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   waft
         n 1: a long flag; often tapering [syn: {pennant}, {pennon},
               {streamer}, {waft}]
         v 1: be driven or carried along, as by the air; "Sounds wafted
               into the room"
         2: blow gently; "A breeze wafted through the door"

English Dictionary: weft	by the DICT Development Group
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
wapiti n large North American deer with large much-branched antlers in the male Synonym(s): wapiti, elk, American elk, Cervus elaphus canadensis common deer of temperate Europe and Asia Synonym(s): red deer, elk, American elk, wapiti, Cervus elaphus
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
webbed adj (of the feet of some animals) having the digits connected by a thin fold of skin Antonym(s): unwebbed having open interstices or resembling a web Synonym(s): lacy, netlike, netted, webbed, weblike, webby
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
webfoot n a foot having the toes connected by folds of skin
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
weft n the yarn woven across the warp yarn in weaving [syn: woof, weft, filling, pick]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
whippet n small slender dog of greyhound type developed in England
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
wipe out v use up (resources or materials); "this car consumes a lot of gas"; "We exhausted our savings"; "They run through 20 bottles of wine a week" Synonym(s): consume, eat up, use up, eat, deplete, exhaust, run through, wipe out kill in large numbers; "the plague wiped out an entire population" Synonym(s): eliminate, annihilate, extinguish, eradicate, wipe out, decimate, carry off eliminate completely and without a trace; "The old values have been wiped out" Synonym(s): wipe out, sweep away remove from memory or existence; "The Turks erased the Armenians in 1915" Synonym(s): erase, wipe out mark for deletion, rub off, or erase; "kill these lines in the President's speech" Synonym(s): kill, obliterate, wipe out wipe out the effect of something; "The new tax effectively cancels out my raise"; "The `A' will cancel out the `C' on your record" Synonym(s): cancel out, wipe out
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
wipeout n an event (or the result of an event) that completely destroys something Synonym(s): destruction, demolition, wipeout a spill in some sport (as a fall from a bicycle or while skiing or being capsized on a surfboard)
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Waft \Waft\, v. i. To be moved, or to pass, on a buoyant medium; to float. And now the shouts waft near the citadel. --Dryden.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Waft \Waft\, n. 1. A wave or current of wind. [bd]Everywaft of the air.[b8] --Longfellow. In this dire season, oft the whirlwind's wing Sweeps up the burden of whole wintry plains In one wide waft. --Thomson. 2. A signal made by waving something, as a flag, in the air. 3. An unpleasant flavor. [Obs.] 4. (Naut.) A knot, or stop, in the middle of a flag. [Written also {wheft}.] Note: A flag with a waft in it, when hoisted at the staff, or half way to the gaff, means, a man overboard; at the peak, a desire to communicate; at the masthead, [bd]Recall boats.[b8]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Waft \Waft\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Wafted}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Wafting}.] [Prob. originally imp. & p. p. of wave, v. t. See {Wave} to waver.] 1. To give notice to by waving something; to wave the hand to; to beckon. [Obs.] But soft: who wafts us yonder? --Shak. 2. To cause to move or go in a wavy manner, or by the impulse of waves, as of water or air; to bear along on a buoyant medium; as, a balloon was wafted over the channel. A gentle wafting to immortal life. --Milton. Speed the soft intercourse from soul to soul, And waft a sigh from Indus to the pole. --Pope. 3. To cause to float; to keep from sinking; to buoy. [Obs.] --Sir T. Browne. Note: This verb is regular; but waft was formerly som[?]times used, as by Shakespeare, instead of wafted.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Waift \Waift\, n. A waif. [Obs.] --Spenser.