.
6. A mole.
WANT, v.t. waunt.
1. To be destitute; to be deficient in; not to have; a word of general application; as, to want knowledge; to want judgment; to want learning; to want food and clothing; to want money.
2. To be defective or deficient in. Timber may want strength or solidity to answer its purpose.
3. To fall short; not to contain or have. The sum want a dollar of the amount of debt.
Nor think, though men were none, that heaven would want spectators, God want praise.
4. To be without.
The unhappy never want enemies.
5. To need; to have occasion for, as useful, proper or requisite. Our manners want correction. In winter we want a fire; in summer we want cooling breezes. We all want more public spirit and more virtue.
6. To wish for; to desire. Every man wants a little pre-eminence over his neighbor. Many want that which they cannot obtain, and which if they could obtain, would certainly ruin them.
What wants my son?
WANT, v.i. waunt.
1. To be deficient; not to be sufficient.
As in bodies, thus in souls, we find what wants in blood and spirits, swelld with wind.
2. To fail; to be deficient; to be lacking.
No time shall find me wanting to my truth.
3. To be missed; not to be present. The jury was full, wanting one.
4. To fall short; to be lacking.
Twelve, wanting one, he slew.


Topic: Wanting
Definition:
WANTING, ppr. 
1. Needing; lacking; desiring.
2. a. Absent; deficient. One of the twelve is wanting. We have the means, but the application is wanting.
3. Slack; deficient. I shall not be wanting in exertion.


Topic: Wanton
Definition:
WANTON, a. 
1. Wandering or roving in gaiety or sport; sportive; frolicsome; darting aside, or one way and the other. Wanton boys kill flies for sport.
Not a wild and wanton herd.
2. Moving or flying loosely; playing in the wind.
She her unadorned golden tresses wore disheveld, but in wanton ringlets wavd.
3. Wandering from moral rectitude; licentious; dissolute; indulging in sensuality without restraint; as men grown wanton by prosperity.
My plenteous joys, wanton in fullness--
4. More appropriately, deviating from the rules of chastity; lewd; lustful; lascivious; libidinous. 
Thou art froward by nature, enemy to peace, lascivious wanton.
Ye have lived in pleasure on the earth, and been wanton. James 5.
5. Disposed to unchastity; indicating wantonness. Isaiah 3.
6. Loose; unrestrained; running to excess.
How does your tongue grow wanton in her praise!
7. Luxuriant; overgrown.
What we by day lop overgrown, one night or two with wanton growth derides, tending to wild.
8. Extravagant; as wanton dress.
9. Not regular; not turned or formed with regularity.
The quaint mazes in the wanton green.
WANTON, n. 
1. A lewd person; a lascivious man or woman.
2. A trifler; an insignificant flutterer.
3. A word of slight endearment.
Peace, my wanton--[Little used.]
WANTON, v.t. 
1. To rove and ramble without restraint, rule or limit; to revel; to play loosely.
Nature here wantond as in her prime.
Her golden tresses wanton in the wind.
2. To ramble in lewdness; to play lasciviously.
3. To move briskly and irregularly.


Topic: Wantonly
Definition:
WANTONLY, adv. Loosely; without regularity or restraint; sportively; gayly; playfully; lasciviously.


Topic: Wantonness
Definition:
WANTONNESS, n. 
1. Sportiveness; gaiety; frolicsomeness; waggery.
--As sad as night, only for wantonness.
2. Licentiousness; negligence of restraint.
The tumults threatened to abuse all acts of grace, and turn them into wantonness.
3. Lasciviousness; lewdness. Romans 8. II Peter 2.


Topic: Waped
Definition:
WAPED, a. [L., to strike, and awhap, whap, which the common people in New England use, and pronounce whop.] Dejected; cast down; crushed by misery. [Not in use.]


Topic: Wapentac
Definition:
WAPENTAKE, WAPENTAC, n. [See Touch. This name had its origin in a custom of touching lances or spears when the hundreder or chief entered on his office.] In some northern counties of England, a division or district, answering to the hundred or cantred in other counties. The name was first given to the meeting, supra.


Topic: Wappe
Definition:
WAPPE, n. A species of cur, said to be so called from his voice. His only use is to alarm the family by barking when any person approaches the house.


Topic: War
Definition:
WAR, n. [G., to perplex, embroil, disturb. The primary sense of the root is to strive, struggle, urge, drive, or to turn, to twist.]
1. A contest between nations or states, carried on by force, either for defense, or for revenging insults and redressing wrongs, for the extension of commerce or acquisition of territory, or for obtaining and establishing the superiority and dominion of one over the other. These objects are accomplished by the slaughter or capture of troops, and the capture and destruction of ships, towns and property. Among rude nations, war is often waged and carried on for plunder. 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. When war is commenced by attacking a nation in peace, it si called an offensive war, and such attack is aggressive. When war is undertaken to repel invasion or the attacks of an enemy, it is called defensive, and a defensive war is considered as justifiable. Very few of the wars that have desolated nations and deluged the earth with blood, have been justifiable. Happy would it be for mankind, if the prevalence of Christian principles might ultimately extinguish the spirit of war, and if the ambition to be great, might yield to the ambition of being good.
Preparation for war is sometimes the best security for peace.
2. In poetical language, instruments of war.
His complement of stores, and total war.
3. Poetically, forces; army.
Oer the embattled ranks the waves return, and overwhelm their war.
 4. The profession of arms; art of war; as a fierce man of war. Isaiah 2.
5. Hostility; state of opposition or contest; act of opposition.
6. Enmity; disposition to contention.
The words of his mouth were smoother than butter, but war was in his heart. Psalm 55.
Man of war, in naval affairs, a ship of large size, armed and equipped for attack or defense.
Holy war, a crusade; a war undertaken to deliver the Holy Land, or Judea, from infidels. These holy wars were carried on by most unholy means.
WAR, v.i. 
1. To make war; to invade or attack a nation or state with force of arms; to carry on hostilities; or to be in a state of contest by violence.
He teacheth my hands to war. 2 Samuel 22.
And they warred against eh Midianites. Numbers 31.
Why should I war without the walls of Troy?
2. To contend; to strive violently; to be in a state of opposition.
Lusts which war against the soul. 1 Peter 2.
WAR, v.t. 
1. To make war upon; as, to war the Scot. [Not used.]
2. To carry on a contest.
That thou mightest war a good warfare. 1 Timothy 1.


Topic: Warble
Definition:
WARBLE, v.t. [G., to turn, whirl, warble; a whirl, a vortex; a turning bone or joint, L.]
1. To quaver a sound or the voice; to modulate with turns or variations. Certain birds are remarkable for warbling their songs.
2. To cause to quaver.
And touch the warbled string.
3. To utter musically; to be modulated.
If she be right invokd with warbled song.
Warbling sweet the nuptial lay.
WARBLE, v.i. 
1. To be quavered or modulated.
Such strains neer warble in the linnets throat.
2. To be uttered melodiously; as warbling lays.
For warbling notes from inward cheering flow.
3. To sing.
Birds on the branches warbling.


Topic: Warbler
Definition:
WARBLER, n. 
1 . A singer; a songster; used of birds.
In lulling strains the fetherd warblers woo.
2. The common name of a genus of small birds (Sylvia,) comprising most of the small woodland songsters of Europe and North America. They feed on insects and are very lively and active. The blue-bird is a species of the genus.


Topic: Warbles
Definition:
WARBLES, n. In farriery, small hard tumors on the backs of horses, occasioned by the heat of the saddle in traveling, or by the uneasiness of its situation; also, small tumors produced by the larvas of the gad fly, in the backs of horses, cattle, &c.


Topic: Warbling
Definition:
WARBLING, ppr. 
1. Quavering the voice; modulating notes; singing.
2. a. Filled with musical notes; as the warbling glade.
WARBLING, n. The act of shaking or modulating notes; singing.


Topic: Ward
Definition:
WARD, in composition, as in toward, homeward, is the Saxon weard, from the root of L.
WARD, v.t. 
1. To guard; to deep in safety; to watch. 
Whose gates he found fast shut, he living wight to ward the same--
[In this sense, ward is obsolete, as we have adopted the French of the same word, to guard. We now never apply ward to the thing to be defended, but always to the thing against which it is to be defended. We ward off a blow or dagger, and we guard a person or place.]
2. To defend; to protect.
Tell him it was a hand that warded him from thousand dangers. [Obs. See the remark, supra.]
3. To fend off; to repel; to turn aside any thing mischievous that approaches.
Now wards a falling blow, now strikes again.
The pointed javlin warded off his rage.
It instructs the scholar in the various methods of warding off the force of objections.
[This is the present use of ward. To ward off is now the more general expression, nor can I, with Johnson, think it less elegant.]
WARD, v.i. 
1. To be vigilant; to keep guard.
2. To act on the defensive with a weapon.
She drove the stranger to no other shift, than to ward and go back.
And on their warding arms light bucklers bear.
WARD, n. 
1. Watch; act of guarding.
Still when she slept, he kept both watch and ward.
2. Garrison; troops to defend a fort; as small wards left in forts. [Not in use.]
3. Guard made by a weapon in fencing.
For want of other ward, he lifted up his hand his front to guard.
4. A fortress; a strong hold.
5. One whose business is to guard, watch and defend; as a fire-ward.
6. A certain district, division or quarter of a town or city, committed to an alderman. There are twenty six wards in London.
7. Custody; confinement under guard. Pharaoh put his butler and baker in ward. Genesis 40.
8. A minor or person under the care of a guardian. See Blackstones chapter on the rights and duties of guardian and ward.
9. The state of a child under a guardian.
I must attend his majestys commands, to whom I am now in ward.
10. Guardianship; right over orphans.
It is convenient in Ireland, that the wards and marriages of gentlemens children should be in the disposal of any of those lords.
11. The division of a forest.
12. The division of a hospital.
13. A part of a lock which corresponds to its proper key.


Topic: Ward-room
Definition:
WARD-ROOM, n. [ward and room.] In a ship, a room over the gun-room, where the lieutenants and other principal officers sleep and mess.


Topic: Warden
Definition:
WARDEN, n. 
1. A keeper; a guardian.
2. An officer who keeps or guards; a keeper; as the warden of the fleet or fleet prison.
3. A large pear.
Warden of the cinque ports, in England, an officer or magistrate who has the jurisdiction of a port or haven. There are five such ports.
Warden of a university, is the master or president.


Topic: Warder
Definition:
WARDER, n. 
1. A keeper; a guard.
The warders of the gate.
2. A trunchion by which an officer of arms forbad fight.
Warders of the tower, officers who attend state prisoners.


Topic: Wardrobe
Definition:
WARDROBE, n. 
1. A room or apartment where clothes or wearing apparel is kept.
2. Wearing apparel in general.


Topic: Wardship
Definition:
WARDSHIP, n. 
1. Guardianship; care and protection of a ward.
2. Right of guardianship.
Wardship is incident to tenure in socage.
3. Pupilage; state of being under a guardian.


Topic: Warehouse
Definition:
WAREHOUSE, n. [ware and house.] A storehouse for goods.
WAREHOUSE, v.t. s as z. To deposit or secure in a warehouse.


Topic: Warfare
Definition:
WARFARE, n. [war and fare.] 
1. Military service; military life; war.
The Philistines gathered their armies for warfare. 1 Samuel 28.
2. Contest; struggle with spiritual enemies.
The weapons of our warfare are not carnal. 2 Corinthians 10.
WARFARE, v.i. To lead a military life; to carry on continual wars.
In that credulous warfaring age. [Little used.]


Topic: Warily
Definition:
WARILY, adv. [from wary.] Cautiously; with timorous prudence or wise foresight. Great enterprises are to be conducted warily. Change of laws should be warily proceeded in.


Topic: Wariness
Definition:
WARINESS, n. Caution; prudent care to foresee and guard against evil. The road was so slippery, and the danger so great, that we were obliged to proceed with wariness.
To determine what are little things in religion, great wariness is to be used.


Topic: Warlike
Definition:
WARLIKE, a. [war and like.]
1. Fit for war; disposed for war; as a warlike state.
Old Siward with ten thousand warlike men.
2. Military; pertaining to war; as warlike toil.
3. Having a martial appearance.
4. Having the appearance of war.


Topic: Warm
Definition:
WARM, a. Waurm. [G. See Swarm.]
1. Having heat in a moderate degree; not cold; as warm blood; warm milk. The flesh of living animals is warm, if their blood is warm. But some animals have not warm blood.
2. Subject o heat; having prevalence of heat, or little or no winter; as the warm climate of Egypt.
3. Zealous; ardent; as, to be warm in the cause of our country or of religion.
Each warm wish springs mutual from the heart.
4. Habitually ardent or passionate; keen; irritable; as a warm temper.
5. Easily excited or provoked; irritable; as warm passions.
6. Violent; furious; as a warm contest. We shall have warm work to-day.
7. Busy in action; heated in action; ardent. Be warm in fight.
8. Fanciful; enthusiastic; as a warm head.
9. Vigorous; sprightly.
Now warm in youth, now withering in thy bloom, lost in a convents solitary gloom.
WARM, v.t. 
1. To communicate a moderate degree of heat to; as, a stove warms an apartment. The sun in summer warms the earth, and gives life to vegetation.
2. To make engaged or earnest; to interest; to engage; to excite ardor or zeal in; as, to warm the heart with love or zeal.
I formerly warmed my head with reading controversial writings.
WARM, v.i. 
1. To become moderately heated. The earth soon warms in a clear day in summer.
2. To become ardent or animated. The speaker should warm as he proceeds in the argument, for as he becomes animated, he excites more interest in his audience.


Topic: Warming-pan
Definition:
WARMING-PAN, n. [warm and pan.] A covered pan with a long handle, for warming a bed with ignited coals.


Topic: Warming-stone
Definition:
WARMING-STONE, n. [warm and stone.] A stone dug in cornwall, which retains heat a great while, and has been found to give ease in internal hemorrhoids.


Topic: Warmly
Definition:
WARMLY, adv. 
1. With gentle heat.
2. Eagerly; earnestly; ardently; as, to espouse warmly the cause of Bible societies.


Topic: Warmth
Definition:
WARMNESS, WARMTH, n. 
1. Gentle heat; as the warmth of the blood.
2. Zeal; ardor; fervor; as the warmth of love or of piety.
3. Earnestness; eagerness. The cause of the Greeks has been espoused with warmth by all parties in free countries.
4. Excitement; animation; as the warmth of passion. The preacher declaimed with great warmth against the vices of the age.
5. Fancifulness; enthusiasm; as the warmth of head.
6. In painting, the fiery effect given to a red color by a small addition of yellow.


Topic: Warn
Definition:
WARN, v.t. [G.]
1. To give notice of approaching or probable danger or evil, that it may be avoided; to caution against any thing that may prove injurious.
Juturna warns the Daunian chief of Lausus danger-- being warned of God in a dream, that they should not return to Herod, they departed into their own country another way. Matthew 2.
2. To caution against evil practices. 1 Thessalonians 5.
3. To admonish of any duty.
Cornelius--was warned from God by an holy angel to send for thee. Acts 10.
4. To inform previously; to give notice to.
--Warnd of th ensuing fight.
5. To notify by authority; to summon; as, to warn the citizens to meet on a certain day; to warn soldiers to appear on parade.
6. To ward off. [Not in use.]


Topic: Warning
Definition:
WARNING, ppr. Cautioning against danger; admonishing; giving notice to; summoning to meet or appear.
WARNING, n. 
1. Caution against danger, or against faults or evil practices which incur danger.
Could warning make the world more just or wise. 
Hear the word at my mouth, and give them warning from me. Ezekiel 3.
2. Previous notice; as a short warning. He had a months warning.


Topic: Warp
Definition:
WARP, n. Waurp. [See the Verb.] 
1. In manufactures, the threads, which are extended lengthwise in the loom, and crossed by the woof.
2. In a ship, a rope employed in drawing, towing or removing a ship or boat; a towing line.
3. In agriculture, a slimy substance deposited on land by marine tides, by which a rich alluvial soil is formed. [Local.]
4. In cows, a miscarriage. [See the Verb.] [Local.]
WARP, v.i. [G., to cast or throw, to whelp.]
1. To turn, twist or be twisted out of a straight direction; as, a board warps in seasoning, or in the heat of the sun, by shrinking.
They clamp one piece of wood to the end of another, to keep it from casting or warping.
2. To turn or incline from a straight, true or proper course; to deviate.
Theres our commission, from which we would not have you warp.
Methinks my favor here begins to warp.
3. To fly with a bending or waving motion; to turn and wave, like a flock of birds or insects. The following use of warp is inimitably beautiful.
As when the potent rod of Amrams son, in Egypts evil day, wavd round the coast, up called a pitchy cloud of locusts, warping on the eastern wind--
4. To slink; to cast the young prematurely; as cows.
In an enclosure near a dog-kennel, eight heifers out of twenty warped. [Local.]
WARP, v.t. 
1. To turn or twist out of shape, or out of a straight direction, by contraction. The heat of the sun warps boards and timber.
2. To turn aside from the true direction; to cause to bend or incline; to pervert.
This first avowd, nor folly warpd my mind.
I have no private considerations to warp me in this controversy.
--Zeal, to a degree of warmth able to warp the sacred rule of Gods word.
3. In seamens language, to two or move with a line or warp, attached to buoys, to anchors or to other ships, &c. By which means a ship is drawn, usually in a bending course or with various turns.
4. In rural economy, to cast the young prematurely. [Local.]
5. In agriculture, to inundate, as land, with sea water; or to let in the tide, forth purpose of fertilizing the ground by a deposit of warp or slimy substance. Warp here is the throw, or that which is cast by the water.
6. In rope-making, to run the yarn off the winches into hauls to be tarred.
To warp water, in Shakespeare, is forced and unusual; indeed it is not English.


Topic: Warped
Definition:
WARPED, pp. Twisted by shrinking or seasoning; turned out of the true direction; perverted; moved with a warp; overflowed.


Topic: Warping
Definition:
WARPING, ppr. Turning or twisting; causing to incline; perverting; moving with a warp; enriching by overflowing with tide water.


Topic: Warping-bank
Definition:
WARPING-BANK, n. A bank or mound of earth raised round a field for retaining the water let in from the sea. [Local.]


Topic: Warping-clough
Definition:
WARPING-CLOUGH, WARPING-HATCH, WARPING-SLUICE, n. A flood gate to let in tide water upon land. [Local.]


Topic: Warping-cut
Definition:
WARPING-CUT, WARPING-DRAIN, WARPING-GUTTER, n. An open passage or channel for discharging the water from lands inundated. [Local.]


Topic: Warping-hook
Definition:
WARPING-HOOK, n. A hook used by rope-makers for hanging the yarn on, when warping into hauls for tarring.


Topic: Warrant
Definition:
WARRANT, v.t. [The primary sense of the root is to stop or hold, or to repel, and thus guard by resisting danger; as we say, to keep off. Hence the sense of security. See Guard and Garrison.]
1. To authorize; to give authority or power to do or forbear any thing, by which the person authorized is secured or saved harmless from any loss or damage by the act. A commission warrants an officer to seize an enemy. We are not warranted to resist legitimate government. Except in extreme cases.
2. To maintain; to support by authority or proof.
Reason warrants it, and we may safely receive it as true.
3. To justify.
True fortitude is seen in great exploits, that justice warrants, and that wisdom guides.
4. To secure; to exempt; to privilege..
Ill warrant him from drowning.
In a place less warranted than this, or less secure, I cannot be--
5. To declare with assurance.
My neck is as smooth as silk, I warrant ye.
6. In law, to secure to a grantee an estate granted; to assure.
7. To secure to a purchaser of goods the title to the same; or to indemnify him against loss.
8. To secure to a purchaser the good quality of the goods sold. [See Warranty.]
9. To assure that a thing is what it appears to be, which implies a covenant to make good any defect or loss incurred by it.
WARRANT, n. 
1. 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; a word of general application.
2. A precept authorizing an officer to seize an offender and bring him to justice. A general warrant to seize suspected persons, is illegal.
3. Authority; power that authorizes or justifies any act. Those who preach the gospel have the warrant of Scripture. We have the warrant of natural right to do what the laws do not forbid; but civility and propriety may sometimes render things improper, which natural right warrants.
4. A commission that gives authority, or that justifies.
5. A voucher; that which attests or proves.
6. Right; legality.
Theres warrant in that theft which steals itself when theres no mercy left.
7. A writing which authorizes a person to receive money or other thing.
Warrant of attorney, that by which a man appoints another to act in his name, and warrants his transaction.
Land warrant, is an instrument or writing issued by the proper officer, authorizing a person to locate or take up a tract of new or uncultivated land.
Search warrant, a precept authorizing a person to enter houses, shops, &c. to search for a criminal, for stolen or smuggled goods.
Warrant officer, an officer holding a warrant from the navy board, such as the master, surgeon, purser, &c. of a ship.


Topic: Warrantable
Definition:
WARRANTABLE, a. Authorized by commission, precept or right; justifiable; defensible. 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.


Topic: Warranter
Definition:
WARRANTER, n. 
1. One who gives authority or legally empowers.
2. 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; as the warranter of a horse.


Topic: Warranting
Definition:
WARRANTING, ppr.
1. Authorizing; empowering.
2. Assuring; securing to another a right, or covenanting to make good a defect of title in lands, or of quality in goods.


Topic: Warranty
Definition:
WARRANTY, n. 
1. In law, a promise or covenant by deed, made by the bargainer for himself and his heirs, to warrant or secure the bargainee and his heirs against all men in the enjoyment of an estate or other thing granted. Such warranty passes from the seller to the buyer, from the feoffor to the feoffee, and from the releaser to the releasee. Warranty is real, when annexed to lands and tenements granted in fee or for life, &c. And is in deed or in law; and personal, when it respects goods sold or their quality.
In common recoveries, a fictitious person is called to warranty. In the sale of goods or personal property, the seller warrants the title; the warranty is express or implied. If a man sells goods which are not his own, or which he has no right to sell, the purchaser may have satisfaction for the injury. And if the seller expressly warrants the goods to be sound and not defective, and they prove to be otherwise, he must indemnify the purchaser; of the law implies a contract in the warranty, to make good any defect. But the warranty must be at the time of sale, and not afterwards.
2. Authority; justificatory mandate or precept.
If they disobey any precept, that is no excuse to us, nor gives us any warranty to disobey likewise. [In this sense, warrant is now used.]
3. Security.
The stamp was a warranty of the public.
WARRANTY, v.t. To warrant; to guaranty. [A useless word.]


Topic: Warren
Definition:
WARREN, n. [See Guard, Warrant and Wary.]
1. A piece of ground appropriated to the breeding and preservation of rabbits.
2. In law, a franchise or place privileged by prescription or grant from the king, for keeping beasts and fowls. 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.
3. A place for keeping fish in a river.


Topic: Warrior
Definition:
WARRIOR, n. 
1. In a general sense, a soldier; a man engaged in military life.
2. Emphatically, a brave man; a good soldier.


Topic: Wart
Definition:
WART, n. Waurt. [G.]
1. A hard excrescence on the skin of animals, which is covered with the production of the cuticle. In horses, warts are spungy excrescences on the hinder pasterns, which suppurate.
2. A protuberance on trees.


Topic: Wartwort
Definition:
WARTWORT, n. A plant of the genus Euphorbia or spurge, which is studded with hard warty knobs; also, a plant of the genus Heliotropium, and another of the genus Lapsana.


Topic: Warty
Definition:
WARTY, a. 
1. Having warts; full of warts; overgrown with warts; as a warty leaf.
2. Of the nature of warts.


Topic: Wary
Definition:
WARY, a. [See Ware and Warn.] Cautious of danger; carefully watching and guarding against deception, artifices and dangers; scrupulous; timorously prudent. Old men are usually more wary than the young. It is incumbent on a general in war to be always wary.


Topic: Was
Definition:
WAS, s. as z.; the past tense of the substantive verb; L., to be, to exist, whence English is, in the present tense, and was in the past; as, I was; he was.


Topic: Wash
Definition:
WASH, v.t. [G.]
1. To cleanse by ablution, or by rubbing in water; as, to wash the hands or the body; to wash garments.
2. To wet; to fall on and moisten; as, the rain washes the flowers or plants.
3. To overflow. The tides wash the meadows.
4. To overflow or dash against; to cover with water; as, the waves wash the strand or shore; the sea washes the rocks on the shore or beach.
5. To scrub in water; as, to wash a deck or a floor.
6. To separate extraneous matter from; as, to wash ore; to wash grain.
7. In painting, to lay a color over any work with a pencil, to give it the proper tints, and make it appear more natural. Thus work is washed with a pale red to imitate brick, &c.
8. To rub over with some liquid substance; as, to wash trees fro removing insects or diseases.
9. To squeeze and cleanse in water; as, to wash wool. So sheep are said to be washed, when they are immersed in water and their wool squeezed, by which means it is cleansed.
10. To cleanse by a current of water; as, showers wash the streets.
11. To overlay with a thin coat of metal; as steel washed with silver.
12. To purify from the pollution of sin.
But ye are washed, but ye are sanctified. 1 Corinthians 6.
To wash a ship, to bring all her guns to one side to make her heel, and then to wash and scrape her side.
WASH, v.i. 
1. To perform the act of ablution.
Wash in Jordan seven times. 2 Kings 5. [Elliptical.]
2. To perform the business of cleansing clothes in water.
She can wash and scour.
To wash off, in calico-printing, to soak and rinse printed calicoes, to dissolve and remove the gum and paste.
WASH, n. 
1. Alluvial matter; substances collected and deposited by water; as the wash of a river.
2. A bog; a marsh; a fen.
Neptunes salt wash.
3. A cosmetic; as a wash for the face, to help the complexion.
4. A lotion; a medical liquid preparation for external application.
5. A superficial stain or color.
6. Waste liquor of a kitchen for hogs.
7. The act of washing the clothes of a family; or the whole quantity washed at once. There is a great wash, or a small wash.
8. With distillers, the fermentable liquor made b dissolving the proper subject for fermentation and distillation in common water. In the distillery of malt, the wash is made by mixing the water hot, with the malt ground into meal.
9. The shallow part of a river, or arm of the sea; as the wastes in Lincolnshire.
10. The blade of an oar; the thin part, which enters the water and by whose impulse the boat is moved.
11. The color laid on a picture to vary its tints.
12. A substance laid on boards or other work for beauty or preservation.
13. A thin coat of metal.
14. In the west Indies, a mixture of dunder, molasses, water and scummings, for distillation.


Topic: Wash-board
Definition:
WASH-BOARD, n. [wash and board.] 
1. A broad thin plank, fixed occasionally on the top of a boat or other small vessels side, to prevent the sea from breaking over; also, a piece of plank on the sill of a lower deck port for the same purpose.
2. A board in a room, next to the floor.


Topic: Washed
Definition:
WASHED, pp. 
1. Cleansed in water; purified.
2. Overflowed; dashed against with water.
3. Covered over with a thin coat, as of metal.


Topic: Washing
Definition:
WASHING, ppr. Cleansing with water; purifying; overflowing; overspreading.
WASHING, n. 
1. The act of cleansing with water; ablution. Hebrews 9.
2. A wash; or the clothes washed.


Topic: Washy
Definition:
WASHY, a. [from wash.]
1. Watery; damp; soft; as the washy ooze.
2. Weak; not solid.
3. Weak; not firm or hardy; liable to sweat profusely with labor; as a washy horse. [New England.]


Topic: Wasp
Definition:
WASP, n. [G., L.] In entomology, a genus of insects, Vespa, of the order of Hymenopters. The mouth is horny, the jaw compressed, without a proboscis; the feelers four, unequal and filiform; the eyes lunated; the body smooth; the sting concealed, and the upper wings plicated. Wasps construct combs, and rear their young in the cells. The sting is painful.


Topic: Waspish
Definition:
WASPISH, a. Snappish; petulant; irritable; irascible; quick to resent any trifling affront.
Much do I suffer, much, to keep in peace This jealous, waspish, wrong-head, rhyming race.


Topic: Wassail
Definition:
WASSAIL, n. 
1. A liquor made of apples, sugar and ale, formerly much used by English good fellows.
2. A drunken bout.
3. A merry song. [This word in unknown in America.]
WASSAIL, v.i. To hold a merry drinking meeting.


Topic: Waste
Definition:
WASTE, v.t. [G., L.] 
1. To diminish by gradual dissipation or loss. Thus disease wastes the patient; sorrows waste the strength and spirits.
2. To cause to be lost; to destroy by scattering or by injury. Thus cattle waste their fodder when fed in the open field.
3. To expend without necessity or use; to destroy wantonly or luxuriously; to squander; to cause to be lost through wantonness or negligence. Careless people waste their fuel, their food or their property. Children waster their inheritance.
And wasted his substance with riotous living. Luke 15.
4. To destroy in enmity; to desolate; as, to waste an enemys country.
5. To suffer to be lost unnecessarily; or to throw away; as, to waste the blood and treasure of a nation.
6. To destroy by violence.
The Tyber insults our walls, and wastes our fruitful grounds.
7. To impair strength gradually.
Now wasting years my former strength confounds.
8. To lose in idleness or misery; to wear out.
Here condemnd to waste eternal days in woe and pain.
9. To spend; to consume.
O were I able to waste it all myself, and leave you none.
10. In law, to damage, impair or injure, as an estate, voluntarily, or by suffering the buildings, fences, &c. To go to decay. See the Noun.
11. To exhaust; to be consumed by time or mortality.
Till your carcasses be wasted in the wilderness. Numbers 14.
12. To scatter and lose for want of use or of occupiers.
Full many a flowr is born to blush unseen, and waste its sweetness on the desert air.
WASTE, v.i. 
1. To dwindle; to be diminished; to lose bulk or substance gradually; as, the body wastes in sickness.
The barrel of meal shall not waste. 1 Kings 17.
2. To be diminished or lost by slow dissipation, consumption or evaporation; as, water wastes by evaporation; fuel wastes in combustion.
3. To be consumed by time or mortality.
Gut man dieth, and wasteth away. Job 14.
WASTE, a. 
1. Destroyed; ruined.
The Sophi leaves all waste in his retreat.
2. Desolate; uncultivated; as a waste country; a waste howling wilderness. Deuteronomy 32.
3. Destitute; stripped; as lands laid waste.
4. Superfluous; lost for want of occupiers.
--And strangled with her waste fertility.
5. Worthless; that which is rejected, or used only for mean purposes; as waste wood.
6. That of which no account is taken, or of which no value is found; as waste paper.
7. Uncultivated; untilled; unproductive.
There is yet much waste land in England.
Laid waste, desolated; ruined.
WASTE, n. 
1. The act of squandering; the dissipation of property through wantonness, ambition, extravagance, luxury or negligence.
For all this waste of wealth, and loss of blood.
2. Consumption; loss; useless expense; any loss or destruction which is neither necessary nor promotive of a good end; a loss for which there is no equivalent; as a waste of goods or money; a waste of time; a waste of labor; a waste of words.
Little wastes in great establishments, constantly occurring, may defeat the energies of a mighty capital.
3. A desolate or uncultivated country. The plains of Arabia are mostly a wide waste.
4. Land untilled, though capable of tillage; as the wastes in England.
5. Ground, space or place unoccupied; as the etherial waste.
In the dead waste and middle of the night.
6. Region ruined and deserted.
All the leafy nation sinks at last, and Vulcan rides in triumph oer the waste.
7. Mischief; destruction.
He will never, I think, in the way of waste, attempt us again.
8. In law, spoil, destruction or injury done to houses, woods, fences, lands, &c., by a tenant for life or for years, to the prejudice of the heir, or of him in reversion or remainder. 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.


Topic: Wasted
Definition:
WASTED, pp. 
1. Expended without necessity or use; lost through negligence; squandered.
2. Diminished; dissipated; evaporated; exhausted.
3. Desolated; ruined; destroyed.


Topic: Wasteful
Definition:
WASTEFUL, a. 
1. Lavish; prodigal; expending property, or that which is valuable, without necessity or use; applied to persons.
2. Destructive to property; ruinous; as wasteful practices or negligence; wasteful expenses.
3. Desolate; unoccupied; untilled; uncultivated.
In wilderness and wasteful deserts strayd.


Topic: Wastefully
Definition:
WASTEFULLY, adv. In a lavish manner; with prodigality; in useless expenses or consumption.
Her lavish hand is wastefully profuse.


Topic: Wastefulness
Definition:
WASTEFULNESS, n. Lavishness; prodigality; the act or practice of expending what is valuable without necessity or use.


Topic: Wasteness
Definition:
WASTENESS, n. A desolate state; solitude.
That day is a day of wrath, a day of trouble and distress, a day of wasteness. Zephaniah 1.


Topic: Waster
Definition:
WASTER, n. 
1. One who is prodigal; one who squanders property; one who consumes extravagantly or without use.
He also that is slothful in his work, is brother to him who is a great waster. Proverbs 18.
Sconces are great wasters of candles.
2. A kind of cudgel.


Topic: Wasting
Definition:
WASTING, ppr. 
1. Lavishing prodigally; expending or consuming without use; diminishing by slow dissipation; desolating; laying waste.
Wasting and relentless war has made ravages, with but few and short intermissions, from the days of the tyrant Nimrod down to the Nimrod of our own age.
2. a. Diminishing by dissipation or by great destruction; as a wasting disease.


