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   wall painting
         n 1: a painting that is applied to a wall surface [syn: {mural},
               {wall painting}]

English Dictionary: wellbeing by the DICT Development Group
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
wall panel
n
  1. paneling that forms part of a wall
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
walloping
adj
  1. (used informally) very large; "a thumping loss" [syn: humongous, banging, thumping, whopping, walloping]
n
  1. a sound defeat [syn: thrashing, walloping, debacle, drubbing, slaughter, trouncing, whipping]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
well point
n
  1. a perforated tube driven into the ground to collect water from the surrounding area
    Synonym(s): well point, wellpoint
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
well-appointed
adj
  1. having a full array of suitable equipment or furnishings; "a well-appointed kitchen"; "a well-appointed apartment"
    Synonym(s): well-appointed, well-found
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
well-being
n
  1. a contented state of being happy and healthy and prosperous; "the town was finally on the upbeat after our recent troubles"
    Synonym(s): wellbeing, well-being, welfare, upbeat, eudaemonia, eudaimonia
    Antonym(s): ill-being
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
well-bound
adj
  1. (of books) having a sturdy and attractive binding
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
well-found
adj
  1. having a full array of suitable equipment or furnishings; "a well-appointed kitchen"; "a well-appointed apartment"
    Synonym(s): well-appointed, well-found
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
well-founded
adj
  1. based on sound reasoning or evidence; "well-founded suspicions"
    Synonym(s): tenable, well-founded
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
wellbeing
n
  1. a contented state of being happy and healthy and prosperous; "the town was finally on the upbeat after our recent troubles"
    Synonym(s): wellbeing, well-being, welfare, upbeat, eudaemonia, eudaimonia
    Antonym(s): ill-being
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
wellpoint
n
  1. a perforated tube driven into the ground to collect water from the surrounding area
    Synonym(s): well point, wellpoint
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
whalebone
n
  1. a horny material from the upper jaws of certain whales; used as the ribs of fans or as stays in corsets
    Synonym(s): whalebone, baleen
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
whalebone whale
n
  1. whale with plates of whalebone along the upper jaw for filtering plankton from the water
    Synonym(s): baleen whale, whalebone whale
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
willow family
n
  1. two genera of trees or shrubs having hairy catkins: Salix; Populus
    Synonym(s): Salicaceae, family Salicaceae, willow family
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
wolf bean
n
  1. white-flowered Eurasian herb widely cultivated for forage and erosion control
    Synonym(s): white lupine, field lupine, wolf bean, Egyptian lupine, Lupinus albus
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
wolfbane
n
  1. poisonous Eurasian perennial herb with broad rounded leaves and yellow flowers and fibrous rootstock
    Synonym(s): wolfsbane, wolfbane, wolf's bane, Aconitum lycoctonum
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
wolfhound
n
  1. the largest breed of dogs; formerly used to hunt wolves
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
wolfman
n
  1. a monster able to change appearance from human to wolf and back again
    Synonym(s): werewolf, wolfman, lycanthrope, loup-garou
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
wulfenite
n
  1. a yellow to orange or brown mineral used as a molybdenum ore
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Wall \Wall\, n. [AS. weall, from L. vallum a wall, vallus a
      stake, pale, palisade; akin to Gr. [?] a nail. Cf.
      {Interval}.]
      1. A work or structure of stone, brick, or other materials,
            raised to some height, and intended for defense or
            security, solid and permanent inclosing fence, as around a
            field, a park, a town, etc., also, one of the upright
            inclosing parts of a building or a room.
  
                     The plaster of the wall of the King's palace. --Dan.
                                                                              v. 5.
  
      2. A defense; a rampart; a means of protection; in the
            plural, fortifications, in general; works for defense.
  
                     The waters were a wall unto them on their right
                     hand, and on their left.                     --Ex. xiv. 22.
  
                     In such a night, Troilus, methinks, mounted the
                     Troyan walls.                                    --Shak.
  
                     To rush undaunted to defend the walls. --Dryden.
  
      3. An inclosing part of a receptacle or vessel; as, the walls
            of a steam-engine cylinder.
  
      4. (Mining)
            (a) The side of a level or drift.
            (b) The country rock bounding a vein laterally. --Raymond.
  
