One who, or that which, feeds on or destroys wit.
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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.
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.
A land full of wonders, or marvels.
Wonderfully; wondrously.
Surprise; astonishment; a wonderful appearance; a wonder.
Same as Wondrous.
See Wondrous.
Struck with wonder, admiration, or surprise.
A wonderful work or act; a prodigy; a miracle.
Wonderful; astonishing; admirable; marvelous; such as excite surprise and astonishment; strange.
To dwell; to abide.
A field.
See Wanger.
Dwelling.
To accustom; -- used reflexively.
Accustomed; customary; usual.
The quality or state of being accustomed.
Unaccustomed.
To court; to make love.
To take or get a supply of wood.
Incumbered with tall, woody hedgerows.
A young oak, or other timber plant, laid down in a hedge among the whitethorn or other plants used in hedges.
A wild or natural note, as of a forest bird.
A kind of froth seen on herbs.
The time when there no sap in the trees; the winter season.
Same as Woadwaxen.
Woodbine.
A climbing plant having flowers of great fragrance (Lonicera Periclymenum); the honeysuckle. The Virginia creeper. See Virginia creeper, under Virginia.
Any one of several species of Asiatic singing birds belonging to the genera Ianthia and Larvivora. They are closely allied to the European robin. The males are usually bright blue above, and more or less red or rufous beneath. A European shrike (Enneoctonus rufus). In the male the head and nape are rufous red; the back, wings, and tail are black, varied with white.
A common large North American marmot (Arctomys monax). It is usually reddish brown, more or less grizzled with gray. It makes extensive burrows, and is often injurious to growing crops. Called also ground hog.
The nuthatch.
Skill and practice in anything pertaining to the woods, especially in shooting, and other sports in the woods.
An engraving on wood; also, a print from it. Same as Wood cut, under Wood.
A person who cuts wood.
The act or employment of cutting wood or timber.
Supplied or covered with wood, or trees; as, land wooded and watered.
Made or consisting of wood; pertaining to, or resembling, wood; as, a wooden box; a wooden leg; a wooden wedding.
Clumsily; stupidly; blockishly.
Quality of being wooden; clumsiness; stupidity; blockishness.
The yaffle.
A woodpecker.
A place where wood is stored.
A house or shed in which wood is stored, and sheltered from the weather.
The quality or state of being woody.
The yaffle.
Of or pertaining to woods or woodland; living in the forest; sylvan.
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