English Dictionary: wheelhouse | by the DICT Development Group |
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Walk \Walk\ (w[add]k), v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Walked}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Walking}.] [OE. walken, probably from AS. wealcan to roll, turn, revolve, akin to D. walken to felt hats, to work a hat, G. walken to full, OHG. walchan to beat, to full, Icel. v[be]lka to roll, to stamp, Sw. valka to full, to roll, Dan. valke to full; cf. Skr. valg to spring; but cf. also AS. weallian to roam, ramble, G. wallen. [root]130.] 1. To move along on foot; to advance by steps; to go on at a moderate pace; specifically, of two-legged creatures, to proceed at a slower or faster rate, but without running, or lifting one foot entirely before the other touches the ground. At the end of twelve months, he walked in the palace of the kingdom of Babylon. --Dan. iv. 29. When Peter was come down out of the ship, he walked on the water, to go to Jesus. --Matt. xiv. 29. Note: In the walk of quadrupeds, there are always two, and for a brief space there are three, feet on the ground at once, but never four. 2. To move or go on the feet for exercise or amusement; to take one's exercise; to ramble. 3. To be stirring; to be abroad; to go restlessly about; -- said of things or persons expected to remain quiet, as a sleeping person, or the spirit of a dead person; to go about as a somnambulist or a specter. I have heard, but not believed, the spirits of the dead May walk again. --Shak. When was it she last walked? --Shak. 4. To be in motion; to act; to move; to wag. [Obs.] [bd]Her tongue did walk in foul reproach.[b8] --Spenser. Do you think I'd walk in any plot? --B. Jonson. I heard a pen walking in the chimney behind the cloth. --Latimer. 5. To behave; to pursue a course of life; to conduct one's self. We walk perversely with God, and he will walk crookedly toward us. --Jer. Taylor. 6. To move off; to depart. [Obs. or Colloq.] He will make their cows and garrans to walk. --Spenser. {To walk} in, to go in; to enter, as into a house. {To walk after the flesh} (Script.), to indulge sensual appetites, and to live in sin. --Rom. viii. 1. {To walk after the Spirit} (Script.), to be guided by the counsels and influences of the Spirit, and by the word of God. --Rom. viii. 1. {To walk by faith} (Script.), to live in the firm belief of the gospel and its promises, and to rely on Christ for salvation. --2 Cor. v. 7. {To walk in darkness} (Script.), to live in ignorance, error, and sin. --1 John i. 6. {To walk in the flesh} (Script.), to live this natural life, which is subject to infirmities and calamities. --2 Cor. x. 3. {To walk in the light} (Script.), to live in the practice of religion, and to enjoy its consolations. --1 John i. 7. {To walk over}, in racing, to go over a course at a walk; -- said of a horse when there is no other entry; hence, colloquially, to gain an easy victory in any contest. | |
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Walk \Walk\, v. t. 1. To pass through, over, or upon; to traverse; to perambulate; as, to walk the streets. As we walk our earthly round. --Keble. 2. To cause to walk; to lead, drive, or ride with a slow pace; as to walk one's horses. [bd] I will rather trust . . . a thief to walk my ambling gelding.[b8] --Shak. 3. [AS. wealcan to roll. See {Walk} to move on foot.] To subject, as cloth or yarn, to the fulling process; to full. [Obs. or Scot.] {To walk the plank}, to walk off the plank into the water and be drowned; -- an expression derived from the practice of pirates who extended a plank from the side of a ship, and compelled those whom they would drown to walk off into the water; figuratively, to vacate an office by compulsion. --Bartlett. | |
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Walk \Walk\, n. 1. The act of walking, or moving on the feet with a slow pace; advance without running or leaping. 2. The act of walking for recreation or exercise; as, a morning walk; an evening walk. 3. Manner of walking; gait; step; as, we often know a person at a distance by his walk. 4. That in or through which one walks; place or distance walked over; a place for walking; a path or avenue prepared for foot passengers, or for taking air and exercise; way; road; hence, a place or region in which animals may graze; place of wandering; range; as, a sheep walk. A woody mountain . . . with goodliest trees Planted, with walks and bowers. --Milton. He had walk for a hundred sheep. --Latimer. Amid the sound of steps that beat The murmuring walks like rain. --Bryant. 5. A frequented track; habitual place of action; sphere; as, the walk of the historian. The mountains are his walks. --Sandys. He opened a boundless walk for his imagination. --Pope. 6. Conduct; course of action; behavior. 7. The route or district regularly served by a vender; as, a milkman's walk. [Eng.] | |
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Walk \Walk\, n. 1. In coffee, coconut, and other plantations, the space between them. 2. (Sporting) (a) A place for keeping and training puppies. (b) An inclosed area of some extent to which a gamecock is confined to prepare him for fighting. | |
