Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter W - Page 43
Wreaking (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Wreak.
Wreak (v. t.) [(+on/ upon)] 發洩；排出；造成（破壞等）；施行（報復等） To revenge; to avenge. [Archaic]
He should wreake him on his foes. -- Chaucer.
Another's wrongs to wreak upon thyself. -- Spenser.
Come wreak his loss, whom bootless ye complain. -- Fairfax.
Wreak (v. t.) To inflict or execute, especially in vengeance or passion; to hurl or drive; as, to wreak vengeance on an enemy; to wreak havoc.
Note: The word wrought is sometimes assumed to be the past tense of wreak, as the phrases.
Wreak havoc and
Wrought havoc Are both commonly used. In fact,
Wrought havoc Is not as common as
Wreaked havoc. Whether wrought is considered as the past tense of wreak or of work,
Wrought havoc Has essentially the same meaning.
Etymologically, however, wrought is only the past tense of work.
On me let Death wreak all his rage. -- Milton.
Now was the time to be avenged on his old enemy, to wreak a grudge of seventeen years. -- Macaulay.
But gather all thy powers, And wreak them on the verse that thou dost weave. -- Bryant.
Wreak (n.) Revenge; vengeance; furious passion; resentment. [Obs.] -- Shak. Spenser.
Wreak (v.) Cause to happen or to occur as a consequence; "I cannot work a miracle"; "wreak havoc"; "bring comments"; "play a joke"; "The rain brought relief to the drought-stricken area" [syn: bring, work, play, wreak, make for].
Wreak (v. t.) To execute in vengeance or passion; to inflict; to hurl or drive; as, to wreak vengeance on an enemy.
Wreaken () p. p. of Wreak. -- Chaucer.
Wreaker (n.) Avenger. [Obs.]
The stork, the wrekere of avouterye [adultery]. -- Chaucer.
Wreakful (a.) 燃起復仇念頭的；報復的Revengeful; angry; furious. [Obs.] -- Wreak"ful*ly, adv. [Obs.]
Wreakless (a.) 沒有復仇念頭的 Unrevengeful; weak. [Obs.]
Wreaths (n. pl. ) of Wreath.
Wreath (n.) 花圈，花環，圈狀物 Something twisted, intertwined, or curled; as, a wreath of smoke; a wreath of flowers. "A wrethe of gold." -- Chaucer.
[He] of his tortuous train Curled many a wanton wreath. -- Milton.
Wreath (n.) A garland; a chaplet, esp. one given to a victor.
Conquest doth grant He dear wreath to the Grecian combatant. -- Chapman.
Far back in the ages, The plow with wreaths was crowned. -- Bryant.
Wreath (n.) (Her.) An appendage to the shield, placed above it, and supporting the crest (see Illust. of Crest). It generally represents a twist of two cords of silk, one tinctured like the principal metal, the other like the principal color in the arms.
Wreathed (imp.) of Wreathe.
Wreathed (p. p.) of Wreathe.
Wreathen (Archaic) of Wreathe.
Wreathing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Wreathe.
Wreathe (v. t.) To cause to revolve or writhe; to twist about; to turn. [Obs.]
And from so heavy sight his head did wreathe. -- Spenser.
Wreathe (v. t.) To twist; to convolve; to wind one about another; to entwine.
The nods and smiles of recognition into which this singular physiognomy was wreathed. -- Sir W. Scott.
From his slack hand the garland wreathed for Eve Down dropped. -- Milton.
Wreathe (v. t.) To surround with anything twisted or convolved; to encircle; to infold.
Each wreathed in the other's arms. -- Shak.
Dusk faces with withe silken turbants wreathed. -- Milton.
And with thy winding ivy wreathes her lance. -- Dryden.
Wreathe (v. t.) To twine or twist about; to surround; to encircle.
In the flowers that wreathe the sparkling bowl, Fell adders hiss. -- Prior.
Wreathe (v. i.) To be intewoven or entwined; to twine together; as, a bower of wreathing trees. -- Dryden.
Wreathe (v.) Move with slow, sinuous movements.
Wreathe (v.) Decorate or deck with wreaths; "wreathe the grave site."
Wreathe (v.) Form into a wreath [syn: wreathe, wind].
Wreath (n.) Flower arrangement consisting of a circular band of foliage or flowers for ornamental purposes [syn: {wreath}, {garland}, {coronal}, {chaplet}, {lei}].
