WIC, WICK, a termination, denotes jurisdiction, as in bailiwick. Its primary sense is a village or mansion, Latin ; hence it occurs in Berwick, Harwich, Norwich, etc. It signifies also a bay or a castle.

WICK, noun A number of threads of cotton or some similar substance, loosely twisted into a string, round which wax or tallow is applied by means of melting and running in a mold, and thus forming a candle or torch.

WICKED, adjective [The primary sense is to wind and turn, or to depart, to fall away.]

1. Evil in principle or practice; deviating from the divine law; addicted to vice; sinful; immoral. This is a word of comprehensive signification, extending to every thing that is contrary to the moral law, and both to persons and actions. We say, a wicked man, a wicked deed, wicked ways, wicked lives, a wicked heart, wicked designs, wicked works.

No man was ever wicked without secret discontent.

2. A word of slight blame; as the wicked urchin.

3. Cursed; baneful; pernicious; as wicked words, words pernicious in their efforts.

[This last signification may throw some light on the word witch.]

The wicked in Scripture, persons who live in sin; transgressors of the divine law; all who are unreconciled to God, unsanctified or impenitent.

WICKEDLY, adverb IN a manner or with motives and designs contrary to the divine law; viciously; corruptly; immorally.

All that do wickedly shall be stubble. Malachi 4:1.

I have sinned, and I have done wickedly 2 Samuel 24:17.

WICKEDNESS, noun Departure from the rules of the divine law; evil disposition or practices; immorality; crime; sin; sinfulness; corrupt manners wickedness generally signifies evil practices.

What wickedness is this that is done among you? Judges 20:3.

But wickedness expresses also the corrupt dispositions of the heart.

Their inward part is very wickedness Psalms 5:4.

In heart ye work wickedness Psalms 5:48.

WICKEN, WICKEN-TREE, noun The Sorbus aucuparia, mountain ash, or roan-tree.

WICKER, adjective [Latin , to grow. The word signifies a shoot.] Made of twigs or oziers; as a wicker basket; a wicker chair.

WICKET, noun A small gate.

The wicket often opend, knew the key.

WICKLIFFITE, noun A follower of Wickliffe, the English reformer.

WIDE, adjective

1. Broad; having a great or considerable distance or extent between the sides; opposed to narrow; as wide cloth; a wide table; a wide highway; a wide bed; a wide hall or entry. In this use, wide is distinguished from long, which refers to the extent or distance between the ends.

2. Broad; having a great extent each way; as a wide plain; the wide ocean.

3. Remote; distant. This position is very wide from the truth.

4. Broad to a certain degree; as three feet wide

WIDE, adverb

1. At a distance; far. His fame was spread wide

2. With great extent; used chiefly in composition; as wide-skirted meads; wide-waving swords; wide-wasting pestilence; wide-spreading evil.

WIDELY, adverb

1. With great extent each way. The gospel was widely disseminated by the apostles.

2. Very much; to a great distance; far. We differ widely in opinion.

WIDEN, verb transitive To make wide or wider; to extend in breadth; as, to widen a field; to widen a breach. [Note.--In America, females say, to widen a stocking.]

WIDEN, verb intransitive To grow wide or wider; to enlarge; to extend itself.

And arches widen and long aisles extend.

WIDENED, participle passive Made wide or wider; extended in breadth.

WIDENESS, noun

1. Breadth; width; great extent between the sides; as the wideness of a room.

2. Large extent in all directions; as the wideness of the sea or ocean.

WIDENING, participle present tense Extending the distance between the sides; enlarging in all directions.

WIDGEON, noun A fowl of the duck kind, or genus Anas, having a black bill, the head and upper part of the neck of a bright bay, the back and sides waved with black and white, and the belly white.

WIDOW, noun [Latin See Wide.] A woman who has lost her husband by death. Luke 2:37.

WIDOWs chamber, in London, the apparel and furniture of the bed-chamber of the widow of a freeman, to which she is entitled.

WIDOW, verb transitive

1. To bereave of a husband; but rarely used except in the participle.

2. To endow with a widows right. [Unusual.]

3. To strip of any thing good.

The widowd isle in mourning--

WIDOWED, participle passive

1. Bereaved of a husband by death.

2. Deprived of some good; stripped.

Trees of their shriveld fruits are widowd.

WIDOWER, noun A man who has lost his wife by death.

WIDOWHOOD, noun

1. The state of being a widow.

2. Estate settled on a widow. [Not in use.]

WIDOWING, participle present tense Bereaving of a husband; depriving; stripping.

WIDTH, noun [from wide.] Breadth; wideness; the extent of a thing from side to side; as the width of cloth; the width of a door.

WIELD, verb transitive [Latin The primary sense of power and strength is to stretch or strain.]

1. To use with full command or power, as a thing not too heavy for the holder; to manage; as, to wield a sword; to wield the scepter.

Part wield their arms, part curb the foaming steed.

2. To use or employ with the hand.

Nothing but the influence of a civilized power could induce a savage to wield a spade.

3. To handle; in an ironical sense.

Base Hungarian wight, wilt thou the spigot wield?

To wield the scepter, to govern with supreme command.

WIELDED, participle passive Used with command; managed.

WIELDING, participle present tense Using with power; managing.

WIELDLESS, adjective Unmanageable.

WIELDY, adjective That may be wielded; manageable.

WIERY, adjective [from wire.]

1. Made of wire; having the properties of wire. It would be better written wiry.

2. Wet; marshy. [Not in use.]

WIFE, noun plural Wives. [G., a woman.]

1. The lawful consort of man; a woman who is united to man in the lawful bonds of wedlock; the correlative of husband.

The husband of one wife 1 Timothy 3:2.

Let every one of you in particular, so love his wife even as himself, and let the wife see that she reverence her husband. Ephesians 5:23.

2. A woman of low employment; as strawberry wives. [Not in use.]

WIG, in Saxon, signifies war. It is found in some names.

WIG, noun [G., roll butter. It would seem that the sense is a roll or twist interwoven.]

1. A covering for the head, consisting of hair interwoven or united by a kind of network; formerly much worn by men.

2. A sort of cake.

WIGEON. [See Widgeon.]

WIGHT, noun [g., a living being. Latin , to live.] A being; a person. It is obsolete, except in irony or burlesque. [See Aught.]

The wight of all the world who lovd thee best.

WIGHT, adjective Swift; nimble. [This seems to be a dialectical form of quick.]

WIGHTLY, adverb Swiftly; nimbly.

WIGWAM, noun An Indian cabin or hut, so called in America. It is sometimes written weekwam.

WILD, adjective [G.]

