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.

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 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.

See 2d Will.

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

Wool.

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.

pl. of Wolf.

Wolfish.

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.

Same as womanize.

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.

To make like a woman; to make effeminate.

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

One who womanizes; a philanderer.

The females of the human race; women, collectively.

Without a woman or women.

Like a woman; womanly.

The quality or state of being womanly.

In the manner of a woman; with the grace, tenderness, or affection of a woman.

To inclose in a womb, or as in a womb; to breed or hold in secret.

Any one of three species of Australian burrowing marsupials of the genus Phascolomys, especially the common species (Phascolomys ursinus). They are nocturnal in their habits, and feed mostly on roots.

Capacious.

pl. of Woman.

Dwelling; wone.

Wonderfully.

One who performs wonders, or miracles.

Doing wonders or surprising things.

Having performed wonders; able to perform wonderful things.

One who wonders.

Adapted to excite wonder or admiration; surprising; strange; astonishing.

In a wondering manner.