List of Old English Words in the OED/WA

{|border="1" cellpadding=4 cellspacing=0 style="margin: 0 0 1em 1em; background: transparent; border: 1px #cccccc; solid; border-collapse: collapse; font-size: 95%;" 2. to become roused from a tranquil or inactive state; awaken; waken: to wake from one's daydreams. 3. to become cognizant or aware of something; awaken; waken. 4. to be or continue to be awake. 5. to remain awake for some purpose, duty, etc.: I will wake until you soon. 6. to rouse from sleep; awake; awaken; waken (often followed by up. 7. to rouse from lethargy, apathy, ignorance, etc. 8 . to hold a wake for or over (a dead person). 9. to keep watch or vigil over.
 * Old English||sp||English
 * Wade ||vb||To walk through water or, by extension any substance more resistant than air, as mud, sand etc. 2. to go, proceed; walk through. 3. to pass or cross, as a river by walking on the bottom.  4. to proceed slowly or laboriously; (wade through a lengthy document).
 * Wade ||n||The act of walking through.  2. a ford, wath, wathstead.
 * Wade ||phr||"To wade into somebody, something" - without hestitation attack or tackle somebody or something.
 * Wade ||phr||"To wade through" - move labouriously through.
 * Wade ||phr||"To wade out of" - to escape from.
 * Wade ||phr||"To wade through blood" -slaughter.
 * Wader ||n||One who wades through. 2. a wading bird, such as the stork, crane etc.
 * Wading ||n||The action of wading.
 * Wadset ||n||Probably from OE phr. - to wedde settan: put to pledge, deposit a pledge.
 * Wag ||n||A joker, mischief-maker, a funny fellow.
 * Wag ||vb||OE: to oscillate, swing, shake, stir, move quickly from side to side or to and fro, sway, totter, waw. 2. to dangle on the gallows: to be hanged, swing. 3. to move the tongue from side to side, and up and down in talking. 4. to move animatedly in talk and gossip, said of the tongue.  5. to move at a regular pace; to get on with, to move on with it.  6. to waddle. 7. to play truant.
 * Wagging ||n||The act or motion of wagging; as "a wagging of the head."
 * Waggishness ||n||The state or quality of being waggish. 2. sportiveness, jocularity, mischief.
 * Wag-on-the-wall ||n||A pendulum clock.
 * Wagsome ||adj||Waggish, incline or prone to waggery.
 * Wagship ||n||Waggery, waggishness.
 * Wagtail ||n||A small bird of the genus Motacilla. whose tail wags continually.
 * Wain ||n||Car or chariot; fig. often applied to the Four Gospels, symbolized as the four-horsed chariot of the Apocalypse. 2. (a threshing instrument with (four) wheels.
 * Wain||n||"The Wain" - a group of seven bright stars: the constellation called the "The Great Bear" (Ursa Major)- more fully "Charles (Carl) his Wain". 2. "The Lesser Wain": similarly-shaped stars in the "Little Bear" : ("Ursa Minor")
 * Wain ||vb||To transport in or with a cart or carriage, cart. 2. to carry, bring, convey. 3. to bring a report of.
 * Wain-and-Horses ||n||"The Wain-and-Horses" - Ursa Major: "Bright Arcturus" - (The Plough); "Showery Hyads" - (The Rain); "Ursus Major" - (Great Bear); and the "Wain" (The Cart).
 * Wain-bote ||n||The allowance of timber which a tenant had the right to cut down or fell for the repair of his wains.
 * Wainer ||n||A driver of a wain, waggoner, a wainsman.
 * Wainful ||adj||As much as a wain could hold.
 * Wainwright ||n||A wain or wagon-builder.
 * Waist ||n||A girdle, under garment. 2. the part of the body in humans between the ribs and the hips, usually the narrowest part of the torso.  2. the part of a garment covering this part of the body. 3. blouse ( see definition 2). 4. the part of a one-piece garment covering the body from the neck or shoulders more or less to the waistline, especially this part of a woman's or child's garment. 5. a child's undergarment to which other articles of apparel may be attached. 6. the middle part of the upper deck.
 * Waist-less ||adj||Having no waste.
 * Wake ||vb||To become roused from sleep; awake; awaken; waken (often followed by up ).
 * Wag-on-the-wall ||n||A pendulum clock.
 * Wagsome ||adj||Waggish, incline or prone to waggery.
 * Wagship ||n||Waggery, waggishness.
 * Wagtail ||n||A small bird of the genus Motacilla. whose tail wags continually.
 * Wain ||n||Car or chariot; fig. often applied to the Four Gospels, symbolized as the four-horsed chariot of the Apocalypse. 2. (a threshing instrument with (four) wheels.
 * Wain||n||"The Wain" - a group of seven bright stars: the constellation called the "The Great Bear" (Ursa Major)- more fully "Charles (Carl) his Wain". 2. "The Lesser Wain": similarly-shaped stars in the "Little Bear" : ("Ursa Minor")
 * Wain ||vb||To transport in or with a cart or carriage, cart. 2. to carry, bring, convey. 3. to bring a report of.
 * Wain-and-Horses ||n||"The Wain-and-Horses" - Ursa Major: "Bright Arcturus" - (The Plough); "Showery Hyads" - (The Rain); "Ursus Major" - (Great Bear); and the "Wain" (The Cart).
 * Wain-bote ||n||The allowance of timber which a tenant had the right to cut down or fell for the repair of his wains.
 * Wainer ||n||A driver of a wain, waggoner, a wainsman.
 * Wainful ||adj||As much as a wain could hold.
 * Wainwright ||n||A wain or wagon-builder.
 * Waist ||n||A girdle, under garment. 2. the part of the body in humans between the ribs and the hips, usually the narrowest part of the torso.  2. the part of a garment covering this part of the body. 3. blouse ( see definition 2). 4. the part of a one-piece garment covering the body from the neck or shoulders more or less to the waistline, especially this part of a woman's or child's garment. 5. a child's undergarment to which other articles of apparel may be attached. 6. the middle part of the upper deck.
 * Waist-less ||adj||Having no waste.
 * Wake ||vb||To become roused from sleep; awake; awaken; waken (often followed by up ).
 * Wain-bote ||n||The allowance of timber which a tenant had the right to cut down or fell for the repair of his wains.
 * Wainer ||n||A driver of a wain, waggoner, a wainsman.
 * Wainful ||adj||As much as a wain could hold.
 * Wainwright ||n||A wain or wagon-builder.
 * Waist ||n||A girdle, under garment. 2. the part of the body in humans between the ribs and the hips, usually the narrowest part of the torso.  2. the part of a garment covering this part of the body. 3. blouse ( see definition 2). 4. the part of a one-piece garment covering the body from the neck or shoulders more or less to the waistline, especially this part of a woman's or child's garment. 5. a child's undergarment to which other articles of apparel may be attached. 6. the middle part of the upper deck.
 * Waist-less ||adj||Having no waste.
 * Wake ||vb||To become roused from sleep; awake; awaken; waken (often followed by up ).
 * Wainwright ||n||A wain or wagon-builder.
 * Waist ||n||A girdle, under garment. 2. the part of the body in humans between the ribs and the hips, usually the narrowest part of the torso.  2. the part of a garment covering this part of the body. 3. blouse ( see definition 2). 4. the part of a one-piece garment covering the body from the neck or shoulders more or less to the waistline, especially this part of a woman's or child's garment. 5. a child's undergarment to which other articles of apparel may be attached. 6. the middle part of the upper deck.
 * Waist-less ||adj||Having no waste.
 * Wake ||vb||To become roused from sleep; awake; awaken; waken (often followed by up ).
 * Waist-less ||adj||Having no waste.
 * Wake ||vb||To become roused from sleep; awake; awaken; waken (often followed by up ).
 * Wake ||vb||To become roused from sleep; awake; awaken; waken (often followed by up ).
 * Wake ||n||A watching, or a watch kept, especially for some solemn or ceremonial purpose. 2. a watch or vigil by the body of a dead person before burial, sometimes accompanied by feasting or merrymaking. 3. a local annual festival in England, formerly held in honor of the patron saint or on the anniversary of the dedication of a church but now usually having little or no religious significance. 4. the state of being awake: between sleep and wake
 * Wake-a-day ||n||Of life etc.; such as one wakes up to each day that is experienced by ordinary people; regular as in "wake-a-day world": every day life; every day existence; conscious wake-a-day world.
 * Wakeful ||adj||Remaining awake, especially at the ordinary time of sleep; not sleeping or sleepy. 2. watchful, alert. 3. unable to sleep; restless, suffering from insomnia. 4. arousing from or as from sleep.
 * Wakefully ||adv||In a watchful, vigilant, alert manner.
 * Wakefulness ||n||The state of being wakeful: awake rather than sleepy, sleepless, vigilant, alert, watchful.
 * Wakeless ||adj||Without awakening, unbroken, uninterrupted, unfitful sleep.
 * Wakeman ||n||A guard, watchman.
 * Waken ||vb||Become awake, arouse from sleep, wake up, rise, spring up.
 * Wakener ||n||A person or thing that wakes or arouses. 2. one who awakes or is awkened. 3. an alarm attached to a clock.
 * Wakeness ||n||The state of being awake; one's waking hours.
 * Wakening ||n||The action of the verb: the wakening or arousing or being aroused from sleep or torpor.
 * Waker ||n||One who stays awake or abstains from sleep. 2. one who wakes early.  3. a watchman.  4. one who arouses another from sleep.  5. one who wakes (a corpse).
 * Waker ||adj||Unsleeping, watchful, vigilant, alert, mentally alert, as "well should a man be waker and wise."
 * Wake-rife ||adj||Wakeful, alert, indisposed to sleep.
 * Wake-rifely ||adv||In an wakeful, alert manner.
 * Wake-rifeness ||n||The state of being vigilant, alert, wakeful.
 * Waker-upper ||n||One who wakes. 2. one who wakes others from sleep. 3. medication that wakes one from sleep.
 * Wakewort ||n||Some plant unidentified. (etynmology unknown).
 * Wakey-wakey ||adj||A command to wake up, sometimes used to soldiers at reveille.
 * Waking ||n||Marked by full consciousness or alertness, wakeful. 2. the state of remaining awake.
 * Wal ||n||OE: wael; OS: wael: dead. 2. a murderous act or deed. 3.  death, slaughter.  4. "The Wal" : The Slain (collectively), rarely: a slain person.
 * Wald ||vb||To rule; to govern. (form of wield)
 * Waldend ||n||A ruler, governor ( rare) except in periphrase for God. nb: ("end") cf. friend, fiend, halend, shapend.
 * Waldeneie ||n||Wall-eye, influenced by walden (OE: gewealden: small); wolden -eyed: an alleged name for the hare.
 * Waldin ||adj||OE: gewalden: in the sense of "subject under control." 2. easy to manage.  3. of body or  limbs: pliant, supple. 4. in phr: "waldin and wich" - also fig. yielding or  tractable in bearing and disposition. or supple.  5. moderate amount or size.
 * Wale ||n||A stripe or ridge made on living flesh by a rod, whip, or stick, a wheal, weal; markins of the lash. 2. one of certain strakes of outer planking running fore and aft on a vessel; a channel wale. 3. a ridge or rib on the surface of cloth; hence texture, grain. 4. weals, whales or stripes on by striking, as with a lash, flog, beat. 5.  cloth, with a ridge or rib.  6. to weave or wickwerwork, with several rods together. 7. protection, fastening, or holding with wales. 8.  as a topographical term, perhaps ridge, bank (of stone or earth); a ridge of earth or stone.  9. a stripe of colour. 10. a piece of timber extending horizontally around the top of the sides of a boat. 11. horizontal planks of of two timbers, broader or thinner than the rest which extend along a ship's side at different heights from stern to stern; also called bends.
 * Wale ||vb||To raise whales or stripes on by striking, as with a lash, flog, beat. 2. to manufacture, as cloth, with a ridge or rib. 3. to weave or wickerwork, with several rods together. 4. to protect, fasten, secure or hold with wales. 5. to weave or wattle, intertwine, to furnish a basket. to raise whales or stripes on by striking, as with a lash, flog, beat. 6. to manufacture, as cloth, with a ridge or rib.  7. to weave or wickwerwork, with several rods together. 8. to protect, fasten, or hold with wales.
 * Waling ||n||The act or action of raising weals or stripes.  2. weaving or making wickerwork.  3. wealing or striping by striking with a alsh, rod etc.
 * Walk ||vb||To proceed through, over, or upon at a moderate pace on foot: walking the floor all night. 2. to cause to walk; lead, drive, or ride at a walk, as an animal.  3. to force or help to walk, as a person: he was walking around soon after his surgery.  4. to conduct or accompany on a walk.  5. to move (a box, trunk, or other object) in a manner suggestive of walking, as by a rocking motion.
 * Walk ||vb||To cleanse or thicken cloth by treading or beating; to full or walk.  2. to beat or drub a person.
 * Walk ||n||An act or instance of walking or going on foot. 2. a period of walking for exercise or pleasure: to go for a walk.  3. a distance walked or to be walked, often in terms of the time required: a ten minutes' walk from town.  4. the gait or pace of a person or an animal that walks.  5.  characteristic or individual manner of walking.
 * Walk ||phr||"Take a walk" - to leave, especially abruptly and without any intention or prospect of returning (often used imperatively to indicate dismissal): if he doesn't get his way, he takes a walk.
 * Walk ||phr||"Walk off With" - 2. to get rid of by walking off with: to walk off with a headache.  3. to win or attain, as in a competition: to walk off with the first prize for flower arrangements; to surpass one's competitors; win easily: to walk off with the fight.  4.walk off with, to remove illegally; steal.
 * Walk ||phr||"Walk out On" - forsake, desert, to leave unceremoniously: "to walk out on one's family." 2. to leave (a meeting) in protest.
 * Walk ||phr||"Walk out with" - to court or be courted by.
 * Walk ||phr||"Walk (someone) Through" - to guide or instruct carefully one step at a time.
 * Walkabout ||n||Australian Indigenous custom, a visiting of religious sites to pay respect to the ancestors.
 * Wal-kemp ||n||A warrior.
 * Walker ||n||One who walks; a person who undertakes the majority of his journey on foot, a traveler, a rambler. 2. a person who walks dogs as a occupation.  3. a colporteur or tract-distributor.  4. one who takes part in athletics as a walker (in a walking matches).  5. iterant beggar or vagrant. 6. a ranger, gamekeeper who has a specific "walk" or section to care for.  7. a bird, insect (stick insects) characterized by  walking, as distinguished from other modes of progress. 8. (slang): a person's legs or feet: "his or her walkers".
 * Walker ||n||A worker one fulls clothes; a fuller; a walkster.
 * Walker-on-ropes ||n||A rope-walker; a funambulist.
 * Walkership ||n||The office of a walker or keeper of the forest.
