English Dictionary: woolgatherer | 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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Wall Street \Wall Street\ A street towards the southern end of the borough of Manhattan, New York City, extending from Broadway to the East River; -- so called from the old wall which extended along it when the city belonged to the Dutch. It is the chief financial center of the United States, hence the name is often used for the money market and the financial interests of the country. | |
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Wall-sided \Wall"-sid`ed\, a. (Naut.) Having sides nearly perpendicular; -- said of certain vessels to distinguish them from those having flaring sides, or sides tumbling home (see under {Tumble}, v. i.). | |
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Weil's disease \Weil's disease\ (Med.) An acute infectious febrile disease, resembling typhoid fever, with muscular pains, disturbance of the digestive organs, jaundice, etc. | |
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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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Welked \Welked\, v. t. See {Whelked}. | |
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Well \Well\, n. [OE. welle, AS. wella, wylla, from weallan to well up, surge, boil; akin to D. wel a spring or fountain. [?][?][?][?]. See {Well}, v. i.] 1. An issue of water from the earth; a spring; a fountain. Begin, then, sisters of the sacred well. --Milton. 2. A pit or hole sunk into the earth to such a depth as to reach a supply of water, generally of a cylindrical form, and often walled with stone or bricks to prevent the earth from caving in. The woman said unto him, Sir, thou hast nothing to draw with, and the well is deep. --John iv. 11. 3. A shaft made in the earth to obtain oil or brine. 4. Fig.: A source of supply; fountain; wellspring. [bd]This well of mercy.[b8] --Chaucer. Dan Chaucer, well of English undefiled. --Spenser. A well of serious thought and pure. --Keble. 5. (Naut.) (a) An inclosure in the middle of a vessel's hold, around the pumps, from the bottom to the lower deck, to preserve the pumps from damage and facilitate their inspection. (b) A compartment in the middle of the hold of a fishing vessel, made tight at the sides, but having holes perforated in the bottom to let in water for the preservation of fish alive while they are transported to market. (c) A vertical passage in the stern into which an auxiliary screw propeller may be drawn up out of water. (d) A depressed space in the after part of the deck; -- often called the cockpit. 6. (Mil.) A hole or excavation in the earth, in mining, from which run branches or galleries. 7. (Arch.) An opening through the floors of a building, as for a staircase or an elevator; a wellhole. 8. (Metal.) The lower part of a furnace, into which the metal falls. {Artesian well}, {Driven well}. See under {Artesian}, and {Driven}. {Pump well}. (Naut.) See {Well}, 5 (a), above. {Well boring}, the art or process of boring an artesian well. {Well drain}. (a) A drain or vent for water, somewhat like a well or pit, serving to discharge the water of wet land. (b) A drain conducting to a well or pit. {Well room}. (a) A room where a well or spring is situated; especially, one built over a mineral spring. (b) (Naut.) A depression in the bottom of a boat, into which water may run, and whence it is thrown out with a scoop. {Well sinker}, one who sinks or digs wells. {Well sinking}, the art or process of sinking or digging wells. {Well staircase} (Arch.), a staircase having a wellhole (see {Wellhole} (b) ), as distinguished from one which occupies the whole of the space left for it in the floor. {Well sweep}. Same as {Sweep}, n., 12. {Well water}, the water that flows into a well from subterraneous springs; the water drawn from a well. | |
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Well-set \Well"-set`\, a. 1. Properly or firmly set. 2. Well put together; having symmetry of parts. | |
