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Warehouse \Ware"house`\, n.; pl. {Warehouses}. A storehouse for wares, or goods. --Addison. | |
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Warehouse \Ware"house`\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Warehoused}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Warehousing}.] 1. To deposit or secure in a warehouse. 2. To place in the warehouse of the government or customhouse stores, to be kept until duties are paid. | |
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Wares \Wares\, n. pl. See 4th {Ware}. | |
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Warish \War"ish\, v. t. [OF. warir to protect, heal, cure, F. gu[82]ri[?] to cure; of Teutonic origin; cf. OHG. werian, weren, to protect, to hinder. See {Garret}.] To protect from the effects of; hence, to cure; to heal. [Obs.] My brother shall be warished hastily. --Chaucer. Varro testifies that even at this day there be some who warish and cure the stinging of serpents with their spittle. --Holland. | |
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Warish \War"ish\, v. i. To be cured; to recover. [Obs.] Your daughter . . . shall warish and escape. --Chaucer. | |
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Wark \Wark\, n. [See {Work}.] Work; a building. [Obs. or Scot.] --Spenser. | |
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Jewfish \Jew"fish`\, n. (Zo[94]l.) 1. A very large serranoid fish ({Promicrops itaiara}) of Florida and the Gulf of Mexico. It often reaches the weight of five hundred pounds. Its color is olivaceous or yellowish, with numerous brown spots. Called also {guasa}, and {warsaw}. 2. A similar gigantic fish ({Stereolepis gigas}) of Southern California, valued as a food fish. 3. The black grouper of Florida and Texas. 4. A large herringlike fish; the tarpum. | |
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Warsaw \War"saw\, n. (Zo[94]l.) (a) The black grouper ({Epinephelus nigritus}) of the southern coasts of the United States. (b) The jewfish; -- called also {guasa}. | |
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Jewfish \Jew"fish`\, n. (Zo[94]l.) 1. A very large serranoid fish ({Promicrops itaiara}) of Florida and the Gulf of Mexico. It often reaches the weight of five hundred pounds. Its color is olivaceous or yellowish, with numerous brown spots. Called also {guasa}, and {warsaw}. 2. A similar gigantic fish ({Stereolepis gigas}) of Southern California, valued as a food fish. 3. The black grouper of Florida and Texas. 4. A large herringlike fish; the tarpum. | |
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Warsaw \War"saw\, n. (Zo[94]l.) (a) The black grouper ({Epinephelus nigritus}) of the southern coasts of the United States. (b) The jewfish; -- called also {guasa}. | |
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Wearish \Wear"ish\, a. [Etymol. uncertain, but perhaps akin to weary.] 1. Weak; withered; shrunk. [Obs.] [bd]A wearish hand.[b8] --Ford. A little, wearish old man, very melancholy by nature. --Burton. 2. Insipid; tasteless; unsavory. [Obs.] Wearish as meat is that is not well tasted. --Palsgrave. | |
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Weerish \Weer"ish\, a. See {Wearish}. [Obs.] | |
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Werche \Werche\, v. t. & i. To work. [Obs.] --Chaucer. | |
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Werk \Werk\, n., Werke \Werke\, v. See {Work}. [Obs.] | |
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Werk \Werk\, n., Werke \Werke\, v. See {Work}. [Obs.] | |
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Whereas \Where*as"\, adv. At which place; where. [Obs.] --Chaucer. At last they came whereas that lady bode. --Spenser. | |
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Whereas \Where*as"\, conj. 1. Considering that; it being the case that; since; -- used to introduce a preamble which is the basis of declarations, affirmations, commands, requests, or like, that follow. 2. When in fact; while on the contrary; the case being in truth that; although; -- implying opposition to something that precedes; or implying recognition of facts, sometimes followed by a different statement, and sometimes by inferences or something consequent. Are not those found to be the greatest zealots who are most notoriously ignorant? whereas true zeal should always begin with true knowledge. --Sprat. | |
