Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter W - Page 1
W () the twenty-third letter of the English alphabet, is usually a consonant, but sometimes it is a vowel, forming the second element of certain diphthongs, as in few, how. It takes its written form and its name from the repetition of a V, this being the original form of the Roman capital letter which we call U. Etymologically it is most related to v and u. See V, and U. Some of the uneducated classes in England, especially in London, confuse w and v, substituting the one for the other, as weal for veal, and veal for weal; wine for vine, and vine for wine, etc. See Guide to Pronunciation, // 266-268.
Waahoo (n.) The burning bush; -- said to be called after a quack medicine made from it.
Wabble (v. i.) 搖晃，動搖，不穩定 To move staggeringly or unsteadily from one side to the other; to vacillate; to move the manner of a rotating disk when the axis of rotation is inclined to that of the disk; -- said of a turning or whirling body; as, a top wabbles; a buzz saw wabbles.
Wabble (v.) To move with an unsteady side-to-side motion.
Wabble (v.) To be or become unsteady or unsure. See Wobble.
Wabble (n.) 搖晃，動搖，不穩定 A hobbling, unequal motion, as of a wheel unevenly hung; a staggering to and fro.
Wabbly (a.) 擺動的；不穩定的 Inclined to wabble; wabbling. Wacke
Wacke (n.) Alt. of Wacky.
Wacky (n.) (Geol.) A soft, earthy, dark-colored rock or clay derived from the alteration of basalt.
Wacky (a.) 【俚】發瘋的；古怪的；乖僻的 Ludicrous, foolish; "gave me a cockamamie reason for not going"; "wore a goofy hat"; "a silly idea"; "some wacky plan for selling more books" [syn: {cockamamie}, {cockamamy}, {goofy}, {sappy}, {silly}, {wacky}, {whacky}, {zany}].
Wacky (a.) Informal or slang terms for mentally irregular; "it used to drive my husband balmy" [syn: {balmy}, {barmy}, {bats}, {batty}, {bonkers}, {buggy}, {cracked}, {crackers}, {daft}, {dotty}, {fruity}, {haywire}, {kooky}, {kookie}, {loco}, {loony}, {loopy}, {nuts}, {nutty}, {round the bend}, {around the bend}, {wacky}, {whacky}].
Wacky (a.) (Informal) (Also whacky) 滑稽的；古怪的 Unusual in a pleasing and exciting or silly way.
// The book contains some weird and wacky ideas for teaching kids about science.
Wad (n.) Woad. [Obs.]
Wad (n.) A little mass, tuft, or bundle, as of hay or tow. -- Holland.
Wad (n.) Specifically: A little mass of some soft or flexible material, such as hay, straw, tow, paper, or old rope yarn, used for retaining a charge of powder in a gun, or for keeping the powder and shot close; also, to diminish or avoid the effects of windage. Also, by extension, a dusk of felt, pasteboard, etc., serving a similar purpose.
Wad (n.) A soft mass, especially of some loose, fibrous substance, used for various purposes, as for stopping an aperture, padding a garment, etc.
Wed hook, A rod with a screw or hook at the end, used for removing the wad from a gun.
Waded (imp. & p. p.) of Wad.
Wadding (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Wad.
Wad (v. t.) To form into a mass, or wad, or into wadding; as, to wad tow or cotton.
Wad (v. t.) To insert or crowd a wad into; as, to wad a gun; also, to stuff or line with some soft substance, or wadding, like cotton; as, to wad a cloak.
Wad (n.) A small mass of soft material; "he used a wad of cotton to wipe the counter".
Wad (n.) (Often followed by `of') A large number or amount or extent; "a batch of letters"; "a deal of trouble"; "a lot of money"; "he made a mint on the stock market"; "see the rest of the winners in our huge passel of photos"; "it must have cost plenty"; "a slew of journalists"; "a wad of money" [syn: batch, deal, flock, good deal, great deal, hatful, heap, lot, mass, mess, mickle, mint, mountain, muckle, passel, peck, pile, plenty, pot, quite a little, raft, sight, slew, spate, stack, tidy sum, wad].
