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   wattle and daub
         n 1: building material consisting of interwoven rods and twigs
               covered with clay

English Dictionary: woodland caribou by the DICT Development Group
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
wet lung
n
  1. acute lung injury characterized by coughing and rales; inflammation of the lungs which become stiff and fibrous and cannot exchange oxygen; occurs among persons exposed to irritants such as corrosive chemical vapors or ammonia or chlorine etc.
    Synonym(s): adult respiratory distress syndrome, ARDS, wet lung, white lung
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
wetland
n
  1. a low area where the land is saturated with water
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
wheedling
n
  1. the act of urging by means of teasing or flattery [syn: blandishment, wheedling]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
white elm
n
  1. large ornamental tree with graceful gradually spreading branches common in eastern North America
    Synonym(s): American elm, white elm, water elm, rock elm, Ulmus americana
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
white line
n
  1. a white stripe in the middle of a road to mark traffic lanes
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
white lung
n
  1. acute lung injury characterized by coughing and rales; inflammation of the lungs which become stiff and fibrous and cannot exchange oxygen; occurs among persons exposed to irritants such as corrosive chemical vapors or ammonia or chlorine etc.
    Synonym(s): adult respiratory distress syndrome, ARDS, wet lung, white lung
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
white walnut
n
  1. North American walnut tree having light-brown wood and edible nuts; source of a light-brown dye
    Synonym(s): butternut, butternut tree, white walnut, Juglans cinerea
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
woodland
n
  1. land that is covered with trees and shrubs [syn: forest, woodland, timberland, timber]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
woodland caribou
n
  1. any of several large caribou living in coniferous forests of southern Canada; in some classifications included in the species Rangifer tarandus
    Synonym(s): woodland caribou, Rangifer caribou
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
woodland oxeye
n
  1. hairy Eurasian perennial having deep yellow daisies on lax willowy stems; found in the wild in open woodland and on rocky slopes
    Synonym(s): woodland oxeye, Buphthalmum salicifolium
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
woodland star
n
  1. California perennial herb cultivated for its racemose white flowers with widely spreading petals; sometimes placed in genus Tellima
    Synonym(s): woodland star, Lithophragma affine, Lithophragma affinis, Tellima affinis
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
woodland white violet
n
  1. short-stemmed violet of eastern North America having fragrant purple-veined white flowers
    Synonym(s): sweet white violet, white violet, woodland white violet, Viola blanda
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Woody Allen
n
  1. United States filmmaker and comic actor (1935-) [syn: Allen, Woody Allen, Allen Stewart Konigsberg]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Wyethia helianthoides
n
  1. herb with basal leaves and leafy hairy stems bearing solitary flower heads with white or pale cream-colored rays; northwestern United States
    Synonym(s): white-rayed mule's ears, Wyethia helianthoides
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Waddle \Wad"dle\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Waddled}; p. pr. & vb. n.
      {Waddling}.] [Freq. of wade; cf. AS. w[91]dlian to beg, from
      wadan to go. See {Wade}.]
      To walk with short steps, swaying the body from one side to
      the other, like a duck or very fat person; to move clumsily
      and totteringly along; to toddle; to stumble; as, a child
      waddles when he begins to walk; a goose waddles. --Shak.
  
               She drawls her words, and waddles in her pace. --Young.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Waddlingly \Wad"dling*ly\, adv.
      In a waddling manner.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Wattle \Wat"tle\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Wattled}; p. pr. & vb. n.
      {Wattling}.]
      1. To bind with twigs.
  
      2. To twist or interweave, one with another, as twigs; to
            form a network with; to plat; as, to wattle branches.
  
      3. To form, by interweaving or platting twigs.
  
                     The folded flocks, penned in their wattled cotes.
                                                                              --Milton.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Wattling \Wat"tling\, n.
      The act or process of binding or platting with twigs; also,
      the network so formed.
  
               Made with a wattling of canes or sticks. --Dampier.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Wheedle \Whee"dle\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Wheedled}; p. pr. & vb.
      n. {Wheedling}.] [Cf. G. wedeln to wag with the tail, as a
      dog, wedel a fan, tail, brush, OHG. wadal; akin to G. wehen
      to blow, and E. wind, n.]
      1. To entice by soft words; to cajole; to flatter; to coax.
  
                     The unlucky art of wheedling fools.   --Dryden.
  
                     And wheedle a world that loves him not. --Tennyson.
  
      2. To grain, or get away, by flattery.
  
                     A deed of settlement of the best part of her estate,
                     which I wheedled out of her.               --Congreve.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
  
  
      {White elm} (Bot.), a majestic tree of North America ({Ulmus
            Americana}), the timber of which is much used for hubs of
            wheels, and for other purposes.
  
      {White ensign}. See {Saint George's ensign}, under {Saint}.
           
  
      {White feather}, a mark or symbol of cowardice. See {To show
            the white feather}, under {Feather}, n.
  
      {White fir} (Bot.), a name given to several coniferous trees
            of the Pacific States, as {Abies grandis}, and {A.
            concolor}.
  
      {White flesher} (Zo[94]l.), the ruffed grouse. See under
            {Ruffed}. [Canada]
  
      {White frost}. See {Hoarfrost}.
  
      {White game} (Zo[94]l.), the white ptarmigan.
  
      {White garnet} (Min.), leucite.
  
      {White grass} (Bot.), an American grass ({Leersia Virginica})
            with greenish-white pale[91].
  
      {White grouse}. (Zo[94]l.)
            (a) The white ptarmigan.
            (b) The prairie chicken. [Local, U. S.]
  
      {White grub} (Zo[94]l.), the larva of the June bug and other
            allied species. These grubs eat the roots of grasses and
            other plants, and often do much damage.
  
      {White hake} (Zo[94]l.), the squirrel hake. See under
            {Squirrel}.
  
      {White hawk}, [or] {kite} (Zo[94]l.), the hen harrier.
  
      {White heat}, the temperature at which bodies become
            incandescent, and appear white from the bright light which
            they emit.
  
      {White hellebore} (Bot.), a plant of the genus {Veratrum}
            ({V. album}) See {Hellebore}, 2.
  
      {White herring}, a fresh, or unsmoked, herring, as
            distinguished from a red, or cured, herring. [R.] --Shak.
  
      {White hoolet} (Zo[94]l.), the barn owl. [Prov. Eng.]
  
      {White horses} (Naut.), white-topped waves; whitecaps.
  
      {The White House}. See under {House}.
  
      {White ibis} (Zo[94]l.), an American ibis ({Guara alba})
            having the plumage pure white, except the tips of the
            wings, which are black. It inhabits tropical America and
            the Southern United States. Called also {Spanish curlew}.
           
  
      {White iron}.
            (a) Thin sheets of iron coated with tin; tinned iron.
            (b) A hard, silvery-white cast iron containing a large
                  proportion of combined carbon.
  
      {White iron pyrites} (Min.), marcasite.
  
      {White land}, a tough clayey soil, of a whitish hue when dry,
            but blackish after rain. [Eng.]
  
      {White lark} (Zo[94]l.), the snow bunting.
  
      {White lead}.
            (a) A carbonate of lead much used in painting, and for
                  other purposes; ceruse.
            (b) (Min.) Native lead carbonate; cerusite.
  
      {White leather}, buff leather; leather tanned with alum and
            salt.
  
      {White leg} (Med.), milk leg. See under {Milk}.
  
      {White lettuce} (Bot.), rattlesnake root. See under
            {Rattlesnake}.
  
      {White lie}. See under {Lie}.
  
      {White light}.
            (a) (Physics) Light having the different colors in the
                  same proportion as in the light coming directly from
                  the sun, without having been decomposed, as by passing
                  through a prism. See the Note under {Color}, n., 1.
            (b) A kind of firework which gives a brilliant white
                  illumination for signals, etc.
  
      {White lime}, a solution or preparation of lime for
            whitewashing; whitewash.
  
      {White line} (Print.), a void space of the breadth of a line,
            on a printed page; a blank line.
  
      {White meat}.
            (a) Any light-colored flesh, especially of poultry.
            (b) Food made from milk or eggs, as butter, cheese, etc.
  
