(superl.) Indicating strong emotion, intense excitement, or /ewilderment; as, a wild look.

(superl.) Hard to steer; -- said of a vessel.

(n.) An uninhabited and uncultivated tract or region; a forest or desert; a wilderness; a waste; as, the wilds of America; the wilds of Africa.

(adv.) Wildly; as, to talk wild.

(n.) A trick or stratagem practiced for insnaring or deception; a sly, insidious; artifice; a beguilement; an allurement.

(v. t.) To practice artifice upon; to deceive; to beguile; to allure.

(v. i.) The state of not having; the condition of being without anything; absence or scarcity of what is needed or desired; deficiency; lack; as, a want of power or knowledge for any purpose; want of food and clothing.

(v. i.) Specifically, absence or lack of necessaries; destitution; poverty; penury; indigence; need.

(v. i.) That which is needed or desired; a thing of which the loss is felt; what is not possessed, and is necessary for use or pleasure.

(v. i.) A depression in coal strata, hollowed out before the subsequent deposition took place.

(v. t.) To be without; to be destitute of, or deficient in; not to have; to lack; as, to want knowledge; to want judgment; to want learning; to want food and clothing.

(v. t.) To have occasion for, as useful, proper, or requisite; to require; to need; as, in winter we want a fire; in summer we want cooling breezes.

(v. t.) To feel need of; to wish or long for; to desire; to crave.

(v. i.) To be absent; to be deficient or lacking; to fail; not to be sufficient; to fall or come short; to lack; -- often used impersonally with of; as, it wants ten minutes of four.

(v. i.) To be in a state of destitution; to be needy; to lack.

(v. i.) To wane.

(a.) Waning or diminished in some parts; not of uniform size throughout; -- said especially of sawed boards or timber when tapering or uneven, from being cut too near the outside of the log.

(a.) Spoiled by wet; -- said of timber.

(n.) A fair-leader.

(n.) A rope with wall knots in it with which the shrouds are set taut.

(a.) The act of guarding; watch; guard; guardianship; specifically, a guarding during the day. See the Note under Watch, n., 1.

(n.) One who, or that which, guards; garrison; defender; protector; means of guarding; defense; protection.

(n.) The state of being under guard or guardianship; confinement under guard; the condition of a child under a guardian; custody.

(n.) A guarding or defensive motion or position, as in fencing; guard.

(n.) One who, or that which, is guarded.

(n.) A minor or person under the care of a guardian; as, a ward in chancery.

(n.) A division of a county.

(n.) A division, district, or quarter of a town or city.

(n.) A division of a forest.

(n.) A division of a hospital; as, a fever ward.

(n.) A projecting ridge of metal in the interior of a lock, to prevent the use of any key which has not a corresponding notch for passing it.

(n.) A notch or slit in a key corresponding to a ridge in the lock which it fits; a ward notch.

(n.) To keep in safety; to watch; to guard; formerly, in a specific sense, to guard during the day time.

(n.) To defend; to protect.

(n.) To defend by walls, fortifications, etc.

(n.) To fend off; to repel; to turn aside, as anything mischievous that approaches; -- usually followed by off.

(v. i.) To be vigilant; to keep guard.

(v. i.) To act on the defensive with a weapon.

(n.) Work; a building.

(superl.) Having heat in a moderate degree; not cold as, warm milk.

(superl.) Having a sensation of heat, esp. of gentle heat; glowing.

(superl.) Subject to heat; having prevalence of heat, or little or no cold weather; as, the warm climate of Egypt.

(superl.) Fig.: Not cool, indifferent, lukewarm, or the like, in spirit or temper; zealous; ardent; fervent; excited; sprightly; irritable; excitable.

(superl.) Violent; vehement; furious; excited; passionate; as, a warm contest; a warm debate.

(superl.) Being well off as to property, or in good circumstances; forehanded; rich.

(superl.) In children's games, being near the object sought for; hence, being close to the discovery of some person, thing, or fact concealed.

(superl.) Having yellow or red for a basis, or in their composition; -- said of colors, and opposed to cold which is of blue and its compounds.

(a.) To communicate a moderate degree of heat to; to render warm; to supply or furnish heat to; as, a stove warms an apartment.

(a.) To make engaged or earnest; to interest; to engage; to excite ardor or zeal; to enliven.

(v. i.) To become warm, or moderately heated; as, the earth soon warms in a clear day summer.

(v. i.) To become ardent or animated; as, the speake/ warms as he proceeds.