      Note: Wall is often used adjectively, and also in the
               formation of compounds, usually of obvious
               signification; as in wall paper, or wall-paper; wall
               fruit, or wall-fruit; wallflower, etc.
  
      {Blank wall}, Blind wall, etc. See under {Blank}, {Blind},
            etc.
  
      {To drive to the wall}, to bring to extremities; to push to
            extremes; to get the advantage of, or mastery over.
  
      {To go to the wall}, to be hard pressed or driven; to be the
            weaker party; to be pushed to extremes.
  
      {To take the wall}. to take the inner side of a walk, that
            is, the side next the wall; hence, to take the precedence.
            [bd]I will take the wall of any man or maid of
            Montague's.[b8] --Shak.
  
      {Wall barley} (Bot.), a kind of grass ({Hordeum murinum})
            much resembling barley; squirrel grass. See under
            {Squirrel}.
  
      {Wall box}. (Mach.) See {Wall frame}, below.
  
      {Wall creeper} (Zo[94]l.), a small bright-colored bird
            ({Tichodroma muraria}) native of Asia and Southern Europe.
            It climbs about over old walls and cliffs in search of
            insects and spiders. Its body is ash-gray above, the wing
            coverts are carmine-red, the primary quills are mostly red
            at the base and black distally, some of them with white
            spots, and the tail is blackish. Called also {spider
            catcher}.
  
      {Wall cress} (Bot.), a name given to several low cruciferous
            herbs, especially to the mouse-ear cress. See under
            {Mouse-ear}.
  
      {Wall frame} (Mach.), a frame set in a wall to receive a
            pillow block or bearing for a shaft passing through the
            wall; -- called also {wall box}.
  
      {Wall fruit}, fruit borne by trees trained against a wall.
  
      {Wall gecko} (Zo[94]l.), any one of several species of Old
            World geckos which live in or about buildings and run over
            the vertical surfaces of walls, to which they cling by
            means of suckers on the feet.
  
      {Wall lizard} (Zo[94]l.), a common European lizard ({Lacerta
            muralis}) which frequents houses, and lives in the chinks
            and crevices of walls; -- called also {wall newt}.
  
      {Wall louse}, a wood louse.
  
      {Wall moss} (Bot.), any species of moss growing on walls.
  
      {Wall newt} (Zo[94]l.), the wall lizard. --Shak.
  
      {Wall paper}, paper for covering the walls of rooms; paper
            hangings.
  
      {Wall pellitory} (Bot.), a European plant ({Parictaria
            officinalis}) growing on old walls, and formerly esteemed
            medicinal.
  
      {Wall pennywort} (Bot.), a plant ({Cotyledon Umbilicus})
            having rounded fleshy leaves. It is found on walls in
            Western Europe.
  
      {Wall pepper} (Bot.), a low mosslike plant ({Sedum acre})
            with small fleshy leaves having a pungent taste and
            bearing yellow flowers. It is common on walls and rocks in
            Europe, and is sometimes seen in America.
  
      {Wall pie} (Bot.), a kind of fern; wall rue.
  
      {Wall piece}, a gun planted on a wall. --H. L. Scott.
  
      {Wall plate} (Arch.), a piece of timber placed horizontally
            upon a wall, and supporting posts, joists, and the like.
            See Illust. of {Roof}.
  
      {Wall rock}, granular limestone used in building walls. [U.
            S.] --Bartlett.
  
      {Wall rue} (Bot.), a species of small fern ({Asplenium
            Ruta-muraria}) growing on walls, rocks, and the like.
  
      {Wall spring}, a spring of water issuing from stratified
            rocks.
  
      {Wall tent}, a tent with upright cloth sides corresponding to
            the walls of a house.
  
      {Wall wasp} (Zo[94]l.), a common European solitary wasp
            ({Odynerus parietus}) which makes its nest in the crevices
            of walls.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Wallop \Wal"lop\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Walloped}; p. pr. & vb.
      n. {Walloping}.] [Probably fr. AS. weallan to spring up, to
      boil or bubble. [root]147. See {Well}, n. & v. i.]
      1. To boil with a continued bubbling or heaving and rolling,
            with noise. [Prov. Eng.] --Brockett.
  
