WITWALL
WITWALL, noun A bird, the great spotted woodpecker.
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American Dictionary of the English Language, Noah Webster, 1828.
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WIVE
WIVE, verb intransitive [from wife.] to marry. [Not in use.]WIVE, verb transitive1. To match to a wife.2. To take for a wife. [Not in use.]
WIVEHOOD
WIVEHOOD, noun Behavior becoming a wife. [It should be wifehood.]
WIVELESS
WIVELESS, adjective Not having a wife. [It should be wifeless.]
WIVELY
WIVELY, adjective Pertaining to a wife. [It should be wifely.]
WIVER
WIVER, WIVERIN, noun A kind of heraldric dragon.
WIVERIN
WIVER, WIVERIN noun A kind of heraldric dragon.
WIVES
WIVES, plural of wife.
WIZARD
WIZARD, noun [from wise.] A conjurer; an enchanter; a sorcerer. Leviticus 20:27.The wily wizard must be caught.WIZARD, adjective1. Enchanting; charming.2. Haunted by wizards.
WIZEN
WIZEN, verb intransitive To wither; to dry. [Local.]
WO
WO, noun [G.]1. Grief; sorrow; misery; a heavy calamity.One who is past; and behold, there come two woes more hereafter. Revelations 9.They weep each others wo2. A curse.Can the...
WOAD
WOAD, noun [G.] A plant of the genus Isatis, cultivated for the use of dyers. The woad blue is a very deep blue, and is the base of many other colors or shades of color. woad is...
WOAD-MILL
WOAD-MILL, noun A mill for bruising and preparing woad.
WOBEGONE
WOBEGONE, adjective [wo, be, and gone.] Overwhelmed with wo; immersed in grief and sorrow.So wobegone was he with pains of love.
WODANIUM
WODANIUM, noun A metal recently discovered in a species of pyrite, found in Hungary, which had been supposed to be an ore of cobalt. It has a bronze yellow color.
WOESOME
WOESOME, adjective Wosum. Woful. [Not in use.]
WOFT
WOFT, for waft. [Not in use.]
WOFUL
WOFUL, adjective1. Sorrowful; distressed with grief or calamity; afflicted.How many woful widows left to bow to sad disgrace!2. Sorrowful; mournful; full of distress; as woful d...
WOFULLY
WOFULLY, adverb1. Sorrowfully; mournfully; in a distressing manner.2. Wretchedly; extremely; as, he will be wofully deceived.
WOFULNESS
WOFULNESS, noun Misery; calamity.
WOLD
WOLD, in Saxon, is the same as wald and weald, a wood, sometimes perhaps a lawn or plain. Wald signifies also power, dominion, from waldan, to rule. These words occur in names.
WOLF
WOLF, nounWULF. [G., Gr.]1. An animal of the genus Canis, a beast of prey that kills sheep and other small domestic animals; called sometimes the wild dog. The wolf is crafty, g...
WOLF-DOG
WOLF-DOG, noun1. A dog of a large breed, kept to guard sheep.2. A dog supposed to be bred between a dog and a wolf.
WOLF-FISH
WOLF-FISH, noun A fish, the lupus marinus, (the Anarrhichas lupus of Linne;) a fierce voracious fish of the northern seas.
WOLF-NET
WOLF-NET, noun A kind of net used in fishing, which takes great numbers.
WOLFISH
WOLFISH, adjective Like a wolf; having the qualities or form of a wolf; as a wolfish visage; wolfish designs.
WOLFRAM
WOLFRAM, noun In mineralogy, an ore of tungsten. Its color is generally a brownish of grayish black; when cut with a knife, it gives a reddish brown streak. It occurs massive an...