Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter W - Page 8
Warrie (v. t.) See Warye. [Obs.]
Warye (v. t.) To curse; to curse; to execrate; to condemn; also, to vex. [Obs.] [Spelled also warrie, warry, and wary.] "Whom I thus blame and warye." -- Chaucer.
Warrin (n.) (Zool.) An Australian lorikeet ({Trichoglossus multicolor) remarkable for the variety and brilliancy of its colors; -- called also blue-bellied lorikeet, and blue-bellied parrot.
Warrior (n.) A man engaged or experienced in war, or in the military life; a soldier; a champion.
Warriors old with ordered spear and shield. -- Milton.
Warrior+ant+(Zool.),+A+reddish+ant+({Formica+sanguinea">Warrior ant (Zool.), a reddish ant ({Formica sanguinea) native of Europe and America. It is one of the species which move in armies to capture and enslave other ants.
Warrior (n.) Someone engaged in or experienced in warfare
Warrior, AL -- U.S. city in Alabama
Population (2000): 3169
Housing Units (2000): 1439
Land area (2000): 7.878558 sq. miles (20.405371 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 7.878558 sq. miles (20.405371 sq. km)
FIPS code: 79944
Located within: Alabama (AL), FIPS 01
Location: 33.813607 N, 86.811455 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 35180
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Warrior, AL
Warrior
Warrioress (n.) A female warrior. [Obs.] -- Spenser.
Warry (v. t.) See Warye. [Obs.]
Warye (v. t.) To curse; to curse; to execrate; to condemn; also, to vex. [Obs.] [Spelled also warrie, warry, and wary.] "Whom I thus blame and warye." -- Chaucer.
Compare: Jewfish
Jewfish (n.) (Zool.) A very large serranoid fish ({Promicrops itaiara) of Florida and the Gulf of Mexico. It often reaches the weight of five hundred pounds. Its color is olivaceous or yellowish, with numerous brown spots. Called also guasa, and warsaw.
Jewfish (n.) (Zool.) A similar gigantic fish ({Stereolepis gigas) of Southern California, valued as a food fish.
Jewfish (n.) (Zool.) The black grouper of Florida and Texas.
Jewfish (n.) (Zool.) A large herringlike fish; the tarpum.
Warsaw (n.) (Zool.) The black
grouper ({Epinephelus nigritus) of the southern coasts of the
Warsaw (n.) The capital and largest city of Poland; located in central Poland [syn: Warszawa, Warsaw, capital of Poland].
Warsaw, MO -- U.S. city in Missouri
Population (2000): 2070
Housing Units (2000): 1027
Land area (2000): 1.979957 sq. miles (5.128064 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.189496 sq. miles (0.490792 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 2.169453 sq. miles (5.618856 sq. km)
FIPS code: 77146
Located within: Missouri (MO), FIPS 29
Location: 38.245195 N, 93.377227 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 65355
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Headwords:
Warsaw, MO
Warsaw
Warsaw, NY -- U.S. village in New York
Population (2000): 3814
Housing Units (2000): 1575
Land area (2000): 4.123760 sq. miles (10.680490 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 4.123760 sq. miles (10.680490 sq. km)
FIPS code: 78333
Located within: New York (NY), FIPS 36
Location: 42.741032 N, 78.135661 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 14569
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Headwords:
Warsaw, NY
Warsaw
Warsaw, NC -- U.S. town in North Carolina
Population (2000): 3051
Housing Units (2000): 1331
Land area (2000): 2.791357 sq. miles (7.229580 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 2.791357 sq. miles (7.229580 sq. km)
FIPS code: 71160
Located within: North Carolina (NC), FIPS 37
Location: 34.999520 N, 78.092424 W
ZIP Codes (1990):
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Headwords:
Warsaw, NC
Warsaw
Warsaw, OH -- U.S. village in Ohio
Population (2000): 781
Housing Units (2000): 346
Land area (2000): 0.436251 sq. miles (1.129885 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.016287 sq. miles (0.042183 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.452538 sq. miles (1.172068 sq. km)
FIPS code: 81032
Located within: Ohio (OH), FIPS 39
Location: 40.336104 N, 82.002552 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 43844
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Headwords:
Warsaw, OH
Warsaw
Warsaw, IL -- U.S. city in Illinois
Population (2000): 1793
Housing Units (2000): 807
Land area (2000): 6.616576 sq. miles (17.136853 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.871255 sq. miles (2.256541 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 7.487831 sq. miles (19.393394 sq. km)