Wad (n.) A wad of something chewable as tobacco [syn: chew, chaw, cud, quid, plug, wad].
Wad (v.) Compress into a wad; "wad paper into the box" [syn: pack, bundle, wad, compact].
Wad (v.) Crowd or pack to capacity; "the theater was jampacked" [syn: jam, jampack, ram, chock up, cram, wad].
Wad (n.) Alt. of Wadd.
Wadd (n.) (Min.) An earthy oxide of manganese, or mixture of different oxides and water, with some oxide of iron, and often silica, alumina, lime, or baryta; black ocher. There are several varieties.
Wadd (n.) (Min.) Plumbago, or black lead.
Wadding (n.) A wad, or the materials for wads; any pliable substance of which wads may be made.
Wadding (n.) Any soft stuff of loose texture, used for stuffing or padding garments; esp., sheets of carded cotton prepared for the purpose.
Wadding (n.) Any material used especially to protect something [syn: packing material, packing, wadding].
Waddled (imp. & p. p.) of Waddle.
Waddling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Waddle.
Waddle (v. i.) To walk with short steps, swaying the body from one side to the other, like a duck or very fat person; to move clumsily and totteringly along; to toddle; to stumble; as, a child waddles when he begins to walk; a goose waddles. -- Shak.
She drawls her words, and waddles in her pace. -- Young.
Waddle (v. t.) To trample or tread down, as high grass, by walking through it. [R.] -- Drayton.
Waddle (n.) Walking with short steps and the weight tilting from one foot to the other; "ducks walk with a waddle"
Waddle (v.) Walk unsteadily; "small children toddle" [syn: toddle, coggle, totter, dodder, paddle, waddle].
Waddler (n.) One who, or that which, waddles.
Waddlingly (adv.) In a waddling manner.
Wade (n.) Woad. [Obs.] -- Mortimer.
Waded (imp. & p. p.) of Wade.
Wading (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Wade.
Wade (v. i.) To go; to move forward. [Obs.]
When might is joined unto cruelty, Alas, too deep will the venom wade. -- Chaucer.
Forbear, and wade no further in this speech. -- Old Play.
Wade (v. i.) To walk in a substance that yields to the feet; to move, sinking at each step, as in water, mud, sand, etc.
So eagerly the fiend . . . With head, hands, wings, or feet, pursues his way, And swims, or sinks, or wades, or creeps, or flies. -- Milton.
Wade (v. i.) Hence, to move with difficulty or labor; to proceed lowly among objects or circumstances that constantly inder or embarrass; as, to wade through a dull book.
And wades through fumes, and gropes his way. -- Dryden.
The king's admirable conduct has waded through all these difficulties. -- Davenant.
Wade (v. t.) To pass or cross by wading; as, he waded he rivers and swamps.
Wade (n.) The act of wading. [Colloq.]
Wade (n.) 1: English tennis player who won many women's singles titles (born in 1945) [syn: Wade, Virginia Wade].
Wade (v.) Walk (through relatively shallow water); "Can we wade across the river to the other side?"; "Wade the pond".
Wade, NC -- U.S. town in North Carolina
Population (2000): 480
Housing Units (2000): 220
Land area (2000): 1.305882 sq. miles (3.382218 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.009230 sq. miles (0.023906 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 1.315112 sq. miles (3.406124 sq. km)
FIPS code: 70340
Located within: North Carolina (NC), FIPS 37
Location: 35.161774 N, 78.732977 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 28395
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Wade, NC
Wade
Wade, MS -- U.S. Census Designated Place in Mississippi
Population (2000): 491
Housing Units (2000): 174
Land area (2000): 4.361655 sq. miles (11.296635 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.024565 sq. miles (0.063622 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 4.386220 sq. miles (11.360257 sq. km)
FIPS code: 77080
Located within: Mississippi (MS), FIPS 28
Location: 30.641942 N, 88.551069 W
ZIP Codes (1990):
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Wade, MS
Wade
Wader (n.) One who, or that which, wades.
Wader (n.) (Zool.) Any long-legged bird that wades in the water in search of food, especially any species of limicoline or grallatorial birds; -- called also wading bird. See Illust. g, under Aves.
