(imp.) of Be

(v.) The first and third persons singular of the verb be, in the indicative mood, preterit (imperfect) tense; as, I was; he was.

(v. i.) To increase in size; to grow bigger; to become larger or fuller; -- opposed to wane.

(v. i.) To pass from one state to another; to become; to grow; as, to wax strong; to wax warmer or colder; to wax feeble; to wax old; to wax worse and worse.

(n.) A fatty, solid substance, produced by bees, and employed by them in the construction of their comb; -- usually called beeswax. It is first excreted, from a row of pouches along their sides, in the form of scales, which, being masticated and mixed with saliva, become whitened and tenacious. Its natural color is pale or dull yellow.

(n.) Hence, any substance resembling beeswax in consistency or appearance.

(n.) Cerumen, or earwax.

(n.) A waxlike composition used for uniting surfaces, for excluding air, and for other purposes; as, sealing wax, grafting wax, etching wax, etc.

(n.) A waxlike composition used by shoemakers for rubbing their thread.

(n.) A substance similar to beeswax, secreted by several species of scale insects, as the Chinese wax. See Wax insect, below.

(n.) A waxlike product secreted by certain plants. See Vegetable wax, under Vegetable.

(n.) A substance, somewhat resembling wax, found in connection with certain deposits of rock salt and coal; -- called also mineral wax, and ozocerite.

(n.) Thick sirup made by boiling down the sap of the sugar maple, and then cooling.

(v. t.) To smear or rub with wax; to treat with wax; as, to wax a thread or a table.

(adv.) Away.

(n.) That by, upon, or along, which one passes or processes; opportunity or room to pass; place of passing; passage; road, street, track, or path of any kind; as, they built a way to the mine.

(n.) Length of space; distance; interval; as, a great way; a long way.

(n.) A moving; passage; procession; journey.

(n.) Course or direction of motion or process; tendency of action; advance.

(n.) The means by which anything is reached, or anything is accomplished; scheme; device; plan.

(n.) Manner; method; mode; fashion; style; as, the way of expressing one's ideas.

(n.) Regular course; habitual method of life or action; plan of conduct; mode of dealing.

(n.) Sphere or scope of observation.

(n.) Determined course; resolved mode of action or conduct; as, to have one's way.

(n.) Progress; as, a ship has way.

(n.) The timbers on which a ship is launched.

(n.) The longitudinal guides, or guiding surfaces, on the bed of a planer, lathe, or the like, along which a table or carriage moves.

(n.) Right of way. See below.

(v. t.) To go or travel to; to go in, as a way or path.

(v. i.) To move; to progress; to go.

(n.) The panda.

(n.) A little; a bit, as of space, time, or distance.

(a.) Very small; little.

(imp.) of Weet

(n.) The abdomen; the uterus; the womb.

(n.) Spot; blemish; harm; hurt.

(v. t.) To stain; to blemish; to harm; to corrupt.

(n.) An indolent, encysted tumor of the skin; especially, a sebaceous cyst.

(superl.) Containing, or consisting of, water or other liquid; moist; soaked with a liquid; having water or other liquid upon the surface; as, wet land; a wet cloth; a wet table.

(superl.) Very damp; rainy; as, wet weather; a wet season.

(superl.) Employing, or done by means of, water or some other liquid; as, the wet extraction of copper, in distinction from dry extraction in which dry heat or fusion is employed.

(superl.) Refreshed with liquor; drunk.

(a.) Water or wetness; moisture or humidity in considerable degree.

(a.) Rainy weather; foggy or misty weather.

(a.) A dram; a drink.

(imp. & p. p.) of Wet

(v. t.) To fill or moisten with water or other liquid; to sprinkle; to cause to have water or other fluid adherent to the surface; to dip or soak in a liquid; as, to wet a sponge; to wet the hands; to wet cloth.

(pres. sing.) of Wit

(n.) Grief; sorrow; misery; heavy calamity.

(n.) A curse; a malediction.

(a.) Woeful; sorrowful.

(adv.) For what cause, reason, or purpose; on what account; wherefore; -- used interrogatively. See the Note under What, pron., 1.

(adv.) For which; on account of which; -- used relatively.

(adv.) The reason or cause for which; that on account of which; on what account; as, I know not why he left town so suddenly; -- used as a compound relative.

(n.) A young heifer.

(n.) Woad.

(n.) A little mass, tuft, or bundle, as of hay or tow.

(n.) Specifically: A little mass of some soft or flexible material, such as hay, straw, tow, paper, or old rope yarn, used for retaining a charge of powder in a gun, or for keeping the powder and shot close; also, to diminish or avoid the effects of windage. Also, by extension, a dusk of felt, pasteboard, etc., serving a similar purpose.

(n.) A soft mass, especially of some loose, fibrous substance, used for various purposes, as for stopping an aperture, padding a garment, etc.

(v. t.) To form into a mass, or wad, or into wadding; as, to wad tow or cotton.

(v. t.) To insert or crowd a wad into; as, to wad a gun; also, to stuff or line with some soft substance, or wadding, like cotton; as, to wad a cloak.

(n.) Alt. of Wadd

(n.) A wave.

() 1st & 3d pers. sing. pres. of Wit, to know. See the Note under Wit, v.

(v. t.) To cover.

(superl.) Turned to one side; twisted; distorted; as, a wry mouth.

(superl.) Hence, deviating from the right direction; misdirected; out of place; as, wry words.

(superl.) Wrested; perverted.

(v. i.) To twist; to writhe; to bend or wind.

(v. i.) To deviate from the right way; to go away or astray; to turn side; to swerve.

(a.) To twist; to distort; to writhe; to wrest; to vex.