Watch – Wearisomeness

Watch

WATCH, noun [It is from the same root as wake, which see.]

1. Forbearance of sleep.

2. Attendance without sleep.

All the long night their mournful watch they keep.

3. Attention; close observation. Keep watch of the suspicious man.

4. Guard; vigilance for keeping or protecting against danger.

He kept both watch and ward.

5. A watchman, or watchmen; men set for a guard, either one person or more, set to espy the approach of an enemy or other danger, and to give an alarm or notice of such danger; a sentinel; a guard. He kept a watch at the gate.

Ye have a watch; go your way, make it as sure as ye can. Matthew 27:65.

6. The place where a guard is kept.

He upbraids I ago, that he made him brave me upon the watch

7. Post or office of a watchman.

As I did stand my watch upon the hill--

8. A period of the night, in which one person or one set of persons stand as sentinels; or the time from one relief of sentinels to another. This period among the Israelites, seems to have been originally four hours, but was afterwards three hours, and there were four watches during the night. Hence we read in Scripture of the morning watch and of the second, third and fourth watch; the evening watch commencing at six oclock, the second at nine, the third at twelve, and the fourth at three in the morning. Exodus 14:24. Matthew 14:25. Luke 12:38.

9. A small time piece or chronometer, to be carried in the pocket or about the person, in which the machinery is moved by a spring.

10. At sea, the space of time during which one set or division of the crew remain on deck to perform the necessary duties. This is different in different nations.

To be on the watch to be looking steadily for some event.

WATCH, verb intransitive

1. To be awake; to be or continue without sleep.

I have two nights watchd with you.

2. To be attentive; to look with attention or steadiness. watch and see when the man passes.

3. To look with expectation.

My soul waiteth for the Lord more than they that watch for the morning. Psalms 130:6.

4. To keep guard; to act as sentinel; to look for danger.

He gave signal to the minister that watchd.

5. To be attentive; to be vigilant in preparation for an event or trial, the time of whose arrival is uncertain.

WATCH therefore; for ye know not what hour your Lord doth come. Mat 24.

6. To be insidiously attentive; as, to watch for an opportunity to injure another.

7. To attend on the sick during the night; as, to watch with a man in a fever.

To watch over, to be cautiously observant of; to inspect, superintend and guard from error and danger. It is our duty constantly to watch over our own conduct and that of our children.

WATCH, verb transitive

1. To guard; to have in keeping.

Flaming ministers watch and tend their charge.

2. To observe in ambush; to lie in wait for.

Saul also sent messengers to Davids house to watch him, and to slay him. 1 Samuel 19:11.

3. To tend; to guard.

Paris watched the flocks in the groves of Ida.

4. To observe in order to detect or prevent, or for some particular purpose; as, to watch a suspected person; to watch the progress of a bill in the legislature.

Watch-Glass

WATCH-GLASS, noun [watch and glass.]

1. In ships, a half hour glass, used to measure the time of a watch on deck.

2. A concavo-convex glass for covering the face or dial of a watch.

Watch-House

WATCH-HOUSE, noun [watch and house.] A house in which a watch or guard is placed.

Watch-Light

WATCH-LIGHT, noun [watch and light.] A candle with a rush wick.

Watched

WATCHED, participle passive Guarded; observed with steady vigilance.

Watcher

WATCHER, noun

1. One who sits up or continues awake; particularly, one who attends upon the sick during the night.

2. A diligent observer; as an attentive watcher of the works of nature. [Not in use.]

Watchet

WATCHET, adjective Pale or light blue.

Who stares in Germany at watchet eyes? [Not in use.]

Watchful

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

Watchfully

WATCHFULLY, adverb Vigilantly; heedfully; with careful observation of the approach of evil, or attention to duty.

Watchfulness

WATCHFULNESS, noun

1. Vigilance; heedfulness; heed; suspicious attention; careful and diligent observation for the purpose of preventing or escaping danger, or of avoiding mistakes and misconduct.

2. Wakefulness; indisposition or inability to sleep.

WATCHFULNESS-often precedes too great sleepiness.

Watching

WATCHING, participle present tense Being awake; guarding; attending the sick; carefully observing.

WATCHING, noun Wakefulness; inability to sleep.

Watchmaker

WATCHMAKER, noun [watch and maker.] One whose occupation is to make and repair watches.

Watchman

WATCHMAN, noun [watch and man.] A sentinel; a guard.

Watchtower

WATCHTOWER, noun [watch and tower.] A tower on which a sentinel is placed to watch for enemies or the approach of danger.