Wreathen (a.) Twisted; made into a wreath. "Wreathen work of pure gold." -- Ex. xxviii. 22.
Wreathless (a.) Destitute of a wreath.
Wreath-shell (n.) (Zool.) A marine shell of the genus Turbo. See Turbo.
Wreathy (a.) Wreathed; twisted; curled; spiral; also, full of wreaths. "Wreathy spires, and cochleary turnings about." -- Sir T. Browne.
Wrecche (n.) A wretch. [Obs.]
Wrecche (a.) Wretched. [Obs.] -- Chaucer.
Wreche (n.) Wreak. [Obs.] -- Chaucer.
Wreck (v. t. & n.) See 2d & 3d Wreak.
Wreck (n.) 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.
Wrecked (imp. & p. p.) of Wreck.
Wrecking (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Wreck.
Wreck (v. t.) To destroy, disable, or seriously damage, as a vessel, by driving it against the shore or on rocks, by causing it to become unseaworthy, to founder, or the like; to shipwreck.
Supposing that they saw the king's ship wrecked. -- Shak.
Wreck (v. t.) To bring wreck or ruin upon by any kind of violence; to destroy, as a railroad train.
Wreck (v. t.) To involve in a wreck; hence, to cause to suffer ruin; to balk of success, and bring disaster on.
Weak and envied, if they should conspire, They wreck themselves. -- Daniel.
Wreck (v. i.) To suffer wreck or ruin. -- Milton.
Wreck (v. i.) To work upon a wreck, as in saving property or lives, or in plundering.
Wreck (n.) Something or someone that has suffered ruin or dilapidation; "the house was a wreck when they bought it"; "thanks to that quack I am a human wreck."
Wreck (n.) An accident that destroys a ship at sea [syn: shipwreck, wreck].
Wreck (n.) A serious accident (usually involving one or more vehicles); "they are still investigating the crash of the TWA plane" [syn: crash, wreck].
Wreck (n.) A ship that has been destroyed at sea.
Wreck (v.) Smash or break forcefully; "The kid busted up the car" [syn: bust up, wreck, wrack].
Wreck, () mar. law. A wreck (called in law Latin, wreccum maris, and in law French, wrec de mer,) signifies such goods, as after a shipwreck, are cast upon land by the sea, and left there within some county, so as not to belong to the jurisdiction of the admiralty, but to the common law. 2 Inst. 167; Bract. 1. 3, c. 3; Mirror, c. 1, s. 13, and c. 3.
Wreck, () The term `wreck of the sea' includes, 1. Goods found at low water, between high and low water mark; and 2. Goods between the same limits, partly resting on the ground, but still moved by the water. 3 Hagg. Adm. R. 257.
Wreck, () When goods have touched the ground, and have again been floated by the tide, and are within low water mark; whether they are to be considered wreck will depend upon the circumstances whether they were, seized by a person wading, or swimming, or in a boat. 3 Hagg. Adm. R. 294. But if a human being, or even an animal, as a dog, cat, hawk, &c. escape alive from the ship, or if there be any marks upon the goods by which they may be known again, they are not, at common law, considered as wrecked. 5 Burr. 2738-9; 2 Chit. Com. Law, c. 6, p. 102; 2 Kent, Com. 292; 22 Vin. Ab. 535; 1 Bro. Civ. Law, 238; Park, Ins. Index, h.t.; Molloy, Jur. Mar. Index, h.t
Wreck, () The act of congress of March 1, 1823, provides, Sec. 21, That, before any goods, wares or merchandise, which may be taken from any wreck, shall be admitted to an entry, the same shall be appraised in the manner prescribed in the sixteenth section of this act and the same proceedings shall be ordered and executed in all cases where a reduction of duties shall be claimed on account of damage which any goods, wares, or merchandise, shall have sustained in the course of the voyage and in all cases where the owner, importer, consignee, or agent, shall be dissatisfied with such appraisement, he shall be entitled to the privileges provided in the eighteenth section of this act. Vide Naufrage.
Wreckage (n.) [U] （船隻等的）失事，遭難；（失事船或飛機等的）殘骸 The act of wrecking, or state of being wrecked.
Wreckage (n.) That which has been wrecked; remains of a wreck.
