Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter W - Page 35
Wisher (n.) One who wishes or desires; one who expresses a wish.
Wishful (a.) Having desire, or ardent desire; longing.
Wishful (a.) Showing desire; as, wishful eyes.
Wishful (a.) Desirable; exciting wishes.
Wishing () a. & n. from Wish, v. t.
Wishly (adv.) According to desire; longingly; with wishes.
Wishtonwish (n.) The prairie dog.
Wish-wash (n.) Any weak, thin drink.
Wishy-washy (a.) Thin and pale; weak; without strength or substance; -- originally said of liquids. Fig., weak-minded; spiritless.
Wishy-washy (n.) A weak or thin drink or liquor; wish-wash.
Wisket (n.) A whisket, or basket.
Wisly (adv.) Certainly.
Wisp (n.) A small bundle, as of straw or other like substance.
Wisp (n.) A whisk, or small broom.
Wisp (n.) A Will-o'-the-wisp; an ignis fatuus.
Wisped (imp. & p. p.) of Wisp.
Wisping (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Wisp.
Wisp (v. t.) To brush or dress, an with a wisp.
Wisp (v. t.) To rumple.
Wispen (a.) Formed of a wisp, or of wisp; as, a wispen broom.
Wispy (a.) 小把的；小束狀的；纖細的；微弱的 Thin and weak; "a wispy little fellow with small hands and feet"- Edmund Wilson [syn: {wisplike}, {wispy}].
Wispy (a.) Lacking clarity or distinctness; "a dim figure in the distance"; "only a faint recollection"; "shadowy figures in the gloom"; "saw a vague outline of a building through the fog"; "a few wispy memories of childhood" [syn: {dim}, {faint}, {shadowy}, {vague}, {wispy}].
Wispy (a.) 一縷（縷）的 In the form of a wisp or wisps.
// A wispy cloud/ fringe.
// Wispy hair.
Compare: Fringe
Fringe (n.) [C] 穗，緣飾，流蘇；蓬邊；穗狀物；（頭髮的）劉海；邊緣；界線 [P1] [（+of）] An ornamental border of threads left loose or formed into tassels or twists, used to edge clothing or material.
‘A long grey skirt with a fringe.’
‘The fringes of a prayer shawl.’
Fringe (n.) (British) The front part of a person's hair cut so as to hang over the forehead.
‘She smiled as she pushed her fringe back out of her eyes.’
Fringe (n.) A natural border of hair or fibres in an animal or plant.
‘A long fringe of hair on the tail.’
Fringe (n.) (the Fringe) The outer, marginal, or extreme part of an area, group, or sphere of activity.
‘His uncles were on the fringes of crooked activity.’
Fringe (n.) (The Fringe) A secondary festival on the periphery of the Edinburgh Festival.
‘She became noted for her work on the Fringe.’
Fringe (n.) A band of contrasting brightness or darkness produced by diffraction or interference of light.
Fringe (n.) A strip of false colour in an optical image.
Fringe (n.) (North American)
‘We offer the highest salary and fringes in the country.’
Short for Fringe benefit.
Fringe benefit (n. ph.) 額外福利 An extra benefit supplementing an employee's money wage or salary, for example a company car, private healthcare, etc.
‘Some occupations offer an employer's pension as a fringe benefit.’
Fringe (v.) (With object) 加穗於，在……上裝以緣飾 [（+with）]；是……的邊緣 Decorate (clothing or material) with a fringe.
‘A rich robe of gold, fringed with black velvet.’
Fringe (v.) (With object) Form a border around (something).
‘The sea is fringed by palm trees.’
Fringe (v.) (With object) (As adjective fringed) (Of a plant or animal) Having a border of hair or fibre.
‘The fringed green leaves.’
Wisse (a.) To show; to teach; to inform; to guide; to direct.
Wist (v.) Knew.
Wistaria (n.) A genus of climbing leguminous plants bearing long, pendulous clusters of pale bluish flowers.
Wistful (a.) Longing; wishful; desirous.
Wistful (a.) Full of thought; eagerly attentive; meditative; musing; pensive; contemplative.
Wistit (n.) A small South American monkey; a marmoset.
Wistly (adv.) Attentively; observingly.
