Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter W - Page 4
Wallaroo (n.) (Zool.) Any one of several species of kangaroos of the genus Macropus, especially Macropus robustus, sometimes called the great wallaroo.
Wallbird (n.) (Zool.) The spotted flycatcher. [Prov. Eng.]
Waller (n.) One who builds walls.
Waller (n.) [G.] (Zool.) The
Wels (n.) [G.] (Zool.) The sheatfish; -- called also waller.
Waller (n.) United States jazz musician (1904-1943) [syn: Waller, Fats Waller, Thomas Wright Waller].
Waller -- U.S. County in Texas
Population (2000): 32663
Housing Units (2000): 11955
Land area (2000): 513.627932 sq. miles (1330.290181 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 4.865187 sq. miles (12.600777 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 518.493119 sq. miles (1342.890958 sq. km)
Located within: Texas (TX), FIPS 48
Location: 30.021570 N, 96.000851 W
Headwords:
Waller
Waller, TX
Waller County
Waller County, TX
Waller, PA -- U.S. Census Designated Place in Pennsylvania
Population (2000): 55
Housing Units (2000): 33
Land area (2000): 1.259000 sq. miles (3.260795 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 1.259000 sq. miles (3.260795 sq. km)
FIPS code: 80656
Located within: Pennsylvania (PA), FIPS 42
Location: 41.229077 N, 76.422059 W
ZIP Codes (1990):
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Waller, PA
Waller
Waller, TX -- U.S. city in Texas
Population (2000): 2092
Housing Units (2000): 842
Land area (2000): 1.493131 sq. miles (3.867191 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 1.493131 sq. miles (3.867191 sq. km)
FIPS code: 76228
Located within: Texas (TX), FIPS 48
Location: 30.058752 N, 95.926336 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 77484
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Waller, TX
Waller
Waller, WA -- U.S. Census Designated Place in Washington
Population (2000): 9200
Housing Units (2000): 3772
Land area (2000): 9.209660 sq. miles (23.852908 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.036557 sq. miles (0.094681 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 9.246217 sq. miles (23.947589 sq. km)
FIPS code: 75905
Located within: Washington (WA), FIPS 53
Location: 47.204286 N, 122.367698 W
ZIP Codes (1990):
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Headwords:
Waller, WA
Waller
Wallerian degeneration (Med.) A form of degeneration occurring in nerve fibers as a result of their division; -- so called from Dr. Waller, who published an account of it in 1850.
Wallet (n.) [C] 皮夾子，錢包；（皮製的）公事包；旅行袋A bag or sack for carrying about the person, as a bag for carrying the necessaries for a journey; a knapsack; a beggar's receptacle for charity; a peddler's pack.
[His hood] was trussed up in his walet. -- Chaucer.
Wallet (n.) A pocketbook for keeping money about the person.
Wallet (n.) Anything protuberant and swagging. "Wallets of flesh." -- Shak.
Wallet (n.) A pocket-size case for holding papers and paper money [syn: wallet, billfold, notecase, pocketbook].
Walleteer (n.) One who carries a wallet; a foot traveler; a tramping beggar. [Colloq.] -- Wright.
Wall-eye (n.) An eye in which the iris is of a very light gray or whitish color; -- said usually of horses. -- Booth.
Note: Jonson has defined wall-eye to be "a disease in the crystalline humor of the eye; glaucoma." But glaucoma is not a disease of the crystalline humor, nor is wall-eye a disease at all, but merely a natural blemish. --Tully. In the north of England, as Brockett states, persons are said to be wall-eyed when the white of the eye is very large and distorted, or on one side.
Wall-eye (n.) (Zool.) An American fresh-water food fish (Stizostedion vitreum) having large and prominent eyes; -- called also glasseye, pike perch, yellow pike, and wall-eyed perch.
Wall-eye (n.) (Zool.) A California surf fish ({Holconotus argenteus).
