| W: | the twentythird letter of the English alphabet is usually a consonant but sometimes it is a vowel forming the second element of certain diphthongs as in few how It takes its written form and its name from the repetition of a V this being the original form of the Roman capital letter which we call U Etymologically it is most related to v and u See V and U Some of the uneducated classes in England especially in London confuse w and v substituting the one for the other as weal for veal and veal for weal wine for vine and vine for wine etc See Guide to Pronunciation sectsect 266268 |
| Waag: | The grivet |
| Waahoo: | The burning bush said to be called after a quack medicine made from it |
| Wabble: | To move staggeringly or unsteadily from one side to the other to vacillate to move the manner of a rotating disk when the axis of rotation is inclined to that of the disk said of a turning or whirling body as a top wabbles a buzz saw wabbles |
| Wabble: | A hobbling unequal motion as of a wheel unevenly hung a staggering to and fro |
| Wabbly: | Inclined to wabble wabbling |
| Wacke: | A soft earthy darkcolored rock or clay derived from the alteration of basalt |
| Wad: | Woad |
| Wad: | An earthy oxide of manganese or mixture of different oxides and water with some oxide of iron and often silica alumina lime or baryta black ocher There are several varieties |
| Waddie: | See Waddy |
| Waddle: | To walk with short steps swaying the body from one side to the other like a duck or very fat person to move clumsily and totteringly along to toddle to stumble as a child waddles when he begins to walk a goose waddles |
| Waddle: | To trample or tread down as high grass by walking through it |
| Waddler: | One who or that which waddles |
| Waddlingly: | In a waddling manner |
| Waddy: | An aboriginal war club |
| Waddy: | To attack or beat with a waddy |
| Waddywood: | An Australian tree Pittosporum bicolor also its wood used in making waddies |
| Wade: | Woad |
| Wade: | To pass or cross by wading as he waded |
| Wade: | The act of wading |
| Wader: | One who or that which wades |
| Wading: | a n from Wade v |
| Wadmol: | A coarse hairy woolen cloth formerly used for garments by the poor and for various other purposes |
| Wadset: | A kind of pledge or mortgage |
| Wadsetter: | One who holds by a wadset |
| Wady: | A ravine through which a brook flows the channel of a water course which is dry except in the rainy season |
| Wae: | A wave |
| Waeg: | The kittiwake |
| Wafer: | To seal or close with a wafer |
| Waferer: | A dealer in the cakes called wafers a confectioner |
| Waffle: | A thin cake baked and then rolled a wafer |
| Waft: | To give notice to by waving something to wave the hand to to beckon |
| Waft: | To be moved or to pass on a buoyant medium to float |
| Waft: | A wave or current of wind |
| Waftage: | Conveyance on a buoyant medium as air or water |
| Wafter: | One who or that which wafts |
| Wafture: | The act of waving a wavelike motion a waft |
| Wag: | To move one way and the other with quick turns to shake to and fro to move vibratingly to cause to vibrate as a part of the body as to wag the head |
| Wag: | To move one way and the other to be shaken to and fro to vibrate |
| Wagati: | A small East Indian wild cat Felis wagati regarded by some as a variety of the leopard cat |
| Wage: | To bind ones self to engage |
| Wagel: | See Waggel |
| Wagenboom: | A south African proteaceous tree Protea grandiflora also its tough wood used for making wagon wheels |
| wager: | To hazard on the issue of a contest or on some question that is to be decided or on some eventuality to lay to stake to bet |
| Wager: | To make a bet to lay a wager |
| Wagerer: | One who wagers or lays a bet |
| Wagering: | Hazarding pertaining to the act of one who wagers |
| Wages: | A compensation given to a hired person for services price paid for labor recompense hire See Wage n 2 |
| Waggel: | The young of the great blackbacked gull Larus marinus formerly considered a distinct species |
| Waggery: | The manner or action of a wag mischievous merriment sportive trick or gayety goodhumored sarcasm pleasantry jocularity as the waggery of a schoolboy |
| Waggie: | The pied wagtail |
| Waggish: | Like a wag mischievous in sport roguish in merriment or good humor frolicsome |
| Waggle: | To reel sway or move from side to side to move with a wagging motion to waddle |
| Waggle: | To move frequently one way and the other to wag as a bird waggles his tail |
| Waggle: | A waggling or wagging |
| Waghalter: | One who moves or wears a halter one likely to be hanged |
| Wagnerian: | Of pertaining to or resembling the style of Richard Wagner the German musical composer |
| Wagnerite: | A fluophosphate of magnesia occurring in yellowish crystals and also in massive forms |
| Wagon: | To transport in a wagon or wagons as goods are wagoned from city to city |
| Wagon: | To wagon goods as a business as the man wagons between Philadelphia and its suburbs |
| Wagonage: | Money paid for carriage or conveyance in wagon |
| Wagoner: | One who conducts a wagon one whose business it is to drive a wagon |
| Wagonette: | A kind of pleasure wagon uncovered and with seats extended along the sides designed to carry six or eight persons besides the driver |
