Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter W - Page 39
Woodman (n.) [C] 住於森林中的人；樵夫；獵人 One who cuts down trees; a woodcutter.
Woodman, spare that tree. -- G. P. Morris.
Woodman (n.) One who dwells in the woods or forest; a bushman.
Woodman (n.) Someone who lives in the woods [syn: woodsman, woodman].
Woodman (n.) Makes things out of wood [syn: woodworker, woodsman, woodman].
Woodman, WI -- U.S. village in Wisconsin
Population (2000): 96
Housing Units (2000): 52
Land area (2000): 0.235535 sq. miles (0.610033 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.235535 sq. miles (0.610033 sq. km)
FIPS code: 88825
Located within: Wisconsin (WI), FIPS 55
Location: 43.092098 N, 90.801077 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 53827
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Woodman, WI
Woodman
Woodmeil (n.) See Wadmol.
Woodmonger (n.) A wood seller. [Obs.]
Woodness (n.) Anger; madness; insanity; rage. [Obs.] -- Spenser.
Woodness laughing in his rage. -- Chaucer.
Wood-note (n.) A wild or natural note, as of a forest bird. [R.]
Or sweetest Shakespeare, fancy's child, Warble his native wood-notes wild. -- Milton.
Woodpeck (n.) (Zool.) A woodpecker. [Obs.]
Woodpecker (n.) (Zool.) Any one of numerous species of scansorial birds belonging to Picus and many allied genera of the family Picidae.
Note: These birds have the tail feathers pointed and rigid at the tip to aid in climbing, and a strong chisellike bill with which they are able to drill holes in the bark and wood of trees in search of insect larvae upon which most of the species feed. A few species feed partly upon the sap of trees (see Sap sucker, under Sap), others spend a portion of their time on the ground in search of ants and other insects.
The most common European species are the greater spotted woodpecker ({Dendrocopus major), the lesser spotted woodpecker ({Dendrocopus minor), and the green woodpecker, or yaffle (see Yaffle).
The best-known American species are the pileated woodpecker (see under Pileated), the ivory-billed woodpecker ({Campephilus principalis), which is one of the largest known species, the red-headed woodpecker, or red-head ({Melanerpes erythrocephalus), the red-bellied woodpecker ({Melanerpes Carolinus) (see Chab), the superciliary woodpecker ({Melanerpes superciliaris), the hairy woodpecker ({Dryobates villosus), the downy woodpecker ({Dryobates pubescens), the three-toed, woodpecker ({Picoides Americanus), the golden-winged woodpecker (see Flicker), and the sap suckers. See also Carpintero.
Woodpecker hornbill (Zool.), A black and white Asiatic hornbill ({Buceros pica) which resembles a woodpecker in color.
Woodpecker (n.) Bird with strong claws and a stiff tail adapted for climbing and a hard chisel-like bill for boring into wood for insects [syn: woodpecker, peckerwood, pecker].
Woodrock (n.) (Min.) A compact woodlike variety of asbestus. Woodruff
Woodruff (n.) Alt. of Woodroof
Woodroof (n.) (Bot.) A little European herb ({Asperula odorata) having a pleasant taste. It is sometimes used for flavoring wine. See Illust. of Whorl.
Woodruff (n.) Old World fragrant stoloniferous perennial having small white flowers and narrow leaves used as flavoring and in sachets; widely cultivated as a ground cover; in some classifications placed in genus Asperula [syn: sweet woodruff, waldmeister, woodruff, fragrant bedstraw, Galium odoratum, Asperula odorata].
Woodruff (n.) Any plant of the genus Asperula.
