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W. 1913 Webster]
W(d, the twenty-third letter of the English alphabet, is usually a consonant, but sometimes it is a vowel, forming the second element of certain diphthongs, as in few, how. It takes its written form and its name from the repetition of a V, this being the original form of the Roman capital letter which we call U. Etymologically it is most related to v and u. See V, and U. Some of the uneducated classes in England, especially in London, confuse w and v, substituting the one for the other, as weal for veal, and veal for weal; wine for vine, and vine for wine, etc. See Guide to Pronunciation, 1913 Webster]
Waag(w, n.(Zo\'94l.)The grivet. 1913 Webster]
Waa*hoo"(w, n.(Bot.)The burning bush; -- said to be called after a quack medicine made from it. 1913 Webster]
Wab"ble(w, v. i.[Cf. Prov. G. wabbeln to wabble, and E. whap. Cf. Quaver.]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.
<-- now replaced by wobble., same pronunciation --> 1913 Webster]
Wab"ble, n.A hobbling, unequal motion, as of a wheel unevenly hung; a staggering to and fro. 1913 Webster]
Wab"bly(?), a.Inclined to wabble; wabbling. 1913 Webster]
{ Wack"e(?), Wack"y(?), }n.[G. wacke, MHG. wacke a large stone, OHG. waggo a pebble.](Geol.)A soft, earthy, dark-colored rock or clay derived from the alteration of basalt. 1913 Webster]
Wad(?), n.[See Woad.]Woad. [Obs.] 1913 Webster]
Wad, n.[Probably of Scand. origin; cf. Sw. vadd wadding, Dan vat, D. & G. watte. Cf. Wadmol.] 1913 Webster]
1.A little mass, tuft, or bundle, as of hay or tow.Holland. 1913 Webster]
2.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. 1913 Webster]
3.A soft mass, especially of some loose, fibrous substance, used for various purposes, as for stopping an aperture, padding a garment, etc. 1913 Webster]
Wed hook, a rod with a screw or hook at the end, used for removing the wad from a gun. 1913 Webster]
Wad, v. t.[imp. & p. p.Waded; p. pr. & vb. n.Wadding.] 1913 Webster]
1.To form into a mass, or wad, or into wadding; as, to wad tow or cotton. 1913 Webster]
2.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. 1913 Webster]
{ Wad, Wadd, }n.(Min.)(a)An earthy oxide of manganese, or mixture of different oxides and water, with some oxide of iron, and often silica, alumina, lime, or baryta; black ocher. There are several varieties.(b)Plumbago, or black lead. 1913 Webster]
Wad"die(?), n. & v.See Waddy. Webster 1913 Suppl.]
Wad"ding(?), n.[See Wad a little mass.] 1913 Webster]
1.A wad, or the materials for wads; any pliable substance of which wads may be made. 1913 Webster]
2.Any soft stuff of loose texture, used for stuffing or padding garments; esp., sheets of carded cotton prepared for the purpose. 1913 Webster]
Wad"dle(?), v. i.[imp. & p. p.Waddled(?); p. pr. & vb. n.Waddling(?).][Freq. of wade; cf. AS. w\'91dlian to beg, from wadan to go. See Wade.]To walk with short steps, swaying the body from one side to the other, like a duck or very fat person; to move clumsily and totteringly along; to toddle; to stumble; as, a child waddles when he begins to walk; a goose waddles.Shak. 1913 Webster]
She drawls her words, and waddles in her pace.Young. 1913 Webster]
Wad"dle, v. t.To trample or tread down, as high grass, by walking through it. [R.] Drayton. 1913 Webster]
Wad"dler(?), n.One who, or that which, waddles. 1913 Webster]
Wad"dling*ly, adv.In a waddling manner. 1913 Webster]
Wad"dy, n.; pl.Waddies(.[Written also waddie, whaddie.][Native name. Thought by some to be a corrup. of E. wood.] [Australia] 1.An aboriginal war club. Webster 1913 Suppl.]
2.A piece of wood; stick; peg; also, a walking stick. Webster 1913 Suppl.]
Wad"dy, v. t.[imp. & p. p.Waddied(?); p. pr. & vb. n.Waddying.]To attack or beat with a waddy. Webster 1913 Suppl.]
Wad"dy*wood`(?), n.An Australian tree (Pittosporum bicolor); also, its wood, used in making waddies. Webster 1913 Suppl.]
Wade(?), n.Woad. [Obs.] Mortimer. 1913 Webster]
Wade(?), v. i.[imp. & p. p.Waded; p. pr. & vb. n.Wading.][OE. waden to wade, to go, AS. wadan; akin to OFries. wada, D. waden, OHG. watan, Icel. va, Sw. vada, Dan. vade, L. vadere to go, walk, vadum a ford. Cf. Evade, Invade, Pervade, Waddle.] 1913 Webster]
1.To go; to move forward. [Obs.] 1913 Webster]
When might is joined unto cruelty, wade.Chaucer. 1913 Webster]
Forbear, and wade no further in this speech.Old Play. 1913 Webster]
2.To walk in a substance that yields to the feet; to move, sinking at each step, as in water, mud, sand, etc. 1913 Webster]
So eagerly the fiend . . . wades, or creeps, or flies.Milton. 1913 Webster]
3.Hence, to move with difficulty or labor; to proceed as, to wade through a dull book. 1913 Webster]
And wades through fumes, and gropes his way.Dryden. 1913 Webster]
The king's admirable conduct has waded through all these difficulties.Davenant. 1913 Webster]
Wade, v. t.To pass or cross by wading; as, he waded . 1913 Webster]
Wade(?), n.The act of wading. [Colloq.] 1913 Webster]
Wad"er(?), n.1.One who, or that which, wades. 1913 Webster]
2.(Zo\'94l.)Any long-legged bird that wades in the water in search of food, especially any species of limicoline or grallatorial birds; -- called also wading bird. See Illust.g, under Aves. 1913 Webster]
Wad"mol(?), n.[Of Scand. origin; cf. Icel. va a woollen stuff, Dan vadmel. Cf. Wad a small mass, and Woodmeil.]A coarse, hairy, woolen cloth, formerly used for garments by the poor, and for various other purposes.[Spelled also wadmal, wadmeal, wadmoll, wadmel, etc.]Beck (Draper's Dict.). Sir W. Scott. 1913 Webster]
Wad"set(?), n.[Scot. wad a pledge; akin to Sw. vad a wager. See Wed.](Scots Law)A kind of pledge or mortgage.[Written also wadsett.] 1913 Webster]
Wad"set*ter(?), n.One who holds by a wadset. 1913 Webster]
Wad"y(?), n.; pl.Wadies(#).[Ar. w\'bed\'c6 a valley, a channel of a river, a river.]A ravine through which a brook flows; the channel of a water course, which is dry except in the rainy season. 1913 Webster]
Wa"fer(?), n.[OE. wafre, OF. waufre, qaufre, F. qaufre; of Teutonic origin; cf. LG. & D. wafel, G. waffel, Dan. vaffel, Sw. v\'86ffla; all akin to G. wabe a honeycomb, OHG. waba, being named from the resemblance to a honeycomb. G. wabe is probably akin to E. weave. See Weave, and cf. Waffle, Gauffer.] 1913 Webster]
1.(Cookery)A thin cake made of flour and other ingredients. 1913 Webster]
Wafers piping hot out of the gleed.Chaucer. 1913 Webster]
The curious work in pastry, the fine cakes, wafers, and marchpanes.Holland. 1913 Webster]
A woman's oaths are wafers -- break with makingB. Jonson. 1913 Webster]
2.(Eccl.)A thin cake or piece of bread (commonly unleavened, circular, and stamped with a crucifix or with the sacred monogram) used in the Eucharist, as in the Roman Catholic Church. 1913 Webster]
3.An adhesive disk of dried paste, made of flour, gelatin, isinglass, or the like, and coloring matter, -- used in sealing letters and other documents. 1913 Webster]
<-- 4. Any thin but rigid plate of solid material, esp. of discoidal shape; -- a term used commonly to refer to the thin slices of silicon used as starting material for the manufacture of integrated circuits. --> 1913 Webster]
Wafer cake, a sweet, thin cake.Shak. --
Wafer irons, Wafer tongs(Cookery), a pincher-shaped contrivance, having flat plates, or blades, between which wafers are baked. --
Wafer woman, a woman who sold wafer cakes; also, one employed in amorous intrigues.Beau. & Fl. 1913 Webster]
Wa"fer, v. t.[imp. & p. p.Wafered(?); p. pr. & vb. n.Wafering.]To seal or close with a wafer. 1913 Webster]
Wa"fer*er(?), n.A dealer in the cakes called wafers; a confectioner. [Obs.] Chaucer. 1913 Webster]
Waffle(?), n.[D. wafel. See Wafer.]1.A thin cake baked and then rolled; a wafer. 1913 Webster]
2.A soft indented cake cooked in a waffle iron. 1913 Webster]
Waffle iron, an iron utensil or mold made in two parts shutting together, -- used for cooking waffles over a fire. 1913 Webster]
Waft(?), v. t.[imp. & p. p.Wafted; p. pr. & vb. n.Wafting.][Prob. originally imp. & p. p. of wave, v. t. See Wave to waver.]1.To give notice to by waving something; to wave the hand to; to beckon. [Obs.] 1913 Webster]
But soft: who wafts us yonder?Shak. 1913 Webster]
2.To cause to move or go in a wavy manner, or by the impulse of waves, as of water or air; to bear along on a buoyant medium; as, a balloon was wafted over the channel. 1913 Webster]
A gentle wafting to immortal life.Milton. 1913 Webster]
Speed the soft intercourse from soul to soul, waft a sigh from Indus to the pole.Pope. 1913 Webster]
3.To cause to float; to keep from sinking; to buoy. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne. 1913 Webster]
waft was formerly somwafted. 1913 Webster]
Waft, v. i.To be moved, or to pass, on a buoyant medium; to float. 1913 Webster]
And now the shouts waft near the citadel.Dryden. 1913 Webster]
Waft, n.1.A wave or current of wind. \'bdEverywaft of the air.\'b8 Longfellow. 1913 Webster]
In this dire season, oft the whirlwind's wing waft.Thomson. 1913 Webster]
2.A signal made by waving something, as a flag, in the air. 1913 Webster]
3.An unpleasant flavor. [Obs.] 1913 Webster]
