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   wake-robin
         n 1: any liliaceous plant of the genus Trillium having a whorl
               of three leaves at the top of the stem with a single three-
               petaled flower [syn: {trillium}, {wood lily}, {wake-robin}]
         2: common American spring-flowering woodland herb having
            sheathing leaves and an upright club-shaped spadix with
            overarching green and purple spathe producing scarlet berries
            [syn: {jack-in-the-pulpit}, {Indian turnip}, {wake-robin},
            {Arisaema triphyllum}, {Arisaema atrorubens}]

English Dictionary: wake-robin by the DICT Development Group
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Weser River
n
  1. a river in northwestern Germany that flows northward to the North Sea near Bremerhaven
    Synonym(s): Weser, Weser River
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
wicker basket
n
  1. a basket made of wickerwork
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Wager \Wa"ger\, n. [OE. wager, wajour, OF. wagiere, or wageure,
      E. gageure. See {Wage}, v. t.]
      1. Something deposited, laid, or hazarded on the event of a
            contest or an unsettled question; a bet; a stake; a
            pledge.
  
                     Besides these plates for horse races, the wagers may
                     be as the persons please.                  --Sir W.
                                                                              Temple.
  
                     If any atheist can stake his soul for a wager
                     against such an inexhaustible disproportion, let him
                     never hereafter accuse others of credulity.
                                                                              --Bentley.
  
      2. (Law) A contract by which two parties or more agree that a
            certain sum of money, or other thing, shall be paid or
            delivered to one of them, on the happening or not
            happening of an uncertain event. --Bouvier.
  
      Note: At common law a wager is considered as a legal contract
               which the courts must enforce unless it be on a subject
               contrary to public policy, or immoral, or tending to
               the detriment of the public, or affecting the interest,
               feelings, or character of a third person. In many of
               the United States an action can not be sustained upon
               any wager or bet. --Chitty. --Bouvier.
  
      3. That on which bets are laid; the subject of a bet.
  
      {Wager of battel}, [or] {Wager of battle} (O. Eng. Law), the
            giving of gage, or pledge, for trying a cause by single
            combat, formerly allowed in military, criminal, and civil
            causes. In writs of right, where the trial was by
            champions, the tenant produced his champion, who, by
            throwing down his glove as a gage, thus waged, or
            stipulated, battle with the champion of the demandant,
            who, by taking up the glove, accepted the challenge. The
            wager of battel, which has been long in disuse, was
            abolished in England in 1819, by a statute passed in
            consequence of a defendant's having waged his battle in a
            case which arose about that period. See {Battel}.
  
      {Wager of law} (Law), the giving of gage, or sureties, by a
            defendant in an action of debt, that at a certain day
            assigned he would take a law, or oath, in open court, that
            he did not owe the debt, and at the same time bring with
            him eleven neighbors (called compurgators), who should
            avow upon their oaths that they believed in their
            consciences that he spoke the truth.
  
      {Wager policy}. (Insurance Law) See under {Policy}.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Wager \Wa"ger\, n. [OE. wager, wajour, OF. wagiere, or wageure,
      E. gageure. See {Wage}, v. t.]
      1. Something deposited, laid, or hazarded on the event of a
            contest or an unsettled question; a bet; a stake; a
            pledge.
  
                     Besides these plates for horse races, the wagers may
                     be as the persons please.                  --Sir W.
                                                                              Temple.
  
                     If any atheist can stake his soul for a wager
                     against such an inexhaustible disproportion, let him
                     never hereafter accuse others of credulity.
                                                                              --Bentley.
  
      2. (Law) A contract by which two parties or more agree that a
            certain sum of money, or other thing, shall be paid or
            delivered to one of them, on the happening or not
            happening of an uncertain event. --Bouvier.
  
      Note: At common law a wager is considered as a legal contract
               which the courts must enforce unless it be on a subject
               contrary to public policy, or immoral, or tending to
               the detriment of the public, or affecting the interest,
               feelings, or character of a third person. In many of
               the United States an action can not be sustained upon
               any wager or bet. --Chitty. --Bouvier.
  
      3. That on which bets are laid; the subject of a bet.
  
      {Wager of battel}, [or] {Wager of battle} (O. Eng. Law), the
            giving of gage, or pledge, for trying a cause by single
            combat, formerly allowed in military, criminal, and civil
            causes. In writs of right, where the trial was by
            champions, the tenant produced his champion, who, by
            throwing down his glove as a gage, thus waged, or
            stipulated, battle with the champion of the demandant,
            who, by taking up the glove, accepted the challenge. The
            wager of battel, which has been long in disuse, was
            abolished in England in 1819, by a statute passed in
            consequence of a defendant's having waged his battle in a
            case which arose about that period. See {Battel}.
  