Woodruff -- U.S. County in Arkansas
Population (2000): 8741
Housing Units (2000): 4089
Land area (2000): 586.563791 sq. miles (1519.193180 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 7.490663 sq. miles (19.400728 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 594.054454 sq. miles (1538.593908 sq. km)
Located within: Arkansas (AR), FIPS 05
Location: 35.196189 N, 91.244090 W
Headwords:
Woodruff
Woodruff, AR
Woodruff County
Woodruff County, AR
Woodruff, SC -- U.S. city in South Carolina
Population (2000): 4229
Housing Units (2000): 1869
Land area (2000): 3.661964 sq. miles (9.484444 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.017927 sq. miles (0.046432 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 3.679891 sq. miles (9.530876 sq. km)
FIPS code: 79090
Located within: South Carolina (SC), FIPS 45
Location: 34.740530 N, 82.032580 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 29388
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Headwords:
Woodruff, SC
Woodruff
Woodruff, UT -- U.S. town in Utah
Population (2000): 194
Housing Units (2000): 75
Land area (2000): 0.536856 sq. miles (1.390451 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.536856 sq. miles (1.390451 sq. km)
FIPS code: 85260
Located within: Utah (UT), FIPS 49
Location: 41.522888 N, 111.161383 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 84086
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Woodruff, UT
Woodruff
Wood-sare (n.) (Bot.) A kind of froth seen on herbs. [Obs.]
Wood-sere (n.) The time when there no sap in the trees; the winter season. [Written also wood-seer.] [Obs.] -- Tusser.
Woodsmen (n. pl. ) of Woodsman.
Woodsman (n.) [C] 住在森林裡的人；樵夫；獵人 A woodman; especially, one who lives in the forest.
Woodsman (n.) Someone who lives in the woods [syn: {woodsman}, {woodman}].
Woodsman (n.) Makes things out of wood [syn: {woodworker}, {woodsman}, {woodman}].
Wood's metal () A fusible alloy consisting of one or two parts of cadmium, two parts of tin, four of lead, with seven or eight part of bismuth. It melts at from 66¡ to 71¡ C. See Fusible metal, under Fusible.
Woodstone (n.) (Min.) A striped variety of hornstone, resembling wood in appearance.
Woodsy (a.) Of or pertaining to the woods or forest. [Colloq. U. S.]
It [sugar making] is woodsy, and savors of trees. -- J. Burroughs.
Woodsy (a.) Characteristic or suggestive of woods; "a fresh woodsy fragrance".
Woodsy (a.) Abounding in trees; "an arboreous landscape"; "violets in woodsy shady spots"; "a woody area near the highway" [syn: arboraceous, arboreous, woodsy, woody].
Wood tick (n.) (Zool.) 木蝨 Any one of several species of ticks of the genus Ixodes whose young cling to bushes, but quickly fasten themselves upon the bodies of any animal with which they come in contact. When they attach themselves to the human body they often produce troublesome sores. The common species of the Northern United States is Ixodes unipunctata.
Wood tick (n.) Common tick that can transmit Rocky Mountain spotted fever and tularemia [syn: wood tick, American dog tick, Dermacentor variabilis].
Woodwall (n.) (Zool.) The yaffle. [Written also woodwale, and woodwele.]
Woodward (n.) (Eng. Forest Law) An officer of the forest, whose duty it was to guard the woods.
Woodward (n.) United States historian (1908-1999) [syn: Woodward, C. Vann Woodward, Comer Vann Woodward].
Woodward (n.) United States chemist honored for synthesizing complex organic compounds (1917-1979) [syn: Woodward, Bob Woodward, Robert Woodward, Robert Burns Woodward].
