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
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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.
Compare: Tarpum
Tarpum (n.) (Zool.) A very large marine fish ({Megapolis Atlanticus) of the Southern United States and the West Indies. It often becomes six or more feet in length, and has large silvery scales. The scales are a staple article of trade, and are used in fancywork. Called also tarpon, sabalo, savanilla, silverfish, and jewfish.
Jewfish (n.) Large important food fish of Australia; almost indistinguishable from the maigre [syn: mulloway, jewfish, Sciaena antarctica].
Jewfish (n.) Large dark grouper with a thick head and rough scales [syn: jewfish, Mycteroperca bonaci].
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):
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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.) (Bot.) Having little knobs on the surface; verrucose; as, a warted capsule.
Wart hog () (Zool.) Either one of two species of large, savage African wild hogs of the genus Phacoch[oe]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[oe]rus Aethiopicus) is the best known. Called also vlacke vark. The second species ({Phacoch[oe]rus Aeliani) is native of the coasts of the Red Sea.
Wartless (a.) Having no wart.
Wartweed (n.) (Bot.) Same as Wartwort.
Wartweed (n.) Not unattractive European weed whose flowers turn toward the sun [syn: sun spurge, wartweed, wartwort, devil's milk, Euphorbia helioscopia].
Wartwort (n.) (Bot.) 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).
Wartwort (n.) Not unattractive European weed whose flowers turn toward the sun [syn: sun spurge, wartweed, wartwort, devil's milk, Euphorbia helioscopia].
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.
Warty egg (Zool.), A marine univalve shell ({Ovulum verrucosum), having the surface covered with wartlike elevations.
Wart (a.) (Of skin) Covered with warts or projections that resemble warts [syn: verrucose, warty, wartlike].
Warwickite (n.) (Min.) 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. -- Shak.
Wary (a.) Cautious of danger; carefully watching and guarding against deception, artifices, and dangers; timorously or suspiciously prudent; circumspect; scrupulous; careful. "Bear a wary eye." --Shak.
We should be wary, therefore, what persecution we raise against the living labors of public men. -- Milton.
Wary (a.) Characterized by caution; guarded; careful.
It behoveth our words to be wary and few. -- Hooker.
Syn: Cautious; circumspect; watchful. See Cautious.
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.
Wary (a.) Marked by keen caution and watchful prudence; "they were wary in their movements"; "a wary glance at the black clouds"; "taught to be wary of strangers" [ant: unwary].
Wary (a.) Openly distrustful and unwilling to confide [syn: leery, mistrustful, suspicious, untrusting, wary].
Was (v.) The first and third persons singular of the verb be, in the indicative mood, preterit (imperfect) tense; as, I was; he was.
WAS, () Websphere Application Server (IBM, WBISF).
Wase (n.) A bundle of straw, or other material, to relieve the pressure of burdens carried upon the head. [Prov. Eng.] -- Halliwell.
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.
When Pilate saw that he could prevail nothing, . . . he took water and washed his hands before the multitude, saying, I am innocent of the blood of this just person. -- Matt. xxvii. 24.
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.
Fresh-blown roses washed with dew. -- Milton.
[The landscape] washed with a cold, gray mist. -- Longfellow.
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.
Arise, and be baptized, and wash away thy sins. -- Acts xxii. 16.
The tide will wash you off. -- Shak.
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. t.) To cause dephosphorisation of (molten pig iron) by adding substances containing iron oxide, and sometimes manganese oxide.
Wash (v. t.) To pass (a gas or gaseous mixture) through or over a liquid for the purpose of purifying it, esp. by removing soluble constituents.
To wash gold, etc., to treat earth or gravel, or crushed ore, with water, in order to separate the gold or other metal, or metallic ore, through their higher density.
To wash the hands of. See under Hand.
Wash (v. i.) To perform the act of ablution.
Wash in Jordan seven times. -- 2 Kings v. 10.
Wash (v. i.) To clean anything by rubbing or dipping it in water; to perform the business of cleansing clothes, ore, etc., in water. "She can wash and scour." -- Shak.
Wash (v. i.) To bear without injury the operation of being washed; as, some calicoes do not wash. [Colloq.]