Wistonwish (n.) See Wishtonwish.
Wit (inf.) of Wit.
Wot (pres. sing.) of Wit.
Wite (n. pl.) of Wit.
Wist(e) (imp.) of Wit.
Wist (p. p.) of Wit.
Wit(t)ing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Wit.
Wit (v. t. & v. 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.
Wit (n.) Mind; intellect; understanding; sense.
Who knew the wit of the Lord? or who was his counselor? -- Wyclif (Rom. xi. 34).
A prince most prudent, of an excellent And unmatched wit and judgment. -- Shak.
Will puts in practice what wit deviseth. -- Sir J. Davies.
He wants not wit the dander to decline. -- Dryden.
Wit (n.) A mental faculty, or power of the mind; -- used in this sense chiefly in the plural, and in certain phrases; as, to lose one's wits; at one's wits' end, and the like. "Men's wittes ben so dull." -- Chaucer.
I will stare him out of his wits. -- Shak.
Wit (v.) Felicitous association of objects not usually connected, so as to produce a pleasant surprise; also. the power of readily combining objects in such a manner.
The definition of wit is only this, that it is a propriety of thoughts and words; or, in other terms, thoughts and words elegantly adapted to the subject. -- Dryden.
Wit which discovers partial likeness hidden in general diversity. -- Coleridge.
Wit lying most in the assemblage of ideas, and putting those together with quickness and variety wherein can be found any resemblance or congruity, thereby to make up pleasant pictures in the fancy. -- Locke.
Wit (v.) A person of eminent sense or knowledge; a man of genius, fancy, or humor; one distinguished for bright or amusing sayings, for repartee, and the like.
In Athens, where books and wits were ever busier than in any other part of Greece, I find but only two sorts of writings which the magistrate cared to take notice of; those either blasphemous and atheistical, or libelous. -- Milton.
Intemperate wits will spare neither friend nor foe. -- L'Estrange.
A wit herself, Amelia weds a wit. -- Young.
The five wits, the five senses; also, sometimes, the five qualities or faculties, common wit, imagination, fantasy, estimation, and memory. -- Chaucer. Nares.
But my five wits nor my five senses can Dissuade one foolish heart from serving thee. -- Shak.
Syn: Ingenuity; humor; satire; sarcasm; irony; burlesque.
Usage: Wit, Humor. Wit primarily meant mind; and now denotes the power of seizing on some thought or occurrence, and, by a sudden turn, presenting it under aspects wholly new and unexpected – apparently natural and admissible, if not perfectly just, and bearing on the subject, or the parties concerned, with a laughable keenness and force. "What I want," said a pompous orator, aiming at his antagonist, "is common sense." "Exactly!" was the whispered reply. The pleasure we find in wit arises from the ingenuity of the turn, the sudden surprise it brings, and the patness of its application to the case, in the new and ludicrous relations thus flashed upon the view. Humor is a quality more congenial to the English mind than
wit. It consists primarily in taking up the peculiarities of a humorist (or eccentric person) and drawing them out, as Addison did those of Sir Roger de Coverley, so that we enjoy a hearty, good-natured laugh at his unconscious manifestation of whims and oddities. From this original sense the term has been widened to embrace other sources of kindly mirth of the same general character. In a well-known caricature of English reserve, an Oxford student is represented as standing on the brink of a river, greatly agitated at the sight of a drowning man before him, and crying out, "O that I had been introduced to this gentleman, that I might save his life!" The "Silent Woman" of Ben Jonson is one of the most humorous productions, in the
original sense of the term, which we have in our language.
Wit (n.) A message whose ingenuity or verbal skill or incongruity has the power to evoke laughter [syn: wit, humor, humour, witticism, wittiness].
Wit (n.) Mental ability; "he's got plenty of brains but no common sense" [syn: brain, brainpower, learning ability, mental capacity, mentality, wit].
Wit (n.) A witty amusing person who makes jokes [syn: wag, wit, card].
Wit (n.) The salt with which the American humorist spoils his intellectual cookery by leaving it out.
Witch (n.) 巫婆，女巫 A cone of paper which is placed in a vessel of lard or other fat, and used as a taper. [Prov. Eng.]