1. Roving; wandering; inhabiting the forest or open field; hence, not tamed or domesticated; as a wild boar; a wild ox; a wild cat; a wild bee.

2. Growing without culture; as wild parsnep; wild cherry; wild tansy. wild rice, a palatable and nutritious food, grows spontaneously in the lakes and ponds of the North West territory.

3. Desert; not inhabited; as a wild forest.

4. Savage; uncivilized; not refined by culture; as the wild natives of Africa or America.

5. Turbulent; tempestuous; irregular; as a wild tumult.

The wild winds howl.

6. Licentious; ungoverned; as wild passions.

Valor grown wild by pride--

7. Inconstant; mutable; fickle.

In the ruling passion, there also the wild are constant, and the cunning known.

8. Inordinate; loose.

A fop well dressd, extravagant and wild

9. Uncouth; loose.

--What are these, so witherd, and so wild in their attire?

10. Irregular; disorderly; done without plan or order; as, to make wild work.

11. Not well digested; not framed according to the ordinary rules of reason; not being within the limits of probable practicability; imaginary; fanciful; as a wild project or scheme; wild speculations.

12. Exposed to the wind and sea; as a wild roadstead.

13. Made or found in the forest; as wild honey.

WILD is prefixed to the names of many plants, to distinguish them from such of the name as are cultivated in gardens, as wild basil, wild parsnep, wild carrot, wild olive, _.

WILD, noun A desert; an uninhabited and uncultivated tract or region; a forest or sandy desert; as the wilds of America; the wilds of Africa; the sandy wilds of Arabia.

Then Libya first, of all her moisture draind, became a barren waste, a wild of sand.

WILDER, verb transitive To lose or cause to lose the way or track; to puzzle with mazes or difficulties; to bewilder.

Long lost and wilderd in the maze of fate.

WILDERED, participle passive Lost in a pathless tract; puzzled.

WILDERING, participle present tense Puzzling.

WILDERNESS, noun [from wild.]

1. A desert; a tract of land or region uncultivated and uninhabited by human beings, whether a forest or a wide barren plain. In the United States, it is applied only to a forest. In Scripture, it is applied frequently to the deserts of Arabia. The Israelites wandered int he wilderness forty years.

2. The ocean.

The watry wilderness yields no supply.

3. A state of disorder. [Not in use.]

4. A wood in a garden, resembling a forest.

WILDFIRE, noun [wild and fire.]

1. A composition of inflammable materials.

Brimstone, pitch, wildfire burn easily, and are hard to quench.

2. A disease of sheep, attended with inflammation of the skin; a kind of erysipelas.

WILDING, noun A wild sour apple.

WILDLY, adverb

1. Without cultivation.

2. Without tameness.

3. With disorder; with perturbation or distraction; with a fierce or roving look; as, to start wildly from ones seat; to stare wildly

4. Without attention; heedlessly.

5. Capriciously; irrationally; extravagantly.

Who is there so wildly skeptical as to question whether the sun will rise in the east?

6. Irregularly.

She, wildly wanton, wears by night away the sign of all our labors done by day.

WILDNESS, noun

1. Rudeness; rough uncultivated state; as the wildness of a forest or heath.

2. Inordinate disposition to rove; irregularity of manners; as the wildness of youth.

3. Savageness; brutality.

4. Savage state; rudeness.

5. Uncultivated state; as the wildness of land.

6. A wandering; irregularity.

Delirium is but a short wildness of the imagination.

7. Alienation of mind.

8. State of being untamed.

9. The quality of being undisciplined, or not subjected to method or rules.

Is there any danger that this discipline will tame too much the fiery spirit, the enchanting wildness and magnificent irregularity of the orators genius?

WILDS, noun Among farmers, the part of a plow by which it is drawn.

WILE, noun A trick or stratagem practiced for ensnaring or deception; a sly, insidious artifice.

That ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil. Ephesians 6:11.

WILE, verb transitive To deceive; to beguile. [Little used.]

WILILY, adverb [from wily.] By stratagem; with insidious art. Joshua 9:4.

WILINESS, noun [from wily.] Cunning; guile.

WILK, WHILK, noun [G., to wither, or cause to wither.] A species of shell. [See Welk.]

WILL, noun [See the Verb.]

1. That faculty of the mind by which we determine either to do or forbear an action; the faculty which is exercised in deciding, among two or more objects, which we shall embrace or pursue. The will is directed or influenced by the judgment. The understanding or reason compares different objects, which operate as motives; the judgment determines which is preferable, and the will decides which to pursue. In other words, we reason with respect to the value or importance of things; we then judge which is to be preferred; and we will to take the most valuable. These are but different operations of the mind, soul, or intellectual part of man. Great disputes have existed respecting the freedom of the will will is often quite a different thing from desire.

A power over a mans subsistence, amounts to a power over his will

2. Choice; determination. It is my will to prosecute the trespasser.

3. Choice; discretion; pleasure.

Go, then, the guilty at thy will chastise.

4. Command; direction.

Our prayers should be according to the will of God.

5. Disposition; inclination; desire. What is your will Sir? In this phrase, the word may also signify determination, especially when addressed to a superior.

6. Power; arbitrary disposal.

Deliver me not over to the will of my enemies. Psalms 27:3.

7. Divine determination; moral purpose or counsel.

Thy will be done. Lords Prayer.

8. Testament; the disposition of a mans estate, to take effect after his death. Wills are written, or nuncupative, that is, verbal.

Good will

1. Favor; kindness.

2. Right intention. Philippians 1:6.

Ill will enmity; unfriendliness. It expresses less than malice.

To have ones will to obtain what is desired.

At will To hold an estate at the will of another, is to enjoy the possession at his pleasure, and be liable to be ousted at any time by the lessor or proprietor.

WILL with a wisp, Jack with a lantern; ignis fatuus; a luminous appearance sometimes seen in the air over moist ground, supposed to proceed from hydrogen gas.

WILL, verb transitive [G., Latin , Gr. The sense is to set, or to set forward, to stretch forward. The sense is well expressed by the Latin ]

1. To determine; to decide int he mind that something shall be done or forborne; implying power to carry the purpose into effect. In this manner God wills whatever comes to pass. So in the style of princes; we will that execution be done.

A man that sits still is said to be at liberty, because he can walk if he will it.

2. To command; to direct.

Tis yours, O queen! To will the work which duty bids me to fulfill.

3. To be inclined or resolved to have.

There, there, Hortensio, will you any wife?

4. To wish; to desire. What will you?

5. To dispose of estate and effects by testament.

6. It is sometimes equivalent to may be. Let the circumstances be what they will; that is, any circumstances, of whatever nature.

7. will is used as an auxiliary verb, and a sign of the future tense. It has different signification in different persons.

