INSERT INTO `entries` VALUES ('Wearisome','a.','Causing weariness; tiresome; tedious; weariful; as, a\n   wearisome march; a wearisome day\'s work; a wearisome book.'),('Weary','superl.','Having the strength exhausted by toil or exertion; worn\n   out in respect to strength, endurance, etc.; tired; fatigued.'),('Weary','superl.','Causing weariness; tiresome.'),('Weary','superl.','Having one\'s patience, relish, or contentment\n   exhausted; tired; sick; -- with of before the cause; as, weary of\n   marching, or of confinement; weary of study.'),('Wearied','imp. & p. p.','of Weary'),('Wearying','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Weary'),('Weary','v. t.','To reduce or exhaust the physical strength or endurance\n   of; to tire; to fatigue; as, to weary one\'s self with labor or\n   traveling.'),('Weary','v. t.','To make weary of anything; to exhaust the patience of, as\n   by continuance.'),('Weary','v. t.','To harass by anything irksome.'),('Weary','v. i.','To grow tired; to become exhausted or impatient; as, to\n   weary of an undertaking.'),('Weasand','n.','The windpipe; -- called also, formerly, wesil.'),('Weasel','n.','Any one of various species of small carnivores belonging to\n   the genus Putorius, as the ermine and ferret. They have a slender,\n   elongated body, and are noted for the quickness of their movements and\n   for their bloodthirsty habit in destroying poultry, rats, etc. The\n   ermine and some other species are brown in summer, and turn white in\n   winter; others are brown at all seasons.'),('Weasel-faced','a.','Having a thin, sharp face, like a weasel.'),('Weaser','n.','The American merganser; -- called also weaser sheldrake.'),('Weasiness','n.','Quality or state of being weasy; full feeding; sensual\n   indulgence.'),('Weasy','a.','Given to sensual indulgence; gluttonous.'),('Weather','n.','The state of the air or atmosphere with respect to heat or\n   cold, wetness or dryness, calm or storm, clearness or cloudiness, or\n   any other meteorological phenomena; meteorological condition of the\n   atmosphere; as, warm weather; cold weather; wet weather; dry weather,\n   etc.'),('Weather','n.','Vicissitude of season; meteorological change; alternation\n   of the state of the air.'),('Weather','n.','Storm; tempest.'),('Weather','n.','A light rain; a shower.'),('Weathered','imp. & p. p.','of Weather'),('Weathering','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Weather'),('Weather','v. t.','To expose to the air; to air; to season by exposure to\n   air.'),('Weather','v. t.','Hence, to sustain the trying effect of; to bear up\n   against and overcome; to sustain; to endure; to resist; as, to weather\n   the storm.'),('Weather','v. t.','To sail or pass to the windward of; as, to weather a\n   cape; to weather another ship.'),('Weather','v. t.','To place (a hawk) unhooded in the open air.'),('Weather','v. i.','To undergo or endure the action of the atmosphere; to\n   suffer meteorological influences; sometimes, to wear away, or alter,\n   under atmospheric influences; to suffer waste by weather.'),('Weather','a.','Being toward the wind, or windward -- opposed to lee; as,\n   weather bow, weather braces, weather gauge, weather lifts, weather\n   quarter, weather shrouds, etc.'),('Weather-beaten','a.','Beaten or harassed by the weather; worn by exposure\n   to the weather, especially to severe weather.'),('Weather-bit','n.','A turn of the cable about the end of the windlass,\n   without the bits.'),('Weatherbit','v. t.','To take another turn with, as a cable around a\n   windlass.'),('Weather-bitten','a.','Eaten into, defaced, or worn, by exposure to the\n   weather.'),('Weatherboard','n.','That side of a vessel which is toward the wind; the\n   windward side.'),('Weatherboard','n.','A piece of plank placed in a porthole, or other\n   opening, to keep out water.'),('Weatherboard','n.','A board extending from the ridge to the eaves along\n   the slope of the gable, and forming a close junction between the\n   shingling of a roof and the side of the building beneath.'),('Weatherboard','n.','A clapboard or feather-edged board used in\n   weatherboarding.'),('Weather-board','v. t.','To nail boards upon so as to lap one over\n   another, in order to exclude rain, snow, etc.'),('Weatherboarding','n.','The covering or siding of a building, formed of\n   boards lapping over one another, to exclude rain, snow, etc.'),('Weatherboarding','n.','Boards adapted or intended for such use.'),('Weather-bound','a.','Kept in port or at anchor by storms; delayed by bad\n   weather; as, a weather-bound vessel.'),('Weathercock','n.','A vane, or weather vane; -- so called because\n   originally often in the figure of a cock, turning on the top of a spire\n   with the wind, and showing its direction.'),('Weathercock','n.','Hence, any thing or person that turns easily and\n   frequently; one who veers with every change of current opinion; a\n   fickle, inconstant person.'),('Weathercock','v. t.','To supply with a weathercock; to serve as a\n   weathercock for.'),('Weather-driven','a.','Driven by winds or storms; forced by stress of\n   weather.'),('Weathered','a.','Made sloping, so as to throw off water; as, a weathered\n   cornice or window sill.'),('Weathered','a.','Having the surface altered in color, texture, or\n   composition, or the edges rounded off by exposure to the elements.'),('Weather-fend','v. t.','To defend from the weather; to shelter.'),('Weatherglass','n.','An instrument to indicate the state of the\n   atmosphere, especially changes of atmospheric pressure, and hence\n   changes of weather, as a barometer or baroscope.'),('Weathering','n.','The action of the elements on a rock in altering its\n   color, texture, or composition, or in rounding off its edges.'),('Weatherliness','n.','The quality of being weatherly.'),('Weatherly','a.','Working, or able to sail, close to the wind; as, a\n   weatherly ship.'),('Weathermost','a.','Being farthest to the windward.'),('Weatherproof','a.','Proof against rough weather.'),('Weatherwise','a.','Skillful in forecasting the changes of the weather.'),('Weatherwiser','n.','Something that foreshows the weather.'),('Weatherworn','a.','Worn by the action of, or by exposure to, the weather.'),('Wove','imp.','of Weave'),('Woven','p. p.','of Weave'),('Wove','','of Weave'),('Weaving','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Weave'),('Weaved','imp. & p. p.','of Weave'),('Weave','v. t.','To unite, as threads of any kind, in such a manner as to\n   form a texture; to entwine or interlace into a fabric; as, to weave\n   wool, silk, etc.; hence, to unite by close connection or intermixture;\n   to unite intimately.'),('Weave','v. t.','To form, as cloth, by interlacing threads; to compose, as\n   a texture of any kind, by putting together textile materials; as, to\n   weave broadcloth; to weave a carpet; hence, to form into a fabric; to\n   compose; to fabricate; as, to weave the plot of a story.'),('Weave','v. i.','To practice weaving; to work with a loom.'),('Weave','v. i.','To become woven or interwoven.'),('Weave','n.','A particular method or pattern of weaving; as, the cassimere\n   weave.'),('Weaver','n.','One who weaves, or whose occupation is to weave.'),('Weaver','n.','A weaver bird.'),('Weaver','n.','An aquatic beetle of the genus Gyrinus. See Whirling.'),('Weaverfish','n.','See Weever.'),('Weaving','n.','The act of one who, or that which, weaves; the act or art\n   of forming cloth in a loom by the union or intertexture of threads.'),('Weaving','n.','An incessant motion of a horse\'s head, neck, and body,\n   from side to side, fancied to resemble the motion of a hand weaver in\n   throwing the shuttle.'),('Weazand','n.','See Weasand.'),('Weazen','a.','Thin; sharp; withered; wizened; as, a weazen face.'),('Weazeny','a.','Somewhat weazen; shriveled.'),('Web','n.','A weaver.'),('Web','n.','That which is woven; a texture; textile fabric; esp.,\n   something woven in a loom.'),('Web','n.','A whole piece of linen cloth as woven.'),('Web','n.','The texture of very fine thread spun by a spider for catching\n   insects at its prey; a cobweb.'),('Web','n.','Fig.: Tissue; texture; complicated fabrication.'),('Web','n.','A band of webbing used to regulate the extension of the hood.'),('Web','n.','A thin metal sheet, plate, or strip, as of lead.'),('Web','n.','The blade of a sword.'),('Web','n.','The blade of a saw.'),('Web','n.','The thin, sharp part of a colter.'),('Web','n.','The bit of a key.'),('Web','n.','A plate or thin portion, continuous or perforated, connecting\n   stiffening ribs or flanges, or other parts of an object.'),('Web','n.','The thin vertical plate or portion connecting the upper and\n   lower flanges of an lower flanges of an iron girder, rolled beam, or\n   railroad rail.'),('Web','n.','A disk or solid construction serving, instead of spokes, for\n   connecting the rim and hub, in some kinds of car wheels, sheaves, etc.'),('Web','n.','The arm of a crank between the shaft and the wrist.'),('Web','n.','The part of a blackmith\'s anvil between the face and the foot.'),('Web','n.','Pterygium; -- called also webeye.'),('Web','n.','The membrane which unites the fingers or toes, either at their\n   bases, as in man, or for a greater part of their length, as in many\n   water birds and amphibians.'),('Web','n.','The series of barbs implanted on each side of the shaft of a\n   feather, whether stiff and united together by barbules, as in ordinary\n   feathers, or soft and separate, as in downy feathers. See Feather.'),('Webbed','imp. & p. p.','of Web'),('Webbing','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Web'),('Web','v. t.','To unite or surround with a web, or as if with a web; to\n   envelop; to entangle.'),('Webbed','a.','Provided with a web.'),('Webbed','a.','Having the toes united by a membrane, or web; as, the\n   webbed feet of aquatic fowls.'),('Webber','n.','One who forms webs; a weaver; a webster.'),('Webbing','n.','A woven band of cotton or flax, used for reins, girths,\n   bed bottoms, etc.'),('Webby','a.','Of or pertaining to a web or webs; like a web; filled or\n   covered with webs.'),('Weber','n.','The standard unit of electrical quantity, and also of\n   current. See Coulomb, and Amp/re.'),('Webeye','n.','See Web, n., 8.'),('Web-fingered','a.','Having the fingers united by a web for a considerable\n   part of their length.'),('Webfeet','pl. ','of Webfoot'),('Webfoot','n.','A foot the toes of which are connected by a membrane.'),('Webfoot','n.','Any web-footed bird.'),('Web-footed','a.','Having webbed feet; palmiped; as, a goose or a duck is\n   a web-footed fowl.'),('Webster','n.','A weaver; originally, a female weaver.'),('Websterite','n.','A hydrous sulphate of alumina occurring in white\n   reniform masses.'),('Web-toed','a.','Having the toes united by a web for a considerable part\n   of their length.'),('Webform','n.','Any one of various species of moths whose gregarious\n   larvae eat the leaves of trees, and construct a large web to which they\n   retreat when not feeding.'),('Wed','n.','A pledge; a pawn.'),('Wedded','imp.','of Wed'),('Wedded','p. p.','of Wed'),('Wed','','of Wed'),('Wedding','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Wed'),('Wed','n.','To take for husband or for wife by a formal ceremony; to\n   marry; to espouse.'),('Wed','n.','To join in marriage; to give in wedlock.'),('Wed','n.','Fig.: To unite as if by the affections or the bond of\n   marriage; to attach firmly or indissolubly.'),('Wed','n.','To take to one\'s self and support; to espouse.'),('Wed','v. i.','To contact matrimony; to marry.'),('Weddahs','n. pl.','See Veddahs.'),('Wedded','a.','Joined in wedlock; married.'),('Wedded','a.','Of or pertaining to wedlock, or marriage.'),('Wedder','n.','See Wether.'),('Wedding','n.','Nuptial ceremony; nuptial festivities; marriage; nuptials.'),('Weder','n.','Weather.'),('Wedge','n.','A piece of metal, or other hard material, thick at one end,\n   and tapering to a thin edge at the other, used in splitting wood,\n   rocks, etc., in raising heavy bodies, and the like. It is one of the\n   six elementary machines called the mechanical powers. See Illust. of\n   Mechanical powers, under Mechanical.'),('Wedge','n.','A solid of five sides, having a rectangular base, two\n   rectangular or trapezoidal sides meeting in an edge, and two triangular\n   ends.'),('Wedge','n.','A mass of metal, especially when of a wedgelike form.'),('Wedge','n.','Anything in the form of a wedge, as a body of troops drawn\n   up in such a form.'),('Wedge','n.','The person whose name stands lowest on the list of the\n   classical tripos; -- so called after a person (Wedgewood) who occupied\n   this position on the first list of 1828.'),('Wedged','imp. & p. p.','of Wedge'),('Wedging','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Wedge'),('Wedge','v. t.','To cleave or separate with a wedge or wedges, or as with\n   a wedge; to rive.'),('Wedge','v. t.','To force or drive as a wedge is driven.'),('Wedge','v. t.','To force by crowding and pushing as a wedge does; as, to\n   wedge one\'s way.'),('Wedge','v. t.','To press closely; to fix, or make fast, in the manner of\n   a wedge that is driven into something.'),('Wedge','v. t.','To fasten with a wedge, or with wedges; as, to wedge a\n   scythe on the snath; to wedge a rail or a piece of timber in its place.'),('Wedge','v. t.','To cut, as clay, into wedgelike masses, and work by\n   dashing together, in order to expel air bubbles, etc.'),('Wedgebill','n.','An Australian crested insessorial bird (Sphenostoma\n   cristatum) having a wedge-shaped bill. Its color is dull brown, like\n   the earth of the plains where it lives.'),('Wedge-formed','a.','Having the form of a wedge; cuneiform.'),('Wedge-shaped','a.','Having the shape of a wedge; cuneiform.'),('Wedge-shaped','a.','Broad and truncate at the summit, and tapering down\n   to the base; as, a wedge-shaped leaf.'),('Wedge-shell','n.','Any one of numerous species of small marine bivalves\n   belonging to Donax and allied genera in which the shell is\n   wedge-shaped.'),('Wedge-tailed','a.','Having a tail which has the middle pair of feathers\n   longest, the rest successively and decidedly shorter, and all more or\n   less attenuate; -- said of certain birds. See Illust. of Wood hoopoe,\n   under Wood.'),('Wedgewise','adv.','In the manner of a wedge.'),('Wedgwood ware','','A kind of fine pottery, the most remarkable being what\n   is called jasper, either white, or colored throughout the body, and\n   capable of being molded into the most delicate forms, so that fine and\n   minute bas-reliefs like cameos were made of it, fit even for being set\n   as jewels.'),('Wedgy','a.','Like a wedge; wedge-shaped.'),('Wedlock','v. i.','The ceremony, or the state, of marriage; matrimony.'),('Wedlock','v. i.','A wife; a married woman.'),('Wedlock','v. t.','To marry; to unite in marriage; to wed.'),('Wednesday','a.','The fourth day of the week; the next day after Tuesday.'),('Wee','n.','A little; a bit, as of space, time, or distance.'),('Wee','a.','Very small; little.'),('Weech-elm','n.','The wych-elm.'),('Weed','n.','A garment; clothing; especially, an upper or outer garment.'),('Weed','n.','An article of dress worn in token of grief; a mourning\n   garment or badge; as, he wore a weed on his hat; especially, in the\n   plural, mourning garb, as of a woman; as, a widow\'s weeds.'),('Weed','n.','A sudden illness or relapse, often attended with fever, which\n   attacks women in childbed.'),('Weed','n.','Underbrush; low shrubs.'),('Weed','n.','Any plant growing in cultivated ground to the injury of the\n   crop or desired vegetation, or to the disfigurement of the place; an\n   unsightly, useless, or injurious plant.'),('Weed','n.','Fig.: Something unprofitable or troublesome; anything\n   useless.'),('Weed','n.','An animal unfit to breed from.'),('Weed','n.','Tobacco, or a cigar.'),('Weeded','imp. & p. p.','of Weed'),('Weeding','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Weed'),('Weed','v. t.','To free from noxious plants; to clear of weeds; as, to\n   weed corn or onions; to weed a garden.'),('Weed','v. t.','To take away, as noxious plants; to remove, as something\n   hurtful; to extirpate.'),('Weed','v. t.','To free from anything hurtful or offensive.'),('Weed','v. t.','To reject as unfit for breeding purposes.'),('Weeder','n.','One who, or that which, weeds, or frees from anything\n   noxious.'),('Weedery','n.','Weeds, collectively; also, a place full of weeds or for\n   growing weeds.'),('Weeding','','a. & n. from Weed, v.'),('Weeding-rhim','n.','A kind of implement used for tearing up weeds esp. on\n   summer fallows.'),('Weedless','a.','Free from weeds or noxious matter.'),('Weedy','superl.','Of or pertaining to weeds; consisting of weeds.'),('Weedy','superl.','Abounding with weeds; as, weedy grounds; a weedy\n   garden; weedy corn.'),('Weedy','superl.','Scraggy; ill-shaped; ungainly; -- said of colts or\n   horses, and also of persons.'),('Weedy','a.','Dressed in weeds, or mourning garments.'),('Week','n.','A period of seven days, usually that reckoned from one\n   Sabbath or Sunday to the next.'),('Weekly','a.','Of or pertaining to a week, or week days; as, weekly labor.'),('Weekly','a.','Coming, happening, or done once a week; hebdomadary; as, a\n   weekly payment; a weekly gazette.'),('Weeklies','pl. ','of Weekly'),('Weekly','n.','A publication issued once in seven days, or appearing once\n   a week.'),('Weekly','adv.','Once a week; by hebdomadal periods; as, each performs\n   service weekly.'),('Weekwam','n.','See Wigwam.'),('Weel','a. & adv.','Well.'),('Weel','n.','A whirlpool.'),('Weel','','Alt. of Weely'),('Weely','','A kind of trap or snare for fish, made of twigs.'),('Ween','v. i.','To think; to imagine; to fancy.'),('Weep','n.','The lapwing; the wipe; -- so called from its cry.'),('Weep','','imp. of Weep, for wept.'),('Wept','imp. & p. p.','of Weep'),('Weeping','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Weep'),('Weep','v. i.','Formerly, to express sorrow, grief, or anguish, by outcry,\n   or by other manifest signs; in modern use, to show grief or other\n   passions by shedding tears; to shed tears; to cry.'),('Weep','v. i.','To lament; to complain.'),('Weep','v. i.','To flow in drops; to run in drops.'),('Weep','v. i.','To drop water, or the like; to drip; to be soaked.'),('Weep','v. i.','To hang the branches, as if in sorrow; to be pendent; to\n   droop; -- said of a plant or its branches.'),('Weep','v. t.','To lament; to bewail; to bemoan.'),('Weep','v. t.','To shed, or pour forth, as tears; to shed drop by drop, as\n   if tears; as, to weep tears of joy.'),('Weeper','n.','One who weeps; esp., one who sheds tears.'),('Weeper','n.','A white band or border worn on the sleeve as a badge of\n   mourning.'),('Weeper','n.','The capuchin. See Capuchin, 3 (a).'),('Weepful','a.','Full of weeping or lamentation; grieving.'),('Weeping','n.','The act of one who weeps; lamentation with tears; shedding\n   of tears.'),('Weeping','a.','Grieving; lamenting; shedding tears.'),('Weeping','a.','Discharging water, or other liquid, in drops or very\n   slowly; surcharged with water.'),('Weeping','a.','Having slender, pendent branches; -- said of trees; as,\n   weeping willow; a weeping ash.'),('Weeping','a.','Pertaining to lamentation, or those who weep.'),('Weepingly','adv.','In a weeping manner.'),('Weeping-ripe','a.','Ripe for weeping; ready to weep.'),('Weerish','a.','See Wearish.'),('Weesel','n.','See Weasel.'),('Weet','a. & n.','Wet.'),('Wot','imp.','of Weet'),('Weet','v. i.','To know; to wit.'),('Weet-bird','n.','The wryneck; -- so called from its cry.'),('Weetingly','adv.','Knowingly.'),('Weetless','a.','Unknowing; also, unknown; unmeaning.'),('Weet-weet','n.','The common European sandpiper.'),('Weet-weet','n.','The chaffinch.'),('Weever','n.','Any one of several species of edible marine fishes\n   belonging to the genus Trachinus, of the family Trachinidae. They have\n   a broad spinose head, with the eyes looking upward. The long dorsal fin\n   is supported by numerous strong, sharp spines which cause painful\n   wounds.'),('Weevil','n.','Any one of numerous species of snout beetles, or\n   Rhynchophora, in which the head is elongated and usually curved\n   downward. Many of the species are very injurious to cultivated plants.\n   The larvae of some of the species live in nuts, fruit, and grain by\n   eating out the interior, as the plum weevil, or curculio, the nut\n   weevils, and the grain weevil (see under Plum, Nut, and Grain). The\n   larvae of other species bore under the bark and into the pith of trees\n   and various other plants, as the pine weevils (see under Pine). See\n   also Pea weevil, Rice weevil, Seed weevil, under Pea, Rice, and Seed.'),('Weeviled','a.','Infested by weevils; as, weeviled grain.'),('Weevily','a.','Having weevils; weeviled.'),('Weezel','n.','See Weasel.'),('Weft','','imp. & p. p. of Wave.'),('Weft','n.','A thing waved, waived, or cast away; a waif.'),('Weft','n.','The woof of cloth; the threads that cross the warp from\n   selvage to selvage; the thread carried by the shuttle in weaving.'),('Weft','n.','A web; a thing woven.'),('Weftage','n.','Texture.'),('Wegotism','n.','Excessive use of the pronoun we; -- called also weism.'),('Wehrgeld','n.','Alt. of Wehrgelt'),('Wehrgelt','n.','See Weregild.'),('Wehrwolf','n.','See Werewolf.'),('Weigela','n.','Alt. of Weigelia'),('Weigelia','n.','A hardy garden shrub (Diervilla Japonica) belonging to\n   the Honeysuckle family, with white or red flowers. It was introduced\n   from China.'),('Weigh','n.','A corruption of Way, used only in the phrase under weigh.'),('Weighed','imp. & p. p.','of Weigh'),('Weighing','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Weigh'),('Weigh','v. t.','To bear up; to raise; to lift into the air; to swing up;\n   as, to weigh anchor.'),('Weigh','v. t.','To examine by the balance; to ascertain the weight of,\n   that is, the force with which a thing tends to the center of the earth;\n   to determine the heaviness, or quantity of matter of; as, to weigh\n   sugar; to weigh gold.'),('Weigh','v. t.','To be equivalent to in weight; to counterbalance; to have\n   the heaviness of.'),('Weigh','v. t.','To pay, allot, take, or give by weight.'),('Weigh','v. t.','To examine or test as if by the balance; to ponder in the\n   mind; to consider or examine for the purpose of forming an opinion or\n   coming to a conclusion; to estimate deliberately and maturely; to\n   balance.'),('Weigh','v. t.','To consider as worthy of notice; to regard.'),('Weigh','v. i.','To have weight; to be heavy.'),('Weigh','v. i.','To be considered as important; to have weight in the\n   intellectual balance.'),('Weigh','v. i.','To bear heavily; to press hard.'),('Weigh','v. i.','To judge; to estimate.'),('Weigh','n.','A certain quantity estimated by weight; an English measure\n   of weight. See Wey.'),('Weighable','a.','Capable of being weighed.'),('Weighage','n.','A duty or toil paid for weighing merchandise.'),('Weighbeam','n.','A kind of large steelyard for weighing merchandise; --\n   also called weighmaster\'s beam.'),('Weighboard','n.','Clay intersecting a vein.'),('Weighbridge','n.','A weighing machine on which loaded carts may be\n   weighed; platform scales.'),('Weigher','n.','One who weighs; specifically, an officer whose duty it is\n   to weigh commodities.'),('Weigh-houses','pl. ','of Weigh-house'),('Weigh-house','n.','A building at or within which goods, and the like, are\n   weighed.'),('Weighing','','a. & n. from Weigh, v.'),('Weighlock','n.','A lock, as on a canal, in which boats are weighed and\n   their tonnage is settled.'),('Weighmaster','n.','One whose business it is to weigh ore, hay,\n   merchandise, etc.; one licensed as a public weigher.'),('Weight','v. t.','The quality of being heavy; that property of bodies by\n   which they tend toward the center of the earth; the effect of\n   gravitative force, especially when expressed in certain units or\n   standards, as pounds, grams, etc.'),('Weight','v. t.','The quantity of heaviness; comparative tendency to the\n   center of the earth; the quantity of matter as estimated by the\n   balance, or expressed numerically with reference to some standard unit;\n   as, a mass of stone having the weight of five hundred pounds.'),('Weight','v. t.','Hence, pressure; burden; as, the weight of care or\n   business.'),('Weight','v. t.','Importance; power; influence; efficacy; consequence;\n   moment; impressiveness; as, a consideration of vast weight.'),('Weight','v. t.','A scale, or graduated standard, of heaviness; a mode of\n   estimating weight; as, avoirdupois weight; troy weight; apothecaries\'\n   weight.'),('Weight','v. t.','A ponderous mass; something heavy; as, a clock weight; a\n   paper weight.'),('Weight','v. t.','A definite mass of iron, lead, brass, or other metal, to\n   be used for ascertaining the weight of other bodies; as, an ounce\n   weight.'),('Weight','v. t.','The resistance against which a machine acts, as opposed\n   to the power which moves it.'),('Weighted','imp. & p. p.','of Weight'),('Weighting','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Weight'),('Weight','v. t.','To load with a weight or weights; to load down; to make\n   heavy; to attach weights to; as, to weight a horse or a jockey at a\n   race; to weight a whip handle.'),('Weight','v. t.','To assign a weight to; to express by a number the\n   probable accuracy of, as an observation. See Weight of observations,\n   under Weight.'),('Weightily','adv.','In a weighty manner.'),('Weightiness','n.','The quality or state of being weighty; weight; force;\n   importance; impressiveness.'),('Weightless','a.','Having no weight; imponderable; hence, light.'),('Weighty','superl.','Having weight; heavy; ponderous; as, a weighty body.'),('Weighty','superl.','Adapted to turn the balance in the mind, or to\n   convince; important; forcible; serious; momentous.'),('Weighty','superl.','Rigorous; severe; afflictive.'),('Weir','n.','Alt. of Wear'),('Wear','n.','A dam in a river to stop and raise the water, for the purpose\n   of conducting it to a mill, forming a fish pond, or the like.'),('Wear','n.','A fence of stakes, brushwood, or the like, set in a stream,\n   tideway, or inlet of the sea, for taking fish.'),('Wear','n.','A long notch with a horizontal edge, as in the top of a\n   vertical plate or plank, through which water flows, -- used in\n   measuring the quantity of flowing water.'),('Weird','n.','Fate; destiny; one of the Fates, or Norns; also, a\n   prediction.'),('Weird','n.','A spell or charm.'),('Weird','a.','Of or pertaining to fate; concerned with destiny.'),('Weird','a.','Of or pertaining to witchcraft; caused by, or suggesting,\n   magical influence; supernatural; unearthly; wild; as, a weird\n   appearance, look, sound, etc.'),('Weird','v. t.','To foretell the fate of; to predict; to destine to.'),('Weirdness','n.','The quality or state of being weird.'),('Weism','n.','Same as Wegotism.'),('Weive','v. t.','See Waive.'),('Weka','n.','A New Zealand rail (Ocydromus australis) which has wings so\n   short as to be incapable of flight.'),('Wekau','n.','A small New Zealand owl (Sceloglaux albifacies). It has\n   short wings and long legs, and lives chiefly on the ground.'),('Wekeen','n.','The meadow pipit.'),('Welaway','interj.','Alas!'),('Wel-begone','a.','Surrounded with happiness or prosperity.'),('Welch','a.','See Welsh.'),('Welcher','n.','See Welsher.'),('Welchman','n.','See Welshman.'),('Welcome','n.','Received with gladness; admitted willingly to the house,\n   entertainment, or company; as, a welcome visitor.'),('Welcome','n.','Producing gladness; grateful; as, a welcome present;\n   welcome news.'),('Welcome','n.','Free to have or enjoy gratuitously; as, you are welcome to\n   the use of my library.'),('Welcome','n.','Salutation to a newcomer.'),('Welcome','n.','Kind reception of a guest or newcomer; as, we entered the\n   house and found a ready welcome.'),('Welcomed','imp. & p. p.','of Welcome'),('Welcoming','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Welcome'),('Welcome','v. t.','To salute with kindness, as a newcomer; to receive and\n   entertain hospitably and cheerfully; as, to welcome a visitor; to\n   welcome a new idea.'),('Welcomely','adv.','In a welcome manner.'),('Welcomeness','n.','The quality or state of being welcome; gratefulness;\n   agreeableness; kind reception.'),('Welcomer','n.','One who welcomes; one who salutes, or receives kindly, a\n   newcomer.'),('Weld','v. t.','To wield.'),('Weld','n.','An herb (Reseda luteola) related to mignonette, growing in\n   Europe, and to some extent in America; dyer\'s broom; dyer\'s rocket;\n   dyer\'s weed; wild woad. It is used by dyers to give a yellow color.'),('Weld','n.','Coloring matter or dye extracted from this plant.'),('Welded','imp. & p. p.','of Weld'),('Welding','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Weld'),('Weld','v. t.','To press or beat into intimate and permanent union, as two\n   pieces of iron when heated almost to fusion.'),('Weld','v. t.','Fig.: To unite closely or intimately.'),('Weld','n.','The state of being welded; the joint made by welding.'),('Weldable','a.','Capable of being welded.'),('Welder','n.','One who welds, or unites pieces of iron, etc., by welding.'),('Welder','n.','One who welds, or wields.'),('Welder','n.','A manager; an actual occupant.'),('Weldon\'s process','','A process for the recovery or regeneration of\n   manganese dioxide in the manufacture of chlorine, by means of milk of\n   lime and the oxygen of the air; -- so called after the inventor.'),('Wele','n.','Prosperity; happiness; well-being; weal.'),('Weleful','a.','Producing prosperity or happiness; blessed.'),('Welew','v. t.','To welk, or wither.'),('Welfare','n.','Well-doing or well-being in any respect; the enjoyment of\n   health and the common blessings of life; exemption from any evil or\n   calamity; prosperity; happiness.'),('Welfaring','a.','Faring well; prosperous; thriving.'),('Welked','imp. & p. p.','of Welk'),('Welking','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Welk'),('Welk','v. i.','To wither; to fade; also, to decay; to decline; to wane.'),('Welk','v. t.','To cause to wither; to wilt.'),('Welk','v. t.','To contract; to shorten.'),('Welk','v. t.','To soak; also, to beat severely.'),('Welk','n.','A pustule. See 2d Whelk.'),('Welk','n.','A whelk.'),('Welked','v. t.','See Whelked.'),('Welkin','n.','The visible regions of the air; the vault of heaven; the\n   sky.'),('Well','v. i.','An issue of water from the earth; a spring; a fountain.'),('Well','v. i.','A pit or hole sunk into the earth to such a depth as to\n   reach a supply of water, generally of a cylindrical form, and often\n   walled with stone or bricks to prevent the earth from caving in.'),('Well','v. i.','A shaft made in the earth to obtain oil or brine.'),('Well','v. i.','Fig.: A source of supply; fountain; wellspring.'),('Well','v. i.','An inclosure in the middle of a vessel\'s hold, around the\n   pumps, from the bottom to the lower deck, to preserve the pumps from\n   damage and facilitate their inspection.'),('Well','v. i.','A compartment in the middle of the hold of a fishing\n   vessel, made tight at the sides, but having holes perforated in the\n   bottom to let in water for the preservation of fish alive while they\n   are transported to market.'),('Well','v. i.','A vertical passage in the stern into which an auxiliary\n   screw propeller may be drawn up out of water.'),('Well','v. i.','A depressed space in the after part of the deck; -- often\n   called the cockpit.'),('Well','v. i.','A hole or excavation in the earth, in mining, from which\n   run branches or galleries.'),('Well','v. i.','An opening through the floors of a building, as for a\n   staircase or an elevator; a wellhole.'),('Well','v. i.','The lower part of a furnace, into which the metal falls.'),('Welled','imp. & p. p.','of Well'),('Welling','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Well'),('Well','v. i.','To issue forth, as water from the earth; to flow; to\n   spring.'),('Well','v. t.','To pour forth, as from a well.'),('Well','v. t.','In a good or proper manner; justly; rightly; not ill or\n   wickedly.'),('Well','v. t.','Suitably to one\'s condition, to the occasion, or to a\n   proposed end or use; suitably; abundantly; fully; adequately;\n   thoroughly.'),('Well','v. t.','Fully or about; -- used with numbers.'),('Well','v. t.','In such manner as is desirable; so as one could wish;\n   satisfactorily; favorably; advantageously; conveniently.'),('Well','v. t.','Considerably; not a little; far.'),('Well','a.','Good in condition or circumstances; desirable, either in a\n   natural or moral sense; fortunate; convenient; advantageous; happy; as,\n   it is well for the country that the crops did not fail; it is well that\n   the mistake was discovered.'),('Well','a.','Being in health; sound in body; not ailing, diseased, or\n   sick; healthy; as, a well man; the patient is perfectly well.'),('Well','a.','Being in favor; favored; fortunate.'),('Well','a.','Safe; as, a chip warranted well at a certain day and place.'),('Welladay','interj.','Alas! Welaway!'),('Wellat','n.','The king parrakeet See under King.'),('Well-being','n.','The state or condition of being well; welfare;\n   happiness; prosperity; as, virtue is essential to the well-being of men\n   or of society.'),('Well-born','a.','Born of a noble or respect able family; not of mean\n   birth.'),('Well-bred','a.','Having good breeding; refined in manners; polite;\n   cultivated.'),('Welldoer','n.','One who does well; one who does good to another; a\n   benefactor.'),('Welldoing','n.','A doing well; right performance of duties. Also used\n   adjectively.'),('Welldrained','imp. & p. p.','of Welldrain'),('Well-draining','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Welldrain'),('Welldrain','v. t.','To drain, as land; by means of wells, or pits, which\n   receive the water, and from which it is discharged by machinery.'),('Wellfare','n.','See Welfare.'),('Well-favored','a.','Handsome; wellformed; beautiful; pleasing to the eye.'),('Wellhead','n.','A source, spring, or fountain.'),('Wellhole','n.','The open space in a floor, to accommodate a staircase.'),('Wellhole','n.','The open space left beyond the ends of the steps of a\n   staircase.'),('Wellhole','n.','A cavity which receives a counterbalancing weight in\n   certain mechanical contrivances, and is adapted also for other\n   purposes.'),('Well-informed','a.','Correctly informed; provided with information; well\n   furnished with authentic knowledge; intelligent.'),('Wellingtonia','n.','A name given to the \"big trees\" (Sequoia gigantea) of\n   California, and still used in England. See Sequoia.'),('Wellingtons','n. pl.','A kind of long boots for men.'),('Well-intentioned','a.','Having upright intentions or honorable purposes.'),('Well-known','a.','Fully known; generally known or acknowledged.'),('Well-liking','a.','Being in good condition.'),('Well-mannered','a.','Polite; well-bred; complaisant; courteous.'),('Well-meaner','n.','One whose intention is good.'),('Well-meaning','a.','Having a good intention.'),('Well-natured','a.','Good-natured; kind.'),('Well-nigh','adv.','Almost; nearly.'),('Well-plighted','a.','Being well folded.'),('Well-read','a.','Of extensive reading; deeply versed; -- often followed\n   by in.'),('Well-seen','a.','Having seen much; hence, accomplished; experienced.'),('Well-set','a.','Properly or firmly set.'),('Well-set','a.','Well put together; having symmetry of parts.'),('Well-sped','a.','Having good success.'),('Well-spoken','a.','Speaking well; speaking with fitness or grace;\n   speaking kindly.'),('Well-spoken','a.','Spoken with propriety; as, well-spoken words.'),('Wellspring','n.','A fountain; a spring; a source of continual supply.'),('Well-willer','n.','One who wishes well, or means kindly.'),('Well-wish','n.','A wish of happiness.'),('Wellwisher','n.','One who wishes another well; one who is benevolently or\n   friendlily inclined.'),('We\'ll','','Contraction for we will or we shall.'),('Wels','n.','The sheatfish; -- called also waller.'),('Welsh','a.','Of or pertaining to Wales, or its inhabitants.'),('Welsh','n.','The language of Wales, or of the Welsh people.'),('Welsh','n.','The natives or inhabitants of Wales.'),('Welsher','n.','One who cheats at a horse race; one who bets, without a\n   chance of being able to pay; one who receives money to back certain\n   horses and absconds with it.'),('Welshmen','pl. ','of Welshman'),('Welshman','n.','A native or inhabitant of Wales; one of the Welsh.'),('Welshman','n.','A squirrel fish.'),('Welshman','n.','The large-mouthed black bass. See Black bass.'),('Welsome','a.','Prosperous; well.'),('Welt','n.','That which, being sewed or otherwise fastened to an edge or\n   border, serves to guard, strengthen, or adorn it'),('Welt','n.','A small cord covered with cloth and sewed on a seam or border\n   to strengthen it; an edge of cloth folded on itself, usually over a\n   cord, and sewed down.'),('Welt','n.','A hem, border, or fringe.'),('Welt','n.','In shoemaking, a narrow strip of leather around a shoe,\n   between the upper leather and sole.'),('Welt','n.','In steam boilers and sheet-iron work, a strip riveted upon\n   the edges of plates that form a butt joint.'),('Welt','n.','In carpentry, a strip of wood fastened over a flush seam or\n   joint, or an angle, to strengthen it.'),('Welt','n.','In machine-made stockings, a strip, or flap, of which the\n   heel is formed.'),('Welt','n.','A narrow border, as of an ordinary, but not extending around\n   the ends.'),('Welted','imp. & p. p.','of Welt'),('Welting','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Welt'),('Welt','v. t.','To furnish with a welt; to sew or fasten a welt on; as, to\n   welt a boot or a shoe; to welt a sleeve.'),('Welt','v. t.','To wilt.'),('Welte','','imp. of Weld, to wield.'),('Weltered','imp. & p. p.','of Welter'),('Weltering','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Welter'),('Welter','v. i.','To roll, as the body of an animal; to tumble about,\n   especially in anything foul or defiling; to wallow.'),('Welter','v. i.','To rise and fall, as waves; to tumble over, as billows.'),('Welter','v. i.','To wither; to wilt.'),('Welter','a.','Of, pertaining to, or designating, the most heavily\n   weighted race in a meeting; as, a welter race; the welter stakes.'),('Welter','n.','That in which any person or thing welters, or wallows;\n   filth; mire; slough.'),('Welter','n.','A rising or falling, as of waves; as, the welter of the\n   billows; the welter of a tempest.'),('Welwitschia','n.','An African plant (Welwitschia mirabilis) belonging to\n   the order Gnetaceae. It consists of a short, woody, topshaped stem, and\n   never more than two leaves, which are the cotyledons enormously\n   developed, and at length split into diverging segments.'),('Wem','n.','The abdomen; the uterus; the womb.'),('Wem','n.','Spot; blemish; harm; hurt.'),('Wem','v. t.','To stain; to blemish; to harm; to corrupt.'),('Wemless','a.','Having no wem, or blemish; spotless.'),('Wem','n.','An indolent, encysted tumor of the skin; especially, a\n   sebaceous cyst.'),('Wench','n.','A young woman; a girl; a maiden.'),('Wench','n.','A low, vicious young woman; a drab; a strumpet.'),('Wench','n.','A colored woman; a negress.'),('Wenched','imp. & p. p.','of Wench'),('Wenching','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Wench'),('Wench','v. i.','To frequent the company of wenches, or women of ill fame.'),('Wencher','n.','One who wenches; a lewd man.'),('Wenchless','a.','Being without a wench.'),('Wend','','p. p. of Wene.'),('Wended','imp. & p. p.','of Wend'),('Went','','of Wend'),('Wending','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Wend'),('Wend','v. i.','To go; to pass; to betake one\'s self.'),('Wend','v. i.','To turn round.'),('Wend','v. t.','To direct; to betake; -- used chiefly in the phrase to\n   wend one\'s way. Also used reflexively.'),('Wend','n.','A large extent of ground; a perambulation; a circuit.'),('Wende','','imp. of Wene.'),('Wendic','a.','Alt. of Wendish'),('Wendish','a.','Of or pertaining the Wends, or their language.'),('Wendic','n.','The language of the Wends.'),('Wends','n. pl.','A Slavic tribe which once occupied the northern and\n   eastern parts of Germany, of which a small remnant exists.'),('Wene','v. i.','To ween.'),('Wenlock group','','The middle subdivision of the Upper Silurian in Great\n   Britain; -- so named from the typical locality in Shropshire.'),('Wennel','n.','See Weanel.'),('Wennish','a.','Alt. of Wenny'),('Wenny','a.','Having the nature of a wen; resembling a wen; as, a wennish\n   excrescence.'),('Wenona','n.','A sand snake (Charina plumbea) of Western North America, of\n   the family Erycidae.'),('Went','','imp. & p. p. of Wend; -- now obsolete except as the imperfect\n   of go, with which it has no etymological connection. See Go.'),('Went','n.','Course; way; path; journey; direction.'),('Wentletrap','n.','Any one of numerous species of elegant, usually white,\n   marine shells of the genus Scalaria, especially Scalaria pretiosa,\n   which was formerly highly valued; -- called also staircase shell. See\n   Scalaria.'),('Wep','','imp. of Weep.'),('Wepen','n.','Weapon.'),('Wept','','imp. & p. p. of Weep.'),('Werche','v. t. & i.','To work.'),('Were','v. t. & i.','To wear. See 3d Wear.'),('Were','n.','A weir. See Weir.'),('Were','v. t.','To guard; to protect.'),('Were','','The imperfect indicative plural, and imperfect subjunctive\n   singular and plural, of the verb be. See Be.'),('Were','n.','A man.'),('Were','n.','A fine for slaying a man; the money value set upon a man\'s\n   life; weregild.'),('Weregild','n.','The price of a man\'s head; a compensation paid of a man\n   killed, partly to the king for the loss of a subject, partly to the\n   lord of a vassal, and partly to the next of kin. It was paid by the\n   murderer.'),('Werewolves','pl. ','of Werewolf'),('Werewolf','n.','A person transformed into a wolf in form and appetite,\n   either temporarily or permanently, whether by supernatural influences,\n   by witchcraft, or voluntarily; a lycanthrope. Belief in werewolves,\n   formerly general, is not now extinct.'),('Werk','v.','Alt. of Werke'),('Werke','v.','See Work.'),('Wern','v. t.','To refuse.'),('Wernerian','a.','Of or pertaining to A. G. Werner, The German\n   mineralogist and geologist, who classified minerals according to their\n   external characters, and advocated the theory that the strata of the\n   earth\'s crust were formed by depositions from water; designating, or\n   according to, Werner\'s system.'),('Wernerite','n.','The common grayish or white variety of soapolite.'),('Weroole','n.','An Australian lorikeet (Ptilosclera versicolor) noted for\n   the variety of its colors; -- called also varied lorikeet.'),('Werre','n.','War.'),('Werrey','v. t.','To warray.'),('Werst','n.','See Verst.'),('Wert','','The second person singular, indicative and subjunctive moods,\n   imperfect tense, of the verb be. It is formed from were, with the\n   ending -t, after the analogy of wast. Now used only in solemn or poetic\n   style.'),('Wert','n.','A wart.'),('Weryangle','n.','See Wariangle.'),('Wesand','n.','See Weasand.'),('Wesh','imp.','Washed.'),('Wesil','n.','See Weasand.'),('Wesleyan','a.','Of or pertaining to Wesley or Wesleyanism.'),('Wesleyan','n.','One who adopts the principles of Wesleyanism; a\n   Methodist.'),('Wesleyanism','n.','The system of doctrines and church polity inculcated\n   by John Wesley (b. 1703; d. 1791), the founder of the religious sect\n   called Methodist; Methodism. See Methodist, n., 2.'),('West','n.','The point in the heavens where the sun is seen to set at the\n   equinox; or, the corresponding point on the earth; that one of the four\n   cardinal points of the compass which is in a direction at right angles\n   to that of north and south, and on the left hand of a person facing\n   north; the point directly opposite to east.'),('West','n.','A country, or region of country, which, with regard to some\n   other country or region, is situated in the direction toward the west.'),('West','n.','The Westen hemisphere, or the New World so called, it having\n   been discovered by sailing westward from Europe; the Occident.'),('West','n.','Formerly, that part of the United States west of the\n   Alleghany mountains; now, commonly, the whole region west of the\n   Mississippi river; esp., that part which is north of the Indian\n   Territory, New Mexico, etc. Usually with the definite article.'),('West','a.','Lying toward the west; situated at the west, or in a western\n   direction from the point of observation or reckoning; proceeding toward\n   the west, or coming from the west; as, a west course is one toward the\n   west; an east and west line; a west wind blows from the west.'),('West','adv.','Westward.'),('West','v. i.','To pass to the west; to set, as the sun.'),('West','v. i.','To turn or move toward the west; to veer from the north or\n   south toward the west.'),('Westering','a.','Passing to the west.'),('Westerly','a.','Of or pertaining to the west; toward the west; coming\n   from the west; western.'),('Westerly','adv.','Toward the west; westward.'),('Western','a.','Of or pertaining to the west; situated in the west, or in\n   the region nearly in the direction of west; being in that quarter where\n   the sun sets; as, the western shore of France; the