4.(Naut.)A knot, or stop, in the middle of a flag.[Written also wheft.] 1913 Webster]
waft in it, when hoisted at the staff, or half way to the gaff, means, a man overboard; at the peak, a desire to communicate; at the masthead, \'bdRecall boats.\'b8 1913 Webster]
Waft"age(?), n.Conveyance on a buoyant medium, as air or water.Shak. 1913 Webster]
Boats prepared for waftage to and fro.Drayton. 1913 Webster]
Waft"er(?), n.1.One who, or that which, wafts. 1913 Webster]
O Charon, wafter of the soul to bliss or bane.Beau. & FL. 1913 Webster]
2.A boat for passage.Ainsworth. 1913 Webster]
Waf"ture(?), n.The act of waving; a wavelike motion; a waft.R. Browning. 1913 Webster]
An angry wafture of your hand.Shak. 1913 Webster]
Wag(?), v. t.[imp. & p. p.Wagged(?); p. pr. & vb. n.Wagging.][OE. waggen; probably of Scand. origin; cf. Sw. vagga to rock a cradle, vagga cradle, Icel. vagga, Dan. vugge; akin to AS. wagian to move, wag, wegan to bear, carry, G. & D. bewegen to move, and E. weigh. \'fb136. See Weigh.]To move one way and the other with quick turns; to shake to and fro; to move vibratingly; to cause to vibrate, as a part of the body; as, to wag the head. 1913 Webster]
No discerner durst wag his tongue in censure.Shak. 1913 Webster]
Every one that passeth thereby shall be astonished, and wag his head.Jer. xviii. 16. 1913 Webster]
Wag expresses specifically the motion of the head and body used in buffoonery, mirth, derision, sport, and mockery. 1913 Webster]
Wag, v. i.1.To move one way and the other; to be shaken to and fro; to vibrate. 1913 Webster]
The resty sieve wagged ne'er the more.Dryden. 1913 Webster]
2.To be in action or motion; to move; to get along; to progress; to stir. [Colloq.] 1913 Webster]
\'bdThus we may see,\'b8 quoth he, \'bdhow the world wags.\'b8Shak. 1913 Webster]
3.To go; to depart; to pack oft. [R.] 1913 Webster]
I will provoke him to 't, or let him wag.Shak. 1913 Webster]
Wag, n.[From Wag, v.] 1913 Webster]
1.The act of wagging; a shake; as, a wag of the head. [Colloq.] 1913 Webster]
2.[Perhaps shortened from wag-halter a rogue.]A man full of sport and humor; a ludicrous fellow; a humorist; a wit; a joker. 1913 Webster]
We wink at wags when they offend.Dryden. 1913 Webster]
A counselor never pleaded without a piece of pack thread in his hand, which he used to twist about a finger all the while he was speaking; the wags used to call it the thread of his discourse.Addison. 1913 Webster]
\'d8Wa*ga"ti(?), n.(Zo\'94l.)A small East Indian wild cat (Felis wagati), regarded by some as a variety of the leopard cat. 1913 Webster]
Wage(?), v. t.[imp. & p. p.Waged(?); p. pr. & vb. n.Waging(?).][OE. wagen, OF. wagier, gagier, to pledge, promise, F. gager to wager, lay, bet, fr. LL. wadium a pledge; of Teutonic origin; cf. Goth. wadi a pledge, gawadj\'d3n to pledge, akin to E. wed, G. wette a wager. See Wed, and cf. Gage.] 1913 Webster]
1.To pledge; to hazard on the event of a contest; to stake; to bet, to lay; to wager; as, to wage a dollar.Hakluyt. 1913 Webster]
My life I never but as a pawn wage against thy enemies.Shak. 1913 Webster]
2.To expose one's self to, as a risk; to incur, as a danger; to venture; to hazard. \'bdToo weak to wage an instant trial with the king.\'b8 Shak. 1913 Webster]
To wake and wage a danger profitless.Shak. 1913 Webster]
3.To engage in, as a contest, as if by previous gage or pledge; to carry on, as a war. 1913 Webster]
[He pondered] which of all his sons was fit wage immortal war with wit.Dryden. 1913 Webster]
The two are waging war, and the one triumphs by the destruction of the other.I. Taylor. 1913 Webster]
4.To adventure, or lay out, for hire or reward; to hire out. [Obs.] \'bdThou . . . must wage thy works for wealth.\'b8 Spenser. 1913 Webster]
5.To put upon wages; to hire; to employ; to pay wages to. [Obs.] 1913 Webster]
Abundance of treasure which he had in store, wherewith he might wage soldiers.Holinshed. 1913 Webster]
I would have them waged for their labor.Latimer. 1913 Webster]
6.(O. Eng. Law)To give security for the performance of.Burrill. 1913 Webster]
To wage battle(O. Eng. Law), to give gage, or security, for joining in the duellum, or combat. See Wager of battel, under Wager, n.Burrill. --
To wage one's law(Law), to give security to make one's law. See Wager of law, under Wager, n. 1913 Webster]
Wage, v. i.To bind one's self; to engage. [Obs.] 1913 Webster]
Wage, n.[OF. wage, gage, guarantee, engagement. See Wage, v. t. ] 1913 Webster]
1.That which is staked or ventured; that for which one incurs risk or danger; prize; gage. [Obs.] \'bdThat warlike wage.\'b8 Spenser. 1913 Webster]
2.That for which one labors; meed; reward; stipulated payment for service performed; hire; pay; compensation; -- at present generally used in the plural. See Wages. \'bdMy day's wage.\'b8 Sir W. Scott. \'bdAt least I earned my wage.\'b8 Thackeray. \'bdPay them a wage in advance.\'b8 J. Morley. \'bdThe wages of virtue.\'b8 Tennyson. 1913 Webster]
By Tom Thumb, a fairy page, wage, Drayton. 1913 Webster]
Our praises are our wages.Shak. 1913 Webster]
Existing legislation on the subject of wages.Encyc. Brit. 1913 Webster]
Wage is used adjectively and as the first part of compounds which are usually self-explaining; as, wage worker, or wage-worker; wage-earner, etc. 1913 Webster]
Wa"gen*boom`(?), n.[D., literally, wagon tree.](Bot.)A south African proteaceous tree (Protea grandiflora); also, its tough wood, used for making wagon wheels. 1913 Webster]
<-- p. 1622 --> 1913 Webster]
wa"ger(w, n.[OE. wager, wajour, OF. wagiere, or wageure, F. gageure. See Wage, v. t.] 1913 Webster]
1.Something deposited, laid, or hazarded on the event of a contest or an unsettled question; a bet; a stake; a pledge. 1913 Webster]
Besides these plates for horse races, the wagers may be as the persons please.Sir W. Temple. 1913 Webster]
If any atheist can stake his soul for a wager against such an inexhaustible disproportion, let him never hereafter accuse others of credulity.Bentley. 1913 Webster]
2.(Law)A contract by which two parties or more agree that a certain sum of money, or other thing, shall be paid or delivered to one of them, on the happening or not happening of an uncertain event.Bouvier. 1913 Webster]
Chitty.Bouvier. 1913 Webster]
3.That on which bets are laid; the subject of a bet. 1913 Webster]
Wager of battel, or
Wager of battle(O. Eng. Law), the giving of gage, or pledge, for trying a cause by single combat, formerly allowed in military, criminal, and civil causes. In writs of right, where the trial was by champions, the tenant produced his champion, who, by throwing down his glove as a gage, thus waged, or stipulated, battle with the champion of the demandant, who, by taking up the glove, accepted the challenge. The wager of battel, which has been long in disuse, was abolished in England in 1819, by a statute passed in consequence of a defendant's having waged his battle in a case which arose about that period. See Battel. --
Wager of law(Law), the giving of gage, or sureties, by a defendant in an action of debt, that at a certain day assigned he would take a law, or oath, in open court, that he did not owe the debt, and at the same time bring with him eleven neighbors (called compurgators), who should avow upon their oaths that they believed in their consciences that he spoke the truth. --
Wager policy. (Insurance Law)See under Policy. --
Wagering contractor
gambling contract. A contract which is of the nature of wager. Contracts of this nature include various common forms of valid commercial contracts, as contracts of insurance, contracts dealing in futures, options, etc. Other wagering contracts and bets are now generally made illegal by statute against betting and gambling, and wagering has in many cases been made a criminal offence. [Webster 1913 Suppl.] 1913 Webster]
wa"ger, v. t.[imp. & p. p.wagered(w; p. pr. & vb. n.wagering.]To hazard on the issue of a contest, or on some question that is to be decided, or on some eventuality; to lay; to stake; to bet. 1913 Webster]
And wagered with him Shak. 1913 Webster]
Wa"ger, v. i.To make a bet; to lay a wager. 1913 Webster]
'T was merry when wagered on your angling.Shak. 1913 Webster]
Wa"ger*er(w, n.One who wagers, or lays a bet. 1913 Webster]
Wa"ger*ing, a.Hazarding; pertaining to the act of one who wagers. 1913 Webster]
Wagering policy. (Com.)See Wager policy, under Policy. 1913 Webster]
Wa"ges(w, n.plural in termination, but singular in signification. [Plural of wage; cf. F. gages, pl., wages, hire. See Wage, n.]1.A compensation given to a hired person for services; price paid for labor; recompense; hire. See Wage, n., 2. 1913 Webster]
The wages of sin is death.Rom. vi. 23. 1913 Webster]
2.(Economics)The share of the annual product or national dividend which goes as a reward to labor, as distinct from the remuneration received by capital in its various forms. This economic or technical sense of the word wages is broader than the current sense, and includes not only amounts actually paid to laborers, but the remuneration obtained by those who sell the products of their own work, and the wages of superintendence or management, which are earned by skill in directing the work of others. Webster 1913 Suppl.]