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Whereso \Where"so\, adv. Wheresoever. [Obs.] | |
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Wherry \Wher"ry\, n.; pl. {Wherries}. [Cf. Icel. hverfr shifty, crank, hverfa to turn, E. whirl, wharf.] (Naut.) (a) A passenger barge or lighter plying on rivers; also, a kind of light, half-decked vessel used in fishing. [Eng.] (b) A long, narrow, light boat, sharp at both ends, for fast rowing or sailing; esp., a racing boat rowed by one person with sculls. | |
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Wherso \Wher"so\, adv. Wheresoever. [Obs.] --Chaucer. | |
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Whorish \Whor"ish\, a. Resembling a whore in character or conduct; addicted to unlawful pleasures; incontinent; lewd; unchaste. -- {Whor"ish*ly}, adv. -- {Whor"ish*ness}, n. | |
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Wirche \Wirche\, v. i. & t. To work [Obs.] --Chaucer. | |
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Stadia hairs \Sta"di*a hairs\ [or] wires \wires\ . (Surv.) In a theodolite, etc., horizontal cross wires or hairs equidistant from the central horizontal cross wire. | |
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Work \Work\, n. [OE. work, werk, weork, AS. weorc, worc; akin to OFries. werk, wirk, OS., D., & G. werk, OHG. werc, werah, Icel. & Sw. verk, Dan. v[91]rk, Goth. gawa[a3]rki, Gr. [?], [?], work, [?] to do, [?] an instrument, [?] secret rites, Zend verez to work. [?][?][?][?]. Cf. {Bulwark}, {Energy}, {Erg}, {Georgic}, {Liturgy}, {Metallurgy}, {Organ}, {Surgeon}, {Wright}.] 1. Exertion of strength or faculties; physical or intellectual effort directed to an end; industrial activity; toil; employment; sometimes, specifically, physically labor. Man hath his daily work of body or mind Appointed. --Milton. 2. The matter on which one is at work; that upon which one spends labor; material for working upon; subject of exertion; the thing occupying one; business; duty; as, to take up one's work; to drop one's work. Come on, Nerissa; I have work in hand That you yet know not of. --Shak. In every work that he began . . . he did it with all his heart, and prospered. --2 Chron. xxxi. 21. 3. That which is produced as the result of labor; anything accomplished by exertion or toil; product; performance; fabric; manufacture; in a more general sense, act, deed, service, effect, result, achievement, feat. To leave no rubs or blotches in the work. --Shak. The work some praise, And some the architect. --Milton. Fancy . . . Wild work produces oft, and most in dreams. --Milton. The composition or dissolution of mixed bodies . . . is the chief work of elements. --Sir K. Digby. 4. Specifically: (a) That which is produced by mental labor; a composition; a book; as, a work, or the works, of Addison. (b) Flowers, figures, or the like, wrought with the needle; embroidery. I am glad I have found this napkin; . . . I'll have the work ta'en out, And give 't Iago. --Shak. (c) pl. Structures in civil, military, or naval engineering, as docks, bridges, embankments, trenches, fortifications, and the like; also, the structures and grounds of a manufacturing establishment; as, iron works; locomotive works; gas works. (d) pl. The moving parts of a mechanism; as, the works of a watch. 5. Manner of working; management; treatment; as, unskillful work spoiled the effect. --Bp. Stillingfleet. 6. (Mech.) The causing of motion against a resisting force. The amount of work is proportioned to, and is measured by, the product of the force into the amount of motion along the direction of the force. See {Conservation of energy}, under {Conservation}, {Unit of work}, under {Unit}, also {Foot pound}, {Horse power}, {Poundal}, and {Erg}. Energy is the capacity of doing work . . . Work is the transference of energy from one system to another. --Clerk Maxwell. 7. (Mining) Ore before it is dressed. --Raymond. 8. pl. (Script.) Performance of moral duties; righteous conduct. He shall reward every man according to his works. --Matt. xvi. 27. Faith, if it hath not works, is dead. --James ii. 17. {Muscular work} (Physiol.), the work done by a muscle through the power of contraction. {To go to work}, to begin laboring; to commence operations; to contrive; to manage. [bd]I 'll go another way to work with him.[b8] --Shak. {To set on work}, to cause to begin laboring; to set to work. [Obs.] --Hooker. {To set to work}, to employ; to cause to engage in any business or labor. | |
