W.C.
         n 1: a toilet in Britain [syn: {water closet}, {closet}, {W.C.},
               {loo}]

English Dictionary: woozy	by the DICT Development Group
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Wac n a member of the Women's Army Corps an army corps that was organized in World War II but is no longer a separate branch of the United States Army Synonym(s): Women's Army Corps, WAC
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wacko n a person who is regarded as eccentric or mad [syn: nutter, wacko, whacko]
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wacky adj ludicrous, foolish; "gave me a cockamamie reason for not going"; "wore a goofy hat"; "a silly idea"; "some wacky plan for selling more books" Synonym(s): cockamamie, cockamamy, goofy, sappy, silly, wacky, whacky, zany informal or slang terms for mentally irregular; "it used to drive my husband balmy" Synonym(s): balmy, barmy, bats, batty, bonkers, buggy, cracked, crackers, daft, dotty, fruity, haywire, kooky, kookie, loco, loony, loopy, nuts, nutty, round the bend, around the bend, wacky, whacky
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Waco n a city in east central Texas
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wag n a witty amusing person who makes jokes [syn: wag, wit, card] causing to move repeatedly from side to side Synonym(s): wag, waggle, shake v move from side to side; "The happy dog wagged his tail" Synonym(s): wag, waggle
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wage n something that remunerates; "wages were paid by check"; "he wasted his pay on drink"; "they saved a quarter of all their earnings" Synonym(s): wage, pay, earnings, remuneration, salary v carry on (wars, battles, or campaigns); "Napoleon and Hitler waged war against all of Europe" Synonym(s): engage, wage
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wake n the consequences of an event (especially a catastrophic event); "the aftermath of war"; "in the wake of the accident no one knew how many had been injured" Synonym(s): aftermath, wake, backwash an island in the western Pacific between Guam and Hawaii Synonym(s): Wake Island, Wake the wave that spreads behind a boat as it moves forward; "the motorboat's wake capsized the canoe" Synonym(s): wake, backwash a vigil held over a corpse the night before burial; "there's no weeping at an Irish wake" Synonym(s): wake, viewing v be awake, be alert, be there [ant: catch some Z's, kip, log Z's, sleep, slumber] stop sleeping; "She woke up to the sound of the alarm clock" Synonym(s): wake up, awake, arouse, awaken, wake, come alive, waken Antonym(s): dope off, doze off, drift off, drop off, drowse off, fall asleep, flake out, nod off arouse or excite feelings and passions; "The ostentatious way of living of the rich ignites the hatred of the poor"; "The refugees' fate stirred up compassion around the world"; "Wake old feelings of hatred" Synonym(s): inflame, stir up, wake, ignite, heat, fire up make aware of; "His words woke us to terrible facts of the situation" cause to become awake or conscious; "He was roused by the drunken men in the street"; "Please wake me at 6 AM." Synonym(s): awaken, wake, waken, rouse, wake up, arouse Antonym(s): cause to sleep
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wash n a thin coat of water-base paint the work of cleansing (usually with soap and water) Synonym(s): wash, washing, lavation the dry bed of an intermittent stream (as at the bottom of a canyon) Synonym(s): wash, dry wash the erosive process of washing away soil or gravel by water (as from a roadway); "from the house they watched the washout of their newly seeded lawn by the water" Synonym(s): washout, wash the flow of air that is driven backwards by an aircraft propeller Synonym(s): slipstream, airstream, race, backwash, wash a watercolor made by applying a series of monochrome washes one over the other Synonym(s): wash, wash drawing garments or white goods that can be cleaned by laundering Synonym(s): laundry, wash, washing, washables any enterprise in which losses and gains cancel out; "at the end of the year the accounting department showed that it was a wash" v clean with some chemical process Synonym(s): wash, rinse cleanse (one's body) with soap and water Synonym(s): wash, lave cleanse with a cleaning agent, such as soap, and water; "Wash the towels, please!" Synonym(s): wash, launder move by or as if by water; "The swollen river washed away the footbridge" be capable of being washed; "Does this material wash?" admit to testing or proof; "This silly excuse won't wash in traffic court" separate dirt or gravel from (precious minerals) apply a thin coating of paint, metal, etc., to remove by the application of water or other liquid and soap or some other cleaning agent; "he washed the dirt from his coat"; "The nurse washed away the blood"; "Can you wash away the spots on the windows?"; "he managed to wash out the stains" Synonym(s): wash, wash out, wash off, wash away form by erosion; "The river washed a ravine into the mountainside" make moist; "The dew moistened the meadows" Synonym(s): moisten, wash, dampen wash or flow against; "the waves laved the shore" Synonym(s): lave, lap, wash to cleanse (itself or another animal) by licking; "The cat washes several times a day"
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wash away v eliminate; "wash away all the differences" remove by the application of water or other liquid and soap or some other cleaning agent; "he washed the dirt from his coat"; "The nurse washed away the blood"; "Can you wash away the spots on the windows?"; "he managed to wash out the stains" Synonym(s): wash, wash out, wash off, wash away
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washy adj overly diluted; thin and insipid; "washy coffee"; "watery milk"; "weak tea" Synonym(s): watery, washy, weak having lost freshness or brilliance of color; "sun-bleached deck chairs"; "faded jeans"; "a very pale washed-out blue"; "washy colors" Synonym(s): bleached, faded, washed-out, washy
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Waugh n English author of satirical novels (1903-1966) [syn: Waugh, Evelyn Waugh, Evelyn Arthur Saint John Waugh]
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Wausau n a town in north central Wisconsin
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wax n any of various substances of either mineral origin or plant or animal origin; they are solid at normal temperatures and insoluble in water v cover with wax; "wax the car" go up or advance; "Sales were climbing after prices were lowered" Synonym(s): wax, mount, climb, rise Antonym(s): wane increase in phase; "the moon is waxing" Synonym(s): wax, full Antonym(s): wane
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waxy adj made of or covered with wax; "waxen candles"; "careful, the floor is waxy" Synonym(s): waxen, waxy easily impressed or influenced; "an impressionable youngster"; "an impressionable age"; "a waxy mind" Synonym(s): impressionable, waxy, impressible Antonym(s): unimpressionable capable of being bent or flexed or twisted without breaking; "a flexible wire"; "a pliant young tree" Synonym(s): bendable, pliable, pliant, waxy having the paleness of wax; "the poor face with the same awful waxen pallor"- Bram Stoker; "the soldier turned his waxlike features toward him"; "a thin face with a waxy paleness" Synonym(s): waxen, waxlike, waxy
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ways n structure consisting of a sloping way down to the water from the place where ships are built or repaired Synonym(s): ways, shipway, slipway
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weak adj wanting in physical strength; "a weak pillar" [ant: strong] overly diluted; thin and insipid; "washy coffee"; "watery milk"; "weak tea" Synonym(s): watery, washy, weak (used of vowels or syllables) pronounced with little or no stress; "a syllable that ends in a short vowel is a light syllable"; "a weak stress on the second syllable" Synonym(s): unaccented, light, weak wanting in moral strength, courage, or will; having the attributes of man as opposed to e.g. divine beings; "I'm only a fallible human"; "frail humanity" Synonym(s): fallible, frail, imperfect, weak tending downward in price; "a weak market for oil stocks" deficient or lacking in some skill; "he's weak in spelling" lacking bodily or muscular strength or vitality; "a feeble old woman"; "her body looked sapless" Synonym(s): decrepit, debile, feeble, infirm, rickety, sapless, weak, weakly (used of verbs) having standard (or regular) inflection not having authority, political strength, or governing power; "a weak president" deficient in magnitude; barely perceptible; lacking clarity or brightness or loudness etc; "a faint outline"; "the wan sun cast faint shadows"; "the faint light of a distant candle"; "weak colors"; "a faint hissing sound"; "a faint aroma"; "a weak pulse" Synonym(s): faint, weak likely to fail under stress or pressure; "the weak link in the chain" deficient in intelligence or mental power; "a weak mind"
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week n any period of seven consecutive days; "it rained for a week" Synonym(s): week, hebdomad hours or days of work in a calendar week; "they worked a 40-hour week" Synonym(s): workweek, week a period of seven consecutive days starting on Sunday Synonym(s): week, calendar week
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weigh v have a certain weight show consideration for; take into account; "You must consider her age"; "The judge considered the offender's youth and was lenient" Synonym(s): consider, count, weigh determine the weight of; "The butcher weighed the chicken" Synonym(s): weigh, librate have weight; have import, carry weight; "It does not matter much" Synonym(s): count, matter, weigh to be oppressive or burdensome; "weigh heavily on the mind", "Something pressed on his mind" Synonym(s): weigh, press
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weka n flightless New Zealand rail of thievish disposition having short wings each with a spur used in fighting Synonym(s): weka, maori hen, wood hen
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whack n the sound made by a sharp swift blow the act of hitting vigorously; "he gave the table a whack" Synonym(s): knock, belt, rap, whack, whang v hit hard; "The teacher whacked the boy" [syn: whack, wham, whop, wallop]
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whacko n a person who is regarded as eccentric or mad [syn: nutter, wacko, whacko]
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whacky adj ludicrous, foolish; "gave me a cockamamie reason for not going"; "wore a goofy hat"; "a silly idea"; "some wacky plan for selling more books" Synonym(s): cockamamie, cockamamy, goofy, sappy, silly, wacky, whacky, zany informal or slang terms for mentally irregular; "it used to drive my husband balmy" Synonym(s): balmy, barmy, bats, batty, bonkers, buggy, cracked, crackers, daft, dotty, fruity, haywire, kooky, kookie, loco, loony, loopy, nuts, nutty, round the bend, around the bend, wacky, whacky
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wheeze n breathing with a husky or whistling sound (Briticism) a clever or amusing scheme or trick; "a clever wheeze probably succeeded in neutralizing the German espionage threat" v breathe with difficulty
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wheezy adj having a tone of a reed instrument [syn: reedy, wheezy] relating to breathing with a whistling sound Synonym(s): asthmatic, wheezing, wheezy
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Whig n a member of the political party that urged social reform in 18th and 19th century England; was the opposition party to the Tories a supporter of the American Revolution a member of the Whig Party that existed in the United States before the American Civil War
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whish v make a sibilant sound move with a whishing sound; "The car whished past her"
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whisk n a mixer incorporating a coil of wires; used for whipping eggs or cream a small short-handled broom used to brush clothes Synonym(s): whisk, whisk broom v move somewhere quickly; "The President was whisked away in his limo" move quickly and nimbly; "He whisked into the house" brush or wipe off lightly Synonym(s): whisk, whisk off whip with or as if with a wire whisk; "whisk the eggs" Synonym(s): whisk, whip
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whisk away v take away quickly and suddenly [syn: whisk off, {whisk away}]
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whiskey n a liquor made from fermented mash of grain [syn: whiskey, whisky]
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whisky n a liquor made from fermented mash of grain [syn: whiskey, whisky]
