English Dictionary: warren | by the DICT Development Group |
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Warine \War"ine\, n. (Zo[94]l.) A South American monkey, one of the sapajous. | |
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Warm \Warm\, a. [Compar. {Warmer}; superl. {Warmest}.] [AS. wearm; akin to OS., OFries., D., & G. warm, Icel. varmr, Sw. & Dan. varm, Goth. warmjan to warm; probably akin to Lith. virti to cook, boil; or perhaps to Skr. gharma heat, OL. formus warm. [?][?][?], [?][?][?].] 1. Having heat in a moderate degree; not cold as, warm milk. [bd]Whose blood is warm within.[b8] --Shak. Warm and still is the summer night. --Longfellow. 2. Having a sensation of heat, esp. of gentle heat; glowing. 3. Subject to heat; having prevalence of heat, or little or no cold weather; as, the warm climate of Egypt. 4. Fig.: Not cool, indifferent, lukewarm, or the like, in spirit or temper; zealous; ardent; fervent; excited; sprightly; irritable; excitable. Mirth, and youth, and warm desire! --Milton. Each warm wish springs mutual from the heart. --Pope. They say he's warm man and does not care to be mad[?] mouths at. --Addison. I had been none of the warmest of partisans. --Hawthor[?][?]. 5. Violent; vehement; furious; excited; passionate; as, a warm contest; a warm debate. Welcome, daylight; we shall have warm work on't. --Dryden. 6. Being well off as to property, or in good circumstances; forehanded; rich. [Colloq.] Warm householders, every one of them. --W. Irving. You shall have a draft upon him, payable at sight: and let me tell you he as warm a man as any within five miles round him. --Goldsmith. 7. In children's games, being near the object sought for; hence, being close to the discovery of some person, thing, or fact concealed. [Colloq.] Here, indeed, young Mr. Dowse was getting [bd]warm,[b8] [?][?] children say at blindman's buff. --Black. 8. (Paint.) Having yellow or red for a basis, or in their composition; -- said of colors, and opposed to cold which is of blue and its compounds. Syn: Ardent; zealous; fervent; glowing; enthusiastic; cordial; keen; violent; furious; hot. | |
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Warm \Warm\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Warmed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Warming}.] [AS. wearmian. See {Warm}, a.] 1. To communicate a moderate degree of heat to; to render warm; to supply or furnish heat to; as, a stove warms an apartment. Then shall it [an ash tree] be for a man to burn; for he will take thereof and warm himself. --Isa. xliv 15 Enough to warm, but not enough to burn. --Longfellow. 2. To make engaged or earnest; to interest; to engage; to excite ardor or zeal; to enliven. I formerly warmed my head with reading controversial writings. --Pope. Bright hopes, that erst bosom warmed. --Keble. | |
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Warm \Warm\, v. i. [AS. wearmian.] 1. To become warm, or moderately heated; as, the earth soon warms in a clear day summer. There shall not be a coal to warm at. --Isa. xlvii. 14. 2. To become ardent or animated; as, the speake[?] warms as he proceeds. | |
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Warm \Warm\, n. The act of warming, or the state of being warmed; a warming; a heating. [Colloq.] --Dickens. | |
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Warn \Warn\ (w[add]rn), v. t. [OE. wernen, AS. weornan, wyrnan. Cf. {Warn} to admonish.] To refuse. [Written also {wern}, {worn}.] [Obs.] --Chaucer. | |
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Warn \Warn\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Warned}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Warning}.] [OE. warnen, warnien, AS. warnian, wearnian, to take heed, to warn; akin to AS. wearn denial, refusal, OS. warning, wernian, to refuse, OHG. warnen, G. warnen to warn, OFries. warna, werna, Icel. varna to refuse; and probably to E. wary. [?][?][?][?].] 1. To make ware or aware; to give previous information to; to give notice to; to notify; to admonish; hence, to notify or summon by authority; as, to warn a town meeting; to warn a tenant to quit a house. [bd]Warned of the ensuing fight.[b8] --Dryden. Cornelius the centurion . . . was warned from God by an holy angel to send for thee. --Acts x. 22. Who is it that hath warned us to the walls? --Shak. 2. To give notice to, of approaching or probable danger or evil; to caution against anything that may prove injurious. [bd]Juturna warns the Daunian chief of Lausus' danger, urging swift relief.[b8] --Dryden. 3. To ward off. [Obs.] --Spenser. | |