                           Driving their cattle continually with them, and
                           feeding only upon their milk and white meats.
                                                                              --Spenser.
  
      {White merganser} (Zo[94]l.), the smew.
  
      {White metal}.
            (a) Any one of several white alloys, as pewter, britannia,
                  etc.
            (b) (Metal.) A fine grade of copper sulphide obtained at a
                  certain stage in copper smelting.
  
      {White miller}. (Zo[94]l.)
            (a) The common clothes moth.
            (b) A common American bombycid moth ({Spilosoma
                  Virginica}) which is pure white with a few small black
                  spots; -- called also {ermine moth}, and {virgin
                  moth}. See {Woolly bear}, under {Woolly}.
  
      {White money}, silver money.
  
      {White mouse} (Zo[94]l.), the albino variety of the common
            mouse.
  
      {White mullet} (Zo[94]l.), a silvery mullet ({Mugil curema})
            ranging from the coast of the United States to Brazil; --
            called also {blue-back mullet}, and {liza}.
  
      {White nun} (Zo[94]l.), the smew; -- so called from the white
            crest and the band of black feathers on the back of its
            head, which give the appearance of a hood.
  
      {White oak}. (Bot.) See under {Oak}.
  
      {White owl}. (Zo[94]l.)
            (a) The snowy owl.
            (b) The barn owl.
  
      {White partridge} (Zo[94]l.), the white ptarmigan.
  
      {White perch}. (Zo[94]l.)
            (a) A North American fresh-water bass ({Morone Americana})
                  valued as a food fish.
            (b) The croaker, or fresh-water drum.
            (c) Any California surf fish.
  
      {White pine}. (Bot.) See the Note under {Pine}.
  
      {White poplar} (Bot.), a European tree ({Populus alba}) often
            cultivated as a shade tree in America; abele.
  
      {White poppy} (Bot.), the opium-yielding poppy. See {Poppy}.
           
  
      {White powder}, a kind of gunpowder formerly believed to
            exist, and to have the power of exploding without noise.
            [Obs.]
  
                     A pistol charged with white powder.   --Beau. & Fl.
  
      {White precipitate}. (Old Chem.) See under {Precipitate}.
  
      {White rabbit}. (Zo[94]l.)
            (a) The American northern hare in its winter pelage.
            (b) An albino rabbit.
  
      {White rent},
            (a) (Eng. Law) Formerly, rent payable in silver; --
                  opposed to black rent. See {Blackmail}, n., 3.
            (b) A rent, or duty, of eight pence, payable yearly by
                  every tinner in Devon and Cornwall to the Duke of
                  Cornwall, as lord of the soil. [Prov. Eng.]
  
      {White rhinoceros}. (Zo[94]l.)
            (a) The one-horned, or Indian, rhinoceros ({Rhinoceros
                  Indicus}). See {Rhinoceros}.
            (b) The umhofo.
  
      {White ribbon}, the distinctive badge of certain
            organizations for the promotion of temperance or of moral
            purity; as, the White-ribbon Army.
  
      {White rope} (Naut.), untarred hemp rope.
  
      {White rot}. (Bot.)
            (a) Either of several plants, as marsh pennywort and
                  butterwort, which were thought to produce the disease
                  called rot in sheep.
            (b) A disease of grapes. See {White rot}, under {Rot}.
  
      {White sage} (Bot.), a white, woolly undershrub ({Eurotia
            lanata}) of Western North America; -- called also {winter
            fat}.
  
      {White salmon} (Zo[94]l.), the silver salmon.
  
      {White salt}, salt dried and calcined; decrepitated salt.
  
      {White scale} (Zo[94]l.), a scale insect ({Aspidiotus Nerii})
            injurious to the orange tree. See {Orange scale}, under
            {Orange}.
  
      {White shark} (Zo[94]l.), a species of man-eating shark. See
            under {Shark}.
  
      {White softening}. (Med.) See {Softening of the brain}, under
            {Softening}.
  
      {White spruce}. (Bot.) See {Spruce}, n., 1.
  
      {White squall} (Naut.), a sudden gust of wind, or furious
            blow, which comes up without being marked in its approach
            otherwise than by whitecaps, or white, broken water, on
            the surface of the sea.
  
      {White staff}, the badge of the lord high treasurer of
            England. --Macaulay.
  
      {White stork} (Zo[94]l.), the common European stork.
  
      {White sturgeon}. (Zo[94]l.) See {Shovelnose}
            (d) .
  
      {White sucker}. (Zo[94]l.)
            (a) The common sucker.
            (b) The common red horse ({Moxostoma macrolepidotum}).
  
      {White swelling} (Med.), a chronic swelling of the knee,
            produced by a strumous inflammation of the synovial
            membranes of the kneejoint and of the cancellar texture of
            the end of the bone forming the kneejoint; -- applied also
            to a lingering chronic swelling of almost any kind.
  
      {White tombac}. See {Tombac}.
  
      {White trout} (Zo[94]l.), the white weakfish, or silver
            squeteague ({Cynoscion nothus}), of the Southern United
            States.
  
      {White vitriol} (Chem.), hydrous sulphate of zinc. See {White
            vitriol}, under {Vitriol}.
  
      {White wagtail} (Zo[94]l.), the common, or pied, wagtail.
  
      {White wax}, beeswax rendered white by bleaching.
  
      {White whale} (Zo[94]l.), the beluga.
  
      {White widgeon} (Zo[94]l.), the smew.
  
      {White wine}. any wine of a clear, transparent color,
            bordering on white, as Madeira, sherry, Lisbon, etc.; --
            distinguished from wines of a deep red color, as port and
            Burgundy. [bd]White wine of Lepe.[b8] --Chaucer.
  
      {White witch}, a witch or wizard whose supernatural powers
            are supposed to be exercised for good and beneficent
            purposes. --Addison. --Cotton Mather.
  
      {White wolf}. (Zo[94]l.)
            (a) A light-colored wolf ({Canis laniger}) native of
                  Thibet; -- called also {chanco}, {golden wolf}, and
                  {Thibetan wolf}.
            (b) The albino variety of the gray wolf.
  
      {White wren} (Zo[94]l.), the willow warbler; -- so called
            from the color of the under parts.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
  
  
      {White elm} (Bot.), a majestic tree of North America ({Ulmus
            Americana}), the timber of which is much used for hubs of
            wheels, and for other purposes.
  
      {White ensign}. See {Saint George's ensign}, under {Saint}.
           
  
      {White feather}, a mark or symbol of cowardice. See {To show
            the white feather}, under {Feather}, n.
  
      {White fir} (Bot.), a name given to several coniferous trees
            of the Pacific States, as {Abies grandis}, and {A.
            concolor}.
  
      {White flesher} (Zo[94]l.), the ruffed grouse. See under
            {Ruffed}. [Canada]
  
      {White frost}. See {Hoarfrost}.
  
      {White game} (Zo[94]l.), the white ptarmigan.
  
      {White garnet} (Min.), leucite.
  
      {White grass} (Bot.), an American grass ({Leersia Virginica})
            with greenish-white pale[91].
  
      {White grouse}. (Zo[94]l.)
            (a) The white ptarmigan.
            (b) The prairie chicken. [Local, U. S.]
  
      {White grub} (Zo[94]l.), the larva of the June bug and other
            allied species. These grubs eat the roots of grasses and
            other plants, and often do much damage.
  
      {White hake} (Zo[94]l.), the squirrel hake. See under
            {Squirrel}.
  
      {White hawk}, [or] {kite} (Zo[94]l.), the hen harrier.
  
      {White heat}, the temperature at which bodies become
            incandescent, and appear white from the bright light which
            they emit.
  
      {White hellebore} (Bot.), a plant of the genus {Veratrum}
            ({V. album}) See {Hellebore}, 2.
  
      {White herring}, a fresh, or unsmoked, herring, as
            distinguished from a red, or cured, herring. [R.] --Shak.
  
      {White hoolet} (Zo[94]l.), the barn owl. [Prov. Eng.]
  
      {White horses} (Naut.), white-topped waves; whitecaps.
  
