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Whitsuntide

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

Whitten-Tree

WHITTEN-TREE, noun A sort of tree.

Whittle

WHITTLE, noun

1. A small pocket knife. [In this sense, I believe the word is not used in America.]

2. A white dress for a woman; a double blanket worn by west countrywomen in England, over the shoulders, like a cloke. [Not used in the United States.]

WHITTLE, verb transitive

1. To pare or cut off the surface of a thing with a small knife. Some persons have a habit of whittling, and are rarely seen without a penknife in their hands for that purpose. [This is, I believe, the only use of this word in New England.]

2. To edge; to sharpen. [Not in use.]

Whity-Brown

WHITY-BROWN, adjective Of a color between white and brown. [Local in England.]

Whiz

WHIZ, verb transitive [It seems to be allied to hiss.] To make a humming or hissing sound, like an arrow or ball flying through the air.

It flew, and whizzing cut the liquid way.

WHIZ, noun A hissing sound.

Whizzing

WHIZZING, participle present tense Making a humming or hissing sound.

Who

WHO, pronoun relative. pronoun hoo. [Latin who is undoubtedly a contracted word in English as in Latin. See What and Wight.]

1. who is a pronoun relative, always referring to persons. It forms whose in the genitive or possessive case, answering to the Latin Cujus, and whom in the objective or accusative case. who whose and whom, are in both numbers. Thus we say, the man or woman who was with us; the men or women who were with us; the men or women whom we saw.

2. Which of many. Are you satisfied who did the mischief?

3. It is much used in asking questions; as, who am I? who art thou? who is this? who are these? In this case, the purpose is to obtain the name or designation of the person or character.

4. It has sometimes a disjunctive sense.

There thou tellst of kings, and who aspire; who fall, who rise, who triumph, who do moan.

5. Whose is of all genders. Whose book is this?

This question whose solution I require--

As who should say, elliptically for as one who should say.

Whoever

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

Whole

WHOLE, adjective Hole. [G., Gr. This seems to be connected with heal, hale. Of this the derivative wholesome, is evidence.]

1. All; total; containing the total amount or number, or the entire thing; as the whole earth; the whole world; the whole solar system; the whole army; the whole nation.

2. Complete; entire; not defective or imperfect; as a whole orange; the egg is whole; the vessel is whole

3. Unimpaired; unbroken; uninjured.

My life is yet whole in me. 2 Samuel 1:9.

4. Sound; not hurt or sick.

They that are whole need not a physician. Matthew 9:12.

5. Restored to health and soundness; sound; well.

Thy faith hath made thee whole Mark 5:28.

His hand was restored whole Mark 3:5.

WHOLE, noun

1. The entire thing; the entire or total assemblage of parts. The whole of religion is contained in the short precept, Love God with all your heart, and your neighbor as yourself.

Fear God and keep his commandments, for this is the whole duty of man. Ecclesiastes 12:13.

2. A system; a regular combination of parts.

Wholesale

WHOLESALE, noun [whole and sale.]

1. Sale of goods by the piece or large quantity; as distinguished from retail. Some traders sell either by wholesale or retail.

2. The whole mass.

Some from vanity or envy, despise a valuable book, and throw contempt upon it by wholesale

WHOLESALE, adjective [supra.]

1. Buying and selling by the piece or quantity; as a wholesale merchant or dealer.

2. Pertaining to the trade by the piece or quantity; as the wholesale price.

Wholesome

WHOLESOME, adjective [G.]

1. Tending to promote health; favoring health; salubrious; as wholesome air or diet; a wholesome climate.

2. Sound; contributing to the health of the mind; favorable to morals, religion or prosperity; as wholesome advice; wholesome doctrines; wholesome truths.

3. Useful; salutary; conducive to public happiness, virtue or peace; as a wholesome law.

4. That utters sound words.

A wholesome tongue is a tree of life. Proverbs 15:4.

5. Kindly; pleasing; as a wholesome answer.

WHOLESOME ship, a ship that will try, hull and ride well.

Wholesomely

WHOLESOMELY, adverb In a wholesome or salutary manner; salubriously.

Wholesomeness

WHOLESOMENESS, noun

1. The quality of contributing to health; salubrith; as the wholesomeness of air or diet.

2. Salutariness; conduciveness to the health of the mind or of the body politic; as the wholesomeness of doctrines or laws.

Wholly

WHOLLY, adverb

1. Entirely; completely; perfectly.

Nor wholly overcome, nor wholly yield.

2. Totally; in all the parts or kinds.

They employed themselves wholly in domestic life.

Whom

WHOM, pronoun hoom. The objective of who, coinciding with the Latin quem and quam.

WHOM have I in heaven but thee? Psalms 123:1.

Whomsoever

WHOMSOEVER, pronoun [whom and soever.] Any person without exception.

With whomsoever thou findest thy goods, let him not live. Genesis 31:32.

Whoobub

WHOOBUB, for hubbub. [Not in use.]

