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wage freeze
n 1: a freeze of wages at a given level

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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
wake board n a buoyant board (resembling a surfboard) that is used to ride over water while being pulled behind a motorboat Synonym(s): wake board, wakeboard
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
wakeboard n a buoyant board (resembling a surfboard) that is used to ride over water while being pulled behind a motorboat Synonym(s): wake board, wakeboard
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washboard n device consisting of a corrugated surface to scrub clothes on protective covering consisting of a broad plank along a gunwale to keep water from splashing over the side Synonym(s): washboard, splashboard
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waxberry n deciduous shrub of western North America having spikes of pink flowers followed by round white berries Synonym(s): snowberry, common snowberry, waxberry, Symphoricarpos alba deciduous aromatic shrub of eastern North America with grey- green wax-coated berries Synonym(s): bayberry, candleberry, swamp candleberry, waxberry, Myrica pensylvanica
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
weak force n (physics) an interaction between elementary particles involving neutrinos or antineutrinos that is responsible for certain kinds of radioactive decay; mediated by intermediate vector bosons Synonym(s): weak interaction, weak force
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weak part n a place of especial vulnerability [syn: weak part, {weak spot}, soft spot] Antonym(s): good part
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week from Monday n a time period of a week or more; "a week from Monday will be too soon!"
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weighbridge n platform scale flush with a roadway for weighing vehicles and cattle etc
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Weissbier n a general name for beers made from wheat by top fermentation; usually very pale and cloudy and effervescent Synonym(s): Weissbier, white beer, wheat beer
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Whig Party n a former political party in the United States; formed in 1834 in opposition to the Democratic Party; advocated a loose interpretation of the Constitution and high protective tariffs
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whisk broom n a small short-handled broom used to brush clothes [syn: whisk, whisk broom]
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whisk fern n chiefly tropical clump-forming plants of skeletal appearance resembling whisk brooms; lacking roots
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
whisper n speaking softly without vibration of the vocal cords [syn: whisper, whispering, susurration, voicelessness] a light noise, like the noise of silk clothing or leaves blowing in the wind Synonym(s): rustle, rustling, whisper, whispering v speak softly; in a low voice Antonym(s): shout
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
whispered adj spoken in soft hushed tones without vibrations of the vocal cords; "a long whispered conversation"
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
whisperer n one who speaks in a whisper
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
whispering adj making a low continuous indistinct sound; "like murmuring waves"; "susurrant voices" Synonym(s): murmuring, susurrant, whispering n a light noise, like the noise of silk clothing or leaves blowing in the wind Synonym(s): rustle, rustling, whisper, whispering speaking softly without vibration of the vocal cords Synonym(s): whisper, whispering, susurration, voicelessness
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
whispering bells n viscid herb of arid or desert habitats of southwestern United States having pendulous yellow flowers Synonym(s): yellow bells, California yellow bells, whispering bells, Emmanthe penduliflora
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
whispering campaign n the organized dissemination of derogatory rumors designed to discredit a candidate
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
whispering dome n a space beneath a dome or arch in which sounds produced at certain points are clearly audible at certain distant points Synonym(s): whispering gallery, whispering dome
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
whispering gallery n a space beneath a dome or arch in which sounds produced at certain points are clearly audible at certain distant points Synonym(s): whispering gallery, whispering dome
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
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.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Washboard \Wash"board`\, n. 1. A fluted, or ribbed, board on which clothes are rubbed in washing them. 2. A board running round, and serving as a facing for, the walls of a room, next to the floor; a mopboard. 3. (Naut.) A broad, thin plank, fixed along the gunwale of boat to keep the sea from breaking inboard; also, a plank on the sill of a lower deck port, for the same purpose; -- called also {wasteboard}. --Mar. Dict.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Washoe process \Wash"oe proc`ess\ [From the Washoe district, Nevada.] The process of treating silver ores by grinding in pans or tubs with the addition of mercury, and sometimes of chemicals such as blue vitriol and salt.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Waxberry \Wax"ber`ry\, n. (Bot.) The wax-covered fruit of the wax myrtle, or bayberry. See {Bayberry}, and {Candleberry tree}.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Waxwing \Wax"wing`\, n. (Zo[94]l.) Any one of several species of small birds of the genus {Ampelis}, in which some of the secondary quills are usually tipped with small horny ornaments resembling red sealing wax. The Bohemian waxwing (see under {Bohemian}) and the cedar bird are examples. Called also {waxbird}.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Waxbird \Wax"bird`\, (Zo[94]l.) The waxwing.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Waxwing \Wax"wing`\, n. (Zo[94]l.) Any one of several species of small birds of the genus {Ampelis}, in which some of the secondary quills are usually tipped with small horny ornaments resembling red sealing wax. The Bohemian waxwing (see under {Bohemian}) and the cedar bird are examples. Called also {waxbird}.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Waxbird \Wax"bird`\, (Zo[94]l.) The waxwing.
