(a.) Become wild.

(adv.) In a wild manner; without cultivation; with disorder; rudely; distractedly; extravagantly.

(v. i.) To ramble here and there without any certain course or with no definite object in view; to range about; to stroll; to rove; as, to wander over the fields.

(v. i.) To go away; to depart; to stray off; to deviate; to go astray; as, a writer wanders from his subject.

(v. i.) To be delirious; not to be under the guidance of reason; to rave; as, the mind wanders.

(v. t.) To travel over without a certain course; to traverse; to stroll through.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Wane

(n.) A boat for conveying provisions, tools, etc.; -- so called by Maine lumbermen.

(n.) A pillow for the cheek; a pillow.

(n.) The act or process of waning, or decreasing.

(n.) A word of uncertain signification, used only in the phrase with a wanion, apparently equivalent to with a vengeance, with a plague, or with misfortune.

(a.) Not to be depended on; weak; unstable.

(a.) Made wan, or pale.

(imp. & p. p.) of Want

(v. t.) Untrained; undisciplined; unrestrained; hence, loose; free; luxuriant; roving; sportive.

(v. t.) Wandering from moral rectitude; perverse; dissolute.

(v. t.) Specifically: Deviating from the rules of chastity; lewd; lustful; lascivious; libidinous; lecherous.

(v. t.) Reckless; heedless; as, wanton mischief.

(n.) A roving, frolicsome thing; a trifler; -- used rarely as a term of endearment.

(n.) One brought up without restraint; a pampered pet.

(n.) A lewd person; a lascivious man or woman.

(v. i.) To rove and ramble without restraint, rule, or limit; to revel; to play loosely; to frolic.

(v. i.) To sport in lewdness; to play the wanton; to play lasciviously.

(v. t.) To cause to become wanton; also, to waste in wantonness.

(n.) The American elk (Cervus Canadensis). It is closely related to the European red deer, which it somewhat exceeds in size.

(v. t. & i.) To cause to shake; to tremble; to move tremulously, as from weakness; to totter.

(n.) A gudgeon.

(n.) A small yelping cur.

(imp. & p. p.) of War

(n.) A small, hard tumor which is produced on the back of a horse by the heat or pressure of the saddle in traveling.

(n.) A small tumor produced by the larvae of the gadfly in the backs of horses, cattle, etc. Called also warblet, warbeetle, warnles.

(n.) See Wormil.

(v. t.) To sing in a trilling, quavering, or vibratory manner; to modulate with turns or variations; to trill; as, certain birds are remarkable for warbling their songs.

(v. t.) To utter musically; to modulate; to carol.

(v. t.) To cause to quaver or vibrate.

(v. i.) To be quavered or modulated; to be uttered melodiously.

(v. i.) To sing in a trilling manner, or with many turns and variations.

(v. i.) To sing with sudden changes from chest to head tones; to yodel.

(n.) A quavering modulation of the voice; a musical trill; a song.

(imp. & p. p.) of Ward

(adv.) Cautiously; warily.

(adv.) In a wary manner.

(n.) A South American monkey, one of the sapajous.

(v. t.) To protect from the effects of; hence, to cure; to heal.

(v. i.) To be cured; to recover.

(imp. & p. p.) of Warm

(n.) One who, or that which, warms.

(adv.) In a warm manner; ardently.

(n.) The quality or state of being warm; gentle heat; as, the warmth of the sun; the warmth of the blood; vital warmth.

(n.) A state of lively and excited interest; zeal; ardor; fervor; passion; enthusiasm; earnestness; as, the warmth of love or piety; he replied with much warmth.

(n.) The glowing effect which arises from the use of warm colors; hence, any similar appearance or effect in a painting, or work of color.

(imp. & p. p.) of Warn

(imp. & p. p.) of Warp

(n.) One who, or that which, warps or twists out of shape.

(n.) One who, or that which, forms yarn or thread into warps or webs for the loom.

(v. t.) To make war upon. [Obs.] Fairfax.

(a.) Having little knobs on the surface; verrucose; as, a warted capsule.

(imp. & p. p.) of Wash

(a.) Appearing as if overlaid with a thin layer of different color; -- said of the colors of certain birds and insects.

() p. p. of Wash.

(n.) One who, or that which, washes.

