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.

To warray.

See Verst.

A wart.

See Wariangle.

See Weasand.

Washed.

See Weasand.

One who adopts the principles of Wesleyanism; a Methodist.

The system of doctrines and church polity inculcated by John Wesley (b. 1703; d. 1791), the founder of the religious sect called Methodist; Methodism. See Methodist, n., 2.

Westward.

Passing to the west.

Toward the west; westward.

A native or inhabitant of the west.

Situated the farthest towards the west; most western.

The distance, reckoned toward the west, between the two meridians passing through the extremities of a course, or portion of a ship's path; the departure of a course which lies to the west of north.

A westerner.

Lying farthest to the west; westernmost.

In a westward direction.

Toward the west; as, to ride or sail westward.

Dizzy; giddy.

To fill or moisten with water or other liquid; to sprinkle; to cause to have water or other fluid adherent to the surface; to dip or soak in a liquid; as, to wet a sponge; to wet the hands; to wet cloth.

Having the feet, or the shoes on the feet, wet.

A Mexican who enters the United States illegally, by wading across the Rio Grande; -- disparaging and offensive.

The chaffinch, whose cry is thought to foretell rain.

A castrated ram.

The quality or state of being wet; moisture; humidity; as, the wetness of land; the wetness of a cloth.

Somewhat wet; moist; humid.

See Weevil.

Wax.

A certain measure of weight.

To wail.

See Welaway.

To waive.

See Weasand.

The European curlew; -- called also awp, whaup, great whaup, and stock whaup. The whimbrel; -- called also May whaup, little whaup, and tang whaup.

Any object whose name is forgotten, or not known.

A smart resounding blow.

to masturbate.

Very large; whapping.

An American tree, the winged elm. (Ulmus alata).

To lash with stripes; to wale; to thrash; to drub.

Any aquatic mammal of the order Cetacea, especially any one of the large species, some of which become nearly one hundred feet long. Whales are hunted chiefly for their oil and baleen, or whalebone.

A form of vessel, often with steam power, having sharp ends and a very convex upper deck, much used on the Great Lakes, esp. for carrying grain.

A long, narrow boat, sharp at both ends, used by whalemen.

A firm, elastic substance resembling horn, taken from the upper jaw of the right whale; baleen. It is used as a stiffening in stays, fans, screens, and for various other purposes. See Baleen.

A man employed in the whale fishery.

One who whales, or beats; a big, strong fellow; hence, anything of great or unusual size.

Pertaining to, or employed in, the pursuit of whales; as, a whaling voyage; a whaling vessel.

A light color of the iris in horses; wall-eye.

Having the iris of light color; -- said of horses.

A breeze fly.

To turn over.

When.

A blow; whack.

An imaginary creature, of undefined character.

See Wanghee.

Wharfs, collectively.

A man who owns, or has the care of, a wharf.

A guttural pronunciation of the letter r; a burr. See Burr, n., 6.

A kind of fine sand from the banks of the Trent, used as a polishing powder.

Why? For what purpose? On what account?

Any object whose name is forgotten, or not known.

A contraction of what-ever; -- used in poetry.

Anything soever which; the thing or things of any kind; being this or that; of one nature or another; one thing or another; anything that may be; all that; the whole that; all particulars that; -- used both substantively and adjectively.

A kind of stand, or piece of furniture, having shelves for books, ornaments, etc.; an /tag/re.

Whatsoever; whosoever; whatever; anything that.

A contraction of whatsoever; -- used in poetry.

Whatever.

Same as Whall.

See Whaap.

A mine.

The harvest mite; -- so called from the wheals, caused by its bite.

A cereal grass (Triticum vulgare) and its grain, which furnishes a white flour for bread, and, next to rice, is the grain most largely used by the human race.

A bird that feeds on wheat, especially the chaffinch.

A small European singing bird (Saxicola /nanthe). The male is white beneath, bluish gray above, with black wings and a black stripe through each eye. The tail is black at the tip and in the middle, but white at the base and on each side. Called also checkbird, chickell, dykehopper, fallow chat, fallow finch, stonechat, and whitetail.

Made of wheat; as, wheaten bread.

A small nematode worm (Tylenchus tritici, formerly Anguillula tritici) which attacks wheat, advancing through the stem to the grains in the ear. In wheat affected with smut, each of the diseased grains may contain a large number of the minute young of the worm.