(n.) The act of warming, or the state of being warmed; a warming; a heating.

(v. t.) To refuse.

(v. t.) To make ware or aware; to give previous information to; to give notice to; to notify; to admonish; hence, to notify or summon by authority; as, to warn a town meeting; to warn a tenant to quit a house.

(v. t.) To give notice to, of approaching or probable danger or evil; to caution against anything that may prove injurious.

(v. t.) To ward off.

(n.) A small, usually hard, tumor on the skin formed by enlargement of its vascular papillae, and thickening of the epidermis which covers them.

(n.) An excrescence or protuberance more or less resembling a true wart; specifically (Bot.), a glandular excrescence or hardened protuberance on plants.

(a.) Cautious of danger; carefully watching and guarding against deception, artifices, and dangers; timorously or suspiciously prudent; circumspect; scrupulous; careful.

(a.) Characterized by caution; guarded; careful.

(n.) A bundle of straw, or other material, to relieve the pressure of burdens carried upon the head.

(v. i.) To cry as a cat; to squall; to wail.

(a.) Worse.

(a.) Rising or swelling in waves; full of waves.

(a.) Playing to and fro; undulating; as, wavy flames.

(a.) Undulating on the border or surface; waved.

(v. i.) See Waul.

(a.) Resembling wax in appearance or consistency; viscid; adhesive; soft; hence, yielding; pliable; impressible.

(v. i.) Wanting physical strength.

(v. i.) Deficient in strength of body; feeble; infirm; sickly; debilitated; enfeebled; exhausted.

(v. i.) Not able to sustain a great weight, pressure, or strain; as, a weak timber; a weak rope.

(v. i.) Not firmly united or adhesive; easily broken or separated into pieces; not compact; as, a weak ship.

(v. i.) Not stiff; pliant; frail; soft; as, the weak stalk of a plant.

(v. i.) Not able to resist external force or onset; easily subdued or overcome; as, a weak barrier; as, a weak fortress.

(v. i.) Lacking force of utterance or sound; not sonorous; low; small; feeble; faint.

(v. i.) Not thoroughly or abundantly impregnated with the usual or required ingredients, or with stimulating and nourishing substances; of less than the usual strength; as, weak tea, broth, or liquor; a weak decoction or solution; a weak dose of medicine.

(v. i.) Lacking ability for an appropriate function or office; as, weak eyes; a weak stomach; a weak magistrate; a weak regiment, or army.

(v. i.) Not possessing or manifesting intellectual, logical, moral, or political strength, vigor, etc.

(v. i.) Feeble of mind; wanting discernment; lacking vigor; spiritless; as, a weak king or magistrate.

(v. i.) Resulting from, or indicating, lack of judgment, discernment, or firmness; unwise; hence, foolish.

(v. i.) Not having full confidence or conviction; not decided or confirmed; vacillating; wavering.

(v. i.) Not able to withstand temptation, urgency, persuasion, etc.; easily impressed, moved, or overcome; accessible; vulnerable; as, weak resolutions; weak virtue.

(v. i.) Wanting in power to influence or bind; as, weak ties; a weak sense of honor of duty.

(v. i.) Not having power to convince; not supported by force of reason or truth; unsustained; as, a weak argument or case.

(v. i.) Wanting in point or vigor of expression; as, a weak sentence; a weak style.

(v. i.) Not prevalent or effective, or not felt to be prevalent; not potent; feeble.

(v. i.) Lacking in elements of political strength; not wielding or having authority or energy; deficient in the resources that are essential to a ruler or nation; as, a weak monarch; a weak government or state.

(v. i.) Tending towards lower prices; as, a weak market.

(v. i.) Pertaining to, or designating, a verb which forms its preterit (imperfect) and past participle by adding to the present the suffix -ed, -d, or the variant form -t; as in the verbs abash, abashed; abate, abated; deny, denied; feel, felt. See Strong, 19 (a).

(v. i.) Pertaining to, or designating, a noun in Anglo-Saxon, etc., the stem of which ends in -n. See Strong, 19 (b).

(a.) To make or become weak; to weaken.

(v. t.) That which is staked or ventured; that for which one incurs risk or danger; prize; gage.

(v. t.) That for which one labors; meed; reward; stipulated payment for service performed; hire; pay; compensation; -- at present generally used in the plural. See Wages.

(n.) Goods found of which the owner is not known; originally, such goods as a pursued thief threw away to prevent being apprehended, which belonged to the king unless the owner made pursuit of the felon, took him, and brought him to justice.