Woodward -- U.S. County in Oklahoma
Population (2000): 18486
Housing Units (2000): 8341
Land area (2000): 1242.300501 sq. miles (3217.543391 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 3.711496 sq. miles (9.612729 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 1246.011997 sq. miles (3227.156120 sq. km)
Located within: Oklahoma (OK), FIPS 40
Location: 36.414974 N, 99.326644 W
Headwords:
Woodward
Woodward, OK
Woodward County
Woodward County, OK
Woodward, OK -- U.S. city in Oklahoma
Population (2000): 11853
Housing Units (2000): 5561
Land area (2000): 13.119374 sq. miles (33.979022 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.068573 sq. miles (0.177604 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 13.187947 sq. miles (34.156626 sq. km)
FIPS code: 82150
Located within: Oklahoma (OK), FIPS 40
Location: 36.433059 N, 99.397745 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 73801
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Headwords:
Woodward, OK
Woodward
Woodward, PA -- U.S. Census Designated Place in Pennsylvania
Population (2000): 126
Housing Units (2000): 69
Land area (2000): 0.897495 sq. miles (2.324502 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.897495 sq. miles (2.324502 sq. km)
FIPS code: 86432
Located within: Pennsylvania (PA), FIPS 42
Location: 40.898773 N, 77.354439 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 16882
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Headwords:
Woodward, PA
Woodward
Woodward, IA -- U.S. city in Iowa
Population (2000): 1200
Housing Units (2000): 528
Land area (2000): 0.909745 sq. miles (2.356228 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.909745 sq. miles (2.356228 sq. km)
FIPS code: 86970
Located within: Iowa (IA), FIPS 19
Location: 41.855230 N, 93.923068 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 50276
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Woodward, IA
Woodward
Woodwardia (n.) (Bot.) A genus of ferns, one species of which (Woodwardia radicans) is a showy plant in California, the Azores, etc. Wood-wax, Wood-wash
Woodwardia (n.) In some classification systems placed in family Polypodiaceae: chain ferns [syn: Woodwardia, genus Woodwardia].
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.
Wood-wash (n.) Alt. of Wood-waxen.
Wood-wax (n.) Alt. of Wood-waxen.
Wood-waxen (n.) (Bot.) Same as Woadwaxen.
Woodwork (n.) Work made of wood; that part of any structure which is wrought of wood.
Woodwork (n.) Work made of wood; especially moldings or stairways or furniture.
Woodwork (n.) The craft of a carpenter: making things out of wood [syn: carpentry, woodworking, woodwork].
Woodworm (n.) (Zool.) See Wood worm, under Wood.
Woodworm (n.) A larva of a woodborer.
Woody (a.) Abounding with wood or woods; as, woody land. "The woody wilderness." -- Bryant.
Secret shades Of woody Ida's inmost grove. -- Milton.
Woody (a.) Consisting of, or containing, wood or woody fiber; ligneous; as, the woody parts of plants.
Woody (a.) Of or pertaining to woods; sylvan. [R.] "Woody nymphs, fair Hamadryades." -- Spenser.
Woody fiber. (Bot.) (a) Fiber or tissue consisting of slender, membranous tubes tapering at each end.
Woody fiber. (Bot.) (b) A single wood cell. See under Wood. -- Goodale.
Woody nightshade. (Bot.). See Bittersweet, 3 (a).
Woody pear (Bot.), The inedible, woody, pear-shaped fruit of several Australian proteaceous trees of the genus Xylomelum; -- called also wooden pear.
Woody (a.) Made of or containing or resembling wood; "woody plants"; "perennial herbs with woody stems"; "a woody taste" [ant: nonwoody].
Woody (a.) Abounding in trees; "an arboreous landscape"; "violets in woodsy shady spots"; "a woody area near the highway" [syn: arboraceous, arboreous, woodsy, woody].
Woody (a.) Made hard like wood as the result of the deposition of lignin in the cell walls.
Wooer (v. t.) One who wooes; one who courts or solicits in love; a suitor. "A thriving wooer." -- Gibber.
Wooer (n.) A man who courts a woman; "a suer for the hand of the princess" [syn: suitor, suer, wooer].
Woof (n.) The threads that cross the warp in a woven fabric; the weft; the filling; the thread usually carried by the shuttle in weaving.
Woof (n.) Texture; cloth; as, a pall of softest woof. -- Pope.
Woof (n.) The yarn woven across the warp yarn in weaving [syn: woof, weft, filling, pick].
Woofell (n.) (Zool.) The European blackbird. "The woofell near at hand that hath a golden bill." -- Drayton.
Woofy (a.) Having a close texture; dense; as, a woofy cloud. -- J. Baillie.