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Warren \War"ren\, n. [Of. waresne, warenne, garene, F. garenne, from OF. warer, garer, to beware, to take care; of Teutonic origin; cf. OHG. war[?]n (in comp.), OS. war[?]n to take care, to observe, akin to E. wary. [?][?][?][?]. See {Wary}.] 1. (Eng Law) (a) A place privileged, by prescription or grant the king, for keeping certain animals (as hares, conies, partridges, pheasants, etc.) called beasts and fowls of warren. --Burrill. (b) A privilege which one has in his lands, by royal grant or prescription, of hunting and taking wild beasts and birds of warren, to the exclusion of any other person not entering by his permission. --Spelman. They wend both warren and in waste. --Piers Plowman. Note: The warren is the next franchise in degree to the park; and a forest, which is the highest in dignity, comprehends a chase, a park, and a free warren. 2. A piece of ground for the breeding of rabbits. 3. A place for keeping flash, in a river. | |
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Warrin \War"rin\, n. [From a native name.] (Zo[94]l.) An Australian lorikeet ({Trichoglossus multicolor}) remarkable for the variety and brilliancy of its colors; -- called also {blue-bellied lorikeet}, and {blue-bellied parrot}. | |
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Wayworn \Way"worn`\, a. Wearied by traveling. | |
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Warn \Warn\ (w[add]rn), v. t. [OE. wernen, AS. weornan, wyrnan. Cf. {Warn} to admonish.] To refuse. [Written also {wern}, {worn}.] [Obs.] --Chaucer. | |
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Wern \Wern\, v. t. [See 1st {Warn}.] To refuse. [Obs.] He is too great a niggard that will wern A man to light a candle at his lantern. --Chaucer. | |
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Warn \Warn\ (w[add]rn), v. t. [OE. wernen, AS. weornan, wyrnan. Cf. {Warn} to admonish.] To refuse. [Written also {wern}, {worn}.] [Obs.] --Chaucer. | |
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Wern \Wern\, v. t. [See 1st {Warn}.] To refuse. [Obs.] He is too great a niggard that will wern A man to light a candle at his lantern. --Chaucer. | |
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Wherein \Where*in"\, adv. 1. In which; in which place, thing, time, respect, or the like; -- used relatively. Her clothes wherein she was clad. --Chaucer. There are times wherein a man ought to be cautious as well as innocent. --Swift. 2. In what; -- used interrogatively. Yet ye say, Wherein have we wearied him! --Mal. ii. 17. | |
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Whereon \Where*on"\, adv. 1. On which; -- used relatively; as, the earth whereon we live. O fair foundation laid whereon to build. --Milton. 2. On what; -- used interrogatively; as, whereon do we stand? | |
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Worm \Worm\ (w[ucir]rm), n. [OE. worm, wurm, AS. wyrm; akin to D. worm, OS. & G. wurm, Icel. ormr, Sw. & Dan. orm, Goth. wa[a3]rms, L. vermis, Gr. [?] a wood worm. Cf. {Vermicelli}, {Vermilion}, {Vermin}.] 1. A creeping or a crawling animal of any kind or size, as a serpent, caterpillar, snail, or the like. [Archaic] There came a viper out of the heat, and leapt on his hand. When the men of the country saw the worm hang on his hand, they said, This man must needs be a murderer. --Tyndale (Acts xxviii. 3, 4). 'T is slander, Whose edge is sharper than the sword, whose tongue Outvenoms all the worms of Nile. --Shak. When Cerberus perceived us, the great worm, His mouth he opened and displayed his tusks. --Longfellow. 2. Any small creeping animal or reptile, either entirely without feet, or with very short ones, including a great variety of animals; as, an earthworm; the blindworm. Specifically: (Zo[94]l.) (a) Any helminth; an entozo[94]n. (b) Any annelid. (c) An insect larva. (d) pl. Same as {Vermes}. 3. An internal tormentor; something that gnaws or afflicts one's mind with remorse. The worm of conscience still begnaw thy soul! --Shak. 4. A being debased and despised. I am a worm, and no man. --Ps. xxii. 6. 5. Anything spiral, vermiculated, or resembling a worm; as: (a) The thread of a screw. The threads of screws, when bigger than can be made in screw plates, are called worms. --Moxon. (b) A spiral instrument or screw, often like a double corkscrew, used for drawing balls from firearms. (c) (Anat.) A certain muscular band in the tongue of some animals, as the dog; the lytta. See {Lytta}. (d) The condensing tube of a still, often curved and wound to economize space. See Illust. of {Still}. (e) (Mach.) A short revolving screw, the threads of which drive, or are driven by, a worm wheel by gearing into its teeth or cogs. See Illust. of {Worm gearing}, below. {Worm abscess} (Med.), an abscess produced by the irritation resulting from the lodgment of a worm in some part of the body. {Worm fence}. See under {Fence}. {Worm gear}. (Mach.) (a) A worm wheel. (b) Worm gearing. {Worm gearing}, gearing consisting of a worm and worm wheel working together. {Worm grass}. (Bot.) (a) See {Pinkroot}, 2 (a) . (b) The white stonecrop ({Sedum album}) reputed to have qualities as a vermifuge. --Dr. Prior. {Worm oil} (Med.), an anthelmintic consisting of oil obtained from the seeds of {Chenopodium anthelminticum}. {Worm powder} (Med.), an anthelmintic powder. {Worm snake}. (Zo[94]l.) See {Thunder snake} (b), under {Thunder}. {Worm tea} (Med.), an anthelmintic tea or tisane. {Worm tincture} (Med.), a tincture prepared from dried earthworms, oil of tartar, spirit of wine, etc. [Obs.] {Worm wheel}, a cogwheel having teeth formed to fit into the spiral spaces of a screw called a worm, so that the wheel may be turned by, or may turn, the worm; -- called also {worm gear}, and sometimes {tangent wheel}. See Illust. of {Worm gearing}, above. | |
