Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter W - Page 14
Waxen (a.) Resembling wax; waxy; hence, soft; yielding.
Men have marble, women waxen, minds. -- Shak.
Waxen chatterer (Zool.), The Bohemian chatterer.
Waxen (a.) Made of or covered with wax; "waxen candles"; "careful, the floor is waxy" [syn: waxen, waxy].
Waxen (a.) Having the paleness of wax; "the poor face with the same awful waxen pallor"- Bram Stoker; "the soldier turned his waxlike features toward him"; "a thin face with a waxy paleness" [syn: waxen, waxlike, waxy].
Waxiness (n.) Quality or state of being waxy.
Waxiness (n.) The quality of being made of wax or covered with wax.
Waxwing (n.) (Zool.) Any one of several species of small birds of the genus Ampelis, in which some of the secondary quills are usually tipped with small horny ornaments resembling red sealing wax. The Bohemian waxwing (see under Bohemian) and the cedar bird are examples. Called also waxbird.
Waxwing (n.) Brown velvety-plumaged songbirds of the northern hemisphere having crested heads and red waxy wing tips.
Waxwork (n.) Work made of wax; especially, a figure or figures formed or partly of wax, in imitation of real beings.
Waxwork (n.) (Bot.) An American climbing shrub ({Celastrus scandens). It bears a profusion of yellow berrylike pods, which open in the autumn, and display the scarlet coverings of the seeds.
Waxwork (n.) Twining shrub of North America having yellow capsules enclosing scarlet seeds [syn: bittersweet, American bittersweet, climbing bittersweet, false bittersweet, staff vine, waxwork, shrubby bittersweet, Celastrus scandens].
Waxwork (n.) An effigy (usually of a famous person) made of wax [syn: waxwork, wax figure].
Waxworker (n.) One who works in wax; one who makes waxwork.
Waxworker (n.) A bee that makes or produces wax.
Waxy (a.) Resembling wax in appearance or consistency; viscid; adhesive; soft; hence, yielding; pliable; impressible. "Waxy to persuasion." -- Bp. Hall.
Waxy degeneration (Med.), Amyloid degeneration. See under Amyloid.
Waxy kidney, Waxy liver, etc. (Med.), A kidney or liver affected by waxy degeneration.
Waxy (a.) Made of or covered with wax; "waxen candles"; "careful, the floor is waxy" [syn: waxen, waxy].
Waxy (a.) Easily impressed or influenced; "an impressionable youngster"; "an impressionable age"; "a waxy mind" [syn: impressionable, waxy, impressible] [ant: unimpressionable].
Waxy (a.) Capable of being bent or flexed or twisted without breaking; "a flexible wire"; "a pliant young tree" [syn: bendable, pliable, pliant, waxy].
Waxy (a.) Having the paleness of wax; "the poor face with the same awful waxen pallor"- Bram Stoker; "the soldier turned his waxlike features toward him"; "a thin face with a waxy paleness" [syn: waxen, waxlike, waxy].
Way (adv.) Away. [Obs. or Archaic] -- Chaucer.
To do way, To take away; to remove. [Obs.] "Do way your hands." -- Chaucer.
To make way with, To make away with. See under Away. [Archaic]
Way (n.) That by, upon, or along, which one passes or processes; opportunity or room to pass; place of passing; passage; road, street, track, or path of any kind; as, they built a way to the mine. "To find the way to heaven." -- Shak.
I shall him seek by way and eke by street. -- Chaucer.
The way seems difficult, and steep to scale. -- Milton.
The season and ways were very improper for his majesty's forces to march so great a distance. -- Evelyn.
Way (n.) Length of space; distance; interval; as, a great way; a long way.
And whenever the way seemed long, Or his heart began to fail. -- Longfellow.
Way (n.) A moving; passage; procession; journey.
I prythee, now, lead the way. -- Shak.
Way (n.) Course or direction of motion or process; tendency of action; advance.
If that way be your walk, you have not far. -- Milton.
And let eternal justice take the way. -- Dryden.
Way (n.) The means by which anything is reached, or anything is accomplished; scheme; device; plan.
My best way is to creep under his gaberdine. -- Shak.
By noble ways we conquest will prepare. -- Dryden.
What impious ways my wishes took! -- Prior.
Way (n.) Manner; method; mode; fashion; style; as, the way of expressing one's ideas.
Way (n.) Regular course; habitual method of life or action; plan of conduct; mode of dealing. "Having lost the way of nobleness." -- Sir. P. Sidney.
Her ways are ways of pleasantness, and all her paths are peace. -- Prov. iii. 17.
