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.

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.

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.

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.

Colored or stained with woad.

See Weld.

See Wabble.

Wood.

A geld, or payment, for wood.

A deity corresponding to Odin, the supreme deity of the Scandinavians. Wednesday is named for him. See Odin.

Woeful; sorrowful.

Beset or overwhelmed with woe; immersed in grief or sorrow; woeful.

Woeful.

Full of woe; sorrowful; distressed with grief or calamity; afflicted; wretched; unhappy; sad.

In a woeful manner; sorrowfully; mournfully; miserably; dolefully.

The quality or state of being woeful; misery; wretchedness.

Wake.

See 2d Will.

See Weld.

imp. of Will. See Would.

A kind of club moss. See Lycopodium.

Club moss. See Lycopodium.

Any kind of spurge (Euphorbia); -- so called from its acrid milky juice.

An American shrub (Symphoricarpus occidentalis) which bears soft white berries.

Discovered, or first described, by Caspar Friedrich Wolff (1733-1794), the founder of modern embryology.

Originally, a large hound used in hunting wolves; now, any one of certain breeds of large dogs, some of which are nearly identical with the great Danes.

Like a wolf; having the qualities or form of a wolf; as, a wolfish visage; wolfish designs.

A little or young wolf.

A young wolf.

Same as Wolframite.

A salt of wolframic acid; a tungstate.

Of or pertaining to wolframium. See Tungstic.

Tungstate of iron and manganese, generally of a brownish or grayish black color, submetallic luster, and high specific gravity. It occurs in cleavable masses, and also crystallized. Called also wolfram.

The technical name of the element tungsten. See Tungsten.

A poisonous plant (Aconitum Lycoctonum), a kind of monkshood; also, by extension, any plant or species of the genus Aconitum. See Aconite.