Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter W - Page 16
Weatherboard (n.) (Naut.) 【建】擋雨板；【船】擋風舷 That side of a vessel which is toward the wind; the windward side.
Weatherboard (n.) (Naut.) A piece of plank placed in a porthole, or other opening, to keep out water.
Weatherboard (n.) (Arch.) A board extending from the ridge to the eaves along the slope of the gable, and forming a close junction between the shingling of a roof and the side of the building beneath.
Weatherboard (n.) A clapboard or feather-edged board used in weatherboarding.
Weather-board (v. t.) (Arch.) 給……裝擋雨板 To nail boards upon so as to lap one over another, in order to exclude rain, snow, etc. -- Gwilt.
Weatherboard (n.) A long thin board with one edge thicker than the other; used as siding by lapping one board over the board below [syn: clapboard, weatherboard, weatherboarding].
Weatherboard (n.) The side toward the wind [syn: to windward, windward side, weatherboard, weather side].
Weatherboarding (n.) (Arch.) （總稱）擋雨板；（屋頂等）擋雨板的安裝；weatherboard 的動詞現在分詞、動名詞 The covering or siding of a building, formed of boards lapping over one another, to exclude rain, snow, etc.
Weatherboarding (n.) (Arch.) Boards adapted or intended for such use.
Weatherboarding (n.) A long thin board with one edge thicker than the other; used as siding by lapping one board over the board below [syn: clapboard, weatherboard, weatherboarding].
Weather-bound (a.) Kept in port or at anchor by storms; delayed by bad weather; as, a weather-bound vessel.
Weather-bound (a.) Delayed or shut in by bad weather; "weather-bound traffic"; "irritable weather-bound children."
Weathercock (n.) A vane, or weather vane; -- so called because originally often in the figure of a cock, turning on the top of a spire with the wind, and showing its direction. "As a wedercok that turneth his face with every wind." -- Chaucer.
Noisy weathercocks rattled and sang of mutation. -- Longfellow.
Weathercock (n.) Hence, any thing or person that turns easily and frequently; one who veers with every change of current opinion; a fickle, inconstant person.
Weathercock (v. t.) To supply with a weathercock; to serve as a weathercock for.
Whose blazing wyvern weathercock the spire. -- Tennyson.
Weathercock (n.) Weathervane with a vane in the form of a rooster
Weather-driven (a.) Driven by winds or storms; forced by stress of weather. -- Carew.
Weathered (a.) (Arch.) Made sloping, so as to throw off water; as, a weathered cornice or window sill.
Weathered (a.) (Geol.) Having the surface altered in color, texture, or composition, or the edges rounded off by exposure to the elements.
Weathered (a.) Worn by exposure to the weather; "a house of weathered shingles" [syn: weather-beaten, weatherworn, weathered].
Weather-fend (v. t.) To defend from the weather; to shelter. -- Shak.
[We] barked the white spruce to weather-fend the roof. -- Emerson.
Weatherglass (n.) An instrument to indicate the state of the atmosphere, especially changes of atmospheric pressure, and hence changes of weather, as a barometer or baroscope.
Poor man's weatherglass. (Bot.) See under Poor.
Weatherglass (n.) A simple barometer for indicating changes in atmospheric pressure.
Weathering (n.) (Geol.) The action of the elements on a rock in altering its color, texture, or composition, or in rounding off its edges.
Weatherliness (n.) (Naut.) The quality of being weatherly.
Weatherliness (n.) (Of a sailing vessel) The quality of being able to sail close to the wind with little drift to the leeward (even in a stiff wind); "the Spanish ships had superior speed and weatherliness."
Weatherly (a.) (Naut.) Working, or able to sail, close to the wind; as, a weatherly ship. -- Cooper.
Weathermost (a.) (Naut.) Being farthest to the windward.
Weatherproof (a.) Proof against rough weather.
Weatherproof (a.) Able to withstand exposure to weather without damage; "weatherproof electric wiring"; "a weatherproof coat."
Weatherproof (v.) Make resistant to bad weather.
Weatherwise (a.) Skillful in forecasting the changes of the weather. -- Hakluyt.
Weatherwiser (n.) Something that foreshows the weather. [Obs.] -- Derham.
Weatherworn (a.) Worn by the action of, or by exposure to, the weather.