1. I will go, is a present promise to go; and with an emphasis on will it expresses determination.

2. Thou wilt go, you will go, express foretelling; simply stating an event that is to come.

3. He will go, is also a foretelling. The use of will in the plural, is the same. We will promises; ye will they will foretell.

WILLED, participle passive

1. Determined; resolved; desired.

2. Disposed of by will or testament.

WILLER, noun One who wills.

WILLFUL, adjective [will and full.]

1. Governed by the will without yielding to reason; obstinate; stubborn; perverse; inflexible; as a willful man.

2. Stubborn; refractory; as a willful horse.

WILLFULLY, adverb

1. Obstinately; stubbornly.

2. By design; with set purpose.

If we sin willfully after that we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remaineth no more sacrifice for sins. Hebrews 10:1.

WILLFULNESS, noun Obstinacy; stubbornness; perverseness.

Sins of presumption are such as proceed from pride, arrogance, willfulness and haughtiness of mens heart.

WILLING, participle present tense

1. Determining; resolving; desiring.

2. Disposing of by will.

WILLING, adjective

1. Free to do or grant; having the mind inclined; disposed; not averse. Let every man give, who is able and willing

2. Pleased; desirous.

Felix, willing to show the Jews a pleasure. Acts 24:27.

3. Ready; prompt.

He stoopd with weary wings and willing feet.

4. Chosen; received of choice or without reluctance; as, to be held in willing chains.

5. Spontaneous.

No spouts of blood run wiling from a tree.

6. Consenting.

WILLINGLY, adverb

1. With free will; without reluctance; cheerfully.

2. By ones own choice.

The condition of that people is not so much to be envied as some would willingly represent it.

WILLINGNESS, noun Free choice or consent of the will; freedom from reluctance; readiness of the mind to do or forbear.

Sweet is the love that comes with willingness

WILLOW, noun [Latin] A tree of the genus Salix. There are several species of willow the white, the black, the purple or red, the sallow, and the broad leaved willow etc. A species called the weeping willow has long and slender branches which droop and hang downward, the Salix Babylonica.

WILLOWED, adjective Abounding with willows.

WILLOWISH, adjective Like the color of the willow.

WILLOWY, adjective Abounding with willows.

WILT, verb intransitive [G., to fade; that is, to shrink or withdraw.] To begin to wither; to lose freshness and become flaccid, as a plant when exposed to great heat in a dry day, or when first separated from its root. This is a legitimate word, for which there is no substitute in the language. It is not synonymous with wither, as it expresses only the beginning of withering. A wilted plant often revives and becomes fresh; not so a withered plant.

WILT, verb transitive

1. To cause to begin to wither; to make flaccid; as a green plant.

2. To cause to languish; to depress or destroy the vigor and energy of.

Despots have wilted the human race into sloth and imbecility.

WILTED, participle passive Having become flaccid and lost its freshness, as a plant.

WILTING, participle present tense Beginning to fade or wither.

WILY, adjective [from wile.] Cunning; sly; using craft or stratagem to accomplish a purpose; subtle; as a wily adversary.

WIMBLE, noun [See Whim.] An instrument for boring holes, turned by a handle.

WIMBLE, adjective Active; nimble.

WIMBREL, noun A bird of the curlew kind, a species of Soclopax.

WIMPLE, noun [G., a pendant.] A hood or vail. Isaiah 3:22.

WIMPLE, verb transitive To draw down, as a vail.

WIN, verb transitive preterit tense and participle passive won. [G.]

1. To gain by success in competition or contest; as, to win the prize in a game; to win money; to win a battle, or to win a country. Battles are won by superior strength or skill.

--Who thus shall Canaan win

2. To gain by solicitation or courtship.

3. To obtain; to allure to kindness or compliance. Thy virtue won me. win your enemy by kindness.

4. To gain by persuasion or influence; as, an orator wins his audience by argument. The advocate has won the jury.

And Mammon wins his way, where seraphs might despair.

WIN, verb transitive

1. To gain the victory.

Nor is it aught but just that he, who in debate of truth hath won, should win in arms.

To win upon, to gain favor or influence; as, to win upon the heart or affections.

2. To gain ground.

The rabble will in time win upon power.

To win of, to be conqueror.

WINCE, verb intransitive

1. To shrink, as from a blow or from pain; to start back.

I will not stir nor wince

2. To kick or flounce when uneasy, or impatient of a rider; as, a horse winces.

WINCER, noun One that winces, shrinks or kicks.

WINCH, noun A windlass; or an instrument with which to turn or strain something forcibly; as a winch to strain the cord of a bedstead, or to turn a wheel.

WINCH, verb intransitive To wince; to shrink; to kick with impatience or uneasiness. [This is a more correct orthography than wince.]

WINCHING, WINCING, participle present tense Flinching; shrinking; kicking.

WINCHING, WINCING participle present tense Flinching; shrinking; kicking.

WINCOPIPE, noun The vulgar name of a little flower, that, when it opens in the morning, bodes a fair day.

WIND, noun [Latin , G. The primary sense is to move, flow, rush or drive along.]

1. Air in motion with any degree of velocity, indefinitely; a current of air. When the air moves moderately, we call it a light wind or a breeze; when with more velocity, we call it a fresh breeze, and when with violence, we call it a gale, storm or tempest. The word gale is used by the poets for a moderate breeze, but seamen use it as equivalent to storm. Winds are denominated from the point of compass from which they blow; as a north wind; an east wind; a south wind; a west wind; a southwest wind etc.

2. The four winds, the cardinal points of the heavens.

Come from the four winds, O breath, and breathe upon these slain. Ezekiel 37:9.

This sense of the word seems to have had its origin with the orientals, as it was the practice of the Hebrews to give to each of the four cardinal points the name of wind

3. Direction of the wind from other points of the compass than the cardinal, or any point of compass; as a compass of eight winds.

4. Breath; power of respiration.

If my wind were but long enough to say my prayers, I would repent.

5. Air in motion form any force or action; as the wind of a cannon ball; the wind of a bellows.

6. Breath modulated by the organs or by an instrument.

Their instruments were various in their kind, some for the bow, and some for breathing wind

7. Air impregnated with scent.

A pack of dog-fish had him in the wind

8. Any thing insignificant or light as wind

Think not with wind or airy threats to awe.

9. Flatulence; air generated in the stomach and bowels; as, to be troubled with wind

10. The name given to a disease of sheep, in which the intestines are distended with air, or rather affected with a violent inflammation. It occurs immediately after shearing.

Down the wind decaying; declining; in a state of decay; as, he went down the wind [Not used.]