Whoop

WHOOP, noun Hoop. [ This is the same as hoop, but aspirated. The sense is to drive out the voice.]

1. A shout of pursuit.

2. A shout of war; a particular cry of troops when they rush to the attack. The Indians of America are remarkable for their war whoop

3. The bird called hoopoe or upupa.

WHOOP, verb intransitive To shout with a particular voice.

WHOOP, verb transitive To insult with shouts.

Whoot

WHOOT, verb intransitive hoot. [See Hoot.]

Whop

WHOP, noun [the vulgar pronunciation of whap, or awhap.] A sudden fall, or the suddenness of striking in a fall.

Whore

WHORE, noun Hore. [G. The correct orthography is hore.] A harlot; a courtesan; a concubine; a prostitute.

WHORE, verb intransitive [supra.] To have unlawful sexual commerce; to practice lewdness.

WHORE, verb transitive To corrupt by lewd intercourse. [Little used.]

Whoredom

WHOREDOM, noun Horedom.

1. Lewdness; fornication; practice of unlawful commerce with the other sex. It is applied to either sex, and to any kind of illicit commerce.

2. In Scripture, idolatry; the desertion of the worship of the true God, for the worship of idols.

Whoremaster

WHOREMASTER, noun [supra.] One who practices lewdness.

Whoremonger

WHOREMONGER, noun The same as whoremaster.

Whoreson

WHORESON, noun A bastard; a word used generally in contempt.

Whorish

WHORISH, adjective Lewd; unchaste; addicted to unlawful sexual pleasures; incontinent.

Whorishly

WHORISHLY, adverb In a lewd manner.

Whorishness

WHORISHNESS, noun The practice of lewdness; the character of a lewd woman.

Whorl

WHORL, WHORLE. [See Whirl.]

Whorle

WHORL, WHORLE [See Whirl.]

Whort

WHORT, noun The fruit of the whortleberry; or the shrub.

Whortleberry

WHORTLEBERRY, noun A plant or shrub and its fruit, of the genus Vaccinium.

Whose

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

Whosesoever

WHOSESOEVER, pronoun [whose and soever.] Of any person whatever. John 20:1.

Whoso

WHOSO, pronoun Hooso. Any person whatever.

Whosoever

WHOSOEVER, pronoun [who, so, and ever.] Any one; any person whatever.

WHOSOEVER will, let him take of the water of life freely. Revelations 22.

Whur

WHUR, verb intransitive To pronounce the letter r with too much force.

WHUR, noun The sound of a body moving through the air with velocity. [See Whir.]

Whurt

WHURT, noun A whortleberry or bilberry. [See Whort.]

Why

WHY, adverb [Latin , for what. The original phrase is for what, for why ]

1. For what cause or reason, interrogatively.

Turn ye, turn ye, for why will ye die? Jeremiah 27:13.

2. For which reason or cause, relatively.

No ground of enmity, why he should mean me ill.

3. For what reason or cause; for which; relatively.

Turn the discourse; I have a reason why I would not have you speak so tenderly.

4. It is used sometimes emphatically, or rather as a expletive.

If her chill heart I cannot move, why Ill enjoy the very love.

Wi

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

Wic

WIC, WICK, a termination, denotes jurisdiction, as in bailiwick. Its primary sense is a village or mansion, Latin ; hence it occurs in Berwick, Harwich, Norwich, etc. It signifies also a bay or a castle.

Wick

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

Wicked

WICKED, adjective [The primary sense is to wind and turn, or to depart, to fall away.]

1. Evil in principle or practice; deviating from the divine law; addicted to vice; sinful; immoral. This is a word of comprehensive signification, extending to every thing that is contrary to the moral law, and both to persons and actions. We say, a wicked man, a wicked deed, wicked ways, wicked lives, a wicked heart, wicked designs, wicked works.

No man was ever wicked without secret discontent.

2. A word of slight blame; as the wicked urchin.

3. Cursed; baneful; pernicious; as wicked words, words pernicious in their efforts.

[This last signification may throw some light on the word witch.]

The wicked in Scripture, persons who live in sin; transgressors of the divine law; all who are unreconciled to God, unsanctified or impenitent.

Wickedly

WICKEDLY, adverb IN a manner or with motives and designs contrary to the divine law; viciously; corruptly; immorally.

All that do wickedly shall be stubble. Malachi 4:1.

I have sinned, and I have done wickedly 2 Samuel 24:17.

Wickedness

WICKEDNESS, noun Departure from the rules of the divine law; evil disposition or practices; immorality; crime; sin; sinfulness; corrupt manners wickedness generally signifies evil practices.

What wickedness is this that is done among you? Judges 20:3.

But wickedness expresses also the corrupt dispositions of the heart.

Their inward part is very wickedness Psalms 5:4.

In heart ye work wickedness Psalms 5:48.

Wicken

WICKEN, WICKEN-TREE, noun The Sorbus aucuparia, mountain ash, or roan-tree.

