Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter W - Page 18
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.
Weftage (n.) Texture.
Wegotism (n.) Excessive use of the pronoun we; -- called also weism.
Wehrgeld (n.) Alt. of Wehrgelt
Wehrgelt (n.) See Weregild.
Wehrwolf (n.) See Werewolf.
Weigela (n.) Alt. of Weigelia
Weigelia (n.) A hardy garden shrub (Diervilla Japonica) belonging to the Honeysuckle family, with white or red flowers. It was introduced from China.
Weigh (n.) A corruption of Way, used only in the phrase under weigh.
Weighed (imp. & p. p.) of Weigh
Weighing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Weigh
Weigh (v. t.) To bear up; to raise; to lift into the air; to swing up; as, to weigh anchor.
Weigh (v. t.) To examine by the balance; to ascertain the weight of, that is, the force with which a thing tends to the center of the earth; to determine the heaviness, or quantity of matter of; as, to weigh sugar; to weigh gold.
Weigh (v. t.) To be equivalent to in weight; to counterbalance; to have the heaviness of.
Weigh (v. t.) To pay, allot, take, or give by weight.
Weigh (v. t.) To examine or test as if by the balance; to ponder in the mind; to consider or examine for the purpose of forming an opinion or coming to a conclusion; to estimate deliberately and maturely; to balance.
Weigh (v. t.) To consider as worthy of notice; to regard.
Weigh (v. i.) To have weight; to be heavy.
Weigh (v. i.) To be considered as important; to have weight in the intellectual balance.
Weigh (v. i.) To bear heavily; to press hard.
Weigh (v. i.) To judge; to estimate.
Weigh (n.) A certain quantity estimated by weight; an English measure of weight. See Wey.
Weighable (a.) Capable of being weighed.
Weighage (n.) A duty or toil paid for weighing merchandise.
Weighbeam (n.) A kind of large steelyard for weighing merchandise; -- also called weighmaster's beam.
Weighboard (n.) Clay intersecting a vein.
Weighbridge (n.) A weighing machine on which loaded carts may be weighed; platform scales.
Weigher (n.) One who weighs; specifically, an officer whose duty it is to weigh commodities.
Weigh-houses (n. pl. ) of Weigh-house
Weigh-house (n.) A building at or within which goods, and the like, are weighed.
Weigh in (- phrasal verb with weigh) (v.) (Sport) （尤指拳擊或賽馬比賽之前）量體重 To be officially weighed before competing in a sport, especially boxing or horse racing.
// Tyson weighed in at 245 lb for the fight.
Weigh in (- phrasal verb with weigh) (v.) (Discussion) (Informal) 積極參與（辯論或討論） To become involved in an argument or discussion in a forceful way.
// Several leading architects weighed in with criticisms regarding the design of the new museum.
Weighing () a. & n. from Weigh, v.
Weighlock (n.) A lock, as on a canal, in which boats are weighed and their tonnage is settled.
Weighmaster (n.) One whose business it is to weigh ore, hay, merchandise, etc.; one licensed as a public weigher.
Weight (v. t.) The quality of being heavy; that property of bodies by which they tend toward the center of the earth; the effect of gravitative force, especially when expressed in certain units or standards, as pounds, grams, etc.
Weight (v. t.) The quantity of heaviness; comparative tendency to the center of the earth; the quantity of matter as estimated by the balance, or expressed numerically with reference to some standard unit; as, a mass of stone having the weight of five hundred pounds.
Weight (v. t.) Hence, pressure; burden; as, the weight of care or business.
Weight (v. t.) Importance; power; influence; efficacy; consequence; moment; impressiveness; as, a consideration of vast weight.
Weight (v. t.) A scale, or graduated standard, of heaviness; a mode of estimating weight; as, avoirdupois weight; troy weight; apothecaries' weight.
Weight (v. t.) A ponderous mass; something heavy; as, a clock weight; a paper weight.
Weight (v. t.) A definite mass of iron, lead, brass, or other metal, to be used for ascertaining the weight of other bodies; as, an ounce weight.
Weight (v. t.) The resistance against which a machine acts, as opposed to the power which moves it.
Weighted (imp. & p. p.) of Weight.
Weighting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Weight.
Weight (v. t.) To load with a weight or weights; to load down; to make heavy; to attach weights to; as, to weight a horse or a jockey at a race; to weight a whip handle.
Weight (v. t.) To assign a weight to; to express by a number the probable accuracy of, as an observation. See Weight of observations, under Weight.
Weightily (adv.) In a weighty manner.
Weightiness (n.) The quality or state of being weighty; weight; force; importance; impressiveness.
Weightless (a.) Having no weight; imponderable; hence, light.
