A kind of clamp with gimlet points for holding a barrel head while the staves are being closed around it.

a. n. from Vie.

The grivet.

The burning bush; -- said to be called after a quack medicine made from it.

A hobbling, unequal motion, as of a wheel unevenly hung; a staggering to and fro.

Inclined to wabble; wabbling.

A soft, earthy, dark-colored rock or clay derived from the alteration of basalt.

Woad.

An earthy oxide of manganese, or mixture of different oxides and water, with some oxide of iron, and often silica, alumina, lime, or baryta; black ocher. There are several varieties. Plumbago, or black lead.

See Waddy.

To trample or tread down, as high grass, by walking through it.

One who, or that which, waddles.

In a waddling manner.

To attack or beat with a waddy.

An Australian tree (Pittosporum bicolor); also, its wood, used in making waddies.

The act of wading.

One who, or that which, wades.

a. n. from Wade, v.

A coarse, hairy, woolen cloth, formerly used for garments by the poor, and for various other purposes.

A kind of pledge or mortgage.

One who holds by a wadset.

A ravine through which a brook flows; the channel of a water course, which is dry except in the rainy season.

A wave.

The kittiwake.

To seal or close with a wafer.

A dealer in the cakes called wafers; a confectioner.

A thin cake baked and then rolled; a wafer.

A wave or current of wind.

Conveyance on a buoyant medium, as air or water.

One who, or that which, wafts.

The act of waving; a wavelike motion; a waft.

To move one way and the other; to be shaken to and fro; to vibrate.

One who moves or wears a halter; one likely to be hanged.

A small East Indian wild cat (Felis wagati), regarded by some as a variety of the leopard cat.

To bind one's self; to engage.

See Waggel.

A south African proteaceous tree (Protea grandiflora); also, its tough wood, used for making wagon wheels.

To hazard on the issue of a contest, or on some question that is to be decided, or on some eventuality; to lay; to stake; to bet.

To make a bet; to lay a wager.

One who wagers, or lays a bet.

Hazarding; pertaining to the act of one who wagers.

A compensation given to a hired person for services; price paid for labor; recompense; hire. See Wage, n., 2.

The young of the great black-backed gull (Larus marinus), formerly considered a distinct species.

The manner or action of a wag; mischievous merriment; sportive trick or gayety; good-humored sarcasm; pleasantry; jocularity; as, the waggery of a schoolboy.

The pied wagtail.

Like a wag; mischievous in sport; roguish in merriment or good humor; frolicsome.

A waggling or wagging; the preliminary swinging of the club head back and forth over the ball in the line of the proposed stroke.

Of, pertaining to, or resembling the style of, Richard Wagner, the German musical composer.

A fluophosphate of magnesia, occurring in yellowish crystals, and also in massive forms.

To wagon goods as a business; as, the man wagons between Philadelphia and its suburbs.

Having a top, or head, shaped like the top of a covered wagon, or resembling in section or outline an inverted U, thus /; as, a wagonheaded ceiling.

Having a roof, or top, shaped like an inverted U; wagon-headed.

Money paid for carriage or conveyance in wagon.

One who conducts a wagon; one whose business it is to drive a wagon.

A kind of pleasure wagon, uncovered and with seats extended along the sides, designed to carry six or eight persons besides the driver.

As much as a wagon will hold; enough to fill a wagon; a wagonload.

Same as Wagonful.

Conveyance by means of a wagon or wagons.

One who makes wagons.

Any one of many species of Old World singing birds belonging to Motacilla and several allied genera of the family Motacillidae. They have the habit of constantly jerking their long tails up and down, whence the name.

A follower of Abdel Wahab (b. 1691; d. 1787), a reformer of Islam. His doctrines prevail particularly among the Bedouins, and the sect, though checked in its influence, extends to most parts of Arabia, and also into India.

A dark blue scombroid food fish (Acanthocibium solandri or Acanthocibium petus) of Florida and the West Indies.

Oppressed with weight; crushed; weighed down.

A waif.

