Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter W - Page 42
Worthless (a.) 無價值的；無用的；不重要的 [Z ] Destitute of worth; having no value, virtue, excellence, dignity, or the like; undeserving; valueless; useless; vile; mean; as, a worthless garment; a worthless ship; a worthless man or woman; a worthless magistrate.
'T is a worthless world to win or lose. -- Byron. -- {Worth"less*ly}, adv. -- {Worth"less*ness}, n.
Worthless (a.) Lacking in usefulness or value; "a worthless idler" [ant: {valuable}].
Worthless (a.) Morally reprehensible; "would do something as despicable as murder"; "ugly crimes"; "the vile development of slavery appalled them"; "a slimy little liar" [syn: {despicable}, {ugly}, {vile}, {slimy}, {unworthy}, {worthless}, {wretched}].
Worthlessness (n.) 無價值；不值錢；無足輕重，不中用Having no qualities that would render it valuable or useful; "the drill sergeant's intent was to convince all the recruits of their worthlessness" [syn: {worthlessness}, {ineptitude}] [ant: {worth}].
Worthlessness (n.) The quality of being without practical use.
Worthlessness (n.) See Worthless
Worthless (a.) Having no real value or use.
‘That promise is worthless.’
Worthless (a.) (Of a person) Having no good qualities; deserving contempt.
‘Joan had been deserted by a worthless husband.’
Worthwhile (a.) 值得花費時間（或金錢）的，值得做的；有真實價值的 Being worth the time or effort spent.
Worthwhile (a.) Worthy. -- Worthwhileness -- n.
Worthwhile (a.) Sufficiently valuable to justify the investment of time or interest; "a worthwhile book."
Worthy (v. t.) To render worthy; to exalt into a hero. [Obs.] -- Shak.
Worthy (a.) 有價值的；可尊敬的；相稱的[B]；值得的，配得上的，足以……的 [F] [（+of）] [+to-v] Having worth or excellence; possessing merit; valuable; deserving; estimable; excellent; virtuous.
Full worthy was he in his lordes war. -- Chaucer.
These banished men that I have kept withal Are men endued with worthy qualities. -- Shak.
Happier thou mayst be, worthier canst not be. -- Milton.
This worthy mind should worthy things embrace. -- Sir J. Davies.
Worthy (a.) Having suitable, adapted, or equivalent qualities or value; -- usually with of before the thing compared or the object; more rarely, with a following infinitive instead of of, or with that; as, worthy of, equal in excellence, value, or dignity to; entitled to; meriting; -- usually in a good sense, but sometimes in a bad one.
No, Warwick, thou art worthy of the sway. -- Shak.
The merciless Macdonwald, Worthy to be a rebel. -- Shak.
Whose shoes I am not worthy to bear. -- Matt. iii. 11.
And thou art worthy that thou shouldst not know More happiness. -- Milton.
The lodging is well worthy of the guest. -- Dryden.
Worthy (a.) Of high station; of high social position. [Obs.]
Worthy women of the town. -- Chaucer.
{Worthiest of blood} (Eng. Law of Descent), most worthy of those of the same blood to succeed or inherit; -- applied to males, and expressive of the preference given them over females. -- Burrill.
Worthies (n. pl. ) of Worthy.
Worthy (n.) [C] 知名人士；傑出人物A man of eminent worth or value; one distinguished for useful and estimable qualities; a person of conspicuous desert; -- much used in the plural; as, the worthies of the church; political worthies; military worthies.
The blood of ancient worthies in his veins. -- Cowper.
Worthy (a.) Having worth or merit or value; being honorable or admirable; "a worthy fellow"; "a worthy cause" [ant: {unworthy}].
Worthy (a.) Worthy of being chosen especially as a spouse; "the parents found the girl suitable for their son" [syn: {desirable}, {suitable}, {worthy}].
Worthy (a.) Having qualities or abilities that merit recognition in some way; "behavior worthy of reprobation"; "a fact worthy of attention".
Worthy (n.) An important, honorable person (word is often used humorously); "he told his story to some conservative worthies"; "local worthies rarely challenged the chief constable."
Wost () 2d pers. sing. pres. of Wit, to know. [Obs.] -- Spenser.
Compare: Weet
Weet (v. i.) [imp. Wot.] [See Wit to know.] To know; to wit. [Obs.] -- Tyndale. Spenser.
Compare: Wit
Wit (v. t. & i.) To know; to learn. "I wot and wist alway." -- Chaucer.
