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. -- Tomlinson.
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. [Obs. or Scot.]
Wee (a.) Very small; little. [Colloq. & Scot.]
A little wee face, with a little yellow beard. -- Shak.
Wee (a.) (Used informally) very small; "a wee tot" [syn: bitty, bittie, teensy, teentsy, teeny, wee, weeny, weensy, teensy-weensy, teeny-weeny, itty-bitty, itsy-bitsy].
Wee (a.) Very early; "the wee hours of the morning."
Wee (n.) A short time; "bide a wee."
Wee (v.) Eliminate urine; "Again, the cat had made on the expensive rug" [syn: make, urinate, piddle, puddle, micturate, piss, pee, pee-pee, make water, relieve oneself, take a leak, spend a penny, wee, wee-wee, pass water].
Weech-elm (n.) The wych-elm.
Weed (n.) A garment; clothing; especially, an upper or outer garment. "Lowly shepherd's weeds." --Spenser. "Woman's weeds." -- Shak. "This beggar woman's weed." -- Tennyson.
He on his bed sat, the soft weeds he wore Put off. -- Chapman.
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.
In a mourning weed, with ashes upon her head, and tears abundantly flowing. -- Milton.
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; -- commonly used with out; as, to weed out inefficiency from an enterprise. "Weed up thyme." -- Shak.
Wise fathers . . . weeding from their children ill things. -- Ascham.
Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out. -- Bacon.
Weed (v. t.) To free from anything hurtful or offensive.
He weeded the kingdom of such as were devoted to Elaiana. -- Howell.
Weed (v. t.) (Stock Breeding) To reject as unfit for breeding purposes.
Weed (n.) A sudden illness or relapse, often attended with fever, which attacks women in childbed. [Scot.]
Weed (n.) Underbrush; low shrubs. [Obs. or Archaic]
One rushing forth out of the thickest weed. -- Spenser.
A wild and wanton pard . . . Crouched fawning in the weed. -- Tennyson.
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.
Too much manuring filled that field with weeds. -- Denham.
Note: The word has no definite application to any particular plant, or species of plants. Whatever plants grow among corn or grass, in hedges, or elsewhere, and are useless to man, injurious to crops, or unsightly or out of place, are denominated weeds.
Weed (n.) Fig.: Something unprofitable or troublesome; anything useless.
Weed (n.) (Stock Breeding) An animal unfit to breed from.
Weed (n.) Tobacco, or a cigar. [Slang]
Weed hook, A hook used for cutting away or extirpating weeds. -- Tusser.
Weed (n.) Any plant that crowds out cultivated plants [ant: cultivated plant].
Weed (n.) A black band worn by a man (on the arm or hat) as a sign of mourning [syn: weed, mourning band].
Weed (n.) Street names for marijuana [syn: pot, grass, green goddess, dope, weed, gage, sess, sens, smoke, skunk, locoweed, Mary Jane].
Weed (v.) Clear of weeds; "weed the garden."
Weed, CA -- U.S. city in California
Population (2000): 2978
Housing Units (2000): 1293
Land area (2000): 4.854940 sq. miles (12.574237 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 4.854940 sq. miles (12.574237 sq. km)
FIPS code: 83850
Located within: California (CA), FIPS 06
Location: 41.424298 N, 122.384417 W
ZIP Codes (1990):
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Weed, CA
Weed
Weeder (n.) 除草者；除草機 One who, or that which, weeds, or frees from anything noxious.
Weeder (n.) A farmhand hired to remove weeds.
Weeder (n.) A hand tool for removing weeds [syn: weeder, weed-whacker].
Weedery (n.) Weeds, collectively; also, a place full of weeds or for growing weeds. [R.] -- Dr. H. More.
Weeding () a. & n. from Weed, v.
Weeding chisel, A tool with a divided chisel-like end, for cutting the roots of large weeds under ground.
Weeding forceps, An instrument for taking up some sorts of plants in weeding.