Topic: Watch
Definition:
WATCH, n. [It is from the same root as wake, which see.]
1. Forbearance of sleep.
2. Attendance without sleep.
All the long night their mournful watch they keep.
3. Attention; close observation. Keep watch of the suspicious man.
4. Guard; vigilance for keeping or protecting against danger.
He kept both watch and ward.
5. A watchman, or watchmen; men set for a guard, either one person or more, set to espy the approach of an enemy or other danger, and to give an alarm or notice of such danger; a sentinel; a guard. He kept a watch at the gate.
Ye have a watch; go your way, make it as sure as ye can. Matthew 27.
6. The place where a guard is kept.
He upbraids I ago, that he made him brave me upon the watch.
7. Post or office of a watchman.
As I did stand my watch upon the hill--
8. A period of the night, in which one person or one set of persons stand as sentinels; or the time from one relief of sentinels to another. This period among the Israelites, seems to have been originally four hours, but was afterwards three hours, and there were four watches during the night. Hence we read in Scripture of the morning watch, and of the second, third and fourth watch; the evening watch commencing at six oclock, the second at nine, the third at twelve, and the fourth at three in the morning. Exodus 14. Matthew 14. Luke 12.
9. A small time piece or chronometer, to be carried in the pocket or about the person, in which the machinery is moved by a spring.
10. At sea, the space of time during which one set or division of the crew remain on deck to perform the necessary duties. This is different in different nations.
To be on the watch, to be looking steadily for some event.
WATCH, v.i. 
1. To be awake; to be or continue without sleep.
I have two nights watchd with you.
2. To be attentive; to look with attention or steadiness. Watch and see when the man passes.
3. To look with expectation.
My soul waiteth for the Lord more than they that watch for the morning. Psalm 130.
4. To keep guard; to act as sentinel; to look for danger.
He gave signal to the minister that watchd.
5. To be attentive; to be vigilant in preparation for an event or trial, the time of whose arrival is uncertain.
Watch therefore; for ye know not what hour your Lord doth come. Matthew 24.
6. To be insidiously attentive; as, to watch for an opportunity to injure another.
7. To attend on the sick during the night; as, to watch with a man in a fever.
To watch over, to be cautiously observant of; to inspect, superintend and guard from error and danger. It is our duty constantly to watch over our own conduct and that of our children.
WATCH, v.t. 
1. To guard; to have in keeping.
Flaming ministers watch and tend their charge.
2. To observe in ambush; to lie in wait for.
Saul also sent messengers to Davids house to watch him, and to slay him. 1 Samuel 19.
3. To tend; to guard.
Paris watched the flocks in the groves of Ida.
4. To observe in order to detect or prevent, or for some particular purpose; as, to watch a suspected person; to watch the progress of a bill in the legislature.


Topic: Watch-glass
Definition:
WATCH-GLASS, n. [watch and glass.]
1. In ships, a half hour glass, used to measure the time of a watch on deck.
2. A concavo-convex glass for covering the face or dial of a watch.


Topic: Watcher
Definition:
WATCHER, n. 
1. One who sits up or continues awake; particularly, one who attends upon the sick during the night.
2. A diligent observer; as an attentive watcher of the works of nature. [Not in use.]


Topic: Watchful
Definition:
WATCHFUL, a. Vigilant; attentive; careful to observe; observant; cautious. It has of before the thing to be regulated, as to be watchful of ones behavior; and against, before the thing to be avoided, as to be watchful against the growth of vicious habits.


Topic: Watchfully
Definition:
WATCHFULLY, adv. Vigilantly; heedfully; with careful observation of the approach of evil, or attention to duty.


Topic: Watchfulness
Definition:
WATCHFULNESS, n. 
1. Vigilance; heedfulness; heed; suspicious attention; careful and diligent observation for the purpose of preventing or escaping danger, or of avoiding mistakes and misconduct.
2. Wakefulness; indisposition or inability to sleep.
Watchfulness-often precedes too great sleepiness.


Topic: Watching
Definition:
WATCHING, ppr. Being awake; guarding; attending the sick; carefully observing.
WATCHING, n. Wakefulness; inability to sleep.


Topic: Watchtower
Definition:
WATCHTOWER, n. [watch and tower.] A tower on which a sentinel is placed to watch for enemies or the approach of danger.


Topic: Watchword
Definition:
WATCHWORD, n. [watch and word.] The 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.


Topic: Water
Definition:
WATER, n. Wauter. [G., Gr.]
1. A fluid, the most abundant and most necessary for living beings of any in nature, except air. Water when pure, is colorless, destitute of taste and smell, ponderous, transparent, and in a very small degree compressible. It is reposited in the earth in inexhaustible quantities, where it is preserved fresh and cool, and from which it issues in springs, which form streams and rivers. But the great reservoirs of water on the globe are the ocean, seas and lakes, which cover more than three fifths of its surface, and from which it is raised by evaporation, and uniting with the air in the state of vapor, is wafted over the earth, ready to be precipitated in the form of rain, snow or hail.
Water by the abstraction or loss of heat becomes solid, or in other words, is converted into ice or snow; and by heat it is converted into steam, an elastic vapor, one of the most powerful agents in nature. Modern chemical experiments prove that water is a compound substance, consisting of a combination of oxygen and hydrogen gases, or rather the bases or ponderable matter of those gases; or about two volumes or measures of hydrogen gas and one of oxygen gas. The proportion of the ingredients in weight, is nearly 85 parts of oxygen to 15 of hydrogen.
2. The ocean; a sea; a lake; a river; any great collection of water; as in the phrases, to go by water, to travel by water.
3. Urine; the animal liquor secreted by the kidneys and discharged from the bladder.
4. The color or luster of a diamond or pearl, sometimes perhaps of other precious stones; as a diamond of the first water, that is, perfectly pure and transparent. Hence the figurative phrase, a man or a genius of the first water, that is, of the first excellence.
5. Water is a name given to several liquid substances or humors in animal bodies; as the water of the pericardium, of dropsy, &c.
Mineral waters, are those waters which are so impregnated with foreign ingredients, such as gaseous, sulphurous and saline substances, as to give them medicinal, or at least sensible properties. Most natural waters contain more or less of these foreign substances, but the proportion is generally too minute to affect the senses.
To hold water, to be sound or tight. [Obsolete or vulgar.]


Topic: Water-bearer
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WATER-BEARER, n. [water and bearer.] In astronomy, a sign of the zodiac, called also Aquarius, from L. Aqua, water.


Topic: Water-bellows
Definition:
WATER-BELLOWS, n. [water and bellows.] A machine for blowing air into a furnace, by means of a column of water falling through a vertical tube.


Topic: Water-borne
Definition:
WATER-BORNE, n. Borne by the water; floated; having water sufficient to float; as ships water-borne by the flowing tide.


Topic: Water-carriage
Definition:
WATER-CARRIAGE, n. [water and carriage.]
1. Transportation or conveyance by water; or the means of transporting by water.
2. A vessel or boat. [Not in use.]


Topic: Water-cart
Definition:
WATER-CART, n. [water and cart.] A cart earing a large cask of water which is conveyed into a cylinder full of holes, by means of which the water is sprinkled upon the ground.


Topic: Water-clock
Definition:
WATER-CLOCK, n. [water and clock.] The clepsydra; an instrument or machine serving to measure time by the fall of a certain quantity of water.


Topic: Water-color
Definition:
WATER-COLOR, n. [water and color.] Water-colors, in painting or limning, are colors diluted and mixed with gum-water. Water-colors are so called in distinction from oil-colors.


Topic: Water-course
Definition:
WATER-COURSE, n. [water and course.]
1. A stream of water; a river or brook. Isaiah 44.
2. A channel or canal for the conveyance of water, particularly in draining lands.


Topic: Water-cress
Definition:
WATER-CRESS, n. [water and cress.] A small creeping plant or weed growing in watery places.
A plant, a species of Sisymbrium.


Topic: Water-fowl
Definition:
WATER-FOWL, n. [water and fowl.] A fowl that frequents the water, or lives about rivers, lakes, or on or near the sea; an aquatic fowl. Of aquatic fowls, some are waders, or furnished with long legs; others are swimmers, and are furnished with webbed feet.


Topic: Water-furrow
Definition:
WATER-FURROW, n. [water and furrow.] In agriculture, a deep furrow made for conducting water fro the ground and keeping it dry.
WATER-FURROW, v.t. To plow or open water furrows.


Topic: Water-gage
Definition:
WATER-GAGE, WATER-GUAGE, n. [water and gage.] An instrument for measuring or ascertaining the depth or quantity of water.


Topic: Water-gall
Definition:
WATER-GALL, n. 
1. A cavity made in the earth by a torrent of water.
2. An appearance in the rainbow.


Topic: Water-gruel
Definition:
WATER-GRUEL, n. [water and gruel.] A liquid food, composed of water and a small portion of meal or other farinaceous substance boiled.


Topic: Water-hammer
Definition:
WATER-HAMMER, n. A column of water in a vacuum, which not being supported as in the air, falls against the end of the vessel with a peculiar noise. It may be formed by corking a vessel of water while it is boiling. The vapor condensing as it cools, a vacuum is formed.


Topic: Water-hen
Definition:
WATER-HEN, n. [water and hen.] A water fowl of the genus Fulica, the gallinula or moorhen; also, a species of Rallus, the soree, inhabiting Virginia and Carolina.


Topic: Water-line
Definition:
WATER-LINE, n. [water and line.] A horizontal line supposed to be drawn about a ships bottom  at the surface of the water. This is higher or lower, according to the depth of water necessary to float her.


Topic: Water-logged
Definition:
WATER-LOGGED, a. [water and log.] Lying like a log on the water. A ship is said to be water-logged, when by leaking and receiving a great quantity of water into her hold, she has become so heavy as not to be manageable by the helm, and to be at the mercy of the waves.


Topic: Water-melon
Definition:
WATER-MELON, n. [water and melon.] A plant and its fruit, of the genus Cucurbita. This plant requires a warm climate to bring it to perfection. It also requires a dry, sandy, warm soil, and will not grow well in any other. The fruit abounds with a sweetish liquor resembling water in color, and the pulp is remarkably rich and delicious.


Topic: Water-mill
Definition:
WATER-MILL, n. [water and mill.] A mill whose machinery is moved by water, and thus distinguished from a wind-mill.


Topic: Water-ordeal
Definition:
WATER-ORDEAL, n. [water and ordeal.] A judicial trial of persons accused of crimes, by means of water; formerly in use among illiterate and superstitious nations.


Topic: Water-ouzel
Definition:
WATER-OUZEL, n. [water and ouzel.] A fowl of the genus Sturnus.
The water ouzel is the Turdus cinctus of Latham.


Topic: Water-pot
Definition:
WATER-POT, n. [water and pot.] A vessel for holding or conveying water, or for sprinkling water on cloth in beaching, or on plants, &c.


Topic: Water-proof
Definition:
WATER-PROOF, a. [water and proof.] Impervious to water; so firm and compact as not to admit water; as water-proof cloth, lether or felt.


Topic: Water-radish
Definition:
WATER-RADISH, n. [water and radish.] A species of water-cresses. Water-cress, a species of Sisymbrium.


Topic: Water-rat
Definition:
WATER-RAT, n. [water and rat.] An animal of the genus Mus, which lives in the banks of streams or lakes.


Topic: Water-rocket
Definition:
WATER-ROCKET, n. [water and rocket.]
1. A species of water-cresses.
2. A kind of fire-work to be discharged in the water.


Topic: Water-soaked
Definition:
WATER-SOAKED, pp. Soaked or having its interstices filled with water; as water-soaked wood; a water soaked hat.


Topic: Water-spout
Definition:
WATER-SPOUT, n. [water and spout.] At sea, a vertical column of water, raised from the surface of the sea and driven furiously by the wind.


Topic: Water-table
Definition:
WATER-TABLE, n. [water and table.] In architecture, a ledge in the wall of a building, about eighteen or twenty inches from the ground.


Topic: Water-tath
Definition:
WATER-TATH, n. In England, a species of coarse grass growing in wet grounds, and supposed to be injurious to sheep.


Topic: Water-thermometer
Definition:
WATER-THERMOMETER, n. An instrument for ascertaining the precise degree of cold at which water ceases to be condensed.


Topic: Water-way
Definition:
WATER-WAY, n. [water and way.] In a ships deck, a piece of timber, forming a channel for conducting water to the scuppers.


Topic: Water-wheel
Definition:
WATER-WHEEL, n. [water and wheel.] 
1. A wheel moved by water.
2. An engine for raising water from a deep well.


Topic: Water-work
Definition:
WATER-WORK, n. [water and work.] Water-works are hydraulic machines or engines, particularly such as form artificial fountains, spouts and the like.


Topic: Watered
Definition:
WATERED, pp. Overspread or sprinkled with water; made wet; supplied with water; made lustrous by being wet and calendered.


Topic: Waterfall
Definition:
WATERFALL, n. [water and fall.] A fall or perpendicular descent of the water of a river or stream, or a descent nearly perpendicular; a cascade; a cataract. But the word is generally used of the fall of a small river or rivulet. It is particularly used to express a cascade in a garden, or an artificial descent of water, designed as an ornament.


Topic: Watering
Definition:
WATERING, ppr. Overflowing; sprinkling or wetting with water; supplying with water; giving water for drink; giving a way appearance to.
WATERING, n. 
1. The act of overflowing or sprinkling with water; the act of supplying with water for drink or other purposes; the act of wetting and calendering for giving luster to, as cloth.
2. The place where water is supplied.


Topic: Watering-place
Definition:
WATERING-PLACE, n. A place to which people resort for mineral water, or for the use of water in some way or other.


Topic: Waterishness
Definition:
WATERISHNESS, n. Thinness, as of a liquor; resemblance to water.
Waterishness, which is like the serosity of our blood.


Topic: Watery
Definition:
WATERY, a. 
1. Resembling water; thin or transparent, as a liquid; as watery humors.
The oily and watery parts of the aliment.
2. Tasteless; insipid; vapid; spiritless; as watery turneps.
3. Wet; abounding with water; as watery land; watery eyes.
4. Pertaining to water; as the watery god.
5. Consisting of water; as a watery desert.


Topic: Wattle
Definition:
WATTLE, n. [L., a shoot.]
1. Properly, a twig or flexible rod; and hence, a hurdle.
2. The fleshy excrescence that grows under the throat of a cock or turkey, or a like substance on a fish.
3. A rod laid on a roof to support the thatch.
WATTLE, v.t. 
1. To bind with twigs.
2. To twist or interweave twigs one with another; to plat; to for a kind of network with flexible branches; as, to wattle a hedge.


Topic: Wave
Definition:
WAVE, n. [G.]
1. A moving swell or volume of water; usually, a swell raised and driven by wind. A pebble thrown into still water produces waves, which form concentric circles, receding from the point where the pebble fell. But waves are generally raised and driven by wind, and the word comprehends any moving swell on the surface of water, from the smallest ripple to the billows of a tempest.
The wave behind impels the wave before.
2. Unevenness; inequality of surface.
3. The line or streak of luster on cloth watered and calendered.
WAVE, v.i. 
1. To play loosely; to move like a wave, one way and the other; to float; to undulate.
His purple robes wavd careless to the wind.
2. To be moved, as a signal.
3. To fluctuate; to waver; to be in an unsettled state.
WAVE, v.t. [See Waver.]
1. To raise into inequalities of surface.
2. To move one way and the other; to brandish; as, to wave the hand; to wave a sword.
3. To waft; to remove any thing floating.
4. To beckon; to direct by a waft or waving motion.
WAVE, v.t. 
1. To put off; to cast off; to cast away; to reject; as, to wave good stolen; usually written waive.
2. To quit; to depart from.
He resolved not to wave his way.
3. To put off; to put aside for the present, or to omit to pursue; as, to wave a motion. He offered to wave the subject. [This is the usual sense.]


Topic: Waved
Definition:
WAVED, pp. 
1. Moved one way and the other; brandished.
2. Put off; omitted.
3. a. In heraldry, indented.
4. Variegated in luster; as waved silk.
5. In botany, undate; rising and falling in waves on the margin, as a leaf.


Topic: Wavellite
Definition:
WAVELLITE, n. A mineral, a phosphate or sub-phosphate of alumin; commonly found in crystals, which usually adhere and radiate, forming hemispherical or globular concretions, from a very small size to an inch in diameter. The form of the crystal is usually that of a rhombic prism with dihedral terminations.


Topic: Waver
Definition:
WAVER, v.i. 
1. To play or move to and fro; to move one way and the other.
2. To fluctuate; to be unsettled in opinion; to vacillate; to be undetermined; as, to waver in opinion; to waver in faith.
Let us hold fast the profession of our faith without wavering. Hebrews 10.
3. To totter; to reel; to be in danger of falling.
WAVER, n. A name given to a sapling or young timber tree in England.


Topic: Wavy
Definition:
WAVY, a. [from wave.[
1. Rising or swelling in waves; full of waves; as the wavy sea.
2. Playing to and fro; undulating.
Let her glad valleys smile with wavy corn.
3. Undulating on the border or on the surface; a botanical use.
Wawes or waes, for waves. [Not in use.]


Topic: Wax
Definition:
WAX, n. [G., L.]
1. A thick, viscid, tenacious substance, collected by bees, or excreted from their bodies, and employed in the construction of their cells; usually called bees wax. Its native color is yellow, but it is bleached for candles, &c.
2. A thick tenacious substance excreted in the ear.
3. A substance secreted by certain plants, forming a silvery powder on the leaves and fruit, as in the wax-palm and wax-myrtle.
4. A substance found on the hinder legs of bees, which is supposed to be their food.
5. A substance used in sealing letters; called sealing-wax, or Spanish wax. This is a composition of gum-lacca and resin, colored with some pigment.
6. A thick substance used by shoemakers for rubbing their thread.
WAX, v.t. To smear or rub with wax; as, to wax, a thread or a table.
WAX, v.i. pret. waxed.; pp. waxed or waxen. [G., L., Gr.]
1. To increase in size; to grow; to become larger; as the waxing and the waning moon.
2. To pass from one state to another; to become; as, to wax strong; to wax warm or cold; to wax feeble; to wax hot; to wax old; to wax worse and worse.


Topic: Wax-myrtle
Definition:
WAX-MYRTLE, n. The bayberry, or Myrica cerifera, a shrub of North America, the berries of which are covered with a greenish wax, called myrtle wax, or bayberry tallow.


Topic: Wax-palm
Definition:
WAX-PALM, n. A species of palm, the Ceroxylon andicola, a native of the Andes, the stem of which is covered with a secretion, consisting of two thirds resin and one third wax.


Topic: Waxing
Definition:
WAXING, ppr. Growing; increasing; becoming; smearing with wax.
WAXING, n. In chemistry, the preparation of any matter to render it fit for melting; also, the process of stopping out colors in calico-printing.


Topic: Way
Definition:
WAY, n. [G., L.]
1. Literally, a passing; hence, a passage; the place of passing; hence, a road of any kind; a highway; a private road; a lane; a street; any place for the passing of men; cattle or other animals; a word of very comprehensive signification.
2. Length of space; as a great way; a little way.
3. Course; direction of motion or travel. What way did he take? Which way shall I go? Keep in the way of truth and knowledge. 
Mark what way I make.
4. Passage; room for passing. Make way for the jury.
5. Course, or regular course.
And let eternal justice take the way.
6. Tendency to any meaning or act.
There is nothing in the words that sounds that way.
7. Sphere of observation.
The general officers and the public ministers that fell in my way--
8. Manner of doing any thing; method; means of doing. Seek the best way of learning, and pursue it.
By noble ways we conquest will prepare.
9. Method; scheme of management.
What impious ways my wishes took.
10. Manner of thinking or behavior; particular turn of opinion; determination or humor.  Let him have his way, when that will not injure him, or any other person. But multitudes of children are ruined by being permitted to have their way.
11. Manner; mode. In no way does this matter belong to me. We admire a persons way of expressing his ideas.
12. Method; manner of practice. Find, if you can, the easiest way to live.
Having lost the way of nobleness.
13. Method or plan of life and conduct. Instruct your children in the right way.
Her ways are ways of pleasantness, and all her paths are peace. Proverbs 3.
All flesh had corrupted his way. Genesis 6.
14. Course; process of things, good or bad.  Things are in a prosperous way.
15. Right method to act or know.
We are quite out of the way.
16. General scheme of acting.
Men who go out of the way to hint free things, must be guilty of absurdity or rudeness.
17. Ways, plu. the timbers on which a ship is launched.
To make way, to give room for passing; or to make a vacancy.
To give way, to recede; to make room; or to yield; to concede the place or opinion to another.
To make ones way, to advance in life by efforts; to advance successfully.
By the way, en passant, as we proceed; a phrase introducing something in discourse, not immediately connected with the subject.
To go ones way, or to come ones way, to go or come along.
To go the way of all the earth, to die.
In the way, a phrase noting obstruction. What is there in the way of your success?
In Scripture, the ways of God, are his providential government, or his works. Romans 11. Job 11.
Way and ways are used in certain phrases, in the sense of wise. He is no ways a match for his antagonist.
Tis no way the interest even of the priesthood.
To be under way, in seamens language, to be in motion, as when a ship begins to move. So a ship is said to have head-way, when she moves forward in her course, and stern-way, when she is driven astern. She is said also to gather way, or to lose way. Lee-way is a movement of a ship aside of her course, or to the leeward.
Milky way, in astronomy, the galaxy; a broad luminous belt or space in the heavens, supposed to be occasioned by the blended light of an immense number of stars. By means of a telescope of uncommon magnifying powers, Dr. Herschel has been able to ascertain this fact, by distinguishing the stars.
Covert way, in fortification, a passage covered from the enemys fire.
Ways and means, in legislation, means for raising money; resources for revenue.
Way-going crop, among farmers, is the crop which is taken from the ground the year the tenant leaves the farm. [England.]


Topic: Way-leave
Definition:
WAY-LEAVE, n. A provincial term for the ground purchased for a wagon-way between coal-pits and a river. [Local.]


Topic: Way-wiser
Definition:
WAY-WISER, n. An instrument for measuring the distance which one has traveled on the road; called also perambulator, and podometer, or pedometer.


Topic: Waylay
Definition:
WAYLAY, v.t. [way and lay.] To watch insidiously in the way, with a view to seize, rob or slay; to beset in ambush; as, to waylay a traveler. [In this word there is little difference of accent.]


Topic: Wayward
Definition:
WAYWARD, a. [way and ward.] Froward; peevish; perverse; liking his own way.
Wayward beauty doth not fancy move.


Topic: Waywode
Definition:
WAYWODE, WAIWODE, n. 
1. In the Ottoman empire, the governor of a small town or province, which not forming a pashawlic, is the appendage of some great officer; also, a mussulman charged with the collection of taxes, or with the police of a place.
2. In Poland, the governor of a province.


Topic: We
Definition:
WE, pron. plu. of I; or rather a different word, denoting the person speaking and another or others with him. I and John, the speaker calls we, or I and John and Thomas; or I and many others. In the objective case, us. We is used to express men in general, including the speaker.
Vice seen too oft, familiar with her face, we first endure, then pity, then embrace.


Topic: Weak
Definition:
WEAK, a. [G. The primary sense of the root is to yield, fail, give way, recede, or to be soft.]
1. Having little physical strength; feeble. Children are born weak; men are rendered weak by disease.
2. Infirm; not healthy; as a weak constitution.
3. Not able to bear a great weight; as a weak bridge; weak timber.
4. Not strong; not compact; easily broken; as a weak ship; a weak rope.
5. Not able to resist a violent attack; as a weak fortress.
6. Soft; pliant; not stiff.
7. Low; small; feeble; as a weak voice.
8. Feeble of mind; wanting spirit; wanting vigor of understanding; as a weak prince; a weak magistrate.
To think every thing disputable, si a proof of a weak mind and captious temper.
9. Not much impregnated with ingredients, or with things that excite action, or with stimulating and nourishing substances; as weak broth; weak tea; weak toddy; a weak solution; a weak decoction.
10. Not politically powerful; as a weak nation or state.
11. Not having force of authority or energy; as a weak government.
12. Not having moral force or power to convince; not well supported by truth or reason; as a weak argument.
13. Not well supported by argument; as weak reasoning.
14. Unfortified; accessible; impressible; as the weak side of a person.
15. Not having full conviction or confidence; as weak in faith.
16. Weak land is land of a light thin soil. [I believe never used in New England.]
WEAK, v.t. To make weak. [Not used.]
WEAK, v.i. To become weak. [Not used.]


Topic: Weaken
Definition:
WEAKEN, v.t. 
1. To lessen the strength of, or to deprive of strength; to debilitate; to enfeeble; as, to weaken the body; to weaken the mind; to weaken the hands of the magistrate; to weaken the force of an objection or an argument.
2. To reduce in strength or spirit; as, to weaken tea; to weaken any solution or decoction.


Topic: Weakly
Definition:
WEAKLY, adv. 
1. Feebly; with little physical strength; faintly; not forcible; as a fortress weakly defended.
2. With want of efficacy.
Was plighted faith so weakly seald above?
3. With feebleness of mind or intellect; indiscretely; injuriously.
Beneath pretended justice weakly fall.
4. Timorously; with little courage or fortitude.
WEAKLY, a. Not strong of constitution; infirm; as a weakly woman; a man of a weakly constitution.


Topic: Weakness
Definition:
WEAKNESS, n. 
1. Want of physical strength; want of force or vigor; feebleness; as the weakness of a child; the weakness of an invalid; the weakness of a wall or bridge, or of thread or cordage.
2. Want of sprightliness.
Soft, without weakness; without glaring, gay.
3. Want of steadiness.
By such a review, we shall discern and strengthen our weaknesses.
4. Infirmity; unhealthiness; as weakness of constitution.
5. Want of moral force or effect upon the mind; as the weakness of evidence; the weakness of arguments.
6. Want of judgment; feebleness of mind; foolishness.
All wickedness is weakness.
7. Defect; failing; fault; with a plural.
Many take pleasure in spreading abroad the weaknesses of an exalted character.


Topic: Weal
Definition:
WEAL, n. [G., L., to be strong, to avail, to prevail. The primary sense of weal is strength, soundness, from the sense of straining, stretching or advancing.]
1. A sound state of a person or thing; a state which is prosperous, or at least not unfortunate, not declining; prosperity; happiness.
As we love the weal of our souls and bodies.
The weal or wo in thee is placd.
So we say, the public weal, the general weal, the weal of the nation or state.
2. Republic; state; public interest. [But we now use commonwealth, in the sense of state.]
WEAL, n. The mark of a stripe. [See Wale.] Weald, wald, walt, wold, in Saxon and other Teutonic dialects, signifies a wood or forest. It is found in names, as in Walt-ham, wood-house; corruptly pronounced Waltham.


Topic: Wealth
Definition:
WEALTH, n. 
1. Prosperity; external happiness.
2. Riches; large possessions of money, goods or land; that abundance of worldly estate which exceeds the estate of the greater part of the community; affluence; opulence.
Each day new wealth without their care provides.


Topic: Wealthy
Definition:
WEALTHY, a. Rich; having large possessions in lands, goods, money or securities, or larger than the generality of men; opulent; affluent. As wealth is a comparative thing, a man may be wealthy in one place, and not so in another. A man may be deemed wealthy in a village, who would not be so considered in London.


Topic: Wean
Definition:
WEAN, v.t. [G.  See Wont.]
1. To accustom and reconcile, as a child or other young animal, to a want or deprivation of the breast.
And the child grew, and was weaned. Genesis 21.
2. To detach or alienate, as the affections, from any object of desire; to reconcile to the want or loss of any thing; as, to wean the heart from temporal enjoyments.


Topic: Weaning
Definition:
WEANING, ppr. Accustoming or reconciling, as a young child or other animal, to a want of the breast; reconciling to the want of any object of desire.


Topic: Weapon
Definition:
WEAPON, n. [G., L.]
1. Any instrument of offense; any thing used or designed to be used in destroying or annoying an enemy. The weapons of rude nations are clubs, stones and bows and arrows. Modern weapons of war are swords, muskets, pistols, cannon and the like.
2. An instrument for contest, or for combating enemies.
The weapons of our warfare are not carnal. 2 Corinthians 10.
3. An instrument of defense.
4. Weapons, in botany, arms; thorns, prickles, and stings, with which plants are furnished for defense; enumerated among the fulcres by Linne.


Topic: Weapon-salve
Definition:
WEAPON-SALVE, n. [weapon and salve.] A salve which was supposed to cure the wound, by being applied to the weapon that made it.


Topic: Wear
Definition:
WEAR, v.t. pret. wore; pp. worn.
1. To waste or impair by rubbing or attrition; to lessen or diminish by time, use or instruments. A current of water often wears a channel in limestone.
2. To carry appendant to the body, as clothes or weapons; as, to wear a coat or a robe; to wear a sword; to wear a crown.
On her white breast a sparkling cross she wore.
3. To have or exhibit an appearance; to bear; as, she wears a smile on her countenance.
4. To affect by degrees.
Trials wear us into a liking of what possible, in the first essay, displeased us.
To wear away, to consume; to impair, diminish or destroy by gradual attrition or decay.
To wear off, to diminish by attrition or slow decay.
To wear out, 
1. To consume; to render useless by attrition or decay; as, to wear out a coat or a book.
2. To consume tediously; as, to wear out life in idle projects.
3. To harass; to tire.
He shall wear out the saints of the Most High. Daniel 7.
4. To waste the strength of; as an old amn worn out in the service of his country.
WEAR, v.i. 
1. To be wasted; to be diminished by attrition, by use, or by time.
Thou wilt surely wear away. Exodus 18.
2. To be tediously spent.
Thus wore out night.
3. To be consumed by slow degrees. It is better to wear out, than to rust out.
To wear off, to pass away by degrees. The follies of youth wear off with age.
WEAR, n. 
1. The act of wearing; diminution by friction; as the wear and tear of a garment.
2. The thing worn.
WEAR, n. [See Warren and Guard.]
1. A dam in a river to stop and raise the water, for conducting it to a mill, or for taking fish.
2. An instrument or kind of basket work for catching fish.


Topic: Weard
Definition:
WEARD, Sax. A warden, in names, denotes watchfulness or care, but it must not be confounded with ward, in toward.


Topic: Wearer
Definition:
WEARER, n. [from wear.]
1. One who wears or carries as appendant to the body; as the wearer of a cloke, a sword or a crown.
2. That which wastes or diminishes.


Topic: Weariness
Definition:
WEARINESS, n. [from weary.] 
1. The state of being weary or tired; that lassitude or exhaustion of strength which is induced by labor; fatigue.
With weariness and wine oppresd.
2. Lassitude; uneasiness proceeding from continued waiting, disappointed expectation or exhausted patience, or from other cause.


Topic: Wearing
Definition:
WEARING, ppr. 
1. Bearing on or appendant to the person; diminishing by friction; consuming.
2. a. Denoting what is worn; as wearing apparel.
WEARING, n. Clothes; garments.


Topic: Wearisome
Definition:
WEARISOME, a. [from weary.] Causing weariness; tiresome; tedious; fatiguing; as a wearisome march; a wearisome days work.
Wearisome nights are appointed unto me. Job 7.


Topic: Wearisomeness
Definition:
WEARISOMENESS, n. The quality of exhausting strength or patience; tiresomeness; tediousness; as the wearisomeness of toil, or of waiting long in anxious expectation.


Topic: Weary
Definition:
WEARY, a. 
1. Having the strength much exhausted by toil or violent exertion; tired; fatigued. [It should be observed however that this word expresses less than tired, particularly when applied to a beast; as a tired horse. It is followed by of, before the cause of fatigue; as, to be weary of marching; to be weary of reaping; to be weary of study.]
2. Having the patience exhausted, or the mind yielding to discouragement. He was weary of asking for redress.
3. Causing weariness; tiresome; as a weary way; a weary life.
WEARY, v.t. [from the adjective.]
1. To reduce or exhaust the physical strength of the body; to tire; to fatigue; as, to weary ones self with labor or traveling.
The people shall weary themselves for very vanity. Habakkuk 2.
2. To make impatient of continuance.
I stay too long by thee; I weary thee.
3. To harass by any thing irksome; as, to be wearied of waiting for the arrival of the post.
To weary out, to subdue or exhaust by fatigue.


Topic: Weasand
Definition:
WEASAND, WESAND, n. s as z. The windpipe or trachea; the canal through which air passes to and from the lungs.


Topic: Weasel
Definition:
WEASEL, WEESEL, n. s as z. A small animal of the genus Mustela, which lives under the roots of trees, or in other holes, and feeds on small birds, but particularly on mice. A weasel that frequents barns and corn-houses, frees them from rats and mice, and is sometimes deemed a very useful inmate.


Topic: Weather
Definition:
WEATHER, n. Wether. [G., The primary sense of this word is air, wind or atmosphere; probably the Gr., whence ether.] Properly, the air; hence, 
1. The state of the air or atmosphere with respect to heat or cold, wetness or dryness, calm or storm, clearness or cloudiness, and the like; as warm weather; cold weather; wet weather; dry weather; calm weather; tempestuous weather; fair weather; cloudy weather; hazy weather, and the like.
2. Change of the state of the air.
3. Storm; tempest.
[These last significations are not now in use, unless by a poetic license.]
Stress of weather, violent winds; force of tempests.
WEATHER, v.t. wether. 
1. To air; to expose to the air. [Rarely used.]
2. In seamens language, to sail to the windward of something else; as, to weather a cape; to weather another ship. As this is often difficult, hence, 
3. To pass with difficulty.
To weather a point, to gain or accomplish it against opposition.
To weather out, to endure; to hold out to the end; as, to weather out a storm.
Weather is used with several words, either as an adjective, or as forming part of a compound word.


Topic: Weather-board
Definition:
WEATHER-BOARD, n. That side of a ship which is towards the wind; the windward side. So in other words, weather signifies towards the wind or windward; as, in weather-bow, weather-braces, weather-gage, weather-lifts, weather-quarter, weather-shrouds, weather-side, weather-shore, &c.


Topic: Weather-cloths
Definition:
WEATHER-CLOTHS, n. Long pieces of canvas or tarpaulin used to preserve the hammocks from injury by the weather when stowed, or to defend persons from the wind and spray.


Topic: Weather-cock
Definition:
WEATHER-COCK, n. [weather and cock.]
1. Something in the shape of a cock placed on the stop of a spire, which by turning, shows the direction of the wind; a vane, or weather-vane.
2. Any thing or person that turns easily and frequently; a fickle, inconstant person.


Topic: Weather-gage
Definition:
WEATHER-GAGE, n. [weather and gage.] Something that shows the weather. A ship is said to have the weather-gage of another, when she is at the windward of her.


Topic: Weather-glass
Definition:
WEATHER-GLASS, n. [weather and glass.] An instrument to indicate the state of the atmosphere. This word includes the barometer, thermometer, hygrometer, manometer, and anemometer.


Topic: Weather-helm
Definition:
WEATHER-HELM, n. [weather and helm.] A ship is said to carry a weather-helm, when she is inclined to come too near the wind.


Topic: Weather-tide
Definition:
WEATHER-TIDE, n. [weather and tide.] The tide which sets against the lee side of a ship, impelling her to the windward.


Topic: Weave
Definition:
WEAVE, v.t. pret. wove; pp. woven, wove. The regular form, weaved, is rarely or never used. [G., Gr.]
1. To unite threads of any kind in such a manner as to form cloth. This is done by crossing the threads by means of a shuttle. The modes of weaving, and the kinds of texture, are various. The threads first laid in length are called the warp; those which cross them in the direction of the breadth, are called the weft or woof.
2. To unite any thing flexible; as, to weave twigs.
3. To unite by intermixture or close connection; as a form of religion woven into the civil government.
4. To interpose; to insert.
This weaves itself perforce into my business.
WEAVE, v.i. To practice weaving; to work with a loom.