Note: The present tense was inflected as follows; sing. 1st pers. wot; 2d pers. wost, or wot(t)est; 3d pers. wot, or wot(t)eth; pl. witen, or wite. The following variant forms also occur; pres. sing. 1st & 3d pers. wat, woot; pres. pl. wyten, or wyte, weete, wote, wot; imp. wuste (Southern dialect); p. pr. wotting. Later, other variant or corrupt forms are found, as, in Shakespeare, 3d pers. sing. pres. wots.
Brethren, we do you to wit [make you to know] of the grace of God bestowed on the churches of Macedonia. -- 2 Cor. viii. 1.
Thou wost full little what thou meanest. -- Chaucer.
We witen not what thing we prayen here. -- Chaucer.
When that the sooth in wist. -- Chaucer.
Note: This verb is now used only in the infinitive, to wit which is employed, especially in legal language, to call attention to a particular thing, or to a more particular specification of what has preceded, and is equivalent to namely, that is to say.
Wot () 1st & 3d pers. sing. pres. of Wit, to know. See the Note under Wit, v. [Obs.]
Brethren, I wot that through ignorance ye did it. -- Acts iii. 17. Wotest
Wotest () Alt. of Wottest.
Wottest () 2d pers. sing. pres. of Wit, to know. [Obs.] Woteth
Woteth () Alt. of Wotteth.
Wotteth () 3d pers. sing. pres. of Wit, to know. [Obs.] "He wotteth neither what he babbleth, nor what he meaneth." -- Tyndale.
Woul (v. i.) To howl. [Obs.] -- Wyclif.
Compare: Weld
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.
Compare: Will
Will (v. t. & auxiliary.) To wish; to desire; to incline to have.
A wife as of herself no thing ne sholde [should] Wille in effect, but as her husband wolde [would]. -- Chaucer.
Caleb said unto her, What will thou ? -- Judg. i. 14.
They would none of my counsel. -- Prov. i. 30.
Will (v. t. & auxiliary.) As an auxiliary, will is used to denote futurity dependent on the verb. Thus, in first person, "I will" denotes willingness, consent, promise; and when "will" is emphasized, it denotes determination or fixed purpose; as, I will go if you wish; I will go at all hazards. In the second and third persons, the idea of distinct volition, wish, or purpose is evanescent, and simple certainty is appropriately expressed; as, "You will go," or "He will go," describes a future event as a fact only. To emphasize will denotes (according to the tone or context) certain futurity or fixed determination.
Note: Will, auxiliary, may be used elliptically for will go. "I'll to her lodgings." -- Marlowe.
Note: As in shall (which see), the second and third persons may be virtually converted into the first, either by question or indirect statement, so as to receive the meaning which belongs to will in that person; thus, "Will you go?" (answer, "I will go") asks assent, requests, etc.; while "Will he go?" simply inquires concerning futurity; thus, also,"He says or thinks he will go," "You say or think you will go," both signify willingness or consent.
Note: Would, as the preterit of will, is chiefly employed in conditional, subjunctive, or optative senses; as, he would go if he could; he could go if he would; he said that he would go; I would fain go, but can not; I would that I were young again; and other like phrases. In the last use, the first personal pronoun is often omitted; as, would that he were here; would to Heaven that it were so; and, omitting the to in such an adjuration. "Would God I had died for thee." Would is used for both present and future time, in conditional propositions, and would have for past time; as, he would go now if he were ready; if it should rain, he would not go; he would have gone, had he been able. Would not, as also will not, signifies refusal. "He was angry, and would not go in." -- Luke xv. 28. Would is never a past participle.
Note: In Ireland, Scotland, and the United States, especially in the southern and western portions of the United States, shall and will, should and would, are often misused, as in the following examples: I am able to devote as much time and attention to other subjects as I will [shall] be under the necessity of doing next winter. -- Chalmers.
A countryman, telling us what he had seen, remarked that if the conflagration went on, as it was doing, we would [should] have, as our next season's employment, the Old Town of Edinburgh to rebuild. -- H. Miller.
I feel assured that I will [shall] not have the misfortune to find conflicting views held by one so enlightened as your excellency. -- J. Y. Mason.
Would (imp. of will) Commonly used as an auxiliary verb, either in the past tense or in the conditional or optative present. See 2d & 3d Will.
Note: Would was formerly used also as the past participle of Will.
Right as our Lord hath would. -- Chaucer.
Would (n.) See 2d Weld.
Would-be (a.) Desiring or professing to be; vainly pretending to be; as, a would-be poet.