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Worm \Worm\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Wormed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Worming}.] To work slowly, gradually, and secretly. When debates and fretting jealousy Did worm and work within you more and more, Your color faded. --Herbert. | |
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Worm \Worm\, v. t. 1. To effect, remove, drive, draw, or the like, by slow and secret means; -- often followed by out. They find themselves wormed out of all power. --Swift. They . . . wormed things out of me that I had no desire to tell. --Dickens. 2. To clean by means of a worm; to draw a wad or cartridge from, as a firearm. See {Worm}, n. 5 (b) . 3. To cut the worm, or lytta, from under the tongue of, as a dog, for the purpose of checking a disposition to gnaw. The operation was formerly supposed to guard against canine madness. The men assisted the laird in his sporting parties, wormed his dogs, and cut the ears of his terrier puppies. --Sir W. Scott. 4. (Naut.) To wind rope, yarn, or other material, spirally round, between the strands of, as a cable; to wind with spun yarn, as a small rope. Ropes . . . are generally wormed before they are served. --Totten. | |
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Screw \Screw\ (skr[udd]), n. [OE. scrue, OF. escroue, escroe, female screw, F. [82]crou, L. scrobis a ditch, trench, in LL., the hole made by swine in rooting; cf. D. schroef a screw, G. schraube, Icel. skr[umac]fa.] 1. A cylinder, or a cylindrical perforation, having a continuous rib, called the thread, winding round it spirally at a constant inclination, so as to leave a continuous spiral groove between one turn and the next, -- used chiefly for producing, when revolved, motion or pressure in the direction of its axis, by the sliding of the threads of the cylinder in the grooves between the threads of the perforation adapted to it, the former being distinguished as the external, or male screw, or, more usually the screw; the latter as the internal, or female screw, or, more usually, the nut. Note: The screw, as a mechanical power, is a modification of the inclined plane, and may be regarded as a right-angled triangle wrapped round a cylinder, the hypotenuse of the marking the spiral thread of the screw, its base equaling the circumference of the cylinder, and its height the pitch of the thread. 2. Specifically, a kind of nail with a spiral thread and a head with a nick to receive the end of the screw-driver. Screws are much used to hold together pieces of wood or to fasten something; -- called also {wood screws}, and {screw nails}. See also {Screw bolt}, below. 3. Anything shaped or acting like a screw; esp., a form of wheel for propelling steam vessels. It is placed at the stern, and furnished with blades having helicoidal surfaces to act against the water in the manner of a screw. See {Screw propeller}, below. 4. A steam vesel propelled by a screw instead of wheels; a screw steamer; a propeller. 5. An extortioner; a sharp bargainer; a skinflint; a niggard. --Thackeray. 6. An instructor who examines with great or unnecessary severity; also, a searching or strict examination of a student by an instructor. [Cant, American Colleges] 7. A small packet of tobacco. [Slang] --Mayhew. 8. An unsound or worn-out horse, useful as a hack, and commonly of good appearance. --Ld. Lytton. 9. (Math.) A straight line in space with which a definite linear magnitude termed the pitch is associated (cf. 5th {Pitch}, 10 (b) ). It is used to express the displacement of a rigid body, which may always be made to consist of a rotation about an axis combined with a translation parallel to that axis. 10. (Zo[94]l.) An amphipod crustacean; as, the skeleton screw ({Caprella}). See {Sand screw}, under {Sand}. {Archimedes screw}, {Compound screw}, {Foot screw}, etc. See under {Archimedes}, {Compound}, {Foot}, etc. {A screw loose}, something out of order, so that work is not done smoothly; as, there is a screw loose somewhere. --H. Martineau. {Endless, [or] perpetual, {screw}, a screw used to give motion to a toothed wheel by the action of its threads between the teeth of the wheel; -- called also a {worm}. {Lag