Topic: Weaver
Definition:
WEAVER, n. 
1. One who weaves; one whose occupation is to weave.
2. The common name of the genus Ploceus, of several species, natives of Africa and the East Indies; so called because they construct curious and often pensile nests, by interweaving twigs and fibers.


Topic: Weaving
Definition:
WEAVING, ppr. Forming cloth by intertexture of threads.
WEAVING, n. 
1. The act or art of forming cloth in a loom, by the union or intertexture of threads.
2. The task or work to be done in making cloth.


Topic: Web
Definition:
WEB, n. [See Weave.]
1. Texture of threads; plexus; any thing woven. Penelope devised a web to deceive her wooers.
2. Locally, a piece of linen cloth.
3. A dusky film that forms over the eye and hinders the sight; suffusion.
4. Some part of a sword. Qu. Net-work of the handle or hilt.
5. In ship-building, the thin partition on the inside of the rim, and between the spokes of a sheave.
6. In ornithology, the membrane which unites the toes of many water-fowls.
Spiders web, a plexus of very delicate threads or filaments which a spider spins from its bowels, and which serves as a net to catch flies or other insects for its food.
Web of a coulter, is the thin sharp part.


Topic: Web-footed
Definition:
WEB-FOOTED, a. [web and foot.] Having webbed feet; palmiped. A goose, or duck, is a web-footed fowl.


Topic: Webbed
Definition:
WEBBED, a. [from web.] Having the toes united by a membrane, or web; as the webbed feet of aquatic fowls.


Topic: Wed
Definition:
WED, v.t. [L., to give bail; a league; probably both are of one family.]
1. To marry; to take for a husband or for wife.
--Since the day I saw thee first, and wedded thee.
2. To join in marriage.
And Adam, wedded to another Eve, shall live with her--
3. To unite closely in affection; to attach firmly. WE are apt to be wedded to our own customs and opinions.
Men are wedded to their lusts.
4. To unite for ever.
Thou art wedded to calamity.
5. To espouse; to take part with.
They wedded his cause.
WED, v.i. To marry; to contract matrimony.
When shall I wed?
WED, n. A pledge.


Topic: Wedding
Definition:
WEDDING, ppr. Marrying; uniting with in matrimony.
WEDDING, n. Marriage; nuptials; nuptial ceremony; nuptial festivities.
Let her beauty be her wedding dower.


Topic: Wedding-clothes
Definition:
WEDDING-CLOTHES, n. [wedding and clothes.] Garments for a bride or a bridegroom, to be worn at marriage.


Topic: Wedding-feast
Definition:
WEDDING-FEAST, n. [wedding and feast.] A feast or entertainment prepared for the guests at a wedding.


Topic: Wedge
Definition:
WEDGE, n. [This word signifies a mass, a lump.]
1. A mass of metal; as a wedge of gold or silver. Joshua 7.
2. A piece of metal, particularly iron, thick at one end and sloping to a thin edge at the other, used in splitting wood, rocks, &c. This is one of the five mechanical powers. A like piece of wood is by some persons called a wedge, or a glut.
3. Something in the form of a wedge. Sometimes bodies of troops are drawn up in the form of a wedge.
WEDGE, v.t. 
1. To cleave with a wedge; to rive. [Little used.]
2. To drive as a wedge is drive; to crowd or compress closely. We were wedged in by the crowd.
3. To force, as a wedge forces its way; as, to wedge ones way.
4. To fasten with a wedge or with wedges; as, to wedge on a sythe; to wedge in a rail or a piece of timber.
5. To fix in the manner of a wedge.
Wedgd in the rocky shoals, and sticking fast.


Topic: Wedge-shaped
Definition:
WEDGE-SHAPED, a. [wedge and shape.] Having the shape of a wedge; cuneiform. A wedge-shaped leaf is broad and abrupt at the summit, and tapering down to the base.


Topic: Weed
Definition:
WEED, n. 
1. The general name of any plant that is useless or noxious. The word therefore has no definite application to any particular plant or species of plants; but whatever plants grow among corn, grass, or in hedges, and which are either of no use to man or injurious to crops, are denominated weeds.
2. Any kind of unprofitable substance among ores in mines, as mundic or marcasite.
WEED, n. 
1. Properly, a garment, as in Spenser, but now used only in the plural, weeds, for the mourning apparel of a female; as a widows weeds.
2. An upper garment.
WEED, v.t. 
1. To free from noxious plants; as, to weed corn or onions; to weed a garden.
2. To take away, as noxious plants; as, to weed a writing of invectives.
3. To free from any thing hurtful or offensive; as, to weed a kingdom of bad subjects.
4. To root out vice; as, to weed the hearts of the young.


Topic: Weeding
Definition:
WEEDING, ppr. Freeing from weeds or whatever is noxious to growth.
WEEDING, n. The operation of freeing from noxious weeds, as a crop.


Topic: Weeding-chisel
Definition:
WEEDING-CHISEL, n. S as z. A tool with a divided chisel point, for cutting the roots of large weeds within the ground.


Topic: Weeding-rhim
Definition:
WEEDING-RHIM, n. An implement somewhat like the frame of a wheel-barrow, used for tearing up weeds on summer fallows, &c.; used in Kent, England.


Topic: Weedy
Definition:
WEEDY, a. 
1. Consisting of weeds; as weedy trophies.
2. Abounding with weeds; as weedy grounds; a weedy garden; weedy corn.


Topic: Week
Definition:
WEEK, n. [G.]
1. The space of seven days.
I fast twice in the week. Luke 18. 
2. In Scripture, a prophetic week, is a week of years, or seven years. Daniel 9.


Topic: Weekly
Definition:
WEEKLY, a. Coming, happening or done once a week; hebdomadary; as a weekly payment of bills; a weekly gazette; a weekly allowance.
WEEKLY, adv. Once a week; by hebdomadal periods; as, each performs service weekly.


Topic: Ween
Definition:
WEEN, v.i. [G., to imagine. The sense is to set, fix or hold in the mind.] To think; to imagine; to fancy. [Obsolete, except in burlesque.]


Topic: Weep
Definition:
WEEP, v.i. pret. and  pp. wept. Weeped, I believe is never used. [See Whoop. The primary sense is to cry out.]
1. To express sorrow, grief or anguish by outcry. This is the original sense. But in present usage, to manifest and express grief by outcry or by shedding tears.
They all wept sore, and fell on Pauls neck, and kissed him. Acts 20. 
Phocion was rarely seen to weep or to laugh.
2. To shed tears from any passion. Persons sometimes weep for joy.
3. To lament; to complain. Numbers 11.
WEEP, v.t. 
1. To lament; to bewail; to bemoan.
We wandring go through dreary wastes, and weep each others woe.
2. To shed moisture; as, to weep tears of joy.
Groves whose rich trees wept odrous gum and balm.
3. To drop; as the weeping amber.
4. To abound with wet; as weeping grounds.


Topic: Weeper
Definition:
WEEPER, n. 
1. One who weeps; one who sheds tears.
2. A white border on the sleeve of a mourning coat.
3. A species of monkey, the Simia Capucina.


Topic: Weeping-willow
Definition:
WEEPING-WILLOW, n. A species of willow, whose branches grow very long and slender, and hang down nearly in a perpendicular direction.


Topic: Weever
Definition:
WEEVER, n. A fish, called also sea-dragon. [L.] A fish of the genus Trachinus, the spines of whose dorsal fins are supposed to be poisonous.


Topic: Weevil
Definition:
WEEVIL, n. [G.] A small insect that does great damage to wheat or other corn, by eating into the grains and devouring the farinaceous part. This insect is of the beetle kind, somewhat large than a louse.


Topic: Weft
Definition:
WEFT, old pret. of wave.
WEFT, n. [from weave.] 
1. To woof of cloth; the threads that cross the warp.
2. A web; a thing woven.
WEFT, n. A thing waved, waived, or cast away. [Not used.] [See Waif.]


Topic: Weigh
Definition:
WEIGH, v.t. wa. [L., G. See Wag.]
1. To examine by the balance; to ascertain the weight, that is, the force with which a thing tends to the center of gravity; as, to weigh sugar; to weigh gold.
2. To be equivalent to in weight; that is, according to the Saxon sense of the verb, to lift to an equipoise a weight on the other side of the fulcrum. Thus when a body balances a weight of twenty eight pounds avoirdupois, it lifts or bears it, and is said to weigh so much. It weighs a quarter of a hundred.
3. To raise; to lift; as an anchor from the ground, or any other body; as, to weigh anchor; to weigh an old hulk.
4. To pay, allot or take by weight.
They weighed for my price thirty pieces of silver. Zechariah 11.
5. To ponder in the mind; to consider or examine for the purpose of forming an opinion or coming to a conclusion; as, to weigh the advantages and disadvantages of a scheme.
Regard not who it is which speaketh, but weigh only what is spoken.
6. To compare by the scales.
Here in nice balance truth with gold she weighs.
7. To regard; to consider as worthy of notice.
I weigh not you.
To weigh down, 
1. To overbalance.
2. To oppress with weight; to depress.
WEIGH, v.i. 
1. To have weight; as, to weigh lighter or heavier.
2. To be considered as important; to have weight in the intellectual balance. This argument weighs with the considerate part of the community.
3. To bear heavily; to press hard.
--Cleanse the stuffd bosom of that perilous stuff, which weighs upon the heart.
To weigh down, to sink by its own weight.
WEIGH, n. A certain quantity. A weigh of wool, cheese, &c., is 256 lb. Avoirdupois; a weigh of corn is forty bushels; of barly or malt, six quarters.


Topic: Weighed
Definition:
WEIGHED, pp. 
1. Examined by the scales; having the weight ascertained.
2. Considered.
3. a. Experienced; as a young man not weighed in state affair. [Not in use.]


Topic: Weighing
Definition:
WEIGHING, ppr. Examining by scales; considering.
WEIGHING, n. 
1. The act of ascertaining weight.
2. As much as is weighed at once; as a weighing of beef.


Topic: Weighing-house
Definition:
WEIGHING-HOUSE, n. A building furnished with a dock and other conveniences fro weighing commodities and ascertaining the tunnage of boats to be used on a canal.


Topic: Weighing-machine
Definition:
WEIGHING-MACHINE, n. 
1. A machine for weighing heavy bodies, and particularly wheel carriages, at turnpike gates.
2. A machine for weighing cattle.


Topic: Weight
Definition:
WEIGHT, n. Wate. [See Weigh.]
1. The quantity of a body, ascertained by the balance; in a philosophical sense, that quality of bodies by which they tend towards the center of the earth in a line perpendicular to its surface. In short, weight is gravity, and the weight of a particular body is the amount of its gravity, or of the force with which it tends to the center. The weight of a body is in direct proportion to its quantity of matter.
2. A mass of iron, lead, brass or other metal, to be used for ascertaining the weight of other bodies; as a weight of an ounce, a pound, a quarter of a hundred, &c. The weights of nations are different except those of England and the United States, which are the same.
3. A ponderous mass; something heavy.
A man leaps better with weights in his hands.
4. Pressure; burden; as the weight of grief; weight of care; weight of business; weight of government.
5. Importance; power; influence; efficacy; consequence; moment; impressiveness; as a argument of great weight; a consideration of vast weight. The dignity of a mans character adds weight to his words.


Topic: Weightiness
Definition:
WEIGHTINESS, n. 
1. Ponderousness; gravity; heaviness.
2. Solidity; force; impressiveness; power of convincing; as the weightiness of an argument.
3. Importance.


Topic: Weighty
Definition:
WEIGHTY, a. 
1. Having great weight; heavy; ponderous; as a weighty body.
2. Important; forcible; momentous; adapted to turn the balance in the mind, or to convince; as weighty reasons; weighty matters; weighty considerations or arguments.
3. Rigorous; severe; as our weightier judgment. [Not in use.]


Topic: Welaway
Definition:
WELAWAY, an exclamation expressive of grief or sorrow, equivalent to alas. It is a compound of Sax. Wa, wo and la, oh. The original is wa-la, which is doubtless the origin of our common exclamation, O la, and to this, wa, wo, is added. The true orthography would be wa la wa. But the word is, I believe, wholly obsolete.


Topic: Welcome
Definition:
WELCOME, a. 
1. Received with gladness; admitted willingly to the house, entertainment and company; as a welcome guest.
2. Grateful; pleasing; as a welcome present; welcome news.
3. Free to have or enjoy gratuitously. You are welcome to the use of my library.
To bid welcome, to receive with professions of kindness.
WELCOME, is used elliptically for you are welcome.
Welcome, great monarch, to your own.
Welcome to our house, an herb.
WELCOME, n. 
1. Salutation of a new comer.
Welcome ever smiles--
2. Kind reception of a guest or new comer. We entered the house and found a ready welcome.
Truth finds an entrance and a welcome too.
WELCOME, v.t. To salute a new comer with kindness; or to receive and entertain hospitable, gratuitously and cheerfully.
Thus we salute thee with our early song, and welcome thee, and wish thee long.


Topic: Weld
Definition:
WELD, WOLD, n. A plant of the genus Reseda, used by dyers to give a yellow color, and sometimes called dyers weed. It is much cultivated in Kent for the London dyers.


Topic: Welding-heat
Definition:
WELDING-HEAT, n. The heat necessary for welding iron bars, which is said to be 60 degrees by Wedgwoods pyrometer, and 8877 degrees by Fahrenheit.


Topic: Welfare
Definition:
WELFARE, n. [well and fare, a good faring; G.]
1. Exemption from misfortune, sickness, calamity or evil; the enjoyment of health and the common blessings of life; prosperity; happiness; applied to persons.
2. Exemption from any unusual evil or calamity; the enjoyment of peace and prosperity, or the ordinary blessings of society and civil government; applied to states.


Topic: Welk
Definition:
WELK, v.i. [G., to wither, to fade, to decay; primarily to shrink or contract, as things in drying, whence the Saxon weole, a whilk or whelk, a shell; from its wrinkles.] To decline; to fade; to decay; to fall.
When ruddy Phoebus gins to welk in west.
WELK, v.t. To contract; to shorten.
Now sad winter welked hath the day-- [This word is obsolete. But its signification has heretofore been misunderstood.]


Topic: Welkin
Definition:
WELKIN, n. [G., a cloud.] The visible regions of the air; the vault of heaven. [This is obsolete, unless in poetry.]
Welkin eye, in Shakespeare, is interpreted by Johnson, a blue eye, from welkin, the sky; by Todd, a rolling eye, from Sax. Wealcan, to roll; and by Entick, a languishing eye. See Welk. It is obsolete, at least in New England.


Topic: Well
Definition:
WELL, n. [G., a spring; to spring, to issue forth, to gush, to well, to swell. G., a wave. On this word I suppose swell to be formed.]
1. A spring; a fountain; the issuing of water from the earth.
Begin then, sisters of the sacred well. [In this sense obsolete.]
2. A pit or cylindrical hole, sunk perpendicularly into the earth to such a depth as to reach a supply of water, and walled with stone to prevent the earth from caving in.
3. In ships, an apartment in the middle of a ships hold, to inclose the pumps, from the bottom to the lower deck.
4. In a fishing vessel, an apartment in the middle of the hold, made tight at the sides, but having holes perforated int he bottom to let in fresh water for the preservation of fish, while they are transported to market.
5. In the military art, a hole or excavation in the earth, in mining, from which run branches or galleries.


Topic: Well-drain
Definition:
WELL-DRAIN, n. [well and drain.] A drain or vent for water, somewhat like a well or pit, serving to discharge the water of wet land.
WELL-DRAIN, v.t. To drain land by means of wells or pits, which receive the water, and from which it is discharged by machinery.


Topic: Well-room
Definition:
WELL-ROOM, n. [well and room.] In a boat, a place in the bottom where the water is collected, and whence it is thrown out with a scoop.


Topic: Well-spoken
Definition:
WELL-SPOKEN, a. [well and speak.]
1. Speaking well; speaking with fitness or grace; or speaking kindly.
2. Spoken with propriety; as well-spoken words.


Topic: Well-water
Definition:
WELL-WATER, n. [well and water.] The water that flows into a well from subterraneous springs; water drawn from a well.


Topic: Wellbeing
Definition:
WELLBEING, n. [well and being.] Welfare; happiness; prosperity; as, virtue is essential to the well being of men or of society.


Topic: Welsh
Definition:
WELSH, a. [G., foreign, strange, Celtic.] Pertaining to the Welsh nation.
WELSH, n. 
1. The language of Wales or of the Welsh.
2. The general name of the inhabitants of Wales. The word signifies foreigners or wanderers, and was given to this people by other nations, probably because they came from some distant country. The Welsh call themselves Cymry, in the plural, and a Welshman Cymro, and their country Cymra, of which the adjective is Cymreig, and the name of their language, Cymraeg. They are supposed to be the Cimbri of Jutland.


Topic: Welt
Definition:
WELT, n. [See Wall.] A border; a kind of hem or edging, as on a garment or piece of cloth, or on a shoe.
WELT, v.t. To furnish with a welt; to sew on a border.


Topic: Welter
Definition:
WELTER, v.t. [G., L.] To roll, as the body of an animal; but usually, to roll or wallow in some foul matter; as, to welter in blood or in filth.


Topic: Wen
Definition:
WEN, n. An encysted swelling or tumor; also, a fleshy excrescence growing on animals, sometimes to a large size.


Topic: Wench
Definition:
WENCH, n. 
1. A young woman. [Little used.]
2. A young woman of ill fame. 
3. In America, a black or colored female servant; a negress.
WENCH, v.i. To frequent the company of women of ill fame.


Topic: Wend
Definition:
WEND, v.i. 
1. To go; to pass to or from. [Obsolete, except in poetry; but its preterit, went, is in common use.]
2. To turn round. [Wend and wind are from the same root.]


Topic: Went
Definition:
WENT, pret. of the obsolete verb wend. We now arrange went in grammar as the preterit of go, but in origin it has no connection with it.


Topic: Were
Definition:
WERE, pron. er, which when prolonged, becomes ware. This is used as the imperfect tense plural of be; we were, you were, they were; and in some other tenses. It is the Danish verb vaerer, to be, to exist, and in origin has no connection with be, nor with was. It is united with be, to supply its want of tenses, as went is with go.
WERE, n. A dam. [See Wear.]


Topic: Weregild
Definition:
WEREGILD, n. Formerly, the price of a mans head; a compensation paid for a man killed, partly to the king for the loss of a subject, and partly tot he lord of the vassal, and partly to the next of kin. It was paid by the murderer.


Topic: Wernerian
Definition:
WERNERIAN, a. Pertaining to Werner, the German mineralogist, who arranged minerals in classes, &c. according to their external characters.


Topic: Wernerite
Definition:
WERNERITE, n. A mineral, regarded by Werener as a subspecies of scapolite; called foliated scapolite. It is named from that distinguished mineralogist, Werner. It is found massive, and crystalized in octahedral prisms with four sided pyramidical terminations, disseminated in rocks or grayish or red feldspar. It is imperfectly lamellar, of a greenish, grayish, or olive green color, with a pearly or resinous luster. It is softer than feldspar, and melts into a white enamel.


Topic: Wert
Definition:
WERT, the second person singular of the subjunctive imperfect tense of be. [See Were.]
Werth, worth, in names, signifies a farm, court or village.


Topic: West
Definition:
WEST, n. [L., a decline or fall, departure. In elements, it coincides with waste.]
1. In strictness, that point of the horizon where the sun sets at the equinox, or any point in a direct line between the spectator or other object, and that point of the horizon; or west is the intersection of the prime vertical with the horizon, on that side where the sun sets. West is directly opposite to east, and one of the cardinal points. In a less strict sense, west is the region of the hemisphere near the point where the sun sets when in the equator. Thus we say, a star sets in the west, a meteor appears in the west, a cloud rises in the west.
2. A country situated in the region towards the sun-setting, with respect to another. Thus in the United States, the inhabitants of the Atlantic states speak of the inhabitants of Ohio, Kentucky or Missouri, and call them people of the west; and formerly, the empire of Rome was called the empire of the West, in opposition to the empire of the East, the seat of which was Constantinople.
WEST, a. 
1. Being in a line towards the point where the sun sets when in the equator; or in a looser sense, being in the region near the line of direction towards that point, either on the earth or in the heavens.
This shall be your west border. Numbers 34.
2. Coming or moving from the west or western region; as a west wind.
WEST, adv. To the western region; at the westward; more westward; as, Ireland lies west of England.
WEST, v.i. To pass to the west; to set, as the sun. [Not in use.]


Topic: Westerly
Definition:
WESTERLY, a. 
1. Being towards the west; situated in the western region; as the westerly parts of England.
2. Moving from the westward; as a westerly wind.
WESTERLY, adv. Tending, going or moving towards the west; as a man traveling westerly.


Topic: Western
Definition:
WESTERN, a. 
1. Being in the west, or int he region nearly in the direction of west; being in that quarter where the sun sets; as the western shore of France; the western ocean.
2. Moving in a line to the part where the sun sets; as, the ship makes a western course.


Topic: Wet
Definition:
WET, a. [Gr., L.]
1. Containing water, as wet land, or a wet cloth; or having water or other liquid upon the surface, as a wet table. Wet implies more water or liquid than moist or humid.
2. Rainy; as wet weather; a wet season.
WET, n. 
1. Water or wetness; moisture or humidity in considerable degree. Wear thick shoes or pattens to keep your feet from the wet.
2. Rainy weather; foggy or misty weather.

WET, v.t. pret. and pp. wet. But wetted is sometimes used.
1. To fill or moisten with water or other liquid; to sprinkle or humectate; to cause to have water or other fluid adherent to the surface; to dip or soak in liquor; as, to wet a spunge; to wet the hands; to wet cloth.
Wet the thirsty earth with falling showrs.
2. To moisten with drink.


Topic: Wetness
Definition:
WETNESS, n. 
1. The state of being wet, either by being soaked or filled with liquor, or by having a liquid adherent to the surface; as the wetness of land; the wetness of a cloth. It implies more water or liquid than humidness or moisture.
2. A watery or moist state of the atmosphere; a state of being rainy, foggy or misty; as the wetness of weather or the season.


Topic: Wezand
Definition:
WEZAND, for weasand. [See the latter.] [Note--In words beginning with wh, the letter h, or aspirate, when both letters are pronounced, precedes the sound of w. Thus what, when, are pronounced hwat, hwen. So they were written by our ancestors, and so they ought to be written still, as they are by the Danes and Swedes.]


Topic: Whack
Definition:
WHACK, v.t. To strike. This is probably the primary word on which is formed thwack. [See Twit.] Whack is a vulgar word.


Topic: Whale
Definition:
WHALE, n. [G., to stir, agitate or rove.] The general name of an order of animals inhabiting the ocean, arranged in zoology under the name of Cete or Cetacea, and belonging to the class Mammalia in the Linnean system. The common whale is of the genus Balaena. It is the largest animal of which we have any account, and probably the largest in the world. It is sometimes ninety feet in length in the northern seas, and in the torrid zone much larger. The whale furnishes us with oil, whalebone, &c. [See Cachalot.]


Topic: Whalebone
Definition:
WHALEBONE, n. [whale and bone.] A firm elastic substance taken from the upper jaw of the whale, used as a stiffening in stays, fans, screens, &c.


Topic: Whapper
Definition:
WHAPPER, n. Something uncommonly large of the kind. So thumper is connected with thump, to strike with a heavy blow. [Vulgar.]


Topic: Wharf
Definition:
WHARF, n. A perpendicular bank or mound or timber or stone and earth, raised on the shore of a harbor, or extending some distance into the water, for the convenience of lading and unlading ships and other vessels. This name is also given to the wider part of a canal, where boats lie while loading and unloading. The two longest wharfs in New England are at Boston and at New Haven. The latter is much the longest, extending into the harbor about three quarter of a mile.
WHARF, v.t. To guard or secure by a wharf or firm wall of timber or stone; as, the western bank of the Connecticut is wharfed at Hartford, to prevent the river from wearing away the land.


Topic: Wharfage
Definition:
WHARFAGE, n. The fee or duty paid for the privilege of using a wharf for loading or unloading goods, timber, wood, &c.


Topic: What
Definition:
WHAT, pronoun relative or substitute. [G., L. See Wight.]
1. That which. Say what you will, is the same as say that which you will.
2. Which part. Consider what is due to nature, and what to art or labor.
3. What is the substitute for a sentence or clause of a sentence. I tell thee what, corporal, I could tear her. Here what relates to the last clause, I could tear her; this is what I tell you.
4. What is used as an adjective, of both genders, often in specifying sorts or particulars. See what colors this silk exhibits. I know what qualities you desire in a friend; that is, I know the qualities which you desire.
5. What is much used in asking questions. What sort of character is this? What poem is this? What man is this we see coming?
6. What time, at the time or on the day when.
What time the morn mysterious visions brings.
7. To how great a degree.
What a partial judges are our love and hate!
8. Whatever. 
Whether it was the shortness of his foresight, the strength of his will--or what it was--
9. Some part, or some. The year before, he had so used the matter, that what by force, what by policy, he had taken from the Christians above thirty castles; that is, he had taken above thirty castles; that is, he had taken above thirty castles, a part or some by force, a part or some by policy; or what may be interpreted partly. Sometimes what has no verb to govern it, and it must be considered as adverbially used. What with carrying apples and fuel, he finds himself in a hurry; that is, partly, in part.
10. What is sometimes used elliptically for what is this, or how is this?
What! Could ye not watch with me one hour? Matthew 26.
11. What is used interrogatively and elliptically, as equivalent to what will be the consequence? What will follow? As in the phrase, what if I undertake this business myself?
What though, that is, grant this or that; allow it to be so.
What ho, an exclamation of calling.
WHAT, n. Fare; things; matter. [Not in use.]


Topic: Whatever
Definition:
WHATEVER, pron. [what and ever.] 
1. Being this or that; being of one nature or another; being one thing or another; any thing that may be. Whatever is read, let it be read with attention. Whatever measure may be adopted, let it be with due caution. Whatever you do, let it be done with prudence.
2. All that; the whole that; all particulars that.
At once came forth whatever creeps.


Topic: Whatsoever
Definition:
WHATSOEVER, a compound of what, so, and ever, has the sense of whatever, and is less used than the latter. Indeed it is nearly obsolete. Whatso, in a like sense, is entirely obsolete.


Topic: Wheat
Definition:
WHEAT, n. [G.] A plant of the genus Triticum, and the seed of the plant, which furnishes a white flour for bread, and next to rice, is the grain most generally used by the human race. Of this grain the varieties are numerous, as red wheat, white wheat, bald wheat, bearded wheat, winter wheat, summer wheat, &c.


Topic: Wheedle
Definition:
WHEEDLE, v.t. [Gr.] To flatter; to entice by soft words.
To learn th unlucky art of wheeling fools.
WHEEDLE, v.i. To flatter; to coax.


Topic: Wheedling
Definition:
WHEEDLING, ppr. Flattering; enticing by soft words.
WHEEDLING, n. The act of flattering or enticing.


Topic: Wheel
Definition:
WHEEL, n. 
1. A circular frame of wood, iron or other metal, consisting of a nave or hub, into which are inserted spokes which sustain a rim or felly; the whole turning on an axis. The name is also given to a solid circular or round piece of wood or metal, which revolves on an axis. The wheel and axle constitute one of the mechanical powers.
2. A circular body.
3. A carriage that moves on wheels.
4. An instrument for torturing criminals; as an examination made by the rack and the wheel.
5. A machine for spinning thread, of various kinds.
6. Rotation; revolution; turn; as the vicissitude and wheel of things.
7. A turning about; a compass.
He throws his flight in many an airy wheel.
8. In pottery, a round board turned by a lathe in a horizontal position, on which the clay is shaped by the hand.


Topic: Wheel-boat
Definition:
WHEEL-BOAT, n. [wheel and boat.] A boat with wheels, to be used either on water or upon inclined planes or rail-ways.


Topic: Wheel-fire
Definition:
WHEEL-FIRE, n. [wheel and fire.] In chemistry, a fire which encompasses the crucible without touching it.


Topic: Wheel-shaped
Definition:
WHEEL-SHAPED, a. [wheel and shape.] In botany, rotate; monopetalous, expanding into a flat border at top, with scarcely any tube; as a wheel-shaped corol.


Topic: Wheel-wright
Definition:
WHEEL-WRIGHT, n. [wheel and wright.] A man whose occupation is to make wheels and wheel-carriages, as carts and wagons.


Topic: Wheeling
Definition:
WHEELING, ppr. Conveying on wheels or in a wheel-carriage; turning.
WHEELING, n. 
1. The act of conveying on wheels.
2. The act of passing on wheels, or convenience for passing on wheels. We say, it is good wheeling, or bad wheeling, according to the state of the roads.
3. A turning or circular movement of troops embodied.


Topic: Whelk
Definition:
WHELK, n. 
1. A wrinkle; inequality on the surface; protuberance; a pustule. [See Welk and Weal.]
2. A shell of the genus Bussinum, or trumpetshell, univalvular, spiral and gibbous, with an oval aperture ending in a short canal or gutter.


Topic: Whelm
Definition:
WHELM, v.t. 
1. To cover with water or other fluid; to cover by immersion in something that envelops on all sides; as, to whelm a person or a company in the seas; to whelm a caravan in sand or dust.
2. To cover completely; to immerse deeply; to overburden; as, to whelm one in sorrows.
3. To throw over so as to cover. [Not used.]


Topic: Whelp
Definition:
WHELP, n. [L.]
1. The young of the canine species, and of several other beasts of prey; a puppy; a cub; as a bear robbed of her whelps; lions whelps.
2. A son; in contempt.
3. A young man; in contempt.
WHELP, v.i. To bring forth young, as the female of the canine species and some other beasts of prey.


Topic: When
Definition:
WHEN, adv. [G., L.]
1. At the time. We were present when General LaFayette embarked at Havre for New York.
2. At what time, interrogatively.
When shall these things be? Matthew 24.
3. Which time.
I was adopted heir by his consent; since when, his oath is broke.
4. After the time that. When the act is passed, the public will be satisfied.
5. At what time.
Kings may take their advantage, when and how they list.
When as, at the time when; what time. 
When as sacred light began to dawn.


Topic: Whence
Definition:
WHENCE, adv. 
1. From what place.
Whence and what art thou?
2. From what source. Whence shall we derive hope? Whence comes this honor?
Whence hath this man this wisdom? Matthew 13.
3. From which premises, principles or facts. These facts or principles are admitted, whence it follows, that judgment must be entered for the plaintiff.
4. How; by what way or means. Mark 12.
5. In general, from which person, cause, place, principle or circumstance.
From whence may be considered as tautological, from being implied in whence; but the use is well authorized, and in some cases the use of it seems to give force or beauty to the phrase. We ascended the mountain, from whence we took a view of the beautiful plains below.
Of whence is not now used.


Topic: Whencesoever
Definition:
WHENCESOEVER, adv. [whence, so, and ever.] From what place soever; from what cause or source soever.
Any idea, whencesoever we have it--


Topic: Where
Definition:
WHERE, adv. 
1. At which place or places.
She visited the place where first she was so happy--
In all places where I record my name, I will come to thee and I will bless thee. Exodus 20.
2. At or in what place.
Adam, where art thou? Genesis 3.
3. At the place in which.
Where I though the remnant of my age should have been cherishd by her child-like duty.
4. Whither; to what place, or from what place. Where are you going? Where are you from? [These uses of where are common, and the first cannot be condemned as vulgar.]
Any where, in any place. I sought the man, but could not find him any where.
[Note. Where seems to have been originally a noun, and was so used by Spenser. He shall find no where safe to him. In this sense, it is obsolete; yet it implies place, its original signification.]


Topic: Whereabout
Definition:
WHEREABOUT, adv. [where and about.] 
1. Near what place. Whereabout did you meet your friend?
2. Near which place.
3. Concerning which.
The object whereabout they are conversant.


Topic: Whereas
Definition:
WHEREAS, adv. s as z. [where and as.]
1. When in fact or truth, implying opposition to something that precedes.
Are not those found to be the greatest zealots, who are most notoriously ignorant? Whereas true zeal should always begin with true knowledge.
2. The thing being so that; considering that things are so; implying an admission of facts, sometimes followed by a different statement, and sometimes by inferences or something consequent, as in the law style, where a preamble introduces a law.
Whereas wars are generally causes of poverty--
3. Whereat; at which place. 
4. But on the contrary. [See No. 1.]


Topic: Whereat
Definition:
WHEREAT, adv. [where and at.]
1. At which.
Whereat he was no less angry and ashamed, than desirous to obey Zelmane.
2. At what, interrogatively. Whereat are you offended?


Topic: Whereby
Definition:
WHEREBY, adv. [where and by.] 
1. By which. 
You take my life, when you do take the means whereby I live.
2. By what, interrogatively.
Whereby shall I know this? Luke 1.


Topic: Wherefore
Definition:
WHEREFORE, adv. [where and for.]
1. For which reason.
Wherefore by their fruits ye shall know them. Matthew 7.
2. Why; for what reason.
Wherefore didst thou doubt? Matthew 14.


Topic: Wherein
Definition:
WHEREIN, adv. [where and in.] 
1. In which; in which thing, time, respect, book, &c. This is the thing wherein you have erred.
2. In what.
Yet ye say, wherein have we wearied him? Malachi 2.


Topic: Whereness
Definition:
WHERENESS, n. Ubiety; imperfect locality.
A point hath no dimensions, but only a whereness, and is next to nothing.
[This word is not used, nor has it any intelligible signification.]


Topic: Whereof
Definition:
WHEREOF, adv. [where and of.] 
1. Of which. We are not guilty of the crime whereof we are accused.
2. Of what. Whereof was this house built?
How this world, when and whereof created--


Topic: Whereon
Definition:
WHEREON, adv. [where and on.]
1. On which; as the ground whereon we tread.
2. On what. Whereon do we stand?


Topic: Wheresoever
Definition:
WHERESOEVER, adv. [where, so, and ever.] In what place soever; in whatever place, or in any place indefinitely. Seize the thief, wheresoever he may be found. [Wherever is the preferable word.]


Topic: Whereto
Definition:
WHERETO, adv. [where and to.] 
1. To which.
Whereto we have already attained-- Philippians 3.
2. To what; to what end. [Little used.]


Topic: Wherewith
Definition:
WHEREWITH, adv. [where an with.] 
1. With which.
The love wherewith thou hast loved me. John 17.
2. With what, interrogatively.
Wherewith shall I save Israel? Judges 6.