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Work \Work\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Worked}, or {Wrought}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Working}.] [AS. wyrcean (imp. worthe, wrohte, p. p. geworht, gewroht); akin to OFries. werka, wirka, OS. wirkian, D. werken, G. wirken, Icel. verka, yrkja, orka, Goth. wa[a3]rkjan. [fb]145. See {Work}, n.] 1. To exert one's self for a purpose; to put forth effort for the attainment of an object; to labor; to be engaged in the performance of a task, a duty, or the like. O thou good Kent, how shall I live and work, To match thy goodness? --Shak. Go therefore now, and work; for there shall no straw be given you. --Ex. v. 18. Whether we work or play, or sleep or wake, Our life doth pass. --Sir J. Davies. 2. Hence, in a general sense, to operate; to act; to perform; as, a machine works well. We bend to that the working of the heart. --Shak. 3. Hence, figuratively, to be effective; to have effect or influence; to conduce. We know that all things work together for good to them that love God. --Rom. viii. 28. This so wrought upon the child, that afterwards he desired to be taught. --Locke. She marveled how she could ever have been wrought upon to marry him. --Hawthorne. 4. To carry on business; to be engaged or employed customarily; to perform the part of a laborer; to labor; to toil. They that work in fine flax . . . shall be confounded. --Isa. xix. 9. 5. To be in a state of severe exertion, or as if in such a state; to be tossed or agitated; to move heavily; to strain; to labor; as, a ship works in a heavy sea. Confused with working sands and rolling waves. --Addison. 6. To make one's way slowly and with difficulty; to move or penetrate laboriously; to proceed with effort; -- with a following preposition, as down, out, into, up, through, and the like; as, scheme works out by degrees; to work into the earth. Till body up to spirit work, in bounds Proportioned to each kind. --Milton. 7. To ferment, as a liquid. The working of beer when the barm is put in. --Bacon. 8. To act or operate on the stomach and bowels, as a cathartic. Purges . . . work best, that is, cause the blood so to do, . . . in warm weather or in a warm room. --Grew. | |
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Work \Work\, v. t. 1. To labor or operate upon; to give exertion and effort to; to prepare for use, or to utilize, by labor. He could have told them of two or three gold mines, and a silver mine, and given the reason why they forbare to work them at that time. --Sir W. Raleigh. 2. To produce or form by labor; to bring forth by exertion or toil; to accomplish; to originate; to effect; as, to work wood or iron into a form desired, or into a utensil; to work cotton or wool into cloth. Each herb he knew, that works or good or ill. --Harte. 3. To produce by slow degrees, or as if laboriously; to bring gradually into any state by action or motion. [bd]Sidelong he works his way.[b8] --Milton. So the pure, limpid stream, when foul with stains Of rushing torrents and descending rains, Works itself clear, and as it runs, refines, Till by degrees the floating mirror shines. --Addison. 4. To influence by acting upon; to prevail upon; to manage; to lead. [bd]Work your royal father to his ruin.[b8] --Philips. 5. To form with a needle and thread or yarn; especially, to embroider; as, to work muslin. 6. To set in motion or action; to direct the action of; to keep at work; to govern; to manage; as, to work a machine. Knowledge in building and working ships. --Arbuthnot. Now, Marcus, thy virtue's the proof; Put forth thy utmost strength, work every nerve. --Addison. The mariners all 'gan work the ropes, Where they were wont to do. --Coleridge. 