(n.) A ring of metal, leather, or other material, or a perforated plate, used for various purposes, as around a bolt or screw to form a seat for the head or nut, or around a wagon axle to prevent endwise motion of the hub of the wheel and relieve friction, or in a joint to form a packing, etc.

(n.) A fitting, usually having a plug, applied to a cistern, tub, sink, or the like, and forming the outlet opening.

(n.) The common raccoon.

(n.) Same as Washerwoman, 2.

(imp. & p. p.) of Waste

(n.) A kind of white and fine bread or cake; -- called also wastel bread, and wastel cake.

(v. t.) One who, or that which, wastes; one who squanders; one who consumes or expends extravagantly; a spendthrift; a prodigal.

(v. t.) An imperfection in the wick of a candle, causing it to waste; -- called also a thief.

(v. t.) A kind of cudgel; also, a blunt-edged sword used as a foil.

(a.) Of or pertaining to water; consisting of water.

(a.) Abounding with water; wet; hence, tearful.

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

(a.) Hence, abounding in thin, tasteless, or insipid fluid; tasteless; insipid; vapid; spiritless.

(n.) A twig or flexible rod; hence, a hurdle made of such rods.

(n.) A rod laid on a roof to support the thatch.

(n.) A naked fleshy, and usually wrinkled and highly colored, process of the skin hanging from the chin or throat of a bird or reptile.

(n.) Barbel of a fish.

(n.) The astringent bark of several Australian trees of the genus Acacia, used in tanning; -- called also wattle bark.

(n.) The trees from which the bark is obtained. See Savanna wattle, under Savanna.

(v. t.) To bind with twigs.

(v. t.) To twist or interweave, one with another, as twigs; to form a network with; to plat; as, to wattle branches.

(v. t.) To form, by interweaving or platting twigs.

(n.) Alt. of Waught

(n.) A large draught of any liquid.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Wave

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Wax

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Wax

(v. t.) To lie in wait for; to meet or encounter in the way; especially, to watch for the passing of, with a view to seize, rob, or slay; to beset in ambush.

(v. t.) To make weak; to lessen the strength of; to deprive of strength; to debilitate; to enfeeble; to enervate; as, to weaken the body or the mind; to weaken the hands of a magistrate; to weaken the force of an objection or an argument.

(v. t.) To reduce in quality, strength, or spirit; as, to weaken tea; to weaken any solution or decoction.

(n.) The young of the great black-backed gull (Larus marinus), formerly considered a distinct species.

(n.) The pied wagtail.

(v. i.) To reel, sway, or move from side to side; to move with a wagging motion; to waddle.

(v. t.) To move frequently one way and the other; to wag; as, a bird waggles his tail.

(imp. & p. p.) of Wail

(n.) One who wails or laments.

(a.) Becoming or life; of or pertaining to a wife.

(imp. & p. p.) of Wig

(n.) A widgeon.

(a.) Having the head covered with a wig; wearing a wig.

(v. t.) To move to and fro with a quick, jerking motion; to bend rapidly, or with a wavering motion, from side to side; to wag; to squirm; to wriggle; as, the dog wiggles his tail; the tadpole wiggles in the water.

(imp. & p. p.) of Wait

(n.) Act of wiggling; a wriggle.

(v. i.) To neigh; to whinny.

(v. t.) To signal by means of a flag waved from side to side according to a code adopted for the purpose.

(n.) An Indian cabin or hut, usually of a conical form, and made of a framework of poles covered with hides, bark, or mats; -- called also tepee.

(imp. & p. p.) of Waive

(n.) The act of waiving, or not insisting on, some right, claim, or privilege.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Wake

(n.) The act of waking, or the state or period of being awake.

(n.) A watch; a watching.

(n.) Same as Wale, n., 4.

(imp. & p. p.) of Walk

(imp. & p. p.) of Wall

(n.) A black variety of the jaguar; -- called also tapir tiger.

(n.) A bag or sack for carrying about the person, as a bag for carrying the necessaries for a journey; a knapsack; a beggar's receptacle for charity; a peddler's pack.

(n.) A pocketbook for keeping money about the person.

(n.) Anything protuberant and swagging.

(v. i.) To move quickly, but with great effort; to gallop.

(n.) A quick, rolling movement; a gallop.

(v. i.) To boil with a continued bubbling or heaving and rolling, with noise.

