WOAD, noun [G.] A plant of the genus Isatis, cultivated for the use of dyers. The woad blue is a very deep blue, and is the base of many other colors or shades of color. woad is first bruised in a mill, and then made into balls. It grows wild in France and along the coasts of the Baltic. The term woad is applied to the Reseda, weld or wold, and to the Genista tinctoria or dyers broom.

WOBEGONE, adjective [wo, be, and gone.] Overwhelmed with wo; immersed in grief and sorrow.

So wobegone was he with pains of love.

WODANIUM, noun A metal recently discovered in a species of pyrite, found in Hungary, which had been supposed to be an ore of cobalt. It has a bronze yellow color.

WOESOME, adjective Wosum. Woful. [Not in use.]

WOFT, for waft. [Not in use.]

WOFUL, adjective

1. Sorrowful; distressed with grief or calamity; afflicted.

How many woful widows left to bow to sad disgrace!

2. Sorrowful; mournful; full of distress; as woful day. Jeremiah 17:1.

3. Bringing calamity, distress or affliction; as a woful event; woful want.

4. Wretched; paltry.

What woful stuff this madrigal would be.

WOFULLY, adverb

1. Sorrowfully; mournfully; in a distressing manner.

2. Wretchedly; extremely; as, he will be wofully deceived.

WOFULNESS, noun Misery; calamity.

WOLD, in Saxon, is the same as wald and weald, a wood, sometimes perhaps a lawn or plain. Wald signifies also power, dominion, from waldan, to rule. These words occur in names.

WOLF, noun WULF. [G., Gr.]

1. An animal of the genus Canis, a beast of prey that kills sheep and other small domestic animals; called sometimes the wild dog. The wolf is crafty, greedy and ravenous.

2. A small white worm or maggot, which infests granaries.

3. An eating ulcer.

WOLFISH, adjective Like a wolf; having the qualities or form of a wolf; as a wolfish visage; wolfish designs.

WOLFRAM, noun In mineralogy, an ore of tungsten. Its color is generally a brownish of grayish black; when cut with a knife, it gives a reddish brown streak. It occurs massive and crystalized, and in concentric lamellar concretions.

WOLVERIN, WOLVERENE noun The glutton, a carnivorous animal of voracious appetite. The name WOLVERENE is applied to an animal of North America, considered by Linne as a peculiar species, (Ursus luscus, ) cut which has been since regarded as a variety of the glutton, (U. Gulo.)

WOLVERIN, WOLVERENE, noun The glutton, a carnivorous animal of voracious appetite. The name wolverene is applied to an animal of North America, considered by Linne as a peculiar species, (Ursus luscus, ) cut which has been since regarded as a variety of the glutton, (U. Gulo.)

WOLVISH, adjective More properly wolfish, which see.

WOMAN, noun plural women. [a compound of womb and man.]

1. The female of the human race, grown to adult years.

And the rib, which the Lord god had taken from the man, made he a woman Genesis 2:22.

Women are soft, mild, pitiful, and flexible.

We see every day women perish with infamy, by having been too willing to set their beauty to show.

I have observed among all nations that the women ornament themselves more tan the men; that wherever found, they are the same kind, civil, obliging, humane, tender beings, inclined to be gay and cheerful, timorous and modest.

2. A female attendant or servant.

WOMAN, verb intransitive To make pliant.

WOMANED, adjective Accompanied or united with a woman. [Not used.]

WOMANHOOD, noun [woman and hood.] the state, character or collective qualities of a woman.

WOMANISE, verb transitive To make effeminate. [Not used.]

WOMANISH, adjective Suitable to a woman; having the qualities of a woman; feminine; as womanish habits; womanish tears; a womanish voice.

WOMANKIND, noun [woman and kind.] The female sex; the race of females of the human kind.

WOMANLY, adjective Becoming a woman; feminine; as womanly behavior.

A blushing womanly discovering grace.

WOMANLY, adverb In the manner of a woman.

WOMB, noun Woom. [G.]

1. The uterus or matrix of a female; that part where the young of an animal is conceived and nourished till its birth.

2. The place where any thing is produced.

The womb of earth the genial seed receives.

3. Any large or deep cavity.

WOMB of the morning, in Scripture, the clouds, which distill dew; supposed to be emblematic of the church bringing forth multitudes to Christ. Psalms 110:3.

WOMB, verb transitive To inclose; to breed in secret. [Not in use.]

WOMBAT, noun An animal of New Holland, of the opossum family.

WOMBY, adjective Wommy. Capacious. [Not in use.]

WOMEN, noun plural of woman. pronoun wimen. But it is supposed the word we pronounce is from Sax. wifman, and therefore should be written wimen.