Topic: Wherret
Definition:
WHERRET, v.t. [G.] To hurry; to trouble; to tease; to give a box on the ear. [Low and not used in America.]
WHERRET, n. A box on the ear. [Not in use.]


Topic: Wherry
Definition:
WHERRY, n. [a different orthography of ferry, formed with a strong breathing; like whistle, from L.]
1. A boat used on rivers. The name is given to several kinds of light boats. It is also applied to some decked vessels used in fishing, in different parts of Great Britain and Ireland.
2. A liquor made from the pulp of crabs after the verjuice is expressed; sometimes called crab-wherry. [Local.]


Topic: Whet
Definition:
WHET, v.t. pret. and pp. whetted or whet. [G.]
1. To rub for the purpose of sharpening, as an edge tool; to sharpen by attrition; as, to whet a sythe or an ax.
2. To provoke; to excite; to stimulate; as, to whet the appetite.
3. To provoke; to make angry or acrimonious.
Since Cassius first did whet me against Cesar, I have not slept.
To whet on or whet forward, to urge on; to instigate. [Not used nor proper.]
WHET, n. 
1. The act of sharpening by friction.
2. Something that provokes or stimulates the appetite; as sips, drams and whets.


Topic: Whet-slate
Definition:
WHETSTONE-SLATE, WHET-SLATE, n. Novaculite or coticular shist, a variety of slate used for sharpening instruments of iron. The light green colored variety from the Levant is the most valuable. It should be kept in a damp place, that it may not become too dry and hard.


Topic: Whether
Definition:
WHETHER, pronoun or substitute. [L. The sense seems to be what, or which of two, referring either to persons or to sentences.]
1. Which of two.
Whether of them twain did the will of his father? Matthew 21/
Here whether is a substitute for one of two, and signifies which; which of the two; but in this sense it is obsolete.
2. Which of two alternatives, expressed by a sentence or the clause of a sentence, and followed by or. Resolve whether you will go or not; that is, you will go or not go; resolve which.
[Note. IN the latter use, which is now most common, whether is called an adverb. This is a mistake. It is the same part of speech as in the former example. The only difference is that in the former example it represents or refers to a noun, and in the latter to a sentence or clause.]


Topic: Whetting
Definition:
WHETTING, ppr. Rubbing for the purpose of making sharp; sharpening; provoking; inciting; stimulating.


Topic: Whey
Definition:
WHEY, n. The serum or watery part of milk, separated from the more thick or coagulable part, particularly in the process of making cheese. In this process, the thick part is called curd, and the thin part whey.


Topic: Which
Definition:
WHICH, pron. relative or substitute. [I have not found this word in any other language. I think it may be from the root of quick. See What and Wight.]
1. A word called a relative or pronoun relative, because it relates to another word or thing, usually to some word that precedes it in the sentence. I call it also a substitute, as it supplies the place of a noun, or of an adjective, or of a sentence or clause. 1. The garden which I cultivate,  that is , the garden, which garden I cultivate. 2. We are bound to obey all the divine commands, which we cannot do without divine aid. Here which represents the words, obey the divine commands. 3. You declared him to be innocent, which he is not. Here which stands for innocent. In the foregoing uses, which is not used int eh masculine gender, that is, it does not in modern usage represent a person.
2. Which is much used in asking questions, for the purpose of obtaining the designation of a particular person or thing by the answer, and in this use, it is of the masculine as well as of the neuter gender. There are two or three things to be done; which shall I do first? Which man is it?
Which of you convinceth me of sin? John 8.
For which of those works do ye stone me? John 10.
3. That which. Take which you will,  that is, take any one of the whole.
The which, by the which. The use of the before which, is obsolete.


Topic: Whichever
Definition:
WHICHEVER, WHICHSOEVER, pron. Whether one or the other. Whichever road you take, it will conduct you to town.


Topic: Whiff
Definition:
WHIFF, n. 
1. A sudden expulsion of air from the mouth; a puff; as the whiff of a smoker.
And seasons his whiffs with impertinent jokes.
2. In ichthyology, a species of Pleuronectes or flounder.
WHIFF, v.t. TO puff; to throw out in whiffs; to consume in whiffs.


Topic: Whiffle
Definition:
WHIFFLE, v.i. [G., to doubt, to rove or wander, which seems to be allied to sweep.] To start, shift and turn; to change from one opinion or course to another; to use evasions; to prevaricate; to be fickle and unsteady.
A person of a whiffing and unsteady turn of mind, cannot keep close to a point of controversy.
WHIFFLE, v.t. To disperse with a puff; to scatter.
WHIFFLE, n. Anciently, a fife or small flute.


Topic: Whiffler
Definition:
WHIFFLER, n. 
1. One who whiffles or frequently changes his opinion or course; one who uses sifts and evasions in argument.
2. A harbinger; perhaps one who blows the horn or trumpet.
3. A young man who goes before a company in London on occasions of public solemnity.


Topic: Whig
Definition:
WHIG, n. [See Whey.] Acidulated whey, sometimes mixed with butter milk and sweet herbs; used as a cooling beverage. [Local.]
WHIG, n. [origin uncertain.] One of a political party which had its origin in England in the seventeenth century, in the reign of Charles I. or II., when great contests existed respecting the royal prerogatives and the rights of the people. Those who supported the king in his high claims, were called tories, and the advocates of popular rights were called whigs. During the revolution in the United States, the friends and supporters of the war and the principles of the revolution, were called whigs, and those who opposed them, were called tories and royalists.
Where then, when tories scarce get clear, shall whigs and congresses appear?


Topic: While
Definition:
WHILE, n. [G. See the Verb.] Time; space of time, or continued duration. He was some while in this country. One while we thought him innocent.
Pausing a while, thus to herself she musd.
Worth while, worth the time which it requires; worth the time and pains; hence, worth the expense. It is not always worth while for a man to prosecute for small debts.
WHILE, adv. 
1. During the time that while I write, you sleep.
2. As long as.
Use your memory, and you will sensibly experience a gradual improvement, while you take care not to overload it.
3. At the same time that.
WHILE, v.t. [G., to abide, to stay.] To while away, as time, in English, is to loiter; or more generally, to cause time to pass away pleasantly, without irksomeness; as, we while away time in amusements or diversions.
Let us while away this life.
WHILE, v.i. To loiter.


Topic: Whim
Definition:
WHIM, n. 
1. Properly, a sudden turn or start of the mind; a freak; a fancy; a capricious notion. We say, every man has his whims. [See Freak and Caprice.]
All the superfluous whims relate.
2. A low wit; a cant word.


Topic: Whimpled
Definition:
WHIMPLED, a word used by Shakespeare, is perhaps a mistake for whimpered. There is no such word in the English.


Topic: Whimsey
Definition:
WHIMSEY, n. s as z. [from whim.] A whim; a freak; a capricious notion; as the whimseys of poets.
Mens follies, whimsies, and inconstancy.


Topic: Whimsical
Definition:
WHIMSICAL, a. Full of whims; freakish; having odd fancies; capricious.
My neighbors call me whimsical.


Topic: Whin-stone
Definition:
WHIN-STONE, n. [whin and stone.] Whin-stone or whin is a provincial name given to basaltic rocks, and applied by miners to any kind of dark colored and hard unstratified rock which resists the point of the pick. Veins of dark basalt or green-stone, are frequently called whin-dykes.


Topic: Whine
Definition:
WHINE, v.t. [L.] TO express murmurs by a plaintive cry; to moan with a puerile noise; to murmur meanly.
They came--with a whining accent craving liberty.
Then, if we whine, look pale--
WHINE, n. A plaintive tone; the nasal puerile tone of mean complaint; mean or affected complaint.


Topic: Whip
Definition:
WHIP, v.t. [L., a sweeping throw or thrust.]
1. To strike with a lash or sweeping cord; as, to whip a horse.
2. To sew slightly.
3. To drive with lashes; as, to whip a top.
4. To punish with the whip; as, to whip a vagrant; to whip one thirty nine lashes; to whip a perverse boy.
Who, for false quantities, was whippd at school.
5. To lash with sarcasm.
They would whip me with their fine wits.
6. To strike; to thrash; to beat out, as grain, by striking; as, to whip wheat. [Not in use int he United States.]
To whip about or round, to wrap; to inwrap; as, to whip a line round a rod.
To whip out, to draw nimbly; to snatch; as, to whip out a sword or rapier from its sheath.
To whip from, to take away suddenly.
To whip into, to thrust in with a quick motion. He whipped his hand into his pocket.
To whip us, to seize or take up with a quick motion. She whipped up the child, and ran off. Among seamen, to hoist with a whip or small tackle.
WHIP, v.i. To move nimbly; to start suddenly and run; or to turn and run; as, the boy whipped away in an instant; he whipped round the corner; he whipped into the house, and was out of wight in a moment.
WHIP, n. 
1. An instrument for driving horses or other teams, or for correction, consisting of a lash tied to a handle or rod.
2. In ships, a small tackle, used to hoist light bodies.
Whip and spur, with the utmost haste.


Topic: Whip-graft
Definition:
WHIP-GRAFT, v.t. [whip and graft.] To graft by cutting the cion and stock in a sloping direction, so as to fit each other, and by inserting a tongue on the cion into a slit in the stock.


Topic: Whip-grafting
Definition:
WHIP-GRAFTING, n. The at or practice of grafting by cutting the cion and stock with a slope, to fit each other, &c.


Topic: Whip-staff
Definition:
WHIP-STAFF, n. [whip and staff.] In ships, a bar by which the rudder is turned. In small vessels this is called the tiller.


Topic: Whip-stitch
Definition:
WHIP-STITCH, v.t. [whip and stitch.] In agriculture, to half-plow or to rafter land. This word, I believe, is not used in America. The practice of whip-stitching resembles what is called in America ridging.


Topic: Whipping
Definition:
WHIPPING, ppr. Striking with a whip; punishing with a whip; enwrapping.
WHIPPING, n. The act of striking with a whip, or of punishing; the state of being whipped.


Topic: Whipple-tree
Definition:
WHIPPLE-TREE, n. [whip and tree; but qu. Is it no whiffle-tree?] The bar to which the traces or tugs of a harness are fastened, and by which a carriage, a plow, a harrow or other implement is drawn.


Topic: Whippowil
Definition:
WHIPPOWIL, n. The popular name of an American bird, so called from its note, or the sounds of its voice. [Not whip-poor-will.]


Topic: Whirl
Definition:
WHIRL, v.t. hwurl. [G., to whirl, to warble. L.] TO turn round rapidly; to turn with velocity. 
He whirls his sword around without delay.
WHIRL, v.i. 
1. To be turned round rapidly; to move round with velocity; as the whirling spindles of a cotton machine or wheels of a coach.
The wooden engine flies and whirls about.
2. To move hastily.
--But whirld away, to shun his hateful sight.
WHIRL, n. [G.] 
1. A turning with rapidity or velocity; rapid rotation or circumvolution; quick gyration; as the whirl of a top; the whirl of a wheel; the whirl of time; the whirls of fancy.
2. Any thing that moves or is turned with velocity, particularly on an axis or pivot.
3. A hook used in twisting.
4. In botany, a species of inflorescence, consisting of many subsessile flowers surrounding the stem in a ring. It is also written whorl and wherl.


Topic: Whirl-bat
Definition:
WHIRL-BAT, n. [whirl and bat.] Any thing moved with a whirl as preparatory for a blow, or to augment the force of it. Poets use it for the ancient cestus. 
The whirl-bat and the rapid race shall be reservd for Cesar.


Topic: Whirled
Definition:
WHIRLED, pp. 
1. Turned round with velocity.
2. In botany, growing in whirls; bearing whirls; verticillate.


Topic: Whirligig
Definition:
WHIRLIGIG, n. [whirl and gig.]
1. A toy which children spin or whirl round.
2. In military antiquities, an instrument for punishing petty offenders, as sutlers, brawling women, &c.; a kind of wooden cage turning on a pivot, in which the offender was whirled round with great velocity.


Topic: Whirling-table
Definition:
WHIRLING-TABLE, n. A machine contrived to exhibit and demonstrate the principal laws of gravitation , and of the planetary motion in curvilinear orbits.


Topic: Whirlpool
Definition:
WHIRLPOOL, n. [whirl and pool.] An eddy of water; a vortex or gulf where the water moves round in a circle. In some cases, a whirlpool draws things to its center and absorbs them, as is the case with the Maelstrom off the coast of Norway.


Topic: Whirlwind
Definition:
WHIRLWIND, n. [whirl and wind.] A violent wind moving in a circle, or rather in a spiral form, as if moving round an axis; this axis or the perpendicular column moving horizontally, raising and whirling dust, leaves and the like.


Topic: Whirring
Definition:
WHIRRING, n. The sound of a partridges or pheasants wings. [Note.--Whir is used by the common people in New England in an adverbial manner, to express the rapid flight or the sound of any thing thrown. See Whir.]


Topic: Whisk
Definition:
WHISK, n. 
1. A small bunch of grass, straw, hair or the like, used for a brush; hence, a brush or small besom.
2. Part of a womans dress; a kind of tippet.
WHISK, v.t. 
1. To sweep, brush or wipe with a whisk.
2. To sweep along; to move nimbly over the ground.
WHISK, v.i. To move nimbly and with velocity.


Topic: Whisky
Definition:
WHISKY, n.  A spirit distilled from grain. In the north of England, the name is given to the spirit drawn from barley. In the United States, whisky is generally distilled from wheat, rye or maiz.


Topic: Whisper
Definition:
WHISPER, v.i. [L. The word seems by its sound to be an onomatopy, as it expresses a sibilant sound or breathing.]
1. To speak with a low hissing or sibilant voice. It is ill manners to whisper in company.
The hollow whispring breeze--
2. To speak with suspicion or timorous caution.
3. To plot secretly; to devise in mischief.
All that hate me whisper together against me. Psalm 41.
WHISPER, v.t. 
1. To address in a low voice. He whispers the man in the ear. [But this is elliptical for whispers to.] 
2. To utter in a low sibilant voice. He whispered a word in my ear.
3. To prompt secretly; as, the came to whisper Woolsey.
WHISPER, n. 
1. A low soft sibilant voice; or words uttered with such a voice.
The whisper cannot give a tone.
Soft whispers through the assembly went.
2. A cautious or timorous speech.
3. A hissing or buzzing sound.


Topic: Whisperer
Definition:
WHISPERER, n. 
1. One who whispers.
2. A tattler; one who tells secrets; a conveyer of intelligence secretly.
3. A backbiter; one who slanders secretly. Proverbs 16.


Topic: Whist
Definition:
WHIST, a. Silent; mute; still; not speaking; not making a noise.
The winds with wonder whist, smoothly the waters kissd.
[This adjective, like some others, always follows its noun. We never say, whist wind; but the wind is whist.]
Whist is used for be silent. Whist, whist, that is, be silent or still.
WHIST, n. A game at cards, so called because it requires silence or close attention. It is not in America pronounced whisk.


Topic: Whistle
Definition:
WHISTLE, v.i. hwisl. [L., a whistle; allied to whisper.]
1. To utter a kind of musical sound, by pressing the breath through a small orifice formed by contracting the lips.
While the plowman near at hand, whistles oer the furrowd land.
2. To make a sound with a small wind instrument.
3. To sound shrill, or like a pipe.
The wild winds whistle, and the billows roar.
WHISTLE, v.t. 
1. To form, utter or modulate by whistling; as, to whistle a tune or air.
2. To call by a whistle; as, he whistled back his dog.
WHISTLE, n. [L.]
1. A small wind instrument.
2. The sound made by a small wind instrument.
3. Sound made by pressing the breath through a small orifice of the lips.
4. The mouth; the organ of whistling. [Vulgar.]
5. A small pipe, used by a boatswain to summon the sailors to their duty; the boatswains call.
6. The shrill sound of winds passing among trees or through crevices, &c.
7. A call, such as sportsmen use to their dogs.


Topic: Whistle-fish
Definition:
WHISTLE-FISH, n. A local name of a species of Gadus, with only tow fins on the back; the Mustela fluviatilis.


Topic: Whistling
Definition:
WHISTLING, ppr. Uttering a musical sound through a small orifice of the lips; sounding with a pipe; making a shrill sound, as wind.


Topic: Whit
Definition:
WHIT, n. [L.] A point; a jot; the smallest part or particle imaginable. It is used without a preposition. He is not a whit the wiser for experience.
It does not me a whit displease.
The regular construction would be by a whit, or in a whit. In these phrases, a whit may be interpreted by in the least, in the smallest degree.


Topic: White
Definition:
WHITE, a. [G.]
1. Being in the color of pure snow; snowy; not dark; as white paper; a white skin.
2. Pale; destitute of color in the cheeks, or of the tinge of blood color; as white with fear.
3. Having the color of purity; pure; clean; free from spot; as white robed innocence.
4. Gray; as white hair; a venerable man, white with age.
5. Pure; unblemished.
No whiter page than Addisons remains.
6. In a scriptural sense, purified from sin; sanctified. Psalm 51.


Topic: White-bug
Definition:
WHITE-BUG , n. [white and bug.] An insect of the bug kind, which injures vines and some other species of fruit.


Topic: White-campion
Definition:
WHITE-CAMPION, n. [white and campion.] A pernicious perennial weed, growing in corn land, pastures and hedges.


Topic: White-caterpillar
Definition:
WHITE-CATERPILLAR, n. An insect of a small size, called sometimes the borer, that injures the gooseberry bush.


Topic: White-centaury
Definition:
WHITE-CENTAURY, n. AN annual weed in woods and other places. It is said to form the basis of the famous Portland powder for the gout.


Topic: White-clover
Definition:
WHITE-CLOVER, n. A small species of perennial clover, bearing white flowers. It furnishes excellent food for cattle and horses, as well as for the honey bee.


Topic: White-crop
Definition:
WHITE-CROP, n. White crops, in agriculture, are such as lose their green color or become white in ripening, as wheat, rye, barley and oats.


Topic: White-horse-fish
Definition:
WHITE-HORSE-FISH, n. In ichthyology, the Raia aspera nostras of Willoughby, and the Raia fullonica of Linne. It has a rough spiny back, and on the tail are three rows of strong spines. It grows to the size of the skate.


Topic: White-land
Definition:
WHITE-LAND, n. A name which the English give to a tough clayey soil, of a whitish hue when dry, but blackish after rain.


Topic: White-lead
Definition:
WHITE-LEAD, n. A carbonate of lead, much used in painting. It is prepared by exposing sheets of lead to the fumes of an acid, usually vinegar, and suspending them in the air until the surface becomes incrusted with a white coat, which is the substance in question.


Topic: White-livered
Definition:
WHITE-LIVERED, a. [white and liver.]
1. Having a pale look; feeble; cowardly.
2. Envious; malicious.


Topic: White-poppy
Definition:
WHITE-POPPY, n. A species of poppy, sometimes cultivated fro the opium which is obtained from its juice by evaporation.


Topic: White-pyrite
Definition:
WHITE-PYRITE, WHITE-PYRITES, n. [white and pyrite.] An ore of a tin-white color, passing into a brass-yellow and steel-gray, occurring in octahedral crystals, sometimes stalactitical and botryoidal. It contains 46 parts of iron, and 54 of sulphur.


Topic: White-rent
Definition:
WHITE-RENT, n. [white and rent.] In Devon and Cornwall, a rent or duty of eight pence, payable yearly by every tinner to the duke of Cornwall, as lord of the soil.


Topic: White-swelling
Definition:
WHITE-SWELLING, n. [white and swelling.] A swelling or chronic enlargement of the joints, circumscribed, without any alteration in the color of the skin, sometimes hard, sometimes yielding to pressure, sometimes indolent, but usually painful.


Topic: White-wine
Definition:
WHITE-WINE, n. Any wine of a clear transparent color, bordering on white, as Madeira, Sherry, Lisbon, &c.; opposed to wine of a deep red color, as Port and Burgundy.


Topic: Whiten
Definition:
WHITEN, v.t. hwitn. To make white; to bleach; to blanch; as, to whiten cloth.
WHITEN, v.i. To grow white; to turn or become white. The hair whitens with age; the sea whitens with foam; the trees in spring whiten with blossoms.


Topic: Whiteness
Definition:
WHITENESS, n. 
1. The state of being white; white color, or freedom from any darkness or obscurity on the surface.
2. Paleness; want of a sanguineous tinge in the face.
3. Purity; cleanness; freedom from stain or blemish.


Topic: Whitestone
Definition:
WHITESTONE, n. IN geology, the weiss stein of Werner, and the eurite of some geologists; a species of rocks, composed essentially of feldspar, but containing mica and other minerals.


Topic: Whitewash
Definition:
WHITEWASH, n. [white and wash.] 
1. A wash or liquid composition for whitening something; a wash for making the skin fair.
2. A composition of lime and water, used for whitening the plaster of walls, &c.
WHITEWASH, v.t. 
1. To cover with a white liquid composition, as with lime and water, &c.
2. To make white; to give a fair external appearance.


Topic: Whitewood
Definition:
WHITEWOOD, n. A species of timber tree growing in North America, the Liriodendron, or tulip tree. The name of certain species of Bignonia.


Topic: Whither
Definition:
WHITHER, adv. 
1. To what place, interrogatively. Whither goest thou?
Whither away so fast?
2. To what place, absolutely.
I strayd, I knew not whither.
3. To which place, relatively.
Whither when as they came, they fell at words.
4. To what point or degree.
5. Whithersoever.


Topic: Whiting
Definition:
WHITING, n. [from white.]
1. A small sea fish, the Asellus mollis or albus, a species of Gadus.
2. The same as Spanish white, which see.


Topic: Whitleather
Definition:
WHITLEATHER, WHITLETHER, n. [white and leather.] Lether dressed with alum, remarkable for its toughness.
In common use, the ligaments of animals, when in food.


Topic: Whitlow
Definition:
WHITLOW, n. 
1. In surgery, paronychia, a swelling or inflammation about the nails or ends of the fingers, or affecting one or more of the phalanges of the fingers, generally terminating in an abscess. There are four or five varieties of this swelling. 1. The cutaneous paronychia, which raises the cuticle, forming a kind of vesicle filled with a limpid serum, or bloody fluid. 2. The subcutaneous paronychia, a tumor attended with acute pain. It is seated in the cellular membrane under the skin. 3. The subungual paronychia, which occurs under the nail. It commences with inflammatory symptoms, but is less painful than the former. 4. There is also the paronychia of the periosteum, and the paronychia of the tendons or theca.
2. In sheep, the whitlow is a disease of the feet, of an inflammatory kind. It occurs round the hoof, where an acrid matter is collected, which ought to be discharged.


Topic: Whitsuntide
Definition:
WHITSUNTIDE, n. [white, Sunday, and tide.] The feast or season of Pentecost; so called it is said, because, in the primitive church, those who had been newly baptized appeared at church between Easter and Pentecost in white garments.


Topic: Whittle
Definition:
WHITTLE, n. 
1. A small pocket knife. [In this sense, I believe the word is not used in America.]
2. A white dress for a woman; a double blanket worn by west countrywomen in England, over the shoulders, like a cloke. [Not used in the United States.]
WHITTLE, v.t.
1. To pare or cut off the surface of a thing with a small knife. Some persons have a habit of whittling, and are rarely seen without a penknife in their hands for that purpose. [This is, I believe, the only use of this word in New England.]
2. To edge; to sharpen. [Not in use.]


Topic: Whiz
Definition:
WHIZ, v.t. [It seems to be allied to hiss.] To make a humming or hissing sound, like an arrow or ball flying through the air.
It flew, and whizzing cut the liquid way.
WHIZ, n. A hissing sound.


Topic: Who
Definition:
WHO, pron. relative. pron. hoo. [L. Who is undoubtedly a contracted word in English as in Latin. See What and Wight.]
1. Who is a pronoun relative, always referring to persons. It forms whose in the genitive or possessive case, answering to the L. Cujus, and whom in the objective or accusative case. Who, whose and whom, are in both numbers. Thus we say, the man or woman who was with us; the men or women who were with us; the men or women whom we saw.
2. Which of many. Are you satisfied who did the mischief?
3. It is much used in asking questions; as, who am I? Who art thou? Who is this? Who are these? In this case, the purpose is to obtain the name or designation of the person or character.
4. It has sometimes a disjunctive sense.
There thou tellst of kings, and who aspire; who fall, who rise, who triumph, who do moan.
5. Whose is of all genders. Whose book is this?
This question whose solution I require--
As who should say, elliptically for as one who should say.


Topic: Whoever
Definition:
WHOEVER, pron. [who and ever.] Any on without exception; any person whatever. The person who trespasses shall be punished, whoever he may be.


Topic: Whole
Definition:
WHOLE, a. Hole. [G., Gr. This seems to be connected with heal, hale. Of this the derivative wholesome, is evidence.]
1. All; total; containing the total amount or number, or the entire thing; as the whole earth; the whole world; the whole solar system; the whole army; the whole nation.
2. Complete; entire; not defective or imperfect; as a whole orange; the egg is whole; the vessel is whole.
3. Unimpaired; unbroken; uninjured.
My life is yet whole in me. 2 Samuel 1.
4. Sound; not hurt or sick.
They that are whole need not a physician. Matthew 9.
5. Restored to health and soundness; sound; well.
Thy faith hath made thee whole. Mark 5.
His hand was restored whole. Mark 3.
WHOLE, n. 
1. The entire thing; the entire or total assemblage of parts. The whole of religion is contained in the short precept, Love God with all your heart, and your neighbor as yourself.
Fear God and keep his commandments, for this is the whole duty of man. Ecclesiastes 12.
2. A system; a regular combination of parts.


Topic: Wholesale
Definition:
WHOLESALE, n. [whole and sale.]
1. Sale of goods by the piece or large quantity; as distinguished from retail. Some traders sell either by wholesale or retail.
2. The whole mass.
Some from vanity or envy, despise a valuable book, and throw contempt upon it by wholesale.
WHOLESALE, a. [supra.]
1. Buying and selling by the piece or quantity; as a wholesale merchant or dealer.
2. Pertaining to the trade by the piece or quantity; as the wholesale price.


Topic: Wholesome
Definition:
WHOLESOME, a. [G.]
1. Tending to promote health; favoring health; salubrious; as wholesome air or diet; a wholesome climate.
2. Sound; contributing to the health of the mind; favorable to morals, religion or prosperity; as wholesome advice; wholesome doctrines; wholesome truths.


Topic: Wholesomeness
Definition:
WHOLESOMENESS, n. 
1. The quality of contributing to health; salubrith; as the wholesomeness of air or diet.


Topic: Wholly
Definition:
WHOLLY, adv. 
1. Entirely; completely; perfectly.
Nor wholly overcome, nor wholly yield.
2. Totally; in all the parts or kinds.
They employed themselves wholly in domestic life.


Topic: Whomsoever
Definition:
WHOMSOEVER, pron. [whom and soever.] Any person without exception.
With whomsoever thou findest thy goods, let him not live. Genesis 31.


Topic: Whoop
Definition:
WHOOP, n. Hoop. [ This is the same as hoop, but aspirated. The sense is to drive out the voice.]
1. A shout of pursuit.
2. A shout of war; a particular cry of troops when they rush to the attack. The Indians of America are remarkable for their war whoop.
3. The bird called hoopoe or upupa.
WHOOP, v.i. To shout with a particular voice.
WHOOP, v.t. To insult with shouts.


Topic: Whop
Definition:
WHOP, n. [the vulgar pronunciation of whap, or awhap.] A sudden fall, or the suddenness of striking in a fall.


Topic: Whore
Definition:
WHORE, n. Hore. [G. The correct orthography is hore.] A harlot; a courtesan; a concubine; a prostitute.
WHORE, v.i. [supra.] To have unlawful sexual commerce; to practice lewdness.
WHORE, v.t. To corrupt by lewd intercourse. [Little used.]


Topic: Whoredom
Definition:
WHOREDOM, n. Horedom.
1. Lewdness; fornication; practice of unlawful commerce with the other sex. It is applied to either sex, and to any kind of illicit commerce.
2. In Scripture, idolatry; the desertion of the worship of the true God, for the worship of idols.


Topic: Whose
Definition:
WHOSE, hooz. The possessive or genitive case of who or which; applied to persons or things. We say, the person whose merits are known; the garment whose color is admired.


Topic: Whosoever
Definition:
WHOSOEVER, pron. [who, so, and ever.] Any one; any person whatever.
Whosoever will, let him take of the water of life freely. Revelations 22.


Topic: Whur
Definition:
WHUR, v.i. To pronounce the letter r with too much force.
WHUR, n. The sound of a body moving through the air with velocity. [See Whir.]


Topic: Why
Definition:
WHY, adv. [L., for what. The original phrase is for what, for why.]
1. For what cause or reason, interrogatively.
Turn ye, turn ye, for why will ye die? Jeremiah 27.
2. For which reason or cause, relatively.
No ground of enmity, why he should mean me ill.
3. For what reason or cause; for which; relatively.
Turn the discourse; I have a reason why I would not have you speak so tenderly.
4. It is used sometimes emphatically, or rather as a expletive.
If her chill heart I cannot move, why, Ill enjoy the very love.


Topic: Wi
Definition:
WI, from the Gothic weiha, signifies holy. It is found in some names, as in Wibert, holy-bright, or bright-holy, eminent for sanctity.


Topic: Wic
Definition:
WIC, WICK, a termination, denotes jurisdiction, as in bailiwick. Its primary sense is a village or mansion, L.; hence it occurs in Berwick, Harwich, Norwich, &c. It signifies also a bay or a castle.


Topic: Wick
Definition:
WICK, n.  A number of threads of cotton or some similar substance, loosely twisted into a string, round which wax or tallow is applied by means of melting and running in a mold, and thus forming a candle or torch.


Topic: Wicked
Definition:
WICKED, a. [The primary sense is to wind and turn, or to depart, to fall away.]
1. Evil in principle or practice; deviating from the divine law; addicted to vice; sinful; immoral. This is a word of comprehensive signification, extending to every thing that is contrary to the moral law, and both to persons and actions. We say, a wicked man, a wicked deed, wicked ways, wicked lives, a wicked heart, wicked designs, wicked works.
No man was ever wicked without secret discontent.
2. A word of slight blame; as the wicked urchin.
3. Cursed; baneful; pernicious; as wicked words, words pernicious in their efforts.
[This last signification may throw some light on the word witch.]
The wicked, in Scripture, persons who live in sin; transgressors of the divine law; all who are unreconciled to God, unsanctified or impenitent.


Topic: Wickedly
Definition:
WICKEDLY, adv. IN a manner or with motives and designs contrary to the divine law; viciously; corruptly; immorally.
All that do wickedly shall be stubble. Malachi 4.
I have sinned, and I have done wickedly. 2 Samuel 24.


Topic: Wickedness
Definition:
WICKEDNESS, n. Departure from the rules of the divine law; evil disposition or practices; immorality; crime; sin; sinfulness; corrupt manners Wickedness generally signifies evil practices.
What wickedness is this that is done among you? Judges 20.
But wickedness expresses also the corrupt dispositions of the heart.
Their inward part is very wickedness. Psalm 5.
In heart ye work wickedness. Psalm 58.


Topic: Wicker
Definition:
WICKER, a. [L., to grow. The word signifies a shoot.] Made of twigs or oziers; as a wicker basket; a wicker chair.


Topic: Wide
Definition:
WIDE, a. 
1. Broad; having a great or considerable distance or extent between the sides; opposed to narrow; as wide cloth; a wide table; a wide highway; a wide bed; a wide hall or entry. In this use, wide is distinguished from long, which refers to the extent or distance between the ends.
2. Broad; having a great extent each way; as a wide plain; the wide ocean.
3. Remote; distant. This position is very wide from the truth.
4. Broad to a certain degree; as three feet wide.
WIDE, adv. 
1. At a distance; far. His fame was spread wide.
2. With great extent; used chiefly in composition; as wide-skirted meads; wide-waving swords; wide-wasting pestilence; wide-spreading evil.


Topic: Widely
Definition:
WIDELY, adv. 
1. With great extent each way. The gospel was widely disseminated by the apostles.
2. Very much; to a great distance; far. We differ widely in opinion.


Topic: Widen
Definition:
WIDEN, v.t. To make wide or wider; to extend in breadth; as, to widen a field; to widen a breach. [Note.--In America, females say, to widen a stocking.]
WIDEN, v.i. To grow wide or wider; to enlarge; to extend itself.
And arches widen, and long aisles extend.


Topic: Wideness
Definition:
WIDENESS, n. 
1. Breadth; width; great extent between the sides; as the wideness of a room.
2. Large extent in all directions; as the wideness of the sea or ocean.


Topic: Widgeon
Definition:
WIDGEON, n. A fowl of the duck kind, or genus Anas, having a black bill, the head and upper part of the neck of a bright bay, the back and sides waved with black and white, and the belly white.


Topic: Widow
Definition:
WIDOW, n. [L. See Wide.] A woman who has lost her husband by death. Luke 2.
Widows chamber, in London, the apparel and furniture of the bed-chamber of the widow of a freeman, to which she is entitled.
WIDOW, v.t. 
1. To bereave of a husband; but rarely used except in the participle.
2. To endow with a widows right. [Unusual.]
3. To strip of any thing good.
The widowd isle in mourning--


Topic: Widow-bench
Definition:
WIDOW-BENCH, n. [widow and bench.] In Sussex, that share which a widow is allowed of her husbands estate, besides her jointure.


Topic: Widowed
Definition:
WIDOWED, pp. 
1. Bereaved of a husband by death.
2. Deprived of some good; stripped.
Trees of their shriveld fruits are widowd.


Topic: Width
Definition:
WIDTH, n. [from wide.] Breadth; wideness; the extent of a thing from side to side; as the width of cloth; the width of a door.


Topic: Wield
Definition:
WIELD, v.t. [L. The primary sense of power and strength is to stretch or strain.]
1. To use with full command or power, as a thing not too heavy for the holder; to manage; as, to wield a sword; to wield the scepter.
Part wield their arms, part curb the foaming steed.
2. To use or employ with the hand.
Nothing but the influence of a civilized power could induce a savage to wield a spade.
3. To handle; in an ironical sense.
Base Hungarian wight, wilt thou the spigot wield?
To wield the scepter, to govern with supreme command.


Topic: Wiery
Definition:
WIERY, a. [from wire.] 
1. Made of wire; having the properties of wire. It would be better written wiry.
2. Wet; marshy. [Not in use.]