FIPS code: 78942
Located within: Illinois (IL), FIPS 17
Location: 40.355173 N, 91.432928 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 62379
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Headwords:
Warsaw, IL
Warsaw
Warsaw, IN -- U.S. city in Indiana
Population (2000): 12415
Housing Units (2000): 5101
Land area (2000): 10.480736 sq. miles (27.144981 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 1.067436 sq. miles (2.764647 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 11.548172 sq. miles (29.909628 sq. km)
FIPS code: 80306
Located within: Indiana (IN), FIPS 18
Location: 41.240564 N, 85.847002 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 46580
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Headwords:
Warsaw, IN
Warsaw
Warsaw, KY -- U.S. city in Kentucky
Population (2000) 1811
Housing Units (2000): 830
Land area (2000): 0.969332 sq. miles (2.510558 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.542162 sq. miles (1.404194 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 1.511494 sq. miles (3.914752 sq. km)
FIPS code: 80706
Located within: Kentucky (KY), FIPS 21
Location: 38.783435 N, 84.899564 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 41095
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Headwords:
Warsaw, KY
Warsaw
Warsaw, VA -- U.S. town in Virginia
Population (2000): 1375
Housing Units (2000): 468
Land area (2000): 3.035475 sq. miles (7.861843 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 3.035475 sq. miles (7.861843 sq. km)
FIPS code: 83168
Located within: Virginia (VA), FIPS 51
Location: 37.957617 N, 76.758302 W
ZIP Codes (1990):
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Warsaw, VA
Warsaw
Wart (n.) (Med.) 【醫】疣；【植】樹瘤；缺點 A small, usually hard, tumor on the skin formed by enlargement of its vascular papillae, and thickening of the epidermis which covers them.
Wart (n.) An excrescence or protuberance more or less resembling a true wart; specifically (Bot.), a glandular excrescence or hardened protuberance on plants.
Fig wart, Moist wart (Med.), A soft, bright red, pointed or tufted tumor found about the genitals, often massed into groups of large size. It is a variety of condyloma. Called also pointed wart, venereal wart. -- L. A. Duhring.
Wart cress (Bot.), The swine's cress. See under Swine.
Wart snake (Zool.), Any one of several species of East Indian colubrine snakes of the genus Acrochordus, having the body covered with wartlike tubercles or spinose scales, and lacking cephalic plates and ventral scutes.
Wart spurge (Bot.), A kind of wartwort ({Euphorbia Helioscopia).
Wart (n.) Any small rounded protuberance (as on certain plants or animals)
Wart (n.) An imperfection in someone or something that is suggestive of a wart (especially in smallness or unattractiveness).
Wart (n.) (Pathology) A firm abnormal elevated blemish on the skin; caused by a virus [syn: wart, verruca].
Wart (n.) A small, crocky feature that sticks out of an otherwise clean design. Something conspicuous for localized ugliness, especially a special-case exception to a general rule. For example, in some versions of csh(1), single quotes literalize every character inside them except !. In ANSI C, the ?? syntax used for obtaining ASCII characters in a foreign environment is a wart. See also miswart.
Wart (n.) A small, crocky feature that sticks out of an otherwise clean design. Something conspicuous for localised ugliness, especially a special-case exception to a general rule. For example, in some versions of "csh(1)", single quotes literalise every character inside them except "!". In ANSI C, the "?" syntax used for obtaining ASCII characters in a foreign environment is a wart. See also miswart. [{Jargon File]
Warted (a.) Having little knobs on the surface; verrucose; as, a warted capsule.
Wart
hog () Either
one of two species of large, savage African wild hogs of the genus Phacoch/rus.
These animals have a pair of large, rough, fleshy tubercles behind the tusks
and second pair behind the eyes. The tusks are large and strong, and both pairs
curve upward. The body is scantily covered with bristles, but there is long
dorsal mane. The South African species (Phacoch/rus Aethiopicus) is the best
known. Called also vlacke vark. The second species (P. Aeliani) is native of
the coasts of the
Wartless (a.) Having no wart.
Wartweed (n.) Same as Wartwort.