      {The White House}. See under {House}.
  
      {White ibis} (Zo[94]l.), an American ibis ({Guara alba})
            having the plumage pure white, except the tips of the
            wings, which are black. It inhabits tropical America and
            the Southern United States. Called also {Spanish curlew}.
           
  
      {White iron}.
            (a) Thin sheets of iron coated with tin; tinned iron.
            (b) A hard, silvery-white cast iron containing a large
                  proportion of combined carbon.
  
      {White iron pyrites} (Min.), marcasite.
  
      {White land}, a tough clayey soil, of a whitish hue when dry,
            but blackish after rain. [Eng.]
  
      {White lark} (Zo[94]l.), the snow bunting.
  
      {White lead}.
            (a) A carbonate of lead much used in painting, and for
                  other purposes; ceruse.
            (b) (Min.) Native lead carbonate; cerusite.
  
      {White leather}, buff leather; leather tanned with alum and
            salt.
  
      {White leg} (Med.), milk leg. See under {Milk}.
  
      {White lettuce} (Bot.), rattlesnake root. See under
            {Rattlesnake}.
  
      {White lie}. See under {Lie}.
  
      {White light}.
            (a) (Physics) Light having the different colors in the
                  same proportion as in the light coming directly from
                  the sun, without having been decomposed, as by passing
                  through a prism. See the Note under {Color}, n., 1.
            (b) A kind of firework which gives a brilliant white
                  illumination for signals, etc.
  
      {White lime}, a solution or preparation of lime for
            whitewashing; whitewash.
  
      {White line} (Print.), a void space of the breadth of a line,
            on a printed page; a blank line.
  
      {White meat}.
            (a) Any light-colored flesh, especially of poultry.
            (b) Food made from milk or eggs, as butter, cheese, etc.
  
                           Driving their cattle continually with them, and
                           feeding only upon their milk and white meats.
                                                                              --Spenser.
  
      {White merganser} (Zo[94]l.), the smew.
  
      {White metal}.
            (a) Any one of several white alloys, as pewter, britannia,
                  etc.
            (b) (Metal.) A fine grade of copper sulphide obtained at a
                  certain stage in copper smelting.
  
      {White miller}. (Zo[94]l.)
            (a) The common clothes moth.
            (b) A common American bombycid moth ({Spilosoma
                  Virginica}) which is pure white with a few small black
                  spots; -- called also {ermine moth}, and {virgin
                  moth}. See {Woolly bear}, under {Woolly}.
  
      {White money}, silver money.
  
      {White mouse} (Zo[94]l.), the albino variety of the common
            mouse.
  
      {White mullet} (Zo[94]l.), a silvery mullet ({Mugil curema})
            ranging from the coast of the United States to Brazil; --
            called also {blue-back mullet}, and {liza}.
  
      {White nun} (Zo[94]l.), the smew; -- so called from the white
            crest and the band of black feathers on the back of its
            head, which give the appearance of a hood.
  
      {White oak}. (Bot.) See under {Oak}.
  
      {White owl}. (Zo[94]l.)
            (a) The snowy owl.
            (b) The barn owl.
  
      {White partridge} (Zo[94]l.), the white ptarmigan.
  
      {White perch}. (Zo[94]l.)
            (a) A North American fresh-water bass ({Morone Americana})
                  valued as a food fish.
            (b) The croaker, or fresh-water drum.
            (c) Any California surf fish.
  
      {White pine}. (Bot.) See the Note under {Pine}.
  
      {White poplar} (Bot.), a European tree ({Populus alba}) often
            cultivated as a shade tree in America; abele.
  
      {White poppy} (Bot.), the opium-yielding poppy. See {Poppy}.
           
  
      {White powder}, a kind of gunpowder formerly believed to
            exist, and to have the power of exploding without noise.
            [Obs.]
  
                     A pistol charged with white powder.   --Beau. & Fl.
  
      {White precipitate}. (Old Chem.) See under {Precipitate}.
  
      {White rabbit}. (Zo[94]l.)
            (a) The American northern hare in its winter pelage.
            (b) An albino rabbit.
  
      {White rent},
            (a) (Eng. Law) Formerly, rent payable in silver; --
                  opposed to black rent. See {Blackmail}, n., 3.
            (b) A rent, or duty, of eight pence, payable yearly by
                  every tinner in Devon and Cornwall to the Duke of
                  Cornwall, as lord of the soil. [Prov. Eng.]
  
      {White rhinoceros}. (Zo[94]l.)
            (a) The one-horned, or Indian, rhinoceros ({Rhinoceros
                  Indicus}). See {Rhinoceros}.
            (b) The umhofo.
  
      {White ribbon}, the distinctive badge of certain
            organizations for the promotion of temperance or of moral
            purity; as, the White-ribbon Army.
  
      {White rope} (Naut.), untarred hemp rope.
  
      {White rot}. (Bot.)
            (a) Either of several plants, as marsh pennywort and
                  butterwort, which were thought to produce the disease
                  called rot in sheep.
            (b) A disease of grapes. See {White rot}, under {Rot}.
  
      {White sage} (Bot.), a white, woolly undershrub ({Eurotia
            lanata}) of Western North America; -- called also {winter
            fat}.
  
      {White salmon} (Zo[94]l.), the silver salmon.
  
      {White salt}, salt dried and calcined; decrepitated salt.
  
      {White scale} (Zo[94]l.), a scale insect ({Aspidiotus Nerii})
            injurious to the orange tree. See {Orange scale}, under
            {Orange}.
  
      {White shark} (Zo[94]l.), a species of man-eating shark. See
            under {Shark}.
  
      {White softening}. (Med.) See {Softening of the brain}, under
            {Softening}.
  
      {White spruce}. (Bot.) See {Spruce}, n., 1.
  
      {White squall} (Naut.), a sudden gust of wind, or furious
            blow, which comes up without being marked in its approach
            otherwise than by whitecaps, or white, broken water, on
            the surface of the sea.
  
      {White staff}, the badge of the lord high treasurer of
            England. --Macaulay.
  
      {White stork} (Zo[94]l.), the common European stork.
  
      {White sturgeon}. (Zo[94]l.) See {Shovelnose}
            (d) .
  
      {White sucker}. (Zo[94]l.)
            (a) The common sucker.
            (b) The common red horse ({Moxostoma macrolepidotum}).
  
      {White swelling} (Med.), a chronic swelling of the knee,
            produced by a strumous inflammation of the synovial
            membranes of the kneejoint and of the cancellar texture of
            the end of the bone forming the kneejoint; -- applied also
            to a lingering chronic swelling of almost any kind.
  
      {White tombac}. See {Tombac}.
  
      {White trout} (Zo[94]l.), the white weakfish, or silver
            squeteague ({Cynoscion nothus}), of the Southern United
            States.
  
      {White vitriol} (Chem.), hydrous sulphate of zinc. See {White
            vitriol}, under {Vitriol}.
  
      {White wagtail} (Zo[94]l.), the common, or pied, wagtail.
  
      {White wax}, beeswax rendered white by bleaching.
  
      {White whale} (Zo[94]l.), the beluga.
  
      {White widgeon} (Zo[94]l.), the smew.
  
      {White wine}. any wine of a clear, transparent color,
            bordering on white, as Madeira, sherry, Lisbon, etc.; --
            distinguished from wines of a deep red color, as port and
            Burgundy. [bd]White wine of Lepe.[b8] --Chaucer.
  
      {White witch}, a witch or wizard whose supernatural powers
            are supposed to be exercised for good and beneficent
            purposes. --Addison. --Cotton Mather.
  
      {White wolf}. (Zo[94]l.)
            (a) A light-colored wolf ({Canis laniger}) native of
                  Thibet; -- called also {chanco}, {golden wolf}, and
                  {Thibetan wolf}.
            (b) The albino variety of the gray wolf.
  
      {White wren} (Zo[94]l.), the willow warbler; -- so called
            from the color of the under parts.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
  
  
      {White elm} (Bot.), a majestic tree of North America ({Ulmus
            Americana}), the timber of which is much used for hubs of
            wheels, and for other purposes.
  