Watchword

WATCHWORD, noun [watch and word.] The word given to sentinels, and to such as have occasion to visit the guards, used as a signal by which a friend is known from an enemy, or a person who has a right to pass the watch, from one who has not.

Water

WATER, noun Wauter. [G., Gr.]

1. A fluid, the most abundant and most necessary for living beings of any in nature, except air. water when pure, is colorless, destitute of taste and smell, ponderous, transparent, and in a very small degree compressible. It is reposited in the earth in inexhaustible quantities, where it is preserved fresh and cool, and from which it issues in springs, which form streams and rivers. But the great reservoirs of water on the globe are the ocean, seas and lakes, which cover more than three fifths of its surface, and from which it is raised by evaporation, and uniting with the air in the state of vapor, is wafted over the earth, ready to be precipitated in the form of rain, snow or hail.

WATER by the abstraction or loss of heat becomes solid, or in other words, is converted into ice or snow; and by heat it is converted into steam, an elastic vapor, one of the most powerful agents in nature. Modern chemical experiments prove that water is a compound substance, consisting of a combination of oxygen and hydrogen gases, or rather the bases or ponderable matter of those gases; or about two volumes or measures of hydrogen gas and one of oxygen gas. The proportion of the ingredients in weight, is nearly 85 parts of oxygen to 15 of hydrogen.

2. The ocean; a sea; a lake; a river; any great collection of water; as in the phrases, to go by water to travel by water

3. Urine; the animal liquor secreted by the kidneys and discharged from the bladder.

4. The color or luster of a diamond or pearl, sometimes perhaps of other precious stones; as a diamond of the first water that is, perfectly pure and transparent. Hence the figurative phrase, a man or a genius of the first water that is, of the first excellence.

5. water is a name given to several liquid substances or humors in animal bodies; as the water of the pericardium, of dropsy, etc.

Mineral waters, are those waters which are so impregnated with foreign ingredients, such as gaseous, sulphurous and saline substances, as to give them medicinal, or at least sensible properties. Most natural waters contain more or less of these foreign substances, but the proportion is generally too minute to affect the senses.

To hold water to be sound or tight. [Obsolete or vulgar.]

Water-Bearer

WATER-BEARER, noun [water and bearer.] In astronomy, a sign of the zodiac, called also Aquarius, from Latin Aqua, water.

Water-Bellows

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

Water-Borne

WATER-BORNE, noun Borne by the water; floated; having water sufficient to float; as ships water-borne by the flowing tide.

Water-Calamint

WATER-CALAMINT, noun [water and calamint.] A species of mint or Mentha.

Water-Carriage

WATER-CARRIAGE, noun [water and carriage.]

1. Transportation or conveyance by water; or the means of transporting by water.

2. A vessel or boat. [Not in use.]

Water-Cart

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

Water-Clock

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

Water-Color

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

Water-Course

WATER-COURSE, noun [water and course.]

1. A stream of water; a river or brook. Isaiah 44:1.

2. A channel or canal for the conveyance of water, particularly in draining lands.

Water-Cress

WATER-CRESS, noun [water and cress.] A small creeping plant or weed growing in watery places.

A plant, a species of Sisymbrium.

Water-Crowfoot

WATER-CROWFOOT, noun [water and crowfoot.] A plant on which cows are said to be fond of feeding.

Water-Drop

WATER-DROP, noun [water and drop.[ A drop of water.

Water-Dropwort

WATER-DROPWORT, noun A plant of the genus Oenanthe.

Water-Elephant

WATER-ELEPHANT, noun A name given to the hippopotamus.

Water-Engine

WATER-ENGINE, noun [water and engine.] An engine to raise water; or an engine moved by water.

Water-Flag

WATER-FLAG, noun [water and flag.] Water and flower de luce, a species of Tris.

Water-Flood

WATER-FLOOD, noun [water and flood.] A flood of water; an inundation.

Water-Fly

WATER-FLY, noun [water and fly.] An insect that is seen on the water.

Water-Fowl

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

Water-Fox

WATER-FOX, noun [water and fox.] A name given to the carp, on account of its cunning.

Water-Furrow

WATER-FURROW, noun [water and furrow.] In agriculture, a deep furrow made for conducting water fro the ground and keeping it dry.

WATER-FURROW, verb transitive To plow or open water furrows.

Water-Gage

WATER-GAGE, WATER-GUAGE, noun [water and gage.] An instrument for measuring or ascertaining the depth or quantity of water.

Water-Gall

WATER-GALL, noun

1. A cavity made in the earth by a torrent of water.

2. An appearance in the rainbow.

Water-Germander

WATER-GERMANDER, noun A plant of the genus Teucrium.

Water-God

WATER-GOD, noun [water and god.] A deity that presides over the water.