Wages fund(Polit. Econ.), the aggregate capital existing at any time in any country, which theoretically is unconditionally destined to be paid out in wages. It was formerly held, by Mill and other political economists, that the average rate of wages in any country at any time depended upon the relation of the wages fund to the number of laborers. This theory has been greatly modified by the discovery of other conditions affecting wages, which it does not take into account.Encyc. Brit. 1913 Webster]
Syn. -- See under Wage, n. 1913 Webster]
Wag"gel(w, n.(Zo\'94l.)The young of the great black-backed gull (Larus marinus), formerly considered a distinct species. [Prov. Eng.] 1913 Webster]
Wag"ger*y(-g, n.; pl.Waggeries(#).[From Wag.]The manner or action of a wag; mischievous merriment; sportive trick or gayety; good-humored sarcasm; pleasantry; jocularity; as, the waggery of a schoolboy.Locke. 1913 Webster]
A drollery and lurking waggery of expression.W. Irving. 1913 Webster]
Wag"gish(-g, a.1.Like a wag; mischievous in sport; roguish in merriment or good humor; frolicsome. \'bdA company of waggish boys.\'b8 L'Estrange. 1913 Webster]
2.Done, made, or laid in waggery or for sport; sportive; humorous; as, a waggish trick. 1913 Webster]
-- Wag"gish*ly, adv. -- Wag"gish*ness, n. 1913 Webster]
Wag"gle(?), v. i.[Freq. of wag; cf. D. waggelen, G. wackeln.]To reel, sway, or move from side to side; to move with a wagging motion; to waddle. 1913 Webster]
Why do you go nodding and waggling so?L'Estrange. 1913 Webster]
Wag"gle, v. t.[imp. & p. p.Waggled(?); p. pr. & vb. n.Waggling(?).]To move frequently one way and the other; to wag; as, a bird waggles his tail. 1913 Webster]
Wag"gle(?), n.A waggling or wagging;specif.(Golf), the preliminary swinging of the club head back and forth over the ball in the line of the proposed stroke. Webster 1913 Suppl.]
Wag"-hal`ter(?), n.[Wag + halter.]One who moves or wears a halter; one likely to be hanged. [Colloq. & Obs.] 1913 Webster]
I can tell you, I am a mad wag-halter.Marston. 1913 Webster]
Wag*ne"ri*an(?), a.Of, pertaining to, or resembling the style of, Richard Wagner, the German musical composer. Webster 1913 Suppl.]
Wag"ner*ite(?), n.(Min.)A fluophosphate of magnesia, occurring in yellowish crystals, and also in massive forms. 1913 Webster]
Wag"on(?), n.[D. wagen. Wain.] 1913 Webster]
1.A wheeled carriage; a vehicle on four wheels, and usually drawn by horses; especially, one used for carrying freight or merchandise. 1913 Webster]
wagons are used for the conveyance of persons and light commodities. 1913 Webster]
2.A freight car on a railway. [Eng.] 1913 Webster]
3.A chariot [Obs.] Spenser. 1913 Webster]
4.(Astron.)The Dipper, or Charles's Wain. 1913 Webster]
waggon, waggonage, etc.), chiefly in England. The forms wagon, wagonage, etc., are, however, etymologically preferable, and in the United States are almost universally used. 1913 Webster]
Wagon boiler. See the Note under Boiler, 3. --
Wagon ceiling(Arch.), a semicircular, or wagon-headed, arch or ceiling; -- sometimes used also of a ceiling whose section is polygonal instead of semicircular. --
Wagon master, an officer or person in charge of one or more wagons, especially of those used for transporting freight, as the supplies of an army, and the like. --
Wagon shoe, a skid, or shoe, for retarding the motion of a wagon wheel; a drag. --
Wagon vault. (Arch.)See under 1st Vault. 1913 Webster]
Wag"on(?), v. t.[imp. & p. p.Wagoned(?); p. pr. & vb. n.Wagoning.]To transport in a wagon or wagons; as, goods are wagoned from city to city. 1913 Webster]
Wag"on, v. i.To wagon goods as a business; as, the man wagons between Philadelphia and its suburbs. 1913 Webster]
Wag"on*age(?), n.1.Money paid for carriage or conveyance in wagon. 1913 Webster]
2.A collection of wagons; wagons, collectively. 1913 Webster]
Wagonage, provender, and a piece or two of cannon.Carlyle. 1913 Webster]
Wag"on*er(?), n.1.One who conducts a wagon; one whose business it is to drive a wagon. 1913 Webster]
2.(Astron.)The constellation Charles's Wain, or Ursa Major. See Ursa major, under Ursa. 1913 Webster]
Wag`on*ette"(?), n.A kind of pleasure wagon, uncovered and with seats extended along the sides, designed to carry six or eight persons besides the driver. 1913 Webster]
Wag"on*ful(?), n.; pl.Wagonfuls(.As much as a wagon will hold; enough to fill a wagon; a wagonload. 1913 Webster]
Wag"on-head`ed(?), a.Having a top, or head, shaped like the top of a covered wagon, or resembling in section or outline an inverted U, thus as, a wagonheaded ceiling. 1913 Webster]
Wag"on*load`(?), n.Same as Wagonful. 1913 Webster]
Wag"on-roofed`(?), a.Having a roof, or top, shaped like an inverted U; wagon-headed. 1913 Webster]
Wag"on*ry(?), n.Conveyance by means of a wagon or wagons. [Obs.] Milton. 1913 Webster]
Wag"on*wright`(?), n.One who makes wagons. 1913 Webster]
Wag"tail`(?), n.(Zo\'94l.)Any one of many species of Old World singing birds belonging to Motacilla and several allied genera of the family Motacillid\'91. They have the habit of constantly jerking their long tails up and down, whence the name. 1913 Webster]
Field wagtail, any one of several species of wagtails of the genus Budytes having the tail shorter, the legs longer, and the hind claw longer and straighter, than do the water wagtails. Most of the species are yellow beneath. Called also yellow wagtail. --
Garden wagtail, the Indian black-breasted wagtail (Nemoricola Indica). --
Pied wagtail, the common European water wagtail (Motacilla lugubris). It is variegated with black and white. The name is applied also to other allied species having similar colors. Called also pied dishwasher. --
Wagtail flycatcher, a true flycatcher (Sauloprocta motacilloides) common in Southern Australia, where it is very tame, and frequents stock yards and gardens and often builds its nest about houses; -- called also black fantail. --
Water wagtail. (a)Any one of several species of wagtails of the restricted genus Motacilla. They live chiefly on the shores of ponds and streams.(b)The American water thrush. See Water thrush. --
Wood wagtail, an Asiatic wagtail; (Calobates sulphurea) having a slender bill and short legs. 1913 Webster]
Wah(w, n.(Zo\'94l.)The panda. 1913 Webster]
Wa*ha"bee(?), n.[Ar. wah\'bebi.]A follower of Abdel Wahab (b. 1691; d. 1787), a reformer of Mohammedanism. His doctrines prevail particularly among the Bedouins, and the sect, though checked in its influence, extends to most parts of Arabia, and also into India.[Written also Wahaby.] 1913 Webster]
Wa*hoo"(?), n.Any of various American trees or shrubs;specif.:(a)A certain shrub (Evonymus atropurpureus) having purple capsules which in dehiscence expose the scarlet-ariled seeds; -- called also burning bush.(b)Cascara buckthorn.(c)Basswood. Webster 1913 Suppl.]
Wa*hoo", n.A dark blue scombroid food fish (Acanthocibium solandriorAcanthocibium petus) of Florida and the West Indies. Webster 1913 Suppl.]
