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   wavering
         adj 1: uncertain in purpose or action [syn: {vacillant},
                  {vacillating}, {wavering}]
         n 1: indecision in speech or action [syn: {hesitation},
               {vacillation}, {wavering}]
         2: the quality of being unsteady and subject to changes; "he
            kept a record of price fluctuations" [syn: {fluctuation},
            {wavering}]

English Dictionary: wayfaring by the DICT Development Group
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
wayfaring
adj
  1. traveling especially on foot; "peripatetic country preachers"; "a poor wayfaring stranger"
    Synonym(s): peripatetic, wayfaring
n
  1. traveling (especially on foot)
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
wayfaring tree
n
  1. vigorous deciduous European treelike shrub common along waysides; red berries turn black
    Synonym(s): wayfaring tree, twist wood, twistwood, Viburnum lantana
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
webworm
n
  1. several gregarious moth larvae that spin webs over foliage on which they feed
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
webworm moth
n
  1. a variety of moth that spins a web in which it lives
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
whip-round
n
  1. (British) solicitation of money usually for a benevolent purpose
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
whipper-in
n
  1. huntsman's assistant in managing the hounds
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
wiper motor
n
  1. electric motor that moves the windshield wiper
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
wivern
n
  1. a fire-breathing dragon used in medieval heraldry; had the head of a dragon and the tail of a snake and a body with wings and two legs
    Synonym(s): wyvern, wivern
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
wyvern
n
  1. a fire-breathing dragon used in medieval heraldry; had the head of a dragon and the tail of a snake and a body with wings and two legs
    Synonym(s): wyvern, wivern
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
  
  
      {Wafer cake}, a sweet, thin cake. --Shak.
  
      {Wafer irons}, [or] {Wafer tongs} (Cookery), a pincher-shaped
            contrivance, having flat plates, or blades, between which
            wafers are baked.
  
      {Wafer woman}, a woman who sold wafer cakes; also, one
            employed in amorous intrigues. --Beau. & Fl.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Wafer \Wa"fer\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Wafered}; p. pr. & vb. n.
      {Wafering}.]
      To seal or close with a wafer.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Waver \Wa"ver\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Wavered}; p. pr. & vb. n.
      {Wavering}.] [OE. waveren, from AS. w[91]fre wavering,
      restless. See {Wave}, v. i.]
      1. To play or move to and fro; to move one way and the other;
            hence, to totter; to reel; to swing; to flutter.
  
                     With banners and pennons wavering with the wind.
                                                                              --Ld. Berners.
  
                     Thou wouldst waver on one of these trees as a terror
                     to all evil speakers against dignities. --Sir W.
                                                                              Scott.
  
      2. To be unsettled in opinion; to vacillate; to be
            undetermined; to fluctuate; as, to water in judgment.
  
                     Let us hold fast . . . without wavering. --Heb. x.
                                                                              23.
  
                     In feeble hearts, propense enough before To waver,
                     or fall off and join with idols.         --Milton.
  
      Syn: To reel; totter; vacillate. See {Fluctuate}.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Waveringly \Wa"ver*ing*ly\, adv.
      In a wavering manner.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Waveringness \Wa"ver*ing*ness\, n.
      The quality or state of wavering.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Waveworn \Wave"*worn`\, a.
      Worn by the waves.
  
               The shore that o'er his wave-worn basis bowed. --Shak.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Wayfaring \Way"far`ing\, a.
      Traveling; passing; being on a journey. [bd]A wayfaring
      man.[b8] --Judg. xix. 17.
  
      {Wayfaring tree} (Bot.), a European shrub ({Viburnum
            lantana}) having large ovate leaves and dense cymes of
            small white flowers.
  
      {American wayfaring tree} (Bot.), the ({Viburnum
            lantanoides}).

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Wayfaring \Way"far`ing\, a.
      Traveling; passing; being on a journey. [bd]A wayfaring
      man.[b8] --Judg. xix. 17.
  
      {Wayfaring tree} (Bot.), a European shrub ({Viburnum
            lantana}) having large ovate leaves and dense cymes of
            small white flowers.
  
      {American wayfaring tree} (Bot.), the ({Viburnum
            lantanoides}).

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Webform \Web"form`\, n. (Zo[94]l.)
      Any one of various species of moths whose gregarious larv[91]
      eat the leaves of trees, and construct a large web to which
      they retreat when not feeding.
  