Water-Gruel

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

Water-Guage

WATER-GAGE, WATER-GUAGE noun [water and gage.] An instrument for measuring or ascertaining the depth or quantity of water.

Water-Hair-Grass

WATER-HAIR-GRASS, noun A species of grass, the Aira aquatica.

Water-Hammer

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

Water-Hemp-Agrimon

WATER-HEMP-AGRIMONY, n. A plant of the genus Bidens.

Water-Hen

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

Water-Hog

WATER-HOG, noun [water and hog.] A quadruped of South America, the Cavia capybara.

Water-Laurel

WATER-LAUREL, noun [water and laurel.] A plant.

Water-Leaf

WATER-LEAF, noun [water and leaf.] A plant of the genus Hydrophyllum.

Water-Level

WATER-LEVEL, noun [water and level.] The level formed by the surface of still water.

Water-Lily

WATER-LILY, noun [water and lily.] A plant of the genus Nymphaea.

Water-Line

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

Water-Logged

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

Water-Mark

WATER-MARK, noun [water and mark.] The mark or limit of the rise of a flood.

Water-Melon

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

Water-Mill

WATER-MILL, noun [water and mill.] A mill whose machinery is moved by water, and thus distinguished from a wind-mill.

Water-Mint

WATER-MINT. [See Water-calamint.]

Water-Newt

WATER-NEWT, noun [water and newt.] An animal of the lizared tribe, [Lacerta aquatica.]

Water-Ordeal

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

Water-Ouzel

WATER-OUZEL, noun [water and ouzel.] A fowl of the genus Sturnus.

The water ouzel is the Turdus cinctus of Latham.

Water-Parsnep

WATER-PARSNEP, noun [water and parsnep.[ A plant of the genus Sium.

Water-Poa

WATER-POA, noun A species of grass, the Poa aquatica.

Water-Poise

WATER-POISE, noun s as z. [water and poise.] An instrument for examining the purity of water.

Water-Pot

WATER-POT, noun [water and pot.] A vessel for holding or conveying water, or for sprinkling water on cloth in beaching, or on plants, etc.

Water-Proof

WATER-PROOF, adjective [water and proof.] Impervious to water; so firm and compact as not to admit water; as water-proof cloth, lether or felt.

Water-Radish

WATER-RADISH, noun [water and radish.] A species of water-cresses. Water-cress, a species of Sisymbrium.

Water-Rail

WATER-RAIL, noun [water and rail.] A fowl of the genus Rallus.

Water-Rat

WATER-RAT, noun [water and rat.] An animal of the genus Mus, which lives in the banks of streams or lakes.

Water-Rocket

WATER-ROCKET, noun [water and rocket.]

1. A species of water-cresses.

2. A kind of fire-work to be discharged in the water.

Water-Rot

WATER-ROT, verb transitive [water and rot.] To rot by steeping in water; as, to water-rot hemp or flax.

Water-Rotted

WATER-ROTTED, participle passive Rotted by being steeped in water.

Water-Rotting

WATER-ROTTING, participle present tense Rotting in water.

Water-Sail

WATER-SAIL, noun [water and sail.] A small sail used under a studding sail or driver boom.

Water-Sapphire

WATER-SAPPHIRE, noun [water and sapphire.] A kind of blue precious stone.

Water-Shoot

WATER-SHOOT, noun [water and shoot.[ A sprig or shoot from the root or stock of a tree. [Local.]

Water-Snake

WATER-SNAKE, noun [water and snake.] A snake that frequents the water.

Water-Soak

WATER-SOAK, verb transitive [water and soak.] To soak or fill the interstices with water.

Water-Soaked

WATER-SOAKED, participle passive Soaked or having its interstices filled with water; as water-soaked wood; a water soaked hat.

Water-Soldier

WATER-SOLDIER, noun A plant of the genus Stratiotes.

Water-Spaniel

WATER-SPANIEL, noun [water and spaniel.] A dog so called.

Water-Spout

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

Water-Table

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

Water-Tath

WATER-TATH, noun In England, a species of coarse grass growing in wet grounds, and supposed to be injurious to sheep.

Water-Thermometer

WATER-THERMOMETER, noun An instrument for ascertaining the precise degree of cold at which water ceases to be condensed.

Water-Tight

WATER-TIGHT, adjective [water and tight.] So tight as not to admit water.

Water-Trefoil

WATER-TREFOIL, noun A plant.

Water-Violet

WATER-VIOLET, noun [water and violet.] A plant of the genus Hottonia.

Water-Way

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

Water-Wheel

WATER-WHEEL, noun [water and wheel.]