(n.) Hence, anything found, or without an owner; that which comes along, as it were, by chance.

(n.) A wanderer; a castaway; a stray; a homeless child.

(v. t.) To choose; to select.

(v. t.) To lament; to bewail; to grieve over; as, to wail one's death.

(v. i.) To express sorrow audibly; to make mournful outcry; to weep.

(n.) Loud weeping; violent lamentation; wailing.

(n.) The lawful consort of a man; a woman who is united to a man in wedlock; a woman who has a husband; a married woman; -- correlative of husband.

(n.) A piece of plank two yard/ long and a foot broad.

(superl.) Living in a state of nature; inhabiting natural haunts, as the forest or open field; not familiar with, or not easily approached by, man; not tamed or domesticated; as, a wild boar; a wild ox; a wild cat.

(superl.) Growing or produced without culture; growing or prepared without the aid and care of man; native; not cultivated; brought forth by unassisted nature or by animals not domesticated; as, wild parsnip, wild camomile, wild strawberry, wild honey.

(superl.) Desert; not inhabited or cultivated; as, wild land.

(superl.) Savage; uncivilized; not refined by culture; ferocious; rude; as, wild natives of Africa or America.

(superl.) Not submitted to restraint, training, or regulation; turbulent; tempestuous; violent; ungoverned; licentious; inordinate; disorderly; irregular; fanciful; imaginary; visionary; crazy.

(superl.) Exposed to the wind and sea; unsheltered; as, a wild roadstead.

() of Wake

(n.) A streak or mark made on the skin by a rod or whip; a stripe; a wheal. See Wheal.

(n.) A ridge or streak rising above the surface, as of cloth; hence, the texture of cloth.

(n.) A timber bolted to a row of piles to secure them together and in position.

(n.) Certain sets or strakes of the outside planking of a vessel; as, the main wales, or the strakes of planking under the port sills of the gun deck; channel wales, or those along the spar deck, etc.

(n.) A wale knot, or wall knot.

(v. t.) To mark with wales, or stripes.

(v. t.) To choose; to select; specifically (Mining), to pick out the refuse of (coal) by hand, in order to clean it.

(v. i.) To move along on foot; to advance by steps; to go on at a moderate pace; specifically, of two-legged creatures, to proceed at a slower or faster rate, but without running, or lifting one foot entirely before the other touches the ground.

(v. i.) To move or go on the feet for exercise or amusement; to take one's exercise; to ramble.

(v. i.) To be stirring; to be abroad; to go restlessly about; -- said of things or persons expected to remain quiet, as a sleeping person, or the spirit of a dead person; to go about as a somnambulist or a specter.

(v. i.) To be in motion; to act; to move; to wag.

(v. i.) To behave; to pursue a course of life; to conduct one's self.

(v. i.) To move off; to depart.

(v. t.) To pass through, over, or upon; to traverse; to perambulate; as, to walk the streets.

(v. t.) To cause to walk; to lead, drive, or ride with a slow pace; as to walk one's horses.

(v. t.) To subject, as cloth or yarn, to the fulling process; to full.

(n.) The act of walking, or moving on the feet with a slow pace; advance without running or leaping.

(n.) The act of walking for recreation or exercise; as, a morning walk; an evening walk.

(n.) Manner of walking; gait; step; as, we often know a person at a distance by his walk.

(n.) That in or through which one walks; place or distance walked over; a place for walking; a path or avenue prepared for foot passengers, or for taking air and exercise; way; road; hence, a place or region in which animals may graze; place of wandering; range; as, a sheep walk.

(n.) A frequented track; habitual place of action; sphere; as, the walk of the historian.

(n.) Conduct; course of action; behavior.

(n.) The route or district regularly served by a vender; as, a milkman's walk.

(n.) The common American eider.

(n.) A small stick; a rod; a verge.

(n.) A staff of authority.

(n.) A rod used by conjurers, diviners, magicians, etc.

(n.) The mark of a stripe. See Wale.

(v. t.) To mark with stripes. See Wale.

(adv.) A sound, healthy, or prosperous state of a person or thing; prosperity; happiness; welfare.

(adv.) The body politic; the state; common wealth.

(v. t.) To promote the weal of; to cause to be prosperous.

(a.) To accustom and reconcile, as a child or other young animal, to a want or deprivation of mother's milk; to take from the breast or udder; to cause to cease to depend on the mother nourishment.

(a.) Hence, to detach or alienate the affections of, from any object of desire; to reconcile to the want or loss of anything.

