Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter W

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Wives (n.) pl. of Wife.

Wizard (n.) [C] 男巫；術士；【口】奇才；高手，名家 [（+at）] A wise man; a sage. [Obs.]

See how from far upon the eastern road The star-led wizards [Magi] haste with odors sweet! -- Milton.

Wizard (n.) One devoted to the black art; a magician; a conjurer; a sorcerer; an enchanter.

The wily wizard must be caught. -- Dryden.

Wizard (a.) 男巫的；術士的；巫術的，魔法的；【英】【口】傑出的，極好的 Enchanting; charming. -- Collins.

Wizard (a.) Haunted by wizards.

Where Deva spreads her wizard stream. -- Milton.

Wizard (a.) Possessing or using or characteristic of or appropriate to supernatural powers; "charming incantations"; "magic signs that protect against adverse influence"; "a magical spell"; "'tis now the very witching time of night"- Shakespeare; "wizard wands"; "wizardly powers" [syn: charming, magic, magical, sorcerous, witching(a), wizard(a), wizardly].

Wizard (n.) Someone who is dazzlingly skilled in any field [syn: ace, adept, champion, sensation, maven, mavin, virtuoso, genius, hotshot, star, superstar, whiz, whizz, wizard, wiz].

Wizard (n.) One who practices magic or sorcery [syn: sorcerer, magician, wizard, necromancer, thaumaturge, thaumaturgist].

Wizard (n.) Transitively, a person who knows how a complex piece of software or hardware works (that is, who groks it); esp. someone who can find and fix bugs quickly in an emergency. Someone is a hacker if he or she has general hacking ability, but is a wizard with respect to something only if he or she has specific detailed knowledge of that thing. A good hacker could become a wizard for something given the time to study it.

Wizard (n.) The term ?wizard? is also used intransitively of someone who has extremely high-level hacking or problem-solving ability.

Wizard (n.) A person who is permitted to do things forbidden to ordinary people; one who has wheel privileges on a system.

Wizard (n.) A Unix expert, esp. a Unix systems programmer. This usage is well enough established that ?Unix Wizard? is a recognized job title at some corporations and to most headhunters.

See guru, lord high fixer. See also deep magic, heavy wizardry, {incantation, magic, mutter, rain dance, voodoo programming, wave a dead chicken.

Wizard, () A person who knows how a complex piece of software or hardware works (that is, who groks it); especially someone who can find and fix bugs quickly in an emergency. Someone is a hacker if he or she has general hacking ability, but is a wizard with respect to something only if he or she hasspecific detailed knowledge of that thing. A good hacker could become a wizard for something given the time to study it.

Wizard, () A person who is permitted to do things forbidden to ordinary people; one who has wheel privileges on a system.

Wizard, () A Unix expert, especially a Unix systems programmer. This usage is well enough established that "Unix Wizard" is a recognised job title at some corporations and to most headhunters.

See guru, lord high fixer. See also deep magic, heavy wizardry, incantation, magic, mutter, rain dance, voodoo programming, wave a dead chicken.

Wizard, () An interactive help utility that guides the user through a potentially complex task, such as configuring a PPP driver to work with a new modem. Wizards are often implemented as a sequence of dialog boxes which the user can move forward and backward through, filling in the details required. The implication is that the expertise of a human wizard in one of the above senses is encapsulated in the software wizard, allowing the average user to perform expertly. [{Jargon File] (1998-09-07)

Wizard, () A pretender to supernatural knowledge and power, "a knowing one," as the original Hebrew word signifies. Such an one was forbidden on pain of death to practise his deceptions (Lev.19:31; 20:6, 27; 1 Sam. 28:3; Isa. 8:19; 19:3).

Wizardly (a.) Resembling or becoming a wizard; wizardlike; weird.

Wizardly (a.) Possessing or using or characteristic of or appropriate to supernatural powers; "charming incantations"; "magic signs that protect against adverse influence"; "a magical spell"; "'tis now the very witching time of night"- Shakespeare; "wizard wands"; "wizardly powers" [syn: charming, magic, magical, sorcerous, witching (a), wizard(a), wizardly].

Wizardly (a.) Pertaining to wizards. A wizardly feature is one that only a wizard could understand or use properly.

Wizardly, () Pertaining to wizards. A wizardly feature is one that only a wizard could understand or use properly. [{Jargon File]

Wizardry (n.) The character or practices o? wizards; sorcery; magic. "He acquired a reputation bordering on wizardry." -- J. A. Symonds.

Wizardry (n.) Exceptional creative ability [syn: genius, wizardry].

Wizen (v. i.) To wither; to dry. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.]

Wizen (a.) Wizened; thin; weazen; withered.