Weatherworn (a.) Worn by exposure to the weather; "a house of weathered shingles" [syn: weather-beaten, weatherworn, weathered].
Wove (imp.) of Weave.
Woven (p. p.) of Weave.
Wove () of Weave.
Weaving (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Weave.
Weaved (imp. & p. p.) of Weave.
Weave (v. t.) To unite, as threads of any kind, in such a manner as to form a texture; to entwine or interlace into a fabric; as, to weave wool, silk, etc.; hence, to unite by close connection or intermixture; to unite intimately.
This weaves itself, perforce, into my business. -- Shak.
That in their green shops weave the smooth-haired silk To deck her sons. -- Milton.
And for these words, thus woven into song. -- Byron.
Weave (v. t.) To form, as cloth, by interlacing threads; to compose, as a texture of any kind, by putting together textile materials; as, to weave broadcloth; to weave a carpet; hence, to form into a fabric; to compose; to fabricate; as, to weave the plot of a story.
When she weaved the sleided silk. -- Shak.
Her starry wreaths the virgin jasmin weaves. -- Ld. Lytton.
Weave (v. i.) To practice weaving; to work with a loom.
Weave (v. i.) To become woven or interwoven.
Weave (n.) A particular method or pattern of weaving; as, the cassimere weave.
Weave (n.) Pattern of weaving or structure of a fabric.
Weave (v.) Interlace by or as if by weaving [syn: weave, interweave] [ant: unweave].
Weave (v.) Create a piece of cloth by interlacing strands of fabric, such as wool or cotton; "tissue textiles" [syn: weave, tissue].
Weave (v.) Sway to and fro [syn: waver, weave].
Weave (v.) To move or cause to move in a sinuous, spiral, or circular course; "the river winds through the hills"; "the path meanders through the vineyards"; "sometimes, the gout wanders through the entire body" [syn: weave, wind, thread, meander, wander].
Weaver (n.) 織布工；編織者，織補者 [C] One who weaves, or whose occupation is to weave. "Weavers of linen." -- P. Plowman.
Weaver (n.) (Zool.) A weaver bird.
Weaver (n.) (Zool.) An aquatic beetle of the genus {Gyrinus}. See {Whirling}.
{Weaver bird} (Zool.), 織巢鳥 Any one of numerous species of Asiatic, Fast Indian, and African birds belonging to {Ploceus} and allied genera of the family {Ploceidae}. Weaver birds resemble finches and sparrows in size, colors, and shape of the bill. They construct pensile nests composed of interlaced grass and other similar materials. In some of the species the nest is retort-shaped, with the opening at the bottom of the tube.
{Weavers' shuttle} (Zool.), 梭，梭子 An East Indian marine univalve shell ({Radius volva}); -- so called from its shape. See Illust. of {Shuttle shell}, under {Shuttle}.
Weaver (n.) A craftsman who weaves cloth.
Weaver (n.) Finch-like African and Asian colonial birds noted for their elaborately woven nests [syn: {weaver}, {weaverbird}, {weaver finch}].
Weaver, AL -- U.S. city in Alabama
Population (2000): 2619
Housing Units (2000): 1133
Land area (2000): 2.645372 sq. miles (6.851482 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 2.645372 sq. miles (6.851482 sq. km)
FIPS code: 80352
Located within: Alabama (AL), FIPS 01
Location: 33.755701 N, 85.808541 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 36277
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Weaver, AL
Weaver
Weaverfish (n.) (Zool.) See {Weever}.
Compare: Weever
Weever (n.) (Zool.) 【魚】鱸魚（一種潛伏海底的海魚） Any one of several species of edible marine fishes belonging to the genus {Trachinus}, of the family {Trachinidae}. They have a broad spinose head, with the eyes looking upward. The long dorsal fin is supported by numerous strong, sharp spines which cause painful wounds.
Note: The two British species are the great, or greater, weever ({Trachinus draco}), which becomes a foot long (called also {gowdie}, {sea cat}, {stingbull}, and {weaverfish}), and the lesser weever ({Trachinus vipera}), about half as large (called also {otter pike}, and {stingfish}).
Weaving (n.) The act of one who, or that which, weaves; the act or art of forming cloth in a loom by the union or intertexture of threads.