(n.) A weanling; a young child.

(imp.) of Wear

(p. p.) of Wear

(imp.) of Weave

() of Weave

(n.) A period of seven days, usually that reckoned from one Sabbath or Sunday to the next.

(a. & adv.) Well.

(n.) A whirlpool.

() Alt. of Weely

(v. i.) To think; to imagine; to fancy.

(n.) The lapwing; the wipe; -- so called from its cry.

() imp. of Weep, for wept.

(imp. & p. p.) of Weep

(v. i.) Formerly, to express sorrow, grief, or anguish, by outcry, or by other manifest signs; in modern use, to show grief or other passions by shedding tears; to shed tears; to cry.

(v. i.) To lament; to complain.

(v. i.) To flow in drops; to run in drops.

(v. i.) To drop water, or the like; to drip; to be soaked.

(v. i.) To hang the branches, as if in sorrow; to be pendent; to droop; -- said of a plant or its branches.

(v. t.) To lament; to bewail; to bemoan.

(v. t.) To shed, or pour forth, as tears; to shed drop by drop, as if tears; as, to weep tears of joy.

(a. & n.) Wet.

(v. i.) To know; to wit.

() imp. & p. p. of Wave.

(n.) A thing waved, waived, or cast away; a waif.

(n.) The woof of cloth; the threads that cross the warp from selvage to selvage; the thread carried by the shuttle in weaving.

(n.) A web; a thing woven.

(n.) A New Zealand rail (Ocydromus australis) which has wings so short as to be incapable of flight.

(v. i.) To wither; to fade; also, to decay; to decline; to wane.

(v. t.) To cause to wither; to wilt.

(v. t.) To contract; to shorten.

(v. t.) To soak; also, to beat severely.

(n.) A pustule. See 2d Whelk.

(n.) A whelk.

(n.) That which, being sewed or otherwise fastened to an edge or border, serves to guard, strengthen, or adorn it

(n.) A small cord covered with cloth and sewed on a seam or border to strengthen it; an edge of cloth folded on itself, usually over a cord, and sewed down.

(n.) A hem, border, or fringe.

(n.) In shoemaking, a narrow strip of leather around a shoe, between the upper leather and sole.

(n.) In steam boilers and sheet-iron work, a strip riveted upon the edges of plates that form a butt joint.

(n.) In carpentry, a strip of wood fastened over a flush seam or joint, or an angle, to strengthen it.

(n.) In machine-made stockings, a strip, or flap, of which the heel is formed.

(n.) A narrow border, as of an ordinary, but not extending around the ends.

(v. t.) To furnish with a welt; to sew or fasten a welt on; as, to welt a boot or a shoe; to welt a sleeve.

(v. t.) To wilt.

() of Wend

(v. i.) To ween.

() imp. & p. p. of Wend; -- now obsolete except as the imperfect of go, with which it has no etymological connection. See Go.

(n.) Course; way; path; journey; direction.

() imp. & p. p. of Weep.

(v. t. & i.) To wear. See 3d Wear.

(n.) A weir. See Weir.

(v. t.) To guard; to protect.

() The imperfect indicative plural, and imperfect subjunctive singular and plural, of the verb be. See Be.

(n.) A man.

(n.) A fine for slaying a man; the money value set upon a man's life; weregild.

() The second person singular, indicative and subjunctive moods, imperfect tense, of the verb be. It is formed from were, with the ending -t, after the analogy of wast. Now used only in solemn or poetic style.

(n.) A wart.

(adv.) When.

(v. i.) Alt. of Whop

(v. i.) To throw one's self quickly, or by an abrupt motion; to turn suddenly; as, she whapped down on the floor; the fish whapped over.

(imp.) of Go

(v. t.) To draw or turn away, as by diversion; to while or while away; to cause to pass pleasantly.

(n.) See Whelk.

(superl.) Full of wiles, tricks, or stratagems; using craft or stratagem to accomplish a purpose; mischievously artful; subtle.

(n.) The expressed juice of grapes, esp. when fermented; a beverage or liquor prepared from grapes by squeezing out their juice, and (usually) allowing it to ferment.

(n.) A liquor or beverage prepared from the juice of any fruit or plant by a process similar to that for grape wine; as, currant wine; gooseberry wine; palm wine.

(n.) The effect of drinking wine in excess; intoxication.

(v. i.) To nod; to sleep; to nap.

(v. i.) To shut the eyes quickly; to close the eyelids with a quick motion.

