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Wappe
WAPPE, noun 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.
Wapper
WAPPER, noun A fish; a name given to the smaller species of the river gudgeon.
War
WAR, noun [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 .
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. .
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, verb intransitive
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 .
And they warred against eh Midianites. .
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. .
WAR, verb transitive
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. .
War-Beat
WAR-BEAT, WAR-BEATEN, adjective [war and beat.] Worn down in war.
War-Beaten
WAR-BEAT, WAR-BEATEN adjective [war and beat.] Worn down in war.
War-Office
WAR-OFFICE, noun An office in which the military affairs of a country are superintended and managed.
War-Worn
WAR-WORN, adjective [war and worn.] Worn with military service; as a war-worn coat; a war-worn soldier.
Warble
WARBLE, verb transitive [G., to turn, whirl, warble; a whirl, a vortex; a turning bone or joint, Latin ]
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, verb intransitive
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.
Warbled
WARBLED, participle passive Quavered; modulated; uttered musically.
Warbler
WARBLER, noun
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.
Warbles
WARBLES, noun 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, etc.
Warbling
WARBLING, participle present tense
1. Quavering the voice; modulating notes; singing.
2. adjective Filled with musical notes; as the warbling glade.
WARBLING, noun The act of shaking or modulating notes; singing.
Ward
WARD, in composition, as in toward, homeward, is the Saxon weard, from the root of Latin
WARD, verb transitive
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, verb intransitive
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, noun
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 .
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.
Ward-Room
WARD-ROOM, noun [ward and room.] In a ship, a room over the gun-room, where the lieutenants and other principal officers sleep and mess.
Ward-Staff
WARD-STAFF, noun A constables or watchmans staff.
Warded
WARDED, participle passive Guarded.
WARDED off, prevented from attacking or injuring.
Warden
WARDEN, noun
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.
Warder
WARDER, noun
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.
Wardmote
WARDMOTE, noun In law, a court held in each ward in London.
Wardrobe
WARDROBE, noun
1. A room or apartment where clothes or wearing apparel is kept.
2. Wearing apparel in general.
Wardship
WARDSHIP, noun
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.
Ware
WARE, preterit tense of wear, obsolete It is now written wore.
WARE, adjective [We never use ware by itself. But we use it in aware, beware, and in wary. It was formerly in use.]
1. Being in expectation of; provided against. .
2. Wary; cautious.
WARE, verb intransitive To take heed of. [We now use beware as a single word, though in fact it is not.]
Then ware a rising tempest on the main.
WARE, verb transitive preterit tense wore. [This is evidently from the root of veer. See Veer.] To cause a ship to change her course from one board to the other, by turning her stern to the wind; opposed to tacking, in which the head is turned to the wind; as, to ware ship. We wore ship and stood to the southward.
WARE, noun plural wares. [G.] Goods; commodities; merchandise; usually in the plural; but we say, China ware earthern-ware, potters ware It was formerly used int eh singular, and may be so used still.
Let the dark shop commend the ware
Sea ware a marine plant, a species of Fucus.
Wareful
WAREFUL, adjective [from ware, wary.] Wary; watchful; cautious. [Not used.]
Warefulness
WAREFULNESS, noun Wariness; cautiousness.
Warehouse
WAREHOUSE, noun [ware and house.] A storehouse for goods.
WAREHOUSE, verb transitive s as z. To deposit or secure in a warehouse
Warehoused
WAREHOUSED, participle passive Placed in a store for safe keeping.
Warehousing
WAREHOUSING, participle present tense Repositing in a store for safe keeping.
Wareless
WARELESS, adjective Unwary; incautious.
2. Suffered unawares.
Warely
WARELY, adverb Cautiously. [See Warily.]
Warfare
WARFARE, noun [war and fare.]
1. Military service; military life; war.
The Philistines gathered their armies for warfare .
2. Contest; struggle with spiritual enemies.
The weapons of our warfare are not carnal. .
WARFARE, verb intransitive To lead a military life; to carry on continual wars.
In that credulous warfaring age. [Little used.]
Warhable
WARHABLE, adjective [war and Latin habilis.] Fit for war. [Not in use.]
Warhoop
WARHOOP, noun [war and hoop.] The savage yell of war; a yell uttered on entering into battle.
Warily
WARILY, adverb [from wary.] Cautiously; with timorous prudence or wise foresight. Great enterprises are to be conducted warily Change of laws should be warily proceeded in.
Warine
WARINE, noun A species of monkey of South America.
Wariness
WARINESS, noun 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.
Wark
WARK, noun Work; a building. [It is obsolete, except in bulwark.]