western ocean.'),('Western','a.','Moving toward the west; as, a ship makes a western course;\n   coming from the west; as, a western breeze.'),('Westerner','n.','A native or inhabitant of the west.'),('Westernmost','a.','Situated the farthest towards the west; most western.'),('West India','','Alt. of West Indian'),('West Indian','','Belonging or relating to the West Indies.'),('West Indian','','A native of, or a dweller in, the West Indies.'),('Westing','n.','The distance, reckoned toward the west, between the two\n   meridians passing through the extremities of a course, or portion of a\n   ship\'s path; the departure of a course which lies to the west of north.'),('Westling','n.','A westerner.'),('Westminster Assembly','','See under Assembly.'),('Westmost','a.','Lying farthest to the west; westernmost.'),('Westward','adv.','Alt. of Westwards'),('Westwards','adv.','Toward the west; as, to ride or sail westward.'),('Westward','a.','Lying toward the west.'),('Westward','n.','The western region or countries; the west.'),('Westwardly','adv.','In a westward direction.'),('Westy','a.','Dizzy; giddy.'),('Wet','superl.','Containing, or consisting of, water or other liquid;\n   moist; soaked with a liquid; having water or other liquid upon the\n   surface; as, wet land; a wet cloth; a wet table.'),('Wet','superl.','Very damp; rainy; as, wet weather; a wet season.'),('Wet','superl.','Employing, or done by means of, water or some other\n   liquid; as, the wet extraction of copper, in distinction from dry\n   extraction in which dry heat or fusion is employed.'),('Wet','superl.','Refreshed with liquor; drunk.'),('Wet','a.','Water or wetness; moisture or humidity in considerable degree.'),('Wet','a.','Rainy weather; foggy or misty weather.'),('Wet','a.','A dram; a drink.'),('Wet','imp. & p. p.','of Wet'),('Wetted','','of Wet'),('Wetting','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Wet'),('Wet','v. t.','To fill or moisten with water or other liquid; to sprinkle;\n   to cause to have water or other fluid adherent to the surface; to dip\n   or soak in a liquid; as, to wet a sponge; to wet the hands; to wet\n   cloth.'),('Wetbird','n.','The chaffinch, whose cry is thought to foretell rain.'),('Wether','n.','A castrated ram.'),('Westness','n.','The quality or state of being wet; moisture; humidity;\n   as, the wetness of land; the wetness of a cloth.'),('Westness','n.','A watery or moist state of the atmosphere; a state of\n   being rainy, foggy, or misty; as, the wetness of weather or the season.'),('Wet nurse','','A nurse who suckles a child, especially the child of\n   another woman. Cf. Dry nurse.'),('Wet-shod','a.','Having the feet, or the shoes on the feet, wet.'),('Wettish','a.','Somewhat wet; moist; humid.'),('Wevil','n.','See Weevil.'),('Wex','v. t. & i.','To grow; to wax.'),('Wex','imp.','Waxed.'),('Wex','n.','Wax.'),('Wey','n.','Way; road; path.'),('Wey','v. t. & i.','To weigh.'),('Wey','n.','A certain measure of weight.'),('Weyle','v. t. & i.','To wail.'),('Weyleway','interj.','See Welaway.'),('Weyve','v. t.','To waive.'),('Wezand','n.','See Weasand.'),('Whaap','n.','The European curlew; -- called also awp, whaup, great whaup,\n   and stock whaup.'),('Whaap','n.','The whimbrel; -- called also May whaup, little whaup, and\n   tang whaup.'),('Whacked','imp. & p. p.','of Whack'),('Whacking','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Whack'),('Whack','v. t.','To strike; to beat; to give a heavy or resounding blow\n   to; to thrash; to make with whacks.'),('Whack','v. i.','To strike anything with a smart blow.'),('Whack','n.','A smart resounding blow.'),('Whacker','n.','One who whacks.'),('Whacker','n.','Anything very large; specif., a great lie; a whapper.'),('Whacking','a.','Very large; whapping.'),('Whahoo','n.','An American tree, the winged elm. (Ulmus alata).'),('Whaled','imp. & p. p.','of Whala'),('Whaling','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Whala'),('Whala','v. t.','To lash with stripes; to wale; to thrash; to drub.'),('Whale','n.','Any aquatic mammal of the order Cetacea, especially any one\n   of the large species, some of which become nearly one hundred feet\n   long. Whales are hunted chiefly for their oil and baleen, or whalebone.'),('Whaleboat','n.','A long, narrow boat, sharp at both ends, used by\n   whalemen.'),('Whalebone','n.','A firm, elastic substance resembling horn, taken from\n   the upper jaw of the right whale; baleen. It is used as a stiffening in\n   stays, fans, screens, and for various other purposes. See Baleen.'),('Whalemen','pl. ','of Whaleman'),('Whaleman','n.','A man employed in the whale fishery.'),('Whaler','n.','A vessel or person employed in the whale fishery.'),('Whaler','n.','One who whales, or beats; a big, strong fellow; hence,\n   anything of great or unusual size.'),('Whaling','n.','The hunting of whales.'),('Whaling','a.','Pertaining to, or employed in, the pursuit of whales; as,\n   a whaling voyage; a whaling vessel.'),('Whall','n.','A light color of the iris in horses; wall-eye.'),('Whally','a.','Having the iris of light color; -- said of horses.'),('Whame','n.','A breeze fly.'),('Whammel','v. t.','To turn over.'),('Whan','adv.','When.'),('Whang','n.','A leather thong.'),('Whang','v. t.','To beat.'),('Whanghee','n.','See Wanghee.'),('Whap','v. i.','Alt. of Whop'),('Whop','v. i.','To throw one\'s self quickly, or by an abrupt motion; to\n   turn suddenly; as, she whapped down on the floor; the fish whapped\n   over.'),('Whapped','imp. & p. p.','of Whop'),('Whapping','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Whop'),('Whap','v. t.','Alt. of Whop'),('Whop','v. t.','To beat or strike.'),('Whap','n.','Alt. of Whop'),('Whop','n.','A blow, or quick, smart stroke.'),('Whapper','n.','Alt. of Whopper'),('Whopper','n.','Something uncommonly large of the kind; something\n   astonishing; -- applied especially to a bold lie.'),('Whapping','a.','Alt. of Whopping'),('Whopping','a.','Very large; monstrous; astonishing; as, a whapping story.'),('Wharfs','pl. ','of Wharf'),('Wharves','pl. ','of Wharf'),('Wharf','n.','A structure or platform of timber, masonry, iron, earth, or\n   other material, built on the shore of a harbor, river, canal, or the\n   like, and usually extending from the shore to deep water, so that\n   vessels may lie close alongside to receive and discharge cargo,\n   passengers, etc.; a quay; a pier.'),('Wharf','n.','The bank of a river, or the shore of the sea.'),('Wharfed','imp. & p. p.','of Wharf'),('Wharfing','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Wharf'),('Wharf','v. t.','To guard or secure by a firm wall of timber or stone\n   constructed like a wharf; to furnish with a wharf or wharfs.'),('Wharf','v. t.','To place upon a wharf; to bring to a wharf.'),('Wharfage','n.','The fee or duty paid for the privilege of using a wharf\n   for loading or unloading goods; pierage, collectively; quayage.'),('Wharfage','n.','A wharf or wharfs, collectively; wharfing.'),('Wharfing','n.','Wharfs, collectively.'),('Wharfing','n.','A mode of facing sea walls and embankments with planks\n   driven as piles and secured by ties.'),('Wharfinger','n.','A man who owns, or has the care of, a wharf.'),('Wharl','n.','Alt. of Wharling'),('Wharling','n.','A guttural pronunciation of the letter r; a burr. See\n   Burr, n., 6.'),('Wharp','n.','A kind of fine sand from the banks of the Trent, used as a\n   polishing powder.'),('What','pron., a., & adv.','As an interrogative pronoun, used in asking\n   questions regarding either persons or things; as, what is this? what\n   did you say? what poem is this? what child is lost?'),('What','pron., a., & adv.','As an exclamatory word: -- (a) Used absolutely\n   or independently; -- often with a question following.'),('What','pron., a., & adv.','Used adjectively, meaning how remarkable, or\n   how great; as, what folly! what eloquence! what courage!'),('What','pron., a., & adv.','Sometimes prefixed to adjectives in an\n   adverbial sense, as nearly equivalent to how; as, what happy boys!'),('What','pron., a., & adv.','As a relative pronoun'),('What','pron., a., & adv.','Used substantively with the antecedent\n   suppressed, equivalent to that which, or those [persons] who, or those\n   [things] which; -- called a compound relative.'),('What','pron., a., & adv.','Used adjectively, equivalent to the . . .\n   which; the sort or kind of . . . which; rarely, the . . . on, or at,\n   which.'),('What','pron., a., & adv.','Used adverbially in a sense corresponding to\n   the adjectival use; as, he picked what good fruit he saw.'),('What','pron., a., & adv.','Whatever; whatsoever; what thing soever; --\n   used indefinitely.'),('What','pron., a., & adv.','Used adverbially, in part; partly; somewhat;\n   -- with a following preposition, especially, with, and commonly with\n   repetition.'),('What','n.','Something; thing; stuff.'),('What','interrog. adv.','Why? For what purpose? On what account?'),('Whate\'er','pron.','A contraction of what-ever; -- used in poetry.'),('Whatever','pron.','Anything soever which; the thing or things of any\n   kind; being this or that; of one nature or another; one thing or\n   another; anything that may be; all that; the whole that; all\n   particulars that; -- used both substantively and adjectively.'),('Whatnot','n.','A kind of stand, or piece of furniture, having shelves for\n   books, ornaments, etc.; an etagere.'),('Whatso','indef. pron.','Whatsoever; whosoever; whatever; anything that.'),('Whatsoe\'er','pron.','A contraction of whatsoever; -- used in poetry.'),('Whatsoever','pron. & a.','Whatever.'),('Whaul','n.','Same as Whall.'),('Whaup','n.','See Whaap.'),('Wheal','n.','A pustule; a whelk.'),('Wheal','n.','A more or less elongated mark raised by a stroke; also, a\n   similar mark made by any cause; a weal; a wale.'),('Wheal','n.','Specifically (Med.), a flat, burning or itching eminence on\n   the skin, such as is produced by a mosquito bite, or in urticaria.'),('Wheal','n.','A mine.'),('Whealworm','n.','The harvest mite; -- so called from the wheals, caused\n   by its bite.'),('Wheat','n.','A cereal grass (Triticum vulgare) and its grain, which\n   furnishes a white flour for bread, and, next to rice, is the grain most\n   largely used by the human race.'),('Wheatbird','n.','A bird that feeds on wheat, especially the chaffinch.'),('Wheatear','n.','A small European singing bird (Saxicola /nanthe). The\n   male is white beneath, bluish gray above, with black wings and a black\n   stripe through each eye. The tail is black at the tip and in the\n   middle, but white at the base and on each side. Called also checkbird,\n   chickell, dykehopper, fallow chat, fallow finch, stonechat, and\n   whitetail.'),('Wheaten','a.','Made of wheat; as, wheaten bread.'),('Wheatsel bird','','The male of the chaffinch.'),('Wheatstone\'s bridge','','See under Bridge.'),('Wheatworm','n.','A small nematode worm (Anguillula tritici) which attacks\n   the grains of wheat in the ear. It is found in wheat affected with\n   smut, each of the diseased grains containing a large number of the\n   minute young of the worm.'),('Wheder','pron. & conj.','Whether.'),('Wheedled','imp. & p. p.','of Wheedle'),('Wheedling','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Wheedle'),('Wheedle','v. t.','To entice by soft words; to cajole; to flatter; to\n   coax.'),('Wheedle','v. t.','To grain, or get away, by flattery.'),('Wheedle','v. i.','To flatter; to coax; to cajole.'),('Wheel','n.','A circular frame turning about an axis; a rotating disk,\n   whether solid, or a frame composed of an outer rim, spokes or radii,\n   and a central hub or nave, in which is inserted the axle, -- used for\n   supporting and conveying vehicles, in machinery, and for various\n   purposes; as, the wheel of a wagon, of a locomotive, of a mill, of a\n   watch, etc.'),('Wheel','n.','Any instrument having the form of, or chiefly consisting of,\n   a wheel.'),('Wheel','n.','A spinning wheel. See under Spinning.'),('Wheel','n.','An instrument of torture formerly used.'),('Wheel','n.','A circular frame having handles on the periphery, and an\n   axle which is so connected with the tiller as to form a means of\n   controlling the rudder for the purpose of steering.'),('Wheel','n.','A potter\'s wheel. See under Potter.'),('Wheel','n.','A firework which, while burning, is caused to revolve on an\n   axis by the reaction of the escaping gases.'),('Wheel','n.','The burden or refrain of a song.'),('Wheel','n.','A bicycle or a tricycle; a velocipede.'),('Wheel','n.','A rolling or revolving body; anything of a circular form; a\n   disk; an orb.'),('Wheel','n.','A turn revolution; rotation; compass.'),('Wheeled','imp. & p. p.','of Wheel'),('Wheeling','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Wheel'),('Wheel','v. t.','To convey on wheels, or in a wheeled vehicle; as, to\n   wheel a load of hay or wood.'),('Wheel','v. t.','To put into a rotatory motion; to cause to turn or\n   revolve; to cause to gyrate; to make or perform in a circle.'),('Wheel','v. i.','To turn on an axis, or as on an axis; to revolve; to more\n   about; to rotate; to gyrate.'),('Wheel','v. i.','To change direction, as if revolving upon an axis or\n   pivot; to turn; as, the troops wheeled to the right.'),('Wheel','v. i.','To go round in a circuit; to fetch a compass.'),('Wheel','v. i.','To roll forward.'),('Wheelband','n.','The tire of a wheel.'),('Wheelbarrow','n.','A light vehicle for conveying small loads. It has two\n   handles and one wheel, and is rolled by a single person.'),('Wheelbird','n.','The European goatsucker.'),('Wheeled','a.','Having wheels; -- used chiefly in composition; as, a\n   four-wheeled carriage.'),('Wheeler','n.','One who wheels, or turns.'),('Wheeler','n.','A maker of wheels; a wheelwright.'),('Wheeler','n.','A wheel horse. See under Wheel.'),('Wheeler','n.','A steam vessel propelled by a paddle wheel or by paddle\n   wheels; -- used chiefly in the terms side-wheeler and stern-wheeler.'),('Wheeler','n.','A worker on sewed muslin.'),('Wheeler','n.','The European goatsucker.'),('Wheelhouse','n.','A small house on or above a vessel\'s deck, containing\n   the steering wheel.'),('Wheelhouse','n.','A paddle box. See under Paddle.'),('Wheeling','n.','The act of conveying anything, or traveling, on wheels,\n   or in a wheeled vehicle.'),('Wheeling','n.','The act or practice of using a cycle; cycling.'),('Wheeling','n.','Condition of a road or roads, which admits of passing on\n   wheels; as, it is good wheeling, or bad wheeling.'),('Wheeling','n.','A turning, or circular movement.'),('Wheelmen','pl. ','of Wheelman'),('Wheelman','n.','One who rides a bicycle or tricycle; a cycler, or\n   cyclist.'),('Wheel-shaped','a.','Shaped like a wheel.'),('Wheel-shaped','a.','Expanding into a flat, circular border at top, with\n   scarcely any tube; as, a wheel-shaped corolla.'),('Wheelswarf','n.','See Swarf.'),('Wheelwork','n.','A combination of wheels, and their connection, in a\n   machine or mechanism.'),('Wheel-worn','a.','Worn by the action of wheels; as, a wheel-worn road.'),('Wheelwright','n.','A man whose occupation is to make or repair wheels and\n   wheeled vehicles, as carts, wagons, and the like.'),('Wheely','a.','Circular; suitable to rotation.'),('Wheen','n.','A quantity; a goodly number.'),('Wheezed','imp. & p. p.','of Wheeze'),('Wheezing','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Wheeze'),('Wheeze','v. i.','To breathe hard, and with an audible piping or whistling\n   sound, as persons affected with asthma.'),('Wheeze','n.','A piping or whistling sound caused by difficult\n   respiration.'),('Wheeze','n.','An ordinary whisper exaggerated so as to produce the hoarse\n   sound known as the \"stage whisper.\" It is a forcible whisper with some\n   admixture of tone.'),('Wheezy','a.','Breathing with difficulty and with a wheeze; wheezing. Used\n   also figuratively.'),('Wheft','n.','See Waft, n., 4.'),('Whelk','n.','Any one numerous species of large marine gastropods\n   belonging to Buccinum and allied genera; especially, Buccinum undatum,\n   common on the coasts both of Europe and North America, and much used as\n   food in Europe.'),('Whelk','n.','A papule; a pustule; acne.'),('Whelk','n.','A stripe or mark; a ridge; a wale.'),('Whelked','a.','Having whelks; whelky; as, whelked horns.'),('Whelky','a.','Having whelks, ridges, or protuberances; hence, streaked;\n   striated.'),('Whelky','a.','Shelly.'),('Whelmed','imp. & p. p.','of Whelm'),('Whelming','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Whelm'),('Whelm','v. t.','To cover with water or other fluid; to cover by immersion\n   in something that envelops on all sides; to overwhelm; to ingulf.'),('Whelm','v. t.','Fig.: To cover completely, as if with water; to immerse;\n   to overcome; as, to whelm one in sorrows.'),('Whelm','v. t.','To throw (something) over a thing so as to cover it.'),('Whelp','n.','One of the young of a dog or a beast of prey; a puppy; a\n   cub; as, a lion\'s whelps.'),('Whelp','n.','A child; a youth; -- jocosely or in contempt.'),('Whelp','n.','One of the longitudinal ribs or ridges on the barrel of a\n   capstan or a windless; -- usually in the plural; as, the whelps of a\n   windlass.'),('Whelp','n.','One of the teeth of a sprocket wheel.'),('Whelped','imp. & p. p.','of Whelp'),('Whelping','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Whelp'),('Whelp','v. i.','To bring forth young; -- said of the female of the dog\n   and some beasts of prey.'),('Whelp','v. t.','To bring forth, as cubs or young; to give birth to.'),('When','adv.','At what time; -- used interrogatively.'),('When','adv.','At what time; at, during, or after the time that; at or\n   just after, the moment that; -- used relatively.'),('When','adv.','While; whereas; although; -- used in the manner of a\n   conjunction to introduce a dependent adverbial sentence or clause,\n   having a causal, conditional, or adversative relation to the principal\n   proposition; as, he chose to turn highwayman when he might have\n   continued an honest man; he removed the tree when it was the best in\n   the grounds.'),('When','adv.','Which time; then; -- used elliptically as a noun.'),('Whenas','conj.','Whereas; while'),('Whence','adv.','From what place; hence, from what or which source,\n   origin, antecedent, premise, or the like; how; -- used interrogatively.'),('Whence','adv.','From what or which place, source, material, cause, etc.;\n   the place, source, etc., from which; -- used relatively.'),('Whenceever','adv. & conj.','Whencesoever.'),('Whenceforth','adv.','From, or forth from, what or which place; whence.'),('Whencesoever','adv. & conj.','From what place soever; from what cause or\n   source soever.'),('Whene\'er','adv. & conj.','Whenever.'),('Whenever','adv. & conj.','At whatever time.'),('Whennes','adv.','Whence.'),('Whensoever','adv. & conj.','At what time soever; at whatever time;\n   whenever.'),('Where','pron. & conj.','Whether.'),('Where','adv.','At or in what place; hence, in what situation, position,\n   or circumstances; -- used interrogatively.'),('Where','adv.','At or in which place; at the place in which; hence, in the\n   case or instance in which; -- used relatively.'),('Where','adv.','To what or which place; hence, to what goal, result, or\n   issue; whither; -- used interrogatively and relatively; as, where are\n   you going?'),('Where','conj.','Whereas.'),('Where','n.','Place; situation.'),('Whereabout','adv.','Alt. of Whereabouts'),('Whereabouts','adv.','About where; near what or which place; -- used\n   interrogatively and relatively; as, whereabouts did you meet him?'),('Whereabouts','adv.','Concerning which; about which.'),('Whereabout','n.','Alt. of Whereabouts'),('Whereabouts','n.','The place where a person or thing is; as, they did not\n   know his whereabouts.'),('Whereas','adv.','At which place; where.'),('Whereas','conj.','Considering that; it being the case that; since; --\n   used to introduce a preamble which is the basis of declarations,\n   affirmations, commands, requests, or like, that follow.'),('Whereas','conj.','When in fact; while on the contrary; the case being in\n   truth that; although; -- implying opposition to something that\n   precedes; or implying recognition of facts, sometimes followed by a\n   different statement, and sometimes by inferences or something\n   consequent.'),('Whereat','adv.','At which; upon which; whereupon; -- used relatively.'),('Whereat','adv.','At what; -- used interrogatively; as, whereat are you\n   offended?'),('Whereby','adv.','By which; -- used relatively.'),('Whereby','adv.','By what; how; -- used interrogatively.'),('Where\'er','adv.','Wherever; -- a contracted and poetical form.'),('Wherefore','adv. & conj.','For which reason; so; -- used relatively.'),('Wherefore','adv. & conj.','For what reason; why; -- used interrogatively.'),('Wherefore','n.','the reason why.'),('Whereform','adv.','From which; from which or what place.'),('Wherein','adv.','In which; in which place, thing, time, respect, or the\n   like; -- used relatively.'),('Wherein','adv.','In what; -- used interrogatively.'),('Whereinto','adv.','Into which; -- used relatively.'),('Whereinto','adv.','Into what; -- used interrogatively.'),('Whereness','n.','The quality or state of having a place; ubiety;\n   situation; position.'),('Whereof','adv.','Of which; of whom; formerly, also, with which; -- used\n   relatively.'),('Whereof','adv.','Of what; -- used interrogatively.'),('Whereon','adv.','On which; -- used relatively; as, the earth whereon we\n   live.'),('Whereon','adv.','On what; -- used interrogatively; as, whereon do we\n   stand?'),('Whereout','adv.','Out of which.'),('Whereso','adv.','Wheresoever.'),('Wheresoe\'er','adv.','Wheresoever.'),('Wheresoever','adv.','In what place soever; in whatever place; wherever.'),('Wherethrough','adv.','Through which.'),('Whereto','adv.','To which; -- used relatively.'),('Whereto','adv.','To what; to what end; -- used interrogatively.'),('Whereunto','adv.','Same as Whereto.'),('Whereupon','adv.','Upon which; in consequence of which; after which.'),('Wherever','adv.','At or in whatever place; wheresoever.'),('Wherewith','adv.','With which; -- used relatively.'),('Wherewith','adv.','With what; -- used interrogatively.'),('Wherewith','n.','The necessary means or instrument.'),('Wherewithal','adv. & n.','Wherewith.'),('Whereret','v. t.','To hurry; to trouble; to tease.'),('Whereret','v. t.','To box (one) on the ear; to strike or box. (the ear);\n   as, to wherret a child.'),('Wherret','n.','A box on the ear.'),('Wherries','pl. ','of Wherry'),('Wherry','n.','A passenger barge or lighter plying on rivers; also, a kind\n   of light, half-decked vessel used in fishing.'),('Wherry','n.','A long, narrow, light boat, sharp at both ends, for fast\n   rowing or sailing; esp., a racing boat rowed by one person with sculls.'),('Wherry','n.','A liquor made from the pulp of crab apples after the\n   verjuice is expressed; -- sometimes called crab wherry.'),('Wherso','adv.','Wheresoever.'),('Whetted','imp. & p. p.','of Whet'),('Whetting','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Whet'),('Whet','v. t.','To rub or on with some substance, as a piece of stone, for\n   the purpose of sharpening; to sharpen by attrition; as, to whet a\n   knife.'),('Whet','v. t.','To make sharp, keen, or eager; to excite; to stimulate;\n   as, to whet the appetite or the courage.'),('Whet','n.','The act of whetting.'),('Whet','n.','That which whets or sharpens; esp., an appetizer.'),('Whether','pron.','Which (of two); which one (of two); -- used\n   interrogatively and relatively.'),('Whether','conj.','In case; if; -- used to introduce the first or two or\n   more alternative clauses, the other or others being connected by or, or\n   by or whether. When the second of two alternatives is the simple\n   negative of the first it is sometimes only indicated by the particle\n   not or no after the correlative, and sometimes it is omitted entirely\n   as being distinctly implied in the whether of the first.'),('Whethering','n.','The retention of the afterbirth in cows.'),('Whetile','n.','The green woodpecker, or yaffle. See Yaffle.'),('Whetstone','n.','A piece of stone, natural or artificial, used for\n   whetting, or sharpening, edge tools.'),('Whetter','n.','One who, or that which, whets, sharpens, or stimulates.'),('Whetter','n.','A tippler; one who drinks whets.'),('Whettlebones','n. pl.','The vertebrae of the back.'),('Whew','n. & interj.','A sound like a half-formed whistle, expressing\n   astonishment, scorn, or dislike.'),('Whew','v. i.','To whistle with a shrill pipe, like a plover.'),('Whewellite','n.','Calcium oxalate, occurring in colorless or white\n   monoclinic crystals.'),('Whewer','n.','The European widgeon.'),('Whey','n.','The serum, or watery part, of milk, separated from the more\n   thick or coagulable part, esp. in the process of making cheese.'),('Wheyey','a.','Of the nature of, or containing, whey; resembling whey;\n   wheyish.'),('Wheyface','n.','One who is pale, as from fear.'),('Whey-faced','a.','Having a pale or white face, as from fright.'),('Wheyish','a.','Somewhat like whey; wheyey.'),('Which','a.','Of what sort or kind; what; what a; who.'),('Which','a.','A interrogative pronoun, used both substantively and\n   adjectively, and in direct and indirect questions, to ask for, or refer\n   to, an individual person or thing among several of a class; as, which\n   man is it? which woman was it? which is the house? he asked which route\n   he should take; which is best, to live or to die? See the Note under\n   What, pron., 1.'),('Which','pron.','A relative pronoun, used esp. in referring to an\n   antecedent noun or clause, but sometimes with reference to what is\n   specified or implied in a sentence, or to a following noun or clause\n   (generally involving a reference, however, to something which has\n   preceded). It is used in all numbers and genders, and was formerly used\n   of persons.'),('Which','pron.','A compound relative or indefinite pronoun, standing for\n   any one which, whichever, that which, those which, the . . . which, and\n   the like; as, take which you will.'),('Whichever','pron. & a.','Alt. of Whichsoever'),('Whichsoever','pron. & a.','Whether one or another; whether one or the\n   other; which; that one (of two or more) which; as, whichever road you\n   take, it will lead you to town.'),('Whidah bird','','Any one of several species of finchlike birds belonging\n   to the genus Vidua, native of Asia and Africa. In the breeding season\n   the male has very long, drooping tail feathers. Called also vida finch,\n   whidah finch, whydah bird, whydah finch, widow bird, and widow finch.'),('Whider','adv.','Whither.'),('Whiff','n.','A sudden expulsion of air from the mouth; a quick puff or\n   slight gust, as of air or smoke.'),('Whiff','n.','A glimpse; a hasty view.'),('Whiff','n.','The marysole, or sail fluke.'),('Whiffed','imp. & p. p.','of Whiff'),('Whiffing','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Whiff'),('Whiff','v. t.','To throw out in whiffs; to consume in whiffs; to puff.'),('Whiff','v. t.','To carry or convey by a whiff, or as by a whiff; to puff\n   or blow away.'),('Whiff','v. i.','To emit whiffs, as of smoke; to puff.'),('Whiffet','n.','A little whiff or puff.'),('Whiffing','n.','The act of one who, or that which, whiffs.'),('Whiffing','n.','A mode of fishing with a hand line for pollack, mackerel,\n   and the like.'),('Whiffled','imp. & p. p.','of Whiffle'),('Whiffling','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Whiffle'),('Whiffle','v. i.','To waver, or shake, as if moved by gusts of wind; to\n   shift, turn, or veer about.'),('Whiffle','v. i.','To change from one opinion or course to another; to use\n   evasions; to prevaricate; to be fickle.'),('Whiffle','v. t.','To disperse with, or as with, a whiff, or puff; to\n   scatter.'),('Whiffle','v. t.','To wave or shake quickly; to cause to whiffle.'),('Whiffle','n.','A fife or small flute.'),('Whiffler','n.','One who whiffles, or frequently changes his opinion or\n   course; one who uses shifts and evasions in argument; hence, a trifler.'),('Whiffler','n.','One who plays on a whiffle; a fifer or piper.'),('Whiffler','n.','An officer who went before procession to clear the way by\n   blowing a horn, or otherwise; hence, any person who marched at the head\n   of a procession; a harbinger.'),('Whiffler','n.','The golden-eye.'),('Whiffletree','n.','Same as Whippletree.'),('Whig','n.','Acidulated whey, sometimes mixed with buttermilk and sweet\n   herbs, used as a cooling beverage.'),('Whig','n.','One of a political party which grew up in England in the\n   seventeenth century, in the reigns of Charles I. and II., when great\n   contests existed respecting the royal prerogatives and the rights of\n   the people. Those who supported the king in his high claims were called\n   Tories, and the advocates of popular rights, of parliamentary power\n   over the crown, and of toleration to Dissenters, were, after 1679,\n   called Whigs. The terms Liberal and Radical have now generally\n   superseded Whig in English politics. See the note under Tory.'),('Whig','n.','A friend and supporter of the American Revolution; -- opposed\n   to Tory, and Royalist.'),('Whig','n.','One of the political party in the United States from about\n   1829 to 1856, opposed in politics to the Democratic party.'),('Whig','a.','Of or pertaining to the Whigs.'),('Whiggamore','n.','A Whig; -- a cant term applied in contempt to Scotch\n   Presbyterians.'),('Whiggarchy','n.','Government by Whigs.'),('Whiggery','n.','The principles or practices of the Whigs; Whiggism.'),('Whiggish','a.','Of or pertaining to Whigs; partaking of, or characterized\n   by, the principles of Whigs.'),('Whiggishly','adv.','In a Whiggish manner.'),('Whiggism','n.','The principles of the Whigs.'),('Whigling','n.','A petty or inferior Whig; -- used in contempt.'),('While','n.','Space of time, or continued duration, esp. when short; a\n   time; as, one while we thought him innocent.'),('While','n.','That which requires time; labor; pains.'),('Whiled','imp. & p. p.','of While'),('Whiling','p. pr. & vb. n.','of While'),('While','v. t.','To cause to pass away pleasantly or without irksomeness\n   or disgust; to spend or pass; -- usually followed by away.'),('While','v. i.','To loiter.'),('While','conj.','During the time that; as long as; whilst; at the same\n   time that; as, while I write, you sleep.'),('While','conj.','Hence, under which circumstances; in which case; though;\n   whereas.'),('While','prep.','Until; till.'),('Whilere','adv.','A little while ago; recently; just now; erewhile.'),('Whiles','n.','Meanwhile; meantime.'),('Whiles','n.','sometimes; at times.'),('Whiles','conj.','During the time that; while.'),('Whilk','n.','A kind of mollusk, a whelk.'),('Whilk','n.','The scoter.'),('Whilk','pron.','Which.'),('Whilom','n.','Formerly; once; of old; erewhile; at times.'),('Whilst','adv.','While.'),('Whim','n.','The European widgeon.'),('Whim','n.','A sudden turn or start of the mind; a temporary eccentricity;\n   a freak; a fancy; a capricious notion; a humor; a caprice.'),('Whim','n.','A large capstan or vertical drum turned by horse power or\n   steam power, for raising ore or water, etc., from mines, or for other\n   purposes; -- called also whim gin, and whimsey.'),('Whim','v. i.','To be subject to, or indulge in, whims; to be whimsical,\n   giddy, or freakish.'),('Whimbrel','n.','Any one of several species of small curlews, especially\n   the European species (Numenius phaeopus), called also Jack curlew, half\n   curlew, stone curlew, and tang whaup. See Illustration in Appendix.'),('Whimling','n.','One given to whims; hence, a weak, childish person; a\n   child.'),('Whimmy','a.','Full of whims; whimsical.'),('Whimpered','imp. & p. p.','of Whimper'),('Whimpering','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Whimper'),('Whimper','v. i.','To cry with a low, whining, broken voice; to whine; to\n   complain; as, a child whimpers.'),('Whimper','v. t.','To utter in alow, whining tone.'),('Whimper','n.','A low, whining, broken cry; a low, whining sound,\n   expressive of complaint or grief.'),('Whimperer','n.','One who whimpers.'),('Whimple','v. t.','See Wimple.'),('Whimple','v. i.','To whiffle; to veer.'),('Whimseys','pl. ','of Whimsy'),('Whimsies','pl. ','of Whimsy'),('Whimsey','n.','Alt. of Whimsy'),('Whimsy','n.','A whim; a freak; a capricious notion, a fanciful or odd\n   conceit.'),('Whimsy','n.','A whim.'),('Whimsey','v. t.','To fill with whimseys, or whims; to make fantastic; to\n   craze.'),('Whimsical','a.','Full of, or characterized by, whims; actuated by a whim;\n   having peculiar notions; queer; strange; freakish.'),('Whimsical','a.','Odd or fantastic in appearance; quaintly devised;\n   fantastic.'),('Whimsicality','n.','The quality or state of being whimsical;\n   whimsicalness.'),('Whimsically','adv.','In a whimsical manner; freakishly.'),('Whimsicalness','n.','The quality or state of being whimsical;\n   freakishness; whimsical disposition.'),('Whimsy','n.','A whimsey.'),('Whimwham','n.','A whimsical thing; an odd device; a trifle; a trinket; a\n   gimcrack.'),('Whimwham','n.','A whim, or whimsey; a freak.'),('Whin','n.','Gorse; furze. See Furze.'),('Whin','n.','Woad-waxed.'),('Whin','n.','Same as Whinstone.'),('Whinberry','n.','The English bilberry; -- so called because it grows on\n   moors among the whins, or furze.'),('Whinchat','n.','A small warbler (Pratincola rubetra) common in Europe; --\n   called also whinchacker, whincheck, whin-clocharet.'),('Whined','imp. & p. p.','of Whine'),('Whining','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Whine'),('Whine','v. i.','To utter a plaintive cry, as some animals; to moan with a\n   childish noise; to complain, or to tell of sorrow, distress, or the\n   like, in a plaintive, nasal tone; hence, to complain or to beg in a\n   mean, unmanly way; to moan basely.'),('Whine','v. t.','To utter or express plaintively, or in a mean, unmanly\n   way; as, to whine out an excuse.'),('Whine','n.','A plaintive tone; the nasal, childish tone of mean\n   complaint; mean or affected complaint.'),('Whiner','n.','One who, or that which, whines.'),('Whinge','v. i.','To whine.'),('Whinger','n.','A kind of hanger or sword used as a knife at meals and as\n   a weapon.'),('Whiningly','adv.','In a whining manner; in a tone of mean complaint.'),('Whinner','v. i.','To whinny.'),('Whinnied','imp. & p. p.','of Whinny'),('Whinnying','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Whinny'),('Whinny','v. i.','To utter the ordinary call or cry of a horse; to neigh.'),('Whinnies','pl. ','of Whinny'),('Whinny','n.','The ordinary cry or call of a horse; a neigh.'),('Whinny','a.','Abounding in whin, gorse, or furze.'),('Whinock','n.','The small pig of a litter.'),('Whinstone','n.','A provincial name given in England to basaltic rocks,\n   and applied by miners to other kind of dark-colored unstratified rocks\n   which resist the point of the pick. -- for example, to masses of chert.\n   Whin-dikes, and whin-sills, are names sometimes given to veins or beds\n   of basalt.'),('Whinyard','n.','A sword, or hanger.'),('Whinyard','n.','The shoveler.'),('Whinyard','n.','The poachard.'),('Whipped','imp. & p. p.','of Whip'),('Whipping','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Whip'),('Whip','v. t.','To strike with a lash, a cord, a rod, or anything slender\n   and lithe; to lash; to beat; as, to whip a horse, or a carpet.'),('Whip','v. t.','To drive with lashes or strokes of a whip; to cause to\n   rotate by lashing with a cord; as, to whip a top.'),('Whip','v. t.','To punish with a whip, scourge, or rod; to flog; to beat;\n   as, to whip a vagrant; to whip one with thirty nine lashes; to whip a\n   perverse boy.'),('Whip','v. t.','To apply that which hurts keenly to; to lash, as with\n   sarcasm, abuse, or the like; to apply cutting language to.'),('Whip','v. t.','To thrash; to beat out, as grain, by striking; as, to whip\n   wheat.'),('Whip','v. t.','To beat (eggs, cream, or the like) into a froth, as with a\n   whisk, fork, or the like.'),('Whip','v. t.','To conquer; to defeat, as in a contest or game; to beat;\n   to surpass.'),('Whip','v. t.','To overlay (a cord, rope, or the like) with other cords\n   going round and round it; to overcast, as the edge of a seam; to wrap;\n   -- often with about, around, or over.'),('Whip','v. t.','To sew lightly; specifically, to form (a fabric) into\n   gathers by loosely overcasting the rolled edge and drawing up the\n   thread; as, to whip a ruffle.'),('Whip','v. t.','To take or move by a sudden motion; to jerk; to snatch; --\n   with into, out, up, off, and the like.'),('Whip','v. t.','To hoist or purchase by means of a whip.'),('Whip','v. t.','To secure the end of (a rope, or the like) from untwisting\n   by overcasting it with small stuff.'),('Whip','v. t.','To fish (a body of water) with a rod and artificial fly,\n   the motion being that employed in using a whip.'),('Whip','v. i.','To move nimbly; to start or turn suddenly and do\n   something; to whisk; as, he whipped around the corner.'),('Whip','v. t.','An instrument or driving horses or other animals, or for\n   correction, consisting usually of a lash attached to a handle, or of a\n   handle and lash so combined as to form a flexible rod.'),('Whip','v. t.','A coachman; a driver of a carriage; as, a good whip.'),('Whip','v. t.','One of the arms or frames of a windmill, on which the\n   sails are spread.'),('Whip','v. t.','The length of the arm reckoned from the shaft.'),('Whip','v. t.','A small tackle with a single rope, used to hoist light\n   bodies.'),('Whip','v. t.','The long pennant. See Pennant (a)'),('Whip','v. t.','A huntsman who whips in the hounds; whipper-in.'),('Whip','v. t.','A person (as a member of Parliament) appointed to enforce\n   party discipline, and secure the attendance of the members of a\n   Parliament party at any important session, especially when their votes\n   are needed.'),('Whip','v. t.','A call made upon members of a Parliament party to be in\n   their places at a given time, as when a vote is to be taken.'),('Whipcord','n.','A kind of hard-twisted or braided cord, sometimes used\n   for making whiplashes.'),('Whipgrafted','imp. & p. p.','of Whipgraft'),('Whipgrafting','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Whipgraft'),('Whipgraft','v. t.','To graft by cutting the scion and stock in a certain\n   manner. See Whip grafting, under Grafting.'),('Whiplash','n.','The lash of a whip, -- usually made of thongs of leather,\n   or of cords, braided or twisted.'),('Whipparee','n.','A large sting ray (Dasybatis, / Trygon, Sayi) native of\n   the Southern United States. It is destitute of large spines on the body\n   and tail.'),('Whipparee','n.','A large sting ray (Rhinoptera bonasus, or R. quadriloba)\n   of the Atlantic coast of the United States. Its snout appears to be\n   four-lobed when viewed in front, whence it is also called cow-nosed\n   ray.'),('Whipper','n.','One who whips; especially, an officer who inflicts the\n   penalty of legal whipping.'),('Whipper','n.','One who raises coal or merchandise with a tackle from a\n   chip\'s hold.'),('Whipper','n.','A kind of simple willow.'),('Whipperin','n.','A huntsman who keeps the hounds from wandering, and\n   whips them in, if necessary, to the of chase.'),('Whipperin','n.','Hence, one who enforces the discipline of a party, and\n   urges the attendance and support of the members on all necessary\n   occasions.'),('Whippersnapper','n.','A diminutive, insignificant, or presumptuous\n   person.'),('Whipping','','a & n. from Whip, v.'),('Whippletree','n.','The pivoted or swinging bar to which the traces, or\n   tugs, of a harness are fastened, and by which a carriage, a plow, or\n   other implement or vehicle, is drawn; a whiffletree; a swingletree; a\n   singletree. See Singletree.'),('Whippletree','n.','The cornel tree.'),('Whip-poor-will','n.','An American bird (Antrostomus vociferus) allied to\n   the nighthawk and goatsucker; -- so called in imitation of the peculiar\n   notes which it utters in the evening.'),('Whipsaw','n.','A saw for dividing timber lengthwise, usually set in a\n   frame, and worked by two persons; also, a fret saw.'),('Whip-shaped','a.','Shaped like the lash of a whip; long, slender, round,\n   and tapering; as, a whip-shaped root or stem.'),('Whipstaff','n.','A bar attached to the tiller, for convenience in\n   steering.'),('Whipstalk','n.','A whipstock.'),('Whipster','n.','A nimble little fellow; a whippersnapper.'),('Whipstick','n.','Whip handle; whipstock.'),('Whipstitch','n.','A tailor; -- so called in contempt.'),('Whipstitch','n.','Anything hastily put or stitched together; hence, a\n   hasty composition.'),('Whipstitch','n.','The act or process of whipstitching.'),('Whipstitch','v. t.','To rafter; to plow in ridges, as land.'),('Whipstock','n.','The rod or handle to which the lash of a whip is\n   fastened.'),('Whipt','imp. & p. p.','Whipped.'),('Whip-tom-kelly','n.','A vireo (Vireo altiloquus) native of the West\n   Indies and Florida; -- called also black-whiskered vireo.'),('Whipworm','n.','A nematode worm (Trichocephalus dispar) often found\n   parasitic in the human intestine. Its body is thickened posteriorly,\n   but is very long and threadlike anteriorly.'),('Whirred','imp. & p. p.','of Whir'),('Whirring','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Whir'),('Whir','v. i.','To whirl round, or revolve, with a whizzing noise; to fly\n   or more quickly with a buzzing or whizzing sound; to whiz.'),('Whir','v. t.','To hurry a long with a whizzing sound.'),('Whir','n.','A buzzing or whizzing sound produced by rapid or whirling\n   motion; as, the whir of a partridge; the whir of a spinning wheel.'),('Whirled','imp. & p. p.','of Whirl'),('Whirling','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Whirl'),('Whirl','v. t.','To turn round rapidly; to cause to rotate with velocity;\n   to make to revolve.'),('Whirl','v. t.','To remove or carry quickly with, or as with, a revolving\n   motion; to snatch; to harry.'),('Whirl','v. i.','To be turned round rapidly; to move round with velocity;\n   to revolve or rotate with great speed; to gyrate.'),('Whirl','v. i.','To move hastily or swiftly.'),('Whirl','v. t.','A turning with rapidity or velocity; rapid rotation or\n   circumvolution; quick gyration; rapid or confusing motion; as, the\n   whirl of a top; the whirl of a wheel.'),('Whirl','v. t.','Anything that moves with a whirling motion.'),('Whirl','v. t.','A revolving hook used in twisting, as the hooked spindle\n   of a rope machine, to which the threads to be twisted are attached.'),('Whirl','v. t.','A whorl. See Whorl.'),('Whirlabout','n.','Something that whirls or turns about in a rapid manner;\n   a whirligig.'),('Whirlbat','n.','Anything moved with a whirl, as preparatory for a blow,\n   or to augment the force of it; -- applied by poets to the cestus of\n   ancient boxers.'),('Whirl-blast','n.','A whirling blast or wind.'),('Whirlbone','n.','The huckle bone.'),('Whirlbone','n.','The patella, or kneepan.'),('Whirler','n.','One who, or that which, whirls.'),('Whirlicote','n.','An open car or chariot.'),('Whirligig','n.','A child\'s toy, spun or whirled around like a wheel upon\n   an axis, or like a top.'),('Whirligig','n.','Anything which whirls around, or in which persons or\n   things are whirled about, as a frame with seats or wooden horses.'),('Whirligig','n.','A mediaeval instrument for punishing petty offenders,\n   being a kind of wooden cage turning on a pivot, in which the offender\n   was whirled round with great velocity.'),('Whirligig','n.','Any one of numerous species of beetles belonging to\n   Gyrinus and allied genera. The body is firm, oval or boatlike in form,\n   and usually dark colored with a bronzelike luster. These beetles live\n   mostly on the surface of water, and move about with great celerity in a\n   gyrating, or circular, manner, but they are also able to dive and swim\n   rapidly. The larva is aquatic. Called also weaver, whirlwig, and\n   whirlwig beetle.'),('Whirling','','a. & n. from Whirl, v. t.'),('Whirlpit','n.','A whirlpool.'),('Whirlpool','n.','An eddy or vortex of water; a place in a body of water\n   where the water moves round in a circle so as to produce a depression\n   or cavity in the center, into which floating objects may be drawn; any\n   body of water having a more or less circular motion caused by its\n   flowing in an irregular channel, by the coming together of opposing\n   currents, or the like.'),('Whirlpool','n.','A sea monster of the whale kind.'),('Whirlwig','n.','A whirligig.'),('Whirlwind','n.','A violent windstorm of limited extent, as the tornado,\n   characterized by an inward spiral motion of the air with an upward\n   current in the center; a vortex of air. It usually has a rapid\n   progressive motion.'),('Whirlwind','n.','Fig.: A body of objects sweeping violently onward.'),('Whirry','v. i.','To whir.'),('Whirtle','n.','A perforated steel die through which wires or tubes are\n   drawn to form them.'),('Whisk','n.','A game at cards; whist.'),('Whisk','n.','The act of whisking; a rapid, sweeping motion, as of\n   something light; a sudden motion or quick puff.'),('Whisk','n.','A small bunch of grass, straw, twigs, hair, or the like,\n   used for a brush; hence, a brush or small besom, as of broom corn.'),('Whisk','n.','A small culinary instrument made of wire, or the like, for\n   whisking or