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W

W is the twenty third letter of the English Alphabet. It takes its written form and its name from the union of two Vs, this being the form of the Roman capital letter which we call U. The name, double u, being given to it from its form or composition, and not from its sound, especially the vowels. w is properly a vowel, a simple sound, formed by opening the mouth with a close circular configuration of the lips. it is precisely the ou of the French, and the u of the Spaniards, Italians and Germans. With the oter vowels it forms diphthongs, which are of easy pronunciation; as in well, want, will, dwell; pronouced ooell, ooant, ooill, dooell. In English, it is always followed by another vowel, except when followed by h, as is when; but this case is an exception only in writing, and not in pronunciation, for h precedes w in utterance; when being pronounced hooen. In Welsh, w which is sounded as in English is used without another vowel, as in fwl, a fool; dwn, dun; dwb, mortar; gwn, a gun, and a gown.

It is not improbable that the Romans pronouced v as we do w for their volvo is our wallow; and volo, velle, is the English will, G. wollen. But this is uncertain.The German v has the sound of the English f, and w that of the English v.

W, at the end of words is often silent after a and o, as in law, saw, low, sow. In many words of this kind, w represents the Saxon g; in other cases, it helps to form a diphthong, as in now, vow, new, strew.

Wabble

WABBLE, verb intransitive To move from one side to the other; to vacillate; as a turning or whirling body. So it is said a top wabbles, when it is in motion, and deviates from a perpendicular direction; a spindle wabbles, when it moves one way and the other. [This word is applied chiefly to bodies when turning with a circular motion, and its place canot be supplied by any other word in the language. It is neither low nor barbarous.]

Wacke

WACKE,

Wacky

WACKY, noun A rock nearly allied to basalt, of which it may be regarded as a more soft and earthy variety. Its color is a greenish gray, brown or black. It is opake, yields easily to the knife, and has a greasy feel. Its principal ingredient is silex. Gray wacky is a different species of rock, being a kind of sandstone. wacky is a mineral sunstance intermediate between clay and basalt.

Wad

WAD, noun

1. A little mass of some soft or flexible material, such as hay, straw, tow, paper, or old ropeyarn, used for stopping the charge of powder in a gun and pressing it close to the shot, or for keeping the powder and shot close.

2. A little mass, tuft or bundle, as of hay or peas.

Wadd

WADD, noun In mineralogy, a black wadd is a species of ore of manganese, of which there are four kinds; fibrous, ochery, pulverulent ochery, and dendritic. In some places, plumbago or black lead is called wad or wadd

Wadded

WADDED, adjective Formed into a wad or mass.

Wadding

WADDING, noun

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

2. A kind of soft stuff of loose texture, used for stuffing garments.

Waddle

WADDLE, verb intransitive

1. To move one way and the other in walking; to deviate to one side and the other; to vacillate; as, a child waddles when he begins to walk; very fat peole walk with a kind of waddling pace. So we say, a duck or a goose waddles.

2. To walk with a waddling motion.

And hardly waddles forth to cool

Waddling

WADDLING, participle present tense Moving from side to side in walking.

Waddlingly

WADDLINGLY, adverb With a vacillating gait.

Wade

WADE, verb intransitive

1. To walk through any substance that yields to the feet; as, to wade through water; to wade through sand or snow; . To wade over a river, is to walk through on the bottom. Fowls that wade have long legs.

2. To move or pass with difficulty or labor; as, judges wade through an intriccate law case. it is not my purpose to wade through these controversies.

The kings admirable conduct has waded through all these difficulties.

And wades through fumes and gropes his way.

WADE, verb transitive To pass by walking on the bottom; as, to wade a river. [this is a common expression, but elliptical for to wade through a river.]

Wading

WADING, participle present tense Walking through a substance that yields to the feet, as through water or sand.

Wadsett

WADSETT, noun An ancient tenure or lease of land in the highlands of Scotland, which seems to have been a kind of mortgage.

Wadsetter

WADSETTER, noun One who holds by wadsett.

Wafer

WAFER, noun

1. A thin cake or leaf; as a wafer of bread given by the Romanists in the Eucharist.

2. A thin leaf of paste, or a composition of flour, the white of eggs, isinglass and yeast, spread over with gumwater and dried; used in sealing letters.

