WABBLE, verb intransitive To move from one side to the other; to vacillate; as a turning or whirling body. So it is said a top wabbles, when it is in motion, and deviates from a perpendicular direction; a spindle wabbles, when it moves one way and the other. [This word is applied chiefly to bodies when turning with a circular motion, and its place canot be supplied by any other word in the language. It is neither low nor barbarous.]

WACKE,

WACKY, noun A rock nearly allied to basalt, of which it may be regarded as a more soft and earthy variety. Its color is a greenish gray, brown or black. It is opake, yields easily to the knife, and has a greasy feel. Its principal ingredient is silex. Gray wacky is a different species of rock, being a kind of sandstone. wacky is a mineral sunstance intermediate between clay and basalt.

WAD, noun

1. A little mass of some soft or flexible material, such as hay, straw, tow, paper, or old ropeyarn, used for stopping the charge of powder in a gun and pressing it close to the shot, or for keeping the powder and shot close.

2. A little mass, tuft or bundle, as of hay or peas.

WADD, noun In mineralogy, a black wadd is a species of ore of manganese, of which there are four kinds; fibrous, ochery, pulverulent ochery, and dendritic. In some places, plumbago or black lead is called wad or wadd

WADDED, adjective Formed into a wad or mass.

WADDING, noun

1. A wad, or the materials for wads; any pliable substance of which wads may be made.

2. A kind of soft stuff of loose texture, used for stuffing garments.

WADDLE, verb intransitive

1. To move one way and the other in walking; to deviate to one side and the other; to vacillate; as, a child waddles when he begins to walk; very fat peole walk with a kind of waddling pace. So we say, a duck or a goose waddles.

2. To walk with a waddling motion.

And hardly waddles forth to cool

WADDLING, participle present tense Moving from side to side in walking.

WADDLINGLY, adverb With a vacillating gait.

WADE, verb intransitive

1. To walk through any substance that yields to the feet; as, to wade through water; to wade through sand or snow; . To wade over a river, is to walk through on the bottom. Fowls that wade have long legs.

2. To move or pass with difficulty or labor; as, judges wade through an intriccate law case. it is not my purpose to wade through these controversies.

The kings admirable conduct has waded through all these difficulties.

And wades through fumes and gropes his way.

WADE, verb transitive To pass by walking on the bottom; as, to wade a river. [this is a common expression, but elliptical for to wade through a river.]

WADING, participle present tense Walking through a substance that yields to the feet, as through water or sand.

WADSETT, noun An ancient tenure or lease of land in the highlands of Scotland, which seems to have been a kind of mortgage.

WADSETTER, noun One who holds by wadsett.

WAFER, noun

1. A thin cake or leaf; as a wafer of bread given by the Romanists in the Eucharist.

2. A thin leaf of paste, or a composition of flour, the white of eggs, isinglass and yeast, spread over with gumwater and dried; used in sealing letters.

WAFER, verb transitive To seal or close with a wafer

WAFT, verb transitive

1. To bear through a fluid or bouyant medium; to convey through water or air; as, a balloon was wafted over the channel.

Speed the soft intercourse from soul to soul, and waft a sigh from Indus to the pole.

2. To convey; as ships.

3. To bouy; to cause to float; to keep from sinking.

4. To beckon; to give notice by something in motion. [Not in use.]

[This verb is regular. But waft was formerly used by some writers for wafted.]

WAFT, verb intransitive To float; to be moved or to pass in a bouyant medium.

And now the shouts waft near the citadel.

WAFT, noun A floating body; also, a signal displayed from a ships stern, by hoisting an ensign furled in a roll, to the head of the staff.

WAFTAGE, noun Conveyance or transportation through a bouyant medium, as air or water. [Not in use.]

WAFTED, participle passive Borne or conveyed through air or water.

WAFTER, noun

1. He or that which wafts; a passage boat.

2. The conductor of vessels at sea; an old word.

WAFTING, participle present tense Carrying through a bouyant medium.

WAFTURE, noun The act of waving. [Not in use.]

WAG, verb transitive To move one way and the other with quick turns; to move a little way, and then turn the other way; as, to wag the head.

Every one that passeth thereby shall be astonished, and wag his head. Jeremiah 18:16. Matthew 27:1. [Wag expresses particulary the motion of the head and body used in buffoonery, mirth, derision, sport and mockery. It is applied also to birds and beasts; as, to wag the tail.]

WAG, verb intransitive

1. To be quick in ludicrous motion; to stir.

Tis merry in hall, where beards wag all.

Tremble and start at wagging of a straw.

2. To go; to depart; to pack offf.

I will provoke him tot, or let him wag

3. To be moved one way and the other.

The resty sieve waggd neer the more.

WAG, noun A droll; a man full of low sport and humor; a ludicrous fellow.

We wink at wags, when they offend.

The counselor never pleaded without a piece of packthread in his hand, which he used to twist about his finger all the while he was speaking; the wags used to call it the thread of his discourse.

WAGE, verb transitive

1. To lay; to bet; to throw down as a pledge; to stake; to put at hazard on the event of a contest. Thisis the common popular sense of the word in New England; as, to wage a dollar; to wage a horse.

2. To venture; to hazard.

To wake and wage a danger profitless.

3. To make; to begin; to carry on; that is, to go forward or advance to attack, as in invasion or aggression; used in the phrase, to wage war. he waged war with all his enemies.

He ponderd which of all his sons was fit

To reign, and wage immortal war with wit.

4. To set to hire.

Thou must wage Thy works for wealth. [Not in use.]

5. To take to hire; to hire for pay; to employ for wages; as eaged soldiers. He was well waged and rewarded.

To wage oness law, to give security to make ones law. The defendent is then to swear that he owes nothing to the plaintiff, and eleven neighbors, called compurgators, are to avow upon their oaths, that they believe in their consciences he has declared the truth. This is called wager of law.

WAGED, participle passive laid; deposited; as a pledge; made or gegun, as war.

WAGEL, noun

1. A name given in Cornwall to the martinazzo, dunghunter, or dungbird, a species of Larus or seagull.

+, noun Mischievous merriment; sportive trick or gayety; sarcasm in good humor; frolicksome; as a company of waggish boys.

2. Done, made or laid in waggery or for sport; as a waggish trick.

WAGER, noun

1. Something deposited, laid or hazarded on the event of a contest or some unsettled question; a bet.

Besides these plates for horseraces, the wagers may be as the persons please.

If any atheist can stake his soul for a wager against such an inexhaustible disproportion

2. Subject on which bets are laid.

3. In law, an offer to make oath of innocence or nonindebtedness; or the act of making oath, together with the oaths of eleven compurgators, to fortify the defendents oath.

WAGER of battle, is when the tenant in a writ of right, offers to prove his right by the body of his champion, and throwing down his glove as a gage or pledge, thus wages or stipulates battle with the champion or demandant, who by taking up the glove, accepts the challenge. The champions, armed with batons enter the list, and taking each other by the hand, each swears to the justice of the cause of the party for whom he appears; they then fight till the stars appear, and if the champion of the tenant can defend himself till that time, his cause prevails.

WAGER, verb transitive To lay; to bet; to hazard on the issue of a contest; or on some question that is to be decided, or on some casualty.

WAGERED, participle passive Laid; pledged; as a bet.

WAGERER, noun One who wagers or lays a bet.

WAGERING, participle present tense Laying; betting.

WAGERING policy, in commerce, a policy of insurance, insuring a sum of money when no property is at hazard; as a policy to insure money on a ship when no property is on board; that is, insurance, interest or no interest; or a wagering policy may be a policy to insure property that is already insured. Such policies in England, are by Statute 19 Geo. 3. made null and void.

WAGES, noun plural in termination, but singular in signification.

1. Hire; reward; that which is paid or stipulated for services; but chiefly for services by manual labor, or for military and naval services. We speak of servants wages a laborers wages or soldiers wages; but we never apply the word to the rewards given to men in office, which are called fees or salary. The word is however sometimes applied to the compensation given to representatives in the legislature. [U. States]

Tell me, what shall thy wages be? Genesis 29:15.

Be content with your wages Luke 3:14.

2. Reward; fruit; recompense; that which is given or received in return.

The wages of sin is death. Romans 6:23.

WAGGEL,

WAGGISHLY, adverb In a waggish manner; in sport.

WAGGISHNESS, noun Mischievous sport; wanton merriment.

WAGGLE, verb intransitive To waddle; to reel or move from side to side.

Why do you go nodding and waggling so?

WAGGLE, verb transitive To move one way and the other; as, a bird waggles its tail.

WAGON, noun

1. A vehicle moved on four wheels, and usually drawn by horses; used for the transportation of heavy commodities. In America, light wagons are used for the conveyance of families, and for carrying light commodities to market, particulary a very light kind drawn by one horse.

2. A chariot. [Not in use.]

WAGON, verb transitive To transport in a wagon Goods are wagoned from London to the interior.

WAGON, verb intransitive To practice the transportation of goods in a wagon The man wagons between Philadelphia and Pittsburg.

WAGONAGE, noun Money paid for carriage in a wagon.

WAGONER, noun

1. One who conducts a wagon.

2. A constellation, Charles wain.

WAGONING, participle present tense Transporting in a wagon.

WAGONING, noun The business of transporting in a wagon.

WAGTAIL, noun [wag and tail.] A small bird, a species of Motacilla.

WAID, adjective Crushed. [Not in use.]

WAIF, noun Goods found, of which the owner is not known. These were originally such goods as a thief, when pursued, threw away to prevent being apprehended. They belong to the king, unless the owner makes fresh suit of the felon, takes him and brings him to justice.

WAIL, verb transitive To lament; to moan; to bewail.

Or if no more her absent lord she wails--

WAIL, verb intransitive To weep; to express sorrow audibly.

Therefore I will wail and howl. Micah 1:8.

WAIL, noun Loud weeping; violent lamentation.

WAILFUL, adjective Sorrowful; mournful.

WAILING, participle present tense Lamenting with audible cries.

WAILING, noun Loud cries of sorrow; deep lamentation.

There shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth. Matthew 13:42.

WAILMENT, noun Lamentation.

WAIN, noun [See Wagon.]

