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WATTLE-BIRD

of Mimosa growing in Australia and New Zealand.

Wattle-bird (wot'l-bêrd), n. 1. An Australian bird (Anthochora carunculata) belonging to the Melophagidae or honey-eaters, and so named from the large reddish wattles on its neck. It is about the size of a magpie, is of bold, active habits, has a loud disagreeable note, and lives on the honey and insects it obtains from the Banksias.-2. The brush-turkey.

Wattled (wot'ld), a. Furnished with wattles, as a cock or turkey.- Wattled and combed, in her. said of a cock when the gills and comb are borne of a different tincture from that of the body.

Wattle-turkey (wot'l-tér-ki), n. Same as
Brush-turkey.
Wattling (wot'ling), n.

The act of platting or interweaving wattles together; also, the framework thus formed. Wauch, Waugh (wąch), a. [Akin to D. walg, loathing, walgen, to loathe; comp. A. Sax wealg, Icel. valgr, lukewarm.] Unpleasant to the taste or smell; nauseous; bad; worthless. [Scotch.]

Waucht, Waught (wacht), n. [Modified from older quaght, a form of quaf.] A large draught of any liquid. [Scotch.] Wauff (wäf), a. See WAFF. Waukrife (wak'rif), a.

[Scotch.]

Wakeful.

Burns.

Waul (wal), v.i. To cry as a cat; to squall. The helpless infant, coming wauling and crying into the world.' Sir W. Scott. Waur (war), a. Worse. Murder and waur than murder." Sir W. Scott. [Scotch.]

Waur (war), v.t. To overcome; to worst. [Scotch.]

Wave (wav), n. [O.E. wawe, from A. Sax. weg, a wave, a word perhaps allied to the verb to wag; Icel. vágr. G. wage, D. vove, a wave; the form of the word in English has been modified by the verb to wave, so that wave the noun may be regarded as a kind of hybrid word. See WAVE, v.t.] 1. An undulation, swell, or ridge on the surface of water or other liquid resulting from the oscillatory motion of its component particles, when disturbed from their position of rest by any force; especially, the rolling swell produced on the surface of the sea or other large body of water by the action of the wind; a billow; a surge. When the surface of a liquid is pressed down at any part, the adjoining parts rise, but sink again by the action of gravity; and acquiring a momentum proportionate to the mass and height, descend below the original level, displacing other parts near them, which rise and sink in a similar manner. The result is a reciprocating motion, the particles to which the primitive impulse was communicated being alternately the lowest and the highest, forming the series of ridges and hollows called waves. Where the depth of the liquid is invariable over its extent, or sufficient to allow the oscillations to proceed unimpeded, no progressive motion takes place, each ridge or column being kept in its place by the pressure of the adjacent columns. Should, however, free oscillation be prevented, as by the shelving of the shore, the columns in the deep water are not balanced by those in the shallower parts, and they thus acquire a progressive motion towards the latter, or take the form of breakers, hence the waves always roll in a direction towards the shore, no matter from what point the wind may blow. When waves are produced by the disturbance of a small quantity of the liquid, as when a pebble is thrown into a pool, they appear to advance from the disturbed point in widening concentric circles, the height of the wave decreasing gradually as it recedes from the centre; but there is no progressive motion of the liquid itself, as is shown by any body floating on its surface. The whole seems to roll onwards, but, in reality, each particle of water only oscillates with a vertical ascent and descent. The height of the wave depends in a great measure on the depth of the water in which it is produced. The waves of the ocean have been known in some instances to have reached a height of 43 feet, measured from the trough to the crest. The horizontal pressure of a strong Atlantic wave, as tested by Stephenson's marine dynamometer, has been recorded as high as 3 tons to the square foot. It is a matter of common observation that a wave of much greater dimension than others occurs at certain intervals, rolling much higher on the shore than those im

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mediately preceding or following it, or breaking with immense force over the decks of vessels on the open sea. This is caused when several coexisting series of waves moving with different velocities meet, and the crests of two or three of them become superimposed upon each other. Several series of waves moving in different directions may also coexist without destroying each other, giving rise to the chopping seas or cross swells so troublesome to mariners. The length of a wave is equal to the space between the most elevated points of two adjoining waves, or between the lowest points of two adjoining hollows. A wave is said to have passed through its length when its elevated part has arrived at the place where the elevated part of the next wave stood before; or, the situation of two contiguous waves being given, when one of these has arrived at the place of the other; and the time which is employed in this transition is called the time of a wave's motion or the time of an undulation. The velocity of a wave is the rate at which the points of greatest elevation or depression seem to change their places. - Tidal wave. See TIDE-WAVE.-2. In physics, a vibration propagated from one set of particles of an elastic medium to the adjoining set, and so on; sometimes, but not always, accompanied with a small permanent displacement of such particles. The theory of the motion of waves is of great importance in physical science; since, not only is it connected with the phenomena of the waves of the ocean ordinarily produced by the wind, the tidal wave, &c., it has also a close relation to the phenomena of undulating musical strings, the undulations in solids, as in earthquake waves, &c., while we know that sounds in air are propagated as waves, and that even light is now generally held to be a form of wave-motion. See SOUND, LIGHT, UNDULATORY.-3. Water. [Poetical.]

Build a ship to save thee from the flood,
I'll furnish thee with fresh wave, bread and wine.
Chapman.
Deep drank Lord Marmion of the wave.

Sir W. Scot.

4. Anything resembling a wave in character or appearance; as, (a) one of a series of undulating inequalities on a surface; a swelling outline; an undulation. 'The bounteous wave of such a breast. Tennyson. The thousand waves of wheat.' Tennyson. (b) That which advances and recedes, rises and falls, comes and goes, or increases and diminishes with some degree or regular recurrence like a wave. 'Old recurring waves of prejudice;' the holy organ rolling waves of sound; waves of shadow.' Tennyson. (c) The undulating line or streak of lustre on cloth watered and calendered. 5. A waving or undulating motion; a signal made by waving the hand, a flag, or the like.

Wave (wav), v.i. pret. & pp. waved; ppr. waving. [O.E. waven, to wave in the wind; A. Sax. wafian, which seems to have been used rather in sense of waver or hesitate through astonishment than in physical sense; allied to Icel. veifa, to wave, to vibrate, vafi, doubt, uncertainty, vafra, to hover about; O.G. waben, to fluctuate. Waver is a derivative form.] 1. To move loosely one way and the other; to fluctuate; to float or flutter; to undulate. Even as the waving sedges play with wind.' Shak.

Sound trumpets! let our bloody colours wave! Shak Nor waves the cypress in the palace walk. Tennyson. 2. To be moved as a signal; to beckon. A bloody arm it is, . . . and now It waves unto us.