screw}. See under {Lag}. {Micrometer screw}, a screw with fine threads, used for the measurement of very small spaces. {Right and left screw}, a screw having threads upon the opposite ends which wind in opposite directions. {Screw alley}. See {Shaft alley}, under {Shaft}. {Screw bean}. (Bot.) (a) The curious spirally coiled pod of a leguminous tree ({Prosopis pubescens}) growing from Texas to California. It is used for fodder, and ground into meal by the Indians. (b) The tree itself. Its heavy hard wood is used for fuel, for fencing, and for railroad ties. {Screw bolt}, a bolt having a screw thread on its shank, in distinction from a {key bolt}. See 1st {Bolt}, 3. {Screw box}, a device, resembling a die, for cutting the thread on a wooden screw. {Screw dock}. See under {Dock}. {Screw engine}, a marine engine for driving a screw propeller. {Screw gear}. See {Spiral gear}, under {Spiral}. {Screw jack}. Same as {Jackscrew}. {Screw key}, a wrench for turning a screw or nut; a spanner wrench. {Screw machine}. (a) One of a series of machines employed in the manufacture of wood screws. (b) A machine tool resembling a lathe, having a number of cutting tools that can be caused to act on the work successively, for making screws and other turned pieces from metal rods. {Screw pine} (Bot.), any plant of the endogenous genus {Pandanus}, of which there are about fifty species, natives of tropical lands from Africa to Polynesia; -- named from the spiral arrangement of the pineapple-like leaves. {Screw plate}, a device for cutting threads on small screws, consisting of a thin steel plate having a series of perforations with internal screws forming dies. {Screw press}, a press in which pressure is exerted by means of a screw. {Screw propeller}, a screw or spiral bladed wheel, used in the propulsion of steam vessels; also, a steam vessel propelled by a screw. {Screw shell} (Zo[94]l.), a long, slender, spiral gastropod shell, especially of the genus Turritella and allied genera. See {Turritella}. {Screw steamer}, a steamship propelled by a screw. {Screw thread}, the spiral rib which forms a screw. {Screw stone} (Paleon.), the fossil stem of an encrinite. {Screw tree} (Bot.), any plant of the genus {Helicteres}, consisting of about thirty species of tropical shrubs, with simple leaves and spirally twisted, five-celled capsules; -- also called {twisted-horn}, and {twisty}. {Screw valve}, a stop valve which is opened or closed by a screw. {Screw worm} (Zo[94]l.), the larva of an American fly ({Compsomyia macellaria}), allied to the blowflies, which sometimes deposits its eggs in the nostrils, or about wounds, in man and other animals, with fatal results. {Screw wrench}. (a) A wrench for turning a screw. (b) A wrench with an adjustable jaw that is moved by a screw. {To put the} {screw, [or] screws}, {on}, to use pressure upon, as for the purpose of extortion; to coerce. {To put under the} {screw [or] screws}, to subject to pressure; to force. {Wood screw}, a metal screw with a sharp thread of coarse pitch, adapted to holding fast in wood. See Illust. of {Wood screw}, under {Wood}. | |
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Worm \Worm\ (w[ucir]rm), n. [OE. worm, wurm, AS. wyrm; akin to D. worm, OS. & G. wurm, Icel. ormr, Sw. & Dan. orm, Goth. wa[a3]rms, L. vermis, Gr. [?] a wood worm. Cf. {Vermicelli}, {Vermilion}, {Vermin}.] 1. A creeping or a crawling animal of any kind or size, as a serpent, caterpillar, snail, or the like. [Archaic] There came a viper out of the heat, and leapt on his hand. When the men of the country saw the worm hang on his hand, they said, This man must needs be a murderer. --Tyndale (Acts xxviii. 3, 4). 'T is slander, Whose edge is sharper than the sword, whose tongue Outvenoms all the worms of Nile. --Shak. When Cerberus perceived us, the great worm, His mouth he opened and displayed his tusks. --Longfellow. 2. Any small creeping animal or reptile, either entirely without feet, or with very short ones, including a great variety of animals; as, an earthworm; the blindworm. Specifically: (Zo[94]l.) (a) Any helminth; an entozo[94]n. (b) Any annelid. (c) An insect larva. (d) pl. Same as {Vermes}. 3. An internal tormentor; something that gnaws or afflicts one's mind with remorse. The worm of conscience still begnaw thy soul! --Shak. 4. A being debased and despised. I am a worm, and no man. --Ps. xxii. 6. 