Would-be (a.) Unfulfilled or frustrated in realizing an ambition [syn: manque, would-be(a)].
Woulding (n.) Emotion of desire; inclination; velleity. [Obs.] -- Hammond.
Wouldingness (n.) Willingness; desire. [Obs.]
Woulfe bottle (n.) (Chem.) A kind of wash bottle with two or three necks; -- so called after the inventor, Peter Woulfe, an English chemist.
Wound (v. t.) [imp. & p. p. Wounded; p. pr. & vb. n. Wounding.] To hurt by violence; to produce a breach, or separation of parts, in, as by a cut, stab, blow, or the like.
The archers hit him; and he was sore wounded of the archers. -- 1 Sam. xxxi. 3.
Wound (v. t.) To hurt the feelings of; to pain by disrespect, ingratitude, or the like; to cause injury to.
When ye sin so against the brethren, and wound their weak conscience, ye sin against Christ. --1 Cor. viii. 12.
Wound () imp. & p. p. of Wind to twist, and Wind to sound by blowing.
Wound (n.) A hurt or injury caused by violence; specifically, a breach of the skin and flesh of an animal, or in the substance of any creature or living thing; a cut, stab, rent, or the like. -- Chaucer.
Showers of blood Rained from the wounds of slaughtered Englishmen. -- Shak.
Wound (n.) Fig.: An injury, hurt, damage, detriment, or the like, to feeling, faculty, reputation, etc.
Wound (n.) (Criminal Law) An injury to the person by which the skin is divided, or its continuity broken; a lesion of the body, involving some solution of continuity.
Note: Walker condemns the pronunciation woond as a "capricious novelty." It is certainly opposed to an important principle of our language, namely, that the Old English long sound written ou, and pronounced like French ou or modern English oo, has regularly changed, when accented, into the diphthongal sound usually written with the same letters ou in modern English, as in ground, hound, round, sound. The use of ou in Old English to represent the sound of modern English oo was borrowed from the French, and replaced the older and Anglo-Saxon spelling with u. It makes no difference whether the word was taken from the French or not, provided it is old enough in English to have suffered this change to what is now the common sound of ou; but words taken from the French at a later time, or influenced by French, may have the French sound.
Wound gall (Zool.), An elongated swollen or tuberous gall on the branches of the grapevine, caused by a small reddish brown weevil ({Ampeloglypter sesostris) whose larvae inhabit the galls.
Compare: Coiled
Coiled (a.) Curled or wound especially in concentric rings or spirals; as, a coiled snake ready to strike; the rope lay coiled on the deck. Opposite of uncoiled.
Note: [Narrower terms: coiling, helical, spiral, spiraling, volute, voluted, whorled; convolute rolled longitudinally upon itself;{curled, curled up}; involute closely coiled so that the axis is obscured); looped, whorled; twined, twisted; convoluted; involute, rolled esp of petals or leaves in bud: having margins rolled inward); wound].
Wound (a.) Put in a coil.
Wound (n.) An injury to living tissue (especially an injury involving a cut or break in the skin) [syn: wound, lesion].
Wound (n.) A casualty to military personnel resulting from combat [syn: wound, injury, combat injury].
Wound (n.) A figurative injury (to your feelings or pride); "he feared that mentioning it might reopen the wound"; "deep in her breast lives the silent wound"; "The right reader of a good poem can tell the moment it strikes him that he has taken an immortal wound--that he will never get over it" -- Robert Frost
Wound (n.) The act of inflicting a wound [syn: wound, wounding].
Wound (v.) Cause injuries or bodily harm to [syn: injure, wound]
Wound (v.) Hurt the feelings of; "She hurt me when she did not include me among her guests"; "This remark really bruised my ego" [syn: hurt, wound, injure, bruise, offend, spite].
Wound, () med. jur. This term, in legal medicine, comprehends all lesions of the body, and in this it differs from the meaning of the word when used in surgery. The latter only refers to a solution of continuity, while the former comprises not only these, but also every other kind of accident, such as bruises, contusions, fractures, dislocations, and the like. Cooper's Surgical Dict. h.t.; Dunglison's Med. Dict. h.t.; vide Dictionnaire des Sciences Medicales, mot Blessures 3 Fodere, Med. Leg. Sec. 687-811.