Waif(?), n.[OF. waif, gaif, as adj., lost, unclaimed, chose gaive a waif, LL. wayfium, res vaivae; of Scand. origin. See Waive.] 1913 Webster]
1.(Eng. Law.)Goods found of which the owner is not known; originally, such goods as a pursued thief threw away to prevent being apprehended, which belonged to the king unless the owner made pursuit of the felon, took him, and brought him to justice.Blackstone. 1913 Webster]
2.Hence, anything found, or without an owner; that which comes along, as it were, by chance. \'bdRolling in his mind old waifs of rhyme.\'b8 Tennyson. 1913 Webster]
3.A wanderer; a castaway; a stray; a homeless child. 1913 Webster]
A waif Cowper. 1913 Webster]
Waift(?), n.A waif. [Obs.] Spenser. 1913 Webster]
Wail(?), v. t.[Cf. Icel. val choice, velja to choose, akin to Goth. waljan, G. w\'84hlen.]To choose; to select. [Obs.] \'bdWailed wine and meats.\'b8 Henryson. 1913 Webster]
Wail, v. t.[imp. & p. p.Wailed(?); p. pr. & vb. n.Wailing.][OE. wailen, weilen, probably fr. Icel. v\'91la; cf. Icel. v\'91, vei, woe, and E. wayment, also OE. wai, wei, woe. Cf. Woe.]To lament; to bewail; to grieve over; as, to wail one's death.Shak. 1913 Webster]
Wail, v. i.To express sorrow audibly; to make mournful outcry; to weep. 1913 Webster]
Therefore I will wail and howl.Micah i. 8. 1913 Webster]
Wail, n.Loud weeping; violent lamentation; wailing. \'bdThe wail of the forest.\'b8 Longfellow. 1913 Webster]
Wail"er(?), n.One who wails or laments. 1913 Webster]
Wail"er*ess(?), n.A woman who wails. [Obs.] 1913 Webster]
Wai"ment(?). v. & n.See Wayment. [Obs.] 1913 Webster]
Wain(?), n.[OE. wain, AS. w\'91gn; akin to D. & G. wagen, OHG. wagan, Icel. & Sw. vagn, Dan. vogn, and E. way. Way, Weigh, and cf. Wagon.] 1913 Webster]
1.A four-wheeled vehicle for the transportation of goods, produce, etc.; a wagon. 1913 Webster]
The wardens see nothing but a wain of hay.Jeffrey. 1913 Webster]
Driving in ponderous wains their household goods to the seashore.Longfellow. 1913 Webster]
2.A chariot. [Obs.] 1913 Webster]
The Wain. (Astron.)See Charles's Wain, in the Vocabulary. --
Wain rope, a cart rope.Shak. 1913 Webster]
Wain"a*ble(?), a.Capable of being plowed or cultivated; arable; tillable. [Obs.] Cowell. 1913 Webster]
Wain"age(?; 48), n.[From Wain.]A finding of carriages, carts, etc., for the transportation of goods, produce, etc.Ainsworth. 1913 Webster]
Wain"age, n.(O. Eng. Law)See Gainage, a. 1913 Webster]
Wain"bote`(?), n.[Wain + bote.](O. Eng. Law)See Cartbote. See also the Note under Bote. 1913 Webster]
Wain"scot(?), n.[OD. waeghe-schot, D. wagen-schot, a clapboard, fr. OD. waeg, weeg, a wall (akin to AS. wah; cf. Icel. veggr) + schot a covering of boards (akin to E. shot, shoot).] 1913 Webster]
1.Oaken timber or boarding. [Obs.] 1913 Webster]
A wedge wainscot is fittest and most proper for cleaving of an oaken tree.Urquhart. 1913 Webster]
Inclosed in a chest of wainscot.J. Dart. 1913 Webster]
2.(Arch.)A wooden lining or boarding of the walls of apartments, usually made in panels. 1913 Webster]
3.(Zo\'94l.)Any one of numerous species of European moths of the family Leucanid\'91. 1913 Webster]
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Wain"scot, v. t.[imp. & p. p.Wainscoted; p. pr. & vb. n.Wainscoting.]To line with boards or panelwork, or as if with panelwork; as, to wainscot a hall. 1913 Webster]
Music soundeth better in chambers wainscoted than hanged.Bacon. 1913 Webster]
The other is wainscoted with looking-glass.Addison. 1913 Webster]
Wain"scot*ing, n.1.The act or occupation of covering or lining with boards in panel. 1913 Webster]
2.The material used to wainscot a house, or the wainscot as a whole; panelwork. 1913 Webster]
Wain"wright`(?), n.Same as Wagonwright. 1913 Webster]
Wair(?), n.(Carp.)A piece of plank two yard Bailey. 1913 Webster]
Waist(?), n.[OE. wast; originally, growth, akin to AS. weaxan to grow; cf. AS. w\'91stm growth. See Wax to grow.] 1913 Webster]
1.That part of the human body which is immediately below the ribs or thorax; the small part of the body between the thorax and hips.Chaucer. 1913 Webster]
I am in the waist two yards about.Shak. 1913 Webster]
2.Hence, the middle part of other bodies; especially (Naut.), that part of a vessel's deck, bulwarks, etc., which is between the quarter-deck and the forecastle; the middle part of the ship. 1913 Webster]
3.A garment, or part of a garment, which covers the body from the neck or shoulders to the waist line. 1913 Webster]
4.A girdle or belt for the waist. [Obs.] Shak. 1913 Webster]
Waist anchor. See Sheet anchor, 1, in the Vocabulary. 1913 Webster]
Waist"band(?), n.1.The band which encompasses the waist; esp., one on the upper part of breeches, trousers, pantaloons, skirts, or the like. 1913 Webster]
2.A sash worn by women around the waist. [R.] 1913 Webster]
Waist"cloth(?), n.1.A cloth or wrapper worn about the waist; by extension, such a garment worn about the hips and passing between the thighs. 1913 Webster]
2.(Naut.)A covering of canvas or tarpaulin for the hammocks, stowed on the nettings, between the quarterdeck and the forecastle. 1913 Webster]
Waist"coat(?), n.(a)A short, sleeveless coat or garment for men, worn under the coat, extending no lower than the hips, and covering the waist; a vest.(b)A garment occasionally worn by women as a part of fashionable costume. 1913 Webster]
waistcoat was a part of female attire as well as male . . . It was only when the waistcoat was worn without a gown or upper dress that it was considered the mark of a mad or profligate woman. Nares. 1913 Webster]
Syn. -- See Vest. 1913 Webster]
Waist`coat*eer"(?), n.One wearing a waistcoat; esp., a woman wearing one uncovered, or thought fit for such a habit; hence, a loose woman; strumpet. [Obs.] 1913 Webster]
Do you think you are here, sir, waistcoateers, your base wenches?Beau. & Fl. 1913 Webster]
Waist"coat*ing, n.A fabric designed for waistcoats; esp., one in which there is a pattern, differently colored yarns being used. 1913 Webster]
Waist"er(?), n.(Naut.)A seaman, usually a green hand or a broken-down man, stationed in the waist of a vessel of war.R. H. Dana, Jr. 1913 Webster]
Wait(?), v. i.[imp. & p. p.Waited; p. pr. & vb. n.Waiting.][OE. waiten, OF. waitier, gaitier, to watch, attend, F. guetter to watch, to wait for, fr. OHG. wahta a guard, watch, G. wacht, from OHG. wahh\'c7n to watch, be awake. \'fb134. See Wake, v. i.] 1913 Webster]
1.To watch; to observe; to take notice. [Obs.] 1913 Webster]
\'bdBut [unless] ye wait well and be privy, Chaucer. 1913 Webster]
2.To stay or rest in expectation; to stop or remain stationary till the arrival of some person or event; to rest in patience; to stay; not to depart. 1913 Webster]
All the days of my appointed time will I wait, till my change come.Job xiv. 14. 1913 Webster]
They also serve who only stand and wait.Milton. 1913 Webster]
Haste, my dear father; 't is no time to wait.Dryden. 1913 Webster]
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To wait onupon. (a)To attend, as a servant; to perform services for; as, to wait on a gentleman; to wait on the table. \'bdAuthority and reason on her wait.\'b8 Milton. \'bdI must wait on myself, must I?\'b8 Shak.(b)To attend; to go to see; to visit on business or for ceremony.(c)To follow, as a consequence; to await. \'bdThat ruin that waits on such a supine temper.\'b8 Dr. H. More.(d)To look watchfully at; to follow with the eye; to watch. [R.] \'bdIt is a point of cunning to wait upon him with whom you speak with your eye.\'b8 Bacon.(e)To attend to; to perform. \'bdAaron and his sons . . . shall wait on their priest's office.\'b8 Num. iii. 10.(f)(Falconry)To fly above its master, waiting till game is sprung; -- said of a hawk.Encyc. Brit. 1913 Webster]
Wait(?), v. t.1.To stay for; to rest or remain stationary in expectation of; to await; as, to wait orders. 1913 Webster]
Awed with these words, in camps they still abide, wait with longing looks their promised guide.Dryden. 1913 Webster]
2.To attend as a consequence; to follow upon; to accompany; to await. [Obs.] 1913 Webster]
3.To attend on; to accompany; especially, to attend with ceremony or respect. [Obs.] 1913 Webster]
He chose a thousand horse, the flower of all wait the funeral.Dryden. 1913 Webster]
Remorse and heaviness of heart shall wait thee, Rowe. 1913 Webster]
4.To cause to wait; to defer; to postpone; -- said of a meal; as, to wait dinner. [Colloq.] 1913 Webster]
Wait, n.[OF. waite, guaite, gaite, F. guet watch, watching, guard, from OHG. wahta. See Wait, v. i.] 1913 Webster]
1.The act of waiting; a delay; a halt. 1913 Webster]
There is a wait of three hours at the border Mexican town of El Paso.S. B. Griffin. 1913 Webster]
2.Ambush. \'bdAn enemy in wait.\'b8 Milton. 1913 Webster]
3.One who watches; a watchman. [Obs.] 1913 Webster]
4.pl.Hautboys, or oboes, played by town musicians; not used in the singular. [Obs.] Halliwell. 1913 Webster]
5.pl.Musicians who sing or play at night or in the early morning, especially at Christmas time; serenaders; musical watchmen.[Written formerly wayghtes.] 1913 Webster]
Hark! are the waits abroad?Beau. & Fl. 1913 Webster]
The sound of the waits, rude as may be their minstrelsy, breaks upon the mild watches of a winter night with the effect of perfect harmony.W. Irving. 1913 Webster]
To lay wait, to prepare an ambuscade. --
To lie in wait. See under 4th Lie. 1913 Webster]
Wait"-a-bit`, n.Any of several plants bearing thorns or stiff hooked appendages, which catch and tear the clothing,as:(a)The greenbrier.(b)Any of various species of hawthorn.(c)In South Africa, one of numerous acacias and mimosas.(d)The grapple plant.(e)The prickly ash. Webster 1913 Suppl.]
