Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter W - Page 21
Westy (a.) Dizzy; giddy.
Wet (a.) 濕的，潮濕的；雨天的，下雨的，多雨的；【英】【口】懦弱的，愛哭的 Containing, or consisting of, water or other liquid; moist; soaked with a liquid; having water or other liquid upon the surface; as, wet land; a wet cloth; a wet table.
Wet (a.) Very damp; rainy; as, wet weather; a wet season.
Wet (a.) (Chem.) Employing, or done by means of, water or some other liquid; as, the wet extraction of copper, in distinction from dry extraction in which dry heat or fusion is employed.
Wet (a.) Refreshed with liquor; drunk. [Slang] -- Prior.
{Wet blanket}, {Wet dock}, etc. See under {Blanket}, {Dock}, etc.
{Wet goods}, intoxicating liquors. [Slang]
Syn: Nasty; humid; damp; moist. See {Nasty}.
Wet (n.) 下雨（天氣）[the S]；（雨後）潮濕的地面 [the S]；濕氣，水分 [the S] Water or wetness; moisture or humidity in considerable degree.
Have here a cloth and wipe away the wet. -- Chaucer.
Now the sun, with more effectual beams, Had cheered the face of earth, and dried the wet From drooping plant. -- Milton.
Wet (n.) Rainy weather; foggy or misty weather.
Wet (n.) A dram; a drink. [Slang]
Wet (a.) Covered or soaked with a liquid such as water; "a wet bathing suit"; "wet sidewalks"; "wet weather" [ant: {dry}].
Wet (a.) Containing moisture or volatile components; "wet paint" [ant: {dry}].
Wet (a.) Supporting or permitting the legal production and sale of alcoholic beverages; "a wet candidate running on a wet platform"; "a wet county" [ant: {dry}].
Wet (a.) Producing or secreting milk; "a wet nurse"; "a wet cow"; "lactating cows" [syn: {wet}, {lactating}] [ant: {dry}].
Wet (a.) Consisting of or trading in alcoholic liquor; "a wet cargo"; "a wet canteen."
Wet (a.) Very drunk [syn: {besotted}, {blind drunk}, {blotto}, {crocked}, {cockeyed}, {fuddled}, {loaded}, {pie-eyed}, {pissed}, {pixilated}, {plastered}, {slopped}, {sloshed}, {smashed}, {soaked}, {soused}, {sozzled}, {squiffy}, {stiff}, {tight}, {wet}].
Wet (n.) Wetness caused by water; "drops of wet gleamed on the window" [syn: {moisture}, {wet}].
Wet (v.) Cause to become wet; "Wet your face" [ant: {dry}, {dry out}].
Wet (v.) Make one's bed or clothes wet by urinating; "This eight year old boy still wets his bed".
WET Western European Time [+0000] (TZ, WDT)
Wet (imp. & p. p.) of Wet.
Wetted () of Wet.
Wetting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Wet.
Wet (v. t.) To fill or moisten with water or other liquid; to sprinkle; to cause to have water or other fluid adherent to the surface; to dip or soak in a liquid; as, to wet a sponge; to wet the hands; to wet cloth.
Wetbird (n.) The chaffinch, whose cry is thought to foretell rain.
Wether (n.) A castrated ram.
Westness (n.) The quality or state of being wet; moisture; humidity; as, the wetness of land; the wetness of a cloth.
Westness (n.) A watery or moist state of the atmosphere; a state of being rainy, foggy, or misty; as, the wetness of weather or the season.
Wet nurse () A nurse who suckles a child, especially the child of another woman. Cf. Dry nurse.
Wet-shod (a.) Having the feet, or the shoes on the feet, wet.
Wettish (a.) Somewhat wet; moist; humid.
Wevil (n.) See Weevil.
Wex (v. t. & i.) To grow; to wax.
Wex (imp.) Waxed.
Wex (n.) Wax.
Wey (n.) Way; road; path.
Wey (v. t. & i.) To weigh.
Wey (n.) A certain measure of weight.
Weyle (v. t. & i.) To wail.
Weyleway (interj.) See Welaway.
Weyve (v. t.) To waive.
Wezand (n.) See Weasand.