Wound, () Under the statute 9 Geo. IV. c. 21, sect. 12, it has been held in England, that to make a wound, in criminal cases, there must be "an injury to the person by which the skin is broken." 6 C. & P. 684; S. C. 19 Eng. C. L. Rep. 526. Vide Beck's Med. Jur. c. 15; Ryan's Med. Jur. Index, h.t.; Roscoe's Cr. Ev. 652; 19 Eng. Com. L. Rep. 425, 430, 526, 529; Dane's Ab. Index, h.t.; 1 Moody's Cr. Cas. 278; 4 C. & P. 381; S. C. 19 E. C. L. R. 430; 4 C. & P. 446; S. C. 19 E. C. L. R. 466; 1 Moody's Cr. C. 318; 4 C. & P. 558; S. C. 19 E. C. L. R. 526; Carr. Cr. L. 239; Guy, Med. Jur. ch. 9, p. 446; Merl. Repert. mot Blessure.
Wound, () When a person is found dead from wounds, it is proper to inquire whether they are the result of suicide, accident, or homicide. In making the examination, the greatest attention should be bestowed on all the circumstances. On this subject some general directions have been given under the article Death. The reader is referred to 2 Beck's Med. Jur. 68 to 93. As to, wounds on the living body, see Id. 188.
Wound (n.) [ C ] (Injury) (B2) （身體上的）傷，傷口 A damaged area of the body, such as a cut or hole in the skin or flesh made by a weapon.
// A gunshot wound.
// A chest/ leg wound.
// A flesh wound (= one that is not deep).
// He died from multiple stab wounds to the neck and upper body.
Wound (n.) [ C ] (Upset) 問題；痛苦；創傷 A problem or great unhappiness.
// She refuses to talk about the incident, saying it would only reopen old wounds (= make her remember unhappy past experiences).
Wound (v.) [ T usually passive ] (Injure) (B2) （身體上的）傷，傷口 To damage an area of the body, especially by making a cut or hole in the skin.
// Flying glass wounded her in the face and neck.
// The police chief was badly wounded in the explosion.
Wound (v.) [ T usually passive ] (Upset) 使受創傷；傷害 To make someone feel upset.
// He was deeply wounded by her fierce criticism.
Wound (v.) 包紮（傷口） Past simple and past participle of wind.
Woundable (a.) Capable of being wounded; vulnerable. [R.] -- Fuller.
Wounder (n.) One who, or that which, wounds.
Woundily (adv.) In a woundy manner; excessively; woundy. [Obs.]
Woundless (a.) Free from wound or hurt; exempt from being wounded; invulnerable. "Knights whose woundless armor rusts."-- Spenser.
[Slander]
may miss our name, And hit the woundless air. -- Shak.
Woundwort (n.) (Bot.) Any one of certain plants whose soft, downy
leaves have been used for dressing wounds, as the kidney vetch, and several
species of the labiate genus Stachys.
Woundy (a.) Excessive. [Obs.]
Such a world of holidays, that 't a woundy hindrance to a poor man that lives by his labor. -- L'Estrange.
Woundy (adv.) Excessively; extremely. [Obs.]
A am woundy cold. -- Ford.
Wourali (n.) Same as Curare.
Wou-wou (n.) (Zool.) The agile, or silvery, gibbon; -- called also camper. See Gibbon. [Written also wow-wow.]
Compare: Weave
Weave (v. t.) [imp. Wove; p. p. Woven, Wove; p. pr. & vb. n. Weaving. The regular imp. & p. p. Weaved, is rarely used.] To unite, as threads of any kind, in such a manner as to form a texture; to entwine or interlace into a fabric; as, to weave wool, silk, etc.; hence, to unite by close connection or intermixture; to unite intimately.
This weaves itself, perforce, into my business. -- Shak.
That in their green shops weave the smooth-haired silk To deck her sons. -- Milton.
And for these words, thus woven into song. -- Byron.
Weave (v. t.) To form, as cloth, by interlacing threads; to compose, as a texture of any kind, by putting together textile materials; as, to weave broadcloth; to weave a carpet; hence, to form into a fabric; to compose; to fabricate; as, to weave the plot of a story.
When she weaved the sleided silk. -- Shak.
Her starry wreaths the virgin jasmin weaves. -- Ld. Lytton.
Wove () p. pr. & rare vb. n. of Weave.
Woven () p. p. of Weave.
Woven paper, or Wove paper, Writing paper having an even, uniform surface, without watermarks.
Woven (a.) Made or constructed by interlacing threads or strips of material or other elements into a whole; "woven fabrics"; "woven baskets"; "the incidents woven into the story"; "folk songs woven into a symphony" [ant: unwoven].
Wowe (v. t. & i.) To woo. [Obs.] -- Chaucer.