Wreckage (n.) The remaining parts of something that has been wrecked; "they searched the wreckage for signs of survivors."
Wrecker (n.) One who causes a wreck, as by false lights, and the like.
Wrecker (n.) One who searches fro, or works upon, the wrecks of vessels, etc. Specifically:
Wrecker (n.) (a) One who visits a wreck for the purpose of plunder.
Wrecker
(n.) (b)
One who is employed in saving property or lives from a wrecked vessel, or in
saving the vessel; as, the wreckers of
Wrecker (n.) A vessel employed by wreckers.
Wrecker (n.) Someone who demolishes or dismantles buildings as a job.
Wrecker (n.) Someone who commits sabotage or deliberately causes wrecks [syn: saboteur, wrecker, diversionist].
Wrecker (n.) A truck equipped to hoist and pull wrecked cars (or to remove cars from no-parking zones) [syn: tow truck, tow car, wrecker].
Wreckfish (n.) (Zool.) A stone bass.
Wreckfish (n.) Brown fish of the Atlantic and Mediterranean found around rocks and shipwrecks [syn: stone bass, wreckfish, Polyprion americanus].
Wreckful (a.) Causing wreck; involving ruin; destructive. "By wreckful wind." -- Spenser.
Wrecking () a. & n. from Wreck, v.
Wrecking car (Railway), A car fitted up with apparatus and implements for removing the wreck occasioned by an accident, as by a collision.
Wrecking pump, A pump especially adapted for pumping water from the hull of a wrecked vessel.
Wrecking (n.) The event of a structure being completely demolished and leveled [syn: razing, wrecking].
Wrecking (n.) Destruction achieved by causing something to be wrecked or ruined [syn: laying waste, ruin, ruining, ruination, wrecking].
Wreck-master (n.) A person appointed by law to take charge of goods, etc., thrown on shore after a shipwreck.
Wreke (v. t.) Alt. of Wreeke.
Wreeke (v. t.) See 2d Wreak. [Obs.]
Wren (n.) (Zool.) Any one of numerous species of small singing birds belonging to Troglodytes and numerous allied of the family Troglodytidae.
Note: Among the species best known are the house wren ({Troglodytes aedon) common in both Europe and America, and the American winter wren ({Troglodytes hiemalis). See also Cactus wren, Marsh wren, and Rock wren, under Cactus, Marsh, and Rock.
Wren (n.) (Zool.) Any one of numerous species of small singing birds more or less resembling the true wrens in size and habits.
Note: Among these are several species of European warblers; as, the reed wren (see Reed warbler (a), under Reed), the sedge wren (see Sedge warbler, under Sedge), the willow wren (see Willow warbler, under Willow), the golden-crested wren, and the ruby-crowned wren (see Kinglet).
Ant wren, Any one of numerous South American birds of the family Formicaridae, allied to the ant thrushes.
Blue wren, A small Australian singing bird ({Malurus cyaneus), the male of which in the breeding season is bright blue. Called also superb warbler.
Emu wren. See in the Vocabulary.
Wren babbler, Any one of numerous species of small timaline birds belonging to Alcippe, Stachyris, Timalia, and several allied genera. These birds are common in Southern Asia and the East Indies.
Wren tit. See Ground wren, under Ground.
Wren warbler, Any one of several species of small Asiatic and African singing birds belonging to Prinia and allied genera. These birds are closely allied to the tailor birds, and build their nests in a similar manner. See also Pincpinc.
Wren (n.) English architect who designed more than fifty London churches (1632-1723) [syn: Wren, Sir Christopher Wren].
Wren (n.) Any of several small active brown birds of the northern hemisphere with short upright tails; they feed on insects [syn: wren, jenny wren].
Wren, OH -- U.S. village in Ohio
Population (2000): 199
Housing Units (2000): 96
Land area (2000): 0.309842 sq. miles (0.802488 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.309842 sq. miles (0.802488 sq. km)
FIPS code: 86632
Located within: Ohio (OH), FIPS 39
Location: 40.799531 N, 84.774222 W
ZIP Codes (1990):
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
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Wrench (n.) Trick; deceit; fraud; stratagem. [Obs.]
His wily wrenches thou ne mayst not flee. -- Chaucer.
Wrench (n.) A violent twist, or a pull with twisting.
He wringeth them such a wrench. -- Skelton.
