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   war cloud
         n 1: an ominous sign that war threatens

English Dictionary: warragal by the DICT Development Group
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
warragal
n
  1. Australian wild horse
    Synonym(s): warrigal, warragal
  2. wolflike yellowish-brown wild dog of Australia
    Synonym(s): dingo, warrigal, warragal, Canis dingo
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
warrigal
n
  1. Australian wild horse
    Synonym(s): warrigal, warragal
  2. wolflike yellowish-brown wild dog of Australia
    Synonym(s): dingo, warrigal, warragal, Canis dingo
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
wire cloth
n
  1. fabric woven of metallic wire
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
wire glass
n
  1. a glass that contains a layer of wire netting in it
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
work load
n
  1. work that a person is expected to do in a specified time
    Synonym(s): workload, work load
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
work-clothes
n
  1. clothing worn for doing manual labor [syn: work-clothing, work-clothes]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
work-clothing
n
  1. clothing worn for doing manual labor [syn: work-clothing, work-clothes]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
workaholic
n
  1. person with a compulsive need to work
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
workaholism
n
  1. compulsiveness about working
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
workload
n
  1. work that a person is expected to do in a specified time
    Synonym(s): workload, work load
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
wriggle
n
  1. the act of wiggling
    Synonym(s): wiggle, wriggle, squirm
v
  1. to move in a twisting or contorted motion, (especially when struggling); "The prisoner writhed in discomfort"; "The child tried to wriggle free from his aunt's embrace"
    Synonym(s): writhe, wrestle, wriggle, worm, squirm, twist
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
wriggler
n
  1. one who can't stay still (especially a child); "the toddler was a real wiggler on plane trips"
    Synonym(s): wiggler, wriggler, squirmer
  2. larva of a mosquito
    Synonym(s): wiggler, wriggler
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
wriggling
adj
  1. moving in a twisting or snake-like or wormlike fashion; "wiggly worms"
    Synonym(s): wiggly, wriggling, wriggly, writhing
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
wriggly
adj
  1. moving in a twisting or snake-like or wormlike fashion; "wiggly worms"
    Synonym(s): wiggly, wriggling, wriggly, writhing
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Wroclaw
n
  1. a city in southwestern Poland on the Oder [syn: Wroclaw, Breslau]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Warkloom \Wark"loom\, n.
      A tool; an implement. [Scot.]

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Warragal \War"ra*gal\, n. (Zo[94]l.)
      The dingo.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Wehrgeld \Wehr"geld`\, Wehrgelt \Wehr"gelt`\, n. (O. Eng. Law)
      See {Weregild}.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Wehrgeld \Wehr"geld`\, Wehrgelt \Wehr"gelt`\, n. (O. Eng. Law)
      See {Weregild}.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Weregild \Were"gild`\, n. [AS. wergild; wer a man, value set on
      a man's life + gild payment of money; akin to G. wehrgeld.
      [root]285. See {Were} a man, and {Geld}, n.] (O. Eng. Law)
      The price of a man's head; a compensation paid of a man
      killed, partly to the king for the loss of a subject, partly
      to the lord of a vassal, and partly to the next of kin. It
      was paid by the murderer. [Written also {weregeld},
      {weregelt}, etc.] --Blackstone.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Weregild \Were"gild`\, n. [AS. wergild; wer a man, value set on
      a man's life + gild payment of money; akin to G. wehrgeld.
      [root]285. See {Were} a man, and {Geld}, n.] (O. Eng. Law)
      The price of a man's head; a compensation paid of a man
      killed, partly to the king for the loss of a subject, partly
      to the lord of a vassal, and partly to the next of kin. It
      was paid by the murderer. [Written also {weregeld},
      {weregelt}, etc.] --Blackstone.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Weregild \Were"gild`\, n. [AS. wergild; wer a man, value set on
      a man's life + gild payment of money; akin to G. wehrgeld.
      [root]285. See {Were} a man, and {Geld}, n.] (O. Eng. Law)
      The price of a man's head; a compensation paid of a man
      killed, partly to the king for the loss of a subject, partly
      to the lord of a vassal, and partly to the next of kin. It
      was paid by the murderer. [Written also {weregeld},
      {weregelt}, etc.] --Blackstone.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   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.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Wire \Wire\, n. [OE. wir, AS. wir; akin to Icel. v[c6]rr, Dan.
      vire, LG. wir, wire; cf. OHG. wiara fine gold; perhaps akin
      to E. withy. [?][?][?][?].]
      1. A thread or slender rod of metal; a metallic substance
            formed to an even thread by being passed between grooved
            rollers, or drawn through holes in a plate of steel.
  
      Note: Wire is made of any desired form, as round, square,
               triangular, etc., by giving this shape to the hole in
               the drawplate, or between the rollers.
  
      2. A telegraph wire or cable; hence, an electric telegraph;
            as, to send a message by wire. [Colloq.]
  
      {Wire bed}, {Wire mattress}, an elastic bed bottom or
            mattress made of wires interwoven or looped together in
            various ways.
  
      {Wire bridge}, a bridge suspended from wires, or cables made
            of wire.
  
      {Wire cartridge}, a shot cartridge having the shot inclosed
            in a wire cage.
  
      {Wire cloth}, a coarse cloth made of woven metallic wire, --
            used for strainers, and for various other purposes.
  