1. A wheel moved by water.

2. An engine for raising water from a deep well.

Water-Willow

WATER-WILLOW, noun [water and willow.] A plant. [Latin]

Water-With

WATER-WITH, noun [water and with.] A plant.

Water-Work

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

Water-Wort

WATER-WORT, noun A plant of the genus Elatine.

WATER, verb transitive wauter.

1. To irrigate; to overflow with water, or to wet with water; as, to water land. Showers water the earth.

2. To supply with water. The hilly lands of New England are remarkably well watered with rivers and rivulets.

3. To supply with water for drink; as, to water cattle and horses.

4. To diversify; to wet and calendar; to give a wavy appearance to; as, to water silk.

WATER, verb intransitive wauter.

1. To shed water or liquid matter. His eyes began to water.

2. To get or take in water. The ship put into port to water.

The mouth waters, a phrase denoting that person has a longing desire.

Waterage

WATERAGE, noun Money paid for transportation by water.

Watered

WATERED, participle passive Overspread or sprinkled with water; made wet; supplied with water; made lustrous by being wet and calendered.

Waterer

WATERER, noun One who waters.

Waterfall

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

Wateriness

WATERINESS, noun [from watery.] Moisture; humidity; a state of abounding with water.

Watering

WATERING, participle present tense Overflowing; sprinkling or wetting with water; supplying with water; giving water for drink; giving a way appearance to.

WATERING, noun

1. The act of overflowing or sprinkling with water; the act of supplying with water for drink or other purposes; the act of wetting and calendering for giving luster to, as cloth.

2. The place where water is supplied.

Watering-Place

WATERING-PLACE, noun A place to which people resort for mineral water, or for the use of water in some way or other.

Watering-Trough

WATERING-TROUGH, noun A trough in which cattle and horses drink.

Waterish

WATERISH, adjective

1. Resembling water; thin, as a liquor.

2. Moist; somewhat watery; as waterish land.

Waterishness

WATERISHNESS, noun Thinness, as of a liquor; resemblance to water.

WATERISHNESS, which is like the serosity of our blood.

WATERLESS, adjective Destitute of water.

Waterless

WATERLESS, adjective Destitute of water.

Waterman

WATERMAN, noun [water and man.] A boatman; a ferryman; a man who manages water-craft.

Watery

WATERY, adjective

1. Resembling water; thin or transparent, as a liquid; as watery humors.

The oily and watery parts of the aliment.

2. Tasteless; insipid; vapid; spiritless; as watery turneps.

3. Wet; abounding with water; as watery land; watery eyes.

4. Pertaining to water; as the watery god.

5. Consisting of water; as a watery desert.

Wattle

WATTLE, noun [Latin , a shoot.]

1. Properly, a twig or flexible rod; and hence, a hurdle.

2. The fleshy excrescence that grows under the throat of a cock or turkey, or a like substance on a fish.

3. A rod laid on a roof to support the thatch.

WATTLE, verb transitive

1. To bind with twigs.

2. To twist or interweave twigs one with another; to plat; to for a kind of network with flexible branches; as, to wattle a hedge.

Wattled

WATTLED, participle passive Bound or interwoven with twigs.

Wattling

WATTLING, participle present tense Interweaving with twigs.

Waul

WAUL, verb intransitive To cry, as a cat.

Wauling

WAULING, participle present tense Crying, as a cat.

Wave

WAVE, noun [G.]

1. A moving swell or volume of water; usually, a swell raised and driven by wind. A pebble thrown into still water produces waves, which form concentric circles, receding from the point where the pebble fell. But waves are generally raised and driven by wind, and the word comprehends any moving swell on the surface of water, from the smallest ripple to the billows of a tempest.

The wave behind impels the wave before.

2. Unevenness; inequality of surface.

3. The line or streak of luster on cloth watered and calendered.

WAVE, verb intransitive

1. To play loosely; to move like a wave one way and the other; to float; to undulate.

His purple robes wavd careless to the wind.

2. To be moved, as a signal.

3. To fluctuate; to waver; to be in an unsettled state.

WAVE, verb transitive [See Waver.]

1. To raise into inequalities of surface.

2. To move one way and the other; to brandish; as, to wave the hand; to wave a sword.

3. To waft; to remove any thing floating.

4. To beckon; to direct by a waft or waving motion.

WAVE, verb transitive

1. To put off; to cast off; to cast away; to reject; as, to wave good stolen; usually written waive.

2. To quit; to depart from.

He resolved not to wave his way.

3. To put off; to put aside for the present, or to omit to pursue; as, to wave a motion. He offered to wave the subject. [This is the usual sense.]