      {White ensign}. See {Saint George's ensign}, under {Saint}.
           
  
      {White feather}, a mark or symbol of cowardice. See {To show
            the white feather}, under {Feather}, n.
  
      {White fir} (Bot.), a name given to several coniferous trees
            of the Pacific States, as {Abies grandis}, and {A.
            concolor}.
  
      {White flesher} (Zo[94]l.), the ruffed grouse. See under
            {Ruffed}. [Canada]
  
      {White frost}. See {Hoarfrost}.
  
      {White game} (Zo[94]l.), the white ptarmigan.
  
      {White garnet} (Min.), leucite.
  
      {White grass} (Bot.), an American grass ({Leersia Virginica})
            with greenish-white pale[91].
  
      {White grouse}. (Zo[94]l.)
            (a) The white ptarmigan.
            (b) The prairie chicken. [Local, U. S.]
  
      {White grub} (Zo[94]l.), the larva of the June bug and other
            allied species. These grubs eat the roots of grasses and
            other plants, and often do much damage.
  
      {White hake} (Zo[94]l.), the squirrel hake. See under
            {Squirrel}.
  
      {White hawk}, [or] {kite} (Zo[94]l.), the hen harrier.
  
      {White heat}, the temperature at which bodies become
            incandescent, and appear white from the bright light which
            they emit.
  
      {White hellebore} (Bot.), a plant of the genus {Veratrum}
            ({V. album}) See {Hellebore}, 2.
  
      {White herring}, a fresh, or unsmoked, herring, as
            distinguished from a red, or cured, herring. [R.] --Shak.
  
      {White hoolet} (Zo[94]l.), the barn owl. [Prov. Eng.]
  
      {White horses} (Naut.), white-topped waves; whitecaps.
  
      {The White House}. See under {House}.
  
      {White ibis} (Zo[94]l.), an American ibis ({Guara alba})
            having the plumage pure white, except the tips of the
            wings, which are black. It inhabits tropical America and
            the Southern United States. Called also {Spanish curlew}.
           
  
      {White iron}.
            (a) Thin sheets of iron coated with tin; tinned iron.
            (b) A hard, silvery-white cast iron containing a large
                  proportion of combined carbon.
  
      {White iron pyrites} (Min.), marcasite.
  
      {White land}, a tough clayey soil, of a whitish hue when dry,
            but blackish after rain. [Eng.]
  
      {White lark} (Zo[94]l.), the snow bunting.
  
      {White lead}.
            (a) A carbonate of lead much used in painting, and for
                  other purposes; ceruse.
            (b) (Min.) Native lead carbonate; cerusite.
  
      {White leather}, buff leather; leather tanned with alum and
            salt.
  
      {White leg} (Med.), milk leg. See under {Milk}.
  
      {White lettuce} (Bot.), rattlesnake root. See under
            {Rattlesnake}.
  
      {White lie}. See under {Lie}.
  
      {White light}.
            (a) (Physics) Light having the different colors in the
                  same proportion as in the light coming directly from
                  the sun, without having been decomposed, as by passing
                  through a prism. See the Note under {Color}, n., 1.
            (b) A kind of firework which gives a brilliant white
                  illumination for signals, etc.
  
      {White lime}, a solution or preparation of lime for
            whitewashing; whitewash.
  
      {White line} (Print.), a void space of the breadth of a line,
            on a printed page; a blank line.
  
      {White meat}.
            (a) Any light-colored flesh, especially of poultry.
            (b) Food made from milk or eggs, as butter, cheese, etc.
  
                           Driving their cattle continually with them, and
                           feeding only upon their milk and white meats.
                                                                              --Spenser.
  
      {White merganser} (Zo[94]l.), the smew.
  
      {White metal}.
            (a) Any one of several white alloys, as pewter, britannia,
                  etc.
            (b) (Metal.) A fine grade of copper sulphide obtained at a
                  certain stage in copper smelting.
  
      {White miller}. (Zo[94]l.)
            (a) The common clothes moth.
            (b) A common American bombycid moth ({Spilosoma
                  Virginica}) which is pure white with a few small black
                  spots; -- called also {ermine moth}, and {virgin
                  moth}. See {Woolly bear}, under {Woolly}.
  
      {White money}, silver money.
  
      {White mouse} (Zo[94]l.), the albino variety of the common
            mouse.
  
      {White mullet} (Zo[94]l.), a silvery mullet ({Mugil curema})
            ranging from the coast of the United States to Brazil; --
            called also {blue-back mullet}, and {liza}.
  
      {White nun} (Zo[94]l.), the smew; -- so called from the white
            crest and the band of black feathers on the back of its
            head, which give the appearance of a hood.
  
      {White oak}. (Bot.) See under {Oak}.
  
      {White owl}. (Zo[94]l.)
            (a) The snowy owl.
            (b) The barn owl.
  
      {White partridge} (Zo[94]l.), the white ptarmigan.
  
      {White perch}. (Zo[94]l.)
            (a) A North American fresh-water bass ({Morone Americana})
                  valued as a food fish.
            (b) The croaker, or fresh-water drum.
            (c) Any California surf fish.
  
      {White pine}. (Bot.) See the Note under {Pine}.
  
      {White poplar} (Bot.), a European tree ({Populus alba}) often
            cultivated as a shade tree in America; abele.
  
      {White poppy} (Bot.), the opium-yielding poppy. See {Poppy}.
           
  
      {White powder}, a kind of gunpowder formerly believed to
            exist, and to have the power of exploding without noise.
            [Obs.]
  
                     A pistol charged with white powder.   --Beau. & Fl.
  
      {White precipitate}. (Old Chem.) See under {Precipitate}.
  
      {White rabbit}. (Zo[94]l.)
            (a) The American northern hare in its winter pelage.
            (b) An albino rabbit.
  
      {White rent},
            (a) (Eng. Law) Formerly, rent payable in silver; --
                  opposed to black rent. See {Blackmail}, n., 3.
            (b) A rent, or duty, of eight pence, payable yearly by
                  every tinner in Devon and Cornwall to the Duke of
                  Cornwall, as lord of the soil. [Prov. Eng.]
  
      {White rhinoceros}. (Zo[94]l.)
            (a) The one-horned, or Indian, rhinoceros ({Rhinoceros
                  Indicus}). See {Rhinoceros}.
            (b) The umhofo.
  
      {White ribbon}, the distinctive badge of certain
            organizations for the promotion of temperance or of moral
            purity; as, the White-ribbon Army.
  
      {White rope} (Naut.), untarred hemp rope.
  
      {White rot}. (Bot.)
            (a) Either of several plants, as marsh pennywort and
                  butterwort, which were thought to produce the disease
                  called rot in sheep.
            (b) A disease of grapes. See {White rot}, under {Rot}.
  
      {White sage} (Bot.), a white, woolly undershrub ({Eurotia
            lanata}) of Western North America; -- called also {winter
            fat}.
  
      {White salmon} (Zo[94]l.), the silver salmon.
  
      {White salt}, salt dried and calcined; decrepitated salt.
  
      {White scale} (Zo[94]l.), a scale insect ({Aspidiotus Nerii})
            injurious to the orange tree. See {Orange scale}, under
            {Orange}.
  
      {White shark} (Zo[94]l.), a species of man-eating shark. See
            under {Shark}.
  
      {White softening}. (Med.) See {Softening of the brain}, under
            {Softening}.
  
      {White spruce}. (Bot.) See {Spruce}, n., 1.
  
      {White squall} (Naut.), a sudden gust of wind, or furious
            blow, which comes up without being marked in its approach
            otherwise than by whitecaps, or white, broken water, on
            the surface of the sea.
  
      {White staff}, the badge of the lord high treasurer of
            England. --Macaulay.
  
      {White stork} (Zo[94]l.), the common European stork.
  
      {White sturgeon}. (Zo[94]l.) See {Shovelnose}
            (d) .
  
      {White sucker}. (Zo[94]l.)
            (a) The common sucker.
            (b) The common red horse ({Moxostoma macrolepidotum}).
  