B. Fonson.

3. To be in an unsettled state; to waver; to fluctuate; to hesitate.

He waved indifferently 'twixt doing them neither Shak. good nor harm.

Wave (wav), v. t. 1. To move one way and the other; to brandish; as, to wave the hand; to wave a sword.

Eneas, hastening waved his fatal sword
High o'er his head.
Dryden.

2. To raise into inequalities of surface. 'Horns whelked and waved like th' enraged sea.' Shak.-3. To waft; to remove anything floating. Sir T. Browne.-4. To draw the attention of, or to direct, by a waving motion; to signal to by waving the hand or the like; to beckon.

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5. To signify or command by a waving motion; to indicate by a wave of the hand, &c.; to give a waving signal for. She spoke, and bowing, waved dismissal. Tennyson.

Wave (wav), v.t. Same as Waive in its various senses; as, (a) to cast away; to reject. (b) To relinquish, as a right or claim. (c) To depart from, abandon, or quit.

Wave, pret. of weave. Wove. Chaucer. Wave-borne (wäv'börn), a. Borne or carried on or by the waves.

Waved (wavd),a. 1. In her. the same as Wary or Unde.-2. Variegated in lustre; as, waved silk.-3. In bot. undate.-4. In entom. applied to insects when the margin of the body is marked with a succession of arched segments or incisions.

Wave-length (wav'length), n. The distance between the crests of two adjacent waves or between the lowest parts of the depres sions on each side of a wave. See WAVE. Waveless (wav'les), a. Free from waves; not waving; undisturbed; unagitated; still; as, the waveless sea. Smoother than this waveless spring.' Peele.

The bannered blazonry hung waveless as a pall R. H. Barham. Wavelet (wǎv'let), n. A small wave; a ripple

on water.

In a million wavelets tipped with gold Leapt the soft pulses of the sunlit sea. Sir H. Taylor. Wavellite (wa'vel-it), n. [From Dr. Wavel, the discoverer.] A mineral, a phosphate of aluminium, commonly found in crystals, which usually adhere and radiate, forming hemispherical or globular concretions froni a very small size to 1 inch in diameter. The form of the crystal is usually that of a rhombic prism with dihedral terminations. It occurs at Barnstaple in Devonshire, in Cornwall, near Cork in Ireland, in Germany, Brazil, &c. It has also been called Hydrargillite.

Wave-loaf (wäv'lōf), n. A loaf for a waveoffering.

Wave-motion (wävʼmō-shon), n. Motion in curves alternately concave and convex like that of the waves of the sea; undulatory motion. See WAVE, 2.

Wave-offering (wav'of-fêr-ing). n. In the Jewish ceremonial worship, an offering made with waving towards the four cardinal points Ex. xxix. 26, 27.

Waver (wa'ver), v. i. [A freq. corresponding to the verb to wave, to fluctuate = Icel vafra, to hover. (See WAVE) Akin to O.G. waberen, to move to and fro; D. weifelen, to totter, to hesitate.] 1. To play or move to and fro; to move one way and the other; to flutter. 'Baners and penons waveryng with the wynde.' Berners.

From the high tree the blossom wavering fell.
Tennyson.

2. To be unsettled in opinion; to be unde-
termined; to fluctuate; to vacillate; as, to
Shak.
waver in opinion; to waver in faith.
Let us hold fast the profession of our faith without
wavering.
Heb. x. 23.

3. To be in danger of falling or failing; to totter; to reel.

senses.

Like the day of doom it seemed to her wavering Longfellon. Wavert (wa'vér), n. [Probably from rate. vi] A sapling or young timber tree. Evelyn. Waverer (wa'ver-er), n. One who wavers: one who is unsettled in doctrine, faith, or opinion. Shak.

Waveringly (wa'ver-ing-li), adv. In a wavering, doubtful, fluctuating manner. Waveringness (wä'vèr-ing-nes), . State or quality of being wavering.

Waveson (wav'son), n. [Perhaps connected with waive, waif, rather than ware] A name given to goods which after shipwreck appear floating on the sea. Wave-worn (wav'wōrn), n. Worn by the waves. The shore that o'er his wave-worn basis bow'd.' Shak.

Waviness (wā'vi-nes), n. The state or quality of being wavy or undulating. Wavy (wa'vi), a. 1. Rising or swelling in waves; full of waves.

Thirtie hollow-bottom'd barkes divide the tavic Chapman

seas.

2. Showing undulations or fluctuations of any kind; undulating.

Let her glad valleys smile with weary corn. Prior Swarms of minnows show their little heads Staying their way bodies 'gainst the streams. Keats 3. In bot. undulating on the border or on the surface.-4. In her. same as Unde (which see).

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Wawe,t Wawt (wa), n. A wave. Spenser. Wawli (wal), v.i. To cry. See WAUL. Wawl, Waul (wal), v.i. [Perhaps akin to A. Sax. wealwian, to roll, E. to wallow, or to wall in wall-eyed.] To look wildly; to roll the eyes. [Scotch.]

He wawls on me with his grey een, like a wild cat.
Sir W. Scott.

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Wawlie (wali), a. Same as Waly. Wax (waks), n. [A. Sax. weax, G. wachs, Icel. and Sw. vax, Dan. vox, D. vas; cog. Pol. vosk, Rus. voska, Lith. waszkas-wax. Comp. L. viscum, G. ixos (fixos), mistletoe, birdlime.] 1. A thick, viscid, tenacious substance, excreted by bees from their bodies, and employed in the construction of their cells; usually called Bees'-wax. Its native colour is yellow, and it has a peculiar smell resembling honey, which is derived from the honey deposited in the cells. When bleached and freed from impurities, wax is white, brittle, and translucent in thin segments; it has neither taste nor smell; it has a specific gravity of from 0.960 to 0-966. melts at 158° and softens at 86, becoming so plastic that it may be moulded by the hand into any form. It is a mixture of three substances, called respectively myricin, cerotic acid, and cerolein, in very variable proportions. These substances are themselves composed of carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen. Wax is extensively employed both in its original and bleached state; in the latter state it is used for candles, and in numerous cerates, ointments, and plasters. It is also used in forming figures or images, busts, &c., in the preparation of anatomical models, in the preparation of artificial fruit, flowers, &c. In statuary it is used in making models for the metal cast.-2. Any substance resembling wax in appearance, consistence, plasticity, or other properties; as, (a) a vegetable product which may be regarded as a concrete fixed oil; the principal varieties being Chinese wax, cow-tree wax, Cuba wax, and Japan wax. It may be obtained from the pollen of many flowers, and it forms a part of the green fecula of many plants, particularly of the cabbage. It appears as a varnish upon the fruit and the upper surface of the leaves of many trees, as in the wax-palm and wax-myrtle. Called also Vegetable Wax. (b) A mineral product, one of certain fossil hydrocarbons which occur in small quantities generally in the carboniferous formation: called more fully Mineral Wax. The most familiarly known variety is ozocerite (which see). (c) A thick tenacious substance excreted in the ear; earwax. (d) A substance found on the hinder legs of bees, derived from the pollen of flowers. This was long supposed to be the substance from which bees elaborated the wax for their cells, but this notion is now found to be erroneous. The pollen collected by bees serves for the nourishment of their larvæ. (e) A substance used in sealing letters. See SEALING-WAX. (f) A thick resinous substance used by shoemakers for rubbing their thread.