Witch (n.) One who practices the black art, or magic; one regarded as possessing supernatural or magical power by compact with an evil spirit, esp. with the Devil; a sorcerer or sorceress; -- now applied chiefly or only to women, but formerly used of men as well.
There was a man in that city whose name was Simon, a witch. -- Wyclif (Acts viii. 9).
He can not abide the old woman of Brentford; he swears she's a witch. -- Shak.
Witch (n.) An ugly old woman; a hag. -- Shak.
Witch (n.) One who exercises more than common power of attraction; a charming or bewitching person; also, one given to mischief; -- said especially of a woman or child. [Colloq.]
Witch (n.) (Geom.) A certain curve of the third order, described by Maria Agnesi under the name versiera.
Witch (n.) (Zool.) The stormy petrel.
Witch (n.) A Wiccan; an adherent or practitioner of Wicca, a religion which in different forms may be paganistic and nature-oriented, or ditheistic. The term witch applies to both male and female adherents in this sense.
Witch balls, A name applied to the interwoven rolling masses of the stems of herbs, which are driven by the winds over the steppes of Tartary. Cf. Tumbleweed. -- Maunder (Treas. of Bot.)
Witches' besoms (Bot.), Tufted and distorted branches of the silver fir, caused by the attack of some fungus. -- Maunder (Treas. of Bot.)
Witches' butter (Bot.), A name of several gelatinous cryptogamous plants, as Nostoc commune, and Exidia glandulosa. See Nostoc.
Witch+grass+(Bot.),+A+kind+of+grass+({Panicum+capillare">Witch grass (Bot.), a kind of grass ({Panicum capillare) with minute spikelets on long, slender pedicels forming a light, open panicle.
Witch meal (Bot.), Vegetable sulphur. See under Vegetable.
Witched (imp. & p. p.) of Witch.
Witching (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Witch.
Witch (v. t.) 施巫術，迷惑 To bewitch; to fascinate; to enchant.
[I 'll] witch sweet ladies with my words and looks. -- Shak.
Whether within us or without The spell of this illusion be That witches us to hear and see. -- Lowell.
Witch (n.) A female sorcerer or magician [syn: enchantress, witch].
Witch (n.) A being (usually female) imagined to have special powers derived from the devil.
Witch (n.) A believer in Wicca [syn: Wiccan, witch].
Witch (n.) An ugly evil-looking old woman [syn: hag, beldam, beldame, witch, crone].
Witch (v.) Cast a spell over someone or something; put a hex on someone or something [syn: hex, bewitch, glamour, witch, enchant, jinx].
WITCH, () Wolverhampton Instrument for Teaching Computation from Harwell.
Witch, () Occurs only in Ex. 22:18, as the rendering of mekhashshepheh, the feminine form of the word, meaning "enchantress" (R.V., "sorceress"), and in Deut. 18:10, as the rendering of mekhashshepheth, the masculine form of the word, meaning "enchanter."
Witch (n.) Any ugly and repulsive old woman, in a wicked league with the devil.
Witch (n.) A beautiful and attractive young woman, in wickedness a league beyond the devil.
Witchcraft (n.) [U] 巫術，魔法；魔力；魅力 The practices or art of witches.
Witchcraft (n.) Hence: Sorcery; enchantments; intercourse with evil spirits.
Witchcraft (n.) Power more than natural; irresistible influence.
He hath a witchcraft Over the king in 's tongue. -- Shak.
Witchcraft (n.) Adherence to or the practice of Wicca. In this sense the term does not necessarily include attempts at practice of magic, other than by prayers to the deities.
Witchcraft (n.) The art of sorcery [syn: witchcraft, witchery].
Witchcraft, () (1 Sam. 15:23; 2 Kings 9:22; 2 Chr. 33:6; Micah 5:12; Nahum 3:4; Gal. 5:20). In the popular sense of the word no mention is made either of witches or of witchcraft in Scripture.
The "witch of En-dor" (1 Sam. 28) was a necromancer, i.e., one who feigned to hold converse with the dead. The damsel with "a spirit of divination" (Acts 16:16) was possessed by an evil spirit, or, as the words are literally rendered, "having a spirit, a pithon." The reference is to the heathen god Apollo, who was regarded as the god of prophecy.
Witch-elm (n.) See Wych-elm.
