English Dictionary: wash up | by the DICT Development Group |
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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Wakf \Wakf\ (w[ucr]kf), n. [Ar. waqf.] (Moham. Law) The granting or dedication of property in trust for a pious purpose, that is, to some object that tends to the good of mankind, as to support a mosque or caravansary, to provide for support of one's family, kin, or neighbors, to benefit some particular person or persons and afterward the poor, etc.; also, the trust so created, or the property in trust. | |
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Wakif \Wa"kif\ (w[aum]"k[icr]f), n. [Ar. w[be]qif.] (Moham. Law) The person creating a wakf. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Wash-off \Wash"-off`\, a. (Calico Printing) Capable of being washed off; not permanent or durable; -- said of colors not fixed by steaming or otherwise. | |
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Wasp \Wasp\, n. [OE. waspe, AS. w[91]ps, w[91]fs; akin to D. wesp, G. wespe, OHG. wafsa, wefsa, Lith. vapsa gadfly, Russ. osa wasp, L. vespa, and perhaps to E. weave.] (Zo[94]l.) 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 larv[91] are reared in the cells of the combs, and eat insects and insect larv[91] 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. | |
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Whisp \Whisp\, n. See {Wisp}. | |
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Whisp \Whisp\, n. (Zo[94]l.) A flock of snipe. | |
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Leatherwood \Leath"er*wood`\, n. (Bot.) A small branching shrub ({Dirca palustris}), with a white, soft wood, and a tough, leathery bark, common in damp woods in the Northern United States; -- called also {moosewood}, and {wicopy}. --Gray. | |
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Wicopy \Wic"o*py\, n. (Bot.) See {Leatherwood}. | |
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Leatherwood \Leath"er*wood`\, n. (Bot.) A small branching shrub ({Dirca palustris}), with a white, soft wood, and a tough, leathery bark, common in damp woods in the Northern United States; -- called also {moosewood}, and {wicopy}. --Gray. | |
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Wicopy \Wic"o*py\, n. (Bot.) See {Leatherwood}. | |
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Wikiup \Wik"i*up`\, n. [Of North American Indian origin; cf. Dakota wakeya, wokeya.] The hut used by the nomadic Indian tribes of the arid regions of the west and southwest United States, typically elliptical in form, with a rough frame covered with reed mats or grass or brushwood. | |
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Wisp \Wisp\, n. [OE. wisp, wips; probably akin to D. & G. wisch, Icel. visk, and perhaps to L. virga a twig, rod. Cf. {Verge} a rod, {Whisk}, n.] 1. A small bundle, as of straw or other like substance. In a small basket, on a wisp of hay. --Dryden. 2. A whisk, or small broom. 3. A Will-o'-the-wisp; an ignis fatuus. The wisp that flickers where no foot can tread. --Tennyson. | |
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Wisp \Wisp\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Wisped}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Wisping}.] 1. To brush or dress, an with a wisp. 2. To rumple. [Prov. Eng.] --Halliwell. | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Waikapu, HI (CDP, FIPS 75950) Location: 20.83954 N, 156.53389 W Population (1990): 729 (215 housing units) Area: 28.4 sq km (land), 0.1 sq km (water) | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Wyckoff, NJ (CDP, FIPS 83080) Location: 40.99778 N, 74.16641 W Population (1990): 15372 (5248 housing units) Area: 17.0 sq km (land), 0.1 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 07481 | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Wykoff, MN (city, FIPS 71950) Location: 43.70816 N, 92.26742 W Population (1990): 493 (210 housing units) Area: 2.4 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 55990 | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
Wisp ["An Experiment with a Self-Compiling Compiler for a Simple List-Processing Language", M.V. Wilkes, Ann Rev Automatic Programming 4:1-48. (1964)]. |