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| wade | vb | to walk (generally through liquid), to proceed with difficulty or labor; |
| wain | n | a road vehicle, typically with four wheels; wagon, cart, car, automobile [NE]
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| wallwriter | n | a graffiti artist; graffitist [wall + writer]
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| wallwriting | n | graffiti; [wall + writing]
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| walstinge | n | a carnage-spear, a spear with which slaughter is to be carried out; |
| wanhope | n | the overwhelming feeling of loss beyond repair or redemption; hopelessness, despair [NE]
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| wanderword | n | a word that has spread to many different languages; wanderwort [NE; [ᛣ]: NHG Wanderwort]
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| wandling | n | changeableness, mutability; changing?, mutation?; [OE wandlung (attested only once?)]
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| wardlord | n | lord protector; [ward + lord]
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| waterbour | n | reservoir; [NE water + OE beorg; cf. NE harbour]
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| waterwife | n | an additional wife (in a polygamous society, and a drought-ravaged one) married for the sole purpose of being able to walk to a well and return with water; [water + wife]
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| waterleat | n | a water-course; an aqueduct [OE wætergelǣt]
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| wayleat | n | a place where two or more roads meet; junction [ME weilēte]
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| waywrit | n | an official document containing personal information and usually a photograph that allows a person to travel to foreign countries and to prove who they are; passport [[ᛣ]: IL vegabréf]
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| weal | n | a sound, healthy, or prosperous state; well-being, welfare, prosperity, wealth, riches |
| weasand | n | the oesophagus, the gullet; trachea, windpipe; throat; |
| weaselflood | n | the growing accusations of sexual misconduct and harassment of women by prominent men; [weasel + flood]
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| webstead | n | a website; [web + stead]
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| wedyield | n | money or property given to a husband by his bride on their wedding day; dowry [wed + yield [ᚩ]]
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| Weedmonth | n(p) | the eighth month of the year; August [OE Wēodmōnaþ]
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| weedtree | n | a sassafras tree; [[ᛣ]: NE ague tree]
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| ween | vb | to be of the opinion, to opine, to have the notion, to suppose; |
| welder | n | a person whose job is to join two pieces of metal together permanently by melting the parts that touch; [NE]
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| well-wended | adj | well orientated; [NE < well + wended (< wend "to direct (one's way or course), pursue one's way, proceed upon some course or way"]
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| wen | n | a boil or a growth on the skin, a sebaceous cyst, a cyst; an overcrowded city; |
| weness | n | the state or quality of being or belonging to a cohesive group of people, especially a group that includes the speaker; usness [NE we-ness, first attested in 1920 in the writings of Mary Johnston]
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| wepman | n | an adult human male; [ME wepmon; short for "weapon-man"; opposite of woman]
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| werning | n | the act of denying a request; refusal; prohibition [ME werning]
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| whelm | vb | to cover; to submerge; to engulf; |
| whelp | n | a young offspring of a canid; an insolent youth; puppy |
| whence | adv | from where, from what place, from which; by reason of which; |
| whilen | adj | lasting only for a while; transitory, brief [OE *hwīlen {hwīlnan} (attested only once?)]
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| whilom | adj/adv | former, erstwhile ᛭ formerly, in the past; previously |
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| wifething | n | wedding nuptials with a woman; sexual intercourse with a woman; [ME wīfeþing]
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| wight | n | a human being (often implying some contempt or commiseration); a living being, creature (especially a supernatural one); [NE]
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| wilderness | n | a region uncultivated and uninhabited by human beings, an empty or pathless area; [NE]
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| windfellow | n | ghost, spirit, phantom; [wind + fellow]
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| windharp | n | an Aeolian harp, Aeolian lyre, anemochord; [NE wind harp]
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| wineberry | n | the juicy fruit of the genus Vitis; a grape [ME wīneberie]
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| Winemonth | n(p) | the tenth month of the year; October [Dictionary of Phrase and Fable by E. Cobham Brewer; see Wine-month]
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| winer | n | a person who makes wine; a vintner [NE]
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| Winterfulth | n(p) | October; [OE Winterfylleð]
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| wiss | adj/adv | certain, sure ᛭ certainly, surely; |
| wit | vb | to know, to be aware; to come to know, to become aware; |
| witcraft | n | the art of reasoning; logic [NE; coined by Ralph Lever in 1573?]