To take or have the wind or to get wind to be divulged; to become public. The story got wind or took wind

In the winds eye, in seamens language, towards the direct point from which the wind blows.

Between wind and water, denoting that part of a ships side or bottom which is frequently brought above water by the rolling of the ship, or fluctuation of the waters surface.

To carry the wind in the manege, is when a horse tosses his nose as high as his ears.

Constant or perennial wind a wind that blows constantly from one point of the compass; as the trade wind of the tropics.

Shifting, variable or erratic winds, are such as are changeable, now blowing from one point and now from another, and then ceasing altogether.

Stated or periodical wind a wind that constantly returns at a certain time, and blows steadily from one point for a certain time. Such are the monsoons in India, and land and sea breezes.

Trade wind a wind that blows constantly from one point, such as the tropical wind in the Atlantic.

WINDAGE, noun The difference between the diameter of a piece and that of a ball or shell.

WINDBOUND, adjective [wind and bound.] Prevented from sailing by a contrary wind.]

WINDER, verb transitive To fan; to clean grain with a fan. [Local.]

WINDFALL, noun [wind and fall.]

1. Fruit blown off the tree by wind.

2. An unexpected legacy.

WINDINESS, noun [from windey.]

1. The state of being windy or tempestuous; as the windiness of the weather or season.

2. Fullness of wind; flatulence.

3. Tendency to generate wind; as the windiness of vegetables.

4. Tumor; puffiness.

The swelling windiness of much knowledge.

WINDING, participle present tense

1. Turning; binding about; bending.

2. adjective Bending; twisting from a direct line or an even surface.

WINDING, noun

1. A turn or turning; a bend; flexure; meander; as the windings of a road or stream.

2. A call by the boastswains whistle.

WINDLAS, WINDLASS, noun [wind and lace.]

WINDLAS, WINDLASS noun [wind and lace.]

1. A machine for raising great weights, consisting of a cylinder or roller of timber, moving on its axis and turned by levers, with a rope or chain attached to the weight.

2. A handle by which any thing is turned. [Not in use.]

WINDLE, noun A spindle; a kind of reel.

WINDOW, noun [ G. The vulgar pronunciation is windor, as if from the Welsh gwyntdor, wind-door.]

1. An opening in the wall of a building for the admission of light, and of air when necessary. This opening has a frame on the sides, in which are set movable sashes, containing panes of glass. In the United Sates, the sashes are made to rise and fall, for the admission or exclusion of air. In France, windows are shut with frames or sashes that open and shut vertically, like the leaves of a folding door.

2. An aperture or opening.

A window shalt thou make to the ark. Genesis 6:16.

3. The frame or other thing that covers the aperture.

Ere I let fall the windows of mine eyes.

4. An aperture; or rather the clouds or water-spouts.

The windows of heaven were opened. Genesis 7:11.

5. Lattice or casement; or the network of wire used before the invention of glass. Judges 5:28.

6. Lines crossing each other.

Till he has windows on his bread and butter.

WINDOW, verb transitive

1. To furnish with windows.

2. To place at a window [Unusual.]

3. To break into openings. [Unusual.]

WINDOWY, adjective Having little crossings like the sashes of a window.

WINDPIPE, noun [wind and pipe.] The passage for the breath to and from the lungs; the trachea.

WINDROW, noun [wind and row.]

1. A row or line of hay, raked together for the purpose of being rolled into cocks or heaps. [This is the only use of the word in New England.]

2. The green border of a field, dug up in order to carry the earth on other land to mend it.

3. A row of peats set up for drying; or a row of pieces of turf, sod or sward, cut in paring and burning.

WINDSEED, noun A plant of the genus Arctolis.

WINDWARD, noun [wind and ward.] The point from which the wind blows; as, to ply to the windward

WINDWARD, adjective [wind and ward.] Being on the side towards the point from which the wind blows; as the windward shrouds.

WINDWARD, adverb Towards the wind.

WINDY, adjective

1. Consisting of wind; as a windy tempest.

2. Next the wind; as the windy side.

3. Tempestuous; boisterous; as windy weather.

4. Puffy; flatulent; abounding with wind.

5. Empty; airy; as windy joy.

WIND, verb transitive preterit tense and participle passive wound. [G.]

1. To blow; to sound by blowing or inflation.

Wind the shrill horn.

2. To turn; to move, or cause to turn.

To turn and wind a fiery Pegasus.

3. To turn round some fixed object; to bind, or to form into a ball or coil by turning; as, to wind thread on a spool; to wind thread into a ball; to wind a rope into a coil.

4. To introduce by insinuation. The child winds himself into my affections.

They have little arts and dexterities to wind in such things into discourse.

5. To change; to vary.

Were our legislature vested in the prince, he might wind and turn our constitution at his pleasure.

6. To entwist; to enfold; to encircle.

7. [With I short, as in win.] To nose; to perceive or to follow by the scent; as, hounds wind an animal.

8. To ventilate; to expose to the wind; to winnow.

To wind off, [with I long.] To unwind.

To wind out, to extricate.

To wind up,

1. To bring to a small compass, as a ball of thread.

2. To bring to a conclusion or settlement; as, to wind up ones affairs.

3. To put in a state of renovated or continued motion.

Fate seemd to wind him up for fourscore years.

To wind up a clock, is to wind the cord by which the weights are suspended, round an axis or pin.

To wind up a watch, is to wind the spring round its axis or pin.

4. To raise by degrees.

Thus they wound up his temper to a pitch--

5. To straiten, as a string; to put in tune.

6. To put in order for regular action.

WIND, verb intransitive

1. To turn; to change.

So swift your judgments turn and wind.

2. To turn around something; as, vines wind around a pole.

3. To have a circular direction; as winding stairs.

4. To crook; to bend. The road winds in various places.

5. To move round; as, a hare pursued turns and winds.

To wind out, to be extricated; to escape.

Long labring underneath, ere they could wind out of such prison.

WINDER, noun One who winds.

WINE, noun [Gr.]

1. The fermented juice of grapes; as the wine of the Madeira grape; the wine of Burgundy or Oporto.

2. The juice of certain fruits, prepared with sugar, spirits, etc.; as currant wine; gooseberry wine

3. Intoxication.

Noah awoke from his wine Genesis 9:21.

4. Drinking.

They that tarry long at the wine Proverbs 23:30.

Corn and wine in Scripture, are put for all kinds of necessaries for subsistence. Psalm.

Bread and wine in the Lord's supper, are symbols of the body and blood of Christ.

WINELESS, adjective Destitute of wine; as wineless life.

WING, noun

1. The limb of a fowl by which it flies. In a few species of fowls, the wings do not enable them to fly; as is the case with the dodo, ostrich, great auk, and penguin; but in the two former, the wings assist the fowls in running.