beating eggs, cream, etc.'),('Whisk','n.','A kind of cape, forming part of a woman\'s dress.'),('Whisk','n.','An impertinent fellow.'),('Whisk','n.','A plane used by coopers for evening chines.'),('Whisked','imp. & p. p.','of Whisk'),('Whisking','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Whisk'),('Whisk','n.','To sweep, brush, or agitate, with a light, rapid motion; as,\n   to whisk dust from a table; to whisk the white of eggs into a froth.'),('Whisk','n.','To move with a quick, sweeping motion.'),('Whisk','v. i.','To move nimbly at with velocity; to make a sudden agile\n   movement.'),('Whisker','n.','One who, or that which, whisks, or moves with a quick,\n   sweeping motion.'),('Whisker','n.','Formerly, the hair of the upper lip; a mustache; --\n   usually in the plural.'),('Whisker','n.','That part of the beard which grows upon the sides of the\n   face, or upon the chin, or upon both; as, side whiskers; chin whiskers.'),('Whisker','n.','A hair of the beard.'),('Whisker','n.','One of the long, projecting hairs growing at the sides of\n   the mouth of a cat, or other animal.'),('Whisker','n.','Iron rods extending on either side of the bowsprit, to\n   spread, or guy out, the stays, etc.'),('Whiskered','a.','Formed into whiskers; furnished with whiskers; having or\n   wearing whiskers.'),('Whiskered','a.','Having elongated hairs, feathers, or bristles on the\n   cheeks.'),('Whiskerless','a.','Being without whiskers.'),('Whisket','n.','A basket; esp., a straw provender basket.'),('Whisket','n.','A small lathe for turning wooden pins.'),('Whiskey','n.','Same as Whisky, a liquor.'),('Whiskeys','pl. ','of Whisky'),('Whiskies','pl. ','of Whisky'),('Whiskey','n.','Alt. of Whisky'),('Whisky','n.','A light carriage built for rapid motion; -- called also\n   tim-whiskey.'),('Whiskin','n.','A shallow drinking bowl.'),('Whisking','a.','Sweeping along lightly.'),('Whisking','a.','Large; great.'),('Whisky','n.','Alt. of Whiskey'),('Whiskey','n.','An intoxicating liquor distilled from grain, potatoes,\n   etc., especially in Scotland, Ireland, and the United States. In the\n   United States, whisky is generally distilled from maize, rye, or wheat,\n   but in Scotland and Ireland it is often made from malted barley.'),('Whiskyfied','a.','Alt. of Whiskeyfied'),('Whiskeyfied','a.','Drunk with whisky; intoxicated.'),('Whisp','n.','See Wisp.'),('Whisp','n.','A flock of snipe.'),('Whispered','imp. & p. p.','of Whisper'),('Whispering','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Whisper'),('Whisper','v. i.','To speak softly, or under the breath, so as to be heard\n   only by one near at hand; to utter words without sonant breath; to talk\n   without that vibration in the larynx which gives sonorous, or vocal,\n   sound. See Whisper, n.'),('Whisper','n.','To make a low, sibilant sound or noise.'),('Whisper','n.','To speak with suspicion, or timorous caution; to converse\n   in whispers, as in secret plotting.'),('Whisper','v. t.','To utter in a low and nonvocal tone; to say under the\n   breath; hence, to mention privately and confidentially, or in a\n   whisper.'),('Whisper','v. t.','To address in a whisper, or low voice.'),('Whisper','v. t.','To prompt secretly or cautiously; to inform privately.'),('Whisper','n.','A low, soft, sibilant voice or utterance, which can be\n   heard only by those near at hand; voice or utterance that employs only\n   breath sound without tone, friction against the edges of the vocal\n   cords and arytenoid cartilages taking the place of the vibration of the\n   cords that produces tone; sometimes, in a limited sense, the sound\n   produced by such friction as distinguished from breath sound made by\n   friction against parts of the mouth. See Voice, n., 2, and Guide to\n   Pronunciation, // 5, 153, 154.'),('Whisper','n.','A cautious or timorous speech.'),('Whisper','n.','Something communicated in secret or by whispering; a\n   suggestion or insinuation.'),('Whisper','n.','A low, sibilant sound.'),('Whisperer','n.','One who whispers.'),('Whisperer','n.','A tattler; one who tells secrets; a conveyer of\n   intelligence secretly; hence; a backbiter; one who slanders secretly.'),('Whispering','','a. & n. from Whisper. v. t.'),('Whisperingly','adv.','In a whisper, or low voice; in a whispering manner;\n   with whispers.'),('Whisperously','adv.','Whisperingly.'),('Whist','interj.','Be silent; be still; hush; silence.'),('Whist','n.','A certain game at cards; -- so called because it requires\n   silence and close attention. It is played by four persons (those who\n   sit opposite each other being partners) with a complete pack of\n   fifty-two cards. Each player has thirteen cards, and when these are\n   played out, he hand is finished, and the cards are again shuffled and\n   distributed.'),('Whist','v. t.','To hush or silence.'),('Whist','v. i.','To be or become silent or still; to be hushed or mute.'),('Whist','a.','Not speaking; not making a noise; silent; mute; still;\n   quiet.'),('Whistled','imp. & p. p.','of Whistle'),('Whistling','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Whistle'),('Whistle','v. i.','To make a kind of musical sound, or series of sounds,\n   by forcing the breath through a small orifice formed by contracting the\n   lips; also, to emit a similar sound, or series of notes, from the mouth\n   or beak, as birds.'),('Whistle','v. i.','To make a shrill sound with a wind or steam instrument,\n   somewhat like that made with the lips; to blow a sharp, shrill tone.'),('Whistle','v. i.','To sound shrill, or like a pipe; to make a sharp,\n   shrill sound; as, a bullet whistles through the air.'),('Whistle','v. t.','To form, utter, or modulate by whistling; as, to\n   whistle a tune or an air.'),('Whistle','v. t.','To send, signal, or call by a whistle.'),('Whistle','v. i.','A sharp, shrill, more or less musical sound, made by\n   forcing the breath through a small orifice of the lips, or through or\n   instrument which gives a similar sound; the sound used by a sportsman\n   in calling his dogs; the shrill note of a bird; as, the sharp whistle\n   of a boy, or of a boatswain\'s pipe; the blackbird\'s mellow whistle.'),('Whistle','v. i.','The shrill sound made by wind passing among trees or\n   through crevices, or that made by bullet, or the like, passing rapidly\n   through the air; the shrill noise (much used as a signal, etc.) made by\n   steam or gas escaping through a small orifice, or impinging against the\n   edge of a metallic bell or cup.'),('Whistle','v. i.','An instrument in which gas or steam forced into a\n   cavity, or against a thin edge, produces a sound more or less like that\n   made by one who whistles through the compressed lips; as, a child\'s\n   whistle; a boatswain\'s whistle; a steam whistle (see Steam whistle,\n   under Steam).'),('Whistle','v. i.','The mouth and throat; -- so called as being the organs\n   of whistling.'),('Whistlefish','n.','A gossat, or rockling; -- called also whistler,\n   three-bearded rockling, sea loach, and sorghe.'),('Whistler','n.','One who, or that which, whistles, or produces or a\n   whistling sound.'),('Whistler','n.','The ring ousel.'),('Whistler','n.','The widgeon.'),('Whistler','n.','The golden-eye.'),('Whistler','n.','The golden plover and the gray plover.'),('Whistler','n.','The hoary, or northern, marmot (Arctomys pruinosus).'),('Whistler','n.','The whistlefish.'),('Whistlewing','n.','The American golden-eye.'),('Whistlewood','n.','The moosewood, or striped maple. See Maple.'),('Whistling','','a. & n. from Whistle, v.'),('Whistlingly','adv.','In a whistling manner; shrilly.'),('Whistly','adv.','In a whist manner; silently.'),('Whit','n.','The smallest part or particle imaginable; a bit; a jot; an\n   iota; -- generally used in an adverbial phrase in a negative sentence.'),('White','superl.','Reflecting to the eye all the rays of the spectrum\n   combined; not tinted with any of the proper colors or their mixtures;\n   having the color of pure snow; snowy; -- the opposite of black or dark;\n   as, white paper; a white skin.'),('White','superl.','Destitute of color, as in the cheeks, or of the tinge\n   of blood color; pale; pallid; as, white with fear.'),('White','superl.','Having the color of purity; free from spot or blemish,\n   or from guilt or pollution; innocent; pure.'),('White','superl.','Gray, as from age; having silvery hair; hoary.'),('White','superl.','Characterized by freedom from that which disturbs, and\n   the like; fortunate; happy; favorable.'),('White','superl.','Regarded with especial favor; favorite; darling.'),('White','n.','The color of pure snow; one of the natural colors of bodies,\n   yet not strictly a color, but a composition of all colors; the opposite\n   of black; whiteness. See the Note under Color, n., 1.'),('White','n.','Something having the color of snow; something white, or\n   nearly so; as, the white of the eye.'),('White','n.','Specifically, the central part of the butt in archery, which\n   was formerly painted white; the center of a mark at which a missile is\n   shot.'),('White','n.','A person with a white skin; a member of the white, or\n   Caucasian, races of men.'),('White','n.','A white pigment; as, Venice white.'),('White','n.','Any one of numerous species of butterflies belonging to\n   Pieris, and allied genera in which the color is usually white. See\n   Cabbage butterfly, under Cabbage.'),('Whited','imp. & p. p.','of White'),('Whiting','p. pr. & vb. n.','of White'),('White','v. t.','To make white; to whiten; to whitewash; to bleach.'),('Whiteback','n.','The canvasback.'),('Whitebait','n.','The young of several species of herrings, especially of\n   the common herring, esteemed a great delicacy by epicures in England.'),('Whitebait','n.','A small translucent fish (Salanx Chinensis) abundant at\n   certain seasons on the coasts of China and Japan, and used in the same\n   manner as the European whitebait.'),('Whitebeam','n.','The common beam tree of England (Pyrus Aria); -- so\n   called from the white, woolly under surface of the leaves.'),('Whitebeard','n.','An old man; a graybeard.'),('Whitebelly','n.','The American widgeon, or baldpate.'),('Whitebelly','n.','The prairie chicken.'),('Whitebill','n.','The American coot.'),('White-blaze','n.','See White-face.'),('Whiteblow','n.','Same as Whitlow grass, under Whitlow.'),('Whiteboy','n.','A favorite.'),('Whiteboy','a.','One of an association of poor Roman catholics which arose\n   in Ireland about 1760, ostensibly to resist the collection of tithes,\n   the members of which were so called from the white shirts they wore in\n   their nocturnal raids.'),('Whiteboyism','n.','The conduct or principle of the Whiteboys.'),('Whitecap','n.','The European redstart; -- so called from its white\n   forehead.'),('Whitecap','n.','The whitethroat; -- so called from its gray head.'),('Whitecap','n.','The European tree sparrow.'),('Whitecap','n.','A wave whose crest breaks into white foam, as when the\n   wind is freshening.'),('Whitecoat','n.','The skin of a newborn seal; also, the seal itself.'),('White-ear','n.','The wheatear.'),('White-eye','n.','Any one of several species of small Old World singing of\n   the genus Zosterops, as Zosterops palpebrosus of India, and Z.\n   c/rulescens of Australia. The eyes are encircled by a ring of white\n   feathers, whence the name. Called also bush creeper, and white-eyed\n   tit.'),('White-face','n.','A white mark in the forehead of a horse, descending\n   almost to the nose; -- called also white-blaze.'),('Whitefish','n.','Any one of several species of Coregonus, a genus of\n   excellent food fishes allied to the salmons. They inhabit the lakes of\n   the colder parts of North America, Asia, and Europe. The largest and\n   most important American species (C. clupeiformis) is abundant in the\n   Great Lakes, and in other lakes farther north. Called also lake\n   whitefish, and Oswego bass.'),('Whitefish','n.','The menhaden.'),('Whitefish','n.','The beluga, or white whale.'),('Whiteflaw','n.','A whitlow.'),('White-foot','n.','A white mark on the foot of a horse, between the\n   fetlock and the coffin.'),('White friar','','A mendicant monk of the Carmelite order, so called from\n   the white cloaks worn by the order. See Carmelite.'),('White-fronted','a.','Having a white front; as, the white-fronted lemur.'),('Whitehead','n.','The blue-winged snow goose.'),('Whitehead','n.','The surf scoter.'),('White-heart','n.','A somewhat heart-shaped cherry with a whitish skin.'),('White-hot','a.','White with heat; heated to whiteness, or incandescence.'),('White-limed','a.','Whitewashed or plastered with lime.'),('White-livered','a.','Having a pale look; feeble; hence, cowardly;\n   pusillanimous; dastardly.'),('Whitely','a.','Like, or coming near to, white.'),('Whitened','imp. & p. p.','of Whiten'),('Whitening','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Whiten'),('Whiten','v. i.','To grow white; to turn or become white or whiter; as,\n   the hair whitens with age; the sea whitens with foam; the trees in\n   spring whiten with blossoms.'),('Whiten','v. t.','To make white; to bleach; to blanch; to whitewash; as,\n   to whiten a wall; to whiten cloth.'),('Whitener','n.','One who, or that which, whitens; a bleacher; a blancher;\n   a whitewasher.'),('Whiteness','n.','The quality or state of being white; white color, or\n   freedom from darkness or obscurity on the surface.'),('Whiteness','n.','Want of a sanguineous tinge; paleness; as from terror,\n   grief, etc.'),('Whiteness','n.','Freedom from stain or blemish; purity; cleanness.'),('Whiteness','n.','Nakedness.'),('Whiteness','n.','A flock of swans.'),('Whitening','n.','The act or process of making or becoming white.'),('Whitening','n.','That which is used to render white; whiting.'),('White-pot','n.','A kind of food made of milk or cream, eggs, sugar,\n   bread, etc., baked in a pot.'),('Whiterump','n.','The American black-tailed godwit.'),('Whites','n. pl.','Leucorrh/a.'),('Whites','n. pl.','The finest flour made from white wheat.'),('Whites','n. pl.','Cloth or garments of a plain white color.'),('Whiteside','n.','The golden-eye.'),('Whitesmith','n.','One who works in tinned or galvanized iron, or white\n   iron; a tinsmith.'),('Whitesmith','n.','A worker in iron who finishes or polishes the work, in\n   distinction from one who forges it.'),('Whitester','n.','A bleacher of linen; a whitener; a whitster.'),('Whitetail','n.','The Virginia deer.'),('Whitetail','n.','The wheatear.'),('Whitethorn','n.','The hawthorn.'),('Whitethroat','n.','Any one of several species of Old World warblers, esp.\n   the common European species (Sylvia cinerea), called also strawsmear,\n   nettlebird, muff, and whitecap, the garden whitethroat, or golden\n   warbler (S. hortensis), and the lesser whitethroat (S. curruca).'),('Whitetop','n.','Fiorin.'),('Whitewall','n.','The spotted flycatcher; -- so called from the white\n   color of the under parts.'),('Whitewash','n.','Any wash or liquid composition for whitening something,\n   as a wash for making the skin fair.'),('Whitewash','n.','A composition of line and water, or of whiting size, and\n   water, or the like, used for whitening walls, ceilings, etc.; milk of\n   lime.'),('Whitewashed','imp. & p. p.','of Whitewash'),('Whitewashing','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Whitewash'),('Whitewash','v. t.','To apply a white liquid composition to; to whiten\n   with whitewash.'),('Whitewash','v. t.','To make white; to give a fair external appearance to;\n   to clear from imputations or disgrace; hence, to clear (a bankrupt)\n   from obligation to pay debts.'),('Whitewasher','n.','One who whitewashes.'),('White-water','n.','A dangerous disease of sheep.'),('Whiteweed','n.','A perennial composite herb (Chrysanthemum Leucanthemum)\n   with conspicuous white rays and a yellow disk, a common weed in grass\n   lands and pastures; -- called also oxeye daisy.'),('Whitewing','n.','The chaffinch; -- so called from the white bands on the\n   wing.'),('Whitewing','n.','The velvet duck.'),('Whitewood','n.','The soft and easily-worked wood of the tulip tree\n   (Liriodendron). It is much used in cabinetwork, carriage building, etc.'),('Whitewort','n.','Wild camomile.'),('Whitewort','n.','A kind of Solomon\'s seal (Polygonum officinale).'),('Whitflaw','n.','Whitlow.'),('Whither','adv.','To what place; -- used interrogatively; as, whither\n   goest thou?'),('Whither','adv.','To what or which place; -- used relatively.'),('Whither','adv.','To what point, degree, end, conclusion, or design;\n   whereunto; whereto; -- used in a sense not physical.'),('Whithersoever','adv.','To whatever place; to what place soever;\n   wheresoever; as, I will go whithersoever you lead.'),('Whitherward','adv.','In what direction; toward what or which place.'),('Whitile','v.','The yaffle.'),('Whiting','n.','A common European food fish (Melangus vulgaris) of the\n   Codfish family; -- called also fittin.'),('Whiting','n.','A North American fish (Merlucius vulgaris) allied to the\n   preceding; -- called also silver hake.'),('Whiting','n.','Any one of several species of North American marine\n   sciaenoid food fishes belonging to genus Menticirrhus, especially M.\n   Americanus, found from Maryland to Brazil, and M. littoralis, common\n   from Virginia to Texas; -- called also silver whiting, and surf\n   whiting.'),('Whiting','n.','Chalk prepared in an impalpable powder by pulverizing and\n   repeated washing, used as a pigment, as an ingredient in putty, for\n   cleaning silver, etc.'),('Whiting-mop','n.','A young whiting.'),('Whiting-mop','n.','A fair lass.'),('Whitish','a.','Somewhat white; approaching white; white in a moderate\n   degree.'),('Whitish','a.','Covered with an opaque white powder.'),('Whitishness','n.','The quality or state of being whitish or somewhat\n   white.'),('Whitleather','n.','Leather dressed or tawed with alum, salt, etc.,\n   remarkable for its pliability and toughness; white leather.'),('Whitleather','n.','The paxwax. See Paxwax.'),('Whitling','n.','A young full trout during its second season.'),('Whitlow','a.','An inflammation of the fingers or toes, generally of the\n   last phalanx, terminating usually in suppuration. The inflammation may\n   occupy any seat between the skin and the bone, but is usually applied\n   to a felon or inflammation of the periosteal structures of the bone.'),('Whitlow','a.','An inflammatory disease of the feet. It occurs round the\n   hoof, where an acrid matter is collected.'),('Whitlow-wort','n.','Same as Whitlow grass, under Whitlow.'),('Whitmonday','n.','The day following Whitsunday; -- called also Whitsun\n   Monday.'),('Whitneyite','n.','an arsenide of copper from Lake Superior.'),('Whitson','a.','See Whitsun.'),('Whitsour','n.','A sort of apple.'),('Whitster','n.','A whitener; a bleacher; a whitester.'),('Whitsun','a.','Of, pertaining to, or observed at, Whitsuntide; as,\n   Whitsun week; Whitsun Tuesday; Whitsun pastorals.'),('Whitsunday','n.','The seventh Sunday, and the fiftieth day, after Easter;\n   a festival of the church in commemoration of the descent of the Holy\n   Spirit on the day of Pentecost; Pentecost; -- so called, it is said,\n   because, in the primitive church, those who had been newly baptized\n   appeared at church between Easter and Pentecost in white garments.'),('Whitsunday','n.','See the Note under Term, n., 12.'),('Whitsuntide','n.','The week commencing with Whitsunday, esp. the first\n   three days -- Whitsunday, Whitsun Monday, and Whitsun Tuesday; the time\n   of Pentecost.'),('Whitten tree','','Either of two shrubs (Viburnum Lantana, and V. Opulus),\n   so called on account of their whitish branches.'),('Whitterick','n.','The curlew.'),('Whittle','n.','A grayish, coarse double blanket worn by countrywomen, in\n   the west of England, over the shoulders, like a cloak or shawl.'),('Whittle','n.','Same as Whittle shawl, below.'),('Whittle','n.','A knife; esp., a pocket, sheath, or clasp knife.'),('Whittled','imp. & p. p.','of Whittle'),('Whittling','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Whittle'),('Whittle','v. t.','To pare or cut off the surface of with a small knife;\n   to cut or shape, as a piece of wood held in the hand, with a clasp\n   knife or pocketknife.'),('Whittle','v. t.','To edge; to sharpen; to render eager or excited; esp.,\n   to excite with liquor; to inebriate.'),('Whittle','v. i.','To cut or shape a piece of wood with am small knife; to\n   cut up a piece of wood with a knife.'),('Whittlings','n. pl.','Chips made by one who whittles; shavings cut from a\n   stick with a knife.'),('Whittret','n.','A weasel.'),('Whittuesday','n.','The day following Whitmonday; -- called also Whitsun\n   Tuesday.'),('Whitwall','n.','Same as Whetile.'),('Whitworth ball','','A prejectile used in the Whitworth gun.'),('Whitworth gun','','A form of rifled cannon and small arms invented by Sir\n   Joseph Whitworth, of Manchester, England.'),('Whity-brown','a.','Of a color between white and brown.'),('Whizzed','imp. & p. p.','of Whiz'),('Whizzing','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Whiz'),('Whiz','v. i.','To make a humming or hissing sound, like an arrow or ball\n   flying through the air; to fly or move swiftly with a sharp hissing or\n   whistling sound.'),('Whiz','n.','A hissing and humming sound.'),('Whizzingly','adv.','With a whizzing sound.'),('Who','object.','Originally, an interrogative pronoun, later, a relative\n   pronoun also; -- used always substantively, and either as singular or\n   plural. See the Note under What, pron., 1. As interrogative pronouns,\n   who and whom ask the question: What or which person or persons? Who and\n   whom, as relative pronouns (in the sense of that), are properly used of\n   persons (corresponding to which, as applied to things), but are\n   sometimes, less properly and now rarely, used of animals, plants, etc.\n   Who and whom, as compound relatives, are also used especially of\n   persons, meaning the person that; the persons that; the one that;\n   whosoever.'),('Who','pron.','One; any; one.'),('Whoa','interj.','Stop; stand; hold. See Ho, 2.'),('Whobub','n.','Hubbub.'),('Whoever','pron.','Whatever person; any person who; be or she who; any one\n   who; as, he shall be punished, whoever he may be.'),('Whole','a.','Containing the total amount, number, etc.; comprising all\n   the parts; free from deficiency; all; total; entire; as, the whole\n   earth; the whole solar system; the whole army; the whole nation.'),('Whole','a.','Complete; entire; not defective or imperfect; not broken or\n   fractured; unimpaired; uninjured; integral; as, a whole orange; the egg\n   is whole; the vessel is whole.'),('Whole','a.','Possessing, or being in a state of, heath and soundness;\n   healthy; sound; well.'),('Whole','n.','The entire thing; the entire assemblage of parts; totality;\n   all of a thing, without defect or exception; a thing complete in\n   itself.'),('Whole','n.','A regular combination of parts; a system.'),('Whole-hoofed','a.','Having an undivided hoof, as the horse.'),('Whole-length','a.','Representing the whole figure; -- said of a picture\n   or statue.'),('Whole-length','n.','A portrait or statue representing the whole figure.'),('Wholeness','n.','The quality or state of being whole, entire, or sound;\n   entireness; totality; completeness.'),('Wholesale','n.','Sale of goods by the piece or large quantity, as\n   distinguished from retail.'),('Wholesale','a.','Pertaining to, or engaged in, trade by the piece or\n   large quantity; selling to retailers or jobbers rather than to\n   consumers; as, a wholesale merchant; the wholesale price.'),('Wholesale','a.','Extensive and indiscriminate; as, wholesale slaughter.'),('Wholesome','superl.','Tending to promote health; favoring health;\n   salubrious; salutary.'),('Wholesome','superl.','Contributing to the health of the mind; favorable\n   to morals, religion, or prosperity; conducive to good; salutary; sound;\n   as, wholesome advice; wholesome doctrines; wholesome truths; wholesome\n   laws.'),('Wholesome','superl.','Sound; healthy.'),('Whole-souled','a.','Thoroughly imbued with a right spirit; noble-minded;\n   devoted.'),('Wholly','adv.','In a whole or complete manner; entirely; completely;\n   perfectly.'),('Wholly','adv.','To the exclusion of other things; totally; fully.'),('Whom','pron.','The objective case of who. See Who.'),('Whomsoever','pron.','The objective of whosoever. See Whosoever.'),('Whoobub','n.','Hubbub.'),('Whoop','n.','The hoopoe.'),('Whooped','imp. & p. p.','of Whoop'),('Whooping','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Whoop'),('Whoop','v. i.','To utter a whoop, or loud cry, as eagerness, enthusiasm,\n   or enjoyment; to cry out; to shout; to halloo; to utter a war whoop; to\n   hoot, as an owl.'),('Whoop','v. i.','To cough or breathe with a sonorous inspiration, as in\n   whooping cough.'),('Whoop','v. t.','To insult with shouts; to chase with derision.'),('Whoop','n.','A shout of pursuit or of war; a very of eagerness,\n   enthusiasm, enjoyment, vengeance, terror, or the like; an halloo; a\n   hoot, or cry, as of an owl.'),('Whoop','n.','A loud, shrill, prolonged sound or sonorous inspiration, as\n   in whooping cough.'),('Whooper','n.','One who, or that which, whooops.'),('Whooping','','a. & n. from Whoop, v. t.'),('Whoot','v. i.','To hoot.'),('Whop','v. t.','Same as Whap.'),('Whop','n.','Same as Whap.'),('Whopper','n.','One who, or that which, whops.'),('Whopper','n.','Same as Whapper.'),('Whore','n.','A woman who practices unlawful sexual commerce with men,\n   especially one who prostitutes her body for hire; a prostitute; a\n   harlot.'),('Whored','imp. & p. p.','of Whore'),('Whoring','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Whore'),('Whore','n.','To have unlawful sexual intercourse; to practice lewdness.'),('Whore','n.','To worship false and impure gods.'),('Whore','v. t.','To corrupt by lewd intercourse; to make a whore of; to\n   debauch.'),('Whoredom','n.','The practice of unlawful intercourse with the other sex;\n   fornication; lewdness.'),('Whoredom','n.','The sin of worshiping idols; idolatry.'),('Wheremaster','n.','A man who practices lewdness; a lecher; a whoremonger.'),('Wheremaster','n.','One keeps or procures whores for others; a pimp; a\n   procurer.'),('Whoremasterly','a.','Having the character of a whoremaster; lecherous;\n   libidinous.'),('Whoremonger','n.','A whoremaster; a lecher; a man who frequents the\n   society of whores.'),('Whoreson','n.','A bastard; colloquially, a low, scurvy fellow; -- used\n   generally in contempt, or in coarse humor. Also used adjectively.'),('Whorish','a.','Resembling a whore in character or conduct; addicted to\n   unlawful pleasures; incontinent; lewd; unchaste.'),('Whorl','n. & v.','A circle of two or more leaves, flowers, or other\n   organs, about the same part or joint of a stem.'),('Whorl','n. & v.','A volution, or turn, of the spire of a univalve shell.'),('Whorl','n. & v.','The fly of a spindle.'),('Whorled','a.','Furnished with whorls; arranged in the form of a whorl or\n   whorls; verticillate; as, whorled leaves.'),('Whorler','n.','A potter\'s wheel.'),('Whort','n.','The whortleberry, or bilberry. See Whortleberry (a).'),('Whortle','n.','The whortleberry, or bilberry.'),('Whortleberry','n.','In England, the fruit of Vaccinium Myrtillus; also,\n   the plant itself. See Bilberry, 1.'),('Whortleberry','n.','The fruit of several shrubby plants of the genus\n   Gaylussacia; also, any one of these plants. See Huckleberry.'),('Whose','pron.','The possessive case of who or which. See Who, and Which.'),('Whosesoever','pron.','The possessive of whosoever. See Whosoever.'),('Whoso','pron.','Whosoever.'),('Whosoever','pron.','Whatsoever person; any person whatever that; whoever.'),('Whot','a.','Hot.'),('Whur','v. i.','To make a rough, humming sound, like one who pronounces\n   the letter r with too much force; to whir; to birr.'),('Whur','v. i.','To snarl or growl, as a dog.'),('Whur','n.','A humming or whirring sound, like that of a body moving\n   through the air with velocity; a whir.'),('Whurry','v. t.','To whisk along quickly; to hurry.'),('Whurt','n.','See Whort.'),('Why','adv.','For what cause, reason, or purpose; on what account;\n   wherefore; -- used interrogatively. See the Note under What, pron., 1.'),('Why','adv.','For which; on account of which; -- used relatively.'),('Why','adv.','The reason or cause for which; that on account of which; on\n   what account; as, I know not why he left town so suddenly; -- used as a\n   compound relative.'),('Why','n.','A young heifer.'),('Whydah bird','','Alt. of Whydah finch'),('Whydah finch','','The whidah bird.'),('Why-not','n.','A violent and peremptory procedure without any assigned\n   reason; a sudden conclusive happening.'),('Wich','n.','A variant of 1st Wick.'),('Wichitas','n. pl.','A tribe of Indians native of the region between the\n   Arkansas and Red rivers. They are related to the Pawnees. See Pawnees.'),('Wick','n.','Alt. of Wich'),('Wich','n.','A street; a village; a castle; a dwelling; a place of work,\n   or exercise of authority; -- now obsolete except in composition; as,\n   bailiwick, Warwick, Greenwick.'),('Wich','n.','A narrow port or passage in the rink or course, flanked by\n   the stones of previous players.'),('Wick','n.','A bundle of fibers, or a loosely twisted or braided cord,\n   tape, or tube, usually made of soft spun cotton threads, which by\n   capillary attraction draws up a steady supply of the oil in lamps, the\n   melted tallow or wax in candles, or other material used for\n   illumination, in small successive portions, to be burned.'),('Wick','v. i.','To strike a stone in an oblique direction.'),('Wicke','a.','Wicked.'),('Wicked','a.','Having a wick; -- used chiefly in composition; as, a\n   two-wicked lamp.'),('Wicked','a.','Evil in principle or practice; deviating from morality;\n   contrary to the moral or divine law; addicted to vice or sin; sinful;\n   immoral; profligate; -- said of persons and things; as, a wicked king;\n   a wicked woman; a wicked deed; wicked designs.'),('Wicked','a.','Cursed; baneful; hurtful; bad; pernicious; dangerous.'),('Wicked','a.','Ludicrously or sportively mischievous; disposed to\n   mischief; roguish.'),('Wickedly','adv.','In a wicked manner; in a manner, or with motives and\n   designs, contrary to the divine law or the law of morality; viciously;\n   corruptly; immorally.'),('Wickedness','n.','The quality or state of being wicked; departure from\n   the rules of the divine or the moral law; evil disposition or\n   practices; immorality; depravity; sinfulness.'),('Wickedness','n.','A wicked thing or act; crime; sin; iniquity.'),('Wicken tree','','Same as Quicken tree.'),('Wicker','n.','A small pliant twig or osier; a rod for making basketwork\n   and the like; a withe.'),('Wicker','n.','Wickerwork; a piece of wickerwork, esp. a basket.'),('Wicker','n.','Same as 1st Wike.'),('Wicker','a.','Made of, or covered with, twigs or osiers, or wickerwork.'),('Wickered','a.','Made of, secured by, or covered with, wickers or\n   wickerwork.'),('Wickerwork','n.','A texture of osiers, twigs, or rods; articles made of\n   such a texture.'),('Wicket','n.','A small gate or door, especially one forming part of, or\n   placed near, a larger door or gate; a narrow opening or entrance cut in\n   or beside a door or gate, or the door which is used to close such\n   entrance or aperture. Piers Plowman.'),('Wicket','n.','A small gate by which the chamber of canal locks is\n   emptied, or by which the amount of water passing to a water wheel is\n   regulated.'),('Wicket','n.','A small framework at which the ball is bowled. It consists\n   of three rods, or stumps, set vertically in the ground, with one or two\n   short rods, called bails, lying horizontally across the top.'),('Wicket','n.','The ground on which the wickets are set.'),('Wicket','n.','A place of shelter made of the boughs of trees, -- used by\n   lumbermen, etc.'),('Wicket','n.','The space between the pillars, in postand-stall working.'),('Wicking','n.','the material of which wicks are made; esp., a loosely\n   braided or twisted cord or tape of cotton.'),('Wiclifite','n.','Alt. of Wickliffite'),('Wickliffite','n.','See Wyclifite.'),('Wicopy','n.','See Leatherwood.'),('Widdy','n.','A rope or halter made of flexible twigs, or withes, as of\n   birch.'),('Wide','superl.','Having considerable distance or extent between the\n   sides; spacious across; much extended in a direction at right angles to\n   that of length; not narrow; broad; as, wide cloth; a wide table; a wide\n   highway; a wide bed; a wide hall or entry.'),('Wide','superl.','Having a great extent every way; extended; spacious;\n   broad; vast; extensive; as, a wide plain; the wide ocean; a wide\n   difference.'),('Wide','superl.','Of large scope; comprehensive; liberal; broad; as, wide\n   views; a wide understanding.'),('Wide','superl.','Of a certain measure between the sides; measuring in a\n   direction at right angles to that of length; as, a table three feet\n   wide.'),('Wide','superl.','Remote; distant; far.'),('Wide','superl.','Far from truth, from propriety, from necessity, or the\n   like.'),('Wide','superl.','On one side or the other of the mark; too far side-wise\n   from the mark, the wicket, the batsman, etc.'),('Wide','superl.','Made, as a vowel, with a less tense, and more open and\n   relaxed, condition of the mouth organs; -- opposed to primary as used\n   by Mr. Bell, and to narrow as used by Mr. Sweet. The effect, as\n   explained by Mr. Bell, is due to the relaxation or tension of the\n   pharynx; as explained by Mr. Sweet and others, it is due to the action\n   of the tongue. The wide of / (/ve) is / (/ll); of a (ate) is / (/nd),\n   etc. See Guide to Pronunciation, / 13-15.'),('Wide','adv.','To a distance; far; widely; to a great distance or extent;\n   as, his fame was spread wide.'),('Wide','adv.','So as to leave or have a great space between the sides; so\n   as to form a large opening.'),('Wide','adv.','So as to be or strike far from, or on one side of, an\n   object or purpose; aside; astray.'),('Wide','n.','That which is wide; wide space; width; extent.'),('Wide','n.','That which goes wide, or to one side of the mark.'),('Wide-awake','a.','Fully awake; not drowsy or dull; hence, knowing; keen;\n   alert.'),('Wide-awake','n.','A broad-brimmed, low-crowned felt hat.'),('Widegap','n.','The angler; -- called also widegab, and widegut.'),('Widely','adv.','In a wide manner; to a wide degree or extent; far;\n   extensively; as, the gospel was widely disseminated by the apostles.'),('Widely','adv.','Very much; to a great degree or extent; as, to differ\n   widely in opinion.'),('Widened','imp. & p. p.','of Widen'),('Widening','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Widen'),('Widen','v. t.','To make wide or wider; to extend in breadth; to increase\n   the width of; as, to widen a field; to widen a breach; to widen a\n   stocking.'),('Widen','v. i.','To grow wide or wider; to enlarge; to spread; to extend.'),('Wideness','n.','The quality or state of being wide; breadth; width; great\n   extent from side to side; as, the wideness of a room.'),('Wideness','n.','Large extent in all directions; broadness; greatness; as,\n   the wideness of the sea or ocean.'),('Widespread','a.','Spread to a great distance; widely extended; extending\n   far and wide; as, widespread wings; a widespread movement.'),('Widewhere','adv.','Widely; far and wide.'),('Widgeon','n.','Any one of several species of fresh-water ducks,\n   especially those belonging to the subgenus Mareca, of the genus Anas.\n   The common European widgeon (Anas penelope) and the American widgeon\n   (A. Americana) are the most important species. The latter is called\n   also baldhead, baldpate, baldface, baldcrown, smoking duck, wheat,\n   duck, and whitebelly.'),('Widish','a.','Moderately wide.'),('Widmanstatten figures','','Certain figures appearing on etched meteoric\n   iron; -- so called after A. B. Widmanstatten, of Vienna, who first\n   described them in 1808. See the Note and Illust. under Meteorite.'),('Widow','n.','A woman who has lost her husband by death, and has not\n   married again; one living bereaved of a husband.'),('Widow','a.','Widowed.'),('Widowed','imp. & p. p.','of Widow'),('Widowing','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Widow'),('Widow','v. t.','To reduce to the condition of a widow; to bereave of a\n   husband; -- rarely used except in the past participle.'),('Widow','v. t.','To deprive of one who is loved; to strip of anything\n   beloved or highly esteemed; to make desolate or bare; to bereave.'),('Widow','v. t.','To endow with a widow\'s right.'),('Widow','v. t.','To become, or survive as, the widow of.'),('Widow bird','','See Whidan bird.'),('Widower','n.','A man who has lost his wife by death, and has not married\n   again.'),('Widowerhood','n.','The state of being a widower.'),('Widowhood','n.','The state of being a widow; the time during which a\n   woman is widow; also, rarely, the state of being a widower.'),('Widowhood','n.','Estate settled on a widow.'),('Widow-hunter','n.','One who courts widows, seeking to marry one with a\n   fortune.'),('Widowly','a.','Becoming or like a widow.'),('Widow-maker','n.','One who makes widows by destroying husbands.'),('Widow-wail','n.','A low, narrowleaved evergreen shrub (Cneorum tricoccon)\n   found in Southern Europe.'),('Width','n.','The quality of being wide; extent from side to side;\n   breadth; wideness; as, the width of cloth; the width of a door.'),('Widual','a.','Of or pertaining to a widow; vidual.'),('Widwe','n.','A widow.'),('Wielded','imp. & p. p.','of Wield'),('Wielding','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Wield'),('Wield','v. t.','To govern; to rule; to keep, or have in charge; also, to\n   possess.'),('Wield','v. t.','To direct or regulate by influence or authority; to\n   manage; to control; to sway.'),('Wield','v. t.','To use with full command or power, as a thing not too\n   heavy for the holder; to manage; to handle; hence, to use or employ;\n   as, to wield a sword; to wield the scepter.'),('Wieldable','a.','Capable of being wielded.'),('Wieldance','n.','The act or power of wielding.'),('Wielder','n.','One who wields or employs; a manager; a controller.'),('Wielding','n.','Power; authority; rule.'),('Wieldless','a.','Not to be wielded; unmanageable; unwieldy.'),('Wieldsome','a.','Admitting of being easily wielded or managed.'),('Wieldy','a.','Capable of being wielded; manageable; wieldable; -- opposed\n   to unwieldy.'),('Wier','n.','Same as Weir.'),('Wierangle','n.','Same as Wariangle.'),('Wiery','a.','Wet; moist; marshy.'),('Wiery','a.','Wiry.'),('Wives','pl. ','of Wife'),('Wife','n.','A woman; an adult female; -- now used in literature only in\n   certain compounds and phrases, as alewife, fishwife, goodwife, and the\n   like.'),('Wife','n.','The lawful consort of a man; a woman who is united to a man\n   in wedlock; a woman who has a husband; a married woman; -- correlative\n   of husband.'),('Wifehood','n.','Womanhood.'),('Wifehood','n.','The state of being a wife; the character of a wife.'),('Wifeless','a.','Without a wife; unmarried.'),('Wifelike','a.','Of, pertaining to, or like, a wife or a woman.'),('Wifely','a.','Becoming or life; of or pertaining to a wife.'),('Wig','n.','A covering for the head, consisting of hair interwoven or\n   united by a kind of network, either in imitation of the natural growth,\n   or in abundant and flowing curls, worn to supply a deficiency of\n   natural hair, or for ornament, or according to traditional usage, as a\n   part of an official or professional dress, the latter especially in\n   England by judges and barristers.'),('Wig','n.','An old seal; -- so called by fishermen.'),('Wigged','imp. & p. p.','of Wig'),('Wigging','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Wig'),('Wig','v. t.','To censure or rebuke; to hold up to reprobation; to scold.'),('Wigan','n.','A kind of canvaslike cotton fabric, used to stiffen and\n   protect the lower part of trousers and of the skirts of women\'s\n   dresses, etc.; -- so called from Wigan, the name of a town in\n   Lancashire, England.'),('Wigeon','n.','A widgeon.'),('Wigg','n.','Alt. of Wig'),('Wig','n.','A kind of raised seedcake.'),('Wigged','a.','Having the head covered with a wig; wearing a wig.'),('Wiggery','n.','A wig or wigs; false hair.'),('Wiggery','n.','Any cover or screen, as red-tapism.'),('Wiggle','v. t.','To move to and fro with a quick, jerking motion; to bend\n   rapidly, or with a wavering motion, from side to side; to wag; to\n   squirm; to wriggle; as, the dog wiggles his tail; the tadpole wiggles\n   in the water.'),('Wiggle','n.','Act of wiggling; a wriggle.'),('Wiggler','n.','The young, either larva or pupa, of the mosquito; --\n   called also wiggletail.'),('Wigher','v. i.','To neigh; to whinny.'),('Wight','n.','Weight.'),('Wight','n.','A whit; a bit; a jot.'),('Wight','n.','A supernatural being.'),('Wight','n.','A human being; a person, either male or female; -- now used\n   chiefly in irony or burlesque, or in humorous language.'),('Wight','a.','Swift; nimble; agile; strong and active.'),('Wightly','adv.','Swiftly; nimbly; quickly.'),('Wigless','a.','Having or wearing no wig.'),('Wigwag','v. t.','To signal by means of a flag waved from side to side\n   according to a code adopted for the purpose.'),('Wigwam','n.','An Indian cabin or hut, usually of a conical form, and made\n   of a framework of poles covered with hides, bark, or mats; -- called\n   also tepee.'),('Wike','n.','A temporary mark or boundary, as a bough of a tree set up in\n   marking out or dividing anything, as tithes, swaths to be mowed in\n   common ground, etc.; -- called also wicker.'),('Wike','n.','A home; a dwelling.'),('Wikke','a.','Wicked.'),('Wild','superl.','Living in a state of nature; inhabiting natural haunts,\n   as the forest or open field; not familiar with, or not easily\n   approached by, man; not tamed or domesticated; as, a wild boar; a wild\n   ox; a wild cat.'),('Wild','superl.','Growing or produced without culture; growing or prepared\n   without the aid and care of man; native; not cultivated; brought forth\n   by unassisted nature or by animals not domesticated; as, wild parsnip,\n   wild camomile, wild strawberry, wild honey.'),('Wild','superl.','Desert; not inhabited or cultivated; as, wild land.'),('Wild','superl.','Savage; uncivilized; not refined by culture; ferocious;\n   rude; as, wild natives of Africa or America.'),('Wild','superl.','Not submitted to restraint, training, or regulation;\n   turbulent; tempestuous; violent; ungoverned; licentious; inordinate;\n   disorderly; irregular; fanciful; imaginary; visionary; crazy.'),('Wild','superl.','Exposed to the wind and sea; unsheltered; as, a wild\n   roadstead.'),('Wild','superl.','Indicating strong emotion, intense excitement, or\n   /ewilderment; as, a wild look.'),('Wild','superl.','Hard to steer; -- said of a vessel.'),('Wild','n.','An uninhabited and uncultivated tract or region; a forest or\n   desert; a wilderness; a waste; as, the wilds of America; the wilds of\n   Africa.'),('Wild','adv.','Wildly; as, to talk wild.'),('Wild-cat','a.','Unsound; worthless; irresponsible; unsafe; -- said to\n   have been originally applied to the notes of an insolvent bank in\n   Michigan upon which there was the figure of a panther.'),('Wild-cat','a.','Running without control; running along the line without a\n   train; as, a wild-cat locomotive.'),('Wildebeest','n.','The gnu.'),('Wilded','a.','Become wild.'),('Wildered','imp. & p. p.','of Wilder'),('Wildering','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Wilder'),('Wilder','a.','To bewilder; to perplex.'),('Wildering','n.','A plant growing in a state of nature; especially, one\n   which has run wild, or escaped from cultivation.'),('Wilderment','n.','The state of being bewildered; confusion; bewilderment.'),('Wilderness','v. t.','A tract of land, or a region, uncultivated and\n   uninhabited by human beings, whether a forest or a wide, barren plain;\n   a wild; a waste; a desert; a pathless waste of any kind.'),('Wilderness','v. t.','A disorderly or neglected place.'),('Wilderness','v. t.','Quality or state of being wild; wildness.'),('Wildfire','n.','A composition of inflammable materials, which, kindled,\n   is very hard to quench; Greek fire.'),('Wildfire','n.','An old name for erysipelas.'),('Wildfire','n.','A disease of sheep, attended with inflammation of the\n   skin.'),('Wildfire','n.','A sort of lightning unaccompanied by thunder.'),('Wildgrave','n.','A waldgrave, or head forest keeper. See Waldgrave.'),('Wilding','n.','A wild or uncultivated plant; especially, a wild apple\n   tree or crab apple; also, the fruit of such a plant.'),('Wilding','a.','Not tame, domesticated, or cultivated; wild.'),('Wildish','a.','Somewhat wild; rather wild.'),('Wildly','adv.','In a wild manner; without cultivation; with disorder;\n   rudely; distractedly; extravagantly.'),('Wildness','n.','The quality or state of being wild; an uncultivated or\n   untamed state; disposition to rove or go unrestrained; rudeness;\n   savageness; irregularity; distraction.'),('Wildwood','n.','A wild or unfrequented wood. Also used adjectively; as,\n   wildwood flowers; wildwood echoes.'),('Wile','n.','A trick or stratagem practiced for insnaring or deception; a\n   sly, insidious; artifice; a beguilement; an allurement.'),('Wile','v. t.','To practice artifice upon; to deceive; to beguile; to\n   allure.'),('Wile','v. t.','To draw or turn away, as by diversion; to while or while\n   away; to cause to pass pleasantly.'),('Wileful','a.','Full of wiles; trickish; deceitful.'),('Wilful','n.','Alt. of Wilfulness'),('Wilfully','n.','Alt. of Wilfulness'),('Wilfulness','n.','See Willful, Willfully, and Willfulness.'),('Wiliness','n.','The quality or state of being wily; craftiness; cunning;\n   guile.'),('Wilk','n.','See Whelk.'),('Will','v.','The power of choosing; the faculty or endowment of the soul\n   by which it is capable of choosing; the faculty or power of the mind by\n   which we decide to do or not to do; the power or faculty of preferring\n   or selecting one of two or more objects.'),('Will','v.','The choice which is made; a determination or preference which\n   results from the act or exercise of the power of choice; a volition.'),('Will','v.','The choice or determination of one who has authority; a\n   decree; a command; discretionary pleasure.'),('Will','v.','Strong wish or inclination; desire; purpose.'),('Will','v.','That which is strongly wished or desired.'),('Will','v.','Arbitrary disposal; power to control, dispose, or determine.'),('Will','v.','The legal declaration of a person\'s mind as to the manner in\n   which he would have his property or estate disposed of after his death;\n   the written instrument, legally executed, by which a man makes\n   disposition of his estate, to take effect after his death; testament;\n   devise. See the Note under Testament, 1.'),('Would','imp.','of Will'),('Will','adv.','To wish; to desire; to incline to have.'),('Will','adv.','As an auxiliary, will is used to denote futurity dependent\n   on the verb. Thus, in first person, \"I will\" denotes willingness,\n   consent, promise; and when \"will\" is emphasized, it denotes\n   determination or fixed purpose; as, I will go if you wish; I will go at\n   all hazards. In the second and third persons, the idea of distinct\n   volition, wish, or purpose is evanescent, and simple certainty is\n   appropriately expressed; as, \"You will go,\" or \"He will go,\" describes\n   a future event as a fact only. To emphasize will denotes (according to\n   the tone or context) certain futurity or fixed determination.'),('Will','v. i.','To be willing; to be inclined or disposed; to be pleased;\n   to wish; to desire.'),('Willed','imp. & p. p.','of Will'),('Willing','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Will'),('Will','n.','To form a distinct volition of; to determine by an act of\n   choice; to ordain; to decree.'),('Will','n.','To enjoin or command, as that which is determined by an act\n   of volition; to direct; to order.'),('Will','n.','To give or direct the disposal of by testament; to bequeath;\n   to devise; as, to will one\'s estate to a child; also, to order or\n   direct by testament; as, he willed that his nephew should have his\n   watch.'),('Will','v. i.','To exercise an act of volition; to choose; to decide; to\n   determine; to decree.'),('Willemite','n.','A silicate of zinc, usually occurring massive and of a\n   greenish yellow color, also in reddish crystals (troostite) containing\n   manganese.'),('Willer','n.','One who wills.'),('Willet','n.','A large North American snipe (Symphemia semipalmata); --\n   called also pill-willet, will-willet, semipalmated tattler, or snipe,\n   duck snipe, and stone curlew.'),('Willful','a.','Of set purpose; self-determined; voluntary; as, willful\n   murder.'),('Willful','a.','Governed by the will without yielding to reason;\n   obstinate; perverse; inflexible; stubborn; refractory; as, a willful\n   man or horse.'),('Willier','n.','One who works at a willying machine.'),('Willing','v. t.','Free to do or to grant; having the mind inclined; not\n   opposed in mind; not choosing to refuse; disposed; not averse;\n   desirous; consenting; complying; ready.'),('Willing','v. t.','Received of choice, or without reluctance; submitted to\n   voluntarily; chosen; desired.'),('Willing','v. t.','Spontaneous; self-moved.'),('Willingly','adv.','In a willing manner; with free will; without\n   reluctance; cheerfully.'),('Willingness','n.','The quality or state of being willing; free choice or\n   consent of the will; freedom from reluctance; readiness of the mind to\n   do or forbear.'),('Williwaw','n.','Alt. of Willywaw'),('Willywaw','n.','A whirlwind, or whirlwind squall, encountered in the\n   Straits of Magellan.'),('Willock','n.','The common guillemot.'),('Willock','n.','The puffin.'),('Will-o\'-the-wisp','n.','See Ignis fatuus.'),('Willow','n.','Any tree or shrub of the genus Salix, including many\n   species, most of which are characterized often used as an emblem of\n   sorrow, desolation, or desertion. \"A wreath of willow to show my\n   forsaken plight.