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 (v. i.) To use washes, as for the face or hair.
Wash (v. i.) To move with a lapping or swashing sound, or the like; to lap; splash; as, to hear the water washing.
Wash (v. i.) to be accepted as true or valid; to be proven true by subsequent evidence; -- usually used in the negative; as, his alibi won't wash. [informal]
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. "The Wash of Edmonton so gay." -- Cowper.
These Lincoln washes have devoured them. -- Shak.
Wash (n.) Substances collected and deposited by the action of water; as, the wash of a sewer, of a river, etc.
The wash of pastures, fields, commons, and roads, where rain water hath a long time settled. -- Mortimer.
Wash (n.) Waste liquid, the refuse of food, the collection from washed dishes, etc., from a kitchen, often used as food for pigs. -- Shak.
Wash (n.) (Distilling) The fermented wort before the spirit is extracted.
Wash (n.) (Distilling) A mixture of dunder, molasses, water, and scummings, used in the West Indies for distillation. -- B. Edwards.
Wash (n.) That with which anything is washed, or wetted, smeared, tinted, etc., upon the surface. Specifically:
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.) (Painting) A thin coat of color, esp. water color.
Wash (n.) A thin coat of metal applied in a liquid form on any object, for beauty or preservation; -- called also washing.
Wash (n.) (Naut.) The blade of an oar, or the thin part which enters the water.
Wash (n.) (Naut.) 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. [Prov. Eng.]
Wash (n.) [Western U. S.] (Geol.) (a) Gravel and other rock d['e]bris transported and deposited by running water; coarse alluvium.
Wash (n.) (b) An alluvial cone formed by a stream at the base of a mountain.
Wash (n.) The dry bed of an intermittent stream, sometimes at the bottom of a canyon; as, the Amargosa wash, Diamond wash; -- called also dry wash. [Western U. S.]
Wash (n.) (Arch.) The upper surface of a member or material when given a slope to shed water. Hence, a structure or receptacle shaped so as to receive and carry off water, as a carriage wash in a stable.
Wash (n.) An action or situation in which the gains and losses are equal, or closely compensate each other.
Wash (n.) (Aeronautics) the disturbance of the air left behind in the wake of a moving airplane or one of its parts.
Wash ball, A ball of soap to be used in washing the hands or face. -- Swift.
Wash barrel (Fisheries), A barrel nearly full of split mackerel, loosely put in, and afterward filled with salt water in order to soak the blood from the fish before salting.
Wash bottle. (Chem.) (a) A bottle partially filled with some liquid through which gases are passed for the purpose of purifying them, especially by removing soluble constituents.
Wash bottle. (Chem.) (b) A washing bottle. See under Washing.
Wash gilding. See Water gilding.
Wash leather, Split sheepskin dressed with oil, in imitation of chamois, or shammy, and used for dusting, cleaning glass or plate, etc.; also, alumed, or buff, leather for soldiers' belts.
Wash (a.) Washy; weak. [Obs.]
Their bodies of so weak and wash a temper. -- Beau. & Fl.
Wash (a.) Capable of being washed without injury; washable; as, wash goods. [Colloq.]
Wash (n.) A thin coat of water-base paint.
Wash (n.) The work of cleansing (usually with soap and water) [syn: wash, washing, lavation].
Wash (n.) The dry bed of an intermittent stream (as at the bottom of a canyon) [syn: wash, dry wash].
Wash (n.) The erosive process of washing away soil or gravel by water (as from a roadway); "from the house they watched the washout of their newly seeded lawn by the water" [syn: washout, wash].
Wash (n.) The flow of air that is driven backwards by an aircraft propeller [syn: slipstream, airstream, race, backwash, wash].
Wash (n.) A watercolor made by applying a series of monochrome washes one over the other [syn: wash, wash drawing].
Wash (n.) Garments or white goods that can be cleaned by laundering [syn: laundry, wash, washing, washables].
Wash (n.) Any enterprise in which losses and gains cancel out; "at the end of the year the accounting department showed that it was a wash."
Wash (v.) Clean with some chemical process [syn: wash, rinse].
