Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter W - Page 17
Wedge (n.) Anything in the form of a wedge, as a body of troops drawn up in such a form.
In warlike muster they appear, In rhombs, and wedges, and half-moons, and wings. -- Milton.
Wedge (n.) The person whose name stands lowest on the list of the classical tripos; -- so called after a person (Wedgewood) who occupied this position on the first list of 1828. [Cant, Cambridge Univ., Eng.] -- C. A. Bristed.
Wedge (n.) (Golf) A golf club having an iron head with the face nearly horizontal, used for lofting the golf ball at a high angle, as when hitting the ball out of a sand trap or the rough.
Fox wedge. (Mach. & Carpentry) See under Fox.
Spherical wedge (Geom.), The portion of a sphere included between two planes which intersect in a diameter.
Wedged (imp. & p. p.) of Wedge.
Wedging (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Wedge.
Wedge (v. t.) To cleave or separate with a wedge or wedges, or as with a wedge; to rive. "My heart, as wedged with a sigh, would rive in twain." -- Shak.
Wedge (v. t.) To force or drive as a wedge is driven.Among the crowd in the abbey where a finger Could not be wedged in more. -- Shak.
He 's just the sort of man to wedge himself into a snug berth. -- Mrs. J. H. Ewing.
Wedge (v. t.) To force by crowding and pushing as a wedge does; as, to wedge one's way. -- Milton.
Wedge (v. t.) To press closely; to fix, or make fast, in the manner of a wedge that is driven into something.
Wedged in the rocky shoals, and sticking fast. -- Dryden.
Wedge (v. t.) To fasten with a wedge, or with wedges; as, to wedge a scythe on the snath; to wedge a rail or a piece of timber in its place.
Wedge (v. t.) (Pottery) To cut, as clay, into wedgelike masses, and work by dashing together, in order to expel air bubbles, etc.
Wedge (n.) Any shape that is triangular in cross section [syn: wedge, wedge shape, cuneus].
Wedge (n.) A large sandwich made of a long crusty roll split lengthwise and filled with meats and cheese (and tomato and onion and lettuce and condiments); different names are used in different sections of the United States [syn: bomber, grinder, hero, hero sandwich, hoagie, hoagy, Cuban sandwich, Italian sandwich, poor boy, sub, submarine, submarine sandwich, torpedo, wedge, zep].
Wedge (n.) A diacritical mark (an inverted circumflex) placed above certain letters (such as the letter c) to indicate pronunciation [syn: hacek, wedge].
Wedge (n.) A heel that is an extension of the sole of the shoe [syn: wedge heel, wedge].
Wedge (n.) (Golf) An iron with considerable loft and a broad sole.
Wedge (n.) Something solid that is usable as an inclined plane (shaped like a V) that can be pushed between two things to separate them.
Wedge (n.) A block of wood used to prevent the sliding or rolling of a heavy object [syn: chock, wedge].
Wedge (v.) Put, fix, force, or implant; "lodge a bullet in the table"; "stick your thumb in the crack" [syn: lodge, wedge, stick, deposit] [ant: dislodge, free].
Wedge (v.) Squeeze like a wedge into a tight space; "I squeezed myself into the corner" [syn: wedge, squeeze, force].
Wedgebill (n.) (Zool.) An Australian crested insessorial bird ({Sphenostoma cristatum) having a wedge-shaped bill. Its color is dull brown, like the earth of the plains where it lives.
Wedge-formed (a.) Having the form of a wedge; cuneiform.
Wedge-formed characters, Wedge-shaped characters. See Arrow-headed characters, under Arrowheaded, and cf. cuneiform. wedge gauge
Wedge-shaped (a.) Having the shape of a wedge; cuneiform.
Wedge-shaped (a.) (Bot.) Broad and truncate at the summit, and tapering down to the base; as, a wedge-shaped leaf.
Wedge-shaped (a.) (Of a leaf shape) Narrowly triangular, wider at the apex and tapering toward the base [syn: cuneate, wedge-shaped].
Wedge-shaped (a.) Shaped like a wedge [syn: wedge-shaped, cuneal, cuneiform].
Wedge-shell (n.) (Zool.) Any one of numerous species of small marine bivalves belonging to Donax and allied genera in which the shell is wedge-shaped.