      {Wager of law} (Law), the giving of gage, or sureties, by a
            defendant in an action of debt, that at a certain day
            assigned he would take a law, or oath, in open court, that
            he did not owe the debt, and at the same time bring with
            him eleven neighbors (called compurgators), who should
            avow upon their oaths that they believed in their
            consciences that he spoke the truth.
  
      {Wager policy}. (Insurance Law) See under {Policy}.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Battle \Bat"tle\, n. [OE. bataille, bataile, F. bataille battle,
      OF., battle, battalion, fr. L. battalia, battualia, the
      fighting and fencing exercises of soldiers and gladiators,
      fr. batuere to strike, beat. Cf. {Battalia}, 1st {Battel},
      and see {Batter}, v. t. ]
      1. A general action, fight, or encounter, in which all the
            divisions of an army are or may be engaged; an engagement;
            a combat.
  
      2. A struggle; a contest; as, the battle of life.
  
                     The whole intellectual battle that had at its center
                     the best poem of the best poet of that day. --H.
                                                                              Morley.
  
      3. A division of an army; a battalion. [Obs.]
  
                     The king divided his army into three battles.
                                                                              --Bacon.
  
                     The cavalry, by way of distinction, was called the
                     battle, and on it alone depended the fate of every
                     action.                                             --Robertson.
  
      4. The main body, as distinct from the van and rear;
            battalia. [Obs.] --Hayward.
  
      Note: Battle is used adjectively or as the first part of a
               self-explaining compound; as, battle brand, a
               [bd]brand[b8] or sword used in battle; battle cry;
               battlefield; battle ground; battlearray; battle song.
  
      {Battle piece}, a painting, or a musical composition,
            representing a battle.
  
      {Battle royal}.
            (a) A fight between several gamecocks, where the one that
                  stands longest is the victor. --Grose.
            (b) A contest with fists or cudgels in which more than two
                  are engaged; a m[88]l[82]e. --Thackeray.
  
      {Drawn battle}, one in which neither party gains the victory.
           
  
      {To give battle}, to attack an enemy.
  
      {To join battle}, to meet the attack; to engage in battle.
  
      {Pitched battle}, one in which the armies are previously
            drawn up in form, with a regular disposition of the
            forces.
  
      {Wager of battle}. See under {Wager}, n.
  
      Syn: Conflict; encounter; contest; action.
  
      Usage: {Battle}, {Combat}, {Fight}, {Engagement}. These words
                  agree in denoting a close encounter between contending
                  parties. Fight is a word of less dignity than the
                  others. Except in poetry, it is more naturally applied
                  to the encounter of a few individuals, and more
                  commonly an accidental one; as, a street fight. A
                  combat is a close encounter, whether between few or
                  many, and is usually premeditated. A battle is
                  commonly more general and prolonged. An engagement
                  supposes large numbers on each side, engaged or
                  intermingled in the conflict.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
  
  
      {Law of Charles} (Physics), the law that the volume of a
            given mass of gas increases or decreases, by a definite
            fraction of its value for a given rise or fall of
            temperature; -- sometimes less correctly styled {Gay
            Lussac's law}, or {Dalton's law}.
  
      {Law of nations}. See {International law}, under
            {International}.
  
      {Law of nature}.
            (a) A broad generalization expressive of the constant
                  action, or effect, of natural conditions; as, death
                  is a law of nature; self-defense is a law of nature.
                  See {Law}, 4.
            (b) A term denoting the standard, or system, of morality
                  deducible from a study of the nature and natural
                  relations of human beings independent of supernatural
                  revelation or of municipal and social usages.
  
      {Law of the land}, due process of law; the general law of the
            land.
  
      {Laws of honor}. See under {Honor}.
  
      {Laws of motion} (Physics), three laws defined by Sir Isaac
            Newton: (1) Every body perseveres in its state of rest or
            of moving uniformly in a straight line, except so far as
            it is made to change that state by external force. (2)
            Change of motion is proportional to the impressed force,
            and takes place in the direction in which the force is
            impressed. (3) Reaction is always equal and opposite to
            action, that is to say, the actions of two bodies upon
            each other are always equal and in opposite directions.
  