WON, preterit tense and participle passive of win; as victories won

WONDER, noun [G., Gr., to show; and hence a sight; a panic.]

1. That emotion which is excited by novelty, or the presentation to the sight or mind, of something new, unusual, strange, great, extraordinary, or not well understood; something that arrests the attention by its novelty, grandeur or inexplicableness. wonder expresses less than astonishment, and much less than amazement. It differs from admiration, in not being necessarily accompanied with love, esteem or approbation, nor directed to persons. But wonder sometimes is nearly allied to astonishment, and the exact extent of the meaning of such words can hardly be graduated.

They were filled with wonder and amazement. Acts 3:10.

WONDER is the effect of novelty upon ignorance.

2. Cause of wonder; that which excites surprise; a strange thing; a prodigy.

To try things oft, and never to give over, doth wonders.

I am as a wonder to many. Psalms 71:7.

3. Any thing mentioned with surprise.

Babylon, the wonder of all tongues.

WONDERs of the world. The seven wonders of the world were the Egyptian pyramids, the Mausoleum erected by Artemisia, the temple of Diana at Ephesus, the walls and hanging gardens of Babylon, the colossus at Rhodes, the statue of Jupiter Olympius, and the Pharos or watch-tower of Alexandria.

4. A miracle. Exodus 3:20.

WONDER, verb intransitive To be affected by surprise or admiration.

I could not sufficiently wonder at the intrepidity of these diminutive mortals.

We cease to wonder at what we understand.

WONDERER, noun One who wonders.

WONDERFUL, adjective Adapted to excite wonder or admiration; exciting surprise; strange; astonishing. Job 42:3.

WONDERFULLY, adverb In a manner to excite wonder or surprise.

I will praise thee, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Psalms 139:14.

WONDERFULNESS, noun The state or quality of being wonderful.

WONDERING, participle present tense Indulging or feeling wonder. Genesis 24:21. Luke 24:12.

WONDERMENT, noun Surprise; astonishment; a wonderful appearance. [Vulgar.]

WONDERSTRUCK, adjective [wonder and struck.] Struck with wonder, admiration and surprise.

WONDROUS, adjective Admirable; marvelous; such as may excite surprise and astonishment; strange.

That I may publish with the voice of thanksgiving, and tell of all thy wondrous works. Psalms 26:7.

WONDROUS, adverb In a wonderful or surprising degree; as a place wondrous deep; you are wondrous fair; wondrous fond of peace. These phrases of Cowley, Dryden and Pope, are admissible only in the ludicrous and burlesque style.

WONDROUSLY, adverb In a strange or wonderful manner or degree.

Chloe complains, and wondrouslys aggrievd.

WON, WONE verb intransitive [G.] To dwell; to abide. Obsolete. Its participle is retained in wont, that is, woned.

WON, noun A dwelling.

WONT, a contraction of woll not, that is, will not.

WONT, adjective [wont is strictly the participle passive of won, wone. G. See the Verb.] Accustomed; habituated; using or doing customarily.

If the ox were wont to push with his horn-- Exodus 21:29.

They were wont to speak in old time, saying-- 2 Samuel 20:18. Matthew 27:15. Luke 22:39.

WONT, noun Custom; habit; use.

WONT, verb intransitive To be accustomed or habituated; to be used.

A yearly solemn feast she wont to make.

Wherewith he wont to soar s high.

WONTED, participle passive

1. Accustomed; used.

Again his wonted weapon provd.

2. Accustomed; made familiar by use.

She was wonted to the place, and would not remove.

WONTEDNESS, noun The state of being accustomed.

WONTLESS, adjective Unaccustomed; unused.

WOO, verb transitive

1. To court; to solicit in love.

My proud rival wooes another partner to his throne and bed--

Each, like the Grecian artist, wooes the image he himself has wrought.

2. To court solicitously; to invite with importunity.

Thee, chantress, oft the woods among, I woo to hear thy even song.

WOO, verb intransitive To court; to make love.

WOOD, adjective Mad; furious.

WOOD, noun

1. A large and thick collection of trees; a forest.

Light thickens, and the crow makes wing to the rooky wood

2. The substance of trees; the hard substance which composes the body of a tree and its branches, and which is covered by the bark.

3. Trees cut or sawed for the fire. wood is yet the principal fuel in the United States.

4. An idol. Habakkuk 2:19.

WOOD, verb intransitive To supply or get supplies of wood

WOODCHUK, noun [wood and chuk, a hog.] [See Chuk.] The popular name in New England of a species of the Marmot tribe of animals, the Arctomys monax. It burrows and is dormant in winter.

WOODED, adjective Supplied or covered with wood; as land wooded and watered.

WOODEN, adjective [from wood.]