Woohoo (n.) (Zool.) The sailfish.
Compare: Boohoo
Boohoo (n.) (Zool.) The sailfish; -- called also woohoo.
Wooingly (adv.) In a wooing manner; enticingly; with persuasiveness. -- Shak.
Wook (obs. imp. of Wake.) Woke. -- Chaucer.
Wool (n.) The soft and curled, or crisped, species of hair which grows on sheep and some other animals, and which in fineness sometimes approaches to fur; -- chiefly applied to the fleecy coat of the sheep, which constitutes a most essential material of clothing in all cold and temperate climates.
Note: Wool consists essentially of keratin.
Wool (n.) Short, thick hair, especially when crisped or curled.
Wool of bat and tongue of dog. -- Shak.
Wool (n.) (Bot.) A sort of pubescence, or a clothing of dense, curling hairs on the surface of certain plants.
Dead pulled wool, Wool pulled from a carcass.
Mineral wool. See under Mineral.
Philosopher's wool. (Chem.) See Zinc oxide, under Zinc.
Pulled wool, Wool pulled from a pelt, or undressed hide.
Slag wool. Same as Mineral wool, under Mineral.
Wool ball, A ball or mass of wool.
Wool burler, One who removes little burs, knots, or extraneous matter, from wool, or the surface of woolen cloth.
Wool comber. (a) One whose occupation is to comb wool.
Wool comber. (b) A machine for combing wool.
Wool+grass+(Bot.),+A+kind+of+bulrush+({Scirpus+Eriophorum">Wool grass (Bot.), a kind of bulrush ({Scirpus Eriophorum) with numerous clustered woolly spikes.
Wool scribbler. See Woolen scribbler, under Woolen, a.
Wool sorter's disease (Med.), A disease, resembling malignant pustule, occurring among those who handle the wool of goats and sheep.
Wool staple, A city or town where wool used to be brought to the king's staple for sale. [Eng.]
Wool stapler. (a) One who deals in wool.
Wool stapler. (b) One who sorts wool according to its staple, or its adaptation to different manufacturing purposes.
Wool winder, A person employed to wind, or make up, wool into bundles to be packed for sale.
Wool (n.) A fabric made from the hair of sheep [syn: wool, woolen, woollen].
Wool (n.) Fiber sheared from animals (such as sheep) and twisted into yarn for weaving.
Wool (n.) Outer coat of especially sheep and yaks [syn: wool, fleece].
WOOL, () Window Object Oriented Language. A small Common Lisp-like extension language. It claims to be the fastest interpreted language in C with run-time types. Colas Nahaboo Version 1 is used as the kernel language of the GWM window manager. Version 2 has an object system.
Wool, () One of the first material used for making woven cloth (Lev. 13:47, 48, 52, 59; 19:19). The first-fruit of wool was to be offered to the priests (Deut. 18:4). The law prohibiting the wearing of a garment "of divers sorts, as of woollen and linen together" (Deut. 22:11) may, like some other laws of a similar character, have been intended to express symbolically the separateness and simplicity of God's covenant people. The wool of Damascus, famous for its whiteness, was of great repute in the Tyrian market (Ezek. 27:18).
Woolded (imp. & p. p.) of Woold.
Woolding (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Woold.
Woold (v. t.) (Naut.) To wind, or wrap; especially, to wind a rope round, as a mast or yard made of two or more pieces, at the place where it has been fished or scarfed, in order to strengthen it.
Woolder (n.) (Naut.) A stick used to tighten the rope in woolding.
Woolder (n.) (Rope Making) One of the handles of the top, formed by a wooden pin passing through it. See 1st Top, 2.
Woolding (n.) (Naut.) The act of winding or wrapping anything with a rope, as a mast.
Woolding (n.) (Naut.) A rope used for binding masts and spars.
Wool-dyed (a.) Dyed before being made into cloth, in distinction from piece-dyed; ingrain.
Wooled (a.) Having (such) wool; as, a fine-wooled sheep.