(v. i.) To close and open the eyelids quickly; to nictitate; to blink.

(v. i.) To give a hint by a motion of the eyelids, often those of one eye only.

(v. i.) To avoid taking notice, as if by shutting the eyes; to connive at anything; to be tolerant; -- generally with at.

(v. i.) To be dim and flicker; as, the light winks.

(v. t.) To cause (the eyes) to wink.

(n.) The act of closing, or closing and opening, the eyelids quickly; hence, the time necessary for such an act; a moment.

(n.) A hint given by shutting the eye with a significant cast.

(a.) Having the taste or qualities of wine; vinous; as, grapes of a winy taste.

(n.) The lapwing.

(v. t.) To rub with something soft for cleaning; to clean or dry by rubbing; as, to wipe the hands or face with a towel.

(v. t.) To remove by rubbing; to rub off; to obliterate; -- usually followed by away, off or out. Also used figuratively.

(v. t.) To cheat; to defraud; to trick; -- usually followed by out.

(n.) Act of rubbing, esp. in order to clean.

(n.) A blow; a stroke; a hit; a swipe.

(n.) A gibe; a jeer; a severe sarcasm.

(n.) A handkerchief.

(n.) Stain; brand.

(n.) A thread or slender rod of metal; a metallic substance formed to an even thread by being passed between grooved rollers, or drawn through holes in a plate of steel.

(n.) A telegraph wire or cable; hence, an electric telegraph; as, to send a message by wire.

(v. t.) To bind with wire; to attach with wires; to apply wire to; as, to wire corks in bottling liquors.

(v. t.) To put upon a wire; as, to wire beads.

(v. t.) To snare by means of a wire or wires.

(v. t.) To send (a message) by telegraph.

(v. i.) To pass like a wire; to flow in a wirelike form, or in a tenuous stream.

(v. i.) To send a telegraphic message.

(a.) Made of wire; like wire; drawn out like wire.

(a.) Capable of endurance; tough; sinewy; as, a wiry frame or constitution.

(v.) Having knowledge; knowing; enlightened; of extensive information; erudite; learned.

(v.) Hence, especially, making due use of knowledge; discerning and judging soundly concerning what is true or false, proper or improper; choosing the best ends and the best means for accomplishing them; sagacious.

(v.) Versed in art or science; skillful; dexterous; specifically, skilled in divination.

(v.) Hence, prudent; calculating; shrewd; wary; subtle; crafty.

(v.) Dictated or guided by wisdom; containing or exhibiting wisdom; well adapted to produce good effects; judicious; discreet; as, a wise saying; a wise scheme or plan; wise conduct or management; a wise determination.

(v.) Way of being or acting; manner; mode; fashion.

(v. t.) To have a desire or yearning; to long; to hanker.

(v. t.) To desire; to long for; to hanker after; to have a mind or disposition toward.

(v. t.) To frame or express desires concerning; to invoke in favor of, or against, any one; to attribute, or cal down, in desire; to invoke; to imprecate.

(v. t.) To recommend; to seek confidence or favor in behalf of.

(n.) Desire; eager desire; longing.

(n.) Expression of desire; request; petition; hence, invocation or imprecation.

(n.) A thing desired; an object of desire.

(n.) A small bundle, as of straw or other like substance.

(n.) A whisk, or small broom.

(n.) A Will-o'-the-wisp; an ignis fatuus.

(v. t.) To brush or dress, an with a wisp.

(v. t.) To rumple.

(v.) Knew.

(pl.) of Wit

(e) (imp.) of Wit

(p. p.) of Wit

(v.) To reproach; to blame; to censure; also, to impute as blame.

(v.) Blame; reproach.

(v. i.) To marry, as a man; to take a wife.

(v. t.) To match to a wife; to provide with a wife.

(v. t.) To take for a wife; to marry.

(n.) An herbaceous cruciferous plant (Isatis tinctoria). It was formerly cultivated for the blue coloring matter derived from its leaves.

(n.) A blue dyestuff, or coloring matter, consisting of the powdered and fermented leaves of the Isatis tinctoria. It is now superseded by indigo, but is somewhat used with indigo as a ferment in dyeing.

(a.) Mad. See Wood, a.

(n.) Wood.

(imp. & p. p.) Wake.

(n.) A wood; a forest.

(n.) A plain, or low hill; a country without wood, whether hilly or not.

(n.) See Weld.

(v. t.) To strike with a lash, a cord, a rod, or anything slender and lithe; to lash; to beat; as, to whip a horse, or a carpet.