The injurious effect upon biographic literature of all such wrenches to the truth, is diffused everywhere. -- De Quincey.
Wrench (n.) A sprain; an injury by twisting, as in a joint.
Wrench (n.) Means; contrivance. [Obs.] -- Bacon.
Wrench (n.) An instrument, often a simple bar or lever with jaws or an angular orifice either at the end or between the ends, for exerting a twisting strain, as in turning bolts, nuts, screw taps, etc.; a screw key. Many wrenches have adjustable jaws for grasping nuts, etc., of different sizes.
Wrench (n.) (Mech.) The system made up of a force and a couple of forces in a plane perpendicular to that force. Any number of forces acting at any points upon a rigid body may be compounded so as to be equivalent to a wrench.
Carriage wrench, () A wrench adapted for removing or tightening the nuts that confine the wheels on the axles, or for turning the other nuts or bolts of a carriage or wagon.
Monkey wrench. See under Monkey.
Wrench hammer, A wrench with the end shaped so as to admit of being used as a hammer.
Wrenched (imp. & p. p.) of Wrench.
Wrenching (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Wrench.
Wrench (v. t.) To pull with a twist; to wrest, twist, or force by violence.
Wrench his sword from him. -- Shak.
Forthwith this frame of mine was wrenched With a woeful agony. -- Coleridge.
Wrench (v. t.) To strain; to sprain; hence, to distort; to pervert.
You wrenched your foot against a stone. -- Swift.
Wrench (n.) A sharp strain on muscles or ligaments; "the wrench to his knee occurred as he fell"; "he was sidelined with a hamstring pull" [syn: wrench, twist, pull].
Wrench (n.) A jerky pulling movement [syn: twist, wrench].
Wrench (n.) A hand tool that is used to hold or twist a nut or bolt [syn: wrench, spanner].
Wrench (v.) Twist or pull violently or suddenly, especially so as to remove (something) from that to which it is attached or from where it originates; "wrench a window off its hinges"; "wrench oneself free from somebody's grip"; "a deep sigh was wrenched from his chest" [syn: wrench, twist].
Wrench (v.) Make a sudden twisting motion.
Wrench (v.) Twist and compress, as if in pain or anguish; "Wring one's hand" [syn: wring, wrench].
Wrench (v.) Twist suddenly so as to sprain; "wrench one's ankle"; "The wrestler twisted his shoulder"; "the hikers sprained their ankles when they fell"; "I turned my ankle and couldn't walk for several days" [syn: twist, sprain, wrench, turn, wrick, rick].
Wrested (imp. & p. p.) of Wrest.
Wresting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Wrest.
Wrest (v. t.) 奪取，猛扭，歪曲，費力取得 To turn; to twist; esp., to twist or extort by violence; to pull of force away by, or as if by, violent wringing or twisting. "The secret wrested from me." -- Milton.
Our country's cause, That drew our swords, now secret wrests them from our hand. -- Addison.
They instantly wrested the government out of the hands of Hastings. -- Macaulay.
Wrest (v. t.) To turn from truth; to twist from its natural or proper use or meaning by violence; to pervert; to distort.
Wrest once the law to your authority. -- Shak.
Thou shalt not wrest the judgment of thy poor. -- Ex. xxiii. 6.
Their arts of wresting, corrupting, and false interpreting the holy text. -- South.
Wrest (v. t.) To tune with a wrest, or key. [Obs.]
Wrest (n.) 扭，擰，猛奪 The act of wresting; a wrench; a violent twist; hence, distortion; perversion. --Hooker.
Wrest (n.) Active or moving power. [Obs.] -- Spenser.
Wrest (n.) A key to tune a stringed instrument of music.
The minstrel . . . wore round his neck a silver chain, by which hung the wrest, or key, with which he tuned his harp. -- Sir W. Scott.
Wrest (n.) A partition in a water wheel, by which the form of the buckets is determined.
Wrest pin (Piano Manuf.), One of the pins around which the ends of the wires are wound in a piano. -- Knight.
Wrest plank (Piano Manuf.), The part in which the wrest pins are inserted.
Wrest (v.) Obtain by seizing forcibly or violently, also metaphorically; "wrest the knife from his hands"; "wrest a meaning from the old text"; "wrest power from the old government."
Wrester (n.) One who wrests.
Wrester (n.) Someone who obtains something by pulling it violently with twisting movements.