7. To cause to ferment, as liquor. {To work a passage} (Naut.), to pay for a passage by doing work. {To work double tides} (Naut.), to perform the labor of three days in two; -- a phrase which alludes to a practice of working by the night tide as well as by the day. {To work in}, to insert, introduce, mingle, or interweave by labor or skill. {To work into}, to force, urge, or insinuate into; as, to work one's self into favor or confidence. {To work off}, to remove gradually, as by labor, or a gradual process; as, beer works off impurities in fermenting. {To work out}. (a) To effect by labor and exertion. [bd]Work out your own salvation with fear and trembling.[b8] --Phil. ii. 12. (b) To erase; to efface. [R.] Tears of joy for your returning spilt, Work out and expiate our former guilt. --Dryden. (c) To solve, as a problem. (d) To exhaust, as a mine, by working. {To work up}. (a) To raise; to excite; to stir up; as, to work up the passions to rage. The sun, that rolls his chariot o'er their heads, Works up more fire and color in their cheeks. --Addison. (b) To expend in any work, as materials; as, they have worked up all the stock. (c) (Naut.) To make over or into something else, as yarns drawn from old rigging, made into spun yarn, foxes, sennit, and the like; also, to keep constantly at work upon needless matters, as a crew in order to punish them. --R. H. Dana, Jr. | |
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Work \Work\, n. 1. (Cricket) Break; twist. [Cant] 2. (Mech.) The causing of motion against a resisting force, measured by the product of the force into the component of the motion resolved along the direction of the force. Energy is the capacity of doing work. . . . Work is the transference of energy from one system to another. --Clerk Maxwell. 3. (Mining) Ore before it is dressed. | |
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Worry \Wor"ry\, n.; pl. {Worries}. A state of undue solicitude; a state of disturbance from care and anxiety; vexation; anxiety; fret; as, to be in a worry. [bd]The whir and worry of spindle and of loom.[b8] --Sir T. Browne. | |
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Worse \Worse\, n. 1. Loss; disadvantage; defeat. [bd]Judah was put to the worse before Israel.[b8] --Kings xiv. 12. 2. That which is worse; something less good; as, think not the worse of him for his enterprise. | |
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Worse \Worse\, adv. [AS. wiers, wyrs; akin to OS. & OHG. wirs, Icel. verr, Goth, wa[a1]rs; a comparative adverb with no corresponding positive. See {Worse}, a.] In a worse degree; in a manner more evil or bad. Now will we deal worse with thee than with them. --Gen. xix. 9. | |
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Worse \Worse\, v. t. [OE. wursien, AS. wyrsian to become worse.] To make worse; to put disadvantage; to discomfit; to worst. See {Worst}, v. Weapons more violent, when next we meet, May serve to better us and worse our foes. --Milton. | |
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Worse \Worse\, a., compar. of {Bad}. [OE. werse, worse, wurse, AS. wiersa, wyrsa, a comparative with no corresponding positive; akin to OS. wirsa, OFries. wirra, OHG. wirsiro, Icel. verri, Sw. v[84]rre, Dan. v[84]rre, Goth. wa[a1]rsiza, and probably to OHG. werran to bring into confusion, E. war, and L. verrere to sweep, sweep along. As bad has no comparative and superlative, worse and worst are used in lieu of them, although etymologically they have no relation to bad.] Bad, ill, evil, or corrupt, in a greater degree; more bad or evil; less good; specifically, in poorer health; more sick; -- used both in a physical and moral sense. Or worse, if men worse can devise. --Chaucer. [She] was nothing bettered, but rather grew worse. --Mark v. 26. Evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse. --2 Tim. iii. 13. There are men who seem to believe they are not bad while another can be found worse. --Rambler. [bd]But I love him.[b8] [bd]Love him? Worse and worse.[b8] --Gay. | |