1. Made of wood; consisting of wood; as a wooden box; a wooden leg; a wooden horse.

2. Clumsy; awkward.

When a bold man is put out of countenance, he makes a very wooden figure on it.

WOODING, participle present tense Getting or supplying with wood.

WOODLESS, adjective Destitute of wood.

WOODMAN, noun [wood and man.]

1. A forest officer, appointed to take care of the kings wood.

2. A sportsman; a hunter.

WOODNESS, noun Anger; madness; rage.

WOODPECKER, noun [wood and peck.] A bird of the genus Picus, that pecks holes in trees, or that picks insects form the bark.

WOODREVE, noun [wood and reve.] In England, the steward or overseer of a wood.

WOODWAXEN, noun A plant of the genus Genista; dyers broom.

WOODY, adjective [from wood.]

1. Abounding with wood; as woody land; a woody region.

--Secret shades of woody Idas inmost grove.

2. Consisting of wood; ligneous; as the woody parts of plants.

3. Pertaining to woods; sylvan; as woody nymphs.

WOOER, noun [from woo.] One who courts, or solicits in love.

WOOF, noun [Gr.]

1. The threads that cross the warp in weaving; the weft.

2. Texture; cloth; as a pall of softest woof

WOOING, participle present tense [from woo.] Courting; soliciting in love.

WOOINGLY, adverb Enticingly; with persuasiveness; so as to invite to stay.

WOOL, noun [G., Gr., soft; down; Latin , to pull off.]

1. That species of hair which grows on sheep and some other animals, which in fineness sometimes approaches to fur. The word generally signifies the fleecy coat of the sheep, which constitutes a most essential material of clothing in all cold and temperate climates.

2. Short thick hair.

3. In botany, a sort of pubescence, or a clothing o dense curling hairs on the surface of certain plants.

WOOLD, verb transitive [G.] To wind, particularly to wind a rope round a mast or yard, when made of two or more pieces, at the place where they are fished, for confining and supporting them.

WOOLDED, participle passive Bound fast with ropes; wound round.

WOOLDER, noun A stick used in woolding.

WOOLDING, participle present tense Binding fast with ropes; winding round.

WOOLDING, noun

1. The act of winding, as a rope round a mast.

2. The rope used for binding masts and spars.

WOOLEN, adjective

1. Made of wool; consisting of wool; as woolen cloth.

2. Pertaining to wool; as woolen manufactures.

WOOLEN, noun Cloth made of wool.

WOOLFEL, noun [wool and fel., Latin ] A skin with the wool; a skin from which the wool has not been sheared or pulled.

WOOLINESS, noun [from woolly.] The state of being woolly.

WOOLLY, adjective

1. Consisting of wool; as a woolly covering; a woolly fleece.

2. Resembling wool; as woolly hair.

3. Clothed with wool; as woolly breeders.

4. In botany, clothed with a pubescence resembling wool.

WOOLPACK, noun [wool and pack.]

1. A pack or bag of wool.

2. Any thing bulky without weight.

WOOLSACK, noun [wool and sack.]

1. A sack or bag of wool.

2. The seat of the lord chancellor and of the judges in the house of lords.

WOOLWARD, adverb In wool. [Not in use.]

WOOP, noun A bird. [Latin]

WOOS, noun A plant; sea weed.

WOOTS, noun Indian steel, a metallic substance imported form the East Indies; valued as the material of edge-tools. It has in combination a minute portion of alumin and silica.

WORD, noun [G., Latin , to speak. A word is that which is uttered or thrown out.]

1. An articulate or vocal sound, or a combination of articulate and vocal sounds, uttered by the human voice, and by custom expressing an idea or ideas; a single component part of human speech or language. Thus a in English is a word; but few words consist of one letter only. Most words consist of tow or more letters, as go, do, shall, called monosyllables, or of two or more syllables, as honor, goodness, amiable.

2. The letter or letters, written or printed, which represent a sound or combination of sounds.

3. A short discourse.

Shall I vouchsafe your worship a word or two?

4. Talk; discourse.

Why should calamity be full of words?

Be thy words severe.

5. Dispute; verbal contention; as, some words grew between us.

6. Language; living speech; oral expression. The message was delivered by word of mouth.

7. Promise. He gave me his word he would pay me.

Obey they parents; keep thy word justly.

8. Signal; order; command.

Give the word through.

9. Account; tidings; message. Bring me word what is the issue of the contest.

10. Declaration; purpose expressed.

I know you brave, and take you at your word

11. Declaration; affirmation.

I desire not the reader should take my word

12. The Scripture; divine revelation, or any part of it. This is called the word of God.

13. Christ. John 1:1.

14. A motto; a short sentence; a proverb.

A good word commendation; favorable account.