| Wagonful: | As much as a wagon will hold enough to fill a wagon a wagonload |
| Wagonheaded: | Having a top or head shaped like the top of a covered wagon or resembling in section or outline an inverted U thus as a wagonheaded ceiling |
| Wagonload: | Same as Wagonful |
| Wagonroofed: | Having a roof or top shaped like an inverted U wagonheaded |
| Wagonry: | Conveyance by means of a wagon or wagons |
| Wagonwright: | One who makes wagons |
| Wagtail: | Any one of many species of Old World singing birds belonging to Motacilla and several allied genera of the family Motacillid They have the habit of constantly jerking their long tails up and down whence the name |
| Wah: | The panda |
| Wahabee: | A follower of Abdel Wahab b 1691 d 1787 a reformer of Islam His doctrines prevail particularly among the Bedouins and the sect though checked in its influence extends to most parts of Arabia and also into India |
| Wahoo: | Any of various American trees or shrubs |
| Wahoo: | A dark blue scombroid food fish Acanthocibium solandri or Acanthocibium petus of Florida and the West Indies |
| Waid: | Oppressed with weight crushed weighed down |
| Waift: | A waif |
| Wail: | To choose to select |
| Wail: | To lament to bewail to grieve over as to wail ones death |
| Wail: | To express sorrow audibly to make mournful outcry to weep |
| Wail: | Loud weeping violent lamentation wailing |
| Wailer: | One who wails or laments |
| Waileress: | A woman who wails |
| Wailful: | Sorrowful mournful |
| Wailingly: | In a wailing manner |
| Wailment: | Lamentation loud weeping wailing |
| Waiment: | See Wayment |
| Wainable: | Capable of being plowed or cultivated arable tillable |
| Wainage: | A finding of carriages carts etc for the transportation of goods produce etc |
| Wainage: | See Gainage a |
| Wainbote: | See Cartbote See also the Note under Bote |
| Wainscot: | To line with boards or panelwork or as if with panelwork as to wainscot a hall |
| Wainscoting: | The act or occupation of covering or lining with boards in panel |
| Wainwright: | Same as Wagonwright |
| Wair: | A piece of plank two yard long and a foot broad |
| Waistband: | The band which encompasses the waist esp one on the upper part of breeches trousers pantaloons skirts or the like |
| Waistcloth: | A cloth or wrapper worn about the waist by extension such a garment worn about the hips and passing between the thighs |
| Waistcoat: | A short sleeveless coat or garment for men worn under the coat extending no lower than the hips and covering the waist a vest |
| Waistcoateer: | One wearing a waistcoat esp a woman wearing one uncovered or thought fit for such a habit hence a loose woman strumpet |
| Waistcoating: | A fabric designed for waistcoats esp one in which there is a pattern differently colored yarns being used |
| Waister: | A seaman usually a green hand or a brokendown man stationed in the waist of a vessel of war |
| Wait: | To stay for to rest or remain stationary in expectation of to await as to wait orders |
| Waitabit: | Any of several plants bearing thorns or stiff hooked appendages which catch and tear the clothing |
| Waitawhile: | One of the Australian wattle trees Acacia colletioides so called from the impenetrability of the thicket which it makes |
| Waiter: | One who or that which waits an attendant a servant in attendance esp at table |
| Waiting: | a n from Wait v |
| Waitingly: | By waiting |
| Waitress: | A female waiter or attendant a waiting maid or waiting woman |
| Waive: | A waif a castaway |
| Waive: | To turn aside to recede |
| Waiver: | The act of waiving or not insisting on some right claim or privilege |
| Waivure: | See Waiver |
| Waiwode: | See Waywode |
| WaiWuPu: | The Department of Foreign Affairs in the Chinese government |
| Wake: | The track left by a vessel in the water by extension any track as the wake of an army |
| Wake: | To rouse from sleep to awake |
| Wake: | The act of waking or being awaked also the state of being awake |
| Wakeful: | Not sleeping indisposed to sleep watchful vigilant |
| Waken: | To wake to cease to sleep to be awakened |
| Waken: | To excite or rouse from sleep to wake to awake to awaken |
| Wakener: | One who wakens |
| Wakening: | The act of one who wakens esp the act of ceasing to sleep an awakening |
| Waker: | One who wakes |
| Wakerobin: | Any plant of the genus Arum especially in England the cuckoopint Arum maculatum |
| Waketime: | Time during which one is awake |
| Wakf: | The granting or dedication of property in trust for a pious purpose that is to some object that tends to the good of mankind as to support a mosque or caravansary to provide for support of ones family kin or neighbors to benefit some particular person or persons and afterward the poor etc also the trust so created or the property in trust |
| Wakif: | The person creating a wakf |
| Waking: | The act of waking or the state or period of being awake |
| Walaway: | See Welaway |
| Wald: | A forest used as a termination of names See Weald |
| Waldenses: | A sect of dissenters from the ecclesiastical system of the Roman Catholic Church who in the 13th century were driven by persecution to the valleys of Piedmont where the sect survives They profess substantially Protestant principles |
| Waldensian: | Of or pertaining to the Waldenses |
| Waldgrave: | In the old German empire the head forest keeper |
