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.

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 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.

See Wearish.

See Weasel.

To know; to wit.

The wryneck; -- so called from its cry.

A throwing toy, or implement, of the Australian aborigines, consisting of a cigar-shaped stick fastened at one end to a flexible twig. It weighs in all about two ounces, and is about two feet long.

Knowingly.

Unknowing; also, unknown; unmeaning.

Any one of several species of edible marine fishes belonging to the genus Trachinus, of the family Trachinidae. They have a broad spinose head, with the eyes looking upward. The long dorsal fin is supported by numerous strong, sharp spines which cause painful wounds.

Any one of numerous species of snout beetles, or Rhynchophora, in which the head is elongated and usually curved downward. Many of the species are very injurious to cultivated plants. The larvae of some of the species live in nuts, fruit, and grain by eating out the interior, as the plum weevil, or curculio, the nut weevils, and the grain weevil (see under Plum, Nut, and Grain). The larvae of other species bore under the bark and into the pith of trees and various other plants, as the pine weevils (see under Pine). See also Pea weevil, Rice weevil, Seed weevil, under Pea, Rice, and Seed.

Infested by weevils; as, weeviled grain.

Having weevils; weeviled.

See Weasel.

A thing waved, waived, or cast away; a waif.

Texture.

Excessive use of the pronoun we; -- called also weism.

See Weregild.

See Werewolf.

A hardy garden shrub (Diervilla Japonica) belonging to the Honeysuckle family, with white or red flowers. It was introduced from China.

A certain quantity estimated by weight; an English measure of weight. See Wey.

A building at or within which goods, and the like, are weighed.

Capable of being weighed.

A duty or toil paid for weighing merchandise.

A kind of large steelyard for weighing merchandise; -- also called weighmaster's beam.

Clay intersecting a vein.

A weighing machine on which loaded carts may be weighed; platform scales.

One who weighs; specifically, an officer whose duty it is to weigh commodities.

a. n. from Weigh, v.

A lock, as on a canal, in which boats are weighed and their tonnage is settled.

One whose business it is to weigh ore, hay, merchandise, etc.; one licensed as a public weigher.

In a weighty manner.

The quality or state of being weighty; weight; force; importance; impressiveness.

Having no weight; imponderable; hence, light.

To foretell the fate of; to predict; to destine to.

The quality or state of being weird.

Same as Wegotism.

The theories and teachings in regard to heredity propounded by the German biologist August Weismann, esp. in regard to germ plasm as the basis of heredity and the impossibility of transmitting acquired characteristics; -- often called neo-Darwinism.

See Waive.

A New Zealand rail (Ocydromus australis) which has wings so short as to be incapable of flight.

A small New Zealand owl (Sceloglaux albifacies). It has short wings and long legs, and lives chiefly on the ground.

The meadow pipit.

Surrounded with happiness or prosperity.

Alas!

See Welsh.

See Welsher.

See Welshman.

To salute with kindness, as a newcomer; to receive and entertain hospitably and cheerfully; as, to welcome a visitor; to welcome a new idea.

In a welcome manner.

The quality or state of being welcome; gratefulness; agreeableness; kind reception.

One who welcomes; one who salutes, or receives kindly, a newcomer.