A little lonely, wizen, strangely clad boy. -- Dickens.

Wizen (n.) The weasand. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.]

Wizen (a.) Lean and wrinkled by shrinkage as from age or illness; "the old woman's shriveled skin"; "he looked shriveled and ill"; "a shrunken old man"; "a lanky scarecrow of a man with withered face and lantern jaws"-W.F.Starkie; "he did well despite his withered arm"; "a wizened little man with frizzy grey hair" [syn: shriveled, shrivelled, shrunken, withered, wizen, wizened].

Wizened (a.) Dried; shriveled; withered; shrunken; weazen; as, a wizened old man.

Wizened (a.) Lean and wrinkled by shrinkage as from age or illness; "the old woman's shriveled skin"; "he looked shriveled and ill"; "a shrunken old man"; "a lanky scarecrow of a man with withered face and lantern jaws"-W.F.Starkie; "he did well despite his withered arm"; "a wizened little man with frizzy grey hair" [syn: shriveled, shrivelled, shrunken, withered, wizen, wizened].

Wizen-faced (a.) Having a shriveled, thin, withered face.

Wlatsome (a.) Loathsome; disgusting; hateful. [Obs.]

Murder is . . . wlatsom and abhominable to God. -- Chaucer.

Wo (n. & a.) See Woe. [Obs.] -- Chaucer.

Woe (n.) Grief; sorrow; misery; heavy calamity.

Thus saying, from her side the fatal key, Sad instrument of all our woe, she took. -- Milton.

[They] weep each other's woe. -- Pope.

Woe (n.) A curse; a malediction.

Can there be a woe or curse in all the stores of vengeance equal to the malignity of such a practice? -- South.

Note: Woe is used in denunciation, and in exclamations of sorrow. " Woe is me! for I am undone." -- Isa. v. i. 5.

O! woe were us alive [i.e., in life]. -- Chaucer.

Woe unto him that striveth with his Maker! -- Isa. xlv. 9.

Woe worth, Woe be to. See Worth, v. i.

Woe worth the chase, woe worth the day, That costs thy life, my gallant gray! -- Sir W. Scott.

WebObjects

WO,

Apple Computer, Inc.'s application server framework for developing dynamic web applications.

WebObjects applications accept HTTP requests either directly (usually on a specific port) or via an adaptor that sits between them and the web server. Adaptors are either CGI programs or web server plug-ins ({NSAPI or ISAPI).

The server processes special tags in HTML pages to produce dynamic but standard HTML. Tools are provided to easily set nd get object properties and invoke methods from these tags. Applications can maintain state over multiple HTTP request-response transactions (which are intrinsically stateless). Applications can also use Apple's Enterprise Object Framework object relational mapping libraries for object persistence and database access.

WebObjects was originally based on Objective C and a simple scripting language but now is more likely to be used with Java. Versions are available for OS X, Windows and Unix.

Apple acquired WebObjects from NeXT, along with Steve Jobs. (2005-01-14)

Woad (n.) (Bot.) An herbaceous cruciferous plant ({Isatis tinctoria). It was formerly cultivated for the blue coloring matter derived from its leaves. See isatin.

Woad (n.) A blue dyestuff, or coloring matter, consisting of the powdered and fermented leaves of the Isatis tinctoria. It is now superseded by indigo, but is somewhat used with indigo as a ferment in dyeing.

Their bodies . . . painted with woad in sundry figures. -- Milton.

Wild+woad+(Bot.),+The+weld+({Reseda+luteola">Wild woad (Bot.), The weld ({Reseda luteola). See Weld.

Woad mill, A mill grinding and preparing woad.

Woad (n.) A blue dyestuff obtained from the woad plant.

Woad (n.) Any of several herbs of the genus Isatis.

Woaded (a.) Colored or stained with woad. "Man tattoed or woaded, winter-clad in skins." -- Tennyson.

Woad-waxen (n.) (Bot.) A leguminous plant ({Genista tinctoria) of Europe and Russian Asia, and adventitious in America; -- called also greenwood, greenweed, dyer's greenweed, and whin, wood-wash, wood-wax, and wood-waxen.

Weld (n.) (Bot.) 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. [Written also woald, wold, and would.].

Weld (n.) Coloring matter or dye extracted from this plant.

Woald (n.) See Weld.

Wobble (v. i.) See Wabble.

Wobble (n.) An unsteady rocking motion.

Wobble (v.) Move unsteadily; "His knees wobbled"; "The old cart wobbled down the street" [syn: wobble, coggle].

Wobble (v.) Move sideways or in an unsteady way; "The ship careened out of control" [syn: careen, wobble, shift, tilt].