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Walk \Walk\, v. t. 1. (Sporting) To put or keep (a puppy) in a walk; to train (puppies) in a walk. [Cant] 2. To move in a manner likened to walking. [Colloq.] She walked a spinning wheel into the house, making it use first one and then the other of its own spindling legs to achieve progression rather than lifting it by main force. --C. E. Craddock. {To walk one's chalks}, to make off; take French leave. | |
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Arm \Arm\, n. [AS. arm, earm; akin to OHG. aram, G., D., Dan., & Sw. arm, Icel. armr, Goth. arms, L. armus arm, shoulder, and prob. to Gr. [?] joining, joint, shoulder, fr. the root [?] to join, to fit together; cf. Slav. rame. [?]. See {Art}, {Article}.] 1. The limb of the human body which extends from the shoulder to the hand; also, the corresponding limb of a monkey. 2. Anything resembling an arm; as, (a) The fore limb of an animal, as of a bear. (b) A limb, or locomotive or prehensile organ, of an invertebrate animal. (c) A branch of a tree. (d) A slender part of an instrument or machine, projecting from a trunk, axis, or fulcrum; as, the arm of a steelyard. (e) (Naut) The end of a yard; also, the part of an anchor which ends in the fluke. (f) An inlet of water from the sea. (g) A support for the elbow, at the side of a chair, the end of a sofa, etc. 3. Fig.: Power; might; strength; support; as, the secular arm; the arm of the law. To whom is the arm of the Lord revealed? --Isa. lii. 1. {Arm's end}, the end of the arm; a good distance off. --Dryden. {Arm's length}, the length of the arm. {Arm's reach}, reach of the arm; the distance the arm can reach. {To go} (or {walk}) {arm in arm}, to go with the arm or hand of one linked in the arm of another. [bd]When arm in armwe went along.[b8] --Tennyson. {To keep at arm's length}, to keep at a distance (literally or figuratively); not to allow to come into close contact or familiar intercourse. {To work at arm's length}, to work disadvantageously. | |
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Walk \Walk\ (w[add]k), v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Walked}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Walking}.] [OE. walken, probably from AS. wealcan to roll, turn, revolve, akin to D. walken to felt hats, to work a hat, G. walken to full, OHG. walchan to beat, to full, Icel. v[be]lka to roll, to stamp, Sw. valka to full, to roll, Dan. valke to full; cf. Skr. valg to spring; but cf. also AS. weallian to roam, ramble, G. wallen. [root]130.] 1. To move along on foot; to advance by steps; to go on at a moderate pace; specifically, of two-legged creatures, to proceed at a slower or faster rate, but without running, or lifting one foot entirely before the other touches the ground. At the end of twelve months, he walked in the palace of the kingdom of Babylon. --Dan. iv. 29. When Peter was come down out of the ship, he walked on the water, to go to Jesus. --Matt. xiv. 29. Note: In the walk of quadrupeds, there are always two, and for a brief space there are three, feet on the ground at once, but never four. 2. To move or go on the feet for exercise or amusement; to take one's exercise; to ramble. 3. To be stirring; to be abroad; to go restlessly about; -- said of things or persons expected to remain quiet, as a sleeping person, or the spirit of a dead person; to go about as a somnambulist or a specter. I have heard, but not believed, the spirits of the dead May walk again. --Shak. When was it she last walked? --Shak. 4. To be in motion; to act; to move; to wag. [Obs.] [bd]Her tongue did walk in foul reproach.[b8] --Spenser. Do you think I'd walk in any plot? --B. Jonson. I heard a pen walking in the chimney behind the cloth. --Latimer. 5. To behave; to pursue a course of life; to conduct one's self. We walk perversely with God, and he will walk crookedly toward us. --Jer. Taylor. 6. To move off; to depart. [Obs. or Colloq.] He will make their cows and garrans to walk. --Spenser. {To walk} in, to go in; to enter, as into a house. {To walk after the flesh} (Script.), to indulge sensual appetites, and to live in sin. --Rom. viii. 1. {To walk after the Spirit} (Script.), to be guided by the counsels and influences of the Spirit, and by the word of God. --Rom. viii. 1. {To walk by faith} (Script.), to live in the firm belief of the gospel and its promises, and to rely on Christ for salvation. --2 Cor. v. 7. {To walk in darkness} (Script.), to live in ignorance, error, and sin. --1 John i. 6. {To walk in the flesh} (Script.), to live this natural life, which is subject to infirmities and calamities. --2 Cor. x. 3. {To walk in the light} (Script.), to live in the practice of religion, and to enjoy its consolations. --1 John i. 7. {To walk over}, in racing, to go over a course at a walk; -- said of a horse when there is no other entry; hence, colloquially, to gain an easy victory in any contest. | |
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Walk \Walk\, v. t. 1. To pass through, over, or upon; to traverse; to perambulate; as, to walk the streets. As we walk our earthly round. --Keble. 2. To cause to walk; to lead, drive, or ride with a slow pace; as to walk one's horses. [bd] I will rather trust . . . a thief to walk my ambling gelding.[b8] --Shak. 3. [AS. wealcan to roll. See {Walk} to move on foot.] To subject, as cloth or yarn, to the fulling process; to full. [Obs. or Scot.] {To walk the plank}, to walk off the plank into the water and be drowned; -- an expression derived from the practice of pirates who extended a plank from the side of a ship, and compelled those whom they would drown to walk off into the water; figuratively, to vacate an office by compulsion. --Bartlett. | |