\" Sir W. Scott. Hence, a lover forsaken by, or having\n   lost, the person beloved, is said to wear the willow.'),('Willow','n.','A machine in which cotton or wool is opened and cleansed by\n   the action of long spikes projecting from a drum which revolves within\n   a box studded with similar spikes; -- probably so called from having\n   been originally a cylindrical cage made of willow rods, though some\n   derive the term from winnow, as denoting the winnowing, or cleansing,\n   action of the machine. Called also willy, twilly, twilly devil, and\n   devil.'),('Willow','v. t.','To open and cleanse, as cotton, flax, or wool, by means\n   of a willow. See Willow, n., 2.'),('Willowed','a.','Abounding with willows; containing willows; covered or\n   overgrown with willows.'),('Willower','n.','A willow. See Willow, n., 2.'),('Willow-herb','n.','A perennial herb (Epilobium spicatum) with narrow\n   willowlike leaves and showy rose-purple flowers. The name is sometimes\n   made to include other species of the same genus.'),('Willowish','a.','Having the color of the willow; resembling the willow;\n   willowy.'),('Willow-thorn','n.','A thorny European shrub (Hippophae rhamnoides)\n   resembling a willow.'),('Willow-weed','n.','A European species of loosestrife (Lysimachia\n   vulgaris).'),('Willow-weed','n.','Any kind of Polygonum with willowlike foliage.'),('Willow-wort','n.','Same as Willow-weed.'),('Willow-wort','n.','Any plant of the order Salicaceae, or the Willow\n   family.'),('Willowy','a.','Abounding with willows.'),('Willowy','a.','Resembling a willow; pliant; flexible; pendent; drooping;\n   graceful.'),('Willsome','a.','Willful; obstinate.'),('Willsome','a.','Fat; indolent.'),('Willsome','a.','Doubtful; uncertain.'),('Willy','n.','A large wicker basket.'),('Willy','n.','Same as 1st Willow, 2.'),('Willying','n.','The process of cleansing wool, cotton, or the like, with\n   a willy, or willow.'),('Willy nilly','','See Will I, nill I, etc., under 3d Will.'),('Wilne','v. t.','To wish; to desire.'),('Wilt','','2d pers. sing. of Will.'),('Wilting','imp. & p. p.','of Wilt'),('Wilt','v. i.','To begin to wither; to lose freshness and become flaccid,\n   as a plant when exposed when exposed to drought, or to great heat in a\n   dry day, or when separated from its root; to droop;. to wither.'),('Wilt','v. t.','To cause to begin to wither; to make flaccid, as a green\n   plant.'),('Wilt','v. t.','Hence, to cause to languish; to depress or destroy the\n   vigor and energy of.'),('Wilton carpet','','A kind of carpet woven with loops like the Brussels,\n   but differing from it in having the loops cut so as to form an elastic\n   velvet pile; -- so called because made originally at Wilton, England.'),('Wilwe','n.','Willow.'),('Wily','superl.','Full of wiles, tricks, or stratagems; using craft or\n   stratagem to accomplish a purpose; mischievously artful; subtle.'),('Wimble','n.','An instrument for boring holes, turned by a handle.'),('Wimble','n.','A gimlet.'),('Wimble','n.','A stonecutter\'s brace for boring holes in stone.'),('Wimble','n.','An auger used for boring in earth.'),('Wimbled','imp. & p. p.','of Wimble'),('Wimbling','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Wimble'),('Wimble','v. t.','To bore or pierce, as with a wimble.'),('Wimble','a.','Active; nimble.'),('Wimbrel','n.','The whimbrel.'),('Wimple','n.','A covering of silk, linen, or other material, for the neck\n   and chin, formerly worn by women as an outdoor protection, and still\n   retained in the dress of nuns.'),('Wimple','n.','A flag or streamer.'),('Wimpled','imp. & p. p.','of Wimple'),('Wimpling','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Wimple'),('Wimple','v. t.','To clothe with a wimple; to cover, as with a veil;\n   hence, to hoodwink.'),('Wimple','v. t.','To draw down, as a veil; to lay in folds or plaits, as a\n   veil.'),('Wimple','v. t.','To cause to appear as if laid in folds or plaits; to\n   cause to ripple or undulate; as, the wind wimples the surface of water.'),('Wimple','v. i.','To lie in folds; also, to appear as if laid in folds or\n   plaits; to ripple; to undulate.'),('Won','imp. & p. p.','of Win'),('Wan','','of Win'),('Winning','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Win'),('Win','a.','To gain by superiority in competition or contest; to obtain by\n   victory over competitors or rivals; as, to win the prize in a gate; to\n   win money; to win a battle, or to win a country.'),('Win','a.','To allure to kindness; to bring to compliance; to gain or\n   obtain, as by solicitation or courtship.'),('Win','a.','To gain over to one\'s side or party; to obtain the favor,\n   friendship, or support of; to render friendly or approving; as, to win\n   an enemy; to win a jury.'),('Win','a.','To come to by toil or effort; to reach; to overtake.'),('Win','a.','To extract, as ore or coal.'),('Win','v. i.','To gain the victory; to be successful; to triumph; to\n   prevail.'),('Winced','imp. & p. p.','of Wince'),('Wincing','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Wince'),('Wince','v. i.','To shrink, as from a blow, or from pain; to flinch; to\n   start back.'),('Wince','v. i.','To kick or flounce when unsteady, or impatient at a\n   rider; as, a horse winces.'),('Wince','n.','The act of one who winces.'),('Wince','n.','A reel used in dyeing, steeping, or washing cloth; a winch.\n   It is placed over the division wall between two wince pits so as to\n   allow the cloth to descend into either compartment. at will.'),('Wincer','n.','One who, or that which, winces, shrinks, or kicks.'),('Wincey','n.','Linsey-woolsey.'),('Winch','v. i.','To wince; to shrink; to kick with impatience or\n   uneasiness.'),('Winch','n.','A kick, as of a beast, from impatience or uneasiness.'),('Winch','n.','A crank with a handle, for giving motion to a machine, a\n   grindstone, etc.'),('Winch','n.','An instrument with which to turn or strain something\n   forcibly.'),('Winch','n.','An axle or drum turned by a crank with a handle, or by\n   power, for raising weights, as from the hold of a ship, from mines,\n   etc.; a windlass.'),('Winch','n.','A wince.'),('Wincing','n.','The act of washing cloth, dipping it in dye, etc., with a\n   wince.'),('Wincopipe','n.','A little red flower, no doubt the pimpernel, which, when\n   it opens in the morning, is supposed to bode a fair day. See Pimpernel.'),('Wound','imp. & p. p.','of Wind'),('Winded','','of Wind'),('Winding','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Wind'),('Wind','v. t.','To turn completely, or with repeated turns; especially, to\n   turn about something fixed; to cause to form convolutions about\n   anything; to coil; to twine; to twist; to wreathe; as, to wind thread\n   on a spool or into a ball.'),('Wind','v. t.','To entwist; to infold; to encircle.'),('Wind','v. t.','To have complete control over; to turn and bend at one\'s\n   pleasure; to vary or alter or will; to regulate; to govern.'),('Wind','v. t.','To introduce by insinuation; to insinuate.'),('Wind','v. t.','To cover or surround with something coiled about; as, to\n   wind a rope with twine.'),('Wind','v. i.','To turn completely or repeatedly; to become coiled about\n   anything; to assume a convolved or spiral form; as, vines wind round a\n   pole.'),('Wind','v. i.','To have a circular course or direction; to crook; to bend;\n   to meander; as, to wind in and out among trees.'),('Wind','v. i.','To go to the one side or the other; to move this way and\n   that; to double on one\'s course; as, a hare pursued turns and winds.'),('Wind','n.','The act of winding or turning; a turn; a bend; a twist; a\n   winding.'),('Wind','n.','Air naturally in motion with any degree of velocity; a\n   current of air.'),('Wind','n.','Air artificially put in motion by any force or action; as,\n   the wind of a cannon ball; the wind of a bellows.'),('Wind','n.','Breath modulated by the respiratory and vocal organs, or by\n   an instrument.'),('Wind','n.','Power of respiration; breath.'),('Wind','n.','Air or gas generated in the stomach or bowels; flatulence;\n   as, to be troubled with wind.'),('Wind','n.','Air impregnated with an odor or scent.'),('Wind','n.','A direction from which the wind may blow; a point of the\n   compass; especially, one of the cardinal points, which are often called\n   the four winds.'),('Wind','n.','A disease of sheep, in which the intestines are distended\n   with air, or rather affected with a violent inflammation. It occurs\n   immediately after shearing.'),('Wind','n.','Mere breath or talk; empty effort; idle words.'),('Wind','n.','The dotterel.'),('Winded','imp. & p. p.','of Wind'),('Winding','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Wind'),('Wind','v. t.','To expose to the wind; to winnow; to ventilate.'),('Wind','v. t.','To perceive or follow by the scent; to scent; to nose; as,\n   the hounds winded the game.'),('Wind','v. t.','To drive hard, or force to violent exertion, as a horse,\n   so as to render scant of wind; to put out of breath.'),('Wind','v. t.','To rest, as a horse, in order to allow the breath to be\n   recovered; to breathe.'),('Wound','imp. & p. p.','of Wind'),('Winded','','of Wind'),('Winding','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Wind'),('Wind','v. t.','To blow; to sound by blowing; esp., to sound with\n   prolonged and mutually involved notes.'),('Windage','n.','The difference between the diameter of the bore of a gun\n   and that of the shot fired from it.'),('Windage','n.','The sudden compression of the air caused by a projectile\n   in passing close to another body.'),('Windas','n.','See 3d Windlass.'),('Windbore','n.','The lower, or bottom, pipe in a lift of pumps in a mine.'),('Windbound','a.','prevented from sailing, by a contrary wind. See\n   Weatherbound.'),('Wind-break','v. t.','To break the wind of; to cause to lose breath; to\n   exhaust.'),('Wind-break','n.','A clump of trees serving for a protection against the\n   force of wind.'),('Wind-broken','a.','Having the power of breathing impaired by the rupture,\n   dilatation, or running together of air cells of the lungs, so that\n   while the inspiration is by one effort, the expiration is by two;\n   affected with pulmonary emphysema or with heaves; -- said of a horse.'),('Winder','n.','One who, or that which, winds; hence, a creeping or winding\n   plant.'),('Winder','n.','An apparatus used for winding silk, cotton, etc., on\n   spools, bobbins, reels, or the like.'),('Winder','n.','One in a flight of steps which are curved in plan, so that\n   each tread is broader at one end than at the other; -- distinguished\n   from flyer.'),('Winder','v. t. & i.','To fan; to clean grain with a fan.'),('Winder','n.','A blow taking away the breath.'),('Winder','v. i.','To wither; to fail.'),('Windfall','n.','Anything blown down or off by the wind, as fruit from a\n   tree, or the tree itself, or a portion of a forest prostrated by a\n   violent wind, etc.'),('Windfall','n.','An unexpected legacy, or other gain.'),('Windfallen','a.','Blown down by the wind.'),('Wind-fertilized','a.','Anemophilous; fertilized by pollen borne by the\n   wind.'),('Windflower','n.','The anemone; -- so called because formerly supposed to\n   open only when the wind was blowing. See Anemone.'),('Windgall','n.','A soft tumor or synovial swelling on the fetlock joint of\n   a horse; -- so called from having formerly been supposed to contain\n   air.'),('Windhover','n.','The kestrel; -- called also windbibber, windcuffer,\n   windfanner.'),('Windiness','n.','The quality or state of being windy or tempestuous; as,\n   the windiness of the weather or the season.'),('Windiness','n.','Fullness of wind; flatulence.'),('Windiness','n.','Tendency to generate wind or gas; tendency to produce\n   flatulence; as, the windiness of vegetables.'),('Windiness','n.','Tumor; puffiness.'),('Winding','n.','A call by the boatswain\'s whistle.'),('Winding','a.','Twisting from a direct line or an even surface;\n   circuitous.'),('Winding','n.','A turn or turning; a bend; a curve; flexure; meander; as,\n   the windings of a road or stream.'),('Winding','n.','A line- or ribbon-shaped material (as wire, string, or\n   bandaging) wound around an object; as, the windings (conducting wires)\n   wound around the armature of an electric motor or generator.'),('Windingly','adv.','In a winding manner.'),('Windlace','n. & v.','See Windlass.'),('Windlass','n.','A winding and circuitous way; a roundabout course; a\n   shift.'),('Windlass','v. i.','To take a roundabout course; to work warily or by\n   indirect means.'),('Windlass','n.','A machine for raising weights, consisting of a horizontal\n   cylinder or roller moving on its axis, and turned by a crank, lever, or\n   similar means, so as to wind up a rope or chain attached to the weight.\n   In vessels the windlass is often used instead of the capstan for\n   raising the anchor. It is usually set upon the forecastle, and is\n   worked by hand or steam.'),('Windlass','n.','An apparatus resembling a winch or windlass, for bending\n   the bow of an arblast, or crossbow.'),('Windlass','v. t. & i.','To raise with, or as with, a windlass; to use a\n   windlass.'),('Windle','n.','A spindle; a kind of reel; a winch.'),('Windle','n.','The redwing.'),('Windless','a.','Having no wind; calm.'),('Windless','a.','Wanting wind; out of breath.'),('Windlestrae','n.','Alt. of Windlestraw'),('Windlestraw','n.','A grass used for making ropes or for plaiting, esp.\n   Agrostis Spica-ventis.'),('Windmill','n.','A mill operated by the power of the wind, usually by the\n   action of the wind upon oblique vanes or sails which radiate from a\n   horizontal shaft.'),('Windore','n.','A window.'),('Window','n.','An opening in the wall of a building for the admission of\n   light and air, usually closed by casements or sashes containing some\n   transparent material, as glass, and capable of being opened and shut at\n   pleasure.'),('Window','n.','The shutter, casement, sash with its fittings, or other\n   framework, which closes a window opening.'),('Window','n.','A figure formed of lines crossing each other.'),('Windowed','imp. & p. p.','of Window'),('Windowing','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Window'),('Window','v. t.','To furnish with windows.'),('Window','v. t.','To place at or in a window.'),('Windowed','a.','Having windows or openings.'),('Windowless','a.','Destitute of a window.'),('Windowpane','n.','See Pane, n., (3) b.'),('Windowpane','n.','A thin, spotted American turbot (Pleuronectes\n   maculatus) remarkable for its translucency. It is not valued as a food\n   fish. Called also spotted turbot, daylight, spotted sand flounder, and\n   water flounder.'),('Windowy','a.','Having little crossings or openings like the sashes of a\n   window.'),('Windpipe','n.','The passage for the breath from the larynx to the lungs;\n   the trachea; the weasand. See Illust. under Lung.'),('Wind-plant','n.','A windflower.'),('Wind-rode','a.','Caused to ride or drive by the wind in opposition to the\n   course of the tide; -- said of a vessel lying at anchor, with wind and\n   tide opposed to each other.'),('Windrow','n.','A row or line of hay raked together for the purpose of\n   being rolled into cocks or heaps.'),('Windrow','n.','Sheaves of grain set up in a row, one against another,\n   that the wind may blow between them.'),('Windrow','n.','The green border of a field, dug up in order to carry the\n   earth on other land to mend it.'),('Windrowed','imp. & p. p.','of Windrow'),('Windrowing','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Windrow'),('Windrow','v. t.','To arrange in lines or windrows, as hay when newly\n   made.'),('Windsor','n.','A town in Berkshire, England.'),('Windstorm','n.','A storm characterized by high wind with little or no\n   rain.'),('Wind-sucker','n.','A horse given to wind-sucking'),('Wind-sucker','n.','The kestrel.'),('Wind-sucking','n.','A vicious habit of a horse, consisting in the\n   swallowing of air; -- usually associated with crib-biting, or cribbing.\n   See Cribbing, 4.'),('Windtight','a.','So tight as to prevent the passing through of wind.'),('Windward','n.','The point or side from which the wind blows; as, to ply\n   to the windward; -- opposed to leeward.'),('Windward','a.','Situated toward the point from which the wind blows; as,\n   the Windward Islands.'),('Windward','adv.','Toward the wind; in the direction from which the wind\n   blows.'),('Windy','superl.','Consisting of wind; accompanied or characterized by\n   wind; exposed to wind.'),('Windy','superl.','Next the wind; windward.'),('Windy','superl.','Tempestuous; boisterous; as, windy weather.'),('Windy','superl.','Serving to occasion wind or gas in the intestines;\n   flatulent; as, windy food.'),('Windy','superl.','Attended or caused by wind, or gas, in the intestines.'),('Windy','superl.','Fig.: Empty; airy.'),('Wine','n.','The expressed juice of grapes, esp. when fermented; a\n   beverage or liquor prepared from grapes by squeezing out their juice,\n   and (usually) allowing it to ferment.'),('Wine','n.','A liquor or beverage prepared from the juice of any fruit or\n   plant by a process similar to that for grape wine; as, currant wine;\n   gooseberry wine; palm wine.'),('Wine','n.','The effect of drinking wine in excess; intoxication.'),('Wineberry','n.','The red currant.'),('Wineberry','n.','The bilberry.'),('Wineberry','n.','A peculiar New Zealand shrub (Coriaria ruscifolia), in\n   which the petals ripen and afford an abundant purple juice from which a\n   kind of wine is made. The plant also grows in Chili.'),('Winebibber','n.','One who drinks much wine.'),('Wineglass','n.','A small glass from which to drink wine.'),('Wineglassfuls','pl. ','of Wineglassful'),('Wineglassful','','As much as a wineglass will hold; enough to fill a\n   wineglass. It is usually reckoned at two fluid ounces, or four\n   tablespoonfuls.'),('Wineless','a.','destitute of wine; as, wineless life.'),('Winery','n.','A place where grapes are converted into wine.'),('Wing','n.','One of the two anterior limbs of a bird, pterodactyl, or bat.\n   They correspond to the arms of man, and are usually modified for\n   flight, but in the case of a few species of birds, as the ostrich, auk,\n   etc., the wings are used only as an assistance in running or swimming.'),('Wing','n.','Any similar member or instrument used for the purpose of\n   flying.'),('Wing','n.','One of the two pairs of upper thoracic appendages of most\n   hexapod insects. They are broad, fanlike organs formed of a double\n   membrane and strengthened by chitinous veins or nervures.'),('Wing','n.','One of the large pectoral fins of the flying fishes.'),('Wing','n.','Passage by flying; flight; as, to take wing.'),('Wing','n.','Motive or instrument of flight; means of flight or of rapid\n   motion.'),('Wing','n.','Anything which agitates the air as a wing does, or which is\n   put in winglike motion by the action of the air, as a fan or vane for\n   winnowing grain, the vane or sail of a windmill, etc.'),('Wing','n.','An ornament worn on the shoulder; a small epaulet or shoulder\n   knot.'),('Wing','n.','Any appendage resembling the wing of a bird or insect in\n   shape or appearance.'),('Wing','n.','One of the broad, thin, anterior lobes of the foot of a\n   pteropod, used as an organ in swimming.'),('Wing','n.','Any membranaceous expansion, as that along the sides of\n   certain stems, or of a fruit of the kind called samara.'),('Wing','n.','Either of the two side petals of a papilionaceous flower.'),('Wing','n.','One of two corresponding appendages attached; a sidepiece.'),('Wing','n.','A side building, less than the main edifice; as, one of the\n   wings of a palace.'),('Wing','n.','The longer side of crownworks, etc., connecting them with the\n   main work.'),('Wing','n.','A side shoot of a tree or plant; a branch growing up by the\n   side of another.'),('Wing','n.','The right or left division of an army, regiment, etc.'),('Wing','n.','That part of the hold or orlop of a vessel which is nearest\n   the sides. In a fleet, one of the extremities when the ships are drawn\n   up in line, or when forming the two sides of a triangle.'),('Wing','n.','One of the sides of the stags in a theater.'),('Winged','imp. & p. p.','of Wing'),('Winging','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Wing'),('Wing','v. t.','To furnish with wings; to enable to fly, or to move with\n   celerity.'),('Wing','v. t.','To supply with wings or sidepieces.'),('Wing','v. t.','To transport by flight; to cause to fly.'),('Wing','v. t.','To move through in flight; to fly through.'),('Wing','v. t.','To cut off the wings of; to wound in the wing; to disable\n   a wing of; as, to wing a bird.'),('Winged','a.','Furnished with wings; transported by flying; having\n   winglike expansions.'),('Winged','a.','Soaring with wings, or as if with wings; hence, elevated;\n   lofty; sublime.'),('Winged','a.','Swift; rapid.'),('Winged','a.','Wounded or hurt in the wing.'),('Winged','a.','Furnished with a leaflike appendage, as the fruit of the\n   elm and the ash, or the stem in certain plants; alate.'),('Winged','a.','Represented with wings, or having wings, of a different\n   tincture from the body.'),('Winged','a.','Fanned with wings; swarming with birds.'),('Winger','n.','One of the casks stowed in the wings of a vessel\'s hold,\n   being smaller than such as are stowed more amidships.'),('Wingfish','n.','A sea robin having large, winglike pectoral fins. See Sea\n   robin, under Robin.'),('Wing-footed','a.','Having wings attached to the feet; as, wing-footed\n   Mercury; hence, swift; moving with rapidity; fleet.'),('Wing-footed','a.','Having part or all of the feet adapted for flying.'),('Wing-footed','a.','Having the anterior lobes of the foot so modified as\n   to form a pair of winglike swimming organs; -- said of the pteropod\n   mollusks.'),('Wing-handed','a.','Having the anterior limbs or hands adapted for flight,\n   as the bats and pterodactyls.'),('Wing-leaved','a.','Having pinnate or pinnately divided leaves.'),('Wingless','a.','Having no wings; not able to ascend or fly.'),('Winglet','n.','A little wing; a very small wing.'),('Winglet','n.','A bastard wing, or alula.'),('Wingmanship','n.','Power or skill in flying.'),('Wing-shell','n.','Any one of various species of marine bivalve shells\n   belonging to the genus Avicula, in which the hinge border projects like\n   a wing.'),('Wing-shell','n.','Any marine gastropod shell of the genus Strombus. See\n   Strombus.'),('Wing-shell','n.','Any pteropod shell.'),('Wingy','a.','Having wings; rapid.'),('Wingy','a.','Soaring with wings, or as if with wings; volatile airy.'),('Winked','imp. & p. p.','of Wink'),('Winking','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Wink'),('Wink','v. i.','To nod; to sleep; to nap.'),('Wink','v. i.','To shut the eyes quickly; to close the eyelids with a\n   quick motion.'),('Wink','v. i.','To close and open the eyelids quickly; to nictitate; to\n   blink.'),('Wink','v. i.','To give a hint by a motion of the eyelids, often those of\n   one eye only.'),('Wink','v. i.','To avoid taking notice, as if by shutting the eyes; to\n   connive at anything; to be tolerant; -- generally with at.'),('Wink','v. i.','To be dim and flicker; as, the light winks.'),('Wink','v. t.','To cause (the eyes) to wink.'),('Wink','n.','The act of closing, or closing and opening, the eyelids\n   quickly; hence, the time necessary for such an act; a moment.'),('Wink','n.','A hint given by shutting the eye with a significant cast.'),('Winker','n.','One who winks.'),('Winker','n.','A horse\'s blinder; a blinker.'),('Winkingly','adv.','In a winking manner; with the eye almost closed.'),('Winkle','n.','Any periwinkle.'),('Winkle','n.','Any one of various marine spiral gastropods, esp., in the\n   United States, either of two species of Fulgar (F. canaliculata, and F.\n   carica).'),('Winkle-hawk','n.','A rectangular rent made in cloth; -- called also\n   winkle-hole.'),('Winnard 2','n.','The redwing.'),('Winnebagoes','n.','A tribe of North American Indians who originally\n   occupied the region about Green Bay, Lake Michigan, but were driven\n   back from the lake and nearly exterminated in 1640 by the IIlinnois.'),('Winner','n.','One who wins, or gains by success in competition, contest,\n   or gaming.'),('Winning','a.','Attracting; adapted to gain favor; charming; as, a winning\n   address.'),('Winning','n.','The act of obtaining something, as in a contest or by\n   competition.'),('Winning','n.','The money, etc., gained by success in competition or\n   contest, esp, in gambling; -- usually in the plural.'),('Winning','n.','A new opening.'),('Winning','n.','The portion of a coal field out for working.'),('Winningly','adv.','In a winning manner.'),('Winningness','n.','The quality or state of being winning.'),('Winninish','n.','The land-locked variety of the common salmon.'),('Winnowed','imp. & p. p.','of Winnew'),('Winnowing','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Winnew'),('Winnew','n.','To separate, and drive off, the chaff from by means of\n   wind; to fan; as, to winnow grain.'),('Winnew','n.','To sift, as for the purpose of separating falsehood from\n   truth; to separate, as had from good.'),('Winnew','n.','To beat with wings, or as with wings.'),('Winnow','v. i.','To separate chaff from grain.'),('Winnower','n.','One who, or that which, winnows; specifically, a\n   winnowing machine.'),('Winnowing','n.','The act of one who, or that which, winnows.'),('Winrow','n.','A windrow.'),('Winsing','a.','Winsome.'),('Winsome','a.','Cheerful; merry; gay; light-hearted.'),('Winsome','a.','Causing joy or pleasure; gladsome; pleasant.'),('Winsomeness','n.','The characteristic of being winsome; attractiveness of\n   manner.'),('Winter','n.','The season of the year in which the sun shines most\n   obliquely upon any region; the coldest season of the year.'),('Winter','n.','The period of decay, old age, death, or the like.'),('Wintered','imp. & p. p.','of Winter'),('Wintering','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Winter'),('Winter','v. i.','To pass the winter; to hibernate; as, to winter in\n   Florida.'),('Winter','v. i.','To keep, feed or manage, during the winter; as, to\n   winter young cattle on straw.'),('Winter-beaten','a.','Beaten or harassed by the severe weather of winter.'),('Wintergreen','n.','A plant which keeps its leaves green through the\n   winter.'),('Winter-ground','v. t.','To coved over in the season of winter, as for\n   protection or shelter; as, to winter-ground the roods of a plant.'),('Winterkilled','imp. & p. p.','of Winterkill'),('Winterkilling','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Winterkill'),('Winterkill','v. t.','To kill by the cold, or exposure to the inclemency\n   of winter; as, the wheat was winterkilled.'),('Winterly','a.','Like winter; wintry; cold; hence, disagreeable,\n   cheerless; as, winterly news.'),('Winter-proud','a.','Having too rank or forward a growth for winter.'),('Winter-rig','v. t.','To fallow or till in winter.'),('Winter\'s bark','','The aromatic bark of tree (Drimys, / Drymis, Winteri)\n   of the Magnolia family, which is found in Southern Chili. It was first\n   used as a cure for scurvy by its discoverer, Captain John Winter, vice\n   admiral to sir Francis Drake, in 1577.'),('Wintertide','n.','Winter time.'),('Winterweed','n.','A kind of speedwell (Veronica hederifolia) which\n   spreads chiefly in winter.'),('Wintery','a.','Wintry.'),('Wintry','a.','Suitable to winter; resembling winter, or what belongs to\n   winter; brumal; hyemal; cold; stormy; wintery.'),('Winy','a.','Having the taste or qualities of wine; vinous; as, grapes of\n   a winy taste.'),('Winze','n.','A small shaft sunk from one level to another, as for the\n   purpose of ventilation.'),('Wipe','n.','The lapwing.'),('Wiped','imp. & p. p.','of Wipe'),('Wiping','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Wipe'),('Wipe','v. t.','To rub with something soft for cleaning; to clean or dry\n   by rubbing; as, to wipe the hands or face with a towel.'),('Wipe','v. t.','To remove by rubbing; to rub off; to obliterate; --\n   usually followed by away, off or out. Also used figuratively.'),('Wipe','v. t.','To cheat; to defraud; to trick; -- usually followed by\n   out.'),('Wipe','n.','Act of rubbing, esp. in order to clean.'),('Wipe','n.','A blow; a stroke; a hit; a swipe.'),('Wipe','n.','A gibe; a jeer; a severe sarcasm.'),('Wipe','n.','A handkerchief.'),('Wipe','n.','Stain; brand.'),('Wiper','n.','One who, or that which, wipes.'),('Wiper','n.','Something used for wiping, as a towel or rag.'),('Wiper','n.','A piece generally projecting from a rotating or swinging\n   piece, as an axle or rock shaft, for the purpose of raising stampers,\n   lifting rods, or the like, and leaving them to fall by their own\n   weight; a kind of cam.'),('Wiper','n.','A rod, or an attachment for a rod, for holding a rag with\n   which to wipe out the bore of the barrel.'),('Wirbled','imp. & p. p.','of Wirble'),('Wirbling','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Wirble'),('Wirble','v. i.','To whirl; to eddy.'),('Wirche','v. i. & t.','To work'),('Wire','n.','A thread or slender rod of metal; a metallic substance formed\n   to an even thread by being passed between grooved rollers, or drawn\n   through holes in a plate of steel.'),('Wire','n.','A telegraph wire or cable; hence, an electric telegraph; as,\n   to send a message by wire.'),('Wired','imp. & p. p.','of Wire'),('Wiring','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Wire'),('Wire','v. t.','To bind with wire; to attach with wires; to apply wire to;\n   as, to wire corks in bottling liquors.'),('Wire','v. t.','To put upon a wire; as, to wire beads.'),('Wire','v. t.','To snare by means of a wire or wires.'),('Wire','v. t.','To send (a message) by telegraph.'),('Wire','v. i.','To pass like a wire; to flow in a wirelike form, or in a\n   tenuous stream.'),('Wire','v. i.','To send a telegraphic message.'),('Wiredrew','imp.','of Wiredraw'),('Wiredrawn','p. p.','of Wiredraw'),('Wiredrawing','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Wiredraw'),('Wiredraw','v. t.','To form (a piece of metal) into wire, by drawing it\n   through a hole in a plate of steel.'),('Wiredraw','v. t.','Hence, to draw by art or violence.'),('Wiredraw','v. t.','Hence, also, to draw or spin out to great length and\n   tenuity; as, to wiredraw an argument.'),('Wiredraw','v. t.','To pass, or to draw off, (as steam) through narrow\n   ports, or the like, thus reducing its pressure or force by friction.'),('Wire-drawer','n.','One who draws metal into wire.'),('Wire-heel','n.','A disease in the feet of a horse or other beast.'),('Wire-puller','n.','One who pulls the wires, as of a puppet; hence, one\n   who operates by secret means; an intriguer.'),('Wire-pulling','n.','The act of pulling the wires, as of a puppet; hence,\n   secret influence or management, especially in politics; intrigue.'),('Wire-tailed','a.','Having some or all of the tail quills terminated in a\n   long, slender, pointed shaft, without a web or barbules.'),('Wirework','n.','Work, especially openwork, formed of wires.'),('Wire-worker','n.','One who manufactures articles from wire.'),('Wireworm','n.','One of the larvae of various species of snapping beetles,\n   or elaters; -- so called from their slenderness and the uncommon\n   hardness of the integument. Wireworms are sometimes very destructive to\n   the roots of plants. Called also wire grub.'),('Wireworm','n.','A galleyworm.'),('Wiriness','n.','The quality of being wiry.'),('Wiry','a.','Made of wire; like wire; drawn out like wire.'),('Wiry','a.','Capable of endurance; tough; sinewy; as, a wiry frame or\n   constitution.'),('Wis','adv.','Certainly; really; indeed.'),('Wis','v. t.','To think; to suppose; to imagine; -- used chiefly in the\n   first person sing. present tense, I wis. See the Note under Ywis.'),('Wisard','n.','See Wizard.'),('Wisdom','a.','The quality of being wise; knowledge, and the capacity to\n   make due use of it; knowledge of the best ends and the best means;\n   discernment and judgment; discretion; sagacity; skill; dexterity.'),('Wisdom','a.','The results of wise judgments; scientific or practical\n   truth; acquired knowledge; erudition.'),('Wise','v.','Having knowledge; knowing; enlightened; of extensive\n   information; erudite; learned.'),('Wise','v.','Hence, especially, making due use of knowledge; discerning\n   and judging soundly concerning what is true or false, proper or\n   improper; choosing the best ends and the best means for accomplishing\n   them; sagacious.'),('Wise','v.','Versed in art or science; skillful; dexterous; specifically,\n   skilled in divination.'),('Wise','v.','Hence, prudent; calculating; shrewd; wary; subtle; crafty.'),('Wise','v.','Dictated or guided by wisdom; containing or exhibiting\n   wisdom; well adapted to produce good effects; judicious; discreet; as,\n   a wise saying; a wise scheme or plan; wise conduct or management; a\n   wise determination.'),('Wise','v.','Way of being or acting; manner; mode; fashion.'),('Wiseacre','v.','A learned or wise man.'),('Wiseacre','v.','One who makes undue pretensions to wisdom; a\n   would-be-wise person; hence, in contempt, a simpleton; a dunce.'),('Wise-hearted','a.','Wise; knowing; skillful; sapient; erudite; prudent.'),('Wise-like','a.','Resembling that which is wise or sensible; judicious.'),('Wiseling','n.','One who pretends to be wise; a wiseacre; a witling.'),('Wisely','adv.','In a wise manner; prudently; judiciously; discreetly;\n   with wisdom.'),('Wiseness','n.','Wisdom.'),('Wished','imp. & p. p.','of Wish'),('Wishing','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Wish'),('Wish','v. t.','To have a desire or yearning; to long; to hanker.'),('Wish','v. t.','To desire; to long for; to hanker after; to have a mind or\n   disposition toward.'),('Wish','v. t.','To frame or express desires concerning; to invoke in favor\n   of, or against, any one; to attribute, or cal down, in desire; to\n   invoke; to imprecate.'),('Wish','v. t.','To recommend; to seek confidence or favor in behalf of.'),('Wish','n.','Desire; eager desire; longing.'),('Wish','n.','Expression of desire; request; petition; hence, invocation or\n   imprecation.'),('Wish','n.','A thing desired; an object of desire.'),('Wishable','a.','Capable or worthy of being wished for; desirable.'),('Wishbone','n.','The forked bone in front of the breastbone in birds; --\n   called also merrythought, and wishing bone. See Merrythought, and\n   Furculum.'),('Wishedly','adv.','According to wish; conformably to desire.'),('Wisher','n.','One who wishes or desires; one who expresses a wish.'),('Wishful','a.','Having desire, or ardent desire; longing.'),('Wishful','a.','Showing desire; as, wishful eyes.'),('Wishful','a.','Desirable; exciting wishes.'),('Wishing','','a. & n. from Wish, v. t.'),('Wishly','adv.','According to desire; longingly; with wishes.'),('Wishtonwish','n.','The prairie dog.'),('Wish-wash','n.','Any weak, thin drink.'),('Wishy-washy','a.','Thin and pale; weak; without strength or substance; --\n   originally said of liquids. Fig., weak-minded; spiritless.'),('Wishy-washy','n.','A weak or thin drink or liquor; wish-wash.'),('Wisket','n.','A whisket, or basket.'),('Wisly','adv.','Certainly.'),('Wisp','n.','A small bundle, as of straw or other like substance.'),('Wisp','n.','A whisk, or small broom.'),('Wisp','n.','A Will-o\'-the-wisp; an ignis fatuus.'),('Wisped','imp. & p. p.','of Wisp'),('Wisping','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Wisp'),('Wisp','v. t.','To brush or dress, an with a wisp.'),('Wisp','v. t.','To rumple.'),('Wispen','a.','Formed of a wisp, or of wisp; as, a wispen broom.'),('Wisse','a.','To show; to teach; to inform; to guide; to direct.'),('Wist','v.','Knew.'),('Wistaria','n.','A genus of climbing leguminous plants bearing long,\n   pendulous clusters of pale bluish flowers.'),('Wistful','a.','Longing; wishful; desirous.'),('Wistful','a.','Full of thought; eagerly attentive; meditative; musing;\n   pensive; contemplative.'),('Wistit','n.','A small South American monkey; a marmoset.'),('Wistly','adv.','Attentively; observingly.'),('Wistonwish','n.','See Wishtonwish.'),('Wit','inf.','of Wit'),('Wot','pres. sing.','of Wit'),('Wite','pl.','of Wit'),('Wist','e','(imp.) of Wit'),('Wist','p. p.','of Wit'),('Wit','t','ing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Wit'),('Wit','n.','To know; to learn.'),('Wit','v.','Mind; intellect; understanding; sense.'),('Wit','v.','A mental faculty, or power of the mind; -- used in this sense\n   chiefly in the plural, and in certain phrases; as, to lose one\'s wits;\n   at one\'s wits\' end, and the like.'),('Wit','v.','Felicitous association of objects not usually connected, so as\n   to produce a pleasant surprise; also. the power of readily combining\n   objects in such a manner.'),('Wit','v.','A person of eminent sense or knowledge; a man of genius,\n   fancy, or humor; one distinguished for bright or amusing sayings, for\n   repartee, and the like.'),('Witch','n.','A cone of paper which is placed in a vessel of lard or other\n   fat, and used as a taper.'),('Witch','n.','One who practices the black art, or magic; one regarded as\n   possessing supernatural or magical power by compact with an evil\n   spirit, esp. with the Devil; a sorcerer or sorceress; -- now applied\n   chiefly or only to women, but formerly used of men as well.'),('Witch','n.','An ugly old woman; a hag.'),('Witch','n.','One who exercises more than common power of attraction; a\n   charming or bewitching person; also, one given to mischief; -- said\n   especially of a woman or child.'),('Witch','n.','A certain curve of the third order, described by Maria\n   Agnesi under the name versiera.'),('Witch','n.','The stormy petrel.'),('Witched','imp. & p. p.','of Witch'),('Witching','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Witch'),('Witch','v. t.','To bewitch; to fascinate; to enchant.'),('Witchcraft','n.','The practices or art of witches; sorcery; enchantments;\n   intercourse with evil spirits.'),('Witchcraft','n.','Power more than natural; irresistible influence.'),('Witch-elm','n.','See Wych-elm.'),('Witcheries','pl. ','of Witchery'),('Witchery','n.','Sorcery; enchantment; witchcraft.'),('Witchery','n.','Fascination; irresistible influence; enchantment.'),('Witch-hazel','n.','The wych-elm.'),('Witch-hazel','n.','An American shrub or small tree (Hamamelis Virginica),\n   which blossoms late in autumn.'),('Witching','a.','That witches or enchants; suited to enchantment or\n   witchcraft; bewitching.'),('Witch-tree','n.','The witch-hazel.'),('Witchuck','n.','The sand martin, or bank swallow.'),('Wit-cracker','n.','One who breaks jests; a joker.'),('Witcraft','n.','Art or skill of the mind; contrivance; invention; wit.'),('Witcraft','n.','The art of reasoning; logic.'),('Wite','v.','To reproach; to blame; to censure; also, to impute as blame.'),('Wite','v.','Blame; reproach.'),('Witeless','a.','Blameless.'),('Witen','','pl. pres. of Wit.'),('Witenagemote','n.','A meeting of wise men; the national council, or\n   legislature, of England in the days of the Anglo-Saxons, before the\n   Norman Conquest.'),('Witfish','n.','The ladyfish (a).'),('Witful','a.','Wise; sensible.'),('With','n.','See Withe.'),('With','prep.','With denotes or expresses some situation or relation of\n   nearness, proximity, association, connection, or the like.'),('With','prep.','To denote a close or direct relation of opposition or\n   hostility; -- equivalent to against.'),('With','prep.','To denote association in respect of situation or\n   environment; hence, among; in the company of.'),('With','prep.','To denote a connection of friendship, support, alliance,\n   assistance, countenance, etc.; hence, on the side of.'),('With','prep.','To denote the accomplishment of cause, means, instrument,\n   etc; -- sometimes equivalent to by.'),('With','prep.','To denote association in thought, as for comparison or\n   contrast.'),('With','prep.','To denote simultaneous happening, or immediate succession\n   or consequence.'),('With','prep.','To denote having as a possession or an appendage; as, the\n   firmament with its stars; a bride with a large fortune.'),('Withal','adv.','With this; with that.'),('Withal','adv.','Together with this; likewise; at the same time; in\n   addition; also.'),('Withal','prep.','With; -- put after its object, at the end of sentence or\n   clause in which it stands.'),('Withamite','n.','A variety of epidote, of a reddish color, found in\n   Scotland.'),('Withdrew','imp.','of Withdraw'),('Withdrawn','p. p.','of