Wall-eye (n.) (Zool.) The alewife; -- called also wall-eyed herring.
Wall-eyed (a.) Having an eye of a very light gray or whitish color. -- Booth.
Note: Shakespeare, in using wall-eyed as a term of reproach (as "wall-eyed rage," a "wall-eyed wretch"), alludes probably to the idea of unnatural or distorted vision. See the Note under Wall-eye. It is an eye which is utterly and incurably perverted, an eye that knows no pity.
Wallflower (n.) (Bot.) A perennial, cruciferous plant (Cheiranthus Cheiri), with sweet-scented flowers varying in color from yellow to orange and deep red. In Europe it very common on old walls.
Note: The name is sometimes extended to other species of Cheiranthus and of the related genus Erysimum, especially the American Western wallflower ({Erysimum asperum), a biennial herb with orange-yellow flowers.
Wallflower (n.) A lady at a ball, who, either from choice, or because not asked to dance, remains a spectator. [Colloq.]
Wallflower (n.) (Bot.) In Australia, the desert poison bush ({Gastrolobium grandiflorum); -- called also native wallflower.
Wallflower (n.) Any of numerous plants of the genus Erysimum having fragrant yellow or orange or brownish flowers.
Wallflower (n.) Perennial of southern Europe having clusters of fragrant flowers of all colors especially yellow and orange; often naturalized on old walls or cliffs; sometimes placed in genus Erysimum [syn: wallflower, Cheiranthus cheiri, Erysimum cheiri].
Wallflower (n.) Remains on sidelines at social event.
Wallhick (n.) (Zool.) The lesser spotted woodpecker ({Dryobates minor). [Prov. Eng.]
Walling (n.) The act of making a wall or walls.
Walling (n.) Walls, in general; material for walls.
Walling wax, A composition of wax and tallow used by etchers and engravers to make a bank, or wall, round the edge of a plate, so as to form a trough for holding the acid used in etching, and the like. -- Fairholt.
Walloons (n. pl.) A Romanic people inhabiting that part of Belgium which comprises the provinces of Hainaut, Namur, Liege, and Luxembourg, and about one third of Brabant; also, the language spoken by this people. Used also adjectively. [Written also Wallons.] "A base Walloon . . . thrust Talbot with a spear." -- Shak.
Walloon guard, The bodyguard of the Spanish monarch; -- so called because formerly consisting of Walloons.
Walloons (n.) An ethnic group speaking a dialect of French and living in southern and eastern Belgium and neighboring parts of France.
Wallop (v. i.) To move quickly, but with great effort; to gallop. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.]
Wallop (n.) A quick, rolling movement; a gallop. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.]
Walloped (imp. & p. p.) of Wallop.
Walloping (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Wallop.
Wallop (v. i.) To boil with a continued bubbling or heaving and rolling, with noise. [Prov. Eng.] -- Brockett.
Wallop (v. i.) To move in a rolling, cumbersome manner; to waddle. [Prov. Eng.] -- Halliwell.
Wallop (v. i.) To be slatternly. [Prov. Eng.] -- Halliwell.
Wallop (v. t.) To beat soundly; to flog; to whip. [Prov. Eng., Scot., & Colloq. U. S.]
Wallop (v. t.) To wrap up temporarily. [Prov. Eng.]
Wallop (v. t.) To throw or tumble over. [Prov. Eng.]
Wallop (n.) A thick piece of fat. -- Halliwell.
Wallop (n.) A blow. [Prov. Eng., Scot., & Colloq. U. S.]
Wallop (n.) A forceful consequence; a strong effect; "the book had an important impact on my thinking"; "the book packs a wallop" [syn: impact, wallop].
Wallop (n.) A severe blow.
Wallop (v.) Hit hard; "The teacher whacked the boy" [syn: whack, wham, whop, wallop].
Wallop (v.) Defeat soundly and utterly; "We'll wallop them!"
Wallowed (imp. & p. p.) of Wallow.