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Walk \Walk\, n. 1. The act of walking, or moving on the feet with a slow pace; advance without running or leaping. 2. The act of walking for recreation or exercise; as, a morning walk; an evening walk. 3. Manner of walking; gait; step; as, we often know a person at a distance by his walk. 4. That in or through which one walks; place or distance walked over; a place for walking; a path or avenue prepared for foot passengers, or for taking air and exercise; way; road; hence, a place or region in which animals may graze; place of wandering; range; as, a sheep walk. A woody mountain . . . with goodliest trees Planted, with walks and bowers. --Milton. He had walk for a hundred sheep. --Latimer. Amid the sound of steps that beat The murmuring walks like rain. --Bryant. 5. A frequented track; habitual place of action; sphere; as, the walk of the historian. The mountains are his walks. --Sandys. He opened a boundless walk for his imagination. --Pope. 6. Conduct; course of action; behavior. 7. The route or district regularly served by a vender; as, a milkman's walk. [Eng.] | |
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Walk \Walk\, n. 1. In coffee, coconut, and other plantations, the space between them. 2. (Sporting) (a) A place for keeping and training puppies. (b) An inclosed area of some extent to which a gamecock is confined to prepare him for fighting. | |
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Walk \Walk\, v. t. 1. (Sporting) To put or keep (a puppy) in a walk; to train (puppies) in a walk. [Cant] 2. To move in a manner likened to walking. [Colloq.] She walked a spinning wheel into the house, making it use first one and then the other of its own spindling legs to achieve progression rather than lifting it by main force. --C. E. Craddock. {To walk one's chalks}, to make off; take French leave. | |
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Arm \Arm\, n. [AS. arm, earm; akin to OHG. aram, G., D., Dan., & Sw. arm, Icel. armr, Goth. arms, L. armus arm, shoulder, and prob. to Gr. [?] joining, joint, shoulder, fr. the root [?] to join, to fit together; cf. Slav. rame. [?]. See {Art}, {Article}.] 1. The limb of the human body which extends from the shoulder to the hand; also, the corresponding limb of a monkey. 2. Anything resembling an arm; as, (a) The fore limb of an animal, as of a bear. (b) A limb, or locomotive or prehensile organ, of an invertebrate animal. (c) A branch of a tree. (d) A slender part of an instrument or machine, projecting from a trunk, axis, or fulcrum; as, the arm of a steelyard. (e) (Naut) The end of a yard; also, the part of an anchor which ends in the fluke. (f) An inlet of water from the sea. (g) A support for the elbow, at the side of a chair, the end of a sofa, etc. 3. Fig.: Power; might; strength; support; as, the secular arm; the arm of the law. To whom is the arm of the Lord revealed? --Isa. lii. 1. {Arm's end}, the end of the arm; a good distance off. --Dryden. {Arm's length}, the length of the arm. {Arm's reach}, reach of the arm; the distance the arm can reach. {To go} (or {walk}) {arm in arm}, to go with the arm or hand of one linked in the arm of another. [bd]When arm in armwe went along.[b8] --Tennyson. {To keep at arm's length}, to keep at a distance (literally or figuratively); not to allow to come into close contact or familiar intercourse. {To work at arm's length}, to work disadvantageously. | |
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Wall \Wall\, n. [AS. weall, from L. vallum a wall, vallus a stake, pale, palisade; akin to Gr. [?] a nail. Cf. {Interval}.] 1. A work or structure of stone, brick, or other materials, raised to some height, and intended for defense or security, solid and permanent inclosing fence, as around a field, a park, a town, etc., also, one of the upright inclosing parts of a building or a room. The plaster of the wall of the King's palace. --Dan. v. 5. 2. A defense; a rampart; a means of protection; in the plural, fortifications, in general; works for defense. The waters were a wall unto them on their right hand, and on their left. --Ex. xiv. 22. In such a night, Troilus, methinks, mounted the Troyan walls. --Shak. To rush undaunted to defend the walls. --Dryden. 3. An inclosing part of a receptacle or vessel; as, the walls of a steam-engine cylinder. 4. (Mining) (a) The side of a level or drift. (b) The country rock bounding a vein laterally. --Raymond. Note: Wall is often used adjectively, and also in the formation of compounds, usually of obvious signification; as in wall paper, or wall-paper; wall fruit, or wall-fruit; wallflower, etc. {Blank wall}, Blind wall, etc. See under {Blank}, {Blind}, etc. {To drive to the wall}, to bring to extremities; to push to extremes; to get the advantage of, or mastery over. {To go to the wall}, to be hard pressed or driven; to be the weaker party; to be pushed to extremes. {To take the wall}. to take the inner side of a walk, that is, the side next the wall; hence, to take the precedence. [bd]I will take the wall of any man or maid of Montague's.