Wicken-Tree

WICKEN, WICKEN-TREE noun The Sorbus aucuparia, mountain ash, or roan-tree.

Wicker

WICKER, adjective [Latin , to grow. The word signifies a shoot.] Made of twigs or oziers; as a wicker basket; a wicker chair.

Wicket

WICKET, noun A small gate.

The wicket often opend, knew the key.

Wickliffite

WICKLIFFITE, noun A follower of Wickliffe, the English reformer.

Wide

WIDE, adjective

1. Broad; having a great or considerable distance or extent between the sides; opposed to narrow; as wide cloth; a wide table; a wide highway; a wide bed; a wide hall or entry. In this use, wide is distinguished from long, which refers to the extent or distance between the ends.

2. Broad; having a great extent each way; as a wide plain; the wide ocean.

3. Remote; distant. This position is very wide from the truth.

4. Broad to a certain degree; as three feet wide

WIDE, adverb

1. At a distance; far. His fame was spread wide

2. With great extent; used chiefly in composition; as wide-skirted meads; wide-waving swords; wide-wasting pestilence; wide-spreading evil.

Widely

WIDELY, adverb

1. With great extent each way. The gospel was widely disseminated by the apostles.

2. Very much; to a great distance; far. We differ widely in opinion.

Widen

WIDEN, verb transitive To make wide or wider; to extend in breadth; as, to widen a field; to widen a breach. [Note.--In America, females say, to widen a stocking.]

WIDEN, verb intransitive To grow wide or wider; to enlarge; to extend itself.

And arches widen and long aisles extend.

Widened

WIDENED, participle passive Made wide or wider; extended in breadth.

Wideness

WIDENESS, noun

1. Breadth; width; great extent between the sides; as the wideness of a room.

2. Large extent in all directions; as the wideness of the sea or ocean.

Widening

WIDENING, participle present tense Extending the distance between the sides; enlarging in all directions.

Widgeon

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

Widow

WIDOW, noun [Latin See Wide.] A woman who has lost her husband by death. Luke 2:37.

WIDOWs chamber, in London, the apparel and furniture of the bed-chamber of the widow of a freeman, to which she is entitled.

WIDOW, verb transitive

1. To bereave of a husband; but rarely used except in the participle.

2. To endow with a widows right. [Unusual.]

3. To strip of any thing good.

The widowd isle in mourning--

Widow-Bench

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

Widow-Hunter

WIDOW-HUNTER, noun [widow and hunter.] One who seeks or courts widows for a jointure or fortune.

Widow-Maker

WIDOW-MAKER, noun [widow and maker.] One who make widows by destroying lives.

Widow-Wail

WIDOW-WAIL, noun In botany, a plant of the genus Cneorum.

Widowed

WIDOWED, participle passive

1. Bereaved of a husband by death.

2. Deprived of some good; stripped.

Trees of their shriveld fruits are widowd.

Widower

WIDOWER, noun A man who has lost his wife by death.

Widowhood

WIDOWHOOD, noun

1. The state of being a widow.

2. Estate settled on a widow. [Not in use.]

Widowing

WIDOWING, participle present tense Bereaving of a husband; depriving; stripping.

Width

WIDTH, noun [from wide.] Breadth; wideness; the extent of a thing from side to side; as the width of cloth; the width of a door.

Wield

WIELD, verb transitive [Latin The primary sense of power and strength is to stretch or strain.]

1. To use with full command or power, as a thing not too heavy for the holder; to manage; as, to wield a sword; to wield the scepter.

Part wield their arms, part curb the foaming steed.

2. To use or employ with the hand.

Nothing but the influence of a civilized power could induce a savage to wield a spade.

3. To handle; in an ironical sense.

Base Hungarian wight, wilt thou the spigot wield?

To wield the scepter, to govern with supreme command.

Wielded

WIELDED, participle passive Used with command; managed.

Wielding

WIELDING, participle present tense Using with power; managing.

Wieldless

WIELDLESS, adjective Unmanageable.

Wieldy

WIELDY, adjective That may be wielded; manageable.

Wiery

WIERY, adjective [from wire.]

1. Made of wire; having the properties of wire. It would be better written wiry.

2. Wet; marshy. [Not in use.]

Wife

WIFE, noun plural Wives. [G., a woman.]

1. The lawful consort of man; a woman who is united to man in the lawful bonds of wedlock; the correlative of husband.

The husband of one wife 1 Timothy 3:2.

Let every one of you in particular, so love his wife even as himself, and let the wife see that she reverence her husband. Ephesians 5:23.

2. A woman of low employment; as strawberry wives. [Not in use.]

Wig

WIG, in Saxon, signifies war. It is found in some names.

WIG, noun [G., roll butter. It would seem that the sense is a roll or twist interwoven.]

1. A covering for the head, consisting of hair interwoven or united by a kind of network; formerly much worn by men.

2. A sort of cake.

Wigeon

WIGEON. [See Widgeon.]