Wallowing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Wallow.
Wallow (v. i.) To roll one's self about, as in mire; to tumble and roll about; to move lazily or heavily in any medium; to flounder; as, swine wallow in the mire.
I may wallow in the lily beds. -- Shak.
Wallow (v. i.) To live in filth or gross vice; to disport one's self in a beastly and unworthy manner.
God sees a man wallowing in his native impurity. -- South.
Wallow (v. i.) To wither; to fade. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.]
Wallow (v. t.) To roll; esp., to roll in anything defiling or unclean.
Wallow (n.) A kind of rolling walk.
Wallower (n.) One who, or that which, wallows.
Wallower (n.) A lantern wheel; a trundle.
Wallowish (a.) Flat; insipid.
Wallpaper (n.) 壁紙 [U] [S1] A decorative paper for the walls of rooms.
Wallpaper (v.) 貼壁紙於 Cover with wallpaper [syn: wallpaper, paper].
Wallpaper, () A file containing a listing (e.g. assembly listing) or a transcript, especially a file containing a transcript of all or part of a login session. (The idea was that the paper for such listings was essentially good only for wallpaper, as evidenced at Stanford, where it was used to cover windows).
The term is now rare, especially since other systems have developed other terms for it (e.g. PHOTO on TWENEX). However, the Unix world doesn't have an equivalent term, so perhaps wallpaper will take hold there. The term probably originated on ITS, where the commands to begin and end transcript files were ":WALBEG" and ":WALEND", with default file "WALL PAPER" (the space was a path delimiter).
Wallpaper, () The background pattern used on graphical workstations under the Microsoft Windows graphical user interface to MS-DOS. (1994-12-22)
Wallpaper (n.) (Wall) [ C or U ] A thick, often decorative, paper used for covering the walls and sometimes ceilings of a room.
// A roll of wallpaper.
// We thought we'd put up/ hang some wallpaper in the children's bedroom to make it brighter. I saw a wallpaper today that would be just right for the bathroom.
// We'll need some wallpaper paste and a big brush.
Wallpaper (n.) (Computer) [ U ] (Specialized computing) （電腦）桌面背景 A design or image that you choose to appear on the desktop (= main) screen of your computer.
Wallpaper (v.) [ T ] 貼上壁紙 To put wallpaper on the walls of a room.
// We've wallpapered the bedrooms.
Wall-plat (n.) (Zool.) The spotted flycatcher. It builds its nest on walls. [Prov. Eng.]
Wall-sided (a.) (Naut.) Having sides nearly perpendicular; -- said of certain vessels to distinguish them from those having flaring sides, or sides tumbling home (see under Tumble, v. i.).
Wallwort (n.) (Bot.) The dwarf elder, or danewort ({Sambucus Ebulus).
Walm (v. i.) To roll; to spout; to boil up. [Obs.] -- Holland.
Walnut (n.) The fruit or nut of any tree of the genus Juglans; also, the tree, and its timber. The seven or eight known species are all natives of the north temperate zone.
Note: In some parts of America, especially in New England, the name walnut is given to several species of hickory ({Carya), and their fruit.
Ash-leaved walnut, A tree ({Juglans fraxinifolia"> Ash-leaved walnut, a tree ({Juglans fraxinifolia), native in Transcaucasia.
Black walnut, A North American tree ({Juglans+nigra"> Black walnut, a North American tree ({Juglans nigra) valuable for its purplish brown wood, which is extensively used in cabinetwork and for gunstocks. The nuts are thick-shelled, and nearly globular.
English walnut, or European walnut, A tree ({Juglans regia), native of Asia from the Caucasus to Japan, valuable for its timber and for its excellent nuts, which are also called Madeira nuts.
Walnut brown, A deep warm brown color, like that of the heartwood of the black walnut.
Walnut oil, Oil extracted from walnut meats. It is used in cooking, making soap, etc.