 * Walkie-talkie ||n||A portable radio-set, equipped for both sending and receiving and light enough to be carry by one man.
 * Walk-in ||n||One who walks in premises or office without an appointment. 2. one who walks into an embassy or consulate and seeks political asylum; a defector. 3. a storage area large enough to walk into.  4. of a cinema, etc. entered on foot, in contrast to a drive-in.
 * Walking ||n||The action of one who walks or moves by foot. 2. the leading of a wandering life, rambling, strolling.
 * Walking ||adj||Ambulatory; strolling, ambling, wandering.
 * Walking-dead ||n||A spectre, ghost, doppelganger, morabunder.
 * Walking-stick ||n||A staff or cane carried in the hand. 2. any of the family "Phasmidae" insects having legs,  body, wings resembling twigs among which it lives.
 * Walking-wheel ||n||Pedometer.
 * Walk-off ||n||To depart, esp. abruptly or without warning. 2. to walk off during sporting match as a protest against something and some-one who you believed is acting unfairly. 2.  to get rid of by walking off with: to walk off with a headache.  to win or attain, as in a competition: to walk off with the first prize for flower arrangements;to surpass one's competitors; win easily: to walk off with the fight.
 * Walk-on||n||An actor who has a walk-on role, with little or no speaking. 2. pertaining to airline services for which a prior booking is not required.
 * Walk-out ||n||A strike; esp. one called at short notice.    2. act of leaving a meeting etc., as a gesture of protest or disappointment.  3. as in a secret love  affair, "Gina has been having a "walk-out" with his brother Jim for years."
 * Walk-over ||n||A horse race where there is only one horse entered, and which can thus be won by going over the course at a mere walk. 2. an easy or unopposed success. 2. in certain sports, to walk over the course without a competitor so as to perform the technicality of winning; hence, to gain an easy victory.
 * Walk-through ||n||"An easy part" in a theatrical production
 * Walk-up ||n||An apartment not having stairs and that has to be reached by stairs. 2. something may be approached on the street without having to go into the building.  3. the walking of racing horses to the starting line or mobile barrier.
 * Walkway ||n||Footpath, sidewalk, trotuary, path. 2. a sidewalk, passage, garden path.
 * Wall ||n||OE: frequently used with the meaning of natural rampart, hill, cliff.
 * Wall ||vb||To boil, bubble up, well up, flow abundantly of a liquid. 2. of the sea, waves : to swell, churn up, boil.  3. of a person: seething, to boil with passion. 3. to swarm with vermin. 4. of salt-making: to boil brine.  5. to meld, blend, weld.
 * Wall ||vb||To furnish or enclose with a wall.
 * Wall ||vb||OE: weallian: to go on a pilgrimage; walling.
 * Wall ||phr||"Within the Walls" - within the ancient boundaries of a city, as distinguished from it's outlying area. 2. fig. within the limits of Christendom"
 * Walled-in ||adj||
 * Walled-off ||adj||Enclosed by walls.
 * Walled-up ||adj||Closed or blocked up with masonry. 2. trapped, hiding from authorities or enemies.  3. enclosed with a wall, walled-in, brick-in, bricked-up, shut-up.
 * Waller ||n||One who builds or repairs walls. 2. a keeper of the walls of a city in earlier times.
 * Wallership ||n||The position of a waller of a city.
 * Wall-flower ||n||Any of the genus (Chieranthus) of European herbs of the mustard family. 2. a man or woman at a party who remains sitting or standing by the wall, presumably for the want of a dancing partner.
 * Walling ||adj||Boiling, esp. of liquids, molten lead. 2. in OE: fig. fervent, passionate, ardent. 3. boiling, foaming, raging, surging of the sea. 4. welling, flowing abundantly of water.
 * Wallow ||n||Dust-hole, mud-hole formed by the wallowing of animals, such as buffalo, elephants, rhinocerus. 2. state of depression, gloom, stagnation. 3. roll or swell of the sea. 4. the line into which hay is raked before being carted away.
 * Wallow ||vb||To wither, fade or waste away. 2.
 * Wallowed ||adj||Tasteless, insipid, wallow-sweet, cloyingly sweet.
 * Wallower ||n||One ( a person or animal) who wallows.
 * Wallowish ||adj||Somewhat insipid, tasteless, flat; also flat, ill-tasting, nauseous, esp. by being overly-sweet; wallowishly.
 * Wallowishness ||n||The state or quality of being willowish.
 * Wall-Street ||n||The name of a street in New York City, the financial centre of the United States and the World.
 * Wall-Streeter ||n||A Wall-Street financier.
 * Wallow-sweet ||adj||Sweet, sickly sweet, nauseous.
 * Wall-tiding ||n||Welling-up (walling) of the tide: said of the reputed "ebbing and flowing well" at Tides Well.
 * Wall-to_Wall ||adj||Extending from one end or extreme to the other: allowing no unfilled space. 2. ubitiquious.
 * Wallwort ||n||Dwarf elder, Sambucus Ebulus
 * Walm ||n||OE: spring, gushing, swirling of boiling liquids; boiling heat; the surging or heaving movement of the waves. 2. poet. often used of the waves or the sea: a wave, a billow. 3. a gushing forth or up-welling of water; a spring, a fountain, water-source, including the water of such. 4. a bubbling and heaving of water, etc. in the process of boiling or melting. 5. a wallop.
 * Walm ||vb||Of water: to boil, bubble, to well up, gush or sprout forth, walm up, walm out, walm forth, to abound, be plentiful.  2. of smoke, vapour etc. to billow, to issue forth in such manner.
 * Walm ||phr||"To be in a Walm" - fig. in a boiling or seething condition; a spell of boiling.
 * Walm-hot ||adj||Blazing hot; boiling hot.
 * Walming ||n||Seeething, glowing, boiling, bubbling, gushing, welling, billowing.
 * Walnut ||n||Any of the various deciduous, typically European and Asian trees (genus Jugland), cultivated as ornamental shade trees and valued for their timber and edible nuts; esp., the black walnut. 2. the wood or nut of any these trees. 3. the colour of the wood of any these trees, esp., the black walnut, a very dark brown; also the colour of the shell of the english nuts, a dull, medium yellowish brown, also called walnut brown.
 * Walnut ||phr||"To Shoulder Walnut"- to enlist as a soldier (walnut wood as material for gun-stocks)
 * Walsh ||adj||Contraction of wallowish) insipid, tasteless, ill-tasting, having a sickly taste, nauseous.
 * Wal-slaught ||n||A deadly battle (OE: slaught: battle)
 * Wal-spear ||n||A battle spear.
 * Walt ||adj||Found only in unwealt: steady; of a ship: unsteady, rolling about, cranky.
 * Walter ||n||Welter: roll about in various ways. 2. the rolling of the sea in a storm. 3. the act of wallowing (in mire). 4. upset, upheaval, overthrow.
 * Walter ||vb||To roll to and fro, move from side to side, to tumble, toss about, to lie sprawling on the ground (in mire). 2. of a ship: to be tossed on the waves. 3. of the stomach: to be disturbed or upset.
 * Wam ||n||A spot or blemish; a wern.
 * Wan ||n||The quality of being wan: paleness.
 * Wan ||vb||To become dark, discoloured or livid. 2. to grow pale or make pale. 2.
 * Wan ||adj||Pale from sickness or anxiety; pallid, livid, careworn; of a sickly hue. 2. having a gloomy aspect, dismal, dark, said of scenes, landscapes. 3. transfig or fig. sad, mournful, fearful, awful, wicked, deadly cruel.  4.faint, feeble, a wan smile, a faint or forced smile, as a sick and/ or unhappy smile).   5. of hue or colour : dark, black, gloomy, leaden-hued, pale, light; originally dark-hued, now in more recent poetry: grey, pale, but the gloomy connotation remains. 5.  of an unhealthy, unwholesome colour, pallid, sickly, livid; of disease, wounds etc., esp. to the human face and corpses.  6. lacking light or lustre, dark, dark-hued, dusky, gloomy. 7. applied to light of heavenly bodies: faint, partially obscured, dull, lusterless, esp. of white objects.
 * Wan-belief ||n||Unbelief.
 * Wan-belveness||n||Unbeliefness
 * Wanbody ||n||Miscreant. 2. infidel.
 * Wan-deedy ||adj||Mischievous.
 * Wander ||vb||To move or travel about, in, or through (a place) without any definite purpose, object or destination. 2. to proceed in an irregular course; meander, roam, rove, or stray: to wander over the earth. 3. to go astray, as from a path or course aimlessly, indirectly, or casually; meander.  4. (of the mind, thoughts, desires etc) to lose concentration or direction; to take one direction or another without conscious intent or control: his attention wandered..  5.  to think or speak incoherently or illogically.  6. to move, pass, or turn idly, as the hand or the eyes.
 * Wander ||n||The drift of a gyroscope or a similar device. 2. range, stroll, saunter, swerve, veer. ramble, rave. 3. the act or an instance of wandering
 * Wan·der·er||n||One who wanders or walks from place to place, a rambler.
 * Wandering ||n||
 * Wanderlust ||n||An impulse to travel; restlessness combined with a sense of adventure.
 * Wanderly ||adv||
 * Wander-year ||n||A year of wandering or travel. NB: German word "wonderjahre" - the year or years, spent on travel for the purpose of perfecting one's skills or knowledge.
 * Wandle ||vb||Supple, nimble, back-formation of wandlung: changeableness.
 * Wandought ||n||A feeble or puny person.
 * Wandoughty ||adj||Feeble, ineffective, worthless.
 * Wandreth ||n||"Wan" + "Rede" : counsel. 2. misery, distress, hardship, adversity, poverty.
 * Wandsomely ||adv||Reluctantly, falteringly.
 * Wane ||n||OE:want, lack. 2. want, lack, shortage, absence of, fault.  3. need, poverty, indigence. 3. fault, defect, omission. 4. misery, woe. 5. decrease of power, prosperity, reputation. 6. the decrease of the moon's visible illuminated surface; also the period of such decrease.
 * Wane ||vb||To wane or fade to grey. 2. to diminish in size and brilliance, as opposed to wax.  3. to decline or decrease gradually, draw to an end.
 * Wane ||n||Wone, dwelling, house, residence (of a religious community). 2. buildings, group of building.
 * Wane ||phr||"To wane away" - to diminish gradually.
 * Wane ||adj||Lacking, absent, deficient, destitute. 2. (with numerals): short of, used to express number (one or two) less than a complete decade, as "two wane of twenty is eighteen." 3. "one wane of " - penultimate ?  4. incomplete, not fully formed, (inchoate), small; not full of the moon.  5. insufficient; too small
 * Wane ||phr||"On or upon the Wane" - time of lessening or decreasing.
 * Wane-cloud ||n||A cloud in the process of becoming smaller. 2. a cirro-stratus
 * Waned ||adj||That has diminished, decreased.
 * Wane-hope ||n||Wanhope, despair, lack of optimism.
 * Wane-wit ||n||A half-wit, fool, dill, imbecile.
 * Wang ||n||The cheek. 2. a field, pasture, area along or adjacent to a river; riverbank.
 * Wangle ||vb||Accomplish or obtain by irregular or insidious means . First recorded as printer's slang: to arrange or fake for one's own satisfaction; perhaps based on "waggle" wankle unsteady, unconstant, precarious (OE: wacol) under the influence of a vague sense of phonetic symbolism..  2. of a thing: to move loosely or shakily on it's base.  3.  of a person: to go go unsteady.
 * Wangle ||adj||OE: unsteady, tottering, wagging.
 * Wang-tooth ||n||Molar.
 * Wan-hue ||vb||To stain.
 * Waning ||n||Decrease in size, gradual decrease or period of decrease of the visible illuminated area on the moon phrases. 2. period characterized by the waning of the moon. 3. gradual decrease or decline in splendor, power, importance, intensity or the like. 4. later part of life or period of time.
 * Wankle ||adj||OE: wancol. 2. unsteady, insecure, unsettled, changeable, precarious, unconstant, wavering. 2. unhealthy, weak, sick, delicate.
 * Wan-less ||adj||Hopeless.
 * Wan-like ||adj||Miserable, wretched.
 * Wan-looking ||adj||Having a pale, dull, gloomy, sickly look etc.
 * Wanned ||adj||Decreased, wanted, lacked.
 * Wanning ||vb||To make or become wan.
 * Wanning ||n||The quality of being wan, paleness.
 * Wan-ness ||n||The quality or state of being wan: wanly, paleness, pallidity, lividity. 2. gloominess, dismality, sickliness etc.
 * Wan-sallow ||adj||Discoloured or sickly hue.
 * Wan-sith ||n||Misery, woe.
 * Wan-slaught ||n||Slaughter.
 * Wanspeed ||n||Ill-success, adversity, poverty.
 * Wanspeedy ||adj||Unfortunate, unprosperous.
 * Want ||n||A mole or a wand: probably because of the wandering ways of it's tunnels.
 * Want-hill ||n||A molehill.
 * Wanton ||n||A lewd or licentious person, esp. a woman. 2. a playful or frolicsome person, or animal. 3. a trifler, dallier.
 * Wanton ||adj||Dissolute, unchaste, licentious, lewd, lustful. 2. recklessly inconsiderate, heartlee, unjust; evincing a malicious nature.  3. of vigorous or abundant growth, rank.  4. extravagant, running to excess; unrestrained as, "wanton speech." 5. not bound or tied; loose.  6. refractory, rebellious
 * Wanton||vb||To act wantonly or playfully, revel or sport. 2. to waste wantonly.
 * Wantons ||n||"The Wantons" - lascivious desires.
 * Wanton ||phr||"To play the wanton" - to behave in a lascivious manner or lewdly.
 * Wantoner ||n||A person who acts or behaves in a lewd or lascivious manner.
 * Wantonness ||n||The act or practice of being lascivious or lewd.
 * Wantroth ||n||Unbelief
 * Wan-trowing ||n||Mistrust, faint or weak belief.
 * Wan-weird ||adj||Hard lot, ill-fate, misfortune. 2. "The Wanweirds" - The Hard-up, The Have-nots, The Poor, The Needy, The disadvantaged
 * Wan-white ||adj||Off-white.
 * Wanwit ||n||Insanity
 * Wanwood ||n||A faded or decaying woodland.
 * Wany ||adj||Having a beveled edge, as the wane of a plank. (waney)
 * Wanze ||vb||To diminish, waste, render lean. 2. to decrease, grow less. 3. to wither, fade, waste away, to become emaciated. 4. lit. and fig. of the moon: to wane.
 * Wanzing ||n||Evanescent.
 * Wanzingness ||n||The state or quqlity of being evanescent.
 * Wapenshaw ||n||A show of weapons, review of weapons.