| Waldheimia: | A genus of brachiopods of which many species are found in the fossil state A few still exist in the deep sea |
| Wale: | To mark with wales or stripes |
| Waler: | A horse imported from New South Wales also any Australian horse |
| Walhalla: | See Valhalla |
| Waling: | Same as Wale n 4 |
| Walk: | To pass through over or upon to traverse to perambulate as to walk the streets |
| Walk: | The act of walking or moving on the feet with a slow pace advance without running or leaping |
| Walkable: | Fit to be walked on capable of being walked on or over |
| Walker: | One who walks a pedestrian |
| Walking: | a n from Walk v |
| Walkmill: | A fulling mill |
| walkoff: | Gameending and gamewinning such as to end the game immediately and allow the players to walk off the field of hits especially home runs which occur in the last half of the ninth or a later inning which put the home team ahead of the visiting team and thereby end the game immediatey This occurs in baseball because when the last half of the ninth inning arrives if the home team which bats last is already ahead in the score the last half of that inning is not played the winner of the game having already been decided Likewise as soon as the home team gets ahead in the score after the visiting team has batted in the ninth inning the game is ended |
| Walkover: | In racing the going over a course by a horse which has no competitor for the prize |
| Walkyr: | See Valkyria |
| Wall: | A kind of knot often used at the end of a rope a wall knot a wale |
| Wall: | To inclose with a wall or as with a wall |
| Wallaba: | A leguminous tree Eperua falcata of Demerara with pinnate leaves and clusters of red flowers The reddish brown wood is used for palings and shingles |
| Wallaby: | Any one of numerous species of kangaroos belonging to the genus Halmaturus native of Australia and Tasmania especially the smaller species as the brush kangaroo Halmaturus Bennettii and the pademelon Halmaturus thetidis The wallabies chiefly inhabit the wooded district and bushy plains |
| Wallachian: | Of or pertaining to Wallachia a former principality now part of the kingdom of Roumania |
| Wallack: | See Wallachian |
| Wallah: | A black variety of the jaguar called also tapir tiger |
| Wallaroo: | Any one of several species of kangaroos of the genus Macropus especially Macropus robustus sometimes called the great wallaroo |
| Wallbird: | The spotted flycatcher |
| Waller: | One who builds walls |
| Waller: | The wels |
| Walleriandegeneration: | A form of degeneration occurring in nerve fibers as a result of their division so called from Dr Waller who published an account of it in 1850 |
| Wallet: | A bag or sack for carrying about the person as a bag for carrying the necessaries for a journey a knapsack a beggars receptacle for charity a peddlers pack |
| Walleteer: | One who carries a wallet a foot traveler a tramping beggar |
| Walleyed: | Having an eye of a very light gray or whitish color |
| Wallflower: | A perennial cruciferous plant Cheiranthus Cheiri with sweetscented flowers varying in color from yellow to orange and deep red In Europe it very common on old walls |
| Wallhick: | The lesser spotted woodpecker Dryobates minor |
| Walling: | The act of making a wall or walls |
| Walloons: | A Romanic people inhabiting that part of Belgium which comprises the provinces of Hainaut Namur Lige and Luxembourg and about one third of Brabant also the language spoken by this people Used also adjectively |
| Wallop: | To move quickly but with great effort to gallop |
| Wallop: | A quick rolling movement a gallop |
| Wallop: | To beat soundly to flog to whip |
| Wallop: | A thick piece of fat |
| Wallow: | To roll esp to roll in anything defiling or unclean |
| Wallow: | A kind of rolling walk |
| Wallower: | One who or that which wallows |
| Wallowish: | Flat insipid |
| Wallplat: | The spotted flycatcher It builds its nest on walls |
| Wallsided: | Having sides nearly perpendicular said of certain vessels to distinguish them from those having flaring sides or sides tumbling home see under Tumble v i |
| WallStreet: | A street towards the southern end of the borough of Manhattan New York City extending from Broadway to the East River so called from the old wall which extended along it when the city belonged to the Dutch It is the chief financial center of the United States hence the name is often used for the money market and the financial interests of the country in American financial publications also referred to as the street |
| Wallwort: | The dwarf elder or danewort Sambucus Ebulus |
| Walm: | To roll to spout to boil up |
| Walnut: | The fruit or nut of any tree of the genus Juglans also the tree and its timber The seven or eight known species are all natives of the north temperate zone |
| Walrus: | A very large marine mammal Trichecus rosmarus of the Seal family native of the Arctic Ocean The male has long and powerful tusks descending from the upper jaw It uses these in procuring food and in fighting It is hunted for its oil ivory and skin It feeds largely on mollusks Called also morse |
| Walter: | To roll or wallow to welter |
| Waltron: | A walrus |
| Walty: | Liable to roll over crank as a walty ship |
| Waltz: | A dance performed by two persons in circular figures with a whirling motion also a piece of music composed in triple measure for this kind of dance |