Woolen (a.) Made of wool; consisting of wool; as, woolen goods.
Woolen (a.) Of or pertaining to
wool or woolen cloths; as, woolen manufactures; a woolen mill; a woolen draper.
Woolen scribbler, A machine for combing or preparing wool in thin,
downy, translucent layers.
Woolen (n.) Cloth made of wool; woollen goods.
Woolen (a.) Of or related to or made of wool; "a woolen sweater" [syn: woolen, woollen].
Woolen (n.) A fabric made from the hair of sheep [syn: wool, woolen, woollen].
Woolenet (n.) A thin, light fabric of wool. [Written also woollenet, woolenette, and woollenette.]
Woolert (n.) (Zool.) The barn owl. [Prov. Eng.] [Written also oolert, and owlerd.]
Woolfell (n.) A skin with the wool; a skin from which the wool has not been sheared or pulled. [Written also woolfel.]
Woolgathering (a.) Indulging in a vagrant or idle exercise of the imagination; roaming upon a fruitless quest; idly fanciful.
Woolgathering (n.) Indulgence in idle imagination; a foolish or useless pursuit or design.
His wits were a woolgathering, as they say. -- Burton.
Woolgathering (a.) Dreamy in mood or nature; "a woolgathering moment" [syn: dreamy, moony, woolgathering].
Woolgathering (n.) An idle indulgence in fantasy.
Woolgrower (n.) One who raises sheep for the production of wool. -- Wool"grow`ing, n.
Wool-hall (n.) A trade market in the woolen districts. [Eng.]
Woolhead (n.) (Zool.) The buffel duck.
Woolliness (n.) The quality or state of being woolly.
Woolly (a.) Consisting of wool; as, a woolly covering; a woolly fleece.
Woolly (a.) Resembling wool; of the nature of wool. "My fleece of woolly hair." -- Shak.
Woolly (a.) Clothed with wool. "Woolly breeders." -- Shak.
Woolly (a.) (Bot.) Clothed with a fine, curly pubescence resembling wool.
Woolly bear (Zool.), The hairy larva of several species of bombycid moths. The most common species in the United States are the salt-marsh caterpillar (see under Salt), the black and red woolly bear, or larva of the Isabella moth (see Illust., under Isabella Moth), and the yellow woolly bear, or larva of the American ermine moth ({Spilosoma Virginica).
Woolly butt (Bot.), An Australian tree ({Eucalyptus longifolia), so named because of its fibrous bark.
Woolly+louse+(Zool.),+A+plant+louse+({Schizoneura+lanigera">Woolly louse (Zool.), a plant louse ({Schizoneura lanigera syn Erisoma lanigera) which is often very injurious to the apple tree. It is covered with a dense coat of white filaments somewhat resembling fine wool or cotton. In exists in two forms, one of which infests the roots, the other the branches. See Illust. under Blight.
Woolly macaco (Zool.), The mongoose lemur.
Woolly+maki+(Zool.),+A+long-tailed+lemur+({Indris+laniger">Woolly maki (Zool.), a long-tailed lemur ({Indris laniger)
native of Madagascar, having fur somewhat like wool; -- called also avahi, and woolly lemur.
Woolly monkey (Zool.), Any South American monkey of the genus Lagothrix, as the caparro.
Woolly rhinoceros (Paleon.), An extinct rhinoceros ({Rhinoceros tichorhinus) which inhabited the arctic regions, and was covered with a dense coat of woolly hair.
It has been found frozen in the ice of Siberia, with the flesh and hair well preserved.
Woolly (a.) Having a fluffy character or appearance [syn: flocculent, woolly, wooly].
Woolly (a.) Confused and vague; used especially of thinking; "muddleheaded ideas"; "your addled little brain"; "woolly thinking"; "woolly-headed ideas" [syn: addled, befuddled, muddled, muzzy, woolly, wooly, woolly-headed, wooly-minded].
Woolly (a.) Covered with dense often matted or curly hairs; "woolly lambs" [syn: wooly, woolly, wooly-haired, woolly-haired].