Wader (n.) Any of many long-legged birds that wade in water in search of food [syn: wading bird, wader].
Wading () a. & n. from Wade, v.
Wading bird. (Zool.) See Wader, 2.
Wading (n.) Walking with your feet in shallow water.
Wadmol (n.) A coarse, hairy, woolen cloth, formerly used for garments by the poor, and for various other purposes. [Spelled also wadmal, wadmeal, wadmoll, wadmel, etc.] -- Beck (Draper's Dict.). Sir W. Scott.
Wadset (n.) (Scots Law) A kind of pledge or mortgage. [Written also wadsett.]
Wadset, () Scotch law. A right, by which lands, or other heritable subjects, are impignorated by the proprietor to his creditor in security of his debt; and, like other heritable rights, is perfected by seisin.
Wadset, () Wadsets, by the present practice, are commonly made out in the form of mutual contracts, in which one party sells the land, and the other grants, the right of reversion. Ersk. Pr. L. Scot., B. 2, t. 8, s. 1, 2.
Wadset, () Wadsets are proper or improper. Proper, where the use of the land shall go for the use of the money. Improper, where the reverser agrees to make up the deficiency; and where it amounts to more, the surplus profit of the land is applied to the extinction of the principal. Id. B. 2, t. 8, s. 12, 13.
Wadsetter (n.) One who holds by a wadset.
Wadsetter, () Scotch law. A creditor to whom a wadset is made.
Wadies (n. pl. ) of Wady.
Wady (n.) A ravine through which a brook flows; the channel of a water course, which is dry except in the rainy season.
Wae (n.) A wave. [Obs.] -- Spenser.
Waeg (n.) (Zool.) The kittiwake. [Scot.]
Wafer (n.) (Cookery) A thin cake made of flour and other ingredients.
Wafers piping hot out of the gleed. -- Chaucer.
The curious work in pastry, the fine cakes, wafers, and marchpanes. -- Holland.
A woman's oaths are wafers -- break with making -- B. Jonson.
Wafer (n.) (Eccl.) A thin cake or piece of bread (commonly unleavened, circular, and stamped with a crucifix or with the sacred monogram) used in the Eucharist, as in the Roman Catholic Church.
Wafer (n.) An adhesive disk of dried paste, made of flour, gelatin, isinglass, or the like, and coloring matter, -- used in sealing letters and other documents.
Wafer (n.) Any thin but rigid plate of solid material, esp. of discoidal shape; -- a term used commonly to refer to the thin slices of silicon used as starting material for the manufacture of integrated circuits.
Wafer cake, A sweet, thin cake. -- Shak.
Wafer irons, or Wafer tongs (Cookery), A pincher-shaped contrivance, having flat plates, or blades, between which wafers are baked.
Wafer woman, A woman who sold wafer cakes; also, one employed in amorous intrigues. -- Beau. & Fl.
Wafered (imp. & p. p.) of Wafer.
Wafering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Wafer.
Wafer (v. t.) To seal or close with a wafer.
Wafer (n.) A small adhesive disk of paste; used to seal letters.
Wafer (n.) A small thin crisp cake or cookie.
Wafer (n.) Thin disk of unleavened bread used in a religious service (especially in the celebration of the Eucharist)
Waferer (n.) A dealer in the cakes called wafers; a confectioner. [Obs.] -- Chaucer.
Waffle (n.) 鬆餅；奶蛋格子餅；華夫餅 [C] A thin cake baked and then rolled; a wafer.
Waffle (n.) A soft indented cake cooked in a waffle iron.
{Waffle iron}, an iron utensil or mold made in two parts shutting together, -- used for cooking waffles over a fire.
Waffle (n.) Pancake batter baked in a waffle iron.
Waffle (v.) (v. i.)【英】胡扯；閒聊 [（+on）] Pause or hold back in uncertainty or unwillingness; "Authorities hesitate to quote exact figures" [syn: {hesitate}, {waver}, {waffle}].
Wafted (imp. & p. p.) of Waft.
Wafting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Waft.
Waft (v. t.) To give notice to by waving something; to wave the hand to; to beckon. [Obs.]