(v. i.) To move in a rolling, cumbersome manner; to waddle.

(v. i.) To be slatternly.

(v. t.) To beat soundly; to flog; to whip.

(v. t.) To wrap up temporarily.

(v. t.) To throw or tumble over.

(n.) A thick piece of fat.

(n.) A blow.

(n.) To roll one's self about, as in mire; to tumble and roll about; to move lazily or heavily in any medium; to flounder; as, swine wallow in the mire.

(n.) To live in filth or gross vice; to disport one's self in a beastly and unworthy manner.

(n.) To wither; to fade.

(v. t.) To roll; esp., to roll in anything defiling or unclean.

(n.) A kind of rolling walk.

(n.) The fruit or nut of any tree of the genus Juglans; also, the tree, and its timber. The seven or eight known species are all natives of the north temperate zone.

(n.) A very large marine mammal (Trichecus rosmarus) of the Seal family, native of the Arctic Ocean. The male has long and powerful tusks descending from the upper jaw. It uses these in procuring food and in fighting. It is hunted for its oil, ivory, and skin. It feeds largely on mollusks. Called also morse.

(v. i.) To heave; to be disturbed by nausea; -- said of the stomach.

(v. i.) To move irregularly to and fro; to roll.

(n.) Disturbance of the stomach; a feeling of nausea.

(n.) A tree (Cookia punctata) of the Orange family, growing in China and the East Indies; also, its fruit, which is about the size of a large grape, and has a hard rind and a peculiar flavor.

(n.) The pickerel weed.

(v. i.) To become weak or weaker; to lose strength, spirit, or determination; to become less positive or resolute; as, the patient weakened; the witness weakened on cross-examination.

(adv.) In a weak manner; with little strength or vigor; feebly.

(superl.) Not strong of constitution; infirm; feeble; as, a weakly woman; a man of a weakly constitution.

(n.) Weal; welfare; prosperity; good.

(n.) Large possessions; a comparative abundance of things which are objects of human desire; esp., abundance of worldly estate; affluence; opulence; riches.

(imp. & p. p.) of Wean

(n.) A weanling.

(n.) An instrument of offensive of defensive combat; something to fight with; anything used, or designed to be used, in destroying, defeating, or injuring an enemy, as a gun, a sword, etc.

(n.) Fig.: The means or instrument with which one contends against another; as, argument was his only weapon.

(n.) A thorn, prickle, or sting with which many plants are furnished.

(imp. & p. p.) of Wear

(n.) One who wears or carries as appendant to the body; as, the wearer of a cloak, a sword, a crown, a shackle, etc.

(n.) That which wastes or diminishes.

(n.) Any one of various species of small carnivores belonging to the genus Putorius, as the ermine and ferret. They have a slender, elongated body, and are noted for the quickness of their movements and for their bloodthirsty habit in destroying poultry, rats, etc. The ermine and some other species are brown in summer, and turn white in winter; others are brown at all seasons.

(n.) The American merganser; -- called also weaser sheldrake.

(imp. & p. p.) of Weave

(a.) Thin; sharp; withered; wizened; as, a weazen face.

(imp. & p. p.) of Web

(a.) Provided with a web.

(a.) Having the toes united by a membrane, or web; as, the webbed feet of aquatic fowls.

(n.) See Web, n., 8.

(imp.) of Wed

(p. p.) of Wed

(a.) Joined in wedlock; married.

(a.) Of or pertaining to wedlock, or marriage.

(n.) See Wether.

(imp. & p. p.) of Wedge

(imp. & p. p.) of Weed

(n.) One who, or that which, weeds, or frees from anything noxious.

(a.) Of or pertaining to a week, or week days; as, weekly labor.

(a.) Coming, happening, or done once a week; hebdomadary; as, a weekly payment; a weekly gazette.

(n.) A publication issued once in seven days, or appearing once a week.

(adv.) Once a week; by hebdomadal periods; as, each performs service weekly.

(n.) One who weeps; esp., one who sheds tears.

(n.) A white band or border worn on the sleeve as a badge of mourning.

(n.) The capuchin. See Capuchin, 3 (a).

(n.) Any one of several species of edible marine fishes belonging to the genus Trachinus, of the family Trachinidae. They have a broad spinose head, with the eyes looking upward. The long dorsal fin is supported by numerous strong, sharp spines which cause painful wounds.