 * Wapentake ||n||An old administrative and judicial subdivision, of some English counties, equivalent to the hundred of most counties. (OE: waepengetaec: weapon+take) a symbolical flourishing of weapons denotin confirmation of the decision of an assembly.
 * Wapman ||n||A man as distinguished from a woman, a male human being. (Weapon: wap).
 * Wapman-kin ||n||Persons of the male sex.
 * War ||n||Late OE circa 1050.
 * Warbird ||n||A fighter-plane, aircraft fighter.
 * Warbride ||n||A bride of a serviceman during wartime.
 * War-broken ||adj||Worn-out by the ravages of war.
 * War-cloud ||n||A cloud or dust and smoke rising from the battle field.
 * War-clouds ||n||That the outbreak of war seems increasingly like, as "war clouds are gathering."
 * Warcraft ||n||Cunning and skilled in warfare. 2. the act of conducting war.
 * Ward ||n||Callosity on the skin of the hand through hard labour.
 * Ward ||n||A division or district of a city or town, as for administrative or political purposes. 2. one of the districts into which certain English and Scottish boroughs are divided. 3. a division, floor, or room of a hospital; a critical ward. 4. any of the separate divisions of a prison. 5. a political subdivision of a parish. 6. a ward: a watchman, guard, keeper, sentry, warden. 7. custody.
 * Ward ||vb||To avert, repel, or turn aside (danger, harm, an attack, an assailant, etc.) (usually followed by off ): to ward off a blow; to ward off evil. 2. to place in a ward, as of a hospital or prison.  3.  to protect; guard.
 * Ward ||prf||
 * Ward ||phr||"Out of Ward" - beyond control, out of hand.
 * Ward ||phr||"Within one's Ward" - within the region in which one is safe.
 * War-dead ||n||Those (soldiers and civilians) killed because of war.
 * War-dog ||n||A dog trained for use in war, fig. a fierce warrior. 2. a war hawk: one who calls for war against others.
 * War-fain ||adj||Eager and willing to fight.
 * War-footing ||n||Prepared for war, in a state of readiness for war.
 * War-goddess ||n||
 * War-grave ||n||A burial place for the members of the armed forces who die during military campaigns or operations; this includes those who die of disease while on active service. 2. ships sunk during wartime, military aircraft that crash into water, or are shot down into water, particularly if the crew die in the crash and remain in the vehicles.
 * War-hardened ||adj||Innurred by the frequency and intensity of war. 2. experienced in combat and therefore more effective in fighting, used mostly of infantry,
 * Warhead ||n||
 * Ward-hill ||n||A beacon hill.
 * Ward-holding ||n||In feudal law, a tenure of lands "in ward". ie. military service.
 * Warding ||n||Action of guarding a place or furnishing it with a guard. 2. action or duty of keeping guard. 3. a defensive work or force; a body of watchman. 4. protection, keeping guard. 5. imprisonment
 * Wardmote ||n||A meeting of the citizens of a ward; esp. in the City of London.
 * Wards ||prf||
 * Ward-wite ||n||A fine paid to the lord by a tenant who has failed to provide a man to perform guard duty.
 * WA ||?||Check alpha from start of WAR
 * Ware ||n||Seaweed, pondweed. 2. the right to gather seaweed on the shore: each ware-strand  or beach where drift-weed comes to land is set apart for a certain number of tenants on the estate to which it belongs.
 * Ware ||n||Watch, care, heed, safe-keeping, defence, protection.
 * Ware ||n||Collective term for articles: hardware, hollow-ware, iron-ware, small-ware, earthenware, stoneware. 2. privy parts of the human body of either sex, as, lady ware.  3. wholeware: the whole number of, the total amount
 * Ware ||vb||To give heed, be cautious, be awre.
 * Ware ||adj||Adv
 * Ware ||phr||"Be On One's Ware" - be on guard, be aware.
 * Wareful ||adj||Watchful, cautious, aware.
 * Wareliness ||n||Cautious, carefulness.
 * Warely ||adj||Of a person and his/her action, etc. cautious, circumspect, predict.
 * Wareness ||n||Awareness.
 * Warfare ||n||The waging or carrying on of war; conflict with arms. 2. a struggle, strife.
 * Warhorse ||n||A heavy breed of horse used in warfare. 2. a veteran, esp. an aggressive or veteran ppolitician.
 * Waribreed ||n||Pus, matter; in OE some kind of eruption.
 * Warihood ||n||Cursedness
 * Warily ||adv||
 * Warisome ||adj||Somewhat cautious, careful, heedful
 * Wark ||n||OE: woerc: pain, ache.
 * Wark ||vb||To ache, feel pain, suffer pain, to throb painfully.
 * Warking ||n||The condition or state of aching, feeling pain, throbbing pain.
 * Warless ||adj||Free or exempt from war. 2. not engaging in war.
 * Warlessness ||n||The state of being or havin an absence of war.
 * Warlike ||adj||Of persons, nations etc. naturally disposed to warfare or fighting; martial; bellicose. 2. fond of war, skilled in war, valiant, courageous in battle.
 * Warlock ||n||OE: waerloga: a traitor, foe, demon. 2. a wizard, sorcerer; also a demon, The  Devil, Satan.
 * Warlock ||vb|||To bar against hostile invasion.
 * Warlord ||n||A military commander or commander-n-chief. 2. a tribal leader.
 * War-loving ||adj||
 * Warly ||adj||Pertaining to war; belonging to war; martail. 2. skilled in war, martial, fond of war, bellicose, valiant; equipped or munitioned for war.
 * Warm ||adj||Having or giving out a moderate degree of heat, as perceived by the senses: a warm bath. 2. of or at a moderately high temperature; characterized by comparatively high temperature: a warm oven.  3. having a sensation of bodily heat: to be warm from fast walking.  4. conserving or maintaining warmth or heat.  5. (of colors) suggestive of warmth; inclining toward red or orange rather than toward green or blue. 5. ardent, enthusiastic, animated, etc. (often followed by up  or to ).  8. kindly, friendly, close or sympathetically disposed (often followed by to  or toward ): "my heart warms toward him."  9.  lukewarm, tepid, heated. 10. hearty, enthusiastic, fervent, fervid, emotional, ardent.  14. vehement. 15. animated, excited, waken, stirred, roused, aroused.
 * Warm ||vb||To make warm; heat (often followed by up ): to warm one's hands.  2. to heat or cook (something) for reuse, as left-overs (usually followed by over  or up). 3. to excite enthusiasm, ardor, cheerfulness, or vitality in (someone).  4. to inspire with kindly feeling; affect with lively pleasure: It warms my soul to hear you say that. 5. to fill (a person, crowd, etc.) with strong feelings, as hatred, anger, or zeal.  6. to become warm or warmer (often followed by up): The room will warm up when the fire gets going.  7. to become ardent, enthusiastic, animated, etc. (often followed by up  or to ).  8. to grow kindly, friendly, or disposed sympathetically (often followed by to  or toward.)
 * Warm ||n||A warming: "sit by the fire and have a nice warm".
 * Warm ||phr||Warm down" - to conclude or follow a period of strenuous physical exercise by walking or gentle stretching.
 * Warm ||phr||Warm up" - to prepare for a game, sports contest, dance, etc., by moderate exercise or practice beforehand. 2. to increase in excitement, intensity, violence, etc.: The racial situation was warming up. 3. to become friendlier or more receptive: warm up to that proposal. 4. of radio and  television: to entertain (an audience) prior to a broadcast to increase receptiveness.
 * Warm ||phr||Warm the bench."- in sports: to serve as a substitute who rarely plays in a game.
 * Warm ||vb||
 * Warman ||n||A fighting-man, warrior, soldier. 2. one whose voice or call is for war.
 * Warm-blooded ||adj||Having warm blood, spec. of mammals and birds which have a uniform high temperature.  2, ardent, fervent, passionate.
 * Warm-bloodedness ||n||State or quality of being warm-blooded, ardent passionate, fervent.
 * Warmed ||adj||Made warm, warmed up.
 * Warmed ||phr||"Like Death Warmed Up" -
 * Warmer ||n||A person who warms up an audience prior and during the show; a warmer-upper. 2. a contrivance for warming.
 * Warm-hearted ||adj||Of a generous and affectionate disposition; also indicating a hearty, cordial.
 * Warm-heartedly ||adv||Generously, affectionately, cordially.
 * Warm-heartedness ||n||State or quality or being warm-hearted, generous, affectionate, cordial, as "experience has never put a chill on my warm-heartedness."
 * War-minded ||adj||A mind attuned to, or desirious of war.
 * War-mindedness ||n||The state of mind attuned to, or desirous of war.
 * Warming ||n||That makes warm, becomes warm (lit and fig)
 * Warming-stone ||n||A stone that retains it's warmth for a long while (8-10 hours).
 * Warmish ||adj||Somewhat or a little warm.
 * Warmly ||adv||Full of warmth. 2. in a warm manner, with warmth of feeling, fervently, earnestly. 4. with warm affection, gratitude, kindness, admiration. 5. with controversial ardour, eagerly, with warmth of temper.  6. with reference to attack or defense,  fiercely, vigourously.
 * Warmness ||n||The condition of being warm; moderate heat. 2. the state of being well-to-do.  3. warmth or affection or devotion, heat of anger.
 * Warmonger ||n||One who seeks to bring about war. 2. one who propagates war; jingoist.
 * Warmth ||n||The quality or state of being warm; moderate or gentle heat. 2. the sensation of moderate heat. 3. liveliness of feelings, emotions, or sympathies; ardor or fervor; enthusiasm or zeal. 4. the quality of being intimate and attached: "all children need warmth and affection from their families." 5. an effect of brightness, cheerfulness, coziness, etc., achieved by the use of warm colors.
 * Warmthless ||n||Devoid of warmth.
 * Warm-up ||n||Make one's body limber or suppler by stretching. 2. to do preliminary exercises so as to stretch the muscles.  3. to engage in exercise or practice, esp. before entering a game or contest, to get ready. 4.  to run an appliamce etc. until the normal working temperature is reached. 5. to become more friendly or open. 6. to make an audience enthusiastic or relaxed before or during a show. 7. to reheat food.
 * Warn ||vb||
 * Warnel ||n||A hard tumor on the back of the cattle, produced by the larva of gadfly. 2. the maggot producing tumours of that kind.
 * Warner ||n||One who warns or gives warning to others, as a storm-warner. 2. a mechanical device for giving warnings. 3. a man who gives warning or notice of arrivals of ships.  4. a mongrel dog used to give warnings, a house-dog.
 * Warnership ||n||The district of an "official" warner.
 * Warning||n||
 * Warp ||n||Alluvial sediment, silt. 2.
 * Warp ||vb||To cast, throw, fling open. 2. to drive out, expel, reject, renounce, usu. with 'out' or 'away.'  3. to plunge or throw someone roughly (into prison, distress).  4. to put to death.  5. to go hastily, fling away, rise up.  6. of bees: to swarm.  7. to hit, strike, assail with a missile. 8. besprinkle with a liquid.  9. to thrust one's hand forth.  10. lay hands on. 11. to cast one's head down. 12. to cast, shed horns.  13. to lose (natural hue).  14. to utter, talk to, speak of or to, pronounce a word.  15. to cry, sigh. 16. to cast one's eyes upon something.  17. to lay eggs.  18. to bring forth young naturally or sometimes prematurely. 19. to cast, slip, drop.  20. bend, twist aside.  21. to  become twisted. 22. to become uneven by shrinkage, contraction.
 * Warp of weeks ||n||Four weeks.
 * Warpath ||n||The route taken by an attacking party of Native Americans native folk; a war expedition. 2. state of war.
 * Warpath ||phr||"On the Warpth" - on a warlike expedition; at war. 2. ready for a fight, ready to begin hostilities; angry.
 * Warped ||adj||Bent, twisted, contorted or out of shape. 2. to cast young prematurely.
 * Warper ||n||One who throws, a thrower.
 * Warping ||n||Silt or alluvial matter deposited by the sea or a tidal river.  2. an action or motion that warps or twists. 2. the deformation of the Earth's crust over a large area.
 * Warping ||n||The mole's action of throwing up earthin to mole-hills.
 * Warping ||adj||The quality of twisting, deforming, bending.
 * Warre ||n||OE: Wearr. 2. a knot in a tree or timber.
 * Warred ||adj||Having or containing knots. 2. full of knots; warried; warry.
 * Warry ||adj||Belligerent, bellicose, warlike, martial.
 * Warship ||n||Ship built for military purposes. 2. a ship armed and manned for war.
 * Warsong ||n||A song inciting war or celebrating martial deeds.
 * War-steed ||n||A war horse. 2. fig. a warship or battleship, as " .. whose sea-going war steeds on the Atlantic saved England from invasion.
 * Wart ||n||A rough, dry, tough excresence on the skin. 2. a nipple. 2. an obnoxious or objectionable person.
 * Wart ||phr||"Warts and All" - without concealment of blemishes or unattractive parts (esp. applied to description or likeness).
 * Warted ||adj||Covered wit or having worts.
 * Warth ||n||A shore, strand, a stretch of coast, a flat meadow, esp. one close to a stream.
 * Wartime ||n||The time when war is being waged.
 * Wartwale ||n||A growth or pierce of skin at the base of the finger nail; an agnail.
 * Wartwort ||n||Euphorbia Helioscopia.
 * Warty ||adj||Afflicted with worts on the skin. 2. of the nature or resembling to warts. 3. rocky, tough.
 * War-weary ||adj||Weary from war.
 * War-wolf ||n||A kind of siege engine. 2. a fierce warior.
 * War-worn ||adj||Weary of war.2. wasted or battered by war. 3. worried by the toil and privation of war.
 * War-worthy ||adj||Suitable for or befittingly of war.
 * War-worthiness ||n||Condition and suitability or befitting for war.
 * Wary ||n||A criminal, felon, villain, outlaw.
 * Wary ||vb||To invoke a curse upon, to declare accursed, to pour malediction upon. 3. to pronounce a formal curse against (God, the Church). 4. to speak impiously or profanely against; to blaspheme.  4. to inflict with evil or calamity.
 * Wary ||adj||
 * Wary ||adj||Cursed, accursed
 * Wary-tre(e) ||n||A gallows, gibbet, hanging-tree. 2. often applied to the cross, holy-rood.
 * Wasel ||vb||To beat down, trample, trample in mud.
 * Wash ||n||
 * Wash||vb||
 * Wash ||n||"The Wash" - a sandbank or tract of land alternately covered and exposed to the sea. 2. a portion of an estuary able to be cross on foot at low tide. 3. a tract of shallow water; lagoon.  4. also a shallow pool or runnel formed by the overflow of a river. 5. a backwater.  6. a stream running over a road; a washway.
 * Washboard ||n||A board with a corrugated surface against which laundry can be rubbed. 2. music: a board used as a simple percussion instrument.  3. a board fastened along a ship's gunwale to prevent splashing, a splashboard.  4. a  stretch of ripples or bumps on a dirt or gravel road, mostly occurring at corners, which is caused by wear from traffic, water erosion  or poor guarding.