WAFER, verb transitive To seal or close with a wafer

Waft

WAFT, verb transitive

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, verb intransitive To float; to be moved or to pass in a bouyant medium.

And now the shouts waft near the citadel.

WAFT, noun 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.

Waftage

WAFTAGE, noun Conveyance or transportation through a bouyant medium, as air or water. [Not in use.]

Wafted

WAFTED, participle passive Borne or conveyed through air or water.

Wafter

WAFTER, noun

1. He or that which wafts; a passage boat.

2. The conductor of vessels at sea; an old word.

Wafting

WAFTING, participle present tense Carrying through a bouyant medium.

Wafture

WAFTURE, noun The act of waving. [Not in use.]

Wag

WAG, verb transitive 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. Jeremiah 18:16. Matthew 27:1. [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, verb intransitive

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, noun 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.

Wage

WAGE, verb transitive

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.

Waged

WAGED, participle passive laid; deposited; as a pledge; made or gegun, as war.

Wagel

WAGEL, noun

1. A name given in Cornwall to the martinazzo, dunghunter, or dungbird, a species of Larus or seagull.

+, noun Mischievous merriment; sportive trick or gayety; sarcasm in good humor; frolicksome; as a company of waggish boys.

2. Done, made or laid in waggery or for sport; as a waggish trick.

Wager

WAGER, noun

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, verb transitive 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.

Wagered

WAGERED, participle passive Laid; pledged; as a bet.

Wagerer

WAGERER, noun One who wagers or lays a bet.

Wagering

WAGERING, participle present tense 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.

Wages

WAGES, noun 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? Genesis 29:15.

Be content with your wages Luke 3:14.

2. Reward; fruit; recompense; that which is given or received in return.

The wages of sin is death. Romans 6:23.

Waggel

WAGGEL,

Waggishly

WAGGISHLY, adverb In a waggish manner; in sport.

Waggishness

WAGGISHNESS, noun Mischievous sport; wanton merriment.

Waggle

WAGGLE, verb intransitive To waddle; to reel or move from side to side.

Why do you go nodding and waggling so?

WAGGLE, verb transitive To move one way and the other; as, a bird waggles its tail.

Wagon

WAGON, noun

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, verb transitive To transport in a wagon Goods are wagoned from London to the interior.

WAGON, verb intransitive To practice the transportation of goods in a wagon The man wagons between Philadelphia and Pittsburg.

Wagonage

WAGONAGE, noun Money paid for carriage in a wagon.

Wagoner

WAGONER, noun

1. One who conducts a wagon.

2. A constellation, Charles wain.

Wagoning

WAGONING, participle present tense Transporting in a wagon.

WAGONING, noun The business of transporting in a wagon.

Wagtail

WAGTAIL, noun [wag and tail.] A small bird, a species of Motacilla.

Waid

WAID, adjective Crushed. [Not in use.]

Waif

WAIF, noun 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.

Wail

WAIL, verb transitive To lament; to moan; to bewail.

Or if no more her absent lord she wails--

WAIL, verb intransitive To weep; to express sorrow audibly.

Therefore I will wail and howl. Micah 1:8.

WAIL, noun Loud weeping; violent lamentation.

Wailful

WAILFUL, adjective Sorrowful; mournful.

Wailing

WAILING, participle present tense Lamenting with audible cries.

WAILING, noun Loud cries of sorrow; deep lamentation.

There shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth. Matthew 13:42.

Wailment

WAILMENT, noun Lamentation.

Wain

WAIN, noun [See Wagon.]

1. A wagon; a carriage for the transportation of goods on wheels.

2. A constellation, Charles wain

Wain-Bote

WAIN-BOTE, noun Timber for wagons for carts.

Wain-House

WAIN-HOUSE, noun A house or shed for wagons and carts. [Local.]

Wain-Rope

WAIN-ROPE, noun A rope for binding a load on a wagon; a cart-rope.

Wainage

WAINAGE, noun A finding of carriages.

Wainscot

WAINSCOT, noun In building, timber-work serving to line the walls of a room, being made in panels.

WAINSCOT, verb transitive

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.