When men lived in a grander way. -- Longfellow.
Way (n.) Sphere or scope of observation. -- Jer. Taylor.
The public ministers that fell in my way. -- Sir W. Temple.
Way (n.) Determined course; resolved mode of action or conduct; as, to have one's way.
Way (n.) (Naut.) Progress; as, a ship has way.
Way (n.) (Naut.) pl. The timbers on which a ship is launched.
Way (n.) pl. (Mach.) The longitudinal guides, or guiding surfaces, on the bed of a planer, lathe, or the like, along which a table or carriage moves.
Way (n.) (Law) Right of way. See below.
By the way, In passing; apropos; aside; apart from, though connected with, the main object or subject of discourse.
By way of, For the purpose of; as being; in character of.
Covert way. (Fort.) See Covered way, under Covered.
In the family way. See under Family.
In the way, So as to meet, fall in with, obstruct, hinder, etc.
In the way with, Traveling or going with; meeting or being with; in the presence of.
Milky way. (Astron.) See Galaxy, 1.
No way, No ways. See Noway, Noways, in the Vocabulary.
On the way, Traveling or going; hence, in process; advancing toward completion; as, on the way to this country; on the way to success.
Out of the way. See under Out.
Right of way (Law), A right of private passage over another's ground. It may arise either by grant or prescription. It may be attached to a house, entry, gate, well, or city lot, as well as to a country farm. -- Kent.
To be under way, or To have way (Naut.), To be in motion, as when a ship begins to move.
To give way. See under Give.
To go one's way, or To come one's way, to go or come; to depart or come along. -- Shak.
To go one's way to proceed in a manner favorable to one; -- of events.
To come one's way to come into one's possession (of objects) or to become available, as an opportunity; as, good things will come your way.
To go the way of all the earth or to go the way of all flesh to die.
To make one's way, To advance in life by one's personal efforts.
To make way. See under Make, v. t.
Ways and means. (a) Methods; resources; facilities.
Ways and means. (b) (Legislation) Means for raising money; resources for revenue.
Way leave, Permission to cross, or a right of way across, land; also, rent paid for such right. [Eng]
Way of the cross (Eccl.), The course taken in visiting in rotation the stations of the cross. See Station, n., 7 (c) .
Way of the rounds (Fort.), A space left for the passage of the rounds between a rampart and the wall of a fortified town.
Way pane, A pane for cartage in irrigated land. See Pane, n., 4. [Prov. Eng.]
Way passenger, A passenger taken up, or set down, at some intermediate place between the principal stations on a line of travel.
Ways of God, His providential government, or his works.
Way station, An intermediate station between principal stations on a line of travel, especially on a railroad.
Way train, A train which stops at the intermediate, or way, stations; an accommodation train.
Way warden, The surveyor of a road.
Syn: Street; highway; road.
Usage: Way, Street, Highway, Road. Way is generic, denoting any line for passage or conveyance; a highway is literally one raised for the sake of dryness and convenience in traveling; a road is, strictly, a way for horses and carriages; a street is, etymologically, a paved way, as early made in towns and cities; and, hence, the word is distinctively applied to roads or highways in compact settlements.
All keep the broad highway, and take delight With many rather for to go astray. -- Spenser.
There is but one road by which to climb up. -- Addison.
When night Darkens the streets, then wander forth the sons Of Belial, flown with insolence and wine. -- Milton.
Way (v. t.) To go or travel to; to go in, as a way or path. [Obs.] "In land not wayed." -- Wyclif.
Way (v. i.) To move; to progress; to go. [R.]
On a time as they together wayed. -- Spenser.
Way (adv.) To a great degree or by a great distance; very much (`right smart' is regional in the United States); "way over budget"; "way off base"; "the other side of the hill is right smart steeper than the side we are on" [syn: way, right smart].
Way (n.) How something is done or how it happens; "her dignified manner"; "his rapid manner of talking"; "their nomadic mode of existence"; "in the characteristic New York style"; "a lonely way of life"; "in an abrasive fashion" [syn: manner, mode, style, way, fashion].
Way (n.) How a result is
obtained or an end is achieved; "a means of control"; "an
example is the best agency of instruction"; "the true way to
success" [syn: means, agency, way].
Way (n.) A line leading to a place or point; "he looked the
other direction"; "didn't know the way home" [syn:
direction, way].
Way (n.) The condition of things generally; "that's the way it is"; "I felt the same way".
Way (n.) A course of conduct; "the path of virtue"; "we went our separate ways"; "our paths in life led us apart"; "genius usually follows a revolutionary path" [syn: way, path, way of life].