[b8] --Shak. {Wall barley} (Bot.), a kind of grass ({Hordeum murinum}) much resembling barley; squirrel grass. See under {Squirrel}. {Wall box}. (Mach.) See {Wall frame}, below. {Wall creeper} (Zo[94]l.), a small bright-colored bird ({Tichodroma muraria}) native of Asia and Southern Europe. It climbs about over old walls and cliffs in search of insects and spiders. Its body is ash-gray above, the wing coverts are carmine-red, the primary quills are mostly red at the base and black distally, some of them with white spots, and the tail is blackish. Called also {spider catcher}. {Wall cress} (Bot.), a name given to several low cruciferous herbs, especially to the mouse-ear cress. See under {Mouse-ear}. {Wall frame} (Mach.), a frame set in a wall to receive a pillow block or bearing for a shaft passing through the wall; -- called also {wall box}. {Wall fruit}, fruit borne by trees trained against a wall. {Wall gecko} (Zo[94]l.), any one of several species of Old World geckos which live in or about buildings and run over the vertical surfaces of walls, to which they cling by means of suckers on the feet. {Wall lizard} (Zo[94]l.), a common European lizard ({Lacerta muralis}) which frequents houses, and lives in the chinks and crevices of walls; -- called also {wall newt}. {Wall louse}, a wood louse. {Wall moss} (Bot.), any species of moss growing on walls. {Wall newt} (Zo[94]l.), the wall lizard. --Shak. {Wall paper}, paper for covering the walls of rooms; paper hangings. {Wall pellitory} (Bot.), a European plant ({Parictaria officinalis}) growing on old walls, and formerly esteemed medicinal. {Wall pennywort} (Bot.), a plant ({Cotyledon Umbilicus}) having rounded fleshy leaves. It is found on walls in Western Europe. {Wall pepper} (Bot.), a low mosslike plant ({Sedum acre}) with small fleshy leaves having a pungent taste and bearing yellow flowers. It is common on walls and rocks in Europe, and is sometimes seen in America. {Wall pie} (Bot.), a kind of fern; wall rue. {Wall piece}, a gun planted on a wall. --H. L. Scott. {Wall plate} (Arch.), a piece of timber placed horizontally upon a wall, and supporting posts, joists, and the like. See Illust. of {Roof}. {Wall rock}, granular limestone used in building walls. [U. S.] --Bartlett. {Wall rue} (Bot.), a species of small fern ({Asplenium Ruta-muraria}) growing on walls, rocks, and the like. {Wall spring}, a spring of water issuing from stratified rocks. {Wall tent}, a tent with upright cloth sides corresponding to the walls of a house. {Wall wasp} (Zo[94]l.), a common European solitary wasp ({Odynerus parietus}) which makes its nest in the crevices of walls. | |
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Wallack \Wal"lack\, a. & n. See {Wallachian}. | |
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Wallhick \Wall"hick`\, n. (Zo[94]l.) The lesser spotted woodpecker ({Dryobates minor}). [Prov. Eng.] | |
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Wallowish \Wal"low*ish\, a. [Scot. wallow to fade or wither.] Flat; insipid. [Obs.] --Overbury. | |
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Wayless \Way"less\, a. Having no road or path; pathless. | |
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Welch \Welch\, a. See {Welsh}. [R.] | |
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Welsh \Welsh\, a. [AS. w[91]lisc, welisc, from wealh a stranger, foreigner, not of Saxon origin, a Welshman, a Celt, Gael; akin to OHG. walh, whence G. w[84]lsch or welsch, Celtic, Welsh, Italian, French, Foreign, strange, OHG. walhisc; from the name of a Celtic tribe. See {Walnut}.] Of or pertaining to Wales, or its inhabitants. [Sometimes written also {Welch}.] {Welsh flannel}, a fine kind of flannel made from the fleece of the flocks of the Welsh mountains, and largely manufactured by hand. {Welsh glaive}, [or] {Welsh hook}, a weapon of war used in former times by the Welsh, commonly regarded as a kind of poleax. --Fairholt. --Craig. {Welsh mortgage} (O. Eng. Law), a species of mortgage, being a conveyance of an estate, redeemable at any time on payment of the principal, with an understanding that the profits in the mean time shall be received by the mortgagee without account, in satisfaction of interest. --Burrill. {Welsh mutton}, a choice and delicate kind of mutton obtained from a breed of small sheep in Wales. {Welsh onion} (Bot.), a kind of onion ({Allium fistulosum}) having hollow inflated stalks and leaves, but scarcely any bulb, a native of Siberia. It is said to have been introduced from Germany, and is supposed to have derived its name from the German term w[84]lsch foreign. {Welsh parsley}, hemp, or halters made from hemp. [Obs. & Jocular] --J. Fletcher. {Welsh rabbit}. See under {Rabbit}. | |
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Welk \Welk\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Welked}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Welking}.] [OE. welken; cf. D. & G. welken to wither, G. welk withered, OHG. welc moist. See {Welkin}, and cf. {Wilt}.] To wither; to fade; also, to decay; to decline; to wane. [Obs.] When ruddy Ph[?]bus 'gins to welk in west. --Spenser. The church, that before by insensible degrees welked and impaired, now with large steps went down hill decaying. --Milton. | |