5. Anything spiral, vermiculated, or resembling a worm; as: (a) The thread of a screw. The threads of screws, when bigger than can be made in screw plates, are called worms. --Moxon. (b) A spiral instrument or screw, often like a double corkscrew, used for drawing balls from firearms. (c) (Anat.) A certain muscular band in the tongue of some animals, as the dog; the lytta. See {Lytta}. (d) The condensing tube of a still, often curved and wound to economize space. See Illust. of {Still}. (e) (Mach.) A short revolving screw, the threads of which drive, or are driven by, a worm wheel by gearing into its teeth or cogs. See Illust. of {Worm gearing}, below. {Worm abscess} (Med.), an abscess produced by the irritation resulting from the lodgment of a worm in some part of the body. {Worm fence}. See under {Fence}. {Worm gear}. (Mach.) (a) A worm wheel. (b) Worm gearing. {Worm gearing}, gearing consisting of a worm and worm wheel working together. {Worm grass}. (Bot.) (a) See {Pinkroot}, 2 (a) . (b) The white stonecrop ({Sedum album}) reputed to have qualities as a vermifuge. --Dr. Prior. {Worm oil} (Med.), an anthelmintic consisting of oil obtained from the seeds of {Chenopodium anthelminticum}. {Worm powder} (Med.), an anthelmintic powder. {Worm snake}. (Zo[94]l.) See {Thunder snake} (b), under {Thunder}. {Worm tea} (Med.), an anthelmintic tea or tisane. {Worm tincture} (Med.), a tincture prepared from dried earthworms, oil of tartar, spirit of wine, etc. [Obs.] {Worm wheel}, a cogwheel having teeth formed to fit into the spiral spaces of a screw called a worm, so that the wheel may be turned by, or may turn, the worm; -- called also {worm gear}, and sometimes {tangent wheel}. See Illust. of {Worm gearing}, above. | |
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Worm \Worm\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Wormed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Worming}.] To work slowly, gradually, and secretly. When debates and fretting jealousy Did worm and work within you more and more, Your color faded. --Herbert. | |
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Worm \Worm\, v. t. 1. To effect, remove, drive, draw, or the like, by slow and secret means; -- often followed by out. They find themselves wormed out of all power. --Swift. They . . . wormed things out of me that I had no desire to tell. --Dickens. 2. To clean by means of a worm; to draw a wad or cartridge from, as a firearm. See {Worm}, n. 5 (b) . 3. To cut the worm, or lytta, from under the tongue of, as a dog, for the purpose of checking a disposition to gnaw. The operation was formerly supposed to guard against canine madness. The men assisted the laird in his sporting parties, wormed his dogs, and cut the ears of his terrier puppies. --Sir W. Scott. 4. (Naut.) To wind rope, yarn, or other material, spirally round, between the strands of, as a cable; to wind with spun yarn, as a small rope. Ropes . . . are generally wormed before they are served. --Totten. | |
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Screw \Screw\ (skr[udd]), n. [OE. scrue, OF. escroue, escroe, female screw, F. [82]crou, L. scrobis a ditch, trench, in LL., the hole made by swine in rooting; cf. D. schroef a screw, G. schraube, Icel. skr[umac]fa.] 1. A cylinder, or a cylindrical perforation, having a continuous rib, called the thread, winding round it spirally at a constant inclination, so as to leave a continuous spiral groove between one turn and the next, -- used chiefly for producing, when revolved, motion or pressure in the direction of its axis, by the sliding of the threads of the cylinder in the grooves between the threads of the perforation adapted to it, the former being distinguished as the external, or male screw, or, more usually the screw; the latter as the internal, or female screw, or, more usually, the nut. Note: The screw, as a mechanical power, is a modification of the inclined plane, and may be regarded as a right-angled triangle wrapped round a cylinder, the hypotenuse of the marking the spiral thread of the screw, its base equaling the circumference of the cylinder, and its height the pitch of the thread. 2. Specifically, a kind of nail with a spiral thread and a head with a nick to receive the end of the screw-driver. Screws are much used to hold together pieces of wood or to fasten something; -- called also {wood screws}, and {screw nails}. See also {Screw bolt}, below. 3. Anything shaped or acting like a screw; esp., a form of wheel for propelling steam vessels. It is placed at the stern, and furnished with blades having helicoidal surfaces to act against the water in the manner of a screw. See {Screw propeller}, below. 4. A steam vesel propelled by a screw instead of wheels; a screw steamer; a propeller. 5. An extortioner; a sharp bargainer; a skinflint; a niggard. --Thackeray. 6. An instructor who examines with great or unnecessary severity; also, a searching or strict examination of a student by an instructor. [Cant, American Colleges] 7. A small packet of tobacco. [Slang] --Mayhew. 8. An unsound or worn-out horse, useful as a hack, and commonly of good appearance. --Ld. Lytton. 