Weaving (n.) (Far.) An incessant motion of a horse's head, neck, and body, from side to side, fancied to resemble the motion of a hand weaver in throwing the shuttle. -- Youatt.
Weaving (n.) Creating fabric.
Weazand (n.) See Weasand. [Obs.]
Weazen (a.) Thin; sharp; withered; wizened; as, a weazen face.
They were weazen and shriveled. -- Dickens.
Weazeny (a.) Somewhat weazen; shriveled. [Colloq.] "Weazeny, baked pears." -- Lowell.
Web (n.) A weaver. [Obs.] -- Chaucer.
Web (n.) That which is woven; a texture; textile fabric; esp., something woven in a loom.
Penelope, for her Ulysses' sake, Devised a web her wooers to deceive. -- Spenser.
Not web might be woven, not a shuttle thrown, or penalty of exile. -- Bancroft.
Web (n.) A whole piece of linen cloth as woven.
Web (n.) The texture of very fine thread spun by a spider for catching insects at its prey; a cobweb. "The smallest spider's web." -- Shak.
Web (n.) Fig.: Tissue; texture; complicated fabrication.
The somber spirit of our forefathers, who wove their web of life with hardly a . . . thread of rose-color or gold. -- Hawthorne.
Such has been the perplexing ingenuity of commentators that it is difficult to extricate the truth from the web of conjectures. -- W. Irving.
Web (n.) (Carriages) A band of webbing used to regulate the extension of the hood.
Web (n.) A thin metal sheet, plate, or strip, as of lead.
And Christians slain roll up in webs of lead. -- Fairfax. Specifically:
Web (n.) The blade of a sword. [Obs.]
The sword, whereof the web was steel, Pommel rich stone, hilt gold. -- Fairfax.
Web (n.) The blade of a saw.
Web (n.) The thin, sharp part of a colter.
Web (n.) The bit of a key.
Web (n.) (Mach. & Engin.) A plate or thin portion, continuous or perforated, connecting stiffening ribs or flanges, or other parts of an object. Specifically:
Web (n.) The thin vertical plate or portion connecting the upper and lower flanges of an lower flanges of an iron girder, rolled beam, or railroad rail.
Web (n.) A disk or solid construction serving, instead of spokes, for connecting the rim and hub, in some kinds of car wheels, sheaves, etc.
Web (n.) The arm of a crank between the shaft and the wrist.
Web (n.) The part of a blackmith's anvil between the face and the foot.
Web (n.) (Med.) Pterygium; -- called also webeye. -- Shak.
Web (n.) (Anat.) The membrane which unites the fingers or toes, either at their bases, as in man, or for a greater part of their length, as in many water birds and amphibians.
Web (n.) (Zool.) The series of barbs implanted on each side of the shaft of a feather, whether stiff and united together by barbules, as in ordinary feathers, or soft and separate, as in downy feathers. See Feather.
Pin and web (Med.), Two diseases of the eye, caligo and pterygium; -- sometimes wrongly explained as one disease.
See Pin, n., 8, and Web, n., 8. "He never yet had pinne or webbe, his sight for to decay." -- Gascoigne.
Web member (Engin.), One of the braces in a web system.
Web press, A printing press which takes paper from a roll instead of being fed with sheets.
Web system (Engin.), The system of braces connecting the flanges of a lattice girder, post, or the like.
Web (n.) The world-wide web; -- usually referred to as the web.
Webbed (imp. & p. p.) of Web.
Webbing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Web.
Web (v. t.) To unite or surround with a web, or as if with a web; to envelop; to entangle.
Web (n.) An intricate network suggesting something that was formed by weaving or interweaving; "the trees cast a delicate web of shadows over the lawn."
Web (n.) An intricate trap that entangles or ensnares its victim [syn: web, entanglement].
Web (n.) The flattened weblike part of a feather consisting of a series of barbs on either side of the shaft [syn: vane, web].
Web (n.) An interconnected system of things or people; "he owned a network of shops"; "retirement meant dropping out of a whole network of people who had been part of my life"; "tangled in a web of cloth" [syn: network, web].
Web (n.) Computer network consisting of a collection of internet sites that offer text and graphics and sound and animation resources through the hypertext transfer protocol [syn: World Wide Web, WWW, web].