      {Marine law}, or {Maritime law}, the law of the sea; a branch
            of the law merchant relating to the affairs of the sea,
            such as seamen, ships, shipping, navigation, and the like.
            --Bouvier.
  
      {Mariotte's law}. See {Boyle's law} (above).
  
      {Martial law}.See under {Martial}.
  
      {Military law}, a branch of the general municipal law,
            consisting of rules ordained for the government of the
            military force of a state in peace and war, and
            administered in courts martial. --Kent. Warren's
            Blackstone.
  
      {Moral law},the law of duty as regards what is right and
            wrong in the sight of God; specifically, the ten
            commandments given by Moses. See {Law}, 2.
  
      {Mosaic}, [or] {Ceremonial}, {law}. (Script.) See {Law}, 3.
           
  
      {Municipal}, [or] {Positive}, {law}, a rule prescribed by the
            supreme power of a state, declaring some right, enforcing
            some duty, or prohibiting some act; -- distinguished from
            international and constitutional law. See {Law}, 1.
  
      {Periodic law}. (Chem.) See under {Periodic}.
  
      {Roman law}, the system of principles and laws found in the
            codes and treatises of the lawmakers and jurists of
            ancient Rome, and incorporated more or less into the laws
            of the several European countries and colonies founded by
            them. See {Civil law} (above).
  
      {Statute law}, the law as stated in statutes or positive
            enactments of the legislative body.
  
      {Sumptuary law}. See under {Sumptuary}.
  
      {To go to law}, to seek a settlement of any matter by
            bringing it before the courts of law; to sue or prosecute
            some one.
  
      {To} {take, [or] have}, {the law of}, to bring the law to
            bear upon; as, to take the law of one's neighbor.
            --Addison.
  
      {Wager of law}. See under {Wager}.
  
      Syn: Justice; equity.
  
      Usage: {Law}, {Statute}, {Common law}, {Regulation}, {Edict},
                  {Decree}. Law is generic, and, when used with
                  reference to, or in connection with, the other words
                  here considered, denotes whatever is commanded by one
                  who has a right to require obedience. A statute is a
                  particular law drawn out in form, and distinctly
                  enacted and proclaimed. Common law is a rule of action
                  founded on long usage and the decisions of courts of
                  justice. A regulation is a limited and often,
                  temporary law, intended to secure some particular end
                  or object. An edict is a command or law issued by a
                  sovereign, and is peculiar to a despotic government. A
                  decree is a permanent order either of a court or of
                  the executive government. See {Justice}.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Wager \Wa"ger\, n. [OE. wager, wajour, OF. wagiere, or wageure,
      E. gageure. See {Wage}, v. t.]
      1. Something deposited, laid, or hazarded on the event of a
            contest or an unsettled question; a bet; a stake; a
            pledge.
  
                     Besides these plates for horse races, the wagers may
                     be as the persons please.                  --Sir W.
                                                                              Temple.
  
                     If any atheist can stake his soul for a wager
                     against such an inexhaustible disproportion, let him
                     never hereafter accuse others of credulity.
                                                                              --Bentley.
  
      2. (Law) A contract by which two parties or more agree that a
            certain sum of money, or other thing, shall be paid or
            delivered to one of them, on the happening or not
            happening of an uncertain event. --Bouvier.
  
      Note: At common law a wager is considered as a legal contract
               which the courts must enforce unless it be on a subject
               contrary to public policy, or immoral, or tending to
               the detriment of the public, or affecting the interest,
               feelings, or character of a third person. In many of
               the United States an action can not be sustained upon
               any wager or bet. --Chitty. --Bouvier.
  
      3. That on which bets are laid; the subject of a bet.
  
      {Wager of battel}, [or] {Wager of battle} (O. Eng. Law), the
            giving of gage, or pledge, for trying a cause by single
            combat, formerly allowed in military, criminal, and civil
            causes. In writs of right, where the trial was by
            champions, the tenant produced his champion, who, by
            throwing down his glove as a gage, thus waged, or
            stipulated, battle with the champion of the demandant,
            who, by taking up the glove, accepted the challenge. The
            wager of battel, which has been long in disuse, was
            abolished in England in 1819, by a statute passed in
            consequence of a defendant's having waged his battle in a
            case which arose about that period. See {Battel}.
  
      {Wager of law} (Law), the giving of gage, or sureties, by a
            defendant in an action of debt, that at a certain day
            assigned he would take a law, or oath, in open court, that
            he did not owe the debt, and at the same time bring with
            him eleven neighbors (called compurgators), who should
            avow upon their oaths that they believed in their
            consciences that he spoke the truth.
  