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Weighboard \Weigh"board`\, n. (Mining) Clay intersecting a vein. --Weale.
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Weighbridge \Weigh"bridge`\, n. A weighing machine on which loaded carts may be weighed; platform scales.
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Weiss beer \Weiss beer\ [G. weissbier white beer.] A light-colored highly effervescent beer made by the top-fermentation process.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Whichever \Whichev"er\, Whichsoever \Which`soev"er\, pron. & a. Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one (of two or more) which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Whisper \Whis"per\, v. t. 1. To utter in a low and nonvocal tone; to say under the breath; hence, to mention privately and confidentially, or in a whisper. They might buzz and whisper it one to another. --Bentley. 2. To address in a whisper, or low voice. [Archaic] And whisper one another in the ear. --Shak. Where gentlest breezes whisper souls distressed. --Keble. 3. To prompt secretly or cautiously; to inform privately. [Obs.] [bd]He came to whisper Wolsey.[b8] --Shak.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Whisper \Whis"per\, n. 1. A low, soft, sibilant voice or utterance, which can be heard only by those near at hand; voice or utterance that employs only breath sound without tone, friction against the edges of the vocal cords and arytenoid cartilages taking the place of the vibration of the cords that produces tone; sometimes, in a limited sense, the sound produced by such friction as distinguished from breath sound made by friction against parts of the mouth. See {Voice}, n., 2, and Guide to Pronunciation, [sect][sect] 5, 153, 154. The inward voice or whisper can not give a tone. --Bacon. Soft whispers through the assembly went. --Dryden. 2. A cautious or timorous speech. --South. 3. Something communicated in secret or by whispering; a suggestion or insinuation. 4. A low, sibilant sound. [bd]The whispers of the leaves.[b8] --Tennyson.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Whisper \Whis"per\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Whispered}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Whispering}.] [AS. hwisprian; akin to G. wispern, wispeln, OHG. hwispal[?]n, Icel. hv[c6]skra, Sw. hviska, Dan. hviske; of imitative origin. Cf. {Whistle}.] 1. To speak softly, or under the breath, so as to be heard only by one near at hand; to utter words without sonant breath; to talk without that vibration in the larynx which gives sonorous, or vocal, sound. See {Whisper}, n. 2. To make a low, sibilant sound or noise. The hollow, whispering breeze. --Thomson. 3. To speak with suspicion, or timorous caution; to converse in whispers, as in secret plotting. All that hate me whisper together against me. --Ps. xli. 7.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Whisper \Whis"per\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Whispered}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Whispering}.] [AS. hwisprian; akin to G. wispern, wispeln, OHG. hwispal[?]n, Icel. hv[c6]skra, Sw. hviska, Dan. hviske; of imitative origin. Cf. {Whistle}.] 1. To speak softly, or under the breath, so as to be heard only by one near at hand; to utter words without sonant breath; to talk without that vibration in the larynx which gives sonorous, or vocal, sound. See {Whisper}, n. 2. To make a low, sibilant sound or noise. The hollow, whispering breeze. --Thomson. 3. To speak with suspicion, or timorous caution; to converse in whispers, as in secret plotting. All that hate me whisper together against me. --Ps. xli. 7.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Whisperer \Whis"per*er\, n. 1. One who whispers. 2. A tattler; one who tells secrets; a conveyer of intelligence secretly; hence; a backbiter; one who slanders secretly. --Prov. xvi. 28.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Whisper \Whis"per\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Whispered}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Whispering}.] [AS. hwisprian; akin to G. wispern, wispeln, OHG. hwispal[?]n, Icel. hv[c6]skra, Sw. hviska, Dan. hviske; of imitative origin. Cf. {Whistle}.] 