Wait"-a-while`, n.(a)One of the Australian wattle trees (Acacia colletioides), so called from the impenetrability of the thicket which it makes.(b)same as Wait-a-bit. Webster 1913 Suppl.]
Wait"er(?), n.1.One who, or that which, waits; an attendant; a servant in attendance, esp. at table. 1913 Webster]
The waiters stand in ranks; the yeomen cry, Swift. 1913 Webster]
2.A vessel or tray on which something is carried, as dishes, etc.; a salver. 1913 Webster]
Coast waiter. See under Coast, n. 1913 Webster]
Wait"ing, a. & n. from Wait, v. 1913 Webster]
In waiting, in attendance; as, lords in waiting. [Eng.] --
Waiting gentlewoman, a woman who waits upon a person of rank. --
Waiting maid,
Waiting woman, a maid or woman who waits upon another as a personal servant. 1913 Webster]
Wait"ing*ly, adv.By waiting. 1913 Webster]
Wait"ress(?), n.A female waiter or attendant; a waiting maid or waiting woman.
<-- esp. one employed in a commercial dining establishment, who takes the customers' orders, brings the meals, and otherwise serves the customers who are seated at a table or counter. --> 1913 Webster]
Waive(?), n.[See Waive, v. t. ]1.A waif; a castaway. [Obs.] Donne. 1913 Webster]
2.(O. Eng. Law)A woman put out of the protection of the law. See Waive, v. t., 3 (b), and the Note. 1913 Webster]
Waive, v. t.[imp. & p. p.Waived(?); p. pr. & vb. n.Waiving.][OE. waiven, weiven, to set aside, remove, OF. weyver, quesver, to waive, of Scand. origin; cf. Icel. veifa to wave, to vibrate, akin to Skr. vip to tremble. Cf. Vibrate, Waif.][Written also wave.] 1913 Webster]
1.To relinquish; to give up claim to; not to insist on or claim; to refuse; to forego. 1913 Webster]
He waiveth milk, and flesh, and all.Chaucer. 1913 Webster]
We absolutely do renounce or waive our own opinions, absolutely yielding to the direction of others.Barrow. 1913 Webster]
2.To throw away; to cast off; to reject; to desert. 1913 Webster]
3.(Law)(a)To throw away; to relinquish voluntarily, as a right which one may enforce if he chooses.(b)(O. Eng. Law)To desert; to abandon.Burrill. 1913 Webster]
outlaw to a man. A woman could not be outlawed, in the proper sense of the word, because, according to Bracton, she was never in law, that is, in a frankpledge or decennary; but she might be waived, and held as abandoned. Burrill. 1913 Webster]
Waive, v. i.To turn aside; to recede. [Obs.] 1913 Webster]
To waive from the word of Solomon.Chaucer. 1913 Webster]
Waiv"er(?), n.(Law)The act of waiving, or not insisting on, some right, claim, or privilege. 1913 Webster]
Waiv"ure(?), n.See Waiver. [R.] 1913 Webster]
Wai"wode(?), n.See Waywode. 1913 Webster]
\'d8Wai Wu Pu(?). [Chinese wai foreign + wu affairs + pu office.]The Department of Foreign Affairs in the Chinese government.
The Tsung-li Yamen, or Foreign Office, created by a decree of January 19, 1861, was in July, 1902, superseded by the formation of a new Foreign Office called the Wai Wu Pu, . . . with precedence before all other boards.J. Scott Keltie. Webster 1913 Suppl.]
Wake(?), n.[Originally, an open space of water sv\'94k a hole, opening in ice, Sw. vak, Dan. vaage, perhaps akin to E. humid.]The track left by a vessel in the water; by extension, any track; as, the wake of an army. 1913 Webster]
This effect followed immediately in the wake of his earliest exertions.De Quincey. 1913 Webster]
Several humbler persons . . . formed quite a procession in the dusty wake of his chariot wheels.Thackeray. 1913 Webster]
Wake, v. i.[imp. & p. p.Waked(?) or Woke (p. pr. & vb. n. Waking.][AS. wacan, wacian; akin to OFries. waka, OS. wak, D. waken, G. wachen, OHG. wahh, Icel. vaka, Sw. vaken, Dan. vaage, Goth. wakan, v. i., uswakjan, v. t., Skr. v\'bejay to rouse, to impel. Vigil, Wait, v. i., Watch, v. i.] 1913 Webster]
1.To be or to continue awake; to watch; not to sleep. 1913 Webster]
The father waketh for the daughter.Ecclus. xlii. 9. 1913 Webster]
Though wisdom wake, suspicion sleeps.Milton. 1913 Webster]
I can not think any time, waking or sleeping, without being sensible of it.Locke. 1913 Webster]
2.To sit up late festive purposes; to hold a night revel. 1913 Webster]
The king doth wake to-night, and takes his rouse, Shak. 1913 Webster]
3.To be excited or roused from sleep; to awake; to be awakened; to cease to sleep; -- often with up. 1913 Webster]
He infallibly woke up at the sound of the concluding doxology.G. Eliot. 1913 Webster]
4.To be exited or roused up; to be stirred up from a dormant, torpid, or inactive state; to be active. 1913 Webster]
Gentle airs due at their hour waked.Milton. 1913 Webster]
Then wake, my soul, to high desires.Keble. 1913 Webster]
Wake(?), v. t.1.To rouse from sleep; to awake. 1913 Webster]
The angel . . . came again and waked me.Zech. iv. 1. 1913 Webster]
2.To put in motion or action; to arouse; to excite. \'bdI shall waken all this company.\'b8 Chaucer. 1913 Webster]
Lest fierce remembrance wake my sudden rage.Milton. 1913 Webster]
Even Richard's crusade woke little interest in his island realm.J. R. Green. 1913 Webster]
3.To bring to life again, as if from the sleep of death; to reanimate; to revive. 1913 Webster]
To second life Waked in the renovation of the just.Milton. 1913 Webster]
4.To watch, or sit up with, at night, as a dead body. 1913 Webster]
Wake, n.1.The act of waking, or being awaked; also, the state of being awake. [Obs. or Poetic] 1913 Webster]
Making such difference 'twixt wake and sleep.Shak. 1913 Webster]
Singing her flatteries to my morning wake.Dryden. 1913 Webster]
2.The state of forbearing sleep, especially for solemn or festive purposes; a vigil. 1913 Webster]
The warlike wakes continued all the night, Dryden. 1913 Webster]
The wood nymphs, decked with daises trim, wakes and pastimes keep.Milton. 1913 Webster]
3. Specifically: (a)(Ch. of Eng.)An annual parish festival formerly held in commemoration of the dedication of a church. Originally, prayers were said on the evening preceding, and hymns were sung during the night, in the church; subsequently, these vigils were discontinued, and the day itself, often with succeeding days, was occupied in rural pastimes and exercises, attended by eating and drinking, often to excess. 1913 Webster]
Great solemnities were made in all churches, and great fairs and wakes throughout all England.Ld. Berners. 1913 Webster]
And every village smokes at wakes with lusty cheer.Drayton. 1913 Webster]
(b)The sitting up of persons with a dead body, often attended with a degree of festivity, chiefly among the Irish. \'bdBlithe as shepherd at a wake.\'b8 Cowper. 1913 Webster]
Wake play, the ceremonies and pastimes connected with a wake. See Wake, n., 3 (b), above. [Obs.] Chaucer. 1913 Webster]
Wake"ful(?), a.Not sleeping; indisposed to sleep; watchful; vigilant. 1913 Webster]
Dissembling sleep, but wakeful with the fright.Dryden. 1913 Webster]
-- Wake"ful*ly, adv. -- Wake"ful*ness, n. 1913 Webster]
Wak"en(?), v. i.[imp. & p. pr.Wakened(?); p. pr. & vb. n.Wakening.][OE. waknen, AS. w\'91cnan; akin to Goth. gawaknan. See Wake, v. i.]To wake; to cease to sleep; to be awakened. 1913 Webster]
Early, Turnus wakening with the light.Dryden. 1913 Webster]
Wak"en, v. t.1.To excite or rouse from sleep; to wake; to awake; to awaken. \'bdGo, waken Eve.\'b8 Milton. 1913 Webster]
2.To excite; to rouse; to move to action; to awaken. 1913 Webster]
Then Homer's and Tyrt\'91us' martial muse Wakened the world.Roscommon. 1913 Webster]
Venus now wakes, and wakens love.Milton. 1913 Webster]
They introduce waken raptures high.Milton. 1913 Webster]
Wak"en*er(?), n.One who wakens. 1913 Webster]
Wak"en*ing, n.1.The act of one who wakens; esp., the act of ceasing to sleep; an awakening. 1913 Webster]
2.(Scots Law)The revival of an action.Burrill. 1913 Webster]
They were too much ashamed to bring any wakening of the process against Janet.Sir W. Scott. 1913 Webster]
Wak"er(?), n.One who wakes. 1913 Webster]
Wake"-rob`in(?), n.(Bot.)Any plant of the genus Arum, especially, in England, the cuckoopint (Arum maculatum). 1913 Webster]
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Wake"time`(?), n.Time during which one is awake. [R.] Mrs. Browning. 1913 Webster]
Wakf(w, n.[Ar. waqf.](Moham. Law)The granting or dedication of property in trust for a pious purpose, that is, to some object that tends to the good of mankind, as to support a mosque or caravansary, to provide for support of one's family, kin, or neighbors, to benefit some particular person or persons and afterward the poor, etc.; also, the trust so created, or the property in trust. Webster 1913 Suppl.]