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whiz n someone who is dazzlingly skilled in any field [syn: ace, adept, champion, sensation, maven, mavin, virtuoso, genius, hotshot, star, superstar, whiz, whizz, wizard, wiz] a buzzing or hissing sound as of something traveling rapidly through the air; "he heard the whiz of bullets near his head" v make a soft swishing sound; "the motor whirred"; "the car engine purred" Synonym(s): whizz, whiz, whirr, whir, birr, purr
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whizz n someone who is dazzlingly skilled in any field [syn: ace, adept, champion, sensation, maven, mavin, virtuoso, genius, hotshot, star, superstar, whiz, whizz, wizard, wiz] v make a soft swishing sound; "the motor whirred"; "the car engine purred" Synonym(s): whizz, whiz, whirr, whir, birr, purr move along very quickly Synonym(s): zoom, zoom along, whizz, whizz along
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whoosh n the noise produced by the sudden rush of a fluid (a gas or liquid) Synonym(s): swoosh, whoosh v move with a sibilant sound; "He whooshed the doors open" Synonym(s): woosh, whoosh move with a whooshing sound Synonym(s): hiss, whoosh gush or squirt out; "Oil whooshed up when the drill hit the well"
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Wicca n a community of followers of the Wicca religion the polytheistic nature religion of modern witchcraft whose central deity is a mother goddess; claims origins in pre- Christian pagan religions of western Europe
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wick n any piece of cord that conveys liquid by capillary action; "the physician put a wick in the wound to drain it" a loosely woven cord (in a candle or oil lamp) that draws fuel by capillary action up into the flame Synonym(s): wick, taper
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wig n hairpiece covering the head and made of real or synthetic hair British slang for a scolding Synonym(s): wig, wigging
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wise adj having or prompted by wisdom or discernment; "a wise leader"; "a wise and perceptive comment" Antonym(s): foolish marked by the exercise of good judgment or common sense in practical matters; "judicious use of one's money"; "a wise decision" Synonym(s): judicious, wise, heady evidencing the possession of inside information Synonym(s): knowing, wise(p), wise to(p) improperly forward or bold; "don't be fresh with me"; "impertinent of a child to lecture a grownup"; "an impudent boy given to insulting strangers"; "Don't get wise with me!" Synonym(s): fresh, impertinent, impudent, overbold, smart, saucy, sassy, wise n a way of doing or being; "in no wise"; "in this wise" United States Jewish leader (born in Hungary) (1874-1949) Synonym(s): Wise, Stephen Samuel Wise United States religious leader (born in Bohemia) who united reform Jewish organizations in the United States (1819-1900) Synonym(s): Wise, Isaac Mayer Wise
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wish n a specific feeling of desire; "he got his wish"; "he was above all wishing and desire" Synonym(s): wish, wishing, want an expression of some desire or inclination; "I could tell that it was his wish that the guests leave"; "his crying was an indirect request for attention" Synonym(s): wish, indirect request (usually plural) a polite expression of desire for someone's welfare; "give him my kind regards"; "my best wishes" Synonym(s): regard, wish, compliments the particular preference that you have; "it was his last wish"; "they should respect the wishes of the people" v hope for; have a wish; "I wish I could go home now" prefer or wish to do something; "Do you care to try this dish?"; "Would you like to come along to the movies?" Synonym(s): wish, care, like make or express a wish; "I wish that Christmas were over" feel or express a desire or hope concerning the future or fortune of Synonym(s): wish, wish well Antonym(s): begrudge, resent order politely; express a wish for invoke upon; "wish you a nice evening"; "bid farewell" Synonym(s): wish, bid
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wiz n someone who is dazzlingly skilled in any field [syn: ace, adept, champion, sensation, maven, mavin, virtuoso, genius, hotshot, star, superstar, whiz, whizz, wizard, wiz]
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wog n (offensive British slang) term used by the British to refer to people of color from Africa or Asia
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wok n pan with a convex bottom; used for frying in Chinese cooking
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woosh v move with a sibilant sound; "He whooshed the doors open" Synonym(s): woosh, whoosh
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woozy adj having or causing a whirling sensation; liable to falling; "had a dizzy spell"; "a dizzy pinnacle"; "had a headache and felt giddy"; "a giddy precipice"; "feeling woozy from the blow on his head"; "a vertiginous climb up the face of the cliff" Synonym(s): dizzy, giddy, woozy, vertiginous
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Wouk n United States writer (born in 1915) [syn: Wouk, {Herman Wouk}]
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WSW n the compass point midway between west and southwest [syn: west southwest, WSW]
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wuss n a person who is physically weak and ineffectual [syn: weakling, doormat, wuss]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Waag \Waag\ (w[aum]g), n. (Zo[94]l.)       The grivet.
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Wacke \Wack"e\, Wacky \Wack"y\, n. [G. wacke, MHG. wacke a large       stone, OHG. waggo a pebble.] (Geol.)       A soft, earthy, dark-colored rock or clay derived from the       alteration of basalt.
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Wacke \Wack"e\, Wacky \Wack"y\, n. [G. wacke, MHG. wacke a large       stone, OHG. waggo a pebble.] (Geol.)       A soft, earthy, dark-colored rock or clay derived from the       alteration of basalt.
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Waeg \Waeg\, n. (Zo[94]l.)       The kittiwake. [Scot.]
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Wag \Wag\, v. i.       1. To move one way and the other; to be shaken to and fro; to             vibrate.                         The resty sieve wagged ne'er the more. --Dryden.          2. To be in action or motion; to move; to get along; to             progress; to stir. [Colloq.]                         [bd]Thus we may see,[b8] quoth he, [bd]how the world                      wags.[b8]                                          --Shak.          3. To go; to depart; to pack oft. [R.]                         I will provoke him to 't, or let him wag. --Shak.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Wag \Wag\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Wagged}; p. pr. & vb. n.       {Wagging}.] [OE. waggen; probably of Scand. origin; cf. Sw.       vagga to rock a cradle, vagga cradle, Icel. vagga, Dan.       vugge; akin to AS. wagian to move, wag, wegan to bear, carry,       G. & D. bewegen to move, and E. weigh. [fb]136. See {Weigh}.]       To move one way and the other with quick turns; to shake to       and fro; to move vibratingly; to cause to vibrate, as a part       of the body; as, to wag the head.                   No discerner durst wag his tongue in censure. --Shak.                   Every one that passeth thereby shall be astonished, and                wag his head.                                          --Jer. xviii.                                                                               16.          Note: Wag expresses specifically the motion of the head and                body used in buffoonery, mirth, derision, sport, and                mockery.
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Wag \Wag\, n. [From {Wag}, v.]       1. The act of wagging; a shake; as, a wag of the head.             [Colloq.]          2. [Perhaps shortened from wag-halter a rogue.] A man full of             sport and humor; a ludicrous fellow; a humorist; a wit; a             joker.                         We wink at wags when they offend.      --Dryden.                         A counselor never pleaded without a piece of pack                      thread in his hand, which he used to twist about a                      finger all the while he was speaking; the wags used                      to call it the thread of his discourse. --Addison.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Wage \Wage\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Waged}; p. pr. & vb. n.       {Waging}.] [OE. wagen, OF. wagier, gagier, to pledge,       promise, F. gager to wager, lay, bet, fr. LL. wadium a       pledge; of Teutonic origin; cf. Goth. wadi a pledge,       gawadj[d3]n to pledge, akin to E. wed, G. wette a wager. See       {Wed}, and cf. {Gage}.]       1. To pledge; to hazard on the event of a contest; to stake;             to bet, to lay; to wager; as, to wage a dollar. --Hakluyt.                         My life I never but as a pawn To wage against thy                      enemies.                                             --Shak.          2. To expose one's self to, as a risk; to incur, as a danger;             to venture; to hazard. [bd]Too weak to wage an instant             trial with the king.[b8] --Shak.                         To wake and wage a danger profitless. --Shak.          3. To engage in, as a contest, as if by previous gage or             pledge; to carry on, as a war.                         [He pondered] which of all his sons was fit To reign                      and wage immortal war with wit.         --Dryden.                         The two are waging war, and the one triumphs by the                      destruction of the other.                  --I. Taylor.          4. To adventure, or lay out, for hire or reward; to hire out.             [Obs.] [bd]Thou . . . must wage thy works for wealth.[b8]             --Spenser.          5. To put upon wages; to hire; to employ; to pay wages to.             [Obs.]                         Abundance of treasure which he had in store,                      wherewith he might wage soldiers.      --Holinshed.                         I would have them waged for their labor. --Latimer.          6. (O. Eng. Law) To give security for the performance of.             --Burrill.          {To wage battle} (O. Eng. Law), to give gage, or security,             for joining in the duellum, or combat. See {Wager of             battel}, under {Wager}, n. --Burrill.          {To wage one's law} (Law), to give security to make one's             law. See {Wager of law}, under {Wager}, n.
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Wage \Wage\, v. i.       To bind one's self; to engage. [Obs.]
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Wage \Wage\, n. [OF. wage, gage, guarantee, engagement. See       {Wage}, v. t. ]       1. That which is staked or ventured; that for which one             incurs risk or danger; prize; gage. [Obs.] [bd]That             warlike wage.[b8] --Spenser.          2. That for which one labors; meed; reward; stipulated             payment for service performed; hire; pay; compensation; --             at present generally used in the plural. See {Wages}.             [bd]My day's wage.[b8] --Sir W. Scott. [bd]At least I             earned my wage.[b8] --Thackeray. [bd]Pay them a wage in             advance.[b8] --J. Morley. [bd]The wages of virtue.[b8]             --Tennyson.                         By Tom Thumb, a fairy page, He sent it, and doth him                      engage, By promise of a mighty wage, It secretly to                      carry.                                                --Drayton.                         Our praises are our wages.                  --Shak.                         Existing legislation on the subject of wages.                                                                               --Encyc. Brit.          Note: Wage is used adjectively and as the first part of                compounds which are usually self-explaining; as, wage                worker, or wage-worker; wage-earner, etc.          {Board wages}. See under 1st {Board}.          Syn: Hire; reward; stipend; salary; allowance; pay;                compensation; remuneration; fruit.
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Waggie \Wag"gie\ (-g[icr]), n.       The pied wagtail. [Prov. Eng.]
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Wake \Wake\, n. [Originally, an open space of water s[?]rrounded       by ice, and then, the passage cut through ice for a vessel,       probably of Scand. origin; cf. Icel. v[94]k a hole, opening       in ice, Sw. vak, Dan. vaage, perhaps akin to E. humid.]       The track left by a vessel in the water; by extension, any       track; as, the wake of an army.                   This effect followed immediately in the wake of his                earliest exertions.                                 --De Quincey.                   Several humbler persons . . . formed quite a procession                in the dusty wake of his chariot wheels. --Thackeray.