But soft: who wafts us yonder? -- Shak.
Waft (v. t.) To cause to move or go in a wavy manner, or by the impulse of waves, as of water or air; to bear along on a buoyant medium; as, a balloon was wafted over the channel.
A gentle wafting to immortal life. -- Milton.
Speed the soft intercourse from soul to soul, And waft a sigh from Indus to the pole. -- Pope.
Waft (v. t.) To cause to float; to keep from sinking; to buoy. [Obs.] -- Sir T. Browne.
Note: This verb is regular; but waft was formerly som?times used, as by Shakespeare, instead of wafted.
Waft (v. i.) To be moved, or to pass, on a buoyant medium; to float.
And now the shouts waft near the citadel. -- Dryden.
Waft (n.) A wave or current of wind. "Everywaft of the air." -- Longfellow.
In this dire season, oft the whirlwind's wing Sweeps up the burden of whole wintry plains In one wide waft. -- Thomson.
Waft (n.) A signal made by waving something, as a flag, in the air.
Waft (n.) An unpleasant flavor. [Obs.]
Waft (n.) (Naut.) A knot, or stop, in the middle of a flag. [Written also wheft.]
Note: A flag with a waft in it, when hoisted at the staff, or half way to the gaff, means, a man overboard; at the peak, a desire to communicate; at the masthead, "Recall boats."
Waft (n.) A long flag; often tapering [syn: pennant, pennon, streamer, waft].
Waft (v.) Be driven or carried along, as by the air; "Sounds wafted into the room".
Waft (v.) Blow gently; "A breeze wafted through the door".
Waftage (n.) Conveyance on a buoyant medium, as air or water. -- Shak.
Boats prepared for waftage to and fro. -- Drayton.
Wafter (n.) One who, or that which, wafts.
O Charon, Thou wafter of the soul to bliss or bane. -- Beau. & FL.
Wafter (n.) A boat for passage. -- Ainsworth.
Wafture (n.) The act of waving; a wavelike motion; a waft. -- R. Browning.
An angry wafture of your hand. -- Shak.
Wafture (n.) The act of signaling by a movement of the hand [syn: wave, waving, wafture].
Wagged (imp. & p. p.) of Wag.
Wagging (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Wag.
Wag (v. t.) To move one way and the other with quick turns; to shake to and fro; to move vibratingly; to cause to vibrate, as a part of the body; as, to wag the head.
No discerner durst wag his tongue in censure. -- Shak.
Every one that passeth thereby shall be astonished, and wag his head. -- Jer. xviii. 16.
Note: Wag expresses specifically the motion of the head and body used in buffoonery, mirth, derision, sport, and mockery.
Wag (v. i.) To move one way and the other; to be shaken to and fro; to vibrate.
The resty sieve wagged ne'er the more. -- Dryden.
Wag (v. i.) To be in action or motion; to move; to get along; to progress; to stir. [Colloq.] "Thus we may see," quoth he, "how the world wags." -- Shak.
Wag (v. i.) To go; to depart; to pack oft. [R.]
I will provoke him to 't, or let him wag. -- Shak.
Wag (n.) The act of wagging; a shake; as, a wag of the head.
Wag (v.) A man full of sport and humor; a ludicrous fellow; a humorist; a wit; a joker.
We wink at wags when they offend. -- Dryden.
A counselor never pleaded without a piece of pack thread in his hand, which he used to twist about a finger all the while he was speaking; the wags used to call it the thread of his discourse. -- Addison.
Wag (n.) A witty amusing person who makes jokes [syn: wag, wit, card].
Wag (n.) Causing to move repeatedly from side to side [syn: wag, waggle, shake].
Wag (v.) Move from side to side; "The happy dog wagged his tail" [syn: wag, waggle].
WAG, () Wild-Assed Guess (slang, Cygwin).
Wagati (n.) (Zool.) A small East Indian wild cat ({Felis wagati), regarded by some as a variety of the leopard cat.
Waged (imp. & p. p.) of Wage.
Waging (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Wage.