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Bad \Bad\ (b[acr]d), a. [Compar. {Worse}; superl. {Worst}. ] [Probably fr. AS. b[91]ddel hermaphrodite; cf. b[91]dling effeminate fellow.] Wanting good qualities, whether physical or moral; injurious, hurtful, inconvenient, offensive, painful, unfavorable, or defective, either physically or morally; evil; vicious; wicked; -- the opposite of {good}; as, a bad man; bad conduct; bad habits; bad soil; bad health; bad crop; bad news. Note: Sometimes used substantively. The strong antipathy of good to bad. --Pope. Syn: Pernicious; deleterious; noxious; baneful; injurious; hurtful; evil; vile; wretched; corrupt; wicked; vicious; imperfect. | |
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Wrack \Wrack\, n. A thin, flying cloud; a rack. | |
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Wrack \Wrack\, n. [OE. wrak wreck. See {Wreck}.] 1. Wreck; ruin; destruction. [Obs.] --Chaucer. [bd]A world devote to universal wrack.[b8] --Milton. | |
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Wrack \Wrack\, v. t. To rack; to torment. [R.] | |
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Wrack \Wrack\, v. t. To wreck. [Obs.] --Dryden. | |
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Wreck \Wreck\, n. [OE. wrak, AS. wr[91]c exile, persecution, misery, from wrecan to drive out, punish; akin to D. wrak, adj., damaged, brittle, n., a wreck, wraken to reject, throw off, Icel. rek a thing drifted ashore, Sw. vrak refuse, a wreck, Dan. vrag. See {Wreak}, v. t., and cf. {Wrack} a marine plant.] [Written also {wrack}.] 1. The destruction or injury of a vessel by being cast on shore, or on rocks, or by being disabled or sunk by the force of winds or waves; shipwreck. Hard and obstinate As is a rock amidst the raging floods, 'Gainst which a ship, of succor desolate, Doth suffer wreck, both of herself and goods. --Spenser. 2. Destruction or injury of anything, especially by violence; ruin; as, the wreck of a railroad train. The wreck of matter and the crush of worlds. --Addison. Its intellectual life was thus able to go on amidst the wreck of its political life. --J. R. Green. 3. The ruins of a ship stranded; a ship dashed against rocks or land, and broken, or otherwise rendered useless, by violence and fracture; as, they burned the wreck. 4. The remain of anything ruined or fatally injured. To the fair haven of my native home, The wreck of what I was, fatigued I come. --Cowper. 5. (Law) Goods, etc., which, after a shipwreck, are cast upon the land by the sea. --Bouvier. | |
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Wrack \Wrack\, n. A thin, flying cloud; a rack. | |
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Wrack \Wrack\, n. [OE. wrak wreck. See {Wreck}.] 1. Wreck; ruin; destruction. [Obs.] --Chaucer. [bd]A world devote to universal wrack.[b8] --Milton. | |
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Wrack \Wrack\, v. t. To rack; to torment. [R.] | |
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Wrack \Wrack\, v. t. To wreck. [Obs.] --Dryden. | |
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Wreck \Wreck\, n. [OE. wrak, AS. wr[91]c exile, persecution, misery, from wrecan to drive out, punish; akin to D. wrak, adj., damaged, brittle, n., a wreck, wraken to reject, throw off, Icel. rek a thing drifted ashore, Sw. vrak refuse, a wreck, Dan. vrag. See {Wreak}, v. t., and cf. {Wrack} a marine plant.] [Written also {wrack}.] 1. The destruction or injury of a vessel by being cast on shore, or on rocks, or by being disabled or sunk by the force of winds or waves; shipwreck. Hard and obstinate As is a rock amidst the raging floods, 'Gainst which a ship, of succor desolate, Doth suffer wreck, both of herself and goods. --Spenser. 2. Destruction or injury of anything, especially by violence; ruin; as, the wreck of a railroad train. The wreck of matter and the crush of worlds. --Addison. Its intellectual life was thus able to go on amidst the wreck of its political life. --J. R. Green. 3. The ruins of a ship stranded; a ship dashed against rocks or land, and broken, or otherwise rendered useless, by violence and fracture; as, they burned the wreck. 4. The remain of anything ruined or fatally injured. To the fair haven of my native home, The wreck of what I was, fatigued I come. --Cowper. 5. (Law) Goods, etc., which, after a shipwreck, are cast upon the land by the sea. --Bouvier. | |