Wax (waks), v. t. To smear or rub with wax; to apply wax to; to treat with wax; as, to wax a thread or a table.

Wax (waks), v.i. pret. waxed; pp. waxed or waxen (the latter perhaps now only poetical). [A. Sax. weaxan, to grow, to become; Icel. vaxa, Dan. væxe, Sw. växa, G. wachsen, D wassen, to wax; allied to L. augeo, Skr. vakshami, to increase, to wax; from a root seen also in L. vigor, E. vigour, vegetable, &c.] 1. To increase in size; to grow; to become larger; as, the waxing and the waning moon. Waxed like a sea.' Shak. Thou shalt wax and he shall dwindle. Tennyson. 2. To pass from one state to another; to become; as, to wax strong: to wax warm or cold; to wax feeble; to wax old. 'Waxen deaf.' Shak. 'Waxing pale for rage' Fairfax.

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Milton,

Where young Adonis oft reposes, Waxing well of his deep wound. -Waxing kernels, wax kernels, a popular name for small tumours caused by enlargement of the lymphatic glands, especially of children, from their being supposed to be associated with the growing or waxing of the body.

Wax (waks), n. A rage; a passion. 'She's in a terrible wax. H. Kingsley. [Slang.] Wax-basket (waks'bas-ket), n. A fancy basket made of or coated with wax. Simmonds. Wax-bill (waks'bil), n. A small finch, genus

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Estrilda, so called from its beak being red like wax. It is often kept in cages. Wax-candle (waks-kan'dl), n. A candle made of wax. Wax-chandler (waks'chand-lêr), n. A maker or seller of wax-candles.

Wax-cloth (waks'kloth), n. A popular but erroneous name for Floor-cloth (which see). Wax-doll (waks'dol), n. A child's doll made or partly made of wax.

Waxen (wak'sn), a. 1. Made of wax; as, waxen cells.-2. Resembling wax; soft as

wax.

The state or

Men have marble, woinen waxen hearts. Shak. 3. Covered with wax; as, a waxen tablet. Waxen (wak'sn), old or poetical pp. of wax, to grow. Gen. xix. 13. Wax-end, Waxed-end (waks'end, wakst'end), n. A thread pointed with a bristle, and covered with rosin (shoemakers' wax), used in sewing boots and shoes. Wax-flower (waks'flou-ér), n. 1. A flower made of bees'-wax.-2. A plant of the genus Clusia, C. insignis. See CLUSIA. Waxiness (wak'si-nes), n. quality of being waxy. Wax-insect (waks'in-sekt), n. A name given to several insects other than the bee which produce wax. The most important is a small white insect (Coccus sinensis or C. Pela), a native of China, closely allied to the cochineal insect, and which deposits its wax as a coating resembling hoar-frost on the branches of certain plants, particularly on those of a variety of sumach. The wax, known as Chinese wax or pela, is collected from the plants, melted, and strained, and is then made into a very fine kind of candles which are used by only the higher classes in China. It has been imported into England for candle manufacture, but is far too expensive for general use.

Wax-light (waks'lit), n. A taper made of wax. Milman.

Wax-modelling (waks-mod'el-ing), n. The art of forming models and figures in wax. Otherwise termed the Ceroplastic Art Wax-moth (waks'moth), n. A popular name given to various species of moths of the genera Ptychopoda, Emmelesia, Cabera, &c. Wax-myrtle (waks'mèr-tl), n. Myrica cerifera, or candleberry-tree See CANDLEBERRY-TREE and MYRICACEE.

Wax-painting (waks'pant-ing), n. Encaustic painting. See ENCAUSTIC. Wax-palm(waks'pam), n. A species of palm, the Ceroxylon andicola, found in South America. It is a native of the Andes, and is found chiefly between 4 and 5° of north latitude, at an elevation of about 5000 feet

Wax-palm (Ceroxylon andicola).

above the sea-level, among rugged precipices. It grows to the height of 180 feet. The trunk is marked by rings, caused by the falling off of the leaves, which are 18 to 20 feet long, and is covered with a thick secretion, consisting of two-thirds resin and onethird wax. This substance is also exuded from the leaves, is whitish, almost inodorous, except when heated, when it gives out a resinous odour. In the region in which it grows

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the wax, usually mixed with bees'-wax and tallow, is made into candles. The only other palm which exudes wax, and that in a sort of scales from the palmate leaves, is the Carnauba palm, found plentifully in Brazil. Wax-paper (waks på-pèr), n. A kind of paper prepared by spreading over its surface a coating made of white wax, turpentine, and spermaceti.

Wax-red (waks'red), a. Of a bright-red colour, resembling that of sealing-wax. Waxred lips. Shak.

Wax-scott (waks'skot), n. A duty anciently paid twice a year towards the charge of waxcandles in churches.

Wax-tree (waks'tre), n. A name common to plants of the genus Vismia (which see). Wax-wing (waks' wing), n. The common name of the species of dentirostral birds of the genus Ampelis. They are so named because most of them have small, oval, horny appendages on the secondaries of the wings of the colour of red sealing-wax. Only three species have been recorded, viz. the Bohemian wax-wing or chatterer (A. garrula), a migratory bird, which has a wide geographical range, the American wax-wing or cedarbird (A. carolinensis), which is confined to North America, and the red-winged chatterer or Japanese wax-wing (4. phenicoptera), an Asiatic bird.

Wax-work (waks'werk), n. 1. Work in wax; especially, figures formed of wax in imitation of real beings; also, anatomical preparations in wax, preparations in wax of fruit, flowers, &c.-2. A place where a collection of such figures is exhibited. 3. A woody plant of the genus Celastrus (C. scandens), nat. order Celastraceæ, found by the sides of streams and in thickets. Its opening, orange-coloured pods, displaying the scarlet covering of the seeds, have a fine effect in autumn.

Wax-worker (waks' werk-ér), n. 1. One who works in wax; a maker of wax-work.2. A bee which makes wax.

Waxy (wak'si), a. 1. Resembling wax in appearance, softness, plasticity, impressibility, adhesiveness, or other properties; hence, yielding; pliable; impressionable; soft. That the softer, waxy part of you may receive some impression from this discourse.' Hammond.-2. Made of wax; abounding in wax.-Waxy degeneration. Same as Amyloid Degeneration.