Wage (v. t.) To pledge; to hazard on the event of a contest; to stake; to bet, to lay; to wager; as, to wage a dollar. -- Hakluyt.
My life I never but as a pawn To wage against thy enemies. -- Shak.
Wage (v. t.) To expose one's self to, as a risk; to incur, as a danger; to venture; to hazard. "Too weak to wage an instant trial with the king." -- Shak.
To wake and wage a danger profitless. -- Shak.
Wage (v. t.) To engage in, as a contest, as if by previous gage or pledge; to carry on, as a war.
[He pondered] which of all his sons was fit To reign and wage immortal war with wit. -- Dryden.
The two are waging war, and the one triumphs by the destruction of the other. -- I. Taylor.
Wage (v. t.) To adventure, or lay out, for hire or reward; to hire out. [Obs.] "Thou . . . must wage thy works for wealth."
--Spenser.
Wage (v. t.) To put upon wages; to hire; to employ; to pay wages to. [Obs.]
Abundance of treasure which he had in store, wherewith he might wage soldiers. -- Holinshed.
I would have them waged for their labor. -- Latimer.
Wage (v. t.) (O. Eng. Law) To give security for the performance of. -- Burrill.
To wage battle (O. Eng. Law), To give gage, or security, for joining in the duellum, or combat. See Wager of battel, under Wager, n. -- Burrill.
To wage one's law (Law), To give security to make one's law. See Wager of law, under Wager, n.
Wage (v. i.) To bind one's self; to engage. [Obs.]
Wage (n.) That which is staked or ventured; that for which one incurs risk or danger; prize; gage. [Obs.] "That warlike
wage." -- Spenser.
Wage (n.) That for which one labors; meed; reward; stipulated payment for service performed; hire; pay; compensation; -- at present generally used in the plural. See Wages. "My day's wage." -- Sir W. Scott. "At least I earned my wage." --Thackeray. "Pay them a wage in advance." -- J. Morley. "The wages of virtue." -- Tennyson.
By Tom Thumb, a fairy page, He sent it, and doth him engage, By promise of a mighty wage, It secretly to carry. -- Drayton.
Our praises are our wages. -- Shak.
Existing legislation on the subject of wages. -- Encyc. Brit.
Note: Wage is used adjectively and as the first part of compounds which are usually self-explaining; as, wage worker, or wage-worker; wage-earner, etc.
Board wages. See under 1st Board.
Syn: Hire; reward; stipend; salary; allowance; pay; compensation; remuneration; fruit.
Wage (n.) Something that remunerates; "wages were paid by check"; "he wasted his pay on drink"; "they saved a quarter of all their earnings" [syn: wage, pay, earnings, remuneration, salary].
Wage (v.) Carry on (wars, battles, or campaigns); "Napoleon and Hitler waged war against all of Europe" [syn: engage, wage].
Wage (n.) [ S ] (Also Wages [ plural ]) (B1) （尤指支付給體力勞動者並通常按周計算的）工資，工錢，報酬 A particular amount of money that is paid, usually every week, to an employee, especially one who does work that needs physical skills or strength, rather than a job needing a college education.
// A very low/high wage.
// An hourly/ daily/ weekly/ annual wage.
He gets/ earns/ is paid a good wage, because he works for a fair employer.
The job pays very low wages.
Compare: Income
Income (n.) [ C or U ] (B2) 收入；收益 Money that is earned from doing work or received from investments.
// Average incomes have risen by 4.5 percent over the past year.
// More help is needed for people on low incomes.
// I haven't had much income from my stocks and shares this year.
Compare: Salary
Salary (n.) [ C or U ] (B1) 薪資，薪水 A fixed amount of money agreed every year as pay for an employee, usually paid directly into his or her bank account every month.
// An annual salary of £40,000.
// His net monthly salary is €2,500.
// She's on quite a good/ decent salary in her present job.
// He took a drop in (= accepted a lower) salary when he changed jobs.
// A ten percent salary increase.
Wage (v.) [ T ] (Formal) 發動（戰爭）；組織，籌備（活動） To fight a war or organize a series of activities in order to achieve something.
// Doesn't the president need Congress' permission to wage war on another country?
