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Wahoo

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

Waid

Oppressed with weight; crushed; weighed down.

Wail

Loud weeping; violent lamentation; wailing.

Wailer

One who wails or laments.

Wailment

Lamentation; loud weeping; wailing.

Wainable

Capable of being plowed or cultivated; arable; tillable.

Wainbote

See Cartbote. See also the Note under Bote.

Wainscot

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

Wainscoting

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

Wair

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

Waistband

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

Waistcloth

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

Waistcoat

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.

Waistcoateer

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

Waistcoating

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

Waister

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

Wait

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

Wait-a-bit

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.

Wait-a-while

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

Waiter

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

Waitress

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

Waive

To turn aside; to recede.

Waiver

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

Wake

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

Wake-robin

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

Wakeful

Not sleeping; indisposed to sleep; watchful; vigilant.

Waken

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

Wakening

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

Wakf

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.

Wakif

The person creating a wakf.

Waking

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

Wald

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

Waldenses

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.

Waldensian

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

Waldgrave

In the old German empire, the head forest keeper.

Waldheimia

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

Wale

To mark with wales, or stripes.

Waler

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

Walk

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

walk-off

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.

Walk-over

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

Walkable

Fit to be walked on; capable of being walked on or over.

Walker

One who walks; a pedestrian.

Wall

To inclose with a wall, or as with a wall.

Wall-eyed

Having an eye of a very light gray or whitish color.

Wall-plat

The spotted flycatcher. It builds its nest on walls.

Wall-sided

Having sides nearly perpendicular; -- said of certain vessels to distinguish them from those having flaring sides, or sides tumbling home (see under Tumble, v. i.).

Wallaba

A leguminous tree (Eperua falcata) of Demerara, with pinnate leaves and clusters of red flowers. The reddish brown wood is used for palings and shingles.

Wallaby

Any one of numerous species of kangaroos belonging to the genus Halmaturus, native of Australia and Tasmania, especially the smaller species, as the brush kangaroo (Halmaturus Bennettii) and the pademelon (Halmaturus thetidis). The wallabies chiefly inhabit the wooded district and bushy plains.

Wallachian

Of or pertaining to Wallachia, a former principality, now part of the kingdom, of Roumania. An inhabitant of Wallachia; also, the language of the Wallachians; Roumanian.

Wallah

A black variety of the jaguar; -- called also tapir tiger.

Wallaroo

Any one of several species of kangaroos of the genus Macropus, especially Macropus robustus, sometimes called the great wallaroo.

Wallet

A bag or sack for carrying about the person, as a bag for carrying the necessaries for a journey; a knapsack; a beggar's receptacle for charity; a peddler's pack.

Walleteer

One who carries a wallet; a foot traveler; a tramping beggar.

Wallflower

A perennial, cruciferous plant (Cheiranthus Cheiri), with sweet-scented flowers varying in color from yellow to orange and deep red. In Europe it very common on old walls.

Wallhick

The lesser spotted woodpecker (Dryobates minor).

Walling

The act of making a wall or walls.

Walloons

A Romanic people inhabiting that part of Belgium which comprises the provinces of Hainaut, Namur, Li/ge, and Luxembourg, and about one third of Brabant; also, the language spoken by this people. Used also adjectively.

Wallower

One who, or that which, wallows.

Wallwort

The dwarf elder, or danewort (Sambucus Ebulus).

Walm

To roll; to spout; to boil up.

Walnut

The fruit or nut of any tree of the genus Juglans; also, the tree, and its timber. The seven or eight known species are all natives of the north temperate zone.

Walrus

A very large marine mammal (Trichecus rosmarus) of the Seal family, native of the Arctic Ocean. The male has long and powerful tusks descending from the upper jaw. It uses these in procuring food and in fighting. It is hunted for its oil, ivory, and skin. It feeds largely on mollusks. Called also morse.

Walter

To roll or wallow; to welter.

Walty

Liable to roll over; crank; as, a walty ship.

Waly

An exclamation of grief.

Wamble

Disturbance of the stomach; a feeling of nausea.

Wammel

To move irregularly or awkwardly; to wamble, or wabble.

Wamp

The common American eider.

Wampee

A tree (Cookia punctata) of the Orange family, growing in China and the East Indies; also, its fruit, which is about the size of a large grape, and has a hard rind and a peculiar flavor. The pickerel weed.

Wampum

Beads made of shells, used by the North American Indians as money, and also wrought into belts, etc., as an ornament.

Wan

To grow wan; to become pale or sickly in looks.

Wand

A small stick; a rod; a verge.

Wander

To travel over without a certain course; to traverse; to stroll through.

Wanderer

One who wanders; a rambler; one who roves; hence, one who deviates from duty.

Wanderoo

A large monkey (Macacus silenus) native of Malabar. It is black, or nearly so, but has a long white or gray beard encircling the face. Called also maha, silenus, neelbhunder, lion-tailed baboon, and great wanderoo.

Wandy

Long and flexible, like a wand.

Wane

The decrease of the illuminated part of the moon to the eye of a spectator.

Waney

A sharp or uneven edge on a board that is cut from a log not perfectly squared, or that is made in the process of squaring. See Wany, a.

Wangan

A boat for conveying provisions, tools, etc.; -- so called by Maine lumbermen.

Wanger

A pillow for the cheek; a pillow.

Wanghee

The Chinese name of one or two species of bamboo, or jointed cane, of the genus Phyllostachys. The slender stems are much used for walking sticks.

Wanhope

Want of hope; despair; also, faint or delusive hope; delusion. [Obs.] Piers Plowman.

Wanhorn

An East Indian plant (Kaempferia Galanga) of the Ginger family. See Galanga.

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