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Note: The existing whales are divided into two groups: the toothed whales ({Odontocete}), including those that have teeth, as the cachalot, or sperm whale (see {Sperm whale}); and the baleen, or whalebone, whales ({Mysticete}), comprising those that are destitute of teeth, but have plates of baleen hanging from the upper jaw, as the right whales. The most important species of whalebone whales are the bowhead, or Greenland, whale (see Illust. of {Right whale}), the Biscay whale, the Antarctic whale, the gray whale (see under {Gray}), the humpback, the finback, and the rorqual. {Whale bird}. (Zo[94]l.) (a) Any one of several species of large Antarctic petrels which follow whaling vessels, to feed on the blubber and floating oil; especially, {Prion turtur} (called also {blue petrel}), and {Pseudoprion desolatus}. (b) The turnstone; -- so called because it lives on the carcasses of whales. [Canada] {Whale fin} (Com.), whalebone. --Simmonds. {Whale fishery}, the fishing for, or occupation of taking, whales. {Whale louse} (Zo[94]l.), any one of several species of degraded amphipod crustaceans belonging to the genus {Cyamus}, especially {C. ceti}. They are parasitic on various cetaceans. {Whale's bone}, ivory. [Obs.] {Whale shark}. (Zo[94]l.) (a) The basking, or liver, shark. (b) A very large harmless shark ({Rhinodon typicus}) native of the Indian Ocean. It sometimes becomes sixty feet long. {Whale shot}, the name formerly given to spermaceti. {Whale's tongue} (Zo[94]l.), a balanoglossus. | |
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Note: The existing whales are divided into two groups: the toothed whales ({Odontocete}), including those that have teeth, as the cachalot, or sperm whale (see {Sperm whale}); and the baleen, or whalebone, whales ({Mysticete}), comprising those that are destitute of teeth, but have plates of baleen hanging from the upper jaw, as the right whales. The most important species of whalebone whales are the bowhead, or Greenland, whale (see Illust. of {Right whale}), the Biscay whale, the Antarctic whale, the gray whale (see under {Gray}), the humpback, the finback, and the rorqual. {Whale bird}. (Zo[94]l.) (a) Any one of several species of large Antarctic petrels which follow whaling vessels, to feed on the blubber and floating oil; especially, {Prion turtur} (called also {blue petrel}), and {Pseudoprion desolatus}. (b) The turnstone; -- so called because it lives on the carcasses of whales. [Canada] {Whale fin} (Com.), whalebone. --Simmonds. {Whale fishery}, the fishing for, or occupation of taking, whales. {Whale louse} (Zo[94]l.), any one of several species of degraded amphipod crustaceans belonging to the genus {Cyamus}, especially {C. ceti}. They are parasitic on various cetaceans. {Whale's bone}, ivory. [Obs.] {Whale shark}. (Zo[94]l.) (a) The basking, or liver, shark. (b) A very large harmless shark ({Rhinodon typicus}) native of the Indian Ocean. It sometimes becomes sixty feet long. {Whale shot}, the name formerly given to spermaceti. {Whale's tongue} (Zo[94]l.), a balanoglossus. | |
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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}. | |
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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}. | |
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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}. | |
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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}. | |
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Whelked \Whelked\, a. Having whelks; whelky; as, whelked horns. --Shak. | |
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Whilst \Whilst\, adv. [From {Whiles}; cf. {Amongst}.] While. [Archaic] Whilst the emperor lay at Antioch. --Gibbon. {The whilst}, in the meantime; while. [Archaic.] --Shak. | |
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Wily \Wil"y\, a. [Compar. {Wilier}; superl. {Wiliest}.] [From {Wile}.] Full of wiles, tricks, or stratagems; using craft or stratagem to accomplish a purpose; mischievously artful; subtle. [bd]Wily and wise.[b8] --Chaucer. [bd]The wily snake.[b8] --Milton. This false, wily, doubling disposition of mind. --South. Syn: Cunning; artful; sly; crafty. See {Cunning}. | |
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Wollastonite \Wol"las*ton*ite\, n. [After Dr. W. H. Wollaston, an English chemist, who died in 1828.] (Min.) A silicate of lime of a white to gray, red, or yellow color, occurring generally in cleavable masses, rarely in tabular crystals; tabular spar. | |
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Wollaston's doublet \Wol"las*ton's dou"blet\ [After W. H. Wollaston, English physicist.] (Optics) A magnifying glass consisting of two plano-convex lenses. It is designed to correct spherical aberration and chromatic dispersion. | |