Way (wa), n. [O. E. wai, wei, wey, from A. Sax. weg, a way, road, passage; Dan. vei, Sw. väg, Icel. vegr, D. and G. weg, Goth. vigs, way; from a root meaning to move, to go, to take, to carry; seen also in E. wagon, wain, L. via, a way (in viaduct), veho, to carry, whence vehiculum, a vehicle, velum, a sail (E. veil), vehemens, vehement, &c. Hence always, away, &c.] 1. A track or path along or over which one passes, progresses, or journeys; a place for passing; a path, route, road, street, or passage of any kind.

The why is as plain as way to parish church. Shak. The season and ways were very improper for his majesty's forces to march so great a distance.

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Evelyn.

2. Length of space; distance. 'A good way on before.' Tennyson.

Thy servant will go a little way over Jordan.
1 Sam. xix. 36.

3 A going, moving, or passing from one place
to another; progression; transit; journey.
The Lord.. will send his angel with thee, and
prosper thy way.
Gen. xxiv. 40.

4. Path or course in life.

The way of transgressors is hard. Prov xiii. 15. 5. Direction of motion, progress, or travel; course; relative position or motion to or from a certain point; tendency of action. This way the coverlets, another way the sheets.' Shak. Now sways it this way,..... now sways it that way.' Shak. Which way looks he?' Shak. 'Turn thy edged sword another way.' Shak.-6. Means by which anything is reached, attained, or accomplished; proceeding; course; scheme; device; plan.

By noble ways we conquest will prepare: First offer peace, and that refused, make war. Dryden. 7. Method or manner of proceeding; mode; fashion; style; as, the wrong or the right way of doing something.

I will one way or other make you amends. Shak. God hath so many times and ways spoken to men. Hooker.

His way of expressing and applying them, not his invention of them, is what we admire. Addison.

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8. Usual mode of acting or behaving; mode of dealing; method of life or action; regular or habitual course or scheme of life; as, a person of peculiar ways.

All flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth. Gen. vi. 12.

9. Resolved plan or mode of action or conduct; course approved of as one's own.

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-By way of, as for the purpose of; as being; to serve as or in lieu of; as, he got a pension by way of recompense. In the way, in a position or of such a nature as to obstruct, impede, hinder, or prevent; as, that meddling fellow is always in the way; there are some difficulties in the way; her long train is always in the way.-In the way of, so as to meet or fall in with; in a favourable position for doing or getting; as, I can put you in the way of a good piece of business. -In the family way, with child; pregnant. [Colloq.]-On the way, in going or travelling along; hence, in a progressive state; advancing towards completion or accomplishment. Sir W. Temple. Our wishes on the way

He was of an high mind, and loved his own will and his way as one that revered himself and would reign indeed. Bacon.

If I had my way He had mewed in flames at home. B. Jonson. 10. Sphere of observation.

The general officers and the public ministers that fell in my way were generally subject to the gout.

11. Naut. (a) progress or motion through the water; as, a vessel is under way when she begins her motion, she gathers way when she increases her rate of sailing, and loses way when the rate is diminished. (b) pl. The timbers on which a ship is launched. (c) pl. Skids on which heavy packages are raised or lowered.-12. Way and ways are used in certain phrases in the sense of wise; as, he is no ways a match for his opponent.

'Tis no way the interest even of the priesthood. Pope. - To come one's way or ways, to come along, to come on: a phrase often encouragingly used when asking or inviting one to approach or accompany the speaker. [Colloq.]

Come your waies (saieth he), for now are all things in a readinesse. Udall

You must be watched ere you be made tame, must you? Come your ways, come your ways. Shak. -To give way (a), to break or fall, as under pressure or a strain; as, the floor gave way beneath our feet; the ice gave way beneath the skaters; the rope gave way and the boat drifted. (b) To make room for passing; to suffer to pass; hence, to give free scope; to recede; to yield; to submit; not to resist or hinder.

Open your gates and give the victors way. Shak. Small to greater matters must give way. Shak. The senate, forced to yield to the tribunes of the people, thought it their wisest course also to give way to the time. Swift.

-To go one's way or ways, to take one's departure; to set out; to depart; to be off.

He declared to his friend that he was never guilty in the murdering of the man; and so he went his ways. Latimer.

The phrase, when addressed to others, sometimes implies reproach be off! begone!

Go thy ways! I'gin to be aweary of thee. Shak. Sometimes, however, it is used as a term of exhortation or applause well, take your

own course.

Petruchio, go thy ways, the field is won. Shak. -To go the way of all the earth, to die. 1 Ki. ii. 2.-To lead the way, to be the first or most advanced in a march, procession, progress, or the like; to act the part of a leader, guide, &c.

He tried each art, reproved each dull delay. Allured to better worlds, and led the way. Goldsmith, -To make way, (a) to give room for passing; to open a clear passage; to stand aside; to move so as to suit the convenience of another; to give place. 'Make way there for the princes.' Shak. (b) To open a path through obstacles; to overcome all resistance, hinderance, or difficulties; to penetrate.

With this little arm and this good sword I have made my way through more impediments Than twenty times your stop.

Shak.

Then her false voice made way broken with sobs. Tennyson. -To make one's way, to find and keep a successful career, to advance successfully; to advance in life by one's own exertions. The boy was to know his father's circumstances, and that he was to make his way by his own industry. Spectator. -To take one's way, (a) to set out; to go. They, hand in hand, with wandering steps and slow, Through Eden took their solitary way. Milton. (b) To follow one's own settled plan, course, opinion, inclination, or fancy.

Doctor, your service for this time is ended; Take your own way. Shak. -By the way, (a) in the course of the journey, passage, or the like; on the road.

See that ye fall not out by the way. Gen. xlv. 24. (b) In passing; without necessary connection with the main subject or purpose; parenthetically.

Note, by the way, that unity of continuance is easier to procure than unity of species. Bacon.

Shak.

May prove effects. -Out of the way, (a) not in the proper course; in such a position or condition as to pass or miss one's object; in such a place or state as to be hindered, impeded, incommoded, or prevented; away from the mark; aside; astray.

We are quite out of the way when we think that things contain within themselves the qualities that Locke. appear to us in them.

Men who go out of the way to hint free things must be guilty of absurdity or rudeness. Richardson. Don't put yourself out of the way on our accounts. Dickens.

(b) Not in its proper place or where it can be found or net with; hence, concealed, hidden, or lost.