      {White swelling} (Med.), a chronic swelling of the knee,
            produced by a strumous inflammation of the synovial
            membranes of the kneejoint and of the cancellar texture of
            the end of the bone forming the kneejoint; -- applied also
            to a lingering chronic swelling of almost any kind.
  
      {White tombac}. See {Tombac}.
  
      {White trout} (Zo[94]l.), the white weakfish, or silver
            squeteague ({Cynoscion nothus}), of the Southern United
            States.
  
      {White vitriol} (Chem.), hydrous sulphate of zinc. See {White
            vitriol}, under {Vitriol}.
  
      {White wagtail} (Zo[94]l.), the common, or pied, wagtail.
  
      {White wax}, beeswax rendered white by bleaching.
  
      {White whale} (Zo[94]l.), the beluga.
  
      {White widgeon} (Zo[94]l.), the smew.
  
      {White wine}. any wine of a clear, transparent color,
            bordering on white, as Madeira, sherry, Lisbon, etc.; --
            distinguished from wines of a deep red color, as port and
            Burgundy. [bd]White wine of Lepe.[b8] --Chaucer.
  
      {White witch}, a witch or wizard whose supernatural powers
            are supposed to be exercised for good and beneficent
            purposes. --Addison. --Cotton Mather.
  
      {White wolf}. (Zo[94]l.)
            (a) A light-colored wolf ({Canis laniger}) native of
                  Thibet; -- called also {chanco}, {golden wolf}, and
                  {Thibetan wolf}.
            (b) The albino variety of the gray wolf.
  
      {White wren} (Zo[94]l.), the willow warbler; -- so called
            from the color of the under parts.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
  
  
      {White elm} (Bot.), a majestic tree of North America ({Ulmus
            Americana}), the timber of which is much used for hubs of
            wheels, and for other purposes.
  
      {White ensign}. See {Saint George's ensign}, under {Saint}.
           
  
      {White feather}, a mark or symbol of cowardice. See {To show
            the white feather}, under {Feather}, n.
  
      {White fir} (Bot.), a name given to several coniferous trees
            of the Pacific States, as {Abies grandis}, and {A.
            concolor}.
  
      {White flesher} (Zo[94]l.), the ruffed grouse. See under
            {Ruffed}. [Canada]
  
      {White frost}. See {Hoarfrost}.
  
      {White game} (Zo[94]l.), the white ptarmigan.
  
      {White garnet} (Min.), leucite.
  
      {White grass} (Bot.), an American grass ({Leersia Virginica})
            with greenish-white pale[91].
  
      {White grouse}. (Zo[94]l.)
            (a) The white ptarmigan.
            (b) The prairie chicken. [Local, U. S.]
  
      {White grub} (Zo[94]l.), the larva of the June bug and other
            allied species. These grubs eat the roots of grasses and
            other plants, and often do much damage.
  
      {White hake} (Zo[94]l.), the squirrel hake. See under
            {Squirrel}.
  
      {White hawk}, [or] {kite} (Zo[94]l.), the hen harrier.
  
      {White heat}, the temperature at which bodies become
            incandescent, and appear white from the bright light which
            they emit.
  
      {White hellebore} (Bot.), a plant of the genus {Veratrum}
            ({V. album}) See {Hellebore}, 2.
  
      {White herring}, a fresh, or unsmoked, herring, as
            distinguished from a red, or cured, herring. [R.] --Shak.
  
      {White hoolet} (Zo[94]l.), the barn owl. [Prov. Eng.]
  
      {White horses} (Naut.), white-topped waves; whitecaps.
  
      {The White House}. See under {House}.
  
      {White ibis} (Zo[94]l.), an American ibis ({Guara alba})
            having the plumage pure white, except the tips of the
            wings, which are black. It inhabits tropical America and
            the Southern United States. Called also {Spanish curlew}.
           
  
      {White iron}.
            (a) Thin sheets of iron coated with tin; tinned iron.
            (b) A hard, silvery-white cast iron containing a large
                  proportion of combined carbon.
  
      {White iron pyrites} (Min.), marcasite.
  
      {White land}, a tough clayey soil, of a whitish hue when dry,
            but blackish after rain. [Eng.]
  
      {White lark} (Zo[94]l.), the snow bunting.
  
      {White lead}.
            (a) A carbonate of lead much used in painting, and for
                  other purposes; ceruse.
            (b) (Min.) Native lead carbonate; cerusite.
  
      {White leather}, buff leather; leather tanned with alum and
            salt.
  
      {White leg} (Med.), milk leg. See under {Milk}.
  
      {White lettuce} (Bot.), rattlesnake root. See under
            {Rattlesnake}.
  
      {White lie}. See under {Lie}.
  
      {White light}.
            (a) (Physics) Light having the different colors in the
                  same proportion as in the light coming directly from
                  the sun, without having been decomposed, as by passing
                  through a prism. See the Note under {Color}, n., 1.
            (b) A kind of firework which gives a brilliant white
                  illumination for signals, etc.
  
      {White lime}, a solution or preparation of lime for
            whitewashing; whitewash.
  
      {White line} (Print.), a void space of the breadth of a line,
            on a printed page; a blank line.
  
      {White meat}.
            (a) Any light-colored flesh, especially of poultry.
            (b) Food made from milk or eggs, as butter, cheese, etc.
  
                           Driving their cattle continually with them, and
                           feeding only upon their milk and white meats.
                                                                              --Spenser.
  
      {White merganser} (Zo[94]l.), the smew.
  
      {White metal}.
            (a) Any one of several white alloys, as pewter, britannia,
                  etc.
            (b) (Metal.) A fine grade of copper sulphide obtained at a
                  certain stage in copper smelting.
  
      {White miller}. (Zo[94]l.)
            (a) The common clothes moth.
            (b) A common American bombycid moth ({Spilosoma
                  Virginica}) which is pure white with a few small black
                  spots; -- called also {ermine moth}, and {virgin
                  moth}. See {Woolly bear}, under {Woolly}.
  
      {White money}, silver money.
  
      {White mouse} (Zo[94]l.), the albino variety of the common
            mouse.
  
      {White mullet} (Zo[94]l.), a silvery mullet ({Mugil curema})
            ranging from the coast of the United States to Brazil; --
            called also {blue-back mullet}, and {liza}.
  
      {White nun} (Zo[94]l.), the smew; -- so called from the white
            crest and the band of black feathers on the back of its
            head, which give the appearance of a hood.
  
      {White oak}. (Bot.) See under {Oak}.
  
      {White owl}. (Zo[94]l.)
            (a) The snowy owl.
            (b) The barn owl.
  
      {White partridge} (Zo[94]l.), the white ptarmigan.
  
      {White perch}. (Zo[94]l.)
            (a) A North American fresh-water bass ({Morone Americana})
                  valued as a food fish.
            (b) The croaker, or fresh-water drum.
            (c) Any California surf fish.
  
      {White pine}. (Bot.) See the Note under {Pine}.
  
      {White poplar} (Bot.), a European tree ({Populus alba}) often
            cultivated as a shade tree in America; abele.
  
      {White poppy} (Bot.), the opium-yielding poppy. See {Poppy}.
           
  
      {White powder}, a kind of gunpowder formerly believed to
            exist, and to have the power of exploding without noise.
            [Obs.]
  
                     A pistol charged with white powder.   --Beau. & Fl.
  
      {White precipitate}. (Old Chem.) See under {Precipitate}.
  
      {White rabbit}. (Zo[94]l.)
            (a) The American northern hare in its winter pelage.
            (b) An albino rabbit.
  
      {White rent},
            (a) (Eng. Law) Formerly, rent payable in silver; --
                  opposed to black rent. See {Blackmail}, n., 3.
            (b) A rent, or duty, of eight pence, payable yearly by
                  every tinner in Devon and Cornwall to the Duke of
                  Cornwall, as lord of the soil. [Prov. Eng.]
  
      {White rhinoceros}. (Zo[94]l.)
            (a) The one-horned, or Indian, rhinoceros ({Rhinoceros
                  Indicus}). See {Rhinoceros}.
            (b) The umhofo.
  