Whaap (n.) The European curlew; -- called also awp, whaup, great whaup, and stock whaup.
Whaap (n.) The whimbrel; -- called also May whaup, little whaup, and tang whaup.
Whacked (imp. & p. p.) of Whack.
Whacking (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Whack.
Whack (v. t.) To strike; to beat; to give a heavy or resounding blow to; to thrash; to make with whacks.
Whack (v. i.) To strike anything with a smart blow.
Whack (n.) A smart resounding blow.
Whacker (n.) One who whacks.
Whacker (n.) Anything very large; specif., a great lie; a whapper.
Whacking (a.) Very large; whapping.
Whahoo (n.) An American tree, the winged elm. (Ulmus alata).
Whaled (imp. & p. p.) of Whala.
Whaling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Whala.
Whala (v. t.) To lash with stripes; to wale; to thrash; to drub.
Whale (n.) Any aquatic mammal of the order Cetacea, especially any one of the large species, some of which become nearly one hundred feet long. Whales are hunted chiefly for their oil and baleen, or whalebone.
Whaleboat (n.) (Naut.) 捕鯨用的划艇；船載尖尾救生艇 A long, narrow boat, sharp at both ends, used by whalemen.
Whaleboat (n.) A long narrow boat designed for quick turning and use in rough seas.
Whalebone (n.) 鯨鬚；鯨鬚製品 A firm, elastic substance resembling horn, taken from the upper jaw of the right whale; baleen. It is used as a stiffening in stays, fans, screens, and for various other purposes. See {Baleen}.
Note: Whalebone is chiefly obtained from the bowhead, or Greenland, whale, the Biscay whale, and the Antarctic, or southern, whale. It is prepared for manufacture by being softened by boiling, and dyed black.
Whalebone (n.) A horny material from the upper jaws of certain whales; used as the ribs of fans or as stays in corsets [syn: {whalebone}, {baleen}].
Whalemen (n. pl. ) of Whaleman.
Whaleman (n.) 捕鯨者；捕鯨船員 A man employed in the whale fishery.
Whaler (n.) 捕鯨者；捕鯨船 A vessel or person employed in the whale fishery.
Whaler (n.) One who whales, or beats; a big, strong fellow; hence, anything of great or unusual size. [Colloq. U. S.]
Whaler (n.) A seaman who works on a ship that hunts whales.
Whaler (n.) A ship engaged in whale fishing [syn: {whaler}, {whaling ship}].
Whaler (n.), Mar. law. A vessel employed in the whale fishery.
Whaler (n.) It is usual for the owner of the vessel, the captain and crew, to divide the profits in just proportions, under an agreement similar to the contract Di Colonna. (q. v.)
Whaleship (n.) 捕鯨船 A ship used in whaling : whaler.
Compare: Whaler
Whaler (n.) 捕鯨者；捕鯨船 A whaling ship.
Whaler (n.) A seaman engaged in whaling.
Whaler (n.) Any of a number of large slender-bodied sharks.
Another term for blue shark.
A shark that typically occurs inshore and is sometimes found in rivers (genus Carcharhinus, family Carcharhinidae), including the Australasian C. brachyurus.
Whaler (n.) (NZ) (Australian) (Informal) A tramp, especially one who follows the course of a river.
Essex (whaleship) (n.) 美國捕鯨漁船埃塞克斯號 Essex was an American whaler from Nantucket, Massachusetts, launched in 1799. In 1820, while at sea under the command of Captain George Pollard, Jr., a sperm whale attacked and sank her in the southern Pacific Ocean. Stranded thousands of miles from the coast of South America with little food and water, the 20-man crew was forced to navigate to shore in the ship's surviving whaleboats.
The men suffered severe dehydration, starvation, and exposure on the open ocean, and the survivors eventually resorted to eating the bodies of the crewmen who had died. When that proved insufficient, members of the crew drew lots to determine whom they would sacrifice so that the others could live. A total of seven crew members were cannibalized before the last of the eight survivors were rescued, more than three months after the sinking of the Essex. First mate Owen Chase and cabin boy Thomas Nickerson later wrote accounts of the ordeal. The tragedy garnered international attention, and inspired Herman Melville to write his famous novel Moby-Dick.