Woolly (a.) Covered with dense cottony hairs or hairlike filaments; "the woolly aphid has a lanate coat resembling cotton" [syn: lanate, woolly].
Woolly-head (n.) A negro. [Low]
Woolmen (n. pl. ) of Woolman
Woolman (n.) One who deals in wool.
Woolpack (n.) A pack or bag of wool weighing two hundred and forty pounds.
Woolsack (n.) A sack or bag of wool; specifically, the seat of the lord chancellor of England in the House of Lords, being a large, square sack of wool resembling a divan in form.
Woolsey (n.) Linsey-woolsey.
Woolsey, GA -- U.S. town in Georgia
Population (2000): 175
Housing Units (2000): 62
Land area (2000): 0.819261 sq. miles (2.121875 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.016046 sq. miles (0.041558 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.835307 sq. miles (2.163433 sq. km)
FIPS code: 84288
Located within: Georgia (GA), FIPS 13
Location: 33.363354 N, 84.407942 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 30214
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Woolsey, GA
Woolsey
Woolstock (n.) A heavy wooden hammer for milling cloth.
Woolstock, IA -- U.S. city in Iowa
Population (2000): 204
Housing Units (2000): 101
Land area (2000): 1.031998 sq. miles (2.672863 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 1.031998 sq. miles (2.672863 sq. km)
FIPS code: 87015
Located within: Iowa (IA), FIPS 19
Location: 42.566730 N, 93.845030 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 50599
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Headwords:
Woolstock, IA
Woolstock
Woolward (adv.) In wool; with woolen raiment next the skin. [Obs.]
Woolward-going (n.) A wearing of woolen clothes next the skin as a matter of penance. [Obs.]
Their . . . woolward-going, and rising at midnight. -- Tyndale.
Woon (n.) Dwelling. See Wone. [Obs.]
Woonerf (n.) [C] 交通寧靜區 A road in which drivers, pedestrians, cyclists, and local residents share the same space, and where measures designed to slow traffic have been implemented.
Woorali (n.) Same as Curare.
Compare: Curare
Curare, Curari (n.) A black resinoid extract prepared by the South American Indians from the bark of several species of Strychnos ({Strychnos toxifera, etc.). It sometimes has little effect when taken internally, but is quickly fatal when introduced into the blood, and used by the Indians as an arrow poison. [Written also urari, woorali, woorari, etc.]
Woosy (a.) Oozy; wet. [Obs.] -- Drayton.
Wootz (n.) A species of steel imported from the East Indies, valued for making edge tools; Indian steel. It has in combination a minute portion of alumina and silica.
Wooyen (n.) (Zool.) See Yuen.
Yuen (n.) (Zool.) The crowned gibbon ({Hylobates pileatus), native of Siam, Southern China, and the Island of Hainan. It is entirely arboreal in its habits, and has very long arms. the males are dark brown or blackish, with a caplike mass of long dark hair, and usually with a white band around the face. The females are yellowish white, with a dark spot on the breast and another on the crown. Called also wooyen, and wooyen ape.
Wopen (obs. p. p. of) Weep. Wept. -- Chaucer.
Worble (n.) (Zool.) See Wormil.
Wormil (n.) (Zool.) Any botfly larva which burrows in or beneath the skin of domestic and wild animals, thus producing sores.
They belong to various species of Hypoderma and allied genera. Domestic cattle are often infested by a large species. See Gadfly. Called also warble, and worble. [Written also wormal, wormul, and wornil.]
Wormil (n.) (Far.) See 1st Warble, 1 (b) .
Word (n.) The spoken sign of a conception or an idea; an articulate or vocal sound, or a combination of articulate and vocal sounds, uttered by the human voice, and by custom expressing an idea or ideas; a single component part of human speech or language; a constituent part of a sentence; a term; a vocable. "A glutton of words." -- Piers Plowman.
You cram these words into mine ears, against The stomach of my sense. -- Shak.
Amongst men who confound their ideas with words, there must be endless disputes. -- Locke.
