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.

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.

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.

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

One who withholds.

The act of withholding.

In the inner part; inwardly; internally.

Within; inside; inwardly.

In the inner parts; inside.

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

Outdoor; exterior.

Without.

Without; outside' outwardly. Cf. Withinforth.

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

To set against; to oppose.

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.

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

o/ Withstand.

Quitch grass.

A kind of bindweed (Convolvulus arvensis).

Same as Withvine.

Made of withes; like a withe; flexible and tough; also, abounding in withes.

Knowledge.

Destitute of wit or understanding; wanting thought; hence, indiscreet; not under the guidance of judgment.

A person who has little wit or understanding; a pretender to wit or smartness.

To bear testimony; to give evidence; to testify.

One who witness.

Having (such) a wit or understanding; as, a quick-witted boy.

A witling.

A witty saying; a sentence or phrase which is affectedly witty; an attempt at wit; a conceit.

Possessed of wit; witty.

In a witty manner; wisely; ingeniously; artfully; with wit; with a delicate turn or phrase, or with an ingenious association of ideas.

The quality of being witty.

Knowingly; with knowledge; by design.

Like a wittol; cuckoldly.

Tin ore freed from earthy matter by stamping.

The golden oriole. The greater spotted woodpecker.

One who, or that which, feeds on or destroys wit.

To match to a wife; to provide with a wife.

Wifehood.

Wifeless.

Wifely.

pl. of Wife.

Enchanting; charming.

Resembling or becoming a wizard; wizardlike; weird.

The character or practices o/ wizards; sorcery; magic.

The weasand.

Having a shriveled, thin, withered face.

Dried; shriveled; withered; shrunken; weazen; as, a wizened old man.

Loathsome; disgusting; hateful.

See Woe.