 * Wash-dirt ||n||Auriferous soil or gravel ready for washing.
 * Washed ||adj||
 * Washed-up ||adj||No longer capable, effective or needed; over-the-hill.
 * Washer-up ||n||One who washes dish; a dishwasher.
 * Washhouse ||n||A laundry
 * Washiness ||n||The quality or state of being washy. 2. diluted condition, wateriness, weakening of a liquid, ; fig. feebleness, lack of solidity (of thoughts, etc.) 3.chronic looseness of the bowels in animals.
 * Washing ||n||
 * Washing-stone ||n||A stone on which clothes are put while being washed. 2. the kitchen.
 * Washing-well ||n||Fig. a spiritual cleansing. 2. a fount.
 * Wash-mouth ||n||One who blabs out everything a babbler.
 * Wash-up ||n||An act of washing table utensils after a meal. 2. act of washing oneself.  3. the washing of a collected quantity of ore; quanity of fold that has been obtained by washing.  4. a dead body washed up by the waves: a wash-up.  5. scullery.
 * Washway ||n||A portion of a road crossed by a shallow stream. 2. a ford, wath, wathstead.  2. a road deeper in the middle than at the sides.
 * Washway ||phr||"To Make a Washway" (of or with) - make short work of.
 * Washy ||adj||Having too much moisture; water-logged. 2. of wind or weather: bringing moisture or rain. 3. of food, drink, etc.: heavily diluted, weak, sloppy, thin, watery. 4. of painting: having too much wash, lacking body, pale, weak.  5. of literary style: production, utterances, etc. wanting in force, vigour, feeble, sloppy.  6. of persons: lacking strength, weak, feeble, insipid, exhausted, washed-out, poor, mean, worthless.
 * Wasp ||n||Any of the many types of stinging flying insect resembling a hornet or bee. 2. a person who behaves in an angry or insolent way, waspish.
 * Waspish ||adj||Quick to resent any trifling, injury, affront, irascible, petulantly, spiteful.
 * Waspishness ||n||State or quality of being irritable, irascible, petulant.
 * Waspy ||adj||Resembling a wasp, in form: wasp-like. 2. (fig) - irritable, irascible, stinging, spiteful.
 * Wassail ||n||
 * Wassail ||vb||
 * Wassailer ||n||
 * Wassailing ||n||
 * Watch ||n||A timepiece, chronometer.
 * Watch ||n||Wake of a dead person. 2. four or five periods into which the night was divided anciently;  used now rhetorically for the night-time. 3. a vicious of night into day. 4. watchfulness, vigilance.  5. hill serving as a look-out station; a watch-hill.  6. a sailor spell or period of duty.
 * Watch ||phr||"Lay in Watch" - lay in ambush.
 * Watcher ||n||One who keeps watch, look out, acts as a sentry; a look-man.
 * Watch-house ||n||A police station.
 * Watching ||n||
 * Watchless ||adj||Keeping no watch, unwatched, unguarded.
 * Watchlessness ||n||Lack or state of not being watchful; unwatchfulness
 * Watchlight ||n||Night-light formerly in the form of a slow-burning candle.
 * Watch-wright ||n||A watchmaker.
 * Water ||n|| ******                     2. flood, sheet of water, lake, pond.
 * Water ||phr||"Lay in Water" - lay midway between the surface and the bottom; fig. keeping impartial or temporizing attitude between two parties.
 * Water ||phr||"Make a Hole in the Water" - commit suicide by drowning.
 * Water ||phr||"Water One's Eyes" - cry.
 * Water ||phr||"Water on the Brain" - Hydrocephalus.
 * Water ||phr||"Water with One's Tears" - to cry copiously.
 * Water ||phr||"Where the Water Sticks" - where the discussion comes to a standstill.
 * Water ||phr||"Write on, or in Water"- to fail to leave an abiding record.
 * Water-adder ||n||Any aquatic serpent resembling an adder.
 * Water-ask ||n||A water newt, a water-eft.
 * Water-bearer ||n||One who carries and sells water for an occupation.
 * Water-bird ||n||Any bird that inhabits a freshwater environment. 2. waterfowl, seabird, shorebird.
 * Water-bewitched ||adj||(Coll) for excessively diluted liquor, now chiefly, very weak tea.
 * Water-borne ||adj||Borne or carried on or by water.
 * Water-break ||n||An irruption, a breach by water. 2. breakwater.
 * Water-craft ||n||Skill in water matters. 2. a vessel that plies on the water; such vessels collectively.
 * Water-drinker ||n||A drinker of water, one who drinks water in preference to wine or other liquors; now usually a total abstainer.
 * Water-drop ||n||A single drop of water.
 * Water-dust ||n||Water in the form of extremely fine particles as in clouds and spall.
 * Watered ||adj||Supplied with or having adequate supply of water.
 * Water-eynd ||n||The Eynd or Watersmoke''', as it is called in Norfolk is a remarkable phenomenon, occurring mostly between spring and autumn with a peculiar suddenness
 * Waterfall ||n||A cascade
 * Water-fare ||n||A ferry.
 * Waterfast ||adj||Watertight, impervious to water.
 * Water figwort ||n||Wort or plant of the figwort genus "Scrophularia auriculate."
 * Water-finder ||n||One (a water-finder) who finds subterranean springs or supplies of water by means of a divining rod or dowser.
 * Waterflood ||n||A moving flood or overflowing of water; a tempestrous sea. 2. water as opposed to land. 3.
 * Water-foot ||n||Mouth of a stream. 2. village or town at the mouth of a river.
 * Waterfowl ||n||Birds such as ducks, geese, swan, that spend most of their non-flying time on water.
 * Watergang ||n||A flood. 2. a watercourse, esp. an artificial watercourse.  3. a mill-leat or the like.
 * Water-gate ||n||A sluice gate. 2. a gate through which water-traffic enters. 3. a channel for water; a watercourse.
 * Water-glass ||n||A water clock or clepsydra. 2. surface of the water serving as a mirror.  3. a glass vessel to contain water; esp. such a vessel intended for keeping plants in water.
 * Water-head ||n||The head or source of a stream; adjoining the source of the stream.
 * Water-hole ||n||A depression in which water collects, esp. one where wild animals come to drink; a watering-hole. 2. a part of the electro-magnetic spectrum, between the regions where hydrogen and hydroxyl radiate, that is relatively quie in terms of radio astronomy.
 * Water-horse ||n||Hipotamus; river-horse. 2. a fabled water-spirit appearing in the form of a horse, cf. kelpie.
 * Water-ice||n||A massive ice formation made by the direct freezing of water, and not by the compacting of snow. 2. a confection of water and sugar, flavoured and frozen.
 * Wateriness ||n||Watery constituent or element; aquaceous matter contained or diffused through liquid or solid.  3. a watery secretion.  4. state of being watery; watery in quality or nature.  5. superfluity of water as a constituent, connoting poorness, thinness, insipidity of the blood.  6. of an article of food, containing too much water.  7. literary style of composition or writing. 8. state of being saturated in water.
 * Watering ||adj||
 * Watering-hole ||n||A place where refreshments and liquor is supplied.
 * Waterish ||adj|| Composed of water, of the nature of water; acqueous. 2. resembling water in appearance and sensible properties. 3. as a designation of colour- light grey, pale blue. 4. native to or inhabiting the water; acqueous.  5. relating to or concerned with water; acqueous.   6. containing an excess of water.  7. of eyes: somewhat watery.  8. of weather, air: charged with water.  9. of ground: damp, wet.  10. of plants and fruit : juicy, succulent.
 * Waterish-ness ||n||The state or quality of being watery.
 * Water-kind ||n||The nature of water.
 * Water-lade ||n||A channel for carrying water; an aqueduct.
 * Water-lane ||n||A green lane with a stream running through it. 2. a narrow passage of open water between masses of reeds; also a narrow passage of open water between lines of shipping.
 * Waterless ||adj||Destitute of water: having or containing no water. 2. of process needing no water.
 * Waterlessness ||n||The state of condition of being dry or lacking water. 2. not requiring or depending on water.
 * Waterline ||n||The outline of a coast. 2. linear or watermark on paper.
 * Waterman ||n||Seaman, mariner, sailor.
 * Watermark ||n||A translucent design impressed on the surface of the paper and visible when the paper is held to the light.
 * Watermark ||vb||To make paper with watermark. 2. to mark a database with a digital watermark.
 * Water-meadow ||n||A meadow periodically overflowed by a stream.
 * Water-mill ||n||A mill (for whatever purpose) powered by water.
 * Watermole ||n||Arvicola amphibious.
 * Water-monger ||n||Contemptous (monger) designation for a water-caster or diviner.
 * Water-mouth ||n||The mouth of a river.
 * Water-of-life ||n||A drink which gives life or immortality to the drinker. 2. a name for whishy, vodka etc. (acquae vitae)
 * Water-ordeal ||n||The putting of the accused or defendant's arm up to the elbow in boiling or seething water: "hot water oredeal" or 2. cold water ordeal of *******
 * Water-rat ||n||A rat found in creeks, rivers and streams. 2. in Australia: the Rakali or "Hydromys chryogaster." 3. a petty thief or ruffian; a waterfront criminal. 4. a person fond of water sports.   5. ( in Austrlia) slang for a member of the water police
 * Water-rights ||n||The rights to the use of water on a tract of land.
 * Water-rot ||n||Rusting and holing in metals caused by water.
 * Waters ||n||In early use the term "after the waters of" - stream; river; "by the waters of Babylon". 2. flood, sheet of water.
 * Water-shake ||n||A seismic disturbance of the water; tidal wave.
 * Water-shaken ||adj||Land saturated or flooded by water.
 * Water-shard ||n||A deepened channel made by banking up the sides of the stream, waterway.
 * Water-shed ||n||
 * Watershoot ||n||Outflow of drainage water from land. 2. water carried of by draining a channel or canal. 3. water from the overflow of waterfall, cascade.
 * Watershot ||n||A sudden flood, water interspersed of streams.
 * Watersick ||n||Dropsy.
 * Waterside ||n||Land bordering a body of water.
 * Waterside ||adj||Of, pertaining to or situated by the waterside, by a river, sea, ocean, lake etc.
 * Watersider ||n||A worker who works on the wharf unloading cargo from ships.
 * Watersmeet ||n||A meeting point of two or more streams.
 * Water-smoke ||n||WatersmokeThe Eynd or Watersmoke, as it is called in Norfolk is a remarkable phenomenon, occurring mostly between spring and autumn with a peculiar suddenness
 * Water-soaked ||adj||Saturated by water.
 * Water-softener ||n||An apparatus used for making hard water soft by chemical means. 2. the chemical used to make hard water soft.
 * Water-sop ||n||Mead soaked by water.
 * Water-spelling ||n||Hydromancy.
 * Waterspring ||n||A permanent flow of water issuing from the earth; now chiefly in biblical expressions.
 * Water-stead ||n||The bed or course of a river. 2. a convenient spot on the bank where cattle can go for a drink.
 * Water-stone ||n||A stone basin for holy-water. 2. a kind of philosopher's stone.  3. a whetstone used with water and not oil.  4. a rock stratum abounding with water.
 * Water-tight ||adj||Waterfast
 * Water-treader ||n||Poet: a ship; a sea steed.
 * Waterward ||adj||From the direction in which the water flows.
 * Water-washed ||adj||Drenched with water, flushed, flooding, flooded, or inundated by running water.
 * Water-wave ||n||A wave of water. 2. a seismic wave in the sea; a tidal wave, tsunami.
 * Waterway ||n||Used in OE. with uncertain meaning; "Toller and Bosworth": a channel connecting two pieces of water. 2. a channel for the passage or escape of something watery.  3. a river, canal, portion of sea, lake, river viewed as amedium of transit. 4. distance to be travelled by water, right of access by water.  5. a track or way across water.  6. the breadth of a navigable water-courses.
 * Water-wheel ||n||
 * Water-willow ||n||The purple loosestrife, Lythrum Salicisia.
 * Water-wings ||n||Organs of propulsion in the water.
 * Water-wit ||n||The rough humour of waterman.
 * Water-witch ||n||A witch inhabiting the water, the stormy petrel - Procellaria pelagia.
 * Water-witching ||n||Divination for water; hydromancy.
 * Waterworks ||n||The water-supply system of a town etc., including reservoirs, pipes, filtration system etc. 2. slang or informal: tears, as, "turn on the tears."  3. slang or informal: the genito-urinary system.
 * Water-worn ||adj||Worn or eroded by the action of water upon.
 * Water-worship ||n||Religious adoration paid to rivers, bodies of water and waterways etc. ie. by the Celts.
 * Water-worshipper ||n||A religious worship and adoration of water and waterways.
 * Waterwort ||n||Any plant of the family "Elatinaceae" of aquatic; betony.
 * Watery ||adj||Wet, soggy, or soaked with watery. 2.diluted or having too much water.  3. (of light): thin and pale therefore suggestive  of water. 4. weak and insipid. 5. discharging water or similar substance as a result of disease.  6. teary, lachrimous.
 * Wath ||n||A ford, river-crossing, water-road, warth.
 * Wathstead ||n||A ford, river-crossing, water-road, warth.
 * Wattle ||n||
 * Wattle ||vb||
 * Wattling ||n||
 * Waugh ||adj||Form of wallow: tastleless, insipid, unpleasant to the sense of smell, or taste, sickly, faint, weak.
 * Wave ||n||
 * Wave ||n||
 * Wave ||vb||
 * Wave ||vb||
 * Wave ||phr||"Make Waves" - to stir trouble, make things worse, make a fuss.
 * Wave-breaker ||n||Breakwater.
 * Wave-down ||vb||To wave at (wave down a vehicle) as a signal to stop.
 * Waved ||adj||Having the form of waves, presenting a wavy outline or appearance, undulating, undulated.  2. of hair, wavy. 3. of a sword, dagger: having undulating edge. 4. silk: having undulating markings.
 * Waved Star Wort ||n||Aster Undulatus.
 * Wave-free ||adj||Very calm, waveless waterways.
 * Wavelength ||n||
 * Waveless ||adj||Having no waves or undulation. 2. not agitated or disturbed by waves.
 * Wave-like ||adj||Resembling a wave; pertaining to a wave. 2. after the manner of a wave or waves.
 * Waven ||vb||
 * Waver ||n||One who vacillates, a waverer. 2. one who waves or causes to wave. 3. an undulating swing or fluttering. 4. implement for making the hair wavy. 5. the act or condition of wavering in a physical sense, a flutter or trembling.  6. condition of vacillating or faltering on or upon the waver, in uncertainty or unsteadiness.  7. inding now this now that.