      {White ribbon}, the distinctive badge of certain
            organizations for the promotion of temperance or of moral
            purity; as, the White-ribbon Army.
  
      {White rope} (Naut.), untarred hemp rope.
  
      {White rot}. (Bot.)
            (a) Either of several plants, as marsh pennywort and
                  butterwort, which were thought to produce the disease
                  called rot in sheep.
            (b) A disease of grapes. See {White rot}, under {Rot}.
  
      {White sage} (Bot.), a white, woolly undershrub ({Eurotia
            lanata}) of Western North America; -- called also {winter
            fat}.
  
      {White salmon} (Zo[94]l.), the silver salmon.
  
      {White salt}, salt dried and calcined; decrepitated salt.
  
      {White scale} (Zo[94]l.), a scale insect ({Aspidiotus Nerii})
            injurious to the orange tree. See {Orange scale}, under
            {Orange}.
  
      {White shark} (Zo[94]l.), a species of man-eating shark. See
            under {Shark}.
  
      {White softening}. (Med.) See {Softening of the brain}, under
            {Softening}.
  
      {White spruce}. (Bot.) See {Spruce}, n., 1.
  
      {White squall} (Naut.), a sudden gust of wind, or furious
            blow, which comes up without being marked in its approach
            otherwise than by whitecaps, or white, broken water, on
            the surface of the sea.
  
      {White staff}, the badge of the lord high treasurer of
            England. --Macaulay.
  
      {White stork} (Zo[94]l.), the common European stork.
  
      {White sturgeon}. (Zo[94]l.) See {Shovelnose}
            (d) .
  
      {White sucker}. (Zo[94]l.)
            (a) The common sucker.
            (b) The common red horse ({Moxostoma macrolepidotum}).
  
      {White swelling} (Med.), a chronic swelling of the knee,
            produced by a strumous inflammation of the synovial
            membranes of the kneejoint and of the cancellar texture of
            the end of the bone forming the kneejoint; -- applied also
            to a lingering chronic swelling of almost any kind.
  
      {White tombac}. See {Tombac}.
  
      {White trout} (Zo[94]l.), the white weakfish, or silver
            squeteague ({Cynoscion nothus}), of the Southern United
            States.
  
      {White vitriol} (Chem.), hydrous sulphate of zinc. See {White
            vitriol}, under {Vitriol}.
  
      {White wagtail} (Zo[94]l.), the common, or pied, wagtail.
  
      {White wax}, beeswax rendered white by bleaching.
  
      {White whale} (Zo[94]l.), the beluga.
  
      {White widgeon} (Zo[94]l.), the smew.
  
      {White wine}. any wine of a clear, transparent color,
            bordering on white, as Madeira, sherry, Lisbon, etc.; --
            distinguished from wines of a deep red color, as port and
            Burgundy. [bd]White wine of Lepe.[b8] --Chaucer.
  
      {White witch}, a witch or wizard whose supernatural powers
            are supposed to be exercised for good and beneficent
            purposes. --Addison. --Cotton Mather.
  
      {White wolf}. (Zo[94]l.)
            (a) A light-colored wolf ({Canis laniger}) native of
                  Thibet; -- called also {chanco}, {golden wolf}, and
                  {Thibetan wolf}.
            (b) The albino variety of the gray wolf.
  
      {White wren} (Zo[94]l.), the willow warbler; -- so called
            from the color of the under parts.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
  
  
      Note: In some parts of America, especially in New England,
               the name walnut is given to several species of hickory
               ({Carya}), and their fruit.
  
      {Ash-leaved walnut}, a tree ({Juglans fraxinifolia}), native
            in Transcaucasia.
  
      {Black walnut}, a North American tree ({J. nigra}) valuable
            for its purplish brown wood, which is extensively used in
            cabinetwork and for gunstocks. The nuts are thick-shelled,
            and nearly globular.
  
      {English}, [or] {European}, {walnut}, a tree ({J. regia}),
            native of Asia from the Caucasus to Japan, valuable for
            its timber and for its excellent nuts, which are also
            called Madeira nuts.
  
      {Walnut brown}, a deep warm brown color, like that of the
            heartwood of the black walnut.
  
      {Walnut oil}, oil extracted from walnut meats. It is used in
            cooking, making soap, etc.
  
      {White walnut}, a North American tree ({J. cinerea}), bearing
            long, oval, thick-shelled, oily nuts, commonly called
            butternuts. See {Butternut}.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Butternut \But"ter*nut`\, n.
      1. (Bot.) An American tree ({Juglans cinerea}) of the Walnut
            family, and its edible fruit; -- so called from the oil
            contained in the latter. Sometimes called {oil nut} and
            {white walnut}.
  
      2. (Bot.) The nut of the {Caryocar butyrosum} and {C.
            nuciferum}, of S. America; -- called also {Souari nut}.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
  
  
      Note: In some parts of America, especially in New England,
               the name walnut is given to several species of hickory
               ({Carya}), and their fruit.
  
      {Ash-leaved walnut}, a tree ({Juglans fraxinifolia}), native
            in Transcaucasia.
  
      {Black walnut}, a North American tree ({J. nigra}) valuable
            for its purplish brown wood, which is extensively used in
            cabinetwork and for gunstocks. The nuts are thick-shelled,
            and nearly globular.
  
      {English}, [or] {European}, {walnut}, a tree ({J. regia}),
            native of Asia from the Caucasus to Japan, valuable for
            its timber and for its excellent nuts, which are also
            called Madeira nuts.
  
      {Walnut brown}, a deep warm brown color, like that of the
            heartwood of the black walnut.
  
      {Walnut oil}, oil extracted from walnut meats. It is used in
            cooking, making soap, etc.
  
      {White walnut}, a North American tree ({J. cinerea}), bearing
            long, oval, thick-shelled, oily nuts, commonly called
            butternuts. See {Butternut}.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Butternut \But"ter*nut`\, n.
      1. (Bot.) An American tree ({Juglans cinerea}) of the Walnut
            family, and its edible fruit; -- so called from the oil
            contained in the latter. Sometimes called {oil nut} and
            {white walnut}.
  
      2. (Bot.) The nut of the {Caryocar butyrosum} and {C.
            nuciferum}, of S. America; -- called also {Souari nut}.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   White-limed \White"-limed`\, a.
      Whitewashed or plastered with lime. [bd]White-limed
      walls.[b8] --Shak.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Whitling \Whit"ling\, n. [White + -ling.] (Zo[94]l.)
      A young full trout during its second season. [Prov. Eng.]

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Whittle \Whit"tle\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Whittled}; p. pr. & vb.
      n. {Whittling}.]
      1. To pare or cut off the surface of with a small knife; to
            cut or shape, as a piece of wood held in the hand, with a
            clasp knife or pocketknife.
  
      2. To edge; to sharpen; to render eager or excited; esp., to
            excite with liquor; to inebriate. [Obs.]
  
                     [bd]In vino veritas.[b8] When men are well whittled,
                     their tongues run at random.               --Withals.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Whittlings \Whit"tlings\, n. pl.
      Chips made by one who whittles; shavings cut from a stick
      with a knife.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Main \Main\, n. [AS. m[91]gen strength, power, force; akin to
      OHG. magan, Icel. megin, and to E. may, v. [?]. See {May},
      v.]
      1. Strength; force; might; violent effort. [Obs., except in
            certain phrases.]
  
                     There were in this battle of most might and main.
                                                                              --R. of Gl.
  
                     He 'gan advance, With huge force, and with
                     importable main.                                 --Spenser.
  
      2. The chief or principal part; the main or most important
            thing. [Obs., except in special uses.]
  
                     Resolved to rest upon the title of Lancaster as the
                     main, and to use the other two . . . but as
                     supporters.                                       --Bacon.
  
      3. Specifically:
            (a) The great sea, as distinguished from an arm, bay,
                  etc.; the high sea; the ocean. [bd]Struggling in the
                  main.[b8] --Dryden.
            (b) The continent, as distinguished from an island; the
                  mainland. [bd]Invaded the main of Spain.[b8] --Bacon.
            (c) principal duct or pipe, as distinguished from lesser
                  ones; esp. (Engin.), a principal pipe leading to or
                  from a reservoir; as, a fire main.
  