1. A wagon; a carriage for the transportation of goods on wheels.

2. A constellation, Charles wain

WAINAGE, noun A finding of carriages.

WAINSCOT, noun In building, timber-work serving to line the walls of a room, being made in panels.

WAINSCOT, verb transitive

1. To line with boards; as, to wainscot a hall.

Music sounds better in chambers wainscoted than hanged.

2. To line with different materials.

The other is wainscoted with looking-glass.

WAINSCOTED, participle passive Lined with boards or panels.

WAINSCOTING, participle present tense Lining with boards.

WAIR, noun A piece of timber two yards long, and a foot broad. [I know not where used.]

WAIST, noun

1. That part of the human body which is immediately below the ribs or thorax; or the small part of the body between the thorax and hips.

2. That part of a ship which is between the quarter deck and forecastle. But in many ships now built, there is no quarter deck, and in such the waist is the middle part of the ship.

WAISTBAND, noun The band or upper pat of breeches, trousers or pantaloons, which encompasses the waist.

WAISTCLOTHS, noun Coverings of canvas or tarpauling for the hammocks, stowed on the gangways, between the quarter deck and forecastle.

WAISTCOAT, noun [waist and coat.] A short coat or garment for men, extending no lower than the hips, and covering the waist; a vest. This under garment is now generally called in America a vest.

WAISTER, noun In ships, waisters are men who are stationed in the waist in working the ship.

WAIT, verb intransitive [The sense is to stop, or to continue.]

1. To stay or rest in expectation; to stop or remain stationary, till the arrival of some person or event. Thus we say, I went to the place of meeting, and there waited an hour for the moderator or chairman. I will go to the hotel, and there wait till you come. We will wait for the mail.

2. To stay proceedings, or suspend any business, in expectation of some person, event, or the arrival of some hour. The court was obliged to wait for a witness.

3. To rest in expectation and patience.

All the days of my appointed time will I wait till my change come. Job 14:14.

4. To stay; not to depart.

Haste, my dear father, tis no time to wait

5. To stay; to continue by reason of hindrance.

6. To lie in ambush, as an enemy.

Such ambush waited to intercept thy way.

To wait on or upon, to attend, as a servant; to perform menial services for; as, to wait on a gentleman; to wait on the table.

To wait on,

1. To attend; to go to see; to visit on business or for ceremony. Tell the gentleman I will wait on him at ten oclock.

2. To pay servile or submissive attendance.

3. To follow, as a consequence; as the ruin that waits on such a supine temper. [Instead of this, we use await.]

4. To look watchfully.

It is a point of cunning to wait on him with whom you speak, with your eye. [Unusual.]

5. To attend to; to perform.

Aaron and his sons shall wait on their priests office. Numbers 3:10, 8. Romans 12:7.

6. To be ready to serve; to obey. Psalms 25:3. Proverbs 20:22.

To wait at, to attend in service; to perform service at. 1 Corinthians 9:13.

To wait for, to watch, as an enemy. Job 15:22.

WAIT, verb transitive

1. To stay for; to rest or remain stationary in expectation of the arrival of.

Awd with these words, in camps they still abide, and wait with longing eyes their promisd guide. [Elliptical for wait for.]

2. To attend; to accompany with submission or respect.

He chose a thousand horse, the flowr of all his warlike troops, to wait the funeral. [This use is not justifiable, but by poetical license.]

3. To attend as a consequence of something.

Such doom waits luxury--

[Not in use. In this sense we use attend or attend on.]

WAIT, noun Ambush. As a noun, this word is used only in certain phrases. To lie in wait is to lie in ambush; to be secreted in order to fall by surprise on an enemy; hence figuratively, to lay snares, or to make insidious attempts, or to watch for the purpose of ensnaring. Joshua 8:4.

In wait is used in a like sense by Milton.

To lay wait to set an ambush. Jeremiah 9:8.

WAITER, noun

1. One who waits; an attendant; a servant in attendance.

The waiters stand in ranks; the yeoman cry, make room, as if a duke were passing by.

2. A server; a vessel on which tea furniture, etc. is carried.

WAITING, participle present tense Staying in expectation.

WAITING on, attending; accompanying; serving.

WAITING for, staying for the arrival of.

WAITING at, staying or attending at in expectation or in service.

In waiting in attendance.

WAITS, noun

1. Itinerant nocturnal musicians. [Not in use.]

2. Nocturnal musicians who attended great men.

WAIVE, noun A woman put out of the protection of the law.

WAIWODE, noun In the Turkish empire, the governor of a small province or town; a general.

WAKE, verb intransitive [G. The primary sense is to stir, to rouse, to excite.]

1. To be awake; to continue awake; to watch; not to sleep. Psalms 127:1.

The father waketh for the daughter.

Though wisdom wakes, suspicion sleeps.

I cannot think any time, waking or sleeping, without being sensible of it.

2. To be excited or roused from sleep; to awake; to be awakened. He wakes at the slightest noise.

3. To cease to sleep; to awake.

4. To be quick; to be alive or active.

5. To be excited from a torpid state; to be put in motion. The dormant powers of nature wake from their frosty slumbers.

Gentle airs to fan the earth now wakd.

WAKE, verb transitive

1. To rouse from sleep.

The angel that talked with me, came again and waked me. Zechariah 4:1.

2. To arouse; to excite; to put in motion or action.

Prepare war, wake up the mighty men. Joel 3:9.

[The use of up is common, but not necessary.]

To wake the soul by tender strokes of art.

3. To bring to life again, as if from the sleep of death.

To second life wakd in the renovation of the just.

WAKE, noun

1. The feast of the dedication of the church, formerly kept by watching all night.

2. Vigils; state of forbearing sleep.

--Their merry wakes and pastimes keep.

3. Act of waking. [Old song.]

WAKE of a ship, the track it leaves in the water, formed by the meeting of the water, which rushes from each side to fill the space which the ship makes in passing through it.

To be in the wake of a ship, is to be in her track, or in a line with her keel.

WAKEFUL, adjective

1. Not sleeping; indisposed to sleep.

Dissembling sleep, but wakeful with the fright--

2. Watchful; vigilant.

WAKEFULLY, adverb With watching or sleeplessness.

WAKEFULNESS, noun

1. Indisposition to sleep.

2. Forbearance of sleep; want of sleep.

WAKEN, verb intransitive wakn. To wake; to cease to sleep; to be awakened.

Early Turnus wakning with the light.

WAKEN, verb transitive wakn.

1. To excite or rouse from sleep.

Go, waken Eve.

2. To excite to action or motion.

Then Homers and Tyraeus martial muse wakend the world.

3. To excite; to produce; to rouse into action.

They introduce their sacred song, and waken raptures high.

WAKENED, participle passive Roused from sleep; excited into action.

WAKENER, noun One who rouses from sleep.

WAKENING, participle present tense Rousing form sleep or stupidity; calling into action.

WAKER, noun One who watches; one who rouses from sleep.

WAKING, participle present tense

1. Being awake; not sleeping.

2. Rousing from sleep; exciting into motion or action.

WAKING, noun

1. The period of being awake.

2. Watch.

WALE, noun

1. In cloth, a ridge or streak rising above the rest. We say, cloth is wove with a wale

2. A streak or stripe; the mark of a rod or whip on animal flesh.

WALEs of a ship, an assemblage of strong planks, extending along a ships sides throughout the whole length, at different heights, and serving to strengthen the decks and form the curves. They are distinguished into the main wale and the channel wale

WALK, verb intransitive [G., to full, to felt hats; a fuller; to stir, to be agitated, to rove, to travel, to wander, to roll. Our ancestors appropriated the verb to moving on the feet, and the word is peculiarly expressive of that rolling or wagging motion which marks the walk of clownish people.]

1. To move slowly on the feet; to step slowly along; to advance by steps moderately repeated; as animals. Walking in men differs from running only in the rapidity and length of the steps; but in quadrupeds, the motion or order of the feet is sometimes changed.

At the end of twelve months, he walked in the palace of the kingdom of Babylon. Daniel 4:37.

When Peter had come down out of the ship, he walked on the water, to go to Jesus. Matthew 14:29.

2. To move or go on the feet for exercise or amusement. Hundreds of students daily walk on Downing terrace in Cambridge.

3. To appear, as a specter.

The spirits of the dead may walk again.

4. To act on any occasion.

Do you think Id walk in any plot?

5. To be in motion, as a clamorous tongue.

Her tongue did walk in foul reproach.

6. To act or move on the feet in sleep.

When was it she last walkd? [But this is unusual. When we speak of noctambulation, we say, to walk in sleep.]

7. To range; to be stirring.

Affairs that walk as they say spirits do at midnight. [Unusual.]

8. To move off; to depart.

When he comes forth he will make their cows and garrans walk [Not elegant.

9. In Scripture, to live and act or behave; to pursue a particular course of life.

To walk with God, to live in obedience to his commands, and have communion with him. Genesis 5:22.

To walk in darkness, to live in ignorance, error and sin, without comfort. 1 John 1:36.

To walk in the light, to live int he practice of religion, and to enjoy its consolations. 1 John 1:36.

To walk by faith, to live in the firm belief of the gospel and its promises, and to rely on Christ for salvation. 2 Corinthians 5:7.

To walk through the fire, to be exercised with severe afflictions. Isaiah 43:2.

To walk after the flesh, to indulge sensual appetites, and to live in sin. Romans 8:1.

To walk after the Spirit, to be guided by the counsels and influences of the Spirit and by the word of God, and to live a life of holy deportment.

To walk in the flesh, to live this natural life, which is subject to infirmities and calamities. 2 Corinthians 10:3.

To walk in, to enter, as a house. walk in, gentlemen.

WALK, verb transitive wauk.

1. To pass through or upon; as, to walk the streets. [This is elliptical for to walk in or through the street.]

2. To cause to walk or step slowly; to lead, drive or ride with a slow pace. He found the road so bad he was obliged to walk his horse. The coachman walked his horses from Woodbridge to Princeton.

WALK, noun Wauk.