Wainscoted

WAINSCOTED, participle passive Lined with boards or panels.

Wainscoting

WAINSCOTING, participle present tense Lining with boards.

Wair

WAIR, noun A piece of timber two yards long, and a foot broad. [I know not where used.]

Waist

WAIST, noun

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.

Waistband

WAISTBAND, noun The band or upper pat of breeches, trousers or pantaloons, which encompasses the waist.

Waistcloths

WAISTCLOTHS, noun Coverings of canvas or tarpauling for the hammocks, stowed on the gangways, between the quarter deck and forecastle.

Waistcoat

WAISTCOAT, noun [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.

Waister

WAISTER, noun In ships, waisters are men who are stationed in the waist in working the ship.

Wait

WAIT, verb intransitive [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 14:14.

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 3:10, 8. Romans 12:7.

6. To be ready to serve; to obey. Psalms 25:3. Proverbs 20:22.

To wait at, to attend in service; to perform service at. 1 Corinthians 9:13.

To wait for, to watch, as an enemy. Job 15:22.

WAIT, verb transitive

1. To stay for; to rest or remain stationary in expectation of the arrival of.

Awd with these words, in camps they still abide, and wait with longing eyes their promisd guide. [Elliptical for wait for.]

2. To attend; to accompany with submission or respect.

He chose a thousand horse, the flowr of all his warlike troops, to wait the funeral. [This use is not justifiable, but by poetical license.]

3. To attend as a consequence of something.

Such doom waits luxury--

[Not in use. In this sense we use attend or attend on.]

WAIT, noun Ambush. As a noun, this word is used only in certain phrases. To lie in wait is to lie in ambush; to be secreted in order to fall by surprise on an enemy; hence figuratively, to lay snares, or to make insidious attempts, or to watch for the purpose of ensnaring. Joshua 8:4.

In wait is used in a like sense by Milton.

To lay wait to set an ambush. Jeremiah 9:8.

Waiter

WAITER, noun

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, etc. is carried.

Waiting

WAITING, participle present tense 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.

Waiting-Maid

WAITING-MAID, WAITING-WOMAN, noun An upper servant who attends a lady. Waiting-gentlewoman is sometimes, though less commonly used.

Waiting-Woman

WAITING-MAID, WAITING-WOMAN noun An upper servant who attends a lady. Waiting-gentlewoman is sometimes, though less commonly used.

Waits

WAITS, noun

1. Itinerant nocturnal musicians. [Not in use.]

2. Nocturnal musicians who attended great men.

Waive

WAIVE, noun A woman put out of the protection of the law.

Waiwode

WAIWODE, noun In the Turkish empire, the governor of a small province or town; a general.

Wake

WAKE, verb intransitive [G. The primary sense is to stir, to rouse, to excite.]

1. To be awake; to continue awake; to watch; not to sleep. Psalms 127:1.

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, verb transitive

1. To rouse from sleep.

The angel that talked with me, came again and waked me. Zechariah 4:1.

2. To arouse; to excite; to put in motion or action.

Prepare war, wake up the mighty men. Joel 3:9.

[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, noun

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.

Wake-Robin

WAKE-ROBIN, noun A plant of the genus Arum.

Wakeful

WAKEFUL, adjective

1. Not sleeping; indisposed to sleep.

Dissembling sleep, but wakeful with the fright--

2. Watchful; vigilant.

Wakefully

WAKEFULLY, adverb With watching or sleeplessness.

Wakefulness

WAKEFULNESS, noun

1. Indisposition to sleep.

2. Forbearance of sleep; want of sleep.

Waken

WAKEN, verb intransitive wakn. To wake; to cease to sleep; to be awakened.

Early Turnus wakning with the light.

WAKEN, verb transitive 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.

Wakened

WAKENED, participle passive Roused from sleep; excited into action.

Wakener

WAKENER, noun One who rouses from sleep.

Wakening

WAKENING, participle present tense Rousing form sleep or stupidity; calling into action.

Waker

WAKER, noun One who watches; one who rouses from sleep.

Waking

WAKING, participle present tense

1. Being awake; not sleeping.

2. Rousing from sleep; exciting into motion or action.

WAKING, noun

1. The period of being awake.

2. Watch.

Wale

WALE, noun

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

Wale-Knot

WALE-KNOT, WALL-KNOT, noun 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.