Topic: Wife
Definition:
WIFE, n. plu. Wives. [G., a woman.]
1. The lawful consort of man; a woman who is united to man in the lawful bonds of wedlock; the correlative of husband.
The husband of one wife. 1 Timothy 3.
Let every one of you in particular, so love his wife even as himself, and let the wife see that she reverence her husband. Ephesians 5.
2. A woman of low employment; as strawberry wives. [Not in use.]


Topic: Wig
Definition:
WIG, in Saxon, signifies war. It is found in some names.
WIG, n. [G., roll butter. It would seem that the sense is a roll or twist interwoven.]
1. A covering for the head, consisting of hair interwoven or united by a kind of network; formerly much worn by men.
2. A sort of cake.


Topic: Wight
Definition:
WIGHT, n. [g., a living being. L., to live.] A being; a person. It is obsolete, except in irony or burlesque. [See Aught.]
The wight of all the world who lovd thee best.
WIGHT, a. Swift; nimble. [This seems to be a dialectical form of quick.]


Topic: Wild
Definition:
WILD, a. [G.]
1. Roving; wandering; inhabiting the forest or open field; hence, not tamed or domesticated; as a wild boar; a wild ox; a wild cat; a wild bee.
2. Growing without culture; as wild parsnep; wild cherry; wild tansy. Wild rice, a palatable and nutritious food, grows spontaneously in the lakes and ponds of the North West territory.
3. Desert; not inhabited; as a wild forest.
4. Savage; uncivilized; not refined by culture; as the wild natives of Africa or America.
5. Turbulent; tempestuous; irregular; as a wild tumult.
The wild winds howl.
6. Licentious; ungoverned; as wild passions.
Valor grown wild by pride--
7. Inconstant; mutable; fickle.
In the ruling passion, there also the wild are constant, and the cunning known.
8. Inordinate; loose.
A fop well dressd, extravagant and wild.
9. Uncouth; loose.
--What are these, so witherd, and so wild in their attire?
10. Irregular; disorderly; done without plan or order; as, to make wild work.
11. Not well digested; not framed according to the ordinary rules of reason; not being within the limits of probable practicability; imaginary; fanciful; as a wild project or scheme; wild speculations.
12. Exposed to the wind and sea; as a wild roadstead.
13. Made or found in the forest; as wild honey.
Wild is prefixed to the names of many plants, to distinguish them from such of the name as are cultivated in gardens, as wild basil, wild parsnep, wild carrot, wild olive, &. 
WILD, n. A desert; an uninhabited and uncultivated tract or region; a forest or sandy desert; as the wilds of America; the wilds of Africa; the sandy wilds of Arabia.
Then Libya first, of all her moisture draind, became a barren waste, a wild of sand.


Topic: Wild-goose
Definition:
WILD-GOOSE, n. [wild and goose.] An aquatic fowl of the genus Anas, the Anas anser, a fowl of passage. These geese fly to the south in autumn, and return to the north in the spring. This species is the stock of the common domestic goose. The wild goose of North America, also migratory, is a distinct species, the Anas canadensis. 
Wild-goose chase, the pursuit of something as unlikely to be caught as the wild goose.


Topic: Wild-honey
Definition:
WILD-HONEY, n. [wild and honey.] Honey that is found int he forest, in hollow trees or among rocks.


Topic: Wild-land
Definition:
WILD-LAND, n. [wild and land.]
1. Land not cultivated, or in a state that renders it unfit for cultivation.
2. In America, forest; land not settled and cultivated.


Topic: Wild-service
Definition:
WILD-SERVICE, n. A plant. The wilder myrtle-leaved service is a tree of the genus Crataegus, [C. Torminalis.)


Topic: Wilder
Definition:
WILDER, v.t. To lose or cause to lose the way or track; to puzzle with mazes or difficulties; to bewilder.
Long lost and wilderd in the maze of fate.


Topic: Wilderness
Definition:
WILDERNESS, n. [from wild.]
1. A desert; a tract of land or region uncultivated and uninhabited by human beings, whether a forest or a wide barren plain. In the United States, it is applied only to a forest. In Scripture, it is applied frequently to the deserts of Arabia. The Israelites wandered int he wilderness forty years.
2. The ocean.
The watry wilderness yields no supply.
3. A state of disorder. [Not in use.]
4. A wood in a garden, resembling a forest.


Topic: Wildfire
Definition:
WILDFIRE, n. [wild and fire.] 
1. A composition of inflammable materials.
Brimstone, pitch, wildfire, burn easily, and are hard to quench.
2. A disease of sheep, attended with inflammation of the skin; a kind of erysipelas.


Topic: Wildly
Definition:
WILDLY, adv. 
1. Without cultivation.
2. Without tameness.
3. With disorder; with perturbation or distraction; with a fierce or roving look; as, to start wildly from ones seat; to stare wildly.
4. Without attention; heedlessly.
5. Capriciously; irrationally; extravagantly.
Who is there so wildly skeptical as to question whether the sun will rise in the east?
6. Irregularly.
She, wildly wanton, wears by night away the sign of all our labors done by day.


Topic: Wildness
Definition:
WILDNESS, n. 
1. Rudeness; rough uncultivated state; as the wildness of a forest or heath.
2. Inordinate disposition to rove; irregularity of manners; as the wildness of youth.
3. Savageness; brutality.
4. Savage state; rudeness.
5. Uncultivated state; as the wildness of land.
6. A wandering; irregularity.
Delirium is but a short wildness of the imagination.
7. Alienation of mind.
8. State of being untamed.
9. The quality of being undisciplined, or not subjected to method or rules.
Is there any danger that this discipline will tame too much the fiery spirit, the enchanting wildness, and magnificent irregularity of the orators genius?


Topic: Wile
Definition:
WILE, n. A trick or stratagem practiced for ensnaring or deception; a sly, insidious artifice.
That ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil. Ephesians 6.
WILE, v.t. To deceive; to beguile. [Little used.]


Topic: Will
Definition:
WILL, n. [See the Verb.]
1. That faculty of the mind by which we determine either to do or forbear an action; the faculty which is exercised in deciding, among two or more objects, which we shall embrace or pursue. The will is directed or influenced by the judgment. The understanding or reason compares different objects, which operate as motives; the judgment determines which is preferable, and the will decides which to pursue. In other words, we reason with respect to the value or importance of things; we then judge which is to be preferred; and we will to take the most valuable.  These are but different operations of the mind, soul, or intellectual part of man. Great disputes have existed respecting the freedom of the will.  Will is often quite a different thing from desire.
A power over a mans subsistence, amounts to a power over his will.
2. Choice; determination. It is my will to prosecute the trespasser.
3. Choice; discretion; pleasure.
Go, then, the guilty at thy will chastise.
4. Command; direction.
Our prayers should be according to the will of God.
5. Disposition; inclination; desire.  What is your will, Sir? In this phrase, the word may also signify determination, especially when addressed to a superior.
6. Power; arbitrary disposal.
Deliver me not over to the will of my enemies. Psalm 27.
7. Divine determination; moral purpose or counsel.
Thy will be done. Lords Prayer.
8. Testament; the disposition of a mans estate, to take effect after his death. Wills are written, or nuncupative, that is, verbal.
Good will,
1. Favor; kindness.
2. Right intention. Philippians 1.
Ill will, enmity; unfriendliness. It expresses less than malice.
To have ones will, to obtain what is desired.
At will. To hold an estate at the will of another, is to enjoy the possession at his pleasure, and be liable to be ousted at any time by the lessor or proprietor.
Will with a wisp, Jack with a lantern; ignis fatuus; a luminous appearance sometimes seen in the air over moist ground, supposed to proceed from hydrogen gas.
WILL, v.t. [G., L., Gr. The sense is to set, or to set forward, to stretch forward. The sense is well expressed by the L.]
1. To determine; to decide int he mind that something shall be done or forborne; implying power to carry the purpose into effect. In this manner God wills whatever comes to pass. So in the style of princes; we will that execution be done.
A man that sits still is said to be at liberty, because he can walk if he will it.
2. To command; to direct.
Tis yours, O queen! To will the work which duty bids me to fulfill.
3. To be inclined or resolved to have.
There, there, Hortensio, will you any wife?
4. To wish; to desire. What will you?
5. To dispose of estate and effects by testament.
6. It is sometimes equivalent to may be. Let the circumstances be what they will; that is, any circumstances, of whatever nature.
7. Will is used as an auxiliary verb, and a sign of the future tense. It has different signification in different persons.
1. I will go, is a present promise to go; and with an emphasis on will, it expresses determination.
2. Thou wilt go, you will go, express foretelling; simply stating an event that is to come.
3. He will go, is also a foretelling. The use of will in the plural, is the same. We will, promises; ye will, they will, foretell.


Topic: Willful
Definition:
WILLFUL, a. [will and full.]
1. Governed by the will without yielding to reason; obstinate; stubborn; perverse; inflexible; as a willful man.
2. Stubborn; refractory; as a willful horse.


Topic: Willfully
Definition:
WILLFULLY, adv. 
1. Obstinately; stubbornly.
2. By design; with set purpose.
If we sin willfully after that we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remaineth no more sacrifice for sins. Hebrews 10.


Topic: Willfulness
Definition:
WILLFULNESS, n. Obstinacy; stubbornness; perverseness.
Sins of presumption are such as proceed from pride, arrogance, willfulness, and haughtiness of mens heart.


Topic: Willing
Definition:
WILLING, ppr. 
1. Determining; resolving; desiring.
2. Disposing of by will.
WILLING, a. 
1. Free to do or grant; having the mind inclined; disposed; not averse. Let every man give, who is able and willing.
2. Pleased; desirous.
Felix, willing to show the Jews a pleasure. Acts 24.
3. Ready; prompt.
He stoopd with weary wings and willing feet.
4. Chosen; received of choice or without reluctance; as, to be held in willing chains.
5. Spontaneous.
No spouts of blood run wiling from a tree.
6. Consenting.


Topic: Willingly
Definition:
WILLINGLY, adv. 
1. With free will; without reluctance; cheerfully.
2. By ones own choice.
The condition of that people is not so much to be envied as some would willingly represent it.


Topic: Willingness
Definition:
WILLINGNESS, n. Free choice or consent of the will; freedom from reluctance; readiness of the mind to do or forbear.
Sweet is the love that comes with willingness.


Topic: Willow
Definition:
WILLOW, n. [L.] A tree of the genus Salix. There are several species of willow, the white, the black, the purple or red, the sallow, and the broad leaved willow, &c. A species called the weeping willow, has long and slender branches which droop and hang downward, the Salix Babylonica.


Topic: Willow-herb
Definition:
WILLOW-HERB, n. The purple loose strife, a plant of the genus Lythrum; also, the yellow loose strife, of the genus Lysimachia; also, the French willow, of the genus Epilobium.


Topic: Wilt
Definition:
WILT, v.i. [G., to fade; that is, to shrink or withdraw.] To begin to wither; to lose freshness and become flaccid, as a plant when exposed to great heat in a dry day, or when first separated from its root. This is a legitimate word, for which there is no substitute in the language. It is not synonymous with wither, as it expresses only the beginning of withering. A wilted plant often revives and becomes fresh; not so a withered plant.
WILT, v.t. 
1. To cause to begin to wither; to make flaccid; as a green plant.
2. To cause to languish; to depress or destroy the vigor and energy of.
Despots have wilted the human race into sloth and imbecility.


Topic: Wily
Definition:
WILY, a. [from wile.] Cunning; sly; using craft or stratagem to accomplish a purpose; subtle; as a wily adversary.


Topic: Wimble
Definition:
WIMBLE, n. [See Whim.] An instrument for boring holes, turned by a handle.
WIMBLE, a. Active; nimble.


Topic: Win
Definition:
WIN, v.t. pret. and pp. won. [G.]
1. To gain by success in competition or contest; as, to win the prize in a game; to win money; to win a battle, or to win a country. Battles are won by superior strength or skill.
--Who thus shall Canaan win.
2. To gain by solicitation or courtship.
3. To obtain; to allure to kindness or compliance. Thy virtue won me. Win your enemy by kindness.
4. To gain by persuasion or influence; as, an orator wins his audience by argument. The advocate has won the jury.
And Mammon wins his way, where seraphs might despair.
WIN, v.t. 
1. To gain the victory.
Nor is it aught but just that he, who in debate of truth hath won, should win in arms.
To win upon, to gain favor or influence; as, to win upon the heart or affections.
2. To gain ground.
The rabble will in time win upon power.
To win of, to be conqueror.


Topic: Wince
Definition:
WINCE, v.i. 
1. To shrink, as from a blow or from pain; to start back.
I will not stir nor wince.
2.  To kick or flounce when uneasy, or impatient of a rider; as, a horse winces.


Topic: Winch
Definition:
WINCH, n. A windlass; or an instrument with which to turn or strain something forcibly; as a winch to strain the cord of a bedstead, or to turn a wheel.
WINCH, v.i. To wince; to shrink; to kick with impatience or uneasiness. [This is a more correct orthography than wince.] 


Topic: Wincopipe
Definition:
WINCOPIPE, n. The vulgar name of a little flower, that, when it opens in the morning, bodes a fair day.


Topic: Wind
Definition:
WIND, n. [L., G. The primary sense is to move, flow, rush or drive along.]
1. Air in motion with any degree of velocity, indefinitely; a current of air. When the air moves moderately, we call it a light wind, or a breeze; when with more velocity, we call it a fresh breeze, and when with violence, we call it a gale, storm or tempest. The word gale is used by the poets for a moderate breeze, but seamen use it as equivalent to storm. Winds are denominated from the point of compass from which they blow; as a north wind; an east wind; a south wind; a west wind; a southwest wind, &c.
2. The four winds, the cardinal points of the heavens.
Come from the four winds, O breath, and breathe upon these slain. Ezekiel 37.
This sense of the word seems to have had its origin with the orientals, as it was the practice of the Hebrews to give to each of the four cardinal points the name of wind.
3. Direction of the wind from other points of the compass than the cardinal, or any point of compass; as a compass of eight winds.
4. Breath; power of respiration.
If my wind were but long enough to say my prayers, I would repent.
5. Air in motion form any force or action; as the wind of a cannon ball; the wind of a bellows.
6. Breath modulated by the organs or by an instrument.
Their instruments were various in their kind, some for the bow, and some for breathing wind.
7. Air impregnated with scent.
A pack of dog-fish had him in the wind.
8. Any thing insignificant or light as wind.
Think not with wind or airy threats to awe.
9. Flatulence; air generated in the stomach and bowels; as, to be troubled with wind.
10. The name given to a disease of sheep, in which the intestines are distended with air, or rather affected with a violent inflammation. It occurs immediately after shearing.
 Down the wind, decaying; declining; in a state of decay; as, he went down the wind. [Not used.]
To take or have the wind, or to get wind, to be divulged; to become public. The story got wind, or took wind.
In the winds eye, in seamens language, towards the direct point from which the wind blows.
Between wind and water, denoting that part of a ships side or bottom which is frequently brought above water by the rolling of the ship, or fluctuation of the waters surface.
To carry the wind, in the manege, is when a horse tosses his nose as high as his ears.
Constant or perennial wind, a wind that blows constantly from one point of the compass; as the trade wind of the tropics.
Shifting, variable or erratic winds, are such as are changeable, now blowing from one point and now from another, and then ceasing altogether.
Stated or periodical wind, a wind that constantly returns at a certain time, and blows steadily from one point for a certain time. Such are the monsoons in India, and land and sea breezes.
Trade wind, a wind that blows constantly from one point, such as the tropical wind in the Atlantic.


Topic: Wind-dropsy
Definition:
WIND-DROPSY, n. [wind and dropsy.] A swelling of the belly from wind in the intestines; tympauites.


Topic: Wind-furnace
Definition:
WIND-FURNACE, n. [wind and furnace.] A furnace in which the air is supplied by an artificial current, as from a bellows.


Topic: Wind-hatch
Definition:
WIND-HATCH, n. [wind and hatch.] In mining, the opening or place where the ore is taken out of the earth.


Topic: Wind-hover
Definition:
WIND-HOVER, n. [wind and hover.] A species of hawk; called also the stannel, but more usually the kestrel.


Topic: Wind-instrument
Definition:
WIND-INSTRUMENT, n. An instrument of music, played by wind, chiefly by the breath; as a flute, a clarinet, &c.


Topic: Wind-rode
Definition:
WIND-RODE, n. A term used by seamen to signify a ship when riding with wind and tide opposed to each other, driven to the leeward of her anchor.


Topic: Wind-sail
Definition:
WIND-SAIL, n. [wind and sail.] A wide tube or funnel of canvas, used to convey a stream of air into the lower apartments of a ship.


Topic: Windiness
Definition:
WINDINESS, n. [from windey.] 
1. The state of being windy or tempestuous; as the windiness of the weather or season.
2. Fullness of wind; flatulence.
3. Tendency to generate wind; as the windiness of vegetables.
4. Tumor; puffiness.
The swelling windiness of much knowledge.


Topic: Winding
Definition:
WINDING, ppr. 
1. Turning; binding about; bending.
2. a. Bending; twisting from a direct line or an even surface.
WINDING, n. 
1. A turn or turning; a bend; flexure; meander; as the windings of a road or stream.
2. A call by the boastswains whistle.


Topic: Winding-tackle
Definition:
WINDING-TACKLE, n. [winding and tackle.] A tackle consisting of one fixed triple block, and one double or triple movable block.


Topic: Windlas
Definition:
WINDLAS, WINDLASS, n. [wind and lace.] 
1. A machine for raising great weights, consisting of a cylinder or roller of timber, moving on its axis and turned by levers, with a rope or chain attached to the weight.
2. A handle by which any thing is turned. [Not in use.]


Topic: Window
Definition:
WINDOW, n. [ G. The vulgar pronunciation is windor, as if from the Welsh gwyntdor, wind-door.]
1. An opening in the wall of a building for the admission of light, and of air when necessary. This opening has a frame on the sides, in which are set movable sashes, containing panes of glass. In the United Sates, the sashes are made to rise and fall, for the admission or exclusion of air. In France, windows are shut with frames or sashes that open and shut vertically, like the leaves of a folding door.
2. An aperture or opening.
A window shalt thou make to the ark. Genesis 6. 
3. The frame or other thing that covers the aperture.
Ere I let fall the windows of mine eyes.
4. An aperture; or rather the clouds or water-spouts.
The windows of heaven were opened. Genesis 7.
5. Lattice or casement; or the network of wire used before the invention of glass. Judges 5.
6. Lines crossing each other.
Till he has windows on his bread and butter.
WINDOW, v.t. 
1. To furnish with windows.
2. To place at a window. [Unusual.]
3. To break into openings. [Unusual.]


Topic: Window-blind
Definition:
WINDOW-BLIND, n. [window and blind.] A blind to intercept the light of a window. Venetian window-blinds are now much used in the United States.


Topic: Window-sash
Definition:
WINDOW-SASH, n. [window and sash.] The sash or light frame in which panes of glass are set for windows.


Topic: Windrow
Definition:
WINDROW, n. [wind and row.] 
1. A row or line of hay, raked together for the purpose of being rolled into cocks or heaps. [This is the only use of the word in New England.]
2. The green border of a field, dug up in order to carry the earth on other land to mend it.
3. A row of peats set up for drying; or a row of pieces of turf, sod or sward, cut in paring and burning.


Topic: Windward
Definition:
WINDWARD, n. [wind and ward.] The point from which the wind blows; as, to ply to the windward.
WINDWARD, a. [wind and ward.] Being on the side towards the point from which the wind blows; as the windward shrouds.
WINDWARD, adv. Towards the wind.


Topic: Windy
Definition:
WINDY, a. 
1. Consisting of wind; as a windy tempest.
2. Next the wind; as the windy side.
3. Tempestuous; boisterous; as windy weather.
4. Puffy; flatulent; abounding with wind.
5. Empty; airy; as windy joy.


Topic: Wine
Definition:
WINE, n. [Gr.]
1. The fermented juice of grapes; as the wine of the Madeira grape; the wine of Burgundy or Oporto.
2. The juice of certain fruits, prepared with sugar, spirits, &c.; as currant wine; gooseberry wine.
3. Intoxication.
Noah awoke from his wine. Genesis 9.
4. Drinking.
They that tarry long at the wine. Proverbs 23.
Corn and wine, in Scripture, are put for all kinds of necessaries for subsistence. Psalm.
Bread and wine, in the Lords supper, are symbols of the body and blood of Christ.


Topic: Wine-measure
Definition:
WINE-MEASURE, n. [See Measure.] The measure by which wines and other spirits are sold, smaller than beer measure.


Topic: Wing
Definition:
WING, n. 
1. The limb of a fowl by which it flies. In a few species of fowls, the wings do not enable them to fly; as is the case with the dodo, ostrich, great auk, and penguin; but in the two former, the wings assist the fowls in running.
2. The limb of an insect by which it flies.
3. In botany, the side petal of a papilionaceous corol; also, an appendage of seeds, by means of which they are wafted in the air and scattered; also, any membranous or leafy dilatation of a footstalk, or of the angles of a stem, branch or flower stalk, or of a calyx.
4. Flight; passage by the wind; as, to be on the wind; to take wing.
5. Means of flying; acceleration. Fear adds wings to flight.
6. Motive or incitement of flight.
Then fiery expedition be my wing.
7. The flank or extreme body or part of an army.
8. Any side-piece.
9. In gardening, a side-shoot.
10. In architecture, a side-building, less than the main edifice.
11. In fortification, the longer sides of hornworks, crown-works, &c.
12. In a fleet, the ships on the extremities, when ranged in a line, or when forming the two sides of a triangle.
13. In a ship, the wings are those parts of the hold and orlop deck, which are nearest the sides.
14. In Scripture, protection; generally in the plural. Psalm 63. Exodus 19.
On the wings of the wind, with the utmost velocity. Psalm 18. 

WING, v.t. 
1. To furnish with wings; to enable to fly or to move with celerity.
Who heaves old ocean, and who wings the storms.
2. To supply with side bodies; as on either side well winged.
3. To transport by flight.
I, an old turtle, will wing me to some witherd bough.
Edge the keen sword, and wing th unerring ball.
To wing a flight, to exert the power of flying.


Topic: Winged
Definition:
WINGED, pp. 
1. Furnished with wings; transported by flying.
2. a. Having wings; as a winged fowl. Genesis 1.
3. Swift; rapid; as with winged haste.
4. Wounded; hurt.
5. In botany, furnished with longitudinal membranous appendages, as a winged stalk or stem; or with downy or hairy appendages, as winged seeds.
Winged petiole, having a thing membrane or border on each side, or dilated on the sides.
Winged leaf, a pennate leaf; a species of compound leaf, wherein a simple leaf has several leaflets fastened to each side of it.
6. In heraldry, represented with wings, or having wings of a different color from the body.
7. Fanned with wings; swarming with birds.


Topic: Wink
Definition:
WINK, v.i. [G. Wink and wince are radically one word.]
1. To shut the eyes; to close the eyelids.
They are not blind, but they wink.
2. To close and open the eyelids.
3. To give a hint by a motion of the eyelids.
Wink at the footman to leave him without a plate.
4. To close the eyelids and exclude the light.
Or wink as cowards and afraid.
5. To be dim; as a winking light.
To wink at, to connive at; to seem not to see; to tolerate; to overlook, as something not perfectly agreeable; as, to wink at faults.
WINK, n. 
1. The act of closing the eyelids. I lay awake, and could not sleep a wink.
I could eclipse and cloud them with a wink.
2. A hint given by shutting the eye with a significant cast.


Topic: Winking
Definition:
WINKING, ppr. Shutting the eyes; shutting and opening the eyelids; hinting by closing the eye; conniving at; overlooking.


Topic: Winning
Definition:
WINNING, ppr. [from win.]
1. Gaining success in competition or contest.
2. a. Attracting; adapted to gain favor; charming; as a winning address.
WINNING, n. The sum won or gained by success in competition or contest.


Topic: Winnow
Definition:
WINNOW, v.t. [L., a fan.]
1. To separate and drive off the chaff from grain by means of wind. Grain is winnowed by a fan, or by a machine, or by pouring it out of a vessel in a current of air.
2. To fan; to beat as with wings.
3. To examine; to sift for the purpose of separating falsehood from truth.
Winnow well this thought.
4. To separate, as the bad from the good.
WINNOW, v.i. To separate chaff from corn.
Winnow not with every wind.


Topic: Winter
Definition:
WINTER, n. 
1. The cold season of the year. Astronomically considered, winter commences in northern latitudes when the sun enters Capricorn, or at the solstice about the 21st of December, and ends at the equinox in March; but in ordinary discourse, the three winter months are December, January, and February. Our Saxon ancestors reckoned the years by winters; as ten winters; thirty winters. In tropical climates, there are two winters annually; but they cannot be said to be cold. In the temperate and frigid climates, there is one winter only in the year.
2. The part of the printing press which sustains the carriage.
WINTER, v.i. To pass the winter. He wintered in Italy. Cattle winter well on good fodder.
WINTER, v.t. To feed or manage during the winter. To winter young cattle on straw, is not profitable. Delicate plants must be wintered under cover.


Topic: Winter-cherry
Definition:
WINTER-CHERRY, n. [winter and cherry.] A plant of the genus Physalis, and its fruit, which is of the size of a cherry.


Topic: Winter-crop
Definition:
WINTER-CROP, n. [winter and crop.] A crop which will bear the winter, or which may be converted into fodder during the winter.


Topic: Winter-kill
Definition:
WINTER-KILL, v.t. [winter and kill.] To kill by means of the weather in winter; as, to winter-kill wheat or clover.
WINTER-KILL, v.i. To be killed by the winter. Wheat is liable to winter-kill in moist land.


Topic: Winter-lodge
Definition:
WINTER-LODGE, WINTER-LODGMENT, n. [winter and lodge.] In botany, the hybernacle of a plant, which protects the embryo or future shoot from injuries during the winter. It is either a bud or a bulb.


Topic: Winter-quarters
Definition:
WINTER-QUARTERS, n. [winter and quarters.] The quarters of an army during the winter; a winter residence or station.


Topic: Winter-solstice
Definition:
WINTER-SOLSTICE, n. [winter and solstice.] The solstice of the winter, which takes place when the sun enters Capricorn, December 21st.


Topic: Wipe
Definition:
WIPE, v.t. 
1. To rub something soft for cleaning; to clean by rubbing; as, to wipe the hands or face with a towel. Luke 7.
2. To strike off gently.
Some natral tears they droppd, but wipd them soon.
3. To cleanse from evil practices or abuses; to overturn and destroy what is foul and hateful.
I will wipe Jerusalem as a man wipeth a dish. 2 Kings 21.
4. To cheat; to defraud.
To wipe away, to cleanse by rubbing or tersion; as, to wipe away a stain or reproach.
To wipe off, to clear away. Wipe off this foul stain; wipe off the dust.
To wipe out, to efface; to obliterate. Wipe out the blot.
WIPE, n. 
1. The act of rubbing for the purpose of cleaning.
2. A blow; a stroke.
3. A gibe; a jeer; a severe sarcasm.
4. A bird. 


Topic: Wire
Definition:
WIRE, n. A thread of metal; any metallic substance drawn to an even thread.
WIRE, v.t. To bind with wire; to apply wire to, as in bottling liquors.


Topic: Wire-grate
Definition:
WIRE-GRATE, n. [wire and grate.] A grate or contrivance of fine wire work to keep insects out of vineries, hot houses, &c.


Topic: Wiredraw
Definition:
WIREDRAW, v.t. [wire and draw.]
1. To draw a metal into wire, which is done by drawing it through a hole in a plate of steel.
2. To draw into length.
3. To draw by art or violence.
My sense has been wiredrawn into blasphemy.
4. To draw or spin out to great length and tenuity; as, to wiredraw an argument.


Topic: Wisdom
Definition:
WISDOM, n. s as z. [G. See Wise.]
1. The right use or exercise of knowledge; the choice of laudable ends, and of the best means to accomplish them. This is wisdom in act, effect, or practice. If wisdom is to be considered as a faculty of the mind, it is the faculty of discerning or judging what is most just, proper and useful, and if it is to be considered as an acquirement, it is the knowledge and use of what is best, most just, most proper, most conducive to prosperity or happiness. Wisdom in the first sense, or practical wisdom, is nearly synonymous with discretion. I differs somewhat from prudence, in this respect; prudence is the exercise of sound judgment in avoiding evils; wisdom is the exercise of sound judgment either in avoiding evils or attempting good. Prudence then is a species, of which wisdom is the genus.
Wisdom gained by experience, is of inestimable value.
It is hoped that our rulers will act with dignity and wisdom; that they will yield every thing to reason, and refuse every thing to force.
2. In Scripture, human learning; erudition; knowledge of arts and sciences.
Moses was learned in all the wisdom of the Egyptians. Acts 7.
3. Quickness of intellect; readiness of apprehension; dexterity in execution; as the wisdom of Bezaleel and Aholiab. Exodus 31.
 4. Natural instinct and sagacity. Job 39.
5. In Scripture theology, wisdom is true religion; godliness; piety; the knowledge and fear of God, and sincere and uniform obedience to his commands. This is the wisdom which is from above. Psalm 90. Job 28.
6. Profitable words or doctrine. Psalm 37. 
The wisdom of this world, mere human erudition; or the carnal policy of men, their craft and artifices in promoting their temporal interests; called also fleshly wisdom. 1 Corinthians 2. 2 Corinthians 1.
The wisdom of words, artificial or affected eloquence; or learning displayed in teaching. 1 Corinthians 1 and 2.


Topic: Wise
Definition:
WISE, a. s as z. [G., to know., L.]
1. Properly, having knowledge; hence, having the power of discerning and judging correctly, or of discriminating between what is true and what is false; between what is fit and proper, and what is improper; as a wise prince; a wise magistrate. Solomon was deemed the wisest man. But a man may be speculatively and not practically wise. Hence,
2. Discrete and judicious in the use or applications of knowledge; choosing laudable ends, and the best means to accomplish them. This is to be practically wise. Genesis 41.
3. Skillful; dextrous.
They are wise to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge. Jeremiah 4.
4. Learned; knowing; as the wise and the unwise. Romans 1.
5. Skilled in arts, science, philosophy, or in magic and divination. 2 Samuel 14.
6. Godly; pious. Proverbs 13.
--The holy Scriptures, which are able to make thee wise to salvation. 2 Timothy 3.
7. Skilled in hidden arts; a sense somewhat ironical; as the wise woman of Brainford.
8.Dictated or guided by wisdom; containing wisdom; judicious; well adapted to produce good effects; applicable to things; as a wise saying; a wise scheme or plan; wise conduct or management; a wise determination.
9. Becoming a wise man; grave; discrete; as wise deportment.
WISE, n. s as z. [G.] Manner; way of being or acting.
This song she sings in most commanding wise. 
In fittest wise.
In the foregoing form, this word is obsolete, the use of it is now very limited. It is common in the following phrases.
1. In any wise.
If he that sanctified the field will in any wise redeem it-- Leviticus 27.
Fret not thyself in any wise. Psalm 37.
2. On this wise.
On this wise ye shall bless the children of Israel. Numbers 6.
3. In no wise. He shall in no wise lose his reward. Matthew 10.
It is used in composition, as in likewise, otherwise, lengthwise, &c. By mistake, ways is often used for it; as lengthways, for lengthwise.


Topic: Wiseacre
Definition:
WISEACRE, n. More correctly wisesager. [G., a sayer, a predictor or foreteller.] One who makes pretensions to great wisdom; hence in contempt, a simpleton; a dunce.


Topic: Wisely
Definition:
WISELY, adv. 
1. Prudently; judiciously; discretely; with wisdom. Proverbs 16. 21.
2. Craftily; with art or stratagem.
Let us deal wisely with them. Exodus 1.


Topic: Wish
Definition:
WISH, v.i. [G.]
1. To have a desire, or strong desire, either for what is or is not supposed to be obtainable. It usually expresses less than long; but sometimes it denotes to long or wise earnestly. We often wise for what is not obtainable.
This is as good an argument as an antiquary could wish for.
They have more than heart could wish. Psalm 73.
I wish above all things that thou mayest prosper. 3 John 2.
They cast four anchors out of the stern, and wished for the day. Acts 27.
2. To be disposed or inclined; as, to wish well to anothers affairs.
3. It sometimes partakes of hope or fear. I wish the event may prove fortunate, or less calamitous than we apprehend.
WISH, v.t. 
1. To desire. I wish your prosperity.
Let them be driven backward and put to shame, that wish me evil. Psalm 40.
2. To long for; to desire eagerly or ardently. It has this sense when expressed with emphasis.
3. To recommend by wishing.
I would not wish them to a fairer death.
4. To imprecate; as, to wish curses on an enemy.
5. To ask; to express desire.
WISH, n. 
1. Desire; sometimes, eager desire. Job 33.
2. Desire expressed. 
Blisterd be thy tongue for such a wish.
3. Thing desired. He has his wish.
The difference between wish and desire seems to be, that desire is directed to what is obtainable, and a wish may be directed to what is obtainable or not.


Topic: Wishful
Definition:
WISHFUL, a. 
1. Having desire, or ardent desire.
2. Showing desire; as wishful eyes.
3. Desirable; exciting wishes. [Bad.]


Topic: Wisp
Definition:
WISP, n. [G.] A small bundle of straw or other like substance; as a wisp of straw; a wisp of hay; a wisp of herbs.


Topic: Wistful
Definition:
WISTFUL, a. [from wist. The sense is stretching or reaching towards.] Full of thoughts; earnest; attentive.
Why--dost thou so wistful seem?


Topic: Wistit
Definition:
WISTIT, n. The striated monkey; a small species of monkey from South America, with an annulated tail, the ouistiti of Buffon.


Topic: Wit
Definition:
WIT, v.i. [G., to know. See Wise.] To know. This verb is used only in the infinitive, to wit, namely, that is to say. [L.]
WIT, n. [See the verb and Wise.]
1. Primarily, the intellect; the understanding or mental powers.
Will puts in practice what the wit deviseth.
For wit and power their last endeavors bend t outshine each other.
2. The association of ideas in a manner natural, but unusual and striking, so as to produce surprise joined with pleasure. Wit is defined.
What oft was thought, but neer so well expressd.
Wit consists in assembling and putting together with quickness, ideas in which can be found resemblance and congruity, by which to make up pleasant pictures and agreeable visions in the fancy.
Wit consists chiefly in joining things by distant and fanciful relations, which surprise us because they are unexpected.
Wit is a propriety of thoughts and words; or in other terms, thoughts and words elegantly adapted to the subject.
3. The faculty of associating ideas in a new and unexpected manner.
4. A man of genius; as, the age of Addison abounded with wits.
A wit herself, Amelia weds a wit.
5. A man of fancy or wit.
Intemperate wits will spare neither friend nor foe.
6. Sense; judgment.
He wants not wit the danger to decline.
7. Faculty of the mind.
8. Wits, in the plural, soundness of mind; intellect not disordered; sound mind. No man in his wits would venture on such an expedition. Have you lost your wits? Is he out of his wits?
9. Power of invention; contrivance; ingenuity. He was at his wits end.