 * Waver ||n||"The Waver" - name of the star "Fomalhaut" in the Constellation "Piscis Australis"
 * Wavering ||adj||Wandering, vagrant. 2. tottering, shaking, faltering, reeling, fluttering, floating, waving, surging, vacillating, undulated, faltering in resolution or allegiance.
 * Wavering-ness ||n||The state or condition of wavering.
 * Wave-swept ||adj||
 * Wavewhite ||adj||"Wavewhite, wedded words shimmering in the dim tide" - foamy, wave-whiten sea or surf. 2. wave-whiten bones.
 * Wave-worn ||adj||Eroded or worn away by the action of the sea and waves.
 * Waving ||adj||
 * Wavy ||adj||Characterised by wavy or fluttering; unsteady, tremulous.
 * Waw ||vb||OE: wagian. 2. to shake, totter, more loosely to be ready to fall. 2. to sway to and fro on a base.  3. to wave in the wind. 4. of water, wind to  move restlessly or uncertainly.   5. of tongue: wagging. 6. of person or animal: to move, stir, go also with a sway. 7. to cause to move, stir, move a limb.
 * Wawing ||n||The wawing of the water: moving restlessly; undulating.
 * Wax ||n||
 * Wax ||n||
 * Wax ||vb||To grow, increase in size, of the body, hair. 2. of a company, host, people: to increase in number. 4. of inanimate things: to increase in size, quantity, volume, intensity.  5. of water: to rise, swell. flow out in a flood. 6. of day or daylight, night: to grow longer.  7. of the moon: to undergo the period in extent.  8. of quality, state of things, activity, wealth: to become gradually greater or more striking.  8. to increase in potency and intensity.  9. in contrast to wane: wanes. 10. of activity, event, etc., to come into being, spring up, begin, arise, occur. 11. of the day: to appear, dawn.  12. of fire: to wax out: burn out, become extinguished for lack of fuel. 13. with numerals: to amount to a specific number.
 * Wax ||phr||"In a Wax" - angry.
 * Wax ||phr ||"To Wax Forth" - to be born or created.
 * Wax ||phr||"To Wax in Eld" - to advance in years.
 * Wax ||phr||"To Wax Out" - to burn out or become extinguished because of lack of fuel.
 * Wax ||phr||"To Wax Up" - to burst into anger ("In a wax")
 * Wax ||phr||"Written on wax" or "As If Written On Wax" - soon or quickly effaced.
 * Waxed ||adj||Coated with wax; saturated with wax.
 * Wax-hearted ||adj||Soft and pliant.
 * Waxen ||adj||Made of wax. 2. smooth and lustrous in surface, said of flowers, fruit, youthful limbs and other things. 2. pallor of a corpse or sick persons.
 * Waxen ||adj||Grown-up, full-grown, adult.
 * Waxen ||vb||To cover or dressed in wax.
 * Waxing ||ppl||The action of wax, growing, increasing. 2. the process of covering in wax.
 * Waxing ||adj||That waxs, grows on, increase of flesh execretion.
 * Wax-scot ||n||a customary payment made for the maintenance of lights in churches.
 * Waxworks ||n||
 * Waxy ||adj||Made of wax. 2. angry, as "in a wax"
 * Way ||n||Wayse, Weys. 2. road, path, track, street, lane, main road, highway. 2. path through a wood, duct, channel of any kind of any kind in the body of man or other animals. 3. course of travel or movement; mode of transport. 4. guidance or direction.  5. course or line of actual movement.  6. wake of a vessel.  7. gen. opportunity to advance, absence of obstruction, forward movement. 8. freedom of action, scope, opportunity.  *******
 * Way ||prf||Terminal element of adv. as, in broadway, edgeway, straightway, needway (necessarily), sideway.
 * Way ||phr||"By The Way" - incidentally, in passing.
 * Way ||phr||"By The Way of" - with the object or purpose of. 2. to serve as. 3. by way of introduction.
 * Way ||phr||"Go The Wrong Way" -
 * Way ||phr||"Party Of The Ways" -
 * Way ||phr||"To Give Way" -
 * Way ||phr||To Go The Way of All Flesh"- to die; experience common to all men in their passage through life.
 * Way ||phr||"To Make Way" -
 * Way ||phr||" -
 * Way back||adj||(Australian slang)- Long ago, a long time ago. 2. far away, in a remote, rural area; hailing from a remote area.
 * Way-bit ||n||A short distance, a short time, as, in " from Sleep to Death, there's but a way-bit."
 * Way-bread ||n||Plantain, sense being "broad-leaved plant of the roadside(s)"
 * Wayfare ||n||To travel or go a long way on foot; rambling. 2. to undertake journeys, trips by various mean or mode of transport
 * Wayfarer||n||One who goes along way on foot; a rambler. 2. one who undertakes journeys or trips along roads and ways.
 * Wayfaring ||n||Travelling or journeying by road.
 * Waygate ||n||The act of fact of going away; way-going. 2. act of leaving a habitation or employment.
 * Way-going ||n||The action og going or departing. 2. waygate.
 * Way-in ||adj||Conventional, fashionable, sophisticated.
 * Waying ||n||A going-way, departure, as, in "We speed their waying."
 * Waying ||phr||"We Speed Their Waying"
 * Wayland ||n||In Teutonic and English mythology, an invincible blacksmith with magical powers, also 'Wayland the Smith'
 * Wayleet ||n||A place where two roads meet. a waymeet.
 * Waylay ||vb||To lie in ambush for and attack, as in order to rob. 2. to accost on the way.
 * Waylayer ||n||One who lies in wait in wait for and attack in order to rob.
 * Wayleet ||n||A place where two roads meet; a waymeet.
 * Wayless ||adj||Chiefly of a country, region: having no ways or roads, trackless, path. 2. fig. lacking direction, purpose or goals.
 * Wayless-ness ||adj||The state or condition of being wayless.
 * Way-maker ||n||One who makes or repairs raods and ways. 2. a person or thing that prepares the way for another: a forerunner, precursor or prelude, a harbinger.
 * Waymark ||n||Object, whether natural or artificial structures, which serves as a guide to traveler; also fig.
 * Way-off ||(adv||(Also adj.) far way. 2. far from the intended target. 3. greatly wrong or mistaken, quite wrong; distant.
 * Wayout ||adv||Far out, far away. 2. far removed from reality, or from convention, extreme, progressive, avant-garde, advanced. 3. great mistaken. 4. a person who holds extreme or uncanny views.
 * Way-outness ||n||Unconventionality, state removed fro reality. 2. extremeness, avant-garde-ness.
 * Ways ||sfx||(-ways) of adverbs. In a specified manner, direction or position: noways, sideways; often equivalent to wise
 * Ways and Means ||n||Means and methods of accomplishing an end or defraying costs, specifically, in legislation, methods of raising funds for the use of government.
 * Wayside ||n||The side or edge of a road or way.
 * Wayside ||adj||Pertaining to the side of the road, street or path. 2. growing, being or bordering either side of a way.
 * Wayside ||phr||"Fall By The Wayside" -
 * Way up ||adv||Excellent, fist-class, of high social state or class.
 * Way-ward ||adj||Wandering away; willful, forward. 2. without definite way or course; unsteady, vacillating, capricious. 3. unexpected or unwished for.
 * Way-wardness ||n||The state or condition of wandering away, willfulness, forwardness. 2. the quality of unsteady, vacillation; capricious-ness.  3.expected-ness or unwishful-ness
 * Way-worn ||adj||Wearied by travel.
 * Waywort ||n||A name for the Saxifrage, the Pimpernel and various other plants found or growing by the roadside or wayside.
 * Warpath ||phr||"On the Warpth" - on a warlike expedition; at war. 2. ready for a fight, ready to begin hostilities; angry.
 * Warped ||adj||Bent, twisted, contorted or out of shape. 2. to cast young prematurely.
 * Warper ||n||One who throws, a thrower.
 * Warping ||n||Silt or alluvial matter deposited by the sea or a tidal river.  2. an action or motion that warps or twists. 2. the deformation of the Earth's crust over a large area.
 * Warping ||n||The mole's action of throwing up earthin to mole-hills.
 * Warping ||adj||The quality of twisting, deforming, bending.
 * Warre ||n||OE: Wearr. 2. a knot in a tree or timber.
 * Warred ||adj||Having or containing knots. 2. full of knots; warried; warry.
 * Warry ||adj||Belligerent, bellicose, warlike, martial.
 * Warship ||n||Ship built for military purposes. 2. a ship armed and manned for war.
 * Warsong ||n||A song inciting war or celebrating martial deeds.
 * War-steed ||n||A war horse. 2. fig. a warship or battleship, as " .. whose sea-going war steeds on the Atlantic saved England from invasion.
 * Wart ||n||A rough, dry, tough excresence on the skin. 2. a nipple. 2. an obnoxious or objectionable person.
 * Wart ||phr||"Warts and All" - without concealment of blemishes or unattractive parts (esp. applied to description or likeness).
 * Warted ||adj||Covered wit or having worts.
 * Warth ||n||A shore, strand, a stretch of coast, a flat meadow, esp. one close to a stream.
 * Wartime ||n||The time when war is being waged.
 * Wartwale ||n||A growth or pierce of skin at the base of the finger nail; an agnail.
 * Wartwort ||n||Euphorbia Helioscopia.
 * Warty ||adj||Afflicted with worts on the skin. 2. of the nature or resembling to warts. 3. rocky, tough.
 * War-weary ||adj||Weary from war.
 * War-wolf ||n||A kind of siege engine. 2. a fierce warior.
 * War-worn ||adj||Weary of war.2. wasted or battered by war. 3. worried by the toil and privation of war.
 * War-worthy ||adj||Suitable for or befittingly of war.
 * War-worthiness ||n||Condition and suitability or befitting for war.
 * Wary ||n||A criminal, felon, villain, outlaw.
 * Wary ||vb||To invoke a curse upon, to declare accursed, to pour malediction upon. 3. to pronounce a formal curse against (God, the Church). 4. to speak impiously or profanely against; to blaspheme.  4. to inflict with evil or calamity.
 * Wary ||adj||
 * Wary ||adj||Cursed, accursed
 * Wary-tre(e) ||n||A gallows, gibbet, hanging-tree. 2. often applied to the cross, holy-rood.
 * Wasel ||vb||To beat down, trample, trample in mud.
 * Wash ||n||
 * Wash||vb||
 * Wash ||n||"The Wash" - a sandbank or tract of land alternately covered and exposed to the sea. 2. a portion of an estuary able to be cross on foot at low tide. 3. a tract of shallow water; lagoon.  4. also a shallow pool or runnel formed by the overflow of a river. 5. a backwater.  6. a stream running over a road; a washway.
 * Washboard ||n||A board with a corrugated surface against which laundry can be rubbed. 2. music: a board used as a simple percussion instrument.  3. a board fastened along a ship's gunwale to prevent splashing, a splashboard.  4. a  stretch of ripples or bumps on a dirt or gravel road, mostly occurring at corners, which is caused by wear from traffic, water erosion  or poor guarding.
 * Wash-dirt ||n||Auriferous soil or gravel ready for washing.
 * Washed ||adj||
 * Washed-up ||adj||No longer capable, effective or needed; over-the-hill.
 * Washer-up ||n||One who washes dish; a dishwasher.
 * Washhouse ||n||A laundry
 * Washiness ||n||The quality or state of being washy. 2. diluted condition, wateriness, weakening of a liquid, ; fig. feebleness, lack of solidity (of thoughts, etc.) 3.chronic looseness of the bowels in animals.
 * Washing ||n||
 * Washing-stone ||n||A stone on which clothes are put while being washed. 2. the kitchen.
 * Washing-well ||n||Fig. a spiritual cleansing. 2. a fount.
 * Wash-mouth ||n||One who blabs out everything a babbler.
 * Wash-up ||n||An act of washing table utensils after a meal. 2. act of washing oneself.  3. the washing of a collected quantity of ore; quanity of fold that has been obtained by washing.  4. a dead body washed up by the waves: a wash-up.  5. scullery.
 * Washway ||n||A portion of a road crossed by a shallow stream. 2. a ford, wath, wathstead.  2. a road deeper in the middle than at the sides.
 * Washway ||phr||"To Make a Washway" (of or with) - make short work of.
 * Washy ||adj||Having too much moisture; water-logged. 2. of wind or weather: bringing moisture or rain. 3. of food, drink, etc.: heavily diluted, weak, sloppy, thin, watery. 4. of painting: having too much wash, lacking body, pale, weak.  5. of literary style: production, utterances, etc. wanting in force, vigour, feeble, sloppy.  6. of persons: lacking strength, weak, feeble, insipid, exhausted, washed-out, poor, mean, worthless.
 * Wasp ||n||Any of the many types of stinging flying insect resembling a hornet or bee. 2. a person who behaves in an angry or insolent way, waspish.
 * Waspish ||adj||Quick to resent any trifling, injury, affront, irascible, petulantly, spiteful.
 * Waspishness ||n||State or quality of being irritable, irascible, petulant.
 * Waspy ||adj||Resembling a wasp, in form: wasp-like. 2. (fig) - irritable, irascible, stinging, spiteful.
 * Wassail ||n||
 * Wassail ||vb||
 * Wassailer ||n||
 * Wassailing ||n||
 * Watch ||n||A timepiece, chronometer.
 * Watch ||n||Wake of a dead person. 2. four or five periods into which the night was divided anciently;  used now rhetorically for the night-time. 3. a vicious of night into day. 4. watchfulness, vigilance.  5. hill serving as a look-out station; a watch-hill.  6. a sailor spell or period of duty.
 * Watch ||phr||"Lay in Watch" - lay in ambush.
 * Watcher ||n||One who keeps watch, look out, acts as a sentry; a look-man.
 * Watch-house ||n||A police station.
 * Watching ||n||
 * Watchless ||adj||Keeping no watch, unwatched, unguarded.
 * Watchlessness ||n||Lack or state of not being watchful; unwatchfulness
 * Watchlight ||n||Night-light formerly in the form of a slow-burning candle.
 * Watch-wright ||n||A watchmaker.
 * Water ||n|| ******                     2. flood, sheet of water, lake, pond.
 * Water ||phr||"Lay in Water" - lay midway between the surface and the bottom; fig. keeping impartial or temporizing attitude between two parties.
 * Water ||phr||"Make a Hole in the Water" - commit suicide by drowning.
 * Water ||phr||"Water One's Eyes" - cry.
 * Water ||phr||"Water on the Brain" - Hydrocephalus.
 * Water ||phr||"Water with One's Tears" - to cry copiously.
 * Water ||phr||"Where the Water Sticks" - where the discussion comes to a standstill.
 * Water ||phr||"Write on, or in Water"- to fail to leave an abiding record.
 * Water-adder ||n||Any aquatic serpent resembling an adder.
 * Water-ask ||n||A water newt, a water-eft.