Way (n.) Any artifact consisting of a road or path affording passage from one place to another; "he said he was looking for the way out".
Way (n.) A journey or passage; "they are on the way".
Way (n.) Space for movement; "room to pass"; "make way for"; "hardly enough elbow room to turn around" [syn: room, way, elbow room].
Way (n.) The property of distance in general; "it's a long way to Moscow"; "he went a long ways".
Way (n.) Doing as one pleases or chooses; "if I had my way".
Way (n.) A general category of things; used in the expression `in the way of'; "they didn't have much in the way of clothing".
Way (n.) A portion of something divided into shares; "they split the loot three ways".
Way, () estates. A passage, street or road. A right of way is a privilege which an individual or a particular description of persons, such as the inhabitants of a particular place, or the owners or occupiers of such place may have, of going over another person's ground.
Way, () It is an incorporeal hereditament of a real nature, a mere easement, entirely different from public or private roads.
Way, () A right of way may arise, 1. By prescription and immemorial usage. 2 McCord, 447 5 Har. & John. 474; Co. Litt. 113, b; Br. Chem. 2; 1 Roll. Ab. 936. 2. By grant. 3 Lev. 305; 1 Ld. Raym. 75; 17 Mass. 416; Crabb on R. P. Sec. 366. 3. By reservation 4. By custom. 5. By acts of the legislature. 6. From necessity, when a man's ground is enclosed and completely blocked up, so that he cannot, without passing over his neighbor's land, reach the public road. For example, should A grant a piece of land to B, surrounded by land belonging to A; a right of way over A's land passes of necessity to B, otherwise he could not derive any benefit from the acquisition. Vide 3 Rawle, 495; 2 Fairf. R. 1,56; 2 Mass. 203; 2 McCord, 448; 3 McCord, 139; 2 Pick. 577; 14 Mass. 56; 2 Hill, S. C. R. 641; and Necessity. The way is to be taken where it will be least injurious to the owner. 4 Kent, Com. 338. 4. Lord Coke, adopting the civil law, says there are three kinds of ways. 1. A foot-way, called iter. 2. A foot-way and horse-way, called adus. 3. A cart-way, which contains the other two, called via. Co. Lit. 56, a; Pothier, Pandectae, lib. 8, t. 3, Sec. 1; Dig. 8, 3; 1 Bro. Civ. Law, 177. Vide Yelv. 142, n; Id. 164; Woodf. Landl. & Ten. 544; 4 Kent, Com. 337; Ayl. Pand. 307; Cruise's Dig. tit. 24; 1 Taunt. R. 279; R. & M. 151; 1 Bail. R. 58; 2 Hill. Abr. c. 6; Crabb on Real Prop. Sec. 360 to 397; Bouv. Inst. Index, h.t.; Easement; Servitude.
Waybill (n.) A list of passengers in a public vehicle, or of the baggage or gods transported by a common carrier on a land route. When the goods are transported by water, the list is called a bill of lading.
Waybill (n.) A receipt given by the carrier to the shipper acknowledging receipt of the goods being shipped and specifying the terms of delivery [syn: bill of lading, waybill].
Waybread (n.) (Bot.) The common dooryard plantain ({Plantago major).
Waybung (n.) (Zool.) An Australian insessorial bird ({Corcorax melanorhamphus) noted for the curious
actions of the male during the breeding season. It is black with a white patch on each wing.
Wayed (a.) Used to the way; broken. [R.]
A horse that is not well wayed; he starts at every bird that flies out the hedge. -- Selden.
Wayfare (v. i.) 旅行 (尤指步行) To journey; to travel; to go to and fro. [Obs.]
A certain Laconian, as he wayfared, came unto a place where there dwelt an old friend of his. -- Holland.
Wayfare (n.) The act of journeying; travel; passage. [Obs.] -- Holland.
Wayfarer (n.) 旅客 One who travels; a traveler; a passenger.
Wayfarer (n.) A pedestrian who walks from place to place.
Wayfarer (n.) A traveler going on a trip [syn: wayfarer, journeyer].
Wayfaring (a.) Traveling; passing; being on a journey. "A wayfaring man." -- Judg. xix. 17.
Wayfaring tree (Bot.), A European shrub ({Viburnum lantana) having large ovate leaves and dense cymes of small white flowers.
American wayfaring tree (Bot.), The ({Viburnum lantanoides).
Wayfaring (a.)Traveling especially on foot; "peripatetic country preachers"; "a poor wayfaring stranger" [syn: peripatetic, wayfaring].
