A texture of osiers, twigs, or rods; articles made of such a texture.

the material of which wicks are made; esp., a loosely braided or twisted cord or tape of cotton.

See Wyclifite.

Vars of Wikiup.

See Leatherwood.

A rope or halter made of flexible twigs, or withes, as of birch.

That which is wide; wide space; width; extent.

Having or covering an angle wider than the ordinary; -- applied to certain lenses of relatively short focus. Lenses for ordinary purposes have an angle of 50/ or less. Wide-angle lenses may cover as much as 100/ and are useful for photographing at short range, but the pictures appear distorted.

A broad-brimmed, low-crowned felt hat.

The angler; -- called also widegab, and widegut.

In a wide manner; to a wide degree or extent; far; extensively; as, the gospel was widely disseminated by the apostles.

To grow wide or wider; to enlarge; to spread; to extend.

The quality or state of being wide; breadth; width; great extent from side to side; as, the wideness of a room.

Spread to a great distance; widely extended; extending far and wide; as, widespread wings; a widespread movement.

Widely; far and wide.

Any one of several species of fresh-water ducks, especially those belonging to the subgenus Mareca, of the genus Anas. The common European widgeon (Anas penelope) and the American widgeon (Anas Americana) are the most important species. The latter is called also baldhead, baldpate, baldface, baldcrown, smoking duck, wheat, duck, and whitebelly.

Moderately wide.

Widowed.

One who courts widows, seeking to marry one with a fortune.

One who makes widows by destroying husbands.

A low, narrowleaved evergreen shrub (Cneorum tricoccon) found in Southern Europe.

A man who has lost his wife by death, and has not married again.

The state of being a widower.

The state of being a widow; the time during which a woman is widow; also, rarely, the state of being a widower.

Becoming or like a widow.

The quality of being wide; extent from side to side; breadth; wideness; as, the width of cloth; the width of a door.

Of or pertaining to a widow; vidual.

A widow.

Capable of being wielded.

The act or power of wielding.

One who wields or employs; a manager; a controller.

Power; authority; rule.

Not to be wielded; unmanageable; unwieldy.

Admitting of being easily wielded or managed.

Capable of being wielded; manageable; wieldable; -- opposed to unwieldy.

Same as Weir.

Same as Wariangle.

Wiry.

Without a wife; unmarried.

Of, pertaining to, or like, a wife or a woman.

Becoming or life; of or pertaining to a wife.

To censure or rebuke; to hold up to reprobation; to scold.

A kind of raised seedcake.

A kind of canvaslike cotton fabric, used to stiffen and protect the lower part of trousers and of the skirts of women's dresses, etc.; -- so called from Wigan, the name of a town in Lancashire, England.

A widgeon.

Having the head covered with a wig; wearing a wig.

A wig or wigs; false hair.

Act of wiggling; a wriggle.

The young, either larva or pupa, of the mosquito; -- called also wiggletail.

To neigh; to whinny.

Swift; nimble; agile; strong and active.

Swiftly; nimbly; quickly.

Having or wearing no wig.

Act or art of wigwagging; a message wigwagged; -- chiefly attributive; as, the wigwag code.

An Indian cabin or hut, usually of a conical form, and made of a framework of poles covered with hides, bark, or mats; -- called also tepee.

A home; a dwelling.

The hut used by the nomadic Indian tribes of the arid regions of the west and southwest United States, typically elliptical in form, with a rough frame covered with reed mats or grass or brushwood.

Wicked.

Wildly; as, to talk wild.

Unsound; worthless; irresponsible; unsafe; -- said to have been originally applied to the notes of an insolvent bank in Michigan upon which there was the figure of a panther.

Become wild.

To bewilder; to perplex.

A plant growing in a state of nature; especially, one which has run wild, or escaped from cultivation.

The state of being bewildered; confusion; bewilderment.

A composition of inflammable materials, which, kindled, is very hard to quench; Greek fire.