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Wake \Wake\, v. t.       1. To rouse from sleep; to awake.                         The angel . . . came again and waked me. --Zech. iv.                                                                               1.          2. To put in motion or action; to arouse; to excite. [bd]I             shall waken all this company.[b8] --Chaucer.                         Lest fierce remembrance wake my sudden rage.                                                                               --Milton.                         Even Richard's crusade woke little interest in his                      island realm.                                    --J. R. Green.          3. To bring to life again, as if from the sleep of death; to             reanimate; to revive.                         To second life Waked in the renovation of the just.                                                                               --Milton.          4. To watch, or sit up with, at night, as a dead body.
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Wake \Wake\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Waked}or {Woke} ([?]); p. pr.       & vb. n. {Waking}.] [AS. wacan, wacian; akin to OFries. waka,       OS. wak[?]n, D. waken, G. wachen, OHG. wahh[?]n, Icel. vaka,       Sw. vaken, Dan. vaage, Goth. wakan, v. i., uswakjan, v. t.,       Skr. v[be]jay to rouse, to impel. [?][?][?][?]. Cf. {Vigil},       {Wait}, v. i., {Watch}, v. i.]       1. To be or to continue awake; to watch; not to sleep.                         The father waketh for the daughter.   --Ecclus.                                                                               xlii. 9.                         Though wisdom wake, suspicion sleeps. --Milton.                         I can not think any time, waking or sleeping,                      without being sensible of it.            --Locke.          2. To sit up late festive purposes; to hold a night revel.                         The king doth wake to-night, and takes his rouse,                      Keeps wassail, and the swaggering upspring reels.                                                                               --Shak.          3. To be excited or roused from sleep; to awake; to be             awakened; to cease to sleep; -- often with up.                         He infallibly woke up at the sound of the concluding                      doxology.                                          --G. Eliot.          4. To be exited or roused up; to be stirred up from a             dormant, torpid, or inactive state; to be active.                         Gentle airs due at their hour To fan the earth now                      waked.                                                --Milton.                         Then wake, my soul, to high desires.   --Keble.
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Wake \Wake\, n.       1. The act of waking, or being awaked; also, the state of             being awake. [Obs. or Poetic]                         Making such difference 'twixt wake and sleep.                                                                               --Shak.                         Singing her flatteries to my morning wake. --Dryden.          2. The state of forbearing sleep, especially for solemn or             festive purposes; a vigil.                         The warlike wakes continued all the night, And                      funeral games played at new returning light.                                                                               --Dryden.                         The wood nymphs, decked with daises trim, Their                      merry wakes and pastimes keep.            --Milton.          3. Specifically:             (a) (Ch. of Eng.) An annual parish festival formerly held                   in commemoration of the dedication of a church.                   Originally, prayers were said on the evening                   preceding, and hymns were sung during the night, in                   the church; subsequently, these vigils were                   discontinued, and the day itself, often with                   succeeding days, was occupied in rural pastimes and                   exercises, attended by eating and drinking, often to                   excess.                               Great solemnities were made in all churches, and                            great fairs and wakes throughout all England.                                                                               --Ld. Berners.                               And every village smokes at wakes with lusty                            cheer.                                          --Drayton.             (b) The sitting up of persons with a dead body, often                   attended with a degree of festivity, chiefly among the                   Irish. [bd]Blithe as shepherd at a wake.[b8] --Cowper.          {Wake play}, the ceremonies and pastimes connected with a             wake. See {Wake}, n., 3             (b), above. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
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Was \Was\ (w[ocr]z). [AS. w[91]s, 2d pers. w[aemac]re, 3d pers.       w[91]s, pl. w[aemac]ron, with the inf. wesan to be; akin to       D. wezen, imp. was, OHG. wesan, imp. was, G. wesen, n., a       being, essence, war was, Icel. vera to be, imp. var, Goth.       wisan to be, to dwell, to remain, imp. was, Skr. vas to       remain, to dwell. [root]148. Cf. {Vernacular}, {Wassail},       {Were}, v.]       The first and third persons singular of the verb be, in the       indicative mood, preterit (imperfect) tense; as, I was; he       was.
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Be \Be\, v. i. [imp. {Was}; p. p. {Been}; p. pr. & vb. n.       {Being}.] [OE. been, beon, AS. be[a2]n to be, be[a2]m I am;       akin to OHG. bim, pim, G. bin, I am, Gael. & Ir. bu was, W.       bod to be, Lith. bu-ti, O. Slav. by-ti, to be, L. fu-i I have       been, fu-turus about to be, fo-re to be about to be, and perh       to fieri to become, Gr. [?] to be born, to be, Skr. bh[?] to       be. This verb is defective, and the parts lacking are       supplied by verbs from other roots, is, was, which have no       radical connection with be. The various forms, am, are, is,       was, were, etc., are considered grammatically as parts of the       verb [bd]to be[b8], which, with its conjugational forms, is       often called the substantive verb. [?]97. Cf. {Future},       {Physic}.]       1. To exist actually, or in the world of fact; to have             ex[?]stence.                         To be contents his natural desire.      --Pope.                         To be, or not to be: that is the question. --Shak.          2. To exist in a certain manner or relation, -- whether as a             reality or as a product of thought; to exist as the             subject of a certain predicate, that is, as having a             certain attribute, or as belonging to a certain sort, or             as identical with what is specified, -- a word or words             for the predicate being annexed; as, to be happy; to be             here; to be large, or strong; to be an animal; to be a             hero; to be a nonentity; three and two are five;             annihilation is the cessation of existence; that is the             man.          3. To take place; to happen; as, the meeting was on Thursday.          4. To signify; to represent or symbolize; to answer to.                         The field is the world.                     --Matt. xiii.                                                                               38.                         The seven candlesticks which thou sawest are the                      seven churches.                                 --Rev. i. 20.          Note: The verb to be (including the forms is, was, etc.) is                used in forming the passive voice of other verbs; as,                John has been struck by James. It is also used with the                past participle of many intransitive verbs to express a                state of the subject. But have is now more commonly                used as the auxiliary, though expressing a different                sense; as, [bd]Ye have come too late -- but ye are                come. [b8] [bd]The minstrel boy to the war is gone.[b8]                The present and imperfect tenses form, with the                infinitive, a particular future tense, which expresses                necessity, duty, or purpose; as, government is to be                supported; we are to pay our just debts; the deed is to                be signed to-morrow.          Note: Have or had been, followed by to, implies movement.                [bd]I have been to Paris.[b8] --Sydney Smith. [bd]Have                you been to Franchard ?[b8] --R. L. Stevenson.          Note: Been, or ben, was anciently the plural of the                indicative present. [bd]Ye ben light of the world.[b8]                --Wyclif, Matt. v. 14. Afterwards be was used, as in                our Bible: [bd]They that be with us are more than they                that be with them.[b8] --2 Kings vi. 16. Ben was also                the old infinitive: [bd]To ben of such power.[b8] --R.                of Gloucester. Be is used as a form of the present                subjunctive: [bd]But if it be a question of words and                names.[b8] --Acts xviii. 15. But the indicative forms,                is and are, with if, are more commonly used.          {Be it so}, a phrase of supposition, equivalent to suppose it             to be so; or of permission, signifying let it be so.             --Shak.          {If so be}, in case.          {To be from}, to have come from; as, from what place are you             ? I am from Chicago.          {To let be}, to omit, or leave untouched; to let alone.             [bd]Let be, therefore, my vengeance to dissuade.[b8]             --Spenser.          Syn: {To be}, {Exist}.          Usage: The verb to be, except in a few rare case, like that                   of Shakespeare's [bd]To be, or not to be[b8], is used                   simply as a copula, to connect a subject with its                   predicate; as, man is mortal; the soul is immortal.                   The verb to exist is never properly used as a mere                   copula, but points to things that stand forth, or have                   a substantive being; as, when the soul is freed from                   all corporeal alliance, then it truly exists. It is                   not, therefore, properly synonymous with to be when                   used as a copula, though occasionally made so by some                   writers for the sake of variety; as in the phrase                   [bd]there exists [is] no reason for laying new                   taxes.[b8] We may, indeed, say, [bd]a friendship has                   long existed between them,[b8] instead of saying,                   [bd]there has long been a friendship between them;[b8]                   but in this case, exist is not a mere copula. It is                   used in its appropriate sense to mark the friendship                   as having been long in existence.
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Wase \Wase\ (w[amac]s), n. [Cf. Sw. vase a sheaf.]       A bundle of straw, or other material, to relieve the pressure       of burdens carried upon the head. [Prov. Eng.] --Halliwell.
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Wash \Wash\ (w[ocr]sh), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Washed}       (w[ocr]sht); p. pr. & vb. n. {Washing}.] [OE. waschen, AS.       wascan; akin to D. wasschen, G. waschen, OHG. wascan, Icel. &       Sw. vaska, Dan. vaske, and perhaps to E. water. [root]150.]       1. To cleanse by ablution, or dipping or rubbing in water; to             apply water or other liquid to for the purpose of             cleansing; to scrub with water, etc., or as with water;             as, to wash the hands or body; to wash garments; to wash             sheep or wool; to wash the pavement or floor; to wash the             bark of trees.                         When Pilate saw that he could prevail nothing, . . .                      he took water and washed his hands before the                      multitude, saying, I am innocent of the blood of                      this just person.                              --Matt. xxvii.                                                                               24.          2. To cover with water or any liquid; to wet; to fall on and             moisten; hence, to overflow or dash against; as, waves             wash the shore.                         Fresh-blown roses washed with dew.      --Milton.                         [The landscape] washed with a cold, gray mist.                                                                               --Longfellow.          3. To waste or abrade by the force of water in motion; as,             heavy rains wash a road or an embankment.
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Wash \Wash\, v. i.       1. To perform the act of ablution.                         Wash in Jordan seven times.               --2 Kings v.                                                                               10.          2. To clean anything by rubbing or dipping it in water; to             perform the business of cleansing clothes, ore, etc., in             water. [bd]She can wash and scour.[b8] --Shak.          3. To bear without injury the operation of being washed; as,             some calicoes do not wash. [Colloq.]          4. To be wasted or worn away by the action of water, as by a             running or overflowing stream, or by the dashing of the             sea; -- said of road, a beach, etc.