Withdraw'),('Withdrawing','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Withdraw'),('Withdraw','v. t.','To take back or away, as what has been bestowed or\n   enjoyed; to draw back; to cause to move away or retire; as, to withdraw\n   aid, favor, capital, or the like.'),('Withdraw','v. t.','To take back; to recall or retract; as, to withdraw\n   false charges.'),('Withdraw','v. i.','To retire; to retreat; to quit a company or place; to\n   go away; as, he withdrew from the company.'),('Withdrawal','n.','The act of withdrawing; withdrawment; retreat;\n   retraction.'),('Withdrawer','n.','One who withdraws; one who takes back, or retracts.'),('Withdrawing-room','n.','A room for retirement from another room, as from\n   a dining room; a drawing-room.'),('Withdrawment','n.','The act of withdrawing; withdrawal.'),('Withe','n.','A flexible, slender twig or branch used as a band; a willow\n   or osier twig; a withy.'),('Withe','n.','A band consisting of a twig twisted.'),('Withe','n.','An iron attachment on one end of a mast or boom, with a\n   ring, through which another mast or boom is rigged out and secured; a\n   wythe.'),('Withe','n.','A partition between flues in a chimney.'),('Withed','imp. & p. p.','of Withe'),('Withing','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Withe'),('Withe','v. t.','To bind or fasten with withes.'),('Withered','imp. & p. p.','of Wither'),('Withering','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Wither'),('Wither','n.','To fade; to lose freshness; to become sapless; to become\n   sapless; to dry or shrivel up.'),('Wither','n.','To lose or want animal moisture; to waste; to pin/ away, as\n   animal bodies.'),('Wither','n.','To lose vigor or power; to languish; to pass away.'),('Wither','v. t.','To cause to fade, and become dry.'),('Wither','v. t.','To cause to shrink, wrinkle, or decay, for want of\n   animal moisture.'),('Wither','v. t.','To cause to languish, perish, or pass away; to blight;\n   as, a reputation withered by calumny.'),('Witherband','n.','A piece of iron in a saddle near a horse\'s withers, to\n   strengthen the bow.'),('Withered','a.','Faded; dried up; shriveled; wilted; wasted; wasted away.'),('Withering','a.','Tending to wither; causing to shrink or fade.'),('Witherite','n.','Barium carbonate occurring in white or gray six-sided\n   twin crystals, and also in columnar or granular masses.'),('Witherling','n.','A withered person; one who is decrepit.'),('Withernam','n.','A second or reciprocal distress of other goods in lieu\n   of goods which were taken by a first distress and have been eloigned; a\n   taking by way of reprisal; -- chiefly used in the expression capias in\n   withernam, which is the name of a writ used in connection with the\n   action of replevin (sometimes called a writ of reprisal), which issues\n   to a defendant in replevin when he has obtained judgment for a return\n   of the chattels replevied, and fails to obtain them on the writ of\n   return.'),('Withe-rod','n.','A North American shrub (Viburnum nudum) whose tough\n   osierlike shoots are sometimes used for binding sheaves.'),('Withers','prep.','The ridge between the shoulder bones of a horse, at the\n   base of the neck. See Illust. of Horse.'),('Wither-wrung','a.','Injured or hurt in the withers, as a horse.'),('Withheld','imp.','of Withhold'),('Withheld','p. p.','of Withhold'),('Withholden','','of Withhold'),('Withholding','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Withhold'),('Withhold','v. t.','To hold back; to restrain; to keep from action.'),('Withhold','v. t.','To retain; to keep back; not to grant; as, to withhold\n   assent to a proposition.'),('Withhold','v. t.','To keep; to maintain; to retain.'),('Withholder','n.','One who withholds.'),('Withholdment','n.','The act of withholding.'),('Within','prep.','In the inner or interior part of; inside of; not\n   without; as, within doors.'),('Within','prep.','In the limits or compass of; not further in length than;\n   as, within five miles; not longer in time than; as, within an hour; not\n   exceeding in quantity; as, expenses kept within one\'s income.'),('Within','prep.','Hence, inside the limits, reach, or influence of; not\n   going outside of; not beyond, overstepping, exceeding, or the like.'),('Within','adv.','In the inner part; inwardly; internally.'),('Within','adv.','In the house; in doors; as, the master is within.'),('Withinforth','adv.','Within; inside; inwardly.'),('Withinside','adv.','In the inner parts; inside.'),('Without','prep.','On or at the outside of; out of; not within; as,\n   without doors.'),('Without','prep.','Out of the limits of; out of reach of; beyond.'),('Without','prep.','Not with; otherwise than with; in absence of,\n   separation from, or destitution of; not with use or employment of;\n   independently of; exclusively of; with omission; as, without labor;\n   without damage.'),('Without','conj.','Unless; except; -- introducing a clause.'),('Without','adv.','On or art the outside; not on the inside; not within;\n   outwardly; externally.'),('Without','adv.','Outside of the house; out of doors.'),('Without-door','a.','Outdoor; exterior.'),('Withouten','prep.','Without.'),('Withoutforth','adv.','Without; outside\' outwardly. Cf. Withinforth.'),('Withsay','v. t.','To contradict; to gainsay; to deny; to renounce.'),('Withset','v. t.','To set against; to oppose.'),('Withstood','imp. & p. p.','of Withstand'),('Withstanding','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Withstand'),('Withstand','prep.','To stand against; to oppose; to resist, either with\n   physical or moral force; as, to withstand an attack of troops; to\n   withstand eloquence or arguments.'),('Withstander','n.','One who withstands, or opposes; an opponent; a\n   resisting power.'),('Withstood','imp. & p. p.','o/ Withstand.'),('Withvine','n.','Quitch grass.'),('Withwind','n.','A kind of bindweed (Convolvulus arvensis).'),('Withwine','n.','Same as Withvine.'),('Withies','pl. ','of Withy'),('Withy','n.','The osier willow (Salix viminalis). See Osier, n. (a).'),('Withy','n.','A withe. See Withe, 1.'),('Withy','a.','Made of withes; like a withe; flexible and tough; also,\n   abounding in withes.'),('Witing','v.','Knowledge.'),('Witless','a.','Destitute of wit or understanding; wanting thought; hence,\n   indiscreet; not under the guidance of judgment.'),('Witling','n.','A person who has little wit or understanding; a pretender\n   to wit or smartness.'),('Witness','v. i.','Attestation of a fact or an event; testimony.'),('Witness','v. i.','That which furnishes evidence or proof.'),('Witness','v. i.','One who is cognizant; a person who beholds, or\n   otherwise has personal knowledge of, anything; as, an eyewitness; an\n   earwitness.'),('Witness','v. i.','One who testifies in a cause, or gives evidence before\n   a judicial tribunal; as, the witness in court agreed in all essential\n   facts.'),('Witness','v. i.','One who sees the execution of an instrument, and\n   subscribes it for the purpose of confirming its authenticity by his\n   testimony; one who witnesses a will, a deed, a marriage, or the like.'),('Witnessed','imp. & p. p.','of Witness'),('Witnessing','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Witness'),('Witness','v. t.','To see or know by personal presence; to have direct\n   cognizance of.'),('Witness','v. t.','To give testimony to; to testify to; to attest.'),('Witness','v. t.','To see the execution of, as an instrument, and\n   subscribe it for the purpose of establishing its authenticity; as, to\n   witness a bond or a deed.'),('Witness','v. i.','To bear testimony; to give evidence; to testify.'),('Witnesser','n.','One who witness.'),('Wit-snapper','n.','One who affects repartee; a wit-cracker.'),('Wit-starved','a.','Barren of wit; destitute of genius.'),('Witted','a.','Having (such) a wit or understanding; as, a quick-witted\n   boy.'),('Witticaster','n.','A witling.'),('Witticism','n.','A witty saying; a sentence or phrase which is affectedly\n   witty; an attempt at wit; a conceit.'),('Wittified','a.','Possessed of wit; witty.'),('Witily','adv.','In a witty manner; wisely; ingeniously; artfully; with\n   it; with a delicate turn or phrase, or with an ingenious association of\n   ideas.'),('Wittiness','n.','The quality of being witty.'),('Wittingly','v.','Knowingly; with knowledge; by design.'),('Wittol','n.','The wheatear.'),('Wittol','n.','A man who knows his wife\'s infidelity and submits to it; a\n   tame cuckold; -- so called because the cuckoo lays its eggs in the\n   wittol\'s nest.'),('Wittolly','a.','Like a wittol; cuckoldly.'),('Witts','n.','Tin ore freed from earthy matter by stamping.'),('Witty','n.','Possessed of wit; knowing; wise; skillful; judicious;\n   clever; cunning.'),('Witty','n.','Especially, possessing wit or humor; good at repartee;\n   droll; facetious; sometimes, sarcastic; as, a witty remark, poem, and\n   the like.'),('Witwal','n.','Alt. of Witwall'),('Witwall','n.','The golden oriole.'),('Witwall','n.','The greater spotted woodpecker.'),('Witworm','n.','One who, or that which, feeds on or destroys wit.'),('Wived','imp. & p. p.','of Wive'),('Wiving','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Wive'),('Wive','v. i.','To marry, as a man; to take a wife.'),('Wive','v. t.','To match to a wife; to provide with a wife.'),('Wive','v. t.','To take for a wife; to marry.'),('Wivehood','n.','Wifehood.'),('Wiveless','a.','Wifeless.'),('Wively','a.','Wifely.'),('Wiver','n.','Alt. of Wivern'),('Wivern','n.','A fabulous two-legged, winged creature, like a cockatrice,\n   but having the head of a dragon, and without spurs.'),('Wivern','n.','The weever.'),('Wives','n.','pl. of Wife.'),('Wizard','n.','A wise man; a sage.'),('Wizard','n.','One devoted to the black art; a magician; a conjurer; a\n   sorcerer; an enchanter.'),('Wizard','a.','Enchanting; charming.'),('Wizard','a.','Haunted by wizards.'),('Wizardly','a.','Resembling or becoming a wizard; wizardlike; weird.'),('Wizardry','n.','The character or practices o/ wizards; sorcery; magic.'),('Wizen','v. i.','To wither; to dry.'),('Wizen','a.','Wizened; thin; weazen; withered.'),('Wizen','n.','The weasand.'),('Wizened','a.','Dried; shriveled; withered; shrunken; weazen; as, a\n   wizened old man.'),('Wizen-faced','a.','Having a shriveled, thin, withered face.'),('Wlatsome','a.','Loathsome; disgusting; hateful.'),('Wo','n. & a.','See Woe.'),('Woad','n.','An herbaceous cruciferous plant (Isatis tinctoria). It was\n   formerly cultivated for the blue coloring matter derived from its\n   leaves.'),('Woad','n.','A blue dyestuff, or coloring matter, consisting of the\n   powdered and fermented leaves of the Isatis tinctoria. It is now\n   superseded by indigo, but is somewhat used with indigo as a ferment in\n   dyeing.'),('Woaded','a.','Colored or stained with woad.'),('Woad-waxen','n.','A leguminous plant (Genista tinctoria) of Europe and\n   Russian Asia, and adventitious in America; -- called also greenwood,\n   greenweed, dyer\'s greenweed, and whin, wood-wash, wood-wax, and\n   wood-waxen.'),('Woald','n.','See Weld.'),('Wobble','v. i.','See Wabble.'),('Wode','a.','Mad. See Wood, a.'),('Wode','n.','Wood.'),('Wodegeld','n.','A geld, or payment, for wood.'),('Woden','n.','A deity corresponding to Odin, the supreme deity of the\n   Scandinavians. Wednesday is named for him. See Odin.'),('Woe','n.','Grief; sorrow; misery; heavy calamity.'),('Woe','n.','A curse; a malediction.'),('Woe','a.','Woeful; sorrowful.'),('Woe-begone','a.','Beset or overwhelmed with woe; immersed in grief or\n   sorrow; woeful.'),('Woeful','a.','Alt. of Woful'),('Woful','a.','Full of woe; sorrowful; distressed with grief or calamity;\n   afflicted; wretched; unhappy; sad.'),('Woful','a.','Bringing calamity, distress, or affliction; as, a woeful\n   event; woeful want.'),('Woful','a.','Wretched; paltry; miserable; poor.'),('Woefully','adv.','Alt. of Wofully'),('Wofully','adv.','In a woeful manner; sorrowfully; mournfully; miserably;\n   dolefully.'),('Woefulness','n.','Alt. of Wofulness'),('Wofulness','n.','The quality or state of being woeful; misery;\n   wretchedness.'),('Woesome','a.','Woeful.'),('Woke','imp. & p. p.','Wake.'),('Wol','v. t. & i.','See 2d Will.'),('Wold','n.','A wood; a forest.'),('Wold','n.','A plain, or low hill; a country without wood, whether hilly\n   or not.'),('Wold','n.','See Weld.'),('Wolde','','imp. of Will. See Would.'),('Wolves','pl. ','of Wolf'),('Wolf','a.','Any one of several species of wild and savage carnivores\n   belonging to the genus Canis and closely allied to the common dog. The\n   best-known and most destructive species are the European wolf (Canis\n   lupus), the American gray, or timber, wolf (C. occidentalis), and the\n   prairie wolf, or coyote. Wolves often hunt in packs, and may thus\n   attack large animals and even man.'),('Wolf','a.','One of the destructive, and usually hairy, larvae of several\n   species of beetles and grain moths; as, the bee wolf.'),('Wolf','a.','Fig.: Any very ravenous, rapacious, or destructive person or\n   thing; especially, want; starvation; as, they toiled hard to keep the\n   wolf from the door.'),('Wolf','a.','A white worm, or maggot, which infests granaries.'),('Wolf','a.','An eating ulcer or sore. Cf. Lupus.'),('Wolf','a.','The harsh, howling sound of some of the chords on an organ or\n   piano tuned by unequal temperament.'),('Wolf','a.','In bowed instruments, a harshness due to defective vibration\n   in certain notes of the scale.'),('Wolf','a.','A willying machine.'),('Wolfberry','n.','An American shrub (Symphoricarpus occidentalis) which\n   bears soft white berries.'),('Wolffian','a.','Discovered, or first described, by Caspar Friedrich Wolff\n   (1733-1794), the founder of modern embryology.'),('Wolfish','a.','Like a wolf; having the qualities or form of a wolf; as, a\n   wolfish visage; wolfish designs.'),('Wolfkin','n.','A little or young wolf.'),('Wolfling','n.','A young wolf.'),('Wolfram','n.','Same as Wolframite.'),('Wolframate','n.','A salt of wolframic acid; a tungstate.'),('Wolframic','a.','Of or pertaining to wolframium. See Tungstic.'),('Wolframite','n.','Tungstate of iron and manganese, generally of a\n   brownish or grayish black color, submetallic luster, and high specific\n   gravity. It occurs in cleavable masses, and also crystallized. Called\n   also wolfram.'),('Wolframium','n.','The technical name of the element tungsten. See\n   Tungsten.'),('Wolfsbane','n.','A poisonous plant (Aconitum Lycoctonum), a kind of\n   monkshood; also, by extension, any plant or species of the genus\n   Aconitum. See Aconite.'),('Wolf\'s-claw','n.','A kind of club moss. See Lycopodium.'),('Wolf\'s-foot','n.','Club moss. See Lycopodium.'),('Wolf\'s-milk','n.','Any kind of spurge (Euphorbia); -- so called from its\n   acrid milky juice.'),('Woll','v. t. & i.','See 2d Will.'),('Wollastonite','n.','A silicate of lime of a white to gray, red, or yellow\n   color, occurring generally in cleavable masses, rarely in tabular\n   crystals; tabular spar.'),('Wolle','n.','Wool.'),('Wolverene','n.','Alt. of Wolverine'),('Wolverine','n.','The glutton.'),('Wolverine','n.','A nickname for an inhabitant of Michigan.'),('Wolves','n.','pl. of Wolf.'),('Wolvish','a.','Wolfish.'),('Women','pl. ','of Woman'),('Woman','n.','An adult female person; a grown-up female person, as\n   distinguished from a man or a child; sometimes, any female person.'),('Woman','n.','The female part of the human race; womankind.'),('Woman','n.','A female attendant or servant.'),('Woman','v. t.','To act the part of a woman in; -- with indefinite it.'),('Woman','v. t.','To make effeminate or womanish.'),('Woman','v. t.','To furnish with, or unite to, a woman.'),('Womanhead','n.','Alt. of Womanhede'),('Womanhede','n.','Womanhood.'),('Womanhood','n.','The state of being a woman; the distinguishing character\n   or qualities of a woman, or of womankind.'),('Womanhood','n.','Women, collectively; womankind.'),('Womanish','a.','Suitable to a woman, having the qualities of a woman;\n   effeminate; not becoming a man; -- usually in a reproachful sense. See\n   the Note under Effeminate.'),('Womanize','v. t.','To make like a woman; to make effeminate.'),('Womankind','n.','The females of the human race; women, collectively.'),('Womanless','a.','Without a woman or women.'),('Womanlike','a.','Like a woman; womanly.'),('Womanliness','n.','The quality or state of being womanly.'),('Womanly','a.','Becoming a woman; feminine; as, womanly behavior.'),('Womanly','adv.','In the manner of a woman; with the grace, tenderness, or\n   affection of a woman.'),('Womb','n.','The belly; the abdomen.'),('Womb','n.','The uterus. See Uterus.'),('Womb','n.','The place where anything is generated or produced.'),('Womb','n.','Any cavity containing and enveloping anything.'),('Womb','v. t.','To inclose in a womb, or as in a womb; to breed or hold in\n   secret.'),('Wombat','n.','Any one of three species of Australian burrowing marsupials\n   of the genus Phascolomys, especially the common species (P. ursinus).\n   They are nocturnal in their habits, and feed mostly on roots.'),('Womby','a.','Capacious.'),('Women','n.','pl. of Woman.'),('Won','','imp. & p. p. of Win.'),('Won','v. i.','To dwell or abide.'),('Won','n.','Dwelling; wone.'),('Wonder','n.','That emotion which is excited by novelty, or the\n   presentation to the sight or mind of something new, unusual, strange,\n   great, extraordinary, or not well understood; surprise; astonishment;\n   admiration; amazement.'),('Wonder','n.','A cause of wonder; that which excites surprise; a strange\n   thing; a prodigy; a miracle.'),('Wondered','imp. & p. p.','of Wonder'),('Wondering','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Wonder'),('Wonder','v. i.','To be affected with surprise or admiration; to be struck\n   with astonishment; to be amazed; to marvel.'),('Wonder','v. i.','To feel doubt and curiosity; to wait with uncertain\n   expectation; to query in the mind; as, he wondered why they came.'),('Wonder','a.','Wonderful.'),('Wonder','adv.','Wonderfully.'),('Wondered','a.','Having performed wonders; able to perform wonderful\n   things.'),('Wonderer','n.','One who wonders.'),('Wonderful','a.','Adapted to excite wonder or admiration; surprising;\n   strange; astonishing.'),('Wonderingly','adv.','In a wondering manner.'),('Wonderland','n.','A land full of wonders, or marvels.'),('Wonderly','adv.','Wonderfully; wondrously.'),('Wonderment','n.','Surprise; astonishment; a wonderful appearance; a\n   wonder.'),('Wonderous','a.','Same as Wondrous.'),('Wonders','adv.','See Wondrous.'),('Wonderstruck','a.','Struck with wonder, admiration, or surprise.'),('Wonderwork','n.','A wonderful work or act; a prodigy; a miracle.'),('Wonder-worker','n.','One who performs wonders, or miracles.'),('Wonder-working','a.','Doing wonders or surprising things.'),('Wondrous','n.','In a wonderful or surprising manner or degree;\n   wonderfully.'),('Wondrous','a.','Wonderful; astonishing; admirable; marvelous; such as\n   excite surprise and astonishment; strange.'),('Wone','a.','To dwell; to abide.'),('Wone','a.','Dwelling; habitation; abode.'),('Wone','a.','Custom; habit; wont; use; usage.'),('Wong','n.','A field.'),('Wonger','n.','See Wanger.'),('Woning','n.','Dwelling.'),('Won\'t','','A colloquial contraction of woll not. Will not. See Will.'),('Wont','a.','Using or doing customarily; accustomed; habituated; used.'),('Wont','n.','Custom; habit; use; usage.'),('Wont','imp.','of Wont'),('Wont','p. p.','of Wont'),('Wonted','','of Wont'),('Wonting','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Wont'),('Wont','v. i.','To be accustomed or habituated; to be used.'),('Wont','v. t.','To accustom; -- used reflexively.'),('Wonted','a.','Accustomed; customary; usual.'),('Wontedness','n.','The quality or state of being accustomed.'),('Wontless','a.','Unaccustomed.'),('Wooed','imp. & p. p.','of Woo'),('Wooing','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Woo'),('Woo','v. t.','To solicit in love; to court.'),('Woo','v. t.','To court solicitously; to invite with importunity.'),('Woo','v. i.','To court; to make love.'),('Wood','a.','Mad; insane; possessed; rabid; furious; frantic.'),('Wood','v. i.','To grow mad; to act like a madman; to mad.'),('Wood','n.','A large and thick collection of trees; a forest or grove; --\n   frequently used in the plural.'),('Wood','n.','The substance of trees and the like; the hard fibrous\n   substance which composes the body of a tree and its branches, and which\n   is covered by the bark; timber.'),('Wood','n.','The fibrous material which makes up the greater part of the\n   stems and branches of trees and shrubby plants, and is found to a less\n   extent in herbaceous stems. It consists of elongated tubular or\n   needle-shaped cells of various kinds, usually interwoven with the\n   shinning bands called silver grain.'),('Wood','n.','Trees cut or sawed for the fire or other uses.'),('Wooded','imp. & p. p.','of Wood'),('Wooding','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Wood'),('Wood','v. t.','To supply with wood, or get supplies of wood for; as, to\n   wood a steamboat or a locomotive.'),('Wood','v. i.','To take or get a supply of wood.'),('Woodbind','n.','Woodbine.'),('Woodbine','v. t.','A climbing plant having flowers of great fragrance\n   (Lonicera Periclymenum); the honeysuckle.'),('Woodbine','v. t.','The Virginia creeper. See Virginia creeper, under\n   Virginia.'),('Wood-bound','a.','Incumbered with tall, woody hedgerows.'),('Woodbury-type','n.','A process in photographic printing, in which a\n   relief pattern in gelatin, which has been hardened after certain\n   operations, is pressed upon a plate of lead or other soft metal. An\n   intaglio impression in thus produced, from which pictures may be\n   directly printed, but by a slower process than in common printing.'),('Woodbury-type','n.','A print from such a plate.'),('Woodchat','n.','Any one of several species of Asiatic singing birds\n   belonging to the genera Ianthia and Larvivora. They are closely allied\n   to the European robin. The males are usually bright blue above, and\n   more or less red or rufous beneath.'),('Woodchat','n.','A European shrike (Enneoctonus rufus). In the male the\n   head and nape are rufous red; the back, wings, and tail are black,\n   varied with white.'),('Woodchuck','n.','A common large North American marmot (Arctomys monax).\n   It is usually reddish brown, more or less grizzled with gray. It makes\n   extensive burrows, and is often injurious to growing crops. Called also\n   ground hog.'),('Woodchuck','n.','The yaffle, or green woodpecker.'),('Woodcock','n.','Any one of several species of long-billed limicoline\n   birds belonging to the genera Scolopax and Philohela. They are mostly\n   nocturnal in their habits, and are highly esteemed as game birds.'),('Woodcock','n.','Fig.: A simpleton.'),('Woodcracker','n.','The nuthatch.'),('Woodcraft','n.','Skill and practice in anything pertaining to the woods,\n   especially in shooting, and other sports in the woods.'),('Woodcut','n.','An engraving on wood; also, a print from it. Same as Wood\n   cut, under Wood.'),('Woodcutter','n.','A person who cuts wood.'),('Woodcutter','n.','An engraver on wood.'),('Woodcutting','n.','The act or employment of cutting wood or timber.'),('Woodcutting','n.','The act or art of engraving on wood.'),('Wooded','a.','Supplied or covered with wood, or trees; as, land wooded\n   and watered.'),('Wooden','a.','Made or consisting of wood; pertaining to, or resembling,\n   wood; as, a wooden box; a wooden leg; a wooden wedding.'),('Wooden','a.','Clumsy; awkward; ungainly; stiff; spiritless.'),('Woodenly','adv.','Clumsily; stupidly; blockishly.'),('Woodenness','n.','Quality of being wooden; clumsiness; stupidity;\n   blockishness.'),('Woodhack','n.','Alt. of Woodhacker'),('Woodhacker','n.','The yaffle.'),('Woodnewer','n.','A woodpecker.'),('Woodhole','n.','A place where wood is stored.'),('Woodhouse','n.','A house or shed in which wood is stored, and sheltered\n   from the weather.'),('Woodiness','n.','The quality or state of being woody.'),('Woodknacker','n.','The yaffle.'),('Woodland','n.','Land covered with wood or trees; forest; land on which\n   trees are suffered to grow, either for fuel or timber.'),('Woodland','a.','Of or pertaining to woods or woodland; living in the\n   forest; sylvan.'),('Woodlander','n.','A dweller in a woodland.'),('Wood-layer','n.','A young oak, or other timber plant, laid down in a\n   hedge among the whitethorn or other plants used in hedges.'),('Woodless','a.','Having no wood; destitute of wood.'),('Woodly','adv.','In a wood, mad, or raving manner; madly; furiously.'),('Woodmen','pl. ','of Woodman'),('Woodman','n.','A forest officer appointed to take care of the king\'s\n   woods; a forester.'),('Woodman','n.','A sportsman; a hunter.'),('Woodman','n.','One who cuts down trees; a woodcutter.'),('Woodman','n.','One who dwells in the woods or forest; a bushman.'),('Woodmeil','n.','See Wadmol.'),('Woodmonger','n.','A wood seller.'),('Woodness','n.','Anger; madness; insanity; rage.'),('Wood-note','n.','A wild or natural note, as of a forest bird.'),('Woodpeck','n.','A woodpecker.'),('Woodpecker','n.','Any one of numerous species of scansorial birds\n   belonging to Picus and many allied genera of the family Picidae.'),('Woodrock','n.','A compact woodlike variety of asbestus.'),('Woodruff','n.','Alt. of Woodroof'),('Woodroof','n.','A little European herb (Asperula odorata) having a\n   pleasant taste. It is sometimes used for flavoring wine. See Illust. of\n   Whorl.'),('Wood-sare','n.','A kind of froth seen on herbs.'),('Wood-sere','n.','The time when there no sap in the trees; the winter\n   season.'),('Woodsmen','pl. ','of Woodsman'),('Woodsman','n.','A woodman; especially, one who lives in the forest.'),('Wood\'s metal','','A fusible alloy consisting of one or two parts of\n   cadmium, two parts of tin, four of lead, with seven or eight part of\n   bismuth. It melts at from 66¡ to 71¡ C. See Fusible metal, under\n   Fusible.'),('Woodstone','n.','A striped variety of hornstone, resembling wood in\n   appearance.'),('Woodsy','a.','Of or pertaining to the woods or forest.'),('Wood tick','','Any one of several species of ticks of the genus Ixodes\n   whose young cling to bushes, but quickly fasten themselves upon the\n   bodies of any animal with which they come in contact. When they attach\n   themselves to the human body they often produce troublesome sores. The\n   common species of the Northern United States is Ixodes unipunctata.'),('Woodwall','n.','The yaffle.'),('Woodward','n.','An officer of the forest, whose duty it was to guard the\n   woods.'),('Woodwardia','n.','A genus of ferns, one species of which (Woodwardia\n   radicans) is a showy plant in California, the Azores, etc.'),('Wood-wash','n.','Alt. of Wood-waxen'),('Wood-wax','n.','Alt. of Wood-waxen'),('Wood-waxen','n.','Same as Woadwaxen.'),('Woodwork','n.','Work made of wood; that part of any structure which is\n   wrought of wood.'),('Woodworm','n.','See Wood worm, under Wood.'),('Woody','a.','Abounding with wood or woods; as, woody land.'),('Woody','a.','Consisting of, or containing, wood or woody fiber; ligneous;\n   as, the woody parts of plants.'),('Woody','a.','Of or pertaining to woods; sylvan.'),('Wooer','v. t.','One who wooes; one who courts or solicits in love; a\n   suitor.'),('Woof','n.','The threads that cross the warp in a woven fabric; the weft;\n   the filling; the thread usually carried by the shuttle in weaving.'),('Woof','n.','Texture; cloth; as, a pall of softest woof.'),('Woofell','n.','The European blackbird.'),('Woofy','a.','Having a close texture; dense; as, a woofy cloud.'),('Woohoo','n.','The sailfish.'),('Wooingly','adv.','In a wooing manner; enticingly; with persuasiveness.'),('Wook','imp.','Woke.'),('Wool','n.','The soft and curled, or crisped, species of hair which grows\n   on sheep and some other animals, and which in fineness sometimes\n   approaches to fur; -- chiefly applied to the fleecy coat of the sheep,\n   which constitutes a most essential material of clothing in all cold and\n   temperate climates.'),('Wool','n.','Short, thick hair, especially when crisped or curled.'),('Wool','n.','A sort of pubescence, or a clothing of dense, curling hairs\n   on the surface of certain plants.'),('Woolded','imp. & p. p.','of Woold'),('Woolding','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Woold'),('Woold','v. t.','To wind, or wrap; especially, to wind a rope round, as a\n   mast or yard made of two or more pieces, at the place where it has been\n   fished or scarfed, in order to strengthen it.'),('Woolder','n.','A stick used to tighten the rope in woolding.'),('Woolder','n.','One of the handles of the top, formed by a wooden pin\n   passing through it. See 1st Top, 2.'),('Woolding','n.','The act of winding or wrapping anything with a rope, as a\n   mast.'),('Woolding','n.','A rope used for binding masts and spars.'),('Wool-dyed','a.','Dyed before being made into cloth, in distinction from\n   piece-dyed; ingrain.'),('Wooled','a.','Having (such) wool; as, a fine-wooled sheep.'),('Woolen','a.','Made of wool; consisting of wool; as, woolen goods.'),('Woolen','a.','Of or pertaining to wool or woolen cloths; as, woolen\n   manufactures; a woolen mill; a woolen draper.'),('Woolen','n.','Cloth made of wool; woollen goods.'),('Woolenet','n.','A thin, light fabric of wool.'),('Woolert','n.','The barn owl.'),('Woolfell','n.','A skin with the wool; a skin from which the wool has not\n   been sheared or pulled.'),('Woolgathering','a.','Indulging in a vagrant or idle exercise of the\n   imagination; roaming upon a fruitless quest; idly fanciful.'),('Woolgathering','n.','Indulgence in idle imagination; a foolish or useless\n   pursuit or design.'),('Woolgrower','n.','One who raises sheep for the production of wool.'),('Wool-hall','n.','A trade market in the woolen districts.'),('Woolhead','n.','The buffel duck.'),('Woolliness','n.','The quality or state of being woolly.'),('Woolly','a.','Consisting of wool; as, a woolly covering; a woolly fleece.'),('Woolly','a.','Resembling wool; of the nature of wool.'),('Woolly','a.','Clothed with wool.'),('Woolly','a.','Clothed with a fine, curly pubescence resembling wool.'),('Woolly-head','n.','A negro.'),('Woolmen','pl. ','of Woolman'),('Woolman','n.','One who deals in wool.'),('Woolpack','n.','A pack or bag of wool weighing two hundred and forty\n   pounds.'),('Woolsack','n.','A sack or bag of wool; specifically, the seat of the lord\n   chancellor of England in the House of Lords, being a large, square sack\n   of wool resembling a divan in form.'),('Woolsey','n.','Linsey-woolsey.'),('Woolstock','n.','A heavy wooden hammer for milling cloth.'),('Woolward','adv.','In wool; with woolen raiment next the skin.'),('Woolward-going','n.','A wearing of woolen clothes next the skin as a\n   matter of penance.'),('Woon','n.','Dwelling. See Wone.'),('Woorali','n.','Same as Curare.'),('Woosy','a.','Oozy; wet.'),('Wootz','n.','A species of steel imported from the East Indies, valued for\n   making edge tools; Indian steel. It has in combination a minute portion\n   of alumina and silica.'),('Wooyen','n.','See Yuen.'),('Wopen','p. p.','Wept.'),('Worble','n.','See Wormil.'),('Word','n.','The spoken sign of a conception or an idea; an articulate or\n   vocal sound, or a combination of articulate and vocal sounds, uttered\n   by the human voice, and by custom expressing an idea or ideas; a single\n   component part of human speech or language; a constituent part of a\n   sentence; a term; a vocable.'),('Word','n.','Hence, the written or printed character, or combination of\n   characters, expressing such a term; as, the words on a page.'),('Word','n.','Talk; discourse; speech; language.'),('Word','n.','Account; tidings; message; communication; information; --\n   used only in the singular.'),('Word','n.','Signal; order; command; direction.'),('Word','n.','Language considered as implying the faith or authority of the\n   person who utters it; statement; affirmation; declaration; promise.'),('Word','n.','Verbal contention; dispute.'),('Word','n.','A brief remark or observation; an expression; a phrase,\n   clause, or short sentence.'),('Word','v. i.','To use words, as in discussion; to argue; to dispute.'),('Worded','imp. & p. p.','of Word'),('Wording','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Word'),('Word','v. t.','To express in words; to phrase.'),('Word','v. t.','To ply with words; also, to cause to be by the use of a\n   word or words.'),('Word','v. t.','To flatter with words; to cajole.'),('Wordbook','n.','A collection of words; a vocabulary; a dictionary; a\n   lexicon.'),('Word-catcher','n.','One who cavils at words.'),('Worder','n.','A speaker.'),('Wordily','adv.','In a wordy manner.'),('Wordiness','n.','The quality or state of being wordy, or abounding with\n   words; verboseness.'),('Wording','n.','The act or manner of expressing in words; style of\n   expression; phrasing.'),('Wordish','a.','Respecting words; full of words; wordy.'),('Wordle','n.','One of several pivoted pieces forming the throat of an\n   adjustable die used in drawing wire, lead pipe, etc.'),('Wordless','a.','Not using words; not speaking; silent; speechless.'),('Wordsman','n.','One who deals in words, or in mere words; a verbalist.'),('Wordy','superl.','Of or pertaining to words; consisting of words; verbal;\n   as, a wordy war.'),('Wordy','superl.','Using many words; verbose; as, a wordy speaker.'),('Wordy','superl.','Containing many words; full of words.'),('Wore','','imp. of Wear.'),('Wore','','imp. of Ware.'),('Work','n.','Exertion of strength or faculties; physical or intellectual\n   effort directed to an end; industrial activity; toil; employment;\n   sometimes, specifically, physically labor.'),('Work','n.','The matter on which one is at work; that upon which one\n   spends labor; material for working upon; subject of exertion; the thing\n   occupying one; business; duty; as, to take up one\'s work; to drop one\'s\n   work.'),('Work','n.','That which is produced as the result of labor; anything\n   accomplished by exertion or toil; product; performance; fabric;\n   manufacture; in a more general sense, act, deed, service, effect,\n   result, achievement, feat.'),('Work','n.','Specifically: (a) That which is produced by mental labor; a\n   composition; a book; as, a work, or the works, of Addison. (b) Flowers,\n   figures, or the like, wrought with the needle; embroidery.'),('Work','n.','Structures in civil, military, or naval engineering, as\n   docks, bridges, embankments, trenches, fortifications, and the like;\n   also, the structures and grounds of a manufacturing establishment; as,\n   iron works; locomotive works; gas works.'),('Work','n.','The moving parts of a mechanism; as, the works of a watch.'),('Work','n.','Manner of working; management; treatment; as, unskillful work\n   spoiled the effect.'),('Work','n.','The causing of motion against a resisting force. The amount\n   of work is proportioned to, and is measured by, the product of the\n   force into the amount of motion along the direction of the force. See\n   Conservation of energy, under Conservation, Unit of work, under Unit,\n   also Foot pound, Horse power, Poundal, and Erg.'),('Work','n.','Ore before it is dressed.'),('Work','n.','Performance of moral duties; righteous conduct.'),('Worked','imp. & p. p.','of Work'),('Wrought','','of Work'),('Working','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Work'),('Work','n.','To exert one\'s self for a purpose; to put forth effort for\n   the attainment of an object; to labor; to be engaged in the performance\n   of a task, a duty, or the like.'),('Work','n.','Hence, in a general sense, to operate; to act; to perform;\n   as, a machine works well.'),('Work','n.','Hence, figuratively, to be effective; to have effect or\n   influence; to conduce.'),('Work','n.','To carry on business; to be engaged or employed customarily;\n   to perform the part of a laborer; to labor; to toil.'),('Work','n.','To be in a state of severe exertion, or as if in such a\n   state; to be tossed or agitated; to move heavily; to strain; to labor;\n   as, a ship works in a heavy sea.'),('Work','n.','To make one\'s way slowly and with difficulty; to move or\n   penetrate laboriously; to proceed with effort; -- with a following\n   preposition, as down, out, into, up, through, and the like; as, scheme\n   works out by degrees; to work into the earth.'),('Work','n.','To ferment, as a liquid.'),('Work','n.','To act or operate on the stomach and bowels, as a cathartic.'),('Work','v. t.','To labor or operate upon; to give exertion and effort to;\n   to prepare for use, or to utilize, by labor.'),('Work','v. t.','To produce or form by labor; to bring forth by exertion or\n   toil; to accomplish; to originate; to effect; as, to work wood or iron\n   into a form desired, or into a utensil; to work cotton or wool into\n   cloth.'),('Work','v. t.','To produce by slow degrees, or as if laboriously; to bring\n   gradually into any state by action or motion.'),('Work','v. t.','To influence by acting upon; to prevail upon; to manage;\n   to lead.'),('Work','v. t.','To form with a needle and thread or yarn; especially, to\n   embroider; as, to work muslin.'),('Work','v. t.','To set in motion or action; to direct the action of; to\n   keep at work; to govern; to manage; as, to work a machine.'),('Work','v. t.','To cause to ferment, as liquor.'),('Workable','a.','Capable of being worked, or worth working; as, a workable\n   mine; workable clay.'),('Workaday','n.','See Workyday.'),('Workbag','n.','A bag for holding implements or materials for work;\n   especially, a reticule, or bag for holding needlework, and the like.'),('Workbasket','n.','A basket for holding materials for needlework, or the\n   like.'),('Workbench','n.','A bench on which work is performed, as in a carpenter\'s\n   shop.'),('Workbox','n.','A box for holding instruments or materials for work.'),('Workday','n. & a.','A day on which work is performed, as distinguished\n   from Sunday, festivals, etc., a working day.'),('Worker','n.','One who, or that which, works; a laborer; a performer; as,\n   a worker in brass.'),('Worker','n.','One of the neuter, or sterile, individuals of the social\n   ants, bees, and white ants. The workers are generally females having\n   the sexual organs imperfectly developed. See Ant, and White ant, under\n   White.'),('Workfellow','n.','One engaged in the same work with another; a companion\n   in work.'),('Workfolk','n.','People that labor.'),('Workful','a.','Full of work; diligent.'),('Workhouses','pl. ','of Workhouse'),('Workhouse','n.','A house where any manufacture is carried on; a workshop.'),('Workhouse','n.','A house in which idle and vicious persons are confined\n   to labor.'),('Workhouse','n.','A house where the town poor are maintained at public\n   expense, and provided with labor; a poorhouse.'),('Working','','a & n. from Work.'),('Working-day','a.','Pertaining to, or characteristic of, working days, or\n   workdays; everyday; hence, plodding; hard-working.'),('Workingmen','pl. ','of Workingman'),('Workingman','n.','A laboring man; a man who earns his daily support by\n   manual labor.'),('Workless','a.','Without work; not laboring; as, many people were still\n   workless.'),('Workless','a.','Not carried out in practice; not exemplified in fact; as,\n   workless faith.'),('Workmen','pl. ','of Workman'),('Workman','n.','A man employed in labor, whether in tillage or\n   manufactures; a worker.'),('Workman','n.','Hence, especially, a skillful artificer or laborer.'),('Workmanlike','a.','Becoming a workman, especially a skillful one;\n   skillful; well performed.'),('Workmanly','a.','Becoming a skillful workman; skillful; well performed;\n   workmanlike.'),('Workmanly','adv.','In a skillful manner; in a manner becoming a skillful\n   workman.'),('Workmanship','n.','The art or skill of a workman; the execution or manner\n   of making anything.'),('Workmanship','n.','That which is effected, made, or produced;\n   manufacture, something made by manual labor.'),('Workmaster','n.','The performer of any work; a master workman.'),('Workroom','n.','Any room or apartment used especially for labor.'),('Workship','n.','Workmanship.'),('Workshop','n.','A shop where any manufacture or handiwork is carried on.'),('Worktable','n.','A table for holding working materials and implements;\n   esp., a small table with drawers and other conveniences for needlework,\n   etc.'),('Workwomen','pl. ','of Workwoman'),('Workwoman','n.','A woman who performs any work; especially, a woman\n   skilled in needlework.'),('Workyday','n.','A week day or working day, as distinguished from Sunday\n   or a holiday. Also used adjectively.'),('World','n.','The earth and the surrounding heavens; the creation; the\n   system of created things; existent creation; the universe.'),('World','n.','Any planet or heavenly body, especially when considered as\n   inhabited, and as the scene of interests analogous with human\n   interests; as, a plurality of worlds.'),('World','n.','The earth and its inhabitants, with their concerns; the sum\n   of human affairs and interests.'),('World','n.','In a more restricted sense, that part of the earth and its\n   concerns which is known to any one, or contemplated by any one; a\n   division of the globe, or of its inhabitants; human affairs as seen\n   from a certain position, or from a given point of view; also, state of\n   existence; scene of life and action; as, the Old World; the New World;\n   the religious world; the Catholic world; the upper world; the future\n   world; the heathen world.'),('World','n.','The customs, practices, and interests of men; general\n   affairs of life; human society; public affairs and occupations; as, a\n   knowledge of the world.'),('World','n.','Individual experience of, or concern with, life; course of\n   life; sum of the affairs which affect the individual; as, to begin the\n   world with no property; to lose all, and begin the world anew.'),('World','n.','The inhabitants of the earth; the human race; people in\n   general; the public; mankind.'),('World','n.','The earth and its affairs as distinguished from heaven;\n   concerns of this life as distinguished from those of the life to come;\n   the present existence and its interests; hence, secular affairs;\n   engrossment or absorption in the affairs of this life; worldly\n   corruption; the ungodly or wicked part of mankind.'),('World','n.','As an emblem of immensity, a great multitude or quantity; a\n   large number.'),('Worldliness','n.','The quality of being worldly; a predominant passion\n   for obtaining the good things of this life; covetousness; addictedness\n   to gain and temporal enjoyments; worldly-mindedness.'),('Worldling','','A person whose soul is set upon gaining temporal\n   possessions; one devoted to this world and its enjoyments.'),('Worldly','a.','Relating to the world; human; common; as, worldly maxims;\n   worldly actions.'),('Worldly','a.','Pertaining to this world or life, in contradistinction\n   from the life to come; secular; temporal; devoted to this life and its\n   enjoyments; bent on gain; as, worldly pleasures, affections, honor,\n   lusts, men.'),('Worldly','a.','Lay, as opposed to clerical.'),('Worldly','adv.','With relation to this life; in a worldly manner.'),('Worldly-minded','a.','Devoted to worldly interests; mindful of the\n   affairs of the present life, and forgetful of those of the future;\n   loving and pursuing this world\'s goods, to the exclusion of piety and\n   attention to spiritual concerns.'),('World-wide','a.','Extended throughout the world; as, world-wide fame.'),('Worldlywise','a.','Wise in regard to things of this world.'),('Worm','n.','A creeping or a crawling animal of any kind or size, as a\n   serpent, caterpillar, snail, or the like.'),('Worm','n.','Any small creeping animal or reptile, either entirely without\n   feet, or with very short ones, including a great variety of animals;\n   as, an earthworm; the blindworm.'),('Worm','n.','Any helminth; an entozoon.'),('Worm','n.','Any annelid.'),('Worm','n.','An insect larva.'),('Worm','n.','Same as Vermes.'),('Worm','n.','An internal tormentor; something that gnaws or afflicts one\'s\n   mind with remorse.'),('Worm','n.','A being debased and despised.'),('Worm','n.','Anything spiral, vermiculated, or resembling a worm'),('Worm','n.','The thread of a screw.'),('Worm','n.','A spiral instrument or screw, often like a double corkscrew,\n   used for drawing balls from firearms.'),('Worm','n.','A certain muscular band in the tongue of some animals, as the\n   dog; the lytta. See Lytta.'),('Worm','n.','The condensing tube of a still, often curved and wound to\n   economize space. See Illust. of Still.'),('Worm','n.','A short revolving screw, the threads of which drive, or are\n   driven by, a worm wheel by gearing into its teeth or cogs. See Illust.