Wayfaring (n.) Traveling (especially on foot).
Waygate (n.) The tailrace of a mill. -- Knight.
Way-going (a.) Going away; departing; of or pertaining to one who goes away.
Way-going crop (Law of Leases), A crop of grain to which tenants for years are sometimes entitled by custom; grain sown in the fall to be reaped at the next harvest; a crop which will not ripen until after the termination of the lease. -- Burrill.
Way-goose (n.) See Wayz-goose, n., 2. [Eng.]
Wayz-goose (n.) A stubble goose. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.]
Wayz-goose (n.) An annual feast of the persons employed in a printing office. [Written also way-goose.] [Eng.]
Wayk (a.) Weak. [Obs.] -- Chaucer.
Waylaid (imp. & p. p.) of Waylay.
Waylaying (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Waylay.
Waylay (v. t.) To lie in wait for; to meet or encounter in the way; especially, to watch for the passing of, with a view to seize, rob, or slay; to beset in ambush.
Falstaff, Bardolph, Peto, and Gadshill shall rob those men that we have already waylaid. -- Shak.
She often contrived to waylay him in his walks. -- Sir W. Scott.
Waylay (v.) Wait in hiding to attack [syn: ambush, scupper, bushwhack, waylay, lurk, ambuscade, lie in wait].
Waylayer (n.) One who waylays another.
Wayless (a.) Having no road or path; pathless.
Wayleway (interj.) See Welaway. [Obs.]
Waymaker (n.) One who makes a way; a precursor. [R.] -- Bacon.
Waymark (n.) A mark to guide in traveling.
Waymented (imp. & p. p.) of Wayment.
Waymenting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Wayment.
Wayment (v. i.) To lament; to grieve; to wail. [Written also waiment.] [Obs.]
Thilke science . . . maketh a man to waymenten. -- Chaucer.
For what boots it to weep and wayment, When ill is chanced? -- Spenser.
Wayment (n.) Grief; lamentation; mourning. [Written also waiment.] [Obs.] -- Spenser.
Rock shaft, () (Mach.) A shaft that oscillates on its journals, instead of revolving, -- usually carrying levers by means of which it receives and communicates reciprocating motion, as in the valve gear of some steam engines; -- called also rocker, rocking shaft, and way shaft.
Way shaft () (Mach.) A rock shaft.
Way shaft () (Mining) An interior shaft, usually one connecting two levels. -- Raymond.
-ways () A suffix formed from way by the addition of the adverbial -s (see -wards). It is often used interchangeably with wise; as, endways or endwise; noways or nowise, etc.
Wayside (n.) The side of the way; the edge or border of a road or path.
Wayside (a.) Of or pertaining to the wayside; as, wayside flowers. "A wayside inn." -- Longfellow.
Wayside (n.) Edge of a way or road or path; "flowers along the wayside" [syn: wayside, roadside].
Wayward (a.) Taking one's own way; disobedient; froward; perverse; willful.
My wife is in a wayward mood. -- Shak.
Wayward beauty doth not fancy move. -- Fairfax.
Wilt thou forgive the wayward thought? -- Keble. -- Way"ward*ly, adv. -- Way"ward*ness, n.
Wayward
(a.)
Resistant to guidance or discipline; "Mary Mary quite
contrary"; "an obstinate child with a violent temper";
"a perverse mood"; "wayward behavior" [syn:
contrary, obstinate, perverse, wayward].
Way-wise (a.) Skillful in finding the way; well acquainted with the way or route; wise from having traveled.
Waywiser (n.) An instrument for
measuring the distance which one has traveled on the road; an odometer,
pedometer, or perambulator.
The waywiser to a coach, exactly measuring the miles, and showing them by an
index. -- Evelyn.
Waywode (n.) Originally, the title of a military commander in various Slavonic countries; afterwards applied to governors of towns or provinces. It was assumed for a time by the rulers of Moldavia and Wallachia, who were afterwards called hospodars, and has also been given to some inferior Turkish officers. [Written also vaivode, voivode, waiwode, and woiw.
Waywodeship (n.) The office, province, or jurisdiction of a waywode.
Wayworn (a.) Wearied by traveling.
Wayz-goose (n.) A stubble goose. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.]
Wayz-goose (n.) An annual feast of the persons employed in a printing office. [Written also way-goose.] [Eng.]
We (pron. ;pl. of I) The plural nominative case of the pronoun of the first person; the word with which a person in speaking or writing denotes a number or company of which he is one, as the subject of an action expressed by a verb.