 * Water-bearer ||n||One who carries and sells water for an occupation.
 * Water-bird ||n||Any bird that inhabits a freshwater environment. 2. waterfowl, seabird, shorebird.
 * Water-bewitched ||adj||(Coll) for excessively diluted liquor, now chiefly, very weak tea.
 * Water-borne ||adj||Borne or carried on or by water.
 * Water-break ||n||An irruption, a breach by water. 2. breakwater.
 * Water-craft ||n||Skill in water matters. 2. a vessel that plies on the water; such vessels collectively.
 * Water-drinker ||n||A drinker of water, one who drinks water in preference to wine or other liquors; now usually a total abstainer.
 * Water-drop ||n||A single drop of water.
 * Water-dust ||n||Water in the form of extremely fine particles as in clouds and spall.
 * Watered ||adj||Supplied with or having adequate supply of water.
 * Water-eynd ||n||The Eynd or Watersmoke''', as it is called in Norfolk is a remarkable phenomenon, occurring mostly between spring and autumn with a peculiar suddenness
 * Waterfall ||n||A cascade
 * Water-fare ||n||A ferry.
 * Waterfast ||adj||Watertight, impervious to water.
 * Water figwort ||n||Wort or plant of the figwort genus "Scrophularia auriculate."
 * Water-finder ||n||One (a water-finder) who finds subterranean springs or supplies of water by means of a divining rod or dowser.
 * Waterflood ||n||A moving flood or overflowing of water; a tempestrous sea. 2. water as opposed to land. 3.
 * Water-foot ||n||Mouth of a stream. 2. village or town at the mouth of a river.
 * Waterfowl ||n||Birds such as ducks, geese, swan, that spend most of their non-flying time on water.
 * Watergang ||n||A flood. 2. a watercourse, esp. an artificial watercourse.  3. a mill-leat or the like.
 * Water-gate ||n||A sluice gate. 2. a gate through which water-traffic enters. 3. a channel for water; a watercourse.
 * Water-glass ||n||A water clock or clepsydra. 2. surface of the water serving as a mirror.  3. a glass vessel to contain water; esp. such a vessel intended for keeping plants in water.
 * Water-head ||n||The head or source of a stream; adjoining the source of the stream.
 * Water-hole ||n||A depression in which water collects, esp. one where wild animals come to drink; a watering-hole. 2. a part of the electro-magnetic spectrum, between the regions where hydrogen and hydroxyl radiate, that is relatively quie in terms of radio astronomy.
 * Water-horse ||n||Hipotamus; river-horse. 2. a fabled water-spirit appearing in the form of a horse, cf. kelpie.
 * Water-ice||n||A massive ice formation made by the direct freezing of water, and not by the compacting of snow. 2. a confection of water and sugar, flavoured and frozen.
 * Wateriness ||n||Watery constituent or element; aquaceous matter contained or diffused through liquid or solid.  3. a watery secretion.  4. state of being watery; watery in quality or nature.  5. superfluity of water as a constituent, connoting poorness, thinness, insipidity of the blood.  6. of an article of food, containing too much water.  7. literary style of composition or writing. 8. state of being saturated in water.
 * Watering ||adj||
 * Watering-hole ||n||A place where refreshments and liquor is supplied.
 * Waterish ||adj|| Composed of water, of the nature of water; acqueous. 2. resembling water in appearance and sensible properties. 3. as a designation of colour- light grey, pale blue. 4. native to or inhabiting the water; acqueous.  5. relating to or concerned with water; acqueous.   6. containing an excess of water.  7. of eyes: somewhat watery.  8. of weather, air: charged with water.  9. of ground: damp, wet.  10. of plants and fruit : juicy, succulent.
 * Waterish-ness ||n||The state or quality of being watery.
 * Water-kind ||n||The nature of water.
 * Water-lade ||n||A channel for carrying water; an aqueduct.
 * Water-lane ||n||A green lane with a stream running through it. 2. a narrow passage of open water between masses of reeds; also a narrow passage of open water between lines of shipping.
 * Waterless ||adj||Destitute of water: having or containing no water. 2. of process needing no water.
 * Waterlessness ||n||The state of condition of being dry or lacking water. 2. not requiring or depending on water.
 * Waterline ||n||The outline of a coast. 2. linear or watermark on paper.
 * Waterman ||n||Seaman, mariner, sailor.
 * Watermark ||n||A translucent design impressed on the surface of the paper and visible when the paper is held to the light.
 * Watermark ||vb||To make paper with watermark. 2. to mark a database with a digital watermark.
 * Water-meadow ||n||A meadow periodically overflowed by a stream.
 * Water-mill ||n||A mill (for whatever purpose) powered by water.
 * Watermole ||n||Arvicola amphibious.
 * Water-monger ||n||Contemptous (monger) designation for a water-caster or diviner.
 * Water-mouth ||n||The mouth of a river.
 * Water-of-life ||n||A drink which gives life or immortality to the drinker. 2. a name for whishy, vodka etc. (acquae vitae)
 * Water-ordeal ||n||The putting of the accused or defendant's arm up to the elbow in boiling or seething water: "hot water oredeal" or 2. cold water ordeal of *******
 * Water-rat ||n||A rat found in creeks, rivers and streams. 2. in Australia: the Rakali or "Hydromys chryogaster." 3. a petty thief or ruffian; a waterfront criminal. 4. a person fond of water sports.   5. ( in Austrlia) slang for a member of the water police
 * Water-rights ||n||The rights to the use of water on a tract of land.
 * Water-rot ||n||Rusting and holing in metals caused by water.
 * Waters ||n||In early use the term "after the waters of" - stream; river; "by the waters of Babylon". 2. flood, sheet of water.
 * Water-shake ||n||A seismic disturbance of the water; tidal wave.
 * Water-shaken ||adj||Land saturated or flooded by water.
 * Water-shard ||n||A deepened channel made by banking up the sides of the stream, waterway.
 * Water-shed ||n||
 * Watershoot ||n||Outflow of drainage water from land. 2. water carried of by draining a channel or canal. 3. water from the overflow of waterfall, cascade.
 * Watershot ||n||A sudden flood, water interspersed of streams.
 * Watersick ||n||Dropsy.
 * Waterside ||n||Land bordering a body of water.
 * Waterside ||adj||Of, pertaining to or situated by the waterside, by a river, sea, ocean, lake etc.
 * Watersider ||n||A worker who works on the wharf unloading cargo from ships.
 * Watersmeet ||n||A meeting point of two or more streams.
 * Water-smoke ||n||WatersmokeThe Eynd or Watersmoke, as it is called in Norfolk is a remarkable phenomenon, occurring mostly between spring and autumn with a peculiar suddenness
 * Water-soaked ||adj||Saturated by water.
 * Water-softener ||n||An apparatus used for making hard water soft by chemical means. 2. the chemical used to make hard water soft.
 * Water-sop ||n||Mead soaked by water.
 * Water-spelling ||n||Hydromancy.
 * Waterspring ||n||A permanent flow of water issuing from the earth; now chiefly in biblical expressions.
 * Water-stead ||n||The bed or course of a river. 2. a convenient spot on the bank where cattle can go for a drink.
 * Water-stone ||n||A stone basin for holy-water. 2. a kind of philosopher's stone.  3. a whetstone used with water and not oil.  4. a rock stratum abounding with water.
 * Water-tight ||adj||Waterfast
 * Water-treader ||n||Poet: a ship; a sea steed.
 * Waterward ||adj||From the direction in which the water flows.
 * Water-washed ||adj||Drenched with water, flushed, flooding, flooded, or inundated by running water.
 * Water-wave ||n||A wave of water. 2. a seismic wave in the sea; a tidal wave, tsunami.
 * Waterway ||n||Used in OE. with uncertain meaning; "Toller and Bosworth": a channel connecting two pieces of water. 2. a channel for the passage or escape of something watery.  3. a river, canal, portion of sea, lake, river viewed as amedium of transit. 4. distance to be travelled by water, right of access by water.  5. a track or way across water.  6. the breadth of a navigable water-courses.
 * Water-wheel ||n||
 * Water-willow ||n||The purple loosestrife, Lythrum Salicisia.
 * Water-wings ||n||Organs of propulsion in the water.
 * Water-wit ||n||The rough humour of waterman.
 * Water-witch ||n||A witch inhabiting the water, the stormy petrel - Procellaria pelagia.
 * Water-witching ||n||Divination for water; hydromancy.
 * Waterworks ||n||The water-supply system of a town etc., including reservoirs, pipes, filtration system etc. 2. slang or informal: tears, as, "turn on the tears."  3. slang or informal: the genito-urinary system.
 * Water-worn ||adj||Worn or eroded by the action of water upon.
 * Water-worship ||n||Religious adoration paid to rivers, bodies of water and waterways etc. ie. by the Celts.
 * Water-worshipper ||n||A religious worship and adoration of water and waterways.
 * Waterwort ||n||Any plant of the family "Elatinaceae" of aquatic; betony.
 * Watery ||adj||Wet, soggy, or soaked with watery. 2.diluted or having too much water.  3. (of light): thin and pale therefore suggestive  of water. 4. weak and insipid. 5. discharging water or similar substance as a result of disease.  6. teary, lachrimous.
 * Wath ||n||A ford, river-crossing, water-road, warth.
 * Wathstead ||n||A ford, river-crossing, water-road, warth.
 * Wattle ||n||
 * Wattle ||vb||
 * Wattling ||n||
 * Waugh ||adj||Form of wallow: tastleless, insipid, unpleasant to the sense of smell, or taste, sickly, faint, weak.
 * Wave ||n||
 * Wave ||n||
 * Wave ||vb||
 * Wave ||vb||
 * Wave ||phr||"Make Waves" - to stir trouble, make things worse, make a fuss.
 * Wave-breaker ||n||Breakwater.
 * Wave-down ||vb||To wave at (wave down a vehicle) as a signal to stop.
 * Waved ||adj||Having the form of waves, presenting a wavy outline or appearance, undulating, undulated.  2. of hair, wavy. 3. of a sword, dagger: having undulating edge. 4. silk: having undulating markings.
 * Waved Star Wort ||n||Aster Undulatus.
 * Wave-free ||adj||Very calm, waveless waterways.
 * Wavelength ||n||
 * Waveless ||adj||Having no waves or undulation. 2. not agitated or disturbed by waves.
 * Wave-like ||adj||Resembling a wave; pertaining to a wave. 2. after the manner of a wave or waves.
 * Waven ||vb||
 * Waver ||n||One who vacillates, a waverer. 2. one who waves or causes to wave. 3. an undulating swing or fluttering. 4. implement for making the hair wavy. 5. the act or condition of wavering in a physical sense, a flutter or trembling.  6. condition of vacillating or faltering on or upon the waver, in uncertainty or unsteadiness.  7. inding now this now that.
 * Waver ||n||"The Waver" - name of the star "Fomalhaut" in the Constellation "Piscis Australis"
 * Wavering ||adj||Wandering, vagrant. 2. tottering, shaking, faltering, reeling, fluttering, floating, waving, surging, vacillating, undulated, faltering in resolution or allegiance.
 * Wavering-ness ||n||The state or condition of wavering.
 * Wave-swept ||adj||
 * Wavewhite ||adj||"Wavewhite, wedded words shimmering in the dim tide" - foamy, wave-whiten sea or surf. 2. wave-whiten bones.
 * Wave-worn ||adj||Eroded or worn away by the action of the sea and waves.
 * Waving ||adj||
 * Wavy ||adj||Characterised by wavy or fluttering; unsteady, tremulous.
 * Waw ||vb||OE: wagian. 2. to shake, totter, more loosely to be ready to fall. 2. to sway to and fro on a base.  3. to wave in the wind. 4. of water, wind to  move restlessly or uncertainly.   5. of tongue: wagging. 6. of person or animal: to move, stir, go also with a sway. 7. to cause to move, stir, move a limb.
 * Wawing ||n||The wawing of the water: moving restlessly; undulating.
 * Wax ||n||
 * Wax ||n||
 * Wax ||vb||To grow, increase in size, of the body, hair. 2. of a company, host, people: to increase in number. 4. of inanimate things: to increase in size, quantity, volume, intensity.  5. of water: to rise, swell. flow out in a flood. 6. of day or daylight, night: to grow longer.  7. of the moon: to undergo the period in extent.  8. of quality, state of things, activity, wealth: to become gradually greater or more striking.  8. to increase in potency and intensity.  9. in contrast to wane: wanes. 10. of activity, event, etc., to come into being, spring up, begin, arise, occur. 11. of the day: to appear, dawn.  12. of fire: to wax out: burn out, become extinguished for lack of fuel. 13. with numerals: to amount to a specific number.
 * Wax ||phr||"In a Wax" - angry.
 * Wax ||phr ||"To Wax Forth" - to be born or created.
 * Wax ||phr||"To Wax in Eld" - to advance in years.
 * Wax ||phr||"To Wax Out" - to burn out or become extinguished because of lack of fuel.
 * Wax ||phr||"To Wax Up" - to burst into anger ("In a wax")
 * Wax ||phr||"Written on wax" or "As If Written On Wax" - soon or quickly effaced.
 * Waxed ||adj||Coated with wax; saturated with wax.
 * Wax-hearted ||adj||Soft and pliant.
 * Waxen ||adj||Made of wax. 2. smooth and lustrous in surface, said of flowers, fruit, youthful limbs and other things. 2. pallor of a corpse or sick persons.
 * Waxen ||adj||Grown-up, full-grown, adult.
 * Waxen ||vb||To cover or dressed in wax.
 * Waxing ||ppl||The action of wax, growing, increasing. 2. the process of covering in wax.
 * Waxing ||adj||That waxs, grows on, increase of flesh execretion.
 * Wax-scot ||n||a customary payment made for the maintenance of lights in churches.
 * Waxworks ||n||
 * Waxy ||adj||Made of wax. 2. angry, as "in a wax"
 * Way ||n||Wayse, Weys. 2. road, path, track, street, lane, main road, highway. 2. path through a wood, duct, channel of any kind of any kind in the body of man or other animals. 3. course of travel or movement; mode of transport. 4. guidance or direction.  5. course or line of actual movement.  6. wake of a vessel.  7. gen. opportunity to advance, absence of obstruction, forward movement. 8. freedom of action, scope, opportunity.  *******
 * Way ||prf||Terminal element of adv. as, in broadway, edgeway, straightway, needway (necessarily), sideway.
 * Way ||phr||"By The Way" - incidentally, in passing.
 * Way ||phr||"By The Way of" - with the object or purpose of. 2. to serve as. 3. by way of introduction.
 * Way ||phr||"Go The Wrong Way" -
 * Way ||phr||"Party Of The Ways" -
 * Way ||phr||"To Give Way" -
 * Way ||phr||To Go The Way of All Flesh"- to die; experience common to all men in their passage through life.