Wash (v.) Cleanse (one's body) with soap and water [syn: wash, lave].
Wash (v.) Cleanse with a cleaning agent, such as soap, and water; "Wash the towels, please!" [syn: wash, launder].
Wash (v.) Move by or as if by water; "The swollen river washed away the Footbridge."
Wash (v.) Be capable of being washed; "Does this material wash?"
Wash (v.) Admit to testing or proof; "This silly excuse won't wash in traffic court."
Wash (v.) Separate dirt or gravel from (precious minerals).
Wash (v.) Apply a thin coating of paint, metal, etc., to.
Wash (v.) Remove by the application of water or other liquid and soap or some other cleaning agent; "he washed the dirt from his coat"; "The nurse washed away the blood"; "Can you wash away the spots on the windows?"; "he managed to wash out the stains" [syn: wash, wash out, wash off, wash away].
Wash (v.) Form by erosion; "The river washed a ravine into the mountainside."
Wash (v.) Make moist; "The dew moistened the meadows" [syn: moisten, wash, dampen].
Wash (v.) Wash or flow against; "the waves laved the shore" [syn: lave, lap, wash].
Wash (v.) To cleanse (itself or another animal) by licking; "The cat washes several times a day."
Washable (a.) Capable of being washed without damage to fabric or color.
Washable (a.) Capable of being washed without injury; "washable woolens"; "acrylic blankets are both warm and washable" [ant: nonwashable].
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.) (Naut.) 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. -- Mar. Dict.
Washboard (n.) Device consisting of a corrugated surface to scrub clothes on.
Washboard (n.) Protective covering consisting of a broad plank along a gunwale to keep water from splashing over the side [syn: washboard, splashboard].
Washbowl (n.) A basin, or bowl, to hold water for washing one's hands, face, etc.
Washbowl (n.) A bathroom sink that is permanently installed and connected to a water supply and drainpipe; where you can wash your hands and face; "he ran some water in the basin and splashed it on his face" [syn: washbasin, basin, washbowl, washstand, lavatory].
Washbowl (n.) A basin for washing the hands (`wash-hand basin' is a British expression) [syn: washbasin, handbasin, washbowl, lavabo, wash-hand basin].
Washdish (n.) A washbowl.
Washdish (n.) (Zool.) Same as Washerwoman, 2. [Prov. Eng.]
Washed (a.) (Zool.) Appearing as if overlaid with a thin layer of different color; -- said of the colors of certain birds and insects.
Washed (a.) Clean by virtue of having been washed in water [syn: washed, water-washed].
Washed (a.) Wet as from washing; sometimes used in combination; "rain-washed."
Washen () obs. p. p. of Wash. -- Chaucer.
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.) (Plumbing) A fitting, usually having a plug, applied to a cistern, tub, sink, or the like, and forming the outlet opening.
Washer (n.) (Zool.) The common raccoon.
Washer (n.) (Zool.) Same as Washerwoman, 2. [Prov. Eng.]
Washer (n.) Someone who washes things for a living.
Washer (n.) Seal consisting of a flat disk placed to prevent leakage.
Washer (n.) A home appliance for washing clothes and linens automatically [syn: washer, automatic washer, washing machine].
Washermen (n. pl. ) of Washerman.
Washerman (n.) A man who washes clothes, esp. for hire, or for others.
Washerman (n.) Operates industrial washing machine [syn: washerman, laundryman].
Washerwomen (n. pl. ) of Washerwoman.
Washerwoman (n.) A woman who washes clothes, especially for hire, or for others.
Washerwoman (n.) (Zool.) The pied wagtail; -- so called in allusion to its beating the water with its tail while tripping along the leaves of water plants. [Prov. Eng.]
Washhouse (n.) An outbuilding for washing, esp. one for washing clothes; a laundry.
Washhouse (n.) A building or outbuilding where laundry is done
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.
Washing (n.) (Mining) Gold dust procured by washing; also, a place where this is done; a washery.
Washing (n.) A thin covering or coat; as, a washing of silver.
Washing (n.) (Stock Exchanges) The operation of simultaneously buying and selling the same stock for the purpose of manipulating the market. The transaction is fictitious, and is prohibited by stock-exchange rules.
