Abounding with wood or woods; as, woody land.

One who wooes; one who courts or solicits in love; a suitor.

The European blackbird.

Having a close texture; dense; as, a woofy cloud.

The sailfish.

In a wooing manner; enticingly; with persuasiveness.

Woke.

Dyed before being made into cloth, in distinction from piece-dyed; ingrain.

A trade market in the woolen districts.

To wind, or wrap; especially, to wind a rope round, as a mast or yard made of two or more pieces, at the place where it has been fished or scarfed, in order to strengthen it.

A stick used to tighten the rope in woolding.

The act of winding or wrapping anything with a rope, as a mast. A rope used for binding masts and spars.

Having (such) wool; as, a fine-wooled sheep.

Cloth made of wool; woollen goods.

A thin, light fabric of wool.

The barn owl.

A skin with the wool; a skin from which the wool has not been sheared or pulled.

Indulgence in idle imagination; a foolish or useless pursuit or design.

One who raises sheep for the production of wool.

The buffel duck.

The quality or state of being woolly.

Consisting of wool; as, a woolly covering; a woolly fleece.

A negro.

One who deals in wool.

A pack or bag of wool weighing two hundred and forty pounds.

A sack or bag of wool; specifically, the seat of the lord chancellor of England in the House of Lords, being a large, square sack of wool resembling a divan in form.

Linsey-woolsey.

A heavy wooden hammer for milling cloth.

In wool; with woolen raiment next the skin.

A wearing of woolen clothes next the skin as a matter of penance.

Dwelling. See Wone.

Same as Curare.

Oozy; wet.

A species of steel imported from the East Indies, valued for making edge tools; Indian steel. It has in combination a minute portion of alumina and silica.

See Yuen.

Wept.

See Wormil.

To use words, as in discussion; to argue; to dispute.

One who cavils at words.

A collection of words; a vocabulary; a dictionary; a lexicon.

A speaker.

In a wordy manner.

The quality or state of being wordy, or abounding with words; verboseness.

The act or manner of expressing in words; style of expression; phrasing.

Respecting words; full of words; wordy.

One of several pivoted pieces forming the throat of an adjustable die used in drawing wire, lead pipe, etc.

Not using words; not speaking; silent; speechless.

A more or less subtle playing upon the meaning of words.

One who deals in words, or in mere words; a verbalist.

imp. of Ware.

To labor or operate upon; to give exertion and effort to; to prepare for use, or to utilize, by labor.

Capable of being worked, or worth working; as, a workable mine; workable clay.

See Workyday.

A bag for holding implements or materials for work; especially, a reticule, or bag for holding needlework, and the like.

A basket for holding materials for needlework, or the like.

A bench on which work is performed, as in a carpenter's shop.

A box for holding instruments or materials for work.

A day on which work is performed, as distinguished from Sunday, festivals, etc., a working day.

One who, or that which, works; a laborer; a performer; as, a worker in brass.

One engaged in the same work with another; a companion in work.

Full of work; diligent.

a n. from Work.

Pertaining to, or characteristic of, working days, or workdays; everyday; hence, plodding; hard-working.

A laboring man; a man who earns his daily support by manual labor.

Without work; not laboring; as, many people were still workless.

Becoming a workman, especially a skillful one; skillful; well performed.

In a skillful manner; in a manner becoming a skillful workman.

The art or skill of a workman; the execution or manner of making anything.

The performer of any work; a master workman.

Any room or apartment used especially for labor.

Workmanship.

A shop where any manufacture or handiwork is carried on.

A table for holding working materials and implements; esp., a small table with drawers and other conveniences for needlework, etc.

In a working position or manner; as, a T rail placed workwise, i.e., resting on its base.

A woman who performs any work; especially, a woman skilled in needlework.

A week day or working day, as distinguished from Sunday or a holiday. Also used adjectively.

Extended throughout the world; as, world-wide fame.

The collective total of all computer installations that are connected to the internet and provide access to other computers connected to the internet, using hypertext transfer protocol, to computer files called web pages, which may have text, graphics, audio or animated video data, as well as pages which may provide data or information in all those forms.

The quality of being worldly; a predominant passion for obtaining the good things of this life; covetousness; addictedness to gain and temporal enjoyments; worldly-mindedness.

With relation to this life; in a worldly manner.

Devoted to worldly interests; mindful of the affairs of the present life, and forgetful of those of the future; loving and pursuing this world's goods, to the exclusion of piety and attention to spiritual concerns.

Wise in regard to things of this world.

To effect, remove, drive, draw, or the like, by slow and secret means; -- often followed by out.

Eaten, or eaten into, by a worm or by worms; as, worm-eaten timber.

Shaped like a worm; /hick and almost cylindrical, but variously curved or bent; as, a worm-shaped root.

Any species of Vermetus.

See Wormil.

Penetrated by worms; injured by worms; worm-eaten; as, wormed timber.

A burrow made by a worm.

Discovered or described by Olanus Wormius, a Danish anatomist.

A little worm.

Any one of several plants, as Artemisia santonica, and Chenopodium anthelminticum, whose seeds have the property of expelling worms from the stomach and intestines.

See Wornil.

p. p. of Wear.

Consumed, or rendered useless, by wearing; as, worn-out garments.

See Wormil.

An Egyptian fork-tongued lizard, about four feet long when full grown.

One who worries.

Trouble; anxiety; worry.

Inclined to worry or fret; also, causing worry or annoyance.

Worry; anxiety.

A state of undue solicitude; a state of disturbance from care and anxiety; vexation; anxiety; fret; as, to be in a worry.

In a worrying manner.

To make worse; to put disadvantage; to discomfit; to worst. See Worst, v.

To grow or become worse.

Worse.

To perform acts of homage or adoration; esp., to perform religious service.

The quality of being worthy to be worshiped.

Capable of being worshiped; worthy of worship.

One who worships; one who pays divine honors to any being or thing; one who adores.

Entitled to worship, reverence, or high respect; claiming respect; worthy of honor; -- often used as a term of respect, sometimes ironically.

To grow worse; to deteriorate.

An infusion of malt which is unfermented, or is in the act of fermentation; the sweet infusion of malt, which ferments and forms beer; hence, any similar liquid in a state of incipient fermentation.

To be; to become; to betide; -- now used only in the phrases, woe worth the day, woe worth the man, etc., in which the verb is in the imperative, and the nouns day, man, etc., are in the dative. Woe be to the day, woe be to the man, etc., are equivalent phrases.

Full of worth; worthy; deserving.

In a worthy manner; excellently; deservedly; according to merit; justly; suitably; becomingly.

The quality or state of being worthy; desert; merit; excellence; dignity; virtue; worth.

Destitute of worth; having no value, virtue, excellence, dignity, or the like; undeserving; valueless; useless; vile; mean; as, a worthless garment; a worthless ship; a worthless man or woman; a worthless magistrate.

Worth the time or effort spent.

To render worthy; to exalt into a hero.