Web (n.) A fabric (especially a fabric in the process of being woven).
Web (n.) Membrane connecting the toes of some aquatic birds and mammals.
Web (v.) Construct or form a web, as if by weaving [syn: web, net].
Web, () World-Wide Web.
Web, () Donald Knuth's literate programming language, WEB (WEB - language).
Webbed (a.) Provided with a web.
Webbed (a.) (Zool.) Having the toes united by a membrane, or web; as, the webbed feet of aquatic fowls.
Webbed (a.) (Of the feet of some animals) Having the digits connected by a thin fold of skin [ant: unwebbed].
Webbed (a.) Having open interstices or resembling a web [syn: lacy, netlike, netted, webbed, weblike, webby].
Webber (n.) One who forms webs; a weaver; a webster. [Obs.]
Webber, KS -- U.S. city in Kansas
Population (2000): 37
Housing Units (2000): 25
Land area (2000): 0.110840 sq. miles (0.287074 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.110840 sq. miles (0.287074 sq. km)
FIPS code: 76250
Located within: Kansas (KS), FIPS 20
Location: 39.935809 N, 98.034726 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 66970
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Webber, KS
Webber
Webbing (n.) A woven band of cotton or flax, used for reins, girths, bed bottoms, etc.
Webbing (n.) Something forming a web (as between the toes of birds).
Webbing (n.) A narrow closely woven tape; used in upholstery or for seat belts.
Webbing (n.) A strong fabric woven in strips.
Webby (a.) Of or pertaining to a web or webs; like a web; filled or covered with webs.
Bats on their webby wings in darkness move. -- Crabbe.
Webby (a.) Having open interstices or resembling a web [syn: lacy, netlike, netted, webbed, weblike, webby].
Weber (n.) (Elec.) The standard unit of electrical quantity, and also of current. See Coulomb, and Amp?re. [Obs.]
Compare: Coulomb
Coulomb (n.) (Physics) The standard unit of quantity in electrical measurements. It is the quantity of electricity conveyed in one second by the current produced by an electro-motive force of one volt acting in a circuit having a resistance of one ohm, or the quantity transferred by one amp[`e]re in one second. Formerly called weber.
Weber (n.) A unit of magnetic flux equal to 100,000,000 maxwells [syn: weber, Wb].
Weber (n.) German physicist and brother of E. H. Weber; noted for his studies of terrestrial magnetism (1804-1891) [syn: Weber, Wilhelm Eduard Weber].
Weber (n.) United States abstract painter (born in Russia) (1881-1961) [syn: Weber, Max Weber].
Weber (n.) German sociologist and pioneer of the analytic method in sociology (1864-1920) [syn: Weber, Max Weber]
Weber (n.) German conductor and composer of romantic operas (1786-1826) [syn: Weber, Carl Maria von Weber, Baron Karl Maria Friedrich Ernst von Weber].
Weber (n.) German physiologist who studied sensory responses to stimuli and is considered the father of psychophysics (1795-1878) [syn: Weber, E. H. Weber, Ernst Heinrich Weber].
Weber -- U.S. County in Utah
Population (2000): 196533
Housing Units (2000): 70454
Land area (2000): 575.538505 sq. miles (1490.637821 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 83.926244 sq. miles (217.367964 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 659.464749 sq. miles (1708.005785 sq. km)
Located within: Utah (UT), FIPS 49
Location: 41.232183 N, 111.972867 W
Headwords:
Weber
Weber, UT
Weber County
Weber County, UT
Webeye (n.) See Web, n., 8.
Web-fingered (a.) Having the fingers united by a web for a considerable part of their length.
Webfeet (n. pl. ) of Webfoot.
Webfoot (n.) A foot the toes of which are connected by a membrane.
Webfoot (n.) (Zool.) Any web-footed bird.
Webfoot (n.) A foot having the toes connected by folds of skin.
Web-footed (a.) Having webbed feet; palmiped; as, a goose or a duck is a web-footed fowl.
Web-footed (a.) Having feet with webbed toes [syn: web-footed, web-toed].
Webster (n.) A weaver; originally, a female weaver. [Obs.] -- Brathwait.
Webster (n.) English playwright (1580-1625) [syn: Webster, John Webster].
Webster (n.) United States politician and orator (1782-1817) [syn: Webster, Daniel Webster].