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Welk \Welk\, v. t. 1. To cause to wither; to wilt. [Obs.] Mot thy welked neck be to-broke [broken]. --Chaucer. 2. To contract; to shorten. [Obs.] Now sad winter welked hath the day. --Spenser. 3. To soak; also, to beat severely. [Prov. Eng.] | |
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Welk \Welk\, n. A pustule. See 2d {Whelk}. | |
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Welk \Welk\, n. (Zo[94]l.) A whelk. [R.] | |
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Well-wish \Well"-wish`\, n. A wish of happiness. [bd]A well-wish for his friends.[b8] --Addison. | |
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Wels \Wels\, n. [G.] (Zo[94]l.) The sheatfish; -- called also {waller}. | |
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Welsh \Welsh\, a. [AS. w[91]lisc, welisc, from wealh a stranger, foreigner, not of Saxon origin, a Welshman, a Celt, Gael; akin to OHG. walh, whence G. w[84]lsch or welsch, Celtic, Welsh, Italian, French, Foreign, strange, OHG. walhisc; from the name of a Celtic tribe. See {Walnut}.] Of or pertaining to Wales, or its inhabitants. [Sometimes written also {Welch}.] {Welsh flannel}, a fine kind of flannel made from the fleece of the flocks of the Welsh mountains, and largely manufactured by hand. {Welsh glaive}, [or] {Welsh hook}, a weapon of war used in former times by the Welsh, commonly regarded as a kind of poleax. --Fairholt. --Craig. {Welsh mortgage} (O. Eng. Law), a species of mortgage, being a conveyance of an estate, redeemable at any time on payment of the principal, with an understanding that the profits in the mean time shall be received by the mortgagee without account, in satisfaction of interest. --Burrill. {Welsh mutton}, a choice and delicate kind of mutton obtained from a breed of small sheep in Wales. {Welsh onion} (Bot.), a kind of onion ({Allium fistulosum}) having hollow inflated stalks and leaves, but scarcely any bulb, a native of Siberia. It is said to have been introduced from Germany, and is supposed to have derived its name from the German term w[84]lsch foreign. {Welsh parsley}, hemp, or halters made from hemp. [Obs. & Jocular] --J. Fletcher. {Welsh rabbit}. See under {Rabbit}. | |
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Welsh \Welsh\, n. 1. The language of Wales, or of the Welsh people. 2. pl. The natives or inhabitants of Wales. Note: The Welsh call themselves Cymry, in the plural, and a Welshman Cymro, and their country Cymru, of which the adjective is Cymreig, and the name of their language Cymraeg. They are a branch of the Celtic family, and a relic of the earliest known population of England, driven into the mountains of Wales by the Anglo-Saxon invaders. | |
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Welsh \Welsh\, v. t. & i. (a) To cheat by avoiding payment of bets; -- said esp. of an absconding bookmaker at a race track. [Slang] (b) To avoid dishonorably the fulfillment of a pecuniary obligation. [Slang] | |
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3. A bicycle or a tricycle; a velocipede. 4. A rolling or revolving body; anything of a circular form; a disk; an orb. --Milton. 5. A turn revolution; rotation; compass. According to the common vicissitude and wheel of things, the proud and the insolent, after long trampling upon others, come at length to be trampled upon themselves. --South. [He] throws his steep flight in many an a[89]ry wheel. --Milton. {A wheel within a wheel}, [or] {Wheels within wheels}, a complication of circumstances, motives, etc. {Balance wheel}. See in the Vocab. {Bevel wheel}, {Brake wheel}, {Cam wheel}, {Fifth wheel}, {Overshot wheel}, {Spinning wheel}, etc. See under {Bevel}, {Brake}, etc. {Core wheel}. (Mach.) (a) A mortise gear. (b) A wheel having a rim perforated to receive wooden cogs; the skeleton of a mortise gear. {Measuring wheel}, an odometer, or perambulator. {Wheel and axle} (Mech.), one of the elementary machines or mechanical powers, consisting of a wheel fixed to an axle, and used for raising great weights, by applying the power to the circumference of the wheel, and attaching the weight, by a rope or chain, to that of the axle. Called also {axis in peritrochio}, and {perpetual lever}, -- the principle of equilibrium involved being the same as in the lever, while its action is continuous. See {Mechanical powers}, under {Mechanical}. {Wheel animal}, or {Wheel animalcule} (Zo[94]l.), any one of numerous species of rotifers having a ciliated disk at the anterior end. {Wheel barometer}. (Physics) See under {Barometer}. {Wheel boat}, a boat with wheels, to be used either on water or upon inclined planes or railways. {Wheel bug} (Zo[94]l.), a large North American hemipterous insect ({Prionidus cristatus}) which sucks the blood of other insects. So named from the curious shape of the prothorax. {Wheel carriage}, a carriage moving on wheels. {Wheel chains}, or {Wheel ropes} (Naut.), the chains or ropes connecting the wheel and rudder. {Wheel cutter}, a machine for shaping the cogs of gear wheels; a gear cutter. {Wheel horse}, one of the horses nearest to the wheels, as opposed to a leader, or forward horse; -- called also {wheeler}. {Wheel lathe}, a lathe for turning railway-car wheels. {Wheel lock}. (a) A letter lock. See under {Letter}. (b) A