      Note: The most destructive webworms belong to the family
               {Bombycid[91]}, as the fall webworm ({Hyphantria
               textor}), which feeds on various fruit and forest
               trees, and the common tent caterpillar, which feeds on
               various fruit trees (see {Tent caterpillar}, under
               {Tent}.) The grapevine webworm is the larva of a
               geometrid moth (see {Vine inchworm}, under {Vine}).

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Tent \Tent\, n. [OE. tente, F. tente, LL. tenta, fr. L. tendere,
      tentum, to stretch. See {Tend} to move, and cf. {Tent} a roll
      of lint.]
      1. A pavilion or portable lodge consisting of skins, canvas,
            or some strong cloth, stretched and sustained by poles, --
            used for sheltering persons from the weather, especially
            soldiers in camp.
  
                     Within his tent, large as is a barn.   --Chaucer.
  
      2. (Her.) The representation of a tent used as a bearing.
  
      {Tent bed}, a high-post bedstead curtained with a tentlike
            canopy.
  
      {Tent caterpillar} (Zo[94]l.), any one of several species of
            gregarious caterpillars which construct on trees large
            silken webs into which they retreat when at rest. Some of
            the species are very destructive to fruit trees. The most
            common American species is the larva of a bombycid moth
            ({Clisiocampa Americana}). Called also {lackery
            caterpillar}, and {webworm}.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Whipperin \Whip"per*in`\, n.
      1. A huntsman who keeps the hounds from wandering, and whips
            them in, if necessary, to the of chase.
  
      2. Hence, one who enforces the discipline of a party, and
            urges the attendance and support of the members on all
            necessary occasions.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Whipworm \Whip"worm`\, n. [So called from its shape.] (Zo[94]l.)
      A nematode worm ({Trichocephalus dispar}) often found
      parasitic in the human intestine. Its body is thickened
      posteriorly, but is very long and threadlike anteriorly.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Wiver \Wiv"er\, Wivern \Wiv"ern\, n. [OE. wivere a serpent, OF.
      wivre, guivre, F. givre, guivre, wiver, from L. vipera;
      probably influenced by OHG. wipera, from the Latin. See
      {Viper}, and cf. {Weever}.]
      1. (Her.) A fabulous two-legged, winged creature, like a
            cockatrice, but having the head of a dragon, and without
            spurs. [Written also {wyvern}.]
  
                     The jargon of heraldry, its griffins, its mold
                     warps, its wiverns, and its dragons.   --Sir W.
                                                                              Scott.
  
      2. (Zo[94]l.) The weever.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Wiver \Wiv"er\, Wivern \Wiv"ern\, n. [OE. wivere a serpent, OF.
      wivre, guivre, F. givre, guivre, wiver, from L. vipera;
      probably influenced by OHG. wipera, from the Latin. See
      {Viper}, and cf. {Weever}.]
      1. (Her.) A fabulous two-legged, winged creature, like a
            cockatrice, but having the head of a dragon, and without
            spurs. [Written also {wyvern}.]
  
                     The jargon of heraldry, its griffins, its mold
                     warps, its wiverns, and its dragons.   --Sir W.
                                                                              Scott.
  
      2. (Zo[94]l.) The weever.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Wyvern \Wy"vern\, n. (Her.)
      Same as {Wiver}.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Wiver \Wiv"er\, Wivern \Wiv"ern\, n. [OE. wivere a serpent, OF.
      wivre, guivre, F. givre, guivre, wiver, from L. vipera;
      probably influenced by OHG. wipera, from the Latin. See
      {Viper}, and cf. {Weever}.]
      1. (Her.) A fabulous two-legged, winged creature, like a
            cockatrice, but having the head of a dragon, and without
            spurs. [Written also {wyvern}.]
  
                     The jargon of heraldry, its griffins, its mold
                     warps, its wiverns, and its dragons.   --Sir W.
                                                                              Scott.
  
      2. (Zo[94]l.) The weever.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Wyvern \Wy"vern\, n. (Her.)
      Same as {Wiver}.

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   Woburn, MA (city, FIPS 81035)
      Location: 42.48553 N, 71.15524 W
      Population (1990): 35943 (14105 housing units)
      Area: 32.8 sq km (land), 0.6 sq km (water)
      Zip code(s): 01801

From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]:
   web ring n.   Two or more web sites connected by prominent
   links between sites sharing a common interest or theme.   Usually
   such cliques have the topology of a ring, in order to make it easy
   for visitors to navigate through all of them.
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
   WAP Forum
  
      The official body developing {Wireless Application
      Protocol}.
  
      {Home (http://www.wapforum.org/)}.
  
      (2000-02-10)
  
  
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