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.

Done at an improper time; ill-timed.

One who injures another, or who does wrong.

Evil or wicked behavior or action.

One who wrongs or injures another.

Full of wrong; injurious; unjust; unfair; as, a wrongful taking of property; wrongful dealing.

Wrongheaded.

Wrong in opinion or principle; having a perverse understanding; perverse.

Not wrong; void or free from wrong.

In a wrong manner; unjustly; erroneously; wrong; amiss; as, he judges wrongly of my motives.

The quality or state of being wrong; wrongfulness; error; fault.

imp. of Write. Wrote.

imp. archaic p. p. of Write.

Full of wrath; angry; incensed; much exasperated; wrathful.

Worked; elaborated; not rough or crude.

imp. p. p. of Wring.

To twist; to distort; to writhe; to wrest; to vex.

See Crookbill.

Any one of several species of large, elongated, marine fishes of the genus Cryptacanthodes, especially Cryptacanthodes maculatus of the American coast. A whitish variety is called ghostfish.

Having a distorted neck; having the deformity called wryneck{1}.

The quality or state of being wry, or distorted.

Writhen.

Native lead molybdate occurring in tetragonal crystals, usually tabular, and of a bright orange-yellow to red, gray, or brown color; -- also called yellow lead ore.

See 2d Will.

Having the sails set in the manner called wing-and-wing.

See Wormil.

The Australian white-quilled honey eater (Entomyza albipennis).

imp. of Wit.

Same as Hurons.

A species of elm (Ulmus montana) found in Northern and Western Europe; Scotch elm.

The wych-elm; -- so called because its leaves are like those of the hazel.

A follower of Wyclif, the English reformer; a Lollard.

Wide.

Week.

A helmeted Australian cockatoo (Calyptorhynchus funereus); -- called also funeral cockatoo.

A narrow lane or alley.

The European moor hen.

A kind of timber truck, or carriage.

The wipe, or lapwing.

Wise.

pl. pres. of Wit.

Same as Withe, n., 4.

Same as Wiver.

having a rating of X; not suitable for children; broadly, obscene or sexually explicit.

To examine by means of X-rays; to irradiate with X-rays.

An amido derivative of xanthic acid obtained as a white crystalline substance, C2H5O.CS.NH2; -- called also xanthogen amide.

A salt of xanthic; a xanthogenate.

See Xanthoma.

Of or pertaining to Xanthus, an ancient town on Asia Minor; -- applied especially to certain marbles found near that place, and now in the British Museum.

A compound or derivative of xanthogen.

A genus of minute unicellular algae of the desmids. These algae have a rounded shape and are armed with glochidiate or branched aculei. Several species occur in ditches, and others are found fossil in flint or hornstone.

same as xanthine.

A type of purine obtainable as a white microcrystalline powder, C5H4O2N4, present in muscle tissue, in the liver, spleen, pancreas, and other organs, and also in urine (in small quantities) and some urinary calculi, and in the juices of certain plants; -- so called because it leaves a yellow residue when evaporated to dryness with nitric acid. It is also present in guano. Xanthine is closely related to uric acid.

A complex nitrogenous substance related to urea and uric acid, produced as a white powder; -- so called because it forms yellow salts, and because its solution forms a blue fluorescence like quinine.

A genus of composite plants in which the scales of the involucre are united so as to form a kind of bur; cocklebur; clotbur.

Having yellow fruit.

A division of the Caucasian races, comprising the lighter-colored members.

Having a yellowish or fair complexion; of or pertaining to the Xanthochroi.

Having a yellowish or fair complexion. A person having xanthochroid traits.

Abnormal coloration of feathers in which yellow replaces the normal color, as in certain parrots. It is commonly due to lack of the dark pigment which with yellow forms green.

Having yellow teeth.

The hypothetical radical supposed to be characteristic of xanthic acid. Persulphocyanogen.

A salt of xanthic acid.

Producing a yellow color or compound; xanthic. See Xanthic acid, under Xanthic.

A skin disease marked by the development or irregular yellowish patches upon the skin, especially upon the eyelids; -- called also xanthelasma.

Of or pertaining to xanthoma.

Of or pertaining to the lighter division of the Melanochroi, or those races having an olive or yellow complexion and black hair.

The yellow pigment present in the inner segments of the retina in animals. See Chromophane.

A yellow coloring matter found in yellow autumn leaves, and also produced artificially from chlorophyll; -- formerly called also phylloxanthin.

Having a yellow stipe, or stem.

Pertaining to, or derived from, xanthoprotein; showing the characters of xanthoprotein; as, xanthoproteic acid; the xanthoproteic reaction for albumin.

A yellow acid substance formed by the action of hot nitric acid on albuminous or proteid matter. It is changed to a deep orange-yellow color by the addition of ammonia.

One of three alkaloids found in the root of the yellow puccoon (Hydrastis Canadensis). It is a yellow crystalline substance, and resembles berberine.

A glucoside extracted from Persian berries as a yellow crystalline powder, used as a dyestuff.

A genus of shrubby ranunculaceous plants of North America, including only the species Xanthorhiza apiifolia, which has roots of a deep yellow color; yellowroot. The bark is intensely bitter, and is sometimes used as a tonic.

A genus of endogenous plants, native to Australia, having a thick, sometimes arborescent, stem, and long grasslike leaves. See Grass tree.

An orange-yellow substance found in pigment spots of certain crabs.

The yellow discoloration often observed in cancerous tumors.

Having yellow seeds.

Yellow; specifically (Ethnol.), of or pertaining to those races of man which have yellowish, red, auburn, or brown hair.

A liquid hydrocarbon of the terpene series extracted from the seeds of a Japanese prickly ash (Xanthoxylum pipertium) as an aromatic oil.

A genus of prickly shrubs or small trees, the bark and rots of which are of a deep yellow color; prickly ash.

The chemical symbol for the chemical element xenon, having atomic number 54; it is one of the six noble gases.

A small three-masted vessel, with projecting bow and stern and convex decks, used in the Mediterranean for transporting merchandise, etc. It carries large square sails, or lateen sails, or both. Xebecs were formerly armed and used by corsairs.

An Arctic fork-tailed gull (Xema Sabinii).