      {Forcing main}, the delivery pipe of a pump.
  
      {For the main}, [or] {In the main}, for the most part; in the
            greatest part.
  
      {With might and main}, [or] {With all one's might and main},
            with all one's strength; with violent effort.
  
                     With might and main they chased the murderous fox.
                                                                              --Dryden.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Heart \Heart\, n. [OE. harte, herte, heorte, AS. heorte; akin to
      OS. herta, OFies. hirte, D. hart, OHG. herza, G. herz, Icel.
      hjarta, Sw. hjerta, Goth. ha[a1]rt[?], Lith. szirdis, Russ.
      serdtse, Ir. cridhe, L. cor, Gr. [?], [?] [?][?][?][?]. Cf.
      {Accord}, {Discord}, {Cordial}, 4th {Core}, {Courage}.]
      1. (Anat.) A hollow, muscular organ, which, by contracting
            rhythmically, keeps up the circulation of the blood.
  
                     Why does my blood thus muster to my heart! --Shak.
  
      Note: In adult mammals and birds, the heart is
               four-chambered, the right auricle and ventricle being
               completely separated from the left auricle and
               ventricle; and the blood flows from the systematic
               veins to the right auricle, thence to the right
               ventricle, from which it is forced to the lungs, then
               returned to the left auricle, thence passes to the left
               ventricle, from which it is driven into the systematic
               arteries. See Illust. under {Aorta}. In fishes there
               are but one auricle and one ventricle, the blood being
               pumped from the ventricle through the gills to the
               system, and thence returned to the auricle. In most
               amphibians and reptiles, the separation of the auricles
               is partial or complete, and in reptiles the ventricles
               also are separated more or less completely. The
               so-called lymph hearts, found in many amphibians,
               reptiles, and birds, are contractile sacs, which pump
               the lymph into the veins.
  
      2. The seat of the affections or sensibilities, collectively
            or separately, as love, hate, joy, grief, courage, and the
            like; rarely, the seat of the understanding or will; --
            usually in a good sense, when no epithet is expressed; the
            better or lovelier part of our nature; the spring of all
            our actions and purposes; the seat of moral life and
            character; the moral affections and character itself; the
            individual disposition and character; as, a good, tender,
            loving, bad, hard, or selfish heart.
  
                     Hearts are dust, hearts' loves remain. --Emerson.
  
      3. The nearest the middle or center; the part most hidden and
            within; the inmost or most essential part of any body or
            system; the source of life and motion in any organization;
            the chief or vital portion; the center of activity, or of
            energetic or efficient action; as, the heart of a country,
            of a tree, etc.
  
                     Exploits done in the heart of France. --Shak.
  
                     Peace subsisting at the heart Of endless agitation.
                                                                              --Wordsworth.
  
      4. Courage; courageous purpose; spirit.
  
                     Eve, recovering heart, replied.         --Milton.
  
                     The expelled nations take heart, and when they fly
                     from one country invade another.         --Sir W.
                                                                              Temple.
  
      5. Vigorous and efficient activity; power of fertile
            production; condition of the soil, whether good or bad.
  
                     That the spent earth may gather heart again.
                                                                              --Dryden.
  
      6. That which resembles a heart in shape; especially, a
            roundish or oval figure or object having an obtuse point
            at one end, and at the other a corresponding indentation,
            -- used as a symbol or representative of the heart.
  
      7. One of a series of playing cards, distinguished by the
            figure or figures of a heart; as, hearts are trumps.
  
      8. Vital part; secret meaning; real intention.
  
                     And then show you the heart of my message. --Shak.
  
      9. A term of affectionate or kindly and familiar address.
            [bd]I speak to thee, my heart.[b8] --Shak.
  
      Note: Heart is used in many compounds, the most of which need
               no special explanation; as, heart-appalling,
               heart-breaking, heart-cheering, heart-chilled,
               heart-expanding, heart-free, heart-hardened,
               heart-heavy, heart-purifying, heart-searching,
               heart-sickening, heart-sinking, heart-stirring,
               heart-touching, heart-wearing, heart-whole,
               heart-wounding, heart-wringing, etc.
  
      {After one's own heart}, conforming with one's inmost
            approval and desire; as, a friend after my own heart.
  
                     The Lord hath sought him a man after his own heart.
                                                                              --1 Sam. xiii.
                                                                              14.
  
      {At heart}, in the inmost character or disposition; at
            bottom; really; as, he is at heart a good man.
  
      {By heart}, in the closest or most thorough manner; as, to
            know or learn by heart. [bd]Composing songs, for fools to
            get by heart[b8] (that is, to commit to memory, or to
            learn thoroughly). --Pope.
  
      {For my heart}, for my life; if my life were at stake. [Obs.]
            [bd]I could not get him for my heart to do it.[b8] --Shak.
  
      {Heart bond} (Masonry), a bond in which no header stone
            stretches across the wall, but two headers meet in the
            middle, and their joint is covered by another stone laid
            header fashion. --Knight.
  
      {Heart and hand}, with enthusiastic co[94]peration.
  
      {Heart hardness}, hardness of heart; callousness of feeling;
            moral insensibility. --Shak.
  
      {Heart heaviness}, depression of spirits. --Shak.
  
      {Heart point} (Her.), the fess point. See {Escutcheon}.
  
      {Heart rising}, a rising of the heart, as in opposition.
  
      {Heart shell} (Zo[94]l.), any marine, bivalve shell of the
            genus {Cardium} and allied genera, having a heart-shaped
            shell; esp., the European {Isocardia cor}; -- called also
            {heart cockle}.
  
      {Heart sickness}, extreme depression of spirits.
  
      {Heart and soul}, with the utmost earnestness.
  
      {Heart urchin} (Zo[94]l.), any heartshaped, spatangoid sea
            urchin. See {Spatangoid}.
  
      {Heart wheel}, a form of cam, shaped like a heart. See {Cam}.
           
  
      {In good heart}, in good courage; in good hope.
  
      {Out of heart}, discouraged.
  
      {Poor heart}, an exclamation of pity.
  
      {To break the heart of}.
            (a) To bring to despair or hopeless grief; to cause to be
                  utterly cast down by sorrow.
            (b) To bring almost to completion; to finish very nearly;
                  -- said of anything undertaken; as, he has broken the
                  heart of the task.
  
      {To find in the heart}, to be willing or disposed. [bd]I
            could find in my heart to ask your pardon.[b8] --Sir P.
            Sidney.
  
      {To have at heart}, to desire (anything) earnestly.
  
      {To have in the heart}, to purpose; to design or intend to
            do.
  
      {To have the heart in the mouth}, to be much frightened.
  
      {To lose heart}, to become discouraged.
  
      {To lose one's heart}, to fall in love.
  
      {To set the heart at rest}, to put one's self at ease.
  
      {To set the heart upon}, to fix the desires on; to long for
            earnestly; to be very fond of.
  
      {To take heart of grace}, to take courage.
  
      {To take to heart}, to grieve over.
  
      {To wear one's heart upon one's sleeve}, to expose one's
            feelings or intentions; to be frank or impulsive.
  
      {With all one's whole heart}, very earnestly; fully;
            completely; devotedly.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Witling \Wit"ling\, n. [Wit + -ling; cf. G. witzling.]
      A person who has little wit or understanding; a pretender to
      wit or smartness.
  
               A beau and witing perished in the forming. --Pope.
  
               Ye newspaper witlings! ye pert scribbling folks!
                                                                              --Goldsmith.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Woodland \Wood"land\, n.
      Land covered with wood or trees; forest; land on which trees
      are suffered to grow, either for fuel or timber.
  
               Here hills and vales, the woodland and the plain, Here
               earth and water seem to strive again.      --Pope.
  
               Woodlands and cultivated fields are harmoniously
               blended.                                                --Bancroft.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Woodland \Wood"land\, a.
      Of or pertaining to woods or woodland; living in the forest;
      sylvan.
  
               She had a rustic, woodland air.               --Wordsworth.
  