(v. t.) To drive with lashes or strokes of a whip; to cause to rotate by lashing with a cord; as, to whip a top.

(v. t.) To punish with a whip, scourge, or rod; to flog; to beat; as, to whip a vagrant; to whip one with thirty nine lashes; to whip a perverse boy.

(v. t.) To apply that which hurts keenly to; to lash, as with sarcasm, abuse, or the like; to apply cutting language to.

(v. t.) To thrash; to beat out, as grain, by striking; as, to whip wheat.

(v. t.) To beat (eggs, cream, or the like) into a froth, as with a whisk, fork, or the like.

(v. t.) To conquer; to defeat, as in a contest or game; to beat; to surpass.

(v. t.) To overlay (a cord, rope, or the like) with other cords going round and round it; to overcast, as the edge of a seam; to wrap; -- often with about, around, or over.

(v. t.) To sew lightly; specifically, to form (a fabric) into gathers by loosely overcasting the rolled edge and drawing up the thread; as, to whip a ruffle.

(v. t.) To take or move by a sudden motion; to jerk; to snatch; -- with into, out, up, off, and the like.

(v. t.) To hoist or purchase by means of a whip.

(v. t.) To secure the end of (a rope, or the like) from untwisting by overcasting it with small stuff.

(v. t.) To fish (a body of water) with a rod and artificial fly, the motion being that employed in using a whip.

(v. i.) To move nimbly; to start or turn suddenly and do something; to whisk; as, he whipped around the corner.

(v. t.) An instrument or driving horses or other animals, or for correction, consisting usually of a lash attached to a handle, or of a handle and lash so combined as to form a flexible rod.

(v. t.) A coachman; a driver of a carriage; as, a good whip.

(v. t.) One of the arms or frames of a windmill, on which the sails are spread.

(v. t.) The length of the arm reckoned from the shaft.

(v. t.) A small tackle with a single rope, used to hoist light bodies.

(v. t.) The long pennant. See Pennant (a)

(v. t.) A huntsman who whips in the hounds; whipper-in.

(v. t.) A person (as a member of Parliament) appointed to enforce party discipline, and secure the attendance of the members of a Parliament party at any important session, especially when their votes are needed.

(v. t.) A call made upon members of a Parliament party to be in their places at a given time, as when a vote is to be taken.

(v. t.) Alt. of Whop

(v. t.) To beat or strike.

(n.) Alt. of Whop

(n.) A blow, or quick, smart stroke.

(pron., a., & adv.) As an interrogative pronoun, used in asking questions regarding either persons or things; as, what is this? what did you say? what poem is this? what child is lost?

(pron., a., & adv.) As an exclamatory word: -- (a) Used absolutely or independently; -- often with a question following.

(pron., a., & adv.) Used adjectively, meaning how remarkable, or how great; as, what folly! what eloquence! what courage!

(pron., a., & adv.) Sometimes prefixed to adjectives in an adverbial sense, as nearly equivalent to how; as, what happy boys!

(pron., a., & adv.) As a relative pronoun

(pron., a., & adv.) Used substantively with the antecedent suppressed, equivalent to that which, or those [persons] who, or those [things] which; -- called a compound relative.

(pron., a., & adv.) Used adjectively, equivalent to the . . . which; the sort or kind of . . . which; rarely, the . . . on, or at, which.

(pron., a., & adv.) Used adverbially in a sense corresponding to the adjectival use; as, he picked what good fruit he saw.

(pron., a., & adv.) Whatever; whatsoever; what thing soever; -- used indefinitely.

(pron., a., & adv.) Used adverbially, in part; partly; somewhat; -- with a following preposition, especially, with, and commonly with repetition.

(n.) Something; thing; stuff.

(interrog. adv.) Why? For what purpose? On what account?

(adv.) At what time; -- used interrogatively.

(adv.) At what time; at, during, or after the time that; at or just after, the moment that; -- used relatively.

(adv.) While; whereas; although; -- used in the manner of a conjunction to introduce a dependent adverbial sentence or clause, having a causal, conditional, or adversative relation to the principal proposition; as, he chose to turn highwayman when he might have continued an honest man; he removed the tree when it was the best in the grounds.

(adv.) Which time; then; -- used elliptically as a noun.

(v. t.) To rub or on with some substance, as a piece of stone, for the purpose of sharpening; to sharpen by attrition; as, to whet a knife.

(v. t.) To make sharp, keen, or eager; to excite; to stimulate; as, to whet the appetite or the courage.