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Waive \Waive\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Waived}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Waiving}.] [OE. waiven, weiven, to set aside, remove, OF. weyver, quesver, to waive, of Scand. origin; cf. Icel. veifa to wave, to vibrate, akin to Skr. vip to tremble. Cf. {Vibrate}, {Waif}.] [Written also {wave}.] 1. To relinquish; to give up claim to; not to insist on or claim; to refuse; to forego. He waiveth milk, and flesh, and all. --Chaucer. We absolutely do renounce or waive our own opinions, absolutely yielding to the direction of others. --Barrow. 2. To throw away; to cast off; to reject; to desert. 3. (Law) (a) To throw away; to relinquish voluntarily, as a right which one may enforce if he chooses. (b) (O. Eng. Law) To desert; to abandon. --Burrill. Note: The term was applied to a woman, in the same sense as outlaw to a man. A woman could not be outlawed, in the proper sense of the word, because, according to Bracton, she was never in law, that is, in a frankpledge or decennary; but she might be waived, and held as abandoned. --Burrill.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Wapatoo \Wap"a*too`\, n. (Bot.) The edible tuber of a species of arrowhead ({Sagittaria variabilis}); -- so called by the Indians of Oregon. [Written also {wappato}.]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Waped \Waped\, a. [Prov. E. wape pale, v., to stupefy, akin to wap to beat. Cf. {Whap}, and {Wappened}.] Cast down; crushed by misery; dejected. [Obs.]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Wapiti \Wap"i*ti\, n. [Probably the Iroquois name. Bartlett.] (Zo[94]l.) The American elk ({Cervus Canadensis}). It is closely related to the European red deer, which it somewhat exceeds in size. Note: By some writers it is thought to be a variety of the red deer, but it is considered a distinct species by others. It is noted for the large, branching antlers of the male.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Wapatoo \Wap"a*too`\, n. (Bot.) The edible tuber of a species of arrowhead ({Sagittaria variabilis}); -- so called by the Indians of Oregon. [Written also {wappato}.]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Wappato \Wap"pa*to\, n. (Bot.) See {Wapatoo}.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Wapatoo \Wap"a*too`\, n. (Bot.) The edible tuber of a species of arrowhead ({Sagittaria variabilis}); -- so called by the Indians of Oregon. [Written also {wappato}.]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Wappato \Wap"pa*to\, n. (Bot.) See {Wapatoo}.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Wappet \Wap"pet\, n. A small yelping cur. [Prov. Eng.]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Wave \Wave\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Waved} (w[amac]vd); p. pr. & vb. n. {Waving}.] [OE. waven, AS. wafian to waver, to hesitate, to wonder; akin to w[91]fre wavering, restless, MHG. wabern to be in motion, Icel. vafra to hover about; cf. Icel. v[be]fa to vibrate. Cf. {Waft}, {Waver}.] 1. To play loosely; to move like a wave, one way and the other; to float; to flutter; to undulate. His purple robes waved careless to the winds. --Trumbull. Where the flags of three nations has successively waved. --Hawthorne. 2. To be moved to and fro as a signal. --B. Jonson. 3. To fluctuate; to waver; to be in an unsettled state; to vacillate. [Obs.] He waved indifferently 'twixt doing them neither good nor harm. --Shak.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Waved \Waved\, a. 1. Exhibiting a wavelike form or outline; undulating; intended; wavy; as, waved edge. 2. Having a wavelike appearance; marked with wavelike lines of color; as, waved, or watered, silk. 3. (Her.) Having undulations like waves; -- said of one of the lines in heraldry which serve as outlines to the ordinaries, etc.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Weave \Weave\, v. t. [imp. {Wove}; p. p. {Woven}, {Wove}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Weaving}. The regular imp. & p. p. {Weaved}, is rarely used.] [OE. weven, AS. wefan; akin to D. weven, G. weben, OHG. weban, Icel. vefa, Sw. v[84]fva, Dan. v[91]ve, Gr. [?], v., [?] web, Skr. [?]r[?]av[be]bhi spider, lit., wool weaver. Cf. {Waper}, {Waffle}, {Web}, {Weevil}, {Weft}, {Woof}.] 