1. The act of walking; the act of moving on the feet with a slow pace.

2. The act of walking for air or exercise; as a morning walk; an evening walk

3. Manner of walking; gait; step. We often know a person in a distant apartment by his walk

4. Length of way or circuit through which one walks; or a place for walking; as a long walk; a short walk The gardens of the Tuilerie and of the Luxemburgh are very pleasant walks.

5. An avenue set with trees.

6. Way; road; range; place of wandering.

The mountains are his walks.

The starry walks above.

7. Region; space.

He opened a boundless walk for his imagination.

8. Course of life or pursuit. This is not within the walk of the historian.

9. The slowest pace of a horse, ox or other quadruped.

10. A fish. [A mistake for whelk.]

11. In the West Indies, a plantation of canes, etc.

A sheep walk so called, is high and dry land where sheep pasture.

WALKABLE, adjective Waukable. Fit to be walked on. [Not much used.]

WALKER, noun Wauker.

1. One who walks.

2. In our mother tongue, a fuller.

3. In law, a forest officer appointed to walk over a certain space for inspection; a forester.

4. One who deports himself in a particular manner.

5. A fulling-mill. [Not in use or local.]

WALKING, participle present tense Wauking. Moving on the legs with a slow pace; moving; conducting ones self.

WALKING, noun Wauking. The act of moving on the feet with a slow pace.

WALL, noun [Latin , stake, post, probably originally a fence of stakes, a palisade or stockade; the first rude fortification of uncivilized men.]

1. A work or structure of stone, brick or other materials, raised to some highth, and intended for a defense or security. Walls of stone, with or without cement, are much used in America for fences on farms; walls are laid as the foundations of houses and the security of cellars. Walls of stone or brick form the exterior of buildings, and they are often raised round cities and forts as a defense against enemies.

2. Walls, in the plural, is used for fortifications in general; works for defense.

I rush undaunted to defend the walls.

3. A defense; means of security or protection. 1 Samuel 25:16.

To take the wall to take the upper or most honorable place.

I will take the wall of any man or maid of Montagues.

WALLED, participle passive Inclosed or fortified with a wall.

WALLER, noun One who builds walls in the country.

WALLERITE, noun A mineral, or variety of clay, found in small compact masses of the size of a nut, white and opake, or yellowish and translucent.

WALLET, noun

1. A bag for carrying the necessaries for a journey or march; a knapsack.

2. Any thing protuberant and swagging; as wallets of flesh.

WALLING, participle present tense Inclosing or fortifying with a wall.

WALLING, noun Walls in general; materials for walls.

WALLOP, verb intransitive [See Well.] To boil with a continued bubbling or heaving and rolling of the liquor, with noise.

WALLOPING, participle present tense Boiling with a heaving and noise.

WALLOW, verb intransitive [Latin , G. This verb seems to be connected with well, walk, etc.]

1. To roll ones body on the earth, in mire, or on other substance; to tumble and roll in water. Swine wallow in the mire.

2. To move heavily and clumsily.

Part huge of bulk, wallowing unwieldy, enormous in their gait, tempest the ocean. [Unusual.]

3. To live in filth or gross vice; as man wallowing in his native impurity.

WALLOW, verb transitive To roll ones body.

WALLOW thyself in ashes. Jeremiah 6:26.

WALLOW, noun A kind of rolling walk.

WALLOWER, noun One that rolls in mire.

WALLOWING, participle present tense Rolling the body on any thing.

WALNUT, noun A tree and its fruit, of the genus Juglans. The black walnut so called, grows in America, and is indigenous in the southern and middle states, as far north as the Hudson. That is said to be the limit of tis indigenous growth, gut when transplanted, it grows well in the eastern states. In America there are several species of hickory nut, called by this name.

WALRUS, noun [G., a whale, a horse.] The morse or sea horse, an animal of the northern seas, of the genus Trichechus.

WALTRON, noun Another name of the walrus.

WALTZ, noun [G., to roll.] A modern dance and tune, the measure of whose music is triple; three quavers in a bar.

WAMBLE, verb intransitive To be disturbed with nausea; as a wambling stomach. [Vulgar.]

WAMPEE, noun A plant, a species of Arum.

WAMPUM, noun Shells or strings of shells, used by the American Indians as money or a medium of commerce. These strings of shells when united, form a broad belt, which is worn as an ornament or girdle. It is sometimes called wampumpeague, and wompeague, or wampampeague, of which wampum seems to be a contraction.

WAN, adjective Pale; having a sickly hue; languid of look.

Sad to view, his visage pale and wan

Why so pale and wan fond lover?

WAN, for won; preterit tense of win.

WAND, noun

1. A small stick; a rod. If a child runs away, a few strokes of a wand will bring him back.

2. A staff of authority; as a silver wand

3. A rod used by conjurers or diviners.

Picus bore a buckler in his hand, his other wavd a long diving in wand

WANDER, verb intransitive [G., to wander to walk, to change, exchange or transform.]

1. To rove; to ramble here and there without any certain course or object in view; as, to wander over the fields; to wander about the town, or about the country. Men may sometimes wander for amusement or exercise. Persons sometimes wander because they have no home and are wretched, and sometimes because they have no occupation.

They wandered about in sheep-skins and goat-skins. Hebrews 11:37.

He wandereth abroad for bread. Job 15:23.

He was wandering in the field. Genesis 37:1.

2. To leave home; to depart; to migrate.

When God caused me to wander from my fathers house-- Genesis 20:13.

3. To depart from the subject in discussion; as, to wander from the point.

4. In a moral sense, to stray; to deviate; to depart from duty or rectitude.

O let me not wander from they commandments. Psalms 119:10.

5. To be delirious; not to be under the guidance of reason; as, the mind wanders.

WANDER, verb transitive To travel over without a certain course.

Wandring many a famous realm. [Elliptical.]

WANDERER, noun A rambler; one that roves; one that deviates from duty.

WANDERING, participle present tense Roving; rambling; deviating from duty.

WANDERING, noun

1. Peregrination; a traveling without a settled course.

2. Aberration; mistaken way; deviation from rectitude; as a wandering from duty.

3. A roving of the mind or thoughts from the point or business in which one ought to be engaged.

4. The roving of the mind in a dream.

5. The roving of the mind in delirium.

6. Uncertainty; want of being fixed.

WANDERINGLY, adverb In a wandering or unsteady manner.

WANDEROO, noun A baboon of Ceylon and Malabar.

WANE, verb intransitive

1. To be diminished; to decrease; particularly applied to the illuminated part of the moon. WE say, the moon wanes, that is, the visible or illuminated part decreases.

Waning moons their settled periods keep.

2. To decline; to fail; to sink; as the waning age of life.

You saw but sorrow in its waning form.

Land and trade ever will wax and wane together.

WANE, verb transitive To cause to decrease.

WANE, noun

1. Decrease of the illuminated part of the moon, to the eye of a spectator.

2. Decline; failure; diminution; decrease; declension.

You are cast upon an age in which the church is in its wane

WANG, noun

1. The jaw, jaw-bone or cheek bone. [Little used or vulgar.]

2. The latchet of a shoe. [Not in use.]

WANHOPE, noun Want of hope. [Not used.]

WANHORN, noun A plant of the genus Kaempferia.

WANING, participle present tense Decreasing; failing; declining.

WANLY, adverb In a pale manner; palely.

WANNED, adjective Made wan or pale.

WANNESS, noun Paleness; a sallow, dead, pale color; as the wanness of the cheeks after a fever.

WANNISH, adjective Somewhat wan; of a pale hue.

WANT, noun

1. Deficiency; defect; the absence of that which is necessary or useful; as a want of power or knowledge fro any purpose; want of food and clothing. The want of money is a common want 2 Corinthians 8:14, 9.

From having wishes in consequence of our wants, we often feel wants in consequence of our wishes.

2. Need; necessity; the effect of deficiency.

Pride is as loud a beggar as want and more saucy.

3. Poverty; penury; indigence.

Nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches as to conceive how others can be in want

4. The state of not having. I cannot write a letter at present for want of time.

5. That which is not possessed, but is desired or necessary for use or pleasure.

Habitual superfluities become actual wants.

6. A mole.

WANT, verb transitive waunt.

1. To be destitute; to be deficient in; not to have; a word of general application; as, to want knowledge; to want judgment; to want learning; to want food and clothing; to want money.

2. To be defective or deficient in. Timber may want strength or solidity to answer its purpose.

3. To fall short; not to contain or have. The sum want a dollar of the amount of debt.

Nor think, though men were none, that heaven would want spectators, God want praise.

4. To be without.

The unhappy never want enemies.

5. To need; to have occasion for, as useful, proper or requisite. Our manners want correction. In winter we want a fire; in summer we want cooling breezes. We all want more public spirit and more virtue.

6. To wish for; to desire. Every man wants a little pre-eminence over his neighbor. Many want that which they cannot obtain, and which if they could obtain, would certainly ruin them.

What wants my son?

WANT, verb intransitive waunt.

1. To be deficient; not to be sufficient.

As in bodies, thus in souls, we find what wants in blood and spirits, swelld with wind.

2. To fail; to be deficient; to be lacking.

No time shall find me wanting to my truth.

3. To be missed; not to be present. The jury was full, wanting one.

4. To fall short; to be lacking.

Twelve, wanting one, he slew.

WANTAGE, noun Deficiency; that which is wanting.

WANTED, participle passive Needed; desired.

WANTING, participle present tense

1. Needing; lacking; desiring.

2. adjective Absent; deficient. One of the twelve is wanting We have the means, but the application is wanting

3. Slack; deficient. I shall not be wanting in exertion.

WANTLESS, adjective Having no want; abundant; fruitful.

WANTON, adjective

1. Wandering or roving in gaiety or sport; sportive; frolicsome; darting aside, or one way and the other. wanton boys kill flies for sport.

Not a wild and wanton herd.

2. Moving or flying loosely; playing in the wind.

She her unadorned golden tresses wore disheveld, but in wanton ringlets wavd.

3. Wandering from moral rectitude; licentious; dissolute; indulging in sensuality without restraint; as men grown wanton by prosperity.

My plenteous joys, wanton in fullness--

4. More appropriately, deviating from the rules of chastity; lewd; lustful; lascivious; libidinous.

Thou art froward by nature, enemy to peace, lascivious wanton

Ye have lived in pleasure on the earth, and been wanton James 5:5.