2. The limb of an insect by which it flies.

3. In botany, the side petal of a papilionaceous corol; also, an appendage of seeds, by means of which they are wafted in the air and scattered; also, any membranous or leafy dilatation of a footstalk, or of the angles of a stem, branch or flower stalk, or of a calyx.

4. Flight; passage by the wind; as, to be on the wind; to take wing

5. Means of flying; acceleration. Fear adds wings to flight.

6. Motive or incitement of flight.

Then fiery expedition be my wing

7. The flank or extreme body or part of an army.

8. Any side-piece.

9. In gardening, a side-shoot.

10. In architecture, a side-building, less than the main edifice.

11. In fortification, the longer sides of hornworks, crown-works, etc.

12. In a fleet, the ships on the extremities, when ranged in a line, or when forming the two sides of a triangle.

13. In a ship, the wings are those parts of the hold and orlop deck, which are nearest the sides.

14. In Scripture, protection; generally in the plural. Psalms 63:7. Exodus 19:4.

On the wings of the wind, with the utmost velocity. Psalms 18:10.

WING, verb transitive

1. To furnish with wings; to enable to fly or to move with celerity.

Who heaves old ocean, and who wings the storms.

2. To supply with side bodies; as on either side well winged.

3. To transport by flight.

I, an old turtle, will wing me to some witherd bough.

Edge the keen sword, and wing th unerring ball.

To wing a flight, to exert the power of flying.

WINGED, participle passive

1. Furnished with wings; transported by flying.

2. adjective Having wings; as a winged fowl. Genesis 1:21.

3. Swift; rapid; as with winged haste.

4. Wounded; hurt.

5. In botany, furnished with longitudinal membranous appendages, as a winged stalk or stem; or with downy or hairy appendages, as winged seeds.

WINGED petiole, having a thing membrane or border on each side, or dilated on the sides.

WINGED leaf, a pennate leaf; a species of compound leaf, wherein a simple leaf has several leaflets fastened to each side of it.

6. In heraldry, represented with wings, or having wings of a different color from the body.

7. Fanned with wings; swarming with birds.

WINGLESS, adjective Having no wings; not able to ascend or fly.

WINGY, adjective Having wings; rapid; as wingy speed.

WINK, verb intransitive [G. wink and wince are radically one word.]

1. To shut the eyes; to close the eyelids.

They are not blind, but they wink

2. To close and open the eyelids.

3. To give a hint by a motion of the eyelids.

WINK at the footman to leave him without a plate.

4. To close the eyelids and exclude the light.

Or wink as cowards and afraid.

5. To be dim; as a winking light.

To wink at, to connive at; to seem not to see; to tolerate; to overlook, as something not perfectly agreeable; as, to wink at faults.

WINK, noun

1. The act of closing the eyelids. I lay awake, and could not sleep a wink

I could eclipse and cloud them with a wink

2. A hint given by shutting the eye with a significant cast.

WINKER, noun One who winks.

WINKING, participle present tense Shutting the eyes; shutting and opening the eyelids; hinting by closing the eye; conniving at; overlooking.

WINKINGLY, adverb With the eye almost closed.

WINNER, noun [from win.] One who gains by success in competition or contest.

WINNING, participle present tense [from win.]

1. Gaining success in competition or contest.

2. adjective Attracting; adapted to gain favor; charming; as a winning address.

WINNING, noun The sum won or gained by success in competition or contest.

WINNOW, verb transitive [Latin , a fan.]

1. To separate and drive off the chaff from grain by means of wind. Grain is winnowed by a fan, or by a machine, or by pouring it out of a vessel in a current of air.

2. To fan; to beat as with wings.

3. To examine; to sift for the purpose of separating falsehood from truth.

WINNOW well this thought.

4. To separate, as the bad from the good.

WINNOW, verb intransitive To separate chaff from corn.

WINNOW not with every wind.

WINNOWED, participle passive Separated from the chaff by wind; sifted; examined.

WINNOWER, noun One who winnows.

WINNOWING, participle present tense Separating from the chaff by wind; examining.

WINTER, noun

1. The cold season of the year. Astronomically considered, winter commences in northern latitudes when the sun enters Capricorn, or at the solstice about the 21st of December, and ends at the equinox in March; but in ordinary discourse, the three winter months are December, January, and February. Our Saxon ancestors reckoned the years by winters; as ten winters; thirty winters. In tropical climates, there are two winters annually; but they cannot be said to be cold. In the temperate and frigid climates, there is one winter only in the year.

2. The part of the printing press which sustains the carriage.

WINTER, verb intransitive To pass the winter He wintered in Italy. Cattle winter well on good fodder.

WINTER, verb transitive To feed or manage during the winter To winter young cattle on straw, is not profitable. Delicate plants must be wintered under cover.

WINTERED, participle passive Kept through the winter.

WINTERING, participle present tense Passing the winter; keeping in winter.

WINTERLY, adjective Such as is suitable to winter. [Little used.]

WINTERY, adjective Suitable to winter; brumal; hyemal; cold; stormy.

WINY, adjective [from wine.] Having the taste or qualities of wine.

WIPE, verb transitive

1. To rub something soft for cleaning; to clean by rubbing; as, to wipe the hands or face with a towel. Luke 7:38.

2. To strike off gently.

Some natral tears they droppd, but wipd them soon.

3. To cleanse from evil practices or abuses; to overturn and destroy what is foul and hateful.

I will wipe Jerusalem as a man wipeth a dish. 2 Kings 21:13.

4. To cheat; to defraud.

To wipe away, to cleanse by rubbing or tersion; as, to wipe away a stain or reproach.

To wipe off, to clear away. wipe off this foul stain; wipe off the dust.

To wipe out, to efface; to obliterate. wipe out the blot.

WIPE, noun

1. The act of rubbing for the purpose of cleaning.

2. A blow; a stroke.

3. A gibe; a jeer; a severe sarcasm.

4. A bird.

WIPED, participle passive Rubbed for cleaning; cleaned by rubbing; cleared away; effaced.

WIPER, noun

1. One who wipes.

2. The instrument used for wiping.

WIPING, participle present tense Rubbing with a cloth or other soft thing for cleaning; clearing away; effacing.

WIRE, noun A thread of metal; any metallic substance drawn to an even thread.

WIRE, verb transitive To bind with wire; to apply wire to, as in bottling liquors.

WIREDRAW, verb transitive [wire and draw.]

1. To draw a metal into wire, which is done by drawing it through a hole in a plate of steel.

2. To draw into length.

3. To draw by art or violence.

My sense has been wiredrawn into blasphemy.