| Waltz: | To dance a waltz |
| Waltzer: | A person who waltzes |
| Walwe: | To wallow |
| Waly: | An exclamation of grief |
| Wamble: | To heave to be disturbed by nausea said of the stomach |
| Wamble: | Disturbance of the stomach a feeling of nausea |
| Wamblecropped: | Sick at the stomach also crestfallen dejected |
| Wammel: | To move irregularly or awkwardly to wamble or wabble |
| Wamp: | The common American eider |
| Wampee: | A tree Cookia punctata of the Orange family growing in China and the East Indies also its fruit which is about the size of a large grape and has a hard rind and a peculiar flavor |
| Wampum: | Beads made of shells used by the North American Indians as money and also wrought into belts etc as an ornament |
| Wan: | Won |
| Wan: | Having a pale or sickly hue languid of look pale pallid |
| Wan: | The quality of being wan wanness |
| Wan: | To grow wan to become pale or sickly in looks |
| Wand: | A small stick a rod a verge |
| Wander: | To travel over without a certain course to traverse to stroll through |
| Wanderer: | One who wanders a rambler one who roves hence one who deviates from duty |
| Wandering: | a n from Wander v |
| Wanderingly: | In a wandering manner |
| Wanderment: | The act of wandering or roaming |
| Wanderoo: | A large monkey Macacus silenus native of Malabar It is black or nearly so but has a long white or gray beard encircling the face Called also maha silenus neelbhunder liontailed baboon and great wanderoo |
| Wandy: | Long and flexible like a wand |
| Wane: | To cause to decrease |
| Wane: | The decrease of the illuminated part of the moon to the eye of a spectator |
| Waney: | A sharp or uneven edge on a board that is cut from a log not perfectly squared or that is made in the process of squaring See Wany a |
| Wang: | See Whang |
| Wangan: | A boat for conveying provisions tools etc so called by Maine lumbermen |
| Wanger: | A pillow for the cheek a pillow |
| Wanghee: | The Chinese name of one or two species of bamboo or jointed cane of the genus Phyllostachys The slender stems are much used for walking sticks |
| Wango: | A boomerang |
| Wanhope: | Want of hope despair also faint or delusive hope delusion Obs Piers Plowman |
| Wanhorn: | An East Indian plant Kmpferia Galanga of the Ginger family See Galanga |
| Waniand: | The wane of the moon |
| Waning: | The act or process of waning or decreasing |
| Wanion: | A word of uncertain signification used only in the phrase with a wanion apparently equivalent to with a vengeance with a plague or with misfortune |
| Wankle: | Not to be depended on weak unstable |
| Wanly: | In a wan or pale manner |
| Wanned: | Made wan or pale |
| Wanness: | The quality or state of being wan a sallow dead pale color paleness pallor as the wanness of the cheeks after a fever |
| Wannish: | Somewhat wan of a pale hue |
| Want: | A colloquial contraction of was not |
| Wantage: | That which is wanting deficiency |
| Wanting: | Absent lacking missing also deficient destitute needy as one of the twelve is wanting I shall not be wanting in exertion |
| Wantless: | Having no want abundant fruitful |
| Wanton: | A roving frolicsome thing a trifler used rarely as a term of endearment |
| Wanton: | To cause to become wanton also to waste in wantonness |
| Wantonize: | To behave wantonly to frolic to wanton |
| Wantonly: | In a wanton manner without regularity or restraint loosely sportively gayly playfully recklessly lasciviously |
| Wantonness: | The quality or state of being wanton negligence of restraint sportiveness recklessness lasciviousness |
| Wantrust: | Failing or diminishing trust want of trust or confidence distrust |
| Wantwit: | One destitute of wit or sense a blockhead a fool |
| Wanty: | A surcingle or strap of leather used for binding a load upon the back of a beast also a leather tie a short wagon rope |
| Wany: | To wane |
| Wany: | Waning or diminished in some parts not of uniform size throughout said especially of sawed boards or timber when tapering or uneven from being cut too near the outside of the log |
| Wanze: | To wane to wither |
| Wap: | To beat to whap |
| Wap: | A blow or beating a whap |
| Wapacut: | The American hawk owl See under Hawk |
| Wapatoo: | The edible tuber of a species of arrowhead Sagittaria variabilis so called by the Indians of Oregon |
| Waped: | Cast down crushed by misery dejected |
| Wapentake: | In some northern counties of England a division or district answering to the hundred in other counties Yorkshire Lincolnshire and Nottinghamshire are divided into wapentakes instead of hundreds |
| Wapinschaw: | An exhibition of arms according to the rank of the individual by all persons bearing arms formerly made at certain seasons in each district |
| Wapiti: | The American elk Cervus Canadensis It is closely related to the European red deer which it somewhat exceeds in size |
| Wapp: | A fairleader |
| Wappato: | See Wapatoo |
| Wappened: | A word of doubtful meaning used once by Shakespeare |
| Wapper: | To cause to shake to tremble to move tremulously as from weakness to totter |
| Wapper: | A gudgeon |
| Wappet: | A small yelping cur |
| Wapping: | Yelping |
| War: | Ware aware |