Washing (n.) (Pottery) The covering of a piece with an infusible powder, which prevents it from sticking to its supports, while receiving the glaze.
Washing bear (Zool.), the raccoon.
Washing bottle (Chem.), A bottle fitted with glass tubes passing through the cork, so that on blowing into one of the tubes a stream of water issuing from the other may be directed upon anything to be washed or rinsed, as a precipitate upon a filter, etc.
Washing fluid, A liquid used as a cleanser, and consisting usually of alkaline salts resembling soaps in their action.
Washing machine, A machine for washing; specifically, a machine for washing clothes.
Washing soda. (Chem.) See Sodium carbonate, under Sodium.
Washing stuff, Any earthy deposit containing gold enough to pay for washing it; -- so called among gold miners.
Washing (n.) The work of cleansing (usually with soap and water) [syn: wash, washing, lavation].
Washing (n.) Garments or white goods that can be cleaned by laundering [syn: laundry, wash, washing, washables].
Washing, () (Mark 7:1-9). The Jews, like other Orientals, used their fingers when taking food, and therefore washed their hands before doing so, for the sake of cleanliness. Here the reference is to the ablutions prescribed by tradition, according to which "the disciples ought to have gone down to the side of the lake, washed their hands thoroughly, 'rubbing the fist of one hand in the hollow of the other, then placed the ten finger-tips together, holding the hands up, so that any surplus water might flow down to the elbow, and thence to the ground.'" To neglect to do this had come to be regarded as a great sin, a sin equal to the breach of any of the ten commandments. Moses had commanded washings oft, but always for some definite cause; but the Jews multiplied the legal observance till they formed a large body of precepts. To such precepts about ceremonial washing Mark here refers. (See ABLUTION.)
Washingtonian (a.) Pertaining to, or characteristic of, George Washington; as, a Washingtonian policy. – Lowell.
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.
Washingtonian (a.) Of or relating to or in the manner of George Washington
Washingtonian (a.) Of or relating to the people who run the federal government; "Washingtonian politics as usual."
Washingtonian (a.) Of or relating to the capital of the United States; "Washingtonian museums."
Washingtonian (a.) Of or relating to or in the state of Washington.
Washingtonian (n.) A native or resident of the city of Washington.
Washingtonian (n.) A native or resident of the state of Washington.
Wash-off (a.) (Calico Printing) 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.
Washout (n.) A complete failure; -- of an enterprise.
Washout (n.) A person who has failed a course of study or training, leaving the program before its completion.
Washout (n.) The channel or break produced by erosion of relatively soft soil by water; "it was several days after the storm before they could repair the washout and open the road."
Washout (n.) The erosive process of washing away soil or gravel by water (as from a roadway); "from the house they watched the washout of their newly seeded lawn by the water" [syn: washout, wash].
Washout (n.) Someone who is unsuccessful [syn: flop, dud, washout].
Washpot (n.) A pot or vessel in which anything is washed.
Washpot (n.) (Tin-Plate Manuf.) 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.
Washstand (n.) Furniture consisting of a table or stand to hold a basin and pitcher of water for washing: `wash-hand stand' is a British term [syn: washstand, wash-hand stand].
Washstand (n.) A bathroom sink that is permanently installed and connected to a water supply and drainpipe; where you can wash your hands and face; "he ran some water in the basin and splashed it on his face" [syn: washbasin, basin, washbowl, washstand, lavatory].
Washtub (n.) A tub in which clothes are washed.
Washtub (n.) A tub in which clothes or linens can be washed.
Washy (a.) Watery; damp; soft. "Washy ooze." -- Milton.
Washy (a.) Lacking substance or strength; weak; thin; dilute; feeble; as, washy tea; washy resolutions.
A polish . . . not over thin and washy. -- Sir H. Wotton.
Washy (a.) Not firm or hardy; liable to sweat profusely with labor; as, a washy horse. [Local, U. S.]
Washy (a.) Overly diluted; thin and insipid; "washy coffee"; "watery milk"; "weak tea" [syn: watery, washy, weak].
