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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.

Woden

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

Woe

Woeful; sorrowful.

Woe-begone

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

Woful Woeful

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

Wofully Woefully

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

Wol

See 2d Will.

Wolde

imp. of Will. See Would.

Wolf's-milk

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

Wolfberry

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

Wolffian

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

Wolfhound

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.

Wolfish

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

Wolframic

Of or pertaining to wolframium. See Tungstic.

Wolframite

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.

Wolframium

The technical name of the element tungsten. See Tungsten.

Wolfsbane

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

Wollastonite

A silicate of lime of a white to gray, red, or yellow color, occurring generally in cleavable masses, rarely in tabular crystals; tabular spar.

Wolverine Wolverene

A carnivorous mammal (Gulo gulo formerly Gulo luscus), of the weasel family Mustelidae, about the size of a large badger; called also glutton and carcajou. It is a native of the northern parts of America, Europe, and Asia.

Woman

To act the part of a woman in; -- with indefinite it.

Womanhood

The state of being a woman; the distinguishing character or qualities of a woman, or of womankind.

Womanish

Suitable to a woman, having the qualities of a woman; effeminate; not becoming a man; -- usually in a reproachful sense. See the Note under Effeminate.

Womanize

To make like a woman; to make effeminate.

womanize

To seek the company of women with unusual frequency, especially for purposes of sexual intimacy.

Womankind

The females of the human race; women, collectively.

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