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.

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.

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.

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

Provided with a web.

One who forms webs; a weaver; a webster.

A woven band of cotton or flax, used for reins, girths, bed bottoms, etc.

Of or pertaining to a web or webs; like a web; filled or covered with webs.

The standard unit of electrical quantity, and also of current. See Coulomb, and Amp/re.

See Web, n., 8.

A weaver; originally, a female weaver.

A hydrous sulphate of alumina occurring in white reniform masses.

Any one of various species of moths whose gregarious larvae eat the leaves of trees, and construct a large web to which they retreat when not feeding.

To contact matrimony; to marry.

See Veddahs.

Joined in wedlock; married.

See Wether.

Nuptial ceremony; nuptial festivities; marriage; nuptials.

Weather.

Having the form of a wedge; cuneiform.

Having the shape of a wedge; cuneiform.

Any one of numerous species of small marine bivalves belonging to Donax and allied genera in which the shell is wedge-shaped.

Having a tail which has the middle pair of feathers longest, the rest successively and decidedly shorter, and all more or less attenuate; -- said of certain birds. See Illust. of Wood hoopoe, under Wood.

An Australian crested insessorial bird (Sphenostoma cristatum) having a wedge-shaped bill. Its color is dull brown, like the earth of the plains where it lives.

In the manner of a wedge.

Like a wedge; wedge-shaped.

To marry; to unite in marriage; to wed.

The fourth day of the week; the next day after Tuesday.

Very small; little.

The wych-elm.

A sudden illness or relapse, often attended with fever, which attacks women in childbed.

to selectively remove; same as weed{2}, v. t.; -- of things that are useless or harmful.

One who, or that which, weeds, or frees from anything noxious.

Weeds, collectively; also, a place full of weeds or for growing weeds.

a. n. from Weed, v.

A kind of implement used for tearing up weeds esp. on summer fallows.

Free from weeds or noxious matter.

Dressed in weeds, or mourning garments.

A period of seven days, usually that reckoned from one Sabbath or Sunday to the next.

The end of the week, usually comprising the period from Friday evening to Monday morning, observed commonly as a period of respite from work or school; as, to visit one for a week-end; also, a house party during a week-end. Contrasted to work days.

Once a week; by hebdomadal periods; as, each performs service weekly.

See Wigwam.

A whirlpool.

To think; to imagine; to fancy.

To lament; to bewail; to bemoan.

One who weeps; esp., one who sheds tears.

Full of weeping or lamentation; grieving.

Grieving; lamenting; shedding tears.

a variety of European beech (Fagus pendula, Fagus sylvatica pendula) with pendulous limbs.

a perennial South African grass (Eragrostis curvula) having densly clumped flimsy stems; introduced into U.S. esp. for erosion control.

a medium-sized spruce of California and Oregon (Picea breweriana) having pendulous branches.

a small shrubby tree of New Zealand having weeping branches and racemes of white to violet flowers followed by woolly indehiscent 2-seeded pods.

same as crumblecap.

Ripe for weeping; ready to weep.

In a weeping manner.