Wobble (v.) Tremble or shake; "His voice wobbled with restrained emotion" [syn: shimmy, wobble].

Wode (a.) Mad. See Wood, a. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] -- Chaucer.

Wode (n.) Wood. -- Chaucer.

Wood (a.) Mad; insane; possessed; rabid; furious; frantic. [Obs.] [Written also wode.]

Our hoste gan to swear as [if] he were wood. -- Chaucer.

Wodegeld (n.) (O. Eng. Law) A geld, or payment, for wood. -- Burrill.

Woden (n.) (Northern Myth.) A deity corresponding to Odin, the supreme deity of the Scandinavians. Wednesday is named for him. See Odin.

Woden (n.) Chief god; counterpart of Norse Odin and Teutonic Wotan [syn: Woden, Wodan].

Woden, IA -- U.S. city in Iowa

Population (2000): 243

Housing Units (2000): 125

Land area (2000): 0.429444 sq. miles (1.112254 sq. km)

Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)

Total area (2000): 0.429444 sq. miles (1.112254 sq. km)

FIPS code: 86700

Located within: Iowa (IA), FIPS 19

Location: 43.230471 N, 93.909436 W

ZIP Codes (1990): 50484

Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.

Headwords:

Woden, IA

Woden

Woe (n.) Grief; sorrow; misery; heavy calamity.

Thus saying, from her side the fatal key, Sad instrument of all our woe, she took. -- Milton.

[They] weep each other's woe. -- Pope.
Woe (n.) A curse; a malediction.

Can there be a woe or curse in all the stores of vengeance equal to the malignity of such a practice? -- South.

Note: Woe is used in denunciation, and in exclamations of sorrow. " Woe is me! for I am undone." -- Isa. v. i. 5.

O! woe were us alive [i.e., in life]. -- Chaucer.

Woe unto him that striveth with his Maker! -- Isa. xlv. 9.

Woe worth, Woe be to. See Worth, v. i.

Woe worth the chase, woe worth the day, That costs thy life, my gallant gray! -- Sir W. Scott.

Woe (a.) Woeful; sorrowful. [Obs.]

His clerk was woe to do that deed. -- Robert of Brunne.

Woe was this knight and sorrowfully he sighed. -- Chaucer.

And looking up he waxed wondrous woe. -- Spenser.

Woe (n.) Misery resulting from affliction [syn: suffering, woe].

Woe (n.) Intense mournfulness [syn: woe, woefulness].

Woe-begone (a.) Beset or overwhelmed with woe; immersed in grief or sorrow; woeful. -- Chaucer.

So woe-begone was he with pains of love. -- Fairfax. Woeful

Woeful (a.) Alt. of Woful

Woful (a.) Full of woe; sorrowful; distressed with grief or calamity; afflicted; wretched; unhappy; sad.

How many woeful widows left to bow To sad disgrace! -- Daniel.

Woful (a.) Bringing calamity, distress, or affliction; as, a woeful event; woeful want.

O woeful day! O day of woe! -- Philips.

Woful (a.) Wretched; paltry; miserable; poor.

What woeful stuff this madrigal would be! -- Pope. Woefully

Woeful (a.) Affected by or full of grief or woe; "his sorrow...made him look...haggard and...woebegone"- George du Maurier [syn: woebegone, woeful].

Woeful (a.) Of very poor quality or condition; "deplorable housing conditions in the inner city"; "woeful treatment of the accused"; "woeful errors of judgment" [syn: deplorable, execrable, miserable, woeful, wretched].

Woefully (adv.) Alt. of Wofully.

Wofully (adv.) In a woeful manner; sorrowfully; mournfully; miserably; dolefully.

Woefully (adv.) In an unfortunate or deplorable manner; "he was sadly neglected"; "it was woefully inadequate" [syn: deplorably, lamentably, sadly, woefully].

Woefulness (n.) Alt. of Wofulness

Wofulness (n.) The quality or state of being woeful; misery; wretchedness.

Woefulness (n.) Intense mournfulness [syn: woe, woefulness].

Woesome (a.) Woeful. [Obs.] -- Langhorne.

Wake (v. i.) [imp. & p. p. Wakedor Woke (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Waking.] To be or to continue awake; to watch; not to sleep.

The father waketh for the daughter. -- Ecclus. xlii. 9.

Though wisdom wake, suspicion sleeps. -- Milton.

I can not think any time, waking or sleeping, without being sensible of it. -- Locke.

Wake (v. i.) To sit up late festive purposes; to hold a night revel.

The king doth wake to-night, and takes his rouse, Keeps wassail, and the swaggering upspring reels. -- Shak.