5. Disposed to unchastity; indicating wantonness. Isaiah 3:16.

6. Loose; unrestrained; running to excess.

How does your tongue grow wanton in her praise!

7. Luxuriant; overgrown.

What we by day lop overgrown, one night or two with wanton growth derides, tending to wild.

8. Extravagant; as wanton dress.

9. Not regular; not turned or formed with regularity.

The quaint mazes in the wanton green.

WANTON, noun

1. A lewd person; a lascivious man or woman.

2. A trifler; an insignificant flutterer.

3. A word of slight endearment.

Peace, my wanton--[Little used.]

WANTON, verb transitive

1. To rove and ramble without restraint, rule or limit; to revel; to play loosely.

Nature here wantond as in her prime.

Her golden tresses wanton in the wind.

2. To ramble in lewdness; to play lasciviously.

3. To move briskly and irregularly.

WANTONING, participle present tense Roving; flying loosely; playing without restraint; indulging in licentiousness.

WANTONIZE, verb intransitive To behave wantonly. [Not in use.]

WANTONLY, adverb Loosely; without regularity or restraint; sportively; gayly; playfully; lasciviously.

WANTONNESS, noun

1. Sportiveness; gaiety; frolicsomeness; waggery.

- As sad as night, only for wantonness

2. Licentiousness; negligence of restraint.

The tumults threatened to abuse all acts of grace, and turn them into wantonness

3. Lasciviousness; lewdness. Romans 13:13. 2 Peter 2:18

WANTY, noun A broad strap of leather, used for binding a load upon the back of a beast. [Local.]

WAPACUT, noun The spotted owl of Hudsons bay.

WAPED, adjective [Latin , to strike, and awhap, whap, which the common people in New England use, and pronounce whop.] Dejected; cast down; crushed by misery. [Not in use.]

WAPENTAKE, WAPENTAC noun [See Touch. This name had its origin in a custom of touching lances or spears when the hundreder or chief entered on his office.] In some northern counties of England, a division or district, answering to the hundred or cantred in other counties. The name was first given to the meeting, supra.

WAPENTAKE, WAPENTAC, noun [See Touch. This name had its origin in a custom of touching lances or spears when the hundreder or chief entered on his office.] In some northern counties of England, a division or district, answering to the hundred or cantred in other counties. The name was first given to the meeting, supra.

WAPP, noun In a ship, the rope with which the shrouds are set taught in wale-knots.

WAPPE, noun A species of cur, said to be so called from his voice. His only use is to alarm the family by barking when any person approaches the house.

WAPPER, noun A fish; a name given to the smaller species of the river gudgeon.

WAR, noun [G., to perplex, embroil, disturb. The primary sense of the root is to strive, struggle, urge, drive, or to turn, to twist.]

1. A contest between nations or states, carried on by force, either for defense, or for revenging insults and redressing wrongs, for the extension of commerce or acquisition of territory, or for obtaining and establishing the superiority and dominion of one over the other. These objects are accomplished by the slaughter or capture of troops, and the capture and destruction of ships, towns and property. Among rude nations, war is often waged and carried on for plunder. As war is the contest of nations or states, it always implies that such contest is authorized by the monarch or the sovereign power of the nation. When war is commenced by attacking a nation in peace, it si called an offensive war and such attack is aggressive. When war is undertaken to repel invasion or the attacks of an enemy, it is called defensive, and a defensive war is considered as justifiable. Very few of the wars that have desolated nations and deluged the earth with blood, have been justifiable. Happy would it be for mankind, if the prevalence of Christian principles might ultimately extinguish the spirit of war and if the ambition to be great, might yield to the ambition of being good.

Preparation for war is sometimes the best security for peace.

2. In poetical language, instruments of war

His complement of stores, and total war

3. Poetically, forces; army.

Oer the embattled ranks the waves return, and overwhelm their war

4. The profession of arms; art of war; as a fierce man of war Isaiah 2:4.

5. Hostility; state of opposition or contest; act of opposition.

6. Enmity; disposition to contention.

The words of his mouth were smoother than butter, but war was in his heart. Psalms 55:21.

Man of war in naval affairs, a ship of large size, armed and equipped for attack or defense.

Holy war a crusade; a war undertaken to deliver the Holy Land, or Judea, from infidels. These holy wars were carried on by most unholy means.

WAR, verb intransitive

1. To make war; to invade or attack a nation or state with force of arms; to carry on hostilities; or to be in a state of contest by violence.

He teacheth my hands to war 2 Samuel 22:35.

And they warred against eh Midianites. Numbers 31:3.

Why should I war without the walls of Troy?

2. To contend; to strive violently; to be in a state of opposition.

Lusts which war against the soul. 1 Peter 2:11.

WAR, verb transitive

1. To make war upon; as, to war the Scot. [Not used.]

2. To carry on a contest.

That thou mightest war a good warfare. 1 Timothy 1:18.

WARBLE, verb transitive [G., to turn, whirl, warble; a whirl, a vortex; a turning bone or joint, Latin ]

1. To quaver a sound or the voice; to modulate with turns or variations. Certain birds are remarkable for warbling their songs.

2. To cause to quaver.

And touch the warbled string.

3. To utter musically; to be modulated.

If she be right invokd with warbled song.

Warbling sweet the nuptial lay.

WARBLE, verb intransitive

1. To be quavered or modulated.

Such strains neer warble in the linnets throat.

2. To be uttered melodiously; as warbling lays.

For warbling notes from inward cheering flow.

3. To sing.

Birds on the branches warbling.

WARBLED, participle passive Quavered; modulated; uttered musically.

WARBLER, noun

1 . A singer; a songster; used of birds.

In lulling strains the fetherd warblers woo.

2. The common name of a genus of small birds (Sylvia, ) comprising most of the small woodland songsters of Europe and North America. They feed on insects and are very lively and active. The blue-bird is a species of the genus.

WARBLES, noun In farriery, small hard tumors on the backs of horses, occasioned by the heat of the saddle in traveling, or by the uneasiness of its situation; also, small tumors produced by the larvas of the gad fly, in the backs of horses, cattle, etc.

WARBLING, participle present tense

1. Quavering the voice; modulating notes; singing.

2. adjective Filled with musical notes; as the warbling glade.

WARBLING, noun The act of shaking or modulating notes; singing.

WARD, in composition, as in toward, homeward, is the Saxon weard, from the root of Latin

WARD, verb transitive

1. To guard; to deep in safety; to watch.

Whose gates he found fast shut, he living wight to ward the same--

[In this sense, ward is obsolete, as we have adopted the French of the same word, to guard. We now never apply ward to the thing to be defended, but always to the thing against which it is to be defended. We ward off a blow or dagger, and we guard a person or place.]

2. To defend; to protect.

Tell him it was a hand that warded him from thousand dangers. [Obs. See the remark, supra.]

3. To fend off; to repel; to turn aside any thing mischievous that approaches.

Now wards a falling blow, now strikes again.

The pointed javlin warded off his rage.

It instructs the scholar in the various methods of warding off the force of objections.

[This is the present use of ward To ward off is now the more general expression, nor can I, with Johnson, think it less elegant.]

WARD, verb intransitive

1. To be vigilant; to keep guard.

2. To act on the defensive with a weapon.

She drove the stranger to no other shift, than to ward and go back.

And on their warding arms light bucklers bear.

WARD, noun

1. Watch; act of guarding.

Still when she slept, he kept both watch and ward

2. Garrison; troops to defend a fort; as small wards left in forts. [Not in use.]

3. Guard made by a weapon in fencing.

For want of other ward he lifted up his hand his front to guard.

4. A fortress; a strong hold.

5. One whose business is to guard, watch and defend; as a fire-ward.

6. A certain district, division or quarter of a town or city, committed to an alderman. There are twenty six wards in London.

7. Custody; confinement under guard. Pharaoh put his butler and baker in ward Genesis 40:3.

8. A minor or person under the care of a guardian. See Blackstones chapter on the rights and duties of guardian and ward

9. The state of a child under a guardian.

I must attend his majestys commands, to whom I am now in ward

10. Guardianship; right over orphans.

It is convenient in Ireland, that the wards and marriages of gentlemens children should be in the disposal of any of those lords.

11. The division of a forest.

12. The division of a hospital.

13. A part of a lock which corresponds to its proper key.

WARDED, participle passive Guarded.

WARDED off, prevented from attacking or injuring.

WARDEN, noun

1. A keeper; a guardian.

2. An officer who keeps or guards; a keeper; as the warden of the fleet or fleet prison.

3. A large pear.

WARDEN of the cinque ports, in England, an officer or magistrate who has the jurisdiction of a port or haven. There are five such ports.

WARDEN of a university, is the master or president.

WARDER, noun

1. A keeper; a guard.

The warders of the gate.

2. A trunchion by which an officer of arms forbad fight.

WARDERs of the tower, officers who attend state prisoners.

WARDMOTE, noun In law, a court held in each ward in London.

WARDROBE, noun

1. A room or apartment where clothes or wearing apparel is kept.

2. Wearing apparel in general.

WARDSHIP, noun

1. Guardianship; care and protection of a ward.

2. Right of guardianship.

WARDSHIP is incident to tenure in socage.

3. Pupilage; state of being under a guardian.

WARE, preterit tense of wear, obsolete It is now written wore.

WARE, adjective [We never use ware by itself. But we use it in aware, beware, and in wary. It was formerly in use.]

1. Being in expectation of; provided against. 2 Timothy 4:15.

2. Wary; cautious.

WARE, verb intransitive To take heed of. [We now use beware as a single word, though in fact it is not.]

Then ware a rising tempest on the main.

WARE, verb transitive preterit tense wore. [This is evidently from the root of veer. See Veer.] To cause a ship to change her course from one board to the other, by turning her stern to the wind; opposed to tacking, in which the head is turned to the wind; as, to ware ship. We wore ship and stood to the southward.

WARE, noun plural wares. [G.] Goods; commodities; merchandise; usually in the plural; but we say, China ware earthern-ware, potters ware It was formerly used int eh singular, and may be so used still.