 * Way ||phr||"To Make Way" -
 * Way ||phr||" -
 * Way back||adj||(Australian slang)- Long ago, a long time ago. 2. far away, in a remote, rural area; hailing from a remote area.
 * Way-bit ||n||A short distance, a short time, as, in " from Sleep to Death, there's but a way-bit."
 * Way-bread ||n||Plantain, sense being "broad-leaved plant of the roadside(s)"
 * Wayfare ||n||To travel or go a long way on foot; rambling. 2. to undertake journeys, trips by various mean or mode of transport
 * Wayfarer||n||One who goes along way on foot; a rambler. 2. one who undertakes journeys or trips along roads and ways.
 * Wayfaring ||n||Travelling or journeying by road.
 * Waygate ||n||The act of fact of going away; way-going. 2. act of leaving a habitation or employment.
 * Way-going ||n||The action og going or departing. 2. waygate.
 * Way-in ||adj||Conventional, fashionable, sophisticated.
 * Waying ||n||A going-way, departure, as, in "We speed their waying."
 * Waying ||phr||"We Speed Their Waying"
 * Wayland ||n||In Teutonic and English mythology, an invincible blacksmith with magical powers, also 'Wayland the Smith'
 * Wayleet ||n||A place where two roads meet. a waymeet.
 * Waylay ||vb||To lie in ambush for and attack, as in order to rob. 2. to accost on the way.
 * Waylayer ||n||One who lies in wait in wait for and attack in order to rob.
 * Wayleet ||n||A place where two roads meet; a waymeet.
 * Wayless ||adj||Chiefly of a country, region: having no ways or roads, trackless, path. 2. fig. lacking direction, purpose or goals.
 * Wayless-ness ||adj||The state or condition of being wayless.
 * Way-maker ||n||One who makes or repairs raods and ways. 2. a person or thing that prepares the way for another: a forerunner, precursor or prelude, a harbinger.
 * Waymark ||n||Object, whether natural or artificial structures, which serves as a guide to traveler; also fig.
 * Way-off ||(adv||(Also adj.) far way. 2. far from the intended target. 3. greatly wrong or mistaken, quite wrong; distant.
 * Wayout ||adv||Far out, far away. 2. far removed from reality, or from convention, extreme, progressive, avant-garde, advanced. 3. great mistaken. 4. a person who holds extreme or uncanny views.
 * Way-outness ||n||Unconventionality, state removed fro reality. 2. extremeness, avant-garde-ness.
 * Ways ||sfx||(-ways) of adverbs. In a specified manner, direction or position: noways, sideways; often equivalent to wise
 * Ways and Means ||n||Means and methods of accomplishing an end or defraying costs, specifically, in legislation, methods of raising funds for the use of government.
 * Wayside ||n||The side or edge of a road or way.
 * Wayside ||adj||Pertaining to the side of the road, street or path. 2. growing, being or bordering either side of a way.
 * Wayside ||phr||"Fall By The Wayside" -
 * Way up ||adv||Excellent, fist-class, of high social state or class.
 * Way-ward ||adj||Wandering away; willful, forward. 2. without definite way or course; unsteady, vacillating, capricious. 3. unexpected or unwished for.
 * Way-wardness ||n||The state or condition of wandering away, willfulness, forwardness. 2. the quality of unsteady, vacillation; capricious-ness.  3.expected-ness or unwishful-ness
 * Way-worn ||adj||Wearied by travel.
 * Waywort ||n||A name for the Saxifrage, the Pimpernel and various other plants found or growing by the roadside or wayside.
 * Water-shaken ||adj||Land saturated or flooded by water.
 * Water-shard ||n||A deepened channel made by banking up the sides of the stream, waterway.
 * Water-shed ||n||
 * Watershoot ||n||Outflow of drainage water from land. 2. water carried of by draining a channel or canal. 3. water from the overflow of waterfall, cascade.
 * Watershot ||n||A sudden flood, water interspersed of streams.
 * Watersick ||n||Dropsy.
 * Waterside ||n||Land bordering a body of water.
 * Waterside ||adj||Of, pertaining to or situated by the waterside, by a river, sea, ocean, lake etc.
 * Watersider ||n||A worker who works on the wharf unloading cargo from ships.
 * Watersmeet ||n||A meeting point of two or more streams.
 * Water-smoke ||n||WatersmokeThe Eynd or Watersmoke, as it is called in Norfolk is a remarkable phenomenon, occurring mostly between spring and autumn with a peculiar suddenness
 * Water-soaked ||adj||Saturated by water.
 * Water-softener ||n||An apparatus used for making hard water soft by chemical means. 2. the chemical used to make hard water soft.
 * Water-sop ||n||Mead soaked by water.
 * Water-spelling ||n||Hydromancy.
 * Waterspring ||n||A permanent flow of water issuing from the earth; now chiefly in biblical expressions.
 * Water-stead ||n||The bed or course of a river. 2. a convenient spot on the bank where cattle can go for a drink.
 * Water-stone ||n||A stone basin for holy-water. 2. a kind of philosopher's stone.  3. a whetstone used with water and not oil.  4. a rock stratum abounding with water.
 * Water-tight ||adj||Waterfast
 * Water-treader ||n||Poet: a ship; a sea steed.
 * Waterward ||adj||From the direction in which the water flows.
 * Water-washed ||adj||Drenched with water, flushed, flooding, flooded, or inundated by running water.
 * Water-wave ||n||A wave of water. 2. a seismic wave in the sea; a tidal wave, tsunami.
 * Waterway ||n||Used in OE. with uncertain meaning; "Toller and Bosworth": a channel connecting two pieces of water. 2. a channel for the passage or escape of something watery.  3. a river, canal, portion of sea, lake, river viewed as amedium of transit. 4. distance to be travelled by water, right of access by water.  5. a track or way across water.  6. the breadth of a navigable water-courses.
 * Water-wheel ||n||
 * Water-willow ||n||The purple loosestrife, Lythrum Salicisia.
 * Water-wings ||n||Organs of propulsion in the water.
 * Water-wit ||n||The rough humour of waterman.
 * Water-witch ||n||A witch inhabiting the water, the stormy petrel - Procellaria pelagia.
 * Water-witching ||n||Divination for water; hydromancy.
 * Waterworks ||n||The water-supply system of a town etc., including reservoirs, pipes, filtration system etc. 2. slang or informal: tears, as, "turn on the tears."  3. slang or informal: the genito-urinary system.
 * Water-worn ||adj||Worn or eroded by the action of water upon.
 * Water-worship ||n||Religious adoration paid to rivers, bodies of water and waterways etc. ie. by the Celts.
 * Water-worshipper ||n||A religious worship and adoration of water and waterways.
 * Waterwort ||n||Any plant of the family "Elatinaceae" of aquatic; betony.
 * Watery ||adj||Wet, soggy, or soaked with watery. 2.diluted or having too much water.  3. (of light): thin and pale therefore suggestive  of water. 4. weak and insipid. 5. discharging water or similar substance as a result of disease.  6. teary, lachrimous.
 * Wath ||n||A ford, river-crossing, water-road, warth.
 * Wathstead ||n||A ford, river-crossing, water-road, warth.
 * Wattle ||n||
 * Wattle ||vb||
 * Wattling ||n||
 * Waugh ||adj||Form of wallow: tastleless, insipid, unpleasant to the sense of smell, or taste, sickly, faint, weak.
 * Wave ||n||
 * Wave ||n||
 * Wave ||vb||
 * Wave ||vb||
 * Wave ||phr||"Make Waves" - to stir trouble, make things worse, make a fuss.
 * Wave-breaker ||n||Breakwater.
 * Wave-down ||vb||To wave at (wave down a vehicle) as a signal to stop.
 * Waved ||adj||Having the form of waves, presenting a wavy outline or appearance, undulating, undulated.  2. of hair, wavy. 3. of a sword, dagger: having undulating edge. 4. silk: having undulating markings.
 * Waved Star Wort ||n||Aster Undulatus.
 * Wave-free ||adj||Very calm, waveless waterways.
 * Wavelength ||n||
 * Waveless ||adj||Having no waves or undulation. 2. not agitated or disturbed by waves.
 * Wave-like ||adj||Resembling a wave; pertaining to a wave. 2. after the manner of a wave or waves.
 * Waven ||vb||
 * Waver ||n||One who vacillates, a waverer. 2. one who waves or causes to wave. 3. an undulating swing or fluttering. 4. implement for making the hair wavy. 5. the act or condition of wavering in a physical sense, a flutter or trembling.  6. condition of vacillating or faltering on or upon the waver, in uncertainty or unsteadiness.  7. inding now this now that.
 * Waver ||n||"The Waver" - name of the star "Fomalhaut" in the Constellation "Piscis Australis"
 * Wavering ||adj||Wandering, vagrant. 2. tottering, shaking, faltering, reeling, fluttering, floating, waving, surging, vacillating, undulated, faltering in resolution or allegiance.
 * Wavering-ness ||n||The state or condition of wavering.
 * Wave-swept ||adj||
 * Wavewhite ||adj||"Wavewhite, wedded words shimmering in the dim tide" - foamy, wave-whiten sea or surf. 2. wave-whiten bones.
 * Wave-worn ||adj||Eroded or worn away by the action of the sea and waves.
 * Waving ||adj||
 * Wavy ||adj||Characterised by wavy or fluttering; unsteady, tremulous.
 * Waw ||vb||OE: wagian. 2. to shake, totter, more loosely to be ready to fall. 2. to sway to and fro on a base.  3. to wave in the wind. 4. of water, wind to  move restlessly or uncertainly.   5. of tongue: wagging. 6. of person or animal: to move, stir, go also with a sway. 7. to cause to move, stir, move a limb.
 * Wawing ||n||The wawing of the water: moving restlessly; undulating.
 * Wax ||n||
 * Wax ||n||
 * Wax ||vb||To grow, increase in size, of the body, hair. 2. of a company, host, people: to increase in number. 4. of inanimate things: to increase in size, quantity, volume, intensity.  5. of water: to rise, swell. flow out in a flood. 6. of day or daylight, night: to grow longer.  7. of the moon: to undergo the period in extent.  8. of quality, state of things, activity, wealth: to become gradually greater or more striking.  8. to increase in potency and intensity.  9. in contrast to wane: wanes. 10. of activity, event, etc., to come into being, spring up, begin, arise, occur. 11. of the day: to appear, dawn.  12. of fire: to wax out: burn out, become extinguished for lack of fuel. 13. with numerals: to amount to a specific number.
 * Wax ||phr||"In a Wax" - angry.
 * Wax ||phr ||"To Wax Forth" - to be born or created.
 * Wax ||phr||"To Wax in Eld" - to advance in years.
 * Wax ||phr||"To Wax Out" - to burn out or become extinguished because of lack of fuel.
 * Wax ||phr||"To Wax Up" - to burst into anger ("In a wax")
 * Wax ||phr||"Written on wax" or "As If Written On Wax" - soon or quickly effaced.
 * Waxed ||adj||Coated with wax; saturated with wax.
 * Wax-hearted ||adj||Soft and pliant.
 * Waxen ||adj||Made of wax. 2. smooth and lustrous in surface, said of flowers, fruit, youthful limbs and other things. 2. pallor of a corpse or sick persons.
 * Waxen ||adj||Grown-up, full-grown, adult.
 * Waxen ||vb||To cover or dressed in wax.
 * Waxing ||ppl||The action of wax, growing, increasing. 2. the process of covering in wax.
 * Waxing ||adj||That waxs, grows on, increase of flesh execretion.
 * Wax-scot ||n||a customary payment made for the maintenance of lights in churches.
 * Waxworks ||n||
 * Waxy ||adj||Made of wax. 2. angry, as "in a wax"
 * Way ||n||Wayse, Weys. 2. road, path, track, street, lane, main road, highway. 2. path through a wood, duct, channel of any kind of any kind in the body of man or other animals. 3. course of travel or movement; mode of transport. 4. guidance or direction.  5. course or line of actual movement.  6. wake of a vessel.  7. gen. opportunity to advance, absence of obstruction, forward movement. 8. freedom of action, scope, opportunity.  *******
 * Way ||prf||Terminal element of adv. as, in broadway, edgeway, straightway, needway (necessarily), sideway.
 * Way ||phr||"By The Way" - incidentally, in passing.
 * Way ||phr||"By The Way of" - with the object or purpose of. 2. to serve as. 3. by way of introduction.
 * Way ||phr||"Go The Wrong Way" -
 * Way ||phr||"Party Of The Ways" -
 * Way ||phr||"To Give Way" -
 * Way ||phr||To Go The Way of All Flesh"- to die; experience common to all men in their passage through life.
 * Way ||phr||"To Make Way" -
 * Way ||phr||" -
 * Way back||adj||(Australian slang)- Long ago, a long time ago. 2. far away, in a remote, rural area; hailing from a remote area.
 * Way-bit ||n||A short distance, a short time, as, in " from Sleep to Death, there's but a way-bit."
 * Way-bread ||n||Plantain, sense being "broad-leaved plant of the roadside(s)"
 * Wayfare ||n||To travel or go a long way on foot; rambling. 2. to undertake journeys, trips by various mean or mode of transport
 * Wayfarer||n||One who goes along way on foot; a rambler. 2. one who undertakes journeys or trips along roads and ways.
 * Wayfaring ||n||Travelling or journeying by road.
 * Waygate ||n||The act of fact of going away; way-going. 2. act of leaving a habitation or employment.
 * Way-going ||n||The action og going or departing. 2. waygate.
 * Way-in ||adj||Conventional, fashionable, sophisticated.
 * Waying ||n||A going-way, departure, as, in "We speed their waying."
 * Waying ||phr||"We Speed Their Waying"
 * Wayland ||n||In Teutonic and English mythology, an invincible blacksmith with magical powers, also 'Wayland the Smith'
 * Wayleet ||n||A place where two roads meet. a waymeet.
 * Waylay ||vb||To lie in ambush for and attack, as in order to rob. 2. to accost on the way.
 * Waylayer ||n||One who lies in wait in wait for and attack in order to rob.
 * Wayleet ||n||A place where two roads meet; a waymeet.
 * Wayless ||adj||Chiefly of a country, region: having no ways or roads, trackless, path. 2. fig. lacking direction, purpose or goals.
 * Wayless-ness ||adj||The state or condition of being wayless.
 * Way-maker ||n||One who makes or repairs raods and ways. 2. a person or thing that prepares the way for another: a forerunner, precursor or prelude, a harbinger.
 * Waymark ||n||Object, whether natural or artificial structures, which serves as a guide to traveler; also fig.
 * Way-off ||(adv||(Also adj.) far way. 2. far from the intended target. 3. greatly wrong or mistaken, quite wrong; distant.