Witcheries (n. pl. ) of Witchery.
Witchery (n.) Sorcery; enchantment; witchcraft.
Witchery (n.) Fascination; irresistible influence; enchantment.
Witch-hazel (n.) The wych-elm.
Witch-hazel (n.) An American shrub or small tree (Hamamelis Virginica), which blossoms late in autumn.
Witching (a.) That witches or enchants; suited to enchantment or witchcraft; bewitching.
Witch-tree (n.) The witch-hazel.
Witchuck (n.) The sand martin, or bank swallow.
Wit-cracker (n.) One who breaks jests; a joker.
Witcraft (n.) Art or skill of the mind; contrivance; invention; wit.
Witcraft (n.) The art of reasoning; logic.
Wite (v.) To reproach; to blame; to censure; also, to impute as blame.
Wite (v.) Blame; reproach.
Witeless (a.) Blameless.
Witen () pl. pres. of {Wit}. (Obs.) -- Chaucer.
Witenagemote (n.) (As Hist.) 賢人會議〈英〉 盎格魯-撒 克遜時代的國家最高會議。其組成人員包括國王、貴族 、領主、高級教士、郡長等。該會議通常通過公開或特別召集的方式在某城鎮公開舉行，會議召集通知依據國王的特選會議的決定發出。其主要職能是輔助國王處理 政務。具體而言，包括以下方面：廢黜治國不當的國王；王位空缺時選舉國王；與國王一道制定和執行法律，批准徵稅以及宣佈戰爭與和平；作為國家最高法院，聽 審刑事與民事案件，特別是國王與其塞恩〔King's thegn〕 之間的爭議案件，聽審來自下級法院的所有上訴案件；任命國家重要行政官員及主教；規定王國幣制等。賢人會議的建議對國王非常重要，所有重大活動如制定法律 等都是在賢人會議的建議下進行的，但是賢人會議的建議應當徵得自由地產保有人的同意。「諾曼征服」後，賢人會議被稱作「民眾大會」〔commune concilium regni〕、「御前會議」〔Curia Regis〕，最後被稱之為「議會」〔parliament〕，但其性質發生了顯著的變化。
= witenagemot; wittenagemot; witanagemote → Great Council ( 撰)
A meeting of wise men; the national council, or legislature, of England in the days of the Anglo-Saxons, before the Norman Conquest.
Witfish (n.) The ladyfish (a).
Witful (a.) Wise; sensible.
With (n.) See Withe.
With (prep.) With denotes or expresses some situation or relation of nearness, proximity, association, connection, or the like.
With (prep.) To denote a close or direct relation of opposition or hostility; -- equivalent to against.
With (prep.) To denote association in respect of situation or environment; hence, among; in the company of.
With (prep.) To denote a connection of friendship, support, alliance, assistance, countenance, etc.; hence, on the side of.
With (prep.) To denote the accomplishment of cause, means, instrument, etc; -- sometimes equivalent to by.
With (prep.) To denote association in thought, as for comparison or contrast.
With (prep.) To denote simultaneous happening, or immediate succession or consequence.
With (prep.) To denote having as a possession or an appendage; as, the firmament with its stars; a bride with a large fortune.
Withal (adv.) With this; with that.
Withal (adv.) Together with this; likewise; at the same time; in addition; also.
Withal (prep.) With; -- put after its object, at the end of sentence or clause in which it stands.
Withamite (n.) A variety of epidote, of a reddish color, found in Scotland.
Withdrew (imp.) of Withdraw.
Withdrawn (p. p.) of Withdraw.
Withdrawing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Withdraw
Withdraw (v. i.) 撤退；離開；退出 [（+from）] To retire; to retreat; to quit a company or place; to go away; as, he withdrew from the company. "When the sea withdrew." --King Horn.
Syn: To recede; retrograde; go back.
Withdraw (v. t.) 抽回；拉開；移開；收回；取回；提取 [（+from/ out of）] To take back or away, as what has been bestowed or enjoyed; to draw back; to cause to move away or retire; as, to withdraw aid, favor, capital, or the like.
Impossible it is that God should withdraw his presence from anything. -- Hooker.
Withdraw (v. t.) To take back; to recall or retract; as, to withdraw false charges.