(n.) Any one of numerous species of snout beetles, or Rhynchophora, in which the head is elongated and usually curved downward. Many of the species are very injurious to cultivated plants. The larvae of some of the species live in nuts, fruit, and grain by eating out the interior, as the plum weevil, or curculio, the nut weevils, and the grain weevil (see under Plum, Nut, and Grain). The larvae of other species bore under the bark and into the pith of trees and various other plants, as the pine weevils (see under Pine). See also Pea weevil, Rice weevil, Seed weevil, under Pea, Rice, and Seed.

(n.) The meadow pipit.

(imp. & p. p.) of Weld

(n.) One who welds, or unites pieces of iron, etc., by welding.

(n.) One who welds, or wields.

(n.) A manager; an actual occupant.

(n.) The visible regions of the air; the vault of heaven; the sky.

(imp. & p. p.) of Well

(n.) The king parrakeet See under King.

(imp. & p. p.) of Welt

(v. i.) To roll, as the body of an animal; to tumble about, especially in anything foul or defiling; to wallow.

(v. i.) To rise and fall, as waves; to tumble over, as billows.

(v. i.) To wither; to wilt.

(a.) Of, pertaining to, or designating, the most heavily weighted race in a meeting; as, a welter race; the welter stakes.

(n.) That in which any person or thing welters, or wallows; filth; mire; slough.

(n.) A rising or falling, as of waves; as, the welter of the billows; the welter of a tempest.

(imp. & p. p.) of Wend

() of Wet

(n.) A castrated ram.

(imp. & p. p.) of Whala

(n.) A vessel or person employed in the whale fishery.

(n.) One who whales, or beats; a big, strong fellow; hence, anything of great or unusual size.

(a.) Having the iris of light color; -- said of horses.

(n.) Alt. of Wilfulness

(imp. & p. p.) of Will

(n.) One who wills.

(n.) An instrument for boring holes, turned by a handle.

(n.) A gimlet.

(n.) A stonecutter's brace for boring holes in stone.

(n.) An auger used for boring in earth.

(v. t.) To bore or pierce, as with a wimble.

(a.) Active; nimble.

(n.) A covering of silk, linen, or other material, for the neck and chin, formerly worn by women as an outdoor protection, and still retained in the dress of nuns.

(n.) A flag or streamer.

(v. t.) To clothe with a wimple; to cover, as with a veil; hence, to hoodwink.

(v. t.) To draw down, as a veil; to lay in folds or plaits, as a veil.

(v. t.) To cause to appear as if laid in folds or plaits; to cause to ripple or undulate; as, the wind wimples the surface of water.

(v. i.) To lie in folds; also, to appear as if laid in folds or plaits; to ripple; to undulate.

(imp. & p. p.) of Wince

(n.) Linsey-woolsey.

() of Wind

(imp. & p. p.) of Wind

() of Wind

(n.) See 3d Windlass.

(n.) A spindle; a kind of reel; a winch.

(n.) The redwing.

(n.) An opening in the wall of a building for the admission of light and air, usually closed by casements or sashes containing some transparent material, as glass, and capable of being opened and shut at pleasure.

(n.) The shutter, casement, sash with its fittings, or other framework, which closes a window opening.

(n.) A figure formed of lines crossing each other.

(v. t.) To furnish with windows.

(v. t.) To place at or in a window.

(n.) A place where grapes are converted into wine.

(imp. & p. p.) of Wing

(a.) Furnished with wings; transported by flying; having winglike expansions.

(a.) Soaring with wings, or as if with wings; hence, elevated; lofty; sublime.

(a.) Swift; rapid.

(a.) Wounded or hurt in the wing.

(a.) Furnished with a leaflike appendage, as the fruit of the elm and the ash, or the stem in certain plants; alate.

(a.) Represented with wings, or having wings, of a different tincture from the body.

(a.) Fanned with wings; swarming with birds.

(imp. & p. p.) of Wink

(n.) One who winks.

(n.) A horse's blinder; a blinker.

(n.) Any periwinkle.

(n.) Any one of various marine spiral gastropods, esp., in the United States, either of two species of Fulgar (F. canaliculata, and F. carica).

(v. i.) To separate chaff from grain.

