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   waffle
         n 1: pancake batter baked in a waffle iron
         v 1: pause or hold back in uncertainty or unwillingness;
               "Authorities hesitate to quote exact figures" [syn:
               {hesitate}, {waver}, {waffle}]

English Dictionary: woeful by the DICT Development Group
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Wavell
n
  1. British field marshal in North Africa in World War II; he defeated the Italians before being defeated by the Germans (1883-1950)
    Synonym(s): Wavell, Archibald Percival Wavell, First Earl Wavell
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
waybill
n
  1. a receipt given by the carrier to the shipper acknowledging receipt of the goods being shipped and specifying the terms of delivery
    Synonym(s): bill of lading, waybill
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
weevil
n
  1. any of several families of mostly small beetles that feed on plants and plant products; especially snout beetles and seed beetles
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
wifely
adj
  1. befitting or characteristic of a wife [syn: wifely, wifelike, uxorial]
    Antonym(s): husbandly
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Wiffle
n
  1. (trademark) a hollow plastic ball with cutouts [syn: Wiffle, Wiffle Ball]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
wobble
n
  1. an unsteady rocking motion
v
  1. move unsteadily; "His knees wobbled"; "The old cart wobbled down the street"
    Synonym(s): wobble, coggle
  2. move sideways or in an unsteady way; "The ship careened out of control"
    Synonym(s): careen, wobble, shift, tilt
  3. tremble or shake; "His voice wobbled with restrained emotion"
    Synonym(s): shimmy, wobble
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
wobbly
adj
  1. inclined to shake as from weakness or defect; "a rickety table"; "a wobbly chair with shaky legs"; "the ladder felt a little wobbly"; "the bridge still stands though one of the arches is wonky"
    Synonym(s): rickety, shaky, wobbly, wonky
n
  1. a member of the Industrial Workers of the World
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
woeful
adj
  1. affected by or full of grief or woe; "his sorrow...made him look...haggard and...woebegone"- George du Maurier
    Synonym(s): woebegone, woeful
  2. of very poor quality or condition; "deplorable housing conditions in the inner city"; "woeful treatment of the accused"; "woeful errors of judgment"
    Synonym(s): deplorable, execrable, miserable, woeful, wretched
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
woefully
adv
  1. in an unfortunate or deplorable manner; "he was sadly neglected"; "it was woefully inadequate"
    Synonym(s): deplorably, lamentably, sadly, woefully
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Wabble \Wab"ble\ (w[ocr]b"b'l), v. i. [Cf. Prov. G. wabbeln to
      wabble, and E. whap. Cf. {Quaver}.]
      To move staggeringly or unsteadily from one side to the
      other; to vacillate; to move the manner of a rotating disk
      when the axis of rotation is inclined to that of the disk; --
      said of a turning or whirling body; as, a top wabbles; a buzz
      saw wabbles.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Wabble \Wab"ble\, n.
      A hobbling, unequal motion, as of a wheel unevenly hung; a
      staggering to and fro.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Wabbly \Wab"bly\, a.
      Inclined to wabble; wabbling.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Waffle \Waffle\, n. [D. wafel. See {Wafer}.]
      1. A thin cake baked and then rolled; a wafer.
  
      2. A soft indented cake cooked in a waffle iron.
  
      {Waffle iron}, an iron utensil or mold made in two parts
            shutting together, -- used for cooking waffles over a
            fire.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Waybill \Way"bill`\, n.
      A list of passengers in a public vehicle, or of the baggage
      or gods transported by a common carrier on a land route. When
      the goods are transported by water, the list is called a bill
      of lading.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Weepful \Weep"ful\, a.
      Full of weeping or lamentation; grieving. [Obs.] --Wyclif.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Weevil \Wee"vil\, n. [OE. wivel, wevil, AS. wifel, wibil; akin
      to OD. wevel, OHG. wibil, wibel, G. wiebel, wibel, and
      probably to Lith. vabalas beetle, and E. weave. See {Weave}.]
      (Zo[94]l.)
      Any one of numerous species of snout beetles, or
      Rhynchophora, in which the head is elongated and usually
      curved downward. Many of the species are very injurious to
      cultivated plants. The larv[91] of some of the species live
      in nuts, fruit, and grain by eating out the interior, as the
      plum weevil, or curculio, the nut weevils, and the grain
      weevil (see under {Plum}, {Nut}, and {Grain}). The larv[91]
      of other species bore under the bark and into the pith of
      trees and various other plants, as the pine weevils (see
      under {Pine}). See also {Pea weevil}, {Rice weevil}, {Seed
      weevil}, under {Pea}, {Rice}, and {Seed}.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Weevily \Wee"vil*y\, a.
      Having weevils; weeviled. [Written also {weevilly}.]

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Weevily \Wee"vil*y\, a.
      Having weevils; weeviled. [Written also {weevilly}.]

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Wevil \We"vil\, n.
      See {Weevil}.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Whiffle \Whif"fle\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Whiffled}; p. pr. & vb.
      n. {Whiffling}.] [Freq. of whiff to puff, perhaps influenced
      by D. weifelen to waver.]
      1. To waver, or shake, as if moved by gusts of wind; to
            shift, turn, or veer about. --D[?]mpier.
  
      2. To change from one opinion or course to another; to use
            evasions; to prevaricate; to be fickle.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Whiffle \Whif"fle\, v. t.
      1. To disperse with, or as with, a whiff, or puff; to
            scatter. [Obs.] --Dr. H. More.
  
