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English Dictionary: way by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
way
adv
  1. to a great degree or by a great distance; very much (`right smart' is regional in the United States); "way over budget"; "way off base"; "the other side of the hill is right smart steeper than the side we are on"
    Synonym(s): way, right smart
n
  1. how something is done or how it happens; "her dignified manner"; "his rapid manner of talking"; "their nomadic mode of existence"; "in the characteristic New York style"; "a lonely way of life"; "in an abrasive fashion"
    Synonym(s): manner, mode, style, way, fashion
  2. how a result is obtained or an end is achieved; "a means of control"; "an example is the best agency of instruction"; "the true way to success"
    Synonym(s): means, agency, way
  3. a line leading to a place or point; "he looked the other direction"; "didn't know the way home"
    Synonym(s): direction, way
  4. the condition of things generally; "that's the way it is"; "I felt the same way"
  5. a course of conduct; "the path of virtue"; "we went our separate ways"; "our paths in life led us apart"; "genius usually follows a revolutionary path"
    Synonym(s): way, path, way of life
  6. any artifact consisting of a road or path affording passage from one place to another; "he said he was looking for the way out"
  7. a journey or passage; "they are on the way"
  8. space for movement; "room to pass"; "make way for"; "hardly enough elbow room to turn around"
    Synonym(s): room, way, elbow room
  9. the property of distance in general; "it's a long way to Moscow"; "he went a long ways"
  10. doing as one pleases or chooses; "if I had my way"
  11. a general category of things; used in the expression `in the way of'; "they didn't have much in the way of clothing"
  12. a portion of something divided into shares; "they split the loot three ways"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Way \Way\, n. [OE. wey, way, AS. weg; akin to OS., D., OHG., &
      G. weg, Icel. vegr, Sw. v[84]g, Dan. vei, Goth. wigs, L. via,
      and AS. wegan to move, L. vehere to carry, Skr. vah.
      [root]136. Cf. {Convex}, {Inveigh}, {Vehicle}, {Vex}, {Via},
      {Voyage}, {Wag}, {Wagon}, {Wee}, {Weigh}.]
      1. That by, upon, or along, which one passes or processes;
            opportunity or room to pass; place of passing; passage;
            road, street, track, or path of any kind; as, they built a
            way to the mine. [bd]To find the way to heaven.[b8]
            --Shak.
  
                     I shall him seek by way and eke by street.
                                                                              --Chaucer.
  
                     The way seems difficult, and steep to scale.
                                                                              --Milton.
  
                     The season and ways were very improper for his
                     majesty's forces to march so great a distance.
                                                                              --Evelyn.
  
      2. Length of space; distance; interval; as, a great way; a
            long way.
  
                     And whenever the way seemed long, Or his heart began
                     to fail.                                             --Longfellow.
  
      3. A moving; passage; procession; journey.
  
                     I prythee, now, lead the way.            --Shak.
  
      4. Course or direction of motion or process; tendency of
            action; advance.
  
                     If that way be your walk, you have not far.
                                                                              --Milton.
  
                     And let eternal justice take the way. --Dryden.
  
      5. The means by which anything is reached, or anything is
            accomplished; scheme; device; plan.
  
                     My best way is to creep under his gaberdine. --Shak.
  
                     By noble ways we conquest will prepare. --Dryden.
  
                     What impious ways my wishes took!      --Prior.
  
      6. Manner; method; mode; fashion; style; as, the way of
            expressing one's ideas.
  
      7. Regular course; habitual method of life or action; plan of
            conduct; mode of dealing. [bd]Having lost the way of
            nobleness.[b8] --Sir. P. Sidney.
  
                     Her ways are ways of pleasantness, and all her paths
                     are peace.                                          --Prov. iii.
                                                                              17.
  
                     When men lived in a grander way.         --Longfellow.
  
      8. Sphere or scope of observation. --Jer. Taylor.
  
                     The public ministers that fell in my way. --Sir W.
                                                                              Temple.
  
      9. Determined course; resolved mode of action or conduct; as,
            to have one's way.
  
      10. (Naut.)
            (a) Progress; as, a ship has way.
            (b) pl. The timbers on which a ship is launched.
  
      11. pl. (Mach.) The longitudinal guides, or guiding surfaces,
            on the bed of a planer, lathe, or the like, along which a
            table or carriage moves.
  
      12. (Law) Right of way. See below.
  
      {By the way}, in passing; apropos; aside; apart from, though
            connected with, the main object or subject of discourse.
           
  
      {By way of}, for the purpose of; as being; in character of.
           
  
      {Covert way}. (Fort.) See {Covered way}, under {Covered}.
  
      {In the family way}. See under {Family}.
  
      {In the way}, so as to meet, fall in with, obstruct, hinder,
            etc.
  
      {In the way with}, traveling or going with; meeting or being
            with; in the presence of.
  
      {Milky way}. (Astron.) See {Galaxy}, 1.
  
      {No way}, {No ways}. See {Noway}, {Noways}, in the
            Vocabulary.
  
      {On the way}, traveling or going; hence, in process;
            advancing toward completion; as, on the way to this
            country; on the way to success.
  
      {Out of the way}. See under {Out}.
  
      {Right of way} (Law), a right of private passage over
            another's ground. It may arise either by grant or
            prescription. It may be attached to a house, entry, gate,
            well, or city lot, as well as to a country farm. --Kent.
           
  
      {To be under way}, [or] {To have way} (Naut.), to be in
            motion, as when a ship begins to move.
  
      {To give way}. See under {Give}.
  
      {To go one's way}, [or] {To come one's way}, to go or come;
            to depart or come along. --Shak.
  
      {To go the way of all the earth}, to die.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Way \Way\, adv. [Aphetic form of away.]
      Away. [Obs. or Archaic] --Chaucer.
  
      {To do way}, to take away; to remove. [Obs.] [bd]Do way your
            hands.[b8] --Chaucer.
  
      {To make way with}, to make away with. See under {Away}.
            [Archaic]

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Way \Way\, v. t.
      To go or travel to; to go in, as a way or path. [Obs.] [bd]In
      land not wayed.[b8] --Wyclif.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Way \Way\, v. i.
      To move; to progress; to go. [R.]
  
               On a time as they together wayed.            --Spenser.
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