Topic: Wit-fish
Definition:
WIT-FISH, n. [white fish.] An East Indian fish of the size of a whiting; also, another East Indian fish, the Albula Indica of Ray.


Topic: Witch
Definition:
WITCH, n. 
1. A woman who by compact with the devil, practices sorcery or enchantment.
2. A woman who is given to unlawful arts.
3. A winding sinuous bank.
WITCH, v.t. To bewitch; to fascinate; to enchant.
Ill witch sweet ladies with my words and looks.


Topic: Witch-hazel
Definition:
WITCH-HAZEL, n. 
1. A species of elm, (Ulmus montana.)
2. The hop-hornbeam, (carpinus ostrya.)
The Virginian witch-hazel is the Hamemelis virginica, a shrub which flowers in autumn when its leaves are falling.


Topic: Witchcraft
Definition:
WITCHCRAFT, [witch and craft.]
1. The practices of witches; sorcery; enchantments; intercourse with the devil.
2. Power more than natural.
He hath a witchcraft over the king ins tongue.


Topic: With
Definition:
WITH, prep. [G.]
1. By, noting cause, instrument or means. We are distressed with pain; we are elevated with joy. With study men become learned and respectable. Fire is extinguished with water.
2. On the side of, noting friendship or favor.
Fear not, for I am with thee. Genesis 26.
3. In opposition to; in competition or contest; as, to struggle with adversity. The champions fought with each other an hour. He will lie with any man living.
4. Noting comparison. The fact you mention compares well with another I have witnessed.
5. In company. The gentlemen traveled with me from Boston to Philadelphia.
6. In the society of. There is no living with such neighbors.
7. In connection, or in appendage. He gave me the Bible, and with it the warmest expressions of affection.
8. In mutual dealing or intercourse.
I will buy with you, sell with you--
9. Noting confidence. I will trust you with the secret.
10. In partnership. He shares the profits with the other partners. I will share with you the pleasures and the pains.
11. Noting connection.
Nor twist our fortunes with your sinking fate.
12. Immediately after.
With this he pointed to his face.
13. Among. I left the assembly with the last.
Tragedy was originally with the ancients a piece of religious worship.
14. Upon.
Such arguments had invincible force with those pagan philosophers.
15. In consent, noting parity of state.
See! Where on earth the flowry glories lie, with her they flourishd, and with her thy die.
With and by are closely allied in many of their uses, and it is not easy to lay down a rule by which their uses may be distinguished. It is observed by Johnson that with seems rather to denote an instrument, and by a cause; as, he killed an enemy with a sword, but he died by an arrow. But this rule is not always observed.
With, in composition, signifies for the most part opposition, privation; or separation, departure.


Topic: Withal
Definition:
WITHAL, adv. Withaul. [with and all.] 
1. With the rest; together with; likewise; at the same time.
If you choose that, then I am yours withal.
How modest in exception, and withal how terrible in constant resolution!
2. It is sometimes used for with. But the word is not elegant, nor much used.


Topic: Withdraw
Definition:
WITHDRAW, v.t. [with and draw.] 
1. To take back; to take from.
It is impossible that God should withdraw his presence from any thing.
We say, to withdraw capital from a bank or stock in trade, to withdraw aid or assistance.
2. To recall; to cause to retire or leave; to call back or away. France has withdrawn her troops from Spain.
WITHDRAW, v.i. To retire; to retreat; to quit a company or place. We withdrew from the company at ten oclock.
She from her husband soft withdrew.


Topic: Withdrawment
Definition:
WITHDRAWMENT, n. The act of withdrawing or taking back; a recalling.
Their withdrawment from the British and Foreign Bible Society, would tend to paralyze their exertions.


Topic: Withe
Definition:
WITH, WITHE, n. [L., probably a shoot.]
1. A willow twig.
2. A band consisting of a twig, or twigs twisted.


Topic: Wither
Definition:
WITHER, v.i. 
1. To fade; to lose its native freshness; to become sapless; to dry.
It shall wither in all the leaves of her spring. Ezekiel 17.
2. To waste; to pine away; as animal bodies; as a withered hand. Matthew 12.
3. To lose or want animal moisture.
Now warm in love, now withring in the grave.
WITHER, v.t. 
1. To cause to fade and become dry; as, the sun withereth the grass. James 1.
2. To cause to shrink, wrinkle and decay, for want of animal moisture.
Age cannot wither her.


Topic: Wither-band
Definition:
WITHER-BAND, n. [withers and band.] A piece of iron laid under a saddle near a horses withers, to strengthen the bow.


Topic: Witherite
Definition:
WITHERITE, n. In mineralogy, a carbonate of baryte, first discovered by Dr. Withering; rhomboidal baryte. It is white, gray, or yellow.


Topic: Withernam
Definition:
WITHERNAM, n.  In withernam, in law, a second or reciprocal distress, in lieu of a first distress which has been eloigned; reprisal.


Topic: Withers
Definition:
WITHERS, n. [This seems to signify a joining, from the root of with.] The juncture of the shoulder bones of a horse, at the bottom of the neck.


Topic: Withhold
Definition:
WITHHOLD, v.t. pret. and pp. withheld. [with and hold.]
1. TO hold back; to restrain; to keep from action.
Withhold--your hasty hand.
If our passions may be withheld.
2. To retain; to keep back; not to grant; as, to withhold assent to a proposition. The sun does not withhold his light.


Topic: Within
Definition:
WITHIN, prep.
1. In the inner part; as the space within the walls of a house; a man contented and happy within himself.
2. In the limits or compass of; not beyond; used of place and time. The object is within my sight; within the knowledge of the present generation; within a month or a year.
3. Not reaching to any thing external.
Were every action concluded within itself--
4. In the compass of; not longer ago than.
Within these five hours Hastings livd untainted.
5. Not later than; as, within five days from this time, it will be fair weather.
6. In the reach of.
Both he and she are still within my powr.
7. Not exceeding. Keep your expenses within your income.
8. In the heart or confidence of. [Inelegant.]
9. In the house; in any inclosure.
WITHIN, adv. 
1. In the inner part; inwardly; internally.
The wound festers within.
2. In the mind.
Ills from within thy reason must prevent.


Topic: Without
Definition:
WITHOUT, prep.
1. Not with; as without success.
2. In a state of destitution or absence from.
There is no living with thee nor without thee.
3. In a state of destitution or absence from.
There is no living with thee nor without thee.
4. Beyond; not within.
Eternity, before the world and after, is without our reach.
5. Supposing the negation or omission of.
Without the separation of the two monarchies, the most advantageous terms from the French must end in our destruction.
6. Independent of; not by the use of. Men like to live without labor.
Wise men will do it without a law.
7. On the outside of; as without the gate; without doors.
8. With exemption from. That event cannot happen without great damage to our interests.
9. Unless; except.
Without, when it precedes a sentence or member of a sentence, has been called a conjunction. This is a mistake. You will not enjoy health, without you use much exercise. In this sentence, without is a preposition still, but followed by a member of a sentence, instead of a single noun. It has no property of a connective or conjunction, and does not fall within the definition. You will not enjoy health, this fact following being removed, or not taking place; you use exercise. This use of without, is nearly superseded by unless and except, among good writers and speakers; but is common in popular discourse or parlance.
WITHOUT, adv. 
1. Not on the inside; not within.
These were from without the growing miseries.
2. Out of doors.
3. Externally; not in the mind.
Without were fightings, within were fears. 2 Corinthians 7.


Topic: Withstand
Definition:
WITHSTAND, v.t. [with and stand. See Stand.] To oppose; to resist, either with physical or moral force; as, to withstand the attack of troops; to withstand eloquence or arguments.
When Peter was come to Antioch, I withstood him to his face. Galatians 2.


Topic: Witless
Definition:
WITLESS, a. [wit and less.] 
1. Destitute of wit or understanding; inconsiderate; wanting thought; as a witless swain; witless youth.
2. Indiscrete; not under the guidance of judgment; as witless bravery.


Topic: Witling
Definition:
WITLING, n. [dim. From with.] A person who has little wit or understanding; a pretender to wit or smartness.
A beau and witling perishd in the throng.


Topic: Witness
Definition:
WITNESS, n. 
1. Testimony; attestation of a fact or event.
If I bear witness of myself, my witness is not true. John 5.
2. That which furnishes evidence or proof.
Laban said, this heap is a witness between me and thee this day. Genesis 31.
3. A person who knows or sees any thing; one personally present; as, he was witness; he was an eye-witness. 1 Peter 5.
4. One who sees the execution of an instrument, and subscribes it for the purpose of confirming its authenticity b his testimony.
5. One who gives testimony; as, the witnesses in court agreed in all essential facts.
With a witness, effectually; to a great degree; with great force, so as to leave some mark as a testimony behind. He struck with a witness. [Not elegant.]
WITNESS, v.t. 
1. To see or know by personal presence. I witnessed the ceremonies in New York, with which the ratification of the constitution was celebrated, in 1788.
2. To attest; to give testimony to; to testify to something.
Behold, how many things they witness against thee. Mark 15.
3. To see the execution of an instrument, and subscribe it for the purpose of establishing its authenticity; as, to witness a bond or a deed.
WITNESS, v.i. 
1. To bear testimony.
The men of Belial witnessed against him, even against Naboth. 1 Kings 21.
2. To give evidence.
The shew of their countenance doth witness against them. Isaiah 3.


Topic: Witnessed
Definition:
WITNESSED, pp. Seen in person; testified; subscribed by persons present; as a deed witnessed by two persons.


Topic: Witticism
Definition:
WITTICISM, n. [from wit.] A sentence or phrase which is affectedly witty; a low kind of wit.
--He is full of conceptions, points of epigram, and witticisms; all which are below the dignity of heroic verse.


Topic: Wittily
Definition:
WITTILY, adv. [from wit.]
1. With wit; with a delicate turn or phrase, or with an ingenious association of ideas.
2. Ingeniously; cunningly; artfully.
Who his own harm so wittily contrives.


Topic: Wittingly
Definition:
WITTINGLY, adv. [See Wit.] Knowingly; with knowledge; by design.
He knowingly and wittingly brought evil into the world.


Topic: Witty
Definition:
WITTY, a. [from wit.] 
1. Possessed of wit; full of wit; as a witty poet.
2. Judicious; ingenious; inventive.
3. Sarcastic; full of taunts.
Honeycomb was unmercifully witty upon the women.


Topic: Wive
Definition:
WIVE, v.i. [from wife.] to marry. [Not in use.]
WIVE, v.t. 
1. To match to a wife.
2. To take for a wife. [Not in use.]


Topic: Wizard
Definition:
WIZARD, n. [from wise.] A conjurer; an enchanter; a sorcerer. Leviticus 20.
The wily wizard must be caught.
WIZARD, a. 
1. Enchanting; charming.
2. Haunted by wizards.


Topic: Wo
Definition:
WO, n. [G.]
1. Grief; sorrow; misery; a heavy calamity.
One who is past; and behold, there come two woes more hereafter. Revelations 9.
They weep each others wo.
2. A curse.
Can there be a wo or curse in all the stores of vengeance, equal to the malignity of such a practice?
3. Wo is used in denunciation, and in exclamations of sorrow.
Wo is me; for I am undone. Isaiah 6.
This is properly the Saxon dative, wo is to me.
Wo worth the day. This is also the dative; wo be to the day.
Wo is a noun, and if used as an adjective, it is improperly used. Wo to you that are rich. Wo to that man, by whom the offense cometh; that is, misery, calamity, be or will be to him.


Topic: Woad
Definition:
WOAD, n. [G.] A plant of the genus Isatis, cultivated for the use of dyers. The woad blue is a very deep blue, and is the base of many other colors or shades of color. Woad is first bruised in a mill, and then made into balls. It grows wild in France and along the coasts of the Baltic. The term woad is applied to the Reseda, weld or wold, and to the Genista tinctoria or dyers broom.


Topic: Wobegone
Definition:
WOBEGONE, a. [wo, be, and gone.] Overwhelmed with wo; immersed in grief and sorrow.
So wobegone was he with pains of love.


Topic: Wodanium
Definition:
WODANIUM, n. A metal recently discovered in a species of pyrite, found in Hungary, which had been supposed to be an ore of cobalt. It has a bronze yellow color.


Topic: Woful
Definition:
WOFUL, a. 
1. Sorrowful; distressed with grief or calamity; afflicted.
How many woful widows left to bow to sad disgrace!
2. Sorrowful; mournful; full of distress; as woful day. Jeremiah 17.
3. Bringing calamity, distress or affliction; as a woful event; woful want.
4. Wretched; paltry.
What woful stuff this madrigal would be.


Topic: Wofully
Definition:
WOFULLY, adv. 
1. Sorrowfully; mournfully; in a distressing manner.
2. Wretchedly; extremely; as, he will be wofully deceived.


Topic: Wold
Definition:
WOLD, in Saxon, is the same as wald and weald, a wood, sometimes perhaps a lawn or plain. Wald signifies also power, dominion, from waldan, to rule. These words occur in names.


Topic: Wolf
Definition:
WOLF, n. WULF. [G., Gr.]
1. An animal of the genus Canis, a beast of prey that kills sheep and other small domestic animals; called sometimes the wild dog. The wolf is crafty, greedy and ravenous.
2. A small white worm or maggot, which infests granaries.
3. An eating ulcer.


Topic: Wolf-dog
Definition:
WOLF-DOG, n. 
1. A dog of a large breed, kept to guard sheep.
2. A dog supposed to be bred between a dog and a wolf.


Topic: Wolf-fish
Definition:
WOLF-FISH, n. A fish, the lupus marinus, (the Anarrhichas lupus of Linne;) a fierce voracious fish of the northern seas.


Topic: Wolfish
Definition:
WOLFISH, a. Like a wolf; having the qualities or form of a wolf; as a wolfish visage; wolfish designs.


Topic: Wolfram
Definition:
WOLFRAM, n. In mineralogy, an ore of tungsten. Its color is generally a brownish of grayish black; when cut with a knife, it gives a reddish brown streak. It occurs massive and crystalized, and in concentric lamellar concretions.


Topic: Wolfs-bane
Definition:
WOLFS-BANE, n. 
1. A poisonous plant of the genus Aconitum; aconite.
2. The winter aconite, or Helleborus hyemalis.


Topic: Wolverene
Definition:
WOLVERIN, WOLVERENE, n. The glutton, a carnivorous animal of voracious appetite. The name wolverene is applied to an animal of North America, considered by Linne as a peculiar species, (Ursus luscus, ) cut which has been since regarded as a variety of the glutton, (U. Gulo.)


Topic: Woman
Definition:
WOMAN, n. plu. women. [a compound of womb and man.]
1. The female of the human race, grown to adult years.
And the rib, which the Lord god had taken from the man, made he a woman. Genesis 2.
Women are soft, mild, pitiful, and flexible.
We see every day women perish with infamy, by having been too willing to set their beauty to show.
I have observed among all nations that the women ornament themselves more tan the men; that wherever found, they are the same kind, civil, obliging, humane, tender beings, inclined to be gay and cheerful, timorous and modest.
2. A female attendant or servant.
WOMAN, v.t To make pliant.


Topic: Womanish
Definition:
WOMANISH, a. Suitable to a woman; having the qualities of a woman; feminine; as womanish habits; womanish tears; a womanish voice.


Topic: Womanly
Definition:
WOMANLY, a. Becoming a woman; feminine; as womanly behavior.
A blushing womanly discovering grace.
WOMANLY, adv. In the manner of a woman.


Topic: Womb
Definition:
WOMB, n. Woom. [G.]
1. The uterus or matrix of a female; that part where the young of an animal is conceived and nourished till its birth.
2. The place where any thing is produced.
The womb of earth the genial seed receives.
3. Any large or deep cavity.
Womb of the morning, in Scripture, the clouds, which distill dew; supposed to be emblematic of the church bringing forth multitudes to Christ. Psalm 110.
WOMB, v.t. To inclose; to breed in secret. [Not in use.]


Topic: Women
Definition:
WOMEN, n. plu. of woman. pron. wimen. But it is supposed the word we pronounce is from Sax. wifman, and therefore should be written wimen.


Topic: Wonder
Definition:
WONDER, n. [G., Gr., to show; and hence a sight; a panic.]
1. That emotion which is excited by novelty, or the presentation to the sight or mind, of something new, unusual, strange, great, extraordinary, or not well understood; something that arrests the attention by its novelty, grandeur or inexplicableness. Wonder expresses less than astonishment, and much less than amazement. It differs from admiration, in not being necessarily accompanied with love, esteem or approbation, nor directed to persons. But wonder sometimes is nearly allied to astonishment, and the exact extent of the meaning of such words can hardly be graduated.
They were filled with wonder and amazement. Acts 3.
Wonder is the effect of novelty upon ignorance.
2. Cause of wonder; that which excites surprise; a strange thing; a prodigy.
To try things oft, and never to give over, doth wonders.
I am as a wonder to many. Psalm 71.
3. Any thing mentioned with surprise.
Babylon, the wonder of all tongues.
Wonders of the world. The seven wonders of the world were the Egyptian pyramids, the Mausoleum erected by Artemisia, the temple of Diana at Ephesus, the walls and hanging gardens of Babylon, the colossus at Rhodes, the statue of Jupiter Olympius, and the Pharos or watch-tower of Alexandria.
4. A miracle. Exodus 3.
WONDER, v.i. To be affected by surprise or admiration.
I could not sufficiently wonder at the intrepidity of these diminutive mortals.
We cease to wonder at what we understand.


Topic: Wonderful
Definition:
WONDERFUL, a. Adapted to excite wonder or admiration; exciting surprise; strange; astonishing. Job 42.


Topic: Wonderfully
Definition:
WONDERFULLY, adv. In a manner to excite wonder or surprise.
I will praise thee, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Psalm 139.


Topic: Wondrous
Definition:
WONDROUS, a. Admirable; marvelous; such as may excite surprise and astonishment; strange.
That I may publish with the voice of thanksgiving, and tell of all thy wondrous works. Psalm 26.
WONDROUS, adv. In a wonderful or surprising degree; as a place wondrous deep; you are wondrous fair; wondrous fond of peace. These phrases of Cowley, Dryden and Pope, are admissible only in the ludicrous and burlesque style.


Topic: Wondrously
Definition:
WONDROUSLY, adv. In a strange or wonderful manner or degree.
Chloe complains, and wondrouslys aggrievd.


Topic: Wone
Definition:
WON, WONE, v.i. [G.] To dwell; to abide. Obsolete. Its participle is retained in wont, that is, woned.


Topic: Wont
Definition:
WONT, a contraction of woll not, that is, will not.
WONT, a. [wont is strictly the participle passive of won, wone. G. See the Verb.] Accustomed; habituated; using or doing customarily.
If the ox were wont to push with his horn-- Exodus 21.
They were wont to speak in old time, saying-- 2 Samuel 20. Matthew 27. Luke 22:39.
WONT, n. Custom; habit; use.
WONT, v.i. To be accustomed or habituated; to be used.
A yearly solemn feast she wont to make.
Wherewith he wont to soar s high.


Topic: Wonted
Definition:
WONTED, pp. 
1. Accustomed; used.
Again his wonted weapon provd.
2. Accustomed; made familiar by use.
She was wonted to the place, and would not remove.


Topic: Woo
Definition:
WOO, v.t. 
1. To court; to solicit in love.
My proud rival wooes another partner to his throne and bed--
Each, like the Grecian artist, wooes the image he himself has wrought.
2. To court solicitously; to invite with importunity.
Thee, chantress, oft the woods among, I woo to hear thy even song.
WOO, v.i. To court; to make love.


Topic: Woo-house
Definition:
WOO-HOUSE, n. [wood and house.] A house or shed in which wood is deposited and sheltered from the weather.


Topic: Wood
Definition:
WOOD, a. Mad; furious.
WOOD, n. 
1. A large and thick collection of trees; a forest.
Light thickens, and the crow makes wing to the rooky wood.
2. The substance of trees; the hard substance which composes the body of a tree and its branches, and which is covered by the bark.
3. Trees cut or sawed for the fire. Wood is yet the principal fuel in the United States.
4. An idol. Habakkuk 2.
WOOD, v.i. To supply or get supplies of wood.


Topic: Wood-ashes
Definition:
WOOD-ASHES, n. [wood and ashes.] The remains of burnt wood or plants. [This word is used in England to distinguish these ashes from the remains of coal. In the United States, where wood chiefly is burnt, the people usually say simply ashes. But as coal becomes more used, the English distinction will be necessary.]


Topic: Wood-cock
Definition:
WOOD-COCK, n. [wood and cock.] A fowl of the genus Scolopax, inhabiting the northern parts of the European continent in summer, but frequenting England in winter. The wood cock of the United States is a smaller species.


Topic: Wood-cockshell
Definition:
WOOD-COCKSHELL, n. A name given by English naturalists to a peculiar kind of the purpura, called by the French becasse; of two species, the prickly and the smooth.


Topic: Wood-engraving
Definition:
WOOD-ENGRAVING, n. Xylography; the art of engraving on wood, or of cutting figures of natural objects on wood.


Topic: Wood-land
Definition:
WOOD-LAND, n. [wood and land.] 
1. Land covered with wood, or land on which trees are suffered to grow, either for fuel or timber.
2. In England, a soil which, from its humidity and color, resembles the soil in woods.


Topic: Wood-layer
Definition:
WOOD-LAYER, n. [wood and layer.] A young oak or other timber plant, laid down in a hedge among the white thorn or other plants used in hedges.


Topic: Wood-lock
Definition:
WOOD-LOCK, n. [wood and lock.] In shipbuilding, a piece of elm, close fitted and sheathed with copper, in the throating or score of the pintle, to keep the rudder from rising.


Topic: Wood-mote
Definition:
WOOD-MOTE, n. [wood and mote.] In England, the ancient name of the forest court; now the court of attachment.


Topic: Wood-note
Definition:
WOOD-NOTE, n. [wood and note.] Wild music.
--Or sweetest Shakespeare, fancys child, warble his native wood-notes wild.


Topic: Wood-nymph
Definition:
WOOD-NYMPH, n. [wood and nymph.] A fabled goddess of the woods; a dryad.
The wood-nymphs deckd with daisies trim.


Topic: Wood-puceron
Definition:
WOOD-PUCERON, n. [wood and puceron.] A small insect of the puceron kind, of a grayish color, having two hollow horns on the hinder part of its body. It resembles the puceron of the alder, but it penetrates into the wood.


Topic: Woodchuk
Definition:
WOODCHUK, n. [wood and chuk, a hog.] [See Chuk.] The popular name in New England of a species of the Marmot tribe of animals, the Arctomys monax. It burrows and is dormant in winter.


Topic: Wooden
Definition:
WOODEN, a. [from wood.] 
1. Made of wood; consisting of wood; as a wooden box; a wooden leg; a wooden horse.
2. Clumsy; awkward.
When a bold man is put out of countenance, he makes a very wooden figure on it.


Topic: Woodman
Definition:
WOODMAN, n. [wood and man.]
1. A forest officer, appointed to take care of the kings wood.
2. A sportsman; a hunter.


Topic: Woodpecker
Definition:
WOODPECKER, n. [wood and peck.] A bird of the genus Picus, that pecks holes in trees, or that picks insects form the bark.


Topic: Woody
Definition:
WOODY, a. [from wood.] 
1. Abounding with wood; as woody land; a woody region.
--Secret shades of woody Idas inmost grove.
2. Consisting of wood; ligneous; as the woody parts of plants.
3. Pertaining to woods; sylvan; as woody nymphs.


Topic: Woof
Definition:
WOOF, n. [Gr.]
1. The threads that cross the warp in weaving; the weft.
2. Texture; cloth; as a pall of softest woof.


Topic: Wool
Definition:
WOOL, n. [G., Gr., soft; down; L., to pull off.]
1. That species of hair which grows on sheep and some other animals, which in fineness sometimes approaches to fur. The word generally signifies the fleecy coat of the sheep, which constitutes a most essential material of clothing in all cold and temperate climates.
2. Short thick hair.
3. In botany, a sort of pubescence, or a clothing o dense curling hairs on the surface of certain plants.


Topic: Wool-staple
Definition:
WOOL-STAPLE, n. [wool and staple.] A city or town where wool used to be brought to the kings staple for sale.


Topic: Wool-winder
Definition:
WOOL-WINDER, n. [wool and wind.] A person employed to wind or make up wool into bundles to be packed for sale.


Topic: Woold
Definition:
WOOLD, v.t. [G.] To wind, particularly to wind a rope round a mast or yard, when made of two or more pieces, at the place where they are fished, for confining and supporting them.


Topic: Woolding
Definition:
WOOLDING, ppr. Binding fast with ropes; winding round.
WOOLDING, n. 
1. The act of winding, as a rope round a mast.
2. The rope used for binding masts and spars.


Topic: Woolen
Definition:
WOOLEN, a. 
1. Made of wool; consisting of wool; as woolen cloth.
2. Pertaining to wool; as woolen manufactures.
WOOLEN, n. Cloth made of wool.


Topic: Woolfel
Definition:
WOOLFEL, n. [wool and fel., L.] A skin with the wool; a skin from which the wool has not been sheared or pulled.


Topic: Woolly
Definition:
WOOLLY, a. 
1. Consisting of wool; as a woolly covering; a woolly fleece.
2. Resembling wool; as woolly hair.
3. Clothed with wool; as woolly breeders.
4. In botany, clothed with a pubescence resembling wool.


Topic: Woolsack
Definition:
WOOLSACK, n. [wool and sack.]
1. A sack or bag of wool.
2. The seat of the lord chancellor and of the judges in the house of lords.


Topic: Woots
Definition:
WOOTS, n. Indian steel, a metallic substance imported form the East Indies; valued as the material of edge-tools. It has in combination a minute portion of alumin and silica.


Topic: Word
Definition:
WORD, n. [G., L., to speak. A word is that which is uttered or thrown out.]
1. An articulate or vocal sound, or a combination of articulate and vocal sounds, uttered by the human voice, and by custom expressing an idea or ideas; a single component part of human speech or language. Thus a in English is a word; but few words consist of one letter only. Most words consist of tow or more letters, as go, do, shall, called monosyllables, or of two or more syllables, as honor, goodness, amiable.
2. The letter or letters, written or printed, which represent a sound or combination of sounds.
3. A short discourse.
Shall I vouchsafe your worship a word or two?
4. Talk; discourse.
Why should calamity be full of words?
Be thy words severe.
5. Dispute; verbal contention; as, some words grew between us.
6. Language; living speech; oral expression. The message was delivered by word of mouth.
7. Promise. He gave me his word he would pay me.
Obey they parents; keep thy word justly.
8. Signal; order; command.
Give the word through.
9. Account; tidings; message. Bring me word what is the issue of the contest.
10. Declaration; purpose expressed.
I know you brave, and take you at your word.
11. Declaration; affirmation.
I desire not the reader should take my word.
12. The Scripture; divine revelation, or any part of it. This is called the word of God.
13. Christ. John 1.
14. A motto; a short sentence; a proverb. 
A good word, commendation; favorable account.
And gave the harmless fellow a good word.
In word, in declaration only.
Let us not love in word only, neither in tongue; but in deed and in truth. 1 John 3.
WORD, v.i. To dispute. [Little used.]
WORD, v.t. To express in words. Take care to word ideas with propriety.
The apology of the king is the same, but worded with greater deference to that great prince.


Topic: Wording
Definition:
WORDING, n. 
1. The act of expressing in words.
2. The manner of expressing in words. The wording of the ideas is very judicious.


Topic: Wordy
Definition:
WORDY, a. 
1. Using many words; verbose; as a wordy speaker; a wordy orator.
2. Containing many words; full of words. 
We need not lavish hours in wordy periods.


Topic: Work
Definition:
WORK, v.i. [G., Gr.]
1. In a general sense, to move, or to move one way and the other; to perform; as in popular language it is said, a mill or machine works well.
2. To labor; to be occupied in performing manual labor, whether severe or moderate. One man works better than another; one man works hare; another works lazily.
3. To be in action or motion; as the working of the heart.
4. To act; to carry on operations.
Our better part remains to work in close design.
5. To operate; to carry on business; to be customarily engaged or employed in. Some work in the mines, others in the loom, others at the anvil.
They that work in fine flax. Isaiah 19.
6. To ferment; as, unfermented liquors work violently in hot weather.
7. To operate; to produce effects by action or influence.
All things work together for good to them that love God. Roman 8.
This so wrought upon the child, that afterwards he desired to be taught.
8. To obtain by diligence. [Little used.]
9. To act or operate on the stomach and bowels; as a cathartic.
10. To labor; to strain; to move heavily; as, a ship works in a tempest.
11. To be tossed or agitated.
Confusd with working sands and rolling waves.
12. To enter by working; as, to work into the earth.
To work on, to act on; to influence.
To work up, to make way.
Body shall up to spirit work.
To work tot windward, among seamen, to sail or ply against the wind; to beat.
WORK, v.t. 
1. To move; to stir and mix; as, to work mortar.
2. To form by labor; to mold, shape or manufacture; as, to work wood or iron into a form desired, or into an utensil; to work cotton or wool into cloth.
3. To bring into any state by action. A foul stream, or new wine or cider, works itself clear.
4. To influence by acting upon; to manage; to lead.
An work your royal father to his ruin.
5. To make by action, labor or violence. A stream works a passage or a new channel.
Sidelong he works his way.
6. To produce by action, labor or exertion.
We might work any effect--only by the unity of nature.
Each herb he knew, that works or good or ill.
7. To embroider; as, to work muslin.
8. To direct the movements of, by adapting the sails to the wind; as, to work a ship.
9. To put to labor; to exert.
Work every nerve.
10. To cause to ferment, as liquor.
To work out, 
1. To effect by labor and exertion.
Work out your own salvation with fear and trembling. Philippians 2.
 2. To expend in any work, as materials. They have worked up all the stock.
To work double tides, in the language of seamen, to perform the labor of three days in two; a phrase taken from the practice f working by the night tide as well as by the day.
To work into, to make way, or to insinuate; as, to work ones self into favor or confidence.
To work a passage, among seamen, to pay for a passage by doing duty on board of the ship.
WORK, n. [G., Gr.] 
1. Labor; employment; exertion of strength; particularly in man, manual labor.
2. State of labor; as, to be at work.
3. Awkward performance. What work you make!
4. That which is made or done; as good work, or bad work.
5. Embroidery; flowers or figures wrought with the needle.
6. Any fabric or manufacture
7. The matter on which one is at work. In rising she dropped her work.
8. Action; deed; feat; achievement; as the works of bloody Mars.
9. Operation.
As to the composition or dissolution of mixed bodies, which is the chief work of elements--
10. Effect; that which proceeds from agency.
Fancy wild work produces oft, and most in dreams.
11. Management; treatment.
12. That which is produced by mental labor; a composition; a book; as the works of Addison.
13. Works, in the plural, walls, trenches and the like, made for fortifications.
14. In theology, moral duties or external performances, as distinct from grace.
To set to work, To set on work, to employ; to engage in any business.


Topic: Working
Definition:
WORKING, ppr. Moving; operating; laboring; fermenting.
WORKING, n. 
1. Motion; the act of laboring.
2. Fermentation.
3. Movement; operation; as the workings of fancy.


Topic: Working-house
Definition:
WORKHOUSE, WORKING-HOUSE, n. 
1. A house where any manufacture is carried on.
2. Generally, a house in which idle and vicious persons are confined to labor.


Topic: Workman
Definition:
WORKMAN n. [work and man.] 
1. Any man employed in labor, whether in tillage or manufactures.
2. By way of eminence, a skillful artificer or laborer.


Topic: Workmanly
Definition:
WORKMANLY, a. Skillful; well performed.
WORKMANLY, adv. In a skillful manner; in a manner becoming a workman.


Topic: Workmanship
Definition:
WORKMANSHIP, n. 
1. Manufacture; something made, particularly by manual labor. Exodus 31.
2. That which is effected, made or produced. Ephesians 2.
3. The skill of a workman; or the execution or manner of making any thing. The workmanship of this cloth is admirable.
4. The art of working.


Topic: World
Definition:
WORLD, n. [This seems to be a compound word, and probably is named from roundness, the vault; but this is not certain.]
1. The universe; the whole system of created globes or vast bodies of matter.
2. The earth; the terraqueous globe; sometimes called the lower world.
3. The heavens; as when we speak of the heavenly world, or upper world.
4. System of beings; or the orbs which occupy space, and all the beings which inhabit them. Hebrews 11.
God--hath in these last days spoken to us by his Son, whom he hath appointed heir of all things; by whom also he made the worlds. Hebrews 1.
There may be other worlds, where the inhabitants have never violated their allegiance to their Almighty sovereign.
5. Present state of existence; as while we are in the world.
Behold, these are the ungodly who prosper in the world. Psalm 73.
6. A secular life. By the world we sometimes understand the things of this world, its pleasures and interests. A great part of mankind are more anxious to enjoy the world to than secure divine favor.
7. Public life, or society; as banished from the world.
8. Business or trouble of life.
From this world-wearied flesh.
9. A great multitude or quantity; as a world of business; a world of charms.
10. Mankind; people in general; in an indefinite sense. Let the world see your fortitude.
Whose disposition, all the world well knows--
11. Course of life. He begins the world with little property, but with many friends.
12. Universal empire.
This through the east just vengeance hurld, and lost poor Antony the world.
13. The customs and manners of men; the practice of life. A knowledge of the world is necessary for a man of business; it is essential to politeness.
14. All the world contains.
Had I a thousand worlds, I would give them all for one year more to devote to God.
15. The principal nations or countries of the earth. Alexander conquered the world.
16. The Roman empire.
17. A large tract of country; a wide compass of things.
I must descry new worlds.
18. The inhabitants of the earth; the whole human race. John 3.
19. The carnal state or corruption of the earth; as the present evil world; the course of this world. Galatians 1. Ephesians 2.
20. The ungodly part of the world.
I pray not for the world, but for them that thou hast given men. John 17.
21. Time; as in the phrase, world without end.
22. A collection of wonders. [Not in use.]
In the world, in possibility. [All the precaution in the world would not save him.]
For all the world,
1. Exactly. [Little used.]
2. For any consideration.