Weeding fork, A strong, three-pronged fork, used in clearing ground of weeds; -- called also weeding iron.
Weeding hook. Same as Weed hook, under 3d Weed.
Weeding iron. See Weeding fork, above.
Weeding tongs. Same as Weeding forceps, above.
Weeding-rhim (n.) A kind of implement used for tearing up weeds esp. on summer fallows . [Prov. Eng.]
Weedless (a.) 沒有雜草的 Free from weeds or noxious matter.
Weedless (a.) Free from weeds; -- said of a kind of motor-boat propeller the blades of which curve backwardly, as respects the direction of rotation, so that they draw through the water, and so do not gather weeds with which they come in contact.
Weedless (a.) Free from weeds; "a weedless garden" [ant: weedy].
Compare: Overgrown
Overgrown (a.) 【貶】長得太大的；生長過度的；（雜草等）蔓生的 [（+with）] Covered with growing plants.
Overgrown (a.) Abounded in usually unwanted vegetation. [Narrower terms: wooded (vs. unwooded); weedy].
Overgrown (a.) Covered with growing plants.
Overgrown (a.) Abounding in usually unwanted vegetation.
Weedy (a.) 雜草叢生的；似雜草的；不中用的；瘦弱的 Of or pertaining to weeds; consisting of weeds. "Weedy trophies." -- Shak.
Weedy (a.) Abounding with weeds; as, weedy grounds; a weedy garden; weedy corn.
See from the weedy earth a rivulet break. -- Bryant.
Weedy (a.) Scraggy; ill-shaped; ungainly; -- said of colts or horses, and also of persons. [Colloq.]
Weedy (a.) Dressed in weeds, or mourning garments. [R. or Colloq.]
She was as weedy as in the early days of her mourning. -- Dickens.
Weedy (a.) Abounding with or resembling weeds; "a weedy path"; "weedy plants that take over a garden" [ant: weedless].
Weedy (a.) Being very thin; "a child with skinny freckled legs"; "a long scrawny neck" [syn: scraggy, boney, scrawny, skinny, underweight, weedy].
Week (n.) [C] 週，一星期；工作日，上課日，普通日 A period of seven days, usually that reckoned from one Sabbath or Sunday to the next.
I fast twice in the week. -- Luke xviii. 12.
Note: Although it [the week] did not enter into the calendar of the Greeks, and was not introduced at Rome till after the reign of Theodesius, it has been employed from time immemorial in almost all Eastern countries. -- Encyc. Brit.
Feast of Weeks. See Pentecost, 1.
Prophetic week, A week of years, or seven years. -- Dan. ix. 24.
Week day. See under Day.
Week (n.) Any period of seven consecutive days; "it rained for a week" [syn: week, hebdomad].
Week (n.) Hours or days of work in a calendar week; "they worked a 40-hour week" [syn: workweek, week].
Week (n.) A period of seven consecutive days starting on Sunday [syn: week, calendar week].
Weekly (a.) 每週的；一週一次的；週刊的 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.) 週刊；週報 [C] A publication issued once in seven days, or appearing once a week.
Weekly (adv.) 每週；每週一次 Once a week; by hebdomadal periods; as, each performs service weekly.
Compare: Cyclic
Cyclic, Cyclical (a.) 圓的；環式的；循環的；週期的 Of or pertaining to a cycle or circle; moving in cycles; as, cyclical time. -- Coleridge.
Cyclic, Cyclical (a.) (Chemistry) Having atoms bonded to form a ring structure.
Opposite of Acyclic.
Note: Used most commonly in respect to organic compounds.
Note: [Narrower terms: bicyclic; heterocyclic; homocyclic, isocyclic].
Syn: closed-chain, closed-ring.
Cyclic, Cyclical (a.) Recurring in cycles [2]; having a pattern that repeats at approximately equal intervals; periodic. Opposite of noncyclic.
