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.

The state of being welded; the joint made by welding.

Capable of being welded.

One who welds, or unites pieces of iron, etc., by welding.

Prosperity; happiness; well-being; weal.

Producing prosperity or happiness; blessed.

To welk, or wither.

Well-doing or well-being in any respect; the enjoyment of health and the common blessings of life; exemption from any evil or calamity; prosperity; happiness.

Faring well; prosperous; thriving.

A whelk.

See Whelked.

The visible regions of the air; the vault of heaven; the sky.

To pour forth, as from a well.

The state or condition of being well; welfare; happiness; prosperity; as, virtue is essential to the well-being of men or of society.

Born of a noble or respect able family; not of mean birth.

Having good breeding; refined in manners; polite; cultivated.

Handsome; wellformed; beautiful; pleasing to the eye.

Correctly informed; provided with information; well furnished with authentic knowledge; intelligent.

Having upright intentions or honorable purposes.

Fully known; generally known or acknowledged.

Being in good condition.

Polite; well-bred; complaisant; courteous.

One whose intention is good.

Having a good intention.

Good-natured; kind.

Almost; nearly.

Being well folded.

Having seen much; hence, accomplished; experienced.

Having good success.

One who wishes well, or means kindly.

A wish of happiness.

Alas! Welaway!

The king parrakeet See under King.

One who does well; one who does good to another; a benefactor.

A doing well; right performance of duties. Also used adjectively.

To drain, as land; by means of wells, or pits, which receive the water, and from which it is discharged by machinery.

See Welfare.

A source, spring, or fountain.

A name given to the /big trees/ (Sequoia gigantea) of California, and still used in England. See Sequoia.

A kind of long boots for men.

A fountain; a spring; a source of continual supply.

One who wishes another well; one who is benevolently or friendlily inclined.

The sheatfish; -- called also waller.

Of or pertaining to Auer von Welsbach or the incandescent gas burner invented by him.

To cheat by avoiding payment of bets; -- said esp. of an absconding bookmaker at a race track. To avoid dishonorably the fulfillment of a pecuniary obligation.

same as Welsh rabbit.

One who cheats at a horse race; one who bets, without a chance of being able to pay; one who receives money to back certain horses and absconds with it.

Prosperous; well.

To wilt.

Lit., world view; a conception of the course of events in, and of the purpose of, the world as a whole, forming a philosophical view or apprehension of the universe; the general idea embodied in a cosmology.

imp. of Weld, to wield.

Of, pertaining to, or designating, the most heavily weighted race in a meeting; as, a welter race; the welter stakes.

A weight of 28 pounds (one of 40 pounds is called a heavy welterweight) sometimes imposed in addition to weight for age, chiefly in steeplechases and hurdle races.

Sorrow or sadness over the present or future evils or woes of the world in general; sentimental pessimism.

An African plant (Welwitschia mirabilis) belonging to the order Gnetaceae. It consists of a short, woody, topshaped stem, and never more than two leaves, which are the cotyledons enormously developed, and at length split into diverging segments.

To stain; to blemish; to harm; to corrupt.

Having no wem, or blemish; spotless.

An indolent, encysted tumor of the skin; especially, a sebaceous cyst.

One of the runes (/) adopted into the Anglo-Saxon, or Old English, alphabet. It had the value of modern English w, and was replaced from about a. d. 1280 at first by uu, later by w.

The higher literary idiom of Chinese, that of the canonical books and of all composition pretending to literary standing. It employs a classical or academic diction, and a more condensed and sententious style than Mandarin, and differs also in the doubling and arrangement of words.

To frequent the company of wenches, or women of ill fame.

One who wenches; a lewd man.

Being without a wench.

A large extent of ground; a perambulation; a circuit.

imp. of Wene.

The language of the Wends.

Of or pertaining the Wends, or their language.

A Slavic tribe which once occupied the northern and eastern parts of Germany, of which a small remnant exists.

To ween.

See Weanel.

Having the nature of a wen; resembling a wen; as, a wennish excrescence.

A sand snake (Charina plumbea) of Western North America, of the family Erycidae.

Course; way; path; journey; direction.

Any one of numerous species of elegant, usually white, marine shells of the genus Scalaria, especially Scalaria pretiosa, which was formerly highly valued; -- called also staircase shell. See Scalaria.

imp. of Weep.

Weapon.

imp. p. p. of Weep.

To work.

To guard; to protect.

The price of a man's head; a compensation paid of a man killed, partly to the king for the loss of a subject, partly to the lord of a vassal, and partly to the next of kin. It was paid by the murderer.

A person transformed into a wolf in form and appetite, either temporarily or permanently, whether by supernatural influences, by witchcraft, or voluntarily; a lycanthrope. Belief in werewolves, formerly general, is not now extinct.

See Work.

To refuse.

Of or pertaining to A. G. Werner, The German mineralogist and geologist, who classified minerals according to their external characters, and advocated the theory that the strata of the earth's crust were formed by depositions from water; designating, or according to, Werner's system.

The common grayish or white variety of soapolite.

An Australian lorikeet (Ptilosclera versicolor) noted for the variety of its colors; -- called also varied lorikeet.

War.