Wake (v. i.) To be excited or roused from sleep; to awake; to be awakened; to cease to sleep; -- often with up.

He infallibly woke up at the sound of the concluding doxology. -- G. Eliot.

Wake (v. i.) To be exited or roused up; to be stirred up from a dormant, torpid, or inactive state; to be active.

Gentle airs due at their hour To fan the earth now waked. -- Milton.

Then wake, my soul, to high desires. -- Keble.

Woke (imp. & p. p.) Wake.

Wol (v. t. & i.) See 2d Will. [Obs.] -- Chaucer.

WOL, () Wake On LAN (LAN, APM, BIOS)

Weld (n.) Coloring matter or dye extracted from this plant.

Wold (n.) A wood; a forest.

Wold (n.) A plain, or low hill; a country without wood, whether hilly or not.

And from his further bank Aetolia's wolds espied. -- Byron.

The wind that beats the mountain, blows More softly round the open wold. -- Tennyson.

Wold (n.) See Weld.

Wold (n.) A tract of open rolling country (especially upland).

Wolde () imp. of Will. See Would.

Wolves (n. pl. ) of Wolf.

Wolf (a.) (Zool.) Any one of several species of wild and savage carnivores belonging to the genus Canis and closely allied to the common dog. The best-known and most destructive species are the European wolf ({Canis lupus), the American gray, or timber, wolf ({C. occidentalis), and the prairie wolf, or coyote. Wolves often hunt in packs, and may thus attack large animals and even man.

Wolf (a.) (Zool.) One of the destructive, and usually hairy, larvae of several species of beetles and grain moths; as, the bee wolf.

Wolf (a.) Fig.: Any very ravenous, rapacious, or destructive person or thing; especially, want; starvation; as, they toiled hard to keep the wolf from the door.

Wolf (a.) A white worm, or maggot, which infests granaries.

Wolf (a.) An eating ulcer or sore. Cf. Lupus. [Obs.]

If God should send a cancer upon thy face, or a wolf into thy side. -- Jer. Taylor.

Wolf (a.) (Mus.) The harsh, howling sound of some of the chords on an organ or piano tuned by unequal temperament.

Wolf (a.) (Mus.) In bowed instruments, a harshness due to defective vibration in certain notes of the scale.

Wolf (a.) (Textile Manuf.) A willying machine. -- Knight.

Black wolf. (Zool.) (a) A black variety of the European wolf which is common in the Pyrenees.

Black wolf. (Zool.) (b) A black variety of the American gray wolf.

Golden+wolf+(Zool.),+The+Thibetan+wolf+({Canis+laniger">Golden wolf (Zool.), the Thibetan wolf ({Canis laniger); -- called also chanco.

Indian+wolf+(Zool.),+An+Asiatic+wolf+({Canis+pallipes">Indian wolf (Zool.), an Asiatic wolf ({Canis pallipes) which somewhat resembles a jackal. Called also landgak.

Prairie wolf (Zool.), The coyote.

Sea wolf. (Zool.) See in the Vocabulary.

Strand wolf (Zool.) The striped hyena.

Tasmanian wolf (Zool.), The zebra wolf.

Tiger wolf (Zool.), The spotted hyena.

To keep the wolf from the door, To keep away poverty; to prevent starvation. See Wolf, 3, above. -- Tennyson.

Wolf dog. (Zool.) (a) The mastiff, or shepherd dog, of the Pyrenees, supposed by some authors to be one of the ancestors of the St. Bernard dog.

Wolf dog. (Zool.) (b) The Irish greyhound, supposed to have been used formerly by the Danes for chasing wolves.

Wolf dog. (Zool.) (c) A dog bred between a dog and a wolf, as the Eskimo dog.

Wolf eel (Zool.), A wolf fish.

Wolf fish (Zool.), Any one of several species of large, voracious marine fishes of the genus Anarrhichas, especially the common species ({Anarrhichas lupus) of Europe and North America. These fishes have large teeth and powerful jaws. Called also catfish, sea cat, sea wolf, stone biter, and swinefish.

Wolf net, A kind of net used in fishing, which takes great numbers of fish.

Wolf's peach (Bot.), The tomato, or love apple ({Lycopersicum esculentum).

Wolf spider (Zool.), Any one of numerous species of running ground spiders belonging to the genus Lycosa, or family Lycosidae. These spiders run about rapidly in search of their prey. Most of them are plain brown or blackish in color. See Illust. in App.

Zebra wolf (Zool.), A savage carnivorous marsupial ({Thylacinus cynocephalus) native of Tasmania; -- called also Tasmanian wolf.

Wolf (n.) Any of various predatory carnivorous canine mammals of North America and Eurasia that usually hunt in packs.