Weightlessness (n.) [ U ] 失重 The state of having or appearing to have no weight; the fact of not being affected by gravity (= the force that makes things fall to the ground).
// The animals will be used to study the effects of weightlessness on the brain and nervous system.
// After nearly five months of weightlessness, the first tenants of the international space station said they are eager to return to Earth.
Weighty (a.) 重的，沉重的；繁重的，累人的；重大的，重要的 Having weight; heavy; ponderous; as, a weighty body.
Weighty (a.) Adapted to turn the balance in the mind, or to convince; important; forcible; serious; momentous. "For sundry weighty reasons." -- Shak.
Let me have your advice in a weighty affair. -- Swift.
Weighty (a.) Rigorous; severe; afflictive. [R.] "Attend our weightier judgment." -- Shak.
Syn: Heavy; ponderous; burdensome; onerous; forcible; momentous; efficacious; impressive; cogent.
Weighty (a.) Having relatively great weight; heavy; "a weighty load"; "a weighty package" [ant: {weightless}].
Weighty (a.) Powerfully persuasive; "a cogent argument"; "a telling presentation"; "a weighty argument" [syn: {cogent}, {telling}, {weighty}].
Weighty (a.) Of great gravity or crucial import; requiring serious thought; "grave responsibilities"; "faced a grave decision in a time of crisis"; "a grievous fault"; "heavy matters of state"; "the weighty matters to be discussed at the peace conference" [syn: {grave}, {grievous}, {heavy}, {weighty}]
Weighty (a.) Weighing heavily on the spirit; causing anxiety or worry; "weighty problems".
Weighty (a.) Excessively fat; "a weighty man" [syn: {corpulent}, {obese}, {weighty}, {rotund}].
Weir (n.) Alt. of Wear.
Compare: Wear
Wear (n.) A dam in a river to stop and raise the water, for the purpose of conducting it to a mill, forming a fish pond, or the like.
Wear (n.) A fence of stakes, brushwood, or the like, set in a stream, tideway, or inlet of the sea, for taking fish.
Wear (n.) A long notch with a horizontal edge, as in the top of a vertical plate or plank, through which water flows, -- used in measuring the quantity of flowing water.
Weir (n.) A low dam built across a stream to raise its level or divert its flow.
Weir (n.) A fence or wattle built across a stream to catch or retain fish.
Weir, KS -- U.S. city in Kansas
Population (2000): 780
Housing Units (2000): 352
Land area (2000): 1.046565 sq. miles (2.710591 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 1.046565 sq. miles (2.710591 sq. km)
FIPS code: 76350
Located within: Kansas (KS), FIPS 20
Location: 37.308768 N, 94.774289 W
ZIP Codes (1990):
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Weir, KS
Weir
Weir, TX -- U.S. city in Texas
Population (2000): 591
Housing Units (2000): 229
Land area (2000): 1.593171 sq. miles (4.126293 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 1.593171 sq. miles (4.126293 sq. km)
FIPS code: 77056
Located within: Texas (TX), FIPS 48
Location: 30.675007 N, 97.587862 W
ZIP Codes (1990):
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Weir, TX
Weir
Weir, MS -- U.S. town in Mississippi
Population (2000): 553
Housing Units (2000): 234
Land area (2000): 1.050416 sq. miles (2.720566 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.011427 sq. miles (0.029595 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 1.061843 sq. miles (2.750161 sq. km)
FIPS code: 78520
Located within: Mississippi (MS), FIPS 28
Location: 33.263423 N, 89.289439 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 39772
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Weir, MS
Weir
Weird (n.) Fate; destiny; one of the Fates, or Norns; also, a prediction. [Obs. or Scot.]
Weird (n.) A spell or charm. [Obs. or Scot.] -- Sir W. Scott.
Weird (a.) Of or pertaining to fate; concerned with destiny.
Weird (a.) Of or pertaining to witchcraft; caused by, or suggesting, magical influence; supernatural; unearthly; wild; as, a weird appearance, look, sound, etc.
Myself too had weird seizures. -- Tennyson.
Those sweet, low tones, that seemed like a weird incantation. -- Longfellow.
Weird sisters, the Fates. [Scot.] -- G. Douglas.
Note: Shakespeare uses the term for the three witches in Macbeth.
The weird sisters, hand in hand, Posters of the sea and land. -- Shak.
Weird (v. t.) To foretell the fate of; to predict; to destine to. [Scot.] -- Jamieson.
Weird (a.) Suggesting the operation of supernatural influences; "an eldritch screech"; "the three weird sisters"; "stumps...had uncanny shapes as of monstrous creatures" -- John Galsworthy; "an unearthly light"; "he could hear the unearthly scream of some curlew piercing the din"- Henry Kingsley [syn: eldritch, weird, uncanny, unearthly].