Wrestle (v. t.) To wrestle with; to seek to throw down as in wrestling.
Wrestle (n.) 摔角，角力，扭鬥 A struggle between two persons to see which will throw the other down; a bout at wrestling; a wrestling match; a struggle.
Whom in a wrestle the giant catching aloft, with a terrible hug broke three of his ribs. -- Milton.
Wrestled (imp. & p. p.) of Wrestle.
Wrestling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Wrestle.
Wrestle (v. i.) 摔角，格鬥，鬥爭，斟酌 To contend, by grappling with, and striving to trip or throw down, an opponent; as, they wrestled skillfully.
To-morrow, sir, I wrestle for my credit, and he that escapes me without some broken limb shall acquit him well. -- Shak.
Another, by a fall in wrestling, started the end of the clavicle from the sternum. -- Wiseman.
Wrestle (v. t.) 摔角 Hence, to struggle; to strive earnestly; to contend.
Come, wrestle with thy affections. -- Shak.
We wrestle not against flesh and blood. -- Eph. vi. 12.
Difficulties with which he had himself wrestled. -- M. Arnold.
Wrestle (n.) The act of engaging in close hand-to-hand combat; "they had a fierce wrestle"; "we watched his grappling and wrestling with the bully" [syn: wrestle, wrestling, grapple, grappling, hand-to-hand struggle].
Wrestle (v.) Combat to overcome an opposing tendency or force; "He wrestled all his life with his feeling of inferiority."
Wrestle (v.) Engage in deep thought, consideration, or debate; "I wrestled with this decision for years."
Wrestle (v.) To move in a twisting or contorted motion, (especially when struggling); "The prisoner writhed in discomfort"; "The child tried to wriggle free from his aunt's embrace" [syn: writhe, wrestle, wriggle, worm, squirm, twist].
Wrestle (v.) Engage in a wrestling match; "The children wrestled in the garden."
Wrestle, () (Eph. 6:12). See GAMES.
Wrestler (n.) 摔角選手；扭鬥者，搏鬥者 [C] One who wrestles; one who is skillful in wrestling.
Wrestler (n.) Combatant who tries to throw opponent to the ground [syn: wrestler, grappler, matman].
Wrestling (n.) 摔角，扭鬥，格鬥 Act of one who wrestles; specif., the sport consisting of the hand-to-hand combat between two unarmed contestants who seek to throw each other.
Note: The various styles of wrestling differ in their definition of a fall and in the governing rules. In Greco-Roman wrestling, tripping and taking hold of the legs are forbidden, and a fall is gained (that is, the bout is won), by the contestant who pins both his opponent's shoulders to the ground. In catch-as-catch-can wrestling, all holds are permitted except such as may be barred by mutual consent, and a fall is defined as in Greco-Roman style.
Lancashire style wrestling is essentially the same as catch-as-catch-can. In Cumberland and Westmorland wrestling the contestants stand chest to chest, grasping each other around the body. The one first losing his hold, or touching the ground with any part of his body except his feet, loses the bout. If both fall to the ground at the same time, it is a dogfall, and must be wrestled over. In the Cornwall and Devon wrestling, the wrestlers complete in strong loose linen jackets, catching hold of the jacket, or anywhere above the waist. Two shoulders and one hip, or two hips and one shoulder, must touch the ground to constitute a fall, and if a man is thrown otherwise than on his back the contestants get upon their feet and the bout recommences.
Wrestling (n.) The act of engaging in close hand-to-hand combat; "they had a fierce wrestle"; "we watched his grappling and wrestling with the bully" [syn: {wrestle}, {wrestling}, {grapple}, {grappling}, {hand-to-hand struggle}].
Wrestling (n.) The sport of hand-to-hand struggle between unarmed contestants who try to throw each other down [syn: {wrestling}, {rassling}, {grappling}].
Wretch (n.) A miserable person; one profoundly unhappy. "The wretch that lies in woe." -- Shak.
Hovered thy spirit o'er thy sorrowing son, Wretch even then, life's journey just begun? -- Cowper.
Wretch (n.) One sunk in vice or degradation; a base, despicable person; a vile knave; as, a profligate wretch.
Note: Wretch is sometimes used by way of slight or ironical pity or contempt, and sometimes to express tenderness; as we say, poor thing. "Poor wretch was never frighted so." -- Drayton.
