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.

2d pers. sing. pres. of Wit, to know.

1st 3d pers. sing. pres. of Wit, to know. See the Note under Wit, v.

2d pers. sing. pres. of Wit, to know.

3d pers. sing. pres. of Wit, to know.

The agile, or silvery, gibbon; -- called also camper. See Gibbon.

To howl.

See 2d Weld.

Desiring or professing to be; vainly pretending to be; as, a would-be poet-- wannabe-->.

Emotion of desire; inclination; velleity.

Willingness; desire.

A kind of wash bottle with two or three necks; -- so called after the inventor, Peter Woulfe, an English chemist.

imp. p. p. of Wind to twist, and Wind to sound by blowing.

Capable of being wounded; vulnerable.

One who, or that which, wounds.

In a woundy manner; excessively; woundy.

Free from wound or hurt; exempt from being wounded; invulnerable.

Any one of certain plants whose soft, downy leaves have been used for dressing wounds, as the kidney vetch, and several species of the labiate genus Stachys.

Excessively; extremely.

p. pr. rare vb. n. of Weave.

p. p. of Weave.

See Wou-wou.

To woo.

Disordered or unsettled in intellect; deranged.

Week.

imp. of Wax.

p. p. of Wax.

To wreck.

Ruinous; destructive.

Same as Wringbolt.

An angry dispute; a noisy quarrel; a squabble; an altercation.

An angry disputant; one who disputes with heat or peevishness.

The honor or position of being a wrangler at the University of Cambridge, England.

Contentious; quarrelsome.

The common wren.

A wrapper; -- often used in the plural for blankets, furs, shawls, etc., used in riding or traveling.

The act of wrapping.

One who, or that which, wraps.

A kind of coarse upper coat, or overcoat, formerly worn.

Any one of numerous edible, marine, spiny-finned fishes of the genus Labrus, of which several species are found in the Mediterranean and on the Atlantic coast of Europe. Many of the species are bright-colored.

To wrestle.

To anger; to enrage; -- also used impersonally.

Full of wrath; very angry; greatly incensed; ireful; passionate; as, a wrathful man.

In a wrathy manner; very angrily; wrathfully.

Free from anger or wrath.

Very angry.

Angry; vexed; wrathful.

Ill-tempered.

To cry, as a cat; to waul.

Peevishness; ill temper; anger.

To reveal; to disclose.

Revenge; vengeance; furious passion; resentment.

p. p. of Wreak.

Avenger.

Revengeful; angry; furious.

Unrevengeful; weak.

A marine shell of the genus Turbo. See Turbo.

To be intewoven or entwined; to twine together; as, a bower of wreathing trees.

Twisted; made into a wreath.

Destitute of a wreath.

Wreathed; twisted; curled; spiral; also, full of wreaths.

Wretched.

Wreak.

To suffer wreck or ruin.

A person appointed by law to take charge of goods, etc., thrown on shore after a shipwreck.

The act of wrecking, or state of being wrecked.

One who causes a wreck, as by false lights, and the like.

A stone bass.

Causing wreck; involving ruin; destructive.

a. n. from Wreck, v.

See 2d Wreak.

The act of wresting; a wrench; a violent twist; hence, distortion; perversion.

One who wrests.

A struggle between two persons to see which will throw the other down; a bout at wrestling; a wrestling match; a struggle.

One who wrestles; one who is skillful in wrestling.

Act of one who wrestles; specif., the sport consisting of the hand-to-hand combat between two unarmed contestants who seek to throw each other.

Very miserable; sunk in, or accompanied by, deep affliction or distress, as from want, anxiety, or grief; calamitous; woeful; very afflicting.

In a wretched manner; miserably; despicable.

The quality or state of being wretched; utter misery.