A kind of coarse grass growing in wet grounds, and supposed to be injurious to sheep.

Heavy plank or timber extending fore and aft the whole length of a vessel's deck at the line of junction with the sides, forming a channel to the scuppers, which are cut through it. In iron vessels the waterway is variously constructed.

See Anacharis.

Painting executed in size or distemper, on canvas or walls, -- formerly, frequently taking the place of tapestry.

Worn, smoothed, or polished by the action of water; as, waterworn stones.

Any plant of the natural order Elatineae, consisting of two genera (Elatine, and Bergia), mostly small annual herbs growing in the edges of ponds. Some have a peppery or acrid taste.

A unit of power or activity equal to 107 C.G.S. units of power, or to work done at the rate of one joule a second. An English horse power is approximately equal to 746 watts.

Having the appearance of that which is seen in pictures by Antoine Watteau, a French painter of the eighteenth century; -- said esp. of women's garments; as, a Watteau bodice.

Any one of several species of honey eaters belonging to Anthochaera and allied genera of the family Meliphagidae. These birds usually have a large and conspicuous wattle of naked skin hanging down below each ear. They are natives of Australia and adjacent islands.

Furnished with wattles, or pendent fleshy processes at the chin or throat.

Without any power (cf. Watt); -- said of an alternating current or component of current when it differs in phase by ninety degrees from the electromotive force which produces it, or of an electromotive force or component thereof when the current it produces differs from it in phase by 90 degrees.

The act or process of binding or platting with twigs; also, the network so formed.

An instrument for measuring power in watts, -- much used in measuring the energy of an electric current.

A large draught of any liquid.

To cry as a cat; to squall; to wail.

Worse.

To move one way and the other; to brandish.

Worn by the waves.

Exhibiting a wavelike form or outline; undulating; intended; wavy; as, waved edge.

Free from waves; undisturbed; not agitated; as, the waveless sea.

A little wave; a ripple.

A hydrous phosphate of alumina, occurring usually in hemispherical radiated forms varying in color from white to yellow, green, or black.

A sapling left standing in a fallen wood.

One who wavers; one who is unsettled in doctrine, faith, opinion, or the like.

In a wavering manner.

The quality or state of wavering.

Goods which, after shipwreck, appear floating on the waves, or sea.

The snow goose.

The quality or state of being wavy.

See Waivure.

Rising or swelling in waves; full of waves.

The wapiti, or wapiti, or American elk.

A wave.

See Waul.

To smear or rub with wax; to treat with wax; as, to wax a thread or a table.

The wax-covered fruit of the wax myrtle, or bayberry. See Bayberry, and Candleberry tree.

Any one of numerous species of finchlike birds belonging to Estrelda and allied genera, native of Asia, Africa, and Australia. The bill is large, conical, and usually red in color, resembling sealing wax. Several of the species are often kept as cage birds.

Made of wax.

Quality or state of being waxy.

Any one of several species of small birds of the genus Ampelis, in which some of the secondary quills are usually tipped with small horny ornaments resembling red sealing wax. The Bohemian waxwing (see under Bohemian) and the cedar bird are examples. Called also waxbird.

Work made of wax; especially, a figure or figures formed or partly of wax, in imitation of real beings.

One who works in wax; one who makes waxwork.

An exhibition of wax figures, or the place of exhibition; as, Madame Toussaud's Waxworks.

Resembling wax in appearance or consistency; viscid; adhesive; soft; hence, yielding; pliable; impressible.

To move; to progress; to go.

Going away; departing; of or pertaining to one who goes away.

See Wayz-goose, n., 2.

Skillful in finding the way; well acquainted with the way or route; wise from having traveled.

A list of passengers in a public vehicle, or of the baggage or gods transported by a common carrier on a land route. When the goods are transported by water, the list is called a bill of lading.

The common dooryard plantain (Plantago major).

An Australian insessorial bird (Corcorax melanorhamphus) noted for the curious actions of the male during the breeding season. It is black with a white patch on each wing.

Used to the way; broken.

The act of journeying; travel; passage.

One who travels; a traveler; a passenger.

Traveling; passing; being on a journey.