      {Wager policy}. (Insurance Law) See under {Policy}.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Compurgation \Com`pur*ga"tion\, n. [L. compurgatio, fr.
      compurgare to purify wholly; com- + purgare to make pure. See
      Purge, v. t.]
      1. (Law) The act or practice of justifying or confirming a
            man's veracity by the oath of others; -- called also
            {wager of law}. See {Purgation}; also {Wager of law},
            under {Wager}.
  
      2. Exculpation by testimony to one's veracity or innocence.
  
                     He was privileged from his childhood from suspicion
                     of incontinency and needed no compurgation. --Bp.
                                                                              Hacket.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
  
  
      {Law of Charles} (Physics), the law that the volume of a
            given mass of gas increases or decreases, by a definite
            fraction of its value for a given rise or fall of
            temperature; -- sometimes less correctly styled {Gay
            Lussac's law}, or {Dalton's law}.
  
      {Law of nations}. See {International law}, under
            {International}.
  
      {Law of nature}.
            (a) A broad generalization expressive of the constant
                  action, or effect, of natural conditions; as, death
                  is a law of nature; self-defense is a law of nature.
                  See {Law}, 4.
            (b) A term denoting the standard, or system, of morality
                  deducible from a study of the nature and natural
                  relations of human beings independent of supernatural
                  revelation or of municipal and social usages.
  
      {Law of the land}, due process of law; the general law of the
            land.
  
      {Laws of honor}. See under {Honor}.
  
      {Laws of motion} (Physics), three laws defined by Sir Isaac
            Newton: (1) Every body perseveres in its state of rest or
            of moving uniformly in a straight line, except so far as
            it is made to change that state by external force. (2)
            Change of motion is proportional to the impressed force,
            and takes place in the direction in which the force is
            impressed. (3) Reaction is always equal and opposite to
            action, that is to say, the actions of two bodies upon
            each other are always equal and in opposite directions.
  
      {Marine law}, or {Maritime law}, the law of the sea; a branch
            of the law merchant relating to the affairs of the sea,
            such as seamen, ships, shipping, navigation, and the like.
            --Bouvier.
  
      {Mariotte's law}. See {Boyle's law} (above).
  
      {Martial law}.See under {Martial}.
  
      {Military law}, a branch of the general municipal law,
            consisting of rules ordained for the government of the
            military force of a state in peace and war, and
            administered in courts martial. --Kent. Warren's
            Blackstone.
  
      {Moral law},the law of duty as regards what is right and
            wrong in the sight of God; specifically, the ten
            commandments given by Moses. See {Law}, 2.
  
      {Mosaic}, [or] {Ceremonial}, {law}. (Script.) See {Law}, 3.
           
  
      {Municipal}, [or] {Positive}, {law}, a rule prescribed by the
            supreme power of a state, declaring some right, enforcing
            some duty, or prohibiting some act; -- distinguished from
            international and constitutional law. See {Law}, 1.
  
      {Periodic law}. (Chem.) See under {Periodic}.
  
      {Roman law}, the system of principles and laws found in the
            codes and treatises of the lawmakers and jurists of
            ancient Rome, and incorporated more or less into the laws
            of the several European countries and colonies founded by
            them. See {Civil law} (above).
  
      {Statute law}, the law as stated in statutes or positive
            enactments of the legislative body.
  
      {Sumptuary law}. See under {Sumptuary}.
  
      {To go to law}, to seek a settlement of any matter by
            bringing it before the courts of law; to sue or prosecute
            some one.
  
      {To} {take, [or] have}, {the law of}, to bring the law to
            bear upon; as, to take the law of one's neighbor.
            --Addison.
  
      {Wager of law}. See under {Wager}.
  
      Syn: Justice; equity.
  
      Usage: {Law}, {Statute}, {Common law}, {Regulation}, {Edict},
                  {Decree}. Law is generic, and, when used with
                  reference to, or in connection with, the other words
                  here considered, denotes whatever is commanded by one
                  who has a right to require obedience. A statute is a
                  particular law drawn out in form, and distinctly
                  enacted and proclaimed. Common law is a rule of action
                  founded on long usage and the decisions of courts of
                  justice. A regulation is a limited and often,
                  temporary law, intended to secure some particular end
                  or object. An edict is a command or law issued by a
                  sovereign, and is peculiar to a despotic government. A
                  decree is a permanent order either of a court or of
                  the executive government. See {Justice}.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Wager \Wa"ger\, n. [OE. wager, wajour, OF. wagiere, or wageure,
      E. gageure. See {Wage}, v. t.]
      1. Something deposited, laid, or hazarded on the event of a
            contest or an unsettled question; a bet; a stake; a
            pledge.
  