Is't lost? is't gone? speak, is it out o' the way! Shak. (c) Not in the usual, ordinary, or regular course; out of the beaten track; hence, extraordinary; remarkable; striking; as, her beauty and accomplishments are nothing out of the way. [Colloq. ]- Covered or covert way. See COVERED-WAY.-Milky Way. See GALAXY.-Right of way, in law, a privilege which an individual or particular description of persons may have of going over another's ground, subject to certain conditions, or sanctioned by the custom by virtue of which the right exists. A right of way may be claimed by prescription and immemorial usage, such right being absolute and indefeasable if proved to be used down to the time of the commencement of the action. It may also be granted by special permission, as when the owner of lands grants to another liberty of passing over his grounds to go to church, market, or the like, in which case the gift is confined to the grantee alone, and dies with him. Again, a right of way may arise by act and operation of law, as when a man grants a piece of ground in the middle of his field he at the same time tacitly and implicitly grants a way to come at it.-Way of the rounds, in fort. a space left for the passage round between a rampart and the wall of a fortified town. Ways and means, (a) methods; resources; facilities.

Then eyther prince sought the wayes and meanys howe eyther of theym myght discontent other. Fabyan.

(b) Specifically, in legislation, means for raising money; resources of revenue. Committee of ways and means. See COMMITTEE.

Way, Waye (wa), v.t. To weigh; to esteem. Spenser.

Wayt (wa), v.t. 1. To go in, to proceed

along.-2. To go or journey to.-3. To put in the way; to teach to go in the way; to break to the road: said of horses.

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junction at which the strata separate or give way. Paye.

Way-bread (wä'bred), n. [A. Sax. wegbræde-weg, a way, and bræd, broad, from its being found growing on waysides, and from its broad leaves ] A name given to the herb plantain (Plantago major), Way-doort (wä’dōr), n. Street-door. Bp. Hall.

Wayfaret (wa'fär), v.i. [Way and fare, to journey.] To journey; to travel. A certain Laconian, as he wayfared, came to a place where there dwelt an old friend of his. Holland Wayfaret (wa'far), n. The act of wayfaring or journeying; travel. Way-farer (wa'far-ér), n. One who way. fares, journeys, or travels; a traveller; a passenger. Rich, Carew. Wayfaring (wa'fär-ing), a. Being on a journey; travelling. Judg. xix. 17.

Moreover for the refreshing of waifaring men, he ordained cups of yron or brasse to be fastened by such cleare wells and fountains as did runne by the waie's side. Stow A

Wayfaring-tree (wa'far-ing-trẻ),__n shrub, a species of Viburnum, the V. Lantana called also Mealy Gelder-rose. See VIBURNUM.

Waygoing (wa'gō-ing), a. Going away; departing; of, pertaining to, or belonging to, one who goes away. - Waygoing crop, the crop which is taken from the land the year the tenant leaves a farm. Waygoose (wa'gös), n. [The forms wayzgoose, waytsgoose also occur, and the first part of the word seems to be G. weizen, weitzen, wheat, the term being probably borrowed from Germany.] The name given to an annual dinner of the printers which originally took place during the period of wheat stubble. Jos. Moxon. Waylay (wa-la' or wa'là), v.t. pret & pp. waylaid; ppr. waylaying. [Way and lay.] To watch insidiously in the way, with a view to seize, rob, or slay; to beset in ambush; as, to waylay a traveller.

I will waylay thee going home, where if it be thy chance to kill me... thou killest me like a rogue and villain. Shak

Waylayer (wå-la'èr or wālā-ér), n. One who waylays; one who waits for another in ambush, with a view to seize, rob, or slay him.

Way-leave (wa'lév), n. Right of way. See

under WAY.

Another thing that is remarkable is their way leaves; for when men have pieces of ground between the colliery and the river, they sell leave to lead coals over their ground. Roger North.

Wayless (wa'les), a. Having no way or path; pathless; trackless. Drayton. Way-maker (wa'mak-ér), n. One who makes a way; a precursor. Waymakers to the restitution of the evangelical truth.' Bp. Hall. Way-mark (wä’märk), n. A mark to guide in travelling. Jer. xxxi. 21. Wayment (wa'ment), v.i. [See WAIMENT.] To bewail; to lament.

For what bootes it to weepe and wayment, Spenser. Lamentation. Wayment (wa'ment), n. Spenser. Way-pane (wa'pân), n. A slip left for cartWay-passenger (wa'pas-en-jér), n. age in watered land. [Local.j A passenger picked up by the way, that is, one taken up at some place intermediate between the regular or principal stopping places or stations. Way-post (wā'pōst), n. Same as Fingerpost.

You came to a place where three cross-roads divide.
Without any way post stuck up by the side,
R. H. Barham.

Way-shaft (wa'shaft), n. In steam-engines,
the rocking-shaft for working the slide-
valve from the eccentric.
Wayside (wa'sid), n. The side of the way;
the border or edge of the road or highway.
Sometimes used adjectively of or pertain
ing to the wayside; growing, situated, &c..
by or near the side of the way; as, wayside
flowers.

The windows of the wayside inn,

Gleamed red with fire-light through the leaves. Longfellow. Way-station (wa'stä-shon), n. An intermediate station on a railroad. [United States.]

Way-thistle (wa'this-1), n. A plant of the genus Chicus, C. arvensis. Called also Fieldthistle.

Wayward (wa'wèrd), a. ['Originally a headless form of aweiward. . . . Thus wayward

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is away-ward, that is, turned away, perverse. This is the simple solution of a word that has given much trouble. It is a parallel formation to froward. Skeat.] Full of peevish caprices or whims; froward; perverse. Whining, purblind, wayward boy.' Shak. "Thwarting the wayward seas.' Shak. Wayward beauty doth not fancy move. Fairfax.

Way-warden (wa'war-den), n. The surveyor of a road.

'Had'st best repent and mend thy ways.' 'The way-warden may do that; I wear out no ways.' Kingsley. Waywardly (wa'wêrd-li), adv. In a wayward manner; frowardly; perversely. Waywardness (wa'wèrd-nes), n. The qua

lity of being wayward; frowardness; perverseness. Shak.

Waywise (wā’wiz), a. Expert in finding or keeping the way; knowing the way or route. Ash.

Waywisert (wă'wiz-èr), n. [G. wegweiser, from weg, way, and weisen, to direct] An instrument for measuring the distance which one has travelled on the road; an odometer or pedometer.

I went to see Colonel Blount who shewed me the application of the waywiser to a coach, exactly mea suring the miles, and showing them by an index as we went on. It had 3 circles, one pointing to the number of rods, another to the miles, by 10 to 1000, with all the subdivisions of quarters. Evelyn. Waywode, Waiwode (wa'wod), n. [Pol. and Rus. woyewoda, lit. army leader, from woi, an army, and wodit, to lead.] A name originally given to military commanders in various Slavonic countries, and afterwards to governors of towns or provinces. It was borne for a time by the rulers of Moldavia and Wallachia, who subsequently took the title of Hospodar.