White walnut, A North American tree ({Juglans+cinerea"> White walnut, a North American tree ({Juglans cinerea), bearing long, oval, thick-shelled, oily nuts, commonly called butternuts. See Butternut.
Walnut (n.) Nut of any of various walnut trees having a wrinkled two-lobed seed with a hard shell.
Walnut (n.) Hard dark-brown wood of any of various walnut trees; used especially for furniture and paneling
Walnut (n.) Any of various trees of the genus Juglans [syn: walnut, walnut tree].
Walnut, CA -- U.S. city in California
Population (2000): 30004
Housing Units (2000): 8395
Land area (2000): 8.982015 sq. miles (23.263311 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 8.982015 sq. miles (23.263311 sq. km)
FIPS code: 83332
Located within: California (CA), FIPS 06
Location: 34.027738 N, 117.860514 W
ZIP Codes (1990):
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Walnut, CA
Walnut
Walnut, IL -- U.S. village in Illinois
Population (2000): 1461
Housing Units (2000): 607
Land area (2000): 0.832855 sq. miles (2.157084 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.832855 sq. miles (2.157084 sq. km)
FIPS code: 78526
Located within: Illinois (IL), FIPS 17
Location: 41.556404 N, 89.591503 W
ZIP Codes (1990):
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Headwords:
Walnut, IL
Walnut
Walnut, IA -- U.S. city in Iowa
Population (2000): 778
Housing Units (2000): 350
Land area (2000): 2.144188 sq. miles (5.553422 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km) Total area (2000): 2.144188 sq. miles (5.553422 sq. km)
FIPS code: 82065
Located within: Iowa (IA), FIPS 19
Location: 41.480999 N, 95.221116 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 51577
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Walnut, IA
Walnut
Walnut, KS -- U.S. city in Kansas
Population (2000): 221
Housing Units (2000): 116
Land area (2000): 0.990805 sq. miles (2.566174 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.990805 sq. miles (2.566174 sq. km)
FIPS code: 74950
Located within: Kansas (KS), FIPS 20
Location: 37.600359 N, 95.075867 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 66780
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Walnut, KS
Walnut
Walnut, MS -- U.S. town in Mississippi
Population (2000): 754
Housing Units (2000): 341
Land area (2000): 5.420013 sq. miles (14.037768 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.024984 sq. miles (0.064708 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 5.444997 sq. miles (14.102476 sq. km)
FIPS code: 77480
Located within: Mississippi (MS), FIPS 28
Location: 34.949109 N, 88.909812 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 38683
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Walnut, MS
Walnut
Walrus (n.) (Zool.) A very large marine mammal ({Trichecus rosmarus) of the Seal family, native of the Arctic Ocean. The male has long and powerful tusks descending from the upper jaw. It uses these in procuring food and in fighting. It is hunted for its oil, ivory, and skin. It feeds largely on mollusks. Called also morse.
Note: The walrus of the North Pacific and Behring Strait ({Trichecus obesus) is regarded by some as a distinct species, by others as a variety of the common walrus.
Walrus (n.) Either of two large northern marine mammals having ivory tusks and tough hide over thick blubber [syn: walrus, seahorse, sea horse].
Walter (v. i.) To roll or wallow; to welter. [Obs. or Prov. Eng. & Scot.]
Waltron (n.) A walrus. [Obs.] -- Woodward.
Walty (a.) Liable to roll over; crank; as, a walty ship. [R.] -- Longfellow.
Waltz (n.) A dance performed by two persons in circular figures with a whirling motion; also, a piece of music composed in triple measure for this kind of dance.
Waltzed (imp. & p. p.) of Waltz.
Waltzing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Waltz.
Waltz (v. i.) To dance a waltz.
Waltz (n.) An assured victory (especially in an election) [syn: walk-in, waltz].
Waltz (n.) Music composed in triple time for waltzing.
Waltz (n.) A ballroom dance in triple time with a strong accent on the first beat [syn: waltz, valse].