1. To unite, as threads of any kind, in such a manner as to form a texture; to entwine or interlace into a fabric; as, to weave wool, silk, etc.; hence, to unite by close connection or intermixture; to unite intimately. This weaves itself, perforce, into my business. --Shak. That in their green shops weave the smooth-haired silk To deck her sons. --Milton. And for these words, thus woven into song. --Byron. 2. To form, as cloth, by interlacing threads; to compose, as a texture of any kind, by putting together textile materials; as, to weave broadcloth; to weave a carpet; hence, to form into a fabric; to compose; to fabricate; as, to weave the plot of a story. When she weaved the sleided silk. --Shak. Her starry wreaths the virgin jasmin weaves. --Ld. Lytton.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Web \Web\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Webbed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Webbing}.] To unite or surround with a web, or as if with a web; to envelop; to entangle.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Webbed \Webbed\, a. 1. Provided with a web. 2. (Zo[94]l.) Having the toes united by a membrane, or web; as, the webbed feet of aquatic fowls.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Webfoot \Web"foot`\, n.; pl. {Webfeet}. 1. A foot the toes of which are connected by a membrane. 2. (Zo[94]l.) Any web-footed bird.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Webfoot \Web"foot`\, n.; pl. {Webfeet}. 1. A foot the toes of which are connected by a membrane. 2. (Zo[94]l.) Any web-footed bird.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Weft \Weft\, obs. imp. & p. p. of {Wave}.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Weft \Weft\, n. [Cf. {Waif}.] A thing waved, waived, or cast away; a waif. [Obs.] [bd]A forlorn weft.[b8] --Spenser.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Weft \Weft\, n. [AS. weft, wefta, fr. wefan, to weave. See {Weave}.] 1. The woof of cloth; the threads that cross the warp from selvage to selvage; the thread carried by the shuttle in weaving. 2. A web; a thing woven.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Weep \Weep\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Wept}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Weeping}.] [OE. wepen, AS. w[?]pan, from w[?]p lamentation; akin to OFries. w[?]pa to lament, OS. w[?]p lamentation, OHG. wuof, Icel. [?]p a shouting, crying, OS. w[?]pian to lament, OHG. wuoffan, wuoffen, Icel. [?]pa, Goth. w[?]pjan. [?][?][?][?].] 1. Formerly, to express sorrow, grief, or anguish, by outcry, or by other manifest signs; in modern use, to show grief or other passions by shedding tears; to shed tears; to cry. And they all wept sore, and fell on Paul's neck. --Acts xx. 37. Phocion was rarely seen to weep or to laugh. --Mitford. And eyes that wake to weep. --Mrs. Hemans. And they wept together in silence. --Longfellow. 2. To lament; to complain. [bd]They weep unto me, saying, Give us flesh, that we may eat.[b8] --Num. xi. 13. 3. To flow in drops; to run in drops. The blood weeps from my heart. --Shak. 4. To drop water, or the like; to drip; to be soaked. 5. To hang the branches, as if in sorrow; to be pendent; to droop; -- said of a plant or its branches.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Wept \Wept\, imp. & p. p. of {Weep}.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Whap \Whap\, Whop \Whop\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Whapped}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Whapping}.] To beat or strike.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Waft \Waft\, n. 1. A wave or current of wind. [bd]Everywaft of the air.[b8] --Longfellow. In this dire season, oft the whirlwind's wing Sweeps up the burden of whole wintry plains In one wide waft. --Thomson. 2. A signal made by waving something, as a flag, in the air. 3. An unpleasant flavor. [Obs.] 4. (Naut.) A knot, or stop, in the middle of a flag. [Written also {wheft}.] Note: A flag with a waft in it, when hoisted at the staff, or half way to the gaff, means, a man overboard; at the peak, a desire to communicate; at the masthead, [bd]Recall boats.[b8]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Wheft \Wheft\, n. (Naut.) See {Waft}, n., 4.