Wave-Loaf

WAVE-LOAF, noun [wave and loaf.] A loaf for a wave-offering.

Wave-Offering

WAVE-OFFERING, noun An offering made with waving towards the four cardinal points. Numbers 18:1.

Wave-Subjected

WAVE-SUBJECTED, adjective Subject to be overflowed.

Wave-Worn

WAVE-WORN, adjective [wave and worn.] Worn by the waves.

The shore that oer his wave-worn basis bowd.

Waved

WAVED, participle passive

1. Moved one way and the other; brandished.

2. Put off; omitted.

3. adjective In heraldry, indented.

4. Variegated in luster; as waved silk.

5. In botany, undate; rising and falling in waves on the margin, as a leaf.

Waveless

WAVELESS, adjective Free from waves; undisturbed; unagitated; as the waveless sea.

Wavellite

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

Waver

WAVER, verb intransitive

1. To play or move to and fro; to move one way and the other.

2. To fluctuate; to be unsettled in opinion; to vacillate; to be undetermined; as, to waver in opinion; to waver in faith.

Let us hold fast the profession of our faith without wavering. Hebrews 10:23.

3. To totter; to reel; to be in danger of falling.

WAVER, noun A name given to a sapling or young timber tree in England.

Waverer

WAVERER, noun One who wavers; one who is unsettled in doctrine, faith or opinion.

Wavering

WAVERING, participle present tense or adjective Fluctuating; being in doubt; undetermined.

Waveringness

WAVERINGNESS, noun State or quality of being wavering.

Waving

WAVING, participle present tense Moving as a wave; playing to and fro; brandishing.

Wavy

WAVY, adjective [from wave.[

1. Rising or swelling in waves; full of waves; as the wavy sea.

2. Playing to and fro; undulating.

Let her glad valleys smile with wavy corn.

3. Undulating on the border or on the surface; a botanical use.

Wawes or waes, for waves. [Not in use.]

Wax

WAX, noun [G., Latin ]

1. A thick, viscid, tenacious substance, collected by bees, or excreted from their bodies, and employed in the construction of their cells; usually called bees wax Its native color is yellow, but it is bleached for candles, etc.

2. A thick tenacious substance excreted in the ear.

3. A substance secreted by certain plants, forming a silvery powder on the leaves and fruit, as in the wax-palm and wax-myrtle.

4. A substance found on the hinder legs of bees, which is supposed to be their food.

5. A substance used in sealing letters; called sealing-wax, or Spanish wax This is a composition of gum-lacca and resin, colored with some pigment.

6. A thick substance used by shoemakers for rubbing their thread.

WAX, verb transitive To smear or rub with wax; as, to wax a thread or a table.

WAX, verb intransitive preterit tense waxed.; participle passive waxed or waxen. [G., Latin , Gr.]

1. To increase in size; to grow; to become larger; as the waxing and the waning moon.

2. To pass from one state to another; to become; as, to wax strong; to wax warm or cold; to wax feeble; to wax hot; to wax old; to wax worse and worse.

Wax-Bill

WAX-BILL, noun A bird, a species of Loxia.

Wax-Candle

WAX-CANDLE, noun [wax and candle.] A candle made of wax.

Wax-Chandler

WAX-CHANDLER, noun [wax and chandler.] A maker of wax candles.

Wax-Myrtle

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

Wax-Palm

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

Wax-Work

WAX-WORK, noun Figures formed of wax, in imitation of real beings.

Waxed

WAXED, participle passive Smeared or rubbed with wax.

Waxen

WAXEN, adjective Made of wax; as waxen cells.

Waxing

WAXING, participle present tense Growing; increasing; becoming; smearing with wax.

WAXING, noun In chemistry, the preparation of any matter to render it fit for melting; also, the process of stopping out colors in calico-printing.

Waxy

WAXY, adjective Soft like wax; resembling wax; viscid; adhesive.

Way

WAY, noun [G., Latin ]

1. Literally, a passing; hence, a passage; the place of passing; hence, a road of any kind; a highway; a private road; a lane; a street; any place for the passing of men; cattle or other animals; a word of very comprehensive signification.

2. Length of space; as a great way; a little way

3. Course; direction of motion or travel. What way did he take? Which way shall I go? Keep in the way of truth and knowledge.

Mark what way I make.

4. Passage; room for passing. Make way for the jury.

5. Course, or regular course.

And let eternal justice take the way

6. Tendency to any meaning or act.

There is nothing in the words that sounds that way

7. Sphere of observation.

The general officers and the public ministers that fell in my way--

8. Manner of doing any thing; method; means of doing. Seek the best way of learning, and pursue it.

By noble ways we conquest will prepare.