Wa"kif(w, n.[Ar. w\'beqif.](Moham. Law)The person creating a wakf. Webster 1913 Suppl.]
Wak"ing, n.1.The act of waking, or the state or period of being awake. 1913 Webster]
2.A watch; a watching. [Obs.] \'bdBodily pain . . . standeth in prayer, in wakings, in fastings.\'b8 Chaucer. 1913 Webster]
In the fourth waking of the night.Wyclif (Matt. xiv. 25). 1913 Webster]
Wald(?), n.[AS. weald. See Wold.]A forest; -- used as a termination of names. See Weald. 1913 Webster]
Wal*den"ses(?; 277), n. pl.[So called from Petrus Waldus, or Peter Waldo, a merchant of Lyons, who founded this sect about a. d. 1170.](Eccl. Hist.)A sect of dissenters from the ecclesiastical system of the Roman Catholic Church, who in the 13th century were driven by persecution to the valleys of Piedmont, where the sect survives. They profess substantially Protestant principles. 1913 Webster]
Wal*den"sian(?), a.Of or pertaining to the Waldenses. -- n.One Holding the Waldensian doctrines. 1913 Webster]
Wald"grave(?), n.[See Wald, and Margrave.]In the old German empire, the head forest keeper. 1913 Webster]
\'d8Wald*hei"mi*a(?), n.[NL.](Zo\'94l.)A genus of brachiopods of which many species are found in the fossil state. A few still exist in the deep sea. 1913 Webster]
Wale(?), n.[AS. walu a mark of stripes or blows, probably originally, a rod; akin to Icel. v\'94lr, Goth. walus a rod, staff. Goal, Weal a wale.] 1913 Webster]
1.A streak or mark made on the skin by a rod or whip; a stripe; a wheal. See Wheal.Holland. Syn. -- welt; weal; wheal. 1913 Webster]
2.A ridge or streak rising above the surface, as of cloth; hence, the texture of cloth. 1913 Webster]
3.(Carp.)A timber bolted to a row of piles to secure them together and in position.Knight. 1913 Webster]
4.(Naut.)(a)pl.Certain sets or strakes of the outside planking of a vessel; as, the main wales, or the strakes of planking under the port sills of the gun deck; channel wales, or those along the spar deck, etc.(b)A wale knot, or wall knot. 1913 Webster]
Wale knot. (Naut.)See Wall knot, under 1st Wall. 1913 Webster]
Wale, v. t.1.To mark with wales, or stripes. 1913 Webster]
2.To choose; to select; specifically (Mining), to pick out the refuse of (coal) by hand, in order to clean it. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.] 1913 Webster]
Wal"er(?), n.[From Wales, i.e., New South Wales.]A horse imported from New South Wales; also, any Australian horse. [Colloq.] Kipling.
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Wal*hal"la(?), n.[Cf. G. walhalla, See Valhalla.]See Valhalla. 1913 Webster]
Wal"ing(?), n.(Naut.)Same as Wale, n., 4. 1913 Webster]
Walk(w, v. i.[imp. & p. p.Walked(?); p. pr. & vb. n.Walking.][OE. walken, probably from AS. wealcan to roll, turn, revolve, akin to D. walken to felt hats, to work a hat, G. walken to full, OHG. walchan to beat, to full, Icel. v\'belka to roll, to stamp, Sw. valka to full, to roll, Dan. valke to full; cf. Skr. valg to spring; but cf. also AS. weallian to roam, ramble, G. wallen. 1913 Webster]
1.To move along on foot; to advance by steps; to go on at a moderate pace; specifically, of two-legged creatures, to proceed at a slower or faster rate, but without running, or lifting one foot entirely before the other touches the ground. 1913 Webster]
At the end of twelve months, he walked in the palace of the kingdom of Babylon.Dan. iv. 29. 1913 Webster]
When Peter was come down out of the ship, he walked on the water, to go to Jesus.Matt. xiv. 29. 1913 Webster]
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2.To move or go on the feet for exercise or amusement; to take one's exercise; to ramble. 1913 Webster]
3.To be stirring; to be abroad; to go restlessly about; -- said of things or persons expected to remain quiet, as a sleeping person, or the spirit of a dead person; to go about as a somnambulist or a specter. 1913 Webster]
I have heard, but not believed, the spirits of the dead walk again.Shak. 1913 Webster]
When was it she last walked?Shak. 1913 Webster]
4.To be in motion; to act; to move; to wag. [Obs.] \'bdHer tongue did walk in foul reproach.\'b8 Spenser. 1913 Webster]
Do you think I'd walk in any plot?B. Jonson. 1913 Webster]
I heard a pen walking in the chimney behind the cloth.Latimer. 1913 Webster]
5.To behave; to pursue a course of life; to conduct one's self. 1913 Webster]
We walk perversely with God, and he will walk crookedly toward us.Jer. Taylor. 1913 Webster]
6.To move off; to depart. [Obs. or Colloq.] 1913 Webster]
He will make their cows and garrans to walk.Spenser. 1913 Webster]
To walk in, to go in; to enter, as into a house. --
To walk after the flesh(Script.), to indulge sensual appetites, and to live in sin.Rom. viii. 1. --
To walk after the Spirit(Script.), to be guided by the counsels and influences of the Spirit, and by the word of God.Rom. viii. 1. --
To walk by faith(Script.), to live in the firm belief of the gospel and its promises, and to rely on Christ for salvation.2 Cor. v. 7. --
To walk in darkness(Script.), to live in ignorance, error, and sin.1 John i. 6. --
To walk in the flesh(Script.), to live this natural life, which is subject to infirmities and calamities.2 Cor. x. 3. --
To walk in the light(Script.), to live in the practice of religion, and to enjoy its consolations.1 John i. 7. --
To walk over, in racing, to go over a course at a walk; -- said of a horse when there is no other entry; hence, colloquially, to gain an easy victory in any contest.<-- = to win in a walk. --> --
To walk through the fire(Script.), to be exercised with severe afflictions.Isa. xliii. 2. --
To walk with God(Script.), to live in obedience to his commands, and have communion with him. 1913 Webster]
Walk, v. t.1.To pass through, over, or upon; to traverse; to perambulate; as, to walk the streets. 1913 Webster]
As we walk our earthly round.Keble. 1913 Webster]
2.To cause to walk; to lead, drive, or ride with a slow pace; as, to walk one's horses; to walk the dog. \'bd I will rather trust . . . a thief to walk my ambling gelding.\'b8 Shak. 1913 Webster +PJC]
3.[AS. wealcan to roll. See Walk to move on foot.]To subject, as cloth or yarn, to the fulling process; to full. [Obs. or Scot.] 1913 Webster]
4.(Sporting)To put or keep (a puppy) in a walk; to train (puppies) in a walk. [Cant] Webster 1913 Suppl.]
5.To move in a manner likened to walking. [Colloq.]
She walked a spinning wheel into the house, making it use first one and then the other of its own spindling legs to achieve progression rather than lifting it by main force.C. E. Craddock.
To walk one's chalks, to make off; take French leave. --
To walk the plank, to walk off the plank into the water and be drowned; -- an expression derived from the practice of pirates who extended a plank from the side of a ship, and compelled those whom they would drown to walk off into the water; figuratively, to vacate an office by compulsion.Bartlett. 1913 Webster]
Walk, n.1.The act of walking, or moving on the feet with a slow pace; advance without running or leaping. 1913 Webster]
2.The act of walking for recreation or exercise; as, a morning walk; an evening walk. 1913 Webster]
3.Manner of walking; gait; step; as, we often know a person at a distance by his walk. 1913 Webster]
4.That in or through which one walks; place or distance walked over; a place for walking; a path or avenue prepared for foot passengers, or for taking air and exercise; way; road; hence, a place or region in which animals may graze; place of wandering; range; as, a sheep walk. 1913 Webster]
A woody mountain . . . with goodliest trees walks and bowers.Milton. 1913 Webster]
He had walk for a hundred sheep.Latimer. 1913 Webster]
Amid the sound of steps that beat walks like rain.Bryant. 1913 Webster]
5.A frequented track; habitual place of action; sphere; as, the walk of the historian. 1913 Webster]
The mountains are his walks.Sandys. 1913 Webster]
He opened a boundless walk for his imagination.Pope. 1913 Webster]
6.Conduct; course of action; behavior. 1913 Webster]
7.The route or district regularly served by a vender; as, a milkman's walk. [Eng.] 1913 Webster]
8.In coffee, coconut, and other plantations, the space between them. Webster 1913 Suppl.]
9.(Sporting)(a)A place for keeping and training puppies.(b)An inclosed area of some extent to which a gamecock is confined to prepare him for fighting. Webster 1913 Suppl.]