9. (Math.) A straight line in space with which a definite linear magnitude termed the pitch is associated (cf. 5th {Pitch}, 10 (b) ). It is used to express the displacement of a rigid body, which may always be made to consist of a rotation about an axis combined with a translation parallel to that axis. 10. (Zo[94]l.) An amphipod crustacean; as, the skeleton screw ({Caprella}). See {Sand screw}, under {Sand}. {Archimedes screw}, {Compound screw}, {Foot screw}, etc. See under {Archimedes}, {Compound}, {Foot}, etc. {A screw loose}, something out of order, so that work is not done smoothly; as, there is a screw loose somewhere. --H. Martineau. {Endless, [or] perpetual, {screw}, a screw used to give motion to a toothed wheel by the action of its threads between the teeth of the wheel; -- called also a {worm}. {Lag screw}. See under {Lag}. {Micrometer screw}, a screw with fine threads, used for the measurement of very small spaces. {Right and left screw}, a screw having threads upon the opposite ends which wind in opposite directions. {Screw alley}. See {Shaft alley}, under {Shaft}. {Screw bean}. (Bot.) (a) The curious spirally coiled pod of a leguminous tree ({Prosopis pubescens}) growing from Texas to California. It is used for fodder, and ground into meal by the Indians. (b) The tree itself. Its heavy hard wood is used for fuel, for fencing, and for railroad ties. {Screw bolt}, a bolt having a screw thread on its shank, in distinction from a {key bolt}. See 1st {Bolt}, 3. {Screw box}, a device, resembling a die, for cutting the thread on a wooden screw. {Screw dock}. See under {Dock}. {Screw engine}, a marine engine for driving a screw propeller. {Screw gear}. See {Spiral gear}, under {Spiral}. {Screw jack}. Same as {Jackscrew}. {Screw key}, a wrench for turning a screw or nut; a spanner wrench. {Screw machine}. (a) One of a series of machines employed in the manufacture of wood screws. (b) A machine tool resembling a lathe, having a number of cutting tools that can be caused to act on the work successively, for making screws and other turned pieces from metal rods. {Screw pine} (Bot.), any plant of the endogenous genus {Pandanus}, of which there are about fifty species, natives of tropical lands from Africa to Polynesia; -- named from the spiral arrangement of the pineapple-like leaves. {Screw plate}, a device for cutting threads on small screws, consisting of a thin steel plate having a series of perforations with internal screws forming dies. {Screw press}, a press in which pressure is exerted by means of a screw. {Screw propeller}, a screw or spiral bladed wheel, used in the propulsion of steam vessels; also, a steam vessel propelled by a screw. {Screw shell} (Zo[94]l.), a long, slender, spiral gastropod shell, especially of the genus Turritella and allied genera. See {Turritella}. {Screw steamer}, a steamship propelled by a screw. {Screw thread}, the spiral rib which forms a screw. {Screw stone} (Paleon.), the fossil stem of an encrinite. {Screw tree} (Bot.), any plant of the genus {Helicteres}, consisting of about thirty species of tropical shrubs, with simple leaves and spirally twisted, five-celled capsules; -- also called {twisted-horn}, and {twisty}. {Screw valve}, a stop valve which is opened or closed by a screw. {Screw worm} (Zo[94]l.), the larva of an American fly ({Compsomyia macellaria}), allied to the blowflies, which sometimes deposits its eggs in the nostrils, or about wounds, in man and other animals, with fatal results. {Screw wrench}. (a) A wrench for turning a screw. (b) A wrench with an adjustable jaw that is moved by a screw. {To put the} {screw, [or] screws}, {on}, to use pressure upon, as for the purpose of extortion; to coerce. {To put under the} {screw [or] screws}, to subject to pressure; to force. {Wood screw}, a metal screw with a sharp thread of coarse pitch, adapted to holding fast in wood. See Illust. of {Wood screw}, under {Wood}. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Wormy \Worm"y\, a. [Compar. {Wormier}; superl. {Wormiest}.] 1. Containing a worm; abounding with worms. [bd]Wormy beds.[b8] --Shak. 2. Like or pertaining to a worm; earthy; groveling. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Warn \Warn\ (w[add]rn), v. t. [OE. wernen, AS. weornan, wyrnan. Cf. {Warn} to admonish.] To refuse. [Written also {wern}, {worn}.] [Obs.] --Chaucer. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Wear \Wear\, v. t. [imp. {Wore}; p. p. {Worn}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Wearing}. Before the 15th century wear was a weak verb, the imp. & p. p. being {Weared}.] [OE. weren, werien, AS. werian to carry, to wear, as arms or clothes; akin to OHG. werien, weren, to clothe, Goth. wasjan, L. vestis clothing, vestire to clothe, Gr. [?], Skr. vas. Cf. {Vest}.] 1. To carry or bear upon the person; to bear upon one's self, as an article of clothing, decoration, warfare, bondage, etc.; to have appendant to one's body; to have on; as, to wear a coat; to wear a shackle. What compass will you wear your farthingale? --Shak. On her white breast a sparkling cross s[?][?] wore, Which Jews might kiss, and infidels adore. --Pope. 2. To have or exhibit an appearance of, as an aspect or manner; to bear; as, she wears a smile on her countenance. [bd]He wears the rose of youth upon him.