Wight

WIGHT, noun [g., a living being. Latin , to live.] A being; a person. It is obsolete, except in irony or burlesque. [See Aught.]

The wight of all the world who lovd thee best.

WIGHT, adjective Swift; nimble. [This seems to be a dialectical form of quick.]

Wightly

WIGHTLY, adverb Swiftly; nimbly.

Wigwam

WIGWAM, noun An Indian cabin or hut, so called in America. It is sometimes written weekwam.

Wild

WILD, adjective [G.]

1. Roving; wandering; inhabiting the forest or open field; hence, not tamed or domesticated; as a wild boar; a wild ox; a wild cat; a wild bee.

2. Growing without culture; as wild parsnep; wild cherry; wild tansy. wild rice, a palatable and nutritious food, grows spontaneously in the lakes and ponds of the North West territory.

3. Desert; not inhabited; as a wild forest.

4. Savage; uncivilized; not refined by culture; as the wild natives of Africa or America.

5. Turbulent; tempestuous; irregular; as a wild tumult.

The wild winds howl.

6. Licentious; ungoverned; as wild passions.

Valor grown wild by pride--

7. Inconstant; mutable; fickle.

In the ruling passion, there also the wild are constant, and the cunning known.

8. Inordinate; loose.

A fop well dressd, extravagant and wild

9. Uncouth; loose.

--What are these, so witherd, and so wild in their attire?

10. Irregular; disorderly; done without plan or order; as, to make wild work.

11. Not well digested; not framed according to the ordinary rules of reason; not being within the limits of probable practicability; imaginary; fanciful; as a wild project or scheme; wild speculations.

12. Exposed to the wind and sea; as a wild roadstead.

13. Made or found in the forest; as wild honey.

WILD is prefixed to the names of many plants, to distinguish them from such of the name as are cultivated in gardens, as wild basil, wild parsnep, wild carrot, wild olive, _.

WILD, noun A desert; an uninhabited and uncultivated tract or region; a forest or sandy desert; as the wilds of America; the wilds of Africa; the sandy wilds of Arabia.

Then Libya first, of all her moisture draind, became a barren waste, a wild of sand.

Wild-Fowl

WILD-FOWL, noun [wild and fowl.] Fowls of the forest, or untamed.

Wild-Goose

WILD-GOOSE, noun [wild and goose.] An aquatic fowl of the genus Anas, the Anas anser, a fowl of passage. These geese fly to the south in autumn, and return to the north in the spring. This species is the stock of the common domestic goose. The wild goose of North America, also migratory, is a distinct species, the Anas canadensis.

WILD-GOOSE chase, the pursuit of something as unlikely to be caught as the wild goose.

Wild-Honey

WILD-HONEY, noun [wild and honey.] Honey that is found int he forest, in hollow trees or among rocks.

Wild-Land

WILD-LAND, noun [wild and land.]

1. Land not cultivated, or in a state that renders it unfit for cultivation.

2. In America, forest; land not settled and cultivated.

Wild-Service

WILD-SERVICE, noun A plant. The wilder myrtle-leaved service is a tree of the genus Crataegus, [C. Torminalis.)

Wilder

WILDER, verb transitive To lose or cause to lose the way or track; to puzzle with mazes or difficulties; to bewilder.

Long lost and wilderd in the maze of fate.

Wildered

WILDERED, participle passive Lost in a pathless tract; puzzled.

Wildering

WILDERING, participle present tense Puzzling.

Wilderness

WILDERNESS, noun [from wild.]

1. A desert; a tract of land or region uncultivated and uninhabited by human beings, whether a forest or a wide barren plain. In the United States, it is applied only to a forest. In Scripture, it is applied frequently to the deserts of Arabia. The Israelites wandered int he wilderness forty years.

2. The ocean.

The watry wilderness yields no supply.

3. A state of disorder. [Not in use.]

4. A wood in a garden, resembling a forest.

Wildfire

WILDFIRE, noun [wild and fire.]

1. A composition of inflammable materials.

Brimstone, pitch, wildfire burn easily, and are hard to quench.

2. A disease of sheep, attended with inflammation of the skin; a kind of erysipelas.

Wilding

WILDING, noun A wild sour apple.

Wildly

WILDLY, adverb

1. Without cultivation.

2. Without tameness.

3. With disorder; with perturbation or distraction; with a fierce or roving look; as, to start wildly from ones seat; to stare wildly

4. Without attention; heedlessly.

5. Capriciously; irrationally; extravagantly.

Who is there so wildly skeptical as to question whether the sun will rise in the east?

6. Irregularly.

She, wildly wanton, wears by night away the sign of all our labors done by day.

Wildness

WILDNESS, noun

1. Rudeness; rough uncultivated state; as the wildness of a forest or heath.

2. Inordinate disposition to rove; irregularity of manners; as the wildness of youth.

3. Savageness; brutality.

4. Savage state; rudeness.

5. Uncultivated state; as the wildness of land.

6. A wandering; irregularity.

Delirium is but a short wildness of the imagination.