Word (n.) Hence, the written or printed character, or combination of characters, expressing such a term; as, the words on a page.
Word (n.) pl. Talk; discourse; speech; language.
Why should calamity be full of words? -- Shak.
Be thy words severe; Sharp as he merits, but the sword forbear. -- Dryden.
Word (n.) Account; tidings; message; communication; information; -- used only in the singular.
I pray you . . . bring me word thither How the world goes. -- Shak.
Word (n.) Signal; order; command; direction.
Give the word through. -- Shak.
Word (n.) Language considered as implying the faith or authority of the person who utters it; statement; affirmation; declaration; promise.
Obey thy parents; keep thy word justly. -- Shak.
I know you brave, and take you at your word. -- Dryden.
I desire not the reader should take my word. -- Dryden.
Word (n.) pl. Verbal contention; dispute.
Some words there grew 'twixt Somerset and me. -- Shak.
Word (n.) A brief remark or observation; an expression; a phrase, clause, or short sentence.
All the law is fulfilled in one word, even in this; Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. -- Gal. v. 14.
She said; but at the happy word "he lives,"
My father stooped, re-fathered, o'er my wound. -- Tennyson.
There is only one other point on which I offer a word of remark. -- Dickens.
By word of mouth, orally; by actual speaking. -- Boyle.
Compound word. See under Compound, a. Good word, commendation; favorable account. "And gave the harmless fellow a good word." -- Pope.
In a word, Briefly; to sum up.
In word, In declaration; in profession. "Let us not love in word, . . . but in deed and in truth." --1 John iii. 8.
Nuns of the Word Incarnate (R. C. Ch.), An order of nuns founded in France in 1625, and approved in 1638. The order, which also exists in the United States, was instituted for the purpose of doing honor to the "Mystery of the Incarnation of the Son of God."
The word, or The Word. (Theol.) (a) The gospel message; esp., the Scriptures, as a revelation of God. "Bold to speak the word without fear." -- Phil. i. 14.
The word, or The Word. (Theol.) (b) The second person in the Trinity before his manifestation in time by the incarnation; among those who reject a Trinity of persons, some one or all of the divine attributes personified. --John i. 1.
To eat one's words, to retract what has been said.
To have the words for, To speak for; to act as spokesman.
[Obs.] "Our host hadde the wordes for us all." -- Chaucer.
Word blindness (Physiol.), Inability to understand printed or written words or symbols, although the person affected may be able to see quite well, speak fluently, and write correctly. -- Landois & Stirling.
Word deafness (Physiol.), Inability to understand spoken words, though the person affected may hear them and other sounds, and hence is not deaf.
Word dumbness (Physiol.), Inability to express ideas in verbal language, though the power of speech is unimpaired.
Word for word, In the exact words; verbatim; literally; exactly; as, to repeat anything word for word.
Word painting, The act of describing an object fully and vividly by words only, so as to present it clearly to the mind, as if in a picture.
Word picture, An accurate and vivid description, which presents an object clearly to the mind, as if in a picture.
Word square, A series of words so arranged that they can be read vertically and horizontally with like results.
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Syn: See Term.
Word (v. i.) To use words, as in discussion; to argue; to dispute. [R.]
Worded (imp. & p. p.) of Word
Wording (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Word
Word (v. t.) To express in words; to phrase.
The apology for the king is the same, but worded with greater deference to that great prince. -- Addison.
Word (v. t.) To ply with words; also, to cause to be by the use of a word or words. [Obs.] -- Howell.
Word (v. t.) To flatter with words; to cajole. [Obs.] -- Shak.
To word it, to bandy words; to dispute. [Obs.] "To word it with a shrew." -- L'Estrange.
Word (n.) A unit of language that native speakers can identify; "words are the blocks from which sentences are made"; "he hardly said ten words all morning".
Word (n.) A brief statement; "he didn't say a word about it".
Word (n.) Information about recent and important events; "they awaited news of the outcome" [syn: news, intelligence, tidings, word].