Wartwort (n.) A name given to several plants because they were thought to be a cure for warts, as a kind of spurge (Euphorbia Helioscopia), and the nipplewort (Lampsana communis).
Warty (a.) Having warts; full of warts; overgrow with warts; as, a warty leaf.
Warty (a.) Of the nature of warts; as, a warty excrescence.
Warwickite (n.) A dark brown or black mineral, occurring in prismatic crystals imbedded in limestone near Warwick, New York. It consists of the borate and titanate of magnesia and iron.
Warworn (a.) Worn with military service; as, a warworn soldier; a warworn coat.
Wary (a.) Cautious of danger; carefully watching and guarding against deception, artifices, and dangers; timorously or suspiciously prudent; circumspect; scrupulous; careful.
Wary (a.) Characterized by caution; guarded; careful.
Warye (v. t.) To curse; to curse; to execrate; to condemn; also, to vex.
Was (v.) The first and third persons singular of the verb be, in the indicative mood, preterit (imperfect) tense; as, I was; he was.
Wase (n.) A bundle of straw, or other material, to relieve the pressure of burdens carried upon the head.
Washed (imp. & p. p.) of Wash
Washing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Wash
Wash (v. t.) To cleanse by ablution, or dipping or rubbing in water; to apply water or other liquid to for the purpose of cleansing; to scrub with water, etc., or as with water; as, to wash the hands or body; to wash garments; to wash sheep or wool; to wash the pavement or floor; to wash the bark of trees.
Wash (v. t.) To cover with water or any liquid; to wet; to fall on and moisten; hence, to overflow or dash against; as, waves wash the shore.
Wash (v. t.) To waste or abrade by the force of water in motion; as, heavy rains wash a road or an embankment.
Wash (v. t.) To remove by washing to take away by, or as by, the action of water; to drag or draw off as by the tide; -- often with away, off, out, etc.; as, to wash dirt from the hands.
Wash (v. t.) To cover with a thin or watery coat of color; to tint lightly and thinly.
Wash (v. t.) To overlay with a thin coat of metal; as, steel washed with silver.
Wash (v. i.) To perform the act of ablution.
Wash (v. i.) To clean anything by rubbing or dipping it in water; to perform the business of cleansing clothes, ore, etc., in water.
Wash (v. i.) To bear without injury the operation of being washed; as, some calicoes do not wash.
Wash (v. i.) To be wasted or worn away by the action of water, as by a running or overflowing stream, or by the dashing of the sea; -- said of road, a beach, etc.
Wash (n.) The act of washing; an ablution; a cleansing, wetting, or dashing with water; hence, a quantity, as of clothes, washed at once.
Wash (n.) A piece of ground washed by the action of a sea or river, or sometimes covered and sometimes left dry; the shallowest part of a river, or arm of the sea; also, a bog; a marsh; a fen; as, the washes in Lincolnshire.
Wash (n.) Substances collected and deposited by the action of water; as, the wash of a sewer, of a river, etc.
Wash (n.) Waste liquid, the refuse of food, the collection from washed dishes, etc., from a kitchen, often used as food for pigs.
Wash (n.) The fermented wort before the spirit is extracted.
Wash (n.) A mixture of dunder, molasses, water, and scummings, used in the West Indies for distillation.
Wash (n.) That with which anything is washed, or wetted, smeared, tinted, etc., upon the surface.
Wash (n.) A liquid cosmetic for the complexion.
Wash (n.) A liquid dentifrice.
Wash (n.) A liquid preparation for the hair; as, a hair wash.
Wash (n.) A medical preparation in a liquid form for external application; a lotion.
Wash (n.) A thin coat of color, esp. water color.
Wash (n.) A thin coat of metal laid on anything for beauty or preservation.
Wash (n.) The blade of an oar, or the thin part which enters the water.
Wash (n.) The backward current or disturbed water caused by the action of oars, or of a steamer's screw or paddles, etc.
Wash (n.) The flow, swash, or breaking of a body of water, as a wave; also, the sound of it.
Wash (n.) Ten strikes, or bushels, of oysters.
Wash (a.) Washy; weak.
Wash (a.) Capable of being washed without injury; washable; as, wash goods.
Washable (a.) Capable of being washed without damage to fabric or color.