\n   of Worm gearing, below.'),('Wormed','imp. & p. p.','of Worm'),('Worming','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Worm'),('Worm','v. i.','To work slowly, gradually, and secretly.'),('Worm','v. t.','To effect, remove, drive, draw, or the like, by slow and\n   secret means; -- often followed by out.'),('Worm','v. t.','To clean by means of a worm; to draw a wad or cartridge\n   from, as a firearm. See Worm, n. 5 (b).'),('Worm','n.','To cut the worm, or lytta, from under the tongue of, as a\n   dog, for the purpose of checking a disposition to gnaw. The operation\n   was formerly supposed to guard against canine madness.'),('Worm','n.','To wind rope, yarn, or other material, spirally round,\n   between the strands of, as a cable; to wind with spun yarn, as a small\n   rope.'),('Wormal','n.','See Wormil.'),('Worm-eaten','a.','Eaten, or eaten into, by a worm or by worms; as,\n   worm-eaten timber.'),('Worm-eaten','a.','Worn-out; old; worthless.'),('Wormed','a.','Penetrated by worms; injured by worms; worm-eaten; as,\n   wormed timber.'),('Wormhole','n.','A burrow made by a worm.'),('Wormian','a.','Discovered or described by Olanus Wormius, a Danish\n   anatomist.'),('Wormil','n.','Any botfly larva which burrows in or beneath the skin of\n   domestic and wild animals, thus producing sores. They belong to various\n   species of Hypoderma and allied genera. Domestic cattle are often\n   infested by a large species. See Gadfly. Called also warble, and\n   worble.'),('Wormil','n.','See 1st Warble, 1 (b).'),('Wormling','n.','A little worm.'),('Wormseed','n.','Any one of several plants, as Artemisia santonica, and\n   Chenopodium anthelminticum, whose seeds have the property of expelling\n   worms from the stomach and intestines.'),('Worm-shaped','a.','Shaped like a worm; /hick and almost cylindrical, but\n   variously curved or bent; as, a worm-shaped root.'),('Worm-shell','n.','Any species of Vermetus.'),('Wormul','n.','See Wornil.'),('Wormwood','n.','A composite plant (Artemisia Absinthium), having a bitter\n   and slightly aromatic taste, formerly used as a tonic and a vermifuge,\n   and to protect woolen garments from moths. It gives the peculiar flavor\n   to the cordial called absinthe. The volatile oil is a narcotic poison.\n   The term is often extended to other species of the same genus.'),('Wormwood','n.','Anything very bitter or grievous; bitterness.'),('Wormy','superl.','Containing a worm; abounding with worms.'),('Wormy','superl.','Like or pertaining to a worm; earthy; groveling.'),('Worn','','p. p. of Wear.'),('Wornil','n.','See Wormil.'),('Worn-out','a.','Consumed, or rendered useless, by wearing; as, worn-out\n   garments.'),('Worral','n.','Alt. of Worrel'),('Worrel','n.','An Egyptian fork-tongued lizard, about four feet long when\n   full grown.'),('Worrier','n.','One who worries.'),('Worriment','n.','Trouble; anxiety; worry.'),('Worrisome','a.','Inclined to worry or fret; also, causing worry or\n   annoyance.'),('Worrit','v. t.','To worry; to annoy.'),('Worrit','n.','Worry; anxiety.'),('Worried','imp. & p. p.','of Worry'),('Worrying','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Worry'),('Worry','v. t.','To harass by pursuit and barking; to attack repeatedly;\n   also, to tear or mangle with the teeth.'),('Worry','v. t.','To harass or beset with importunity, or with care an\n   anxiety; to vex; to annoy; to torment; to tease; to fret; to trouble;\n   to plague.'),('Worry','v. t.','To harass with labor; to fatigue.'),('Worry','v. i.','To feel or express undue care and anxiety; to manifest\n   disquietude or pain; to be fretful; to chafe; as, the child worries;\n   the horse worries.'),('Worries','pl. ','of Worry'),('Worry','n.','A state of undue solicitude; a state of disturbance from\n   care and anxiety; vexation; anxiety; fret; as, to be in a worry.'),('Worryingly','adv.','In a worrying manner.'),('Worse','compar.','Bad, ill, evil, or corrupt, in a greater degree; more\n   bad or evil; less good; specifically, in poorer health; more sick; --\n   used both in a physical and moral sense.'),('Worse','n.','Loss; disadvantage; defeat.'),('Worse','n.','That which is worse; something less good; as, think not the\n   worse of him for his enterprise.'),('Worse','a.','In a worse degree; in a manner more evil or bad.'),('Worse','v. t.','To make worse; to put disadvantage; to discomfit; to\n   worst. See Worst, v.'),('Worsen','v. t.','To make worse; to deteriorate; to impair.'),('Worsen','v. t.','To get the better of; to worst.'),('Worsen','v. i.','To grow or become worse.'),('Worser','a.','Worse.'),('Worship','a.','Excellence of character; dignity; worth; worthiness.'),('Worship','a.','Honor; respect; civil deference.'),('Worship','a.','Hence, a title of honor, used in addresses to certain\n   magistrates and others of rank or station.'),('Worship','a.','The act of paying divine honors to the Supreme Being;\n   religious reverence and homage; adoration, or acts of reverence, paid\n   to God, or a being viewed as God.'),('Worship','a.','Obsequious or submissive respect; extravagant admiration;\n   adoration.'),('Worship','a.','An object of worship.'),('Worshiped','imp. & p. p.','of Worship'),('Worshipped','','of Worship'),('Worshiping','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Worship'),('Worshipping','','of Worship'),('Worship','v. t.','To respect; to honor; to treat with civil reverence.'),('Worship','v. t.','To pay divine honors to; to reverence with supreme\n   respect and veneration; to perform religious exercises in honor of; to\n   adore; to venerate.'),('Worship','v. t.','To honor with extravagant love and extreme submission,\n   as a lover; to adore; to idolize.'),('Worship','v. i.','To perform acts of homage or adoration; esp., to\n   perform religious service.'),('Worshipability','n.','The quality of being worthy to be worshiped.'),('Worshipable','a.','Capable of being worshiped; worthy of worship.'),('Worshiper','n.','One who worships; one who pays divine honors to any\n   being or thing; one who adores.'),('Worshipful','a.','Entitled to worship, reverence, or high respect;\n   claiming respect; worthy of honor; -- often used as a term of respect,\n   sometimes ironically.'),('Worst','a.','Bad, evil, or pernicious, in the highest degree, whether in\n   a physical or moral sense. See Worse.'),('Worst','n.','That which is most bad or evil; the most severe, pernicious,\n   calamitous, or wicked state or degree.'),('Worsted','imp. & p. p.','of Worst'),('Worsting','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Worst'),('Worst','a.','To gain advantage over, in contest or competition; to get\n   the better of; to defeat; to overthrow; to discomfit.'),('Worst','v. i.','To grow worse; to deteriorate.'),('Worsted','n.','Well-twisted yarn spun of long-staple wool which has been\n   combed to lay the fibers parallel, used for carpets, cloth, hosiery,\n   gloves, and the like.'),('Worsted','n.','Fine and soft woolen yarn, untwisted or lightly twisted,\n   used in knitting and embroidery.'),('Wort','n.','A plant of any kind.'),('Wort','n.','Cabbages.'),('Wort','n.','An infusion of malt which is unfermented, or is in the act of\n   fermentation; the sweet infusion of malt, which ferments and forms\n   beer; hence, any similar liquid in a state of incipient fermentation.'),('Worth','v. i.','To be; to become; to betide; -- now used only in the\n   phrases, woe worth the day, woe worth the man, etc., in which the verb\n   is in the imperative, and the nouns day, man, etc., are in the dative.\n   Woe be to the day, woe be to the man, etc., are equivalent phrases.'),('Worth','a.','Valuable; of worthy; estimable; also, worth while.'),('Worth','a.','Equal in value to; furnishing an equivalent for; proper to\n   be exchanged for.'),('Worth','a.','Deserving of; -- in a good or bad sense, but chiefly in a\n   good sense.'),('Worth','a.','Having possessions equal to; having wealth or estate to the\n   value of.'),('Worth','a.','That quality of a thing which renders it valuable or useful;\n   sum of valuable qualities which render anything useful and sought;\n   value; hence, often, value as expressed in a standard, as money;\n   equivalent in exchange; price.'),('Worth','a.','Value in respect of moral or personal qualities; excellence;\n   virtue; eminence; desert; merit; usefulness; as, a man or magistrate of\n   great worth.'),('Worthful','a.','Full of worth; worthy; deserving.'),('Worthily','adv.','In a worthy manner; excellently; deservedly; according\n   to merit; justly; suitably; becomingly.'),('Worthiness','n.','The quality or state of being worthy; desert; merit;\n   excellence; dignity; virtue; worth.'),('Worthless','a.','Destitute of worth; having no value, virtue, excellence,\n   dignity, or the like; undeserving; valueless; useless; vile; mean; as,\n   a worthless garment; a worthless ship; a worthless man or woman; a\n   worthless magistrate.'),('worthwhile','adj.','Worth the time or effort spent.'),('Worthy','n.','Having worth or excellence; possessing merit; valuable;\n   deserving; estimable; excellent; virtuous.'),('Worthy','n.','Having suitable, adapted, or equivalent qualities or value;\n   -- usually with of before the thing compared or the object; more\n   rarely, with a following infinitive instead of of, or with that; as,\n   worthy of, equal in excellence, value, or dignity to; entitled to;\n   meriting; -- usually in a good sense, but sometimes in a bad one.'),('Worthy','n.','Of high station; of high social position.'),('Worthies','pl. ','of Worthy'),('Worthy','n.','A man of eminent worth or value; one distinguished for\n   useful and estimable qualities; a person of conspicuous desert; -- much\n   used in the plural; as, the worthies of the church; political worthies;\n   military worthies.'),('Worthy','v. t.','To render worthy; to exalt into a hero.'),('Wost','','2d pers. sing. pres. of Wit, to know.'),('Wot','','1st & 3d pers. sing. pres. of Wit, to know. See the Note under\n   Wit, v.'),('Wotest','','Alt. of Wottest'),('Wottest','','2d pers. sing. pres. of Wit, to know.'),('Woteth','','Alt. of Wotteth'),('Wotteth','','3d pers. sing. pres. of Wit, to know.'),('Woul','v. i.','To howl.'),('Would','v. t.','Commonly used as an auxiliary verb, either in the past\n   tense or in the conditional or optative present. See 2d & 3d Will.'),('Would','n.','See 2d Weld.'),('Would-be','a.','Desiring or professing to be; vainly pretending to be;\n   as, a would-be poet.'),('Woulding','n.','Emotion of desire; inclination; velleity.'),('Wouldingness','n.','Willingness; desire.'),('Woulfe bottle','n.','A kind of wash bottle with two or three necks; -- so\n   called after the inventor, Peter Woulfe, an English chemist.'),('Wound','','imp. & p. p. of Wind to twist, and Wind to sound by blowing.'),('Wound','n.','A hurt or injury caused by violence; specifically, a breach\n   of the skin and flesh of an animal, or in the substance of any creature\n   or living thing; a cut, stab, rent, or the like.'),('Wound','n.','Fig.: An injury, hurt, damage, detriment, or the like, to\n   feeling, faculty, reputation, etc.'),('Wound','n.','An injury to the person by which the skin is divided, or its\n   continuity broken; a lesion of the body, involving some solution of\n   continuity.'),('Wounded','imp. & p. p.','of Wound'),('Wounding','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Wound'),('Wound','n.','To hurt by violence; to produce a breach, or separation of\n   parts, in, as by a cut, stab, blow, or the like.'),('Wound','n.','To hurt the feelings of; to pain by disrespect, ingratitude,\n   or the like; to cause injury to.'),('Woundable','a.','Capable of being wounded; vulnerable.'),('Wounder','n.','One who, or that which, wounds.'),('Woundily','adv.','In a woundy manner; excessively; woundy.'),('Woundless','a.','Free from wound or hurt; exempt from being wounded;\n   invulnerable.'),('Woundwort','n.','Any one of certain plants whose soft, downy leaves have\n   been used for dressing wounds, as the kidney vetch, and several species\n   of the labiate genus Stachys.'),('Woundy','a.','Excessive.'),('Woundy','adv.','Excessively; extremely.'),('Wourali','n.','Same as Curare.'),('Wou-wou','n.','The agile, or silvery, gibbon; -- called also camper. See\n   Gibbon.'),('Wove','','p. pr. & rare vb. n. of Weave.'),('Woven','','p. p. of Weave.'),('Wowe','v. t. & i.','To woo.'),('Wowf','a.','Disordered or unsettled in intellect; deranged.'),('Wowke','n.','Week.'),('Wow-wow','n.','See Wou-wou.'),('Wox','','imp. of Wax.'),('Woxen','','p. p. of Wax.'),('Wrack','n.','A thin, flying cloud; a rack.'),('Wrack','v. t.','To rack; to torment.'),('Wrack','n.','Wreck; ruin; destruction.'),('Wrack','n.','Any marine vegetation cast up on the shore, especially\n   plants of the genera Fucus, Laminaria, and Zostera, which are most\n   abundant on northern shores.'),('Wrack','n.','Coarse seaweed of any kind.'),('Wrack','v. t.','To wreck.'),('Wrackful','a.','Ruinous; destructive.'),('Wrain-bolt','n.','Same as Wringbolt.'),('Wraith','n.','An apparition of a person in his exact likeness, seen\n   before death, or a little after; hence, an apparition; a specter; a\n   vision; an unreal image.'),('Wraith','n.','Sometimes, improperly, a spirit thought to preside over the\n   waters; -- called also water wraith.'),('Wrangled','imp. & p. p.','of Wrangle'),('Wrangling','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Wrangle'),('Wrangle','v. i.','To argue; to debate; to dispute.'),('Wrangle','v. i.','To dispute angrily; to quarrel peevishly and noisily;\n   to brawl; to altercate.'),('Wrangle','v. t.','To involve in a quarrel or dispute; to embroil.'),('Wrangle','n.','An angry dispute; a noisy quarrel; a squabble; an\n   altercation.'),('Wrangler','n.','An angry disputant; one who disputes with heat or\n   peevishness.'),('Wrangler','n.','One of those who stand in the first rank of honors in the\n   University of Cambridge, England. They are called, according to their\n   rank, senior wrangler, second wrangler, third wrangler, etc. Cf.\n   Optime.'),('Wranglership','n.','The honor or position of being a wrangler at the\n   University of Cambridge, England.'),('Wranglesome','a.','Contentious; quarrelsome.'),('Wrannock','n.','Alt. of Wranny'),('Wranny','n.','The common wren.'),('Wrap','v. t.','To snatch up; transport; -- chiefly used in the p. p.\n   wrapt.'),('Wrapped','imp. & p. p.','of Wrap'),('Wrapt','','of Wrap'),('Wrapping','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Wrap'),('Wrap','v. t.','To wind or fold together; to arrange in folds.'),('Wrap','v. t.','To cover by winding or folding; to envelop completely; to\n   involve; to infold; -- often with up.'),('Wrap','v. t.','To conceal by enveloping or infolding; to hide; hence, to\n   involve, as an effect or consequence; to be followed by.'),('Wrap','n.','A wrapper; -- often used in the plural for blankets, furs,\n   shawls, etc., used in riding or traveling.'),('Wrappage','n.','The act of wrapping.'),('Wrappage','n.','That which wraps; envelope; covering.'),('Wrapper','n.','One who, or that which, wraps.'),('Wrapper','n.','That in which anything is wrapped, or inclosed; envelope;\n   covering.'),('Wrapper','n.','Specifically, a loose outer garment; an article of dress\n   intended to be wrapped round the person; as, a morning wrapper; a\n   gentleman\'s wrapper.'),('Wraprascal','n.','A kind of coarse upper coat, or overcoat, formerly\n   worn.'),('Wrasse','n.','Any one of numerous edible, marine, spiny-finned fishes of\n   the genus Labrus, of which several species are found in the\n   Mediterranean and on the Atlantic coast of Europe. Many of the species\n   are bright-colored.'),('Wrastle','v. i.','To wrestle.'),('Wrath','a.','Violent anger; vehement exasperation; indignation; rage;\n   fury; ire.'),('Wrath','a.','The effects of anger or indignation; the just punishment of\n   an offense or a crime.'),('Wrath','a.','See Wroth.'),('Wrath','v. t.','To anger; to enrage; -- also used impersonally.'),('Wrathful','a.','Full of wrath; very angry; greatly incensed; ireful;\n   passionate; as, a wrathful man.'),('Wrathful','a.','Springing from, or expressing, wrath; as, a wrathful\n   countenance.'),('Wrathily','adv.','In a wrathy manner; very angrily; wrathfully.'),('Wrathless','a.','Free from anger or wrath.'),('Wrathy','a.','Very angry.'),('Wraw','a.','Angry; vexed; wrathful.'),('Wrawful','a.','Ill-tempered.'),('Wrawl','v. i.','To cry, as a cat; to waul.'),('Wrawness','n.','Peevishness; ill temper; anger.'),('Wray','v. t.','To reveal; to disclose.'),('Wreak','v. i.','To reck; to care.'),('Wreaked','imp. & p. p.','of Wreak'),('Wreaking','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Wreak'),('Wreak','v. t.','To revenge; to avenge.'),('Wreak','v. t.','To execute in vengeance or passion; to inflict; to hurl\n   or drive; as, to wreak vengeance on an enemy.'),('Wreak','v. t.','Revenge; vengeance; furious passion; resentment.'),('Wreaken','','p. p. of Wreak.'),('Wreaker','n.','Avenger.'),('Wreakful','a.','Revengeful; angry; furious.'),('Wreakless','a.','Unrevengeful; weak.'),('Wreaths','pl. ','of Wreath'),('Wreath','n.','Something twisted, intertwined, or curled; as, a wreath of\n   smoke; a wreath of flowers.'),('Wreath','n.','A garland; a chaplet, esp. one given to a victor.'),('Wreath','n.','An appendage to the shield, placed above it, and supporting\n   the crest (see Illust. of Crest). It generally represents a twist of\n   two cords of silk, one tinctured like the principal metal, the other\n   like the principal color in the arms.'),('Wreathed','imp.','of Wreathe'),('Wreathed','p. p.','of Wreathe'),('Wreathen','Archaic','of Wreathe'),('Wreathing','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Wreathe'),('Wreathe','n.','To cause to revolve or writhe; to twist about; to turn.'),('Wreathe','n.','To twist; to convolve; to wind one about another; to\n   entwine.'),('Wreathe','n.','To surround with anything twisted or convolved; to\n   encircle; to infold.'),('Wreathe','n.','To twine or twist about; to surround; to encircle.'),('Wreathe','v. i.','To be intewoven or entwined; to twine together; as, a\n   bower of wreathing trees.'),('Wreathen','a.','Twisted; made into a wreath.'),('Wreathless','a.','Destitute of a wreath.'),('Wreath-shell','n.','A marine shell of the genus Turbo. See Turbo.'),('Wreathy','a.','Wreathed; twisted; curled; spiral; also, full of wreaths.'),('Wrecche','n.','A wretch.'),('Wrecche','a.','Wretched.'),('Wreche','n.','Wreak.'),('Wreck','v. t. & n.','See 2d & 3d Wreak.'),('Wreck','v. t.','The destruction or injury of a vessel by being cast on\n   shore, or on rocks, or by being disabled or sunk by the force of winds\n   or waves; shipwreck.'),('Wreck','v. t.','Destruction or injury of anything, especially by\n   violence; ruin; as, the wreck of a railroad train.'),('Wreck','v. t.','The ruins of a ship stranded; a ship dashed against rocks\n   or land, and broken, or otherwise rendered useless, by violence and\n   fracture; as, they burned the wreck.'),('Wreck','v. t.','The remain of anything ruined or fatally injured.'),('Wreck','v. t.','Goods, etc., which, after a shipwreck, are cast upon the\n   land by the sea.'),('Wrecked','imp. & p. p.','of Wreck'),('Wrecking','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Wreck'),('Wreck','v. t.','To destroy, disable, or seriously damage, as a vessel, by\n   driving it against the shore or on rocks, by causing it to become\n   unseaworthy, to founder, or the like; to shipwreck.'),('Wreck','v. t.','To bring wreck or ruin upon by any kind of violence; to\n   destroy, as a railroad train.'),('Wreck','v. t.','To involve in a wreck; hence, to cause to suffer ruin; to\n   balk of success, and bring disaster on.'),('Wreck','v. i.','To suffer wreck or ruin.'),('Wreck','v. i.','To work upon a wreck, as in saving property or lives, or\n   in plundering.'),('Wreckage','n.','The act of wrecking, or state of being wrecked.'),('Wreckage','n.','That which has been wrecked; remains of a wreck.'),('Wrecker','n.','One who causes a wreck, as by false lights, and the like.'),('Wrecker','n.','One who searches fro, or works upon, the wrecks of\n   vessels, etc. Specifically: (a) One who visits a wreck for the purpose\n   of plunder. (b) One who is employed in saving property or lives from a\n   wrecked vessel, or in saving the vessel; as, the wreckers of Key West.'),('Wrecker','n.','A vessel employed by wreckers.'),('Wreckfish','n.','A stone bass.'),('Wreckful','a.','Causing wreck; involving ruin; destructive.'),('Wrecking','','a. & n. from Wreck, v.'),('Wreck-master','n.','A person appointed by law to take charge of goods,\n   etc., thrown on shore after a shipwreck.'),('Wreke','v. t.','Alt. of Wreeke'),('Wreeke','v. t.','See 2d Wreak.'),('Wren','n.','Any one of numerous species of small singing birds belonging\n   to Troglodytes and numerous allied of the family Troglodytidae.'),('Wren','n.','Any one of numerous species of small singing birds more or\n   less resembling the true wrens in size and habits.'),('Wrench','v. t.','Trick; deceit; fraud; stratagem.'),('Wrench','v. t.','A violent twist, or a pull with twisting.'),('Wrench','v. t.','A sprain; an injury by twisting, as in a joint.'),('Wrench','v. t.','Means; contrivance.'),('Wrench','v. t.','An instrument, often a simple bar or lever with jaws or\n   an angular orifice either at the end or between the ends, for exerting\n   a twisting strain, as in turning bolts, nuts, screw taps, etc.; a screw\n   key. Many wrenches have adjustable jaws for grasping nuts, etc., of\n   different sizes.'),('Wrench','v. t.','The system made up of a force and a couple of forces in\n   a plane perpendicular to that force. Any number of forces acting at any\n   points upon a rigid body may be compounded so as to be equivalent to a\n   wrench.'),('Wrenched','imp. & p. p.','of Wrench'),('Wrenching','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Wrench'),('Wrench','n.','To pull with a twist; to wrest, twist, or force by\n   violence.'),('Wrench','n.','To strain; to sprain; hence, to distort; to pervert.'),('Wrested','imp. & p. p.','of Wrest'),('Wresting','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Wrest'),('Wrest','v. t.','To turn; to twist; esp., to twist or extort by violence;\n   to pull of force away by, or as if by, violent wringing or twisting.'),('Wrest','v. t.','To turn from truth; to twist from its natural or proper\n   use or meaning by violence; to pervert; to distort.'),('Wrest','v. t.','To tune with a wrest, or key.'),('Wrest','n.','The act of wresting; a wrench; a violent twist; hence,\n   distortion; perversion.'),('Wrest','n.','Active or moving power.'),('Wrest','n.','A key to tune a stringed instrument of music.'),('Wrest','n.','A partition in a water wheel, by which the form of the\n   buckets is determined.'),('Wrester','n.','One who wrests.'),('Wrestled','imp. & p. p.','of Wrestle'),('Wrestling','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Wrestle'),('Wrestle','v. t.','To contend, by grappling with, and striving to trip or\n   throw down, an opponent; as, they wrestled skillfully.'),('Wrestle','v. t.','Hence, to struggle; to strive earnestly; to contend.'),('Wrestle','v. t.','To wrestle with; to seek to throw down as in wrestling.'),('Wrestle','n.','A struggle between two persons to see which will throw the\n   other down; a bout at wrestling; a wrestling match; a struggle.'),('Wrestler','n.','One who wrestles; one who is skillful in wrestling.'),('Wretch','v. t.','A miserable person; one profoundly unhappy.'),('Wretch','v. t.','One sunk in vice or degradation; a base, despicable\n   person; a vile knave; as, a profligate wretch.'),('Wretched','a.','Very miserable; sunk in, or accompanied by, deep\n   affliction or distress, as from want, anxiety, or grief; calamitous;\n   woeful; very afflicting.'),('Wretched','a.','Worthless; paltry; very poor or mean; miserable; as, a\n   wretched poem; a wretched cabin.'),('Wretched','a.','Hatefully contemptible; despicable; wicked.'),('Wretchedly','adv.','In a wretched manner; miserably; despicable.'),('Wretchedness','n.','The quality or state of being wretched; utter misery.'),('Wretchedness','n.','A wretched object; anything despicably.'),('Wretchful','a.','Wretched.'),('Wretchless','a.','Reckless; hence, disregarded.'),('Wrey','v. t.','See Wray.'),('Wrie','a. & v.','See Wry.'),('Wrig','v. i.','To wriggle.'),('Wriggled','imp. & p. p.','of Wriggle'),('Wriggling','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Wriggle'),('Wriggle','v. i.','To move the body to and fro with short, writhing\n   motions, like a worm; to squirm; to twist uneasily or quickly about.'),('Wriggle','v. t.','To move with short, quick contortions; to move by\n   twisting and squirming; like a worm.'),('Wriggle','a.','Wriggling; frisky; pliant; flexible.'),('Wriggler','n.','One who, or that which, wriggles.'),('Wright','n.','One who is engaged in a mechanical or manufacturing\n   business; an artificer; a workman; a manufacturer; a mechanic; esp., a\n   worker in wood; -- now chiefly used in compounds, as in millwright,\n   wheelwright, etc.'),('Wrightine','n.','A rare alkaloid found in the bark of an East Indian\n   apocynaceous tree (Wrightia antidysenterica), and extracted as a bitter\n   white crystalline substance. It was formerly used as a remedy for\n   diarrh/a. Called also conessine, and neriine.'),('Wrung','imp. & p. p.','of Wring'),('Wringed','','of Wring'),('Wringing','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Wring'),('Wring','v. t.','To twist and compress; to turn and strain with violence;\n   to writhe; to squeeze hard; to pinch; as, to wring clothes in washing.'),('Wring','v. t.','Hence, to pain; to distress; to torment; to torture.'),('Wring','v. t.','To distort; to pervert; to wrest.'),('Wring','v. t.','To extract or obtain by twisting and compressing; to\n   squeeze or press (out); hence, to extort; to draw forth by violence, or\n   against resistance or repugnance; -- usually with out or form.'),('Wring','v. t.','To subject to extortion; to afflict, or oppress, in order\n   to enforce compliance.'),('Wring','v. t.','To bend or strain out of its position; as, to wring a\n   mast.'),('Wring','v. i.','To writhe; to twist, as with anguish.'),('Wring','n.','A writhing, as in anguish; a twisting; a griping.'),('Wringbolt','n.','A bolt used by shipwrights, to bend and secure the\n   planks against the timbers till they are fastened by bolts, spikes, or\n   treenails; -- not to be confounded with ringbolt.'),('Wringer','n.','One who, or that which, wrings; hence, an extortioner.'),('Wringer','n.','A machine for pressing water out of anything, particularly\n   from clothes after they have been washed.'),('Wringing','','a. & n. from Wring, v.'),('Wringstaves','pl. ','of Wringstaff'),('Wringstaff','n.','A strong piece of plank used in applying wringbolts.'),('Wrinkle','n.','A winkle.'),('Wrinkle','n.','A small ridge, prominence, or furrow formed by the\n   shrinking or contraction of any smooth substance; a corrugation; a\n   crease; a slight fold; as, wrinkle in the skin; a wrinkle in cloth.'),('Wrinkle','n.','hence, any roughness; unevenness.'),('Wrinkle','n.','A notion or fancy; a whim; as, to have a new wrinkle.'),('Wrinkled','imp. & p. p.','of Wrinkle'),('Wrinkling','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Wrinkle'),('Wrinkle','v. t.','To contract into furrows and prominences; to make a\n   wrinkle or wrinkles in; to corrugate; as, wrinkle the skin or the brow.'),('Wrinkle','v. t.','Hence, to make rough or uneven in any way.'),('Wrinkle','v. i.','To shrink into furrows and ridges.'),('Wrinkly','a.','Full of wrinkles; having a tendency to be wrinkled;\n   corrugated; puckered.'),('Wrist','n.','The joint, or the region of the joint, between the hand and\n   the arm; the carpus. See Carpus.'),('Wrist','n.','A stud or pin which forms a journal; -- also called wrist\n   pin.'),('Wristband','n.','The band of the sleeve of a shirt, or other garment,\n   which covers the wrist.'),('Wrister','n.','A covering for the wrist.'),('Wristlet','n.','An elastic band worn around the wrist, as for the purpose\n   of securing the upper part of a glove.'),('Writ','obs.','3d pers. sing. pres. of Write, for writeth.'),('Writ','','imp. & p. p. of Write.'),('Writ','n.','That which is written; writing; scripture; -- applied\n   especially to the Scriptures, or the books of the Old and New\n   testaments; as, sacred writ.'),('Writ','n.','An instrument in writing, under seal, in an epistolary form,\n   issued from the proper authority, commanding the performance or\n   nonperformance of some act by the person to whom it is directed; as, a\n   writ of entry, of error, of execution, of injunction, of mandamus, of\n   return, of summons, and the like.'),('Writability','n.','Ability or capacity to write.'),('Writable','a.','Capable of, or suitable for, being written down.'),('Writative','a.','Inclined to much writing; -- correlative to talkative.'),('Wrote','imp.','of Write'),('Written','p. p.','of Write'),('Writ','Archaic imp. & p. p.','of Write'),('Writing','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Write'),('Write','v. t.','To set down, as legible characters; to form the\n   conveyance of meaning; to inscribe on any material by a suitable\n   instrument; as, to write the characters called letters; to write\n   figures.'),('Write','v. t.','To set down for reading; to express in legible or\n   intelligible characters; to inscribe; as, to write a deed; to write a\n   bill of divorcement; hence, specifically, to set down in an epistle; to\n   communicate by letter.'),('Write','v. t.','Hence, to compose or produce, as an author.'),('Write','v. t.','To impress durably; to imprint; to engrave; as, truth\n   written on the heart.'),('Write','v. t.','To make known by writing; to record; to prove by one\'s\n   own written testimony; -- often used reflexively.'),('Write','v. i.','To form characters, letters, or figures, as\n   representative of sounds or ideas; to express words and sentences by\n   written signs.'),('Write','v. i.','To be regularly employed or occupied in writing, copying,\n   or accounting; to act as clerk or amanuensis; as, he writes in one of\n   the public offices.'),('Write','v. i.','To frame or combine ideas, and express them in written\n   words; to play the author; to recite or relate in books; to compose.'),('Write','v. i.','To compose or send letters.'),('Writer','n.','One who writes, or has written; a scribe; a clerk.'),('Writer','n.','One who is engaged in literary composition as a profession;\n   an author; as, a writer of novels.'),('Writer','n.','A clerk of a certain rank in the service of the late East\n   India Company, who, after serving a certain number of years, became a\n   factor.'),('Writership','n.','The office of a writer.'),('Writhed','imp.','of Writhe'),('Writhed','p. p.','of Writhe'),('Writhen','','of Writhe'),('Writhing','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Writhe'),('Writhe','v. t.','To twist; to turn; now, usually, to twist or turn so as\n   to distort; to wring.'),('Writhe','v. t.','To wrest; to distort; to pervert.'),('Writhe','v. t.','To extort; to wring; to wrest.'),('Writhe','v. i.','To twist or contort the body; to be distorted; as, to\n   writhe with agony. Also used figuratively.'),('Writhen','a.','Having a twisted distorted from.'),('Writhle','v. t.','To wrinkle.'),('Writing','n.','The act or art of forming letters and characters on paper,\n   wood, stone, or other material, for the purpose of recording the ideas\n   which characters and words express, or of communicating them to others\n   by visible signs.'),('Writing','n.','Anything written or printed; anything expressed in\n   characters or letters'),('Writing','n.','Any legal instrument, as a deed, a receipt, a bond, an\n   agreement, or the like.'),('Writing','n.','Any written composition; a pamphlet; a work; a literary\n   production; a book; as, the writings of Addison.'),('Writing','n.','An inscription.'),('Writing','n.','Handwriting; chirography.'),('Written','','p. p. of Write, v.'),('Wrizzle','v. t.','To wrinkle.'),('Wroken','','p. p. of Wreak.'),('Wrong','','imp. of Wring. Wrung.'),('Wrong','a.','Twisted; wry; as, a wrong nose.'),('Wrong','a.','Not according to the laws of good morals, whether divine or\n   human; not suitable to the highest and best end; not morally right;\n   deviating from rectitude or duty; not just or equitable; not true; not\n   legal; as, a wrong practice; wrong ideas; wrong inclinations and\n   desires.'),('Wrong','a.','Not fit or suitable to an end or object; not appropriate for\n   an intended use; not according to rule; unsuitable; improper;\n   incorrect; as, to hold a book with the wrong end uppermost; to take the\n   wrong way.'),('Wrong','a.','Not according to truth; not conforming to fact or intent;\n   not right; mistaken; erroneous; as, a wrong statement.'),('Wrong','a.','Designed to be worn or placed inward; as, the wrong side of\n   a garment or of a piece of cloth.'),('Wrong','adv.','In a wrong manner; not rightly; amiss; morally ill;\n   erroneously; wrongly.'),('Wrong','a.','That which is not right.'),('Wrong','a.','Nonconformity or disobedience to lawful authority, divine or\n   human; deviation from duty; -- the opposite of moral right.'),('Wrong','a.','Deviation or departure from truth or fact; state of falsity;\n   error; as, to be in the wrong.'),('Wrong','a.','Whatever deviates from moral rectitude; usually, an act that\n   involves evil consequences, as one which inflicts injury on a person;\n   any injury done to, or received from; another; a trespass; a violation\n   of right.'),('Wronged','imp. & p. p.','of Wrong'),('Wronging','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Wrong'),('Wrong','v. t.','To treat with injustice; to deprive of some right, or to\n   withhold some act of justice from; to do undeserved harm to; to deal\n   unjustly with; to injure.'),('Wrong','v. t.','To impute evil to unjustly; as, if you suppose me capable\n   of a base act, you wrong me.'),('Wrongdoer','n.','One who injures another, or who does wrong.'),('Wrongdoer','n.','One who commits a tort or trespass; a trespasser; a tort\n   feasor.'),('Wrongdoing','n.','Evil or wicked behavior or action.'),('Wronger','n.','One who wrongs or injures another.'),('Wrongful','a.','Full of wrong; injurious; unjust; unfair; as, a wrongful\n   taking of property; wrongful dealing.'),('Wronghead','n.','A person of a perverse understanding or obstinate\n   character.'),('Wronghead','a.','Wrongheaded.'),('Wrongheaded','a.','Wrong in opinion or principle; having a perverse\n   understanding; perverse.'),('Wrongless','a.','Not wrong; void or free from wrong.'),('Wrongly','adv.','In a wrong manner; unjustly; erroneously; wrong; amiss;\n   as, he judges wrongly of my motives.'),('Wrongness','n.','The quality or state of being wrong; wrongfulness;\n   error; fault.'),('Wrongous','a.','Constituting, or of the nature of, a wrong; unjust;\n   wrongful.'),('Wrongous','a.','Not right; illegal; as, wrongous imprisonment.'),('Wrong-timed','a.','Done at an improper time; ill-timed.'),('Wroot','','imp. of Write. Wrote.'),('Wrote','v. i.','To root with the snout. See 1st Root.'),('Wrote','','imp. & archaic p. p. of Write.'),('Wroth','a.','Full of wrath; angry; incensed; much exasperated; wrathful.'),('Wrought','','imp. & p. p. of Work.'),('Wrought','a.','Worked; elaborated; not rough or crude.'),('Wrung','','imp. & p. p. of Wring.'),('Wry','v. t.','To cover.'),('Wry','superl.','Turned to one side; twisted; distorted; as, a wry mouth.'),('Wry','superl.','Hence, deviating from the right direction; misdirected;\n   out of place; as, wry words.'),('Wry','superl.','Wrested; perverted.'),('Wry','v. i.','To twist; to writhe; to bend or wind.'),('Wry','v. i.','To deviate from the right way; to go away or astray; to\n   turn side; to swerve.'),('Wried','imp. & p. p.','of Wry'),('Wrying','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Wry'),('Wry','a.','To twist; to distort; to writhe; to wrest; to vex.'),('Wrybill','n.','See Crookbill.'),('Wrymouth','n.','Any one of several species of large, elongated, marine\n   fishes of the genus Cryptacanthodes, especially C. maculatus of the\n   American coast. A whitish variety is called ghostfish.'),('Wryneck','n.','A twisted or distorted neck; a deformity in which the neck\n   is drawn to one side by a rigid contraction of one of the muscles of\n   the neck; torticollis.'),('Wryneck','n.','Any one of several species of Old World birds of the genus\n   Jynx, allied to the woodpeckers; especially, the common European\n   species (J. torguilla); -- so called from its habit of turning the neck\n   around in different directions. Called also cuckoo\'s mate, snakebird,\n   summer bird, tonguebird, and writheneck.'),('Wrynecked','a.','Having a distorted neck; having the deformity called\n   wryneck.'),('Wryness','n.','The quality or state of being wry, or distorted.'),('Wrythen','p. p.','Writhen.'),('Wulfenite','n.','Native lead molybdate occurring in tetragonal crystals,\n   usually tabular, and of a bright orange-yellow to red, gray, or brown\n   color; -- also called yellow lead ore.'),('Wull','v. t. & i.','See 2d Will.'),('Wung-out','a.','Having the sails set in the manner called wing-and-wing.'),('Wurbagool','n.','A fruit bat (Pteropus medius) native of India. It is\n   similar to the flying fox, but smaller.'),('Wurmal','n.','See Wormil.'),('Wurraluh','n.','The Australian white-quilled honey eater (Entomyza\n   albipennis).'),('Wust','','Alt. of Wuste'),('Wuste','','imp. of Wit.'),('Wyandots','n. pl.','Same as Hurons.'),('Wych-elm','n.','A species of elm (Ulmus montana) found in Northern and\n   Western Europe; Scotch elm.'),('Wych-hazel','n.','The wych-elm; -- so called because its leaves are like\n   those of the hazel.'),('Wyclifite','n.','Alt. of Wycliffite'),('Wycliffite','n.','A follower of Wyclif, the English reformer; a Lollard.'),('Wyd','a.','Wide.'),('Wyes','pl. ','of Wye'),('Wye','n.','The letter Y.'),('Wye','n.','A kind of crotch. See Y, n. (a).'),('Wyke','n.','Week.'),('Wyla','n.','A helmeted Australian cockatoo (Calyptorhynchus funereus); --\n   called also funeral cockatoo.'),('Wynd','n.','A narrow lane or alley.'),('Wynkernel','n.','The European moor hen.'),('Wynn','n.','A kind of timber truck, or carriage.'),('Wype','n.','The wipe, or lapwing.'),('Wythe','n.','Same as Withe, n., 4.'),('Wys','a.','Wise.'),('Wyte','','Alt. of Wyten'),('Wyten','','pl. pres. of Wit.'),('Wyvern','n.','Same as Wiver.\n   X () X, the twenty-fourth letter of the English alphabet, has three\n   sounds; a compound nonvocal sound (that of ks), as in wax; a compound\n   vocal sound (that of gz), as in example; and, at the beginning of a\n   word, a simple vocal sound (that of z), as in xanthic. See Guide to\n   Pronunciation, // 217, 270, 271.'),('Xanthamide','n.','An amido derivative of xanthic acid obtained as a white\n   crystalline substance, C2H5O.CS.NH2; -- called also xanthogen amide.'),('Xanthate','n.','A salt of xanthic; a xanthogenate.'),('Xanthelasma','n.','See Xanthoma.'),('Xanthian','a.','Of or pertaining to Xanthus, an ancient town on Asia\n   Minor; -- applied especially to certain marbles found near that place,\n   and now in the British Museum.'),('Xanthic','a.','Tending toward a yellow color, or to one of those colors,\n   green being excepted, in which yellow is a constituent, as scarlet,\n   orange, etc.'),('Xanthic','a.','Possessing, imparting, or producing a yellow color; as,\n   xanthic acid.'),('Xanthic','a.','Of or pertaining to xanthic acid, or its compounds;\n   xanthogenic.'),('Xanthic','a.','Of or pertaining to xanthin.'),('Xanthide','n.','A compound or derivative of xanthogen.'),('Xanthidia','pl. ','of Xanthidium'),('Xanthidium','n.','A genus of minute unicellular algae of the desmids.\n   These algae have a rounded shape and are armed with glochidiate or\n   branched aculei. Several species occur in ditches, and others are found\n   fossil in flint or hornstone.'),('Xanthin','n.','A crystalline nitrogenous body closely related to both\n   uric acid and hypoxanthin, present in muscle tissue, and occasionally\n   found in the urine and in some urinary calculi. It is also present in\n   guano. So called from the yellow color of certain of its salts\n   (nitrates).'),('Xanthin','n.','A yellow insoluble coloring matter extracted from yellow\n   flowers; specifically, the coloring matter of madder.'),('Xanthin','n.','One of the gaseous or volatile decomposition products of\n   the xanthates, and probably identical with carbon disulphide.'),('Xanthinine','n.','A complex nitrogenous substance related to urea and\n   uric acid, produced as a white powder; -- so called because it forms\n   yellow salts, and because its solution forms a blue fluorescence like\n   quinine.'),('Xanthium','n.','A genus of composite plants in which the scales of the\n   involucre are united so as to form a kind of bur; cocklebur; clotbur.'),('Xantho-','','A combining form from Gr. xanqo`s yellow; as in\n   xanthocobaltic salts. Used also adjectively in chemistry.'),('Xanthocarpous','a.','Having yellow fruit.'),('Xanthochroi','n. pl.','A division of the Caucasian races, comprising the\n   lighter-colored members.'),('Xanthochroic','a.','Having a yellowish or fair complexion; of or\n   pertaining to the Xanthochroi.'),('Xanthodontous','a.','Having yellow teeth.'),('Xanthogen','n.','The hypothetical radical supposed to be characteristic\n   of xanthic acid.'),('Xanthogen','n.','Persulphocyanogen.'),('Xanthogenate','n.','A salt of xanthic acid.'),('Xanthogenic','a.','Producing a yellow color or compound; xanthic. See\n   Xanthic acid, under Xanthic.'),('Xanthoma','n.','A skin disease marked by the development or irregular\n   yellowish patches upon the skin, especially upon the eyelids; -- called\n   also xanthelasma.'),('Xanthophane','n.','The yellow pigment present in the inner segments of\n   the retina in animals. See Chromophane.'),('Xanthophyll','n.','A yellow coloring matter found in yellow autumn\n   leaves, and also produced artificially from chlorophyll; -- formerly\n   called also phylloxanthin.'),('Xanthopous','a.','Having a yellow stipe, or stem.'),('Xanthoproteic','a.','Pertaining to, or derived from, xanthoprotein;\n   showing the characters of xanthoprotein; as, xanthoproteic acid; the\n   xanthoproteic reaction for albumin.'),('Xanthoprotein','n.','A yellow acid substance formed by the action of hot\n   nitric acid on albuminous or proteid matter. It is changed to a deep\n   orange-yellow color by the addition of ammonia.'),('Xanthopuccine','n.','One of three alkaloids found in the root of the\n   yellow puccoon (Hydrastis Canadensis). It is a yellow crystalline\n   substance, and resembles berberine.'),('Xanthorhamnin','n.','A glucoside extracted from Persian berries as a\n   yellow crystalline powder, used as a dyestuff.'),('Xanthorhiza','n.','A genus of shrubby ranunculaceous plants of North\n   America, including only the species Xanthorhiza apiifolia, which has\n   roots of a deep yellow color; yellowroot. The bark is intensely bitter,\n   and is sometimes used as a tonic.'),('Xanthorhoea','n.','A genus of endogenous plants, native to Australia,\n   having a thick, sometimes arborescent, stem, and long grasslike leaves.