Let the dark shop commend the ware

Sea ware a marine plant, a species of Fucus.

WAREFUL, adjective [from ware, wary.] Wary; watchful; cautious. [Not used.]

WAREFULNESS, noun Wariness; cautiousness.

WAREHOUSE, noun [ware and house.] A storehouse for goods.

WAREHOUSE, verb transitive s as z. To deposit or secure in a warehouse

WAREHOUSED, participle passive Placed in a store for safe keeping.

WAREHOUSING, participle present tense Repositing in a store for safe keeping.

WARELESS, adjective Unwary; incautious.

2. Suffered unawares.

WARELY, adverb Cautiously. [See Warily.]

WARFARE, noun [war and fare.]

1. Military service; military life; war.

The Philistines gathered their armies for warfare 1 Samuel 28:1.

2. Contest; struggle with spiritual enemies.

The weapons of our warfare are not carnal. 2 Corinthians 10:4.

WARFARE, verb intransitive To lead a military life; to carry on continual wars.

In that credulous warfaring age. [Little used.]

WARHABLE, adjective [war and Latin habilis.] Fit for war. [Not in use.]

WARHOOP, noun [war and hoop.] The savage yell of war; a yell uttered on entering into battle.

WARILY, adverb [from wary.] Cautiously; with timorous prudence or wise foresight. Great enterprises are to be conducted warily Change of laws should be warily proceeded in.

WARINE, noun A species of monkey of South America.

WARINESS, noun Caution; prudent care to foresee and guard against evil. The road was so slippery, and the danger so great, that we were obliged to proceed with wariness

To determine what are little things in religion, great wariness is to be used.

WARK, noun Work; a building. [It is obsolete, except in bulwark.]

WARLIKE, adjective [war and like.]

1. Fit for war; disposed for war; as a warlike state.

Old Siward with ten thousand warlike men.

2. Military; pertaining to war; as warlike toil.

3. Having a martial appearance.

4. Having the appearance of war.

WARLIKENESS, noun A warlike disposition or character. [Little used.]

WARLING, noun One often quarreled with; a word coined perhaps to rhyme with darling. [Not in use.]

WARLOCK, WARLUCK, noun A male witch; a wizard. [This word is not in use.]

WARLOCK, WARLUCK noun A male witch; a wizard. [This word is not in use.]

WARM, adjective Waurm. [G. See Swarm.]

1. Having heat in a moderate degree; not cold; as warm blood; warm milk. The flesh of living animals is warm if their blood is warm But some animals have not warm blood.

2. Subject o heat; having prevalence of heat, or little or no winter; as the warm climate of Egypt.

3. Zealous; ardent; as, to be warm in the cause of our country or of religion.

Each warm wish springs mutual from the heart.

4. Habitually ardent or passionate; keen; irritable; as a warm temper.

5. Easily excited or provoked; irritable; as warm passions.

6. Violent; furious; as a warm contest. We shall have warm work to-day.

7. Busy in action; heated in action; ardent. Be warm in fight.

8. Fanciful; enthusiastic; as a warm head.

9. Vigorous; sprightly.

Now warm in youth, now withering in thy bloom, lost in a convents solitary gloom.

WARM, verb transitive

1. To communicate a moderate degree of heat to; as, a stove warms an apartment. The sun in summer warms the earth, and gives life to vegetation.

2. To make engaged or earnest; to interest; to engage; to excite ardor or zeal in; as, to warm the heart with love or zeal.

I formerly warmed my head with reading controversial writings.

WARM, verb intransitive

1. To become moderately heated. The earth soon warms in a clear day in summer.

2. To become ardent or animated. The speaker should warm as he proceeds in the argument, for as he becomes animated, he excites more interest in his audience.

WARMED, participle passive Moderately heated; made ardent; excited.

WARMING, participle present tense Making moderately hot; making ardent or zealous.

WARMLY, adverb

1. With gentle heat.

2. Eagerly; earnestly; ardently; as, to espouse warmly the cause of Bible societies.

WARMNESS, WARMTH noun

1. Gentle heat; as the WARMTH of the blood.

2. Zeal; ardor; fervor; as the WARMTH of love or of piety.

3. Earnestness; eagerness. The cause of the Greeks has been espoused with WARMTH by all parties in free countries.

4. Excitement; animation; as the WARMTH of passion. The preacher declaimed with great WARMTH against the vices of the age.

5. Fancifulness; enthusiasm; as the WARMTH of head.

6. In painting, the fiery effect given to a red color by a small addition of yellow.

WARN, verb transitive [G.]

1. To give notice of approaching or probable danger or evil, that it may be avoided; to caution against any thing that may prove injurious.

Juturna warns the Daunian chief of Lausus danger-- being warned of God in a dream, that they should not return to Herod, they departed into their own country another way. Matthew 2:12.

2. To caution against evil practices. 1 Thessalonians 5:14.

3. To admonish of any duty.

Cornelius--was warned from God by an holy angel to send for thee. Acts 10:22.

4. To inform previously; to give notice to.

--Warnd of th ensuing fight.

5. To notify by authority; to summon; as, to warn the citizens to meet on a certain day; to warn soldiers to appear on parade.

6. To ward off. [Not in use.]

WARNED, participle passive Cautioned against danger; admonished of approaching evil; notified.

WARNER, noun An admonisher.

WARNING, participle present tense Cautioning against danger; admonishing; giving notice to; summoning to meet or appear.

WARNING, noun

1. Caution against danger, or against faults or evil practices which incur danger.

Could warning make the world more just or wise.

Hear the word at my mouth, and give them warning from me. Ezekiel 3:17.

2. Previous notice; as a short warning He had a months warning

WARP, noun Waurp. [See the Verb.]

1. In manufactures, the threads, which are extended lengthwise in the loom, and crossed by the woof.

2. In a ship, a rope employed in drawing, towing or removing a ship or boat; a towing line.

3. In agriculture, a slimy substance deposited on land by marine tides, by which a rich alluvial soil is formed. [Local.]

4. In cows, a miscarriage. [See the Verb.] [Local.]

WARP, verb intransitive [G., to cast or throw, to whelp.]

1. To turn, twist or be twisted out of a straight direction; as, a board warps in seasoning, or in the heat of the sun, by shrinking.

They clamp one piece of wood to the end of another, to keep it from casting or warping.

2. To turn or incline from a straight, true or proper course; to deviate.

Theres our commission, from which we would not have you warp

Methinks my favor here begins to warp

3. To fly with a bending or waving motion; to turn and wave, like a flock of birds or insects. The following use of warp is inimitably beautiful.

As when the potent rod of Amrams son, in Egypts evil day, wavd round the coast, up called a pitchy cloud of locusts, warping on the eastern wind--

4. To slink; to cast the young prematurely; as cows.

In an enclosure near a dog-kennel, eight heifers out of twenty warped. [Local.]

WARP, verb transitive

1. To turn or twist out of shape, or out of a straight direction, by contraction. The heat of the sun warps boards and timber.

2. To turn aside from the true direction; to cause to bend or incline; to pervert.

This first avowd, nor folly warpd my mind.

I have no private considerations to warp me in this controversy.

--Zeal, to a degree of warmth able to warp the sacred rule of Gods word.

3. In seamens language, to two or move with a line or warp attached to buoys, to anchors or to other ships, etc. By which means a ship is drawn, usually in a bending course or with various turns.

4. In rural economy, to cast the young prematurely. [Local.]

5. In agriculture, to inundate, as land, with sea water; or to let in the tide, forth purpose of fertilizing the ground by a deposit of warp or slimy substance. warp here is the throw, or that which is cast by the water.

6. In rope-making, to run the yarn off the winches into hauls to be tarred.

To warp water, in Shakespeare, is forced and unusual; indeed it is not English.

WARPED, participle passive Twisted by shrinking or seasoning; turned out of the true direction; perverted; moved with a warp; overflowed.

WARPING, participle present tense Turning or twisting; causing to incline; perverting; moving with a warp; enriching by overflowing with tide water.

WARPROOF, noun [war and proof.] Valor tried by war.

WARRANT, verb transitive [The primary sense of the root is to stop or hold, or to repel, and thus guard by resisting danger; as we say, to keep off. Hence the sense of security. See Guard and Garrison.]

1. To authorize; to give authority or power to do or forbear any thing, by which the person authorized is secured or saved harmless from any loss or damage by the act. A commission warrants an officer to seize an enemy. We are not warranted to resist legitimate government. Except in extreme cases.

2. To maintain; to support by authority or proof.

Reason warrants it, and we may safely receive it as true.

3. To justify.

True fortitude is seen in great exploits, that justice warrants, and that wisdom guides.

4. To secure; to exempt; to privilege..

Ill warrant him from drowning.

In a place less warranted than this, or less secure, I cannot be--

5. To declare with assurance.

My neck is as smooth as silk, I warrant ye.

6. In law, to secure to a grantee an estate granted; to assure.

7. To secure to a purchaser of goods the title to the same; or to indemnify him against loss.

8. To secure to a purchaser the good quality of the goods sold. [See Warranty.]

9. To assure that a thing is what it appears to be, which implies a covenant to make good any defect or loss incurred by it.

WARRANT, noun

1. An act, instrument or obligation, by which one person authorizes another to do something which he has not otherwise a right to do; an act or instrument investing one with a right or authority, and thus securing him from loss or damage; a word of general application.

2. A precept authorizing an officer to seize an offender and bring him to justice. A general warrant to seize suspected persons, is illegal.

3. Authority; power that authorizes or justifies any act. Those who preach the gospel have the warrant of Scripture. We have the warrant of natural right to do what the laws do not forbid; but civility and propriety may sometimes render things improper, which natural right warrants.

4. A commission that gives authority, or that justifies.

5. A voucher; that which attests or proves.

6. Right; legality.

Theres warrant in that theft which steals itself when theres no mercy left.

7. A writing which authorizes a person to receive money or other thing.

WARRANT of attorney, that by which a man appoints another to act in his name, and warrants his transaction.

Land warrant is an instrument or writing issued by the proper officer, authorizing a person to locate or take up a tract of new or uncultivated land.

Search warrant a precept authorizing a person to enter houses, shops, etc. to search for a criminal, for stolen or smuggled goods.