7. Alienation of mind.

8. State of being untamed.

9. The quality of being undisciplined, or not subjected to method or rules.

Is there any danger that this discipline will tame too much the fiery spirit, the enchanting wildness and magnificent irregularity of the orators genius?

Wilds

WILDS, noun Among farmers, the part of a plow by which it is drawn.

Wile

WILE, noun A trick or stratagem practiced for ensnaring or deception; a sly, insidious artifice.

That ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil. Ephesians 6:11.

WILE, verb transitive To deceive; to beguile. [Little used.]

Wilily

WILILY, adverb [from wily.] By stratagem; with insidious art. Joshua 9:4.

Wiliness

WILINESS, noun [from wily.] Cunning; guile.

Wilk

WILK, WHILK, noun [G., to wither, or cause to wither.] A species of shell. [See Welk.]

Will

WILL, noun [See the Verb.]

1. That faculty of the mind by which we determine either to do or forbear an action; the faculty which is exercised in deciding, among two or more objects, which we shall embrace or pursue. The will is directed or influenced by the judgment. The understanding or reason compares different objects, which operate as motives; the judgment determines which is preferable, and the will decides which to pursue. In other words, we reason with respect to the value or importance of things; we then judge which is to be preferred; and we will to take the most valuable. These are but different operations of the mind, soul, or intellectual part of man. Great disputes have existed respecting the freedom of the will will is often quite a different thing from desire.

A power over a mans subsistence, amounts to a power over his will

2. Choice; determination. It is my will to prosecute the trespasser.

3. Choice; discretion; pleasure.

Go, then, the guilty at thy will chastise.

4. Command; direction.

Our prayers should be according to the will of God.

5. Disposition; inclination; desire. What is your will Sir? In this phrase, the word may also signify determination, especially when addressed to a superior.

6. Power; arbitrary disposal.

Deliver me not over to the will of my enemies. Psalms 27:3.

7. Divine determination; moral purpose or counsel.

Thy will be done. Lords Prayer.

8. Testament; the disposition of a mans estate, to take effect after his death. Wills are written, or nuncupative, that is, verbal.

Good will

1. Favor; kindness.

2. Right intention. Philippians 1:6.

Ill will enmity; unfriendliness. It expresses less than malice.

To have ones will to obtain what is desired.

At will To hold an estate at the will of another, is to enjoy the possession at his pleasure, and be liable to be ousted at any time by the lessor or proprietor.

WILL with a wisp, Jack with a lantern; ignis fatuus; a luminous appearance sometimes seen in the air over moist ground, supposed to proceed from hydrogen gas.

WILL, verb transitive [G., Latin , Gr. The sense is to set, or to set forward, to stretch forward. The sense is well expressed by the Latin ]

1. To determine; to decide int he mind that something shall be done or forborne; implying power to carry the purpose into effect. In this manner God wills whatever comes to pass. So in the style of princes; we will that execution be done.

A man that sits still is said to be at liberty, because he can walk if he will it.

2. To command; to direct.

Tis yours, O queen! To will the work which duty bids me to fulfill.

3. To be inclined or resolved to have.

There, there, Hortensio, will you any wife?

4. To wish; to desire. What will you?

5. To dispose of estate and effects by testament.

6. It is sometimes equivalent to may be. Let the circumstances be what they will; that is, any circumstances, of whatever nature.

7. will is used as an auxiliary verb, and a sign of the future tense. It has different signification in different persons.

1. I will go, is a present promise to go; and with an emphasis on will it expresses determination.

2. Thou wilt go, you will go, express foretelling; simply stating an event that is to come.

3. He will go, is also a foretelling. The use of will in the plural, is the same. We will promises; ye will they will foretell.

Willed

WILLED, participle passive

1. Determined; resolved; desired.

2. Disposed of by will or testament.

Willer

WILLER, noun One who wills.

Willful

WILLFUL, adjective [will and full.]

1. Governed by the will without yielding to reason; obstinate; stubborn; perverse; inflexible; as a willful man.

2. Stubborn; refractory; as a willful horse.

Willfully

WILLFULLY, adverb

1. Obstinately; stubbornly.

2. By design; with set purpose.

If we sin willfully after that we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remaineth no more sacrifice for sins. Hebrews 10:1.

Willfulness

WILLFULNESS, noun Obstinacy; stubbornness; perverseness.

Sins of presumption are such as proceed from pride, arrogance, willfulness and haughtiness of mens heart.

Willing

WILLING, participle present tense

1. Determining; resolving; desiring.

2. Disposing of by will.

WILLING, adjective

1. Free to do or grant; having the mind inclined; disposed; not averse. Let every man give, who is able and willing

2. Pleased; desirous.

Felix, willing to show the Jews a pleasure. Acts 24:27.