Weird (a.) Strikingly odd or unusual; "some trick of the moonlight; some weird effect of shadow" -- Bram Stoker
Weird (n.) Fate personified; any one of the three Weird Sisters [syn: Wyrd, Weird].
Weird (n.) Fate, destiny; especially : ill fortune.
Weird (n.) Soothsayer.
Weird (a.) Unusual or strange.
Weird (a.) Of, relating to, or caused by witchcraft or the supernatural : magical.
Weird (a.) Of strange or extraordinary character : odd, fantastic.
Weirdly (adv.) of Weird.
Weirdness (n.) of Weird.
Weirdness (n.) The quality or state of being weird.
Weism (n.) Same as Wegotism.
Weive (v. t.) See Waive.
Weka (n.) A New Zealand rail (Ocydromus australis) which has wings so short as to be incapable of flight.
Wekau (n.) A small New Zealand owl (Sceloglaux albifacies). It has short wings and long legs, and lives chiefly on the ground.
Wekeen (n.) The meadow pipit.
Welaway (interj.) Alas!
Wel-begone (a.) Surrounded with happiness or prosperity.
Welch (a.) See Welsh.
Welcher (n.) See Welsher.
Welchman (n.) See Welshman.
Welcome (n.) Received with gladness; admitted willingly to the house, entertainment, or company; as, a welcome visitor.
Welcome (n.) Producing gladness; grateful; as, a welcome present; welcome news.
Welcome (n.) Free to have or enjoy gratuitously; as, you are welcome to the use of my library.
Welcome (n.) Salutation to a newcomer.
Welcome (n.) Kind reception of a guest or newcomer; as, we entered the house and found a ready welcome.
Welcomed (imp. & p. p.) of Welcome.
Welcoming (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Welcome.
Welcome (v. t.) To salute with kindness, as a newcomer; to receive and entertain hospitably and cheerfully; as, to welcome a visitor; to welcome a new idea.
Welcomely (adv.) In a welcome manner.
Welcomeness (n.) The quality or state of being welcome; gratefulness; agreeableness; kind reception.
Welcomer (n.) One who welcomes; one who salutes, or receives kindly, a newcomer.
Weld (v. t.) To wield.
Weld (n.) An herb (Reseda luteola) related to mignonette, growing in Europe, and to some extent in America; dyer's broom; dyer's rocket; dyer's weed; wild woad. It is used by dyers to give a yellow color.
Weld (n.) Coloring matter or dye extracted from this plant.
Welded (imp. & p. p.) of Weld.
Welding (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Weld.
Weld (v. t.) To press or beat into intimate and permanent union, as two pieces of iron when heated almost to fusion.
Weld (v. t.) Fig.: To unite closely or intimately.
Weld (n.) The state of being welded; the joint made by welding.
Weldable (a.) Capable of being welded.
Welder (n.) One who welds, or unites pieces of iron, etc., by welding.
Welder (n.) One who welds, or wields.
Welder (n.) A manager; an actual occupant.
Weldon's process () A process for the recovery or regeneration of manganese dioxide in the manufacture of chlorine, by means of milk of lime and the oxygen of the air; -- so called after the inventor.
Wele (n.) Prosperity; happiness; well-being; weal.
Weleful (a.) Producing prosperity or happiness; blessed.
Welew (v. t.) To welk, or wither.
Welfare (n.) [U] 福利；幸福；健康安樂；救濟事業；福利事業；【美】社會救濟（制度） Well-doing or well-being in any respect; the enjoyment of health and the common blessings of life; exemption from any evil or calamity; prosperity; happiness.
How to study for the people's welfare. -- Shak.
In whose deep eyes Men read the welfare of the times to come. -- Emerson.
Welfare (n.) Governmental provision of economic assistance to persons in need; "she lives on welfare" [syn: social welfare, welfare, public assistance].
Welfare (n.) Something that aids or promotes well-being; "for the benefit of all" [syn: benefit, welfare].
Welfare (n.) A contented state of being happy and healthy and prosperous; "the town was finally on the upbeat after our recent troubles" [syn: wellbeing, well-being, welfare, upbeat, eudaemonia, eudaimonia] [ant: ill-being].
Welfare (n.) The state of doing well especially in respect to good fortune, happiness, well-being, or prosperity.
// Must look out for your own welfare.
Welfare (n.) Aid in the form of money or necessities for those in need.
Welfare (n.) A n agency or program through which such aid is distributed.
Welfare (a.) [Z] [B] 福利的；福利事業的；接受社會救濟的 Of, relating to, or concerned with welfare and especially with improvement of the welfare of disadvantaged social groups.
// Welfare legislation.
Welfare (a.) R eceiving public welfare benefits
// Welfare families.