9. Method; scheme of management.

What impious ways my wishes took.

10. Manner of thinking or behavior; particular turn of opinion; determination or humor. Let him have his way when that will not injure him, or any other person. But multitudes of children are ruined by being permitted to have their way

11. Manner; mode. In no way does this matter belong to me. We admire a persons way of expressing his ideas.

12. Method; manner of practice. Find, if you can, the easiest way to live.

Having lost the way of nobleness.

13. Method or plan of life and conduct. Instruct your children in the right way

Her ways are ways of pleasantness, and all her paths are peace. Proverbs 3:23.

All flesh had corrupted his way Genesis 6:12.

14. Course; process of things, good or bad. Things are in a prosperous way

15. Right method to act or know.

We are quite out of the way

16. General scheme of acting.

Men who go out of the way to hint free things, must be guilty of absurdity or rudeness.

17. Ways, plural the timbers on which a ship is launched.

To make way to give room for passing; or to make a vacancy.

To give way to recede; to make room; or to yield; to concede the place or opinion to another.

To make ones way to advance in life by efforts; to advance successfully.

By the way en passant, as we proceed; a phrase introducing something in discourse, not immediately connected with the subject.

To go ones way or to come ones way to go or come along.

To go the way of all the earth, to die.

In the way a phrase noting obstruction. What is there in the way of your success?

In Scripture, the ways of God, are his providential government, or his works. Romans 11:33. Job 11:1.

WAY and ways are used in certain phrases, in the sense of wise. He is no ways a match for his antagonist.

Tis no way the interest even of the priesthood.

To be under way in seamens language, to be in motion, as when a ship begins to move. So a ship is said to have head-way, when she moves forward in her course, and stern-way, when she is driven astern. She is said also to gather way or to lose way Lee-way is a movement of a ship aside of her course, or to the leeward.

Milky way in astronomy, the galaxy; a broad luminous belt or space in the heavens, supposed to be occasioned by the blended light of an immense number of stars. By means of a telescope of uncommon magnifying powers, Dr. Herschel has been able to ascertain this fact, by distinguishing the stars.

Covert way in fortification, a passage covered from the enemys fire.

WAYs and means, in legislation, means for raising money; resources for revenue.

WAY-going crop, among farmers, is the crop which is taken from the ground the year the tenant leaves the farm. [England.]

Way-Bread

WAY-BREAD, noun A name given to the herb plantain(plantago.) [Local.]

Way-Leave

WAY-LEAVE, noun A provincial term for the ground purchased for a wagon-way between coal-pits and a river. [Local.]

Way-Maker

WAY-MAKER, noun One who makes a way; a precursor.

Way-Mark

WAY-MARK, noun [way and mark.] A mark to guide in traveling. Jeremiah 31:1.

Way-Pane

WAY-PANE, noun A slip left for cartage in watered land. [Local.]

Way-Thistle

WAY-THISTLE, noun A troublesome plant or perennial weed.

Way-Warden

WAY-WARDEN, noun In local usage, the surveyor of a road.

Way-Wiser

WAY-WISER, noun An instrument for measuring the distance which one has traveled on the road; called also perambulator, and podometer, or pedometer.

Wayfarer

WAYFARER, noun A traveler; a passenger.

Wayfaring

WAYFARING, adjective [supra.] Traveling; passing; being on a journey. Judges 19:17.

Wayfaring-Tree

WAYFARING-TREE, noun A shrub, a species of Viburnum.

Waylaid

WAYLAID, participle passive Watched int he way. [See Waylay.]

Waylay

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

Waylayer

WAYLAYER, noun One who waits for another in ambush, with a view to seize, rob or slay him.

Wayless

WAYLESS, adjective Having no road or path; pathless; trackless.

Wayment

WAYMENT, verb intransitive To lament. [Not in use.]

Wayward

WAYWARD, adjective [way and ward.] Froward; peevish; perverse; liking his own way.

WAYWARD beauty doth not fancy move.

Waywardly

WAYWARDLY, adverb Frowardly; perversely.

Waywardness

WAYWARDNESS, noun Forwardness; perverseness.

Waywode

WAYWODE, WAIWODE, noun

1. In the Ottoman empire, the governor of a small town or province, which not forming a pashawlic, is the appendage of some great officer; also, a mussulman charged with the collection of taxes, or with the police of a place.

2. In Poland, the governor of a province.

Waywodeship

WAYWODESHIP, noun The province or jurisdiction of a waywode.

We

WE, pronoun plural of I; or rather a different word, denoting the person speaking and another or others with him. I and John, the speaker calls we or I and John and Thomas; or I and many others. In the objective case, us. we is used to express men in general, including the speaker.

