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.

See Welaway.

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.

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.

Eaten into, defaced, or worn, by exposure to the weather.

To nail boards upon so as to lap one over another, in order to exclude rain, snow, etc.

Kept in port or at anchor by storms; delayed by bad weather; as, a weather-bound vessel.

Driven by winds or storms; forced by stress of weather.

To defend from the weather; to shelter.

To take another turn with, as a cable around a windlass.

That side of a vessel which is toward the wind; the windward side. A piece of plank placed in a porthole, or other opening, to keep out water.

The covering or siding of a building, formed of boards lapping over one another, to exclude rain, snow, etc. Boards adapted or intended for such use.

To supply with a weathercock; to serve as a weathercock for.

Made sloping, so as to throw off water; as, a weathered cornice or window sill.

An instrument to indicate the state of the atmosphere, especially changes of atmospheric pressure, and hence changes of weather, as a barometer or baroscope.

The action of the elements on a rock in altering its color, texture, or composition, or in rounding off its edges.

The quality of being weatherly.

Working, or able to sail, close to the wind; as, a weatherly ship.

Being farthest to the windward.

Proof against rough weather.

Skillful in forecasting the changes of the weather.

Something that foreshows the weather.

Worn by the action of, or by exposure to, the weather.

A particular method or pattern of weaving; as, the cassimere weave.

One who weaves, or whose occupation is to weave.

See Weever.

The act of one who, or that which, weaves; the act or art of forming cloth in a loom by the union or intertexture of threads.

See Weasand.

Thin; sharp; withered; wizened; as, a weazen face.

Somewhat weazen; shriveled.

To unite or surround with a web, or as if with a web; to envelop; to entangle.

The world-wide web; -- usually referred to as the web.

Having the fingers united by a web for a considerable part of their length.

Having webbed feet; palmiped; as, a goose or a duck is a web-footed fowl.