Wretch (n.) Performs some wicked deed.
Wretch (n.) Someone you feel sorry for [syn: poor devil, wretch].
Wretched (a.) Very miserable; sunk in, or accompanied by, deep affliction or distress, as from want, anxiety, or grief; calamitous; woeful; very afflicting. "To what wretched state reserved!" -- Milton.
O cruel! Death! to those you are more kind Than to the wretched mortals left behind. -- Waller.
Wretched (a.) Worthless; paltry; very poor or mean; miserable; as, a wretched poem; a wretched cabin.
Wretched (a.) Hatefully contemptible; despicable; wicked.
Wretched (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].
Wretched (a.) Characterized by physical misery; "a wet miserable weekend"; "spent a wretched night on the floor" [syn: miserable, wretched].
Wretched (a.) Very unhappy; full of misery; "he felt depressed and miserable"; "a message of hope for suffering humanity"; "wretched prisoners huddled in stinking cages" [syn: miserable, suffering, wretched].
Wretched (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].
Wretched (a.) Deserving or inciting pity; "a hapless victim"; "miserable victims of war"; "the shabby room struck her as extraordinarily pathetic"- Galsworthy; "piteous appeals for help"; "pitiable homeless children"; "a pitiful fate"; "Oh, you poor thing"; "his poor distorted limbs"; "a wretched life" [syn: hapless, miserable, misfortunate, pathetic, piteous, pitiable, pitiful, poor, wretched].
Wretchedly (adv.) In a wretched manner; miserably; despicable.
Wretchedly (adv.) In a wretched manner; "`I can't remember who I am,' I said, wretchedly."
Wretchedness (n.) The quality or state of being wretched; utter misery. -- Sir W. Raleigh.
Wretchedness (n.) A wretched object; anything despicably. [Obs.]
Eat worms and such wretchedness. -- Chaucer.
Wretchedness (n.) A state of ill-being due to affliction or misfortune; "the misery and wretchedness of those slums is intolerable" [syn: misery, wretchedness, miserableness].
Wretchedness (n.) The character of being uncomfortable and unpleasant; "th wretchedness for which these prisons became known"; "the grey wretchedness of the rain."
Wretchedness (n.) The quality of being poor and inferior and sorry; "he has compiled a record second to none in its wretchedness.
Wretchful (a.) Wretched. [Obs.] -- Wyclif.
Wretchless (a.) Reckless; hence, disregarded. [Obs.] -- Wretch"less*ly, adv. [Obs.] -- Wretch"less*ness, n. [Obs.] -- Bk. of Com. Prayer.
Your deaf ears should listen Unto the wretchless clamors of the poor. -- J. Webster.
Wrey (v. t.) See Wray. [Obs.] -- Chaucer.
Wrie (a. & v.) See Wry. [Obs.] -- Chaucer.
Wrig (v. i.) To wriggle. [Obs.] -- Skelton.
Wriggled (imp. & p. p.) of Wriggle.
Wriggling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Wriggle.
Wriggle (v. i.) To move the body to and fro with short, writhing motions, like a worm; to squirm; to twist uneasily or quickly about.
Both he and successors would often wriggle in their seats, as long as the cushion lasted. -- Swift.
Wriggle (v. t.) To move with short, quick contortions; to move by twisting and squirming; like a worm.
Covetousness will wriggle itself out at a small hole. -- Fuller.
Wriggling his body to recover His seat, and cast his right leg over. -- Hudibras.
Wriggle (a.) Wriggling; frisky; pliant; flexible. [Obs.] "Their wriggle tails." -- Spenser.
Wriggle (n.) Act of wriggling; a short or quick writhing motion or contortion.
Wriggle (n.) The act of wiggling [syn: wiggle, wriggle, squirm].
Wriggle (v.) To move in a twisting or contorted motion, (especially when struggling); "The prisoner writhed in discomfort"; "The child tried to wriggle free from his aunt's embrace" [syn: writhe, wrestle, wriggle, worm, squirm, twist].
Wriggler (n.) One who, or that which, wriggles. -- Cowper.
Wriggler (n.) One who can't stay still (especially a child); "the toddler was a real wiggler on plane trips" [syn: wiggler, wriggler, squirmer].
Wriggler (n.) Larva of a mosquito [syn: wiggler, wriggler].