(n.) A windrow.

(a.) Suitable to winter; resembling winter, or what belongs to winter; brumal; hyemal; cold; stormy; wintery.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Wipe

(v. i.) To whirl; to eddy.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Wire

(a.) The quality of being wise; knowledge, and the capacity to make due use of it; knowledge of the best ends and the best means; discernment and judgment; discretion; sagacity; skill; dexterity.

(a.) The results of wise judgments; scientific or practical truth; acquired knowledge; erudition.

(adv.) In a wise manner; prudently; judiciously; discreetly; with wisdom.

(imp. & p. p.) of Wish

(n.) One who wishes or desires; one who expresses a wish.

(adv.) According to desire; longingly; with wishes.

(n.) A whisket, or basket.

(imp. & p. p.) of Wisp

(n.) A small South American monkey; a marmoset.

(adv.) Attentively; observingly.

(a.) Wise; sensible.

(adv.) With this; with that.

(adv.) Together with this; likewise; at the same time; in addition; also.

(prep.) With; -- put after its object, at the end of sentence or clause in which it stands.

(imp. & p. p.) of Withe

(prep.) In the inner or interior part of; inside of; not without; as, within doors.

(prep.) In the limits or compass of; not further in length than; as, within five miles; not longer in time than; as, within an hour; not exceeding in quantity; as, expenses kept within one's income.

(prep.) Hence, inside the limits, reach, or influence of; not going outside of; not beyond, overstepping, exceeding, or the like.

(adv.) In the inner part; inwardly; internally.

(adv.) In the house; in doors; as, the master is within.

(v.) Knowledge.

(a.) Having (such) a wit or understanding; as, a quick-witted boy.

(n.) The wheatear.

(n.) A man who knows his wife's infidelity and submits to it; a tame cuckold; -- so called because the cuckoo lays its eggs in the wittol's nest.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Wive

(n.) A fabulous two-legged, winged creature, like a cockatrice, but having the head of a dragon, and without spurs.

(n.) The weever.

(n.) A wise man; a sage.

(n.) One devoted to the black art; a magician; a conjurer; a sorcerer; an enchanter.

(a.) Enchanting; charming.

(a.) Haunted by wizards.

(a.) Colored or stained with woad.

(v. i.) See Wabble.

(a.) Alt. of Woful

(pl. ) of Wolf

(n.) pl. of Wolf.

(pl. ) of Wharf

(indef. pron.) Whatsoever; whosoever; whatever; anything that.

(a.) Circular; suitable to rotation.

(v. i.) To breathe hard, and with an audible piping or whistling sound, as persons affected with asthma.

(n.) A piping or whistling sound caused by difficult respiration.

(n.) An ordinary whisper exaggerated so as to produce the hoarse sound known as the "stage whisper." It is a forcible whisper with some admixture of tone.

(a.) Breathing with difficulty and with a wheeze; wheezing. Used also figuratively.

(a.) Having whelks, ridges, or protuberances; hence, streaked; striated.

(a.) Shelly.

(conj.) Whereas; while

(adv.) From what place; hence, from what or which source, origin, antecedent, premise, or the like; how; -- used interrogatively.

(adv.) From what or which place, source, material, cause, etc.; the place, source, etc., from which; -- used relatively.

(n.) A passenger barge or lighter plying on rivers; also, a kind of light, half-decked vessel used in fishing.

(n.) A long, narrow, light boat, sharp at both ends, for fast rowing or sailing; esp., a racing boat rowed by one person with sculls.

(n.) A liquor made from the pulp of crab apples after the verjuice is expressed; -- sometimes called crab wherry.

(n.) The European widgeon.

(a.) Of the nature of, or containing, whey; resembling whey; wheyish.

(imp. & p. p.) of While

(n.) Meanwhile; meantime.

(n.) sometimes; at times.

(conj.) During the time that; while.

(n.) Formerly; once; of old; erewhile; at times.

(adv.) While.

(a.) Full of whims; whimsical.

(n.) A whim; a freak; a capricious notion, a fanciful or odd conceit.

(n.) A whim.

(n.) A whimsey.

(imp. & p. p.) of Whine

(n.) One who, or that which, whines.

(v. i.) To whine.

(v. i.) To utter the ordinary call or cry of a horse; to neigh.