// They've been waging a long campaign to change the law.
Wagel (n.) (Zool.) See Waggel.
Wagenboom (n.) (Bot) A south African proteaceous tree ({Protea grandiflora); also, its tough wood, used for making wagon wheels.
Wager (v. t.) Something deposited, laid, or hazarded on the event of a contest or an unsettled question; a bet; a stake; a pledge.
Besides these plates for horse races, the wagers may be as the persons please. -- Sir W. Temple.
If any atheist can stake his soul for a wager against such an inexhaustible disproportion, let him never hereafter accuse others of credulity. -- Bentley.
Wager (v. t.) (Law) A contract by which two parties or more agree that a certain sum of money, or other thing, shall be paid or delivered to one of them, on the happening or not happening of an uncertain event. -- Bouvier.
Note: At common law a wager is considered as a legal contract which the courts must enforce unless it be on a subject contrary to public policy, or immoral, or tending to the detriment of the public, or affecting the interest, feelings, or character of a third person. In many of the United States an action can not be sustained upon any wager or bet. -- Chitty. --Bouvier.
Wager (v. t.) That on which bets are laid; the subject of a bet.
Wager of battel, or Wager of battle (O. Eng. Law), The giving of gage, or pledge, for trying a cause by single combat, formerly allowed in military, criminal, and civil causes. In writs of right, where the trial was by champions, the tenant produced his champion, who, by throwing down his glove as a gage, thus waged, or stipulated, battle with the champion of the demandant, who, by taking up the glove, accepted the challenge. The wager of battel, which has been long in disuse, was abolished in England in 1819, by a statute passed in consequence of a defendant's having waged his battle in a case which arose about that period. See Battel.
Wager of law (Law), The giving of gage, or sureties, by a defendant in an action of debt, that at a certain day assigned he would take a law, or oath, in open court, that he did not owe the debt, and at the same time bring with him eleven neighbors (called compurgators), who should avow upon their oaths that they believed in their consciences that he spoke the truth.
Wager policy. (Insurance Law) See under Policy.
Wagering contract or gambling contract. A contract which is of the nature of wager. Contracts of this nature include various common forms of valid commercial contracts, as contracts of insurance, contracts dealing in futures, options, etc. Other wagering contracts and bets are now generally made illegal by statute against betting and gambling, and wagering has in many cases been made a criminal offence.
Wagered (imp. & p. p.) of Wager.
Wagering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Wager.
Wager (v. t.) To hazard on the issue of a contest, or on some question that is to be decided, or on some casualty; to lay; to stake; to bet.
And wagered with him Pieces of gold 'gainst this which he wore. -- Shak.
Wager (v. i.) To make a bet; to lay a wager.
'T was merry when You wagered on your angling. -- Shak.
Wager (n.) The act of gambling; "he did it on a bet" [syn: bet, wager].
Wager (n.) The money risked on a gamble [syn: stake, stakes, bet, wager].
Wager (v.) Stake on the outcome of an issue; "I bet $100 on that new horse"; "She played all her money on the dark horse" [syn: bet, wager, play].
Wager (v.) Maintain with or as if with a bet; "I bet she will be there!" [syn: bet, wager].
Wagers. () A wager is a bet a contract by which two parties or more agree that a certain sum of money, or other thing, shall be paid or delivered to one of them, on the happening or not happening of an uncertain event.
Wagers. () The law does not prohibit all wagers. 1 Browne's Rep. 171 Poth. du Jeu, n. 4.
Wagers. () To restrain wagers within the bounds of justice the following conditions must be observed: 1. Each of the parties must have the right to dispose of the thing which is the object of the wager. 2. Each must give a perfect and full consent to the contract, 3. There must he equality between the parties. 4. There must be good faith between them. 5. The wager must not be forbidden by law. Poth. du
Wagers. () In general, it seems that a wager is legal and maybe enforced in a court of law 3 T. R. 693, if it be not, 1st, Contrary to public policy, or immoral; or if it do not in some other respect tend to the detriment of the public. 2d. If it do not affect the interest, feelings, or character of a third person.