4. To draw or spin out to great length and tenuity; as, to wiredraw an argument.

WIREDRAWER, noun One who draw metal into wire.

WIREDRAWING, participle present tense

1. Drawing a metal into wire.

2. Drawing to a great length or fineness.

WIREDRAWN, participle passive Drawn into wire; drawn out to great length or fineness.

WIRY, adjective Made of wire; like wire.

WIS, verb transitive preterit tense wist. To think; to suppose; to imagine.

WISDOM, noun s as z. [G. See Wise.]

1. The right use or exercise of knowledge; the choice of laudable ends, and of the best means to accomplish them. This is wisdom in act, effect, or practice. If wisdom is to be considered as a faculty of the mind, it is the faculty of discerning or judging what is most just, proper and useful, and if it is to be considered as an acquirement, it is the knowledge and use of what is best, most just, most proper, most conducive to prosperity or happiness. wisdom in the first sense, or practical wisdom is nearly synonymous with discretion. I differs somewhat from prudence, in this respect; prudence is the exercise of sound judgment in avoiding evils; wisdom is the exercise of sound judgment either in avoiding evils or attempting good. Prudence then is a species, of which wisdom is the genus.

WISDOM gained by experience, is of inestimable value.

It is hoped that our rulers will act with dignity and wisdom; that they will yield every thing to reason, and refuse every thing to force.

2. In Scripture, human learning; erudition; knowledge of arts and sciences.

Moses was learned in all the wisdom of the Egyptians. Acts 7:10.

3. Quickness of intellect; readiness of apprehension; dexterity in execution; as the wisdom of Bezaleel and Aholiab. Exodus 31:3.

4. Natural instinct and sagacity. Job 39:17.

5. In Scripture theology, wisdom is true religion; godliness; piety; the knowledge and fear of God, and sincere and uniform obedience to his commands. This is the wisdom which is from above. Psalms 90:12. Job 28:12.

6. Profitable words or doctrine. Psalms 37:30.

The wisdom of this world, mere human erudition; or the carnal policy of men, their craft and artifices in promoting their temporal interests; called also fleshly wisdom 1 Corinthians 2:1. 2 Corinthians 1:12.

The wisdom of words, artificial or affected eloquence; or learning displayed in teaching. 1 Corinthians 1:17 and 2.

WISE, adjective s as z. [G., to know., Latin ]

1. Properly, having knowledge; hence, having the power of discerning and judging correctly, or of discriminating between what is true and what is false; between what is fit and proper, and what is improper; as a wise prince; a wise magistrate. Solomon was deemed the wisest man. But a man may be speculatively and not practically wise Hence,

2. Discrete and judicious in the use or applications of knowledge; choosing laudable ends, and the best means to accomplish them. This is to be practically wise Genesis 41:8.

3. Skillful; dextrous.

They are wise to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge. Jeremiah 4:22.

4. Learned; knowing; as the wise and the unwise. Romans 1:14.

5. Skilled in arts, science, philosophy, or in magic and divination. 2 Samuel 14:2.

6. Godly; pious. Proverbs 13:1.

--The holy Scriptures, which are able to make thee wise to salvation. 2 Timothy 3:15.

7. Skilled in hidden arts; a sense somewhat ironical; as the wise woman of Brainford.

8.Dictated or guided by wisdom; containing wisdom; judicious; well adapted to produce good effects; applicable to things; as a wise saying; a wise scheme or plan; wise conduct or management; a wise determination.

9. Becoming a wise man; grave; discrete; as wise deportment.

WISE, noun s as z. [G.] Manner; way of being or acting.

This song she sings in most commanding wise

In fittest wise

In the foregoing form, this word is obsolete, the use of it is now very limited. It is common in the following phrases.

1. In any wise

If he that sanctified the field will in any wise redeem it-- Leviticus 27:19.

Fret not thyself in any wise Psalms 37:8.

2. On this wise

On this wise ye shall bless the children of Israel. Numbers 6:23.

3. In no wise He shall in no wise lose his reward. Matthew 10:16.

It is used in composition, as in likewise, otherwise, lengthwise, etc. By mistake, ways is often used for it; as lengthways, for lengthwise.

WISEACRE, noun More correctly wisesager. [G., a sayer, a predictor or foreteller.] One who makes pretensions to great wisdom; hence in contempt, a simpleton; a dunce.

WISELING, noun One who pretends to be wise.

WISELY, adverb

1. Prudently; judiciously; discretely; with wisdom. Proverbs 16:21.

2. Craftily; with art or stratagem.

Let us deal wisely with them. Exodus 1:10.

WISENESS, noun Wisdom.

WISH, verb intransitive [G.]

1. To have a desire, or strong desire, either for what is or is not supposed to be obtainable. It usually expresses less than long; but sometimes it denotes to long or wise earnestly. We often wise for what is not obtainable.

This is as good an argument as an antiquary could wish for.

They have more than heart could wish Psalms 73:7.

I wish above all things that thou mayest prosper. John 2:1.

They cast four anchors out of the stern, and wished for the day. Acts 27:29.

2. To be disposed or inclined; as, to wish well to anothers affairs.

3. It sometimes partakes of hope or fear. I wish the event may prove fortunate, or less calamitous than we apprehend.

WISH, verb transitive

1. To desire. I wish your prosperity.

Let them be driven backward and put to shame, that wish me evil. Psalms 40:14.

2. To long for; to desire eagerly or ardently. It has this sense when expressed with emphasis.

3. To recommend by wishing.

I would not wish them to a fairer death.

4. To imprecate; as, to wish curses on an enemy.

5. To ask; to express desire.

WISH, noun

1. Desire; sometimes, eager desire. Job 33:6.

2. Desire expressed.

Blisterd be thy tongue for such a wish

3. Thing desired. He has his wish

The difference between wish and desire seems to be, that desire is directed to what is obtainable, and a wish may be directed to what is obtainable or not.

WISHED, participle passive Desired; or ardently desired.

WISHER, noun One who desires; one who expresses a wish.

WISHFUL, adjective

1. Having desire, or ardent desire.

2. Showing desire; as wishful eyes.

3. Desirable; exciting wishes. [Bad.]

WISHFULLY, adverb

1. With desire or ardent desire.

2. With the show of desiring.

WISHING, participle present tense Desiring.

WISKET, noun A basket.

WISP, noun [G.] A small bundle of straw or other like substance; as a wisp of straw; a wisp of hay; a wisp of herbs.

WIST, preterit tense of wis.

WISTFUL, adjective [from wist. The sense is stretching or reaching towards.] Full of thoughts; earnest; attentive.

Why--dost thou so wistful seem?