Waywodeship (wä'wōd-ship), n. The province or jurisdiction of a waywode. Wayworn (wā'wōrn), a. Wearied by travelling.

We (we), pron., pl. of I. [A. Sax. we, O. Sax. we, wi, Icel. vér, vær, Dan. and Sw. vi, D. wij, G. wir, Goth. weis; cog. Skr. vayam-we. The initial w or v is supposed to represent m of the old radical ma, me, I, and the suffix 8 (G. r) to be a relic of an old demonstrative sma joined to the first pronoun. Originally, therefore, we = ma-sma = I + that (or he). See Us.] I and another or others; I and he or she, or I and they. We is sometimes, like they, vaguely used for society, people in general, the world, &c., but when the speaker or writer uses we he identifies himself more or less directly with the statement; when he uses they he implies no such identification. Both pronouns thus used may be translated by the French on and the German man; as, we (or they) say on dit, man sagt.

(Vice) seen too oft, familiar with her face. We first endure, then pity, then embrace. Pope. 'They say so,' And who are 'they' Everybody-nobody. They! They is a regular scandalmonger, an unknown, unacknowledged, unseen, unanswered, unauthorized creation quoted on all occasions.' Mrs. S. C. Hall.

We is frequently used by individuals, as editors, authors, and the like, when alluding to themselves, in order to avoid the appearance of egotism which it is assumed would result from the frequent use of the pronoun I. The plural style is also used by kings and other potentates, and is said to have been first used in his edicts by King John of England, according to others by Richard I. The French and German sovereigns followed the example about the beginning of the thirteenth century. We charge you, on allegiance to ourself, To hold your slaughtering hands.

Shak.

Weak (wek), a. [Not directly from A. Sax. wac, weak (which would have become in modern English woak or woke), but from the Scandinavian; Icel. veikr, veykr, Sw. rek, Dan. veg, L.G. and D. week, G. weich, pliant, soft, weak. The original meaning was yielding or giving way readily, the stem being seen in A. Sax. wican, O. H.G. wichan, to yield, to give way; Gr. (v)eikein, to yield. Wick, wicker, are from same root.] 1. Wanting physical strength; as, (a) deficient in strength of body; not able to raise great weights or do severe tasks or work; wanting vigour or robustness; feeble; exhausted; infirm; sickly. A poor, infirm, weak, and despised old man.' Shak. (b) Not able to sustain a great weight, pressure, or strain; as, weak timber; a weak bridge; a weak rope. (c) Not having the parts firmly united or

ch, chain; ch, Sc. loch; g, go; j, job;

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adhesive; easily broken or separated into pieces; readily fractured; brittle; as, a weak vessel. (d) Not stiff; pliant; bending; frail; soft; as, the weak stem of a plant. (e) Not able to resist onset or attack; easily surmounted or overcome; as, a weak fortress, barrier, or fence.-2. Deficient in force of utterance or sound; having little volume, loudness, or sonorousness; low; feeble; small. A voice, not soft, weak, piping, and womanish.' Ascham--3. Wanting in ability to perform its functions or office; deficient in functional energy, activity, or the like. 'My weak stomach. Shak. My eyes are weak.' Shak.-4. Unfit for purposes of attack or defence, either from want of members, training, courage, or other martial resources; not strong in arms.

The legions now in Gallia are Full weak to undertake our wars.

Shak.

5. Not abundantly or sufficiently impreg nated with the essential, required, or usual ingredients, or with stimulating or nourishing substances or properties; not of the usual strength; as, weak tea; weak broth; a weak infusion; weak punch.-6. Not possessing moral or mental strength, vigour, or energy; deficient in strength of intellect or judg ment. 'A weak mind and an able body.' Shak.

Origen was never weak enough to imagine that there were two Gods. Waterland.

To think everything disputable is a proof of a weak mind and a captious temper. Beattie.

7. Having imperfect mental faculties; imbecile; silly; fatuous; stupid; as, a person of weak intellect or mind.-8. Not having acquired full confidence or conviction; not decided or confirmed; vacillating; wavering. Him that is weak in the faith, receive ye, but not to doubtful disputations. Rom. xiv. 1.

9. Wanting steadiness or firmness; unable to withstand temptation, persuasion, urgency, or the like; easily moved, impressed,

or overcome.

Superior and unmoved; here only weak Against the charm of beauty's powerful glance. Milton.

If weak woman went astray, Their stars were more at fault than they. Prior 10. Resulting from or indicating lack of judgment, discernment, or firmness; arising from want of moral courage, of selfdenial, or of determination; injudicious; a weak compliance; a weak surrender.

as, If evil thence ensue She first his weak indulgence will accuse. Milton. 11. Not having effective or prevailing power, or not felt to be effective or prevailing. My ancient incantations are too weak If my weak oratory Can from his mother win the Duke of York, Shak Anon expect him here.

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12. Not having the power to convince; not supported by the force of reason or truth; unsustained; as, weak reasoning or argument; weak evidence.

A case so weak and feeble hath been much persisted in. Hooker

13. Not founded in right or justice; not easily defensible.

I know not what to say; my title's weakTell me, may not a king adopt an heir? Shak. 14. Not having power or vigour of expression; deficient in pith, pregnancy, or point; as, a weak sentence; a weak style.-15. Inconsiderable; slight; insignificant. "This weak and idle theme.' Shak. 'Mine own weak merits.' Shak.-16. In gram. a term applied to a noun or a verb, or to a declension or conjugation where the plural in the case of the noun is marked by the addition of 8, and the preterite and past participle in the case of verbs are marked by the addition of ed; as, boy, boys; I love, I loved, I am loved: called otherwise regular, and distinguished from strong, or irregular.-Weak side, that side or aspect of a person's character or disposition by which he is most easily influenced or affected.

cer.

Guard thy heart

On this weak side where most our nature fails. Addison. Weakt (wek), v.t. To make weak; to weaken. Dr. H. More. Weakt (wek), v.i. To become weak. ChauWeaken (wek'n), v.t. [Weak, and the verbforming suffix-en] To make weak or weaker; to lessen the strength of or to deprive of strength; to debilitate; to enervate; to enfeeble; as, to weaken the body; to weaken the mind; to weaken the hands of the man, Fr. ton; ng, sing; TH, then; th, thin;

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gistrate; to weaken the force of an objection or argument.

A languor came

Upon him, gentle sickness, gradually Weakening the man, till he could do no more. Tennyson. Weaken (wek'n). v.i. To become weak or weaker; as, he weakens from day to day. Shak

Weakener (wēk'n-ér), n. One who or that which weakens.

Fastings and mortifications, .. rightly managed, are huge helps to piety, and great weakness of sin. South. Weakening (wek'ning), a. Having the quality of reducing strength; as, a very weakening disease.

Weak-eyed (wēk'id), a. Having weak eyes. Collins.