Vice seen too oft, familiar with her face, we first endure, then pity, then embrace.

Weak

WEAK, adjective [G. The primary sense of the root is to yield, fail, give way, recede, or to be soft.]

1. Having little physical strength; feeble. Children are born weak; men are rendered weak by disease.

2. Infirm; not healthy; as a weak constitution.

3. Not able to bear a great weight; as a weak bridge; weak timber.

4. Not strong; not compact; easily broken; as a weak ship; a weak rope.

5. Not able to resist a violent attack; as a weak fortress.

6. Soft; pliant; not stiff.

7. Low; small; feeble; as a weak voice.

8. Feeble of mind; wanting spirit; wanting vigor of understanding; as a weak prince; a weak magistrate.

To think every thing disputable, si a proof of a weak mind and captious temper.

9. Not much impregnated with ingredients, or with things that excite action, or with stimulating and nourishing substances; as weak broth; weak tea; weak toddy; a weak solution; a weak decoction.

10. Not politically powerful; as a weak nation or state.

11. Not having force of authority or energy; as a weak government.

12. Not having moral force or power to convince; not well supported by truth or reason; as a weak argument.

13. Not well supported by argument; as weak reasoning.

14. Unfortified; accessible; impressible; as the weak side of a person.

15. Not having full conviction or confidence; as weak in faith.

16. weak land is land of a light thin soil. [I believe never used in New England.]

WEAK, verb transitive To make weak [Not used.]

WEAK, verb intransitive To become weak [Not used.]

Weak-Hearted

WEAK-HEARTED, adjective Having little courage; dispirited.

Weaken

WEAKEN, verb transitive

1. To lessen the strength of, or to deprive of strength; to debilitate; to enfeeble; as, to weaken the body; to weaken the mind; to weaken the hands of the magistrate; to weaken the force of an objection or an argument.

2. To reduce in strength or spirit; as, to weaken tea; to weaken any solution or decoction.

Weakened

WEAKENED, participle passive Debilitated; enfeebled; reduced in strength.

Weakener

WEAKENER, noun He or that which weakens.

Weakening

WEAKENING, participle present tense Debilitating; enfeebling; reducing the strength or vigor of any thing.

Weakling

WEAKLING, noun A feeble creature.

Weakly

WEAKLY, adverb

1. Feebly; with little physical strength; faintly; not forcible; as a fortress weakly defended.

2. With want of efficacy.

Was plighted faith so weakly seald above?

3. With feebleness of mind or intellect; indiscretely; injuriously.

Beneath pretended justice weakly fall.

4. Timorously; with little courage or fortitude.

WEAKLY, adjective Not strong of constitution; infirm; as a weakly woman; a man of a weakly constitution.

Weakness

WEAKNESS, noun

1. Want of physical strength; want of force or vigor; feebleness; as the weakness of a child; the weakness of an invalid; the weakness of a wall or bridge, or of thread or cordage.

2. Want of sprightliness.

Soft, without weakness; without glaring, gay.

3. Want of steadiness.

By such a review, we shall discern and strengthen our weaknesses.

4. Infirmity; unhealthiness; as weakness of constitution.

5. Want of moral force or effect upon the mind; as the weakness of evidence; the weakness of arguments.

6. Want of judgment; feebleness of mind; foolishness.

All wickedness is weakness

7. Defect; failing; fault; with a plural.

Many take pleasure in spreading abroad the weaknesses of an exalted character.

Weakside

WEAKSIDE, noun [weak and side.] Foible; deficience; failing; infirmity.

Weal

WEAL, noun [G., Latin , to be strong, to avail, to prevail. The primary sense of weal is strength, soundness, from the sense of straining, stretching or advancing.]

1. A sound state of a person or thing; a state which is prosperous, or at least not unfortunate, not declining; prosperity; happiness.

As we love the weal of our souls and bodies.

The weal or wo in thee is placd.

So we say, the public weal the general weal the weal of the nation or state.

2. Republic; state; public interest. [But we now use commonwealth, in the sense of state.]

WEAL, noun The mark of a stripe. [See Wale.] Weald, wald, walt, wold, in Saxon and other Teutonic dialects, signifies a wood or forest. It is found in names, as in Walt-ham, wood-house; corruptly pronounced Waltham.

Wealsman

WEALSMAN, noun [weal and man.] A name given sneeringly to a politician.

Wealth

WEALTH, noun

1. Prosperity; external happiness.

2. Riches; large possessions of money, goods or land; that abundance of worldly estate which exceeds the estate of the greater part of the community; affluence; opulence.

Each day new wealth without their care provides.

Wealthily

WEALTHILY, adverb Richly.