And gave the harmless fellow a good word

In word in declaration only.

Let us not love in word only, neither in tongue; but in deed and in truth. 1 John 3:18.

WORD, verb intransitive To dispute. [Little used.]

WORD, verb transitive To express in words. Take care to word ideas with propriety.

The apology of the king is the same, but worded with greater deference to that great prince.

WORDED, participle passive Expressed in words.

WORDER, noun A speaker. [Not in use.]

WORDINESS, noun [from wordy.] The state or quality of abounding with words.

WORDING, noun

1. The act of expressing in words.

2. The manner of expressing in words. The wording of the ideas is very judicious.

WORDISH, adjective Respecting words. [Not used.]

WORDISHNESS, noun Manner of wording. [Not used.]

WORDLESS, adjective Not using words; not speaking; silent.

WORDY, adjective

1. Using many words; verbose; as a wordy speaker; a wordy orator.

2. Containing many words; full of words.

We need not lavish hours in wordy periods.

WORE, preterit tense of wear. He wore gloves.

WORE, preterit tense of ware. They wore ship.

WORK, verb intransitive [G., Gr.]

1. In a general sense, to move, or to move one way and the other; to perform; as in popular language it is said, a mill or machine works well.

2. To labor; to be occupied in performing manual labor, whether severe or moderate. One man works better than another; one man works hare; another works lazily.

3. To be in action or motion; as the working of the heart.

4. To act; to carry on operations.

Our better part remains to work in close design.

5. To operate; to carry on business; to be customarily engaged or employed in. Some work in the mines, others in the loom, others at the anvil.

They that work in fine flax. Isaiah 19:9.

6. To ferment; as, unfermented liquors work violently in hot weather.

7. To operate; to produce effects by action or influence.

All things work together for good to them that love God. Romans 8:28.

This so wrought upon the child, that afterwards he desired to be taught.

8. To obtain by diligence. [Little used.]

9. To act or operate on the stomach and bowels; as a cathartic.

10. To labor; to strain; to move heavily; as, a ship works in a tempest.

11. To be tossed or agitated.

Confusd with working sands and rolling waves.

12. To enter by working; as, to work into the earth.

To work on, to act on; to influence.

To work up, to make way.

Body shall up to spirit work

To work tot windward, among seamen, to sail or ply against the wind; to beat.

WORK, verb transitive

1. To move; to stir and mix; as, to work mortar.

2. To form by labor; to mold, shape or manufacture; as, to work wood or iron into a form desired, or into an utensil; to work cotton or wool into cloth.

3. To bring into any state by action. A foul stream, or new wine or cider, works itself clear.

4. To influence by acting upon; to manage; to lead.

An work your royal father to his ruin.

5. To make by action, labor or violence. A stream works a passage or a new channel.

Sidelong he works his way.

6. To produce by action, labor or exertion.

We might work any effect--only by the unity of nature.

Each herb he knew, that works or good or ill.

7. To embroider; as, to work muslin.

8. To direct the movements of, by adapting the sails to the wind; as, to work a ship.

9. To put to labor; to exert.

WORK every nerve.

10. To cause to ferment, as liquor.

To work out,

1. To effect by labor and exertion.

WORK out your own salvation with fear and trembling. Philippians 2:12.

2. To expend in any work as materials. They have worked up all the stock.

To work double tides, in the language of seamen, to perform the labor of three days in two; a phrase taken from the practice f working by the night tide as well as by the day.

To work into, to make way, or to insinuate; as, to work ones self into favor or confidence.

To work a passage, among seamen, to pay for a passage by doing duty on board of the ship.

WORK, noun [G., Gr.]

1. Labor; employment; exertion of strength; particularly in man, manual labor.

2. State of labor; as, to be at work

3. Awkward performance. What work you make!

4. That which is made or done; as good work or bad work

5. Embroidery; flowers or figures wrought with the needle.

6. Any fabric or manufacture

7. The matter on which one is at work In rising she dropped her work

8. Action; deed; feat; achievement; as the works of bloody Mars.

9. Operation.

As to the composition or dissolution of mixed bodies, which is the chief work of elements--

10. Effect; that which proceeds from agency.

Fancy wild work produces oft, and most in dreams.

11. Management; treatment.

12. That which is produced by mental labor; a composition; a book; as the works of Addison.

13. Works, in the plural, walls, trenches and the like, made for fortifications.

14. In theology, moral duties or external performances, as distinct from grace.

To set to work To set on work to employ; to engage in any business.

WORKED, participle passive Moved; labored; performed; managed; fermented.

WORKER, noun One that works; one that performs.

WORKING, participle present tense Moving; operating; laboring; fermenting.

