English Dictionary: wiped out(p) | by the DICT Development Group |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Waft \Waft\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Wafted}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Wafting}.] [Prob. originally imp. & p. p. of wave, v. t. See {Wave} to waver.] 1. To give notice to by waving something; to wave the hand to; to beckon. [Obs.] But soft: who wafts us yonder? --Shak. 2. To cause to move or go in a wavy manner, or by the impulse of waves, as of water or air; to bear along on a buoyant medium; as, a balloon was wafted over the channel. A gentle wafting to immortal life. --Milton. Speed the soft intercourse from soul to soul, And waft a sigh from Indus to the pole. --Pope. 3. To cause to float; to keep from sinking; to buoy. [Obs.] --Sir T. Browne. Note: This verb is regular; but waft was formerly som[?]times used, as by Shakespeare, instead of wafted. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Web-footed \Web"-foot`ed\, a. Having webbed feet; palmiped; as, a goose or a duck is a web-footed fowl. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Web-toed \Web"-toed`\, a. Having the toes united by a web for a considerable part of their length. | |
From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]: | |
wave a dead chicken v. To perform a ritual in the direction of crashed software or hardware that one believes to be futile but is nevertheless necessary so that others are satisfied that an appropriate degree of effort has been expended. "I'll wave a dead chicken over the source code, but I really think we've run into an OS bug." Compare {voodoo programming}, {rain dance}; see also {casting the runes}. | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
wave a dead chicken software or hardware that one believes to be futile but is nevertheless necessary so that others are satisfied that an appropriate degree of effort has been expended. "I'll wave a dead chicken over the source code, but I really think we've run into an OS bug". Compare {voodoo programming}, {rain dance}. [{Jargon File}] (1996-09-08) |