Washboard (n.) A fluted, or ribbed, board on which clothes are rubbed in washing them.
Washboard (n.) A board running round, and serving as a facing for, the walls of a room, next to the floor; a mopboard.
Washboard (n.) A broad, thin plank, fixed along the gunwale of boat to keep the sea from breaking inboard; also, a plank on the sill of a lower deck port, for the same purpose; -- called also wasteboard.
Washbowl (n.) A basin, or bowl, to hold water for washing one's hands, face, etc.
Washdish (n.) A washbowl.
Washdish (n.) Same as Washerwoman, 2.
Washed (a.) Appearing as if overlaid with a thin layer of different color; -- said of the colors of certain birds and insects.
Washen () p. p. of Wash.
Washer (n.) One who, or that which, washes.
Washer (n.) A ring of metal, leather, or other material, or a perforated plate, used for various purposes, as around a bolt or screw to form a seat for the head or nut, or around a wagon axle to prevent endwise motion of the hub of the wheel and relieve friction, or in a joint to form a packing, etc.
Washer (n.) A fitting, usually having a plug, applied to a cistern, tub, sink, or the like, and forming the outlet opening.
Washer (n.) The common raccoon.
Washer (n.) Same as Washerwoman, 2.
Washermen (n. pl. ) of Washerman
Washerman (n.) A man who washes clothes, esp. for hire, or for others.
Washerwomen (n. pl. ) of Washerwoman
Washerwoman (n.) A woman who washes clothes, especially for hire, or for others.
Washerwoman (n.) The pied wagtail; -- so called in allusion to its beating the water with its tail while tripping along the leaves of water plants.
Washhouse (n.) An outbuilding for washing, esp. one for washing clothes; a laundry.
Washiness (n.) The quality or state of being washy, watery, or weak.
Washing (n.) The act of one who washes; the act of cleansing with water; ablution.
Washing (n.) The clothes washed, esp. at one time; a wash.
Washingtonian (a.) Pertaining to, or characteristic of, George Washington; as, a Washingtonian policy.
Washingtonian (a.) Designating, or pertaining to, a temperance society and movement started in Baltimore in 1840 on the principle of total abstinence.
Washingtonian (n.) A member of the Washingtonian Society.
Wash-off (a.) Capable of being washed off; not permanent or durable; -- said of colors not fixed by steaming or otherwise.
Washout (n.) The washing out or away of earth, etc., especially of a portion of the bed of a road or railroad by a fall of rain or a freshet; also, a place, especially in the bed of a road or railroad, where the earth has been washed away.
Washpot (n.) A pot or vessel in which anything is washed.
Washpot (n.) A pot containing melted tin into which the plates are dipped to be coated.
Washstand (n.) A piece of furniture holding the ewer or pitcher, basin, and other requisites for washing the person.
Washtub (n.) A tub in which clothes are washed.
Washy (a.) Watery; damp; soft.
Washy (a.) Lacking substance or strength; weak; thin; dilute; feeble; as, washy tea; washy resolutions.
Washy (a.) Not firm or hardy; liable to sweat profusely with labor; as, a washy horse.
Wasite (n.) A variety of allanite from Sweden supposed to contain wasium.
Wasium (n.) A rare element supposed by Bahr to have been extracted from wasite, but now identified with thorium.
Wasp (n.) Any one of numerous species of stinging hymenopterous insects, esp. any of the numerous species of the genus Vespa, which includes the true, or social, wasps, some of which are called yellow jackets.
Waspish (a.) Resembling a wasp in form; having a slender waist, like a wasp.
Waspish (a.) Quick to resent a trifling affront; characterized by snappishness; irritable; irascible; petulant; snappish.
Wassail (n.) An ancient expression of good wishes on a festive occasion, especially in drinking to some one.
Wassail (n.) An occasion on which such good wishes are expressed in drinking; a drinking bout; a carouse.
Wassail (n.) The liquor used for a wassail; esp., a beverage formerly much used in England at Christmas and other festivals, made of ale (or wine) flavored with spices, sugar, toast, roasted apples, etc.; -- called also lamb's wool.
Wassail (n.) A festive or drinking song or glee.
Wassail (a.) Of or pertaining to wassail, or to a wassail; convivial; as, a wassail bowl.
Wassail (v. i.) To hold a wassail; to carouse.