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.

Same as Curare.

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.

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.

Wretched.

Reckless; hence, disregarded.

See Wray.

See Wry.

To wriggle.

Act of wriggling; a short or quick writhing motion or contortion.

One who, or that which, wriggles.

One who is engaged in a mechanical or manufacturing business; an artificer; a workman; a manufacturer; a mechanic; esp., a worker in wood; -- now chiefly used in compounds, as in millwright, wheelwright, etc.

A rare alkaloid found in the bark of an East Indian apocynaceous tree (Wrightia antidysenterica), and extracted as a bitter white crystalline substance. It was formerly used as a remedy for diarrh/a. Called also conessine, and neriine.

A writhing, as in anguish; a twisting; a griping.

A bolt used by shipwrights, to bend and secure the planks against the timbers till they are fastened by bolts, spikes, or treenails; -- not to be confounded with ringbolt.

One who, or that which, wrings; hence, an extortioner.

a. n. from Wring, v.

A strong piece of plank used in applying wringbolts.

To shrink into furrows and ridges.

Full of wrinkles; having a tendency to be wrinkled; corrugated; puckered.

The band of the sleeve of a shirt, or other garment, which covers the wrist.

A covering for the wrist.

An elastic band worn around the wrist, as for the purpose of securing the upper part of a glove.

imp. p. p. of Write.

Ability or capacity to write.

Capable of, or suitable for, being written down.

Inclined to much writing; -- correlative to talkative.

To form characters, letters, or figures, as representative of sounds or ideas; to express words and sentences by written signs.

The office of a writer.

To twist or contort the body; to be distorted; as, to writhe with agony. Also used figuratively.

Having a twisted distorted from.

To wrinkle.

The act or art of forming letters and characters on paper, wood, stone, or other material, for the purpose of recording the ideas which characters and words express, or of communicating them to others by visible signs.

p. p. of Write, v.

To wrinkle.

p. p. of Wreak.

That which is not right. Nonconformity or disobedience to lawful authority, divine or human; deviation from duty; -- the opposite of moral right.