1. To speak softly, or under the breath, so as to be heard only by one near at hand; to utter words without sonant breath; to talk without that vibration in the larynx which gives sonorous, or vocal, sound. See {Whisper}, n. 2. To make a low, sibilant sound or noise. The hollow, whispering breeze. --Thomson. 3. To speak with suspicion, or timorous caution; to converse in whispers, as in secret plotting. All that hate me whisper together against me. --Ps. xli. 7.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Whispering \Whis"per*ing\, a. & n. from {Whisper}. v. t. {Whispering gallery}, [or] {Whispering dome}, one of such a form that sounds produced in certain parts of it are concentrated by reflection from the walls to another part, so that whispers or feeble sounds are audible at a much greater distance than under ordinary circumstances.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Whispering \Whis"per*ing\, a. & n. from {Whisper}. v. t. {Whispering gallery}, [or] {Whispering dome}, one of such a form that sounds produced in certain parts of it are concentrated by reflection from the walls to another part, so that whispers or feeble sounds are audible at a much greater distance than under ordinary circumstances.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Whispering \Whis"per*ing\, a. & n. from {Whisper}. v. t. {Whispering gallery}, [or] {Whispering dome}, one of such a form that sounds produced in certain parts of it are concentrated by reflection from the walls to another part, so that whispers or feeble sounds are audible at a much greater distance than under ordinary circumstances.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Gallery \Gal"ler*y\, n.; pl. {Galleries}. [F. galerie, It. galleria, fr. LL. galeria gallery, perh. orig., a festal hall, banquetting hall; cf. OF. galerie a rejoicing, fr. galer to rejoice. Cf. {Gallant}, a.] 1. A long and narrow corridor, or place for walking; a connecting passageway, as between one room and another; also, a long hole or passage excavated by a boring or burrowing animal. 2. A room for the exhibition of works of art; as, a picture gallery; hence, also, a large or important collection of paintings, sculptures, etc. 3. A long and narrow platform attached to one or more sides of public hall or the interior of a church, and supported by brackets or columns; -- sometimes intended to be occupied by musicians or spectators, sometimes designed merely to increase the capacity of the hall. 4. (Naut.) A frame, like a balcony, projecting from the stern or quarter of a ship, and hence called {stern gallery} or {quarter gallery}, -- seldom found in vessels built since 1850. 5. (Fort.) Any communication which is covered overhead as well as at the sides. When prepared for defense, it is a defensive gallery. 6. (Mining) A working drift or level. {Whispering gallery}. See under {Whispering}.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Whisperingly \Whis"peringly\, adv. In a whisper, or low voice; in a whispering manner; with whispers. --Tennyson.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Whisperously \Whis"perously\, adv. Whisperingly. [R.]
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Whosoever \Who`soev"er\ (h[oomac]`s[osl][ecr]v"[etil]r), pron. Whatsoever person; any person whatever that; whoever. Whosoever will, let him take . . . freely. --Rev. xxii. 17.
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Wachapreague, VA (town, FIPS 82320) Location: 37.60623 N, 75.68980 W Population (1990): 291 (223 housing units) Area: 0.7 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
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Weissport, PA (borough, FIPS 82080) Location: 40.82901 N, 75.70118 W Population (1990): 472 (193 housing units) Area: 0.3 sq km (land), 0.1 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 18235
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Whisper Walk, FL (CDP, FIPS 77216) Location: 26.39591 N, 80.18839 W Population (1990): 3037 (1783 housing units) Area: 2.6 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
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