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Walk"a*ble(?), a.Fit to be walked on; capable of being walked on or over. [R.] Swift. 1913 Webster]
Walk"er(?), n.1.One who walks; a pedestrian. 1913 Webster]
2.That with which one walks; a foot. [Obs.] 1913 Webster]
Lame Mulciber, his walkers quite misgrown.Chapman. 1913 Webster]
3.(Law)A forest officer appointed to walk over a certain space for inspection; a forester. 1913 Webster]
4.[AS. wealcere. See Walk, v. t., 3.]A fuller of cloth. [Obs. or Prov. Eng. & Scot.] 1913 Webster]
She cursed the weaver and the walker Percy's Reliques. 1913 Webster]
5.(Zo\'94l.)Any ambulatorial orthopterous insect, as a stick insect. 1913 Webster]
Walk"ing, a. & n. from Walk, v. 1913 Webster]
Walking beam. See Beam, 10. --
Walking crane, a kind of traveling crane. See under Crane. --
Walking fern. (Bot.)See Walking leaf, below. --
Walking fish(Zo\'94l.), any one of numerous species of Asiatic fishes of the genus Ophiocephalus, some of which, as Ophiocephalus marulius, become over four feet long. They have a special cavity over the gills lined with a membrane adapted to retain moisture to aid in respiration, and are thus able to travel considerable distances over the land at night, whence the name. They construct a curious nest for their young. Called also langya. --
Walking gentleman(Theater), an actor who usually fills subordinate parts which require a gentlemanly appearance but few words. [Cant] --
Walking lady(Theater), an actress who usually fills such parts as require only a ladylike appearance on the stage. [Cant] --
Walking leaf. (a)(Bot.)A little American fern (Camptosorus rhizophyllus); -- so called because the fronds taper into slender prolongations which often root at the apex, thus producing new plants.(b)(Zo\'94l.)A leaf insect. See under Leaf. --
Walking papers, or
Walking ticket, an order to leave; dismissal, as from office; as, to get one's walking papers, i. e. to be dismissed or fired. [Colloq.] Bartlett. --
Walking stick. (a)A stick or staff carried in the hand for hand for support or amusement when walking; a cane.(b)(Zo\'94l.)A stick insect; -- called also walking straw. See Illust. of Stick insect, under Stick. --
Walking wheel(Mach.), a prime mover consisting of a wheel driven by the weight of men or animals walking either in it or on it; a treadwheel. 1913 Webster]
Walk"-mill`(?), n.[Walk to Walking Leaf, or full + mill.]A fulling mill. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell. 1913 Webster]
walk"-off`(?), a.(Baseball)Game-ending and game-winning; such as to end the game immediately, and allow the players to walk off the field; -- of hits, especially home runs, which occur in the last half of the ninth or a later inning, which put the home team ahead of the visiting team and thereby end the game immediatey. This occurs in baseball because, when the last half of the ninth inning arrives, if the home team (which bats last) is already ahead in the score the last half of that inning is not played, the winner of the game having already been decided. Likewise, as soon as the home team gets ahead in the score after the visiting team has batted in the ninth inning, the game is ended. [Baseball jargon] PJC]
Curtis's homer over the left-center-field fence beat the Braves and was the first walk-off homer by a Yankee in the World Series since Mickey Mantle slugged one against the St. Louis Cardinals in game 3 in 1964.Jack Curry (New York Times, Oct. 28, 1999 p. D4) PJC]
There are so many people in here who are happy for Chad. We know what he's been through. Those hits could make Chad Curtis's whole year. When you hit a walk-off homer in the World Series, that's something he's going to remember for a long time.Paul O'Neill (the Yankee outfielder, quoted by Jack Curry in the New York Times, Oct. 27, 1999 p. D4) PJC]
Walk"-o`ver(?), n.In racing, the going over a course by a horse which has no competitor for the prize. 1913 Webster]
2.Hence: (colloquially) A one-sided contest; an uncontested, or an easy, victory. Syn. -- walk; cake-walk. 1913 Webster +PJC]
Wall(?), n.(Naut.)A kind of knot often used at the end of a rope; a wall knot; a wale. 1913 Webster]
Wall knot, a knot made by unlaying the strands of a rope, and making a bight with the first strand, then passing the second over the end of the first, and the third over the end of the second and through the bight of the first; a wale knot. Wall knots may be single or double, crowned or double-crowned. 1913 Webster]
Wall(?), n.[AS. weall, from L. vallum a wall, vallus a stake, pale, palisade; akin to Gr. Interval.] 1913 Webster]
1.A work or structure of stone, brick, or other materials, raised to some height, and intended for defense or security, solid and permanent inclosing fence, as around a field, a park, a town, etc., also, one of the upright inclosing parts of a building or a room. 1913 Webster]
The plaster of the wall of the King's palace.Dan. v. 5. 1913 Webster]
2.A defense; a rampart; a means of protection; in the plural, fortifications, in general; works for defense. 1913 Webster]
The waters were a wall unto them on their right hand, and on their left.Ex. xiv. 22. 1913 Webster]
In such a night, walls.Shak. 1913 Webster]
To rush undaunted to defend the walls.Dryden. 1913 Webster]
3.An inclosing part of a receptacle or vessel; as, the walls of a steam-engine cylinder. 1913 Webster]
4.(Mining)(a)The side of a level or drift.(b)The country rock bounding a vein laterally.Raymond. 1913 Webster]
Wall is often used adjectively, and also in the formation of compounds, usually of obvious signification; as in wall paper, or wall-paper; wall fruit, or wall-fruit; wallflower, etc. 1913 Webster]
Blank wall, Blind wall, etc. See under Blank, Blind, etc. --
To drive to the wall, to bring to extremities; to push to extremes; to get the advantage of, or mastery over. --
To go to the wall, to be hard pressed or driven; to be the weaker party; to be pushed to extremes. --
To take the wall. to take the inner side of a walk, that is, the side next the wall; hence, to take the precedence. \'bdI will take the wall of any man or maid of Montague's.\'b8 Shak. --
Wall barley(Bot.), a kind of grass (Hordeum murinum) much resembling barley; squirrel grass. See under Squirrel. --
Wall box. (Mach.)See Wall frame, below. --
Wall creeper(Zo\'94l.), a small bright-colored bird (Tichodroma muraria) native of Asia and Southern Europe. It climbs about over old walls and cliffs in search of insects and spiders. Its body is ash-gray above, the wing coverts are carmine-red, the primary quills are mostly red at the base and black distally, some of them with white spots, and the tail is blackish. Called also spider catcher. --
Wall cress(Bot.), a name given to several low cruciferous herbs, especially to the mouse-ear cress. See under Mouse-ear. --
Wall frame(Mach.), a frame set in a wall to receive a pillow block or bearing for a shaft passing through the wall; -- called also wall box. --
Wall fruit, fruit borne by trees trained against a wall. --
Wall gecko(Zo\'94l.), any one of several species of Old World geckos which live in or about buildings and run over the vertical surfaces of walls, to which they cling by means of suckers on the feet. --
Wall lizard(Zo\'94l.), a common European lizard (Lacerta muralis) which frequents houses, and lives in the chinks and crevices of walls; -- called also wall newt. --
Wall louse, a wood louse. --
Wall moss(Bot.), any species of moss growing on walls. --
Wall newt(Zo\'94l.), the wall lizard.Shak. --
Wall paper, paper for covering the walls of rooms; paper hangings. --
Wall pellitory(Bot.), a European plant (Parictaria officinalis) growing on old walls, and formerly esteemed medicinal. --
Wall pennywort(Bot.), a plant (Cotyledon Umbilicus) having rounded fleshy leaves. It is found on walls in Western Europe. --
Wall pepper(Bot.), a low mosslike plant (Sedum acre) with small fleshy leaves having a pungent taste and bearing yellow flowers. It is common on walls and rocks in Europe, and is sometimes seen in America. --
Wall pie(Bot.), a kind of fern; wall rue. --
Wall piece, a gun planted on a wall.H. L. Scott. --
Wall plate(Arch.), a piece of timber placed horizontally upon a wall, and supporting posts, joists, and the like. See Illust. of Roof. --
Wall rock, granular limestone used in building walls. [U. S.] Bartlett. --
Wall rue(Bot.), a species of small fern (Asplenium Ruta-muraria) growing on walls, rocks, and the like. --
Wall spring, a spring of water issuing from stratified rocks. --
Wall tent, a tent with upright cloth sides corresponding to the walls of a house. --
Wall wasp(Zo\'94l.), a common European solitary wasp (Odynerus parietus) which makes its nest in the crevices of walls. 1913 Webster]
Wall(, v. t.[imp. & p. p.Walled(; p. pr. & vb. n.Walling.]1.To inclose with a wall, or as with a wall. \'bdSeven walled towns of strength.\'b8 Shak. 1913 Webster]
The king of Thebes, Amphion, walled that city.Chaucer. 1913 Webster]
2.To defend by walls, or as if by walls; to fortify. 1913 Webster]
The terror of his name that walls us in.Denham. 1913 Webster]
3.To close or fill with a wall, as a doorway. 1913 Webster]
Wal"la*ba(?), n.(Bot.)A leguminous tree (Eperua falcata) of Demerara, with pinnate leaves and clusters of red flowers. The reddish brown wood is used for palings and shingles.J. Smith (Dict. Econ. Plants). 1913 Webster]
Wal"la*by(?), n.; pl.Wallabies(#).[From a native name.](Zo\'94l.)Any one of numerous species of kangaroos belonging to the genus Halmaturus, native of Australia and Tasmania, especially the smaller species, as the brush kangaroo (H. Bennettii) and the pademelon (H. thetidis). The wallabies chiefly inhabit the wooded district and bushy plains.[Written also wallabee, and whallabee.] 1913 Webster]
Wal*la"chi*an(?), a.[Also Walachian, Wallach, Wallack, Vlach, etc.]Of or pertaining to Wallachia, a former principality, now part of the kingdom, of Roumania. -- n.An inhabitant of Wallachia; also, the language of the Wallachians; Roumanian. Webster 1913 Suppl.]
Wal"lack(?), a. & n.See Wallachian. Webster 1913 Suppl.]