      2. To wave or shake quickly; to cause to whiffle.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Whiffle \Whif"fle\, n.
      A fife or small flute. [Obs.] --Douce.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Whip-poor-will \Whip"-poor-will`\, n. (Zo[94]l.)
      An American bird ({Antrostomus vociferus}) allied to the
      nighthawk and goatsucker; -- so called in imitation of the
      peculiar notes which it utters in the evening. [Written also
      {whippowil}.]

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Wifely \Wife"ly\, a. [AS. w[c6]flic.]
      Becoming or life; of or pertaining to a wife. [bd]Wifely
      patience.[b8] --Chaucer.
  
               With all the tenderness of wifely love.   --Dryden.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Wively \Wive"ly\, a.
      Wifely. [Obs.] --Udall.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Wobble \Wob"ble\, v. i.
      See {Wabble}.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Woeful \Woe"ful\, Woful \Wo"ful\, a.
      1. Full of woe; sorrowful; distressed with grief or calamity;
            afflicted; wretched; unhappy; sad.
  
                     How many woeful widows left to bow To sad disgrace!
                                                                              --Daniel.
  
      2. Bringing calamity, distress, or affliction; as, a woeful
            event; woeful want.
  
                     O woeful day! O day of woe!               --Philips.
  
      3. Wretched; paltry; miserable; poor.
  
                     What woeful stuff this madrigal would be! --Pope.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Woefully \Woe"ful*ly\, Wofully \Wo"ful*ly\, adv.
      In a woeful manner; sorrowfully; mournfully; miserably;
      dolefully.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Woeful \Woe"ful\, Woful \Wo"ful\, a.
      1. Full of woe; sorrowful; distressed with grief or calamity;
            afflicted; wretched; unhappy; sad.
  
                     How many woeful widows left to bow To sad disgrace!
                                                                              --Daniel.
  
      2. Bringing calamity, distress, or affliction; as, a woeful
            event; woeful want.
  
                     O woeful day! O day of woe!               --Philips.
  
      3. Wretched; paltry; miserable; poor.
  
                     What woeful stuff this madrigal would be! --Pope.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Woefully \Woe"ful*ly\, Wofully \Wo"ful*ly\, adv.
      In a woeful manner; sorrowfully; mournfully; miserably;
      dolefully.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Woofell \Woo"fell\, n. (Zo[94]l.)
      The European blackbird. [bd]The woofell near at hand that
      hath a golden bill.[b8] --Drayton.

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   Wapella, IL (village, FIPS 78773)
      Location: 40.22133 N, 88.96171 W
      Population (1990): 608 (238 housing units)
      Area: 1.4 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
      Zip code(s): 61777

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   Wapello, IA (city, FIPS 82200)
      Location: 41.17836 N, 91.18879 W
      Population (1990): 2013 (857 housing units)
      Area: 2.8 sq km (land), 0.1 sq km (water)
      Zip code(s): 52653

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   Weaubleau, MO (city, FIPS 78064)
      Location: 37.89161 N, 93.54078 W
      Population (1990): 436 (249 housing units)
      Area: 2.1 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
      Zip code(s): 65774

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   Webbville, KY
      Zip code(s): 41180

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   Whipple, OH
      Zip code(s): 45788

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   Wyeville, WI (village, FIPS 89275)
      Location: 44.02769 N, 90.38580 W
      Population (1990): 154 (64 housing units)
      Area: 1.5 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
      Zip code(s): 54660

From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]:
   weeble /weeb'l/ interj.   [Cambridge] Used to denote
   frustration, usually at amazing stupidity.   "I stuck the disk in
   upside down."   "Weeble...." Compare {gurfle}.
  
  

From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]:
   wibble   [UK, perh. originally from the first "Roger Irrelevant"
   strip in "VIZ" comics] 1. n.,v. Commonly used to describe chatter,
   content-free remarks or other essentially meaningless contributions
   to threads in newsgroups. "Oh, rspence is wibbling again".   2. [UK
   IRC] An explicit on-line no-op equivalent to {humma}.   3. One of the
   preferred {metasyntactic variable}s in the UK, forming a series with
      `wobble', `wubble', and `flob' (attributed to the hilarious
   historical comedy "Blackadder"). 4. A pronounciation of the letters
   "www", as seen in URLs; i.e., www.{foo}.com may be pronounced
   "wibble dot foo dot com" (compare {dub dub dub}).
  
      The ancestral sense of this word is reported to have been "My
   brain is packing it in now.   I give up. _Tilt! Tilt! Tilt!_"
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
   WAFL
  
      WArwick Functional Language.   Warwick U, England.   LISP-like.
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
   Weeble
  
      /wee'b*l/ An egg-shaped plastic toy person with a weight in
      the bottom so that, if tipped over, they would right
      themselves and stand up again.   They were popular in the UK
      during the 1970s and were famous for the slogan "Weebles
      wobble but they don't fall down", unlike some computers
      (pretty tenuous link with computing).
  
      (1994-11-29)
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
   WFL
  
      Work Flow Language.   Burroughs, ca 1973.   A job control
      language for the B6700/B7700 under MCP.   WFL was a compiled
      block-structured language similar to ALGOL 60, with
      subroutines and nested begin-end's.
  
      ["Work Flow Management User's Guide", Burroughs Manual
      5000714, 1973].
  
      ["Burroughs B6700/B7700 Work Flow Language", R.M. Cowan in
      "Command Languages", C. Unger ed, N-H 1975].
  
      (1996-01-18)
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
   WPL+
  
      Word-oriented language internal to PRODOS Applewriter 2.1.
      Available on GEnie.
  
  
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