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   Wilhelm Apollinaris de Kostrowitzki
         n 1: French poet; precursor of surrealism (1880-1918) [syn:
               {Apollinaire}, {Guillaume Apollinaire}, {Wilhelm
               Apollinaris de Kostrowitzki}]

English Dictionary: Wilhelm Richard Wagner by the DICT Development Group
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Wilhelm Eduard Weber
n
  1. German physicist and brother of E. H. Weber; noted for his studies of terrestrial magnetism (1804-1891)
    Synonym(s): Weber, Wilhelm Eduard Weber
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Wilhelm Grimm
n
  1. the younger of the two Grimm brothers remembered best for their fairy stories (1786-1859)
    Synonym(s): Grimm, Wilhelm Grimm, Wilhelm Karl Grimm
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Wilhelm II
n
  1. grandson of Queen Victoria and Kaiser of Germany from 1888 to 1918; he was vilified as causing World War I (1859-1941)
    Synonym(s): Wilhelm II, Kaiser Wilhelm, Kaiser Bill
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Wilhelm Karl Grimm
n
  1. the younger of the two Grimm brothers remembered best for their fairy stories (1786-1859)
    Synonym(s): Grimm, Wilhelm Grimm, Wilhelm Karl Grimm
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Wilhelm Konrad Roentgen
n
  1. German physicist who discovered x-rays and developed roentgenography (1845-1923)
    Synonym(s): Roentgen, Wilhelm Konrad Roentgen, Rontgen, Wilhelm Konrad Rontgen
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Wilhelm Konrad Rontgen
n
  1. German physicist who discovered x-rays and developed roentgenography (1845-1923)
    Synonym(s): Roentgen, Wilhelm Konrad Roentgen, Rontgen, Wilhelm Konrad Rontgen
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Wilhelm Ostwald
n
  1. German chemist (1853-1932) [syn: Ostwald, {Wilhelm Ostwald}]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Wilhelm Reich
n
  1. Austrian born psychoanalyst who lived in the United States; advocated sexual freedom and believed that cosmic energy could be concentrated in a human being (1897-1957)
    Synonym(s): Reich, Wilhelm Reich
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Wilhelm Richard Wagner
n
  1. German composer of operas and inventor of the musical drama in which drama and spectacle and music are fused (1813-1883)
    Synonym(s): Wagner, Richard Wagner, Wilhelm Richard Wagner
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Wilhelm von Opel
n
  1. German industrialist who was the first in Germany to use an assembly line in manufacturing automobiles (1871-1948)
    Synonym(s): Opel, Wilhelm von Opel
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Whole-length \Whole"-length`\, a.
      Representing the whole figure; -- said of a picture or
      statue. -- n. A portrait or statue representing the whole
      figure.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Woolly \Wool"ly\, a.
      1. Consisting of wool; as, a woolly covering; a woolly
            fleece.
  
      2. Resembling wool; of the nature of wool. [bd]My fleece of
            woolly hair.[b8] --Shak.
  
      3. Clothed with wool. [bd]Woolly breeders.[b8] --Shak.
  
      4. (Bot.) Clothed with a fine, curly pubescence resembling
            wool.
  
      {Woolly bear} (Zo[94]l.), the hairy larva of several species
            of bombycid moths. The most common species in the United
            States are the salt-marsh caterpillar (see under {Salt}),
            the black and red woolly bear, or larva of the Isabella
            moth (see Illust., under {Isabella Moth}), and the yellow
            woolly bear, or larva of the American ermine moth
            ({Spilosoma Virginica}).
  
      {Woolly butt} (Bot.), an Australian tree ({Eucalyptus
            longifolia}), so named because of its fibrous bark.
  
      {Woolly louse} (Zo[94]l.), a plant louse ({Schizoneura, [or]
            Erisoma, lanigera}) which is often very injurious to the
            apple tree. It is covered with a dense coat of white
            filaments somewhat resembling fine wool or cotton. In
            exists in two forms, one of which infests the roots, the
            other the branches. See Illust. under {Blight}.
  
      {Woolly macaco} (Zo[94]l.), the mongoose lemur.
  
      {Woolly maki} (Zo[94]l.), a long-tailed lemur ({Indris
            laniger}) native of Madagascar, having fur somewhat like
            wool; -- called also {avahi}, and {woolly lemur}.
  
      {Woolly monkey} (Zo[94]l.), any South American monkey of the
            genus {Lagothrix}, as the caparro.
  
      {Woolly rhinoceros} (Paleon.), an extinct rhinoceros
            ({Rhinoceros tichorhinus}) which inhabited the arctic
            regions, and was covered with a dense coat of woolly hair.
            It has been found frozen in the ice of Siberia, with the
            flesh and hair well preserved.
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