Note: [Narrower terms: alternate(prenominal), alternating(prenominal); alternate(prenominal), every other(prenominal), every second(prenominal); alternating(prenominal), oscillating(prenominal); biyearly; circadian exhibiting 24-hour periodicity); circular; daily, diurnal; fortnightly, biweekly; hourly; midweek, midweekly; seasonal; semestral, semestrial; semiannual, biannual, biyearly; semiweekly, biweekly; weekly; annual, yearly; biennial; bimonthly, bimestrial; half-hourly; half-yearly; monthly; tertian, alternate(prenominal); triennial].
Cyclic, Cyclical (a.) Marked by repeated cycles [2].
Cyclic chorus, The chorus which performed the songs and dances of the dithyrambic odes at Athens, dancing round the altar of Bacchus in a circle.
Cyclic poets, Certain epic poets who followed Homer, and wrote merely on the Trojan war and its heroes; -- so called because keeping within the circle of a single subject. Also, any series or coterie of poets writing on one subject. -- Milman.
Cyclic (a.) Conforming to the Carnot cycle.
Cyclic (a.) Forming a whorl or having parts arranged in a whorl; "cyclic petals"; "cyclic flowers" [ant: acyclic].
Cyclic (a.) Of a compound having atoms arranged in a ring structure [ant: acyclic, open-chain].
Cyclic (a.) Recurring in cycles [syn: cyclic, cyclical] [ant: noncyclic, noncyclical].
Cyclic (a.) Marked by repeated cycles.
Weekly (adv.) Without missing a week; "she visited her aunt weekly" [syn: hebdomadally, weekly, every week, each week].
Weekly (a.) Of or occurring every seven days; "a weekly visit"; "weekly paper" [syn: weekly, hebdomadal, hebdomadary].
Weekly (n.) A periodical that is published every week (or 52 issues per year).
Weekwam (n.) See Wigwam. [R.]
Compare: Wigwam
Wigwam (n.) [C] （印第安人用樹皮或獸皮覆蓋而成的）棚屋；簡陋的小屋 An Indian cabin or hut, usually of a conical form, and made of a framework of poles covered with hides, bark, or mats; -- called also tepee. [Sometimes written also weekwam.]
Very spacious was the wigwam, Made of deerskin dressed and whitened, With the gods of the Dacotahs Drawn and painted on its curtains. -- Longfellow.
Note: "The wigwam, or Indian house, of a circular or oval shape, was made of bark or mats laid over a framework of branches of trees stuck in the ground in such a manner as to converge at the top, where was a central aperture for the escape of smoke from the fire beneath. The better sort had also a lining of mats. For entrance and egress, two low openings were left on opposite sides, one or the other of which was closed with bark or mats, according to the direction of the wind." -- Palfrey.
Weel (a. & adv.) Well. [Obs. or Scot.]
Weel (n.) A whirlpool. [Obs.] Weel
Weel () Alt. of Weely.
Weely () A kind of trap or snare for fish, made of twigs. [Obs.] -- Carew.
Ween (v. i.) To think; to imagine; to fancy. [Obs. or Poetic] -- Spenser. Milton.
I have lost more than thou wenest. -- Chaucer.
For well I ween, Never before in the bowers of light Had the form of an earthly fay been seen. -- J. R. Drake.
Though never a dream the roses sent Of science or love's compliment, I ween they smelt as sweet. -- Mrs. Browning.
Weep (n.) (Zool.) 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.
And they all wept sore, and fell on Paul's neck. -- Acts xx. 37.
Phocion was rarely seen to weep or to laugh. -- Mitford.
And eyes that wake to weep. -- Mrs. Hemans.
And they wept together in silence. -- Longfellow.
Weep (v. i.) To lament; to complain. "They weep unto me, saying, Give us flesh, that we may eat." -- Num. xi. 13.
Weep (v. i.) To flow in drops; to run in drops.
