English Dictionary: wayfaring | by the DICT Development Group |
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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
{Wafer cake}, a sweet, thin cake. --Shak. {Wafer irons}, [or] {Wafer tongs} (Cookery), a pincher-shaped contrivance, having flat plates, or blades, between which wafers are baked. {Wafer woman}, a woman who sold wafer cakes; also, one employed in amorous intrigues. --Beau. & Fl. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Wafer \Wa"fer\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Wafered}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Wafering}.] To seal or close with a wafer. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Waver \Wa"ver\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Wavered}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Wavering}.] [OE. waveren, from AS. w[91]fre wavering, restless. See {Wave}, v. i.] 1. To play or move to and fro; to move one way and the other; hence, to totter; to reel; to swing; to flutter. With banners and pennons wavering with the wind. --Ld. Berners. Thou wouldst waver on one of these trees as a terror to all evil speakers against dignities. --Sir W. Scott. 2. To be unsettled in opinion; to vacillate; to be undetermined; to fluctuate; as, to water in judgment. Let us hold fast . . . without wavering. --Heb. x. 23. In feeble hearts, propense enough before To waver, or fall off and join with idols. --Milton. Syn: To reel; totter; vacillate. See {Fluctuate}. | |
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Waveringly \Wa"ver*ing*ly\, adv. In a wavering manner. | |
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Waveringness \Wa"ver*ing*ness\, n. The quality or state of wavering. | |
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Waveworn \Wave"*worn`\, a. Worn by the waves. The shore that o'er his wave-worn basis bowed. --Shak. | |
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Wayfaring \Way"far`ing\, a. Traveling; passing; being on a journey. [bd]A wayfaring man.[b8] --Judg. xix. 17. {Wayfaring tree} (Bot.), a European shrub ({Viburnum lantana}) having large ovate leaves and dense cymes of small white flowers. {American wayfaring tree} (Bot.), the ({Viburnum lantanoides}). | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Wayfaring \Way"far`ing\, a. Traveling; passing; being on a journey. [bd]A wayfaring man.[b8] --Judg. xix. 17. {Wayfaring tree} (Bot.), a European shrub ({Viburnum lantana}) having large ovate leaves and dense cymes of small white flowers. {American wayfaring tree} (Bot.), the ({Viburnum lantanoides}). | |
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Webform \Web"form`\, n. (Zo[94]l.) Any one of various species of moths whose gregarious larv[91] eat the leaves of trees, and construct a large web to which they retreat when not feeding. Note: The most destructive webworms belong to the family {Bombycid[91]}, as the fall webworm ({Hyphantria textor}), which feeds on various fruit and forest trees, and the common tent caterpillar, which feeds on various fruit trees (see {Tent caterpillar}, under {Tent}.) The grapevine webworm is the larva of a geometrid moth (see {Vine inchworm}, under {Vine}). | |
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Tent \Tent\, n. [OE. tente, F. tente, LL. tenta, fr. L. tendere, tentum, to stretch. See {Tend} to move, and cf. {Tent} a roll of lint.] 1. A pavilion or portable lodge consisting of skins, canvas, or some strong cloth, stretched and sustained by poles, -- used for sheltering persons from the weather, especially soldiers in camp. Within his tent, large as is a barn. --Chaucer. 2. (Her.) The representation of a tent used as a bearing. {Tent bed}, a high-post bedstead curtained with a tentlike canopy. {Tent caterpillar} (Zo[94]l.), any one of several species of gregarious caterpillars which construct on trees large silken webs into which they retreat when at rest. Some of the species are very destructive to fruit trees. The most common American species is the larva of a bombycid moth ({Clisiocampa Americana}). Called also {lackery caterpillar}, and {webworm}. | |
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Whipperin \Whip"per*in`\, n. 1. A huntsman who keeps the hounds from wandering, and whips them in, if necessary, to the of chase. 2. Hence, one who enforces the discipline of a party, and urges the attendance and support of the members on all necessary occasions. | |
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Whipworm \Whip"worm`\, n. [So called from its shape.] (Zo[94]l.) A nematode worm ({Trichocephalus dispar}) often found parasitic in the human intestine. Its body is thickened posteriorly, but is very long and threadlike anteriorly. | |
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Wiver \Wiv"er\, Wivern \Wiv"ern\, n. [OE. wivere a serpent, OF. wivre, guivre, F. givre, guivre, wiver, from L. vipera; probably influenced by OHG. wipera, from the Latin. See {Viper}, and cf. {Weever}.] 1. (Her.) A fabulous two-legged, winged creature, like a cockatrice, but having the head of a dragon, and without spurs. [Written also {wyvern}.] The jargon of heraldry, its griffins, its mold warps, its wiverns, and its dragons. --Sir W. Scott. 2. (Zo[94]l.) The weever. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Wiver \Wiv"er\, Wivern \Wiv"ern\, n. [OE. wivere a serpent, OF. wivre, guivre, F. givre, guivre, wiver, from L. vipera; probably influenced by OHG. wipera, from the Latin. See {Viper}, and cf. {Weever}.] 1. (Her.) A fabulous two-legged, winged creature, like a cockatrice, but having the head of a dragon, and without spurs. [Written also {wyvern}.] The jargon of heraldry, its griffins, its mold warps, its wiverns, and its dragons. --Sir W. Scott. 2. (Zo[94]l.) The weever. | |
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Wyvern \Wy"vern\, n. (Her.) Same as {Wiver}. | |
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Wiver \Wiv"er\, Wivern \Wiv"ern\, n. [OE. wivere a serpent, OF. wivre, guivre, F. givre, guivre, wiver, from L. vipera; probably influenced by OHG. wipera, from the Latin. See {Viper}, and cf. {Weever}.] 1. (Her.) A fabulous two-legged, winged creature, like a cockatrice, but having the head of a dragon, and without spurs. [Written also {wyvern}.] The jargon of heraldry, its griffins, its mold warps, its wiverns, and its dragons. --Sir W. Scott. 2. (Zo[94]l.) The weever. | |
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Wyvern \Wy"vern\, n. (Her.) Same as {Wiver}. | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Woburn, MA (city, FIPS 81035) Location: 42.48553 N, 71.15524 W Population (1990): 35943 (14105 housing units) Area: 32.8 sq km (land), 0.6 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 01801 | |
From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]: | |
web ring n. Two or more web sites connected by prominent links between sites sharing a common interest or theme. Usually such cliques have the topology of a ring, in order to make it easy for visitors to navigate through all of them. | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
WAP Forum The official body developing {Wireless Application Protocol}. {Home (http://www.wapforum.org/)}. (2000-02-10) |