Wealthiness

WEALTHINESS, noun State of being wealthy; richness.

Wealthy

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

Wean

WEAN, verb transitive [G. See Wont.]

1. To accustom and reconcile, as a child or other young animal, to a want or deprivation of the breast.

And the child grew, and was weaned. Genesis 21:8.

2. To detach or alienate, as the affections, from any object of desire; to reconcile to the want or loss of any thing; as, to wean the heart from temporal enjoyments.

Weaned

WEANED, participle passive Accustomed or reconciled to the want of the breast or other object of desire.

Weanel

WEANEL, WEANLING, noun A child or other animal newly weaned.

Weaning

WEANING, participle present tense Accustoming or reconciling, as a young child or other animal, to a want of the breast; reconciling to the want of any object of desire.

Weanling

WEANEL, WEANLING noun A child or other animal newly weaned.

Weapon

WEAPON, noun [G., Latin ]

1. Any instrument of offense; any thing used or designed to be used in destroying or annoying an enemy. The weapons of rude nations are clubs, stones and bows and arrows. Modern weapons of war are swords, muskets, pistols, cannon and the like.

2. An instrument for contest, or for combating enemies.

The weapons of our warfare are not carnal. 2 Corinthians 10:4.

3. An instrument of defense.

4. Weapons, in botany, arms; thorns, prickles, and stings, with which plants are furnished for defense; enumerated among the fulcres by Linne.

Weapon-Salve

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

Weaponed

WEAPONED, adjective Wepnd. Armed; furnished with weapons or arms; equipped.

Weaponless

WEAPONLESS, adjective Unarmed; having no weapon.

Wear

WEAR, verb transitive preterit tense wore; participle passive worn.

1. To waste or impair by rubbing or attrition; to lessen or diminish by time, use or instruments. A current of water often wears a channel in limestone.

2. To carry appendant to the body, as clothes or weapons; as, to wear a coat or a robe; to wear a sword; to wear a crown.

On her white breast a sparkling cross she wore.

3. To have or exhibit an appearance; to bear; as, she wears a smile on her countenance.

4. To affect by degrees.

Trials wear us into a liking of what possible, in the first essay, displeased us.

To wear away, to consume; to impair, diminish or destroy by gradual attrition or decay.

To wear off, to diminish by attrition or slow decay.

To wear out,

1. To consume; to render useless by attrition or decay; as, to wear out a coat or a book.

2. To consume tediously; as, to wear out life in idle projects.

3. To harass; to tire.

He shall wear out the saints of the Most High. Daniel 7:25.

4. To waste the strength of; as an old amn worn out in the service of his country.

WEAR, verb intransitive

1. To be wasted; to be diminished by attrition, by use, or by time.

Thou wilt surely wear away. Exodus 18:18.

2. To be tediously spent.

Thus wore out night.

3. To be consumed by slow degrees. It is better to wear out, than to rust out.

To wear off, to pass away by degrees. The follies of youth wear off with age.

WEAR, noun

1. The act of wearing; diminution by friction; as the wear and tear of a garment.

2. The thing worn.

WEAR, noun [See Warren and Guard.]

1. A dam in a river to stop and raise the water, for conducting it to a mill, or for taking fish.

2. An instrument or kind of basket work for catching fish.

Wearable

WEARABLE, adjective That can be worn.

Weard

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

Wearer

WEARER, noun [from wear.]

1. One who wears or carries as appendant to the body; as the wearer of a cloke, a sword or a crown.

2. That which wastes or diminishes.

Weariness

WEARINESS, noun [from weary.]

1. The state of being weary or tired; that lassitude or exhaustion of strength which is induced by labor; fatigue.

With weariness and wine oppresd.

2. Lassitude; uneasiness proceeding from continued waiting, disappointed expectation or exhausted patience, or from other cause.

Wearing

WEARING, participle present tense

1. Bearing on or appendant to the person; diminishing by friction; consuming.

2. adjective Denoting what is worn; as wearing apparel.

WEARING, noun Clothes; garments.

Wearish

WEARISH, adjective

1. Boggy; watery. [Not in use.]

2. Weak; washy. [Not in use.]

Wearisome

WEARISOME, adjective [from weary.] Causing weariness; tiresome; tedious; fatiguing; as a wearisome march; a wearisome days work.

WEARISOME nights are appointed unto me. Job 7:3.

Wearisomely

WEARISOMELY, adverb Tediously; so as to cause weariness.

Wearisomeness

WEARISOMENESS, noun The quality of exhausting strength or patience; tiresomeness; tediousness; as the wearisomeness of toil, or of waiting long in anxious expectation.