3. Ready; prompt.

He stoopd with weary wings and willing feet.

4. Chosen; received of choice or without reluctance; as, to be held in willing chains.

5. Spontaneous.

No spouts of blood run wiling from a tree.

6. Consenting.

Willing-Hearted

WILLING-HEARTED, adjective Well disposed; having a free heart. Exodus 35:1.

Willingly

WILLINGLY, adverb

1. With free will; without reluctance; cheerfully.

2. By ones own choice.

The condition of that people is not so much to be envied as some would willingly represent it.

Willingness

WILLINGNESS, noun Free choice or consent of the will; freedom from reluctance; readiness of the mind to do or forbear.

Sweet is the love that comes with willingness

Willow

WILLOW, noun [Latin] A tree of the genus Salix. There are several species of willow the white, the black, the purple or red, the sallow, and the broad leaved willow etc. A species called the weeping willow has long and slender branches which droop and hang downward, the Salix Babylonica.

Willow-Gall

WILLOW-GALL, noun A protuberance on the leaves of willows.

Willow-Herb

WILLOW-HERB, noun The purple loose strife, a plant of the genus Lythrum; also, the yellow loose strife, of the genus Lysimachia; also, the French willow, of the genus Epilobium.

Willow-Tufted

WILLOW-TUFTED, adjective Tufted with willows.

Willow-Weed

WILLOW-WEED, noun A name sometimes given to the smartweed or persicaria.

Willow-Wort

WILLOW-WORT, noun A plant.

Willowed

WILLOWED, adjective Abounding with willows.

Willowish

WILLOWISH, adjective Like the color of the willow.

Willowy

WILLOWY, adjective Abounding with willows.

Wilt

WILT, verb intransitive [G., to fade; that is, to shrink or withdraw.] To begin to wither; to lose freshness and become flaccid, as a plant when exposed to great heat in a dry day, or when first separated from its root. This is a legitimate word, for which there is no substitute in the language. It is not synonymous with wither, as it expresses only the beginning of withering. A wilted plant often revives and becomes fresh; not so a withered plant.

WILT, verb transitive

1. To cause to begin to wither; to make flaccid; as a green plant.

2. To cause to languish; to depress or destroy the vigor and energy of.

Despots have wilted the human race into sloth and imbecility.

Wilted

WILTED, participle passive Having become flaccid and lost its freshness, as a plant.

Wilting

WILTING, participle present tense Beginning to fade or wither.

Wily

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

Wimble

WIMBLE, noun [See Whim.] An instrument for boring holes, turned by a handle.

WIMBLE, adjective Active; nimble.

Wimbrel

WIMBREL, noun A bird of the curlew kind, a species of Soclopax.

Wimple

WIMPLE, noun [G., a pendant.] A hood or vail. Isaiah 3:22.

WIMPLE, verb transitive To draw down, as a vail.

Win

WIN, verb transitive preterit tense and participle passive won. [G.]

1. To gain by success in competition or contest; as, to win the prize in a game; to win money; to win a battle, or to win a country. Battles are won by superior strength or skill.

--Who thus shall Canaan win

2. To gain by solicitation or courtship.

3. To obtain; to allure to kindness or compliance. Thy virtue won me. win your enemy by kindness.

4. To gain by persuasion or influence; as, an orator wins his audience by argument. The advocate has won the jury.

And Mammon wins his way, where seraphs might despair.

WIN, verb transitive

1. To gain the victory.

Nor is it aught but just that he, who in debate of truth hath won, should win in arms.

To win upon, to gain favor or influence; as, to win upon the heart or affections.

2. To gain ground.

The rabble will in time win upon power.

To win of, to be conqueror.

Wince

WINCE, verb intransitive

1. To shrink, as from a blow or from pain; to start back.

I will not stir nor wince

2. To kick or flounce when uneasy, or impatient of a rider; as, a horse winces.

Wincer

WINCER, noun One that winces, shrinks or kicks.

Winch

WINCH, noun A windlass; or an instrument with which to turn or strain something forcibly; as a winch to strain the cord of a bedstead, or to turn a wheel.

WINCH, verb intransitive To wince; to shrink; to kick with impatience or uneasiness. [This is a more correct orthography than wince.]

Winching

WINCHING, WINCING, participle present tense Flinching; shrinking; kicking.

Wincing

WINCHING, WINCING participle present tense Flinching; shrinking; kicking.

Wincopipe

WINCOPIPE, noun The vulgar name of a little flower, that, when it opens in the morning, bodes a fair day.

Wind

WIND, noun [Latin , G. The primary sense is to move, flow, rush or drive along.]

1. Air in motion with any degree of velocity, indefinitely; a current of air. When the air moves moderately, we call it a light wind or a breeze; when with more velocity, we call it a fresh breeze, and when with violence, we call it a gale, storm or tempest. The word gale is used by the poets for a moderate breeze, but seamen use it as equivalent to storm. Winds are denominated from the point of compass from which they blow; as a north wind; an east wind; a south wind; a west wind; a southwest wind etc.