Wowf (a.) Disordered or unsettled in intellect; deranged. [Scot.] -- Sir W. Scott.
Wowke (n.) Week. [Obs.] -- Chaucer.
Compare: Wou-wou
Wou-wou (n.) [So called from its cry.] (Zool.) The agile, or silvery, gibbon; -- called also camper. See Gibbon. [Written also wow-wow.]
Wow-wow (n.) (Zool.) See Wou-wou.
Wox () imp. of Wax.
Woxen () p. p. of Wax. -- Chaucer.
Wrack (n.) A thin, flying cloud; a rack.
Wrack (v. t.) To rack; to torment. [R.]
Wrack (n.) Wreck; ruin; destruction. [Obs.] -- Chaucer. "A world devote to universal wrack." -- Milton.
Wrack (n.) Any marine vegetation cast up on the shore, especially plants of the genera Fucus, Laminaria, and Zostera, which are most abundant on northern shores.
Wrack (n.) (Bot.) Coarse seaweed of any kind.
Wrack grass, or Grass wrack (Bot.), Eelgrass.
Wrack (v. t.) To wreck. [Obs.] -- Dryden.
Compare: Wreck
Wreck (n.) [Written also wrack.] The destruction or injury of a vessel by being cast on shore, or on rocks, or by being disabled or sunk by the force of winds or waves; shipwreck.
Hard and obstinate As is a rock amidst the raging floods, Gainst which a ship, of succor desolate,
Doth suffer wreck, both of herself and goods. -- Spenser.
Wreck (n.) Destruction or injury of anything, especially by violence; ruin; as, the wreck of a railroad train.
The wreck of matter and the crush of worlds. -- Addison.
Its intellectual life was thus able to go on amidst the wreck of its political life. -- J. R. Green.
Wreck (n.) The ruins of a ship stranded; a ship dashed against rocks or land, and broken, or otherwise rendered useless, by violence and fracture; as, they burned the wreck.
Wreck (n.) The remain of anything ruined or fatally injured.
To the fair haven of my native home, The wreck of what I was, fatigued I come. -- Cowper.
Wreck (n.) (Law) Goods, etc., which, after a shipwreck, are cast upon the land by the sea. -- Bouvier.
Wrack (n.) Dried seaweed especially that cast ashore
Wrack (n.) The destruction or collapse of something; "wrack and ruin" [syn: wrack, rack]
Wrack (n.) Growth of marine vegetation especially of the large forms such as rockweeds and kelp [syn: sea wrack, wrack].
Wrack (v.) Smash or break forcefully; "The kid busted up the car" [syn: bust up, wreck, wrack].
Wrackful (a.) Ruinous; destructive. [Obs.]
Wrain-bolt (n.) Same as Wringbolt.
Compare: Wringbolt
Wringbolt (n.) (Shipbuilding) A bolt used by shipwrights, to bend and secure the planks against the timbers till they are fastened by bolts, spikes, or treenails; -- not to be confounded with ringbolt.
Wraith (n.) 鬼魂；幻影 An apparition of a person in his exact likeness, seen before death, or a little after; hence, an apparition; a specter; a vision; an unreal image. [Scot.]
She was uncertain if it were the gypsy or her wraith. -- Sir W. Scott.
O, hollow wraith of dying fame. -- Tennyson.
Wraith (n.) Sometimes, improperly, a spirit thought to preside over the waters; -- called also water wraith. -- M. G. Lewis.
Wraith (n.) A mental representation of some haunting experience; "he looked like he had seen a ghost"; "it aroused specters from his past" [syn: ghost, shade, spook, wraith, specter, spectre].
Wrangled (imp. & p. p.) of Wrangle.
Wrangling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Wrangle.
Wrangle (v. i.) 爭吵，口角；爭論，爭辯 [（+with/ over）] To argue; to debate; to dispute. [Obs.]
Wrangle (v. i.) To dispute angrily; to quarrel peevishly and noisily; to brawl; to altercate. "In spite of occasional wranglings." -- Macaulay.
For a score of kingdoms you should wrangle. -- Shak.
He did not know what it was to wrangle on indifferent points. -- Addison.
Wrangle (v. t.) 爭論；爭吵；爭得；爭辯得使（某人）…… [（+into/ out of）] To involve in a quarrel or dispute; to embroil. [R.] -- Bp. Sanderson.
Wrangle (n.) 爭論；爭吵 [C] An angry dispute; a noisy quarrel; a squabble; an altercation.
Syn: Altercation; bickering; brawl; jar; jangle; contest; controversy. See {Altercation}.