Waltz (v.) Dance a waltz [syn: waltz, waltz around].
Waltzer (n.) A person who waltzes.
Walwe (v.) To wallow. [Obs.] -- Chaucer.
Waly (interj.) An exclamation of grief. [Obs. or Prov. Eng. & Scot.]
Wamble (v. i.) To heave; to be disturbed by nausea; -- said of the stomach. -- L'Estrange.
Wamble (v. i.) To move irregularly to and fro; to roll.
Wamble (n.) Disturbance of the stomach; a feeling of nausea. -- Holland.
Wamble (v.) Move unsteadily or with a weaving or rolling motion [syn: wamble, waggle].
Wamble-cropped (a.) Sick at the stomach; also, crestfallen; dejected. [Slang]
Wammel (v. i.) To move irregularly or awkwardly; to wamble, or wabble. [Prov. Eng.]
Wamp (n.) (Zool.) The common American eider.
Wampee (n.) (Bot.) A tree ({Cookia punctata) of the Orange family, growing in China and the East Indies; also, its fruit, which is about the size of a large grape, and has a hard rind and a peculiar flavor.
Wampee (n.) The pickerel weed. [Southern U. S.]
Wampee (n.) American plant having spikes of blue flowers and growing in shallow water of streams and ponds [syn: pickerelweed, pickerel weed, wampee, Pontederia cordata].
Compare: Seawan
Seawan, Seawant (n.) The name used by the Algonquin Indians for the shell beads which passed among the Indians as money.
Note: Seawan was of two kinds; wampum, white, and suckanhock, black or purple, -- the former having half the value of the latter. Many writers, however, use the terms seawan and wampum indiscriminately. -- Bartlett.
Wampum (n.) Beads made of shells, used by the North American Indians as money, and also wrought into belts, etc., as an ornament.
Round his waist his belt of wampum. -- Longfellow.
Girded with his wampum braid. -- Whittier.
Note: These beads were of two kinds, one white, and the other black or dark purple. The term wampum is properly applied only to the white; the dark purple ones are called suckanhock. See Seawan. "It [wampum] consisted of cylindrical pieces of the shells of testaceous fishes, a quarter of an inch long, and in diameter less than a pipestem, drilled . . . so as to be strung upon a thread. The beads of a white color, rated at half the value of the black or violet, passed each as the equivalent of a farthing in transactions between the natives and the planters." -- Palfrey.
Wampum (n.) Informal terms for money [syn: boodle, bread, cabbage, clams, dinero, dough, gelt, kale, lettuce, lolly, lucre, loot, moolah, pelf, scratch, shekels, simoleons, sugar, wampum].
Wampum (n.) Small cylindrical beads made from polished shells and fashioned into strings or belts; used by certain Native American peoples as jewelry or currency [syn: wampum, peag, wampumpeag]
Wampum, PA -- U.S. borough in Pennsylvania
Population (2000): 678
Housing Units (2000): 310
Land area (2000): 0.921043 sq. miles (2.385490 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.042833 sq. miles (0.110937 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.963876 sq. miles (2.496427 sq. km)
FIPS code: 80880
Located within: Pennsylvania (PA), FIPS 42
Location: 40.888657 N, 80.339650 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 16157
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Headwords:
Wampum, PA
Wampum
Wan, (obs. imp. of Win.) Won. -- Chaucer.
Wan (a.) Having a pale or sickly hue; languid of look; pale; pallid.
Wan (n.) The quality of being wan; wanness.
Wan (v. i.) To grow wan; to become pale or sickly in looks. "All his visage wanned." -- Shak.
And ever he mutter'd and madden'd, and ever wann'd with despair. -- Tennyson.
Wand (n.) [C] 棒，棍，竿，杖；魔杖；【音】指揮棒；（表示官職的）權杖，權標 A small stick; a rod; a verge.
Wand (n.) A staff of authority.