(n.) The ordinary cry or call of a horse; a neigh.

(a.) Abounding in whin, gorse, or furze.

(v. i.) To whir.

(n.) A light carriage built for rapid motion; -- called also tim-whiskey.

(n.) Alt. of Whiskey

(imp. & p. p.) of White

(v. i.) To grow white; to turn or become white or whiter; as, the hair whitens with age; the sea whitens with foam; the trees in spring whiten with blossoms.

(v. t.) To make white; to bleach; to blanch; to whitewash; as, to whiten a wall; to whiten cloth.

(n. pl.) Leucorrh/a.

(n. pl.) The finest flour made from white wheat.

(n. pl.) Cloth or garments of a plain white color.

(adv.) In a whole or complete manner; entirely; completely; perfectly.

(adv.) To the exclusion of other things; totally; fully.

(imp. & p. p.) of Whore

(a.) Having a wick; -- used chiefly in composition; as, a two-wicked lamp.

(a.) Evil in principle or practice; deviating from morality; contrary to the moral or divine law; addicted to vice or sin; sinful; immoral; profligate; -- said of persons and things; as, a wicked king; a wicked woman; a wicked deed; wicked designs.

(a.) Cursed; baneful; hurtful; bad; pernicious; dangerous.

(a.) Ludicrously or sportively mischievous; disposed to mischief; roguish.

(n.) A small pliant twig or osier; a rod for making basketwork and the like; a withe.

(n.) Wickerwork; a piece of wickerwork, esp. a basket.

(n.) Same as 1st Wike.

(a.) Made of, or covered with, twigs or osiers, or wickerwork.

(n.) A small gate or door, especially one forming part of, or placed near, a larger door or gate; a narrow opening or entrance cut in or beside a door or gate, or the door which is used to close such entrance or aperture. Piers Plowman.

(n.) A small gate by which the chamber of canal locks is emptied, or by which the amount of water passing to a water wheel is regulated.

(n.) A small framework at which the ball is bowled. It consists of three rods, or stumps, set vertically in the ground, with one or two short rods, called bails, lying horizontally across the top.

(n.) The ground on which the wickets are set.

(n.) A place of shelter made of the boughs of trees, -- used by lumbermen, etc.

(n.) The space between the pillars, in postand-stall working.

(n.) See Leatherwood.

(adv.) In a wide manner; to a wide degree or extent; far; extensively; as, the gospel was widely disseminated by the apostles.

(adv.) Very much; to a great degree or extent; as, to differ widely in opinion.

(a.) Moderately wide.

(a.) Capable of being wielded; manageable; wieldable; -- opposed to unwieldy.

(v. i.) To move staggeringly or unsteadily from one side to the other; to vacillate; to move the manner of a rotating disk when the axis of rotation is inclined to that of the disk; -- said of a turning or whirling body; as, a top wabbles; a buzz saw wabbles.

(n.) A hobbling, unequal motion, as of a wheel unevenly hung; a staggering to and fro.

(a.) Inclined to wabble; wabbling.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Wade

() a. & n. from Wade, v.

(n.) A coarse, hairy, woolen cloth, formerly used for garments by the poor, and for various other purposes.

(n.) A kind of pledge or mortgage.

(pl. ) of Wady

(n.) A thin cake baked and then rolled; a wafer.

(n.) A soft indented cake cooked in a waffle iron.

(imp. & p. p.) of Waft

(n.) One who, or that which, wafts.

(n.) A boat for passage.

(imp. & p. p.) of Wag

(n.) A small East Indian wild cat (Felis wagati), regarded by some as a variety of the leopard cat.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Wage

(n.) Any one of three species of Australian burrowing marsupials of the genus Phascolomys, especially the common species (P. ursinus). They are nocturnal in their habits, and feed mostly on roots.

(n.) Dwelling.

() of Wont

(a.) Accustomed; customary; usual.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Woo

(imp. & p. p.) of Wood

(a.) Supplied or covered with wood, or trees; as, land wooded and watered.

(adv.) In a wood, mad, or raving manner; madly; furiously.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the woods or forest.

(n.) The sailfish.

(a.) Having (such) wool; as, a fine-wooled sheep.

(a.) Made of wool; consisting of wool; as, woolen goods.