               Like summer breeze by woodland stream.   --Keble.
  
      {Woodland caribou}. (Zo[94]l.) See under {Caribou}.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Woodland \Wood"land\, a.
      Of or pertaining to woods or woodland; living in the forest;
      sylvan.
  
               She had a rustic, woodland air.               --Wordsworth.
  
               Like summer breeze by woodland stream.   --Keble.
  
      {Woodland caribou}. (Zo[94]l.) See under {Caribou}.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Caribou \Car"i*bou\ (k[acr]r"[icr]*b[oomac]), n. [Canadian
      French.] (Zo[94]l.)
      The American reindeer, especially the common or woodland
      species ({Rangifer Caribou}).
  
      {Barren Ground caribou}. See under {Barren}.
  
      {Woodland caribou}, the common reindeer ({Rangifer Caribou})
            of the northern forests of America.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Woodlander \Wood"land*er\, n.
      A dweller in a woodland.

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   Wheatland, CA (city, FIPS 85012)
      Location: 39.01302 N, 121.42675 W
      Population (1990): 1631 (679 housing units)
      Area: 2.0 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
      Zip code(s): 95692
   Wheatland, IA (city, FIPS 84945)
      Location: 41.83287 N, 90.83723 W
      Population (1990): 723 (309 housing units)
      Area: 1.4 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
      Zip code(s): 52777
   Wheatland, IN (town, FIPS 83564)
      Location: 38.66413 N, 87.30666 W
      Population (1990): 439 (224 housing units)
      Area: 0.7 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
      Zip code(s): 47597
   Wheatland, MO (city, FIPS 79090)
      Location: 37.94346 N, 93.40391 W
      Population (1990): 363 (234 housing units)
      Area: 0.9 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
      Zip code(s): 65779
   Wheatland, PA (borough, FIPS 84376)
      Location: 41.19687 N, 80.49600 W
      Population (1990): 760 (373 housing units)
      Area: 2.2 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
   Wheatland, WY (town, FIPS 83040)
      Location: 42.05123 N, 104.95889 W
      Population (1990): 3271 (1606 housing units)
      Area: 10.2 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
      Zip code(s): 82201

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   Wheatland County, MT (county, FIPS 107)
      Location: 46.47139 N, 109.84422 W
      Population (1990): 2246 (1129 housing units)
      Area: 3686.0 sq km (land), 13.5 sq km (water)

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   Whiteland, IN (town, FIPS 83816)
      Location: 39.55034 N, 86.08864 W
      Population (1990): 2446 (834 housing units)
      Area: 5.9 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   Woodland, AL (town, FIPS 83400)
      Location: 33.37408 N, 85.39927 W
      Population (1990): 189 (89 housing units)
      Area: 2.9 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
      Zip code(s): 36280
   Woodland, CA (city, FIPS 86328)
      Location: 38.67695 N, 121.76660 W
      Population (1990): 39802 (14818 housing units)
      Area: 23.8 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
      Zip code(s): 95695
   Woodland, GA (city, FIPS 83952)
      Location: 32.78746 N, 84.56110 W
      Population (1990): 552 (212 housing units)
      Area: 2.0 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
      Zip code(s): 31836
   Woodland, IL (village, FIPS 83102)
      Location: 40.71295 N, 87.73065 W
      Population (1990): 313 (130 housing units)
      Area: 1.2 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
   Woodland, ME (CDP, FIPS 87250)
      Location: 45.15943 N, 67.41175 W
      Population (1990): 1287 (534 housing units)
      Area: 2.6 sq km (land), 0.8 sq km (water)
      Zip code(s): 04694
   Woodland, MI (village, FIPS 88420)
      Location: 42.72649 N, 85.13486 W
      Population (1990): 466 (166 housing units)
      Area: 2.1 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
      Zip code(s): 48897
   Woodland, MN (city, FIPS 71500)
      Location: 44.95073 N, 93.51477 W
      Population (1990): 496 (186 housing units)
      Area: 1.5 sq km (land), 0.1 sq km (water)
   Woodland, MS (village, FIPS 81000)
      Location: 33.77998 N, 89.05011 W
      Population (1990): 182 (72 housing units)
      Area: 1.5 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
      Zip code(s): 39776
   Woodland, NC (town, FIPS 75340)
      Location: 36.33215 N, 77.21093 W
      Population (1990): 760 (297 housing units)
      Area: 3.1 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
   Woodland, PA
      Zip code(s): 16881
   Woodland, WA (city, FIPS 79625)
      Location: 45.91500 N, 122.74304 W
      Population (1990): 2500 (979 housing units)
      Area: 4.9 sq km (land), 0.2 sq km (water)
      Zip code(s): 98674

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   Woodland Beach, MI (CDP, FIPS 88480)
      Location: 41.94171 N, 83.31430 W
      Population (1990): 2309 (808 housing units)
      Area: 1.4 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   Woodland Heights, PA (CDP, FIPS 86224)
      Location: 41.40928 N, 79.70179 W
      Population (1990): 1471 (645 housing units)
      Area: 4.3 sq km (land), 0.2 sq km (water)

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   Woodland Hills, CA
      Zip code(s): 91364, 91367
   Woodland Hills, KY (city, FIPS 84486)
      Location: 38.23920 N, 85.52949 W
      Population (1990): 714 (290 housing units)
      Area: 0.6 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
   Woodland Hills, UT (town, FIPS 85050)
      Location: 40.01498 N, 111.64983 W
      Population (1990): 301 (65 housing units)
      Area: 6.0 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
      Zip code(s): 84653

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   Woodland Mills, TN (city, FIPS 81700)
      Location: 36.47631 N, 89.11264 W
      Population (1990): 398 (161 housing units)
      Area: 2.7 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   Woodland Park, CO (city, FIPS 86090)
      Location: 38.99503 N, 105.05173 W
      Population (1990): 4610 (2018 housing units)
      Area: 10.2 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
      Zip code(s): 80863

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   Woodlawn, IL (village, FIPS 83206)
      Location: 38.33052 N, 89.03527 W
      Population (1990): 582 (239 housing units)
      Area: 1.8 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
      Zip code(s): 62898
   Woodlawn, KY (city, FIPS 84522)
      Location: 39.09075 N, 84.47203 W
      Population (1990): 308 (101 housing units)
      Area: 0.1 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
   Woodlawn, MD (CDP, FIPS 86475)
      Location: 39.30667 N, 76.74782 W
      Population (1990): 32907 (13478 housing units)
      Area: 24.9 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
   Woodlawn, MD (CDP, FIPS 86525)
      Location: 38.94925 N, 76.89832 W
      Population (1990): 5329 (1755 housing units)
      Area: 3.0 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
   Woodlawn, OH (village, FIPS 86366)
      Location: 39.25667 N, 84.46751 W
      Population (1990): 2674 (1109 housing units)
      Area: 6.7 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
   Woodlawn, TN
      Zip code(s): 37191
   Woodlawn, VA
      Zip code(s): 24381

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   Woodlawn Heights, IN (town, FIPS 85400)
      Location: 40.11716 N, 85.69673 W
      Population (1990): 109 (47 housing units)
      Area: 0.3 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   Woodlawn Park, KY (city, FIPS 84576)
      Location: 38.26175 N, 85.63021 W
      Population (1990): 1099 (417 housing units)
      Area: 0.6 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
   Woodlawn Park, OK (town, FIPS 82000)
      Location: 35.50910 N, 97.64740 W
      Population (1990): 170 (73 housing units)
      Area: 0.3 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   Woodlawn-Oakdale, KY (CDP, FIPS 84567)
      Location: 37.03823 N, 88.57326 W
      Population (1990): 4954 (2096 housing units)
      Area: 15.4 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   Woodlyn, PA (CDP, FIPS 86288)
      Location: 39.87740 N, 75.34414 W
      Population (1990): 10151 (4048 housing units)
      Area: 4.3 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
      Zip code(s): 19094

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   Woodlynne, NJ (borough, FIPS 82450)
      Location: 39.91633 N, 75.09579 W
      Population (1990): 2547 (939 housing units)
      Area: 0.6 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
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