Wand (n.) A rod used by conjurers, diviners, magicians, etc.
Wandered (imp. & p. p.) of Wander.
Wandering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Wander.
Wandering (a.) 徘徊的；流浪的；蜿蜒的；曲折的；錯亂的；恍惚的
Wandering (n.)（常複數）流浪；精神錯亂； wander 的動詞現在分詞、動名詞
Wander (v. i.) 漫遊；閒逛；流浪；徘徊 [（+about/ off/ over/ through）]； 迷路；離開正道；離題 [（+from/ off）] To ramble here and there without any certain course or with no definite object in view; to range about; to stroll; to rove; as, to wander over the fields.
They wandered about in sheepskins and goatskins. -- Heb. xi. 37.
He wandereth abroad for bread. -- Job xv. 23.
Wander (v. i.) To go away; to
depart; to stray off; to deviate; to go astray; as, a writer wanders from his
subject.
When God caused me to wander from my father's house. --
Gen. xx. 13.
O, let me not wander from thy commandments. -- Ps. cxix. 10.
Wander (v. i.) To be delirious; not to be under the guidance of reason; to rave; as, the mind wanders.
Syn: To roam; rove; range; stroll; gad; stray; straggly; err; swerve; deviate; depart.
Wander (v. t.) 漫遊於，徘徊於 To travel over without a certain course; to traverse; to stroll through. [R.] "[Elijah] wandered this barren waste." -- Milton.
Wander (v.) To move around or go to different places usually without having a particular purpose or direction.
Wander (v.) To follow a path with many turns.
Wander (v.) To go away from a path, course, etc..
Wander (v. i.) To move about without a fixed course, aim, or goal.
Wander (v. i.) To go idly about : ramble <wandering around the house>.
Wander (v. i.) To follow a winding course : meander.
Wander (v. i.) To go astray (as from a course) : stray <wandered away from the group>.
Wander (v. i.) To go astray morally : err.
Wander (v. i.) To lose normal mental contact : stray in thought <his mind wandered>.
Wander (v. t.) To roam over <wandered the halls>.
Wander (n.) A short walk in or around a place, usually with no special purpose.
Wanderer (n.) [C] 漫遊者；流浪漢；迷路的動物 One who wanders; a rambler; one who roves; hence, one who deviates from duty.
Wanderer (n.) Someone who leads a wandering unsettled life [syn: wanderer, roamer, rover, bird of passage].
Wanderer (n.) A computer program that prowls the internet looking for publicly accessible resources that can be added to a database; the database can then be searched with a search engine [syn: spider, wanderer].
Wandering (a. & n.) (a.) 徘徊的；流浪的；蜿蜒的；曲折的；錯亂的；恍惚的 (n.) （常複數）流浪；精神錯亂; wander的動詞現在分詞、動名詞 from Wander, v.
Wandering albatross (Zool.), The great white albatross. See Illust. of Albatross.
Wandering cell (Physiol.), An animal cell which possesses the power of spontaneous movement, as one of the white corpuscles of the blood.
Wandering Jew (Bot.), Any one of several creeping species of Tradescantia, which have alternate, pointed leaves, and a soft, herbaceous stem which roots freely at the joints. They are commonly cultivated in hanging baskets, window boxes, etc.
Wandering kidney (Med.), A morbid condition in which one kidney, or, rarely, both kidneys, can be moved in certain directions; -- called also floating kidney, movable kidney.
Wandering liver (Med.), A morbid condition of the liver, similar to wandering kidney.
Wandering mouse (Zool.), The whitefooted, or deer, mouse. See Illust. of Mouse.
Wandering spider (Zool.), Any one of a tribe of spiders that wander about in search of their prey.
Wandering (a.) Migratory; "a restless mobile society"; "the nomadic habits of the Bedouins"; "believed the profession of a peregrine typist would have a happy future"; "wandering tribes" [syn: mobile, nomadic, peregrine, roving, wandering].