The blood weeps from my heart. -- Shak.
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. "I weep bitterly the dead." -- A. S. Hardy.
We wandering go Through dreary wastes, and weep each other's woe. -- Pope.
Weep (v. t.) To shed, or pour forth, as tears; to shed drop by drop, as if tears; as, to weep tears of joy.
Tears, such as angels weep, burst forth. -- Milton.
Groves whose rich trees wept odorous gums and balm. -- Milton.
Weep (v.) Shed tears because of sadness, rage, or pain; "She cried bitterly when she heard the news of his death"; "The girl in the wheelchair wept with frustration when she could not get up the stairs" [syn: cry, weep] [ant: express joy, express mirth, laugh].
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. -- Goldsmith.
Weeper (n.) (Zool.) The capuchin. See Capuchin, 3 (a).
Compare: Capuchin
Capuchin (n.) (Eccl.) A Franciscan monk of the austere branch established in 1526 by Matteo di Baschi, distinguished by wearing the long pointed cowl or capoch of St. Francis.
A bare-footed and long-bearded capuchin. -- Sir W. Scott.
Capuchin (n.) A garment for women, consisting of a cloak and hood, resembling, or supposed to resemble, that of capuchin monks.
Capuchin (n.) (Zool.) (a) A long-tailed South American monkey ({Cabus capucinus), having the forehead naked and wrinkled, with the hair on the crown reflexed and resembling a monk's cowl, the rest being of a grayish white; -- called also capucine monkey, weeper, sajou, sapajou, and sai.
Capuchin (n.) (Zool.) (b) Other species of Cabus, as Cabus fatuellus (the brown capucine or horned capucine.), Cabus albifrons (the cararara), and Cabus apella.
Capuchin (n.) (Zool.) (c) A variety of the domestic pigeon having a hoodlike tuft of feathers on the head and sides of the neck.
Capuchin nun, One of an austere order of Franciscan nuns which came under Capuchin rule in 1538. The order had recently been founded by Maria Longa.
Weeper (n.) A person who weeps [syn: weeper, crier].
Weeper (n.) A hired mourner.
Weepful (a.) Full of weeping or lamentation; grieving. [Obs.] -- Wyclif.
Weeping (n.) The act of one who weeps; lamentation with tears; shedding of tears.
Weeping (a.) Grieving; lamenting; shedding tears. "Weeping eyes." -- I. Watts.
Weeping (a.) Discharging water, or other liquid, in drops or very slowly; surcharged with water. "Weeping grounds." -- Mortimer.
Weeping (a.) Having slender, pendent branches; -- said of trees; as, weeping willow; a weeping ash.
Weeping (a.) Pertaining to lamentation, or those who weep.
Weeping cross, A cross erected on or by the highway, especially for the devotions of penitents; hence, to return by the weeping cross, to return from some undertaking in humiliation or penitence.
Weeping rock, A porous rock from which water gradually issues.
Weeping sinew, A ganglion. See Ganglion, n., 2. [Colloq.]
Weeping spring, A spring that discharges water slowly.
Weeping (a.) Showing sorrow [syn: dolorous, dolourous, lachrymose, tearful, weeping].
Weeping (a.) Having branches or flower heads that bend downward; "nodding daffodils"; "the pendulous branches of a weeping willow"; "lilacs with drooping panicles of fragrant flowers" [syn: cernuous, drooping, nodding, pendulous, weeping].
Weeping (n.) The process of shedding tears (usually accompanied by sobs or other inarticulate sounds); "I hate to hear the crying of a child"; "she was in tears" [syn: crying, weeping, tears].
Weepingly (adv.) In a weeping manner.
Weeping-ripe (a.) Ripe for weeping; ready to weep. [Obs.] -- Shak.
Weerish (a.) See Wearish.
Weesel (n.) See Weasel. [Obs.]
Weet (a. & n.) Wet. [Obs.] -- Chaucer.