Note: We is frequently used to express men in general, including the speaker. We is also often used by individuals, as authors, editors, etc., in speaking of themselves, in order to avoid the appearance of egotism in the too frequent repetition of the pronoun I. The plural style is also in use among kings and other sovereigns, and is said to have been begun by King John of England. Before that time, monarchs used the singular number in their edicts. The German and the French sovereigns followed the example of King John in a. d. 1200.
Weak (v. i.) Wanting physical strength.
Weak (v. i.) Deficient in strength of body; feeble; infirm; sickly; debilitated; enfeebled; exhausted.
Weak (v. i.) Not able to sustain a great weight, pressure, or strain; as, a weak timber; a weak rope.
Weak (v. i.) Not firmly united or adhesive; easily broken or separated into pieces; not compact; as, a weak ship.
Weak (v. i.) Not stiff; pliant; frail; soft; as, the weak stalk of a plant.
Weak (v. i.) Not able to resist external force or onset; easily subdued or overcome; as, a weak barrier; as, a weak fortress.
Weak (v. i.) Lacking force of utterance or sound; not sonorous; low; small; feeble; faint.
Weak (v. i.) Not thoroughly or abundantly impregnated with the usual or required ingredients, or with stimulating and nourishing substances; of less than the usual strength; as, weak tea, broth, or liquor; a weak decoction or solution; a weak dose of medicine.
Weak (v. i.) Lacking ability for an appropriate function or office; as, weak eyes; a weak stomach; a weak magistrate; a weak regiment, or army.
Weak (v. i.) Not possessing or manifesting intellectual, logical, moral, or political strength, vigor, etc.
Weak (v. i.) Feeble of mind; wanting discernment; lacking vigor; spiritless; as, a weak king or magistrate.
Weak (v. i.) Resulting from, or indicating, lack of judgment, discernment, or firmness; unwise; hence, foolish.
Weak (v. i.) Not having full confidence or conviction; not decided or confirmed; vacillating; wavering.
Weak (v. i.) Not able to withstand temptation, urgency, persuasion, etc.; easily impressed, moved, or overcome; accessible; vulnerable; as, weak resolutions; weak virtue.
Weak (v. i.) Wanting in power to influence or bind; as, weak ties; a weak sense of honor of duty.
Weak (v. i.) Not having power to convince; not supported by force of reason or truth; unsustained; as, a weak argument or case.
Weak (v. i.) Wanting in point or vigor of expression; as, a weak sentence; a weak style.
Weak (v. i.) Not prevalent or effective, or not felt to be prevalent; not potent; feeble.
Weak (v. i.) Lacking in elements of political strength; not wielding or having authority or energy; deficient in the resources that are essential to a ruler or nation; as, a weak monarch; a weak government or state.
Weak (v. i.) Tending towards lower prices; as, a weak market.
Weak (v. i.) Pertaining to, or designating, a verb which forms its preterit (imperfect) and past participle by adding to the present the suffix -ed, -d, or the variant form -t; as in the verbs abash, abashed; abate, abated; deny, denied; feel, felt. See Strong, 19 (a).
Weak (v. i.) Pertaining to, or designating, a noun in Anglo-Saxon, etc., the stem of which ends in -n. See Strong, 19 (b).
Weak (a.) To make or become weak; to weaken.
Weakened (imp. & p. p.) of Weaken.
Weakening (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Weaken.
Weaken (v. t.) To make weak; to lessen the strength of; to deprive of strength; to debilitate; to enfeeble; to enervate; as, to weaken the body or the mind; to weaken the hands of a magistrate; to weaken the force of an objection or an argument.
Weaken (v. t.) To reduce in quality, strength, or spirit; as, to weaken tea; to weaken any solution or decoction.
Weaken (v. i.) To become weak or weaker; to lose strength, spirit, or determination; to become less positive or resolute; as, the patient weakened; the witness weakened on cross-examination.
Weakener (n.) One who, or that which, weakens.
Weakfish (n.) Any fish of the genus Cynoscion; a squeteague; -- so called from its tender mouth. See Squeteague.
Weak-hearted (a.) Having little courage; of feeble spirit; dispirited; faint-hearted.
Weakish (a.) Somewhat weak; rather weak.
Weakishness (n.) Quality or state of being weakish.
Weak-kneed (a.) Having weak knees; hence, easily yielding; wanting resolution.
Weakling (n.) A weak or feeble creature.
Weakling (a.) Weak; feeble.
Weakly (adv.) In a weak manner; with little strength or vigor; feebly.
Weakly (a.) Not strong of constitution; infirm; feeble; as, a weakly woman; a man of a weakly constitution.