Wal"lah(?), n.(Zo\'94l.)A black variety of the jaguar; -- called also tapir tiger.[Written also walla.] 1913 Webster]
Wal`la*roo"(?), n.(Zo\'94l.)Any one of several species of kangaroos of the genus Macropus, especially M. robustus, sometimes called the great wallaroo. 1913 Webster]
Wal*le"ri*an de*gen`er*a"tion(?). (Med.)A form of degeneration occurring in nerve fibers as a result of their division; -- so called from Dr. Waller, who published an account of it in 1850. 1913 Webster]
Wal"let(?), n.[OE. walet, probably the same word as OE. watel a bag. See Wattle.]1.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. 1913 Webster]
[His hood] was trussed up in his walet.Chaucer. 1913 Webster]
2.A pocketbook for keeping money about the person. 1913 Webster]
3.Anything protuberant and swagging. \'bdWallets of flesh.\'b8 Shak. 1913 Webster]
Wal`let*eer"(?), n.One who carries a wallet; a foot traveler; a tramping beggar. [Colloq.] Wright. 1913 Webster]
Wall"-eye`(?), n.[See Wall-eyed.] 1913 Webster]
1.An eye in which the iris is of a very light gray or whitish color; -- said usually of horses.Booth. 1913 Webster]
wall-eye to be \'bda disease in the crystalline humor of the eye; glaucoma.\'b8 But glaucoma is not a disease of the crystalline humor, nor is wall-eye a disease at all, but merely a natural blemish. Tully. In the north of England, as Brockett states, persons are said to be wall-eyed when the white of the eye is very large and distorted, or on one side. 1913 Webster]
2.(Zo\'94l.)(a)An American fresh-water food fish (Stizostedion vitreum) having large and prominent eyes; -- called also glasseye, pike perch, yellow pike, and wall-eyed perch.(b)A California surf fish (Holconotus argenteus).(c)The alewife; -- called also wall-eyed herring. 1913 Webster]
Wall"-eyed`(?), a.[Icel. valdeyg, or vagleygr; fr. vagl a beam, a beam in the eye (akin to Sw. vagel a roost, a perch, a sty in the eye) + eygr having eyes (from auga eye). See Eye.]Having an eye of a very light gray or whitish color.Booth. 1913 Webster]
wall-eyed as a term of reproach (as \'bdwall-eyed rage,\'b8 a \'bdwall-eyed wretch\'b8), alludes probably to the idea of unnatural or distorted vision. See the Note under Wall-eye. It is an eye which is utterly and incurably perverted, an eye that knows no pity. 1913 Webster]
Wall"flow`er(?), n.1.(Bot.)A perennial, cruciferous plant (Cheiranthus Cheiri), with sweet-scented flowers varying in color from yellow to orange and deep red. In Europe it very common on old walls. 1913 Webster]
Cheiranthus and of the related genus Erysimum, especially the American Western wallflower (Erysimum asperum), a biennial herb with orange-yellow flowers. 1913 Webster]
2.A lady at a ball, who, either from choice, or because not asked to dance, remains a spectator. [Colloq.] 1913 Webster]
3.(Bot.)In Australia, the desert poison bush (Gastrolobium grandiflorum); -- called also native wallflower. Webster 1913 Suppl.]
Wall"ing, n.1.The act of making a wall or walls. 1913 Webster]
2.Walls, in general; material for walls. 1913 Webster]
Walling wax, a composition of wax and tallow used by etchers and engravers to make a bank, or wall, round the edge of a plate, so as to form a trough for holding the acid used in etching, and the like.Fairholt. 1913 Webster]
Wal*loons"(?), n. pl.; sing. Walloon(. [Cf. F. wallon.]A Romanic people inhabiting that part of Belgium which comprises the provinces of Hainaut, Namur, Li\'82ge, and Luxembourg, and about one third of Brabant; also, the language spoken by this people. Used also adjectively. [Written also Wallons.] \'bdA base Walloon . . . thrust Talbot with a spear.\'b8 Shak. 1913 Webster]
Walloon guard, the bodyguard of the Spanish monarch; -- so called because formerly consisting of Walloons. 1913 Webster]
Wal"lop(?), v. i.[Cf. OFlem. walop a gallop; of uncertain origin. Cf. Gallop.]To move quickly, but with great effort; to gallop. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.] 1913 Webster]
Wal"lop, n.A quick, rolling movement; a gallop. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.] 1913 Webster]
Wal"lop, v. i.[imp. & p. p.Walloped(?); p. pr. & vb. n.Walloping.][Probably fr. AS. weallan to spring up, to boil or bubble. Well, n. & v. i.] 1913 Webster]
1.To boil with a continued bubbling or heaving and rolling, with noise. [Prov. Eng.] Brockett. 1913 Webster]
2.To move in a rolling, cumbersome manner; to waddle. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell. 1913 Webster]
3.To be slatternly. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell. 1913 Webster]
Wal"lop, v. t.1.To beat soundly; to flog; to whip. [Prov. Eng., Scot., & Colloq. U. S.] 1913 Webster]
2.To wrap up temporarily. [Prov. Eng.] 1913 Webster]
3.To throw or tumble over. [Prov. Eng.] 1913 Webster]
Wal"lop, n.1.A thick piece of fat.Halliwell. 1913 Webster]
Wal"low(?), v. i.[imp. & p. p.Wallowed(?); p. pr. & vb. n.Wallowing.][OE. walwen, AS. wealwian; akin to Goth. walwjan (in comp.) to roll, L. volvere; cf. Skr. val to turn. \'fb147. Cf. Voluble Well, n.] 1913 Webster]
1.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. 1913 Webster]
I may wallow in the lily beds.Shak. 1913 Webster]
2.To live in filth or gross vice; to disport one's self in a beastly and unworthy manner. 1913 Webster]
God sees a man wallowing in his native impurity.South. 1913 Webster]
3.To wither; to fade. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.] 1913 Webster]
Wal"low, v. t.To roll; esp., to roll in anything defiling or unclean. \'bdWallow thyself in ashes.\'b8 Jer. vi. 26. 1913 Webster]
Wal"low, n.A kind of rolling walk. 1913 Webster]
One taught the toss, and one the new French wallow.Dryden. 1913 Webster]
2.Act of wallowing. Webster 1913 Suppl.]
3.A place to which an animal comes to wallow; also, the depression in the ground made by its wallowing; as, a buffalo wallow. Webster 1913 Suppl.]
Wal"low*er(?), n.1.One who, or that which, wallows. 1913 Webster]
2.(Mach.)A lantern wheel; a trundle. 1913 Webster]
Wal"low*ish, a.[Scot. wallow to fade or wither.]Flat; insipid. [Obs.] Overbury. 1913 Webster]
Wall"-plat`(?), n.(Zo\'94l.)The spotted flycatcher. It builds its nest on walls. [Prov. Eng.] 1913 Webster]
Wall"-sid`ed(?), a.(Naut.)Having sides nearly perpendicular; -- said of certain vessels to distinguish them from those having flaring sides, or sides tumbling home (see under Tumble, v. i.). 1913 Webster]
Wall Street. A street towards the southern end of the borough of Manhattan, New York City, extending from Broadway to the East River; -- so called from the old wall which extended along it when the city belonged to the Dutch. It is the chief financial center of the United States, hence the name is often used for the money market and the financial interests of the country; -- in American financial publications, also referred to as the street. Webster 1913 Suppl. +PJC]
Wall"wort`(?), n.(Bot.)The dwarf elder, or danewort (Sambucus Ebulus). 1913 Webster]
Walm(?), v. i.[AS. weallan; cf. w\'91lm, billow. \'fb147.]To roll; to spout; to boil up. [Obs.] Holland. 1913 Webster]
Wal"nut(?), n.[OE. walnot, AS. wealh-hnutu a Welsh or foreign nut, a walnut; wealh foreign, strange, n., a Welshman, Celt (akin to OHG. Walh, properly, a Celt, from the name of a Celtic tribe, in L. Volcae) + hnutu a nut; akin to D. walnoot, G. walnuss, Icel. valhnot, Sw. valn\'94t, Dan valn\'94d. See Nut, and cf. Welsh.](Bot.)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. 1913 Webster]
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walnut is given to several species of hickory (Carya), and their fruit. 1913 Webster]
Ash-leaved walnut, a tree (Juglans fraxinifolia), native in Transcaucasia. --
Black walnut, a North American tree (J. nigra) valuable for its purplish brown wood, which is extensively used in cabinetwork and for gunstocks. The nuts are thick-shelled, and nearly globular. --
English, European,
walnut, a tree (J. regia), native of Asia from the Caucasus to Japan, valuable for its timber and for its excellent nuts, which are also called Madeira nuts. --
Walnut brown, a deep warm brown color, like that of the heartwood of the black walnut. --
Walnut oil, oil extracted from walnut meats. It is used in cooking, making soap, etc. --
White walnut, a North American tree (J. cinerea), bearing long, oval, thick-shelled, oily nuts, commonly called butternuts. See Butternut. 1913 Webster]
Wal"rus(?), n.[D. walrus; of Scand. origin; cf. Dan valros, Sw. vallross, Norw. hvalros; literally, whale horse; akin to Icel. hrosshvalr, AS. horshw\'91l. See Whale, and Horse.](Zo\'94l.)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. 1913 Webster]
Trichecus obesus) is regarded by some as a distinct species, by others as a variety of the common walrus. 1913 Webster]
Wal"ter(?), v. i.[See Welter.]To roll or wallow; to welter. [Obs. or Prov. Eng. & Scot.] 1913 Webster]
Wal"ty(?), a.[Cf. Walter to roll.]Liable to roll over; crank; as, a walty ship. [R.] Longfellow. 1913 Webster]
Waltz(?), n.[G. walzer, from walzen to roll, revolve, dance, OHG. walzan to roll; akin to AS. wealtan. See Welter.]A dance performed by two persons in circular figures with a whirling motion; also, a piece of music composed in triple measure for this kind of dance. 1913 Webster]
Waltz, v. i.[imp. & p. p.Waltzed(?); p. pr. & vb. n.Waltzing.]To dance a waltz. 1913 Webster]
Waltz"er(?), n.A person who waltzes. 1913 Webster]