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Wrasse \Wrasse\, n. [W. gwrachen.] (Zo[94]l.) Any one of numerous edible, marine, spiny-finned fishes of the genus {Labrus}, of which several species are found in the Mediterranean and on the Atlantic coast of Europe. Many of the species are bright-colored. Note: Among the European species are the ballan wrasse ({Labrus maculatus}), the streaked wrasse ({L. lineatus}), the red wrasse ({L. mixtus}), the comber wrasse ({L. comber}), the blue-striped, or cook, wrasse (see {Peacock fish}, under {Peacock}), the rainbow wrasse ({L. vulgaris}), and the seawife. | |
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Wreak \Wreak\, n. [Cf. AS. wr[91]c exile, persecution, misery. See {Wreak}, v. t.] Revenge; vengeance; furious passion; resentment. [Obs.] --Shak. Spenser. | |
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Wreak \Wreak\, v. i. To reck; to care. [Obs.] --Shak. | |
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Wreak \Wreak\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Wreaked}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Wreaking}.] [OE. wrek[?][?] to revenge, punish, drive out, AS. wrecan; akin to OFries. wreka, OS. wrekan to punish, D. wreken to avenge, G. r[84]chen, OHG. rehhan, Icel. reka to drive, to take vengeance, Goth. wrikan to persecute, Lith. vargas distress, vargti to suffer distress, L. urgere to drive, urge, Gr. [?] to shut, Skr. [?] to turn away. Cf. {Urge}, {Wreck}, {Wretch}.] 1. To revenge; to avenge. [Archaic] He should wreake him on his foes. --Chaucer. Another's wrongs to wreak upon thyself. --Spenser. Come wreak his loss, whom bootless ye complain. --Fairfax. 2. To execute in vengeance or passion; to inflict; to hurl or drive; as, to wreak vengeance on an enemy. On me let Death wreak all his rage. --Milton. Now was the time to be avenged on his old enemy, to wreak a grudge of seventeen years. --Macaulay. But gather all thy powers, And wreak them on the verse that thou dost weave. --Bryant. | |
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Wrecche \Wrec"che\, n. A wretch. [Obs.] | |
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Wrecche \Wrec"che\, a. Wretched. [Obs.] --Chaucer. | |
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Wreche \Wreche\, n. Wreak. [Obs.] --Chaucer. | |
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Wreck \Wreck\, v. t. & n. See 2d & 3d {Wreak}. | |
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Wreck \Wreck\, n. [OE. wrak, AS. wr[91]c exile, persecution, misery, from wrecan to drive out, punish; akin to D. wrak, adj., damaged, brittle, n., a wreck, wraken to reject, throw off, Icel. rek a thing drifted ashore, Sw. vrak refuse, a wreck, Dan. vrag. See {Wreak}, v. t., and cf. {Wrack} a marine plant.] [Written also {wrack}.] 1. The destruction or injury of a vessel by being cast on shore, or on rocks, or by being disabled or sunk by the force of winds or waves; shipwreck. Hard and obstinate As is a rock amidst the raging floods, 'Gainst which a ship, of succor desolate, Doth suffer wreck, both of herself and goods. --Spenser. 2. Destruction or injury of anything, especially by violence; ruin; as, the wreck of a railroad train. The wreck of matter and the crush of worlds. --Addison. Its intellectual life was thus able to go on amidst the wreck of its political life. --J. R. Green. 3. The ruins of a ship stranded; a ship dashed against rocks or land, and broken, or otherwise rendered useless, by violence and fracture; as, they burned the wreck. 4. The remain of anything ruined or fatally injured. To the fair haven of my native home, The wreck of what I was, fatigued I come. --Cowper. 5. (Law) Goods, etc., which, after a shipwreck, are cast upon the land by the sea. --Bouvier. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Wreck \Wreck\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Wrecked}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Wrecking}.] 1. To destroy, disable, or seriously damage, as a vessel, by driving it against the shore or on rocks, by causing it to become unseaworthy, to founder, or the like; to shipwreck. Supposing that they saw the king's ship wrecked. --Shak. 2. To bring wreck or ruin upon by any kind of violence; to destroy, as a railroad train. 