Webster (n.) United States lexicographer (1758-1843) [syn: Webster, Noah Webster].
Webster, () Webster's Dictionary.
Webster, () A web browser for the Acorn Archimedes. The HTML files may reside locally or be retrieved using a "fetcher". An HTTP fetcher for use with KA9Q is supplied. Version: 0.05. HENSA Gopher (1995-02-21)
Webster -- U.S. County in Iowa
Population (2000): 40235
Housing Units (2000): 16969
Land area (2000): 715.234625 sq. miles (1852.449097 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 2.817112 sq. miles (7.296287 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 718.051737 sq. miles (1859.745384 sq. km)
Located within: Iowa (IA), FIPS 19
Location: 42.446780 N, 94.179073 W
Headwords:
Webster
Webster, IA
Webster County
Webster County, IA
Webster -- U.S. County in Missouri
Population (2000): 31045
Housing Units (2000): 12052
Land area (2000): 593.315722 sq. miles (1536.680599 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.370066 sq. miles (0.958466 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 593.685788 sq. miles (1537.639065 sq. km)
Located within: Missouri (MO), FIPS 29
Location: 37.266991 N, 92.895017 W
Headwords:
Webster
Webster, MO
Webster County
Webster County, MO
Webster -- U.S. County in Kentucky
Population (2000): 14120
Housing Units (2000): 6250
Land area (2000): 334.752119 sq. miles (867.003971 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.929679 sq. miles (2.407857 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 335.681798 sq. miles (869.411828 sq. km)
Located within: Kentucky (KY), FIPS 21
Location: 37.490121 N, 87.686735 W
Headwords:
Webster
Webster, KY
Webster County
Webster County, KY
Webster -- U.S. Parish in Louisiana
Population (2000): 41831
Housing Units (2000): 18991
Land area (2000): 595.223017 sq. miles (1541.620472 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 19.848590 sq. miles (51.407609 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 615.071607 sq. miles (1593.028081 sq. km)
Located within: Louisiana (LA), FIPS 22
Location: 32.729225 N, 93.343202 W
Headwords:
Webster
Webster, LA
Webster Parish
Webster Parish, LA
Webster -- U.S. County in Mississippi
Population (2000): 10294
Housing Units (2000): 4344
Land area (2000): 422.492504 sq. miles (1094.250516 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.849434 sq. miles (2.200025 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 423.341938 sq. miles (1096.450541 sq. km)
Located within: Mississippi (MS), FIPS 28
Location: 33.586740 N, 89.243714 W
Headwords:
Webster
Webster, MS
Webster County
Webster County, MS
Webster -- U.S. County in Nebraska
Population (2000): 4061
Housing Units (2000): 1972
Land area (2000): 574.890487 sq. miles (1488.959463 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.128850 sq. miles (0.333721 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 575.019337 sq. miles (1489.293184 sq. km)
Located within: Nebraska (NE), FIPS 31
Location: 40.179525 N, 98.474758 W
Headwords:
Webster
Webster, NE
Webster County
Webster County, NE
Webster -- U.S. County in West Virginia
Population (2000): 9719
Housing Units (2000): 5273
Land area (2000): 555.968424 sq. miles (1439.951547 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.176673 sq. miles (0.457581 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 556.145097 sq. miles (1440.409128 sq. km)
Located within: West Virginia (WV), FIPS 54
Location: 38.495719 N, 80.434530 W
Headwords:
Webster
Webster, WV
Webster County
Webster County, WV
Webster -- U.S. County in Georgia
Population (2000): 2390
Housing Units (2000): 1115
Land area (2000): 209.535515 sq. miles (542.694470 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.721522 sq. miles (1.868733 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 210.257037 sq. miles (544.563203 sq. km)
Located within: Georgia (GA), FIPS 13
Location: 32.047431 N, 84.558131 W
Headwords:
Webster
Webster, GA
Webster County
Webster County, GA
Webster, WI -- U.S. village in Wisconsin
Population (2000): 653
Housing Units (2000): 327
Land area (2000): 1.775371 sq. miles (4.598189 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 1.775371 sq. miles (4.598189 sq. km)
FIPS code: 85025
Located within: Wisconsin (WI), FIPS 55
Location: 45.879066 N, 92.365163 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 54893
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Webster, WI
Webster
Webster, NY -- U.S. village in New York
Population (2000): 5216
Housing Units (2000): 2304