Topic: Worldliness
Definition:
WORLDLINESS, n. [from world.] A predominant passion for obtaining the good things of this life; covetousness; addictedness to gain and temporal enjoyments.


Topic: Worldling
Definition:
WORLDLING, n. A person whose soul is set upon gaining temporal possessions; one devoted to this world and its enjoyments.
If we consider the expectations of futurity, the worldling gives up the argument.


Topic: Worldly
Definition:
WORLDLY, a. 
1. Secular; temporal; pertaining to this world or life, in contradistinction to the life to come; as worldly pleasures; worldly affairs; worldly estate; worldly honor; worldly lusts. Titus 2.
2. Devoted to this life and its enjoyments; bent on gain; as a worldly man; a worldly mind.
3. Human; common; belonging to the world; as worldly actions; worldly maxims.
WORLDLY, adv. With relation to this life.
Subverting worldly strong and worldly wise by simply meek.


Topic: Worldly-mindedness
Definition:
WORLDLY-MINDEDNESS, n. A predominating love and pursuit of this worlds goods, to the exclusion of piety and attention to spiritual concerns.


Topic: Worm
Definition:
WORM, n. [G. This word is probably named form a winding motion, and the root of swarm.]
1. In common usage, any small creeping animal, or reptile, either entirely without feet, or with very short ones, including a great variety of animals of different classes and orders, viz. Certain small serpents, as the blind-worm or slow-worm; the larvas of insects, viz. Grubs, caterpillars and maggots, as the wood-worm, canker-worm, silk-worm, (the larva of a moth (Phaloena,) which spins the filaments of which silk is made,) the grub that injures corn, grass, &c., the worms that breed in putrid flesh, the bots in the stomach of horses, and many others; certain wingless insects, as the glow-worm; the intestinal worms, or such as breed in the cavities and organs of living animals, as the tape-worm, the round-worm, the fluke, &c.; and numerous animals found in the earth, and in water, particularly in the sea, as the earth-worm or lumbricus, the hair-worm or gordius, the teredo, or worm that bores in to the bottom of ships, &c. Worms, in the plural, in common usage, is used for intestinal worms, or those which breed in the stomach and bowels, particularly the round and thread worms, (lumbrici and ascarides,) which are often found there in great numbers; as we say, a child has worms.
2. In zoology, the term Vermes or worms has been applied to different divisions of invertebral animals, by different naturalists. Linnes class of vermes, includes the following orders, viz. Intestina, including the proper intestinal worms the earth-worm, the hair-worm, the teredo, and some other marine worms; Mollusca, including the slug, and numerous soft animals inhabiting the water, particularly the sea; Testacea, including all the proper shell-fish; Zoophyta or compound animals, including corals, polypes, and spunges; and Infusoria, or simple microscopic animlacules. His character of the class is, --spiracles obscure, jaws various, organs of sense usually tentacula, no brain, ears nor nostrils, limbs wanting, frequently hermaphrodite. This class includes all the invertebral animals, except the insects and crustacea. The term Vermes has been since greatly limited, particularly by the French naturalists. Lamarch confined it to the intestinal worms, and some others, whose organization is equally imperfect. The character of his class is, suboviparous, body soft, highly reproductive, undergo no metamorphosis; no eyes, nor articulated limbs, nor radiated disposition of internal organs.
3. Remorse; that which incessantly gnaws the conscience; that which torments.
Where their worm dieth not. Mark 9.
4. A being debased and despised.
I am a worm, and no man. Psalm 22.
5. A spiral instrument or iron screw, used for drawing wads and cartridges from cannon or small arms.
6. Something spiral, vermiculated, or resembling a worm; as the threads of a screw.
7. In chemistry and distilleries, a spiral leaden pipe placed in a tub of water, through which the vapor passes in distillation, and in which it is cooled and condensed. It is called also a serpentine.
8. A small worm-like ligament situated beneath a dogs tongue.
WORM, v.i. To work slowly, gradually and secretly.
When debates and fretting jealousy did worm and work within you more and more, your color faded.
WORM, v.t. 
1. To expel or undermine by slow and secret means.
They find themselves wormed out of all power.
2. To cut something, called a worm, from under the tongue of a dog.
3. To draw the wad or cartridge from a gun; to clean by the worm.
4. To wind a rope spirally round a cable, between the strands; or to wind a smaller rope with spun yarn.
To worm ones self into, to enter gradually by arts and insinuations; as to worm ones self into favor.


Topic: Worm-eaten
Definition:
WORM-EATEN, a. [worm and eat.] 
1. Gnawed by worms; as worm-eaten boards, planks or timber.
2. Old; worthless.


Topic: Worm-seed
Definition:
WORM-SEED, n. 
1. A seed which has the property of expelling worms from the stomach, bowels, and intestines. It is said to be brought from Persia, and to be the produce of a species of Artemisia.
2. A plant of the genus Chenopodium.


Topic: Worm-tincture
Definition:
WORM-TINCTURE, n. A tincture prepared from earth-worms dried, pulverized and mixed with oil of tartar, spirit of wine, saffron and castor.


Topic: Wormwood
Definition:
WORMWOOD, n. [G.] A plant, the artemisia. It has a bitter nauseous taste; but it is stomachic and corroborant.
Tree-wormwood, a species of Artemisia, with woody stalks.


Topic: Worral
Definition:
WORRAL, n. An animal of the lizard kind, about four feet long and eight inches broad, with a forked tongue. It feeds on flies, and is harmless. It is found in Egypt.


Topic: Worry
Definition:
WORRY, v.t. 
1. To tease; to trouble; to harass with importunity, or with care and anxiety. Persons are often worried with care and solicitude.
Let them rail and then worry one another at their pleasure.
Worry him out till he gives his consent.
A church worried with reformation.
2. To fatigue; to harass with labor; a popular sense of the word.
3. To harass by pursuit and barking; as, dogs worry sheep.
4. To tear; to mangle with the teeth.
5. To vex; to persecute brutally.


Topic: Worse
Definition:
WORSE, a. [This adjective has the signification of the comparative degree, and as bad has no comparative and superlative, worse and worst are used in lieu of them, although radically they have no relation to bad.]
1. More evil; more bad or ill; more depraved and corrupt; in a moral sense.
Evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse. 2 Timothy 3.
There are men who seem to believe they are not bad, while another can be found worse.
2. In a physical sense, in regard to health, more sick.
She was nothing bettered, but rather grew worse. Mark 5.
3. More bad; less perfect or good. This carriage is worse for wear.
The worse, 
1. The loss; the disadvantage.
Judah was put to the worse before Israel. 2 Kings 14.
2. Something less good. Think not the worse of him for his enterprise.
WORSE, adv. In a manner more evil or bad.
We will deal worse with thee than with them. Genesis 19.
WORSE, to put to disadvantage, is not in use. [See Worst.]


Topic: Worship
Definition:
WORSHIP, n. [See Worth.]
1. Excellence of character; dignity; worth; worthiness.
--Elfin born of noble state, and muckle worship in his native land.
In this sense, the word is nearly or quite obsolete; but hence,
2. A title of honor, used in addresses to certain magistrates and other of respectable character.
My father desires your worships company.
3. A term of ironical respect.
4. Chiefly and eminently, the act of paying divine honors to the Supreme Being; or the reverence and homage paid to him in religious exercises, consisting in adoration, confession, prayer, thanksgiving and the like.
The worship of God is an eminent part of religion.
Prayer is a chief part of religious worship.
5. The homage paid to idols or false gods by pagans; as the worship or Isis.
6. Honor; respect; civil deference.
Then shalt thou have worship in the presence of them that sit at meat with thee. Luke 14.
7. Idolatry of lovers; obsequious or submissive respect.
WORSHIP, v.t. 
1. To adore; to pay divine honors to; to reverence with supreme respect and veneration.
Thou shalt worship no other God. Exodus 34.
2. To respect; to honor; to treat with civil reverence.
Nor worshipd with a waxen epitaph.
3. To honor with extravagant love and extreme submission; as a lover.
With bended knees I daily worship her.
WORSHIP, v.i. 
1. To perform acts of adoration.
2. To perform religious service.
Our fathers worshiped in this mountain. John 4.


Topic: Worshipful
Definition:
WORSHIPFUL, a. 
1. Claiming respect; worthy of honor from its character or dignity. 
This is worshipful society.
2. A term of respect, sometimes ironically.


Topic: Worshiping
Definition:
WORSHIPING, ppr. Adoring; paying divine honors to; treating with supreme reverence; treating with extreme submission.


Topic: Worst
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WORST, a. [superl. of worse, which see.]
1. Most bad; most evil; in a moral sense; as the worst man; the worst sinner.
2. Most severe or dangerous; most difficult to heal; as the worst disease.
3. Most afflictive, pernicious or calamitous; as the worst evil that can befall a state or an individual.
WORST, n. 
1. The most evil state; in a moral sense.
2. The most severe or aggravated state; the highth; as, the disease is at the worst.
3. The most calamitous state. Be armed against the worst.
WORST, v.t. To get the advantage over in contest; to defeat; to overthrow. It is madness to contend, when we are sure to be worsted.


Topic: Worsted
Definition:
WORSTED, pp. Defeated; overthrown.
WORSTED, n. WUSTED. [The origin of this word is uncertain. It is usually supposed to take its name from a town in England or in Flanders; but in Norman, worstetz is mentioned; as lit de morstetz, a bed of worsted.] Yarn spun from combed wool; a particular kind of woolen yarn.
WORSTED, a. Consisting of worsted; made of worsted yarn; as worsted stockings.


Topic: Wort
Definition:
WORT, n. [G., L., to grow; green.]
1. A plant; an herb; now used chiefly or wholly in compounds; as in mugwort, liverwort, spleenwort.
2. A plant of the cabbage kind.
3. New beer unfermented, or in the act of fermentation; the sweet infusion of malt.


Topic: Worth
Definition:
WORTH, a. Termination, signifies a farm or court; as in Wordsworth.
WORTH, v.i. This verb is now used only in the phrases, wo worth the day, wo worth the man, &c., in which the verb is in the imperative mode, and the noun in the dative; wo be to the day.
WORTH, n. [G., L. The primary sense is strength.]
1. Value; that quality of a thing which renders it useful, or which will produce an equivalent good in some other thing. The worth of a days labor may be estimated in money, or in wheat. The worth of labor is settled between the hirer and the hired. The worth of commodities is usually the price they will bring in market; but price is not always worth.
2. Value of mental qualities; excellence; virtue; usefulness; as a man or magistrate of great worth.
As none but she, who in that court did dwell, could know such worth, or worth describe so well.
All worth-consists in doing good, and in the disposition by which it is done.
3. Importance; valuable qualities; applied to things; as, these things have since lost their worth.
WORTH, a. 
1. Equal in value to. Silver is scarce worth the labor of digging and refining. In one country, a days labor is worth a dollar; in another, the same labor is not worth fifty cents. It is worth while to consider a subject well before we come to a decision.
If your arguments produce no conviction, they are worth nothing to me.
2. Deserving of; in a good or bad sense, but chiefly in a good sense. The castle is worth defending.
To reign is worth ambition, though in hell.
This is life indeed, life worth preserving.
3. Equal in possessions to; having estate to the value of. Most men are estimated by their neighbors to be worth more than they are. A man worth a hundred thousand dollars in the United States, is called rich; but no so in London or Paris.
Worthiest of blood, an expression in law, denoting the preference of sons to daughters in the descent of estates.


Topic: Worthily
Definition:
WORTHILY, adv. 
1. In a manner suited to; as, to walk worthily of our extraction. [Bad.]
2. Deservedly; according to merit.
You worthily succeed not only to the honors of your ancestors, but also to their virtues.
3. Justly; not without cause.
I affirm that some may very worthily deserve to be hated.


Topic: Worthiness
Definition:
WORTHINESS, n. 
1. Desert; merit.
The prayers which our Savior made, were for his own worthiness accepted.
2. Excellence; dignity; virtue.
Who is sure he hath a soul, unless it see and judge and follow worthiness?
3. Worth; quality or state of deserving.


Topic: Worthless
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WORTHLESS, a. 
1. Having no value; as a worthless garment; a worthless ship.
2. Having no value of character or no virtue; as a worthless man or woman.
3. Having no dignity or excellence; as a worthless magistrate.


Topic: Worthlessness
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WORTHLESSNESS, n. 
1. Want of value; want of useful qualities; as the worthlessness of an old garment or of barren land.
2. Want of excellence or dignity; as the worthlessness of a person.


Topic: Worthy
Definition:
WORTHY, a. [G.]
1. Deserving; such as merits; having worth or excellence; equivalent; with of, before the thing deserved. She has married a man worthy of her.
Thou art worthy of the sway.
I am not worthy of the least of all the mercies--Genesis 32.
2. Possessing worth or excellence of qualities; virtuous; estimable; as a worthy citizen; a worthy magistrate.
Happier thou mayst be, worthier canst not be.
This worthy mind should worthy things embrace.
3. Suitable; having qualities suited to; either in a good or bad sense; equal in value; as flowers worthy of paradise.
4. Suitable to any thing bad.
The merciless Macdonald, worthy to be a rebel.
5. Deserving of ill; as things worthy of stripes. Luke 12.
WORTHY, n. A man of eminent worth; a man distinguished for useful and estimable qualities; a man of valor; a word much used in the plural; as the worthies of the church; political worthies; military worthies.
WORTHY, v.t. To render worthy; to exalt. [Not in use.]


Topic: Would
Definition:
WOULD, WUD, pret. of will, G., L. 
Would is used as an auxiliary verb in conditional forms of speech. I would go, if I could. This form of expression denotes will or resolution, under a condition or supposition. You would go, He would go, denote simply an event, under a condition or supposition. The condition implied in would is not always expressed. By pleasure and pain, I would be understood to mean what delights or molests us--; that is, if it should be asked what I mean by pleasure and pain, I would thus explain what I wish to have understood. In this form of expression, which is very common, there seems to be an implied allusion to an inquiry, or to the supposition of something not expressed.
Would has the sense of wish or pray, particularly in the phrases, would to God, would God we had died in Egypt, I would that ye knew what conflict I have; that is, I could wish such a thing, if the wish could avail. Here also there is an implied condition.
Would is used also for wish to do, or to have. What wouldst thou? What would he?


Topic: Wound
Definition:
WOUND, n. [G.]
1. A breach of the skin and flesh of an animal, or of the bark and wood of a tree, or of the bark and substance of other plants, caused by violence or external force. The self-healing power of living beings, animal or vegetable, by which the parts separated in wounds, tend to unite and become sound, is a remarkable proof of divine benevolence and wisdom.
2. Injury; hurt; as a wound given to credit or reputation.
WOUND, v.t. To hurt by violence; as, to wound the head or the arm; to wound a tree.
He was wounded for our transgressions. Isaiah 53.
WOUND, pret. and pp. of wind.


Topic: Woundwort
Definition:
WOUNDWORT, n. The name of several plants; one, a species of Achillea; another, a species of Stachys; another, a species of Laserpitium; another, a species of Solidago; and another a species of Senecio.


Topic: Wrack
Definition:
WRACK, WRECK, n. [See Wreck.] A name given to a marine plant which is of great utility as a manure. It is called sometimes sea-wrack or sea-wreck, and sea-oak and sea-tangle. It is the Fucus vesiculosus of Linne, a plant found on rocks left dry at low water. The stalk runs along the middle of the leaf, and is terminated by watery bladders.  The grass wrack is of the genus Zostera. Wrack, and to wrack. [See Wreck.]


Topic: Wrangle
Definition:
WRANGLE, v.i. [from the root of wring.] To dispute angrily; to quarrel peevishly and noisily; to brawl; to altercate.
For a score of kingdoms you should wrangle.
He did not know what it was to wrangle on indifferent points.
WRANGLE, v.t. To involve in contention. [Little used.]
WRANGLE, n. An angry dispute; a noisy quarrel.


Topic: Wrangler
Definition:
WRANGLER, n. An angry disputant; one who disputes with heat or peevishness; as a noisy contentious wrangler. Senior wrangler, in the university of Cambridge, the student who passes the best examination in the senate house. Then follow the second, third, &c. Wranglers.


Topic: Wrap
Definition:
WRAP, v.t. pret. and pp. wrapped or wrapt.
1. To wind or fold together. John 20.
2. To involve; to cover by winding something round; often with up; as, to wrap up a child in its blanket; wrap the body well with flannel in winter.
I, wrapt in mist of midnight vapor, glide obscure.
3. To involve; to hide; as truth wrapt in tales.
4. To comprise; to contain.
Leontines young wife, in whom all his happiness was wrapped up, died in a few days after the death of her daughter.
5. To involve totally.
Things reflected on in gross and transiently, are thought to be wrapped in impenetrable obscurity.
6. To inclose.
7. To snatch up; to transport. This is an error. It ought to be rapt. [See Rap and Rapt.]


Topic: Wrapping
Definition:
WRAPPING, ppr. 
1. Winding; folding; involving; inclosing.
2. a. Used or designed for wrapping or covering; as wrapping paper.


Topic: Wrass
Definition:
WRASS, WRASSE, n. A fish, the Labrus tinca of Linne, called by authors, turdus vulgaris, or tinca marina, the sea-tench, and sometimes old-wife. It resembles the carp in figure, and is covered with large scales. The name is also applied to other species of the genus Labrus.


Topic: Wrath
Definition:
WRATH, n. [L.]
1. Violent anger; vehement exasperation; indignation; as the wrath of Achilles.
When the wrath of king Ahasuerus was appeased--Esther 2.
O Lord--in wrath remember mercy. Habakkuk 3.
2. The effects of anger. Proverbs 27.
3. The just punishment of an offense or crime. Romans 8.
Gods wrath, in Scripture, is his holy and just indignation against sin. Romans 1.


Topic: Wrathful
Definition:
WRATHFUL, a. 
1. Very angry; greatly incensed. The king was very wrathful.
2. Springing from wrath, or expressing it; as wrathful passions; a wrathful countenance.


Topic: Wreak
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WREAK, v.t. [G. The sense is to drive or throw, to dash with violence.]
1. To execute; to inflict; to hurl or drive; as, to wreak vengeance on an enemy.
On me let death wreak all his rage.
2. To revenge.
Come wreak his loss, whom bootless ye complain.
Anothers wrongs to wreak upon thyself.
[This latter sense is nearly or quite obsolete.]
WREAK, for reck. To care, is a mistake.
WREAK, n. Revenge; vengeance; furious passion.


Topic: Wreath
Definition:
WREATH, n. [See Writhe.]
1. To twist; to convolve; to wind one about another; as, to wreath a garland of flowers.
2. To interweave; to entwine; as chains of wreathed work.
3. To encircle, as a garland.
The flowrs that wreath the sparkling bowl.
4. To encircle as with a garland; to dress in a garland.
And with thy winding ivy wreaths her lance.
WREATH, v.i. To be interwoven or entwined; as a bower of wreathing trees.


Topic: Wreck
Definition:
WRECK, n. 
1. Destruction; properly, the destruction of a ship or vessel on the shore. Hence,
2. The ruins of a ship stranded; a ship dashed against rocks or land and broken, or otherwise rendered useless by violence and fracture.
3. Dissolution by violence; ruin; destruction.
The wreck of matter and the crush of worlds.
4. The remains of any thing ruined; dead weeds and grass.
5. In metallurgy, the vessel in which ores are washed the third time.
6. Wreck, for wreak, is less proper. [See also Rack.]
WRECK, v.t.
1. To stand; to drive against the shore, or dash against rocks, and break or destroy. The ship Diamond of new York, was wrecked on a rock in Cardigan Bay, on the coast of Wales.
2. To ruin; as, they wreck their own fortunes.
3. Wreck, for wreak, is improper.
WRECK, v.i. To suffer wreck or ruin.


Topic: Wrench
Definition:
WRENCH, v.t. [See Wring.]
1. To pull with a twist; to wrest, twist or force by violence; as, to wrench a sword from anothers hand.
2. To strain; to sprain; to distort.
You wrenched your foot against a stone.
WRENCH, n. 
1. A violent twist, or a pull with twisting.
2. A sprain; an injury by twisting; as in a joint.
3. An instrument for screwing or unscrewing iron work.
4. Means of compulsion. [Not used.]
5. In the plural, sleights; subtilties.


Topic: Wrest
Definition:
WREST, v.t. [G., to wrest, to snatch or pull, to burst, to tear.]
1. To twist or extort by violence; to pull or force from by violent wringing or twisting; as, to wrest an instrument from anothers hands.
2. To take or force from by violence. The enemy made a great effort, and wrested the victory from our hands.
But fate has wrested the confession from me.
3. To distort; to turn from truth or twist from its natural meaning by violence; to pervert.
Wrest once the law to your authority.
Thou shalt not wrest the judgment of the poor. Exodus 23.
Which they that are unlearned and unstable wrest, as they do also the other Scriptures, to their own destruction. 2 Peter 3.
WREST, n. 
1. Distortion; violent pulling and twisting; perversion.
2. Active or moving power. [Not used.]
3. An instrument to tune.


Topic: Wrestle
Definition:
WRESTLE, v.i. resl.
1. To strive with arms extended, as two men, who seize each other by the collar and arms, each endeavoring to throw the other by tripping up his heels and twitching him off his center.
Another, by a fall in wrestling, started the end of the clavicle from the sternum.
2. To struggle; to strive; to contend.
We wrestle not against flesh and blood. Ephesians 6.


Topic: Wretch
Definition:
WRETCH, n. 
1. A miserable person; one sunk in the deepest distress; as a forlorn wretch.
2. A worthless mortal; as a contemptible wretch.
3. A person sunk in vice; as a profligate wretch.
4. It is sometimes used by way of slight or ironical pity or contempt.
Poor wretch was never frighted so.
5. It is sometimes used to express tenderness; as we say, poor thing.


Topic: Wretched
Definition:
WRETCHED, a. 
1. Very miserable; sunk into deep affliction or distress, either from want, anxiety or grief.
The wretched find no friends.
2. Calamitous; very afflicting; as the wretched condition of slaves in Algiers.
3. Worthless; paltry; very poor or mean; as a wretched poem; a wretched cabin.
4. Despicable; hatefully vile and contemptible. He was guilty of wretched ingratitude.


Topic: Wretchedly
Definition:
WRETCHEDLY, adv. 
1. Most miserably; very poorly. The prisoners were wretchedly lodged.
2. Unhappily; as two wars wretchedly entered upon.
3. Meanly; despicable; as a discourse wretchedly delivered.


Topic: Wretchedness
Definition:
WRETCHEDNESS, n. 
1. Extreme misery or unhappiness, either from want or sorrow; as the wretchedness of poor mendicants.
We have, with the feeling, most the very memory of such wretchedness as our forefathers endured--
The prodigal brought nothing to his father but his rags and wretchedness.
2. Meanness; despicableness; as the wretchedness of a performance.


Topic: Wriggle
Definition:
WRIGGLE, v.i. To move the body to and fro with short motions.
Both he and his successors would often wriggle in their seats, as long as the cushion lasted.
WRIGGLE, v.t. To put into a quick reciprocating motion; to introduce by a shifting motion.
Wriggling his body to recover his seat, and cast his right leg over.


Topic: Wright
Definition:
WRIGHT, n. An artificer; one whose occupation is some kind of mechanical business; a workman; a manufacturer. This word is now chiefly used in compounds, as in shipwright, wheelwright.


Topic: Wring
Definition:
WRING, v.t. pret. and pp. wringed and wrung. The latter is chiefly used.
1. To twist; to turn and strain with violence; as, to wring clothes in washing.
2. To squeeze; to press; to force by twisting; as, to wring water out of a wet garment.
3. To writhe; as, to wring the body in pain.
4. TO pinch.
The king began to find where his shoe did wring him.
If he had not been too much grieved and wrung by an uneasy and strait fortune--
5. To distress; to press with pain.
Didst thou taste but half the griefs, that wring my soul, thou couldst not talk thus coldly.
6. To distort; to pervert.
How dare these men thus wring the Scriptures?
7. To persecute with extortion.
These merchant adventurers have been often wronged and wringed to the quick.
8. To bend or strain out of its positions, as, to wring a mast.
To wring off, to force off or separate by wringing; as, to wring off the head of a fowl.
To wring out, 
1. To force out; to squeeze out by twisting; as, to wring out dew or water. Judges 6.
2. To free from a liquor by wringing; as, to wring out clothes.
To wring from, to force from by violence; to extort; as revenues wrung from the poor; to wring from one his rights; to wring a secret from one.
WRING, v.i. To writhe; to twist; as with anguish.
WRING, n. Action of anguish.


Topic: Wring-bolt
Definition:
WRING-BOLT, n. [wring and bolt.] A bolt used by shipwrights, to bend and secure the planks against the timbers till they are fastened by bolts, spikes and tree-nails.


Topic: Wrinkle
Definition:
WRINKLE, n. [G.]
1. A small ridge or prominence, or a furrow, formed by the shrinking or contraction of any smooth substance; corrugation; a crease; as wrinkles in the face or skin.
2. A fold or rumple in cloth.
3. Roughness; unevenness.
Not the least wrinkle to deform the sky.
WRINKLE, v.t. 
1. To contract into furrows and prominences; to corrugate; as, to wrinkle the skin; to wrinkle the brow.
Her wrinkled form in black and white arrayd.
2. To make rough or uneven.
A keen north wind, blowing dry, wrinkled the face of deluge, as decayd.
WRINKLE, v.i. To shrink into furrows and ridges.


Topic: Wrist
Definition:
WRIST, n. 
1. The joint by which the hand is united to the arm.
2. In the manege, the bridle wrist is that of the cavaliers left hand.


Topic: Writ
Definition:
WRIT, n. [from write.] 
1. That which is written. In this sense, writ is particularly applied to the Scriptures, or books of the Old Testament and New Testament; as holy writ; sacred writ.
2. In law, precept issued from the proper authority to the sheriff, his deputy or other subordinate officer, commanding him to perform some act, as to summon a defendant into court to answer, and the like.
In England, writs are issued from some court under seal. In some of the United States, writs are issued by any single judge or justice of the peace, in the name and by the authority of the senate.
In some of the United States, the writ in a civil suit, contains both the summons and the plaintiffs declaration or cause of action set forth at large, and a writ is either a summons or an attachment.
Writs are original or judicial. An original writ, in England, is issued from the high court of chancery. A judicial writ is issued by order of a court upon a special occasion, during the pendency of the suit.
Writs are of various kinds; as writs of assize; writs of capias; writs of distringas, &c.
3. A legal instrument.
WRIT, pret. of write, is not now used. [See Write and Wrote.]


Topic: Write
Definition:
WRITE, v.t. pret. wrote.; pp. writ, written. [L.]
1. To form by a pen on paper or other material, or by a graver on wood or stone; as, to write the characters called letters; to write figures. We write characters on paper with pen and ink; we write them on stone with a graving tool.
2. To express by forming letters and words on paper or stone; as, to write a deed; to write a bill of divorcement. The ten commandments were written with the finger of God on tables of stone. Exodus 31.
3. To engrave. [See the preceding definition.]
4. To impress durable. Write useful truths on the heart.
5. To compose or produce, as an author.
6. To copy; to transcribe.
7. To communicate by letter.
I chose to write the thing I durst not speak to her I lovd.
WRITE, v.i. 
1. To perform the act of forming characters, letters or figures, as representatives of sounds or ideas. Learn to write when young.
2. To be employed as a clerk or an amanuensis. A writes for B. D writes in one of the public offices.
3. To play the author; as, he thinks, he speaks, he writes, he sings.
4. To recite or relate in books. Josephus wrote of the wars of the Jews.
5. To send letters.
He wrote for all the Jews concerning their freedom.
6. To call ones self; to be entitled; to use the style of.
Those who began to write themselves men, but thought it no shame to learn.
7. To compose; to frame or combine ideas and express them in words.
They can write up to the dignity and character of their authors.


Topic: Writer
Definition:
WRITER, n. 
1. One who writes or has written.
2. An author.
3. A clerk or amanuensis.
Writer of the tallies, an officer of the exchequer of England; a clerk to the auditor of the receipt, who writes upon the tallies the whole of the tellers bills.


Topic: Writhe
Definition:
WRITHE, v.t. 
1. To twist; to distort.
Her mouth she writhd.
2. To twist with violence; as, to writhe the body.
3. To wrest; to distort; to torture; as, to writhe words.
WRITHE, v.i. To twist; to be distorted; as, to writhe with agony.


Topic: Writing
Definition:
WRITING, ppr. 
1. Forming, as characters, with a pen, style or graver.
2. a. Used or intended for writing; as writing paper.
WRITING, n. 
1. The act or art of forming letters and characters, on paper, wood, stone or other material, for the purpose of recording the ideas which characters and the words express, or of communicating them to others by visible signs. We hardly know which to admire most, the ingenuity or the utility of the art of writing.
2. Any thing written or expressed in letters; hence, any legal instrument, as a deed, a receipt, a bond, an agreement, &c.
3. A book; any written composition; a pamphlet; as the writings of Addison.
4. An inscription. John 19.
5. Writings, plu. conveyances of lands; deeds; or any official papers.


Topic: Written
Definition:
WRITTEN, pp. Expressed in letters.
Written laws, statutes; laws enacted by the supreme power and recorded; as contradistinguished from unwritten or common law.


Topic: Wrong
Definition:
WRONG, a. Literally wrung, twisted or turned from a straight line or even surface. Hence,
1. Not physically right; not fit or suitable; as the wrong side of a garment. You hold the book the wrong end uppermost. There may be something wrong in the construction of a watch or an edifice.
2. Not morally right; that deviates from the line of rectitude prescribed by God; not just or equitable; not right or proper; not legal; erroneous; as a wrong practice; wrong ideas; a wrong course of life; wrong measures; wrong inclinations and desires; a wrong application of talents; wrong judgment. Habakkuk 1.
3. Erroneous; not according to truth; as a wrong statement.
WRONG, n. Whatever deviates from moral rectitude; any injury done to another; a trespass; a violation of right. Wrongs are private or public. Private wrongs are civil injuries, immediately affecting individuals; public wrongs are crimes and misdemeanors which affect the community.
Sarai said to Abraham, my wrong be on thee. Genesis 16.
Friend, I do thee no wrong. Matthew 20.
The obligation to redress a wrong, is at least as binding as that of paying a debt.
WRONG, adv. Not rightly; amiss; morally ill; erroneously.
Ten censure wrong for one that writes amiss.
WRONG, v.t. 
1. To injure; to treat with injustice; to deprive of some right, or to withhold some act of justice from. We wrong a man, when we defraud him, and when we trespass on his property. We wrong a man, when we neglect to pay him his due. Philemon 18.
2. To do injustice to by imputation; to impute evil unjustly. If you suppose me capable of a base act, you wrong me.


Topic: Wrongfully
Definition:
WRONGFULLY, adv. Unjustly; in a manner contrary to the moral law or to justice; as, to accuse one wrongfully; to suffer wrongfully.


Topic: Wronghead
Definition:
WRONGHEAD, WRONGHEADED, a. [wrong and head.] Wrong in opinion or principle; having a perverse understanding; perverse.


Topic: Wrote
Definition:
WROTE, pret. of write. He wrote a letter yesterday. Herodotus wrote his history more than two thousand years ago. [Note. Wrote is now used as the participle.]


Topic: Wroth
Definition:
WROTH, a. Rauth. [See Wrath.] Very angry; much exasperated.
Cain was very wroth, and his countenance fell. Genesis 4.
I was wroth with my people. Isaiah 47.
[An excellent word and not obsolete.]


Topic: Wrought
Definition:
WROUGHT, pret. and pp. of work. raut.
1. Worked; formed by work or labor; as wrought iron.
2. Effected; performed.
She hath wrought a good work upon me. Matthew 26.
3. Effected; produced. He wrought the public safety. A great change was wrought in his mind.
This wrought the greatest confusion int he unbelieving Jews.
4. Used in labor.
The elders of that city shall take a heifer that hath not been wrought with. Deuteronomy 21.
5. Worked; driven; as infection wrought out of the body. [Not used.]
6. Actuated.
Vain Morat, by his own rashness wrought--
7. Worked; used; labored in. The mine is still wrought.
8. Formed; fitted.
He that hath wrought us for the self-same thing is God. 2 Corinthians 5.
9. Guided; managed. [Not used.]
10. Agitated; disturbed.
My dull brain was wrought with things forgot.
Wrought on or upon, influenced; prevailed on. His mind was wrought upon by divine grace.
Wrought to or up to, excited; inflamed. Their minds were wrought up to a violent passion. She was wrought up to the tenderest emotion of pity.


Topic: Wry
Definition:
WRY, a. 
1. Twisted; turned to one side; distorted; as a wry neck; a wry mouth.
2. Deviating from the right direction; as wry words.
3. Wrested; perverted; as, to put a wry sense on an authors words.
WRY, v.i. To be writhed or distorted. [Not used.]
WRY, v.t. To distort; to wrest. [Not used.]


Topic: Wryneck
Definition:
WRYNECK, n. [wry and neck.]
1. A twisted or distorted neck; a deformity in which the neck is drawn to one side, and at the same time somewhat forwards.
2. A disease of the spasmodic kind in sheep, in which the head is drawn to one side.
3. In ornithology, a bird resembling the woodpeckers, the Yunx torquilla; so called form the singular manner in which when surprised, it tuns its head over its shoulders.


Topic: X
Definition:
X, the twenty fourth letter of the English Alphabet, is borrowed from the Greek. In the middle and at the end of words, it has the sound of ks, as in wax, lax, luxury. At the beginning of a word, it has precisely the sound of z. It is used as an initial, in a few words borrowed from the Greek.
As a numeral, X stands for ten. It represents one V, which stands for five, placed on the top of another. When laid horizontally it stands for a thousand, and with a dash over it, it stands for ten thousand. As an abbreviation, X. Stands for Christ, and in Xn. Christian; Xm. Christmas.


Topic: Xanthogene
Definition:
XANTHOGENE, n. [Gr., yellow, to generate.] The base of a new acid, produced by the mixture of a solution of pure potassa with bisulphuret of carbon. This acid contains sulphur, carbon, and hydrogen. It is named from the yellow color of its compounds.


Topic: Xebec
Definition:
XEBEC, n. A small three masted vessel, used in the Mediterranean sea. With a fair wind, in good weather, it carries two large square sails; when close hauled, it carried large lateen sails.