kind of gunlock in which sparks were struck from a flint, or piece of iron pyrites, by a revolving wheel. (c) A kind of brake a carriage. {Wheel ore} (Min.), a variety of bournonite so named from the shape of its twin crystals. See {Bournonite}. {Wheel pit} (Steam Engine), a pit in the ground, in which the lower part of the fly wheel runs. {Wheel plow}, or {Wheel plough}, a plow having one or two wheels attached, to render it more steady, and to regulate the depth of the furrow. {Wheel press}, a press by which railway-car wheels are forced on, or off, their axles. {Wheel race}, the place in which a water wheel is set. {Wheel rope} (Naut.), a tiller rope. See under {Tiller}. {Wheel stitch} (Needlework), a stitch resembling a spider's web, worked into the material, and not over an open space. --Caulfeild & S. (Dict. of Needlework). {Wheel tree} (Bot.), a tree ({Aspidosperma excelsum}) of Guiana, which has a trunk so curiously fluted that a transverse section resembles the hub and spokes of a coarsely made wheel. See {Paddlewood}. {Wheel urchin} (Zo[94]l.), any sea urchin of the genus {Rotula} having a round, flat shell. {Wheel window} (Arch.), a circular window having radiating mullions arranged like the spokes of a wheel. Cf. {Rose window}, under {Rose}. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Wheelhouse \Wheel"house`\, n. (Naut.) (a) A small house on or above a vessel's deck, containing the steering wheel. (b) A paddle box. See under {Paddle}. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Whelk \Whelk\, n. [OE. welk, wilk, AS. weoloc, weloc, wiloc. Cf. {Whilk}, and {Wilk}.] (Zo[94]l.) Any one numerous species of large marine gastropods belonging to {Buccinum} and allied genera; especially, {Buccinum undatum}, common on the coasts both of Europe and North America, and much used as food in Europe. {Whelk tingle}, a dog whelk. See under {Dog}. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Whelk \Whelk\, n. [OE. whelke, dim. of whele. See {Wheal} a pustule.] 1. A papule; a pustule; acne. [bd]His whelks white.[b8] --Chaucer. 2. A stripe or mark; a ridge; a wale. {Chin whelk} (Med.), sycosis. {Rosy whelk} (Med.), grog blossom. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Whelky \Whelk"y\, a. 1. Having whelks, ridges, or protuberances; hence, streaked; striated. 2. Shelly. [bd]Whelky pearls.[b8] --Spenser. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
While \While\, conj. 1. During the time that; as long as; whilst; at the same time that; as, while I write, you sleep. [bd]While I have time and space.[b8] --Chaucer. Use your memory; you will sensibly experience a gradual improvement, while you take care not to overload it. --I. Watts. 2. Hence, under which circumstances; in which case; though; whereas. {While as}, {While that}, during or at the time that. [Obs.] | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Whiles \Whiles\, adv. [See {While}, n., and {-wards}.] 1. Meanwhile; meantime. [R.] The good knight whiles humming to himself the lay of some majored troubadour. --Sir. W. Scott. 2. sometimes; at times. [Scot.] --Sir W. Scott. {The whiles}. See under {While}, n. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Whiles \Whiles\, conj. During the time that; while. [Archaic] --Chaucer. Fuller. Agree with thine adversary quickly, whiles thou art in the way with him. --Matt. v. 25. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Whilk \Whilk\, n. [See {Whelk} a mollusk.] 1. (Zo[94]l.) A kind of mollusk, a whelk. [Prov. Eng.] 2. (Zo[94]l.) The scoter. [Prov. Eng.] | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Whilk \Whilk\, pron. Which. [Obs. or Scot.] Note: Whilk is sometimes used in Chaucer to represent the Northern dialect. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Wilk \Wilk\, n. (Zo[94]l.) See {Whelk}. [Obs.] | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Willock \Wil"lock\, n. (Zo[94]l.) (a) The common guillemot. (b) The puffin. [Prov. Eng.] | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Oak \Oak\ ([omac]k), n. [OE. oke, ok, ak, AS. [be]c; akin to D. eik, G. eiche, OHG. eih, Icel. eik, Sw. ek, Dan. eeg.] 1. (Bot.) Any tree or shrub of the genus {Quercus}. The oaks have alternate leaves, often variously lobed, and staminate flowers in catkins. The fruit is a smooth nut, called an {acorn}, which is more or less inclosed in a scaly involucre called the cup or cupule. There are now recognized about three hundred species, of which nearly fifty occur in the United States, the rest in Europe, Asia, and the other parts of North America, a very few barely reaching the northern parts of South America and Africa. Many of the oaks form forest trees of grand proportions and live many centuries. The wood is usually hard and tough, and provided with conspicuous medullary rays, forming the silver grain. 