      {Wire edge}, the thin, wirelike thread of metal sometimes
            formed on the edge of a tool by the stone in sharpening
            it.
  
      {Wire fence}, a fence consisting of posts with strained
            horizontal wires, wire netting, or other wirework,
            between.
  
      {Wire gauge} [or] {gage}.
            (a) A gauge for measuring the diameter of wire, thickness
                  of sheet metal, etc., often consisting of a metal
                  plate with a series of notches of various widths in
                  its edge.
            (b) A standard series of sizes arbitrarily indicated, as
                  by numbers, to which the diameter of wire or the
                  thickness of sheet metal in usually made, and which is
                  used in describing the size or thickness. There are
                  many different standards for wire gauges, as in
                  different countries, or for different kinds of metal,
                  the Birmingham wire gauges and the American wire gauge
                  being often used and designated by the abbreviations
                  B. W. G. and A. W. G. respectively.
  
      {Wire gauze}, a texture of finely interwoven wire, resembling
            gauze.
  
      {Wire grass} (Bot.), either of the two common grasses
            {Eleusine Indica}, valuable for hay and pasture, and {Poa
            compressa}, or blue grass. See {Blue grass}.
  
      {Wire grub} (Zo[94]l.), a wireworm.
  
      {Wire iron}, wire rods of iron.
  
      {Wire lathing}, wire cloth or wire netting applied in the
            place of wooden lathing for holding plastering.
  
      {Wire mattress}. See {Wire bed}, above.
  
      {Wire micrometer}, a micrometer having spider lines, or fine
            wires, across the field of the instrument.
  
      {Wire nail}, a nail formed of a piece of wire which is headed
            and pointed.
  
      {Wire netting}, a texture of woven wire coarser than ordinary
            wire gauze.
  
      {Wire rod}, a metal rod from which wire is formed by drawing.
           
  
      {Wire rope}, a rope formed wholly, or in great part, of
            wires.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Workless \Work"less\, a.
      1. Without work; not laboring; as, many people were still
            workless.
  
      2. Not carried out in practice; not exemplified in fact; as,
            workless faith. [Obs.] --Sir T. More.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Wreakless \Wreak"less\, a.
      Unrevengeful; weak. [Obs.]

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Wriggle \Wrig"gle\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Wriggled}; p. pr. & vb.
      n. {Wriggling}.] [Freq. of wrig, probably from OE. wrikken to
      move to and fro; cf. LG. wriggeln, D. wrikken, Sw. vricka,
      Dan. vrikke.]
      To move the body to and fro with short, writhing motions,
      like a worm; to squirm; to twist uneasily or quickly about.
  
               Both he and successors would often wriggle in their
               seats, as long as the cushion lasted.      --Swift.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Wriggle \Wrig"gle\, v. t.
      To move with short, quick contortions; to move by twisting
      and squirming; like a worm.
  
               Covetousness will wriggle itself out at a small hole.
                                                                              --Fuller.
  
               Wriggling his body to recover His seat, and cast his
               right leg over.                                       --Hudibras.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Wriggle \Wrig"gle\, a.
      Wriggling; frisky; pliant; flexible. [Obs.] [bd]Their wriggle
      tails.[b8] --Spenser.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Wriggle \Wrig"gle\, n.
      Act of wriggling; a short or quick writhing motion or
      contortion.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Wriggle \Wrig"gle\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Wriggled}; p. pr. & vb.
      n. {Wriggling}.] [Freq. of wrig, probably from OE. wrikken to
      move to and fro; cf. LG. wriggeln, D. wrikken, Sw. vricka,
      Dan. vrikke.]
      To move the body to and fro with short, writhing motions,
      like a worm; to squirm; to twist uneasily or quickly about.
  
               Both he and successors would often wriggle in their
               seats, as long as the cushion lasted.      --Swift.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Wriggler \Wrig"gler\, n.
      One who, or that which, wriggles. --Cowper.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Wriggle \Wrig"gle\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Wriggled}; p. pr. & vb.
      n. {Wriggling}.] [Freq. of wrig, probably from OE. wrikken to
      move to and fro; cf. LG. wriggeln, D. wrikken, Sw. vricka,
      Dan. vrikke.]
      To move the body to and fro with short, writhing motions,
      like a worm; to squirm; to twist uneasily or quickly about.
  
               Both he and successors would often wriggle in their
               seats, as long as the cushion lasted.      --Swift.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Wrizzle \Wriz"zle\, v. t.
      To wrinkle. [Obs.] --Spenser.

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   Ware Shoals, SC (town, FIPS 74680)
      Location: 34.39011 N, 82.24423 W
      Population (1990): 2497 (1122 housing units)
      Area: 10.0 sq km (land), 0.3 sq km (water)
      Zip code(s): 29692

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   Wrigley, TN
      Zip code(s): 37098

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
   warchalk
  
      A system of runes and annotations chalked on
      walls or other surfaces to indicate to interested parties the
      presence of a {wireless} network {node} in the vicinity.
  
      Warchalking was inspired by "hobo language" - the signs used
      by American itinerants during the Depression years to indicate
      where they might find a meal.
  
      {Home (http://www.blackbeltjones.com/warchalking/)}.
  
      (2002-06-26)
  
  
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