Topic: Xerophagy
Definition:
XEROPHAGY, n. [Gr., dry; to eat.] The eating of dry meats, a sort of fast among the primitive Christians.


Topic: Xerophthalmy
Definition:
XEROPHTHALMY, n. [Gr., dry.] A dry red soreness or itching of the eyes, without swelling or a discharge of humors.


Topic: Xiphoid
Definition:
XIPHOID, a. [supra.] The xiphoid or ensiform cartilage, is a small cartilage placed at the bottom of the breast bone.


Topic: Xylography
Definition:
XYLOGRAPHY, n. [Gr., wood; to engrave.] Wood-engraving; the act or art of cutting figures in wood, in representation of natural objects.


Topic: Y
Definition:
Y, the twenty fifth letter of the English Alphabet, is taken from the Greed. At the beginning of words, it is called an articulation or consonant, and with some propriety perhaps, as it brings the root of the tongue in close contact with the lower part of the palate, and nearly in the position to which the close g brings it. Hence it has happened that in a great number of words, g has been changed into y, as the  Sax. Gear, into year; geornian, into yearn; gyllan, into yell; gealew, into yellow.
In the middle and at the end of words, y is precisely the same as I. It is sounded as I long, when accented, as in defy, rely; and as I short, when unaccented, as in vanity, glory, synonymous. This latter sound is a vowel. At the beginning of words, y answers to the German and Dutch J.
Y, as a numeral, stands for 150, and with a dash over it, for 150,000.


Topic: Yacht
Definition:
YACHT, n. yot. [G., It is properly a boat drawn by horses.] A vessel of state used to convey princes, embassadors and other great personages from one place to another. The royal yachts are rigged as ketches, except the principal one, which is equipped as a ship. The smaller yachts are rigged as sloops.


Topic: Yak
Definition:
YAK, n. A species of ox, with cylindric horns curving outwards, long pendent hair, and villous horselike tail; the grunting ox of Pennant. This ox is found in Thibet.


Topic: Yapon
Definition:
YAPON, n. The cassine or South Sea tea. The Ileex cassine or youpon, is a shrub growing in the S. States, used as a tea and a medicine.


Topic: Yard
Definition:
YARD, n. 
1. A measure of three feet or thirty six inches. It is just seven niths of the Paris ell.
2. An inclosure; usually, a small inclosed place in front of or around a house or barn. The yard in front of a house is called a court, and sometimes a court-yard. In the United States, a small yard is fenced round a barn for confining cattle, and called barn-yard or cow-yard.
3. In ships, a long slender piece of timber, nearly cylindrical, suspended upon the mast, by which a sail is extended.
Yard of land, in old books, a certain quantity of land, but different in different countries. In some counties it was 15 acres, in others 20 or 24, and even 40.
Dock-yard, a place where ships are laid up.
Prison yard, primarily an inclosure about a prison, or attached to it. Hence liberty of the yard, is a liberty granted to persons imprisoned for debt, of walking in the yard, or within any other limits prescribed by the law, on his giving bond not to go beyond those limits.
YARD, v.t. To confine cattle to the yard; as, to yard cows. [A farmers word.]


Topic: Yarn
Definition:
YARN, n. 
1. Spun wool; woolen thread; but it is applied also to other species of thread, as to cotton and linen.
2. In rope-making, one of the threads of which a rope is composed. It is spun from hemp.


Topic: Yaw
Definition:
YAW, n. The African name of a raspberry.
YAW, v.i. 
1. To rise in blisters, breaking in white froth, as cane juice in the sugar works. [See Yew.]
2. In navigation, to deviate from the line of her course, as a ship.


Topic: Yawn
Definition:
YAWN, v.i. [G., Gr.] 
1. To gape; to oscitate; to have the mouth open involuntarily through drowsiness or dullness.
The lazy, yawning drone. 
And while above he spends his breath, the yawning audience nod beneath.
2. To open wide; as, wide yawns the gulf below.
3. To express desire by yawning; as, to yawn for fat livings.
YAWN, n. 
1. A gaping; an involuntary opening of the mouth from drowsiness; oscitation.
One person yawning in company will produce a spontaneous yawn in all present.
2. An opening wide.


Topic: Yawning
Definition:
YAWNING, ppr.
1. Gaping; opening wide.
2. a. Sleepy; drowsy; dull.
YAWNING, n. The act of gaping or opening wide.


Topic: Yaws
Definition:
YAWS, n. A severe cutaneous disease, which is indigenous in Africa, and from Africa it has been introduced into the West Indies. It is said to be so named form yaw, a raspberry. It is propagated solely by the infection of the matter of the pustules, applied to a part of the body where the skin is broken. It affects a person but once.


Topic: Yclad
Definition:
YCLAD, pp. Clad. [This word and the following retain the y, which is the remains of the Saxon ge, prefixed to verbs. But it is obsolete, except in poetry, and perhaps in burlesque only.]


Topic: Ye
Definition:
YE, pron.  The nominative plural of the second person, of which thou is the singular. But the two words have no radical connection. Ye is now used only in the sacred and solemn style. In common discourse and writing, you is exclusively used.
But ye are washed, but ye are sanctified. 1 Corinthians 6. 


Topic: Yea
Definition:
YEA, adv. Ya.
1. Yes; a word that expresses affirmation or assent. Will you go? Yea. It sometimes introduces a subject, with the sense of indeed, verily, truly, it is so.
Yea, hath God said, ye shall not eat of every tree in the garden? Genesis 3.
Let your communication be yea, yea; nay, nay. Matthew 5.
2. It sometimes enforces the sense of something preceding; not only so, but more.
Therein I do rejoice; yea, and will rejoice. Philippians 1.
3. In Scripture, it is used to denote certainty, consistency, harmony, and stability.
All the promises of God in him are yea, and in him are amen. 2 Corinthians 1.
[In this use, the word may be considered a noun.]
Yea is used only in the sacred and solemn style. [See Yes.]


Topic: Year
Definition:
YEAR, n. [G.]
1. The space or period of time in which the sun moves through the twelve signs of the ecliptic, or whole circle, and returns to the same point. This is the solar year, and the year, in the strict and proper sense of the word. It is called also the tropical year. This period comprehends what are called the twelve calendar months, or 365 days, 5 hours, and 49 minutes, within a small fraction. But in popular usage, the year consists of 365 days, and every fourth year of 366; a day being added to February, on account of the 5 hours and 49 minutes.
2. The time in which any planet completes a revolution; as the year of Jupiter or of Saturn.
3. The time in which the fixed states make a revolution, is called the great year.
4. Years, in the plural, is sometimes equivalent to age or old age; as a man in years.
In popular language, year is often used for years. The horse is ten year old.
Sidereal year, the time in which the sun, departing from any fixed star, returns to the same. This is 365 day, 6 hours, 6 minutes, and 11, 5 seconds.
Anomalistical year, the time that elapses from the suns leaving its apogee, till it returns to it, which is 365 days, 6 hours, 14 minutes.
Civil year, the year which nay nation has contrived for the computation of time.
Bissextile or leap year, the year consisting of 366 days.
Lunar year, consists of 12 lunar months.
Lunar astronomical year, consists of 12 lunar synodical months, or 354 days, 8 hours, 48 minutes, 36 seconds.
Common lunar year, consists of 12 lunar civil months, or 354 days.
Embolismic or intercalary year, consists of 13 lunar civil months, and contains 384 days.
Julian year, established by Julius Caesar, consists of 365 days, 6 hours.
Gregorian year, is the Julian year corrected and is the year now generally used in Europe. From the difference between this and the Julian year, arises the distinction of Old and New Style.
Sabbatic year, among the Israelites, was every seventh year, when their land was suffered to lid untilled.
The civil or legal year, in England, formerly commenced on the 25th day of March. This practice continued till after the settlement of America, and the first settlers of New England observed it for many years.


Topic: Year-book
Definition:
YEAR-BOOK, n. [year and book.] A book containing annual reports of cases adjudged in the courts of England.


Topic: Yearling
Definition:
YEARLING, n. A young beast one year old, or in the second year of his age.
YEARLING, a. Being a year old; as a yearling heifer.


Topic: Yearly
Definition:
YEARLY, a. 
1. Annual; happening; accruing or coming every year; as a yearly rent or income.
2. Lasting a year; as a yearly plant.
3. Comprehending a year; as the yearly circuit or revolution of the earth.
YEARLY, adv. Annually; once a year; as blessings yearly bestowed.


Topic: Yearn
Definition:
YEARN, YERN, v.i. [G. The sense is to strain, or stretch forward. We have earnest from the same root.]
1. To be strained; to be pained or distressed; to suffer.
Falstaff, he is dead, and we must yearn therefore.
2. Usually, to long; to feel an earnest desire; that is literally, to have a desire or inclination stretching towards the object or end. 1 Kings 3.
Joseph made haste, for his bowels did yearn upon his brother. Genesis 43.
Your mothers heart yearns toward you.
--Anticlus, unable to control, spoke loud the language of his yearning soul.
YEARN, YERN, v.t. To pain; to grieve; to vex.
She laments for it, that it would yearn your heart to see it.
It yearns me not if men my garments wear.


Topic: Yearning
Definition:
YEARNING, YERNING, pp. Longing; having longing desire.
YEARNING, YERNING, n. Strong emotions of desire, tenderness or pity.


Topic: Yeast
Definition:
YEAST, n. 
1. Barm; the foam, froth or flower of beer or other liquor in fermentation; used for raising dough for bread or cakes, and making it light and puffy.
2. Spume or foam of water. [Not in use.]


Topic: Yelk
Definition:
YELK, n. [See Gold and Yellow.] The yellow part of an egg; the vitellus. It is sometimes written and pronounced yolk, but yelk is the proper word. Yolk is a corruption.


Topic: Yell
Definition:
YELL, v.i. [It agrees in elements with call.] To cry out with a hideous noise; to cry or scream as with agony or horror. Savages yell most frightfully when they are rushing to the first onset of battle. 
Nor the night raven, that still deadly yells.
YELL, n. A sharp, loud, hideous outcry.
Their hideous yells rend the dark welkin.


Topic: Yelling
Definition:
YELLING, pp. Uttering hideous outcries; shrieking; as yelling monsters.
YELLING, n. The act of screaming hideously.


Topic: Yellow
Definition:
YELLOW, a. [G. See Gold.] Being of a bright color; the color of gold.
YELLOW, n. A bright color, reflecting the most light of any, after white. It is one of the simple or primitive colors.


Topic: Yellow-earth
Definition:
YELLOW-EARTH, n. A soft yellow mineral found at Webraw, in Upper Lusatia. United with clay and argillaceous ironstone.


Topic: Yellow-fever
Definition:
YELLOW-FEVER, n. A malignant disease of warm climates, which often suffuses the skin with a yellowish color.


Topic: Yellowness
Definition:
YELLOWNESS, n. 
1. The quality of being yellow; as the yellowness of an orange.
2. Jealousy. [Not in use.]


Topic: Yellows
Definition:
YELLOWS, n. A disease of horses, cattle and sheep, in which the eyes are tinged with a yellow color, proceeding often from obstructions in the gall-ducts. It is relieved by purges.


Topic: Yenite
Definition:
YENITE, n. A mineral found in the isle of Elba, and in other places, of a brown or brownish black color. It is arranged with the chrysolite family, but differs much from other species of it. It resembles hornblend, or rather black epidote. It occurs both crystalized and massive; the form of the crystals being that of a rhomboidal prism. It consists chiefly of silex, lime, and oxyd of manganese. This mineral is called yenite or jenite in commemoration of the battle of Jena, and lievrite, from its discoverer.


Topic: Yeoman
Definition:
YEOMAN, n. [See Common.]
1. A common man, or one of the plebeians, of the first or most respectable class; a freeholder; a man free born. A yeoman in England is considered as next in order to the gentry. The word is little used in the United States, unless as a title in law proceedings and instruments, designating occupation, and this only in particular states. But yeomanry is much used.
2. An officer in the kings household, of a middle rank between a gentleman and a groom.
3. In ships, an inferior officer under the boatswain, gunner or carpenters, charged with the stowage, account and distribution of the stores.
4. A name or title of certain soldiers; as yeomen of the guard.


Topic: Yeomanry
Definition:
YEOMANRY, n. The collective body of yeomen or freeholders. Thus the common people in America, are called yeomanry.


Topic: Yerk
Definition:
YERK, v.t. To throw or thrust with a sudden smart spring; as, horses yerk their heels.
YERK, n. A sudden or quick thrust or motion.


Topic: Yes
Definition:
YES, adv. A word which expresses affirmation or consent; opposed to no; as, are you married, madam? Yes. It is used like yea, to enforce by repetition or addition, something which precedes. You have done all this; yes, you have done more. 
Yes, you despise the man to books confind.


Topic: Yester
Definition:
YESTER, a. [G., L.] Last; last past; next before the present; as yester sun.
[Note. This is seldom used except in the compounds which follow.]


Topic: Yesterday
Definition:
YESTERDAY, n. [See Yester.]
1. The day last past; the day next before the present.
All our yesterdays have lighted fools the way to dusty death.
We are but of yesterday, and know nothing. Job 8.
2. Yesterday is used generally without a preposition; as, I went to town yesterday. Yesterday we received letters from our friends. In this ease, a preposition is understood; as on yesterday, or during yesterday. The word may be considered as adverbially used.


Topic: Yesternight
Definition:
YESTERNIGHT, n. [yester and night.]
1. The last night.
2. It is used without preposition. My brother arrived yesternight; where on or during is understood, but it may be considered as adverbially used.


Topic: Yet
Definition:
YET, conj. [Gr.] Nevertheless; notwithstanding; however. I come to you in the spirit of peace; yet you will not receive me.
Yet I say unto you, the Solomon in all his glory, was not arrayed like one of these. Matthew 6.
YET, adv. 
1. Beside; over and above. There is one reason yet further to be alledged. 
2. Still; the state remaining the same.
They attest facts they had heard while they were yet heathens.
3. At this time; so soon. Is it time to go? Not yet.
4. At least; at all.
A man that would form a comparison between Quintilians declamations, if yet they are Quintilians--
5. It is prefixed to words denoting extension of time or continuance.
A little longer; yet a little longer.
6. Still; in a new degree. The crime becomes yet blacker by the pretense of piety.
7. Even; after all; a kind of emphatical addition to a negative.
Men may not too rashly believe the confessions of witches, nor yet the evidence against them.
8. Hitherto. You have yet done nothing; you have as yet done less than was expected.
Yeven, for given, is not in use.


Topic: Yew
Definition:
YEW, n. An evergreen tree of the genus Taxus, valued for its wood or timber.
YEW, v.i. To rise, as scum on the brine in boiling at the salt works. [See Yaw.]


Topic: Yield
Definition:
YIELD, v.t. 
1. To produce, as land, stock or funds; to give in return for labor, or as profit. Lands yield not more than three per cent annually; houses yield four or five percent. Maiz on good land, yields two or three hundred fold.
2. To produce, in general. Most vegetable juices yield a salt.
3. To afford; to exhibit. The flowers in spring yield a beautiful sight.
4. To allow; to concede; to admit to be true; as, to yield the point in debate. We yield that there is a God.
5. To give, as claimed of right; as, to yield due honors; to yield due praise.
6. To permit; to grant.
Life is but air, that yields a passage to the whistling sword.
7. To emit; to give up. To yield the breath, is to expire.
8. To resign; to give up; sometimes with up or over; as, to yield up their own opinions. We yield the place to our superiors.
9. To surrender; sometimes with up; as, to yield a fortress to the enemy; or to yield up a fortress.
YIELD, v.i. 
1. To give up the contest; to submit. 
He saw the fainting Grecians yield.
2. To comply with; as, I yielded to his request.
3. To give way; not to oppose. We readily yield to the current of opinion; we yield to customs and fashions.
4. To give place, as inferior in rank or excellence. They will yield to us in nothing.
Tell me in what more happy fields the thistle springs, to which the lily yields?


Topic: Yielding
Definition:
YIELDING, ppr.
1. Producing; affording; conceding; resigning; surrendering; allowing.
2. a. Inclined to give way or comply; flexible; accommodating; as a yielding temper.
YIELDING, n. Act of producing; act of surrendering; submission.


Topic: Yog
Definition:
YUG, YOG, n. In the mythology of India, an age; one of the ages into which the Hindoos divide the duration or existence of the world.


Topic: Yoke
Definition:
YOKE, n. [G., L., Gr.]
1. A piece of timber, hollowed or made curving near each end, and fitted with bows for receiving the necks of oxen; by which means two are connected for drawing. From a ring or hook in the bow, a chain extends to the thing to be drawn, or to the yoke of another pair of oxen behind.
2. A mark of servitude; slavery; bondage.
Our country sinks beneath the yoke.
3. A chain; a link; a bond of connection; as the yoke of marriage.
4. A couple; a pair; as a yoke of oxen.
5. Service.
My yoke is easy. Matthew 11.
YOKE, v.t.
1. To put a yoke on; to join in a yoke; as, to yoke oxen, or a pair of oxen.
2. To couple; to join with another.
Cassius, you are yoked with a lamb.
3. To enslave; to bring into bondage.
4. To restrain; to confine. Libertines like not to be yoked in marriage.
The words and promises that yoke the conqueror, are quickly broke.


Topic: Yoke-fellow
Definition:
YOKE-FELLOW, YOKE-MATE, n. [yoke and fellow or mate.] 
1. An associate or companion.
2. A mate; a fellow.


Topic: Yolk
Definition:
YOLK, n. 
1. The yelk of an egg. [See Yelk.]
2. The unctuous secretion from the skin of sheep, which renders the pile soft and pliable.
3. The vitellus, a part of the seed of plants, so named by Gaertner, from its supposed analogy with the yelk of an egg. It is characterized as very firmly and inseparably connected with the embryo, yet never rising out of the integuments of the seed in germination, but absorbed, like the albumen, (see White and Perisperm,) for the nourishment of the embryo. When the albumen is present, it is always situated between it and the embryo. In the grasses it forms a scale between the embryo and albumen. It is considered by Smith as a subterraneous cotyledon.


Topic: Yon
Definition:
YON, YOND, YONDER, a. [G.] Being at a distance within view.
Yonder men are too many for an embassy.
Read thy lot in yon celestial sign.
Yon flowery arbors, yonder alleys green.
YON, YOND, YONDER, adv. At a distance within view. When we use this word, we often point the hand or direct the eye to the place or object.
First and chiefest, with thee bring him that yon soars on golden wing. 
Yonder are two apple women scolding.


Topic: Yore
Definition:
YORE, adv. [It probably signifies past, gone, from the root of year.] Long.
Of yore, of old time; long ago; as in times or days of yore.
But Satan now is wiser than of yore.


Topic: You
Definition:
YOU, pron. Yu. [You has been considered as in the plural only, and is so treated in the Saxon grammar. But from the Belgic dialect, it appears to be in the singular as well as the plural, and our universal popular usage, in applying it to a single person with a verb in the singular number, is correct. Yourself is in the singular number.]
1. The pronoun of the second person, in the nominative or objective case. In familiar language, it is applied to an individual, as thou is in the solemn style. In the plural, it is used in the solemn style in the objective case.
In vain you tell your parting lover, you wish fair winds may waft him over.
He that despiseth you, despiseth me. Luke 10.
2. You is used, like on in French, for any one. This at a distance looks like a rock; but as you approach it, you see a little cabin.


Topic: Young
Definition:
YOUNG, a. Yung. [G., L.]
1. Not having been long born; being in the first part of life; not old; used of animals; as a young child; a young man; a young fawn.
2. Being in the first part of growth; as a young plant; a young tree.
3. Ignorant; weak; or rather, having little experience.
Come, elder brother, thourt too young in this.
YOUNG, n. The offspring of animals, either a single animal, or offspring collectively. The cow will take care of her young, as will the hen. Animals make provision for their young.


Topic: Younger
Definition:
YOUNGER, a. Comp. Yunger. Not so old as another. A person of ninety years old is younger than one of a hundred, though certainly not a young man, nor in the first part of life.


Topic: Youngest
Definition:
YOUNGEST, a. Superl. Yungest. Having the least age. There are three persons living, the youngest of whom is ninety years old.


Topic: Your
Definition:
YOUR, a. Pronom. pron. yure. [G.]
1. Belonging to you; equally applicable to both numbers; as your father; your heart; your prince; your subjects.
2. It is used indefinitely.
Your medalist and your critic are much nearer related than the world imagine.
3. Yours is used as a substitute for a noun in the nominative or objective. This book is yours. I have no pen; give me yours. My sword and yours are kin.


Topic: Yourself
Definition:
YOURSELF, pron. Plu. Yourselves. [your and self.]
1. A word added to you, to express distinction emphatically between you and other persons. This work you must do yourself; or you yourself must do it; that is, you and no other person. Sometimes it is used without you. 
Allow obedience, if yourselves are old.
2. It is used as the reciprocal pronoun. You love only yourself; you have brought this calamity on yourselves; be but yourselves.


Topic: Youth
Definition:
YOUTH, n. Yuth. [G.]
1. The part of life that succeeds to childhood. In a general sense, youth denotes the whole early part of life, from infancy to manhood; but it is not unusual to divide the stages of life into infancy, childhood, youth, and manhood. In this sense the word can have no plural.
Those who pass their youth in vice, are justly condemned to spend their age in folly.
2. A young man. In this sense it has a plural.
Seven youths from Athens yearly sent--
3. A young person, male or female.
4. Young persons, collectively.
It is fit to youth to read the best authors first.


Topic: Youthful
Definition:
YOUTHFUL, a. Young; as tow youthful knights.
2. Pertaining to the early parts of life; as youthful thoughts; youthful sports.
3. Fresh vigorous; as in youth.


Topic: Yttria
Definition:
YTTRIA, n. [so called from Ytterby, a quarry in Sweden.] One of the earths. It has the appearance of a fine white powder, without taste or smell. It is insoluble in water, and does not affect vegetable blues. It combines with acids and forms salts. Its base is yttrium.


Topic: Z
Definition:
Z, the last letter of the English Alphabet, is a sibilant articulation, and is merely a vocal S. It bears the same relation to s, as v does to f. With us it has not a compound sound, nor is it a double consonant, as in the Italian and German. It is as simple in its sound as S.
As a numeral, Z stands for 2000, and with a dash over it, Z, for 2,000,000. It is pronounced zee.


Topic: Zaffer
Definition:
ZAFFER, n. The residuum of cobalt, after the sulphur, arsenic and other volatile matters have been expelled by calcination; so that it is a gray or dark gray oxyd of cobalt, mixed with a portion of silex.


Topic: Zapote
Definition:
ZAPOTE, n. In Mexico, the generic name of fruits which are roundish and contain a hard stone; the species are various.


Topic: Zarnich
Definition:
ZARNICH, n. [See Arsenic.] The name of a genus of fossils, which are inflammable, of a plain uniform structure, not flexible or elastic, soluble in oil, and burning with a whitish flame and noxious smell like garlic. This substance is supposed to be sulphureted aresenic. Of this genus there are four species; one the real sandarach; another is sold under the name of orpiment.


Topic: Zeal
Definition:
ZEAL, n. [Gr., L.] Passionate ardor in the pursuit of any thing. In general, zeal is an eagerness of desire to accomplish or obtain some object, and it may be manifested either in favor of any person or thing, or in opposition to it, and in a good or bad cause.
Zeal, the blind conductor of the will.
They have a zeal of God, but not according to knowledge. Romans 10.
A zeal for liberty is sometimes an eagerness to subvert, with little care what shall be established.


Topic: Zealot
Definition:
ZEALOT, n. Zelot. One who engages warmly in any cause, and pursues his object with earnestness and ardor. It is generally used in dispraise, or applied to one whose ardor in intemperate and censurable.  The fury of zealots was one cause of the destruction of Jerusalem. 


Topic: Zealous
Definition:
ZEALOUS, a. Zelus. Warmly engaged or ardent in the pursuit of an object.
Being thus saved himself, he may be zealous in the salvation of souls.


Topic: Zealously
Definition:
ZEALOUSLY, adv. Zelusly. With passionate ardor; with eagerness.
It is good to be zealously affected always in a good thing. Galatians 4.


Topic: Zebu
Definition:
ZEBU, n. A variety of the common ox, with a hump on the shoulders. It is found in the East Indies and resembles the bos Indicus, or Indian ox, but is very small, being sometimes little larger than a dog.


Topic: Zechin
Definition:
ZECHIN, n. A Venetian gold coin; usually written sequin, which see. If named from Zecha, the place where minted, this is the correct orthography.


Topic: Zedoary
Definition:
ZEDOARY, n. A medicinal root, belonging to a plant growing in the East Indies, whose leaves resemble those of ginger, only they are longer and broader. It comes in oblong pieces, about the thickness of the little finger, and two or three inches in length. It is a warm stomachic.


Topic: Zeine
Definition:
ZEINE, n. A substance of a yellowish color, soft, insipid, and elastic, procured from the seeds of the Zea Mays or Indian corn.


Topic: Zemindar
Definition:
ZEMINDAR, n. [from zem, zemin, land.] In India, a feudatory or landholder who governs a district of country and collects taxes.


Topic: Zendavesta
Definition:
ZENDAVESTA, n. Among the Persees, a sacred book ascribed to Zoroaster, and reverenced as a bible, or sole rule of faith and practice. It is often called Zend, by contraction.


Topic: Zenith
Definition:
ZENITH, n. That point in the visible celestial hemisphere, which is vertical to the spectator, and from a which a direct perpendicular line passing through the spectator, and extended, would proceed to the center of the earth. It is opposed to nadir.


Topic: Zeolite
Definition:
ZEOLITE, n. [Gr., to boil, to foam; stone.] A mineral, so named by Cronstedt from its intumescence before the blowpipe. Many substances have been confounded under this name, particularly such as are fusible by the blowpipe without addition, and exhibit a phosphoric brilliancy at the moment of fusion. Hauy makes two species of zeolite, which he calls mesotype and stilbite. Werner makes four subspecies, which he calls maly zeolite, fibrous zeolite, radiated zeolite, and foliated zeolite. He makes zeolite a generic name, and Jameson, who adopts this theory, arranges in this family prehnite, zeolite, apophyllite, cubicite, called by Hauy analcime, chabasite, cross-stone, laumonite, dipyre, natrolite, and wavellite. Zeolite commonly occurs in a four sided prism, terminated by a four sided pyramid; often in small fibrous masses.


Topic: Zephyr
Definition:
ZEPHYR, n. [L., Gr.] The west wind; and peotically, any soft, mild, gentle breeze. The poets personify Zephyrus, and make him the most mild and gentle of all the sylvan deities.
Mild as when Zephyrus on Flora breathes.


Topic: Zerda
Definition:
ZERDA, n. An animal of the canine genus, found in the desert of Zaara, beyond mount Atlas. It is about ten inches in length, with a pointed nose, long whiskers, large black vivid eyes, and remarkably swift of foot. Its color is a yellowish pale brown.


Topic: Zero
Definition:
ZERO, n. Cipher; nothing. The point of a thermometer from which it is graduated. Zero, in the thermometers of Celsius and Reaumur, is at the point at which water congeals. The zero of Fahrenheits thermometer is fixed at the point at which the mercury stands when immersed in a mixture of snow and common salt. In Wedgewoods pyrometer, the zero corresponds with 1077 degrees on Fahrenheits scale.


Topic: Zest
Definition:
ZEST, n. 
1. A piece of orange or lemon peel, used to give flavor to liquor; or the fine thin oil that spurts out of it when squeezed; also, the woody thick skin quartering the kernel of a walnut.
2. Relish; something that gives a pleasant taste; or the taste itself.
ZEST, v.t. 
1. To give a relish or flavor to; to highten taste or relish.
2. To cut the peel of an orange or lemon from top to bottom into thin slips; or to squeeze the peel over the surface of any thing.


Topic: Zeta
Definition:
ZETA, n. 
1. A Greek letter.
2. A little closet or chamber, with pipes running along the walls, to convey into it fresh air, or warm vapor from below.


Topic: Zetetic
Definition:
ZETETIC, a. [Gr., to seek.] That seeks; that proceeds by inquiry. The zetetic method in mathematics, is that used in investigation, or the solution of problems.


Topic: Zeugma
Definition:
ZEUGMA, n. [Gr., to join. See Yoke.] A figure in grammar by which an adjective or verb which agrees with a nearer word, is by way of supplement, referred to another more remote. Thus in Virgil, Hicillius arma, hic currus fuit; where fuit, which agrees directly with currus, is referred also to arma.


Topic: Zibet
Definition:
ZIBET, n. [See Civet.] AN animal of the genus Viverra; the ash-gray weasel, striated with black undulations, and an annulated tail. It may be called the Indian civet, as it resembles the African civet.


Topic: Zigzag
Definition:
ZIGZAG, a. Having short turns.
ZIGZAG, n. Something that has short turns or angles.
ZIGZAG, v.t. To form with short turns.
Ziment water, or copper water, is a name given to water found in copper mines; water impregnated with copper.


Topic: Zink
Definition:
ZINK, n. [G. The common orthography, zine, is erroneous.] A metal of a brilliant white color, with a shade of blue, and appearing as if composed of plates adhering together. It is not brittle, but less malleable than copper, lead or tin. When heated however, it is malleable, and may be drawn into plates.


Topic: Zinky
Definition:
ZINKY, a. Pertaining to zink, or having its appearance.
Some effervesce with acids, some not, though soluble therein, as to the zinky part. 
The zinky ores are said to be grayer than other ores.


Topic: Zircon
Definition:
ZIRCON, n. Called also jargon of Ceylon, a mineral originally found in Ceylon, in the sands of rivers, along with spinel, sapphire, tourmalin, and iron sand. Zircon, hyacinth, and zirconite, are regarded as varieties of the same species. They are essentially composed of the earth zirconia, with silex, and a minute portion of iron. The primitive form of the crystals is an octahedron, composed of two four sided prisms. The common form is a rectangular four sided prism.


Topic: Zocco
Definition:
ZOCCO, ZOCLE, ZOCCOLO, n. [L., a sock.] A square body under the base of a pedestal, &c. Serving for the support of a bust, statue or column.


Topic: Zodiac
Definition:
ZODIAC, n. [L, Gr., an animal.] A broad circle in the heavens, containing the twelve signs through which the sun passes in its annual course. The center of this belt is the ecliptic, which is the path of the sun. It intersects the equator at an angle or 23 degrees and a half or rather 29 minutes. This is called its obliquity.
2. A girdle.


Topic: Zodiacal
Definition:
ZODIACAL, a.  Pertaining to the zodiac.
Zodiacal light, a luminous track or space in the heavens, resembling that of the milky way, sometimes appearing after sunset and before sunrising.


Topic: Zoisite
Definition:
ZOISITE, n. [from Van Zois, its discoverer.] A mineral regarded as a variety of epidote. It occurs in deeply striated rhomboidal prisms, much compressed and rounded; its colors gray, yellowish or bluish gray, brown, grayish yellow, or reddish white. This is called also a subspecies of prismatoidal augite.


Topic: Zone
Definition:
ZONE, n. [L., Gr.] 
1. A girdle.
An embroiderd zone surrounds her waist.
2. In geography, a division of the earth, with respect to the temperature of different latitudes. The zones are five; the torrid zone, extending from tropic to tropic 46 degrees, 56 degrees, or 23 degrees 28' on each side of the equator; two temperate or variable zones, situated between the tropics and polar circles; and two frigid zones, situated between the polar circles and the poles.
3. Circuit; circumference.
Ciliary zone, in anatomy, the black impression of the ciliary processes on the vitreous humor of the eye.


Topic: Zonnar
Definition:
ZONNAR, n. A belt or girdle, which the Christians and Jews in the Levat are obliged to wear, to distinguish them from the Mohammedans.


Topic: Zoography
Definition:
ZOOGRAPHY, n. [Gr., an animal; to describe.] A description of animals, their forms and habits. [But zoology is generally used.]


Topic: Zoologist
Definition:
ZOOLOGIST, n. [from zoology.] One who is well versed in the natural history of animals, or who describes animals.


Topic: Zoology
Definition:
ZOOLOGY, n. [Gr., an animal; discourse.] A treatise on animals, or the science of animals; that branch of natural history which respects the forms, classification, history and habits of animals, particularly of brutes or irrational animals.


Topic: Zoonic
Definition:
ZOONIC, a. [Gr., an animal.] Pertaining to animals; as the zoonic acid, obtained from animal substances.


Topic: Zoonomy
Definition:
ZOONOMY, n. [Gr., an animal; law.] The laws of animal life, or the science which treats of the phenomena of animal life, their causes and relations.


Topic: Zoophoric
Definition:
ZOOPHORIC, a. [Gr., an animal; to bear.] The zoophoric column is one which supports the figure of an animal.


Topic: Zoophorus
Definition:
ZOOPHORUS, n. [supra.] In ancient architecture, the same with the frieze in modern architecture; a part between the architrave and cornice; so called from the figures of animals carved upon it.


Topic: Zoophyte
Definition:
ZOOPHYTE, n. [Gr., an animal; a plant.] In natural history, a body supposed to partake of the nature both of an animal and a vegetable, such as madrepores, millepores, corallines, &c.


Topic: Zootomy
Definition:
ZOOTOMY, n. [Gr., an animal; to cut.] Anatomy; particularly, the dissecting of bodies of beasts or brute animals; comparative anatomy, or the anatomy of brute animals.


Topic: Zumology
Definition:
ZUMOLOGY, n. [Gr., ferment; to ferment; discourse.] A treatise on the fermentation of liquors, or the doctrine of fermentation.


Topic: Zumosimeter
Definition:
ZUMOSIMETER, n. [Gr., fermentation; to measure.] An instrument proposed by Swammerdam for ascertaining the degree of fermentation occasioned by the mixture of different liquids, and the degree of heat which they acquire in fermentation.


Topic: Zurlite
Definition:
ZURLITE, n. A newly discovered Vesuvian mineral, whose primitive form is a cube, or according to some authors, a rectangular prism.


Topic: Zygodactylous
Definition:
ZYGODACTYLOUS, a. [Gr., to join; a finger.] Having the toes disposed in pairs; distinguishing an order of fowls which have the feet furnished with two toes before and two behind, as the parrot, woodpecker, &c.


Topic: Zygomatic
Definition:
ZYGOMATIC, adj. [Gr., a joining.] Pertaining to a bone of the head, called also os jugale, or cheek bone, or to the bony arch under which the temporal muscle passes. The term zygoma is applied both to the bone and the arch.