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Wash \Wash\, n.       1. The act of washing; an ablution; a cleansing, wetting, or             dashing with water; hence, a quantity, as of clothes,             washed at once.          2. A piece of ground washed by the action of a sea or river,             or sometimes covered and sometimes left dry; the             shallowest part of a river, or arm of the sea; also, a             bog; a marsh; a fen; as, the washes in Lincolnshire.             [bd]The Wash of Edmonton so gay.[b8] --Cowper.                         These Lincoln washes have devoured them. --Shak.          3. Substances collected and deposited by the action of water;             as, the wash of a sewer, of a river, etc.                         The wash of pastures, fields, commons, and roads,                      where rain water hath a long time settled.                                                                               --Mortimer.          4. Waste liquid, the refuse of food, the collection from             washed dishes, etc., from a kitchen, often used as food             for pigs. --Shak.          5. (Distilling)             (a) The fermented wort before the spirit is extracted.             (b) A mixture of dunder, molasses, water, and scummings,                   used in the West Indies for distillation. --B.                   Edwards.          6. That with which anything is washed, or wetted, smeared,             tinted, etc., upon the surface. Specifically:             (a) A liquid cosmetic for the complexion.             (b) A liquid dentifrice.             (c) A liquid preparation for the hair; as, a hair wash.             (d) A medical preparation in a liquid form for external                   application; a lotion.             (e) (Painting) A thin coat of color, esp. water color.             (j) A thin coat of metal laid on anything for beauty or                   preservation.          7. (Naut.)             (a) The blade of an oar, or the thin part which enters the                   water.             (b) The backward current or disturbed water caused by the                   action of oars, or of a steamer's screw or paddles,                   etc.          8. The flow, swash, or breaking of a body of water, as a             wave; also, the sound of it.          9. Ten strikes, or bushels, of oysters. [Prov. Eng.]          {Wash ball}, a ball of soap to be used in washing the hands             or face. --Swift.          {Wash barrel} (Fisheries), a barrel nearly full of split             mackerel, loosely put in, and afterward filled with salt             water in order to soak the blood from the fish before             salting.          {Wash bottle}. (Chem.)             (a) A bottle partially filled with some liquid through                   which gases are passed for the purpose of purifying                   them, especially by removing soluble constituents.             (b) A washing bottle. See under {Washing}.          {Wash gilding}. See {Water gilding}.          {Wash leather}, split sheepskin dressed with oil, in             imitation of chamois, or shammy, and used for dusting,             cleaning glass or plate, etc.; also, alumed, or buff,             leather for soldiers' belts.
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Wash \Wash\, a.       1. Washy; weak. [Obs.]                         Their bodies of so weak and wash a temper. --Beau. &                                                                               Fl.          2. Capable of being washed without injury; washable; as, wash             goods. [Colloq.]
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Wash \Wash\, n.       1. [Western U. S.] (Geol.)             (a) Gravel and other rock d[82]bris transported and                   deposited by running water; coarse alluvium.             (b) An alluvial cone formed by a stream at the base of a                   mountain.          2. The dry bed of an intermittent stream, sometimes at the             bottom of a ca[a4]on; as, the Amargosa wash, Diamond wash;             -- called also {dry wash}. [Western U. S.]          3. (Arch.) The upper surface of a member or material when             given a slope to shed water. Hence, a structure or             receptacle shaped so as to receive and carry off water, as             a carriage wash in a stable.
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Wash \Wash\, v. t.       1. To cause dephosphorisation of (molten pig iron) by adding             substances containing iron oxide, and sometimes manganese             oxide.          2. To pass (a gas or gaseous mixture) through or over a             liquid for the purpose of purifying it, esp. by removing             soluble constituents.
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Wash \Wash\, v. i.       1. To use washes, as for the face or hair.          2. To move with a lapping or swashing sound, or the like; to             lap; splash; as, to hear the water washing.
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Washy \Wash"y\, a. [From {Wash}.]       1. Watery; damp; soft. [bd]Washy ooze.[b8] --Milton.          2. Lacking substance or strength; weak; thin; dilute; feeble;             as, washy tea; washy resolutions.                         A polish . . . not over thin and washy. --Sir H.                                                                               Wotton.          3. Not firm or hardy; liable to sweat profusely with labor;             as, a washy horse. [Local, U. S.]
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Wax \Wax\, v. i. [imp. {Waxed}; p. p. {Waxed}, and Obs. or       Poetic {Waxen}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Waxing}.] [AS. weaxan; akin       to OFries. waxa, D. wassen, OS. & OHG. wahsan, G. wachsen,       Icel. vaxa, Sw. v[84]xa, Dan. voxe, Goth. wahsjan, Gr. [?] to       increase, Skr. waksh, uksh, to grow. [?][?][?]. Cf. {Waist}.]       1. To increase in size; to grow bigger; to become larger or             fuller; -- opposed to wane.                         The waxing and the waning of the moon. --Hakewill.                         Truth's treasures . . . never shall wax ne wane.                                                                               --P. Plowman.          2. To pass from one state to another; to become; to grow; as,             to wax strong; to wax warmer or colder; to wax feeble; to             wax old; to wax worse and worse.                         Your clothes are not waxen old upon you. --Deut.                                                                               xxix. 5.                         Where young Adonis oft reposes, Waxing well of his                      deep wound.                                       --Milton.          {Waxing kernels} (Med.), small tumors formed by the             enlargement of the lymphatic glands, especially in the             groins of children; -- popularly so called, because             supposed to be caused by growth of the body. --Dunglison.
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Wax \Wax\, n. [AS. weax; akin to OFries. wax, D. was, G. wachs,       OHG. wahs, Icel. & Sw. vax, Dan. vox, Lith. vaszkas, Russ.       vosk'.]       1. A fatty, solid substance, produced by bees, and employed             by them in the construction of their comb; -- usually             called beeswax. It is first excreted, from a row of             pouches along their sides, in the form of scales, which,             being masticated and mixed with saliva, become whitened             and tenacious. Its natural color is pale or dull yellow.          Note: Beeswax consists essentially of cerotic acid                (constituting the more soluble part) and of myricyl                palmitate (constituting the less soluble part).          2. Hence, any substance resembling beeswax in consistency or             appearance. Specifically:             (a) (Physiol.) Cerumen, or earwax. See {Cerumen}.             (b) A waxlike composition used for uniting surfaces, for                   excluding air, and for other purposes; as, sealing                   wax, grafting wax, etching wax, etc.             (c) A waxlike composition used by shoemakers for rubbing                   their thread.             (d) (Zo[94]l.) A substance similar to beeswax, secreted by                   several species of scale insects, as the Chinese wax.                   See {Wax insect}, below.             (e) (Bot.) A waxlike product secreted by certain plants.                   See {Vegetable wax}, under {Vegetable}.             (f) (Min.) A substance, somewhat resembling wax, found in                   connection with certain deposits of rock salt and                   coal; -- called also mineral wax, and ozocerite.             (g) Thick sirup made by boiling down the sap of the sugar                   maple, and then cooling. [Local U. S.]          {Japanese wax}, a waxlike substance made in Japan from the             berries of certain species of {Rhus}, esp. {R.             succedanea}.          {Mineral wax}. (Min.) See {Wax}, 2             (f), above.          {Wax cloth}. See {Waxed cloth}, under {Waxed}.          {Wax end}. See {Waxed end}, under {Waxed}.          {Wax flower}, a flower made of, or resembling, wax.          {Wax insect} (Zo[94]l.), any one of several species of scale             insects belonging to the family {Coccid[91]}, which             secrete from their bodies a waxlike substance, especially             the Chinese wax insect ({Coccus Sinensis}) from which a             large amount of the commercial Chinese wax is obtained.             Called also {pela}.          {Wax light}, a candle or taper of wax.          {Wax moth} (Zo[94]l.), a pyralid moth ({Galleria cereana})             whose larv[91] feed upon honeycomb, and construct silken             galleries among the fragments. The moth has dusky gray             wings streaked with brown near the outer edge. The larva             is yellowish white with brownish dots. Called also {bee             moth}.          {Wax myrtle}. (Bot.) See {Bayberry}.          {Wax painting}, a kind of painting practiced by the ancients,             under the name of encaustic. The pigments were ground with             wax, and diluted. After being applied, the wax was melted             with hot irons and the color thus fixed.          {Wax palm}. (Bot.)             (a) A species of palm ({Ceroxylon Andicola}) native of the                   Andes, the stem of which is covered with a secretion,                   consisting of two thirds resin and one third wax,                   which, when melted with a third of fat, makes                   excellent candles.             (b) A Brazilian tree ({Copernicia cerifera}) the young                   leaves of which are covered with a useful waxy                   secretion.          {Wax paper}, paper prepared with a coating of white wax and             other ingredients.          {Wax plant} (Bot.), a name given to several plants, as:             (a) The Indian pipe (see under {Indian}).             (b) The {Hoya carnosa}, a climbing plant with polished,                   fleshy leaves.             (c) Certain species of {Begonia} with similar foliage.          {Wax tree} (Bot.)             (a) A tree or shrub ({Ligustrum lucidum}) of China, on                   which certain insects make a thick deposit of a                   substance resembling white wax.             (b) A kind of sumac ({Rhus succedanea}) of Japan, the                   berries of which yield a sort of wax.             (c) A rubiaceous tree ({El[91]agia utilis}) of New                   Grenada, called by the inhabitants [bd]arbol del                   cera.[b8]          {Wax yellow}, a dull yellow, resembling the natural color of             beeswax.
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Wax \Wax\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Waxed}; p. pr. & vb. n.       {Waxing}.]       To smear or rub with wax; to treat with wax; as, to wax a       thread or a table.          {Waxed cloth}, cloth covered with a coating of wax, used as a             cover, of tables and for other purposes; -- called also             {wax cloth}.          {Waxed end}, a thread pointed with a bristle and covered with             shoemaker's wax, used in sewing leather, as for boots,             shoes, and the like; -- called also {wax end}. --Brockett.
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Waxy \Wax"y\, a.       Resembling wax in appearance or consistency; viscid;       adhesive; soft; hence, yielding; pliable; impressible.       [bd]Waxy to persuasion.[b8] --Bp. Hall.          {Waxy degeneration} (Med.), amyloid degeneration. See under             {Amyloid}.          {Waxy kidney}, {Waxy liver}, etc. (Med.), a kidney or liver             affected by waxy degeneration.
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Wayk \Wayk\, a.       Weak. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
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-ways \-ways\       A suffix formed from way by the addition of the adverbial -s       (see {-wards}). It is often used interchangeably with wise;       as, endways or endwise; noways or nowise, etc.
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Way-wise \Way"-wise`\, a.       Skillful in finding the way; well acquainted with the way or       route; wise from having traveled.