3. To involve in a wreck; hence, to cause to suffer ruin; to balk of success, and bring disaster on. Weak and envied, if they should conspire, They wreck themselves. --Daniel. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Wreck \Wreck\, v. i. 1. To suffer wreck or ruin. --Milton. 2. To work upon a wreck, as in saving property or lives, or in plundering. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Wreke \Wreke\ (r[emac]k), Wreeke \Wreeke\, v. t. See 2d {Wreak}. [Obs.] | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Wreke \Wreke\ (r[emac]k), Wreeke \Wreeke\, v. t. See 2d {Wreak}. [Obs.] | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Wrig \Wrig\, v. i. To wriggle. [Obs.] --Skelton. | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Warsaw, IL (city, FIPS 78942) Location: 40.35283 N, 91.42686 W Population (1990): 1882 (832 housing units) Area: 17.1 sq km (land), 2.3 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 62379 Warsaw, IN (city, FIPS 80306) Location: 41.23959 N, 85.84757 W Population (1990): 10968 (4498 housing units) Area: 24.4 sq km (land), 2.6 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 46580 Warsaw, KY (city, FIPS 80706) Location: 38.78530 N, 84.89480 W Population (1990): 1202 (537 housing units) Area: 2.5 sq km (land), 1.4 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 41095 Warsaw, MN Zip code(s): 55087 Warsaw, MO (city, FIPS 77146) Location: 38.24298 N, 93.37132 W Population (1990): 1696 (883 housing units) Area: 4.6 sq km (land), 0.5 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 65355 Warsaw, NC (town, FIPS 71160) Location: 34.99892 N, 78.08795 W Population (1990): 2859 (1199 housing units) Area: 6.6 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Warsaw, NY (village, FIPS 78333) Location: 42.74140 N, 78.14096 W Population (1990): 3830 (1467 housing units) Area: 10.7 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 14569 Warsaw, OH (village, FIPS 81032) Location: 40.33533 N, 82.00144 W Population (1990): 699 (291 housing units) Area: 1.0 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 43844 Warsaw, VA (town, FIPS 83168) Location: 37.96110 N, 76.76128 W Population (1990): 961 (370 housing units) Area: 4.0 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Warwick, GA (city, FIPS 80676) Location: 31.82985 N, 83.92037 W Population (1990): 501 (187 housing units) Area: 2.1 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 31796 Warwick, MD Zip code(s): 21912 Warwick, ND (city, FIPS 83580) Location: 47.85569 N, 98.70707 W Population (1990): 80 (49 housing units) Area: 1.7 sq km (land), 0.9 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 58381 Warwick, NY (village, FIPS 78355) Location: 41.25617 N, 74.35551 W Population (1990): 5984 (2415 housing units) Area: 5.6 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 10990 Warwick, OK (town, FIPS 78650) Location: 35.68748 N, 96.99997 W Population (1990): 160 (75 housing units) Area: 7.1 sq km (land), 0.1 sq km (water) Warwick, RI (city, FIPS 74300) Location: 41.70220 N, 71.42185 W Population (1990): 85427 (35141 housing units) Area: 92.0 sq km (land), 36.6 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 02886, 02888, 02889 | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Waurika, OK (city, FIPS 79250) Location: 34.18654 N, 98.02227 W Population (1990): 2088 (1027 housing units) Area: 30.4 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 73573 | |
From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]: | |
warez /weirz/ n. Widely used in {cracker} subcultures to denote cracked version of commercial software, that is versions from which copy-protection has been stripped. Hackers recognize this term but don't use it themselves. See {warez d00dz}. | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
warez /weirz/ A term used by {software pirate}s use to describe a cracked game or application that is made available to the {Internet}, usually via {FTP} or {telnet}, often the pirate will make use of a site with lax security. Software piracy is illegal and should be reported to the {Federation Against Software Theft} (FAST). (1994-11-29) |