Land area (2000): 2.195058 sq. miles (5.685173 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 2.195058 sq. miles (5.685173 sq. km)
FIPS code: 78960
Located within: New York (NY), FIPS 36
Location: 43.212113 N, 77.427292 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 14580
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Webster, NY
Webster
Webster, NC -- U.S. town in North Carolina
Population (2000): 486
Housing Units (2000): 227
Land area (2000): 1.602438 sq. miles (4.150296 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 1.602438 sq. miles (4.150296 sq. km)
FIPS code: 71600
Located within: North Carolina (NC), FIPS 37
Location: 35.345264 N, 83.213460 W
ZIP Codes (1990):
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Webster, NC
Webster
Webster, FL -- U.S. city in Florida
Population (2000): 805
Housing Units (2000): 353
Land area (2000): 1.323569 sq. miles (3.428028 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 1.323569 sq. miles (3.428028 sq. km)
FIPS code: 75600
Located within: Florida (FL), FIPS 12
Location: 28.613142 N, 82.054043 W
ZIP Codes (1990):
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Webster, FL
Webster
Webster, IA -- U.S. city in Iowa
Population (2000): 110
Housing Units (2000): 47
Land area (2000): 0.299745 sq. miles (0.776336 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.299745 sq. miles (0.776336 sq. km)
FIPS code: 83055
Located within: Iowa (IA), FIPS 19
Location: 41.437895 N, 92.171024 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 52355
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Webster, IA
Webster
Webster, SD -- U.S. city in South Dakota
Population (2000): 1952
Housing Units (2000): 1023
Land area (2000): 1.491375 sq. miles (3.862644 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 1.491375 sq. miles (3.862644 sq. km)
FIPS code: 69780
Located within: South Dakota (SD), FIPS 46
Location: 45.333645 N, 97.519452 W
ZIP Codes (1990):
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Webster, SD
Webster
Webster, TX -- U.S. city in Texas
Population (2000): 9083
Housing Units (2000): 4733
Land area (2000): 6.615936 sq. miles (17.135194 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.037218 sq. miles (0.096393 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 6.653154 sq. miles (17.231587 sq. km)
FIPS code: 76948
Located within: Texas (TX), FIPS 48
Location: 29.538581 N, 95.119354 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 77598
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Webster, TX
Webster
Webster, MA -- U.S. Census Designated Place in Massachusetts
Population (2000): 11600
Housing Units (2000): 5425
Land area (2000): 2.902354 sq. miles (7.517063 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.059833 sq. miles (0.154966 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 2.962187 sq. miles (7.672029 sq. km)
FIPS code: 73930
Located within: Massachusetts (MA), FIPS 25
Location: 42.048981 N, 71.875602 W
ZIP Codes (1990):
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Webster, MA
Webster
Websterite (n.) (Min.) A hydrous sulphate of alumina occurring in white reniform masses.
Web-toed (a.) Having the toes united by a web for a considerable part of their length.
Web-toed (a.) Having feet with webbed toes [syn: web-footed, web-toed].
Compare: Tent
Tent (n.) A pavilion or portable lodge consisting of skins, canvas, or some strong cloth, stretched and sustained by poles, -- used for sheltering persons from the weather, especially soldiers in camp.
Within his tent, large as is a barn. -- Chaucer.
Tent (n.) (Her.) The representation of a tent used as a bearing.
Tent bed, A high-post bedstead curtained with a tentlike canopy.
Tent caterpillar (Zool.), Any one of several species of gregarious caterpillars which construct on trees large silken webs into which they retreat when at rest. Some of the species are very destructive to fruit trees. The most common American species is the larva of a bombycid moth ({Clisiocampa Americana). Called also lackery caterpillar, and webworm.
Webworm (n.) (Zool.) Any one of various species of moths whose gregarious larvae eat the leaves of trees, and construct a large web to which they retreat when not feeding.
Note: The most destructive webworms belong to the family Bombycidae, as the fall webworm ({Hyphantria textor), which feeds on various fruit and forest trees, and the common tent caterpillar, which feeds on various fruit trees (see Tent caterpillar, under Tent.) The grapevine webworm is the larva of a geometrid moth (see Vine inchworm, under Vine).