| War: | To make war to invade or attack a state or nation with force of arms to carry on hostilities to be in a state by violence |
| War: | To make war upon to fight |
| Warbeaten: | Warworn |
| Warble: | To be quavered or modulated to be uttered melodiously |
| Warble: | A quavering modulation of the voice a musical trill a song |
| Warbler: | One who or that which warbles a singer a songster applied chiefly to birds |
| Warblingly: | In a warbling manner |
| Warburgstincture: | A preparation containing quinine and many other ingredients often used in the treatment of malarial affections It was invented by Dr Warburg of London |
| ward: | Suffixes denoting course or direction to motion or tendency toward as in backward or backwards toward or towards etc |
| Ward: | The act of guarding watch guard guardianship specifically a guarding during the day See the Note under Watch n 1 |
| Ward: | To be vigilant to keep guard |
| Wardcorn: | The duty of keeping watch and ward see the Note under Watch n 1 with a horn to be blown upon any occasion of surprise |
| Wardcorps: | Guardian one set to watch over another |
| Wardenry: | The office or jurisdiction of a warden |
| Warder: | One who wards or keeps a keeper a guard |
| Wardian: | Designating or pertaining to a kind of glass inclosure for keeping ferns mosses etc or for transporting growing plants from a distance as a Wardian case of plants so named from the inventor Nathaniel B Ward an Englishman |
| Wardmote: | Anciently a meeting of the inhabitants of a ward also a court formerly held in each ward of London for trying defaults in matters relating to the watch police and the like |
| Wardroom: | A room occupied as a messroom by the commissioned officers of a war vessel See Gunroom |
| wards: | See ward |
| Wardship: | The office of a ward or keeper care and protection of a ward guardianship right of guardianship |
| Wardsman: | A man who keeps ward a guard |
| Ware: | Wore |
| Ware: | To wear or veer See Wear |
| Ware: | Seaweed |
| Ware: | Articles of merchandise the sum of articles of a particular kind or class style or class of manufactures especially in the plural goods commodities merchandise |
| Ware: | A ware taking notice hence wary cautious on ones guard See Beware |
| Ware: | The state of being ware or aware heed |
| Ware: | To make ware to warn to take heed of to beware of to guard against |
| Wareful: | Wary watchful cautious |
| Warefulness: | Wariness cautiousness |
| Waregafly: | A Brazilian fly whose larv live in the skin of man and animals producing painful sores |
| Warehouse: | A storehouse for wares or goods |
| Warehouseman: | One who keeps a warehouse the owner or keeper of a dock warehouse or wharf store |
| Warehousing: | The act of placing goods in a warehouse or in a customhouse store |
| Wareless: | Unwary incautious unheeding careless unaware |
| Warely: | Cautiously warily |
| Warence: | Madder |
| Wareroom: | A room in which goods are stored or exhibited for sale |
| Wares: | See 4th Ware |
| Warfare: | To lead a military life to carry on continual wars |
| Warfarer: | One engaged in warfare a military man a soldier a warrior |
| Warhable: | Fit for war |
| Wariangle: | The redbacked shrike Lanius collurio called also w81rger worrier and throttler |
| Warily: | In a wary manner |
| Wariment: | Wariness |
| Warine: | A South American monkey one of the sapajous |
| Wariness: | The quality or state of being wary care to foresee and guard against evil cautiousness |
| Warish: | To protect from the effects of hence to cure to heal |
| Warish: | To be cured to recover |
| Wark: | Work a building |
| Warkloom: | A tool an implement |
| Warlike: | Fit for war disposed for war as a warlike state a warlike disposition |
| Warlikeness: | Quality of being warlike |
| Warling: | One often quarreled with darling |
| Warlock: | A male witch a wizard a sprite an imp |
| Warlock: | Of or pertaining to a warlock or warlock impish |
| Warlockry: | Impishness magic |
| Warly: | Warlike |
| Warm: | The act of warming or the state of being warmed a warming a heating |
| Warmblooded: | Having warm blood applied especially to those animals as birds and mammals which have warm blood or more properly the power of maintaining a nearly uniform temperature whatever the temperature of the surrounding air See Homoiothermal |
| Warmer: | One who or that which warms |
| Warmful: | Abounding in capacity to warm giving warmth as a warmful garment |
| Warmhearted: | Having strong affection cordial sincere hearty sympathetic |
| Warming: | a n from Warm v |
| Warmly: | In a warm manner ardently |
| Warmness: | Warmth |
| Warmonger: | One who makes ar a trade or business a mercenary |
| Warmouth: | An American freshwater bream or sunfish Chnobryttus gulosus called also redeyed bream |
| Warmth: | The quality or state of being warm gentle heat as the warmth of the sun the warmth of the blood vital warmth |
| Warmthless: | Being without warmth not communicating warmth cold |
| Warn: | To refuse |
| Warner: | One who warns an admonisher |
| Warner: | A warrener |
| Warning: | Giving previous notice cautioning admonishing as a warning voice |
| Warning: | Previous notice |
| Warningly: | In a warning manner |
| Warnstore: | To furnish |
| Warp: | To turn twist or be twisted out of shape esp to be twisted or bent out of a flat plane as a board warps in seasoning or shrinking |
