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.

The gnu.

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.

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.

Act of winding up, or closing; a concluding act or part; the end.

See 3d Windlass.

The lower, or bottom, pipe in a lift of pumps in a mine.

prevented from sailing, by a contrary wind. See Weatherbound.

To wither; to fail.

Anything blown down or off by the wind, as fruit from a tree, or the tree itself, or a portion of a forest prostrated by a violent wind, etc.

Blown down by the wind.

The anemone; -- so called because formerly supposed to open only when the wind was blowing. See Anemone.

A soft tumor or synovial swelling on the fetlock joint of a horse; -- so called from having formerly been supposed to contain air.

The kestrel; -- called also windbibber, windcuffer, windfanner.

The quality or state of being windy or tempestuous; as, the windiness of the weather or the season.

A turn or turning; a bend; a curve; flexure; meander; as, the windings of a road or stream.

In a winding manner.

A sailing vessel or one of its crew; -- orig. so called contemptuously by sailors on steam vessels.

See Windlass.

To raise with, or as with, a windlass; to use a windlass.

Having no wind; calm.

A grass used for making ropes or for plaiting, esp. Agrostis Spica-ventis.

A mill operated by the power of the wind, usually by the action of the wind upon oblique vanes or sails which radiate from a horizontal shaft.

A window.

Having windows or openings.

Destitute of a window.

See Pane, n., (3) b.

Having little crossings or openings like the sashes of a window.

The passage for the breath from the larynx to the lungs; the trachea; the weasand. See Illust. under Lung.

To arrange in lines or windrows, as hay when newly made.

A town in Berkshire, England.

A storm characterized by high wind with little or no rain.

So tight as to prevent the passing through of wind.

Toward the wind; in the direction from which the wind blows.

The red currant. The bilberry. A peculiar New Zealand shrub (Coriaria ruscifolia), in which the petals ripen and afford an abundant purple juice from which a kind of wine is made. The plant also grows in Chili.

One who drinks much wine.

A small glass from which to drink wine.

destitute of wine; as, wineless life.

A place where grapes are converted into wine.

A variety of winter apple of medium size, deep red color, and yellowish flesh of a rich, rather subacid flavor.

To furnish with wings; to enable to fly, or to move with celerity.

To perform an act, such as to give a speech, without the usual preparation. To improvise or ad-lib.

Having wings attached to the feet; as, wing-footed Mercury; hence, swift; moving with rapidity; fleet.

Having the anterior limbs or hands adapted for flight, as the bats and pterodactyls.

Having pinnate or pinnately divided leaves.

Any one of various species of marine bivalve shells belonging to the genus Avicula, in which the hinge border projects like a wing. Any marine gastropod shell of the genus Strombus. See Strombus. Any pteropod shell.

Furnished with wings; transported by flying; having winglike expansions.

One of the casks stowed in the wings of a vessel's hold, being smaller than such as are stowed more amidships.

A sea robin having large, winglike pectoral fins. See Sea robin, under Robin.

Having no wings; not able to ascend or fly.

A little wing; a very small wing.

Power or skill in flying.

Having wings; rapid.

The act of closing, or closing and opening, the eyelids quickly; hence, the time necessary for such an act; a moment.

One who winks.

In a winking manner; with the eye almost closed.

Any periwinkle. Any one of various marine spiral gastropods, esp., in the United States, either of two species of Fulgar (Fulgar canaliculata, and Fulgar carica).