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Weak \Weak\ (w[emac]k), a. [Compar. {Weaker} (-[etil]r); superl.       {Weakest}.] [OE. weik, Icel. veikr; akin to Sw. vek, Dan. veg       soft, flexible, pliant, AS. w[be]c weak, soft, pliant, D.       week, G. weich, OHG. weih; all from the verb seen in Icel.       v[c6]kja to turn, veer, recede, AS. w[c6]can to yield, give       way, G. weichen, OHG. w[c6]hhan, akin to Skr. vij, and       probably to E. week, L. vicis a change, turn, Gr. e'i`kein to       yield, give way. [fb]132. Cf. {Week}, {Wink}, v. i.       {Vicissitude}.]       1. Wanting physical strength. Specifically:             (a) Deficient in strength of body; feeble; infirm; sickly;                   debilitated; enfeebled; exhausted.                               A poor, infirm, weak, and despised old man.                                                                               --Shak.                               Weak with hunger, mad with love.   --Dryden.             (b) Not able to sustain a great weight, pressure, or                   strain; as, a weak timber; a weak rope.             (c) Not firmly united or adhesive; easily broken or                   separated into pieces; not compact; as, a weak ship.             (d) Not stiff; pliant; frail; soft; as, the weak stalk of                   a plant.             (e) Not able to resist external force or onset; easily                   subdued or overcome; as, a weak barrier; as, a weak                   fortress.             (f) Lacking force of utterance or sound; not sonorous;                   low; small; feeble; faint.                               A voice not soft, weak, piping, and womanish.                                                                               --Ascham.             (g) Not thoroughly or abundantly impregnated with the                   usual or required ingredients, or with stimulating and                   nourishing substances; of less than the usual                   strength; as, weak tea, broth, or liquor; a weak                   decoction or solution; a weak dose of medicine.             (h) Lacking ability for an appropriate function or office;                   as, weak eyes; a weak stomach; a weak magistrate; a                   weak regiment, or army.          2. Not possessing or manifesting intellectual, logical,             moral, or political strength, vigor, etc. Specifically:             (a) Feeble of mind; wanting discernment; lacking vigor;                   spiritless; as, a weak king or magistrate.                               To think every thing disputable is a proof of a                            weak mind and captious temper.      --Beattie.                               Origen was never weak enough to imagine that                            there were two Gods.                     --Waterland.             (b) Resulting from, or indicating, lack of judgment,                   discernment, or firmness; unwise; hence, foolish.                               If evil thence ensue, She first his weak                            indulgence will accuse.               --Milton.             (c) Not having full confidence or conviction; not decided                   or confirmed; vacillating; wavering.                               Him that is weak in the faith receive ye, but                            not to doubtful disputations.      --Rom. xiv. 1.             (d) Not able to withstand temptation, urgency, persuasion,                   etc.; easily impressed, moved, or overcome;                   accessible; vulnerable; as, weak resolutions; weak                   virtue.                               Guard thy heart On this weak side, where most                            our nature fails.                        --Addison.             (e) Wanting in power to influence or bind; as, weak ties;                   a weak sense of honor of duty.             (f) Not having power to convince; not supported by force                   of reason or truth; unsustained; as, a weak argument                   or case. [bd]Convinced of his weak arguing.[b8]                   --Milton.                               A case so weak . . . hath much persisted in.                                                                               --Hooker.             (g) Wanting in point or vigor of expression; as, a weak                   sentence; a weak style.             (h) Not prevalent or effective, or not felt to be                   prevalent; not potent; feeble. [bd]Weak prayers.[b8]                   --Shak.             (i) Lacking in elements of political strength; not                   wielding or having authority or energy; deficient in                   the resources that are essential to a ruler or nation;                   as, a weak monarch; a weak government or state.                               I must make fair weather yet awhile, Till Henry                            be more weak, and I more strong.   --Shak.             (k) (Stock Exchange) Tending towards lower prices; as, a                   weak market.          3. (Gram.)             (a) Pertaining to, or designating, a verb which forms its                   preterit (imperfect) and past participle by adding to                   the present the suffix -ed, -d, or the variant form                   -t; as in the verbs abash, abashed; abate, abated;                   deny, denied; feel, felt. See {Strong}, 19             (a) .             (b) Pertaining to, or designating, a noun in Anglo-Saxon,                   etc., the stem of which ends in -n. See {Strong}, 19             (b) .          Note: Weak is often used in the formation of self-explaining                compounds; as, weak-eyed, weak-handed, weak-hearted,                weak-minded, weak-spirited, and the like.
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Weak \Weak\, v. t. & i. [Cf. AS. w[?]can. w[be]cian. See {Weak},       a.]       To make or become weak; to weaken. [R.]                   Never to seek weaking variety.               --Marston.
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Weak \Weak\, a.       1. (Stock Exchange) Tending toward a lower price or lower             prices; as, wheat is weak; a weak market.          2. (Card Playing) Lacking in good cards; deficient as to             number or strength; as, a hand weak in trumps.          3. (Photog.) Lacking contrast; as, a weak negative.
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Weasy \Wea"sy\, a. [Cf. {Weasand}.]       Given to sensual indulgence; gluttonous. [Obs.] --Joye.
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Week \Week\, n. [OE. weke, wike, woke, wuke AS. weocu, wicu,       wucu; akin to OS. wika, OFries. wike, D. week, G. woche, OHG.       wohha, wehha, Icel. vika, Sw. vecka, Dan. uge, Goth. wik[?],       probably originally meaning, a succession or change, and akin       to G. wechsel change, L. vicis turn, alternation, and E.       weak. Cf. {Weak}.]       A period of seven days, usually that reckoned from one       Sabbath or Sunday to the next.                   I fast twice in the week.                        --Luke xviii.                                                                               12.          Note: Although it [the week] did not enter into the calendar                of the Greeks, and was not introduced at Rome till                after the reign of Theodesius, it has been employed                from time immemorial in almost all Eastern countries.                --Encyc. Brit.          {Feast of Weeks}. See {Pentecost}, 1.          {Prophetic week}, a week of years, or seven years. --Dan. ix.             24.          {Week day}. See under {Day}.
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Weigh \Weigh\ (w[amac]), n. (Naut.)       A corruption of {Way}, used only in the phrase {under weigh}.                   An expedition was got under weigh from New York.                                                                               --Thackeray.                   The Athenians . . . hurried on board and with                considerable difficulty got under weigh. --Jowett                                                                               (Thucyd.).
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Weigh \Weigh\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Weighed}; p. pr. & vb. n.       {Weighing}.] [OE. weien, weyen, weghen, AS. wegan to bear,       move; akin to D. wegen to weigh, G. w[84]gen, wiegen, to       weigh, bewegen to move, OHG. wegan, Icel. vega to move,       carry, lift, weigh, Sw. v[84]ga to weigh, Dan. veie, Goth.       gawigan to shake, L. vehere to carry, Skr. vah. [?][?][?][?].       See {Way}, and cf. {Wey}.]       1. To bear up; to raise; to lift into the air; to swing up;             as, to weigh anchor. [bd]Weigh the vessel up.[b8]             --Cowper.          2. To examine by the balance; to ascertain the weight of,             that is, the force with which a thing tends to the center             of the earth; to determine the heaviness, or quantity of             matter of; as, to weigh sugar; to weigh gold.                         Thou art weighed in the balances, and art found                      wanting.                                             --Dan. v. 27.          3. To be equivalent to in weight; to counterbalance; to have             the heaviness of. [bd]A body weighing divers ounces.[b8]             --Boyle.          4. To pay, allot, take, or give by weight.                         They weighed for my price thirty pieces of silver.                                                                               --Zech. xi.                                                                               12.          5. To examine or test as if by the balance; to ponder in the             mind; to consider or examine for the purpose of forming an             opinion or coming to a conclusion; to estimate             deliberately and maturely; to balance.                         A young man not weighed in state affairs. --Bacon.                         Had no better weighed The strength he was to cope                      with, or his own.                              --Milton.                         Regard not who it is which speaketh, but weigh only                      what is spoken.                                 --Hooker.                         In nice balance, truth with gold she weighs. --Pope.                         Without sufficiently weighing his expressions. --Sir                                                                               W. Scott.          6. To consider as worthy of notice; to regard. [Obs. or             Archaic] [bd]I weigh not you.[b8] --Shak.                         All that she so dear did weigh.         --Spenser.          {To weigh down}.             (a) To overbalance.             (b) To oppress with weight; to overburden; to depress.                   [bd]To weigh thy spirits down.[b8] --Milton.
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Weigh \Weigh\, v. i.       1. To have weight; to be heavy. [bd]They only weigh the             heavier.[b8] --Cowper.          2. To be considered as important; to have weight in the             intellectual balance.                         Your vows to her and me . . . will even weigh.                                                                               --Shak.                         This objection ought to weigh with those whose                      reading is designed for much talk and little                      knowledge.                                          --Locke.          3. To bear heavily; to press hard.                         Cleanse the stuffed bosom of that perilous stuff                      Which weighs upon the heart.               --Shak.          4. To judge; to estimate. [R.]                         Could not weigh of worthiness aright. --Spenser.          {To weigh down}, to sink by its own weight.
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Weigh \Weigh\, n. [See {Wey}.]       A certain quantity estimated by weight; an English measure of       weight. See {Wey}.
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Weka \We"ka\, n. (Zo[94]l.)       A New Zealand rail ({Ocydromus australis}) which has wings so       short as to be incapable of flight.
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Wekau \We"kau\, n. (Zo[94]l.)       A small New Zealand owl ({Sceloglaux albifacies}). It has       short wings and long legs, and lives chiefly on the ground.
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Wesh \Wesh\, obs. imp. of {Wash}.       Washed. --Chaucer.
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Wex \Wex\, v. t. & i.       To grow; to wax. [Obs.] --Chaucer. [bd]Each wexing moon.[b8]       --Dryden.
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Wex \Wex\, obs. imp. of {Wex}.       Waxed. --Chaucer.
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Wex \Wex\, n.       Wax. [Obs.] [bd]Yelwe as wex.[b8] --Chaucer.
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Whack \Whack\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Whacked}; p. pr. & vb. n.       {Whacking}.] [Cf. {Thwack}.]       To strike; to beat; to give a heavy or resounding blow to; to       thrash; to make with whacks. [Colloq.]                   Rodsmen were whackingtheir way through willow brakes.                                                                               --G. W. Cable.
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Whack \Whack\, v. i.       To strike anything with a smart blow.          {To whack away}, to continue striking heavy blows; as, to             whack away at a log. [Colloq.]
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Whack \Whack\, n.       A smart resounding blow. [Colloq.]
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Whack \Whack\, v. t.       To divide into shares; as, to whack the spoils of a robbery;       -- often with up. [Slang]
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Whack \Whack\, n.       A portion; share; allowance. [Slang]          {Out of whack}, out of order. [Slang]
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Wheeze \Wheeze\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Wheezed}; p. pr. & vb. n.       {Wheezing}.] [OE. whesen, AS. hw[?]san (cf. Icel. hv[91]sa to       hiss, Sw. hv[84]sa, Dan. hv[91]se); akin to AS. hw[?]sta a       cough, D. hoest, G. husten, OHG. huosto, Icel. h[?]sti, Lith.       kosti to cough, Skr. k[?]s. [root]43. Cf. {Husky} hoarse.]       To breathe hard, and with an audible piping or whistling       sound, as persons affected with asthma. [bd]Wheezing       lungs.[b8] --Shak.
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Wheeze \Wheeze\, n.       1. A piping or whistling sound caused by difficult             respiration.          2. (Phon.) An ordinary whisper exaggerated so as to produce             the hoarse sound known as the [bd]stage whisper.[b8] It is             a forcible whisper with some admixture of tone.
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Wheezy \Wheez"y\, a.       Breathing with difficulty and with a wheeze; wheezing. Used       also figuratively.
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Wheyish \Whey"ish\, a.       Somewhat like whey; wheyey. --J. Philips. -- {Whey"ish*ness},       n.