| Warpage: | The act of warping also a charge per ton made on shipping in some harbors |
| Warpath: | The route taken by a party of Indians going on a warlike expedition |
| Warper: | One who or that which warps or twists out of shape |
| Warping: | The act or process of one who or that which warps |
| Warpknitting: | A kind of knitting in which a number of threads are interchained each with one or more contiguous threads on either side |
| Warproof: | Valor tried by war |
| Warpspeed: | literally a speed faster than the speed of light fig an extremely high speed usually the fastest possible used only in the figurative sense except in fiction |
| Warragal: | The dingo |
| Warrandice: | The obligation by which a person conveying a subject or a right is bound to uphold that subject or right against every claim challenge or burden arising from circumstances prior to the conveyance warranty |
| Warrantable: | Authorized by commission precept or right justifiable defensible as the seizure of a thief is always warrantable by law and justice falsehood is never warrantable |
| Warrantee: | The person to whom a warrant or warranty is made |
| Warranter: | One who warrants gives authority or legally empowers |
| Warrantise: | Authority security warranty |
| Warrantise: | To warrant |
| Warrantor: | One who warrants |
| Warranty: | To warrant to guarantee |
| Warray: | To make war upon Obs Fairfax |
| Warre: | Worse |
| Warrener: | The keeper of a warren |
| Warriangle: | See Wariangle |
| Warrie: | See Warye |
| Warrin: | An Australian lorikeet Trichoglossus multicolor remarkable for the variety and brilliancy of its colors called also bluebellied lorikeet and bluebellied parrot |
| Warrior: | A man engaged or experienced in war or in the military life a soldier a champion |
| Warrioress: | A female warrior |
| Warroom: | a room in a military headquarters to which the current status of military operations is reported from the field and the situation is evaluated as by use of maps showing the locations of all relevant military units both friendly and hostile The room may also be used to plan tactics or strategy |
| Warstory: | A recounting of a memorable personal experience especially one involving challenge hardship danger or other interesting features |
| Warry: | See Warye |
| Warsaw: | The black grouper Epinephelus nigritus of the southern coasts of the United States |
| Warted: | Having little knobs on the surface verrucose as a warted capsule |
| Warthog: | Either one of two species of large savage African wild hogs of the genus Phacoch These animals have a pair of large rough fleshy tubercles behind the tusks and second pair behind the eyes The tusks are large and strong and both pairs curve upward The body is scantily covered with bristles but there is long dorsal mane The South African species Phacoch is the best known Called also vlacke vark The second species Phacoch is native of the coasts of the Red Sea |
| Wartless: | Having no wart |
| Wartweed: | Same as Wartwort |
| Wartwort: | A name given to several plants because they were thought to be a cure for warts as a kind of spurge Euphorbia Helioscopia and the nipplewort Lampsana communis |
| Warty: | Having warts full of warts overgrow with warts as a warty leaf |
| Wartyback: | An American freshwater mussel Quadrula pustulosa Its shell is used in making buttons |
| Warwickite: | A dark brown or black mineral occurring in prismatic crystals imbedded in limestone near Warwick New York It consists of the borate and titanate of magnesia and iron |
| Warworn: | Worn with military service as a warworn soldier a warworn coat |
| Warye: | To curse to curse to execrate to condemn also to vex |
| Was: | The first and third persons singular of the verb be in the indicative mood preterit imperfect tense as I was he was |
| Wase: | A bundle of straw or other material to relieve the pressure of burdens carried upon the head |
| Wash: | To cleanse by ablution or dipping or rubbing in water to apply water or other liquid to for the purpose of cleansing to scrub with water etc or as with water as to wash the hands or body to wash garments to wash sheep or wool to wash the pavement or floor to wash the bark of trees |
| Wash: | To perform the act of ablution |
| Wash: | The act of washing an ablution a cleansing wetting or dashing with water hence a quantity as of clothes washed at once |
| Wash: | Washy weak |
| Washable: | Capable of being washed without damage to fabric or color |
| Washboard: | A fluted or ribbed board on which clothes are rubbed in washing them |
| Washbowl: | A basin or bowl to hold water for washing ones hands face etc |
| Washdish: | A washbowl |
| Washdrawing: | In watercolor painting work in or a work done chiefly in washes as distinguished from that done in stipple in body color etc |
| Washed: | Appearing as if overlaid with a thin layer of different color said of the colors of certain birds and insects |
| Washedsale: | Same as Wash sale |
| Washen: | p p of Wash |
| Washer: | One who or that which washes |
| Washerman: | A man who washes clothes esp for hire or for others |
| Washhouse: | An outbuilding for washing esp one for washing clothes a laundry |
| Washiness: | The quality or state of being washy watery or weak |
| Washing: | The act of one who washes the act of cleansing with water ablution |