Weak-fish (wek'fish), n. A fish of the genus Otolithus (0. regalis), so called because it has a tender mouth and cannot pull hard when hooked. Called also Squeteague (which see). Weak-headed (wek'hed-ed), a. Having a weak head or intellect. Weak-hearted (wek'härt-ed), a. Having little courage; dispirited. Shak. Weakish (wěk'ish), a. Somewhat weak; weakly.

There was an innocent young waiter of a slender Dickens. form and with weakish legs. A feeble creature. Weakling (wēk ́ling), n.

And drags me down to mob me up withal In soft and milky rabble of womankind, Tennyson. Poor weakling even as they are. Weakly (wěk'li), adv. In a weak manner; as, (a) with little physical strength; faintly; not forcibly; as, a fortress weakly defended. (b) With want of efficacy.

Was plighted faith so weakly seal'd above? Dryden. (c) With feebleness of mind or intellect; indiscreetly; injudiciously.

This high gift of strength committed to me, Under the seal of silence, could not keep But weakly to a woman must reveal it. Milton. Weakly (wek'li), a. Not strong of constitution; infirm; as, a weakly woman; a man of a weakly constitution. This pretty, puny, weakly little one.' Tennyson. Weakness (wēk’nes), n. The state or quality of being weak; as, (a) want of physical strength; want of force or vigour; feebleness; as, the weakness of a child; the weakness of an invalid; the weakness of a wall or bridge, or of thread or cordage. The weakness of mine eyes.' Shak. (b) Want of mental or moral strength; want of strength of will or resolution; feebleness of mind. Sir, I am vex'd; Bear with my weakness; my old brain is troubled; Be not disturbed with my infirmity.

All wickedness is weakness.

Shak. Milton.

(c) Want of spiritedness, ardour, or sprightliness. 'Soft without weakness; without glaring gay.' Pope. (d) Want of moral force or effect upon the mind; want of cogency. "The weakness of those testimonies.' Tillotson. (e) Defect; failing; fault: with a plural.

Many take pleasure in spreading abroad the weaknesses of an exalted character. Addison. SYN. Feebleness, debility, infirmity, imbecility, decrepitude, defect, failing, frailty, faintness.

Weak-sighted (wēk'sit-ed), a. Having weak sight. Abr. Tucker.

Weak-spirited (wek'spir-it-ed), a. Having a weak or timorous spirit; pusillanimous. Sir W. Scott.

Weal (wel), n. [A. Sax. wela, weala, prosperity, wealth, bliss, lit. the state of being well, from wel, well; Dan. vel, Sw. väl, O. H.G. wela, weal. See WELL.] 1. A sound, healthy, prosperous state of a person or thing; the state of being well; welfare; prosperity; happiness. 'Partner of your weal or woe. Shak As we love the weal of our souls and bodies.' Bacon.

Milton.

The weal or wo in thee is plac d. -The public, general, or common weal, the interest, wellbeing, prosperity of the community, state, or society.

He for the common weal, The fading politics of mortal Rome, As I might slay this child, if good need were, Slew both his sons. Tennyson 2. The body politic; the state. The special watchmen of our English weal.' Shak. Wealt (wel), v.t. To promote the weal or welfare of. Beau. & Fl. Weal (wel), n. WALE. Weal (wel), v.t. WALE.

The mark of a stripe. See

To mark with stripes. See

w, wig; wh, whig; zh, azure.-See KEY.

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Weal-balanced (wel-bal'anst), a. Balanced with regard to the common weal or good. From thence,

Shak.

By cold gradation and weal-balanced form, We shall proceed with Angelo. [Used probably only this once.] Weald (weld),a. [A. Sax. weald, wald, a forest tract; G. wald, a wood or forest. It is a form of wold (which see).] A piece of open forest land; a woody place or woody waste; a wold. As a proper name it is applied to a valley or tract of country lying between the North and South Downs of Kent and Sussex in England. Fled all night long by glimmering waste and weald.' Tennyson. Weald-clay (weld'klä), n. The upper portion of the Wealden formation, composed of beds of clay, sandstone, calcareous sandstone, conglomerate limestone, and ironstone. The clay is of a bluish or brownish colour, tenacious, somewhat indurated and slaty. The limestone is often concretionary, and usually contains fresh-water shells of the genus Paludina. The weald-clay forms the subsoil of the wealds of Sussex and Kent, separating the Shanklin-sands from the Hastings beds.

Wealden (wel'den), a. Of or pertaining to a weald; specifically, belonging to the Weald of Sussex and Kent.-Wealden formation, group, or strata, in geol. a series of fresh-water strata belonging to the lower cretaceous epoch, and occurring between the uppermost beds of the oolite and the lower ones of the chalk formation. The name originated from the circumstance that these fluviatile beds are largely developed in the weald of Kent and Sussex, where they seem to occupy the site of an ancient estuary which received the clay and mud of some gigantic river. The group has been divided into two series, the weald-clay and Hastings sands (see these terms). The organic remains of the Wealden formation consist of the bones of huge reptiles, freshwater shells, and plant remains. The most remarkable animal remains are those of the Dinosauria belonging to the genera Hylæosaurus, Megalosaurus, Iguanodon, &c.; various fish of the placoid and ganoid orders also occur. The vegetable fossils belong chiefly to ferns, and to the gymnospermatous orders of conifers and cycads. See Purbeck Beds under PURBECK.

Wealden (wel'den), n. In geol. the Wealden group or formation.

Wealdisht (weld'ish), a. Of or belonging to a weald; especially to the wealds of Kent, Surrey, and Sussex. The wealdish men.' Fuller.

Wealfult (wěl'fyl), a. Happy; joyous; felicitous. Davies.

Weals-man (wēlz'man), n. A man who consults, or professes to consult, the public weal; a name given sneeringly to a politician.

Meeting two such weals-men as you are, I cannot call you Lycurguses. Shak. [Nares says the word occurs only, perhaps, in the above extract.]

Wealth (welth), n. [O.E. welthe, lit. the state of being well, from well, and suffix -th; comp. health, breadth, sloth, mirth, growth, &c.] 1. Weal; prosperity; external happi

ness.

Let no man seek his own, but every man another's wealth. I Cor. x. 24. Grant her (or him) in health and wealth long to live. Common Prayer. 2. A collective term for riches; material possessions in all their variety; large possessions of money, goods, or land; that abundance of worldly estate which exceeds the state of the greater part of the community; affluence; opulence.

Get place and wealth; if possible, with grace, If not, by any means get wealth and place. Pope. 3. Affluence; profusion; abundance.

Again the feast, the speech, the glee,
The shade of passing thought, the wealth
Of words and wit.
Tennyson.