Wrangle (n.) An angry dispute; "they had a quarrel"; "they had words" [syn: {quarrel}, {wrangle}, {row}, {words}, {run-in}, {dustup}].
Wrangle (n.) An instance of intense argument (as in bargaining) [syn: {haggle}, {haggling}, {wrangle}, {wrangling}]
Wrangle (v.) To quarrel noisily, angrily or disruptively; "The bar keeper threw them out, but they continued to wrangle on down the street" [syn: {brawl}, {wrangle}].
Wrangle (v.) Herd and care for; "wrangle horses."
Wrangler (n.) An angry disputant; one who disputes with heat or peevishness. "Noisy and contentious wranglers." -- I. Watts.
Wrangler (n.) One of those who stand in the first rank of honors in the University of Cambridge, England. They are called, according to their rank, senior wrangler, second wrangler, third wrangler, etc. Cf. Optime.
Wrangler (n.) Someone who argues noisily or angrily.
Wrangler (n.) A cowboy who takes care of the saddle horses [syn: horse wrangler, wrangler].
Wranglership (n.) The honor or position of being a wrangler at the University of Cambridge, England.
Wranglesome (a.) Contentious; quarrelsome. [Prov. Eng.] -- Halliwell. Wrannock
Wrannock (n.) Alt. of Wranny.
Wranny (n.) (Zool.) The common wren. [Prov. Eng.]
Wrap (n.) A wrapper; -- often used in the plural for blankets, furs, shawls, etc., used in riding or traveling.
Wrap (v. t.) To snatch up; transport; -- chiefly used in the p. p. wrapt.
Lo! where the stripling, wrapt in wonder, roves. -- Beattie.
Wrapped (imp. & p. p.) of Wrap.
Wrapt () of Wrap.
Wrapping (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Wrap.
Wrap (v. t.) To wind or fold together; to arrange in folds.
Then cometh Simon Peter, . . . and seeth . . . the napkin that was about his head, not lying with the linen clothes, but wrapped together in a place by itself. -- John xx. 6, 7.
Like one that wraps the drapery of his couch About him, and lies down to pleasant dreams. -- Bryant.
Wrap (v. t.) To cover by winding or folding; to envelop completely; to involve; to infold; -- often with up.
I . . . wrapt in mist Of midnight vapor, glide obscure. -- Milton.
Wrap (v. t.) To conceal by enveloping or infolding; to hide; hence, to involve, as an effect or consequence; to be followed by.
Wise poets that wrap truth in tales. -- Carew.
To be wrapped up in, to be wholly engrossed in; to be entirely dependent on; to be covered with.
Leontine's young wife, in whom all his happiness was wrapped up, died in a few days after the death of her daughter. -- Addison.
Things reflected on in gross and transiently . . . are thought to be wrapped up in impenetrable obscurity. -- Locke.
Wrap (n.) Cloak that is folded or wrapped around a person [syn: wrap, wrapper].
Wrap (n.) A sandwich in which the filling is rolled up in a soft tortilla.
Wrap (n.) The covering (usually paper or cellophane) in which something is wrapped [syn: wrapping, wrap, wrapper].
Wrap (v.) Arrange or fold as a cover or protection; "wrap the baby before taking her out"; "Wrap the present" [syn: wrap, wrap up] [ant: undo, unwrap].
Wrap (v.) Arrange or or coil around; "roll your hair around your finger"; "Twine the thread around the spool"; "She wrapped her arms around the child" [syn: wind, wrap, roll, twine] [ant: unroll, unwind, wind off].
Wrap (v.) Enclose or enfold completely with or as if with a covering; "Fog enveloped the house" [syn: envelop, enfold, enwrap, wrap, enclose].
Wrap (v.) Crash into so as to coil around; "The teenager wrapped his car around the fire hydrant."
Wrap (v.) [ T ] (B1) （用紙、布或其他材料）包，裹 To cover or surround something with paper, cloth, or other material.
// She wrapped the present and tied it with ribbon.
// Wrap the chicken in foil and cook it for two hours.
Wrap (v.) [ T ] (B2) 用…包裹；用…覆蓋 To cover someone with a piece of material in order to protect them.
// She wrapped the baby in a blanket.
// He wrapped a towel around his shoulders.
Idiom: Be wrapped up in sth/ sb
Be wrapped up in sth/ sb (Informal) 全神貫注於… If you are wrapped up in someone or something, you are very interested in him, her, or it and ignore other people or things.
// She's always been completely wrapped up in her children.
