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   Wabash
         n 1: a tributary of the Ohio River that rises in western Ohio
               and flows southwestward across Indiana [syn: {Wabash},
               {Wabash River}]

English Dictionary: WBC by the DICT Development Group
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
WBC
n
  1. blood cells that engulf and digest bacteria and fungi; an important part of the body's defense system
    Synonym(s): leukocyte, leucocyte, white blood cell, white cell, white blood corpuscle, white corpuscle, WBC
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
WbS
n
  1. the compass point that is one point south of due west [syn: west by south, WbS]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
web page
n
  1. a document connected to the World Wide Web and viewable by anyone connected to the internet who has a web browser
    Synonym(s): web page, webpage
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
webpage
n
  1. a document connected to the World Wide Web and viewable by anyone connected to the internet who has a web browser
    Synonym(s): web page, webpage
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
whipsaw
n
  1. a saw with handles at both ends; intended for use by two people
    Synonym(s): two-handed saw, whipsaw, two-man saw, lumberman's saw
v
  1. victimize, especially in gambling or negotiations
  2. saw with a whipsaw
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Wheyface \Whey"face`\, n.
      One who is pale, as from fear.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Whipsaw \Whip"saw`\, n.
      A saw for dividing timber lengthwise, usually set in a frame,
      and worked by two persons; also, a fret saw.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Whipsaw \Whip"saw`\, n.
      A kind of narrow ripsaw, tapering from butt to point, with
      hook teeth and averaging from 5 to 7[frac12] feet in length,
      used by one or two men.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Whipsaw \Whip"saw`\, v. t.
      1. To saw with the whipsaw.
  
      2. To defeat in, or cause to lose, two different bets at the
            same turn or in one play, as a player at faro who has made
            two bets at the same time, one that a card will lose and
            another that a different card will win; hence, to defeat
            in spite of every effort.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Wife \Wife\, n.; pl. {Wives}. [OE. wif, AS. wif; akin to OFries.
      & OS. wif, D. wijf, G. weib, OHG. w[c6]b, Icel. v[c6]f, Dan.
      viv; and perhaps to Skr. vip excited, agitated, inspired, vip
      to tremble, L. vibrare to vibrate, E. vibrate. Cf. Tacitus,
      [[bd] Germania[b8] 8]: Inesse quin etiam sanctum aliquid et
      providum putant, nec aut consilia earum aspernantur aut
      responsa neglegunt. Cf. {Hussy} a jade, {Woman}.]
      1. A woman; an adult female; -- now used in literature only
            in certain compounds and phrases, as alewife, fishwife,
            goodwife, and the like. [bd] Both men and wives.[b8]
            --Piers Plowman.
  
                     On the green he saw sitting a wife.   --Chaucer.
  
      2. The lawful consort of a man; a woman who is united to a
            man in wedlock; a woman who has a husband; a married
            woman; -- correlative of husband. [bd] The husband of one
            wife.[b8] --1 Tin. iii. 2.
  
                     Let every one you . . . so love his wife even as
                     himself, and the wife see that she reverence her
                     husband.                                             --Eph. v. 33.
  
      {To give to wife}, {To take to wife}, to give or take (a
            woman) in marriage.
  
      {Wife's equity} (Law), the equitable right or claim of a
            married woman to a reasonable and adequate provision, by
            way of settlement or otherwise, out of her choses in
            action, or out of any property of hers which is under the
            jurisdiction of the Court of Chancery, for the support of
            herself and her children. --Burrill.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Wives \Wives\, n.,
      pl. of {Wife}.

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   Wabash, IN (city, FIPS 79370)
      Location: 40.79922 N, 85.82525 W
      Population (1990): 12127 (4944 housing units)
      Area: 13.8 sq km (land), 0.3 sq km (water)
      Zip code(s): 46992

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   Wabasha, MN (city, FIPS 67378)
      Location: 44.37148 N, 92.04505 W
      Population (1990): 2384 (1024 housing units)
      Area: 21.3 sq km (land), 2.9 sq km (water)
      Zip code(s): 55981

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   Wabasso, FL (CDP, FIPS 74625)
      Location: 27.75050 N, 80.43773 W
      Population (1990): 1145 (812 housing units)
      Area: 6.7 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
   Wabasso, MN (city, FIPS 67396)
      Location: 44.40263 N, 95.25503 W
      Population (1990): 684 (287 housing units)
      Area: 2.0 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
      Zip code(s): 56293

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   Waubeka, WI
      Zip code(s): 53021

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   Waupaca, WI (city, FIPS 84375)
      Location: 44.35465 N, 89.07546 W
      Population (1990): 4957 (2190 housing units)
      Area: 13.5 sq km (land), 0.4 sq km (water)
      Zip code(s): 54981

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   Wibaux, MT (town, FIPS 80350)
      Location: 46.98698 N, 104.18936 W
      Population (1990): 628 (316 housing units)
      Area: 2.8 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
      Zip code(s): 59353

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
   WBS
  
      {Work Breakdown Structure}
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
   web page
  
      A block of data available on the {World-Wide
      Web}, identified by a {URL}.   In the simplest, most common
      case, a web page is a file written in {HTML}, stored on the
      {server}.   It may refer to {images} which appear as part of
      the page when it is displayed by a {web browser}.   It is also
      possible for the server to generate pages dynamically in
      response to a request, e.g. using a {CGI} script.
  
      A web page can be in any format that the browser or a {helper
      application} can display.   The format is transmitted as part
      of the headers of the response as a {MIME} type,
      e.g. "text/html", "image/gif".
  
      An HTML web page will typically refer to other web pages and
      {Internet} resources by including {hypertext} links.
  
      A {web site} often has a {home page} (usually just the
      hostname, e.g. http://www.foldoc.org/).   It may also have
      individual home pages for each user with an account at the
      site.
  
      (1999-03-21)
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
   web2c
  
      A utility by Karl Berry to
      translate {WEB} to {C}.
  
      Current version: 5-851d.
  
      {FTP UCI (ftp://ics.uci.edu/TeX/web2c.tar.Z)}.   {FTP Gernamy
      (ftp://ftp.th-darmstadt.de/pub/tex/src/web2c/web2c.tar.Z)}.
  
      (1996-05-10)
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
   WFWG
  
      {Windows for Workgroups}
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
   WPG
  
      {Workstation Products Group}
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
   wps
  
      (Obsolete) Words per second (mostly used for {Telex}
      and {TWX} transmission).
  
      (1997-01-07)
  
  
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