Loud weeping; violent lamentation; wailing.

One who wails or laments.

A woman who wails.

Sorrowful; mournful.

In a wailing manner.

Lamentation; loud weeping; wailing.

See Wayment.

Capable of being plowed or cultivated; arable; tillable.

See Gainage, a.

See Cartbote. See also the Note under Bote.

To line with boards or panelwork, or as if with panelwork; as, to wainscot a hall.

The act or occupation of covering or lining with boards in panel.

Same as Wagonwright.

A piece of plank two yard/ long and a foot broad.

The band which encompasses the waist; esp., one on the upper part of breeches, trousers, pantaloons, skirts, or the like.

A cloth or wrapper worn about the waist; by extension, such a garment worn about the hips and passing between the thighs.

A short, sleeveless coat or garment for men, worn under the coat, extending no lower than the hips, and covering the waist; a vest. A garment occasionally worn by women as a part of fashionable costume.

One wearing a waistcoat; esp., a woman wearing one uncovered, or thought fit for such a habit; hence, a loose woman; strumpet.

A fabric designed for waistcoats; esp., one in which there is a pattern, differently colored yarns being used.

A seaman, usually a green hand or a broken-down man, stationed in the waist of a vessel of war.

To stay for; to rest or remain stationary in expectation of; to await; as, to wait orders.

Any of several plants bearing thorns or stiff hooked appendages, which catch and tear the clothing, The greenbrier. Any of various species of hawthorn. In South Africa, one of numerous acacias and mimosas. The grapple plant. The prickly ash.

One of the Australian wattle trees (Acacia colletioides), so called from the impenetrability of the thicket which it makes. same as Wait-a-bit.

One who, or that which, waits; an attendant; a servant in attendance, esp. at table.

a. n. from Wait, v.

By waiting.

A female waiter or attendant; a waiting maid or waiting woman.

To turn aside; to recede.

The act of waiving, or not insisting on, some right, claim, or privilege.

See Waiver.

See Waywode.

The act of waking, or being awaked; also, the state of being awake.

Any plant of the genus Arum, especially, in England, the cuckoopint (Arum maculatum).

Not sleeping; indisposed to sleep; watchful; vigilant.

To excite or rouse from sleep; to wake; to awake; to awaken.

One who wakens.

The act of one who wakens; esp., the act of ceasing to sleep; an awakening.

One who wakes.

Time during which one is awake.

The granting or dedication of property in trust for a pious purpose, that is, to some object that tends to the good of mankind, as to support a mosque or caravansary, to provide for support of one's family, kin, or neighbors, to benefit some particular person or persons and afterward the poor, etc.; also, the trust so created, or the property in trust.

The person creating a wakf.

The act of waking, or the state or period of being awake.

See Welaway.

A forest; -- used as a termination of names. See Weald.

A sect of dissenters from the ecclesiastical system of the Roman Catholic Church, who in the 13th century were driven by persecution to the valleys of Piedmont, where the sect survives. They profess substantially Protestant principles.

Of or pertaining to the Waldenses. One Holding the Waldensian doctrines.

In the old German empire, the head forest keeper.

A genus of brachiopods of which many species are found in the fossil state. A few still exist in the deep sea.

To mark with wales, or stripes.

A horse imported from New South Wales; also, any Australian horse.

See Valhalla.

Same as Wale, n., 4.

The act of walking, or moving on the feet with a slow pace; advance without running or leaping.

A fulling mill.

Game-ending and game-winning; such as to end the game immediately, and allow the players to walk off the field; -- of hits, especially home runs, which occur in the last half of the ninth or a later inning, which put the home team ahead of the visiting team and thereby end the game immediatey. This occurs in baseball because, when the last half of the ninth inning arrives, if the home team (which bats last) is already ahead in the score the last half of that inning is not played, the winner of the game having already been decided. Likewise, as soon as the home team gets ahead in the score after the visiting team has batted in the ninth inning, the game is ended.

In racing, the going over a course by a horse which has no competitor for the prize.