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Winninish

The land-locked variety of the common salmon.

Winnow

To separate chaff from grain.

Winnower

One who, or that which, winnows; specifically, a winnowing machine.

Winnowing

The act of one who, or that which, winnows.

Winsomeness

The characteristic of being winsome; attractiveness of manner.

Winter

To keep, feed or manage, during the winter; as, to winter young cattle on straw.

Winter-ground

To coved over in the season of winter, as for protection or shelter; as, to winter-ground the roods of a plant.

Wintergreen

A plant which keeps its leaves green through the winter.

Winterkill

To die as the result of exposure to the cold of winter; as, the tree winterkills easily.

Winterly

Like winter; wintry; cold; hence, disagreeable, cheerless; as, winterly news.

Winterweed

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.

Winy

Having the taste or qualities of wine; vinous; as, grapes of a winy taste.

Winze

A small shaft sunk from one level to another, as for the purpose of ventilation.

Wipe

Act of rubbing, esp. in order to clean.

Wiper

One who, or that which, wipes.

Wire

To pass like a wire; to flow in a wirelike form, or in a tenuous stream.

Wire-heel

A disease in the feet of a horse or other beast.

Wire-puller wirepuller

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.

Wire-pulling

The act of pulling the wires, as of a puppet; hence, secret influence or management, especially in politics; intrigue.

Wire-tailed

Having some or all of the tail quills terminated in a long, slender, pointed shaft, without a web or barbules.

Wireless

Short for Wireless telegraphy, Wireless telephony, etc.; as, to send a message by wireless.

wiretap

to tap{5} (a telephone or telegraph line) to get information surreptitiously; also, to obtain or record (information) by use of a wiretap.

Wirework

Work, especially openwork, formed of wires.

Wireworm

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.

Wiring

The act of one that wires anything.

Wis

To think; to suppose; to imagine; -- used chiefly in the first person sing. present tense, I wis. See the Note under Ywis.

wise

Way of being or acting; manner; mode; fashion.

Wise-hearted

Wise; knowing; skillful; sapient; erudite; prudent.

Wise-like

Resembling that which is wise or sensible; judicious.

Wiseling

One who pretends to be wise; a wiseacre; a witling.

Wisely

In a wise manner; prudently; judiciously; discreetly; with wisdom.

Wish

Desire; eager desire; longing.

Wishable

Capable or worthy of being wished for; desirable.

Wishbone

The forked bone in front of the breastbone in birds; -- called also merrythought, and wishing bone. See Merrythought, and Furculum.

Wishedly

According to wish; conformably to desire.

Wisher

One who wishes or desires; one who expresses a wish.

Wishful

Having desire, or ardent desire; longing.

Wishly

According to desire; longingly; with wishes.

Wispen

Formed of a wisp, or of wisp; as, a wispen broom.

Wisse

To show; to teach; to inform; to guide; to direct.

Wistaria

A genus of climbing leguminous plants bearing long, pendulous clusters of pale bluish flowers. Now commonly spelled Wisteria.

Wistit

A small South American monkey; a marmoset.

Wistly

Attentively; observingly.

Wit

To know; to learn.

Witan

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.

Witch

A cone of paper which is placed in a vessel of lard or other fat, and used as a taper.

witch

To bewitch; to fascinate; to enchant.

Witch-hazel

The wych-elm. An American shrub or small tree (Hamamelis Virginica), which blossoms late in autumn.

Witchery

Sorcery; enchantment; witchcraft.

witching

That witches or enchants; suited to enchantment or witchcraft; bewitching.

Witchuck

The sand martin, or bank swallow.

Witcraft

Art or skill of the mind; contrivance; invention; wit.

Wite

Blame; reproach.

Witenagemote

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

With

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

Withal

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

Withamite

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

Withdraw

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

Withdrawal

The act of withdrawing; withdrawment; retreat; retraction.

Withdrawer

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

Withdrawing-room

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

Withe

To bind or fasten with withes.

Withe-rod

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

Wither

To cause to fade, and become dry.

Witherband

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

Withered

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

Withering

Tending to wither; causing to shrink or fade.

Witherite

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

Withernam

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.

Withers

The ridge between the shoulder bones of a horse, at the base of the neck. See Illust. of Horse.

Within

In the inner part; inwardly; internally.

Without

On or art the outside; not on the inside; not within; outwardly; externally.

Withsay

To contradict; to gainsay; to deny; to renounce.

Withstand

To stand against; to oppose; to resist, either with physical or moral force; as, to withstand an attack of troops; to withstand eloquence or arguments.

Withstander

One who withstands, or opposes; an opponent; a resisting power.

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