Warlike
WARLIKE, adjective [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.
Warlikeness
WARLIKENESS, noun A warlike disposition or character. [Little used.]
Warling
WARLING, noun One often quarreled with; a word coined perhaps to rhyme with darling. [Not in use.]
Warlock
WARLOCK, WARLUCK, noun A male witch; a wizard. [This word is not in use.]
Warluck
WARLOCK, WARLUCK noun A male witch; a wizard. [This word is not in use.]
Warm
WARM, adjective 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, verb transitive
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, verb intransitive
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.
Warmed
WARMED, participle passive Moderately heated; made ardent; excited.
Warming
WARMING, participle present tense Making moderately hot; making ardent or zealous.
Warming-Pan
WARMING-PAN, noun [warm and pan.] A covered pan with a long handle, for warming a bed with ignited coals.
Warming-Stone
WARMING-STONE, noun [warm and stone.] A stone dug in cornwall, which retains heat a great while, and has been found to give ease in internal hemorrhoids.
Warmly
WARMLY, adverb
1. With gentle heat.
2. Eagerly; earnestly; ardently; as, to espouse warmly the cause of Bible societies.
Warmth
WARMNESS, WARMTH noun
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.
Warn
WARN, verb transitive [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. .
2. To caution against evil practices. .
3. To admonish of any duty.
Cornelius--was warned from God by an holy angel to send for thee. .
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.]
Warned
WARNED, participle passive Cautioned against danger; admonished of approaching evil; notified.
Warner
WARNER, noun An admonisher.
Warning
WARNING, participle present tense Cautioning against danger; admonishing; giving notice to; summoning to meet or appear.
WARNING, noun
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. .
2. Previous notice; as a short warning He had a months warning
Warp
WARP, noun 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, verb intransitive [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, verb transitive
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, etc. 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.
Warped
WARPED, participle passive Twisted by shrinking or seasoning; turned out of the true direction; perverted; moved with a warp; overflowed.
Warping
WARPING, participle present tense Turning or twisting; causing to incline; perverting; moving with a warp; enriching by overflowing with tide water.
Warping-Bank
WARPING-BANK, noun A bank or mound of earth raised round a field for retaining the water let in from the sea. [Local.]
Warping-Clough
WARPING-CLOUGH, WARPING-HATCH, WARPING-SLUICE, noun A flood gate to let in tide water upon land. [Local.]
Warping-Cut
WARPING-CUT, WARPING-DRAIN, WARPING-GUTTER, noun An open passage or channel for discharging the water from lands inundated. [Local.]
Warping-Drain
WARPING-CUT, WARPING-DRAIN WARPING-GUTTER, noun An open passage or channel for discharging the water from lands inundated. [Local.]
Warping-Gutter
WARPING-CUT, WARPING-DRAIN, WARPING-GUTTER noun An open passage or channel for discharging the water from lands inundated. [Local.]
Warping-Hatch
WARPING-CLOUGH, WARPING-HATCH WARPING-SLUICE, noun A flood gate to let in tide water upon land. [Local.]
Warping-Hook
WARPING-HOOK, noun A hook used by rope-makers for hanging the yarn on, when warping into hauls for tarring.
Warping-Post
WARPING-POST, noun A strong post used in warping rope yarn.
Warping-Sluice
WARPING-CLOUGH, WARPING-HATCH, WARPING-SLUICE noun A flood gate to let in tide water upon land. [Local.]
Warproof
WARPROOF, noun [war and proof.] Valor tried by war.
Warrant
WARRANT, verb transitive [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, noun
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, etc. 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, etc. of a ship.
Warrantable
WARRANTABLE, adjective 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
Warrantableness
WARRANTABLENESS, noun The quality of being justifiable.
Warrantably
WARRANTABLY, adverb In a manner that may be justified; justifiably.
Warranted
WARRANTED, participle passive Authorized; justified; secured; assured by covenant or by implied obligation.
Warrantee
WARRANTEE, noun The person to whom land or other thing is warranted.
Warranter
WARRANTER, noun
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.
Warranting
WARRANTING, participle present tense
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.
Warrantise
WARRANTISE, noun Authority; security. [Not in use.]
Warrantor
WARRANTOR, noun One who warrants.
Warranty
WARRANTY, noun
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, etc. 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, verb transitive To warrant; to guaranty. [A useless word.]
Warray
WARRAY, verb transitive To make war upon.
Warre
WARRE, adjective Worse.
Warren
WARREN, noun [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.
Warrener
WARRENER, noun The keeper of a warren.
