Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter W - Page 45
Wrongless (a.) Not wrong; void or free from wrong. [Obs.] -- Wrong"less*ly, adv. [Obs.] -- Sir P. Sidney.
Wrongly (adv.) 錯誤地，不正確地；不恰當地；不正直地，不公正地 In a wrong manner; unjustly; erroneously; wrong; amiss; as, he judges wrongly of my motives. "And yet wouldst wrongly win." -- Shak.
Wrongly (adv.) Without justice or fairness; "wouldst not play false and yet would wrongly win"- Shakespeare.
Wrongly (adv.) In an inaccurate manner; "he decided to reveal the details only after other sources had reported them incorrectly"; "she guessed wrong" [syn: incorrectly, wrongly, wrong] [ant: aright, correctly, right].
Wrongly (adv.) (B2) 錯誤地；不正確地 Not correctly.
// Several people were wrongly convicted.
// He even spelled his own client's name wrongly.
Wrongness (n.) 謬誤，錯誤；不正直，不公正 The quality or state of being wrong; wrongfulness; error; fault.
The best great wrongnesses within themselves. -- Bp. Butler.
The rightness or wrongness of this view. -- Latham.
Wrongness (n.) Inappropriate conduct [syn: inappropriateness, wrongness] [ant: appropriateness, rightness].
Wrongness (n.) Contrary to conscience or morality [ant: rightness].
Wrongness (n.) The quality of not conforming to fact or truth [syn: incorrectness, wrongness] [ant: correctness, rightness].
Wrongous (a.) Constituting, or of the nature of, a wrong; unjust; wrongful. [R.]
Wrongous (a.) (Scots Law) Not right; illegal; as, wrongous imprisonment. -- Craig.
Wrong-timed (a.) 不適時的；不合時宜的 Done at an improper time; ill-timed.
Wroot () imp. of Write. Wrote. -- Chaucer.
Wrote (v. i.) To root with the snout. See 1st Root. [Obs.] -- Chaucer.
Wrote () imp. & archaic p. p. of Write.
Wroth (a.) 【文】極憤怒的，怒氣沖沖的 [F] Full of wrath; angry; incensed; much exasperated; wrathful.
"Wroth to see his kingdom fail." -- Milton.
Revel and truth as in a low degree, They be full wroth [i. e., at enmity] all day. -- Chaucer.
Cain was very wroth, and his countenance fell. -- Gen. iv. 5.
Wroth (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].
Wrought () imp. & p. p. of Work ; as, What hath God wrought?.
Note: In 1837, Samuel F. B. Morse, an American artist, devised a working electric telegraph, based on a rough knowledge of electrical circuits, electromagnetic induction coils, and a scheme to encode alphabetic letters. He and his collaborators and backers campaigned for years before persuading the federal government to fund a demonstration. Finally, on May 24, 1844, they sent the first official long-distance telegraphic message in Morse code, "What hath God wrought," through a copper wire strung between Washington, D.C., to Baltimore, Maryland. The phrase was taken from the Bible, Numbers 23:23. It had been suggested to Morse by Annie Ellworth, the young daughter of a friend. --Library of Congress, American Memories series.
Alas that I was wrought [created]! -- Chaucer.
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, encouraging the confusion. Etymologically, however, wrought is only the past tense of work.
Wrought and wreaked havoc Recently, we mentioned that something had wreaked havoc with our PC. We were fairly quickly corrected by someone who said, "Shouldn't that be wrought havoc?" The answer is no, because either wreaked or wrought is fine here. A misconception often arises because wrought is wrongly assumed to be the past participle of wreak. In fact wrought is the past participle of an early version of the word work! Wreak comes from Old English wrecan "drive out, punish, avenge", which derives ultimately from the Indo-European root *wreg- "push, shove, drive, track down". Latin urgere "to urge" comes from the same source, giving English urge. Interestingly, wreak is also related to wrack and wreck. The phrase wreak havoc was first used by Agatha Christie in 1923. Wrought, on the other hand, arose in the 13th century as the past participle of wirchen, Old English for "work". In the 15th century worked came into use as the past participle of work, but wrought survived in such phrases as finely-wrought, hand-wrought, and, of course, wrought havoc . . . . Havoc, by the way, comes from Anglo-French havok, which derived from the phrase crier havot "to cry havoc". This meant "to give the army the order to begin seizing spoil, or to pillage". It is thought that this exclamation was Germanic in origin, but that's all that anyone will say about it! The destruction associated with pillaging came to be applied metaphorically to havoc, giving the word its current meaning. -- The Institute for Etymological Research and Education
Wrought (a.) 作成的；加工的；精細的；work 的動詞過去式、過去分詞 Worked; elaborated; not rough or crude.