| Washingtonian: | Pertaining to or characteristic of George Washington as a Washingtonian policy |
| Washoeprocess: | The process of treating silver ores by grinding in pans or tubs with the addition of mercury and sometimes of chemicals such as blue vitriol and salt |
| Washoff: | Capable of being washed off not permanent or durable said of colors not fixed by steaming or otherwise |
| Washout: | The washing out or away of earth etc especially of a portion of the bed of a road or railroad by a fall of rain or a freshet also a place especially in the bed of a road or railroad where the earth has been washed away |
| Washout: | to be removed by washing of spots and stains especially on clothing |
| Washpot: | A pot or vessel in which anything is washed |
| Washsale: | A sale made in washing See Washing n 3 above |
| Washstand: | A piece of furniture holding the ewer or pitcher basin and other requisites for washing the person |
| Washstand: | In a stable or garage a place in the floor prepared so that carriages or automobiles may be washed there and the water run off |
| Washtub: | A tub in which clothes are washed |
| Washy: | Watery damp soft |
| Wasite: | A variety of allanite from Sweden supposed to contain wasium |
| Wasium: | A rare element supposed by Bahr to have been extracted from wasite but now identified with thorium |
| Wasp: | Any one of numerous species of stinging hymenopterous insects esp any of the numerous species of the genus Vespa which includes the true or social wasps some of which are called yellow jackets |
| Waspish: | Resembling a wasp in form having a slender waist like a wasp |
| Wassail: | Of or pertaining to wassail or to a wassail convivial as a wassail bowl |
| Wassail: | To hold a wassail to carouse |
| Wassailer: | One who drinks wassail one who engages in festivity especially in drinking a reveler |
| Wast: | The second person singular of the verb be in the indicative mood imperfect tense now used only in solemn or poetical style See Was |
| Wastage: | Loss by use decay evaporation leakage or the like waste |
| Waste: | To be diminished to lose bulk substance strength value or the like gradually to be consumed to dwindle to grow less commonly used with away |
| Wastebasket: | A basket used in offices libraries etc as a receptacle for waste paper |
| Wasteboard: | See Washboard 3 |
| Wastebook: | A book in which rough entries of transactions are made previous to their being carried into the journal |
| Wasteful: | Full of waste destructive to property ruinous as wasteful practices or negligence wasteful expenses |
| Wastel: | A kind of white and fine bread or cake called also wastel bread and wastel cake |
| Wasteness: | The quality or state of being waste a desolate state or condition desolation |
| Wastethrift: | A spendthrift |
| Wasteweir: | An overfall or weir for the escape or overflow of superfluous water from a canal reservoir pond or the like |
| Wasting: | Causing waste also undergoing waste diminishing as a wasting disease a wasting fortune |
| Wastor: | A waster a thief |
| Wastorel: | See Wastrel |
| Wastrel: | Any waste thing or substance |
| Watchdog: | A dog kept to watch and guard premises or property and to give notice of the approach of intruders |
| Watcher: | One who watches one who sits up or continues a diligent observer specifically one who attends upon the sick during the night |
| Watches: | The leaves of Saracenia flava See Trumpets |
| Watchet: | Pale or light blue |
| Watchful: | Full of watch vigilant attentive careful to observe closely observant cautious with of before the thing to be regulated or guarded as to be watchful of ones behavior and with against before the thing to be avoided as to be watchful against the growth of vicious habits |
| Watchhouse: | A house in which a watch or guard is placed |
| Watchmaker: | One whose occupation is to make and repair watches |
| Watchmeeting: | A religious meeting held in the closing hours of the year |
| Watchtower: | A tower in which a sentinel is placed to watch for enemies the approach of danger or the like |
| Watchword: | A word given to sentinels and to such as have occasion to visit the guards used as a signal by which a friend is known from an enemy or a person who has a right to pass the watch from one who has not a countersign a password |
| Water: | The fluid which descends from the clouds in rain and which forms rivers lakes seas etc |
| Water: | To shed secrete or fill with water or liquid matter as his eyes began to water |
| Wateradder: | The water moccasin |
| Waterage: | Money paid for transportation of goods etc by water |
| Wateragrimony: | A kind of bur marigold Bidens tripartita found in wet places in Europe |
| Wateraloe: | See Water soldier |
| Waterantelope: | See Water buck |
| Waterarum: | An aroid herb Calla palustris having a white spathe It is an inhabitant of the north temperate zone |
| Waterback: | See under 1st Back |
| Waterbailiff: | An officer of the customs whose duty it is to search vessels |
| Waterballast: | Water confined in specially constructed compartments in a vessels hold to serve as ballast |
| Waterbarometer: | A barometer in which the changes of atmospheric pressure are indicated by the motion of a column of water instead of mercury It requires a column of water about thirtythree feet in height |