Wedge-tailed (a.) (Zool.) Having a tail which has the middle pair of feathers longest, the rest successively and decidedly shorter, and all more or less attenuate; -- said of certain birds. See Illust. of Wood hoopoe, under Wood.
Wedge-tailed+eagle,+An+Australian+eagle+({Aquila+audax">Wedge-tailed eagle, an Australian eagle ({Aquila audax) which feeds on various small species of kangaroos, and on lambs; -- called also mountain eagle, bold eagle, and eagle hawk.
Wedge-tailed+gull,+An+arctic+gull+({Rhodostethia+rosea">Wedge-tailed gull, an arctic gull ({Rhodostethia rosea) in which the plumage is tinged with rose; -- called also Ross's gull.
Wedgewise (adv.) In the manner of a wedge.
Wedgwood ware () A kind of fine pottery, the most remarkable being what is called jasper, either white, or colored throughout the body, and capable of being molded into the most delicate forms, so that fine and minute bas-reliefs like cameos were made of it, fit even for being set as jewels.
Wedgy (a.) Like a wedge; wedge-shaped.
Wedlock (v. i.) The ceremony, or the state, of marriage; matrimony. "That blissful yoke . . . that men clepeth [call] spousal, or wedlock." -- Chaucer.
For what is wedlock forced but a hell, An age of discord or continual strife? -- Shak.
Wedlock (v. i.) A wife; a married woman. [Obs.] -- B. Jonson.
Syn: See Marriage.
Wedlock (v. t.) To marry; to unite in marriage; to wed. [R.] "Man thus wedlocked." -- Milton.
Wedlock (n.) The state of being a married couple voluntarily joined for life (or until divorce); "a long and happy marriage"; "God bless this union" [syn: marriage, matrimony, union, spousal relationship, wedlock].
Wednesday (n.) The fourth day of the week; the next day after Tuesday.
Ash Wednesday. See in the Vocabulary.
Wednesday (n.) The fourth day of the week; the third working day [syn: Wednesday, Midweek, Wed].
Wednesday (n.) [ C ] (Written abbreviation Wed.) (A1) 星期三 The day of the week after Tuesday and before Thursday.
// Did you say the meeting is on Wednesday?
// The restaurant is always closed on Wednesdays.
// Next Wednesday is my birthday.
// I didn't go to school last Wednesday.
// 29 April is a Wednesday.
// Wednesday morning/ afternoon/ evening/ night.
Ash Wednesday (n.) [ C usually singular ] 聖灰星期三（基督教四旬期首日） The first day of Lent in the Christian religion.
Wee (n.) A little; a bit, as of space, time, or distance.
Wee (a.) Very small; little.
Weech-elm (n.) The wych-elm.
Weed (n.) A garment; clothing; especially, an upper or outer garment.
Weed (n.) An article of dress worn in token of grief; a mourning garment or badge; as, he wore a weed on his hat; especially, in the plural, mourning garb, as of a woman; as, a widow's weeds.
Weed (n.) A sudden illness or relapse, often attended with fever, which attacks women in childbed.
Weed (n.) Underbrush; low shrubs.
Weed (n.) Any plant growing in cultivated ground to the injury of the crop or desired vegetation, or to the disfigurement of the place; an unsightly, useless, or injurious plant.
Weed (n.) Fig.: Something unprofitable or troublesome; anything useless.
Weed (n.) An animal unfit to breed from.
Weed (n.) Tobacco, or a cigar.
Weeded (imp. & p. p.) of Weed.
Weeding (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Weed.
Weed (v. t.) To free from noxious plants; to clear of weeds; as, to weed corn or onions; to weed a garden.
Weed (v. t.) To take away, as noxious plants; to remove, as something hurtful; to extirpate.
Weed (v. t.) To free from anything hurtful or offensive.
Weed (v. t.) To reject as unfit for breeding purposes.
Weeder (n.) One who, or that which, weeds, or frees from anything noxious.
Weedery (n.) Weeds, collectively; also, a place full of weeds or for growing weeds.
Weeding () a. & n. from Weed, v.
Weeding-rhim (n.) A kind of implement used for tearing up weeds esp. on summer fallows.
Weedless (a.) Free from weeds or noxious matter.