2. The four winds, the cardinal points of the heavens.

Come from the four winds, O breath, and breathe upon these slain. Ezekiel 37:9.

This sense of the word seems to have had its origin with the orientals, as it was the practice of the Hebrews to give to each of the four cardinal points the name of wind

3. Direction of the wind from other points of the compass than the cardinal, or any point of compass; as a compass of eight winds.

4. Breath; power of respiration.

If my wind were but long enough to say my prayers, I would repent.

5. Air in motion form any force or action; as the wind of a cannon ball; the wind of a bellows.

6. Breath modulated by the organs or by an instrument.

Their instruments were various in their kind, some for the bow, and some for breathing wind

7. Air impregnated with scent.

A pack of dog-fish had him in the wind

8. Any thing insignificant or light as wind

Think not with wind or airy threats to awe.

9. Flatulence; air generated in the stomach and bowels; as, to be troubled with wind

10. The name given to a disease of sheep, in which the intestines are distended with air, or rather affected with a violent inflammation. It occurs immediately after shearing.

Down the wind decaying; declining; in a state of decay; as, he went down the wind [Not used.]

To take or have the wind or to get wind to be divulged; to become public. The story got wind or took wind

In the winds eye, in seamens language, towards the direct point from which the wind blows.

Between wind and water, denoting that part of a ships side or bottom which is frequently brought above water by the rolling of the ship, or fluctuation of the waters surface.

To carry the wind in the manege, is when a horse tosses his nose as high as his ears.

Constant or perennial wind a wind that blows constantly from one point of the compass; as the trade wind of the tropics.

Shifting, variable or erratic winds, are such as are changeable, now blowing from one point and now from another, and then ceasing altogether.

Stated or periodical wind a wind that constantly returns at a certain time, and blows steadily from one point for a certain time. Such are the monsoons in India, and land and sea breezes.

Trade wind a wind that blows constantly from one point, such as the tropical wind in the Atlantic.

Wind-Dropsy

WIND-DROPSY, noun [wind and dropsy.] A swelling of the belly from wind in the intestines; tympauites.

Wind-Egg

WIND-EGG, noun [wind and egg.] An addle egg.

Wind-Fallen

WIND-FALLEN, adjective Blown down by the wind.

Wind-Flower

WIND-FLOWER, noun [wind and flower.] A plant, the anemone.

Wind-Furnace

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

Wind-Gage

WIND-GAGE, noun [wind and gage.] A soft tumor on the fetlock joints of a horse.

Wind-Gun

WIND-GUN, noun An air gun; a gun discharged by the force of compressed air.

Wind-Hatch

WIND-HATCH, noun [wind and hatch.] In mining, the opening or place where the ore is taken out of the earth.

Wind-Hover

WIND-HOVER, noun [wind and hover.] A species of hawk; called also the stannel, but more usually the kestrel.

Wind-Instrument

WIND-INSTRUMENT, noun An instrument of music, played by wind, chiefly by the breath; as a flute, a clarinet, etc.

Wind-Mill

WIND-MILL, noun [wind and mill.] A mill turned by the wind.

Wind-Pump

WIND-PUMP, noun [wind and pump.] A pump moved by wind, useful in draining lands.

Wind-Rode

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

Wind-Sail

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

Wind-Shock

WIND-SHOCK, noun [wind and shock.] A sort of bruise or shiver in a tree.

Wind-Tight

WIND-TIGHT, adjective [wind and tight.] So tight as to prevent the passing of wind.

Windage

WINDAGE, noun The difference between the diameter of a piece and that of a ball or shell.

Windbound

WINDBOUND, adjective [wind and bound.] Prevented from sailing by a contrary wind.]

Winder

WINDER, verb transitive To fan; to clean grain with a fan. [Local.]

Winder-Meb

WINDER-MEB, noun A bird of the genus Larus, or gull-kind.

Windfall

WINDFALL, noun [wind and fall.]

1. Fruit blown off the tree by wind.

2. An unexpected legacy.

Windged-Pea

WINDGED-PEA, noun A plant.

Windiness

WINDINESS, noun [from windey.]

1. The state of being windy or tempestuous; as the windiness of the weather or season.

2. Fullness of wind; flatulence.

3. Tendency to generate wind; as the windiness of vegetables.

4. Tumor; puffiness.

The swelling windiness of much knowledge.

Winding

WINDING, participle present tense

1. Turning; binding about; bending.

2. adjective Bending; twisting from a direct line or an even surface.

WINDING, noun

1. A turn or turning; a bend; flexure; meander; as the windings of a road or stream.

2. A call by the boastswains whistle.

Winding-Engine

WINDING-ENGINE, noun An engine employed in mining, to draw up buckets from a deep pit.

Winding-Sheet

WINDING-SHEET, noun [winding and sheet.] A sheet in which a corpse is wrapped.