Whale-road (n.) (pl. Whale-roads) (Obsolete, poetic) The sea, the ocean.
Compare: Poetic
Poetic (a.) (Also poetical), (C2) 詩的，詩歌的 L ike or relating to poetry or poets.
// A collection of Dryden's poetical works (= poems).
// The story is written in richly poetic language.
Poetic (a.) (Approving) 極美的；充滿詩意的；詩情畫意的 Very beautiful or expressing emotion.
Deanne Sokolin creates abstract, mournfully poetic black-and-white images of wrapped objects.
Whaling (n.) 捕鯨 The hunting of whales.
Whaling (n.) The occupation of catching and extracting commercial products from whales.
Whaling (a.) Pertaining to, or employed in, the pursuit of whales; as, a whaling voyage; a whaling vessel.
Whall (n.) A light color of the iris in horses; wall-eye.
Whally (a.) Having the iris of light color; -- said of horses.
Whame (n.) A breeze fly.
Whammel (v. t.) To turn over.
Whan (adv.) When.
Whang (n.) A leather thong.
Whang (v. t.) To beat.
Whanghee (n.) See Wanghee.
Whap (v. i.) Alt. of Whop.
Whop (v. i.) To throw one's self quickly, or by an abrupt motion; to turn suddenly; as, she whapped down on the floor; the fish whapped over.
Whapped (imp. & p. p.) of Whop.
Whapping (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Whop.
Whap (v. t.) Alt. of Whop.
Whop (v. t.) To beat or strike.
Whap (n.) Alt. of Whop.
Whop (n.) A blow, or quick, smart stroke.
Whapper (n.) Alt. of Whopper.
Whopper (n.) Something uncommonly large of the kind; something astonishing; -- applied especially to a bold lie.
Whapping (a.) Alt. of Whopping.
Whopping (a.) Very large; monstrous; astonishing; as, a whapping story.
Wharfs (n. pl. ) of Wharf.
Wharves (n. pl. ) of Wharf.
Wharf (n.) A structure or platform of timber, masonry, iron, earth, or other material, built on the shore of a harbor, river, canal, or the like, and usually extending from the shore to deep water, so that vessels may lie close alongside to receive and discharge cargo, passengers, etc.; a quay; a pier.
Wharf (n.) The bank of a river, or the shore of the sea.
Wharfed (imp. & p. p.) of Wharf.
Wharfing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Wharf.
Wharf (v. t.) To guard or secure by a firm wall of timber or stone constructed like a wharf; to furnish with a wharf or wharfs.
Wharf (v. t.) To place upon a wharf; to bring to a wharf.
Wharfage (n.) The fee or duty paid for the privilege of using a wharf for loading or unloading goods; pierage, collectively; quayage.
Wharfage (n.) A wharf or wharfs, collectively; wharfing.
Wharfing (n.) Wharfs, collectively.
Wharfing (n.) A mode of facing sea walls and embankments with planks driven as piles and secured by ties.
Wharfinger (n.) A man who owns, or has the care of, a wharf.
Wharl (n.) Alt. of Wharling.
Wharling (n.) A guttural pronunciation of the letter r; a burr. See Burr, n., 6.
Wharp (n.) A kind of fine sand from the banks of the Trent, used as a polishing powder.
What (pron., a., & adv.) As an interrogative pronoun, used in asking questions regarding either persons or things; as, what is this? what did you say? what poem is this? what child is lost?
What see'st thou in the ground? -- Shak.
What is man, that thou art mindful of him? -- Ps. viii. 4.
What manner of man is this, that even the winds and the sea obey him! -- Matt. viii. 27.
Note: Originally, what, when, where, which, who, why, etc., were interrogatives only, and it is often difficult to determine whether they are used as interrogatives or relatives.
What in this sense, when it refers to things, may be used either substantively or adjectively; when it refers to persons, it is used only adjectively with a noun expressed, who being the pronoun used substantively.
What (pron., a., & adv.) As an exclamatory word: -- (a) Used absolutely or independently; -- often with a question following. "What welcome be thou." -- Chaucer.
What, could ye not watch with me one hour? -- Matt. xxvi. 40.