4. In pol. econ. wealth embraces all and
only such objects as have both utility and
can be appropriated in exclusive possession,
and therefore exchanged. Political econo-
mists consider labour as the only source of
wealth; and political economy treats mainly
of the means of promoting the increase of
national wealth, and of removing obstruc-
tions to its development.
Wealthfult (welth'ful), a. Full of wealth
or happiness; prosperous. Sir T. More.
Wealthily (welth'i-li), adv. In a wealthy
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'Born in wealth and wealthily nursed.' Hood.

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I come to wive it wealthily in Padua; If wealthily then happily in Padua. Wealthiness (welth'i-nes), n. State of being wealthy; richness.

Wealthy (welth'i), a. 1. Having wealth; rich; having large possessions in lands, goods, money, or securities, or larger than the generality of men; opulent; affluent. As wealth is a comparative thing, a man may be wealthy in one place and not so in another. Married to a wealthy widow.' Shak. 2. Rich in any sense, as in beauty, ornament, endowments, &c.; enriched. [Poetical.] One (window) there is, and at the eastern end, Wealthy with wandering lines of mount and mere. Tennyson.

3. Large in point of value; ample. Her dowry wealthy.' Shak.

Wean (wen), v. t. [A. Sax. wenian, to accustom, whence awenian, to wean; Icel. venja, to accustom; Dan. vænne, to accustom, vænne fra brystet, to wean, lit. to accustom from the breast; G. gewöhnen, to accustom, entwöhnen, to break of a custom, to accustom one to do without, to wean; from stem seen in wont. See WONT.] 1. To separate from the breast or from the mother's milk as food; to ablactate; to accustom and reconcile, as a child or other young animal, to a want or deprivation of the breast.

And the child grew and was weaned. Gen. xxi. 9. 2. To detach or alienate, as the affections, from any object of desire; to reconcile to the want or loss of something; to disengage from any habit, former pursuit, or enjoyment; as, to wean the heart from temporal enjoyments.

I will restore to thee

The people's hearts, and wean them from themselves. Shak.

A wean'A lamb,

Wean (wen), n. 1. An infant; a weanling. [Provincial English. 1-2. A child; a boy or girl of no great age. [Scotch] Weanel,t Weanellt (wen'el), n. ling; an animal newly weaned. or a kid, or a weanell. Spenser. Weaning-brash (wen'ing-brash), n. In med. a severe form of diarrhoea which supervenes at times on weaning.

Weanling (wen'ling), n. A child or other animal newly weaned.

Weanling (wen'ling), a. Recently weaned.
Weanling herds.' Milton.
Weapon (wep'on), n. [A. Sax. wapen, a
weapon; common to the Teutonic lan-
guages: Icel. vápn, vopn, Dan. vauben, Sw.
vapen, D. wapen, G. waffe, a weapon, Goth.
vepna (pl.), arms. Probably from same root
as E. whip.] 1. Any instrument of offence;
anything used or designed to be used in
destroying or annoying an enemy, as a
sword, a dagger, a club, a rifle, a cannon,
&c.-2. An instrument for contest or for
combating enemies, either for offence or de-
fence; an instrument that may be classed
among arms.

The weapons of our warfare are not carnal.
2 Cor. x. 4.
Let not woman's weapons, water drops,
Stain my man's cheeks.
Shak.

3. In bot. a thorn, prickle, sting, or the like, with which plants are furnished for defence. Weaponed (wep'ond), a. Armed; furnished with weapons or arms; equipped.

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the other the poor professors of such rude arts as the homestead cannot do without. should be those who have no land. 7. M. Kemble. Wear (war), v.t. pret. wore; pp. worn; ppr. wearing. [A. Sax. werian, to wear, to put on a weak verb (pret. werode); 0.H.G. werian, gawerjan, to put on, to clothe; Icel verja, Goth. vasjan, to clothe. There has been in this word a change from 8 to r, and the root is the same as in L. vestio, a garment. See VEST.] 1. To carry covering or appendant to the body, as clothes, weapons. ornaments, &c.; to have on; as, to wear a coat or a robe; to wear a sword; to wear a

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When waterdrops have worn the stones of Troy, And blind oblivion swallow'd cities up. Shak Hence-4. To exhaust; to weary; to fatigue.

Since you have made the days and nights as one, Shak To wear your gentle limbs in my affairs. And hence-5. To forget; to efface from the memory.

Sort thy heart to patience; These few days' wonder will be quickly worn, Shak. 6. To cause or produce by constant percussion or attrition; to form by continual rubbing; as, a constant current of water will wear a channel in stone.-7. To have or exhibit an appearance of; to bear; to carry; to exhibit; to show.

Ne'er did poor steward wear a truer grief
For his undone lord than mine eyes for you.

And often, glad no more,
We wear a face of joy, because
We have been glad of yore.

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Wordsworth.

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-To wear away, to impair, diminish, or destroy by gradual attrition or imperceptible action. To wear of, to remove or diminish by attrition. To wear out, (a) to wear till useless; to render useless by wearing or using; as, to wear out a coat or a book. (b) To waste or destroy by degrees; to consume tediously; as, to wear out life in idle Wear out thy youth with shapeprojects. less idleness.' Shak. (c) To harass; to tire completely. Dan. vii. 25. (d) To waste the strength of; as, an old man worn out in the service of his country.

Away, I say; time wears. 3. To be worn appendant to the body; to be the fashion. Like the brooch and the tooth-pick which wear not now.'

Wear (war), v.i. 1. To be undergoing gradual impairment or diminution; to waste gradually; to be diminished or to pass away by attrition, by use, or by time: generally followed by some particle, as away, off, out, &c. Though marble wear with raining.' Shak. Thou wilt surely wear away.' Exod. xviii. 18.-2. To pass away, as time; to be Be not afraid, though you do see me weapon'd spent; often, to be tediously spent or consumed. Unarmed; Milton. Thus wore out night." Weaponless (wep'on-les), a. Milton. Shak. having no weapon. Weaponry (wep'on-ri), n. general. [Rare.] Weapon-salve (wep'on-säv or wep'onsalv), n. A salve which was supposed to cure the wound by being applied to the weapon that made it. Sir Kenelm Digby says the salve produces sympathy between the wound and the weapon, citing several instances to prove that as the sword is treated the wound inflicted by it feels. Thus, if the instrument is kept wet the wound will feel cool, if held to the fire it will feel hot,' &c. This is referred to in the following lines:

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4. To become gradually fit, as a garment by wearing. [Rare.]

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To evening, but some heart did break. Tennyson. 6. To become; to grow. [Old and Scotch ] The Spaniards began to ware weary, for winter drew on. -To wear well or ill, to be wasted away slowly or quickly; to last a long or short time; to be affected by time or use with difficulty or easily.-To wear off, to pass away by degrees; as, the follies of youth wear off with age.

If passion causes a present terror, yet it soon weari Locke. of

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