\n   See Grass tree.'),('Xanthose','n.','An orange-yellow substance found in pigment spots of\n   certain crabs.'),('Xanthosis','n.','The yellow discoloration often observed in cancerous\n   tumors.'),('Xanthospermous','a.','Having yellow seeds.'),('Xanthous','a.','Yellow; specifically (Ethnol.), of or pertaining to those\n   races of man which have yellowish, red, auburn, or brown hair.'),('Xanthoxylene','n.','A liquid hydrocarbon of the terpene series extracted\n   from the seeds of a Japanese prickly ash (Xanthoxylum pipertium) as an\n   aromatic oil.'),('Xanthoxylum','n.','A genus of prickly shrubs or small trees, the bark and\n   rots of which are of a deep yellow color; prickly ash.'),('Xebec','n.','A small three-masted vessel, with projecting bow stern and\n   convex decks, used in the Mediterranean for transporting merchandise,\n   etc. It carries large square sails, or both. Xebecs were formerly armed\n   and used by corsairs.'),('Xeme','n.','An Arctic fork-tailed gull (Xema Sabinii).'),('Xenelasia','n.','A Spartan institution which prohibited strangers from\n   residing in Sparta without permission, its object probably being to\n   preserve the national simplicity of manners.'),('Xenia','pl. ','of Xenium'),('Xenium','n.','A present given to a guest or stranger, or to a foreign\n   ambassador.'),('Xenodochium','n.','A house for the reception of strangers.'),('Xenodochium','n.','In the Middle Ages, a room in a monastery for the\n   reception and entertainment of strangers and pilgrims, and for the\n   relief of paupers. [Called also Xenodocheion.]'),('Xenodochy','n.','Reception of strangers; hospitality.'),('Xenogamy','n.','Cross fertilization.'),('Xenogenesis','n.','Same as Heterogenesis.'),('Xenogenesis','n.','The fancied production of an organism of one kind by\n   an organism of another.'),('Xenogenetic','a.','Of or pertaining to xenogenesis; as, the xenogenetic\n   origin of microzymes.'),('Xenomania','n.','A mania for, or an inordinate attachment to, foreign\n   customs, institutions, manners, fashions, etc.'),('Xenomi','n. pl.','A suborder of soft-rayed fresh-water fishes of which\n   the blackfish of Alaska (Dallia pectoralis) is the type.'),('Xenopterygii','n. pl.','A suborder of fishes including Gobiesox and\n   allied genera. These fishes have soft-rayed fins, and a ventral sucker\n   supported in front by the pectoral fins. They are destitute of scales.'),('Xenotime','n.','A native phosphate of yttrium occurring in\n   yellowish-brown tetragonal crystals.'),('Xenurine','n.','A cabassou.'),('Xenyl','n.','The radical characteristic of xenylic compounds.'),('Xenylic','a.','Pertaining to, derived from, designating, certain amido\n   compounds obtained by reducing certain nitro derivatives of diphenyl.'),('Xeraphim','n.','An old money of account in Bombay, equal to three fifths\n   of a rupee.'),('Xeres','n.','Sherry. See Sherry.'),('Xerif','n.','A shereef.'),('Xeriff','n.','A gold coin formerly current in Egypt and Turkey, of the\n   value of about 9s. 6d., or about $2.30; -- also, in Morocco, a ducat.'),('Xeroderma','n.','Ichthyosis.'),('Xeroderma','n.','A skin disease characterized by the presence of numerous\n   small pigmented spots resembling freckles, with which are subsequently\n   mingled spots of atrophied skin.'),('Xeronate','n.','A salt of xeronic acid.'),('Xeronic','a.','Pertaining to, or designating, an acid, C8H12O4, related\n   to fumaric acid, and obtained from citraconic acid as an oily substance\n   having a bittersweet taste; -- so called from its tendency to form its\n   anhydride.'),('Xerophagy','n.','Among the primitive Christians, the living on a diet of\n   dry food in Lent and on other fasts.'),('Xerophilous','a.','Drought-loving; able withstand the absence or lack of\n   moisture.'),('Xerophthalmia','n.','An abnormal dryness of the eyeball produced usually\n   by long-continued inflammation and subsequent atrophy of the\n   conjunctiva.'),('Xerophthalmy','n.','Xerophthalmia.'),('Xiphias','n.','A genus of fishes comprising the common swordfish.'),('Xiphias','n.','The constellation Dorado.'),('Xiphias','n.','A comet shaped like a sword'),('Xiphidium','n.','A genus of plants of the order Haemodraceae, having\n   two-ranked, sword-shaped leaves.'),('Xiphioid','a.','Of, pertaining to, or resembling, a cetacean of the genus\n   Xiphius or family Xiphiidae.'),('Xiphiplastra','pl. ','of Xiphiplastron'),('Xiphiplastron','n.','The posterior, or fourth, lateral plate in the\n   plastron of turtles; -- called also xiphisternum.'),('Xiphisterna','pl. ','of Xiphisternum'),('Xiphisternum','n.','The posterior segment, or extremity, of the sternum;\n   -- sometimes called metasternum, ensiform cartilage, ensiform process,\n   or xiphoid process.'),('Xiphisternum','n.','The xiphiplastron.'),('Xiphius','n.','A genus of cetaceans having a long, pointed, bony beak,\n   usually two tusklike teeth in the lower jaw, but no teeth in the upper\n   jaw.'),('Xiphodon','n.','An extinct genus of artiodactylous mammals found in the\n   European Tertiary formations. It had slender legs, didactylous feet,\n   and small canine teeth.'),('Xiphoid','a.','Like a sword; ensiform.'),('Xiphoid','a.','Of or pertaining to the xiphoid process; xiphoidian.'),('Xiphoidian','a.','Xiphoid.'),('Xiphophyllous','a.','Having sword-shaped leaves.'),('Xiphosura','n. pl.','See Xiphura.'),('Xiphura','n. pl.','Same as Limuloidea. Called also Xiphosura.'),('Xylamide','n.','An acid amide derivative of xylic acid, obtained as a\n   white crystalline substance.'),('Xylanthrax','n.','Wood coal, or charcoal; -- so called in distinction\n   from mineral coal.'),('Xylate','n.','A salt of xylic acid.'),('Xylem','n.','That portion of a fibrovascular bundle which has developed,\n   or will develop, into wood cells; -- distinguished from phloem.'),('Xylene','n.','Any of a group of three metameric hydrocarbons of the\n   aromatic series, found in coal and wood tar, and so named because found\n   in crude wood spirit. They are colorless, oily, inflammable liquids,\n   C6H4.(CH3)2, being dimethyl benzenes, and are called respectively\n   orthoxylene, metaxylene, and paraxylene. Called also xylol.'),('Xylenol','n.','Any one of six metameric phenol derivatives of xylene,\n   obtained as crystalline substances, (CH3)2.C6H3.OH.'),('Xyletic','a.','Pertaining to, or designating, a complex acid related to\n   mesitylenic acid, obtained as a white crystalline substance by the\n   action of sodium and carbon dioxide on crude xylenol.'),('Xylic','a.','Pertaining to, derived from, or related to, xylene;\n   specifically, designating any one of several metameric acids produced\n   by the partial oxidation of mesitylene and pseudo-cumene.'),('Xylidic','a.','Pertaining to, or designating, either one of two distinct\n   acids which are derived from xylic acid and related compounds, and are\n   metameric with uvitic acid.'),('Xylidine','n.','Any one of six metameric hydrocarbons, (CH3)2.C6H3.NH2,\n   resembling aniline, and related to xylene. They are liquids, or easily\n   fusible crystalline substances, of which three are derived from\n   metaxylene, two from orthoxylene, and one from paraxylene. They are\n   called the amido xylenes.'),('Xylindein','n.','A green or blue pigment produced by Peziza in certain\n   kinds of decayed wood, as the beech, oak, birch, etc., and extracted as\n   an amorphous powder resembling indigo.'),('Xylite','n.','A liquid hydrocarbon found in crude wood spirits.'),('Xylitone','n.','A yellow oil having a geraniumlike odor, produced as a\n   side product in making phorone; -- called also xylite oil.'),('Xylo-','','A combining form from Gr. xy`lon wood; as in xylogen,\n   xylograph.'),('Xylobalsamum','n.','The dried twigs of a Syrian tree (Balsamodendron\n   Gileadense).'),('Xylocarpous','a.','Bearing fruit which becomes hard or woody.'),('Xylocopa','n.','A genus of hymenopterous insects including the carpenter.\n   See Carpenter bee, under Carpenter.'),('Xylogen','n.','Nascent wood; wood cells in a forming state.'),('Xylogen','n.','Lignin.'),('Xylograph','n.','An engraving on wood, or the impression from such an\n   engraving; a print by xylography.'),('Xylographer','n.','One who practices xylography.'),('Xylographic','a.','Alt. of Xylographical'),('Xylographical','a.','Of or pertaining to xylography, or wood engraving.'),('Xylography','n.','The art of engraving on wood.'),('Xylography','n.','The art of making prints from the natural grain of\n   wood.'),('Xylography','n.','A method pf printing in colors upon wood for purposes\n   of house decoration.'),('Xyloid','a.','Resembling wood; having the nature of wood.'),('Xyloidin','n.','A substance resembling pyroxylin, obtained by the action\n   of nitric acid on starch; -- called also nitramidin.'),('Xylol','n.','Same as Xylene.'),('Xylonite','n.','See Zylonite.'),('Xylophaga','n.','A genus of marine bivalves which bore holes in wood.\n   They are allied to Pholas.'),('Xylophagan','n.','One of a tribe of beetles whose larvae bore or live in\n   wood.'),('Xylophagan','n.','Any species of Xylophaga.'),('Xylophagan','n.','Any one of the Xylophagides.'),('Xylophagides','n. pl.','A tribe or family of dipterous flies whose larvae\n   live in decayed wood. Some of the tropical species are very large.'),('Xylophagous','a.','Eating, boring in, or destroying, wood; -- said\n   especially of certain insect larvae, crustaceans, and mollusks.'),('Xylophagous','a.','Of or pertaining to the genus Xylophaga.'),('Xylophilan','n.','One of a tribe of beetles (Xylophili) whose larvae live\n   on decayed wood.'),('Xylophilous','a.','Of or pertaining to the xylophilans.'),('Xylophone','n.','An instrument common among the Russians, Poles, and\n   Tartars, consisting of a series of strips of wood or glass graduated in\n   length to the musical scale, resting on belts of straw, and struck with\n   two small hammers. Called in Germany strohfiedel, or straw fiddle.'),('Xylophone','n.','An instrument to determine the vibrative properties of\n   different kinds of wood.'),('Xyloplastic','a.','Formed of wood pulp by molds; relating to casts made\n   of wood pulp in molds.'),('Xylopyrography','n.','The art or practice of burning pictures on wood\n   with a hot iron; -- called also poker painting. See Poker picture,\n   under Poker.'),('Xyloquinone','n.','Any one of a group of quinone compounds obtained\n   respectively by the oxidation of certain xylidine compounds. In general\n   they are yellow crystalline substances.'),('Xylorcin','n.','A derivative of xylene obtained as a white crystalline\n   substance which on exposure in the air becomes red; -- called also\n   betaorcin.'),('Xylostein','n.','A glucoside found in the poisonous berries of a species\n   of honeysuckle (Lonicera xylosteum), and extracted as a bitter, white,\n   crystalline substance.'),('Xylotile','n.','Same as Parkesine.'),('Xylotrya','n.','A genus of marine bivalves closely allied to Teredo, and\n   equally destructive to timber. One species (Xylotrya fimbriata) is very\n   common on the Atlantic coast of the United States.'),('Xylyl','n.','Any one of three metameric radicals which are characteristic\n   respectively of the three xylenes.'),('Xylylene','n.','Any one of three metameric radicals, CH2.C6H4.CH2,\n   derived respectively from the three xylenes. Often used adjectively;\n   as, xylylene alcohol.'),('Xyridaceous','a.','Of or pertaining to a natural order (Xyrideae) of\n   endogenous plants, of which Xyris is the type.'),('Xyris','n.','A genus of endogenous herbs with grassy leaves and small\n   yellow flowers in short, scaly-bracted spikes; yellow-eyed grass. There\n   are about seventeen species in the Atlantic United States.'),('Xyst','n.','Alt. of Xystus'),('Xystus','n.','A long and open portico, for athletic exercises, as\n   wrestling, running, etc., for use in winter or in stormy weather.'),('Xystarch','n.','An office/ having the superintendence of the xyst.'),('Xyster','n.','An instrument for scraping bones.\n   Y () Y, the twenty-fifth letter of the English alphabet, at the\n   beginning of a word or syllable, except when a prefix (see Y-), is\n   usually a fricative vocal consonant; as a prefix, and usually in the\n   middle or at the end of a syllable, it is a vowel. See Guide to\n   Pronunciation, // 145, 178-9, 272.'),('Y\'s','pl. ','of Y'),('Ys','pl. ','of Y'),('Y','n.','Something shaped like the letter Y; a forked piece resembling in\n   form the letter Y.'),('Y','n.','One of the forked holders for supporting the telescope of a\n   leveling instrument, or the axis of a theodolite; a wye.'),('Y','n.','A forked or bifurcated pipe fitting.'),('Y','n.','A portion of track consisting of two diverging tracks connected\n   by a cross track.'),('Y','pron.','I.'),('Y-','','Alt. of I-'),('Y-','','A prefix of obscure meaning, originally used with verbs, adverbs,\n   adjectives, nouns, and pronouns. In the Middle English period, it was\n   little employed except with verbs, being chiefly used with past\n   participles, though occasionally with the infinitive Ycleped, or\n   yclept, is perhaps the only word not entirely obsolete which shows this\n   use.'),('Ya','adv.','Yea.'),('Yacare','n.','A South American crocodilian (Jacare sclerops) resembling\n   the alligator in size and habits. The eye orbits are connected\n   together, and surrounded by prominent bony ridges. Called also\n   spectacled alligator, and spectacled cayman.'),('Yacca','n.','A West Indian name for two large timber trees (Podocarpus\n   coriaceus, and P. Purdicanus) of the Yew family. The wood, which is\n   much used, is pale brownish with darker streaks.'),('Yacht','n.','A light and elegantly furnished vessel, used either for\n   private parties of pleasure, or as a vessel of state to convey\n   distinguished persons from one place to another; a seagoing vessel used\n   only for pleasure trips, racing, etc.'),('Yacht','v. i.','To manage a yacht; to voyage in a yacht.'),('Yachter','n.','One engaged in sailing a jacht.'),('Yachting','n.','Sailing for pleasure in a yacht.'),('Yachtman','n.','See Yachtsman.'),('Yachtsmen','pl. ','of Yachtsman'),('Yachtsman','n.','One who owns or sails a yacht; a yachter.'),('Yaf','imp.','Gave. See Give.'),('Yaffingale','n.','The yaffle.'),('Yaffle','n.','The European green woodpecker (Picus, / Genius, viridis).\n   It is noted for its loud laughlike note. Called also eccle, hewhole,\n   highhoe, laughing bird, popinjay, rain bird, yaffil, yaffler,\n   yaffingale, yappingale, yackel, and woodhack.'),('Yager','n.','In the German army, one belonging to a body of light\n   infantry armed with rifles, resembling the chasseur of the French army.'),('Yaguarundi','n.','Same as Jaguarondi.'),('Yajur-Veda','n.','See Veda.'),('Yak','n.','A bovine mammal (Poephagus grunnies) native of the high plains\n   of Central Asia. Its neck, the outer side of its legs, and its flanks,\n   are covered with long, flowing, fine hair. Its tail is long and bushy,\n   often white, and is valued as an ornament and for other purposes in\n   India and China. There are several domesticated varieties, some of\n   which lack the mane and the long hair on the flanks. Called also chauri\n   gua, grunting cow, grunting ox, sarlac, sarlik, and sarluc.'),('Yakamilk','n.','See Trumpeter, 3 (a).'),('Yakare','n.','Same as Yacare.'),('Yakin','n.','A large Asiatic antelope (Budorcas taxicolor) native of the\n   higher parts of the Himalayas and other lofty mountains. Its head and\n   neck resemble those of the ox, and its tail is like that of the goat.\n   Called also budorcas.'),('Yakoots','n. pl.','(Ethnol.) A nomadic Mongolian tribe native of Northern\n   Siberia, and supposed to be of Turkish stock. They are mainly pastoral\n   in their habits.'),('Yaksha','n.','A kind of demigod attendant on Kuvera, the god of wealth.'),('Yalah','n.','The oil of the mahwa tree.'),('Yam','n.','A large, esculent, farinaceous tuber of various climbing\n   plants of the genus Dioscorea; also, the plants themselves. Mostly\n   natives of warm climates. The plants have netted-veined, petioled\n   leaves, and pods with three broad wings. The commonest species is D.\n   sativa, but several others are cultivated.'),('Yama','n.','The king of the infernal regions, corresponding to the Greek\n   Pluto, and also the judge of departed souls. In later times he is more\n   exclusively considered the dire judge of all, and the tormentor of the\n   wicked. He is represented as of a green color, with red garments,\n   having a crown on his head, his eyes inflamed, and sitting on a\n   buffalo, with a club and noose in his hands.'),('Yamma','n.','The llama.'),('Yamp','n.','An umbelliferous plant (Carum Gairdneri); also, its small\n   fleshy roots, which are eaten by the Indians from Idaho to California.'),('Yang','n.','The cry of the wild goose; a honk.'),('Yang','v. i.','To make the cry of the wild goose.'),('Yank','n.','A jerk or twitch.'),('Yanked','imp. & p. p.','of Yank'),('Yanking','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Yank'),('Yank','v. t.','To twitch; to jerk.'),('Yank','n.','An abbreviation of Yankee.'),('Yankee','n.','A nickname for a native or citizen of New England,\n   especially one descended from old New England stock; by extension, an\n   inhabitant of the Northern States as distinguished from a Southerner;\n   also, applied sometimes by foreigners to any inhabitant of the United\n   States.'),('Yankee','a.','Of or pertaining to a Yankee; characteristic of the\n   Yankees.'),('Yankee-Doodle','n.','The name of a tune adopted popularly as one of the\n   national airs of the United States.'),('Yankee-Doodle','n.','Humorously, a Yankee.'),('Yankeeism','n.','A Yankee idiom, word, custom, or the like.'),('Yaourt','n.','A fermented drink, or milk beer, made by the Turks.'),('Yap','v. i.','To bark; to yelp.'),('Yap','n.','A bark; a yelp.'),('Yapock','n.','A South American aquatic opossum (Chironectes variegatus)\n   found in Guiana and Brazil. Its hind feet are webbed, and its fore feet\n   do not have an opposable thumb for climbing. Called also water opossum.'),('Yapon','n.','Same as Yaupon.'),('Yarage','a.','The power of moving, or being managed, at sea; -- said with\n   reference to a ship.'),('Yard','v. i.','A rod; a stick; a staff.'),('Yard','v. i.','A branch; a twig.'),('Yard','v. i.','A long piece of timber, as a rafter, etc.'),('Yard','v. i.','A measure of length, equaling three feet, or thirty-six\n   inches, being the standard of English and American measure.'),('Yard','v. i.','The penis.'),('Yard','v. i.','A long piece of timber, nearly cylindrical, tapering\n   toward the ends, and designed to support and extend a square sail. A\n   yard is usually hung by the center to the mast. See Illust. of Ship.'),('Yard','n.','An inclosure; usually, a small inclosed place in front of, or\n   around, a house or barn; as, a courtyard; a cowyard; a barnyard.'),('Yard','n.','An inclosure within which any work or business is carried on;\n   as, a dockyard; a shipyard.'),('Yard','v. t.','To confine (cattle) to the yard; to shut up, or keep, in a\n   yard; as, to yard cows.'),('Yardarm','n.','Either half of a square-rigged vessel\'s yard, from the\n   center or mast to the end.'),('Yardfuls','pl. ','of Yardful'),('Yardful','n.','As much as a yard will contain; enough to fill a yard.'),('Yardland','n.','A measure of land of uncertain quantity, varying from\n   fifteen to forty acres; a virgate.'),('Yardstick','n.','A stick three feet, or a yard, in length, used as a\n   measure of cloth, etc.'),('Yardwand','n.','A yardstick.'),('Yare','n.','Ready; dexterous; eager; lively; quick to move.'),('Yare','adv.','Soon.'),('Yarely','adv.','In a yare manner.'),('Yark','v. t. & i.','To yerk.'),('Yarke','n.','Same as Saki.'),('Yarn','n.','Spun wool; woolen thread; also, thread of other material, as\n   of cotton, flax, hemp, or silk; material spun and prepared for use in\n   weaving, knitting, manufacturing sewing thread, or the like.'),('Yarn','n.','One of the threads of which the strands of a rope are\n   composed.'),('Yarn','n.','A story told by a sailor for the amusement of his companions;\n   a story or tale; as, to spin a yarn.'),('Yarnen','a.','Made of yarn; consisting of yarn.'),('Yarnut','n.','See Yernut.'),('Yarr','v. i.','To growl or snarl as a dog.'),('Yarrish','a.','Having a rough, dry taste.'),('Yarrow','n.','An American and European composite plant (Achillea\n   Millefolium) with very finely dissected leaves and small white corymbed\n   flowers. It has a strong, and somewhat aromatic, odor and taste, and is\n   sometimes used in making beer, or is dried for smoking. Called also\n   milfoil, and nosebleed.'),('Yarwhip','n.','The European bar-tailed godwit; -- called also yardkeep,\n   and yarwhelp. See Godwit.'),('Yataghan','n.','A long knife, or short saber, common among Mohammedan\n   nations, usually having a double curve, sometimes nearly straight.'),('Yate','n.','A gate. See 1st Gate.'),('Yaud','n.','See Yawd.'),('Yaul','n.','See Yawl.'),('Yaulp','v. i.','To yaup.'),('Yaup','v. i.','To cry out like a child; to yelp.'),('Yaup','n.','A cry of distress, rage, or the like, as the cry of a sickly\n   bird, or of a child in pain.'),('Yaup','n.','The blue titmouse.'),('Yauper','n.','One who, or that which, yaups.'),('Yaupon','n.','A shrub (Ilex Cassine) of the Holly family, native from\n   Virginia to Florida. The smooth elliptical leaves are used as a\n   substitute for tea, and were formerly used in preparing the black drink\n   of the Indians of North Carolina. Called also South-Sea tea.'),('Yawed','imp. & p. p.','of Yaw'),('Yawing','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Yaw'),('Yaw','v. i.','To rise in blisters, breaking in white froth, as cane juice\n   in the clarifiers in sugar works.'),('Yaw','v. i. & t.','To steer wild, or out of the line of her course; to\n   deviate from her course, as when struck by a heavy sea; -- said of a\n   ship.'),('Yaw','n.','A movement of a vessel by which she temporarily alters her\n   course; a deviation from a straight course in steering.'),('Yawd','n.','A jade; an old horse or mare.'),('Yawl','n.','A small ship\'s boat, usually rowed by four or six oars.'),('Yawl','v. i.','To cry out like a dog or cat; to howl; to yell.'),('Yawl-rigged','a.','Having two masts with fore-and-aft sails, but\n   differing from a schooner in that the after mast is very small, and\n   stepped as far aft as possible. See Illustration in Appendix.'),('Yawned','imp. & p. p.','of Yawn'),('Yawning','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Yawn'),('Yawn','v. i.','To open the mouth involuntarily through drowsiness,\n   dullness, or fatigue; to gape; to oscitate.'),('Yawn','v. i.','To open wide; to gape, as if to allow the entrance or exit\n   of anything.'),('Yawn','v. i.','To open the mouth, or to gape, through surprise or\n   bewilderment.'),('Yawn','v. i.','To be eager; to desire to swallow anything; to express\n   desire by yawning; as, to yawn for fat livings.'),('Yawn','n.','An involuntary act, excited by drowsiness, etc., consisting\n   of a deep and long inspiration following several successive attempts at\n   inspiration, the mouth, fauces, etc., being wide open.'),('Yawn','n.','The act of opening wide, or of gaping.'),('Yawn','n.','A chasm, mouth, or passageway.'),('Yawningly','adv.','In a yawning manner.'),('Yawp','v. & n.','See Yaup.'),('Yaws','n.','A disease, occurring in the Antilles and in Africa,\n   characterized by yellowish or reddish tumors, of a contagious\n   character, which, in shape and appearance, often resemble currants,\n   strawberries, or raspberries. There are several varieties of this\n   disease, variously known as framboesia, pian, verrugas, and crab-yaws.'),('Yaw-weed','n.','A low, shrubby, rubiaceous plant (Morinda Royoc) growing\n   along the seacoast of the West Indies. It has small, white, odorous\n   flowers.'),('Ybe','p. p.','Been.'),('Ycleped','p. p.','Called; named; -- obsolete, except in archaic or\n   humorous writings.'),('Ydo','p. p.','Done.'),('Ydrad','p. p.','Dreaded.'),('Ye','','Alt. of Ye'),('Ye','','an old method of printing the article the (AS. /e), the \"y\" being\n   used in place of the Anglo-Saxon thorn (/). It is sometimes incorrectly\n   pronounced ye. See The, and Thorn, n., 4.'),('Yen','pl. ','of Ye'),('Ye','n.','An eye.'),('Ye','pron.','The plural of the pronoun of the second person in the\n   nominative case.'),('Ye','adv.','Yea; yes.'),('Yea','adv.','Yes; ay; a word expressing assent, or an affirmative, or an\n   affirmative answer to a question, now superseded by yes. See Yes.'),('Yea','adv.','More than this; not only so, but; -- used to mark the\n   addition of a more specific or more emphatic clause. Cf. Nay, adv., 2.'),('Yea','n.','An affirmative vote; one who votes in the affirmative; as, a\n   vote by yeas and nays.'),('Yead','v. i.','Properly, a variant of the defective imperfect yode, but\n   sometimes mistaken for a present. See the Note under Yede.'),('Yeaned','imp. & p. p.','of Yean'),('Yeaning','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Yean'),('Yean','v. t. & i.','To bring forth young, as a goat or a sheep; to ean.'),('Yeanling','n.','A lamb or a kid; an eanling.'),('Year','n.','The time of the apparent revolution of the sun trough the\n   ecliptic; the period occupied by the earth in making its revolution\n   around the sun, called the astronomical year; also, a period more or\n   less nearly agreeing with this, adopted by various nations as a measure\n   of time, and called the civil year; as, the common lunar year of 354\n   days, still in use among the Mohammedans; the year of 360 days, etc. In\n   common usage, the year consists of 365 days, and every fourth year\n   (called bissextile, or leap year) of 366 days, a day being added to\n   February on that year, on account of the excess above 365 days (see\n   Bissextile).'),('Year','n.','The time in which any planet completes a revolution about the\n   sun; as, the year of Jupiter or of Saturn.'),('Year','n.','Age, or old age; as, a man in years.'),('Yeara','n.','The California poison oak (Rhus diversiloba). See under\n   Poison, a.'),('Yearbook','n.','A book published yearly; any annual report or summary of\n   the statistics or facts of a year, designed to be used as a reference\n   book; as, the Congregational Yearbook.'),('Yearbook','n.','A book containing annual reports of cases adjudged in the\n   courts of England.'),('Yeared','a.','Containing years; having existed or continued many years;\n   aged.'),('Yearling','n.','An animal one year old, or in the second year of its age;\n   -- applied chiefly to cattle, sheep, and horses.'),('Yearling','a.','Being a year old.'),('Yearly','a.','Happening, accruing, or coming every year; annual; as, a\n   yearly income; a yearly feast.'),('Yearly','a.','Lasting a year; as, a yearly plant.'),('Yearly','a.','Accomplished in a year; as, the yearly circuit, or\n   revolution, of the earth.'),('Yearly','adv.','Annually; once a year to year; as, blessings yearly\n   bestowed.'),('Yearned','imp. & p. p.','of Yearn'),('Yearning','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Yearn'),('Yearn','v. t.','To pain; to grieve; to vex.'),('Yearn','v. i.','To be pained or distressed; to grieve; to mourn.'),('Yearn','v. i. & t.','To curdle, as milk.'),('Yearn','v. i.','To be filled with longing desire; to be harassed or\n   rendered uneasy with longing, or feeling the want of a thing; to strain\n   with emotions of affection or tenderness; to long; to be eager.'),('Yearnful','a.','Desirous.'),('Yearningly','adv.','With yearning.'),('Yearnings','n. pl.','The maws, or stomachs, of young calves, used as a\n   rennet for curdling milk.'),('Yearth','n.','The earth.'),('Yeast','n.','The foam, or troth (top yeast), or the sediment (bottom\n   yeast), of beer or other in fermentation, which contains the yeast\n   plant or its spores, and under certain conditions produces fermentation\n   in saccharine or farinaceous substances; a preparation used for raising\n   dough for bread or cakes, and making it light and puffy; barm; ferment.'),('Yeast','n.','Spume, or foam, of water.'),('Yeast','n.','A form of fungus which grows as indvidual rounded cells,\n   rather than in a mycelium, and reproduces by budding; esp. members of\n   the orders Endomycetales and Moniliales. Some fungi may grow both as a\n   yeast or as a mycelium, depending on the conditions of growth.'),('Yeast-bitten','a.','A term used of beer when the froth of the yeast has\n   reentered the body of the beer.'),('Yeastiness','n.','The quality or state of being yeasty, or frothy.'),('Yeasty','a.','Frothy; foamy; spumy, like yeast.'),('Yedding','n.','The song of a minstrel; hence, any song.'),('Yede','imp.','Went. See Yode.'),('Yeel','n.','An eel.'),('Yeldhall','n.','Guildhall.'),('Yeldrin','n.','Alt. of Yeldrine'),('Yeldrine','n.','The yellow-hammer; -- called also yeldrock, and yoldrin.'),('Yelk','n.','Same as Yolk.'),('Yelled','imp. & p. p.','of Yell'),('Yelling','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Yell'),('Yell','v. i.','To cry out, or shriek, with a hideous noise; to cry or\n   scream as with agony or horror.'),('Yell','v. t.','To utter or declare with a yell; to proclaim in a loud\n   tone.'),('Yell','n.','A sharp, loud, hideous outcry.'),('Yellow','superl.','Being of a bright saffronlike color; of the color of\n   gold or brass; having the hue of that part of the rainbow, or of the\n   solar spectrum, which is between the orange and the green.'),('Yellow','n.','A bright golden color, reflecting more light than any other\n   except white; the color of that part of the spectrum which is between\n   the orange and green.'),('Yellow','n.','A yellow pigment.'),('Yellowed','imp. & p. p.','of Yellow'),('Yellowing','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Yellow'),('Yellow','v. t.','To make yellow; to cause to have a yellow tinge or\n   color; to dye yellow.'),('Yellow','v. i.','To become yellow or yellower.'),('Yellowammer','n.','See Yellow-hammer.'),('Yellowbill','n.','The American scoter.'),('Yellowbird','n.','The American goldfinch, or thistle bird. See Goldfinch.'),('Yellowbird','n.','The common yellow warbler; -- called also summer\n   yellowbird. See Illust. of Yellow warbler, under Yellow, a.'),('Yellow-covered','a.','Covered or bound in yellow paper.'),('Yellow-eyed','a.','Having yellow eyes.'),('Yellowfin','n.','A large squeteague.'),('Yellowfish','n.','A rock trout (Pleurogrammus monopterygius) found on the\n   coast of Alaska; -- called also striped fish, and Atka mackerel.'),('Yellow-golds','n.','A certain plant, probably the yellow oxeye.'),('Yellowhammer','n.','A common European finch (Emberiza citrinella). The\n   color of the male is bright yellow on the breast, neck, and sides of\n   the head, with the back yellow and brown, and the top of the head and\n   the tail quills blackish. Called also yellow bunting, scribbling lark,\n   and writing lark.'),('Yellowhammer','n.','The flicker.'),('Yellowing','n.','The act or process of making yellow.'),('Yellowish','a.','Somewhat yellow; as, amber is of a yellowish color.'),('Yellowlegs','n.','Any one of several species of long-legged sandpipers of\n   the genus Totanus, in which the legs are bright yellow; -- called also\n   stone snipe, tattler, telltale, yellowshanks; and yellowshins. See\n   Tattler, 2.'),('Yellowness','n.','The quality or state of being yellow; as, the\n   yellowness of an orange.'),('Yellowness','n.','Jealousy.'),('Yellowroot','n.','Any one of several plants with yellow roots.'),('Yellowroot','n.','See Xanthorhiza.'),('Yellowroot','n.','Same as Orangeroot.'),('Yellows','n.','A disease of the bile in horses, cattle, and sheep,\n   causing yellowness of the eyes; jaundice.'),('Yellows','n.','A disease of plants, esp. of peach trees, in which the\n   leaves turn to a yellowish color; jeterus.'),('Yellows','n.','A group of butterflies in which the predominating color is\n   yellow. It includes the common small yellow butterflies. Called also\n   redhorns, and sulphurs. See Sulphur.'),('Yellowseed','n.','A kind of pepper grass (Lepidium campestre).'),('Yellowshanks','n.','Alt. of Yellowshins'),('Yellowshins','n.','See Yellolegs.'),('Yellowtail','n.','Any one of several species of marine carangoid fishes\n   of the genus Seriola; especially, the large California species (S.\n   dorsalis) which sometimes weighs thirty or forty pounds, and is highly\n   esteemed as a food fish; -- called also cavasina, and white salmon.'),('Yellowtail','n.','The mademoiselle, or silver perch.'),('Yellowtail','n.','The menhaden.'),('Yellowtail','n.','The runner, 12.'),('Yellowtail','n.','A California rockfish (Sebastodes flavidus).'),('Yellowtail','n.','The sailor\'s choice (Diplodus rhomboides).'),('Yellowthroat','n.','Any one of several species of American ground\n   warblers of the genus Geothlypis, esp. the Maryland yellowthroat (G.\n   trichas), which is a very common species.'),('Yellowtop','n.','A kind of grass, perhaps a species of Agrostis.'),('Yellowwood','n.','The wood of any one of several different kinds of\n   trees; also, any one of the trees themselves. Among the trees so called\n   are the Cladrastis tinctoria, an American leguminous tree; the several\n   species of prickly ash (Xanthoxylum); the Australian Flindersia\n   Oxleyana, a tree related to the mahogany; certain South African species\n   of Podocarpus, trees related to the yew; the East Indian Podocarpus\n   latifolia; and the true satinwood (Chloroxylon Swietenia). All these\n   Old World trees furnish valuable timber.'),('Yellowwort','n.','A European yellow-flowered, gentianaceous (Chlora\n   perfoliata). The whole plant is intensely bitter, and is sometimes used\n   as a tonic, and also in dyeing yellow.'),('Yelped','imp. & p. p.','of Yelp'),('Yelping','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Yelp'),('Yelp','v. i.','To boast.'),('Yelp','v. i.','To utter a sharp, quick cry, as a hound; to bark shrilly\n   with eagerness, pain, or fear; to yaup.'),('Yelp','n.','A sharp, quick cry; a bark.'),('Yelper','n.','An animal that yelps, or makes a yelping noise.'),('Yelper','n.','The avocet; -- so called from its sharp, shrill cry.'),('Yelper','n.','The tattler.'),('Yeman','n.','A yeoman.'),('Yen','n.','The unit of value and account in Japan. Since Japan\'s adoption\n   of the gold standard, in 1897, the value of the yen has been about 50\n   cents. The yen is equal to 100 sen.'),('Yend','v. t.','To throw; to cast.'),('Yenite','n.','A silicate of iron and lime occurring in black prismatic\n   crystals; -- also called ilvaite.'),('Yeomen','pl. ','of Yeoman'),('Yeoman','n.','A common man, or one of the commonly of the first or most\n   respectable class; a freeholder; a man free born.'),('Yeoman','n.','A servant; a retainer.'),('Yeoman','n.','A yeoman of the guard; also, a member of the yeomanry\n   cavalry.'),('Yeoman','n.','An interior officer under the boatswain, gunner, or\n   carpenters, charged with the stowage, account, and distribution of the\n   stores.'),('Yeomanlike','a.','Resembling, or suitable to, a yeoman; yeomanly.'),('Yeomanly','a.','Pertaining to a yeoman; becoming or suitable to, a\n   yeoman; yeomanlike.'),('Yeomanry','n.','The position or rank of a yeoman.'),('Yeomanry','n.','The collective body of yeomen, or freeholders.'),('Yeomanry','n.','The yeomanry cavalry.'),('Yeorling','n.','The European yellow-hammer.'),('Yer','prep.','Ere; before.'),('Yerba','n.','An herb; a plant.'),('Yerd','n.','See 1st & 2d Yard.'),('Yerked','imp. & p. p.','of Yerk'),('Yerking','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Yerk'),('Yerk','v. t.','To throw or thrust with a sudden, smart movement; to kick\n   or strike suddenly; to jerk.'),('Yerk','v. t.','To strike or lash with a whip.'),('Yerk','v. i.','To throw out the heels; to kick; to jerk.'),('Yerk','v. i.','To move a quick, jerking motion.'),('Yerk','n.','A sudden or quick thrust or motion; a jerk.'),('Yern','v. i.','See 3d Yearn.'),('Yern','a.','Eager; brisk; quick; active.'),('Yerne','a.','Eagerly; briskly; quickly.'),('Yernut','n.','An earthnut, or groundnut. See Groundnut (d).'),('Yerst','adv.','See Erst.'),('Yes','adv.','Ay; yea; -- a word which expresses affirmation or consent;\n   -- opposed to no.'),('Yest','n.','See Yeast.'),('Yester','a.','Last; last past; next before; of or pertaining to\n   yesterday.'),('Yesterday','n.','The day last past; the day next before the present.'),('Yesterday','n.','Fig.: A recent time; time not long past.'),('Yesterday','adv.','On the day last past; on the day preceding to-day; as,\n   the affair took place yesterday.'),('Yestereve','n.','Alt. of Yester-evening'),('Yester-evening','n.','The evening of yesterday; the evening last past.'),('Yestermorn','n.','Alt. of Yester-morning'),('Yester-morning','n.','The morning of yesterday.'),('Yestern','a.','Of or pertaining to yesterday; relating to the day last\n   past.'),('Yesternight','n.','The last night; the night last past.'),('Yesternight','adv.','On the last night.'),('Yesternoon','n.','The noon of yesterday; the noon last past.'),('Yesterweek','n.','The week last past; last week.'),('Yesteryear','n.','The year last past; last year.'),('Yestreen','n.','Yester-evening; yesternight; last night.'),('Yesty','a.','See Yeasty.'),('Yet','n.','Any one of several species of large marine gastropods\n   belonging to the genus Yetus, or Cymba; a boat shell.'),('Yet','adv.','In addition; further; besides; over and above; still.'),('Yet','adv.','At the same time; by continuance from a former state; still.'),('Yet','adv.','Up to the present time; thus far; hitherto; until now; --\n   and with the negative, not yet, not up to the present time; not as soon\n   as now; as, Is it time to go? Not yet. See As yet, under As, conj.'),('Yet','conj.','Before some future time; before the end; eventually; in\n   time.'),('Yet','conj.','Even; -- used emphatically.'),('Yet','conj.','Nevertheless; notwithstanding; however.'),('Yeve','v. i.','To give.'),('Yeven','p. p.','Given.'),('Yew','v. i.','See Yaw.'),('Yew','n.','An evergreen tree (Taxus baccata) of Europe, allied to the\n   pines, but having a peculiar berrylike fruit instead of a cone. It\n   frequently grows in British churchyards.'),('Yew','n.','The wood of the yew. It is light red in color, compact,\n   fine-grained, and very elastic. It is preferred to all other kinds of\n   wood for bows and whipstocks, the best for these purposes coming from\n   Spain.'),('Yew','n.','A bow for shooting, made of the yew.'),('Yew','a.','Of or pertaining to yew trees; made of the wood of a yew tree;\n   as, a yew whipstock.'),('Yewen','a.','Made of yew; as, yewen bows.'),('Yex','v. i.','To hiccough.'),('Yex','v. i.','A hiccough.'),('Yezdegerdian','a.','Of or pertaining to Yezdegerd, the last Sassanian\n   monarch of Persia, who was overthrown by the Mohammedans; as, the\n   Yezdegerdian era, which began on the 16th of June, a. d. 632. The era\n   is still used by the Parsees.'),('Yezdi','n.','Same as Izedi.'),('Yezidee','n.','Alt. of Yezidi'),('Yezidi','n.','Same as Izedi.'),('Yfere','adv.','Together. See Ifere.'),('Ygdrasyl','n.','See in the Dictionary of Noted Names in Fiction.'),('Yghe','n.','Eye.'),('Ygo','p. p.','Gone.'),('Yground','','p. p. of Grind.'),('Yholde','','p. p. of Hold.'),('Yielded','imp. & p. p.','of Yield'),('Yold','obs. p. p.','of Yield'),('Yielding','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Yield'),('Yield','v. t.','To give in return for labor expended; to produce, as\n   payment or interest on what is expended or invested; to pay; as, money\n   at interest yields six or seven per cent.'),('Yield','v. t.','To furnish; to afford; to render; to give forth.'),('Yield','v. t.','To give up, as something that is claimed or demanded; to\n   make over to one who has a claim or right; to resign; to surrender; to\n   relinquish; as a city, an opinion, etc.'),('Yield','v. t.','To admit to be true; to concede; to allow.'),('Yield','v. t.','To permit; to grant; as, to yield passage.'),('Yield','v. t.','To give a reward to; to bless.'),('Yield','v. i.','To give up the contest; to submit; to surrender; to\n   succumb.'),('Yield','v. i.','To comply with; to assent; as, I yielded to his request.'),('Yield','v. i.','To give way; to cease opposition; to be no longer a\n   hindrance or an obstacle; as, men readily yield to the current of\n   opinion, or to customs; the door yielded.'),('Yield','v. i.','To give place, as inferior in rank or excellence; as,\n   they will yield to us in nothing.'),('Yield','n.','Amount yielded; product; -- applied especially to products\n   resulting from growth or cultivation.'),('Yieldable','a.','Disposed to yield or comply.'),('Yieldance','n.','The act of producing; yield; as, the yieldance of the\n   earth.'),('Yieldance','n.','The act of yielding; concession.'),('Yielder','n.','One who yields.'),('Yielding','a.','Inclined to give way, or comply; flexible; compliant;\n   accommodating; as, a yielding temper.'),('Yieldless','a.','Without yielding; unyielding.'),('Yift','n.','Gift.'),('Yin','n.','A Chinese weight of 2/ pounds.'),('Yis','adv.','Yes.'),('Yit','conj.','Yet.'),('Yite','n.','The European yellow-hammer.'),('Yive','v. t. & i.','To give.'),('-yl','','A suffix used as a characteristic termination of chemical\n   radicals; as in ethyl, carbonyl, hydroxyl, etc.'),('Yle','n.','Isle.'),('Y level','','See under Y, n.'),('Yliche','a. & adv.','Alt. of Ylike'),('Ylike','a. & adv.','Like; alike.'),('Yllanraton','n.','The agouara.'),('Ymaked','p. p.','Made.'),('Ymel','prep.','Among.'),('Ynambu','n.','A South American tinamou (Rhynchotus rufescens); -- called\n   also perdiz grande, and rufous tinamou. See Illust. of Tinamou.'),('Ynough','a.','Alt. of Ynow'),('Ynow','a.','Enough.'),('Yockel','n.','The yaffle.'),('Yode','imp.','Went; walked; proceeded.'),('Yodeled','imp. & p. p.','of Yodle'),('Yodled','','of Yodle'),('Yodeling','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Yodle'),('Yodling','','of Yodle'),('Yodel','v. t. & i.','Alt. of Yodle'),('Yodle','v. t. & i.','To sing in a manner common among the Swiss and\n   Tyrolese mountaineers, by suddenly changing from the head voice, or\n   falsetto, to the chest voice, and the contrary; to warble.'),('Yodel','n.','Alt. of Yodle'),('Yodle','n.','A song sung by yodeling, as by the Swiss mountaineers.'),('Yodler','n.','One who yodels.'),('Yoga','n.','A species of asceticism among the Hindoos, which consists in\n   a complete abstraction from all worldly objects, by which the votary\n   expects to obtain union with the universal spirit, and to acquire\n   superhuman faculties.'),('Yogi','n.','A follower of the yoga philosophy; an ascetic.'),('Yoicks','interj.','A cry of encouragement to foxhounds.'),('Yoit','n.','The European yellow-hammer.'),('Yojan','n.','A measure of distance, varying from four to ten miles, but\n   usually about five.'),('Yoke','n.','A bar or frame of wood by which two oxen are joined at the\n   heads or necks for working together.'),('Yoke','n.','A frame or piece resembling a yoke, as in use or shape.'),('Yoke','n.','A frame of wood fitted to a person\'s shoulders for carrying\n   pails, etc., suspended on each side; as, a milkmaid\'s yoke.'),('Yoke','n.','A frame worn on the neck of an animal, as a cow, a pig, a\n   goose, to prevent passage through a fence.'),('Yoke','n.','A frame or convex piece by which a bell is hung for ringing\n   it. See Illust. of Bell.'),('Yoke','n.','A crosspiece upon the head of a boat\'s rudder. To its ends\n   lines are attached which lead forward so that the boat can be steered\n   from amidships.'),('Yoke','n.','A bent crosspiece connecting two other parts.'),('Yoke','n.','A tie securing two timbers together, not used for part of a\n   regular truss, but serving a temporary purpose, as to provide against\n   unusual strain.'),('Yoke','n.','A band shaped to fit the shoulders or the hips, and joined to\n   the upper full edge of the waist or the skirt.'),('Yoke','n.','Fig.: That which connects or binds; a chain; a link; a bond\n   connection.'),('Yoke','n.','A mark of servitude; hence, servitude; slavery; bondage;\n   service.'),('Yoke','n.','Two animals yoked together; a couple; a pair that work\n   together.'),('Yoke','n.','The quantity of land plowed in a day by a yoke of oxen.'),('Yoke','n.','A portion of the working day; as, to work two yokes, that is,\n   to work both portions of the day, or morning and afternoon.'),('Yoked','imp. & p. p.','of Yoke'),('Yoking','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Yoke'),('Yoke','v. t.','To put a yoke on; to join in or with a yoke; as, to yoke\n   oxen, or pair of oxen.'),('Yoke','v. t.','To couple; to join with another.'),('Yoke','v. t.','To enslave; to bring into bondage; to restrain; to\n   confine.'),('Yoke','v. i.','To be joined or associated; to be intimately connected; to\n   consort closely; to mate.'),('Yokeage','n.','See Rokeage.'),('Yokefellow','n.','An associate or companion in, or as in; a mate; a\n   fellow; especially, a partner in marriage.'),('Yokel','n.','A country bumpkin.'),('Yokelet','n.','A small farm; -- so called as requiring but one yoke of\n   oxen to till it.'),('Yokemate','n.','Same as Yokefellow.'),('Yoke-toed','a.','Having two toes in front and two behind, as the trogons\n   and woodpeckers.'),('Yold','p. p.','Yielded.'),('Yolden','p. p.','Yielded.'),('Yolk','n.','The yellow part of an egg; the vitellus.'),('Yolk','n.','An oily secretion which naturally covers the wool of sheep.'),('Yoll','v. i.','To yell.'),('Yon','a.','At a distance, but within view; yonder.'),('Yon','adv.','Yonder.'),('Yoncopin','n.','A local name in parts of the Mississippi Valley for the\n   American lotus (Nelumbo lutea).'),('Yond','a.','Furious; mad; angry; fierce.'),('Yond','a.','Yonder.'),('Yonder','adv.','At a distance, but within view.'),('Yonder','a.','Being at a distance within view, or conceived of as within\n   view; that or those there; yon.'),('Yoni','n.','The symbol under which Sakti, or the personification of the\n   female power in nature, is worshiped. Cf. Lingam.'),('Yonker','n.','A young fellow; a younker.'),('Yore','adv.','In time long past; in old time; long since.'),('Yorker','n.','A tice.'),('Yorkshire','n.','A county in the north of England.'),('York use','','The one of the three printed uses of England which was\n   followed in the north. It was based on the Sarum use. See Use, n., 6.'),('Yot','v. t.','To unite closely.'),('Yote','v. t.','To pour water on; to soak in, or mix with, water.'),('You','dat. & obj.','The pronoun of the second person, in the nominative,\n   dative, and objective case, indicating the person or persons addressed.