Wandering (a.) Of a path e.g.; "meandering streams"; "rambling forest paths"; "the river followed its wandering course"; "a winding country road" [syn: meandering(a), rambling, wandering(a), winding].
Wandering (a.) Having no fixed course; "an erratic comet"; "his life followed a wandering course"; "a planetary vagabond" [syn: erratic, planetary, wandering].
Wandering (n.) Travelling about without any clear destination; "she followed him in his wanderings and looked after him" [syn: wandering, roving, vagabondage].
Wandering, () Of the Israelites in the wilderness in consequence of their rebellious fears to enter the Promised Land (Num. 14:26-35).
They wandered for forty years before they were permitted to cross the Jordan (Josh. 4:19; 5:6).
The record of these wanderings is given in Num. 33:1-49. Many of the stations at which they camped cannot now be identified.
Questions of an intricate nature have been discussed regarding the "Wanderings," but it is enough for us to take the sacred narrative as it stands, and rest assured that "He led them forth by the right way" (Ps. 107:1-7, 33-35). (See Wilderness.)
Wanderingly (adv.) In a wandering manner.
Wanderlust (n.) 漫遊癖；流浪癖 Very strong or irresistible impulse to travel [syn: wanderlust, itchy feet].
Wanderment (n.) The act of wandering, or roaming. [Obs.] -- Bp. Hall.
Wanderoo (n.) (Zool.) A large monkey ({Macacus silenus) native of Malabar. It is black, or nearly so, but has a long white or gray beard encircling the face. Called also maha, silenus, neelbhunder, lion-tailed baboon, and great wanderoo. [Written also ouanderoo.]
Note: The name is sometimes applied also to other allied species.
Wandy (a.) Long and flexible, like a wand. [Prov. Eng.] -- Brockett.
Waned (imp. & p. p.) of Wane.
Waning (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Wane.
Wane (v. i.) To be diminished; to decrease; -- contrasted with wax, and especially applied to the illuminated part of the moon.
Like the moon, aye wax ye and wane.
Waning moons their settled periods keep. -- Addison.
Wane (v. i.) To decline; to fail; to sink.
You saw but sorrow in its waning form. -- Dryden.
Land and trade ever will wax and wane together. -- Sir J. Child.
Wane (v. t.) To cause to decrease. [Obs.] -- B. Jonson.
Wane (n.) The decrease of the illuminated part of the moon to the eye of a spectator.
Wane (n.) Decline; failure; diminution; decrease; declension.
An age in which the church is in its wane. -- South.
Though the year be on the wane. -- Keble.
Wane (n.) An inequality in a board. [Prov. Eng.] -- Halliwell.
Wane (n.) (Forestry) The natural curvature of a log or of the edge of a board sawed from a log.
Wane (n.) A gradual decline (in size or strength or power or number) [syn: ebb, ebbing, wane].
Wane (v.) Grow smaller; "Interest in the project waned" [syn: decline, go down, wane].
Wane (v.) Become smaller; "Interest in his novels waned" [ant: climb, mount, rise, wax].
Wane (v.) Decrease in phase; "the moon is waning" [ant: full, wax].
Waney (n.) A sharp or uneven edge on a board that is cut from a log not perfectly squared, or that is made in the process of squaring. See Wany, a.
Wang (n.) The jaw, jawbone, or cheek bone. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.]
So work aye the wangs in his head. -- Chaucer.
Wang (n.) A slap; a blow. [Prov. Eng.] -- Halliwell.
Wang tooth, A cheek tooth; a molar. [Obs.] -- Chaucer.
Wang (n.) See Whang. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.]
Wangan (n.) [American Indian.] A boat for conveying provisions, tools, etc.; -- so called by Maine lumbermen. [Written also wangun.] -- Bartlett.
Wanger (n.) A pillow for the cheek; a pillow. [Obs. & R.]
His bright helm was his wanger. -- Chaucer.