Withdraw (v.) Pull back or move away or backward; "The enemy withdrew"; "The limo pulled away from the curb" [syn: {withdraw}, {retreat}, {pull away}, {draw back}, {recede}, {pull back}, {retire}, {move back}] [ant: {advance}, {go on}, {march on}, {move on}, {pass on}, {progress}].
Withdraw (v.) Withdraw from active participation; "He retired from chess" [syn: {retire}, {withdraw}]
Withdraw (v.) Release from something that holds fast, connects, or entangles; "I want to disengage myself from his influence"; "disengage the gears" [syn: {disengage}, {withdraw}] [ant: {engage}, {lock}, {mesh}, {operate}].
Withdraw (v.) Cause to be returned; "recall the defective auto tires"; "The manufacturer tried to call back the spoilt yoghurt" [syn: {recall}, {call in}, {call back}, {withdraw}].
Withdraw (v.) Take back what one has said; "He swallowed his words" [syn: {swallow}, {take back}, {unsay}, {withdraw}].
Withdraw (v.) Keep away from others; "He sequestered himself in his study to write a book" [syn: {seclude}, {sequester}, {sequestrate}, {withdraw}].
Withdraw (v.) Break from a meeting or gathering; "We adjourned for lunch"; "The men retired to the library" [syn: {adjourn}, {withdraw}, {retire}].
Withdraw (v.) Retire gracefully; "He bowed out when he realized he could no longer handle the demands of the chairmanship" [syn: {bow out}, {withdraw}].
Withdraw (v.) Remove (a commodity) from (a supply source); "She drew $2,000 from the account"; "The doctors drew medical supplies from the hospital's emergency bank" [syn: {withdraw}, {draw}, {take out}, {draw off}] [ant: {bank}, {deposit}].
Withdraw (v.) Lose interest; "he retired from life when his wife died" [syn: {retire}, {withdraw}].
Withdraw (v.) Make a retreat from an earlier commitment or activity; "We'll have to crawfish out from meeting with him"; "He backed out of his earlier promise"; "The aggressive investment company pulled in its horns" [syn: {retreat}, {pull back}, {back out}, {back away}, {crawfish}, {crawfish out}, {pull in one's horns}, {withdraw}].
Withdraw (v.) Remove something concrete, as by lifting, pushing, or taking off, or remove something abstract; "remove a threat"; "remove a wrapper"; "Remove the dirty dishes from the table"; "take the gun from your pocket"; "This machine withdraws heat from the environment" [syn: {remove}, {take}, {take away}, {withdraw}].
Withdraw (v.) (Withdrew, withdrawn) (Remove) (C1) [ I or T ] 抽回；取回；提取；撤回；撤離；退出；移回 To take or move out or back, or to remove.
// This credit card allows you to withdraw up to £200 a day from ATMs.
// The UN has withdrawn its troops from the country.
// Eleven million bottles of water had to be withdrawn from sale due to a health scare.
// Once in court, he withdrew the statement he'd made to the police (= he claimed it was false).
// All charges against them were withdrawn after the prosecution's case collapsed.
// (Formal) After lunch, we withdrew into her office to finish our discussion in private.
// She had to withdraw from the competition because of a leg injury.
// Following his nervous breakdown, he withdrew from public life and refused to give any interviews.
Withdraw (v.) (Stop contact) [ I ] 不再說話；沉默；不與人交流 To stop talking to other people and start thinking thoughts that are not related to what is happening around you.
// As a child, she frequently withdrew into her own fantasy world.
// After the accident, he withdrew into himself and refused to talk to family or friends.
Withdrawal (n.) [U] [C] 收回；撤回；撤清；撤退；退縮；退隱；停止吸毒 The act of withdrawing; withdrawment; retreat; retraction. -- Fielding.
Withdrawal (n.) A retraction of a previously held position [syn: {withdrawal}, {backdown}, {climb-down}].
Withdrawal (n.) The act of taking out money or other capital.
Withdrawal (n.) The act of withdrawing; "the withdrawal of French troops from Vietnam".
Withdrawal (n.) Avoiding emotional involvement [syn: {withdrawal}, {detachment}].
Withdrawal (n.) The act of withdrawing blood, tumors, etc.; "the nurse was expert at the withdrawal of blood".
