Washtub
Wash″tub′ (?), n. A tub in which clothes are washed.
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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, C. & G. Merriam Co., 1913.
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Washy
Wash″y (?), a. [From Wash.] 1. Watery; damp; soft. “Washy ooze.” Milton.2. Lacking substance or strength; weak; thin; dilute; feeble; as, washy tea; washy resolutions.A polish.....
Wasite
Wa″site (?), n. [See Wasium.] (Min.) A variety of allanite from Sweden supposed to contain wasium.
Wasium
Wa″si‐um (?), n. [NL. So called from Wasa, or Vasa, the name of a former royal family of Sweden.] (Chem.) A rare element supposed by Bahr to have been extracted from wasite, but...
Wasp
Wasp (?), n. [OE. waspe, AS. wæps, wæfs; akin to D. wesp, G. wespe, OHG. wafsa, wefsa, Lith. vapsa gadfly, Russ. osa wasp, L. vespa, and perhaps to E. weave.] (Zoöl.) Any one of...
Waspish
Wasp″ish (?), a. 1. Resembling a wasp in form; having a slender waist, like a wasp.2. Quick to resent a trifling affront; characterized by snappishness; irritable; irascible; pe...
Wassail
Was″sail (?), n. [AS. wes hāl (or an equivalent form in another dialect) be in health, which was the form of drinking a health. The form wes is imperative. See Was, and Whole.]1...
Wassail (2)
Was″sail, a. Of or pertaining to wassail, or to a wassail; convivial; as, a wassail bowl. “Awassail candle, my lord, all tallow.” Shak.Wassail bowl, a bowl in which wassail was ...
Wassail (3)
Was″sail, v. i. To hold a wassail; to carouse.Spending all the day, and good part of the night, in dancing, caroling, and wassailing. Sir P. Sidney.
Wassailer
Was″sail‐er (?), n. One who drinks wassail; one who engages in festivity, especially in drinking; a reveler.The rudeness and swilled insolenceOf such late wassailers. Milton.
Wast
Wast (?). The second person singular of the verb be, in the indicative mood, imperfect tense; — now used only in solemn or poetical style. See Was.
Wastage
Wast″age (?), n. Loss by use, decay, evaporation, leakage, or the like; waste.
Waste
Waste (?), a. [OE. wast, OF. wast, from L. vastus, influenced by the kindred German word; cf. OHG. wuosti, G. wüst, OS. w�sti, D. woest, AS. wēste. Cf. Vast.]1. Desolate; devast...
Waste (2)
Waste, v. t. [imp. & p. p.Wasted; p. pr. & vb. n.Wasting.] [OE. wasten, OF. waster, guaster, gaster, F. gâter to spoil, L. vastare to devastate, to lay waste, fr. vastus waste, ...
Waste (3)
Waste (?), v. i. 1. To be diminished; to lose bulk, substance, strength, value, or the like, gradually; to be consumed; to dwindle; to grow less.The time wasteth night and day. ...
Waste (4)
Waste, n. [OE. waste; cf. the kindred AS. w�sten, OHG. w�stī, wuostī, G. wüste. See Waste, a. & v.]1. The act of wasting, or the state of being wasted; a squandering; needless d...
Waste (5)
Waste, n.(Phys. Geog.) Material derived by mechanical and chemical erosion from the land, carried by streams to the sea.
Wastebasket
Waste″bas′ket (?), n. A basket used in offices, libraries, etc., as a receptacle for waste paper.
Wasteboard
Waste″board′ (?), n.(Naut.) See Washboard, 3.
Wastebook
Waste″book′ (?), n.(Com.) A book in which rough entries of transactions are made, previous to their being carried into the journal.
Wasteful
Waste″ful (?), a. 1. Full of waste; destructive to property; ruinous; as, wasteful practices or negligence; wasteful expenses.2. Expending, or tending to expend, property, or th...
Wastel
Was″tel (?), n. [OF. wastel, gastel, F. gâteau, LL. wastellus, fr. MHG. wastel a kind of bread; cf. OHG. & AS. wist food.] A kind of white and fine bread or cake; — called also ...
Wasteness
Waste″ness (?), n. 1. The quality or state of being waste; a desolate state or condition; desolation.A day of trouble and distress, a day of wasteness. Zeph. i. 15.2. That which...
Waster
Wast″er (?), n. [OE. wastour, OF. wasteor, gasteor. See Waste, v. t.]1. One who, or that which, wastes; one who squanders; one who consumes or expends extravagantly; a spendthri...
Wastethrift
Waste″thrift′ (?), n. A spendthrift.
Wasteweir
Waste″weir′ (?), n. An overfall, or weir, for the escape, or overflow, of superfluous water from a canal, reservoir, pond, or the like.
Wasting
Wast″ing, a. Causing waste; also, undergoing waste; diminishing; as, a wasting disease; a wasting fortune.Wasting palsy(Med.), progressive muscular atrophy. See under Progressive.