(a.) Of or pertaining to wool or woolen cloths; as, woolen manufactures; a woolen mill; a woolen draper.

(n.) Cloth made of wool; woollen goods.

(a.) Consisting of wool; as, a woolly covering; a woolly fleece.

(a.) Resembling wool; of the nature of wool.

(a.) Clothed with wool.

(a.) Clothed with a fine, curly pubescence resembling wool.

(n.) See Wormil.

(imp. & p. p.) of Word

(n.) A speaker.

(n.) One of several pivoted pieces forming the throat of an adjustable die used in drawing wire, lead pipe, etc.

(imp. & p. p.) of Work

(n.) One who, or that which, works; a laborer; a performer; as, a worker in brass.

(n.) One of the neuter, or sterile, individuals of the social ants, bees, and white ants. The workers are generally females having the sexual organs imperfectly developed. See Ant, and White ant, under White.

(imp. & p. p.) of Worm

(a.) Penetrated by worms; injured by worms; worm-eaten; as, wormed timber.

(n.) Any botfly larva which burrows in or beneath the skin of domestic and wild animals, thus producing sores. They belong to various species of Hypoderma and allied genera. Domestic cattle are often infested by a large species. See Gadfly. Called also warble, and worble.

(n.) See 1st Warble, 1 (b).

(n.) See Wormil.

(n.) Alt. of Worrel

(n.) An Egyptian fork-tongued lizard, about four feet long when full grown.

(v. t.) To worry; to annoy.

(n.) Worry; anxiety.

(v. t.) To make worse; to deteriorate; to impair.

(v. t.) To get the better of; to worst.

(v. i.) To grow or become worse.

(a.) Worse.

(n.) Having worth or excellence; possessing merit; valuable; deserving; estimable; excellent; virtuous.

(n.) Having suitable, adapted, or equivalent qualities or value; -- usually with of before the thing compared or the object; more rarely, with a following infinitive instead of of, or with that; as, worthy of, equal in excellence, value, or dignity to; entitled to; meriting; -- usually in a good sense, but sometimes in a bad one.

(n.) Of high station; of high social position.

(n.) A man of eminent worth or value; one distinguished for useful and estimable qualities; a person of conspicuous desert; -- much used in the plural; as, the worthies of the church; political worthies; military worthies.

(v. t.) To render worthy; to exalt into a hero.

(a.) Excessive.

(adv.) Excessively; extremely.

(n.) An apparition of a person in his exact likeness, seen before death, or a little after; hence, an apparition; a specter; a vision; an unreal image.

(n.) Sometimes, improperly, a spirit thought to preside over the waters; -- called also water wraith.

(n.) The common wren.

(n.) Any one of numerous edible, marine, spiny-finned fishes of the genus Labrus, of which several species are found in the Mediterranean and on the Atlantic coast of Europe. Many of the species are bright-colored.

(a.) Very angry.

(n.) Something twisted, intertwined, or curled; as, a wreath of smoke; a wreath of flowers.

(n.) A garland; a chaplet, esp. one given to a victor.

(n.) An appendage to the shield, placed above it, and supporting the crest (see Illust. of Crest). It generally represents a twist of two cords of silk, one tinctured like the principal metal, the other like the principal color in the arms.

(v. t.) A miserable person; one profoundly unhappy.

(v. t.) One sunk in vice or degradation; a base, despicable person; a vile knave; as, a profligate wretch.

(n.) One who writes, or has written; a scribe; a clerk.

(n.) One who is engaged in literary composition as a profession; an author; as, a writer of novels.

(n.) A clerk of a certain rank in the service of the late East India Company, who, after serving a certain number of years, became a factor.

(v. t.) To twist; to turn; now, usually, to twist or turn so as to distort; to wring.

(v. t.) To wrest; to distort; to pervert.

(v. t.) To extort; to wring; to wrest.

(v. i.) To twist or contort the body; to be distorted; as, to writhe with agony. Also used figuratively.

() p. p. of Wreak.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Wry

(n.) See Wormil.

(n.) Same as Wiver. X () X, the twenty-fourth letter of the English alphabet, has three sounds; a compound nonvocal sound (that of ks), as in wax; a compound vocal sound (that of gz), as in example; and, at the beginning of a word, a simple vocal sound (that of z), as in xanthic. See Guide to Pronunciation, // 217, 270, 271.