The tailrace of a mill.

Weak.

To lie in wait for; to meet or encounter in the way; especially, to watch for the passing of, with a view to seize, rob, or slay; to beset in ambush.

One who waylays another.

Having no road or path; pathless.

One who makes a way; a precursor.

A mark to guide in traveling.

Grief; lamentation; mourning.

Of or pertaining to the wayside; as, wayside flowers.

Taking one's own way; disobedient; froward; perverse; willful.

An instrument for measuring the distance which one has traveled on the road; an odometer, pedometer, or perambulator.

Originally, the title of a military commander in various Slavonic countries; afterwards applied to governors of towns or provinces. It was assumed for a time by the rulers of Moldavia and Wallachia, who were afterwards called hospodars, and has also been given to some inferior Turkish officers.

The office, province, or jurisdiction of a waywode.

Wearied by traveling.

The plural nominative case of the pronoun of the first person; the word with which a person in speaking or writing denotes a number or company of which he is one, as the subject of an action expressed by a verb.

To make or become weak; to weaken.

Having little courage; of feeble spirit; dispirited; faint-hearted.

Having weak knees; hence, easily yielding; wanting resolution.

Having a weak mind, either naturally or by reason of disease; feebleminded; foolish; idiotic.

To become weak or weaker; to lose strength, spirit, or determination; to become less positive or resolute; as, the patient weakened; the witness weakened on cross-examination.

One who, or that which, weakens.

Any fish of the genus Cynoscion; a squeteague; -- so called from its tender mouth. See Squeteague.

Somewhat weak; rather weak.

Quality or state of being weakish.

Weak; feeble.

Not strong of constitution; infirm; feeble; as, a weakly woman; a man of a weakly constitution.

The quality or state of being weak; want of strength or firmness; lack of vigor; want of resolution or of moral strength; feebleness.

To promote the weal of; to cause to be prosperous.

Balanced or considered with reference to public weal.

A wood or forest; a wooded land or region; also, an open country; -- often used in place names.

The Wealden group or strata.

Of or pertaining to a weald, esp. to the weald in the county of Kent, England.

Weleful.

A statesman; a politician.

Full of wealth; wealthy; prosperous.

In a wealthy manner; richly.

The quality or state of being wealthy, or rich; richness; opulence.

A weanling; a young child.

Quality or state of being weaned.

A weanling.

Recently weaned.

Furnished with weapons, or arms; armed; equipped.

Having no weapon.

Weapons, collectively; as, an array of weaponry.

The act of wearing, or the state of being worn; consumption by use; diminution by friction; as, the wear of a garment.

A dam in a river to stop and raise the water, for the purpose of conducting it to a mill, forming a fish pond, or the like.

Capable of being worn; suitable to be worn.

One who wears or carries as appendant to the body; as, the wearer of a cloak, a sword, a crown, a shackle, etc.

That may be wearied.

Abounding in qualities which cause weariness; wearisome.

Incapable of being wearied.

In a weary manner.

The quality or state of being weary or tried; lassitude; exhaustion of strength; fatigue.

Pertaining to, or designed for, wear; as, wearing apparel.

Causing weariness; tiresome; tedious; weariful; as, a wearisome march; a wearisome day's work; a wearisome book.

To grow tired; to become exhausted or impatient; as, to weary of an undertaking.

The windpipe; -- called also, formerly, wesil.

Any one of various species of small carnivores belonging to the genus Putorius, as the ermine and ferret. They have a slender, elongated body, and are noted for the quickness of their movements and for their bloodthirsty habit in destroying poultry, rats, etc. The ermine and some other species are brown in summer, and turn white in winter; others are brown at all seasons.

Having a thin, sharp face, like a weasel.

The American merganser; -- called also weaser sheldrake.

Quality or state of being weasy; full feeding; sensual indulgence.

Given to sensual indulgence; gluttonous.

Being toward the wind, or windward -- opposed to lee; as, weather bow, weather braces, weather gauge, weather lifts, weather quarter, weather shrouds, etc.

Beaten or harassed by the weather; worn by exposure to the weather, especially to severe weather.

A turn of the cable about the end of the windlass, without the bits.