Word (n.) A verbal command for action; "when I give the word, charge!"
Word (n.) An exchange of views on some topic; "we had a good discussion"; "we had a word or two about it" [syn: discussion, give-and-take, word].
Word (n.) A promise; "he gave his word" [syn: parole, word, word of honor].
Word (n.) A word is a string of bits stored in computer memory; "large computers use words up to 64 bits long".
Word (n.) The divine word of God; the second person in the Trinity (incarnate in Jesus) [syn: Son, Word, Logos].
Word (n.) A secret word or phrase known only to a restricted group; "he forgot the password" [syn: password, watchword, word, parole, countersign].
Word (n.) The sacred writings of the Christian religions; "he went to carry the Word to the heathen" [syn: Bible, Christian Bible, Book, Good Book, Holy Scripture, Holy Writ, Scripture, Word of God, Word].
Word (v.) Put into words or an expression; "He formulated his concerns to the board of trustees" [syn: give voice, formulate, word, phrase, articulate].
Microsoft Word
MS Word
Word
A popular word processor, part of the Microsoft Office suite. The original Word (versions 1.0 to text-based+(non-{GUI">4.?/5.0?) was originally text-based (non-{GUI) and ran under MS-DOS. Then Microsoft released Word for Windows 1.0 and 2.0. Later they produced new versions for each OS, both numbered 6.0. [Features?] (1997-02-11)
Word, () A fundamental unit of storage in a computer. The size of a word in a particular computer architecture is one of its chief distinguishing characteristics.
The size of a word is usually the same as the width of the computer's data bus so it is possible to read or write a word in a single operation. An instruction is usually one or more words long and a word can be used to hold a whole number of characters. These days, this nearly always means a whole number of bytes (eight bits), most often 32 or 64 bits. In the past when six bit character sets were used, a word might be a multiple of six bits, e.g. 24 bits (four characters) in the ICL 1900 series. (1994-11-11)
WORD, () construction. One or more syllables which when united convey an idea a single part of speech.
WORD, () Words are to be understood in a proper or figurative sense, and they are used both ways in law. They are also used in a technical sense. It is a general rule that contracts and wills shall be construed as the parties understood them; every person, however, is presumed to understand the force of the words be uses, and therefore technical words must be taken according to their legal import, even in wills, unless the testator manifests a clear intention to the contrary. 1 Bro. C. C. 33; 3 Bro. C. C. 234; 5 Ves. 401 8 Ves. 306.
WORD, () Every one is required to use words in the sense they are generally understood, for, as speech has been given to man to be a sign of his thoughts, for the purpose of communicating them to others, he is bound in treating with them, to use such words or signs in the sense sanctioned by usage, that is, in the sense in which they themselves understand them, or else he deceives them. Heinnec. Praelect. in Puffendorff, lib. 1, cap. 17, Sec. 2 Heinnec. de Jure Nat. lib. 1, Sec. 197; Wolff, lust. Jur. Nat. Sec. 7981.
WORD, () Formerly, indeed, in cases of slander, the defamatory words received the mildest interpretation of which they were susceptible, and some ludicrous decisions were the consequence. It was gravely decided, that to say of a merchant, "he is a base broken rascal, has broken twice, and I will make him break a third time," that no action could be maintained, because it might be intended that he had a hernia: ne poet dar porter action, car poet estre intend de burstness de belly. Latch, 104. But now they are understood in their usual signification. Comb. 37; Ham. N. P. 282. Vide Bouv. Inst. Index, h.t.; Construction; Interpretation.
Wordbook (n.) A collection of words; a vocabulary; a dictionary; a lexicon.
Wordbook (n.) A reference book containing words (usually with their meanings).
Word-catcher (n.) One who cavils at words.
Worder (n.) A speaker. [Obs.] -- Withlock.
Wordily (adv.) In a wordy manner.
Wordily (adv.) In a verbose manner; "she explained her ideas verbosely" [syn: verbosely, windily, long-windedly, wordily].