English Dictionary: weaver's broom | 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]: | |
Weaver \Weav"er\, n. 1. One who weaves, or whose occupation is to weave. [bd]Weavers of linen.[b8] --P. Plowman. 2. (Zo[94]l.) A weaver bird. 3. (Zo[94]l.) An aquatic beetle of the genus {Gyrinus}. See {Whirling}. {Weaver bird} (Zo[94]l.), any one of numerous species of Asiatic, Fast Indian, and African birds belonging to {Ploceus} and allied genera of the family {Ploceid[91]}. Weaver birds resemble finches and sparrows in size, colors, and shape of the bill. They construct pensile nests composed of interlaced grass and other similar materials. In some of the species the nest is retort-shaped, with the opening at the bottom of the tube. {Weavers' shuttle} (Zo[94]l.), an East Indian marine univalve shell ({Radius volva}); -- so called from its shape. See Illust. of {Shuttle shell}, under {Shuttle}. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
{Pin and web} (Med.), two diseases of the eye, caligo and pterygium; -- sometimes wrongly explained as one disease. See {Pin}, n., 8, and {Web}, n., 8. [bd]He never yet had pinne or webbe, his sight for to decay.[b8] --Gascoigne. {Web member} (Engin.), one of the braces in a web system. {Web press}, a printing press which takes paper from a roll instead of being fed with sheets. {Web system} (Engin.), the system of braces connecting the flanges of a lattice girder, post, or the like. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Whip \Whip\, n. [OE. whippe. See {Whip}, v. t.] 1. An instrument or driving horses or other animals, or for correction, consisting usually of a lash attached to a handle, or of a handle and lash so combined as to form a flexible rod. [bd][A] whip's lash.[b8] --Chaucer. In his right hand he holds a whip, with which he is supposed to drive the horses of the sun. --Addison. 2. A coachman; a driver of a carriage; as, a good whip. --Beaconsfield. 3. (Mach.) (a) One of the arms or frames of a windmill, on which the sails are spread. (b) The length of the arm reckoned from the shaft. 4. (Naut.) (a) A small tackle with a single rope, used to hoist light bodies. (b) The long pennant. See {Pennant} (a) 5. A huntsman who whips in the hounds; whipper-in. 6. (Eng. Politics) (a) A person (as a member of Parliament) appointed to enforce party discipline, and secure the attendance of the members of a Parliament party at any important session, especially when their votes are needed. (b) A call made upon members of a Parliament party to be in their places at a given time, as when a vote is to be taken. {Whip and spur}, with the utmost haste. {Whip crane}, [or] {Whip purchase}, a simple form of crane having a small drum from which the load is suspended, turned by pulling on a rope wound around larger drum on the same axle. {Whip gin}. See {Gin block}, under 5th {Gin}. {Whip grafting}. See under {Grafting}. {Whip hand}, the hand with which the whip is used; hence, advantage; mastery; as, to have or get the whip hand of a person. --Dryden. {Whip ray} (Zo[94]l.), the European eagle ray. See under {Ray}. {Whip roll} (Weaving), a roll or bar, behind the reeds in a loom, on which the warp threads rest. {Whip scorpion} (Zo[94]l.), any one of numerous species of arachnids belonging to {Thelyphonus} and allied genera. They somewhat resemble true scorpions, but have a long, slender bristle, or lashlike organ, at the end of the body, instead of a sting. {Whip snake} (Zo[94]l.), any one of various species of slender snakes. Specifically: (a) A bright green South American tree snake ({Philodryas viridissimus}) having a long and slender body. It is not venomous. Called also {emerald whip snake}. (b) The coachwhip snake. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Whippersnapper \Whip"per*snap`per\, n. A diminutive, insignificant, or presumptuous person. [Colloq.] [bd]Little whippersnappers like you.[b8] --T. Hughes. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Whooper \Whoop"er\, n. One who, or that which, whooops. {Woopher swan}. (Zo[94]l.) See the Note under {Swan}. | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Webbers Falls, OK (town, FIPS 79650) Location: 35.50838 N, 95.16092 W Population (1990): 722 (334 housing units) Area: 10.1 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 74470 | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Weber City, VA (town, FIPS 83808) Location: 36.62243 N, 82.56034 W Population (1990): 1377 (649 housing units) Area: 2.1 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 24290 | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Weber County, UT (county, FIPS 57) Location: 41.29568 N, 111.91742 W Population (1990): 158330 (57851 housing units) Area: 1490.8 sq km (land), 217.3 sq km (water) | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Wiborg, KY Zip code(s): 42653 | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
web browser (1996-03-23) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
Web Request Broker {WebServer} suite of programs. It is a high-performance, {multi-threaded} {HTTP} server which allows {clients}' requests to be directly translated into {Oracle 7} {database} scripts, and automatically translates the results of the query back into {HTML} for delivery to the client {browser}. {Oracle WebServer (http://www.oracle.com/products/websystem/webserver/html/ws2_info.html)}. (1997-03-14) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
WWW browser {World-Wide Web}. (1996-10-28) | |
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]: | |
Wafers thin cakes (Ex. 16:31; 29:2, 23; Lev. 2:4; 7:12; 8:26; Num. 6:15, 19) used in various offerings. |