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Which \Which\, pron. [OE. which, whilk, AS. hwilc, hwylc, hwelc,       from the root of hw[be] who + l[c6]c body; hence properly, of       what sort or kind; akin to OS. hwilik which, OFries. hwelik,       D. welk, G. welch, OHG. wel[c6]h, hwel[c6]h, Icel.       hv[c6]l[c6]kr, Dan. & Sw. hvilken, Goth. hwileiks,       hw[?]leiks; cf. L. qualis. [?][?][?][?]. See {Who}, and       {Like}, a., and cf. {Such}.]       1. Of what sort or kind; what; what a; who. [Obs.]                         And which they weren and of what degree. --Chaucer.          2. A interrogative pronoun, used both substantively and             adjectively, and in direct and indirect questions, to ask             for, or refer to, an individual person or thing among             several of a class; as, which man is it? which woman was             it? which is the house? he asked which route he should             take; which is best, to live or to die? See the Note under             {What}, pron., 1.                         Which of you convinceth me of sin?      --John viii.                                                                               46.          3. A relative pronoun, used esp. in referring to an             antecedent noun or clause, but sometimes with reference to             what is specified or implied in a sentence, or to a             following noun or clause (generally involving a reference,             however, to something which has preceded). It is used in             all numbers and genders, and was formerly used of persons.                         And when thou fail'st -- as God forbid the hour! --                      Must Edward fall, which peril heaven forfend!                                                                               --Shak.                         God . . . rested on the seventh day from all his                      work which he had made.                     --Gen. ii. 2.                         Our Father, which art in heaven.         --Matt. vi. 9.                         The temple of God is holy, which temple ye are. --1                                                                               Cor. iii. 17.          4. A compound relative or indefinite pronoun, standing for             any one which, whichever, that which, those which, the . .             . which, and the like; as, take which you will.          Note: The which was formerly often used for which. The                expressions which that, which as, were also sometimes                used by way of emphasis.                            Do not they blaspheme that worthy name by the                         which ye are called?                     --James ii. 7.          Note: Which, referring to a series of preceding sentences, or                members of a sentence, may have all joined to it                adjectively. [bd]All which, as a method of a                proclamation, is very convenient.[b8] --Carlyle.
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Whig \Whig\, n. [See {Whey}.]       Acidulated whey, sometimes mixed with buttermilk and sweet       herbs, used as a cooling beverage. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.]
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Whig \Whig\, n. [Said to be from whiggam, a term used in       Scotland in driving horses, whiggamore one who drives horses       (a term applied to some western Scotchmen), contracted to       whig. In 1648, a party of these people marched to Edinburgh       to oppose the king and the duke of Hamilton (the Whiggamore       raid), and hence the name of Whig was given to the party       opposed to the court. Cf. Scot. whig to go quickly.]       1. (Eng. Politics) One of a political party which grew up in             England in the seventeenth century, in the reigns of             Charles I. and II., when great contests existed respecting             the royal prerogatives and the rights of the people. Those             who supported the king in his high claims were called             Tories, and the advocates of popular rights, of             parliamentary power over the crown, and of toleration to             Dissenters, were, after 1679, called Whigs. The terms             Liberal and Radical have now generally superseded Whig in             English politics. See the note under {Tory}.          2. (Amer. Hist.)             (a) A friend and supporter of the American Revolution; --                   opposed to {Tory}, and {Royalist}.             (b) One of the political party in the United States from                   about 1829 to 1856, opposed in politics to the                   Democratic party.
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Whig \Whig\, a.       Of or pertaining to the Whigs.
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Whisk \Whisk\, v. i.       To move nimbly at with velocity; to make a sudden agile       movement.
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Whisk \Whisk\, n. [See {Whist}, n.]       A game at cards; whist. [Obs.] --Taylor (1630).
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Whisk \Whisk\, n. [Probably for wisk, and of Scand. origin; cf.       Icel. visk a wisp; akin to Dan. visk, Sw. viska, D. wisch,       OHG. wisc, G. wisch. See {Wisp}.]       1. The act of whisking; a rapid, sweeping motion, as of             something light; a sudden motion or quick puff.                         This first sad whisk Takes off thy dukedom; thou art                      but an earl.                                       --J. Fletcher.          2. A small bunch of grass, straw, twigs, hair, or the like,             used for a brush; hence, a brush or small besom, as of             broom corn.          3. A small culinary instrument made of wire, or the like, for             whisking or beating eggs, cream, etc. --Boyle.          4. A kind of cape, forming part of a woman's dress.                         My wife in her new lace whisk.            --Pepys.          5. An impertinent fellow. [Prov. Eng.] --Halliwell.          6. A plane used by coopers for evening chines.
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Whisk \Whisk\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Whisked}; p. pr. & vb. n.       {Whisking}.] [Cf. Dan. viske, Sw. viska, G. wischen, D.       wisschen. See {Whisk}, n.]       1. To sweep, brush, or agitate, with a light, rapid motion;             as, to whisk dust from a table; to whisk the white of eggs             into a froth.          2. To move with a quick, sweeping motion.                         He that walks in gray, whisking his riding rod. --J.                                                                               Fletcher.                         I beg she would not impale worms, nor whisk carp out                      of one element into another.               --Walpole.
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Whiskey \Whis"key\, n.       Same as {Whisky}, a liquor.
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Whiskey \Whis"key\, Whisky \Whis"ky\, n.; pl. {Whiskeys}or       {Whiskies}. [See {Whisk}, v. t. & n.]       A light carriage built for rapid motion; -- called also       {tim-whiskey}.
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Whisky \Whis"ky\, Whiskey \Whis"key\, n. [Ir. or Gael. uisge       water (perhaps akin to E. wash, water) in uisgebeatha       whiskey, properly, water of life. Cf. {Usquebaugh}.]       An intoxicating liquor distilled from grain, potatoes, etc.,       especially in Scotland, Ireland, and the United States. In       the United States, whisky is generally distilled from maize,       rye, or wheat, but in Scotland and Ireland it is often made       from malted barley.          {Bourbon whisky}, corn whisky made in Bourbon County,             Kentucky.          {Crooked whisky}. See under {Crooked}.          {Whisky Jack} (Zo[94]l.), the Canada jay ({Perisoreus             Canadensis}). It is noted for its fearless and familiar             habits when it frequents the camps of lumbermen in the             winter season. Its color is dull grayish blue, lighter             beneath. Called also {moose bird}.
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Whiskey \Whis"key\, Whisky \Whis"ky\, n.; pl. {Whiskeys}or       {Whiskies}. [See {Whisk}, v. t. & n.]       A light carriage built for rapid motion; -- called also       {tim-whiskey}.
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Whisky \Whis"ky\, Whiskey \Whis"key\, n. [Ir. or Gael. uisge       water (perhaps akin to E. wash, water) in uisgebeatha       whiskey, properly, water of life. Cf. {Usquebaugh}.]       An intoxicating liquor distilled from grain, potatoes, etc.,       especially in Scotland, Ireland, and the United States. In       the United States, whisky is generally distilled from maize,       rye, or wheat, but in Scotland and Ireland it is often made       from malted barley.          {Bourbon whisky}, corn whisky made in Bourbon County,             Kentucky.          {Crooked whisky}. See under {Crooked}.          {Whisky Jack} (Zo[94]l.), the Canada jay ({Perisoreus             Canadensis}). It is noted for its fearless and familiar             habits when it frequents the camps of lumbermen in the             winter season. Its color is dull grayish blue, lighter             beneath. Called also {moose bird}.
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Whisky \Whisky\, [or] Whiskey Ring \Whiskey, Ring\ . (U. S.       Hist.)       A conspiracy of distillers and government officials during       the administration of President Grant to defraud the       government of the excise taxes. The frauds were detected in       1875 through the efforts of the Secretary of the Treasury. B.       H. Bristow, and most of the offenders were convicted.
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Whiz \Whiz\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Whizzed}; p. pr. & vb. n.       {Whizzing}.] [Of imitative origin. [?][?][?]. Cf. {Whistle},       and {Hiss}.]       To make a humming or hissing sound, like an arrow or ball       flying through the air; to fly or move swiftly with a sharp       hissing or whistling sound. [Written also {whizz}.]                   It flew, and whizzing, cut the liquid way. --Dryden.
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Whiz \Whiz\, n.       A hissing and humming sound.                   Like the whiz of my crossbow.                  --Coleridge.
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Whiz \Whiz\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Whizzed}; p. pr. & vb. n.       {Whizzing}.] [Of imitative origin. [?][?][?]. Cf. {Whistle},       and {Hiss}.]       To make a humming or hissing sound, like an arrow or ball       flying through the air; to fly or move swiftly with a sharp       hissing or whistling sound. [Written also {whizz}.]                   It flew, and whizzing, cut the liquid way. --Dryden.
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Who \Who\, pron. [Possess. {whose}; object. {Whom}.] [OE. who,       wha, AS. hw[be], interrogative pron., neut. hw[91]t; akin to       OFries. hwa, neut. hwet, OS. hw[emac], neut. hwat, D. wie,       neut. wat, G. wer, neut. was, OHG. wer, hwer, neut. waz,       hwaz, Icel. hvat, neut., Dan. hvo, neut. hvad, Sw. ho, hvem,       neut. hvad, Goth. hwas, fem. hw[omac], neut. hwa, Lith. kas,       Ir. & Gael. co, W. pwy, L. quod, neuter of qui, Gr. po`teros       whether, Skr. kas. [root]182. Cf. {How}, {Quantity},       {Quorum}, {Quote}, {Ubiquity}, {What}, {When}, {Where},       {Whether}, {Which}, {Whither}, {Whom}, {Why}.]       1. Originally, an interrogative pronoun, later, a relative             pronoun also; -- used always substantively, and either as             singular or plural. See the Note under {What}, pron., 1.             As interrogative pronouns, who and whom ask the question:             What or which person or persons? Who and whom, as relative             pronouns (in the sense of that), are properly used of             persons (corresponding to which, as applied to things),             but are sometimes, less properly and now rarely, used of             animals, plants, etc. Who and whom, as compound relatives,             are also used especially of persons, meaning the person             that; the persons that; the one that; whosoever. [bd]Let             who will be President.[b8] --Macaulay.                         [He] should not tell whose children they were.                                                                               --Chaucer.                         There thou tell'st of kings, and who aspire; Who                      fall, who rise, who triumph, who do moan. --Daniel.                         Adders who with cloven tongues Do hiss into madness.                                                                               --Shak.                         Whom I could pity thus forlorn.         --Milton.                         How hard is our fate, who serve in the state.                                                                               --Addison.                         Who cheapens life, abates the fear of death.                                                                               --Young.                         The brace of large greyhounds, who were the                      companions of his sports.                  --Sir W.                                                                               Scott.          2. One; any; one. [Obs., except in the archaic phrase, as who             should say.]                         As who should say, it were a very dangerous matter                      if a man in any point should be found wiser than his                      forefathers were.                              --Robynson                                                                               (More's                                                                               Utopia).