Wrap sb (up) in cotton wool (uk) 嬌慣（某人）；過分保護（某人） To try to protect someone too carefully.
// You can't wrap (up) your children in cotton wool forever.
Wrap sb around your little finger (Uk also Wrap sb round your little finger) 輕而易舉地說服（某人） To persuade someone easily to do what you want them to do.
// She could wrap her father around her little finger.
Wrap yourself in the flag (Disapproving) 表達強烈的愛國情感 To show great loyalty and support for your countryin a way that does not ask questions.
// Although national pride is important to the prime minister, he does not wrap himself in the flag as his predecessor used to do.
Wrapped (up) in secrecy 處於保密狀態 If something such as plan is wrapped (up) in secrecy, the details about it are kept secret.
Phrasal Verb:
Wrap sth around sb/ sth (Uk also Wrap sth round sb/ sth) (- Phrasal verb with wrap) (verb [ T ] -pp-)（通常為了保暖）用…裹住… To put a piece of clothing or material around someone or something, usually to keep them or it warm.
// It was so cold that he wrapped a scarf tightly around his face.
Wrap sth around sb/ sth (Uk also Wrap sth round sb/ sth) (- Phrasal verb with wrap) (verb [ T ] -pp-)（用身體的一部分，如手指或胳膊）環繞，抱住 To put part of your body, such as your fingers or arms, tightly around something or someone.
// She wrapped her arms around her knees.
Wrap (sb) up (- Phrasal verb with wrap) (verb [ T ] -pp-)（使某人）穿得暖和 To dress in warm clothes, or to dress someone in warm clothes.
// Wrap up well - it's cold outside.
Wrap sth up (- Phrasal verb with wrap) (verb [ T ] -pp-) (Cover) (B1) （用紙、布或其他材料）包，裹 To cover or surround something in paper, cloth, or other material.
// Have you wrapped up Jenny's present yet?
Wrap sth up (- Phrasal verb with wrap) (verb [ T ] -pp-) (Finish) (Informal) 圓滿完成 To complete something successfully.
// That just about wraps it up for today.
Wrap (n.) (Food) [ C ] 捲餅 A sandwich made with one piece of very thin bread that is folded around a filling.
Wrap (n.) (Covering) [ U ] 包裹物；覆蓋物 Material that is used to cover or protect objects.
// Plastic wrap.
// Gift wrap.
Wrap (n.) (Covering) [ C ] 寬鬆外套；浴衣 A loose piece of clothing that is worn tied around the body.
// A beach wrap.
Wrap (n.) (Covering) [ C ] （女式）披肩，圍巾 A long piece of cloth that a woman wears around her shoulders to keep her warm or for decoration.
// A chiffon/ silk wrap.
Idiom:
Take the wraps off sth 使公開；透露秘密 To allow people to know about something.
Under wraps 秘密的 Secret
// They tried to keep the report under wraps.
Wrappage (n.) The act of wrapping.
Wrappage (n.) That which wraps; envelope; covering.
Wrapper (n.) One who, or that which, wraps.
Wrapper (n.) That in which anything is wrapped, or inclosed; envelope; covering.
Wrapper (n.) Specifically, a loose outer garment; an article of dress intended to be wrapped round the person; as, a morning wrapper; a gentleman's wrapper.
Wrapper (n.) A loose dressing gown for women [syn: negligee, neglige, peignoir, wrapper, housecoat].
Wrapper (n.) The covering (usually paper or cellophane) in which something is wrapped [syn: wrapping, wrap, wrapper].
Wrapper (n.) Cloak that is folded or wrapped around a person [syn: wrap, wrapper].
Wrapper, () Code which is combined with another piece of code to determine how that code is executed. The wrapper acts as an interface between its caller and the wrapped code.
This may be done for compatibility, e.g. if the wrapped code is in a different programming language or uses different calling conventions, or for security, e.g. to prevent the calling program from executing certain functions.
The implication is that the wrapped code can only be accessed via the wrapper. (1998-12-15)
Wraprascal (n.) A kind of coarse upper coat, or overcoat, formerly worn.
Wrasse (n.) (Zool.) Any one of numerous edible, marine, spiny-finned fishes of the genus Labrus, of which several species are found in the Mediterranean and on the Atlantic coast of Europe. Many of the species are bright-colored.
Note: Among the European species are the ballan wrasse ({Labrus maculatus), the streaked wrasse ({Labrus lineatus), the red wrasse ({Labrus mixtus}), the comber wrasse ({Labrus comber), the blue-striped, or cook, wrasse (see Peacock fish, under Peacock), the rainbow wrasse ({Labrus vulgaris), and the seawife.