WORKING, noun

1. Motion; the act of laboring.

2. Fermentation.

3. Movement; operation; as the workings of fancy.

WORKMAN noun [work and man.]

1. Any man employed in labor, whether in tillage or manufactures.

2. By way of eminence, a skillful artificer or laborer.

WORKMANLIKE, adjective Skillful; well performed.

WORKMANLY, adjective Skillful; well performed.

WORKMANLY, adverb In a skillful manner; in a manner becoming a workman.

WORKMANSHIP, noun

1. Manufacture; something made, particularly by manual labor. Exodus 31:3.

2. That which is effected, made or produced. Ephesians 2:10.

3. The skill of a workman; or the execution or manner of making any thing. The workmanship of this cloth is admirable.

4. The art of working.

WORKMASTER, noun [work and master.] The performer of any work.

WORKSHOP, noun [work and shop.] A shop where any manufacture is carried on.

WORKWOMAN, noun A woman who performs any work; or one skilled in needle work.

WORLD, noun [This seems to be a compound word, and probably is named from roundness, the vault; but this is not certain.]

1. The universe; the whole system of created globes or vast bodies of matter.

2. The earth; the terraqueous globe; sometimes called the lower world

3. The heavens; as when we speak of the heavenly world or upper world

4. System of beings; or the orbs which occupy space, and all the beings which inhabit them. Hebrews 11:7.

God--hath in these last days spoken to us by his Son, whom he hath appointed heir of all things; by whom also he made the worlds. Hebrews 1:6.

There may be other worlds, where the inhabitants have never violated their allegiance to their Almighty sovereign.

5. Present state of existence; as while we are in the world

Behold, these are the ungodly who prosper in the world Psalms 73:12.

6. A secular life. By the world we sometimes understand the things of this world its pleasures and interests. A great part of mankind are more anxious to enjoy the world to than secure divine favor.

7. Public life, or society; as banished from the world

8. Business or trouble of life.

From this world-wearied flesh.

9. A great multitude or quantity; as a world of business; a world of charms.

10. Mankind; people in general; in an indefinite sense. Let the world see your fortitude.

Whose disposition, all the world well knows--

11. Course of life. He begins the world with little property, but with many friends.

12. Universal empire.

This through the east just vengeance hurld, and lost poor Antony the world

13. The customs and manners of men; the practice of life. A knowledge of the world is necessary for a man of business; it is essential to politeness.

14. All the world contains.

Had I a thousand worlds, I would give them all for one year more to devote to God.

15. The principal nations or countries of the earth. Alexander conquered the world

16. The Roman empire.

17. A large tract of country; a wide compass of things.

I must descry new worlds.

18. The inhabitants of the earth; the whole human race. John 3:16.

19. The carnal state or corruption of the earth; as the present evil world; the course of this world Galatians 1:4. Ephesians 2:2.

20. The ungodly part of the world

I pray not for the world but for them that thou hast given men. John 17:5.

21. Time; as in the phrase, world without end.

22. A collection of wonders. [Not in use.]

In the world in possibility. [All the precaution in the world would not save him.]

For all the world

1. Exactly. [Little used.]

2. For any consideration.

WORLDLINESS, noun [from world.] A predominant passion for obtaining the good things of this life; covetousness; addictedness to gain and temporal enjoyments.

WORLDLING, noun A person whose soul is set upon gaining temporal possessions; one devoted to this world and its enjoyments.

If we consider the expectations of futurity, the worldling gives up the argument.

WORLDLY, adjective

1. Secular; temporal; pertaining to this world or life, in contradistinction to the life to come; as worldly pleasures; worldly affairs; worldly estate; worldly honor; worldly lusts. Titus 2:12.

2. Devoted to this life and its enjoyments; bent on gain; as a worldly man; a worldly mind.

3. Human; common; belonging to the world; as worldly actions; worldly maxims.

WORLDLY, adverb With relation to this life.

Subverting worldly strong and worldly wise by simply meek.

WORM, noun [G. This word is probably named form a winding motion, and the root of swarm.]

1. In common usage, any small creeping animal, or reptile, either entirely without feet, or with very short ones, including a great variety of animals of different classes and orders, viz. Certain small serpents, as the blind-worm or slow-worm; the larvas of insects, viz. Grubs, caterpillars and maggots, as the wood-worm, canker-worm, silk-worm, (the larva of a moth (Phaloena, ) which spins the filaments of which silk is made, ) the grub that injures corn, grass, etc., the worms that breed in putrid flesh, the bots in the stomach of horses, and many others; certain wingless insects, as the glow-worm; the intestinal worms, or such as breed in the cavities and organs of living animals, as the tape-worm, the round-worm, the fluke, etc.; and numerous animals found in the earth, and in water, particularly in the sea, as the earth-worm or lumbricus, the hair-worm or gordius, the teredo, or worm that bores in to the bottom of ships, etc. Worms, in the plural, in common usage, is used for intestinal worms, or those which breed in the stomach and bowels, particularly the round and thread worms, (lumbrici and ascarides, ) which are often found there in great numbers; as we say, a child has worms.