      2. To move in a rolling, cumbersome manner; to waddle. [Prov.
            Eng.] --Halliwell.
  
      3. To be slatternly. [Prov. Eng.] --Halliwell.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Well-being \Well"-be`ing\, n.
      The state or condition of being well; welfare; happiness;
      prosperity; as, virtue is essential to the well-being of men
      or of society.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
  
  
      Note: The existing whales are divided into two groups: the
               toothed whales ({Odontocete}), including those that
               have teeth, as the cachalot, or sperm whale (see {Sperm
               whale}); and the baleen, or whalebone, whales
               ({Mysticete}), comprising those that are destitute of
               teeth, but have plates of baleen hanging from the upper
               jaw, as the right whales. The most important species of
               whalebone whales are the bowhead, or Greenland, whale
               (see Illust. of {Right whale}), the Biscay whale, the
               Antarctic whale, the gray whale (see under {Gray}), the
               humpback, the finback, and the rorqual.
  
      {Whale bird}. (Zo[94]l.)
      (a) Any one of several species of large Antarctic petrels
            which follow whaling vessels, to feed on the blubber and
            floating oil; especially, {Prion turtur} (called also
            {blue petrel}), and {Pseudoprion desolatus}.
      (b) The turnstone; -- so called because it lives on the
            carcasses of whales. [Canada]
  
      {Whale fin} (Com.), whalebone. --Simmonds.
  
      {Whale fishery}, the fishing for, or occupation of taking,
            whales.
  
      {Whale louse} (Zo[94]l.), any one of several species of
            degraded amphipod crustaceans belonging to the genus
            {Cyamus}, especially {C. ceti}. They are parasitic on
            various cetaceans.
  
      {Whale's bone}, ivory. [Obs.]
  
      {Whale shark}. (Zo[94]l.)
      (a) The basking, or liver, shark.
      (b) A very large harmless shark ({Rhinodon typicus}) native
            of the Indian Ocean. It sometimes becomes sixty feet
            long.
  
      {Whale shot}, the name formerly given to spermaceti.
  
      {Whale's tongue} (Zo[94]l.), a balanoglossus.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Whalebone \Whale"bone`\, n.
      A firm, elastic substance resembling horn, taken from the
      upper jaw of the right whale; baleen. It is used as a
      stiffening in stays, fans, screens, and for various other
      purposes. See {Baleen}.
  
      Note: Whalebone is chiefly obtained from the bowhead, or
               Greenland, whale, the Biscay whale, and the Antarctic,
               or southern, whale. It is prepared for manufacture by
               being softened by boiling, and dyed black.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Wheelband \Wheel"band`\, n.
      The tire of a wheel.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Whelp \Whelp\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Whelped}; p. pr. & vb. n.
      {Whelping}.]
      To bring forth young; -- said of the female of the dog and
      some beasts of prey.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Wolf \Wolf\, n.; pl. {Wolves}. [OE. wolf, wulf, AS. wulf; akin
      to OS. wulf, D. & G. wolf, Icel. [umac]lfr, Sw. ulf, Dan.
      ulv, Goth. wulfs, Lith. vilkas, Russ. volk', L. lupus, Gr.
      ly`kos, Skr. v[rsdot]ka; also to Gr. "e`lkein to draw, drag,
      tear in pieces. [root]286. Cf. {Lupine}, a., {Lyceum}.]
      1. (Zo[94]l.) Any one of several species of wild and savage
            carnivores belonging to the genus {Canis} and closely
            allied to the common dog. The best-known and most
            destructive species are the European wolf ({Canis lupus}),
            the American gray, or timber, wolf ({C. occidentalis}),
            and the prairie wolf, or coyote. Wolves often hunt in
            packs, and may thus attack large animals and even man.
  
      2. (Zo[94]l.) One of the destructive, and usually hairy,
            larv[91] of several species of beetles and grain moths;
            as, the bee wolf.
  
      3. Fig.: Any very ravenous, rapacious, or destructive person
            or thing; especially, want; starvation; as, they toiled
            hard to keep the wolf from the door.
  
      4. A white worm, or maggot, which infests granaries.
  
      5. An eating ulcer or sore. Cf. {Lupus}. [Obs.]
  
                     If God should send a cancer upon thy face, or a wolf
                     into thy side.                                    --Jer. Taylor.
  
      6. (Mus.)
            (a) The harsh, howling sound of some of the chords on an
                  organ or piano tuned by unequal temperament.
            (b) In bowed instruments, a harshness due to defective
                  vibration in certain notes of the scale.
  