WISTFULLY, adverb Attentively; earnestly.

WISTIT, noun The striated monkey; a small species of monkey from South America, with an annulated tail, the ouistiti of Buffon.

WISTLY, adverb Earnestly.

WIT, verb intransitive [G., to know. See Wise.] To know. This verb is used only in the infinitive, to wit namely, that is to say. [Latin]

WIT, noun [See the verb and Wise.]

1. Primarily, the intellect; the understanding or mental powers.

Will puts in practice what the wit deviseth.

For wit and power their last endeavors bend t outshine each other.

2. The association of ideas in a manner natural, but unusual and striking, so as to produce surprise joined with pleasure. wit is defined.

What oft was thought, but neer so well expressd.

WIT consists in assembling and putting together with quickness, ideas in which can be found resemblance and congruity, by which to make up pleasant pictures and agreeable visions in the fancy.

WIT consists chiefly in joining things by distant and fanciful relations, which surprise us because they are unexpected.

WIT is a propriety of thoughts and words; or in other terms, thoughts and words elegantly adapted to the subject.

3. The faculty of associating ideas in a new and unexpected manner.

4. A man of genius; as, the age of Addison abounded with wits.

A wit herself, Amelia weds a wit

5. A man of fancy or wit

Intemperate wits will spare neither friend nor foe.

6. Sense; judgment.

He wants not wit the danger to decline.

7. Faculty of the mind.

8. Wits, in the plural, soundness of mind; intellect not disordered; sound mind. No man in his wits would venture on such an expedition. Have you lost your wits? Is he out of his wits?

9. Power of invention; contrivance; ingenuity. He was at his wits end.

WITCH, noun

1. A woman who by compact with the devil, practices sorcery or enchantment.

2. A woman who is given to unlawful arts.

3. A winding sinuous bank.

WITCH, verb transitive To bewitch; to fascinate; to enchant.

Ill witch sweet ladies with my words and looks.

WITCHCRAFT, [witch and craft.]

1. The practices of witches; sorcery; enchantments; intercourse with the devil.

2. Power more than natural.

He hath a witchcraft over the king ins tongue.

WITCHERY, noun

1. Sorcery; enchantment.

2. Fascination.

WITE, verb transitive To reproach; to blame.

WITE, noun Blame; reproach.

WITELESS, adjective Blameless.

WITH, preposition [G.]

1. By, noting cause, instrument or means. We are distressed with pain; we are elevated with joy. with study men become learned and respectable. Fire is extinguished with water.

2. On the side of, noting friendship or favor.

Fear not, for I am with thee. Genesis 26:3.

3. In opposition to; in competition or contest; as, to struggle with adversity. The champions fought with each other an hour. He will lie with any man living.

4. Noting comparison. The fact you mention compares well with another I have witnessed.

5. In company. The gentlemen traveled with me from Boston to Philadelphia.

6. In the society of. There is no living with such neighbors.

7. In connection, or in appendage. He gave me the Bible, and with it the warmest expressions of affection.

8. In mutual dealing or intercourse.

I will buy with you, sell with you--

9. Noting confidence. I will trust you with the secret.

10. In partnership. He shares the profits with the other partners. I will share with you the pleasures and the pains.

11. Noting connection.

Nor twist our fortunes with your sinking fate.

12. Immediately after.

WITH this he pointed to his face.

13. Among. I left the assembly with the last.

Tragedy was originally with the ancients a piece of religious worship.

14. Upon.

Such arguments had invincible force with those pagan philosophers.

15. In consent, noting parity of state.

See! Where on earth the flowry glories lie, with her they flourishd, and with her thy die.

WITH and by are closely allied in many of their uses, and it is not easy to lay down a rule by which their uses may be distinguished. It is observed by Johnson that with seems rather to denote an instrument, and by a cause; as, he killed an enemy with a sword, but he died by an arrow. But this rule is not always observed.

WITH, in composition, signifies for the most part opposition, privation; or separation, departure.

WITHAL, adverb Withaul. [with and all.]

1. With the rest; together with; likewise; at the same time.

If you choose that, then I am yours withal

How modest in exception, and withal how terrible in constant resolution!

2. It is sometimes used for with. But the word is not elegant, nor much used.

WITHDRAW, verb transitive [with and draw.]

1. To take back; to take from.

It is impossible that God should withdraw his presence from any thing.

We say, to withdraw capital from a bank or stock in trade, to withdraw aid or assistance.

2. To recall; to cause to retire or leave; to call back or away. France has withdrawn her troops from Spain.

WITHDRAW, verb intransitive To retire; to retreat; to quit a company or place. We withdrew from the company at ten oclock.

She from her husband soft withdrew.

WITHDRAWING, participle present tense Taking back; recalling; retiring.

WITHDRAWMENT, noun The act of withdrawing or taking back; a recalling.

Their withdrawment from the British and Foreign Bible Society, would tend to paralyze their exertions.

WITHDRAWN, participle passive of withdraw. Recalled; taken back.

WITH, WITHE noun [Latin , probably a shoot.]

1. A willow twig.

2. A band consisting of a twig, or twigs twisted.

WITHER, verb intransitive

1. To fade; to lose its native freshness; to become sapless; to dry.

It shall wither in all the leaves of her spring. Ezekiel 17:9.

2. To waste; to pine away; as animal bodies; as a withered hand. Matthew 12:10.

3. To lose or want animal moisture.

Now warm in love, now withring in the grave.

WITHER, verb transitive

1. To cause to fade and become dry; as, the sun withereth the grass. James 1:11.

2. To cause to shrink, wrinkle and decay, for want of animal moisture.

Age cannot wither her.

WITHERED, participle passive Faded; dried; shrunk.

WITHEREDNESS, noun The state of being withered.

WITHERING, participle present tense Fading; becoming dry.

WITHERITE, noun In mineralogy, a carbonate of baryte, first discovered by Dr. Withering; rhomboidal baryte. It is white, gray, or yellow.

WITHERNAM, noun In withernam in law, a second or reciprocal distress, in lieu of a first distress which has been eloigned; reprisal.

WITHERS, noun [This seems to signify a joining, from the root of with.] The juncture of the shoulder bones of a horse, at the bottom of the neck.

WITHHELD, preterit tense and participle passive of withhold.

WITHHOLD, verb transitive preterit tense and participle passive withheld. [with and hold.]

1. TO hold back; to restrain; to keep from action.

WITHHOLD--your hasty hand.

If our passions may be withheld.

2. To retain; to keep back; not to grant; as, to withhold assent to a proposition. The sun does not withhold his light.

WITHHOLDEN, participle passive The old participle of withhold; now obsolete. We use withheld.

