Destitute of a window.
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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).
A rectangular rent made in cloth; -- called also winkle-hole.
The redwing.
A tribe of North American Indians who originally occupied the region about Green Bay, Lake Michigan, but were driven back from the lake and nearly exterminated in 1640 by the IIlinnois.
One who wins, or gains by success in competition, contest, or gaming.
The act of obtaining something, as in a contest or by competition.
In a winning manner.
The quality or state of being winning.
The land-locked variety of the common salmon.
To separate chaff from grain.
One who, or that which, winnows; specifically, a winnowing machine.
The act of one who, or that which, winnows.
A windrow.
Winsome.
The characteristic of being winsome; attractiveness of manner.
To keep, feed or manage, during the winter; as, to winter young cattle on straw.
Beaten or harassed by the severe weather of winter.
To coved over in the season of winter, as for protection or shelter; as, to winter-ground the roods of a plant.
Having too rank or forward a growth for winter.
To fallow or till in winter.
A plant which keeps its leaves green through the winter.
To die as the result of exposure to the cold of winter; as, the tree winterkills easily.
Like winter; wintry; cold; hence, disagreeable, cheerless; as, winterly news.
Winter time.
A kind of speedwell (Veronica hederifolia) which spreads chiefly in winter.
Wintry.
Suitable to winter; resembling winter, or what belongs to winter; brumal; hyemal; cold; stormy; wintery.
Having the taste or qualities of wine; vinous; as, grapes of a winy taste.
A small shaft sunk from one level to another, as for the purpose of ventilation.
Act of rubbing, esp. in order to clean.
One who, or that which, wipes.
To whirl; to eddy.
To work
To pass like a wire; to flow in a wirelike form, or in a tenuous stream.
One who draws metal into wire.
A disease in the feet of a horse or other beast.
One who pulls the wires, as of a puppet; hence, one who uses secret influence (i.e. pulls wires or strings) for his own ends; an intriguer.
The act of pulling the wires, as of a puppet; hence, secret influence or management, especially in politics; intrigue.
Having some or all of the tail quills terminated in a long, slender, pointed shaft, without a web or barbules.
One who manufactures articles from wire.
Short for Wireless telegraphy, Wireless telephony, etc.; as, to send a message by wireless.
to tap{5} (a telephone or telegraph line) to get information surreptitiously; also, to obtain or record (information) by use of a wiretap.
Work, especially openwork, formed of wires.
One of the larvae of various species of snapping beetles, or elaters; -- so called from their slenderness and the uncommon hardness of the integument. Wireworms are sometimes very destructive to the roots of plants. Called also wire grub. A galleyworm.
The quality of being wiry.
The act of one that wires anything.
To think; to suppose; to imagine; -- used chiefly in the first person sing. present tense, I wis. See the Note under Ywis.
See Wizard.
Way of being or acting; manner; mode; fashion.
Wise; knowing; skillful; sapient; erudite; prudent.
Resembling that which is wise or sensible; judicious.
One who pretends to be wise; a wiseacre; a witling.
In a wise manner; prudently; judiciously; discreetly; with wisdom.
Wisdom.
Desire; eager desire; longing.
Any weak, thin drink.
Capable or worthy of being wished for; desirable.
The forked bone in front of the breastbone in birds; -- called also merrythought, and wishing bone. See Merrythought, and Furculum.
According to wish; conformably to desire.
One who wishes or desires; one who expresses a wish.
Having desire, or ardent desire; longing.
a. n. from Wish, v. t.
According to desire; longingly; with wishes.
The prairie dog.
A weak or thin drink or liquor; wish-wash.
A whisket, or basket.
Certainly.
Formed of a wisp, or of wisp; as, a wispen broom.
To show; to teach; to inform; to guide; to direct.
Knew.
A genus of climbing leguminous plants bearing long, pendulous clusters of pale bluish flowers. Now commonly spelled Wisteria.
Same as Wistaria.
A small South American monkey; a marmoset.
Attentively; observingly.
See Wishtonwish.
To know; to learn.
One who breaks jests; a joker.
One who affects repartee; a wit-cracker.
Barren of wit; destitute of genius.
Lit., wise men; The members of the national, or king's, council which sat to assist the king in administrative and judicial matters; also, the council.
A cone of paper which is placed in a vessel of lard or other fat, and used as a taper.
To bewitch; to fascinate; to enchant.
See Wych-elm.
The wych-elm. An American shrub or small tree (Hamamelis Virginica), which blossoms late in autumn.
The witch-hazel.
Sorcery; enchantment; witchcraft.
That witches or enchants; suited to enchantment or witchcraft; bewitching.
The middle of the night, especially midnight.
The sand martin, or bank swallow.
Art or skill of the mind; contrivance; invention; wit.
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