\n   See the Note under Ye.'),('Youl','v. i.','To yell; to yowl.'),('Young','superl.','Not long born; still in the first part of life; not yet\n   arrived at adolescence, maturity, or age; not old; juvenile; -- said of\n   animals; as, a young child; a young man; a young fawn.'),('Young','superl.','Being in the first part, pr period, of growth; as, a\n   young plant; a young tree.'),('Young','superl.','Having little experience; inexperienced; unpracticed;\n   ignorant; weak.'),('Young','n.','The offspring of animals, either a single animal or\n   offspring collectively.'),('Youngger','n.','One who is younger; an inferior in age; a junior.'),('Youngish','a.','Somewhat young.'),('Youngling','n.','A young person; a youth; also, any animal in its early\n   life.'),('Youngling','a.','Young; youthful.'),('Youngly','a.','Like a young person or thing; young; youthful.'),('Youngly','adv.','In a young manner; in the period of youth; early in\n   life.'),('Youngly','adv.','Ignorantly; weakly.'),('Youngness','n.','The quality or state of being young.'),('Youngster','n.','A young person; a youngling; a lad.'),('Youngth','n.','Youth.'),('Youngthly','a.','Pertaining to, or resembling, youth; youthful.'),('Younker','a.','A young person; a stripling; a yonker.'),('Youpon','n.','Same as Yaupon.'),('Your','pron. & a.','The form of the possessive case of the personal\n   pronoun you.'),('Yours','pron.','See the Note under Your.'),('Yourselves','pl. ','of Yourself'),('Yourself','pron.','An emphasized or reflexive form of the pronoun of the\n   second person; -- used as a subject commonly with you; as, you yourself\n   shall see it; also, alone in the predicate, either in the nominative or\n   objective case; as, you have injured yourself.'),('Youths','pl. ','of Youth'),('Youth','pl. ','of Youth'),('Youth','n.','The quality or state of being young; youthfulness;\n   juvenility.'),('Youth','n.','The part of life that succeeds to childhood; the period of\n   existence preceding maturity or age; the whole early part of life, from\n   childhood, or, sometimes, from infancy, to manhood.'),('Youth','n.','A young person; especially, a young man.'),('Youth','n.','Young persons, collectively.'),('Youthful','a.','Not yet mature or aged; young.'),('Youthful','a.','Also used figuratively.'),('Youthful','a.','Of or pertaining to the early part of life; suitable to\n   early life; as, youthful days; youthful sports.'),('Youthful','a.','Fresh; vigorous, as in youth.'),('Youthhood','n.','The quality or state of being a youth; the period of\n   youth.'),('Youthly','a.','Young; youthful.'),('Youthsome','a.','Youthful.'),('Youthy','a.','Young.'),('Youze','n.','The cheetah.'),('Yow','pron.','You.'),('Yowe','n.','A ewe.'),('Yowl','v. i.','To utter a loud, long, and mournful cry, as a dog; to\n   howl; to yell.'),('Yowl','n.','A loud, protracted, and mournful cry, as that of a dog; a\n   howl.'),('Yowley','n.','The European yellow-hammer.'),('Yox','v. i.','See Yex.'),('Ypight','p. p.','See Pight.'),('Ypocras','n.','Hippocras.'),('Ypres lace','','Fine bobbin lace made at Ypres in Belgium, usually\n   exactly like Valenciennes lace.'),('Ypsiliform','a.','Resembling the / in appearance; -- said of the germinal\n   spot in the ripe egg at one of the stages of fecundation.'),('Ypsiloid','a.','In the form of the letter Y; Y-shaped.'),('Yraft','p. p.','Bereft.'),('Yren','n.','Iron.'),('Yronne','p. p.','Run.'),('Ysame','adv.','Together.'),('Yt','','Alt. of Yt'),('Yt','','an old method of printing that (AS. /aet, /aet) the \"y\" taking\n   the place of the old letter \"thorn\" (/). Cf. Ye, the.'),('Ythrowe','','p. p. of Throw.'),('Ytterbic','a.','Pertaining to, or derived from, ytterbium; containing\n   ytterbium.'),('Ytterbium','n.','A rare element of the boron group, sometimes associated\n   with yttrium or other related elements, as in euxenite and gadolinite.\n   Symbol Yb; provisional atomic weight 173.2. Cf. Yttrium.'),('Yttria','n.','The oxide, Y2O3, or earth, of yttrium.'),('Yttric','a.','Pertaining to, derived from, or containing, yttrium.'),('Yttriferous','a.','Bearing or containing yttrium or the allied elements;\n   as, gadolinite is one of the yttriferous minerals.'),('Yttrious','a.','Same as Yttric.'),('Yttrium','n.','A rare metallic element of the boron-aluminium group,\n   found in gadolinite and other rare minerals, and extracted as a dark\n   gray powder. Symbol Y. Atomic weight, 89.'),('Yttro-cerite','n.','A mineral of a violet-blue color, inclining to gray\n   and white. It is a hydrous fluoride of cerium, yttrium, and calcium.'),('Yttro-columbite','n.','Alt. of Yttro-tantalite'),('Yttro-tantalite','n.','A tantalate of uranium, yttrium, and calcium, of a\n   brown or black color.'),('Yu','n.','Jade.'),('Yucca','n.','See Flicker, n., 2.'),('Yucca','n.','A genus of American liliaceous, sometimes arborescent,\n   plants having long, pointed, and often rigid, leaves at the top of a\n   more or less woody stem, and bearing a large panicle of showy white\n   blossoms.'),('Yuck','v. i.','To itch.'),('Yuck','v. t.','To scratch.'),('Yuckel','n.','Same as Yockel.'),('Yuen','n.','The crowned gibbon (Hylobates pileatus), native of Siam,\n   Southern China, and the Island of Hainan. It is entirely arboreal in\n   its habits, and has very long arms. the males are dark brown or\n   blackish, with a caplike mass of long dark hair, and usually with a\n   white band around the face. The females are yellowish white, with a\n   dark spot on the breast and another on the crown. Called also wooyen,\n   and wooyen ape.'),('Yufts','n.','Russia leather.'),('Yug','n.','Alt. of Yuga'),('Yuga','n.','Any one of the four ages, Krita, or Satya, Treta, Dwapara,\n   and Kali, into which the Hindoos divide the duration or existence of\n   the world.'),('Yuke','v. i. & t.','Same as Yuck.'),('Yulan','n.','A species of Magnolia (M. conspicua) with large white\n   blossoms that open before the leaves. See the Note under Magnolia.'),('Yule','n.','Christmas or Christmastide; the feast of the Nativity of our\n   Savior.'),('Yuletide','n.','Christmas time; Christmastide; the season of Christmas.'),('Yumas','n. pl.','A tribe of Indians native of Arizona and the adjacent\n   parts of Mexico and California. They are agricultural, and cultivate\n   corn, wheat, barley, melons, etc.'),('Yunx','n.','A genus of birds comprising the wrynecks.'),('Yupon','n.','Same as Yaupon.'),('Yux','n. & v.','See Yex, n.'),('Yvel','a. & adv.','Evil; ill.'),('Ywar','a.','Aware; wary.'),('Ywis','adv.','Certainly; most likely; truly; probably.\n   Z () Z, the twenty-sixth and last letter of the English alphabet, is a\n   vocal consonant. It is taken from the Latin letter Z, which came from\n   the Greek alphabet, this having it from a Semitic source. The ultimate\n   origin is probably Egyptian. Etymologically, it is most closely related\n   to s, y, and j; as in glass, glaze; E. yoke, Gr. /, L. yugum; E.\n   zealous, jealous. See Guide to Pronunciation, // 273, 274.'),('Za','n.','An old solfeggio name for B flat; the seventh harmonic, as\n   heard in the or aeolian string; -- so called by Tartini. It was long\n   considered a false, but is the true note of the chord of the flat\n   seventh.'),('Zabaism','n.','Alt. of Zabism'),('Zabism','n.','See Sabianism.'),('Zabian','a. & n.','See Sabian.'),('Zacco','n.','See Zocco.'),('Zachun','n.','An oil pressed by the Arabs from the fruit of a small\n   thorny tree (Balanites Aegyptiaca), and sold to piligrims for a healing\n   ointment.'),('Zaerthe','n.','Same as Z/rthe.'),('Zaffer','n.','A pigment obtained, usually by roasting cobalt glance with\n   sand or quartz, as a dark earthy powder. It consists of crude cobalt\n   oxide, or of an impure cobalt arseniate. It is used in porcelain\n   painting, and in enameling pottery, to produce a blue color, and is\n   often confounded with smalt, from which, however, it is distinct, as it\n   contains no potash. The name is often loosely applied to mixtures of\n   zaffer proper with silica, or oxides of iron, manganese, etc.'),('Zaim','n.','A Turkish chief who supports a mounted militia bearing the\n   same name.'),('Zaimet','n.','A district from which a Zaim draws his revenue.'),('Zain','n.','A horse of a dark color, neither gray nor white, and having\n   no spots.'),('Zalambdodont','a.','Of or pertaining to a tribe (Zalambdodonta) of\n   Insectivora in which the molar teeth have but one V-shaped ridge.'),('Zalambdodont','n.','One of the Zalambdodonta. The tenrec, solenodon, and\n   golden moles are examples.'),('Zamang','n.','An immense leguminous tree (Pithecolobium Saman) of\n   Venezuela. Its branches form a hemispherical mass, often one hundred\n   and eighty feet across. The sweet pulpy pods are used commonly for\n   feeding cattle. Also called rain tree.'),('Zambos','pl. ','of Zambo'),('Zambo','n.','The child of a mulatto and a negro; also, the child of an\n   Indian and a negro; colloquially or humorously, a negro; a sambo.'),('Zamia','n.','A genus of cycadaceous plants, having the appearance of low\n   palms, but with exogenous wood. See Coontie, and Illust. of Strobile.'),('Zamindar','n.','A landowner; also, a collector of land revenue; now,\n   usually, a kind of feudatory recognized as an actual proprietor so long\n   as he pays to the government a certain fixed revenue.'),('Zamindary','n.','Alt. of Zamindari'),('Zamindari','n.','The jurisdiction of a zamindar; the land possessed by a\n   zamindar.'),('Zamite','n.','A fossil cycad of the genus Zamia.'),('Zamouse','n.','A West African buffalo (Bubalus brachyceros) having short\n   horns depressed at the base, and large ears fringed internally with\n   three rows of long hairs. It is destitute of a dewlap. Called also\n   short-horned buffalo, and bush cow.'),('Zampogna','n.','A sort of bagpipe formerly in use among Italian peasants.\n   It is now almost obsolete.'),('Zander','n.','A European pike perch (Stizostedion lucioperca) allied to\n   the wall-eye; -- called also sandari, sander, sannat, schill, and zant.'),('Zandmole','n.','The sand mole.'),('Zante','n.','See Zantewood.'),('Zante currant','','A kind of seedless grape or raisin; -- so called from\n   Zante, one of the Ionian Islands.'),('Zantewood','n.','A yellow dyewood; fustet; -- called also zante, and\n   zante fustic. See Fustet, and the Note under Fustic.'),('Zantewood','n.','Satinwood (Chloroxylon Swietenia).'),('Zantiot','n.','A native or inhabitant of Zante, one of the Ionian\n   Islands.'),('Zanies','pl. ','of Zany'),('Zany','n.','A merry-andrew; a buffoon.'),('Zany','v. t.','To mimic.'),('Zanyism','n.','State or character of a zany; buffoonery.'),('Zaphara','n.','Zaffer.'),('Zaphrentis','n.','An extinct genus of cyathophylloid corals common in the\n   Paleozoic formations. It is cup-shaped with numerous septa, and with a\n   deep pit in one side of the cup.'),('Zapotilla','n.','See Sapodilla.'),('Zaptiah','n.','A Turkish policeman.'),('Zarathustrian','a.','Alt. of Zarathustric'),('Zarathustric','a.','Of or pertaining to Zarathustra, or Zoroaster;\n   Zoroastrian.'),('Zarathustrism','n.','See Zoroastrianism.'),('Zaratite','n.','A hydrous carbonate of nickel occurring as an\n   emerald-green incrustation on chromite; -- called also emerald nickel.'),('Zareba','n.','An improvised stockade; especially, one made of thorn\n   bushes, etc.'),('Zarnich','n.','Native sulphide of arsenic, including sandarach, or\n   realgar, and orpiment.'),('Zarthe','n.','A European bream (Abramis vimba).'),('Zati','n.','A species of macaque (Macacus pileatus) native of India and\n   Ceylon. It has a crown of long erect hair, and tuft of radiating hairs\n   on the back of the head. Called also capped macaque.'),('Zauschneria','n.','A genus of flowering plants. Zauschneria Californica\n   is a suffrutescent perennial, with showy red flowers much resembling\n   those of the garden fuchsia.'),('Zax','n.','A tool for trimming and puncturing roofing slates.'),('Zayat','n.','A public shed, or portico, for travelers, worshipers, etc.'),('Zea','n.','A genus of large grasses of which the Indian corn (Zea Mays)\n   is the only species known. Its origin is not yet ascertained. See\n   Maize.'),('Zeal','n.','Passionate ardor in the pursuit of anything; eagerness in\n   favor of a person or cause; ardent and active interest; engagedness;\n   enthusiasm; fervor.'),('Zeal','n.','A zealot.'),('Zeal','v. i.','To be zealous.'),('Zealant','n.','One who is zealous; a zealot; an enthusiast.'),('Zealed','a.','Full of zeal; characterized by zeal.'),('Zealful','a.','Full of zeal.'),('Zealless','a.','Wanting zeal.'),('Zealot','n.','One who is zealous; one who engages warmly in any cause,\n   and pursues his object with earnestness and ardor; especially, one who\n   is overzealous, or carried away by his zeal; one absorbed in devotion\n   to anything; an enthusiast; a fanatical partisan.'),('Zealotical','a.','Like, or suitable to, a zealot; ardently zealous.'),('Zealotism','n.','The character or conduct of a zealot; zealotry.'),('Zealotist','n.','A zealot.'),('Zealotry','n.','The character and behavior of a zealot; excess of zeal;\n   fanatical devotion to a cause.'),('Zealous','a.','Filled with, or characterized by, zeal; warmly engaged, or\n   ardent, in behalf of an object.'),('Zealous','a.','Filled with religious zeal.'),('Zebec','n.','See Xebec.'),('Zebra','n.','Either one of two species of South African wild horses\n   remarkable for having the body white or yellowish white, and\n   conspicuously marked with dark brown or brackish bands.'),('Zebrawood','n.','A kind of cabinet wood having beautiful black, brown,\n   and whitish stripes, the timber of a tropical American tree (Connarus\n   Guianensis).'),('Zebrawood','n.','The wood of a small West Indian myrtaceous tree (Eugenia\n   fragrans).'),('Zebrawood','n.','The wood of an East Indian tree of the genus Guettarda.'),('Zebrine','a.','Pertaining to, or resembling, the zebra.'),('Zebu','n.','A bovine mammal (Ros Indicus) extensively domesticated in\n   India, China, the East Indies, and East Africa. It usually has short\n   horns, large pendulous ears, slender legs, a large dewlap, and a large,\n   prominent hump over the shoulders; but these characters vary in\n   different domestic breeds, which range in size from that of the common\n   ox to that of a large mastiff.'),('Zebub','n.','A large noxious fly of Abyssinia, which like the tsetse fly,\n   is destructive to cattle.'),('Zechin','n.','See Sequin.'),('Zechstein','n.','The upper division of the Permian (Dyas) of Europe. The\n   prevailing rock is a magnesian limestone.'),('Zed','n.','The letter Z; -- called also zee, and formerly izzard.'),('Zedoary','n.','A medicinal substance obtained in the East Indies, having\n   a fragrant smell, and a warm, bitter, aromatic taste. It is used in\n   medicine as a stimulant.'),('Zeekoe','n.','A hippopotamus.'),('Zehner','n.','An Austrian silver coin equal to ten kreutzers, or about\n   five cents.'),('Zein','n.','A nitrogenous substance of the nature of gluten, obtained\n   from the seeds of Indian corn (Zea) as a soft, yellowish, amorphous\n   substance.'),('Zemindar','n.','Same as Zamindar.'),('Zemindary','n.','Alt. of Zemindari'),('Zemindari','n.','Same as Zamindary.'),('Zemni','n.','The blind mole rat (Spalax typhlus), native of Eastern\n   Europe and Asia. Its eyes and ears are rudimentary, and its fur is soft\n   and brownish, more or less tinged with gray. It constructs extensive\n   burrows.'),('Zenana','n.','The part of a dwelling appropriated to women.'),('Zend','n.','Properly, the translation and exposition in the Huzv/resh, or\n   literary Pehlevi, language, of the Avesta, the Zoroastrian sacred\n   writings; as commonly used, the language (an ancient Persian dialect)\n   in which the Avesta is written.'),('Zend-Avesta','n.','The sacred writings of the ancient Persian religion,\n   attributed to Zoroaster, but chiefly of a later date.'),('Zendik','n.','An atheist or unbeliever; -- name given in the East to\n   those charged with disbelief of any revealed religion, or accused of\n   magical heresies.'),('Zenick','n.','A South African burrowing mammal (Suricata tetradactyla),\n   allied to the civets. It is grayish brown, with yellowish transverse\n   stripes on the back. Called also suricat.'),('Zenik','n.','See Zenick.'),('Zenith','n.','That point in the visible celestial hemisphere which is\n   vertical to the spectator; the point of the heavens directly overhead;\n   -- opposed to nadir.'),('Zenith','n.','hence, figuratively, the point of culmination; the greatest\n   height; the height of success or prosperity.'),('Zenithal','a.','Of or pertaining to the zenith.'),('Zeolite','n.','A term now used to designate any one of a family of\n   minerals, hydrous silicates of alumina, with lime, soda, potash, or\n   rarely baryta. Here are included natrolite, stilbite, analcime,\n   chabazite, thomsonite, heulandite, and others. These species occur of\n   secondary origin in the cavities of amygdaloid, basalt, and lava, also,\n   less frequently, in granite and gneiss. So called because many of these\n   species intumesce before the blowpipe.'),('Zeolitic','a.','Of or pertaining to a zeolite; consisting of, or\n   resembling, a zeolite.'),('Zeolitiform','a.','Having the form of a zeolite.'),('Zephyr','n.','The west wind; poetically, any soft, gentle breeze.'),('Zephyrus','n.','The west wind, or zephyr; -- usually personified, and\n   made the most mild and gentle of all the sylvan deities.'),('Zequin','n.','See Sequin.'),('Zerda','n.','The fennec.'),('Zeriba','n.','Same as Zareba.'),('Zeros','pl. ','of Zero'),('Zeroes','pl. ','of Zero'),('Zero','n.','A cipher; nothing; naught.'),('Zero','n.','The point from which the graduation of a scale, as of a\n   thermometer, commences.'),('Zero','n.','Fig.: The lowest point; the point of exhaustion; as, his\n   patience had nearly reached zero.'),('Zest','n.','A piece of orange or lemon peel, or the aromatic oil which\n   may be squeezed from such peel, used to give flavor to liquor, etc.'),('Zest','n.','Hence, something that gives or enhances a pleasant taste, or\n   the taste itself; an appetizer; also, keen enjoyment; relish; gusto.'),('Zest','n.','The woody, thick skin inclosing the kernel of a walnut.'),('Zested','imp. & p. p.','of Zest'),('Zesting','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Zest'),('Zest','v. t.','To cut into thin slips, as the peel of an orange, lemon,\n   etc.; to squeeze, as peel, over the surface of anything.'),('Zest','v. t.','To give a relish or flavor to; to heighten the taste or\n   relish of; as, to zest wine.'),('Zeta','n.','A Greek letter corresponding to our z.'),('Zetetic','a.','Seeking; proceeding by inquiry.'),('Zetetic','n.','A seeker; -- a name adopted by some of the Pyrrhonists.'),('Zetetics','a.','A branch of algebra which relates to the direct search\n   for unknown quantities.'),('Zeuglodon','n.','A genus of extinct Eocene whales, remains of which have\n   been found in the Gulf States. The species had very long and slender\n   bodies and broad serrated teeth. See Phocodontia.'),('Zeuglodont','','Any species of Zeuglodonta.'),('Zeuglodonta','n. pl.','Same as Phocodontia.'),('Zeugma','n.','A figure by which an adjective or verb, which agrees with a\n   nearer word, is, by way of supplement, referred also to another more\n   remote; as, \"hic illius arma, hic currus fuit;\" where fuit, which\n   agrees directly with currus, is referred also to arma.'),('Zeugmatic','a.','Of or pertaining to zeugma; characterized by zeugma.'),('Zeugobranchiata','n. pl.','Same as Zygobranchia.'),('Zeus','n.','The chief deity of the Greeks, and ruler of the upper world\n   (cf. Hades). He was identified with Jupiter.'),('Zeuzerian','n.','Any one of a group of bombycid moths of which the genus\n   Zeuzera is the type. Some of these moths are of large size. The goat\n   moth is an example.'),('Zeylanite','n.','See Ceylanite.'),('Zibet','n.','Alt. of Zibeth'),('Zibeth','n.','A carnivorous mammal (Viverra zibetha) closely allied to\n   the civet, from which it differs in having the spots on the body less\n   distinct, the throat whiter, and the black rings on the tail more\n   numerous.'),('Ziega','n.','Curd produced from milk by adding acetic acid, after rennet\n   has ceased to cause coagulation.'),('Zietrisikite','n.','A mineral wax, vert similar to ozocerite. It is found\n   at Zietrisika, Moldavia, whence its name.'),('Zif','n.','The second month of the Jewish ecclesiastical year,\n   corresponding to our May.'),('Zigger','v. i.','Alt. of Zighyr'),('Zighyr','v. i.','Same as Sicker.'),('Zigzag','n.','Something that has short turns or angles.'),('Zigzag','n.','A molding running in a zigzag line; a chevron, or series of\n   chevrons. See Illust. of Chevron, 3.'),('Zigzag','n.','See Boyau.'),('Zigzag','a.','Having short, sharp turns; running this way and that in an\n   onward course.'),('Zigzagged','imp. & p. p.','of Zigzag'),('Zigzagging','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Zigzag'),('Zigzag','v. t.','To form with short turns.'),('Zigzag','v. i.','To move in a zigzag manner; also, to have a zigzag\n   shape.'),('Zigzaggery','n.','The quality or state of being zigzag; crookedness.'),('Zigzaggy','a.','Having sharp turns.'),('Zilla','n.','A low, thorny, suffrutescent, crucifeous plant (Zilla\n   myagroides) found in the deserts of Egypt. Its leaves are boiled in\n   water, and eaten, by the Arabs.'),('Zillah','n.','A district or local division, as of a province.'),('Zimb','n.','A large, venomous, two-winged fly, native of Abyssinia. It is\n   allied to the tsetse fly, and, like the latter, is destructive to\n   cattle.'),('Ziment-water','n.','A kind of water found in copper mines; water\n   impregnated with copper.'),('Zinc','n.','An abundant element of the magnesium-cadmium group, extracted\n   principally from the minerals zinc blende, smithsonite, calamine, and\n   franklinite, as an easily fusible bluish white metal, which is\n   malleable, especially when heated. It is not easily oxidized in moist\n   air, and hence is used for sheeting, coating galvanized iron, etc. It\n   is used in making brass, britannia, and other alloys, and is also\n   largely consumed in electric batteries. Symbol Zn. Atomic weight 64.9.'),('Zincked','imp. & p. p.','of Zinc'),('Zinced','','of Zinc'),('Zincking','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Zinc'),('Zincing','','of Zinc'),('Zinc','v. t.','To coat with zinc; to galvanize.'),('Zincane','n.','Zinc chloride.'),('Zincic','a.','Pertaining to, containing, or resembling, zinc; zincous.'),('Zincide','n.','A binary compound of zinc.'),('Zinciferous','a.','Containing or affording zinc.'),('Zincification','n.','The act or process of applying zinc; the condition\n   of being zincified, or covered with zinc; galvanization.'),('Zincify','v. t.','To coat or impregnate with zinc.'),('Zincite','n.','Native zinc oxide; a brittle, translucent mineral, of an\n   orange-red color; -- called also red zinc ore, and red oxide of zinc.'),('Zincking','n.','Alt. of Zincing'),('Zincing','n.','The act or process of applying zinc; galvanization.'),('Zincky','a.','Pertaining to zinc, or having its appearance.'),('Zinco-','','A combining form from zinc; in chemistry, designating zinc as\n   an element of certain double compounds. Also used adjectively.'),('Zincode','n.','The positive electrode of an electrolytic cell; anode.'),('Zincographer','n.','An engraver on zinc.'),('Zincongraphic','a.','Alt. of Zincongraphical'),('Zincongraphical','a.','Of or pertaining to zincography; as, zincographic\n   processes.'),('Zincography','n.','The art or process of engraving or etching on zinc, in\n   which the design is left in relief in the style of a wood cut, the rest\n   of the ground being eaten away by acid.'),('Zincoid','a.','Pertaining to, or resembling, zinc; -- said of the\n   electricity of the zincous plate in connection with a copper plate in a\n   voltaic circle; also, designating the positive pole.'),('Zinco-polar','a.','Electrically polarized like the surface of the zinc\n   presented to the acid in a battery, which has zincous affinity.'),('Zincous','a.','Of, pertaining to, or containing, zinc; zincic; as,\n   zincous salts.'),('Zincous','a.','Hence, formerly, basic, basylous, as opposed to chlorous.'),('Zincous','a.','Of or pertaining to the positive pole of a galvanic\n   battery; electro-positive.'),('Zingari','pl. ','of Zingaro'),('Zingaro','n.','A gypsy.'),('Zingel','n.','A small, edible, freshwater European perch (Aspro zingel),\n   having a round, elongated body and prominent snout.'),('Zingiberaceous','a.','Of or pertaining to ginger, or to a tribe\n   (Zingibereae) of endogenous plants of the order Scitamineae. See\n   Scitamineous.'),('Zink','n.','See Zinc.'),('Zinkenite','n.','A steel-gray metallic mineral, a sulphide of antimony\n   and lead.'),('Zinky','a.','See Zincky.'),('Zinnia','n.','Any plant of the composite genus Zinnia, Mexican herbs with\n   opposite leaves and large gay-colored blossoms. Zinnia elegans is the\n   commonest species in cultivation.'),('Zinnwaldite','n.','A kind of mica containing lithium, often associated\n   with tin ore.'),('Zinsang','n.','The delundung.'),('Zinziberaceous','a.','Same as Zingiberaceous.'),('Zion','n.','A hill in Jerusalem, which, after the capture of that city by\n   the Israelites, became the royal residence of David and his successors.'),('Zion','n.','Hence, the theocracy, or church of God.'),('Zion','n.','The heavenly Jerusalem; heaven.'),('Ziphioid','n.','See Xiphioid.'),('Zirco-','','A combining form (also used adjectively) designating\n   zirconium as an element of certain double compounds; zircono-; as in\n   zircofluoric acid, sodium zircofluoride.'),('Zircofluoride','n.','A double fluoride of zirconium and hydrogen, or some\n   other positive element or radical; as, zircofluoride of sodium.'),('Zircon','n.','A mineral occurring in tetragonal crystals, usually of a\n   brown or gray color. It consists of silica and zirconia. A red variety,\n   used as a gem, is called hyacinth. Colorless, pale-yellow or\n   smoky-brown varieties from Ceylon are called jargon.'),('Zircona','n.','Zirconia.'),('Zirconate','n.','A salt of zirconic acid.'),('Zirconia','n.','The oxide of zirconium, obtained as a white powder, and\n   possessing both acid and basic properties. On account of its\n   infusibility, and brilliant luminosity when incandescent, it is used as\n   an ingredient of sticks for the Drummomd light.'),('Zirconic','a.','Pertaining to, containing, or resembling, zirconium; as,\n   zirconic oxide; zirconic compounds.'),('Zirconium','n.','A rare element of the carbon-silicon group, intermediate\n   between the metals and nonmetals, obtained from the mineral zircon as a\n   dark sooty powder, or as a gray metallic crystalline substance. Symbol\n   Zr. Atomic weight, 90.4.'),('Zircono','','See Zirco-.'),('Zirconoid','n.','A double eight-sided pyramid, a form common with\n   tetragonal crystals; -- so called because this form often occurs in\n   crystals of zircon.'),('Zither','n.','An instrument of music used in Austria and Germany. It has\n   from thirty to forty wires strung across a shallow sounding-board,\n   which lies horizontally on a table before the performer, who uses both\n   hands in playing on it. [Not to be confounded with the old lute-shaped\n   cittern, or cithern.]'),('Zittern','n.','See Cittern.'),('Zizania','n.','A genus of grasses including Indian rice. See Indian rice,\n   under Rice.'),('Zizel','n.','The suslik.'),('Zoanthacea','n. pl.','A suborder of Actinaria, including Zoanthus and\n   allied genera, which are permanently attached by their bases.'),('Zoantharia','n. pl.','Same as Anthozoa.'),('Zoantharian','a.','Of or pertaining to the Zoantharia.'),('Zoantharian','n.','One of the Anthozoa.'),('Zoanthodeme','n.','The zooids of a compound anthozoan, collectively.'),('Zoanthoid','a.','Of or pertaining to the Zoanthacea.'),('Zoanthropy','n.','A kind of monomania in which the patient believes\n   himself transformed into one of the lower animals.'),('Zoanthus','n.','A genus of Actinaria, including numerous species, found\n   mostly in tropical seas. The zooids or polyps resemble small, elongated\n   actinias united together at their bases by fleshy stolons, and thus\n   forming extensive groups. The tentacles are small and bright colored.'),('Zobo','n.','A kind of domestic cattle reared in Asia for its flesh and\n   milk. It is supposed to be a hybrid between the zebu and the yak.'),('Zocle','n.','Same as Socle.'),('Zocco','n.','Alt. of Zoccolo'),('Zoccolo','n.','Same as Socle.'),('Zodiac','n.','An imaginary belt in the heavens, 16¡ or 18¡ broad, in the\n   middle of which is the ecliptic, or sun\'s path. It comprises the twelve\n   constellations, which one constituted, and from which were named, the\n   twelve signs of the zodiac.'),('Zodiac','n.','A figure representing the signs, symbols, and\n   constellations of the zodiac.'),('Zodiac','n.','A girdle; a belt.'),('Zodiacal','a.','Of or pertaining to the zodiac; situated within the\n   zodiac; as, the zodiacal planets.'),('Zoea','n.','A peculiar larval stage of certain decapod Crustacea,\n   especially of crabs and certain Anomura.'),('Zoetrope','n.','An optical toy, in which figures made to revolve on the\n   inside of a cylinder, and viewed through slits in its circumference,\n   appear like a single figure passing through a series of natural motions\n   as if animated or mechanically moved.'),('Zohar','n.','A Jewish cabalistic book attributed by tradition to Rabbi\n   Simon ben Yochi, who lived about the end of the 1st century, a. d.\n   Modern critics believe it to be a compilation of the 13th century.'),('Zoic','a.','Of or pertaining to animals, or animal life.'),('Zoide','n.','See Meride.'),('Zoilean','a.','Having the characteristic of Zoilus, a bitter, envious,\n   unjust critic, who lived about 270 years before Christ.'),('Zoilism','n.','Resemblance to Zoilus in style or manner; carping\n   criticism; detraction.'),('Zoisite','n.','A grayish or whitish mineral occurring in orthorhombic,\n   prismatic crystals, also in columnar masses. It is a silicate of\n   alumina and lime, and is allied to epidote.'),('Zokor','n.','An Asiatic burrowing rodent (Siphneus aspalax) resembling\n   the mole rat. It is native of the Altai Mountains.'),('Zollverein','n.','Literally, a customs union; specifically, applied to\n   the several customs unions successively formed under the leadership of\n   Prussia among certain German states for establishing liberty of\n   commerce among themselves and common tariff on imports, exports, and\n   transit.'),('Zomboruk','n.','See Zumbooruk.'),('Zonae','pl. ','of Zona'),('Zona','n.','A zone or band; a layer.'),('Zonal','a.','Of or pertaining to a zone; having the form of a zone or\n   zones.'),('Zonar','n.','A belt or girdle which the Christians and Jews of the Levant\n   were obliged to wear to distinguish them from Mohammedans.'),('Zonaria','n. pl.','A division of Mammalia in which the placenta is\n   zonelike.'),('Zonate','a.','Divided by parallel planes; as, zonate tetraspores, found\n   in certain red algae.'),('Zone','n.','A girdle; a cincture.'),('Zone','n.','One of the five great divisions of the earth, with respect to\n   latitude and temperature.'),('Zone','n.','The portion of the surface of a sphere included between two\n   parallel planes; the portion of a surface of revolution included\n   between two planes perpendicular to the axis.'),('Zone','n.','A band or stripe extending around a body.'),('Zone','n.','A band or area of growth encircling anything; as, a zone of\n   evergreens on a mountain; the zone of animal or vegetable life in the\n   ocean around an island or a continent; the Alpine zone, that part of\n   mountains which is above the limit of tree growth.'),('Zone','n.','A series of planes having mutually parallel intersections.'),('Zone','n.','Circuit; circumference.'),('Zone','v. t.','To girdle; to encircle.'),('Zoned','a.','Wearing a zone, or girdle.'),('Zoned','a.','Having zones, or concentric bands; striped.'),('Zoned','a.','Zonate.'),('Zoneless','a.','Not having a zone; ungirded.'),('Zonnar','n.','See Zonar.'),('Zonular','a.','Of or pertaining to a zone; zone-shaped.'),('Zonule','n.','A little zone, or girdle.'),('Zonulet','n.','A zonule.'),('Zonure','n.','Any one of several of South African lizards of the genus\n   Zonura, common in rocky situations.'),('Zoo-','','A combining form from Gr. zwo^,n an animal, as in zoogenic,\n   zoology, etc.'),('Zoochemical','a.','Pertaining to zoochemistry.'),('Zoochemistry','n.','Animal chemistry; particularly, the description of\n   the chemical compounds entering into the composition of the animal\n   body, in distinction from biochemistry.'),('Zoochemy','n.','Animal chemistry; zoochemistry.'),('Zoochlorella','n.','One of the small green granulelike bodies found in\n   the interior of certain stentors, hydras, and other invertebrates.'),('Zoocyst','n.','A cyst formed by certain Protozoa and unicellular plants\n   which the contents divide into a large number of granules, each of\n   which becomes a germ.'),('Zoocytia','pl. ','of Zoocytium'),('Zoocytium','n.','The common support, often branched, of certain species\n   of social Infusoria.'),('Zoodendria','pl. ','of Zoodendrium'),('Zoodendrium','n.','The branched, and often treelike, support of the\n   colonies of certain Infusoria.'),('Zooecia','pl. ','of Zooecium'),('Zooecium','n.','One of the cells or tubes which inclose the feeling\n   zooids of Bryozoa. See Illust. of Sea Moss.'),('Zooerythrine','n.','A peculiar organic red coloring matter found in the\n   feathers of various birds.'),('Zoogamous','a.','Of or pertaining zoogamy.'),('Zoogamy','n.','The sexual reproduction of animals.'),('Zoogenic','a.','Of or pertaining to zoogeny, animal production.'),('Zoogeny','n.','Alt. of Zoogony'),('Zoogony','n.','The doctrine of the formation of living beings.'),('Zoogeography','n.','The study or description of the geographical\n   distribution of animals.'),('Zoogeographical','a.','Of or pertaining to zoography.'),('Zoogloea','n.','A colony or mass of bacteria imbedded in a viscous\n   gelatinous substance. The zoogloea is characteristic of a transitory\n   stage through which rapidly multiplying bacteria pass in the course of\n   their evolution. Also used adjectively.'),('Zoographer','n.','One who describes animals, their forms and habits.'),('Zoographic','a.','Alt. of Zoographical'),('Zoographical','a.','Of or pertaining to the description of animals.'),('Zoographist','n.','A zoographer.'),('Zoography','n.','A description of animals, their forms and habits.'),('Zooid','a.','Pertaining to, or resembling, an animal.'),('Zooid','n.','An organic body or cell having locomotion, as a spermatic\n   cell or spermatozooid.'),('Zooid','n.','An animal in one of its inferior stages of development, as\n   one of the intermediate forms in alternate generation.'),('Zooid','n.','One of the individual animals in a composite group, as of\n   Anthozoa, Hydroidea, and Bryozoa; -- sometimes restricted to those\n   individuals in which the mouth and digestive organs are not developed.'),('Zooidal','a.','Of or pertaining to a zooid; as, a zooidal form.'),('Zoolatry','n.','The worship of animals.'),('Zoologer','n.','A zoologist.'),('Zoological','a.','Of or pertaining to zoology, or the science of animals.'),('Zoologically','adv.','In a zoological manner; according to the principles\n   of zoology.'),('Zoologist','n.','One who is well versed in zoology.'),('Zoologies','pl. ','of Zoology'),('Zoology','n.','That part of biology which relates to the animal kingdom,\n   including the structure, embryology, evolution, classification, habits,\n   and distribution of all animals, both living and extinct.'),('Zoology','n.','A treatise on this science.'),('Zoomelanin','n.','A pigment giving the black color to the feathers of\n   many birds.'),('Zoomorphic','a.','Of or pertaining to zoomorphism.'),('Zoomorphism','n.','The transformation of men into beasts.'),('Zoomorphism','n.','The quality of representing or using animal forms; as,\n   zoomorphism in ornament.'),('Zoomorphism','n.','The representation of God, or of gods, in the form, or\n   with the attributes, of the lower animals.'),('Zoa','pl. ','of Zoon'),('Zoon','n.','An animal which is the sole product of a single egg; --\n   opposed to zooid.'),('Zoon','n.','Any one of the perfectly developed individuals of a compound\n   animal.'),('Zoonic','a.','Of or pertaining to animals; obtained from animal\n   substances.'),('Zoonite','n.','One of the segments of the body of an articulate animal.'),('Zoonite','n.','One of the theoretic transverse divisions of any segmented\n   animal.'),('Zoonomy','n.','The laws of animal life, or the science which treats of\n   the phenomena of animal life, their causes and relations.'),('Zoonule','n.','Same as Zoonite.'),('Zoopathology','n.','Animal pathology.'),('Zoophaga','n. pl.','An artificial group comprising various carnivorous\n   and insectivorous animals.'),('Zoophagan','n.','A animal that feeds on animal food.'),('Zoophagous','a.','Feeding on animals.'),('Zoophilist','n.','A lover of animals.'),('Zoophily','n.','Love of animals.'),('Zoophite','n.','A zoophyte.'),('Zoophoric','a.','Bearing or supporting the figure of an animal; as, a\n   zoophoric column.'),('Zoophorous','n.','The part between the architrave and cornice; the\n   frieze; -- so called from the figures of animals carved upon it.'),('Zoophyta','n. pl.','An extensive artificial and heterogeneous group of\n   animals, formerly adopted by many zoologists. It included the\n   c/lenterates, echinoderms, sponges, Bryozoa, Protozoa, etc.'),('Zoophyte','v. i.','Any one of numerous species of invertebrate animals\n   which more or less resemble plants in appearance, or mode of growth, as\n   the corals, gorgonians, sea anemones, hydroids, bryozoans, sponges,\n   etc., especially any of those that form compound colonies having a\n   branched or treelike form, as many corals and hydroids.'),('Zoophyte','v. i.','Any one of the Zoophyta.'),('Zoophytic','a.','Alt. of Zoophytical'),('Zoophytical','a.','Of or pertaining to zoophytes.'),('Zoophytoid','a.','Pertaining to, or resembling, a zoophyte.'),('Zoophytological','a.','Of or pertaining to zoophytology; as,\n   zoophytological observations.'),('Zoophytology','n.','The natural history zoophytes.'),('Zoopraxiscope','n.','An instrument similar to, or the same as, the, the\n   phenakistoscope, by means of which pictures projected upon a screen are\n   made to exhibit the natural movements of animals, and the like.'),('Zoopsychology','n.','Animal psychology.'),('Zoosperm','n.','One of the spermatic particles; spermatozoid.'),('-sporangia','pl. ','of Zoosporangium'),('Zoosporangium','n.','A spore, or conceptacle containing zoospores.'),('Zoospore','n.','A spore provided with one or more slender cilia, by the\n   vibration of which it swims in the water. Zoospores are produced by\n   many green, and by some olive-brown, algae. In certain species they are\n   divided into the larger macrozoospores and the smaller microzoospores.\n   Called also sporozoid, and swarmspore.'),('Zoospore','n.','See Swarmspore.'),('Zoosporic','a.','Of or pertaining to zoospores; of the nature of\n   zoospores.'),('Zootic','a.','Containing the remains of organized bodies; -- said of rock\n   or soil.'),('Zootomical','a.','Of or pertaining to zootomy.'),('Zootomist','n.','One who dissects animals, or is skilled in zootomy.'),('Zootomy','n.','The dissection or the anatomy of animals; -- distinguished\n   from androtomy.'),('Zootrophic','a.','Of or pertaining to the nourishment of animals.'),('Zoozoo','n.','The wood pigeon.'),('Zope','n.','A European fresh-water bream (Abramis ballerus).'),('Zopilote','n.','The urubu, or American black vulture.'),('Zoril','n.','Same as Zorilla.'),('Zorilla','n.','Either one of two species of small African carnivores of\n   the genus Ictonyx allied to the weasels and skunks.'),('Zoroastrian','a.','Of or pertaining to Zoroaster, or his religious\n   system.'),('Zoroastrian','n.','A follower of Zoroaster; one who accepts\n   Zoroastrianism.'),('Zoroastrianism','n.','The religious system of Zoroaster, the legislator\n   and prophet of the ancient Persians, which was the national faith of\n   Persia; mazdeism. The system presupposes a good spirit (Ormuzd) and an\n   opposing evil spirit (Ahriman). Cf. Fire worship, under Fire, and\n   Parsee.'),('Zoroastrism','n.','Same as Zoroastrianism.'),('Zoster','n.','Shingles.'),('Zostera','n.','A genus of plants of the Naiadaceae, or Pondweed family.\n   Zostera marina is commonly known as sea wrack, and eelgrass.'),('Zosterops','n.','A genus of birds that comprises the white-eyes. See\n   White-eye.'),('Zouave','n.','One of an active and hardy body of soldiers in the French\n   service, originally Arabs, but now composed of Frenchmen who wear the\n   Arab dress.'),('Zouave','n.','Hence, one of a body of soldiers who adopt the dress and\n   drill of the Zouaves, as was done by a number of volunteer regiments in\n   the army of the United States in the Civil War, 1861-65.'),('Zounds','interj.','An exclamation formerly used as an oath, and an\n   expression of anger or wonder.'),('Zoutch','v. t.','To stew, as flounders, eels, etc., with just enough or\n   liquid to cover them.'),('Zubr','n.','The aurochs.'),('Zuche','n.','A stump of a tree.'),('Zuchetto','n.','A skullcap covering the tonsure, worn under the berretta.\n   The pope\'s is white; a cardinal\'s red; a bishop\'s purple; a priest\'s\n   black.'),('Zufolo','n.','A little flute or flageolet, especially that which is used\n   to teach birds.'),('Zuisin','n.','The American widgeon.'),('Zulus','n. pl.','The most important tribe belonging to the Kaffir race.\n   They inhabit a region on the southeast coast of Africa, but formerly\n   occupied a much more extensive country. They are noted for their\n   warlike disposition, courage, and military skill.'),('Zumbooruk','n.','A small cannon supported by a swiveled rest on the back\n   of a camel, whence it is fired, -- used in the East.'),('Zumic','n.','Alt. of Zumometer'),('Zumological','n.','Alt. of Zumometer'),('Zumology','n.','Alt. of Zumometer'),('Zumometer','n.','See Zymic, Zymological, etc.'),('Zu/is','n. pl.','A tribe of Pueblo Indians occupying a village in New\n   Mexico, on the Zu/i River.'),('Zunyite','n.','A fluosilicate of alumina occurring in tetrahedral\n   crystals at the Zu/i mine in Colorado.'),('Zwanziger','n.','An Austrian silver coin equivalent to 20 kreutzers, or\n   about 10 cents.'),('Zygantra','pl. ','of Zygantrum'),('Zygantrum','n.','See under Zygosphene.'),('Zygapophyses','pl. ','of Zygapophysis'),('Zygapophysis','n.','One of the articular processes of a vertebra, of\n   which there are usually four, two anterior and two posterior. See under\n   Vertebra.'),('Zygenid','n.','Any one of numerous species of moths of the family\n   Zygaenidae, most of which are bright colored. The wood nymph and the\n   vine forester are examples. Also used adjectively.'),('Zygobranchia','n. pl.','A division of marine gastropods in which the\n   gills are developed on both sides of the body and the renal organs are\n   also paired. The abalone (Haliotis) and the keyhole limpet (Fissurella)\n   are examples.'),('Zygobranchiate','a.','Of or pertaining to the Zygobranchia.'),('Zygodactyl','n.','Alt. of Zygodactyle'),('Zygodactyle','n.','Any zygodactylous bird.'),('Zygodactylae','n. pl.','The zygodactylous birds. In a restricted sense\n   applied to a division of birds which includes the barbets, toucans,\n   honey guides, and other related birds.'),('Zygodactyli','n. pl.','Same as Scansores.'),('Zygodactylic','a.','Alt. of Zygodactylous'),('Zygodactylous','a.','Yoke-footed; having the toes disposed in pairs; --\n   applied to birds which have two toes before and two behind, as the\n   parrot, cuckoo, woodpecker, etc.'),('Zygoma','n.','The jugal, malar, or cheek bone.'),('Zygoma','n.','The zygomatic process of the temporal bone.'),('Zygoma','n.','The whole zygomatic arch.'),('Zygomatic','a.','Of, pertaining to, or in the region of, the zygoma.'),('Zygomorphic','a.','Alt. of Zygomorphous'),('Zygomorphous','a.','Symmetrical bilaterally; -- said of organisms, or\n   parts of organisms, capable of division into two symmetrical halves\n   only in a single plane.'),('Zyophyte','n.','Any plant of a proposed class or grand division\n   (Zygophytes, Zygophyta, or Zygosporeae), in which reproduction consists\n   in the union of two similar cells. Cf. Oophyte.'),('Zygosis','n.','Same as Conjugation.'),('Zygosperm','n.','A spore formed by the union of the contents of two\n   similar cells, either of the same or of distinct individual plants.\n   Zygosperms are found in certain orders of algae and fungi.'),('Zygosphene','n.','A median process on the front part of the neural arch\n   of the vertebrae of most snakes and some lizards, which fits into a\n   fossa, called the zygantrum, on the back part of the arch in front.'),('Zygospore','n.','Same as Zygosperm.'),('Zygospore','n.','A spore formed by the union of several zoospores; --\n   called also zygozoospore.'),('Zylonite','n.','Celluloid.'),('Zymase','n.','A soluble ferment, or enzyme. See Enzyme.'),('Zyme','n.','A ferment.'),('Zyme','n.','The morbific principle of a zymotic disease.'),('Zymic','a.','Pertaining to, or produced by, fermentation; -- formerly, by\n   confusion, used to designate lactic acid.'),('Zymogen','n.','A mother substance, or antecedent, of an enzyme or\n   chemical ferment; -- applied to such substances as, not being\n   themselves actual ferments, may by internal changes give rise to a\n   ferment.'),('Zymogene','n.','One of a physiological group of globular bacteria which\n   produces fermentations of diverse nature; -- distinguished from\n   pathogene.'),('Zymogenic','a.','Pertaining to, or formed by, a zymogene.'),('Zymogenic','a.','Capable of producing a definite zymogen or ferment.'),('Zymologic','a.','Alt. of Zymological'),('Zymological','a.','Of or pertaining to zymology.'),('Zymologist','n.','One who is skilled in zymology, or in the fermentation\n   of liquors.'),('Zymology','n.','A treatise on the fermentation of liquors, or the\n   doctrine of fermentation.'),('Zymome','n.','A glutinous substance, insoluble in alcohol, resembling\n   legumin; -- now called vegetable fibrin, vegetable albumin, or gluten\n   casein.'),('Zymometer','n.','Alt. of Zymosimeter'),('Zymosimeter','n.','An instrument for ascertaining the degree of\n   fermentation occasioned by the mixture of different liquids, and the\n   degree of heat which they acquire in fermentation.'),('Zymophyte','n.','A bacteroid ferment.'),('Zymose','n.','Invertin.'),('Zymosis','n.','A fermentation; hence, an analogous process by which an\n   infectious disease is believed to be developed.'),('Zymosis','n.','A zymotic disease.'),('Zymotic','a.','Of, pertaining to, or caused by, fermentation.'),('Zymotic','a.','Designating, or pertaining to, a certain class of\n   diseases. See Zymotic disease, below.'),('Zythem','n.','See Zythum.'),('Zythepsary','n.','A brewery.'),('Zythum','n.','A kind of ancient malt beverage; a liquor made from malt\n   and wheat.');