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Wheft \Wheft\, n. (Naut.) A kind of streamer or flag used either as a signal, or at the masthead for ornament or to indicate the direction of the wind to aid in steering.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Waft \Waft\, n. 1. A wave or current of wind. [bd]Everywaft of the air.[b8] --Longfellow. In this dire season, oft the whirlwind's wing Sweeps up the burden of whole wintry plains In one wide waft. --Thomson. 2. A signal made by waving something, as a flag, in the air. 3. An unpleasant flavor. [Obs.] 4. (Naut.) A knot, or stop, in the middle of a flag. [Written also {wheft}.] Note: A flag with a waft in it, when hoisted at the staff, or half way to the gaff, means, a man overboard; at the peak, a desire to communicate; at the masthead, [bd]Recall boats.[b8]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Wheft \Wheft\, n. (Naut.) See {Waft}, n., 4.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Wheft \Wheft\, n. (Naut.) A kind of streamer or flag used either as a signal, or at the masthead for ornament or to indicate the direction of the wind to aid in steering.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Whiff \Whiff\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Whiffed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Whiffing}.] 1. To throw out in whiffs; to consume in whiffs; to puff. 2. To carry or convey by a whiff, or as by a whiff; to puff or blow away. Old Empedocles, . . . who, when he leaped into Etna, having a dry, sear body, and light, the smoke took him, and whiffed him up into the moon. --B. Jonson.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Whiffet \Whif"fet\, n. A little whiff or puff.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Whip \Whip\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Whipped}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Whipping}.] [OE. whippen to overlay, as a cord, with other cords, probably akin to G. & D. wippen to shake, to move up and down, Sw. vippa, Dan. vippe to swing to and fro, to shake, to toss up, and L. vibrare to shake. Cf. {Vibrate}.] 1. To strike with a lash, a cord, a rod, or anything slender and lithe; to lash; to beat; as, to whip a horse, or a carpet. 2. To drive with lashes or strokes of a whip; to cause to rotate by lashing with a cord; as, to whip a top. 3. To punish with a whip, scourge, or rod; to flog; to beat; as, to whip a vagrant; to whip one with thirty nine lashes; to whip a perverse boy. Who, for false quantities, was whipped at school. --Dryden. 4. To apply that which hurts keenly to; to lash, as with sarcasm, abuse, or the like; to apply cutting language to. They would whip me with their fine wits. --Shak. 5. To thrash; to beat out, as grain, by striking; as, to whip wheat. 6. To beat (eggs, cream, or the like) into a froth, as with a whisk, fork, or the like. 7. To conquer; to defeat, as in a contest or game; to beat; to surpass. [Slang, U. S.] 8. To overlay (a cord, rope, or the like) with other cords going round and round it; to overcast, as the edge of a seam; to wrap; -- often with about, around, or over. Its string is firmly whipped about with small gut. --Moxon. 9. To sew lightly; specifically, to form (a fabric) into gathers by loosely overcasting the rolled edge and drawing up the thread; as, to whip a ruffle. In half-whipped muslin needles useless lie. --Gay. 10. To take or move by a sudden motion; to jerk; to snatch; -- with into, out, up, off, and the like. She, in a hurry, whips up her darling under her arm. --L'Estrange. He whips out his pocketbook every moment, and writes descriptions of everything he sees. --Walpole. 11. (Naut.) (a) To hoist or purchase by means of a whip. (b) To secure the end of (a rope, or the like) from untwisting by overcasting it with small stuff. 12. To fish (a body of water) with a rod and artificial fly, the motion being that employed in using a whip. Whipping their rough surface for a trout. --Emerson. {To whip in}, to drive in, or keep from scattering, as hounds in a hurt; hence, to collect, or to keep together, as member of a party, or the like. {To whip the cat}. (a) To practice extreme parsimony. [Prov. Eng.] --Forby. (b) To go from house to house working by the day, as itinerant tailors and carpenters do. [Prov. & U. S.]