      7. (Textile Manuf.) A willying machine. --Knight.
  
      {Black wolf}. (Zo[94]l.)
            (a) A black variety of the European wolf which is common
                  in the Pyrenees.
            (b) A black variety of the American gray wolf.
  
      {Golden wolf} (Zo[94]l.), the Thibetan wolf ({Canis
            laniger}); -- called also {chanco}.
  
      {Indian wolf} (Zo[94]l.), an Asiatic wolf ({Canis pallipes})
            which somewhat resembles a jackal. Called also {landgak}.
           
  
      {Prairie wolf} (Zo[94]l.), the coyote.
  
      {Sea wolf}. (Zo[94]l.) See in the Vocabulary.
  
      {Strand wolf} (Zo[94]l.) the striped hyena.
  
      {Tasmanian wolf} (Zo[94]l.), the zebra wolf.
  
      {Tiger wolf} (Zo[94]l.), the spotted hyena.
  
      {To keep the wolf from the door}, to keep away poverty; to
            prevent starvation. See {Wolf}, 3, above. --Tennyson.
  
      {Wolf dog}. (Zo[94]l.)
            (a) The mastiff, or shepherd dog, of the Pyrenees,
                  supposed by some authors to be one of the ancestors of
                  the St. Bernard dog.
            (b) The Irish greyhound, supposed to have been used
                  formerly by the Danes for chasing wolves.
            (c) A dog bred between a dog and a wolf, as the Eskimo
                  dog.
  
      {Wolf eel} (Zo[94]l.), a wolf fish.
  
      {Wolf fish} (Zo[94]l.), any one of several species of large,
            voracious marine fishes of the genus {Anarrhichas},
            especially the common species ({A. lupus}) of Europe and
            North America. These fishes have large teeth and powerful
            jaws. Called also {catfish}, {sea cat}, {sea wolf}, {stone
            biter}, and {swinefish}.
  
      {Wolf net}, a kind of net used in fishing, which takes great
            numbers of fish.
  
      {Wolf's peach} (Bot.), the tomato, or love apple
            ({Lycopersicum esculentum}).
  
      {Wolf spider} (Zo[94]l.), any one of numerous species of
            running ground spiders belonging to the genus {Lycosa}, or
            family {Lycosid[91]}. These spiders run about rapidly in
            search of their prey. Most of them are plain brown or
            blackish in color. See Illust. in App.
  
      {Zebra wolf} (Zo[94]l.), a savage carnivorous marsupial
            ({Thylacinus cynocephalus}) native of Tasmania; -- called
            also {Tasmanian wolf}.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Wolffian \Wolff"i*an\, a. (Anat.)
      Discovered, or first described, by Caspar Friedrich Wolff
      (1733-1794), the founder of modern embryology.
  
      {Wolffian body}, the mesonephros.
  
      {Wolffian duct}, the duct from the Wolffian body.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Wolffian \Wolff"i*an\, a. (Anat.)
      Discovered, or first described, by Caspar Friedrich Wolff
      (1733-1794), the founder of modern embryology.
  
      {Wolffian body}, the mesonephros.
  
      {Wolffian duct}, the duct from the Wolffian body.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Wolffian \Wolff"i*an\, a. (Anat.)
      Discovered, or first described, by Caspar Friedrich Wolff
      (1733-1794), the founder of modern embryology.
  
      {Wolffian body}, the mesonephros.
  
      {Wolffian duct}, the duct from the Wolffian body.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Wolfhound \Wolf"hound`\, n. (Zo[94]l.)
      Originally, a large hound used in hunting wolves; now, any
      one of certain breeds of large dogs, some of which are nearly
      identical with the great Danes.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Wulfenite \Wul"fen*ite\, n. [So named after F. X. Wulfen, an
      Australian mineralogist.] (Min.)
      Native lead molybdate occurring in tetragonal crystals,
      usually tabular, and of a bright orange-yellow to red, gray,
      or brown color; -- also called {yellow lead ore}.

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   Wellpinit, WA
      Zip code(s): 99040

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   Wilpen, PA
      Zip code(s): 15658

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   Wolf Point, MT (city, FIPS 81475)
      Location: 48.09254 N, 105.64054 W
      Population (1990): 2880 (1236 housing units)
      Area: 2.3 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
      Zip code(s): 59201
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