Walk

WALK, verb intransitive [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 4:37.

When Peter had come down out of the ship, he walked on the water, to go to Jesus. Matthew 14:29.

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 5:22.

To walk in darkness, to live in ignorance, error and sin, without comfort. 1 John 1:36.

To walk in the light, to live int he practice of religion, and to enjoy its consolations. 1 John 1:36.

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 5:7.

To walk through the fire, to be exercised with severe afflictions. Isaiah 43:2.

To walk after the flesh, to indulge sensual appetites, and to live in sin. Romans 8:1.

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 10:3.

To walk in, to enter, as a house. walk in, gentlemen.

WALK, verb transitive 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, noun 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, etc.

A sheep walk so called, is high and dry land where sheep pasture.

Walk-Mill

WALK-MILL, noun Wauk-mill. A fulling mill. [Local.]

Walkable

WALKABLE, adjective Waukable. Fit to be walked on. [Not much used.]

Walker

WALKER, noun 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.]

Walking

WALKING, participle present tense Wauking. Moving on the legs with a slow pace; moving; conducting ones self.

WALKING, noun Wauking. The act of moving on the feet with a slow pace.

Walking-Staff

WALKING-STAFF, WALKING-STICK, noun A staff or stick carried in the hand for support or amusement in walking.

Walking-Stick

WALKING-STAFF, WALKING-STICK noun A staff or stick carried in the hand for support or amusement in walking.

Wall

WALL, noun [Latin , 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 25:16.

To take the wall to take the upper or most honorable place.

I will take the wall of any man or maid of Montagues.

Wall-Creeper

WALL-CREEPER, noun A small bird of the genus Certhia; the spider-catcher.

Wall-Cress

WALL-CRESS, noun [wall and cress.]

1. A plant of the genus Arabis.

2. A plant of the genus Turritis.

Wall-Eye

WALL-EYE, noun [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.

Wall-Eyed

WALL-EYED, adjective Having white eyes.

Wall-Flower

WALL-FLOWER, noun [wall and flower.] A plant of the genus Cheiranthus; a species of stock gillyflower.

Wall-Fruit

WALL-FRUIT, noun [wall and fruit.] Fruit which, to be ripened, must be planted against a wall.

Wall-Knot

WALE-KNOT, WALL-KNOT noun 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.

Wall-Louse

WALL-LOUSE, noun [wall and louse.] An insect or small bug. [Latin]

Wall-Moss

WALL-MOSS, noun A species of moss growing on walls.

Wall-Pennywort

WALL-PENNYWORT, noun A plant of the genus Cotyledon.

Wall-Pepper

WALL-PEPPER, noun A plant of the genus Sedum.

Wall-Pie

WALL-PIE, noun A plant, a species of Asplenium.

Wall-Sided

WALL-SIDED, adjective Having sides nearly perpendicular, as a ship.

Wall-Spring

WALL-SPRING, noun A spring of water issuing from stratified rocks.

Wall-Wort

WALL-WORT, noun A plant, the dwarf elder or danewort; a species of Sambucus.

WALL, verb transitive

1. To inclose with a wall; as, to wall a city.

2 To defend by walls.

And terror of his name that walls us in from danger.

3. To fill up with a wall.

Walled

WALLED, participle passive Inclosed or fortified with a wall.

Waller

WALLER, noun One who builds walls in the country.

Wallerite

WALLERITE, noun A mineral, or variety of clay, found in small compact masses of the size of a nut, white and opake, or yellowish and translucent.

Wallet

WALLET, noun

1. A bag for carrying the necessaries for a journey or march; a knapsack.

2. Any thing protuberant and swagging; as wallets of flesh.

Walling

WALLING, participle present tense Inclosing or fortifying with a wall.

WALLING, noun Walls in general; materials for walls.

Wallop

WALLOP, verb intransitive [See Well.] To boil with a continued bubbling or heaving and rolling of the liquor, with noise.

Walloping

WALLOPING, participle present tense Boiling with a heaving and noise.

Wallow

WALLOW, verb intransitive [Latin , G. This verb seems to be connected with well, walk, etc.]