Withdrawal (n.) The act of ceasing to participate in an activity
Withdrawal (n.) A method of birth control in which coitus is initiated but the penis is deliberately withdrawn before ejaculation [syn: {coitus interruptus}, {withdrawal method}, {withdrawal}, {pulling out}, {onanism}].
Withdrawal (n.) Formal separation from an alliance or federation [syn: {secession}, {withdrawal}].
Withdrawal (n.) The termination of drug taking [syn: {withdrawal}, {drug withdrawal}].
Withdrawer (n.) One who withdraws; one who takes back, or retracts.
Withdrawing-room (n.) A room for retirement from another room, as from a dining room; a drawing-room.
Withdrawment (n.) The act of withdrawing; withdrawal. -- W. Belsham.
Word Frequency
Withdrawment (n.) (In British) An obsolete word for withdrawal (sense 1).
Withe (v. t.) 用枝條捆紮 To bind or fasten with withes.
You shall see him withed, and haltered, and staked, and baited to death. -- Bp. Hall.
Withe (n.) 細枝；枝條；柳條 A flexible, slender twig or branch used as a band; a willow or osier twig; a withy.
Compare: Withy
Withy (n.) (Also Withe)（柳樹的）細枝；柳條繩索 A tough, flexible branch of an osier or other willow, used for tying, binding, or basketry.
‘It is fixed with withies tied to the common rafters.’
[As modifier] ‘A withy basket.’
Withy (n.) (Also Withe) Another term for O sier.
Compare: Osier
Osier (n.) [C] 柳樹；柳條，柳枝；（北美）棶木 A small Eurasian willow which grows mostly in wet habitats. It is usually coppiced, being a major source of the long flexible shoots (withies) used in basketwork.
Salix viminalis, family Salicaceae.
Osier (n.) A shoot of a willow.
Osier (n.) [Dated] Any willow tree.
Withy (n.) (In British) (pl. Withies) A variant spelling of with (sense 1), with (sense 2).
Withy (n.) A willow tree, esp an Osier.
Withy (a.) (Of people) 柳枝的；柔而堅韌的 Tough and agile.
Withy (a.) (Rare) Resembling a with in strength or flexibility.
Withy (n.) (In American) (pl. Withies) A tough, flexible twig of willow, osier, etc., used for binding things; with.
Withy (a.) Tough and flexible; wiry.
Compare: Wiry
Wiry (a.) 金屬線製的；金屬絲般的；堅硬的；韌的；（人等）瘦而結實的，筋骨強壯的 Resembling wire in form and texture.
‘His wiry black hair.’
Wiry (a.) (Of a person) Lean, tough, and sinewy.
‘Bernadette was a small, wiry woman’
Sinewy (a.) （多）肌腱的；肌肉發達的；有力的 Consisting of or resembling sinews.
Sinewy (a.) (Of a person or animal) Lean and muscular.
‘A short, sinewy, sunburnt man.’
[Figurative] ‘The language is spare and sinewy.’
Compare: Sinew
Sinew (n.)【解】腱 [C] [U]；體力，活力，精力 [P1]；主要支柱，砥柱；資源 [P1] A piece of tough fibrous tissue uniting muscle to bone; a tendon or ligament.
‘The sinews in her neck.’
[Mass noun ]‘He was all muscle and sinew.’
Sinew (n.) (Usually Sinews) The parts of a structure, system, or organization that give it strength or bind it together.
‘The sinews of government.’
Sinew (v.) [With object] (Usually as adjective Sinewed) [Literary] 使牢固；支持，加強 Strengthen with or as if with sinews.
‘The sinewed shape of his back.’
Withe (n.) A band consisting of a twig twisted.
Withe (n.) (Natu.) An iron attachment on one end of a mast or boom, with a ring, through which another mast or boom is rigged out and secured; a wythe. -- R. H. Dana, Jr.
Withe (n.) (Arch.) A partition between flues in a chimney.
Withe (n.) Band or rope made of twisted twigs or stems.
Withe (n.) Strong flexible twig [syn: {withe}, {withy}].
Withed (imp. & p. p.) of With.
Withing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of With.
Withered (imp. & p. p.) of Wither.