Wed (n.) A pledge; a pawn. [Obs.] -- Gower. Piers Plowman.
Let him be ware, his neck lieth to wed [i. e., for a security]. -- Chaucer.
Wed (v. i.) To contact matrimony; to marry. "When I shall wed." -- Shak.
Wedded (imp.) of Wed.
Wedded (p. p.) of Wed.
Wed () of Wed.
Wedding (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Wed.
Wed (v. t.) To take for husband or for wife by a formal ceremony; to marry; to espouse.
With this ring I thee wed. -- Bk. of Com. Prayer.
I saw thee first, and wedded thee. -- Milton.
Wed (v. t.) To join in marriage; to give in wedlock.
And Adam, wedded to another Eve, Shall live with her. -- Milton.
Wed (v. t.) Fig.: To unite as if by the affections or the bond of marriage; to attach firmly or indissolubly.
Thou art wedded to calamity. -- Shak.
Men are wedded to their lusts. -- Tillotson.
[Flowers] are wedded thus, like beauty to old age. -- Cowper.
Wed (v. t.) To take to one's self and support; to espouse. [Obs.]
They positively and concernedly wedded his cause. -- Clarendon.
Wed (a.) Having been taken in marriage [syn: wed, wedded].
Wed (n.) The fourth day of the week; the third working day [syn: Wednesday, Midweek, Wed].
Wed (v.) Take in marriage [syn: marry, get married, wed, conjoin, hook up with, get hitched with, espouse].
Wed (v.) Perform a marriage ceremony; "The minister married us on Saturday"; "We were wed the following week"; "The couple got spliced on Hawaii" [syn: marry, wed, tie, splice].
WED.() A covenant or agreement; whence a wedded husband.
Weddahs (n. pl.) (Ethnol.) See Veddahs.
Wedded (a.) Joined in wedlock; married.
Let wealth, let honor, wait the wedded dame. -- Pope.
Wedded (a.) Of or pertaining to wedlock, or marriage. "Wedded love." -- Milton.
Wedded (a.) Having been taken in marriage [syn: wed, wedded].
Wedder (n.) See Wether. -- Sir W. Scott.
Wedding (n.) Nuptial ceremony; nuptial festivities; marriage; nuptials.
Simple and brief was the wedding, as that of Ruth and of Boaz. -- Longfellow.
Note: Certain anniversaries of an unbroken marriage have received fanciful, and more or less appropriate, names.
Thus, the fifth anniversary is called the wooden wedding; the tenth, the tin wedding; the fifteenth, the crystal wedding; the twentieth, the china wedding; the twenty-fifth, the silver wedding; the fiftieth, the golden wedding; the sixtieth, the diamond wedding.
These anniversaries are often celebrated by appropriate presents of wood, tin, china, silver, gold, etc., given by friends.
Note: Wedding is often used adjectively; as, wedding cake, wedding cards, wedding clothes, wedding day, wedding feast, wedding guest, wedding ring, etc.
Let her beauty be her wedding dower. -- Shak.
Wedding favor, A marriage favor. See under Marriage.
Wedding (n.) The social event at which the ceremony of marriage is performed [syn: wedding, wedding ceremony, nuptials, hymeneals].
Wedding (n.) The act of marrying; the nuptial ceremony; "their marriage was conducted in the chapel" [syn: marriage, wedding, marriage ceremony].
Wedding (n.) A party of people at a wedding [syn: wedding, wedding party].
Wedding (n.) A ceremony at which two persons undertake to become one, one undertakes to become nothing, and nothing undertakes to become supportable.
Weder (n.) Weather. [Obs.] -- Chaucer.
Wedge (n.) A piece of metal, or other hard material, thick at one end, and tapering to a thin edge at the other, used in splitting wood, rocks, etc., in raising heavy bodies, and the like. It is one of the six elementary machines called the mechanical powers. See Illust. of Mechanical powers, under Mechanical.
Wedge (n.) (Geom.) A solid of five sides, having a rectangular base, two rectangular or trapezoidal sides meeting in an edge, and two triangular ends.
Wedge (n.) A mass of metal, especially when of a wedgelike form. "Wedges of gold." -- Shak.