English Dictionary: Wertedefinition | by the DICT Development Group |
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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Knife \Knife\, n.; pl. {Knives}. [OE. knif, AS. cn[c6]f; akin to D. knijf, Icel. kn[c6]fr, Sw. knif, Dan. kniv.] 1. An instrument consisting of a thin blade, usually of steel and having a sharp edge for cutting, fastened to a handle, but of many different forms and names for different uses; as, table knife, drawing knife, putty knife, pallet knife, pocketknife, penknife, chopping knife, etc.. 2. A sword or dagger. The coward conquest of a wretch's knife. --Shak. {Knife grass} (Bot.) a tropical American sedge ({Scleria latifolia}), having leaves with a very sharp and hard edge, like a knife. {War to the knife}, mortal combat; a conflict carried to the last extremity. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Ward \Ward\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Warded}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Warding}.] [OE. wardien, AS. weardian to keep, protect; akin to OS. ward[?]n to watch, take care, OFries. wardia, OHG. wart[?]n, G. warten to wait, wait on, attend to, Icel. var[?]a to guarantee defend, Sw. v[86]rda to guard, to watch; cf. OF. warder, of German origin. See {Ward}, n., and cf. {Award}, {Guard}, {Reward}.] 1. To keep in safety; to watch; to guard; formerly, in a specific sense, to guard during the day time. Whose gates he found fast shut, no living wight To ward the same. --Spenser. 2. To defend; to protect. Tell him it was a hand that warded him From thousand dangers. --Shak. 3. To defend by walls, fortifications, etc. [Obs.] 4. To fend off; to repel; to turn aside, as anything mischievous that approaches; -- usually followed by off. Now wards a felling blow, now strikes again. --Daniel. The pointed javelin warded off his rage. --Addison. It instructs the scholar in the various methods of warding off the force of objections. --I. Watts. | |
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Warted \Wart"ed\, a. (Bot.) Having little knobs on the surface; verrucose; as, a warted capsule. | |
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Wartweed \Wart"weed`\, n. (Bot.) Same as {Wartwort}. | |
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Word \Word\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Worded}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Wording}.] 1. To express in words; to phrase. The apology for the king is the same, but worded with greater deference to that great prince. --Addison. 2. To ply with words; also, to cause to be by the use of a word or words. [Obs.] --Howell. 3. To flatter with words; to cajole. [Obs.] --Shak. {To word it}, to bandy words; to dispute. [Obs.] [bd]To word it with a shrew.[b8] --L'Estrange. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Worth \Worth\, a. [OE. worth, wur[ed], AS. weor[eb], wurE; akin to OFries. werth, OS. wer[eb], D. waard, OHG. werd, G. wert, werth, Icel. ver[eb]r, Sw. v[84]rd, Dan. v[91]rd, Goth. wa[a1]rps, and perhaps to E. wary. Cf. {Stalwart}, {Ware} an article of merchandise, {Worship}.] 1. Valuable; of worthy; estimable; also, worth while. [Obs.] It was not worth to make it wise. --Chaucer. 2. Equal in value to; furnishing an equivalent for; proper to be exchanged for. A ring he hath of mine worth forty ducats. --Shak. All our doings without charity are nothing worth. --Bk. of Com. Prayer. If your arguments produce no conviction, they are worth nothing to me. --Beattie. 3. Deserving of; -- in a good or bad sense, but chiefly in a good sense. To reign is worth ambition, though in hell. --Milton. This is life indeed, life worth preserving. --Addison. 4. Having possessions equal to; having wealth or estate to the value of. At Geneva are merchants reckoned worth twenty hundred crowns. --Addison. {Worth while}, [or] {Worth the while}. See under {While}, n. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Wreathe \Wreathe\, v. t. [imp. {Wreathed}; p. p. {Wreathed}; Archaic {Wreathen}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Wreathing}.] [See {Wreath}, n.] [Written also {wreath}.] 1. To cause to revolve or writhe; to twist about; to turn. [Obs.] And from so heavy sight his head did wreathe. --Spenser. 2. To twist; to convolve; to wind one about another; to entwine. The nods and smiles of recognition into which this singular physiognomy was wreathed. --Sir W. Scott. From his slack hand the garland wreathed for Eve Down dropped. --Milton. 3. To surround with anything twisted or convolved; to encircle; to infold. Each wreathed in the other's arms. --Shak. Dusk faces with withe silken turbants wreathed. --Milton. And with thy winding ivy wreathes her lance. --Dryden. 4. To twine or twist about; to surround; to encircle. In the flowers that wreathe the sparkling bowl, Fell adders hiss. --Prior. | |
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Writative \Writ"a*tive\, a. Inclined to much writing; -- correlative to talkative. [R.] --Pope. | |
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Writhe \Writhe\, v. t. [imp. {Writhed}; p. p. {Writhed}, Obs. or Poetic {Writhen}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Writhing}.] [OE. writhen, AS. wr[c6][?]an to twist; akin to OHG. r[c6]dan, Icel. r[c6][?]a, Sw. vrida, Dan. vride. Cf. {Wreathe}, {Wrest}, {Wroth}.] 1. To twist; to turn; now, usually, to twist or turn so as to distort; to wring. [bd]With writhing [turning] of a pin.[b8] --Chaucer. Then Satan first knew pain, And writhed him to and fro. --Milton. Her mouth she writhed, her forehead taught to frown. --Dryden. His battle-writhen arms, and mighty hands. --Tennyson. 2. To wrest; to distort; to pervert. The reason which he yieldeth showeth the least part of his meaning to be that whereunto his words are writhed. --Hooker. 3. To extort; to wring; to wrest. [R.] | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
write-through which data is written to main memory at the same time as it is cached. Opposite of {write-back}. See also {buffered write-through}, {posted write-through}, {no-write allocation}. (1996-06-12) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
write-thru {write-through} |