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Whipt \Whipt\, imp. & p. p. of {Whip}. Whipped.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Whoop \Whoop\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Whooped}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Whooping}.] [OE. houpen. See {Hoop}, v. i.] 1. To utter a whoop, or loud cry, as eagerness, enthusiasm, or enjoyment; to cry out; to shout; to halloo; to utter a war whoop; to hoot, as an owl. Each whooping with a merry shout. --Wordsworth. When naught was heard but now and then the howl Of some vile cur, or whooping of the owl. --W. Browne. 2. To cough or breathe with a sonorous inspiration, as in whooping cough.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Wifehood \Wife"hood\, n. [AS. wifh[be]d.] 1. Womanhood. [Obs.] --Chaucer. 2. The state of being a wife; the character of a wife.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Wipe \Wipe\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Wiped}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Wiping}.] [OE. vipen, AS. w[c6]pian; cf. LG. wiep a wisp of straw, Sw. vepa to wrap up, to cuddle one's self up, vepa a blanket; perhaps akin to E. whip.] 1. To rub with something soft for cleaning; to clean or dry by rubbing; as, to wipe the hands or face with a towel. Let me wipe thy face. --Shak. I will wipe Jerusalem as a man wipeth a dish, wiping it, and turning it upside down. --2 Kings xxi. 13. 2. To remove by rubbing; to rub off; to obliterate; -- usually followed by away, off or out. Also used figuratively. [bd]To wipe out our ingratitude.[b8] --Shak. Some natural tears they dropped, but wiped them soon. --Milton. 3. To cheat; to defraud; to trick; -- usually followed by out. [Obs.] --Spenser. If they by coveyne [covin] or gile be wiped beside their goods. --Robynson (More's Utopia) {To wipe a joint} (Plumbing), to make a joint, as between pieces of lead pipe, by surrounding the junction with a mass of solder, applied in a plastic condition by means of a rag with which the solder is shaped by rubbing. {To wipe the nose of}, to cheat. [Old Slang]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Wive \Wive\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Wived}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Wiving}.] [AS. w[c6]fian, gew[c6]fian. See {Wite}.] To marry, as a man; to take a wife. Wherefore we pray you hastily to wive. --Chaucer.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Wivehood \Wive"hood\, n. Wifehood. [Obs.] --Spenser.
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
Wapato, WA (city, FIPS 76125) Location: 46.44567 N, 120.42065 W Population (1990): 3795 (1204 housing units) Area: 2.3 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 98951
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
Wapiti, WY Zip code(s): 82450
From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]:
wabbit /wab'it/ n. [almost certainly from Elmer Fudd's immortal line "You wascawwy wabbit!"] 1. A legendary early hack reported on a System/360 at RPI and elsewhere around 1978; this may have descended (if only by inspiration) from a hack called RABBITS reported from 1969 on a Burroughs 5500 at the University of Washington Computer Center. The program would make two copies of itself every time it was run, eventually crashing the system. 2. By extension, any hack that includes infinite self-replication but is not a {virus} or {worm}. See {fork bomb} and {rabbit job}, see also {cookie monster}.
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
wabbit /wab'it/ [almost certainly from Elmer Fudd's immortal line "You wascawwy wabbit!"] 1. A legendary early hack reported on a System/360 at RPI and elsewhere around 1978; this may have descended (if only by inspiration) from hack called RABBITS reported from 1969 on a Burroughs 55000 at the University of Washington Computer Center. The program would make two copies of itself every time it was run, eventually crashing the system. 2. By extension, any hack that includes infinite self-replication but is not a {virus} or {worm}. See {fork bomb} and {rabbit job}, see also {cookie monster}. [{Jargon File}]
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
webhead A compulsive or frequent user of, or contributor to, the {World-Wide Web}. (1994-07-21)