(n.) The act of whetting.

(n.) That which whets or sharpens; esp., an appetizer.

(n. & interj.) A sound like a half-formed whistle, expressing astonishment, scorn, or dislike.

(v. i.) To whistle with a shrill pipe, like a plover.

(n.) The serum, or watery part, of milk, separated from the more thick or coagulable part, esp. in the process of making cheese.

(n.) The European widgeon.

(n.) A sudden turn or start of the mind; a temporary eccentricity; a freak; a fancy; a capricious notion; a humor; a caprice.

(n.) A large capstan or vertical drum turned by horse power or steam power, for raising ore or water, etc., from mines, or for other purposes; -- called also whim gin, and whimsey.

(v. i.) To be subject to, or indulge in, whims; to be whimsical, giddy, or freakish.

(n.) Gorse; furze. See Furze.

(n.) Woad-waxed.

(n.) Same as Whinstone.

(v. i.) To whirl round, or revolve, with a whizzing noise; to fly or more quickly with a buzzing or whizzing sound; to whiz.

(v. t.) To hurry a long with a whizzing sound.

(n.) A buzzing or whizzing sound produced by rapid or whirling motion; as, the whir of a partridge; the whir of a spinning wheel.

(v. i.) To make a humming or hissing sound, like an arrow or ball flying through the air; to fly or move swiftly with a sharp hissing or whistling sound.

(n.) A hissing and humming sound.

(interj.) Stop; stand; hold. See Ho, 2.

(pron.) The objective case of who. See Who.

(v. t.) Same as Whap.

(n.) Same as Whap.

(n.) A variant of 1st Wick.

(n.) Alt. of Wich

(n.) A street; a village; a castle; a dwelling; a place of work, or exercise of authority; -- now obsolete except in composition; as, bailiwick, Warwick, Greenwick.

(n.) A narrow port or passage in the rink or course, flanked by the stones of previous players.

(n.) A bundle of fibers, or a loosely twisted or braided cord, tape, or tube, usually made of soft spun cotton threads, which by capillary attraction draws up a steady supply of the oil in lamps, the melted tallow or wax in candles, or other material used for illumination, in small successive portions, to be burned.

(v. i.) To strike a stone in an oblique direction.

(superl.) Having considerable distance or extent between the sides; spacious across; much extended in a direction at right angles to that of length; not narrow; broad; as, wide cloth; a wide table; a wide highway; a wide bed; a wide hall or entry.

(superl.) Having a great extent every way; extended; spacious; broad; vast; extensive; as, a wide plain; the wide ocean; a wide difference.

(superl.) Of large scope; comprehensive; liberal; broad; as, wide views; a wide understanding.

(superl.) Of a certain measure between the sides; measuring in a direction at right angles to that of length; as, a table three feet wide.

(superl.) Remote; distant; far.

(superl.) Far from truth, from propriety, from necessity, or the like.

(superl.) On one side or the other of the mark; too far side-wise from the mark, the wicket, the batsman, etc.

(superl.) Made, as a vowel, with a less tense, and more open and relaxed, condition of the mouth organs; -- opposed to primary as used by Mr. Bell, and to narrow as used by Mr. Sweet. The effect, as explained by Mr. Bell, is due to the relaxation or tension of the pharynx; as explained by Mr. Sweet and others, it is due to the action of the tongue. The wide of / (/ve) is / (/ll); of a (ate) is / (/nd), etc. See Guide to Pronunciation, / 13-15.

(adv.) To a distance; far; widely; to a great distance or extent; as, his fame was spread wide.

(adv.) So as to leave or have a great space between the sides; so as to form a large opening.

(adv.) So as to be or strike far from, or on one side of, an object or purpose; aside; astray.

(n.) That which is wide; wide space; width; extent.

(n.) That which goes wide, or to one side of the mark.

(n.) A woman; an adult female; -- now used in literature only in certain compounds and phrases, as alewife, fishwife, goodwife, and the like.

(n.) The grivet.

(n.) A ravine through which a brook flows; the channel of a water course, which is dry except in the rainy season.

(n.) The kittiwake.

(v. t.) To give notice to by waving something; to wave the hand to; to beckon.

(v. t.) To cause to move or go in a wavy manner, or by the impulse of waves, as of water or air; to bear along on a buoyant medium; as, a balloon was wafted over the channel.

(v. t.) To cause to float; to keep from sinking; to buoy.

(v. i.) To be moved, or to pass, on a buoyant medium; to float.