Weedy (a.) Of or pertaining to weeds; consisting of weeds.
Weedy (a.) Abounding with weeds; as, weedy grounds; a weedy garden; weedy corn.
Weedy (a.) Scraggy; ill-shaped; ungainly; -- said of colts or horses, and also of persons.
Weedy (a.) Dressed in weeds, or mourning garments.
Week (n.) A period of seven days, usually that reckoned from one Sabbath or Sunday to the next.
Weekly (a.) Of or pertaining to a week, or week days; as, weekly labor.
Weekly (a.) Coming, happening, or done once a week; hebdomadary; as, a weekly payment; a weekly gazette.
Weeklies (n. pl. ) of Weekly
Weekly (n.) A publication issued once in seven days, or appearing once a week.
Weekly (adv.) Once a week; by hebdomadal periods; as, each performs service weekly.
Weekwam (n.) See Wigwam.
Weel (a. & adv.) Well.
Weel (n.) A whirlpool.
Weel () Alt. of Weely.
Weely () A kind of trap or snare for fish, made of twigs.
Ween (v. i.) To think; to imagine; to fancy.
Weep (n.) The lapwing; the wipe; -- so called from its cry.
Weep () imp. of Weep, for wept.
Wept (imp. & p. p.) of Weep.
Weeping (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Weep.
Weep (v. i.) Formerly, to express sorrow, grief, or anguish, by outcry, or by other manifest signs; in modern use, to show grief or other passions by shedding tears; to shed tears; to cry.
Weep (v. i.) To lament; to complain.
Weep (v. i.) To flow in drops; to run in drops.
Weep (v. i.) To drop water, or the like; to drip; to be soaked.
Weep (v. i.) To hang the branches, as if in sorrow; to be pendent; to droop; -- said of a plant or its branches.
Weep (v. t.) To lament; to bewail; to bemoan.
Weep (v. t.) To shed, or pour forth, as tears; to shed drop by drop, as if tears; as, to weep tears of joy.
Weeper (n.) One who weeps; esp., one who sheds tears.
Weeper (n.) A white band or border worn on the sleeve as a badge of mourning.
Weeper (n.) The capuchin. See Capuchin, 3 (a).
Weepful (a.) Full of weeping or lamentation; grieving.
Weeping (n.) The act of one who weeps; lamentation with tears; shedding of tears.
Weeping (a.) Grieving; lamenting; shedding tears.
Weeping (a.) Discharging water, or other liquid, in drops or very slowly; surcharged with water.
Weeping (a.) Having slender, pendent branches; -- said of trees; as, weeping willow; a weeping ash.
Weeping (a.) Pertaining to lamentation, or those who weep.
Weepingly (adv.) In a weeping manner.
Weeping-ripe (a.) Ripe for weeping; ready to weep.
Weerish (a.) See Wearish.
Weesel (n.) See Weasel.
Weet (a. & n.) Wet.
Wot (imp.) of Weet.
Weet (v. i.) To know; to wit.
Weet-bird (n.) The wryneck; -- so called from its cry.
Weetingly (adv.) Knowingly.
Weetless (a.) Unknowing; also, unknown; unmeaning.
Weet-weet (n.) The common European sandpiper.
Weet-weet (n.) The chaffinch.
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).
Weevil (n.) (Zool.) 【動】象鼻蟲 [C] Any one of numerous species of snout beetles, or Rhynchophora, in which the head is elongated and usually curved downward. Many of the species are very injurious to cultivated plants. The larvae of some of the species live in nuts, fruit, and grain by eating out the interior, as the plum weevil, or curculio, the nut weevils, and the grain weevil (see under Plum, Nut, and Grain). The larvae of other species bore under the bark and into the pith of trees and various other plants, as the pine weevils (see under Pine). See also Pea weevil, Rice weevil, Seed weevil, under Pea, Rice, and Seed.
Weevil (n.) Any of several families of mostly small beetles that feed on plants and plant products; especially snout beetles and seed beetles.
Weeviled (a.) Infested by weevils; as, weeviled grain.
Weevily (a.) Having weevils; weeviled.
Weezel (n.) See Weasel.
Weft () imp. & p. p. of Wave.
Weft (n.) A thing waved, waived, or cast away; a waif.