Wrought (a.) Shaped by beating with a hammer; as, wrought iron.
Wrought iron. See under Iron.
Wrought (a.) Shaped to fit by or as if by altering the contours of a pliable mass (as by work or effort); "a shaped handgrip"; "the molded steel plates"; "the wrought silver bracelet" [syn: shaped, molded, wrought].
Wrung () imp. & p. p. of Wring.
Wry (v. t.) To cover. [Obs.]
Wrie you in that mantle. -- Chaucer.
Wry (a.) 扭歪的；歪斜的；（表示厭惡、不滿等）面部肌肉扭曲的；曲解的；荒謬的；堅持錯誤的；反常的；富於幽默的；諷刺的 Turned to one side; twisted; distorted; as, a wry mouth.
Wry (a.) Hence, deviating from the right direction; misdirected; out of place; as, wry words.
Not according to the wry rigor of our neighbors, who never take up an old idea without some extravagance in its application. -- Landor.
Wry (a.) Wrested; perverted.
He . . . puts a wry sense upon Protestant writers. -- Atterbury.
Wry face, A distortion of the countenance indicating impatience, disgust, or discomfort; a grimace.
Compare: Distortion
Distortion (n.) 扭曲；變形；失真；歪曲The act of distorting, or twisting out of natural or regular shape; a twisting or writhing motion; as, the distortions of the face or body.
Distortion (n.) A wresting from the true meaning. --Bp. Wren.
Distortion (n.) The state of being distorted, or twisted out of shape or out of true position; crookedness; perversion.
Distortion (n.) (Med.) An unnatural deviation of shape or position of any part of the body producing visible deformity.
Distortion (n.) A change for the worse [syn: distortion, deformation].
Distortion (n.) A shape resulting from distortion [syn: distorted shape, distortion].
Distortion (n.) An optical phenomenon resulting from the failure of a lens or mirror to produce a good image [syn: aberration, distortion, optical aberration].
Distortion (n.) A change (usually undesired) in the waveform of an acoustic or analog electrical signal; the difference between two measurements of a signal (as between the input and output signal); "heavy metal guitar players use vacuum tube amplifiers to produce extreme distortion."
Distortion (n.) The act of distorting something so it seems to mean something it was not intended to mean [syn: distortion, overrefinement, straining, torture, twisting].
Distortion (n.) The mistake of misrepresenting the facts.
Wry (v. i.) To twist; to writhe; to bend or wind.
Wry (v. i.) To deviate from the right way; to go away or astray; to turn side; to swerve.
This Phebus gan awayward for to wryen. -- Chaucer.
How many Must murder wives much better than themselves For wrying but a little! -- Shak.
Wried (imp. & p. p.) of Wry.
Wrying (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Wry.
Wry (v. t.) To twist; to distort; to writhe; to wrest; to vex. -- Sir P. Sidney.
Guests by hundreds, not one caring If the dear host's neck were wried. -- R. Browning.
Wry (a.) Humorously sarcastic or mocking; "dry humor"; "an ironic remark often conveys an intended meaning obliquely" ironic novel"; "an ironical smile"; "with a wry Scottish wit" [syn: dry, ironic, ironical, wry].
Wry (a.) Bent to one side; "a wry neck."
Wrybill (n.) (Zool.) See Crookbill.
Compare: Crookbill
Crookbill (n.) (Zool) A New Zealand plover ({Anarhynchus frontalis), remarkable for having the end of the beak abruptly bent to the right.