| Waterbath: | A device for regulating the temperature of anything subjected to heat by surrounding the vessel containing it with another vessel containing water which can be kept at a desired temperature also a vessel designed for this purpose |
| Waterbattery: | A voltaic battery in which the exciting fluid is water |
| Waterbear: | Any species of Tardigrada 2 See Illust of Tardigrada |
| Waterbearer: | The constellation Aquarius |
| Waterbed: | A kind of mattress made of or covered with waterproof fabric and filled with water thus providing uniform support to the body lying on it also a bed constructed so as to contain such a mattress It is used in hospitals for bedridden patients as well as in some private homes |
| Waterbeech: | The American hornbeam See Hornbeam |
| Waterbeetle: | Any one of numerous species of aquatic beetles belonging to Dytiscus and allied genera of the family Dytiscid and to various genera of the family Hydrophilid These beetles swim with great agility the fringed hind legs acting together like oars |
| Waterbellows: | Same as Tromp |
| Waterbird: | Any aquatic bird a water fowl |
| Waterblackbird: | The European water ousel or dipper |
| Waterboard: | A board set up to windward in a boat to keep out water |
| Waterboatman: | A boat bug |
| Waterbok: | A water buck |
| Waterbound: | Prevented by a flood from proceeding |
| Waterbrain: | A disease of sheep gid |
| Waterbrash: | See under Brash |
| Waterbreather: | Any arthropod that breathes by means of gills |
| Waterbridge: | See Water table |
| Waterbuck: | A large heavy antelope Kobus ellipsiprymnus native of Central Africa It frequents the banks of rivers and is a good swimmer It has a white ring around the rump Called also photomok water antelope and waterbok |
| Waterbuffalo: | The European buffalo |
| Waterbug: | The Croton bug |
| Waterbutt: | A large openheaded cask set up on end to contain water |
| Watercaltrop: | The water chestnut |
| Watercan: | Any one of several species of Nuphar the yellow frog lily so called from the shape of the seed vessel See Nuphar and cf Candock |
| Watercanker: | See Canker n 1 |
| Watercarriage: | Transportation or conveyance by water means of transporting by water |
| Watercart: | A cart carrying water esp one carrying water for sale or for sprinkling streets gardens etc |
| Watercavy: | The capybara |
| Watercelery: | A very acrid herb Ranunculus sceleratus growing in ditches and wet places called also cursed crowfoot |
| Watercell: | A cell containing water specifically Zo94l one of the cells or chambers in which water is stored up in the stomach of a camel |
| Watercement: | Hydraulic cement |
| Waterchestnut: | The fruit of Trapa natans and Trapa bicornis Old World water plants bearing edible nutlike fruits armed with several hard and sharp points also the plant itself called also water caltrop |
| Waterchevrotain: | A large West African chevrotain Hymoschus aquaticus It has a larger body and shorter legs than the other allied species Called also water deerlet |
| Waterchicken: | The common American gallinule |
| Waterchickweed: | A small annual plant Montia fontana growing in wet places in southern regions |
| Waterchinquapin: | The American lotus and its edible seeds which somewhat resemble chinquapins Cf Yoncopin |
| Waterclock: | An instrument or machine serving to measure time by the fall or flow of a certain quantity of water a clepsydra |
| Watercloset: | A privy especially a privy furnished with a contrivance for introducing a stream of water to cleanse it |
| Watercock: | A large gallinule Gallicrex cristatus native of Australia India and the East Indies In the breeding season the male is black and has a fleshy red caruncle or horn on the top of its head Called also kora |
| Watercolor: | A color ground with water and gum or other glutinous medium a color the vehicle of which is water so called in distinction from oil color |
| Watercolorist: | One who paints in water colors |
| Watercourse: | One of the holes in floor or other plates to permit water to flow through |
| Watercourse: | A stream of water a river or brook |
| Watercraft: | Any vessel or boat plying on water vessels and boats collectively |
| Watercrake: | The dipper |
| Watercrane: | A gooseneck apparatus for supplying water from an elevated tank as to the tender of a locomotive |
| Watercress: | A perennial cruciferous herb Nasturtium officinale growing usually in clear running or spring water The leaves are pungent and used for salad and as an antiscorbutic |
| Watercrow: | The dipper |
| Watercrowfoot: | An aquatic kind of buttercup Ranunculus aquatilis used as food for cattle in parts of England |
| Watercure: | Hydropathy |
| Waterdeck: | A covering of painting canvas for the equipments of a dragoons horse |
| Waterdeer: | A small Chinese deer Hydropotes inermis Both sexes are destitute of antlers but the male has large descending canine tusks |
| Waterdeerlet: | See Water chevrotain |
| Waterdevil: | The rapacious larva of a large water beetle Hydrophilus piceus and of other similar species See Illust of Water beetle |
| Waterdock: | A tall coarse dock growing in wet places The American water dock is Rumex orbiculatus the European is Rumex Hydrolapathum |
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