Wolf (n.) Austrian composer (1860-1903) [syn: Wolf, Hugo Wolf].

Wolf (n.) German classical scholar who claimed that the Iliad and Odyssey were composed by several authors (1759-1824) [syn: Wolf, Friedrich August Wolf].

Wolf (n.) A man who is aggressive in making amorous advances to women [syn: wolf, woman chaser, skirt chaser, masher].

Wolf (n.) A cruelly rapacious person [syn: beast, wolf, savage, brute, wildcat].

Wolf (v.) Eat hastily; "The teenager wolfed down the pizza" [syn: wolf, wolf down].

Wolf, () Heb. zeeb, frequently referred to in Scripture as an emblem of treachery and cruelty. Jacob's prophecy, "Benjamin shall ravin as a wolf" (Gen. 49:27), represents the warlike character of that tribe (see Judg. 19-21). Isaiah represents the peace of Messiah's kingdom by the words, "The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb" (Isa. 11:6). The habits of the wolf are described in Jer. 5:6; Hab. 1:8; Zeph. 3:3; Ezek. 22:27; Matt. 7:15; 10:16; Acts 20:29. Wolves are still sometimes found in Palestine, and are the dread of shepherds, as of old.

Wolfberry (n.) (Bot.) An American shrub ({Symphoricarpus occidentalis) which bears soft white berries.

Wolffian (a.) (Anat.) Discovered, or first described, by Caspar Friedrich Wolff (1733-1794), the founder of modern embryology.

Wolffian body, The mesonephros.

Wolffian duct, The duct from the Wolffian body.
Wolfish (a.) Like a wolf; having the qualities or form of a wolf; as, a wolfish visage; wolfish designs. -- Wolf"ish*ly, adv. -- Wolf"ish*ness, n.

Wolfish (a.) Resembling or characteristic (or considered characteristic) of a wolf; "ran in wolflike packs"; "wolfish rapacity" [syn: wolflike, wolfish].

Wolfish (a.) Devouring or craving food in great quantities; "edacious vultures"; "a rapacious appetite"; "ravenous as wolves"; "voracious sharks" [syn: edacious, esurient, rapacious, ravening, ravenous, voracious, wolfish].

Wolfkin (n.) A little or young wolf. -- Tennyson.

Wolfling (n.) A young wolf. -- Carlyle.

Wolfram (n.) (Min.) Same as Wolframite.

Wolfram (n.) same as tungsten.

Wolframite (n.) (Min.) Tungstate of iron and manganese, generally of a brownish or grayish black color, submetallic luster, and high specific gravity. It occurs in cleavable masses, and also crystallized. Called also wolfram.

Wolfram (n.) A heavy grey-white metallic element; the pure form is used mainly in electrical applications; it is found in several ores including wolframite and scheelite [syn: tungsten, wolfram, W, atomic number 74].

Wolfram, () Original name for tungsten.

Wolframate (n.) (Chem.) A salt of wolframic acid; a tungstate.

Wolframic (a.) (Chem.) Of or pertaining to wolframium. See Tungstic.

Wolframite (n.) A mineral consisting of iron and manganese tungstate in crystalline form; the principal ore of tungsten; found in quartz veins associated with granitic rocks [syn: wolframite, iron manganese tungsten].

Wolframium (n.) (Chem.) The technical name of the element tungsten. See Tungsten.

Wolfsbane (n.) (Bot.) A poisonous plant ({Aconitum Lycoctonum), a kind of monkshood; also, by extension, any plant or species of the genus Aconitum. See Aconite.

Wolfsbane (n.) Poisonous Eurasian perennial herb with broad rounded leaves and yellow flowers and fibrous rootstock [syn: wolfsbane, wolfbane, wolf's bane, Aconitum lycoctonum].

Wolf's-claw (n.) (Bot.) A kind of club moss. See Lycopodium.

Wolf's-foot (n.) (Bot.) Club moss. See Lycopodium.

Wolf's-milk (n.) (Bot.) Any kind of spurge ({Euphorbia); -- so called from its acrid milky juice.

Woll (v. t. & i.) See 2d Will. [Obs.]

Wollastonite (n.) (Min.) A silicate of lime of a white to gray, red, or yellow color, occurring generally in cleavable masses, rarely in tabular crystals; tabular spar.

Wollastonite (n.) A white or greyish mineral typically found in metamorphic limestone; a silicate of calcium

Wolle (n.) Wool. [Obs.] -- Chaucer. Wolverene

Wollongong (PROPER NOUN) 沃隆岡（Wollongong），又譯沃龍崗 A city on the coast of New South Wales, southeastern Australia; population 198,324 (2008).

