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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.

Withwind

A kind of bindweed (Convolvulus arvensis).

Withy

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

Witless

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

Witling

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

Witness

To bear testimony; to give evidence; to testify.

Witted

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

Witticism

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

Wittily

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

Wittingly

Knowingly; with knowledge; by design.

Witts

Tin ore freed from earthy matter by stamping.

Witworm

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

Wive

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

Wizardly

Resembling or becoming a wizard; wizardlike; weird.

Wizardry

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

Wizened

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

Wo

See Woe.

Woad-waxen

A leguminous plant (Genista tinctoria) of Europe and Russian Asia, and adventitious in America; -- called also greenwood, greenweed, dyer's greenweed, and whin, wood-wash, wood-wax, and wood-waxen.

Woaded

Colored or stained with woad.

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