Wrybill (n.) (Zool.) 歪嘴鴴 A small New Zealand plover with grey and white plumage and a bill that bends to the right.
Wrymouth (n.) (Zool.) 斑點隱棘鳚 Any one of several species of large, elongated, marine fishes of the genus Cryptacanthodes, especially C. maculatus of the American coast. A whitish variety is called ghostfish.
Wrymouth (n.) Eellike Atlantic bottom fish with large almost vertical mouth [syn: wrymouth, ghostfish, Cryptacanthodes maculatus].
Wryneck (n.) (Med.) A twisted or distorted neck; a deformity in which the neck is drawn to one side by a rigid contraction of one of the muscles of the neck; torticollis.
Wryneck (n.) A person suffering from torticollis.
Wryneck (n.) (Zool.) 鶇鵛 Any one of several species of Old World birds of the genus Jynx or subfamily Jynginae, allied to the woodpeckers; especially, the common European species ({Jynx torguilla); -- so called from its habit of turning the neck around in different directions. Called also cuckoo's mate, snakebird, summer bird, tonguebird, and writheneck.
Wryneck (n.) 頸側扭；歪脖子的人 ；斜頸 An unnatural condition in which the head leans to one side because the neck muscles on that side are contracted [syn: torticollis, wryneck].
Wryneck (n.) Old World woodpecker with a peculiar habit of twisting the neck.
Wrynecked (a.) 斜頸的 Having a distorted neck; having the deformity called wryneck [1].
Wryness (n.) 挖苦性幽默；扭曲的狀態 The quality or state of being wry, or distorted. -- W. Montagu.
Wrythen (Obs. p. p. of Writhe.) Writhen.
Wulfenite (n.) (Min.) 水鉛鉛礦；彩鉬鉛礦 Native lead molybdate occurring in tetragonal crystals, usually tabular, and of a bright orange-yellow to red, gray, or brown color; -- also called yellow lead ore.
Wulfenite (n.) A yellow to orange or brown mineral used as a molybdenum ore.
Wull (v. t. & i.) See 2d Will.
Pour out to all that wull. -- Spenser.
Wung-out (a.) Having the sails set in the manner called wing-and-wing. [Sailors' slang]
Wurbagool (n.) (Zool.) A fruit bat ({Pteropus medius) native of India. It is similar to the flying fox, but smaller.
Wurbagool (n. pl. -s) A species of flying fox ({Pteropus medius).
Wurmal (n.) (Zool.) See Wormil.
Wurraluh (n.) (Zool.) The Australian white-quilled honey eater ({Entomyza albipennis). Wust.
Wust () Alt. of Wuste.
Wuste () (Obs.) imp. of Wit. -- Piers Plowman.
Wyandot (n.) or Wyandotte (n. pl. Wyandots), (especially collectively) (Wyandot for 1) 懷安多特族印第安人 An Indian of the former Huron confederacy.
Wyandot (n.) 懷安多特語 A dialect of the Huron language, especially as used by those elements of the Huron tribe regrouped in Oklahoma.
Wyandots (n. pl.) sing. Wyandot. (Ethnol.) Same as Hurons. [Written also Wyandottes, and Yendots.]
Wyandot -- U.S. County in Ohio
Population (2000): 22908
Housing Units (2000): 9324
Land area (2000): 405.612851 sq. miles (1050.532416 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 2.009630 sq. miles (5.204917 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 407.622481 sq. miles (1055.737333 sq. km)
Located within: Ohio (OH), FIPS 39
Location: 40.856154 N, 83.300152 W
Headwords:
Wyandot
Wyandot, OH
Wyandot County
Wyandot County, OH
Wych-elm
(n.)
(Bot.) 【植】無毛榆
A species of elm ({Ulmus
Note: By confusion this word is often written witch-elm.
Wych-hazel (n.) (Bot.) 【植】金縷梅；無毛榆 The wych-elm; -- so called because its leaves are like those of the hazel. Wyclifite
Wyclifite (n.) Alt. of Wycliffite.
Wycliffite (n.) A follower of Wyclif, the English reformer; a Lollard.