WARRANT officer, an officer holding a warrant from the navy board, such as the master, surgeon, purser, etc. of a ship.

WARRANTABLE, adjective Authorized by commission, precept or right; justifiable; defensible. The seizure of a thief is always warrantable by law and justice. Falsehood is never warrantable

His meals are coarse and short, his employment warrantable

WARRANTABLENESS, noun The quality of being justifiable.

WARRANTABLY, adverb In a manner that may be justified; justifiably.

WARRANTED, participle passive Authorized; justified; secured; assured by covenant or by implied obligation.

WARRANTEE, noun The person to whom land or other thing is warranted.

WARRANTER, noun

1. One who gives authority or legally empowers.

2. One who assures, or covenants to assure; one who contracts to secure another in a right, or to make good any defect of title or quality; as the warranter of a horse.

WARRANTING, participle present tense

1. Authorizing; empowering.

2. Assuring; securing to another a right, or covenanting to make good a defect of title in lands, or of quality in goods.

WARRANTISE, noun Authority; security. [Not in use.]

WARRANTOR, noun One who warrants.

WARRANTY, noun

1. In law, a promise or covenant by deed, made by the bargainer for himself and his heirs, to warrant or secure the bargainee and his heirs against all men in the enjoyment of an estate or other thing granted. Such warranty passes from the seller to the buyer, from the feoffor to the feoffee, and from the releaser to the releasee. warranty is real, when annexed to lands and tenements granted in fee or for life, etc. And is in deed or in law; and personal, when it respects goods sold or their quality.

In common recoveries, a fictitious person is called to warranty In the sale of goods or personal property, the seller warrants the title; the warranty is express or implied. If a man sells goods which are not his own, or which he has no right to sell, the purchaser may have satisfaction for the injury. And if the seller expressly warrants the goods to be sound and not defective, and they prove to be otherwise, he must indemnify the purchaser; of the law implies a contract in the warranty to make good any defect. But the warranty must be at the time of sale, and not afterwards.

2. Authority; justificatory mandate or precept.

If they disobey any precept, that is no excuse to us, nor gives us any warranty to disobey likewise. [In this sense, warrant is now used.]

3. Security.

The stamp was a warranty of the public.

WARRANTY, verb transitive To warrant; to guaranty. [A useless word.]

WARRAY, verb transitive To make war upon.

WARRE, adjective Worse.

WARREN, noun [See Guard, Warrant and Wary.]

1. A piece of ground appropriated to the breeding and preservation of rabbits.

2. In law, a franchise or place privileged by prescription or grant from the king, for keeping beasts and fowls. The warren is the next franchise in degree to the park; and a forest, which is the highest in dignity, comprehends a chase, a park and a free warren

3. A place for keeping fish in a river.

WARRENER, noun The keeper of a warren.

WARRIANGLE, noun A hawk.

WARRIOR, noun

1. In a general sense, a soldier; a man engaged in military life.

2. Emphatically, a brave man; a good soldier.

WARRIORESS, noun A female warrior.

WART, noun Waurt. [G.]

1. A hard excrescence on the skin of animals, which is covered with the production of the cuticle. In horses, warts are spungy excrescences on the hinder pasterns, which suppurate.

2. A protuberance on trees.

WARTED, adjective In botany, having little knobs on the surface; verrucose; as a warted capsule.

WARTWORT, noun A plant of the genus Euphorbia or spurge, which is studded with hard warty knobs; also, a plant of the genus Heliotropium, and another of the genus Lapsana.

WARTY, adjective

1. Having warts; full of warts; overgrown with warts; as a warty leaf.

2. Of the nature of warts.

WARY, adjective [See Ware and Warn.] Cautious of danger; carefully watching and guarding against deception, artifices and dangers; scrupulous; timorously prudent. Old men are usually more wary than the young. It is incumbent on a general in war to be always wary

WAS, s. as z.; the past tense of the substantive verb; Latin , to be, to exist, whence English is, in the present tense, and was in the past; as, I was; he was

WASH, verb transitive [G.]

1. To cleanse by ablution, or by rubbing in water; as, to wash the hands or the body; to wash garments.

2. To wet; to fall on and moisten; as, the rain washes the flowers or plants.

3. To overflow. The tides wash the meadows.

4. To overflow or dash against; to cover with water; as, the waves wash the strand or shore; the sea washes the rocks on the shore or beach.

5. To scrub in water; as, to wash a deck or a floor.

6. To separate extraneous matter from; as, to wash ore; to wash grain.

7. In painting, to lay a color over any work with a pencil, to give it the proper tints, and make it appear more natural. Thus work is washed with a pale red to imitate brick, etc.

8. To rub over with some liquid substance; as, to wash trees fro removing insects or diseases.

9. To squeeze and cleanse in water; as, to wash wool. So sheep are said to be washed, when they are immersed in water and their wool squeezed, by which means it is cleansed.

10. To cleanse by a current of water; as, showers wash the streets.

11. To overlay with a thin coat of metal; as steel washed with silver.

12. To purify from the pollution of sin.

But ye are washed, but ye are sanctified. 1 Corinthians 6:11.

To wash a ship, to bring all her guns to one side to make her heel, and then to wash and scrape her side.

WASH, verb intransitive

1. To perform the act of ablution.

WASH in Jordan seven times. 2 Kings 5:10. [Elliptical.]

2. To perform the business of cleansing clothes in water.

She can wash and scour.

To wash off, in calico-printing, to soak and rinse printed calicoes, to dissolve and remove the gum and paste.

WASH, noun

1. Alluvial matter; substances collected and deposited by water; as the wash of a river.

2. A bog; a marsh; a fen.

Neptunes salt wash

3. A cosmetic; as a wash for the face, to help the complexion.

4. A lotion; a medical liquid preparation for external application.

5. A superficial stain or color.

6. Waste liquor of a kitchen for hogs.

7. The act of washing the clothes of a family; or the whole quantity washed at once. There is a great wash or a small wash

8. With distillers, the fermentable liquor made b dissolving the proper subject for fermentation and distillation in common water. In the distillery of malt, the wash is made by mixing the water hot, with the malt ground into meal.

9. The shallow part of a river, or arm of the sea; as the wastes in Lincolnshire.

10. The blade of an oar; the thin part, which enters the water and by whose impulse the boat is moved.

11. The color laid on a picture to vary its tints.

12. A substance laid on boards or other work for beauty or preservation.

13. A thin coat of metal.

14. In the west Indies, a mixture of dunder, molasses, water and scummings, for distillation.

WASHED, participle passive

1. Cleansed in water; purified.

2. Overflowed; dashed against with water.

3. Covered over with a thin coat, as of metal.

WASHER, noun

1. One who washes.

2. An iron ring between the nave of a wheel and the linch-pin.

WASHING, participle present tense Cleansing with water; purifying; overflowing; overspreading.

WASHING, noun

1. The act of cleansing with water; ablution. Hebrews 9:10.

2. A wash; or the clothes washed.

WASHY, adjective [from wash.]

1. Watery; damp; soft; as the washy ooze.

2. Weak; not solid.

3. Weak; not firm or hardy; liable to sweat profusely with labor; as a washy horse. [New England.]

WASP, noun [G., Latin ] In entomology, a genus of insects, Vespa, of the order of Hymenopters. The mouth is horny, the jaw compressed, without a proboscis; the feelers four, unequal and filiform; the eyes lunated; the body smooth; the sting concealed, and the upper wings plicated. Wasps construct combs, and rear their young in the cells. The sting is painful.

WASPISH, adjective Snappish; petulant; irritable; irascible; quick to resent any trifling affront.

Much do I suffer, much, to keep in peace This jealous, waspish wrong-head, rhyming race.

WASPISHLY, adverb Petulantly; in a snappish manner.

WASPISHNESS, noun Petulance; irascibility; snappishness.

WASSAIL, noun

1. A liquor made of apples, sugar and ale, formerly much used by English good fellows.

2. A drunken bout.

3. A merry song. [This word in unknown in America.]

WASSAIL, verb intransitive To hold a merry drinking meeting.

WASSAILER, noun A toper; a drunkard.

WAST, past tense of the substantive verb, in the second person; as, thou wast

WASTE, verb transitive [G., Latin ]

1. To diminish by gradual dissipation or loss. Thus disease wastes the patient; sorrows waste the strength and spirits.

2. To cause to be lost; to destroy by scattering or by injury. Thus cattle waste their fodder when fed in the open field.

3. To expend without necessity or use; to destroy wantonly or luxuriously; to squander; to cause to be lost through wantonness or negligence. Careless people waste their fuel, their food or their property. Children waster their inheritance.

And wasted his substance with riotous living. Luke 15:13.

4. To destroy in enmity; to desolate; as, to waste an enemys country.

5. To suffer to be lost unnecessarily; or to throw away; as, to waste the blood and treasure of a nation.

6. To destroy by violence.

The Tyber insults our walls, and wastes our fruitful grounds.

7. To impair strength gradually.

Now wasting years my former strength confounds.

8. To lose in idleness or misery; to wear out.

Here condemnd to waste eternal days in woe and pain.

9. To spend; to consume.

O were I able to waste it all myself, and leave you none.

10. In law, to damage, impair or injure, as an estate, voluntarily, or by suffering the buildings, fences, etc. To go to decay. See the Noun.

11. To exhaust; to be consumed by time or mortality.

Till your carcasses be wasted in the wilderness. Numbers 14:33.

12. To scatter and lose for want of use or of occupiers.

Full many a flowr is born to blush unseen, and waste its sweetness on the desert air.

WASTE, verb intransitive

1. To dwindle; to be diminished; to lose bulk or substance gradually; as, the body wastes in sickness.

The barrel of meal shall not waste 1 Kings 17:14.

2. To be diminished or lost by slow dissipation, consumption or evaporation; as, water wastes by evaporation; fuel wastes in combustion.

3. To be consumed by time or mortality.

Gut man dieth, and wasteth away. Job 14:1.

WASTE, adjective

1. Destroyed; ruined.

The Sophi leaves all waste in his retreat.