What (pron., a., & adv.) Used adjectively, meaning how remarkable, or how great; as, what folly! what eloquence! what courage!
What a piece of work is man! -- Shak.
O what a riddle of absurdity! -- Young.
Note: What in this use has a or an between itself and its noun if the qualitative or quantitative importance of the object is emphasized.
What (pron., a., & adv.) Sometimes prefixed to adjectives in an adverbial sense, as nearly equivalent to how; as, what happy boys!
What partial judges are our love and hate! -- Dryden.
What (pron., a., & adv.) As a relative pronoun:
What (pron., a., & adv.) Used substantively with the antecedent suppressed, equivalent to that which, or those [persons] who, or those [things] which; -- called a compound relative.
With joy beyond what victory bestows. -- Cowper.
I'm thinking Captain Lawton will count the noses of what are left before they see their whaleboats. --Cooper.
What followed was in perfect harmony with this beginning. -- Macaulay.
I know well . . . how little you will be disposed to criticise what comes to you from me. -- J. H. Newman.
What (pron., a., & adv.) Used adjectively, equivalent to the . . . which; the sort or kind of . . . which; rarely, the . . . on, or at, which.
See what natures accompany what colors. -- Bacon.
To restrain what power either the devil or any earthly enemy hath to work us woe. -- Milton.
We know what master laid thy keel, What workmen wrought thy ribs of steel. -- Longfellow.
What (pron., a., & adv.) Used adverbially in a sense corresponding to the adjectival use; as, he picked what good fruit he saw.
What (pron., a., & adv.) Whatever; whatsoever; what thing soever; -- used indefinitely. "What after so befall." -- Chaucer.
Whether it were the shortness of his foresight, the strength of his will, . . . or what it was. -- Bacon.
What (pron., a., & adv.) Used adverbially, in part; partly; somewhat; -- with a following preposition, especially, with, and commonly with repetition.
What for lust [pleasure] and what for lore. -- Chaucer.
Thus, what with the war, what with the sweat, what with the gallows, and what with poverty, I am custom shrunk. -- Shak.
The year before he had so used the matter that what by force, what by policy, he had taken from the Christians above thirty small castles. -- Knolles.
Note: In such phrases as I tell you what, what anticipates the following statement, being elliptical for what I think, what it is, how it is, etc. "I tell thee what, corporal Bardolph, I could tear her." -- Shak.
Here what relates to the last clause, "I could tear her;" this is what I tell you.
What not is often used at the close of an enumeration of several particulars or articles, it being an abbreviated clause, the verb of which, being either the same as that of the principal clause or a general word, as be, say, mention, enumerate, etc., is omitted. "Men hunt, hawk, and what not." --Becon. "Some dead puppy, or log, or what not." -- C. Kingsley. "Battles, tournaments, hunts, and what not." -- De Quincey. Hence, the words are often used in a general sense with the force of a substantive, equivalent to anything you please, a miscellany, a variety, etc. From this arises the name whatnot, applied to an ['e]tag[`e]re, as being a piece of furniture intended for receiving miscellaneous articles of use or ornament.
But what is used for but that, usually after a negative, and excludes everything contrary to the assertion in the following sentence. "Her needle is not so absolutely perfect in tent and cross stitch but what my superintendence is advisable." -- Sir W. Scott. "Never fear but what our kite shall fly as high." -- Ld. Lytton.
What ho! an exclamation of calling.
What if, what will it matter if; what will happen or be the result if. "What if it be a poison?" -- Shak.
What of this? What of that? What of it? etc., what follows from this, that, it, etc., often with the implication that it is of no consequence; so what? "All this is so; but what of this, my lord?" -- Shak. "The night is spent, why, what of that?" -- Shak.
What though, even granting that; allowing that; supposing it true that. "What though the rose have prickles, yet't is plucked." -- Shak.
What time, or What time as, when. [Obs. or Archaic] "What time I am afraid, I will trust in thee." -- Ps. lvi. 3.
What time the morn mysterious visions brings. -- Pope.
What (n.) Something; thing; stuff. [Obs.]
And gave him for to feed, Such homely what as serves the simple clown. -- Spenser.