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Whose \Whose\ (h[oomac]z), pron. [OE. whos, whas, AS. hw[91]s,       gen. of hw[be]. See {Who}.]       The possessive case of who or which. See {Who}, and {Which}.                   Whose daughter art thou? tell me, I pray thee. --Gen.                                                                               xxiv. 23.                   The question whose solution I require.   --Dryden.
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Who \Who\, pron. [Possess. {whose}; object. {Whom}.] [OE. who,       wha, AS. hw[be], interrogative pron., neut. hw[91]t; akin to       OFries. hwa, neut. hwet, OS. hw[emac], neut. hwat, D. wie,       neut. wat, G. wer, neut. was, OHG. wer, hwer, neut. waz,       hwaz, Icel. hvat, neut., Dan. hvo, neut. hvad, Sw. ho, hvem,       neut. hvad, Goth. hwas, fem. hw[omac], neut. hwa, Lith. kas,       Ir. & Gael. co, W. pwy, L. quod, neuter of qui, Gr. po`teros       whether, Skr. kas. [root]182. Cf. {How}, {Quantity},       {Quorum}, {Quote}, {Ubiquity}, {What}, {When}, {Where},       {Whether}, {Which}, {Whither}, {Whom}, {Why}.]       1. Originally, an interrogative pronoun, later, a relative             pronoun also; -- used always substantively, and either as             singular or plural. See the Note under {What}, pron., 1.             As interrogative pronouns, who and whom ask the question:             What or which person or persons? Who and whom, as relative             pronouns (in the sense of that), are properly used of             persons (corresponding to which, as applied to things),             but are sometimes, less properly and now rarely, used of             animals, plants, etc. Who and whom, as compound relatives,             are also used especially of persons, meaning the person             that; the persons that; the one that; whosoever. [bd]Let             who will be President.[b8] --Macaulay.                         [He] should not tell whose children they were.                                                                               --Chaucer.                         There thou tell'st of kings, and who aspire; Who                      fall, who rise, who triumph, who do moan. --Daniel.                         Adders who with cloven tongues Do hiss into madness.                                                                               --Shak.                         Whom I could pity thus forlorn.         --Milton.                         How hard is our fate, who serve in the state.                                                                               --Addison.                         Who cheapens life, abates the fear of death.                                                                               --Young.                         The brace of large greyhounds, who were the                      companions of his sports.                  --Sir W.                                                                               Scott.          2. One; any; one. [Obs., except in the archaic phrase, as who             should say.]                         As who should say, it were a very dangerous matter                      if a man in any point should be found wiser than his                      forefathers were.                              --Robynson                                                                               (More's                                                                               Utopia).
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Whose \Whose\ (h[oomac]z), pron. [OE. whos, whas, AS. hw[91]s,       gen. of hw[be]. See {Who}.]       The possessive case of who or which. See {Who}, and {Which}.                   Whose daughter art thou? tell me, I pray thee. --Gen.                                                                               xxiv. 23.                   The question whose solution I require.   --Dryden.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Whoso \Who"so\, pron.       Whosoever. -- Piers Plowman.                   Whoso shrinks or falters now, . . . Brand the craven on                his brow!                                                --Whittier.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Wich \Wich\, n.       A variant of 1st {Wick}.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Wick \Wick\, [or] Wich \Wich\, n. [AS. w[c6]c village, fr. L.       vicus. In some names of places, perhaps fr. Icel. v[c6]k an       inlet, creek, bay. See {Vicinity}, and cf. {Villa}.]       1. A street; a village; a castle; a dwelling; a place of             work, or exercise of authority; -- now obsolete except in             composition; as, bailiwick, Warwick, Greenwick. --Stow.          2. (Curling) A narrow port or passage in the rink or course,             flanked by the stones of previous players.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Wick \Wick\, n. [OE. wicke, weyke, weke, AS. weoca or wecca; cf.       D. wiek a roll of lint, Prov. G. wicke, and wieche, OHG.       wiohha, Sw. veke, Dan. v[91]ge; of uncertain origin.]       A bundle of fibers, or a loosely twisted or braided cord,       tape, or tube, usually made of soft spun cotton threads,       which by capillary attraction draws up a steady supply of the       oil in lamps, the melted tallow or wax in candles, or other       material used for illumination, in small successive portions,       to be burned.                   But true it is, that when the oil is spent The light                goes out, and wick is thrown away.         --Spenser.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Wick \Wick\, [or] Wich \Wich\, n. [AS. w[c6]c village, fr. L.       vicus. In some names of places, perhaps fr. Icel. v[c6]k an       inlet, creek, bay. See {Vicinity}, and cf. {Villa}.]       1. A street; a village; a castle; a dwelling; a place of             work, or exercise of authority; -- now obsolete except in             composition; as, bailiwick, Warwick, Greenwick. --Stow.          2. (Curling) A narrow port or passage in the rink or course,             flanked by the stones of previous players.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Wick \Wick\, v. i. (Curling)       To strike a stone in an oblique direction. --Jamieson.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Wicke \Wick"e\, a.       Wicked. [Obs.] --Piers Plowman. [bd]With full wikke       intent.[b8] --Chaucer.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Wig \Wig\, n. [Abbreviation from periwig.]       1. A covering for the head, consisting of hair interwoven or             united by a kind of network, either in imitation of the             natural growth, or in abundant and flowing curls, worn to             supply a deficiency of natural hair, or for ornament, or             according to traditional usage, as a part of an official             or professional dress, the latter especially in England by             judges and barristers.          2. An old seal; -- so called by fishermen.          {Wig tree}. (Bot.) See {Smoke tree}, under {Smoke}.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Wig \Wig\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Wigged}; p. pr. & vb. n.       {Wigging}.]       To censure or rebuke; to hold up to reprobation; to scold.       [Slang]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Wigg \Wigg\, Wig \Wig\, n. [Cf. D. wegge a sort of bread, G.       weck, orig., a wedge-shaped loaf or cake. See {Wedge}.]       A kind of raised seedcake. [bd]Wiggs and ale.[b8] --Pepys.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Wigg \Wigg\, Wig \Wig\, n. [Cf. D. wegge a sort of bread, G.       weck, orig., a wedge-shaped loaf or cake. See {Wedge}.]       A kind of raised seedcake. [bd]Wiggs and ale.[b8] --Pepys.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Wike \Wike\, n.       A temporary mark or boundary, as a bough of a tree set up in       marking out or dividing anything, as tithes, swaths to be       mowed in common ground, etc.; -- called also {wicker}. [Prov.       Eng.]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Wike \Wike\, n. [AS. wic. See {Wick} a village.]       A home; a dwelling. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Wikke \Wik"ke\, a.       Wicked. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Wis \Wis\, adv. [Aphetic form of iwis, ywis; or fr. Icel. viss       certain. See {Ywis}.]       Certainly; really; indeed. [Obs.] [bd]As wis God helpe       me.[b8] --Chaucer.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Wis \Wis\, v. t. [Due to mistaking OE. iwis certain, AS. gewiss,       for I wis. See {Ywis}.]       To think; to suppose; to imagine; -- used chiefly in the       first person sing. present tense, I wis. See the Note under       {Ywis}. [Obs. or Poetic] [bd]Howe'er you wis.[b8] --R.       Browning.                   Nor do I know how long it is (For I have lain                entranced, I wis).                                 --Coleridge.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Wise \Wise\, a. [Compar. {Wiser}; superl. {Wisest}.] [OE. wis,       AS. w[c6]s; akin to OS. & OFries. w[c6]s, D. wijs, G. weise,       OHG. w[c6]s, w[c6]si, Icel. v[c6]ss, Sw. vis, Dan. viis,       Goth. weis; akin to wit, v. i. See {Wit}, v., and cf.       {Righteous}, {Wisdom}.]       1. Having knowledge; knowing; enlightened; of extensive             information; erudite; learned.                         They are wise to do evil, but to do good they have                      no knowledge.                                    --Jer. iv. 22.          2. Hence, especially, making due use of knowledge; discerning             and judging soundly concerning what is true or false,             proper or improper; choosing the best ends and the best             means for accomplishing them; sagacious.                         When clouds appear, wise men put their cloaks.                                                                               --Shak.                         From a child thou hast known the holy scriptures,                      which are able to make thee wise unto salvation. --2                                                                               Tim. iii. 15.          3. Versed in art or science; skillful; dexterous;             specifically, skilled in divination.                         Fal. There was, mine host, an old fat woman even now                      with me; but she's gone. Sim. Pray you, sir, was't                      not the wise woman of Brentford?         --Shak.          4. Hence, prudent; calculating; shrewd; wary; subtle; crafty.             [R.] [bd]Thou art . . . no novice, but a governor wily and             wise.[b8] --Chaucer.                         Nor, on the other side, Will I be penuriously wise                      As to make money, that's my slave, my idol. --Beau.                                                                               & Fl.                         Lords do not care for me: I am too wise to die yet.                                                                               --Ford.          5. Dictated or guided by wisdom; containing or exhibiting             wisdom; well adapted to produce good effects; judicious;             discreet; as, a wise saying; a wise scheme or plan; wise             conduct or management; a wise determination. [bd]Eminent             in wise deport.[b8] --Milton.          {To make it wise}, to make it a matter of deliberation.             [Obs.] [bd] We thought it was not worth to make it             wise.[b8] --Chaucer.          {Wise in years}, old enough to be wise; wise from age and             experience; hence, aged; old. [Obs.]                         A very grave, state bachelor, my dainty one; He's                      wise in years, and of a temperate warmth. --Ford.                         You are too wise in years, too full of counsel, For                      my green experience.                           --Ford.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Wise \Wise\, a. [OE. wise, AS. w[c6]se; akin to OS. w[c6]sa,       OFries. w[c6]s, D. wijs, wijze, OHG. w[c6]sa, G. weise, Sw.       vis, Dan. viis, Icel. [94][?]ruv[c6]s otherwise; from the       root of E. wit; hence, originally, knowledge, skill. See       {Wit}, v., and cf. {Guise}.]       Way of being or acting; manner; mode; fashion. [bd]All armed       in complete wise.[b8] --Spenser.                   To love her in my beste wyse.                  --Chaucer.                   This song she sings in most commanding wise. --Sir P.                                                                               Sidney.                   Let not these blessings then, sent from above, Abused                be, or spilt in profane wise.                  --Fairfax.          Note: This word is nearly obsolete, except in such phrases as                in any wise, in no wise, on this wise, etc. [bd] Fret                not thyself in any wise to do evil.[b8] --Ps. xxxvii.                8. [bd]He shall in no wise lose his reward.[b8] --Matt.                x. 42. [bd] On this wise ye shall bless the children of                Israel.[b8] --Num. vi. 23.          Note: Wise is often used as a suffix in composition, as in                likewise, nowise, lengthwise, etc., in which words                -ways is often substituted with the same sense; as,                noways, lengthways, etc.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Wish \Wish\, n.       1. Desire; eager desire; longing.                         Behold, I am according to thy wish in God a stead.                                                                               --Job xxxiii.                                                                               6.          2. Expression of desire; request; petition; hence, invocation             or imprecation.                         