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Goniometer \Go`ni*om"e*ter\, n. [Gr. [?] angle + -meter: cf. F. goniom[8a]tre.] An instrument for measuring angles, especially the angles of crystals, or the inclination of planes. {Contact, [or] Hand}, {goniometer}, a goniometer having two movable arms (ab, cd), between which (at ab) the faces of the crystals are placed. These arms turn about a fixed point, which is the center of the graduated circle or semicircle upon which the angle is read off. {Reflecting goniometer}, an instrument for measuring the angles of crystals by determining through what angular space the crystal must be turned so that two rays reflected from two surfaces successively shall have the same direction; -- called also {Wollaston's goniometer}, from the inventor. | |
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Wool \Wool\ (w[oocr]l), n. [OE. wolle, wulle, AS. wull; akin to D. wol, OHG. wolla, G. wolle, Icel. & Sw. ull, Dan. uld, Goth, wulla, Lith. vilna, Russ. volna, L. vellus, Skr. [umac]r[nsdot][amac] wool, v[rsdot] to cover. [root]146, 287. Cf. {Flannel}, {Velvet}.] 1. The soft and curled, or crisped, species of hair which grows on sheep and some other animals, and which in fineness sometimes approaches to fur; -- chiefly applied to the fleecy coat of the sheep, which constitutes a most essential material of clothing in all cold and temperate climates. Note: Wool consists essentially of keratin. 2. Short, thick hair, especially when crisped or curled. Wool of bat and tongue of dog. --Shak. 3. (Bot.) A sort of pubescence, or a clothing of dense, curling hairs on the surface of certain plants. {Dead pulled wool}, wool pulled from a carcass. {Mineral wool}. See under {Mineral}. {Philosopher's wool}. (Chem.) See {Zinc oxide}, under {Zinc}. {Pulled wool}, wool pulled from a pelt, or undressed hide. {Slag wool}. Same as {Mineral wool}, under {Mineral}. {Wool ball}, a ball or mass of wool. {Wool burler}, one who removes little burs, knots, or extraneous matter, from wool, or the surface of woolen cloth. {Wool comber}. (a) One whose occupation is to comb wool. (b) A machine for combing wool. {Wool grass} (Bot.), a kind of bulrush ({Scirpus Eriophorum}) with numerous clustered woolly spikes. {Wool scribbler}. See {Woolen scribbler}, under {Woolen}, a. {Wool sorter's disease} (Med.), a disease, resembling malignant pustule, occurring among those who handle the wool of goats and sheep. {Wool staple}, a city or town where wool used to be brought to the king's staple for sale. [Eng.] {Wool stapler}. (a) One who deals in wool. (b) One who sorts wool according to its staple, or its adaptation to different manufacturing purposes. {Wool winder}, a person employed to wind, or make up, wool into bundles to be packed for sale. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Wool \Wool\ (w[oocr]l), n. [OE. wolle, wulle, AS. wull; akin to D. wol, OHG. wolla, G. wolle, Icel. & Sw. ull, Dan. uld, Goth, wulla, Lith. vilna, Russ. volna, L. vellus, Skr. [umac]r[nsdot][amac] wool, v[rsdot] to cover. [root]146, 287. Cf. {Flannel}, {Velvet}.] 1. The soft and curled, or crisped, species of hair which grows on sheep and some other animals, and which in fineness sometimes approaches to fur; -- chiefly applied to the fleecy coat of the sheep, which constitutes a most essential material of clothing in all cold and temperate climates. Note: Wool consists essentially of keratin. 2. Short, thick hair, especially when crisped or curled. Wool of bat and tongue of dog. --Shak. 3. (Bot.) A sort of pubescence, or a clothing of dense, curling hairs on the surface of certain plants. {Dead pulled wool}, wool pulled from a carcass. {Mineral wool}. See under {Mineral}. {Philosopher's wool}. (Chem.) See {Zinc oxide}, under {Zinc}. {Pulled wool}, wool pulled from a pelt, or undressed hide. {Slag wool}. Same as {Mineral wool}, under {Mineral}. {Wool ball}, a ball or mass of wool. {Wool burler}, one who removes little burs, knots, or extraneous matter, from wool, or the surface of woolen cloth. {Wool comber}. (a) One whose occupation is to comb wool. (b) A machine for combing wool. {Wool grass} (Bot.), a kind of bulrush ({Scirpus Eriophorum}) with numerous clustered woolly spikes. {Wool scribbler}. See {Woolen scribbler}, under {Woolen}, a. {Wool sorter's disease} (Med.), a disease, resembling malignant pustule, occurring among those who handle the wool of goats and sheep. {Wool staple}, a city or town where wool used to be brought to the king's staple for sale. [Eng.] {Wool stapler}. (a) One who deals in wool. (b) One who sorts wool according to its staple, or its adaptation to different manufacturing purposes. {Wool winder}, a person employed to wind, or make up, wool into bundles to be packed for sale. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Woolgathering \Wool"gath`er*ing\, a. Indulging in a vagrant or idle exercise of the imagination; roaming upon a fruitless quest; idly fanciful. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Woolgathering \Wool"gath`er*ing\, n. Indulgence in idle imagination; a foolish or useless pursuit or design. His wits were a woolgathering, as they say. --Burton. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Woolstock \Wool"stock`\, n. A heavy wooden hammer for milling cloth. | |
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Walcott, IA (city, FIPS 81705) Location: 41.59463 N, 90.77502 W Population (1990): 1356 (540 housing units) Area: 5.8 sq km (land), 0.1 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 52773 Walcott, ND (city, FIPS 82780) Location: 46.55044 N, 96.93701 W Population (1990): 178 (83 housing units) Area: 2.6 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 58077 | |
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Wallaceton, PA (borough, FIPS 80640) Location: 40.96548 N, 78.29241 W Population (1990): 319 (117 housing units) Area: 1.8 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) | |
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Walstonburg, NC (town, FIPS 70860) Location: 35.59468 N, 77.69916 W Population (1990): 188 (92 housing units) Area: 0.8 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 27888 | |
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Wells Tannery, PA Zip code(s): 16691 | |
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Williston, FL (city, FIPS 77825) Location: 29.37037 N, 82.45698 W Population (1990): 2179 (881 housing units) Area: 13.8 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 32696 Williston, ND (city, FIPS 86220) Location: 48.16229 N, 103.63092 W Population (1990): 13131 (6083 housing units) Area: 18.0 sq km (land), 0.2 sq km (water) Williston, SC (town, FIPS 77965) Location: 33.40174 N, 81.42267 W Population (1990): 3099 (1267 housing units) Area: 23.0 sq km (land), 0.2 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 29853 Williston, TN (city, FIPS 81020) Location: 35.15936 N, 89.37601 W Population (1990): 427 (151 housing units) Area: 4.2 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 38076 Williston, VT Zip code(s): 05495 | |
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Williston Park, NY (village, FIPS 82117) Location: 40.75885 N, 73.64686 W Population (1990): 7516 (2641 housing units) Area: 1.6 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 11596 | |
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Willow City, ND (city, FIPS 86380) Location: 48.60466 N, 100.29270 W Population (1990): 281 (172 housing units) Area: 1.2 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 58384 Willow City, TX Zip code(s): 78675 | |
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Willow Shade, KY Zip code(s): 42169 | |
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Willow Street, PA (CDP, FIPS 85464) Location: 39.98470 N, 76.27038 W Population (1990): 5817 (2628 housing units) Area: 14.1 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 17584 | |
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Wolcott, CT Zip code(s): 06716 Wolcott, IN (town, FIPS 85058) Location: 40.75821 N, 87.04333 W Population (1990): 886 (386 housing units) Area: 1.2 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 47995 Wolcott, NY (village, FIPS 82678) Location: 43.22254 N, 76.81275 W Population (1990): 1544 (666 housing units) Area: 5.0 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 14590 Wolcott, VT Zip code(s): 05680 | |
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Wolcottville, IN (town, FIPS 85076) Location: 41.52547 N, 85.36604 W Population (1990): 879 (367 housing units) Area: 2.7 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 46795 | |
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Wolseth, ND Zip code(s): 58740 | |
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Woolstock, IA (city, FIPS 87015) Location: 42.56529 N, 93.84336 W Population (1990): 212 (107 housing units) Area: 2.7 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 50599 |