[b8] --Shak. His innocent gestures wear A meaning half divine. --Keble. 3. To use up by carrying or having upon one's self; hence, to consume by use; to waste; to use up; as, to wear clothes rapidly. 4. To impair, waste, or diminish, by continual attrition, scraping, percussion, on the like; to consume gradually; to cause to lower or disappear; to spend. That wicked wight his days doth wear. --Spenser. The waters wear the stones. --Job xiv. 19. 5. To cause or make by friction or wasting; as, to wear a channel; to wear a hole. 6. To form or shape by, or as by, attrition. Trials wear us into a liking of what, possibly, in the first essay, displeased us. --Locke. {To wear away}, to consume; to impair, diminish, or destroy, by gradual attrition or decay. {To wear off}, to diminish or remove by attrition or slow decay; as, to wear off the nap of cloth. {To wear on [or] upon}, to wear. [Obs.] [bd][I] weared upon my gay scarlet gites [gowns.][b8] --Chaucer. {To wear out}. (a) To consume, or render useless, by attrition or decay; as, to wear out a coat or a book. (b) To consume tediously. [bd]To wear out miserable days.[b8] --Milton. (c) To harass; to tire. [bd][He] shall wear out the saints of the Most High.[b8] --Dan vii. 25. (d) To waste the strength of; as, an old man worn out in military service. {To wear the breeches}. See under {Breeches}. [Colloq.] | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Worn \Worn\, p. p. of {Wear}. {Worn land}, land that has become exhausted by tillage, or which for any reason has lost its fertility. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Warn \Warn\ (w[add]rn), v. t. [OE. wernen, AS. weornan, wyrnan. Cf. {Warn} to admonish.] To refuse. [Written also {wern}, {worn}.] [Obs.] --Chaucer. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Wear \Wear\, v. t. [imp. {Wore}; p. p. {Worn}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Wearing}. Before the 15th century wear was a weak verb, the imp. & p. p. being {Weared}.] [OE. weren, werien, AS. werian to carry, to wear, as arms or clothes; akin to OHG. werien, weren, to clothe, Goth. wasjan, L. vestis clothing, vestire to clothe, Gr. [?], Skr. vas. Cf. {Vest}.] 1. To carry or bear upon the person; to bear upon one's self, as an article of clothing, decoration, warfare, bondage, etc.; to have appendant to one's body; to have on; as, to wear a coat; to wear a shackle. What compass will you wear your farthingale? --Shak. On her white breast a sparkling cross s[?][?] wore, Which Jews might kiss, and infidels adore. --Pope. 2. To have or exhibit an appearance of, as an aspect or manner; to bear; as, she wears a smile on her countenance. [bd]He wears the rose of youth upon him.[b8] --Shak. His innocent gestures wear A meaning half divine. --Keble. 3. To use up by carrying or having upon one's self; hence, to consume by use; to waste; to use up; as, to wear clothes rapidly. 4. To impair, waste, or diminish, by continual attrition, scraping, percussion, on the like; to consume gradually; to cause to lower or disappear; to spend. That wicked wight his days doth wear. --Spenser. The waters wear the stones. --Job xiv. 19. 5. To cause or make by friction or wasting; as, to wear a channel; to wear a hole. 6. To form or shape by, or as by, attrition. Trials wear us into a liking of what, possibly, in the first essay, displeased us. --Locke. {To wear away}, to consume; to impair, diminish, or destroy, by gradual attrition or decay. {To wear off}, to diminish or remove by attrition or slow decay; as, to wear off the nap of cloth. {To wear on [or] upon}, to wear. [Obs.] [bd][I] weared upon my gay scarlet gites [gowns.][b8] --Chaucer. {To wear out}. (a) To consume, or render useless, by attrition or decay; as, to wear out a coat or a book. (b) To consume tediously. [bd]To wear out miserable days.[b8] --Milton. (c) To harass; to tire. [bd][He] shall wear out the saints of the Most High.[b8] --Dan vii. 25. (d) To waste the strength of; as, an old man worn out in military service. {To wear the breeches}. See under {Breeches}. [Colloq.] | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Worn \Worn\, p. p. of {Wear}. {Worn land}, land that has become exhausted by tillage, or which for any reason has lost its fertility. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Wrannock \Wran"nock\, Wranny \Wran"ny\, n. (Zo[94]l.) The common wren. [Prov. Eng.] | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Wren \Wren\ (r[ecr]n), n. [OE. wrenne, AS. wrenna, wr[91]nna, perhaps akin to wr[aemac]ne lascivious.] 1. (Zo[94]l.) Any one of numerous species of small singing birds belonging to {Troglodytes} and numerous allied of the family {Troglodytid[91]}. Note: Among the species best known are the house wren ({Troglodytes a[89]don}) common in both Europe and America, and the American winter wren ({T. hiemalis}). See also {Cactus wren}, {Marsh wren}, and {Rock wren}, under {Cactus}, {Marsh}, and {Rock}. 