2. In zoology, the term Vermes or worms has been applied to different divisions of invertebral animals, by different naturalists. Linnes class of vermes, includes the following orders, viz. Intestina, including the proper intestinal worms the earth-worm, the hair-worm, the teredo, and some other marine worms; Mollusca, including the slug, and numerous soft animals inhabiting the water, particularly the sea; Testacea, including all the proper shell-fish; Zoophyta or compound animals, including corals, polypes, and spunges; and Infusoria, or simple microscopic animlacules. His character of the class is, --spiracles obscure, jaws various, organs of sense usually tentacula, no brain, ears nor nostrils, limbs wanting, frequently hermaphrodite. This class includes all the invertebral animals, except the insects and crustacea. The term Vermes has been since greatly limited, particularly by the French naturalists. Lamarch confined it to the intestinal worms, and some others, whose organization is equally imperfect. The character of his class is, suboviparous, body soft, highly reproductive, undergo no metamorphosis; no eyes, nor articulated limbs, nor radiated disposition of internal organs.

3. Remorse; that which incessantly gnaws the conscience; that which torments.

Where their worm dieth not. Mark 9:44.

4. A being debased and despised.

I am a worm and no man. Psalms 22:6.

5. A spiral instrument or iron screw, used for drawing wads and cartridges from cannon or small arms.

6. Something spiral, vermiculated, or resembling a worm; as the threads of a screw.

7. In chemistry and distilleries, a spiral leaden pipe placed in a tub of water, through which the vapor passes in distillation, and in which it is cooled and condensed. It is called also a serpentine.

8. A small worm-like ligament situated beneath a dogs tongue.

WORM, verb intransitive To work slowly, gradually and secretly.

When debates and fretting jealousy did worm and work within you more and more, your color faded.

WORM, verb transitive

1. To expel or undermine by slow and secret means.

They find themselves wormed out of all power.

2. To cut something, called a worm from under the tongue of a dog.

3. To draw the wad or cartridge from a gun; to clean by the worm

4. To wind a rope spirally round a cable, between the strands; or to wind a smaller rope with spun yarn.

To worm ones self into, to enter gradually by arts and insinuations; as to worm ones self into favor.

WORMED, participle passive Cleared by a worm or screw.

WORMING, participle present tense Entering by insinuation; drawing, as a cartridge; clearing, as a gun.

WORMLIKE, adjective Resembling a worm; spiral; vermicular.

WORMWOOD, noun [G.] A plant, the artemisia. It has a bitter nauseous taste; but it is stomachic and corroborant.

Tree-wormwood, a species of Artemisia, with woody stalks.

WORMY, adjective

1. Containing a worm; abounding with worms.

2. Earthy; groveling.

WORN, participle passive of wear; as a garment long worn

WORN out, consumed or rendered useless by wearing.

WORNIL, noun A maggot that infests the backs of cows.

WORRAL, noun An animal of the lizard kind, about four feet long and eight inches broad, with a forked tongue. It feeds on flies, and is harmless. It is found in Egypt.

WORRIED, participle passive [from worry.] Harassed; fatigued.

WORRIER, noun [from worry.] One that worries or harasses.

WORRY, verb transitive

1. To tease; to trouble; to harass with importunity, or with care and anxiety. Persons are often worried with care and solicitude.

Let them rail and then worry one another at their pleasure.

WORRY him out till he gives his consent.

A church worried with reformation.

2. To fatigue; to harass with labor; a popular sense of the word.

3. To harass by pursuit and barking; as, dogs worry sheep.

4. To tear; to mangle with the teeth.

5. To vex; to persecute brutally.

WORRYING, participle present tense Teasing; troubling; harassing; fatiguing; tearing.

WORSE, adjective [This adjective has the signification of the comparative degree, and as bad has no comparative and superlative, worse and worst are used in lieu of them, although radically they have no relation to bad.]

1. More evil; more bad or ill; more depraved and corrupt; in a moral sense.

Evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse 2 Timothy 3:13.

There are men who seem to believe they are not bad, while another can be found worse

2. In a physical sense, in regard to health, more sick.

She was nothing bettered, but rather grew worse Mark 5:26.

3. More bad; less perfect or good. This carriage is worse for wear.

The worse

1. The loss; the disadvantage.

Judah was put to the worse before Israel. 2 Kings 14:12.