Washy (a.) Having lost freshness or brilliance of color; "sun-bleached deck chairs"; "faded jeans"; "a very pale washed-out blue"; "washy colors" [syn: bleached, faded, washed-out, washy].
Wasite (n.) (Min.) A variety of allanite from Sweden supposed to contain wasium.
Wasium (n.) (Chem.) A rare element supposed by Bahr to have been extracted from wasite, but now identified with thorium.
Wasp (n.) (Zool.) 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.
Note: The social wasps make a complex series of combs, of a substance like stiff paper, often of large size, and protect them by a paperlike covering. The larvae are reared in the cells of the combs, and eat insects and insect larvae brought to them by the adults, but the latter feed mainly on the honey and pollen of flowers, and on the sweet juices of fruit. See Illust. in Appendix.
Digger wasp, Any one of numerous species of solitary wasps that make their nests in burrows which they dig in the ground, as the sand wasps. See Sand wasp, under Sand.
Mud wasp. See under Mud.
Potter wasp. See under Potter.
Wasp fly, A species of fly resembling a wasp, but without a sting.
WASP (n.) A white person of Anglo-Saxon ancestry who belongs to a Protestant denomination [syn: WASP, white Anglo-Saxon Protestant].
WASP (n.) Social or solitary hymenopterans typically having a slender
body with the abdomen attached by a narrow stalk and having a formidable sting.
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.
He was naturally a waspish and hot man. -- Bp. Hall.
Much do I suffer, much, to keep in peace This jealous, waspish, wrong-head, rhyming race. -- Pope.
Syn: Snappish; petulant; irritable; irascible; testy; peevish; captious. -- Wasp"ish*ly, adv. -- Wasp"ish*ness, n.
Waspish (a.) Very irritable; "bristly exchanges between the White House and the press"; "he became prickly and spiteful"; "witty and waspish about his colleagues" [syn: bristly, prickly, splenetic, waspish].
Wassail (n.) An ancient expression of good wishes on a festive occasion, especially in drinking to some one.
Geoffrey of Monmouth relates, on the authority of Walter Calenius, that this lady [Rowena], the daughter of Hengist, knelt down on the approach of the king, and, presenting him with a cup of wine, exclaimed, Lord king waes heil, that is, literally, Health be to you. -- N. Drake.
Wassail (n.) An occasion on which such good wishes are expressed in drinking; a drinking bout; a carouse. "In merry wassail he . . . peals his loud song." -- Sir W. Scott.
The king doth wake to-night and takes his rouse, Keeps wassail. -- Shak.
The victors abandoned themselves to feasting and wassail. -- Prescott.
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.
A jolly wassail bowl, A wassail of good ale. -- Old Song.
Wassail (n.) A festive or drinking song or glee. [Obs.]
Have you done your wassail! 'T is a handsome, drowsy ditty, I'll assure you. -- Beau. & Fl.
Wassail (v. i.) To hold a wassail; to carouse.
Spending all the day, and good part of the night, in dancing, caroling, and wassailing. -- Sir P. Sidney.
Wassail (a.) Of or pertaining to wassail, or to a wassail; convivial; as, a wassail bowl. "Awassail candle, my lord, all tallow." -- Shak.
Wassail bowl, A bowl in which wassail was mixed, and placed upon the table. "Spiced wassail bowl." -- J. Fletcher.
"When the cloth was removed, the butler brought in a huge silver vessel . . . Its appearance was hailed with acclamation, being the wassail bowl so renowned in Christmas festivity." -- W. Irving.
Wassail cup, A cup from which wassail was drunk.
Wassail (n.) A punch made of sweetened ale or wine heated with spices and roasted apples; especially at Christmas.
Wassail (v.) Celebrate noisily, often indulging in drinking; engage in uproarious festivities; "The members of the wedding party made merry all night"; "Let's whoop it up--the boss is gone!" [syn: revel, racket, make whoopie, make merry, make happy, whoop it up, jollify, wassail].
Wassail (v.) Propose a toast to; "Let us toast the birthday girl!"; "Let's drink to the New Year" [syn: toast, drink, pledge, salute, wassail].