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   wake up
         v 1: cause to become awake or conscious; "He was roused by the
               drunken men in the street"; "Please wake me at 6 AM." [syn:
               {awaken}, {wake}, {waken}, {rouse}, {wake up}, {arouse}]
               [ant: {cause to sleep}]
         2: stop sleeping; "She woke up to the sound of the alarm clock"
            [syn: {wake up}, {awake}, {arouse}, {awaken}, {wake}, {come
            alive}, {waken}] [ant: {dope off}, {doze off}, {drift off},
            {drop off}, {drowse off}, {fall asleep}, {flake out}, {nod
            off}]

English Dictionary: wash up by the DICT Development Group
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
wasabi
n
  1. a Japanese plant of the family Cruciferae with a thick green root
  2. the thick green root of the wasabi plant that the Japanese use in cooking and that tastes like strong horseradish; in powder or paste form it is often eaten with raw fish
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
wash off
v
  1. remove by the application of water or other liquid and soap or some other cleaning agent; "he washed the dirt from his coat"; "The nurse washed away the blood"; "Can you wash away the spots on the windows?"; "he managed to wash out the stains"
    Synonym(s): wash, wash out, wash off, wash away
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
wash up
v
  1. wash one's face and hands; "She freshened up in the bathroom"
    Synonym(s): wash up, lave
  2. carry somewhere (of water or current or waves); "The tide washed up the corpse"
  3. wash dishes; "I cook and my husband washes up after dinner"
    Synonym(s): wash up, do the dishes
  4. be carried somewhere by water or as if by water; "The body washed up on the beach"
  5. wear out completely; "This kind of work exhausts me"; "I'm beat"; "He was all washed up after the exam"
    Synonym(s): exhaust, wash up, beat, tucker, tucker out
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
washup
n
  1. the act of washing yourself (or another person) [syn: washup, bathing]
  2. the act of washing dishes
    Synonym(s): dishwashing, washup
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
WASP
n
  1. a white person of Anglo-Saxon ancestry who belongs to a Protestant denomination
    Synonym(s): WASP, white Anglo-Saxon Protestant
  2. social or solitary hymenopterans typically having a slender body with the abdomen attached by a narrow stalk and having a formidable sting
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
whisk by
v
  1. move by very quickly
    Synonym(s): zip by, fly by, whisk by
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
whisk off
v
  1. brush or wipe off lightly
    Synonym(s): whisk, whisk off
  2. take away quickly and suddenly
    Synonym(s): whisk off, whisk away
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
wickiup
n
  1. a lodge consisting of a frame covered with matting or brush; used by nomadic American Indians in the southwestern United States
    Synonym(s): wickiup, wikiup
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
wickup
n
  1. tall North American perennial with creeping rootstocks and narrow leaves and spikes of pinkish-purple flowers occurring in great abundance in burned-over areas or recent clearings; an important honey plant
    Synonym(s): fireweed, giant willowherb, rosebay willowherb, wickup, Epilobium angustifolium
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
wicopy
n
  1. deciduous shrub of eastern North America having tough flexible branches and pliable bark and small yellow flowers
    Synonym(s): leatherwood, moosewood, moose-wood, wicopy, ropebark, Dirca palustris
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
wikiup
n
  1. a lodge consisting of a frame covered with matting or brush; used by nomadic American Indians in the southwestern United States
    Synonym(s): wickiup, wikiup
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
wise up
v
  1. get wise to; "They wised up to it"
  2. cause someone to become aware of something
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
wisp
n
  1. a small tuft or lock; "wisps of hair"
  2. a small person; "a mere wisp of a girl"
  3. a small bundle of straw or hay
  4. a flock of snipe
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
wispy
adj
  1. thin and weak; "a wispy little fellow with small hands and feet"- Edmund Wilson
    Synonym(s): wisplike, wispy
  2. lacking clarity or distinctness; "a dim figure in the distance"; "only a faint recollection"; "shadowy figures in the gloom"; "saw a vague outline of a building through the fog"; "a few wispy memories of childhood"
    Synonym(s): dim, faint, shadowy, vague, wispy
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Wakf \Wakf\ (w[ucr]kf), n. [Ar. waqf.] (Moham. Law)
      The granting or dedication of property in trust for a pious
      purpose, that is, to some object that tends to the good of
      mankind, as to support a mosque or caravansary, to provide
      for support of one's family, kin, or neighbors, to benefit
      some particular person or persons and afterward the poor,
      etc.; also, the trust so created, or the property in trust.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Wakif \Wa"kif\ (w[aum]"k[icr]f), n. [Ar. w[be]qif.] (Moham. Law)
      The person creating a wakf.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Wash-off \Wash"-off`\, a. (Calico Printing)
      Capable of being washed off; not permanent or durable; --
      said of colors not fixed by steaming or otherwise.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Wasp \Wasp\, n. [OE. waspe, AS. w[91]ps, w[91]fs; akin to D.
      wesp, G. wespe, OHG. wafsa, wefsa, Lith. vapsa gadfly, Russ.
      osa wasp, L. vespa, and perhaps to E. weave.] (Zo[94]l.)
      Any one of numerous species of stinging hymenopterous
      insects, esp. any of the numerous species of the genus
      {Vespa}, which includes the true, or social, wasps, some of
      which are called {yellow jackets}.
  