2. Something less good. Think not the worse of him for his enterprise.

WORSE, adverb In a manner more evil or bad.

We will deal worse with thee than with them. Genesis 19:9.

WORSE, to put to disadvantage, is not in use. [See Worst.]

WORSEN, verb transitive To worse. [Not in use.]

WORSER, is a vulgar word, and not used in good writing or speaking.

WORSHIP, noun [See Worth.]

1. Excellence of character; dignity; worth; worthiness.

--Elfin born of noble state, and muckle worship in his native land.

In this sense, the word is nearly or quite obsolete; but hence,

2. A title of honor, used in addresses to certain magistrates and other of respectable character.

My father desires your worships company.

3. A term of ironical respect.

4. Chiefly and eminently, the act of paying divine honors to the Supreme Being; or the reverence and homage paid to him in religious exercises, consisting in adoration, confession, prayer, thanksgiving and the like.

The worship of God is an eminent part of religion.

Prayer is a chief part of religious worship

5. The homage paid to idols or false gods by pagans; as the worship or Isis.

6. Honor; respect; civil deference.

Then shalt thou have worship in the presence of them that sit at meat with thee. Luke 14:10

7. Idolatry of lovers; obsequious or submissive respect.

WORSHIP, verb transitive

1. To adore; to pay divine honors to; to reverence with supreme respect and veneration.

Thou shalt worship no other God. Exodus 34:14.

2. To respect; to honor; to treat with civil reverence.

Nor worshipd with a waxen epitaph.

3. To honor with extravagant love and extreme submission; as a lover.

With bended knees I daily worship her.

WORSHIP, verb intransitive

1. To perform acts of adoration.

2. To perform religious service.

Our fathers worshiped in this mountain. John 4:20.

WORSHIPED, participle passive Adored; treated with divine honors; treated with civil respect.

WORSHIPER, noun One who worships; one who pays divine honors to any being; one who adores.

WORSHIPFUL, adjective

1. Claiming respect; worthy of honor from its character or dignity.

This is worshipful society.

2. A term of respect, sometimes ironically.

WORSHIPFULLY, adverb Respectfully.

WORSHIPING, participle present tense Adoring; paying divine honors to; treating with supreme reverence; treating with extreme submission.

WORST, adjective [superlative of worse, which see.]

1. Most bad; most evil; in a moral sense; as the worst man; the worst sinner.

2. Most severe or dangerous; most difficult to heal; as the worst disease.

3. Most afflictive, pernicious or calamitous; as the worst evil that can befall a state or an individual.

WORST, noun

1. The most evil state; in a moral sense.

2. The most severe or aggravated state; the highth; as, the disease is at the worst

3. The most calamitous state. Be armed against the worst

WORST, verb transitive To get the advantage over in contest; to defeat; to overthrow. It is madness to contend, when we are sure to be worsted.

WORSTED, participle passive Defeated; overthrown.

WORSTED, noun WUSTED. [The origin of this word is uncertain. It is usually supposed to take its name from a town in England or in Flanders; but in Norman, worstetz is mentioned; as lit de morstetz, a bed of worsted ] Yarn spun from combed wool; a particular kind of woolen yarn.

WORSTED, adjective Consisting of worsted; made of worsted yarn; as worsted stockings.

WORT, noun [G., Latin , to grow; green.]

1. A plant; an herb; now used chiefly or wholly in compounds; as in mugwort, liverwort, spleenwort.

2. A plant of the cabbage kind.

3. New beer unfermented, or in the act of fermentation; the sweet infusion of malt.

WORTH, adjective Termination, signifies a farm or court; as in Wordsworth.

WORTH, verb intransitive This verb is now used only in the phrases, wo worth the day, wo worth the man, etc., in which the verb is in the imperative mode, and the noun in the dative; wo be to the day.

WORTH, noun [G., Latin The primary sense is strength.]

1. Value; that quality of a thing which renders it useful, or which will produce an equivalent good in some other thing. The worth of a days labor may be estimated in money, or in wheat. The worth of labor is settled between the hirer and the hired. The worth of commodities is usually the price they will bring in market; but price is not always worth

2. Value of mental qualities; excellence; virtue; usefulness; as a man or magistrate of great worth

As none but she, who in that court did dwell, could know such worth or worth describe so well.

All worth-consists in doing good, and in the disposition by which it is done.

3. Importance; valuable qualities; applied to things; as, these things have since lost their worth

WORTH, adjective

1. Equal in value to. Silver is scarce worth the labor of digging and refining. In one country, a days labor is worth a dollar; in another, the same labor is not worth fifty cents. It is worth while to consider a subject well before we come to a decision.