                     Besides these plates for horse races, the wagers may
                     be as the persons please.                  --Sir W.
                                                                              Temple.
  
                     If any atheist can stake his soul for a wager
                     against such an inexhaustible disproportion, let him
                     never hereafter accuse others of credulity.
                                                                              --Bentley.
  
      2. (Law) A contract by which two parties or more agree that a
            certain sum of money, or other thing, shall be paid or
            delivered to one of them, on the happening or not
            happening of an uncertain event. --Bouvier.
  
      Note: At common law a wager is considered as a legal contract
               which the courts must enforce unless it be on a subject
               contrary to public policy, or immoral, or tending to
               the detriment of the public, or affecting the interest,
               feelings, or character of a third person. In many of
               the United States an action can not be sustained upon
               any wager or bet. --Chitty. --Bouvier.
  
      3. That on which bets are laid; the subject of a bet.
  
      {Wager of battel}, [or] {Wager of battle} (O. Eng. Law), the
            giving of gage, or pledge, for trying a cause by single
            combat, formerly allowed in military, criminal, and civil
            causes. In writs of right, where the trial was by
            champions, the tenant produced his champion, who, by
            throwing down his glove as a gage, thus waged, or
            stipulated, battle with the champion of the demandant,
            who, by taking up the glove, accepted the challenge. The
            wager of battel, which has been long in disuse, was
            abolished in England in 1819, by a statute passed in
            consequence of a defendant's having waged his battle in a
            case which arose about that period. See {Battel}.
  
      {Wager of law} (Law), the giving of gage, or sureties, by a
            defendant in an action of debt, that at a certain day
            assigned he would take a law, or oath, in open court, that
            he did not owe the debt, and at the same time bring with
            him eleven neighbors (called compurgators), who should
            avow upon their oaths that they believed in their
            consciences that he spoke the truth.
  
      {Wager policy}. (Insurance Law) See under {Policy}.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Compurgation \Com`pur*ga"tion\, n. [L. compurgatio, fr.
      compurgare to purify wholly; com- + purgare to make pure. See
      Purge, v. t.]
      1. (Law) The act or practice of justifying or confirming a
            man's veracity by the oath of others; -- called also
            {wager of law}. See {Purgation}; also {Wager of law},
            under {Wager}.
  
      2. Exculpation by testimony to one's veracity or innocence.
  
                     He was privileged from his childhood from suspicion
                     of incontinency and needed no compurgation. --Bp.
                                                                              Hacket.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Wager \Wa"ger\, n. [OE. wager, wajour, OF. wagiere, or wageure,
      E. gageure. See {Wage}, v. t.]
      1. Something deposited, laid, or hazarded on the event of a
            contest or an unsettled question; a bet; a stake; a
            pledge.
  
                     Besides these plates for horse races, the wagers may
                     be as the persons please.                  --Sir W.
                                                                              Temple.
  
                     If any atheist can stake his soul for a wager
                     against such an inexhaustible disproportion, let him
                     never hereafter accuse others of credulity.
                                                                              --Bentley.
  
      2. (Law) A contract by which two parties or more agree that a
            certain sum of money, or other thing, shall be paid or
            delivered to one of them, on the happening or not
            happening of an uncertain event. --Bouvier.
  
      Note: At common law a wager is considered as a legal contract
               which the courts must enforce unless it be on a subject
               contrary to public policy, or immoral, or tending to
               the detriment of the public, or affecting the interest,
               feelings, or character of a third person. In many of
               the United States an action can not be sustained upon
               any wager or bet. --Chitty. --Bouvier.
  
      3. That on which bets are laid; the subject of a bet.
  
      {Wager of battel}, [or] {Wager of battle} (O. Eng. Law), the
            giving of gage, or pledge, for trying a cause by single
            combat, formerly allowed in military, criminal, and civil
            causes. In writs of right, where the trial was by
            champions, the tenant produced his champion, who, by
            throwing down his glove as a gage, thus waged, or
            stipulated, battle with the champion of the demandant,
            who, by taking up the glove, accepted the challenge. The
            wager of battel, which has been long in disuse, was
            abolished in England in 1819, by a statute passed in
            consequence of a defendant's having waged his battle in a
            case which arose about that period. See {Battel}.
  