2. Desolate; uncultivated; as a waste country; a waste howling wilderness. Deuteronomy 32:10.

3. Destitute; stripped; as lands laid waste

4. Superfluous; lost for want of occupiers.

--And strangled with her waste fertility.

5. Worthless; that which is rejected, or used only for mean purposes; as waste wood.

6. That of which no account is taken, or of which no value is found; as waste paper.

7. Uncultivated; untilled; unproductive.

There is yet much waste land in England.

Laid waste desolated; ruined.

WASTE, noun

1. The act of squandering; the dissipation of property through wantonness, ambition, extravagance, luxury or negligence.

For all this waste of wealth, and loss of blood.

2. Consumption; loss; useless expense; any loss or destruction which is neither necessary nor promotive of a good end; a loss for which there is no equivalent; as a waste of goods or money; a waste of time; a waste of labor; a waste of words.

Little wastes in great establishments, constantly occurring, may defeat the energies of a mighty capital.

3. A desolate or uncultivated country. The plains of Arabia are mostly a wide waste

4. Land untilled, though capable of tillage; as the wastes in England.

5. Ground, space or place unoccupied; as the etherial waste

In the dead waste and middle of the night.

6. Region ruined and deserted.

All the leafy nation sinks at last, and Vulcan rides in triumph oer the waste

7. Mischief; destruction.

He will never, I think, in the way of waste attempt us again.

8. In law, spoil, destruction or injury done to houses, woods, fences, lands, etc., by a tenant for life or for years, to the prejudice of the heir, or of him in reversion or remainder. waste is voluntary, as by pulling down buildings; or permissive, as by suffering them to fall for want of necessary repairs. Whatever does a lasting damage to the freehold, is a waste

WASTED, participle passive

1. Expended without necessity or use; lost through negligence; squandered.

2. Diminished; dissipated; evaporated; exhausted.

3. Desolated; ruined; destroyed.

WASTEFUL, adjective

1. Lavish; prodigal; expending property, or that which is valuable, without necessity or use; applied to persons.

2. Destructive to property; ruinous; as wasteful practices or negligence; wasteful expenses.

3. Desolate; unoccupied; untilled; uncultivated.

In wilderness and wasteful deserts strayd.

WASTEFULLY, adverb In a lavish manner; with prodigality; in useless expenses or consumption.

Her lavish hand is wastefully profuse.

WASTEFULNESS, noun Lavishness; prodigality; the act or practice of expending what is valuable without necessity or use.

WASTEL, noun A particular sort of bread; fine bread or cake.

WASTENESS, noun A desolate state; solitude.

That day is a day of wrath, a day of trouble and distress, a day of wasteness Zephaniah 1:15.

WASTER, noun

1. One who is prodigal; one who squanders property; one who consumes extravagantly or without use.

He also that is slothful in his work, is brother to him who is a great waster Proverbs 18:9.

Sconces are great wasters of candles.

2. A kind of cudgel.

WASTETHRIFT, noun [waste and thrift.] A spendthrift.

WASTING, participle present tense

1. Lavishing prodigally; expending or consuming without use; diminishing by slow dissipation; desolating; laying waste.

WASTING and relentless war has made ravages, with but few and short intermissions, from the days of the tyrant Nimrod down to the Nimrod of our own age.

2. adjective Diminishing by dissipation or by great destruction; as a wasting disease.

WASTREL, WASTOREL noun Waste substances; any thing cast away as bad. [Local.]

WASTREL, noun A state of waste or common. [Local.]

WATCH, noun [It is from the same root as wake, which see.]

1. Forbearance of sleep.

2. Attendance without sleep.

All the long night their mournful watch they keep.

3. Attention; close observation. Keep watch of the suspicious man.

4. Guard; vigilance for keeping or protecting against danger.

He kept both watch and ward.

5. A watchman, or watchmen; men set for a guard, either one person or more, set to espy the approach of an enemy or other danger, and to give an alarm or notice of such danger; a sentinel; a guard. He kept a watch at the gate.

Ye have a watch; go your way, make it as sure as ye can. Matthew 27:65.

6. The place where a guard is kept.

He upbraids I ago, that he made him brave me upon the watch

7. Post or office of a watchman.

As I did stand my watch upon the hill--

8. A period of the night, in which one person or one set of persons stand as sentinels; or the time from one relief of sentinels to another. This period among the Israelites, seems to have been originally four hours, but was afterwards three hours, and there were four watches during the night. Hence we read in Scripture of the morning watch and of the second, third and fourth watch; the evening watch commencing at six oclock, the second at nine, the third at twelve, and the fourth at three in the morning. Exodus 14:24. Matthew 14:25. Luke 12:38.

9. A small time piece or chronometer, to be carried in the pocket or about the person, in which the machinery is moved by a spring.

10. At sea, the space of time during which one set or division of the crew remain on deck to perform the necessary duties. This is different in different nations.

To be on the watch to be looking steadily for some event.

WATCH, verb intransitive

1. To be awake; to be or continue without sleep.

I have two nights watchd with you.

2. To be attentive; to look with attention or steadiness. watch and see when the man passes.

3. To look with expectation.

My soul waiteth for the Lord more than they that watch for the morning. Psalms 130:6.

4. To keep guard; to act as sentinel; to look for danger.

He gave signal to the minister that watchd.

5. To be attentive; to be vigilant in preparation for an event or trial, the time of whose arrival is uncertain.

WATCH therefore; for ye know not what hour your Lord doth come. Mat 24.

6. To be insidiously attentive; as, to watch for an opportunity to injure another.

7. To attend on the sick during the night; as, to watch with a man in a fever.

To watch over, to be cautiously observant of; to inspect, superintend and guard from error and danger. It is our duty constantly to watch over our own conduct and that of our children.

WATCH, verb transitive

1. To guard; to have in keeping.

Flaming ministers watch and tend their charge.

2. To observe in ambush; to lie in wait for.

Saul also sent messengers to Davids house to watch him, and to slay him. 1 Samuel 19:11.

3. To tend; to guard.

Paris watched the flocks in the groves of Ida.

4. To observe in order to detect or prevent, or for some particular purpose; as, to watch a suspected person; to watch the progress of a bill in the legislature.

WATCHED, participle passive Guarded; observed with steady vigilance.

WATCHER, noun

1. One who sits up or continues awake; particularly, one who attends upon the sick during the night.

2. A diligent observer; as an attentive watcher of the works of nature. [Not in use.]

WATCHET, adjective Pale or light blue.

Who stares in Germany at watchet eyes? [Not in use.]

WATCHFUL, adjective Vigilant; attentive; careful to observe; observant; cautious. It has of before the thing to be regulated, as to be watchful of ones behavior; and against, before the thing to be avoided, as to be watchful against the growth of vicious habits.

WATCHFULLY, adverb Vigilantly; heedfully; with careful observation of the approach of evil, or attention to duty.

WATCHFULNESS, noun

1. Vigilance; heedfulness; heed; suspicious attention; careful and diligent observation for the purpose of preventing or escaping danger, or of avoiding mistakes and misconduct.

2. Wakefulness; indisposition or inability to sleep.

WATCHFULNESS-often precedes too great sleepiness.

WATCHING, participle present tense Being awake; guarding; attending the sick; carefully observing.

WATCHING, noun Wakefulness; inability to sleep.

WATCHMAKER, noun [watch and maker.] One whose occupation is to make and repair watches.

WATCHMAN, noun [watch and man.] A sentinel; a guard.

WATCHTOWER, noun [watch and tower.] A tower on which a sentinel is placed to watch for enemies or the approach of danger.

WATCHWORD, noun [watch and word.] The word given to sentinels, and to such as have occasion to visit the guards, used as a signal by which a friend is known from an enemy, or a person who has a right to pass the watch, from one who has not.

WATER, noun Wauter. [G., Gr.]

1. A fluid, the most abundant and most necessary for living beings of any in nature, except air. water when pure, is colorless, destitute of taste and smell, ponderous, transparent, and in a very small degree compressible. It is reposited in the earth in inexhaustible quantities, where it is preserved fresh and cool, and from which it issues in springs, which form streams and rivers. But the great reservoirs of water on the globe are the ocean, seas and lakes, which cover more than three fifths of its surface, and from which it is raised by evaporation, and uniting with the air in the state of vapor, is wafted over the earth, ready to be precipitated in the form of rain, snow or hail.

WATER by the abstraction or loss of heat becomes solid, or in other words, is converted into ice or snow; and by heat it is converted into steam, an elastic vapor, one of the most powerful agents in nature. Modern chemical experiments prove that water is a compound substance, consisting of a combination of oxygen and hydrogen gases, or rather the bases or ponderable matter of those gases; or about two volumes or measures of hydrogen gas and one of oxygen gas. The proportion of the ingredients in weight, is nearly 85 parts of oxygen to 15 of hydrogen.

2. The ocean; a sea; a lake; a river; any great collection of water; as in the phrases, to go by water to travel by water

3. Urine; the animal liquor secreted by the kidneys and discharged from the bladder.

4. The color or luster of a diamond or pearl, sometimes perhaps of other precious stones; as a diamond of the first water that is, perfectly pure and transparent. Hence the figurative phrase, a man or a genius of the first water that is, of the first excellence.

5. water is a name given to several liquid substances or humors in animal bodies; as the water of the pericardium, of dropsy, etc.

Mineral waters, are those waters which are so impregnated with foreign ingredients, such as gaseous, sulphurous and saline substances, as to give them medicinal, or at least sensible properties. Most natural waters contain more or less of these foreign substances, but the proportion is generally too minute to affect the senses.

To hold water to be sound or tight. [Obsolete or vulgar.]

WATERAGE, noun Money paid for transportation by water.

WATERED, participle passive Overspread or sprinkled with water; made wet; supplied with water; made lustrous by being wet and calendered.

WATERER, noun One who waters.

WATERFALL, noun [water and fall.] A fall or perpendicular descent of the water of a river or stream, or a descent nearly perpendicular; a cascade; a cataract. But the word is generally used of the fall of a small river or rivulet. It is particularly used to express a cascade in a garden, or an artificial descent of water, designed as an ornament.

WATERINESS, noun [from watery.] Moisture; humidity; a state of abounding with water.

