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   whole meal bread
         n 1: bread made with whole wheat flour [syn: {dark bread},
               {whole wheat bread}, {whole meal bread}, {brown bread}]

English Dictionary: woolly mullein by the DICT Development Group
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
whole meal flour
n
  1. flour made by grinding the entire wheat berry including the bran; (`whole meal flour' is British usage)
    Synonym(s): whole wheat flour, graham flour, graham, whole meal flour
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
whole milk
n
  1. milk from which no constituent (such as fat) has been removed
    Antonym(s): skim milk, skimmed milk
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
wholemeal
adj
  1. of or relating to or derived from wheat; "wheaten bread"
    Synonym(s): wheaten, whole-wheat, wholemeal
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
William Holman Hunt
n
  1. Englishman and Pre-Raphaelite painter (1827-1910) [syn: Hunt, Holman Hunt, William Holman Hunt]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
William Holmes McGuffey
n
  1. United States educator who compiled the McGuffey Eclectic Readers (1800-1873)
    Synonym(s): McGuffey, William Holmes McGuffey
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
William Lawrence Shirer
n
  1. United States broadcast journalist who was in Berlin at the outbreak of World War II (1904-1993)
    Synonym(s): Shirer, William Lawrence Shirer
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
William Le Baron Jenny
n
  1. United States architect who designed the first skyscraper in which a metal skeleton was used (1832-1907)
    Synonym(s): Jenny, William Le Baron Jenny
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
William Lloyd Garrison
n
  1. United States abolitionist who published an anti-slavery journal (1805-1879)
    Synonym(s): Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
William Walton
n
  1. English composer (1902-1983) [syn: Walton, {William Walton}, Sir William Walton, Sir William Turner Walton]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
William Wilkie Collins
n
  1. English writer noted for early detective novels (1824-1889)
    Synonym(s): Collins, Wilkie Collins, William Wilkie Collins
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
William Wyler
n
  1. United States filmmaker (1902-1981) [syn: Wyler, {William Wyler}]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
willy-nilly
adv
  1. in a random manner; "the houses were randomly scattered"; "bullets were fired into the crowd at random"
    Synonym(s): randomly, indiscriminately, haphazardly, willy- nilly, arbitrarily, at random, every which way
  2. without having a choice
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
woolly mullein
n
  1. tall-stalked very woolly mullein with densely packed yellow flowers; ancient Greeks and Romans dipped the stalks in tallow for funeral torches
    Synonym(s): common mullein, great mullein, Aaron's rod, flannel mullein, woolly mullein, torch, Verbascum thapsus
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Will \Will\, v. i.
      To be willing; to be inclined or disposed; to be pleased; to
      wish; to desire.
  
               And behold, there came a leper and worshiped him,
               saying, Lord if thou wilt, thou canst make me clean.
               And Jesus . . . touched him, saying, I will; be thou
               clean.                                                   --Matt. viii.
                                                                              2, 3.
  
      Note: This word has been confused with will, v. i., to
               choose, which, unlike this, is of the weak conjugation.
  
      {Will I, nill I}, [or] {Will ye, hill ye}, [or] {Will he,
      nill he}, whether I, you, or he will it or not; hence,
            without choice; compulsorily; -- sometimes corrupted into
            willy nilly. [bd]If I must take service willy nilly.[b8]
            --J. H. Newman. [bd]Land for all who would till it, and
            reading and writing will ye, nill ye.[b8] --Lowell.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Nill \Nill\, v. i.
      To be unwilling; to refuse to act.
  
               The actions of the will are [bd]velle[b8] and
               [bd]nolle,[b8] to will and nill.            --Burton.
  
      {Will he, nill he}, whether he wills it or not.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Will \Will\, v. i.
      To be willing; to be inclined or disposed; to be pleased; to
      wish; to desire.
  
               And behold, there came a leper and worshiped him,
               saying, Lord if thou wilt, thou canst make me clean.
               And Jesus . . . touched him, saying, I will; be thou
               clean.                                                   --Matt. viii.
                                                                              2, 3.
  
      Note: This word has been confused with will, v. i., to
               choose, which, unlike this, is of the weak conjugation.
  
      {Will I, nill I}, [or] {Will ye, hill ye}, [or] {Will he,
      nill he}, whether I, you, or he will it or not; hence,
            without choice; compulsorily; -- sometimes corrupted into
            willy nilly. [bd]If I must take service willy nilly.[b8]
            --J. H. Newman. [bd]Land for all who would till it, and
            reading and writing will ye, nill ye.[b8] --Lowell.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Willy nilly \Wil"ly nil"ly\
      See {Will I, nill I}, etc., under 3d {Will}.
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