WEANLING
WEANEL, WEANLING noun A child or other animal newly weaned.
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American Dictionary of the English Language, Noah Webster, 1828.
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WEAPON
WEAPON, noun [G., Latin]1. Any instrument of offense; any thing used or designed to be used in destroying or annoying an enemy. The weapons of rude nations are clubs, stones and...
WEAPON-SALVE
WEAPON-SALVE, noun [weapon and salve.] A salve which was supposed to cure the wound, by being applied to the weapon that made it.
WEAPONED
WEAPONED, adjective Wepnd. Armed; furnished with weapons or arms; equipped.
WEAPONLESS
WEAPONLESS, adjective Unarmed; having no weapon.
WEAR
WEAR, verb transitivepreterit tense wore; participle passive worn.1. To waste or impair by rubbing or attrition; to lessen or diminish by time, use or instruments. A current of ...
WEARABLE
WEARABLE, adjective That can be worn.
WEARD
WEARD, Sax. A warden, in names, denotes watchfulness or care, but it must not be confounded with ward, in toward.
WEARER
WEARER, noun [from wear.]1. One who wears or carries as appendant to the body; as the wearer of a cloke, a sword or a crown.2. That which wastes or diminishes.
WEARINESS
WEARINESS, noun [from weary.]1. The state of being weary or tired; that lassitude or exhaustion of strength which is induced by labor; fatigue.With weariness and wine oppresd.2....
WEARING
WEARING, participle present tense1. Bearing on or appendant to the person; diminishing by friction; consuming.2.adjective Denoting what is worn; as wearing apparel.WEARING, noun...
WEARISH
WEARISH, adjective1. Boggy; watery. [Not in use.]2. Weak; washy. [Not in use.]
WEARISOME
WEARISOME, adjective [from weary.] Causing weariness; tiresome; tedious; fatiguing; as a wearisome march; a wearisome days work.WEARISOME nights are appointed unto me. Job 7:3.
WEARISOMELY
WEARISOMELY, adverb Tediously; so as to cause weariness.
WEARISOMENESS
WEARISOMENESS, noun The quality of exhausting strength or patience; tiresomeness; tediousness; as the wearisomeness of toil, or of waiting long in anxious expectation.
WEARY
WEARY, adjective1. Having the strength much exhausted by toil or violent exertion; tired; fatigued. [It should be observed however that this word expresses less than tired, part...
WEASAND
WEASAND, WESAND, noun s as z. The windpipe or trachea; the canal through which air passes to and from the lungs.
WEASEL
WEASEL, WEESEL, noun s as z. A small animal of the genus Mustela, which lives under the roots of trees, or in other holes, and feeds on small birds, but particularly on mice. A ...
WEASEL-COOT
WEASEL-COOT, noun The red headed smew or Mergus minutus.
WEATHER
WEATHER, noun Wether. [G., The primary sense of this word is air, wind or atmosphere; probably the Gr., whence ether.] Properly, the air; hence,1. The state of the air or atmosp...
WEATHER-BEATEN
WEATHER-BEATEN, adjective [weather and beaten.] Beaten or harassed by the weather.
WEATHER-BIT
WEATHER-BIT, noun A turn of the cable about the end of the windlass, without the knight-heads.
WEATHER-BOARD
WEATHER-BOARD, noun That side of a ship which is towards the wind; the windward side. So in other words, weather signifies towards the wind or windward; as, in weather-bow, weat...
WEATHER-BOARDING
WEATHER-BOARDING, noun The act of nailing up boards against a wall; or the boards themselves.
WEATHER-BOARDS
WEATHER-BOARDS, noun Pieces of plank placed in the ports of a ship, when laid up in ordinary.
WEATHER-CLOTHS
WEATHER-CLOTHS, noun Long pieces of canvas or tarpaulin used to preserve the hammocks from injury by the weather when stowed, or to defend persons from the wind and spray.
WEATHER-COCK
WEATHER-COCK, noun [weather and cock.]1. Something in the shape of a cock placed on the stop of a spire, which by turning, shows the direction of the wind; a vane, or weather-va...