Wagers. () Wagers on the event of an election laid before the poll is open; 1 T. R. 56. 4 Johns. 426; 4 Harr. & McH. 284; or after it is closed; 8 Johns. 454, 147; 2 Browne's Rep. 182; are unlawful. And wagers are against public policy if they are in restraint of marriage; 10 East, R. 22; made as to the mode of playing an illegal game; 2 H. Bl. 43; 1 Nott & McCord, 180; 7 Taunt. 246; or on an abstract speculative question of law or judicial practice, not arising out of circumstances in which the parties have a real interest. 12 East, R. 247, and Day's notes, sed vide Cowp. 37.
Wagers. () Wagers as to the sex of an individual Cowp. 729; or whether an unmarried woman had borne or would have a child; 4 Campb. 152, are illegal; as unnecessarily leading to painful and indecent considerations. The supreme court of Pennsylvania have laid it down as a rule, that every bet about the age, or height, or weight, or wealth, or circumstances, or situation of any person, is illegal; and this whether the subject of the bet be man, woman, or child, married or single, native or foreigner, in this country or abroad. 1 Rawle, 42. And it seems that a wager between two coach-proprietors, whether or not a particular person would go by one of their coaches is illegal, as exposing that person to inconvenience. 1 B. & A. 683.
Wagers. () In the case even of a legal wager, the authority of a stakeholder, like that of an arbitrator, may be rescinded by either party before the event happens. And if after his authority has been countermanded, and the stake has been demanded, he refuse to deliver it, trover or assumpsit for money had and received is maintainable. 1 B. & A. 683. And where the wager is in its nature illegal, the stake may be recovered, even after the event, on demand made before it has been paid over. 4 Taunt. 474; 5 T. R. 405; sed vide 12 Johns. 1. See further on this subject, 7 Johns. 434; 11 Johns. 23; 10 Johns. 406,468; 12 Johns. 376; 17 Johns. 192; 15 Johns. 5; 13 Johns. 88; Mann. Dig. Gaming; Harr. Dig. Gaining; Stakeholder.
Wagerer (n.) One who wagers, or lays a bet.
Wagerer (n.) Someone who bets [syn: bettor, better, wagerer, punter].
Wagering (a.) Hazarding; pertaining to the act of one who wagers.
Wagering policy. (Com.) See Wager policy, under Policy.
Wages (n.) A compensation given to a hired person for services; price paid for labor; recompense; hire. See Wage, n., 2.
The wages of sin is death. -- Rom. vi. 23.
Wages (n.) (Economics) The share of the annual product or national dividend which goes as a reward to labor, as distinct from the remuneration received by capital in its various forms.
This economic or technical sense of the word wages is broader than the current sense, and includes not only amounts actually paid to laborers, but the remuneration obtained by those who sell the products of their own work, and the wages of superintendence or management, which are earned by skill in directing the work of others.
Wages fund (Polit. Econ.), The aggregate capital existing at any time in any country, which theoretically is unconditionally destined to be paid out in wages. It was formerly held, by Mill and other political economists, that the average rate of wages in any country at any time depended upon the relation of the wages fund to the number of laborers. This theory has been greatly modified by the discovery of other conditions affecting wages, which it does not take into account. -- Encyc. Brit.
Syn: See under Wage, n.
Wages (n.) A recompense for worthy acts or retribution for wrongdoing; "the wages of sin is death"; "virtue is its own reward" [syn: wages, reward, payoff].
Wages, () Rate of (mention only in Matt. 20:2); to be punctually paid (Lev. 19:13; Deut. 24:14, 15); judgements threatened against the withholding of (Jer. 22:13; Mal. 3:5; comp. James 5:4); paid in money (Matt. 20:1-14); to Jacob in kind (Gen. 29:15, 20; 30:28; 31:7, 8, 41).
Wages, () contract. A compensation given to a hired person for his or her services. As to servants wages, see Chitty, Contr. 171 as to sailors' wages, Abbott on Ship. 473; generally, see 22. Vin. Abr. 406; Bac. Abr. Master, &c., H; Marsh. Ins. 89; 2 Lill. Abr. 677; Peters' Dig. Admiralty, pl. 231, et seq.