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| witcraftly | adj | logical; [witcraft + -ly; cf. ME craftely and OE flītcræftlīc for the formation]
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| wite | vb | to depart; to pass away; [ME wīten]
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| withdraw | vb | to remove; to retreat; to extract; [NE]
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| witherling | n | an adversary; opponent, enemy [NE]
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| witherlawwritly | adv | anticonstitutionally; [wither + law + writ + -ly]
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| withsay | vb | to speak against; deny, dispute, decline [ENE withsay]
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| witship | n | science; [[ᛣ]: WF wittenskip]
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| witshipper | n | a scientist; [[ᛣ]: WF wittenskipper]
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| wolder | n | glory; splendour |
| wolderbee | vb | to crown, coronate; |
| Wolfmonth | n | the first month of the year (so called when the bitter cold of winter brought the wolves into the villages to forage for food); January [Dictionary of Phrase and Fable by E. Cobham Brewer; see Wolf-month]
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| won | n | habit, custom, a tradition; a practice, convention; |
| wonly | adj | common, customary, usual; [Early ME ȝewunelic]
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| woom | n | a sound, a noise; [OE wōma]
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| woor | vb | to disturb, to distract; [ME wọ̄ren]
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| wooth | n | song; voice (especially in song); sung poetry; eloquent speech; [OE wōþ]
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| wordbirth | n | etymology; [word + birth]
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| wordbook | n | a reference source in print or electronic form containing words usually alphabetically arranged along with information about their forms, pronunciations, functions, etymologies, meanings, and syntactic and idiomatic uses; a dictionary, lexicon |
| wordbookwright | n | an author or editor of a dictionary; lexicographer [wordbook + wright]
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| wordcraft | n | the art of rhetoric; |
| word-drunk | adj | prone to use obscure words or inkhorn terms; [NE, first appears in 1912 in the writings of Rudyard Kipling]
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| wordending | n | suffix; [NE word ending, first attested in 1829 in the writings of Moses Stuart]
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| wordful | adj | full of words; verbose, talkative |
| wordhoard | n | a vocabulary; lexicon [NE word-hoard, a late 19th century revival of OE wordhord]
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| wordlore | n | the study of words; lexicology [NE word-lore]
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| wordshard | n | lexeme; [word + shard]
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| wordstock | n | a vocabulary; lexicon; wordhoard [NE word-stock]
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| wordy | adj | verbose; verbal [NE]
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| workbed | n | the workplace of a sex worker; [work + bed]
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| worldfremmed | adj | out of touch with reality, disconnected from reality, unrealistic; pie-in-the-sky [[ᛣ]: WF wrâldfrjemd; see also NE fremd]
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| worlddeal | n | a continent; [[ᛣ]: WF wrâlddiel]
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| worldsoul | n | an animating spirit or creative principle related to the world as the soul is to the individual being; anima mundi [NE world soul, first appearing in 1828 as a calque of Latin anima mundi]
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| worldswink | n | worldly labour or toil; [OE weoruldgeswinc]
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| worm | n | a creeping insect; serpent; reptile; dragon [NE]
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| wormmonger | n | one who breeds worms to compost and reduce household organic waste, particularly in an urban environment; [worm + monger]
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| wort | n | an herb, a plant; |
| wortcraft | n | the growing of plants and flowers, the craft of growing plants; horticulture [wort + craft]
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| worth | vb | to happen, to betide; to become [ᚩ]; to come to be [ᚩ]; |
| worthmint | n | honour, dignity; worship, reverence [Early ME worðmunt]
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| wortsmith | n | a rearer, grower, and seller of plants and flowers; nursery-man [wort + smith]
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| wough | n | a wall of a house, a partition; (in mining) the side of a vein; [NE]
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| wristbone | n | a carpal bone; [NE]
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| wryneck | n | either of two Old World woodpeckers (Jynx torquilla or Jynx ruficollis) which can turn their necks almost 180 degrees; torticollis; [NE]
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