      {Wager of law} (Law), the giving of gage, or sureties, by a
            defendant in an action of debt, that at a certain day
            assigned he would take a law, or oath, in open court, that
            he did not owe the debt, and at the same time bring with
            him eleven neighbors (called compurgators), who should
            avow upon their oaths that they believed in their
            consciences that he spoke the truth.
  
      {Wager policy}. (Insurance Law) See under {Policy}.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Policy \Pol"i*cy\, n. [F. police; cf. Pr. polissia, Sp.
      p[a2]lizia, It. p[a2]lizza; of uncertain origin; cf. L.
      pollex thumb (as being used in pressing the seal), in LL.
      also, seal; or cf. LL. politicum, poleticum, polecticum, L.
      polyptychum, account book, register, fr. Gr. [?] having many
      folds or leaves; [?] many + [?] fold, leaf, from [?] to fold;
      or cf. LL. apodixa a receipt.]
      1. A ticket or warrant for money in the public funds.
  
      2. The writing or instrument in which a contract of insurance
            is embodied; an instrument in writing containing the terms
            and conditions on which one party engages to indemnify
            another against loss arising from certain hazards, perils,
            or risks to which his person or property may be exposed.
            See {Insurance}.
  
      3. A method of gambling by betting as to what numbers will be
            drawn in a lottery; as, to play policy.
  
      {Interest policy}, a policy that shows by its form that the
            assured has a real, substantial interest in the matter
            insured.
  
      {Open policy}, one in which the value of the goods or
            property insured is not mentioned.
  
      {Policy book}, a book to contain a record of insurance
            policies.
  
      {Policy holder}, one to whom an insurance policy has been
            granted.
  
      {Policy shop}, a gambling place where one may bet on the
            numbers which will be drawn in lotteries.
  
      {Valued policy}, one in which the value of the goods,
            property, or interest insured is specified.
  
      {Wager policy}, a policy that shows on the face of it that
            the contract it embodies is a pretended insurance, founded
            on an ideal risk, where the insured has no interest in
            anything insured.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Wake-robin \Wake"-rob`in\, n. (Bot.)
      Any plant of the genus {Arum}, especially, in England, the
      cuckoopint ({Arum maculatum}).
  
      Note: In America the name is given to several species of
               Trillium, and sometimes to the Jack-in-the-pulpit.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Vessel \Ves"sel\, n. [OF. vessel, veissel, vaissel, vaissiel, F.
      vascellum, dim. of vasculum, dim. of vas a vessel. Cf.
      {Vascular}, {Vase}.]
      1. A hollow or concave utensil for holding anything; a hollow
            receptacle of any kind, as a hogshead, a barrel, a firkin,
            a bottle, a kettle, a cup, a bowl, etc.
  
                     [They drank] out of these noble vessels. --Chaucer.
  
      2. A general name for any hollow structure made to float upon
            the water for purposes of navigation; especially, one that
            is larger than a common rowboat; as, a war vessel; a
            passenger vessel.
  
                     [He] began to build a vessel of huge bulk. --Milton.
  
      3. Fig.: A person regarded as receiving or containing
            something; esp. (Script.), one into whom something is
            conceived as poured, or in whom something is stored for
            use; as, vessels of wrath or mercy.
  
                     He is a chosen vessel unto me.            --Acts ix. 15.
  
                     [The serpent] fit vessel, fittest imp of fraud, in
                     whom To enter.                                    --Milton.
  
      4. (Anat.) Any tube or canal in which the blood or other
            fluids are contained, secreted, or circulated, as the
            arteries, veins, lymphatics, etc.
  
      5. (Bot.) A continuous tube formed from superposed large
            cylindrical or prismatic cells (trache[91]), which have
            lost their intervening partitions, and are usually marked
            with dots, pits, rings, or spirals by internal deposition
            of secondary membranes; a duct.
  
      {Acoustic vessels}. See under {Acoustic}.
  
      {Weaker vessel}, a woman; -- now applied humorously.
            [bd]Giving honor unto the wife, as unto the weaker
            vessel.[b8] --1 Peter iii. 7. [bd]You are the weaker
            vessel.[b8] --Shak.

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   Wagarville, AL
      Zip code(s): 36585

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   Wise River, MT
      Zip code(s): 59762
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