2. The strong wood or timber of the oak. Note: Among the true oaks in America are: {Barren oak}, or {Black-jack}, {Q. nigra}. {Basket oak}, {Q. Michauxii}. {Black oak}, {Q. tinctoria}; -- called also {yellow} or {quercitron oak}. {Bur oak} (see under {Bur}.), {Q. macrocarpa}; -- called also {over-cup} or {mossy-cup oak}. {Chestnut oak}, {Q. Prinus} and {Q. densiflora}. {Chinquapin oak} (see under {Chinquapin}), {Q. prinoides}. {Coast live oak}, {Q. agrifolia}, of California; -- also called {enceno}. {Live oak} (see under {Live}), {Q. virens}, the best of all for shipbuilding; also, {Q. Chrysolepis}, of California. {Pin oak}. Same as {Swamp oak}. {Post oak}, {Q. obtusifolia}. {Red oak}, {Q. rubra}. {Scarlet oak}, {Q. coccinea}. {Scrub oak}, {Q. ilicifolia}, {Q. undulata}, etc. {Shingle oak}, {Q. imbricaria}. {Spanish oak}, {Q. falcata}. {Swamp Spanish oak}, or {Pin oak}, {Q. palustris}. {Swamp white oak}, {Q. bicolor}. {Water oak}, {Q. aguatica}. {Water white oak}, {Q. lyrata}. {Willow oak}, {Q. Phellos}. Among the true oaks in Europe are: {Bitter oak}, [or] {Turkey oak}, {Q. Cerris} (see {Cerris}). {Cork oak}, {Q. Suber}. {English white oak}, {Q. Robur}. {Evergreen oak}, {Holly oak}, [or] {Holm oak}, {Q. Ilex}. {Kermes oak}, {Q. coccifera}. {Nutgall oak}, {Q. infectoria}. Note: Among plants called oak, but not of the genus {Quercus}, are: {African oak}, a valuable timber tree ({Oldfieldia Africana}). {Australian, [or] She}, {oak}, any tree of the genus {Casuarina} (see {Casuarina}). {Indian oak}, the teak tree (see {Teak}). {Jerusalem oak}. See under {Jerusalem}. {New Zealand oak}, a sapindaceous tree ({Alectryon excelsum}). {Poison oak}, the poison ivy. See under {Poison}. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Willowish \Wil"low*ish\, a. Having the color of the willow; resembling the willow; willowy. --Walton. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Woolsey \Wool"sey\, n. [From {Wool}.] Linsey-woolsey. | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Wailuku, HI (CDP, FIPS 77450) Location: 20.88853 N, 156.50678 W Population (1990): 10688 (3848 housing units) Area: 13.1 sq km (land), 1.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 96793 | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Wales, AK (city, FIPS 82860) Location: 65.60925 N, 168.07992 W Population (1990): 161 (66 housing units) Area: 6.3 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 99783 Wales, MA Zip code(s): 01081 Wales, MI Zip code(s): 48027 Wales, ND (city, FIPS 82940) Location: 48.89410 N, 98.60138 W Population (1990): 48 (43 housing units) Area: 0.6 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 58281 Wales, UT (town, FIPS 80860) Location: 39.48621 N, 111.63530 W Population (1990): 189 (78 housing units) Area: 0.8 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Wales, WI (village, FIPS 83175) Location: 43.00490 N, 88.37774 W Population (1990): 2471 (732 housing units) Area: 5.9 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 53183 | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Waleska, GA (city, FIPS 79948) Location: 34.31575 N, 84.55009 W Population (1990): 700 (141 housing units) Area: 4.2 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 30183 | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Wall Lake, IA (city, FIPS 82020) Location: 42.26955 N, 95.09297 W Population (1990): 875 (354 housing units) Area: 2.8 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 51466 | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Wallace, ID (city, FIPS 84790) Location: 47.47293 N, 115.92226 W Population (1990): 1010 (597 housing units) Area: 2.2 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 83873 Wallace, IN (town, FIPS 79730) Location: 39.98785 N, 87.14766 W Population (1990): 89 (38 housing units) Area: 0.2 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Wallace, KS (city, FIPS 74750) Location: 38.91369 N, 101.59243 W Population (1990): 75 (38 housing units) Area: 1.0 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 67761 Wallace, MI Zip code(s): 49893 Wallace, NC (town, FIPS 70720) Location: 34.73501 N, 77.99788 W Population (1990): 2939 (1251 housing units) Area: 5.4 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 28466 Wallace, NE (village, FIPS 51175) Location: 40.83708 N, 101.16348 W Population (1990): 308 (144 housing units) Area: 1.8 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 69169 Wallace, NY Zip code(s): 14809 Wallace, SC Zip code(s): 29596 Wallace, SD (town, FIPS 68420) Location: 45.08511 N, 97.47725 W Population (1990): 83 (52 housing units) Area: 0.3 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 57272 Wallace, WV Zip code(s): 26448 | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Wallis, TX (city, FIPS 76240) Location: 29.63130 N, 96.06421 W Population (1990): 1001 (447 housing units) Area: 3.8 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 77485 | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Walls, MS Zip code(s): 38680 | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Walsh, CO (town, FIPS 82460) Location: 37.38552 N, 102.27959 W Population (1990): 692 (357 housing units) Area: 1.2 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 81090 Walsh, IL Zip code(s): 62297 | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Welaka, FL (town, FIPS 75750) Location: 29.48092 N, 81.66349 W Population (1990): 533 (343 housing units) Area: 3.4 sq km (land), 0.1 sq km (water) | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Welch, MN Zip code(s): 55033, 55089 Welch, OK (town, FIPS 79750) Location: 36.87453 N, 95.09524 W Population (1990): 499 (255 housing units) Area: 0.8 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 74369 Welch, TX Zip code(s): 79377 Welch, WV (city, FIPS 85228) Location: 37.43282 N, 81.58150 W Population (1990): 3028 (1628 housing units) Area: 8.4 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 24801 | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Wells, KS Zip code(s): 67488 Wells, ME Zip code(s): 04090 Wells, MI Zip code(s): 49894 Wells, MN (city, FIPS 69106) Location: 43.74369 N, 93.72616 W Population (1990): 2465 (1110 housing units) Area: 3.0 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 56097 Wells, NV (city, FIPS 83000) Location: 41.11441 N, 114.94811 W Population (1990): 1256 (562 housing units) Area: 17.1 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Wells, NY Zip code(s): 12190 Wells, TX (town, FIPS 77176) Location: 31.49179 N, 94.94672 W Population (1990): 761 (347 housing units) Area: 5.0 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 75976 Wells, VT Zip code(s): 05774 | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Welsh, LA (town, FIPS 80430) Location: 30.23548 N, 92.81212 W Population (1990): 3299 (1266 housing units) Area: 16.1 sq km (land), 0.3 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 70591 | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Wheelock, ND (city, FIPS 85300) Location: 48.29499 N, 103.25249 W Population (1990): 23 (19 housing units) Area: 2.0 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 58849 | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Willis, KS (city, FIPS 79400) Location: 39.72266 N, 95.50518 W Population (1990): 86 (33 housing units) Area: 0.4 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Willis, MI Zip code(s): 48191 Willis, TX (city, FIPS 79408) Location: 30.42484 N, 95.47809 W Population (1990): 2764 (1124 housing units) Area: 5.3 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 77378 Willis, VA Zip code(s): 24380 | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Willow Oak, FL (CDP, FIPS 77862) Location: 27.91810 N, 82.02150 W Population (1990): 4017 (1483 housing units) Area: 10.6 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) | |
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Willowick, OH (city, FIPS 85638) Location: 41.63503 N, 81.46845 W Population (1990): 15269 (6207 housing units) Area: 6.5 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 44095 | |
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Willows, CA (city, FIPS 85684) Location: 39.51591 N, 122.19895 W Population (1990): 5988 (2240 housing units) Area: 6.7 sq km (land), 0.1 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 95988 | |
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Wilsey, KS (city, FIPS 79650) Location: 38.63594 N, 96.67680 W Population (1990): 149 (82 housing units) Area: 0.7 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 66873 | |
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Wilsie, WV Zip code(s): 26641 | |
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Wolsey, SD (town, FIPS 72540) Location: 44.41087 N, 98.47377 W Population (1990): 442 (193 housing units) Area: 5.9 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 57384 | |
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Woolsey, GA (town, FIPS 84288) Location: 33.36132 N, 84.41203 W Population (1990): 120 (49 housing units) Area: 1.7 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 30214 | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Woolwich, ME Zip code(s): 04579 | |
From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]: | |
walk n.,vt. Traversal of a data structure, especially an array or linked-list data structure in {core}. See also {codewalker}, {silly walk}, {clobber}. | |
From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]: | |
whales n. See {like kicking dead whales down the beach}. | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
walk {array} or {linked-list} in {core}. See also {codewalker}, {silly walk}, {clobber}. (2001-04-12) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
whales See {like kicking dead whales down the beach}. [{Jargon File}] | |
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]: | |
Willows (1.) Heb. 'arabim (Lev. 23:40; Job 40:22; Isa. 15:7; 44:3, 4; Ps. 137:1, 2). This was supposed to be the weeping willow, called by Linnaeus Salix Babylonica, from the reference in Ps. 137. This tree is frequently found "on the coast, overhanging wells and pools. There is a conspicuous tree of this species over a pond in the plain of Acre, and others on the Phoenician plain." There are several species of the salix in Palestine, but it is not indigenous to Babylonia, nor was it cultivated there. Some are of opinion that the tree intended is the tamarisk or poplar. (2.) Heb. tzaphtzaphah (Ezek. 17:5), called by the Arabs the safsaf, the general name for the willow. This may be the Salix AEgyptica of naturalists. Tristram thinks that by the "willow by the water-courses," the Nerium oleander, the rose-bay oleander, is meant. He says, "It fringes the Upper Jordan, dipping its wavy crown of red into the spray in the rapids under Hermon, and is nutured by the oozy marshes in the Lower Jordan nearly as far as to Jericho...On the Arnon, on the Jabbok, and the Yarmuk it forms a continuous fringe. In many of the streams of Moab it forms a complete screen, which the sun's rays can never penetrate to evaporate the precious moisture. The wild boar lies safely ensconced under its impervious cover." |