Glutton (n.) One who eats voraciously, or to excess; a gormandizer.

Glutton (n.) Fig.: One who gluts himself.

Gluttons in murder, wanton to destroy. -- Granville.

Glutton (n.) (Zool.) A carnivorous mammal ({Gulo gulo formerly Gulo luscus), of the weasel family Mustelid[ae], about the size of a large badger; called also wolverine, wolverene and carcajou. It was formerly believed to be inordinately voracious, whence the name. It is a native of the northern parts of America, Europe, and Asia.

Glutton bird (Zool.), The giant fulmar ({Ossifraga gigantea); -- called also Mother Carey's goose, and mollymawk.

Wolverene (n.) Alt. of Wolverine

Wolverine (n.) The glutton.

Wolverene, Wolverine (n.) (Zool.) A carnivorous mammal ({Gulo gulo formerly Gulo luscus), of the weasel family Mustelidae, about the size of a large badger; called also glutton and carcajou. It is a native of the northern parts of America, Europe, and Asia.

Wolverine (n.) A nickname for an inhabitant of Michigan. [U. S.]

Wolf (n.; pl.) Wolves. (Zool.) Any one of several species of wild and savage carnivores belonging to the genus Canis and closely allied to the common dog. The best-known and most destructive species are the European wolf ({Canis lupus), the American gray, or timber, wolf ({Canis occidentalis), and the prairie wolf, or coyote. Wolves often hunt in packs, and may thus attack large animals and even man.

Wolf (n.; pl.) Wolves. (Zool.) One of the destructive, and usually hairy, larvae of several species of beetles and grain moths; as, the bee wolf.

Wolf (n.; pl.) Wolves. Fig.: Any very ravenous, rapacious, or destructive person or thing; especially, want; starvation; as, they toiled hard to keep the wolf from the door.

Wolf (n.; pl.) Wolves. A white worm, or maggot, which infests granaries.

Wolf (n.; pl.) Wolves. An eating ulcer or sore. Cf. Lupus. [Obs.]

If God should send a cancer upon thy face, or a wolf into thy side. -- Jer. Taylor.

Wolf (n.; pl.) Wolves. (Mus.) (a) The harsh, howling sound of some of the chords on an organ or piano tuned by unequal temperament.

Wolf (n.; pl.) Wolves. (Mus.) (b) In bowed instruments, a harshness due to defective vibration in certain notes of the scale.

Wolf (n.; pl.) Wolves. (Textile Manuf.) A willying machine. -- Knight.

Black wolf. (Zool.) (a) A black variety of the European wolf which is common in the Pyrenees.

Black wolf. (Zool.) (b) A black variety of the American gray wolf.

Golden+wolf+(Zool.),+the+Thibetan+wolf+({Canis+laniger">Golden wolf (Zool.), the Thibetan wolf ({Canis laniger); -- called also chanco.

Indian+wolf+(Zool.),+an+Asiatic+wolf+({Canis+pallipes">Indian wolf (Zool.), an Asiatic wolf ({Canis pallipes)

which somewhat resembles a jackal. Called also landgak.

Prairie wolf (Zool.), The coyote.

Sea wolf. (Zool.) See in the Vocabulary.

Strand wolf (Zool.) The striped hyena.

Tasmanian wolf (Zool.), The zebra wolf.

Tiger wolf (Zool.), The spotted hyena.

To keep the wolf from the door, To keep away poverty; to prevent starvation. See Wolf, 3, above. -- Tennyson.

Wolf dog. (Zool.) (a) The mastiff, or shepherd dog, of the Pyrenees, supposed by some authors to be one of the ancestors of the St. Bernard dog.

Wolf dog. (Zool.) (b) The Irish greyhound, supposed to have been used formerly by the Danes for chasing wolves.

Wolf dog. (Zool.) (c) A dog bred between a dog and a wolf, as the Eskimo dog.

Wolf eel (Zool.), A wolf fish.

Wolf net, A kind of net used in fishing, which takes great numbers of fish.

Wolf's peach (Bot.), The tomato, or love apple ({Lycopersicum esculentum).

Zebra wolf (Zool.), A savage carnivorous marsupial ({Thylacinus cynocephalus) native of Tasmania; -- called also Tasmanian wolf.

Wolves (n.) pl. of Wolf.

Wolvish (a.) Wolfish. -- Shak.

Women (n. pl. ) of Woman

Woman (n.) An adult female person; a grown-up female person, as distinguished from a man or a child; sometimes, any female person.

Women are soft, mild pitiful, and flexible. -- Shak.

And the rib, which the Lord God had taken from man, made he a woman. -- Gen. ii. 22.