      Note: The social wasps make a complex series of combs, of a
               substance like stiff paper, often of large size, and
               protect them by a paperlike covering. The larv[91] are
               reared in the cells of the combs, and eat insects and
               insect larv[91] brought to them by the adults, but the
               latter feed mainly on the honey and pollen of flowers,
               and on the sweet juices of fruit. See Illust. in
               Appendix.
  
      {Digger wasp}, any one of numerous species of solitary wasps
            that make their nests in burrows which they dig in the
            ground, as the sand wasps. See {Sand wasp}, under {Sand}.
           
  
      {Mud wasp}. See under {Mud}.
  
      {Potter wasp}. See under {Potter}.
  
      {Wasp fly}, a species of fly resembling a wasp, but without a
            sting.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Whisp \Whisp\, n.
      See {Wisp}.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Whisp \Whisp\, n. (Zo[94]l.)
      A flock of snipe.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Leatherwood \Leath"er*wood`\, n. (Bot.)
      A small branching shrub ({Dirca palustris}), with a white,
      soft wood, and a tough, leathery bark, common in damp woods
      in the Northern United States; -- called also {moosewood},
      and {wicopy}. --Gray.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Wicopy \Wic"o*py\, n. (Bot.)
      See {Leatherwood}.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Leatherwood \Leath"er*wood`\, n. (Bot.)
      A small branching shrub ({Dirca palustris}), with a white,
      soft wood, and a tough, leathery bark, common in damp woods
      in the Northern United States; -- called also {moosewood},
      and {wicopy}. --Gray.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Wicopy \Wic"o*py\, n. (Bot.)
      See {Leatherwood}.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Wikiup \Wik"i*up`\, n. [Of North American Indian origin; cf.
      Dakota wakeya, wokeya.]
      The hut used by the nomadic Indian tribes of the arid regions
      of the west and southwest United States, typically elliptical
      in form, with a rough frame covered with reed mats or grass
      or brushwood.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Wisp \Wisp\, n. [OE. wisp, wips; probably akin to D. & G. wisch,
      Icel. visk, and perhaps to L. virga a twig, rod. Cf. {Verge}
      a rod, {Whisk}, n.]
      1. A small bundle, as of straw or other like substance.
  
                     In a small basket, on a wisp of hay.   --Dryden.
  
      2. A whisk, or small broom.
  
      3. A Will-o'-the-wisp; an ignis fatuus.
  
                     The wisp that flickers where no foot can tread.
                                                                              --Tennyson.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Wisp \Wisp\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Wisped}; p. pr. & vb. n.
      {Wisping}.]
      1. To brush or dress, an with a wisp.
  
      2. To rumple. [Prov. Eng.] --Halliwell.

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   Waikapu, HI (CDP, FIPS 75950)
      Location: 20.83954 N, 156.53389 W
      Population (1990): 729 (215 housing units)
      Area: 28.4 sq km (land), 0.1 sq km (water)

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   Wyckoff, NJ (CDP, FIPS 83080)
      Location: 40.99778 N, 74.16641 W
      Population (1990): 15372 (5248 housing units)
      Area: 17.0 sq km (land), 0.1 sq km (water)
      Zip code(s): 07481

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   Wykoff, MN (city, FIPS 71950)
      Location: 43.70816 N, 92.26742 W
      Population (1990): 493 (210 housing units)
      Area: 2.4 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
      Zip code(s): 55990

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
   Wisp
  
      ["An Experiment with a Self-Compiling Compiler for a Simple
      List-Processing Language", M.V. Wilkes, Ann Rev Automatic
      Programming 4:1-48.   (1964)].
  
  
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