Wot (imp.) of Weet.
Weet (v. i.) To know; to wit. [Obs.] -- Tyndale. Spenser.
Wit (v. t. & i.) To know; to learn. "I wot and wist alway." -- Chaucer.
Note: The present tense was inflected as follows; sing. 1st pers. wot; 2d pers. wost, or wot(t)est; 3d pers. wot, or wot(t)eth; pl. witen, or wite. The following variant forms also occur; pres. sing. 1st & 3d pers. wat, woot; pres. pl. wyten, or wyte, weete, wote, wot; imp. Wuste (Southern dialect); p. pr. wotting. Later, other variant or corrupt forms are found, as, in Shakespeare, 3d pers. sing. pres. wots.
Brethren, we do you to wit [make you to know] of the grace of God bestowed on the churches of
Macedonia. -- 2 Cor. viii. 1.
Thou wost full little what thou meanest. -- Chaucer.
We witen not what thing we prayen here. -- Chaucer.
When that the sooth in wist. -- Chaucer.
Note: This verb is now used only in the infinitive, to wit, which is employed, especially in legal language, to call attention to a particular thing, or to a more particular specification of what has preceded, and is equivalent to namely, that is to say.
Wot, () 1st & 3d pers. sing. pres. of Wit, to know. See the Note under Wit, v. [Obs.]
Brethren, I wot that through ignorance ye did it. -- Acts iii. 17 Wotest
Weet-bird (n.) (Zool.) The wryneck; -- so called from its cry. [Prov. Eng.]
Weetingly (adv.) Knowingly. [Obs.] -- Spenser.
Weetless (a.) Unknowing; also, unknown; unmeaning. [Obs.] -- Spenser.
Compare: Sandpiper
Sandpiper (n.) (Zool.) Any one of numerous species of small limicoline game birds belonging to Tringa, Actodromas, Ereunetes, and various allied genera of the family Tringidae.
Note: The most important North American species are the pectoral sandpiper ({Tringa maculata), called also brownback, grass snipe, and jacksnipe; the red-backed, or black-breasted, sandpiper, or dunlin ({Tringa alpina); the purple sandpiper ({Tringa maritima: the red-breasted sandpiper, or knot ({Tringa canutus); the semipalmated sandpiper ({Ereunetes pusillus); the spotted sandpiper, or teeter-tail ({Actitis macularia); the buff-breasted sandpiper ({Tryngites subruficollis), and the Bartramian sandpiper, or upland plover. See under Upland. Among the European species are the dunlin, the knot, the ruff, the sanderling, and the common sandpiper ({Actitis hypoleucus syn. Tringoides hypoleucus), called also fiddler, peeper, pleeps, weet-weet, and summer snipe. Some of the small plovers and tattlers are also called sandpipers.
Sandpiper (n.) (Zool.) A small lamprey eel; the pride.
Curlew sandpiper. See under Curlew.
Stilt sandpiper. See under Stilt.
Weet-weet (n.) (Zool.) The common European sandpiper.
Weet-weet (n.) (Zool.) The chaffinch. [Prov. Eng.]
Weet-weet (n.) [Native name in Victoria.] A throwing toy, or implement, of the Australian aborigines, consisting of a cigar-shaped stick fastened at one end to a flexible twig. It weighs in all about two ounces, and is about two feet long.
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. [Written also weevilled.]
Weevily (a.) Having weevils; weeviled. [Written also weevilly.]
Weezel (n.) (Zool.) See Weasel.
Weft () imp. & p. p. of Wave.
Weft (n.) A thing waved, waived, or cast away; a waif. [Obs.] "A forlorn weft." -- Spenser.
Weft (n.) The woof of cloth; the threads that cross the warp from selvage to selvage; the thread carried by the shuttle in weaving.
Weft (n.) A web; a thing woven.
Weft (n.) The yarn woven across the warp yarn in weaving [syn: woof, weft, filling, pick].
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