Wyd (a.) Wide. [Obs.] -- Chaucer.
Wyes (n. pl. ) of Wye.
Wye (n.) The letter Y.
Wye (n.) A kind of crotch. See Y, n. (a).
Wyke (n.) Week. [Obs.] -- Chaucer.
Wyla (n.) (Zool.) A helmeted Australian cockatoo ({Calyptorhynchus funereus); -- called also funeral cockatoo. Wyn, Wynn.
Wynd (n.) 【蘇格蘭】狹巷 A narrow lane or alley. [Scot.] -- Jamieson.
The narrow wynds, or alleys, on each side of the street. -- Bryant.
Wynkernel (n.) (Zool.) The European moor hen. [Prov. Eng.]
Wyn, Wynn (n.) Also Wen, One of the runes (?) adopted into the Anglo-Saxon, or Old English, alphabet. It had the value of modern English w, and was replaced from about a. d. 1280 at first by uu, later by w.
Wynn (n.) A kind of timber truck, or carriage.
Compare: Lapwing
Lapwing (n.) (Zool.) A small European bird of the Plover family ({Vanellus cristatus, or Vanellus vanellus). It has long and broad wings, and is noted for its rapid, irregular fight, upwards, downwards, and in circles. Its back is coppery or greenish bronze. Its eggs are the "plover's eggs" of the London market, esteemed a delicacy. It is called also peewit, dastard plover, and wype. The gray lapwing is the Squatarola cinerea.
Lapwing (n.) Large crested Old World plover having wattles and spurs [syn: lapwing, green plover, peewit, pewit].
Lapwing, () The name of an unclean bird, mentioned only in Lev. 11:19 and Deut. 14:18. The Hebrew name of this bird, _dukiphath_, has been generally regarded as denoting the hoope (Upupa epops), an onomatopoetic word derived from the cry of the bird, which resembles the word "hoop;" a bird not uncommon in Palestine. Others identify it with the English peewit.
Lapwing (n.) [C] (also Peewit) [鳥] 鳳頭麥雞 A small dark bird with a white chest and raised feathers on its head.
Wype (n.) The wipe, or lapwing. [Prov. Eng.]
Wythe (n.) (Naut.). Same as Withe, n., 4. Wyte
Wythe -- U.S. County in Virginia
Population (2000): 27599
Housing Units (2000): 12744
Land area (2000): 463.242476 sq. miles (1199.792453 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 1.373093 sq. miles (3.556294 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 464.615569 sq. miles (1203.348747 sq. km)
Located within: Virginia (VA), FIPS 51
Location: 36.925723 N, 81.082048 W
Headwords:
Wythe
Wythe, VA
Wythe County
Wythe County, VA
Wys (a.) Wise. [Obs.] -- Chaucer.
Wyte () Alt. of Wyten.
Wyten () (Obs.) pl. pres. of Wit.
Wiver, Wivern (n.) (Her.) A fabulous two-legged, winged creature, like a cockatrice, but having the head of a dragon, and without spurs. [Written also wyvern.]
The jargon of heraldry, its griffins, its mold warps, its wiverns, and its dragons. -- Sir W. Scott.
Wiver, Wivern (n.) (Zool.) The weever.
Weever (n.) (Zool.) 【魚】鱸魚（一種潛伏海底的海魚） Any one of several species of edible marine fishes belonging to the genus Trachinus, of the family Trachinidae. They have a broad spinose head, with the eyes looking upward. The long dorsal fin is supported by numerous strong, sharp spines which cause painful wounds.
Note: The two British species are the great, or greater, weever ({Trachinus draco), which becomes a foot long (called also gowdie, sea cat, stingbull, and weaverfish), and the lesser weever ({Trachinus vipera), about half as large (called also otter pike, and stingfish).
Wivern, () Variants or Wiver, () Variant of Wyvern.
Wyvern (n.) (Her.) Same as Wiver.
Wyvern (n.) 雙足飛龍 A fire-breathing dragon used in medieval heraldry; had the head of a dragon and the tail of a snake and a body with wings and two legs [syn: wyvern, wivern].