A waldgrave, or head forest keeper. See Waldgrave.

Not tame, domesticated, or cultivated; wild.

Somewhat wild; rather wild.

In a wild manner; without cultivation; with disorder; rudely; distractedly; extravagantly.

The quality or state of being wild; an uncultivated or untamed state; disposition to rove or go unrestrained; rudeness; savageness; irregularity; distraction.

A wild or unfrequented wood. Also used adjectively; as, wildwood flowers; wildwood echoes.

To practice artifice upon; to deceive; to beguile; to allure.

Full of wiles; trickish; deceitful.

See Willful, Willfully, and Willfulness.

The quality or state of being wily; craftiness; cunning; guile.

See Whelk.

To exercise an act of volition; to choose; to decide; to determine; to decree.

See Ignis fatuus and phosphine.

A silicate of zinc, usually occurring massive and of a greenish yellow color, also in reddish crystals (troostite) containing manganese.

One who wills.

A large North American snipe (Symphemia semipalmata); -- called also pill-willet, will-willet, semipalmated tattler, or snipe, duck snipe, and stone curlew.

One who works at a willying machine.

In a willing manner; with free will; without reluctance; cheerfully.

The quality or state of being willing; free choice or consent of the will; freedom from reluctance; readiness of the mind to do or forbear.

The common guillemot. The puffin.

To open and cleanse, as cotton, flax, or wool, by means of a willow. See Willow, n., 2.

A perennial herb (Epilobium spicatum) with narrow willowlike leaves and showy rose-purple flowers. The name is sometimes made to include other species of the same genus.

A thorny European shrub (Hippophae rhamnoides) resembling a willow.

A European species of loosestrife (Lysimachia vulgaris). Any kind of Polygonum with willowlike foliage.

Same as Willow-weed. Any plant of the order Salicaceae, or the Willow family.

Abounding with willows; containing willows; covered or overgrown with willows.

A willow. See Willow, n., 2.

Having the color of the willow; resembling the willow; willowy.

Abounding with willows.

Willful; obstinate.

The process of cleansing wool, cotton, or the like, with a willy, or willow.

A whirlwind, or whirlwind squall, encountered in the Straits of Magellan.

To wish; to desire.

To cause to begin to wither; to make flaccid, as a green plant.

Willow.

Full of wiles, tricks, or stratagems; using craft or stratagem to accomplish a purpose; mischievously artful; subtle.

Active; nimble.

The whimbrel.

To lie in folds; also, to appear as if laid in folds or plaits; to ripple; to undulate.

To gain the victory; to be successful; to triumph; to prevail.

A reel used in dyeing, steeping, or washing cloth; a winch. It is placed over the division wall between two wince pits so as to allow the cloth to descend into either compartment. at will.

One who, or that which, winces, shrinks, or kicks.

Linsey-woolsey.

A kick, as of a beast, from impatience or uneasiness.

The act of washing cloth, dipping it in dye, etc., with a wince.

A little red flower, no doubt the pimpernel, which, when it opens in the morning, is supposed to bode a fair day. See Pimpernel.

To blow; to sound by blowing; esp., to sound with prolonged and mutually involved notes.

A clump of trees serving for a protection against the force of wind.

Having the power of breathing impaired by the rupture, dilatation, or running together of air cells of the lungs, so that while the inspiration is by one effort, the expiration is by two; affected with pulmonary emphysema or with heaves; -- said of a horse.

Anemophilous; fertilized by pollen borne by the wind.

A windflower.

Caused to ride or drive by the wind in opposition to the course of the tide; -- said of a vessel lying at anchor, with wind and tide opposed to each other.

Shaken by the wind; affected by wind shake, or anemosis (which see, above).

A horse given to wind-sucking

A vicious habit of a horse, consisting in the swallowing of air; -- usually associated with crib-biting, or cribbing. See Cribbing, 4.