Winding-Tackle

WINDING-TACKLE, noun [winding and tackle.] A tackle consisting of one fixed triple block, and one double or triple movable block.

Windlas

WINDLAS, WINDLASS, noun [wind and lace.]

Windlass

WINDLAS, WINDLASS noun [wind and lace.]

1. A machine for raising great weights, consisting of a cylinder or roller of timber, moving on its axis and turned by levers, with a rope or chain attached to the weight.

2. A handle by which any thing is turned. [Not in use.]

Windle

WINDLE, noun A spindle; a kind of reel.

Window

WINDOW, noun [ G. The vulgar pronunciation is windor, as if from the Welsh gwyntdor, wind-door.]

1. An opening in the wall of a building for the admission of light, and of air when necessary. This opening has a frame on the sides, in which are set movable sashes, containing panes of glass. In the United Sates, the sashes are made to rise and fall, for the admission or exclusion of air. In France, windows are shut with frames or sashes that open and shut vertically, like the leaves of a folding door.

2. An aperture or opening.

A window shalt thou make to the ark. Genesis 6:16.

3. The frame or other thing that covers the aperture.

Ere I let fall the windows of mine eyes.

4. An aperture; or rather the clouds or water-spouts.

The windows of heaven were opened. Genesis 7:11.

5. Lattice or casement; or the network of wire used before the invention of glass. Judges 5:28.

6. Lines crossing each other.

Till he has windows on his bread and butter.

WINDOW, verb transitive

1. To furnish with windows.

2. To place at a window [Unusual.]

3. To break into openings. [Unusual.]

Window-Blind

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

Window-Frame

WINDOW-FRAME, noun [window and frame.] The frame of a window which receives and holds the sashes.

Window-Glass

WINDOW-GLASS, noun [window and glass.] Panes of glass for windows.

Window-Sash

WINDOW-SASH, noun [window and sash.] The sash or light frame in which panes of glass are set for windows.

Windowy

WINDOWY, adjective Having little crossings like the sashes of a window.

Windpipe

WINDPIPE, noun [wind and pipe.] The passage for the breath to and from the lungs; the trachea.

Windrow

WINDROW, noun [wind and row.]

1. A row or line of hay, raked together for the purpose of being rolled into cocks or heaps. [This is the only use of the word in New England.]

2. The green border of a field, dug up in order to carry the earth on other land to mend it.

3. A row of peats set up for drying; or a row of pieces of turf, sod or sward, cut in paring and burning.

Windseed

WINDSEED, noun A plant of the genus Arctolis.

Windward

WINDWARD, noun [wind and ward.] The point from which the wind blows; as, to ply to the windward

WINDWARD, adjective [wind and ward.] Being on the side towards the point from which the wind blows; as the windward shrouds.

WINDWARD, adverb Towards the wind.

Windy

WINDY, adjective

1. Consisting of wind; as a windy tempest.

2. Next the wind; as the windy side.

3. Tempestuous; boisterous; as windy weather.

4. Puffy; flatulent; abounding with wind.

5. Empty; airy; as windy joy.

WIND, verb transitive preterit tense and participle passive wound. [G.]

1. To blow; to sound by blowing or inflation.

Wind the shrill horn.

2. To turn; to move, or cause to turn.

To turn and wind a fiery Pegasus.

3. To turn round some fixed object; to bind, or to form into a ball or coil by turning; as, to wind thread on a spool; to wind thread into a ball; to wind a rope into a coil.

4. To introduce by insinuation. The child winds himself into my affections.

They have little arts and dexterities to wind in such things into discourse.

5. To change; to vary.

Were our legislature vested in the prince, he might wind and turn our constitution at his pleasure.

6. To entwist; to enfold; to encircle.

7. [With I short, as in win.] To nose; to perceive or to follow by the scent; as, hounds wind an animal.

8. To ventilate; to expose to the wind; to winnow.

To wind off, [with I long.] To unwind.

To wind out, to extricate.

To wind up,

1. To bring to a small compass, as a ball of thread.

2. To bring to a conclusion or settlement; as, to wind up ones affairs.

3. To put in a state of renovated or continued motion.

Fate seemd to wind him up for fourscore years.

To wind up a clock, is to wind the cord by which the weights are suspended, round an axis or pin.

To wind up a watch, is to wind the spring round its axis or pin.

4. To raise by degrees.

Thus they wound up his temper to a pitch--

5. To straiten, as a string; to put in tune.

6. To put in order for regular action.

WIND, verb intransitive

1. To turn; to change.

So swift your judgments turn and wind.

2. To turn around something; as, vines wind around a pole.

3. To have a circular direction; as winding stairs.

4. To crook; to bend. The road winds in various places.

5. To move round; as, a hare pursued turns and winds.

To wind out, to be extricated; to escape.

Long labring underneath, ere they could wind out of such prison.

WINDER, noun One who winds.