I have observed among all nations that the women ornament themselves more than the men; that, wherever found, they are the same kind, civil, obliging, humane, tender beings, inclined to be gay and cheerful, timorous and modest. -- J. Ledyard.

Woman (Wolf dog. (Zool.).) The female part of the human race; womankind.

Man is destined to be a prey to woman. -- Thackeray.

Woman (n.) A female attendant or servant. " By her woman I sent your message." -- Shak.

Woman hater, one who hates women; one who has an aversion to the female sex; a misogynist. -- Swift.

Woman (v. t.) To act the part of a woman in; -- with indefinite it. -- Daniel.

Woman (v. t.) To make effeminate or womanish. [R.] -- Shak.

Woman (v. t.) To furnish with, or unite to, a woman. [R.] "To have him see me woman'd." -- Shak. Womanhead

Woman (n.) An adult female person (as opposed to a man); "the woman kept house while the man hunted" [syn: woman, adult female] [ant: adult male, man].

Woman (n.) A female person who plays a significant role (wife or mistress or girlfriend) in the life of a particular man; "he was faithful to his woman" [ant: man].

Woman (n.) A human female employed to do housework; "the char will clean the carpet"; "I have a woman who comes in four hours a day while I write" [syn: charwoman, char, cleaning woman, cleaning lady, woman].

Woman (n.) Women as a class; "it's an insult to American womanhood"; "woman is the glory of creation"; "the fair sex gathered on the veranda" [syn: womanhood, woman, fair sex].

Woman, () A replacement for the Unix man documentation browsing command. Version 1.157 of woman runs under/on 386BSD, OSF, Apollo Domain/OS, BSD, HP-UX, IBM RS-6000, Irix, Linux, Solaris, Sony NEWS, SunOS, Ultrix, Unicos.

Posted to comp.sources.reviewed Volume 3, Issue 50 on 05 Jul 1993 by Arne Henrik Juul , archive-name woman-1.157.

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(1995-03-21)

Woman, () Was "taken out of man" (Gen. 2:23), and therefore the man has the preeminence. "The head of the woman is the man;" but yet

honour is to be shown to the wife, "as unto the weaker vessel" (1 Cor. 11:3, 8, 9; 1 Pet. 3:7). Several women are mentioned in Scripture as having been endowed with prophetic gifts, as Miriam (Ex. 15:20), Deborah (Judg. 4:4, 5), Huldah (2 Kings 22:14), Noadiah (Neh. 6:14), Anna (Luke 2:36, 37), and the daughters of Philip the evangelist (Acts 21:8, 9). Women are forbidden to teach publicly (1 Cor. 14:34, 35; 1 Tim. 2:11, 12). Among the Hebrews it devolved upon women to prepare the meals for the household (Gen. 18:6; 2 Sam. 13:8), to attend to the work of spinning (Ex. 35:26; Prov. 31:19), and making clothes (1 Sam. 2:19; Prov. 31:21), to bring water from the well (Gen. 24:15; 1 Sam. 9:11), and to care for the flocks (Gen. 29:6; Ex. 2:16).

The word "woman," as used in Matt. 15:28, John 2:4 and 20:13, 15, implies tenderness and courtesy and not disrespect. Only where revelation is known has woman her due place of honour assigned to her.

WOMAN, (n.) An animal usually living in the vicinity of Man, and having a rudimentary susceptibility to domestication. It is credited by

many of the elder zoologists with a certain vestigial docility acquired in a former state of seclusion, but naturalists of the postsusananthony period, having no knowledge of the seclusion, deny the virtue and declare that such as creation's dawn beheld, it roareth now. The species is the most widely distributed of all beasts of prey, infesting all habitable parts of the globe, from Greenland's spicy mountains to India's moral strand. The popular name (wolfman) is incorrect, for the creature is of the cat kind.

The woman is lithe and graceful in its movement, especially the American variety (_felis pugnans_), is omnivorous and can be taught not to talk. Balthasar Pober

Womanhead (n.) Alt. of Womanhede

Womanhede (n.) Womanhood. [Obs.] -- Chaucer.

Womanhood (n.) The state of being a woman; the distinguishing character or qualities of a woman, or of womankind.

Unspotted faith, and comely womanhood. -- Spenser.

Perhaps the smile and the tender tone Came out of her pitying womanhood. -- Tennyson.

Womanhood (n.) Women, collectively; womankind.

Womanhood (n.) The state of being an adult woman [syn: womanhood, muliebrity].

Womanhood (n.) Women as a class; "it's an insult to American womanhood"; "woman is the glory of creation"; "the fair sex gathered on the veranda" [syn: womanhood, woman, fair sex].

