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.

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.

Blame; reproach.

Blameless.

pl. pres. of Wit.

A meeting of wise men; the national council, or legislature, of England in the days of the Anglo-Saxons, before the Norman Conquest.

The ladyfish (a).

Wise; sensible.

With denotes or expresses some situation or relation of nearness, proximity, association, connection, or the like.

With; -- put after its object, at the end of sentence or clause in which it stands.

A variety of epidote, of a reddish color, found in Scotland.

To retire; to retreat; to quit a company or place; to go away; as, he withdrew from the company.

The act of withdrawing; withdrawment; retreat; retraction.

One who withdraws; one who takes back, or retracts.

A room for retirement from another room, as from a dining room; a drawing-room.

The act of withdrawing; withdrawal.

To bind or fasten with withes.

A North American shrub (Viburnum nudum) whose tough osierlike shoots are sometimes used for binding sheaves.

To cause to fade, and become dry.

Injured or hurt in the withers, as a horse.

A piece of iron in a saddle near a horse's withers, to strengthen the bow.

Faded; dried up; shriveled; wilted; wasted; wasted away.

Tending to wither; causing to shrink or fade.

Barium carbonate occurring in white or gray six-sided twin crystals, and also in columnar or granular masses.

A withered person; one who is decrepit.

A second or reciprocal distress of other goods in lieu of goods which were taken by a first distress and have been eloigned; a taking by way of reprisal; -- chiefly used in the expression capias in withernam, which is the name of a writ used in connection with the action of replevin (sometimes called a writ of reprisal), which issues to a defendant in replevin when he has obtained judgment for a return of the chattels replevied, and fails to obtain them on the writ of return.