(n.) A wave or current of wind.

(n.) A signal made by waving something, as a flag, in the air.

(n.) An unpleasant flavor.

(n.) A knot, or stop, in the middle of a flag.

(v. t.) To pledge; to hazard on the event of a contest; to stake; to bet, to lay; to wager; as, to wage a dollar.

(v. t.) To expose one's self to, as a risk; to incur, as a danger; to venture; to hazard.

(v. t.) To engage in, as a contest, as if by previous gage or pledge; to carry on, as a war.

(v. t.) To adventure, or lay out, for hire or reward; to hire out.

(v. t.) To put upon wages; to hire; to employ; to pay wages to.

(v. t.) To give security for the performance of.

(v. i.) To bind one's self; to engage.

(n.) The belly; the abdomen.

(n.) The uterus. See Uterus.

(n.) The place where anything is generated or produced.

(n.) Any cavity containing and enveloping anything.

(v. t.) To inclose in a womb, or as in a womb; to breed or hold in secret.

(a.) To dwell; to abide.

(a.) Dwelling; habitation; abode.

(a.) Custom; habit; wont; use; usage.

(n.) The threads that cross the warp in a woven fabric; the weft; the filling; the thread usually carried by the shuttle in weaving.

(n.) Texture; cloth; as, a pall of softest woof.

(n.) The soft and curled, or crisped, species of hair which grows on sheep and some other animals, and which in fineness sometimes approaches to fur; -- chiefly applied to the fleecy coat of the sheep, which constitutes a most essential material of clothing in all cold and temperate climates.

(n.) Short, thick hair, especially when crisped or curled.

(n.) A sort of pubescence, or a clothing of dense, curling hairs on the surface of certain plants.

(n.) Dwelling. See Wone.

() imp. of Wear.

() imp. of Ware.

() p. p. of Wear.

(n.) A plant of any kind.

(n.) Cabbages.

(n.) An infusion of malt which is unfermented, or is in the act of fermentation; the sweet infusion of malt, which ferments and forms beer; hence, any similar liquid in a state of incipient fermentation.

() 2d pers. sing. pres. of Wit, to know.

() p. pr. & rare vb. n. of Weave.

(a.) Angry; vexed; wrathful.

(v. i.) To wriggle.

(obs.) 3d pers. sing. pres. of Write, for writeth.

() imp. & p. p. of Write.

(n.) That which is written; writing; scripture; -- applied especially to the Scriptures, or the books of the Old and New testaments; as, sacred writ.

(n.) An instrument in writing, under seal, in an epistolary form, issued from the proper authority, commanding the performance or nonperformance of some act by the person to whom it is directed; as, a writ of entry, of error, of execution, of injunction, of mandamus, of return, of summons, and the like.

(Archaic imp. & p. p.) of Write

(v. t. & i.) See 2d Will.

() Alt. of Wuste

(pl. ) of Wye

(n.) Week.

(n.) A narrow lane or alley.

(n.) The wipe, or lapwing.

() Alt. of Wyten

(prep.) To denote a connection of friendship, support, alliance, assistance, countenance, etc.; hence, on the side of.

(prep.) To denote the accomplishment of cause, means, instrument, etc; -- sometimes equivalent to by.

(prep.) To denote association in thought, as for comparison or contrast.

(prep.) To denote simultaneous happening, or immediate succession or consequence.

(prep.) To denote having as a possession or an appendage; as, the firmament with its stars; a bride with a large fortune.

(a.) Using or doing customarily; accustomed; habituated; used.

(n.) Custom; habit; use; usage.

(imp.) of Wont

(p. p.) of Wont

(v. i.) To be accustomed or habituated; to be used.

(v. t.) To accustom; -- used reflexively.

(n.) See Withe.

(prep.) With denotes or expresses some situation or relation of nearness, proximity, association, connection, or the like.

(prep.) To denote a close or direct relation of opposition or hostility; -- equivalent to against.

(prep.) To denote association in respect of situation or environment; hence, among; in the company of.

(v. t.) To snatch up; transport; -- chiefly used in the p. p. wrapt.

(v. t.) To wind or fold together; to arrange in folds.

(v. t.) To cover by winding or folding; to envelop completely; to involve; to infold; -- often with up.

(v. t.) To conceal by enveloping or infolding; to hide; hence, to involve, as an effect or consequence; to be followed by.

(n.) A wrapper; -- often used in the plural for blankets, furs, shawls, etc., used in riding or traveling.