English Dictionary: weapon | by the DICT Development Group |
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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
{To make one's way}, to advance in life by one's personal efforts. {To make way}. See under {Make}, v. t. {Ways and means}. (a) Methods; resources; facilities. (b) (Legislation) Means for raising money; resources for revenue. {Way leave}, permission to cross, or a right of way across, land; also, rent paid for such right. [Eng] {Way of the cross} (Eccl.), the course taken in visiting in rotation the stations of the cross. See {Station}, n., 7 (c) . {Way of the rounds} (Fort.), a space left for the passage of the rounds between a rampart and the wall of a fortified town. {Way pane}, a pane for cartage in irrigated land. See {Pane}, n., 4. [Prov. Eng.] {Way passenger}, a passenger taken up, or set down, at some intermediate place between the principal stations on a line of travel. {Ways of God}, his providential government, or his works. {Way station}, an intermediate station between principal stations on a line of travel, especially on a railroad. {Way train}, a train which stops at the intermediate, or way, stations; an accommodation train. {Way warden}, the surveyor of a road. Syn: Street; highway; road. Usage: {Way}, {Street}, {Highway}, {Road}. Way is generic, denoting any line for passage or conveyance; a highway is literally one raised for the sake of dryness and convenience in traveling; a road is, strictly, a way for horses and carriages; a street is, etymologically, a paved way, as early made in towns and cities; and, hence, the word is distinctively applied to roads or highways in compact settlements. All keep the broad highway, and take delight With many rather for to go astray. --Spenser. There is but one road by which to climb up. --Addison. When night Darkens the streets, then wander forth the sons Of Belial, flown with insolence and wine. --Milton. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Weapon \Weap"on\ (?; 277), n. [OE. wepen, AS. w[?]pen; akin to OS. w[?]pan, OFries. w[?]pin, w[?]pen, D. wapen, G. waffe, OHG. waffan, w[be]fan, Icel. v[be]pn, Dan. vaaben, Sw. vapen, Goth. w[?]pna, pl.; of uncertain origin. Cf. {Wapentake}.] 1. An instrument of offensive of defensive combat; something to fight with; anything used, or designed to be used, in destroying, defeating, or injuring an enemy, as a gun, a sword, etc. The weapons of our warfare are not carnal. --2 Cor. x. 4. They, astonished, all resistance lost, All courage; down their idle weapons dropped. --Milton. 2. Fig.: The means or instrument with which one contends against another; as, argument was his only weapon. [bd]Woman's weapons, water drops.[b8] --Shak. 3. (Bot.) A thorn, prickle, or sting with which many plants are furnished. {Concealed weapons}. See under {Concealed}. {Weapon salve}, a salve which was supposed to cure a wound by being applied to the weapon that made it. [Obs.] --Boyle. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Wepen \Wep"en\, n. Weapon. [Obs.] | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Wopen \Wo"pen\, obs. p. p. of {Weep}. Wept. --Chaucer. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Weave \Weave\, v. t. [imp. {Wove}; p. p. {Woven}, {Wove}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Weaving}. The regular imp. & p. p. {Weaved}, is rarely used.] [OE. weven, AS. wefan; akin to D. weven, G. weben, OHG. weban, Icel. vefa, Sw. v[84]fva, Dan. v[91]ve, Gr. [?], v., [?] web, Skr. [?]r[?]av[be]bhi spider, lit., wool weaver. Cf. {Waper}, {Waffle}, {Web}, {Weevil}, {Weft}, {Woof}.] 1. To unite, as threads of any kind, in such a manner as to form a texture; to entwine or interlace into a fabric; as, to weave wool, silk, etc.; hence, to unite by close connection or intermixture; to unite intimately. This weaves itself, perforce, into my business. --Shak. That in their green shops weave the smooth-haired silk To deck her sons. --Milton. And for these words, thus woven into song. --Byron. 2. To form, as cloth, by interlacing threads; to compose, as a texture of any kind, by putting together textile materials; as, to weave broadcloth; to weave a carpet; hence, to form into a fabric; to compose; to fabricate; as, to weave the plot of a story. When she weaved the sleided silk. --Shak. Her starry wreaths the virgin jasmin weaves. --Ld. Lytton. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Woven \Wov"en\, p. p. of {Weave}. {Woven paper}, or {Wove paper}, writing paper having an even, uniform surface, without watermarks. | |
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From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]: | |
WIBNI // n. [Bell Labs: Wouldn't It Be Nice If] What most requirements documents and specifications consist entirely of. Compare {IWBNI}. | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
WIBNI ({Bell Labs}) Wouldn't It Be Nice If. What most requirements documents and specifications consist entirely of. Compare {IWBNI}. [{Jargon File}] (1994-11-24) |