WAYMENT
WAYMENT, verb intransitive To lament. [Not in use.]
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American Dictionary of the English Language, Noah Webster, 1828.
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WAYWARD
WAYWARD, adjective [way and ward.] Froward; peevish; perverse; liking his own way.WAYWARD beauty doth not fancy move.
WAYWARDLY
WAYWARDLY, adverb Frowardly; perversely.
WAYWARDNESS
WAYWARDNESS, noun Forwardness; perverseness.
WAYWODE
WAYWODE, WAIWODE, noun1. In the Ottoman empire, the governor of a small town or province, which not forming a pashawlic, is the appendage of some great officer; also, a mussulma...
WAYWODESHIP
WAYWODESHIP, noun The province or jurisdiction of a waywode.
WE
WE, pronounplural of I; or rather a different word, denoting the person speaking and another or others with him. I and John, the speaker calls we or I and John and Thomas; or I ...
WEAK
WEAK, adjective [G. The primary sense of the root is to yield, fail, give way, recede, or to be soft.]1. Having little physical strength; feeble. Children are born weak; men are...
WEAK-HEARTED
WEAK-HEARTED, adjective Having little courage; dispirited.
WEAKEN
WEAKEN, verb transitive1. To lessen the strength of, or to deprive of strength; to debilitate; to enfeeble; as, to weaken the body; to weaken the mind; to weaken the hands of th...
WEAKENED
WEAKENED, participle passive Debilitated; enfeebled; reduced in strength.
WEAKENER
WEAKENER, noun He or that which weakens.
WEAKENING
WEAKENING, participle present tense Debilitating; enfeebling; reducing the strength or vigor of any thing.
WEAKLING
WEAKLING, noun A feeble creature.
WEAKLY
WEAKLY, adverb1. Feebly; with little physical strength; faintly; not forcible; as a fortress weakly defended.2. With want of efficacy.Was plighted faith so weakly seald above?3....
WEAKNESS
WEAKNESS, noun1. Want of physical strength; want of force or vigor; feebleness; as the weakness of a child; the weakness of an invalid; the weakness of a wall or bridge, or of t...
WEAKSIDE
WEAKSIDE, noun [weak and side.] Foible; deficience; failing; infirmity.
WEAL
WEAL, noun [G., Latin, to be strong, to avail, to prevail. The primary sense of weal is strength, soundness, from the sense of straining, stretching or advancing.]1. A sound sta...
WEALSMAN
WEALSMAN, noun [weal and man.] A name given sneeringly to a politician.
WEALTH
WEALTH, noun1. Prosperity; external happiness.2. Riches; large possessions of money, goods or land; that abundance of worldly estate which exceeds the estate of the greater part...
WEALTHILY
WEALTHILY, adverb Richly.
WEALTHINESS
WEALTHINESS, noun State of being wealthy; richness.
WEALTHY
WEALTHY, adjective Rich; having large possessions in lands, goods, money or securities, or larger than the generality of men; opulent; affluent. As wealth is a comparative thing...
WEAN
WEAN, verb transitive [G. See Wont.]1. To accustom and reconcile, as a child or other young animal, to a want or deprivation of the breast.And the child grew, and was weaned. Ge...
WEANED
WEANED, participle passive Accustomed or reconciled to the want of the breast or other object of desire.
WEANEL
WEANEL, WEANLING, noun A child or other animal newly weaned.
WEANING
WEANING, participle present tense Accustoming or reconciling, as a young child or other animal, to a want of the breast; reconciling to the want of any object of desire.