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, verb transitive To roll ones body.

WALLOW thyself in ashes. Jeremiah 6:26.

WALLOW, noun A kind of rolling walk.

Wallower

WALLOWER, noun One that rolls in mire.

Wallowing

WALLOWING, participle present tense Rolling the body on any thing.

Walnut

WALNUT, noun 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.

Walrus

WALRUS, noun [G., a whale, a horse.] The morse or sea horse, an animal of the northern seas, of the genus Trichechus.

Waltron

WALTRON, noun Another name of the walrus.

Waltz

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

Wamble

WAMBLE, verb intransitive To be disturbed with nausea; as a wambling stomach. [Vulgar.]

Wamble-Cropped

WAMBLE-CROPPED, adjective Sick at the stomach. [Vulgar.]

Wampee

WAMPEE, noun A plant, a species of Arum.

Wampum

WAMPUM, noun 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.

Wan

WAN, adjective 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; preterit tense of win.

Wand

WAND, noun

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

Wander

WANDER, verb intransitive [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 11:37.

He wandereth abroad for bread. Job 15:23.

He was wandering in the field. Genesis 37:1.

2. To leave home; to depart; to migrate.

When God caused me to wander from my fathers house-- Genesis 20:13.

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. Psalms 119:10.

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

WANDER, verb transitive To travel over without a certain course.

Wandring many a famous realm. [Elliptical.]

Wanderer

WANDERER, noun A rambler; one that roves; one that deviates from duty.

Wandering

WANDERING, participle present tense Roving; rambling; deviating from duty.

WANDERING, noun

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.

Wanderingly

WANDERINGLY, adverb In a wandering or unsteady manner.

Wanderoo

WANDEROO, noun A baboon of Ceylon and Malabar.

Wane

WANE, verb intransitive

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, verb transitive To cause to decrease.

WANE, noun

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

Wang

WANG, noun

1. The jaw, jaw-bone or cheek bone. [Little used or vulgar.]

2. The latchet of a shoe. [Not in use.]

Wang-Tooth

WANG-TOOTH, noun A jaw-tooth.

Wanhope

WANHOPE, noun Want of hope. [Not used.]

Wanhorn

WANHORN, noun A plant of the genus Kaempferia.

Waning

WANING, participle present tense Decreasing; failing; declining.

Wanly

WANLY, adverb In a pale manner; palely.

Wanned

WANNED, adjective Made wan or pale.

Wanness

WANNESS, noun Paleness; a sallow, dead, pale color; as the wanness of the cheeks after a fever.

Wannish

WANNISH, adjective Somewhat wan; of a pale hue.

Want

WANT, noun

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 8:14, 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, verb transitive 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, verb intransitive 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.

Want-Wit

WANT-WIT, noun [want and wit.] One destitute of wit or sense; a fool. [Not in much use.]

Wantage

WANTAGE, noun Deficiency; that which is wanting.

Wanted

WANTED, participle passive Needed; desired.

Wanting

WANTING, participle present tense

1. Needing; lacking; desiring.

2. adjective 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.

Wantless

WANTLESS, adjective Having no want; abundant; fruitful.

Wanton

WANTON, adjective

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.

5. Disposed to unchastity; indicating wantonness. Isaiah 3:16.

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, noun

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, verb transitive

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.

Wantoning

WANTONING, participle present tense Roving; flying loosely; playing without restraint; indulging in licentiousness.

Wantonize

WANTONIZE, verb intransitive To behave wantonly. [Not in use.]

Wantonly

WANTONLY, adverb Loosely; without regularity or restraint; sportively; gayly; playfully; lasciviously.

Wantonness

WANTONNESS, noun

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 13:13. 2 Peter 2:18

Wanty

WANTY, noun A broad strap of leather, used for binding a load upon the back of a beast. [Local.]

Wapacut

WAPACUT, noun The spotted owl of Hudsons bay.

Waped

WAPED, adjective [Latin , 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.]

Wapentac

WAPENTAKE, WAPENTAC noun [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.

Wapentake

WAPENTAKE, WAPENTAC, noun [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.

Wapp

WAPP, noun In a ship, the rope with which the shrouds are set taught in wale-knots.