WITHHOLDER, noun One that withholds.

WITHHOLDING, participle present tense Holding back; restraining; retaining; not granting.

WITHIN, preposition

1. In the inner part; as the space within the walls of a house; a man contented and happy within himself.

2. In the limits or compass of; not beyond; used of place and time. The object is within my sight; within the knowledge of the present generation; within a month or a year.

3. Not reaching to any thing external.

Were every action concluded within itself--

4. In the compass of; not longer ago than.

WITHIN these five hours Hastings livd untainted.

5. Not later than; as, within five days from this time, it will be fair weather.

6. In the reach of.

Both he and she are still within my powr.

7. Not exceeding. Keep your expenses within your income.

8. In the heart or confidence of. [Inelegant.]

9. In the house; in any inclosure.

WITHIN, adverb

1. In the inner part; inwardly; internally.

The wound festers within

2. In the mind.

Ills from within thy reason must prevent.

WITHINSIDE, adverb [within and side.] In the inner parts. [Bad.]

WITHOUT, preposition

1. Not with; as without success.

2. In a state of destitution or absence from.

There is no living with thee nor without thee.

3. In a state of destitution or absence from.

There is no living with thee nor without thee.

4. Beyond; not within.

Eternity, before the world and after, is without our reach.

5. Supposing the negation or omission of.

WITHOUT the separation of the two monarchies, the most advantageous terms from the French must end in our destruction.

6. Independent of; not by the use of. Men like to live without labor.

Wise men will do it without a law.

7. On the outside of; as without the gate; without doors.

8. With exemption from. That event cannot happen without great damage to our interests.

9. Unless; except.

WITHOUT, when it precedes a sentence or member of a sentence, has been called a conjunction. This is a mistake. You will not enjoy health, without you use much exercise. In this sentence, without is a preposition still, but followed by a member of a sentence, instead of a single noun. It has no property of a connective or conjunction, and does not fall within the definition. You will not enjoy health, this fact following being removed, or not taking place; you use exercise. This use of without is nearly superseded by unless and except, among good writers and speakers; but is common in popular discourse or parlance.

WITHOUT, adverb

1. Not on the inside; not within.

These were from without the growing miseries.

2. Out of doors.

3. Externally; not in the mind.

WITHOUT were fightings, within were fears. 2 Corinthians 7:5.

WITHOUTEN, for withoutan, the Saxon word, is obsolete.

WITHSTAND, verb transitive [with and stand. See Stand.] To oppose; to resist, either with physical or moral force; as, to withstand the attack of troops; to withstand eloquence or arguments.

When Peter was come to Antioch, I withstood him to his face. Galatians 2:1.

WITHSTANDER, noun One that opposes; an opponent; a resisting power.

WITHSTANDING, participle present tense Opposing; making resistance.

WITHWIND, noun A plant. [Latin]

WITHY, noun A large species of willow.

WITLESS, adjective [wit and less.]

1. Destitute of wit or understanding; inconsiderate; wanting thought; as a witless swain; witless youth.

2. Indiscrete; not under the guidance of judgment; as witless bravery.

WITLESSLY, adverb Without the exercise of judgment.

WITLING, noun [dim. From with.] A person who has little wit or understanding; a pretender to wit or smartness.

A beau and witling perishd in the throng.

WITNESS, noun

1. Testimony; attestation of a fact or event.

If I bear witness of myself, my witness is not true. John 5:31.

2. That which furnishes evidence or proof.

Laban said, this heap is a witness between me and thee this day. Genesis 31:44.

3. A person who knows or sees any thing; one personally present; as, he was witness; he was an eye-witness. 1 Peter 5:1.

4. One who sees the execution of an instrument, and subscribes it for the purpose of confirming its authenticity b his testimony.

5. One who gives testimony; as, the witnesses in court agreed in all essential facts.

With a witness effectually; to a great degree; with great force, so as to leave some mark as a testimony behind. He struck with a witness [Not elegant.]

WITNESS, verb transitive

1. To see or know by personal presence. I witnessed the ceremonies in New York, with which the ratification of the constitution was celebrated, in 1788.

2. To attest; to give testimony to; to testify to something.

Behold, how many things they witness against thee. Mark 15:4.

3. To see the execution of an instrument, and subscribe it for the purpose of establishing its authenticity; as, to witness a bond or a deed.

WITNESS, verb intransitive

1. To bear testimony.

The men of Belial witnessed against him, even against Naboth. 1 Kings 21:10.

2. To give evidence.

The shew of their countenance doth witness against them. Isaiah 3:9.

WITNESSED, participle passive Seen in person; testified; subscribed by persons present; as a deed witnessed by two persons.

WITNESSING, participle present tense Seeing in persons; bearing testimony; giving evidence.

WITTED, adjective Having wit or understanding; as a quick witted boy.

WITTICISM, noun [from wit.] A sentence or phrase which is affectedly witty; a low kind of wit.

--He is full of conceptions, points of epigram, and witticisms; all which are below the dignity of heroic verse.

WITTILY, adverb [from wit.]

1. With wit; with a delicate turn or phrase, or with an ingenious association of ideas.

2. Ingeniously; cunningly; artfully.

Who his own harm so wittily contrives.

WITTINESS, noun [from witty.] The quality of being witty.

WITTINGLY, adverb [See Wit.] Knowingly; with knowledge; by design.

He knowingly and wittingly brought evil into the world.

WITTOL, noun A man who knows his wifes infidelity and submits to it; a tame cuckold.

WITTOLLY, adverb Like a tame cuckold.

WITTY, adjective [from wit.]

1. Possessed of wit; full of wit; as a witty poet.

2. Judicious; ingenious; inventive.

3. Sarcastic; full of taunts.

Honeycomb was unmercifully witty upon the women.

WITWALL, noun A bird, the great spotted woodpecker.

WIVE, verb intransitive [from wife.] to marry. [Not in use.]

WIVE, verb transitive

1. To match to a wife.

2. To take for a wife. [Not in use.]

WIVEHOOD, noun Behavior becoming a wife. [It should be wifehood.]

WIVELESS, adjective Not having a wife. [It should be wifeless.]

WIVELY, adjective Pertaining to a wife. [It should be wifely.]

WIVER, WIVERIN, noun A kind of heraldric dragon.

WIVER, WIVERIN noun A kind of heraldric dragon.

WIVES, plural of wife.

WIZARD, noun [from wise.] A conjurer; an enchanter; a sorcerer. Leviticus 20:27.

The wily wizard must be caught.

WIZARD, adjective

1. Enchanting; charming.

2. Haunted by wizards.

WIZEN, verb intransitive To wither; to dry. [Local.]