2. (Zo[94]l.) 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 {Formicarid[91]}, 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}. | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Wareham, MA Zip code(s): 02571 | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Warne, NC Zip code(s): 28909 | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Warren, AR (city, FIPS 73310) Location: 33.61014 N, 92.06967 W Population (1990): 6455 (2819 housing units) Area: 16.9 sq km (land), 0.1 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 71671 Warren, CT Zip code(s): 06754 Warren, IL (village, FIPS 78851) Location: 42.49473 N, 89.99018 W Population (1990): 1550 (673 housing units) Area: 2.4 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 61087 Warren, IN (town, FIPS 80108) Location: 40.68667 N, 85.42337 W Population (1990): 1185 (521 housing units) Area: 2.0 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 46792 Warren, MA (CDP, FIPS 73055) Location: 42.21522 N, 72.19067 W Population (1990): 1516 (637 housing units) Area: 3.3 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Warren, ME Zip code(s): 04864 Warren, MI (city, FIPS 84000) Location: 42.49300 N, 83.02820 W Population (1990): 144864 (56189 housing units) Area: 88.8 sq km (land), 0.1 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 48089, 48091, 48092, 48093 Warren, MN (city, FIPS 68170) Location: 48.19606 N, 96.76984 W Population (1990): 1813 (830 housing units) Area: 3.1 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Warren, NH Zip code(s): 03279 Warren, NJ Zip code(s): 07059 Warren, OH (city, FIPS 80892) Location: 41.23805 N, 80.81690 W Population (1990): 50793 (21785 housing units) Area: 41.4 sq km (land), 0.1 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 44481, 44483, 44484, 44485 Warren, OR Zip code(s): 97053 Warren, PA (city, FIPS 81000) Location: 41.84373 N, 79.14405 W Population (1990): 11122 (5223 housing units) Area: 7.6 sq km (land), 0.5 sq km (water) Warren, RI Zip code(s): 02885 Warren, TX Zip code(s): 77664 | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Wren, OH (village, FIPS 86632) Location: 40.80026 N, 84.77413 W Population (1990): 190 (82 housing units) Area: 0.8 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) | |
From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]: | |
worm n. [from `tapeworm' in John Brunner's novel "The Shockwave Rider", via XEROX PARC] A program that propagates itself over a network, reproducing itself as it goes. Compare {virus}. Nowadays the term has negative connotations, as it is assumed that only {cracker}s write worms. Perhaps the best-known example was Robert T. Morris's {Great Worm} of 1988, a `benign' one that got out of control and hogged hundreds of Suns and VAXen across the U.S. See also {cracker}, {RTM}, {Trojan horse}, {ice}. | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
WORM {Write-Once Read-Many} | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
worm novel "The Shockwave Rider", via {XEROX PARC}) A program that propagates itself over a network, reproducing itself as it goes. Compare {virus}. Nowadays the term has negative connotations, as it is assumed that only {crackers} write worms. Perhaps the best-known example was the {Great Worm}. Compare {Trojan horse}. [{Jargon File}] (1996-09-17) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
WORM {Write-Once Read-Many} | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
worm novel "The Shockwave Rider", via {XEROX PARC}) A program that propagates itself over a network, reproducing itself as it goes. Compare {virus}. Nowadays the term has negative connotations, as it is assumed that only {crackers} write worms. Perhaps the best-known example was the {Great Worm}. Compare {Trojan horse}. [{Jargon File}] (1996-09-17) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
WRAM {Window Random Access Memory} | |
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]: | |
Worm (1.) Heb. sas (Isa. 51:8), denotes the caterpillar of the clothes-moth. (2.) The manna bred worms (tola'im), but on the Sabbath there was not any worm (rimmah) therein (Ex. 16:20, 24). Here these words refer to caterpillars or larvae, which feed on corrupting matter. These two Hebrew words appear to be interchangeable (Job 25:6; Isa. 14:11). Tola'im in some places denotes the caterpillar (Deut. 28:39; Jonah 4:7), and rimmah, the larvae, as bred from putridity (Job 17:14; 21:26; 24:20). In Micah 7:17, where it is said, "They shall move out of their holes like worms," perhaps serpents or "creeping things," or as in the Revised Version, "crawling things," are meant. The word is used figuratively in Job 25:6; Ps. 22:6; Isa. 41:14; Mark 9:44, 46, 48; Isa. 66:24. |