If your arguments produce no conviction, they are worth nothing to me.

2. Deserving of; in a good or bad sense, but chiefly in a good sense. The castle is worth defending.

To reign is worth ambition, though in hell.

This is life indeed, life worth preserving.

3. Equal in possessions to; having estate to the value of. Most men are estimated by their neighbors to be worth more than they are. A man worth a hundred thousand dollars in the United States, is called rich; but no so in London or Paris.

WORTHiest of blood, an expression in law, denoting the preference of sons to daughters in the descent of estates.

WORTHILY, adverb

1. In a manner suited to; as, to walk worthily of our extraction. [Bad.]

2. Deservedly; according to merit.

You worthily succeed not only to the honors of your ancestors, but also to their virtues.

3. Justly; not without cause.

I affirm that some may very worthily deserve to be hated.

WORTHINESS, noun

1. Desert; merit.

The prayers which our Savior made, were for his own worthiness accepted.

2. Excellence; dignity; virtue.

Who is sure he hath a soul, unless it see and judge and follow worthiness?

3. Worth; quality or state of deserving.

WORTHLESS, adjective

1. Having no value; as a worthless garment; a worthless ship.

2. Having no value of character or no virtue; as a worthless man or woman.

3. Having no dignity or excellence; as a worthless magistrate.

WORTHLESSNESS, noun

1. Want of value; want of useful qualities; as the worthlessness of an old garment or of barren land.

2. Want of excellence or dignity; as the worthlessness of a person.

WORTHY, adjective [G.]

1. Deserving; such as merits; having worth or excellence; equivalent; with of, before the thing deserved. She has married a man worthy of her.

Thou art worthy of the sway.

I am not worthy of the least of all the mercies--Genesis 32:10.

2. Possessing worth or excellence of qualities; virtuous; estimable; as a worthy citizen; a worthy magistrate.

Happier thou mayst be, worthier canst not be.

This worthy mind should worthy things embrace.

3. Suitable; having qualities suited to; either in a good or bad sense; equal in value; as flowers worthy of paradise.

4. Suitable to any thing bad.

The merciless Macdonald, worthy to be a rebel.

5. Deserving of ill; as things worthy of stripes. Luke 12:48.

WORTHY, noun A man of eminent worth; a man distinguished for useful and estimable qualities; a man of valor; a word much used in the plural; as the worthies of the church; political worthies; military worthies.

WORTHY, verb transitive To render worthy; to exalt. [Not in use.]

WOT, verb intransitive To know; to be aware.

WOULD, WUD, preterit tense of will, G., Latin

WOULD is used as an auxiliary verb in conditional forms of speech. I would go, if I could. This form of expression denotes will or resolution, under a condition or supposition. You would go, He would go, denote simply an event, under a condition or supposition. The condition implied in would is not always expressed. By pleasure and pain, I would be understood to mean what delights or molests us--; that is, if it should be asked what I mean by pleasure and pain, I would thus explain what I wish to have understood. In this form of expression, which is very common, there seems to be an implied allusion to an inquiry, or to the supposition of something not expressed.

WOULD has the sense of wish or pray, particularly in the phrases, would to God, would God we had died in Egypt, I would that ye knew what conflict I have; that is, I could wish such a thing, if the wish could avail. Here also there is an implied condition.

WOULD is used also for wish to do, or to have. What wouldst thou? What would he?

WOULDING, noun Motion of desire. [Not in use.]

WOUND, noun [G.]

1. A breach of the skin and flesh of an animal, or of the bark and wood of a tree, or of the bark and substance of other plants, caused by violence or external force. The self-healing power of living beings, animal or vegetable, by which the parts separated in wounds, tend to unite and become sound, is a remarkable proof of divine benevolence and wisdom.

2. Injury; hurt; as a wound given to credit or reputation.

WOUND, verb transitive To hurt by violence; as, to wound the head or the arm; to wound a tree.

He was wounded for our transgressions. Isaiah 53:5.

WOUND, preterit tense and participle passive of wind.

WOUNDED, participle passive Hurt; injured.

WOUNDER, noun One that wounds.

WOUNDING, participle present tense Hurting; injuring.

WOUNDLESS, adjective Free from hurt or injury.

WOUNDWORT, noun The name of several plants; one, a species of Achillea; another, a species of Stachys; another, a species of Laserpitium; another, a species of Solidago; and another a species of Senecio.

WOUNDY, adjective Excessive. [Not English.]

WOUNGSTER, noun Yungster. A young person; a lad; a colloquial word.

WOVE, preterit tense of weave, sometimes the participle.

WOX, WOXEN, for waxed. [Not in use.]

WOX, WOXEN for waxed. [Not in use.]

Note. W before r is always silent.