Blistered be thy tongue for such a wish. --Shak.          3. A thing desired; an object of desire.                         Will he, wise, let loose at once his ire . . . To                      give his enemies their wish!               --Milton.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Wish \Wish\, v. t.       1. To desire; to long for; to hanker after; to have a mind or             disposition toward.                         I would not wish Any companion in the world but you.                                                                               --Shak.                         I wish above all things that thou mayest prosper.                                                                               --3. John 2.          2. To frame or express desires concerning; to invoke in favor             of, or against, any one; to attribute, or cal down, in             desire; to invoke; to imprecate.                         I would not wish them to a fairer death. --Shak.                         I wish it may not prove some ominous foretoken of                      misfortune to have met with such a miser as I am.                                                                               --Sir P.                                                                               Sidney.                         Let them be driven backward, and put to shame, that                      wish me evil.                                    --Ps. xl. 14.          3. To recommend; to seek confidence or favor in behalf of.             [Obs.] --Shak.                         I would be glad to thrive, sir, And I was wished to                      your worship by a gentleman.               --B. Jonson.          Syn: See {Desire}.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Wish \Wish\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Wished}; p. pr. & vb. n.       {Wishing}.] [OE. wischen, weschen, wuschen, AS. w[?]scan;       akin to D. wenschen, G. w[81]nschen, Icel. [91]eskja, Dan.       [94]nske, Sw. [94]nska; from AS. w[?]sc a wish; akin to OD. &       G. wunsch, OHG. wunsc, Icel. [?]sk, Skr. v[be][?]ch[be] a       wish, v[be][?]ch to wish; also to Skr. van to like, to wish.       [?]. See {Winsome}, {Win}, v. t., and cf. {Wistful}.]       1. To have a desire or yearning; to long; to hanker.                         They cast four anchors out of the stern, and wished                      for the day.                                       --Acts xxvii.                                                                               29.                         This is as good an argument as an antiquary could                      wish for.                                          --Arbuthnot.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Wisse \Wis"se\, v. t. [AS. w[c6]sian. See {Wise}, a.]       To show; to teach; to inform; to guide; to direct. [Obs.]                   Ere we depart I shall thee so well wisse That of mine                house ne shalt thou never misse.            --Chaucer.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Wake \Wake\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Waked}or {Woke} ([?]); p. pr.       & vb. n. {Waking}.] [AS. wacan, wacian; akin to OFries. waka,       OS. wak[?]n, D. waken, G. wachen, OHG. wahh[?]n, Icel. vaka,       Sw. vaken, Dan. vaage, Goth. wakan, v. i., uswakjan, v. t.,       Skr. v[be]jay to rouse, to impel. [?][?][?][?]. Cf. {Vigil},       {Wait}, v. i., {Watch}, v. i.]       1. To be or to continue awake; to watch; not to sleep.                         The father waketh for the daughter.   --Ecclus.                                                                               xlii. 9.                         Though wisdom wake, suspicion sleeps. --Milton.                         I can not think any time, waking or sleeping,                      without being sensible of it.            --Locke.          2. To sit up late festive purposes; to hold a night revel.                         The king doth wake to-night, and takes his rouse,                      Keeps wassail, and the swaggering upspring reels.                                                                               --Shak.          3. To be excited or roused from sleep; to awake; to be             awakened; to cease to sleep; -- often with up.                         He infallibly woke up at the sound of the concluding                      doxology.                                          --G. Eliot.          4. To be exited or roused up; to be stirred up from a             dormant, torpid, or inactive state; to be active.                         Gentle airs due at their hour To fan the earth now                      waked.                                                --Milton.                         Then wake, my soul, to high desires.   --Keble.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Woke \Woke\, imp. & p. p.       {Wake}.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Wook \Wook"\ (w[omac]k), obs. imp. of {Wake}.       Woke. --Chaucer.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Woosy \Woos"y\, a.       Oozy; wet. [Obs.] --Drayton.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Wowke \Wowke\, n.       Week. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Wox \Wox\, obs.       imp. of {Wax}. --Gower.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Wye \Wye\, n.; pl. {Wyes}.       1. The letter Y.          2. A kind of crotch. See {Y}, n.             (a) .
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Wyke \Wyke\, n.       Week. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Wys \Wys\, a.       Wise. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
Waco, GA (city, FIPS 79808)       Location: 33.70305 N, 85.18507 W       Population (1990): 461 (216 housing units)       Area: 3.7 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)       Zip code(s): 30182    Waco, MO (town, FIPS 76444)       Location: 37.24627 N, 94.59977 W       Population (1990): 86 (47 housing units)       Area: 0.7 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)    Waco, NC (town, FIPS 70320)       Location: 35.36189 N, 81.42930 W       Population (1990): 320 (137 housing units)       Area: 2.1 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)    Waco, NE (village, FIPS 50895)       Location: 40.89655 N, 97.46123 W       Population (1990): 211 (99 housing units)       Area: 0.5 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)       Zip code(s): 68460    Waco, TX (city, FIPS 76000)       Location: 31.56895 N, 97.18320 W       Population (1990): 103590 (45088 housing units)       Area: 196.3 sq km (land), 29.3 sq km (water)       Zip code(s): 76701, 76706, 76707, 76708, 76710
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
Wake, VA       Zip code(s): 23176
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
Wasco, CA (city, FIPS 83542)       Location: 35.59364 N, 119.34105 W       Population (1990): 12412 (3597 housing units)       Area: 8.3 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)    Wasco, OR (city, FIPS 78950)       Location: 45.59159 N, 120.69574 W       Population (1990): 374 (189 housing units)       Area: 2.5 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)       Zip code(s): 97065
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
Waukee, IA (city, FIPS 82695)       Location: 41.60761 N, 93.86239 W       Population (1990): 2512 (1008 housing units)       Area: 9.0 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)       Zip code(s): 50263
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
Wausa, NE (village, FIPS 51735)       Location: 42.49780 N, 97.53817 W       Population (1990): 598 (298 housing units)       Area: 1.3 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)       Zip code(s): 68786
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
Wausau, FL (town, FIPS 75450)       Location: 30.63248 N, 85.58666 W       Population (1990): 313 (159 housing units)       Area: 2.9 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)    Wausau, WI (city, FIPS 84475)       Location: 44.96170 N, 89.64450 W       Population (1990): 37060 (15318 housing units)       Area: 36.5 sq km (land), 3.2 sq km (water)       Zip code(s): 54401
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
Wawaka, IN       Zip code(s): 46794
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
Wax, KY       Zip code(s): 42726
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
Waxhaw, NC (town, FIPS 71460)       Location: 34.92433 N, 80.74214 W       Population (1990): 1294 (453 housing units)       Area: 2.9 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
Wesco, MO       Zip code(s): 65586
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
Wewoka, OK (city, FIPS 80550)       Location: 35.14417 N, 96.49577 W       Population (1990): 4050 (2010 housing units)       Area: 12.5 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
Weyauwega, WI (city, FIPS 86400)       Location: 44.32266 N, 88.92867 W       Population (1990): 1665 (674 housing units)       Area: 2.9 sq km (land), 0.3 sq km (water)       Zip code(s): 54983
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
Whick, KY       Zip code(s): 41390
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
Wick, WV       Zip code(s): 26185
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
Wise, VA (town, FIPS 87072)       Location: 36.97725 N, 82.58044 W       Population (1990): 3193 (1419 housing units)       Area: 7.9 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)       Zip code(s): 24293
From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]:
whack v.   According to arch-hacker James Gosling (designer of    {NeWS}, {GOSMACS} and Java), to "...modify a program with no idea    whatsoever how it works." (See {whacker}.)   It is actually possible    to do this in nontrivial circumstances if the change is small and    well-defined and you are very good at {glark}ing things from    context.   As a trivial example, it is relatively easy to change all    `stderr' writes to `stdout' writes in a piece of C filter code which    remains otherwise mysterious.
From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]:
whizzy adj.   (alt. `wizzy') [Sun] Describes a {cuspy} program;    one that is feature-rich and well presented.
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
W2K          {Windows 2000}
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
W3C          {World Wide Web Consortium}
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
wacco          A {BNF}-based LL(?) {parser generator}.          Posted to comp.sources.misc.
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
WAIS          {Wide Area Information Servers}
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
WaZOO          Warp-zillion Opus-to-Opus.   {Fidonet}'s       {session layer} {protocol}.   Although it mentions {Opus} (a       specific {BBS} from the 1980s), WaZOO is the session protocol       used for the Fidonet network.   Because WaZOO is much more       efficient than other mechanisms (e.g., {FTP}), it is sometimes       used for automated or batch communications in other parts of       the {Internet}.          {(ftp://ftp.psg.com/pub/fidonet/stds/fts-0006.txt)}.          (1995-11-16)
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
WG          {Working Group}
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
whack          According to arch-hacker James Gosling, to "...modify a       program with no idea whatsoever how it works." (See       {whacker}.)   It is actually possible to do this in nontrivial       circumstances if the change is small and well-defined and you       are very good at {glark}ing things from context.   As a trivial       example, it is relatively easy to change all "stderr" writes       to "stdout" writes in a piece of C filter code which remains       otherwise mysterious.          [{Jargon File}]
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
whois          An {Internet} directory service for looking up names of people       on a remote server.   Many servers respond to {TCP} queries on       {port} 43, in a manner roughly analogous to the {DDN} {NIC}       whois service described in {RFC} 954.   Other sites provide       this directory service via the {finger} {protocol} or accept       queries by {electronic mail} for directory information.   On       {Unix} the client command is          whois -h server_name person_name          You can also type "telnet server_name 43" and then type the       person's name on a separate line.   For a list of whois       servers, FTP/Gopher: sipb.mit.edu.   Or          whois -h sipb.mit.edu whois-servers          As the above command demonstrates, whois can find information       about things other than users, e.g. domains, networks and       hosts.          See also {finger}, {X.500}, {white pages}.
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
wk1          (worksheet) The {filename extension} used       by early versions of the {Lotus 1-2-3} {spreadsheet} program       including release 2.01 (1987).   All files created by the user       are given this extension.          (1995-11-28)
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
WOSA          {Windows Open Services Architecture}
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
ws          The {country code} for Samoa.          (1999-01-27)
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:
Wax       Made by melting the combs of bees. Mentioned (Ps. 22:14; 68:2;       97:5; Micah 1:4) in illustration.
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:
Week       From the beginning, time was divided into weeks, each consisting       of six days of working and one of rest (Gen. 2:2, 3; 7:10; 8:10,       12; 29:28). The references to this division of days becomes       afterwards more frequent (Ex. 34:22; Lev. 12:5; Num. 28:26;       Deut. 16:16; 2 Chr. 8:13; Jer. 5:24; Dan. 9:24-27; 10:2, 3). It       has been found to exist among almost all nations.