 * Wayout ||adv||Far out, far away. 2. far removed from reality, or from convention, extreme, progressive, avant-garde, advanced. 3. great mistaken. 4. a person who holds extreme or uncanny views.
 * Way-outness ||n||Unconventionality, state removed fro reality. 2. extremeness, avant-garde-ness.
 * Ways ||sfx||(-ways) of adverbs. In a specified manner, direction or position: noways, sideways; often equivalent to wise
 * Ways and Means ||n||Means and methods of accomplishing an end or defraying costs, specifically, in legislation, methods of raising funds for the use of government.
 * Wayside ||n||The side or edge of a road or way.
 * Wayside ||adj||Pertaining to the side of the road, street or path. 2. growing, being or bordering either side of a way.
 * Wayside ||phr||"Fall By The Wayside" -
 * Way up ||adv||Excellent, fist-class, of high social state or class.
 * Way-ward ||adj||Wandering away; willful, forward. 2. without definite way or course; unsteady, vacillating, capricious. 3. unexpected or unwished for.
 * Way-wardness ||n||The state or condition of wandering away, willfulness, forwardness. 2. the quality of unsteady, vacillation; capricious-ness.  3.expected-ness or unwishful-ness
 * Way-worn ||adj||Wearied by travel.
 * Waywort ||n||A name for the Saxifrage, the Pimpernel and various other plants found or growing by the roadside or wayside.
 * Waw ||vb||OE: wagian. 2. to shake, totter, more loosely to be ready to fall. 2. to sway to and fro on a base.  3. to wave in the wind. 4. of water, wind to  move restlessly or uncertainly.   5. of tongue: wagging. 6. of person or animal: to move, stir, go also with a sway. 7. to cause to move, stir, move a limb.
 * Wawing ||n||The wawing of the water: moving restlessly; undulating.
 * Wax ||n||
 * Wax ||n||
 * Wax ||vb||To grow, increase in size, of the body, hair. 2. of a company, host, people: to increase in number. 4. of inanimate things: to increase in size, quantity, volume, intensity.  5. of water: to rise, swell. flow out in a flood. 6. of day or daylight, night: to grow longer.  7. of the moon: to undergo the period in extent.  8. of quality, state of things, activity, wealth: to become gradually greater or more striking.  8. to increase in potency and intensity.  9. in contrast to wane: wanes. 10. of activity, event, etc., to come into being, spring up, begin, arise, occur. 11. of the day: to appear, dawn.  12. of fire: to wax out: burn out, become extinguished for lack of fuel. 13. with numerals: to amount to a specific number.
 * Wax ||phr||"In a Wax" - angry.
 * Wax ||phr ||"To Wax Forth" - to be born or created.
 * Wax ||phr||"To Wax in Eld" - to advance in years.
 * Wax ||phr||"To Wax Out" - to burn out or become extinguished because of lack of fuel.
 * Wax ||phr||"To Wax Up" - to burst into anger ("In a wax")
 * Wax ||phr||"Written on wax" or "As If Written On Wax" - soon or quickly effaced.
 * Waxed ||adj||Coated with wax; saturated with wax.
 * Wax-hearted ||adj||Soft and pliant.
 * Waxen ||adj||Made of wax. 2. smooth and lustrous in surface, said of flowers, fruit, youthful limbs and other things. 2. pallor of a corpse or sick persons.
 * Waxen ||adj||Grown-up, full-grown, adult.
 * Waxen ||vb||To cover or dressed in wax.
 * Waxing ||ppl||The action of wax, growing, increasing. 2. the process of covering in wax.
 * Waxing ||adj||That waxs, grows on, increase of flesh execretion.
 * Wax-scot ||n||a customary payment made for the maintenance of lights in churches.
 * Waxworks ||n||
 * Waxy ||adj||Made of wax. 2. angry, as "in a wax"
 * Way ||n||Wayse, Weys. 2. road, path, track, street, lane, main road, highway. 2. path through a wood, duct, channel of any kind of any kind in the body of man or other animals. 3. course of travel or movement; mode of transport. 4. guidance or direction.  5. course or line of actual movement.  6. wake of a vessel.  7. gen. opportunity to advance, absence of obstruction, forward movement. 8. freedom of action, scope, opportunity.  *******
 * Way ||prf||Terminal element of adv. as, in broadway, edgeway, straightway, needway (necessarily), sideway.
 * Way ||phr||"By The Way" - incidentally, in passing.
 * Way ||phr||"By The Way of" - with the object or purpose of. 2. to serve as. 3. by way of introduction.
 * Way ||phr||"Go The Wrong Way" -
 * Way ||phr||"Party Of The Ways" -
 * Way ||phr||"To Give Way" -
 * Way ||phr||To Go The Way of All Flesh"- to die; experience common to all men in their passage through life.
 * Way ||phr||"To Make Way" -
 * Way ||phr||" -
 * Way back||adj||(Australian slang)- Long ago, a long time ago. 2. far away, in a remote, rural area; hailing from a remote area.
 * Way-bit ||n||A short distance, a short time, as, in " from Sleep to Death, there's but a way-bit."
 * Way-bread ||n||Plantain, sense being "broad-leaved plant of the roadside(s)"
 * Wayfare ||n||To travel or go a long way on foot; rambling. 2. to undertake journeys, trips by various mean or mode of transport
 * Wayfarer||n||One who goes along way on foot; a rambler. 2. one who undertakes journeys or trips along roads and ways.
 * Wayfaring ||n||Travelling or journeying by road.
 * Waygate ||n||The act of fact of going away; way-going. 2. act of leaving a habitation or employment.
 * Way-going ||n||The action og going or departing. 2. waygate.
 * Way-in ||adj||Conventional, fashionable, sophisticated.
 * Waying ||n||A going-way, departure, as, in "We speed their waying."
 * Waying ||phr||"We Speed Their Waying"
 * Wayland ||n||In Teutonic and English mythology, an invincible blacksmith with magical powers, also 'Wayland the Smith'
 * Wayleet ||n||A place where two roads meet. a waymeet.
 * Waylay ||vb||To lie in ambush for and attack, as in order to rob. 2. to accost on the way.
 * Waylayer ||n||One who lies in wait in wait for and attack in order to rob.
 * Wayleet ||n||A place where two roads meet; a waymeet.
 * Wayless ||adj||Chiefly of a country, region: having no ways or roads, trackless, path. 2. fig. lacking direction, purpose or goals.
 * Wayless-ness ||adj||The state or condition of being wayless.
 * Way-maker ||n||One who makes or repairs raods and ways. 2. a person or thing that prepares the way for another: a forerunner, precursor or prelude, a harbinger.
 * Waymark ||n||Object, whether natural or artificial structures, which serves as a guide to traveler; also fig.
 * Way-off ||(adv||(Also adj.) far way. 2. far from the intended target. 3. greatly wrong or mistaken, quite wrong; distant.
 * Wayout ||adv||Far out, far away. 2. far removed from reality, or from convention, extreme, progressive, avant-garde, advanced. 3. great mistaken. 4. a person who holds extreme or uncanny views.
 * Way-outness ||n||Unconventionality, state removed fro reality. 2. extremeness, avant-garde-ness.
 * Ways ||sfx||(-ways) of adverbs. In a specified manner, direction or position: noways, sideways; often equivalent to wise
 * Ways and Means ||n||Means and methods of accomplishing an end or defraying costs, specifically, in legislation, methods of raising funds for the use of government.
 * Wayside ||n||The side or edge of a road or way.
 * Wayside ||adj||Pertaining to the side of the road, street or path. 2. growing, being or bordering either side of a way.
 * Wayside ||phr||"Fall By The Wayside" -
 * Way up ||adv||Excellent, fist-class, of high social state or class.
 * Way-ward ||adj||Wandering away; willful, forward. 2. without definite way or course; unsteady, vacillating, capricious. 3. unexpected or unwished for.
 * Way-wardness ||n||The state or condition of wandering away, willfulness, forwardness. 2. the quality of unsteady, vacillation; capricious-ness.  3.expected-ness or unwishful-ness
 * Way-worn ||adj||Wearied by travel.
 * Waywort ||n||A name for the Saxifrage, the Pimpernel and various other plants found or growing by the roadside or wayside.
 * Way-bit ||n||A short distance, a short time, as, in " from Sleep to Death, there's but a way-bit."
 * Way-bread ||n||Plantain, sense being "broad-leaved plant of the roadside(s)"
 * Wayfare ||n||To travel or go a long way on foot; rambling. 2. to undertake journeys, trips by various mean or mode of transport
 * Wayfarer||n||One who goes along way on foot; a rambler. 2. one who undertakes journeys or trips along roads and ways.
 * Wayfaring ||n||Travelling or journeying by road.
 * Waygate ||n||The act of fact of going away; way-going. 2. act of leaving a habitation or employment.
 * Way-going ||n||The action og going or departing. 2. waygate.
 * Way-in ||adj||Conventional, fashionable, sophisticated.
 * Waying ||n||A going-way, departure, as, in "We speed their waying."
 * Waying ||phr||"We Speed Their Waying"
 * Wayland ||n||In Teutonic and English mythology, an invincible blacksmith with magical powers, also 'Wayland the Smith'
 * Wayleet ||n||A place where two roads meet. a waymeet.
 * Waylay ||vb||To lie in ambush for and attack, as in order to rob. 2. to accost on the way.
 * Waylayer ||n||One who lies in wait in wait for and attack in order to rob.
 * Wayleet ||n||A place where two roads meet; a waymeet.
 * Wayless ||adj||Chiefly of a country, region: having no ways or roads, trackless, path. 2. fig. lacking direction, purpose or goals.
 * Wayless-ness ||adj||The state or condition of being wayless.
 * Way-maker ||n||One who makes or repairs raods and ways. 2. a person or thing that prepares the way for another: a forerunner, precursor or prelude, a harbinger.
 * Waymark ||n||Object, whether natural or artificial structures, which serves as a guide to traveler; also fig.
 * Way-off ||(adv||(Also adj.) far way. 2. far from the intended target. 3. greatly wrong or mistaken, quite wrong; distant.
 * Wayout ||adv||Far out, far away. 2. far removed from reality, or from convention, extreme, progressive, avant-garde, advanced. 3. great mistaken. 4. a person who holds extreme or uncanny views.
 * Way-outness ||n||Unconventionality, state removed fro reality. 2. extremeness, avant-garde-ness.
 * Ways ||sfx||(-ways) of adverbs. In a specified manner, direction or position: noways, sideways; often equivalent to wise
 * Ways and Means ||n||Means and methods of accomplishing an end or defraying costs, specifically, in legislation, methods of raising funds for the use of government.
 * Wayside ||n||The side or edge of a road or way.
 * Wayside ||adj||Pertaining to the side of the road, street or path. 2. growing, being or bordering either side of a way.
 * Wayside ||phr||"Fall By The Wayside" -
 * Way up ||adv||Excellent, fist-class, of high social state or class.
 * Way-ward ||adj||Wandering away; willful, forward. 2. without definite way or course; unsteady, vacillating, capricious. 3. unexpected or unwished for.
 * Way-wardness ||n||The state or condition of wandering away, willfulness, forwardness. 2. the quality of unsteady, vacillation; capricious-ness.  3.expected-ness or unwishful-ness
 * Way-worn ||adj||Wearied by travel.
 * Waywort ||n||A name for the Saxifrage, the Pimpernel and various other plants found or growing by the roadside or wayside.
 * Wayless-ness ||adj||The state or condition of being wayless.
 * Way-maker ||n||One who makes or repairs raods and ways. 2. a person or thing that prepares the way for another: a forerunner, precursor or prelude, a harbinger.
 * Waymark ||n||Object, whether natural or artificial structures, which serves as a guide to traveler; also fig.
 * Way-off ||(adv||(Also adj.) far way. 2. far from the intended target. 3. greatly wrong or mistaken, quite wrong; distant.
 * Wayout ||adv||Far out, far away. 2. far removed from reality, or from convention, extreme, progressive, avant-garde, advanced. 3. great mistaken. 4. a person who holds extreme or uncanny views.
 * Way-outness ||n||Unconventionality, state removed fro reality. 2. extremeness, avant-garde-ness.
 * Ways ||sfx||(-ways) of adverbs. In a specified manner, direction or position: noways, sideways; often equivalent to wise
 * Ways and Means ||n||Means and methods of accomplishing an end or defraying costs, specifically, in legislation, methods of raising funds for the use of government.
 * Wayside ||n||The side or edge of a road or way.
 * Wayside ||adj||Pertaining to the side of the road, street or path. 2. growing, being or bordering either side of a way.
 * Wayside ||phr||"Fall By The Wayside" -
 * Way up ||adv||Excellent, fist-class, of high social state or class.
 * Way-ward ||adj||Wandering away; willful, forward. 2. without definite way or course; unsteady, vacillating, capricious. 3. unexpected or unwished for.
 * Way-wardness ||n||The state or condition of wandering away, willfulness, forwardness. 2. the quality of unsteady, vacillation; capricious-ness.  3.expected-ness or unwishful-ness
 * Way-worn ||adj||Wearied by travel.
 * Waywort ||n||A name for the Saxifrage, the Pimpernel and various other plants found or growing by the roadside or wayside.
 * Wayside ||n||The side or edge of a road or way.
 * Wayside ||adj||Pertaining to the side of the road, street or path. 2. growing, being or bordering either side of a way.
 * Wayside ||phr||"Fall By The Wayside" -
 * Way up ||adv||Excellent, fist-class, of high social state or class.
 * Way-ward ||adj||Wandering away; willful, forward. 2. without definite way or course; unsteady, vacillating, capricious. 3. unexpected or unwished for.
 * Way-wardness ||n||The state or condition of wandering away, willfulness, forwardness. 2. the quality of unsteady, vacillation; capricious-ness.  3.expected-ness or unwishful-ness
 * Way-worn ||adj||Wearied by travel.
 * Waywort ||n||A name for the Saxifrage, the Pimpernel and various other plants found or growing by the roadside or wayside.
 * Way-ward ||adj||Wandering away; willful, forward. 2. without definite way or course; unsteady, vacillating, capricious. 3. unexpected or unwished for.
 * Way-wardness ||n||The state or condition of wandering away, willfulness, forwardness. 2. the quality of unsteady, vacillation; capricious-ness.  3.expected-ness or unwishful-ness
 * Way-worn ||adj||Wearied by travel.
 * Waywort ||n||A name for the Saxifrage, the Pimpernel and various other plants found or growing by the roadside or wayside.
 * Way-worn ||adj||Wearied by travel.
 * Waywort ||n||A name for the Saxifrage, the Pimpernel and various other plants found or growing by the roadside or wayside.
 * Waywort ||n||A name for the Saxifrage, the Pimpernel and various other plants found or growing by the roadside or wayside.
 * Waywort ||n||A name for the Saxifrage, the Pimpernel and various other plants found or growing by the roadside or wayside.