Wrasse (n.) Chiefly tropical marine fishes with fleshy lips and powerful teeth; usually brightly colored.
Wrastle (v. i.) To wrestle. [Obs. or Prov. Eng. & Colloq. U. S.]
Who wrastleth best naked, with oil enoint. -- Chaucer.
Wrath (a.) See {Wroth}. [Obs.]
Wrath (v. t.) To anger; to enrage; -- also used impersonally. [Obs.] "I will not wrathen him." -- Chaucer.
If him wratheth, be ywar and his way shun. -- Piers Plowman.
Wrath (n.) [U] 憤怒，狂怒；憤怒的行為；報復行為；【宗】神譴，天罰 Violent anger; vehement exasperation; indignation; rage; fury; ire.
Wrath is a fire, and jealousy a weed. -- Spenser.
When the wrath of king Ahasuerus was appeased. -- Esther ii. 1.
Now smoking and frothing Its tumult and wrath in. -- Southey.
Wrath (n.) The effects of anger or indignation; the just punishment of an offense or a crime. "A revenger to execute wrath upon him that doeth evil." -- Rom. xiii. 4.
Syn: Anger; fury; rage; ire; vengeance; indignation; resentment; passion. See {Anger}.
Wrath (n.) Intense anger (usually on an epic scale).
Wrath (n.) Belligerence aroused by a real or supposed wrong (personified as one of the deadly sins) [syn: {wrath}, {anger}, {ire}, {ira}].
Wrath (n.) Anger of a superior quality and degree, appropriate to exalted characters and momentous occasions; as, "the wrath of God," "the day of wrath," etc. Amongst the ancients the wrath of kings was deemed sacred, for it could usually command the agency of some god for its fit manifestation, as could also that of a priest. The Greeks before Troy were so harried by Apollo that they jumped out of the frying-pan of the wrath of Cryses into the fire of the wrath of Achilles, though Agamemnon, the sole offender, was neither fried nor roasted. A similar noted immunity was that of David when he incurred the wrath of Yahveh by numbering his people, seventy thousand of whom paid the penalty with their lives. God is now Love, and a director of the census performs his work without apprehension of disaster.
Wrath (n.) [ U ] (Formal or old-fashioned) 憤怒；憤慨 Extreme anger.
// The peopl e feared the wrath of God.
Wrathful (a.) 大怒的；憤怒的 Full of wrath; very angry; greatly incensed; ireful; passionate; as, a wrathful man.
Wrathful (a.) Springing from, or expressing, wrath; as, a wrathful countenance. "Wrathful passions." -- Sprat.
Syn: Furious; raging; indignant; resentful. -- Wrath"ful*ly, adv. -- Wrath"ful*ness, n.
Wrathful (a.) Vehemently incensed and condemnatory; "they trembled before the wrathful queen"; "but wroth as he was, a short struggle ended in reconciliation" [syn: wrathful, wroth, wrothful].
Wrathily (adv.) In a wrathy manner; very angrily; wrathfully. [Colloq.]
Wrathless (a.) Free from anger or wrath. -- Waller.
Wrathy (a.) Very angry. [Colloq.]
Wraw (a.) Angry; vexed; wrathful. [Obs.]
With this speech the cock wex wroth and wraw. -- Chaucer.
Wrawful (a.) Ill-tempered. [Obs.] -- Chaucer.
Wrawl (v. i.) To cry, as a cat; to waul. [Obs.] -- Spenser.
Wrawl (v.) Cry loudly, as of animals; "The coyotes were howling in the desert" [syn: {howl}, {wrawl}, {yammer}, {yowl}]
Wrawness (n.) Peevishness; ill temper; anger. [Obs.] -- Chaucer.
Wray (v. t.) To reveal; to disclose. [Obs.]
To no wight thou shalt this counsel wray. -- Chaucer.
Wray (n.), CO -- U.S. city in Colorado
Population (2000): 2187
Housing Units (2000): 968
Land area (2000): 2.956924 sq. miles (7.658398 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 2.956924 sq. miles (7.658398 sq. km)
FIPS code: 86310
Located within: Colorado (CO), FIPS 08
Location: 40.076721 N, 102.225873 W
ZIP Codes (1990):
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Wray, CO
Wray
Wreak (v. i.) To reck; to care. [Obs.] -- Shak.
Wreaked (imp. & p. p.) of Wreak.