Warriangle
WARRIANGLE, noun A hawk.
Warrior
WARRIOR, noun
1. In a general sense, a soldier; a man engaged in military life.
2. Emphatically, a brave man; a good soldier.
Warrioress
WARRIORESS, noun A female warrior.
Wart
WART, noun 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.
Warted
WARTED, adjective In botany, having little knobs on the surface; verrucose; as a warted capsule.
Wartwort
WARTWORT, noun 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.
Warty
WARTY, adjective
1. Having warts; full of warts; overgrown with warts; as a warty leaf.
2. Of the nature of warts.
Wary
WARY, adjective [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
Was
WAS, s. as z.; the past tense of the substantive verb; Latin , to be, to exist, whence English is, in the present tense, and was in the past; as, I was; he was
Wash
WASH, verb transitive [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, etc.
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. .
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, verb intransitive
1. To perform the act of ablution.
WASH in Jordan seven times. . [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, noun
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.
Wash-Ball
WASH-BALL, noun [wash and ball.] A ball of soap, to be used in washing the hands or face.
Wash-Board
WASH-BOARD, noun [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.
Wash-Pot
WASH-POT, noun A vessel in which any thing is washed.
Wash-Tub
WASH-TUB, noun A tub in which clothes are washed.
Washed
WASHED, participle passive
1. Cleansed in water; purified.
2. Overflowed; dashed against with water.
3. Covered over with a thin coat, as of metal.
Washer
WASHER, noun
1. One who washes.
2. An iron ring between the nave of a wheel and the linch-pin.
Washer-Woman
WASHER-WOMAN, noun A woman that washes clothes for others or for hire.
Washing
WASHING, participle present tense Cleansing with water; purifying; overflowing; overspreading.
WASHING, noun
1. The act of cleansing with water; ablution. .
2. A wash; or the clothes washed.
Washy
WASHY, adjective [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.]
Wasp
WASP, noun [G., Latin ] 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.
Wasp-Fly
WASP-FLY, noun A species of fly resembling a wasp, but having no sting, and but two wings.
Waspish
WASPISH, adjective 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.
Waspishly
WASPISHLY, adverb Petulantly; in a snappish manner.
Waspishness
WASPISHNESS, noun Petulance; irascibility; snappishness.
Wassail
WASSAIL, noun
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, verb intransitive To hold a merry drinking meeting.
Wassail-Bowl
WASSAIL-BOWL, noun A bowl for holding wassail.
Wassail-Cup
WASSAIL-CUP, noun A cup in which wassail was carried to the company.
Wassailer
WASSAILER, noun A toper; a drunkard.
Wast
WAST, past tense of the substantive verb, in the second person; as, thou wast
Waste
WASTE, verb transitive [G., Latin ]
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. .
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, etc. 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. .
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, verb intransitive
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 .
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. .
WASTE, adjective
1. Destroyed; ruined.
The Sophi leaves all waste in his retreat.
2. Desolate; uncultivated; as a waste country; a waste howling wilderness. .
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, noun
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, etc., 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
Waste-Gate
WASTE-GATE, noun A gate to let the water of a pond pass off when it is not wanted.
Waste-Wier
WASTE-WIER, noun An overfall or wier for the superfluous water of a canal.
Wasted
WASTED, participle passive
1. Expended without necessity or use; lost through negligence; squandered.
2. Diminished; dissipated; evaporated; exhausted.
3. Desolated; ruined; destroyed.
Wasteful
WASTEFUL, adjective
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.
Wastefully
WASTEFULLY, adverb In a lavish manner; with prodigality; in useless expenses or consumption.
Her lavish hand is wastefully profuse.
Wastefulness
WASTEFULNESS, noun Lavishness; prodigality; the act or practice of expending what is valuable without necessity or use.
Wastel
WASTEL, noun A particular sort of bread; fine bread or cake.
Wasteness
WASTENESS, noun A desolate state; solitude.
That day is a day of wrath, a day of trouble and distress, a day of wasteness .
Waster
WASTER, noun
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 .
Sconces are great wasters of candles.
2. A kind of cudgel.
Wastethrift
WASTETHRIFT, noun [waste and thrift.] A spendthrift.
Wasting
WASTING, participle present tense
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. adjective Diminishing by dissipation or by great destruction; as a wasting disease.
Wastorel
WASTREL, WASTOREL noun Waste substances; any thing cast away as bad. [Local.]
Wastrel
WASTREL, noun A state of waste or common. [Local.]
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828); edition by akaitsurugi (github.com/akaitsurugi/webster1828). Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Text from the CrossWire Bible Society.