WATERING, participle present tense Overflowing; sprinkling or wetting with water; supplying with water; giving water for drink; giving a way appearance to.

WATERING, noun

1. The act of overflowing or sprinkling with water; the act of supplying with water for drink or other purposes; the act of wetting and calendering for giving luster to, as cloth.

2. The place where water is supplied.

WATERISH, adjective

1. Resembling water; thin, as a liquor.

2. Moist; somewhat watery; as waterish land.

WATERISHNESS, noun Thinness, as of a liquor; resemblance to water.

WATERISHNESS, which is like the serosity of our blood.

WATERLESS, adjective Destitute of water.

WATERLESS, adjective Destitute of water.

WATERMAN, noun [water and man.] A boatman; a ferryman; a man who manages water-craft.

WATERY, adjective

1. Resembling water; thin or transparent, as a liquid; as watery humors.

The oily and watery parts of the aliment.

2. Tasteless; insipid; vapid; spiritless; as watery turneps.

3. Wet; abounding with water; as watery land; watery eyes.

4. Pertaining to water; as the watery god.

5. Consisting of water; as a watery desert.

WATTLE, noun [Latin , a shoot.]

1. Properly, a twig or flexible rod; and hence, a hurdle.

2. The fleshy excrescence that grows under the throat of a cock or turkey, or a like substance on a fish.

3. A rod laid on a roof to support the thatch.

WATTLE, verb transitive

1. To bind with twigs.

2. To twist or interweave twigs one with another; to plat; to for a kind of network with flexible branches; as, to wattle a hedge.

WATTLED, participle passive Bound or interwoven with twigs.

WATTLING, participle present tense Interweaving with twigs.

WAUL, verb intransitive To cry, as a cat.

WAULING, participle present tense Crying, as a cat.

WAVE, noun [G.]

1. A moving swell or volume of water; usually, a swell raised and driven by wind. A pebble thrown into still water produces waves, which form concentric circles, receding from the point where the pebble fell. But waves are generally raised and driven by wind, and the word comprehends any moving swell on the surface of water, from the smallest ripple to the billows of a tempest.

The wave behind impels the wave before.

2. Unevenness; inequality of surface.

3. The line or streak of luster on cloth watered and calendered.

WAVE, verb intransitive

1. To play loosely; to move like a wave one way and the other; to float; to undulate.

His purple robes wavd careless to the wind.

2. To be moved, as a signal.

3. To fluctuate; to waver; to be in an unsettled state.

WAVE, verb transitive [See Waver.]

1. To raise into inequalities of surface.

2. To move one way and the other; to brandish; as, to wave the hand; to wave a sword.

3. To waft; to remove any thing floating.

4. To beckon; to direct by a waft or waving motion.

WAVE, verb transitive

1. To put off; to cast off; to cast away; to reject; as, to wave good stolen; usually written waive.

2. To quit; to depart from.

He resolved not to wave his way.

3. To put off; to put aside for the present, or to omit to pursue; as, to wave a motion. He offered to wave the subject. [This is the usual sense.]

WAVED, participle passive

1. Moved one way and the other; brandished.

2. Put off; omitted.

3. adjective In heraldry, indented.

4. Variegated in luster; as waved silk.

5. In botany, undate; rising and falling in waves on the margin, as a leaf.

WAVELESS, adjective Free from waves; undisturbed; unagitated; as the waveless sea.

WAVELLITE, noun A mineral, a phosphate or sub-phosphate of alumin; commonly found in crystals, which usually adhere and radiate, forming hemispherical or globular concretions, from a very small size to an inch in diameter. The form of the crystal is usually that of a rhombic prism with dihedral terminations.

WAVER, verb intransitive

1. To play or move to and fro; to move one way and the other.

2. To fluctuate; to be unsettled in opinion; to vacillate; to be undetermined; as, to waver in opinion; to waver in faith.

Let us hold fast the profession of our faith without wavering. Hebrews 10:23.

3. To totter; to reel; to be in danger of falling.

WAVER, noun A name given to a sapling or young timber tree in England.

WAVERER, noun One who wavers; one who is unsettled in doctrine, faith or opinion.

WAVERING, participle present tense or adjective Fluctuating; being in doubt; undetermined.

WAVERINGNESS, noun State or quality of being wavering.

WAVING, participle present tense Moving as a wave; playing to and fro; brandishing.

WAVY, adjective [from wave.[

1. Rising or swelling in waves; full of waves; as the wavy sea.

2. Playing to and fro; undulating.

Let her glad valleys smile with wavy corn.

3. Undulating on the border or on the surface; a botanical use.

Wawes or waes, for waves. [Not in use.]

WAX, noun [G., Latin ]

1. A thick, viscid, tenacious substance, collected by bees, or excreted from their bodies, and employed in the construction of their cells; usually called bees wax Its native color is yellow, but it is bleached for candles, etc.

2. A thick tenacious substance excreted in the ear.

3. A substance secreted by certain plants, forming a silvery powder on the leaves and fruit, as in the wax-palm and wax-myrtle.

4. A substance found on the hinder legs of bees, which is supposed to be their food.

5. A substance used in sealing letters; called sealing-wax, or Spanish wax This is a composition of gum-lacca and resin, colored with some pigment.

6. A thick substance used by shoemakers for rubbing their thread.

WAX, verb transitive To smear or rub with wax; as, to wax a thread or a table.

WAX, verb intransitive preterit tense waxed.; participle passive waxed or waxen. [G., Latin , Gr.]

1. To increase in size; to grow; to become larger; as the waxing and the waning moon.

2. To pass from one state to another; to become; as, to wax strong; to wax warm or cold; to wax feeble; to wax hot; to wax old; to wax worse and worse.

WAXED, participle passive Smeared or rubbed with wax.

WAXEN, adjective Made of wax; as waxen cells.

WAXING, participle present tense Growing; increasing; becoming; smearing with wax.

WAXING, noun In chemistry, the preparation of any matter to render it fit for melting; also, the process of stopping out colors in calico-printing.

WAXY, adjective Soft like wax; resembling wax; viscid; adhesive.

WAY, noun [G., Latin ]

1. Literally, a passing; hence, a passage; the place of passing; hence, a road of any kind; a highway; a private road; a lane; a street; any place for the passing of men; cattle or other animals; a word of very comprehensive signification.

2. Length of space; as a great way; a little way

3. Course; direction of motion or travel. What way did he take? Which way shall I go? Keep in the way of truth and knowledge.

Mark what way I make.

4. Passage; room for passing. Make way for the jury.

5. Course, or regular course.

And let eternal justice take the way

6. Tendency to any meaning or act.

There is nothing in the words that sounds that way

7. Sphere of observation.

The general officers and the public ministers that fell in my way--

8. Manner of doing any thing; method; means of doing. Seek the best way of learning, and pursue it.

By noble ways we conquest will prepare.

9. Method; scheme of management.

What impious ways my wishes took.

10. Manner of thinking or behavior; particular turn of opinion; determination or humor. Let him have his way when that will not injure him, or any other person. But multitudes of children are ruined by being permitted to have their way

11. Manner; mode. In no way does this matter belong to me. We admire a persons way of expressing his ideas.

12. Method; manner of practice. Find, if you can, the easiest way to live.

Having lost the way of nobleness.

13. Method or plan of life and conduct. Instruct your children in the right way

Her ways are ways of pleasantness, and all her paths are peace. Proverbs 3:23.

All flesh had corrupted his way Genesis 6:12.

14. Course; process of things, good or bad. Things are in a prosperous way

15. Right method to act or know.

We are quite out of the way

16. General scheme of acting.

Men who go out of the way to hint free things, must be guilty of absurdity or rudeness.

17. Ways, plural the timbers on which a ship is launched.

To make way to give room for passing; or to make a vacancy.

To give way to recede; to make room; or to yield; to concede the place or opinion to another.

To make ones way to advance in life by efforts; to advance successfully.

By the way en passant, as we proceed; a phrase introducing something in discourse, not immediately connected with the subject.

To go ones way or to come ones way to go or come along.

To go the way of all the earth, to die.

In the way a phrase noting obstruction. What is there in the way of your success?

In Scripture, the ways of God, are his providential government, or his works. Romans 11:33. Job 11:1.

WAY and ways are used in certain phrases, in the sense of wise. He is no ways a match for his antagonist.

Tis no way the interest even of the priesthood.

To be under way in seamens language, to be in motion, as when a ship begins to move. So a ship is said to have head-way, when she moves forward in her course, and stern-way, when she is driven astern. She is said also to gather way or to lose way Lee-way is a movement of a ship aside of her course, or to the leeward.

Milky way in astronomy, the galaxy; a broad luminous belt or space in the heavens, supposed to be occasioned by the blended light of an immense number of stars. By means of a telescope of uncommon magnifying powers, Dr. Herschel has been able to ascertain this fact, by distinguishing the stars.

Covert way in fortification, a passage covered from the enemys fire.

WAYs and means, in legislation, means for raising money; resources for revenue.

WAY-going crop, among farmers, is the crop which is taken from the ground the year the tenant leaves the farm. [England.]

WAYFARER, noun A traveler; a passenger.

WAYFARING, adjective [supra.] Traveling; passing; being on a journey. Judges 19:17.

WAYLAID, participle passive Watched int he way. [See Waylay.]

WAYLAY, verb transitive [way and lay.] To watch insidiously in the way, with a view to seize, rob or slay; to beset in ambush; as, to waylay a traveler. [In this word there is little difference of accent.]

WAYLAYER, noun One who waits for another in ambush, with a view to seize, rob or slay him.

WAYLESS, adjective Having no road or path; pathless; trackless.

WAYMENT, verb intransitive To lament. [Not in use.]

WAYWARD, adjective [way and ward.] Froward; peevish; perverse; liking his own way.

WAYWARD beauty doth not fancy move.

WAYWARDLY, adverb Frowardly; perversely.

WAYWARDNESS, noun Forwardness; perverseness.

WAYWODE, WAIWODE, noun

1. 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 mussulman charged with the collection of taxes, or with the police of a place.

2. In Poland, the governor of a province.

WAYWODESHIP, noun The province or jurisdiction of a waywode.