WELTERING
WELTERING, participle present tense Rolling; wallowing; as in mire, blood, or other filthy matter.
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American Dictionary of the English Language, Noah Webster, 1828.
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WEM
WEM, noun A spot; a scar.WEM, verb intransitive To corrupt.
WEN
WEN, noun An encysted swelling or tumor; also, a fleshy excrescence growing on animals, sometimes to a large size.
WENCH
WENCH, noun1. A young woman. [Little used.]2. A young woman of ill fame.3. In America, a black or colored female servant; a negress.WENCH, verb intransitive To frequent the comp...
WENCHER
WENCHER, noun A lewd man.
WENCHING
WENCHING, participle present tense Frequenting women of ill fame.
WEND
WEND, verb intransitive1. To go; to pass to or from. [Obsolete, except in poetry; but its preterit, went, is in common use.]2. To turn round. [Wend and wind are from the same ro...
WENNEL
WENNEL, noun A weanel. [See Weanel.]
WENNISH
WENNISH, WENNY, adjective [from wen.] Having the nature of a wen.
WENNY
WENNISH, WENNY adjective [from wen.] Having the nature of a wen.
WENT
WENT, preterit tense of the obsolete verb wend. We now arrange went in grammar as the preterit of go, but in origin it has no connection with it.
WEPT
WEPT, preterit tense and participle passive of weep.When he had come near, he beheld the city and wept over it. Luke 19:41.
WERE
WERE, pronoun er, which when prolonged, becomes ware. This is used as the imperfect tense plural of be; we were you were they were; and in some other tenses. It is the Danish ve...
WEREGILD
WEREGILD, noun Formerly, the price of a mans head; a compensation paid for a man killed, partly to the king for the loss of a subject, and partly tot he lord of the vassal, and ...
WERNERIAN
WERNERIAN, adjective Pertaining to Werner, the German mineralogist, who arranged minerals in classes, etc. according to their external characters.
WERNERITE
WERNERITE, noun A mineral, regarded by Werener as a subspecies of scapolite; called foliated scapolite. It is named from that distinguished mineralogist, Werner. It is found mas...
WERT
WERT, the second person singular of the subjunctive imperfect tense of be. [See Were.]Werth, worth, in names, signifies a farm, court or village.First occurrence in the Bible(KJ...
WESAND
WEASAND, WESAND noun s as z. The windpipe or trachea; the canal through which air passes to and from the lungs.
WESIL
WESIL, for weasand. [Not in use.]
WEST
WEST, noun [Latin, a decline or fall, departure. In elements, it coincides with waste.]1. In strictness, that point of the horizon where the sun sets at the equinox, or any poin...
WESTERING
WESTERING, adjective Passing to the west. [I believe not now used.]
WESTERLY
WESTERLY, adjective1. Being towards the west; situated in the western region; as the westerly parts of England.2. Moving from the westward; as a westerly wind.WESTERLY, adverb T...
WESTERN
WESTERN, adjective1. Being in the west, or int he region nearly in the direction of west; being in that quarter where the sun sets; as the western shore of France; the western o...
WESTING
WESTING, noun Space or distance westward; or departure; as the westing and southing of a ship.
WESTWARD
WESTWARD, adverb [Latin] Towards the west; as, to ride or sail westward
WESTWARDLY
WESTWARDLY, adverb In a direction towards the west; as, to pass westwardly
WET
WET, adjective [Gr., Latin]1. Containing water, as wet land, or a wet cloth; or having water or other liquid upon the surface, as a wet table. wet implies more water or liquid t...