Womanhood (n.) The status of a woman.

Womanish (a.) Suitable to a woman, having the qualities of a woman; effeminate; not becoming a man; -- usually in a reproachful sense. See the Note under Effeminate. " Thy tears are womanish." --Shak. " Womanish entreaties." -- Macaulay.

A voice not soft, weak, piping, and womanish, but audible, strong, and manlike. -- Ascham. -- Wom"an*ish*ly, adv. -- Wom"an*ish*ness,

Womanish (a.) Having characteristics associated with women and considered undesirable in men; "womanish tears".

Womanize (v. t.) To make like a woman; to make effeminate. [Obs.] -- V. Knox.

Womanize (v. i.) To seek the company of women with unusual frequency, especially for purposes of sexual intimacy.

Syn: womanise.

Womanize (v.) Have amorous affairs; of men; "He has been womanizing for years" [syn: philander, womanize, womanise].

Womanize (v.) To give a (more) feminine, effeminate, or womanly quality or appearance to; "This hairdo feminizes the man" [syn: feminize, feminise, effeminize, effeminise, womanize].

Womankind (n.) The females of the human race; women, collectively.

A sanctuary into which womankind, with her tools of magic, the broom and mop, has very infrequent access. -- Hawthorne.

Womankind (n.) Women as distinguished from men.

Womanless (a.) Without a woman or women.

Womanlike (a.) Like a woman; womanly.

Womanlike, taking revenge too deep. -- Tennyson.

Womanlike (a.) Resembling a woman; "a womanlike stone image".

Womanlike (n.) The trait of being womanly; having the characteristics of an adult female [syn: womanliness, womanlike].

Womanliness (n.) The quality or state of being womanly.

There is nothing wherein their womanliness is more honestly garnished than with silence. -- Udall.

Womanliness (n.) The trait of being womanly; having the characteristics of an adult female [syn: womanliness, womanlike].

Womanly (a.) Becoming a woman; feminine; as, womanly behavior. -- Arbuthnot.

A blushing, womanly discovering grace. -- Donne.

Womanly (adv.) In the manner of a woman; with the grace, tenderness, or affection of a woman. -- Gascoigne.

Womanly (a.) Befitting or characteristic of a woman especially a mature woman; "womanly virtues of gentleness and compassion" [syn: womanly, feminine] [ant: unwomanly].

Womb (n.) [C] 子宮；發源地；孕育處 The belly; the abdomen. [Obs.] -- Chaucer.

And he coveted to fill his woman of the cods that the hogs eat, and no man gave him. -- Wyclif (Luke xv. 16).

An I had but a belly of any indifferency, I were simply the most active fellow in Europe. My womb, my womb, my womb undoes me. -- Shak.

Womb (n.) (Anat.) The uterus. See {Uterus}.

Womb (n.) The place where anything is generated or produced.

The womb of earth the genial seed receives. -- Dryden.

Womb (n.) Any cavity containing and enveloping anything.

The center spike of gold Which burns deep in the bluebell's womb. -- R. Browning.

Womb (v. t.) To inclose in a womb, or as in a womb; to breed or hold in secret. [Obs.] -- Shak.

Womb (n.) A hollow muscular organ in the pelvic cavity of females; contains the developing fetus [syn: {uterus}, {womb}].

Wombat (n.) (Zool.) Any one of three species of Australian burrowing marsupials of the genus Phascolomys, especially the common species ({Phascolomys ursinus).

They are nocturnal in their habits, and feed mostly on roots.

Wombat (n.) Burrowing herbivorous Australian marsupials about the size of a badger.

Wombat (a.) [acronym: Waste Of Money, Brains, And Time] Applied to problems which are both profoundly uninteresting in themselves and unlikely to benefit anyone interesting even if solved. Often used in fanciful constructions such as wrestling with a wombat. See also crawling horror, SMOP. Also note the rather different usage as a metasyntactic variable in {Commonwealth Hackish.

Users of the PDP-11 database program DATATRIEVE adopted the wombat as their notional mascot; the program's help file responded to ?HELP WOMBAT? with factual information about Real World wombats.

WOMBAT, () Waste Of Money, Brains, And Time.

Problems which are both profoundly uninteresting in themselves and unlikely to benefit anyone interesting even if solved. Often used in fanciful constructions such as "wrestling with a wombat".

See also crawling horror, SMOP. [{Jargon File] (1995-03-10)

Wombat, () A metasyntactic variable in Commonwealth Hackish.

Wombat, () wombat.doc.ic.ac.uk. [{Jargon File] (1995-03-10)

Womby (a.) Capacious. [Obs.] -- Shak.

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