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| wade | vb | move, proceed, advance; [OE wadan]
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| wall-writer | n | graffitist; [OE wall & writer]
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| wall-writing | n | graffiti; [OE wall & writing]
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| wanhope | n | the overwhelming feeling of loss beyond repair or redemption; hopelessness, despair [rare, from WAN- + hope]
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| wanderword | n | a word that has spread to many different languages; wanderwort; world-wide word [calque of German Wanderwort; neologism, from wander & word]
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| wandling | n | a changing or mutation; changing, mutation [OE wandlung]
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| war adder | n | arrow; [Late OE (war) and O.E. adder]
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| wardthink | vb | to have a relation to or bearing with; to matter to so as to cause unease, worry; concern [compound: 'ward' (toward) + 'think']
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| waterberg | n | reservoir; [water + berg (<OE beorgan 'save, preserve')]
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| water-wife | 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 | aqueduct; [OE wætergelæt]
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| " All Wax and No Wick" | phr | all talk and no worth; a man of words, and not of deeds is like a field of weeds..; no show, no go. [OE]
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| waygether | vb | to set or put apart into sections, groups, sets, units; cause to part; separate, disunite [compound: 'way' (away) + 'gether' (together)]
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| waygo | vb | to go away; depart; leave; [neologism: way + go]
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| wayleat | n | junction; [way + leat 'course']
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| waymind | vb | to disregard deliberately, pay no attention to, refuse to consider; ignore [compound: 'way' (away) + 'mind']
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| waysend | vb | to send away; deport; force to leave; [neologism: way + send]
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| weal | n | prosperity; [OE wela]
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| weaselflood | n | the growing accusations of sexual misconduct and harassment of women by prominent men.; [OE weasel & flood.]
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| "A Man is Weal or Woe, as He Thinks Himself So" | phr | well-being and happiness is self made; [OE]
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| wearning | n | nihilism; [OE wiernan 'refuse, reject']
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| weasand | n | the oesophagus; trachea; gullet,windpipe, the throat generally [rare, OE weasend; OHG weisant]
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| webside | n | sides that are on the Web (a website); webstead, webbook [web + side (of a book)]
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| wedyield | n | money or property given to a husband by his bride on their wedding day; dowry [wed (marry) + yield (stock, supply)]
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| Weedmonth | n | the eighth month of the year, when the word "weed" meant all kinds of greenery; August [Anglo-Saxon, from Wēod-Mōnath]
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| ween | vb | hope, expect, immagine; [OE wenan]
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| welder | n | a person who's job is to join two pieces of metal together permanently by melting the parts that touch; [CED]
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| well-wended | adj | well orientated; [wend 'to direct (one's way or course) - pursue one's way - proceed upon some course or way'
~ We wended our weary way westward.] |
| welsting | n | {{{meaning}}}; {{{synonyms}}} [Anglo-Saxon, <OE wealsteng]
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| wen | n | a lump or protuberance on the body; excresence on a tree, spot, stain; fig: moral stain, defilement; cyst, tumour, blemish [OE (wen)]
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| we-ness | n | the sweet-symbiosis phase at the beginning of a love relationship, filled with love and passion and marked by the two partners merging into one identity.; sweet symbiosis [OE (we & ness)]
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| werthe | vb | become; [OE weorðan]
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| whelp | n | young of the dog; the young of various wild animals, as the lion, bear, tiger, wolf. Also applied to the off-spring of noxious creatures; low fellow; suckling, pup,cub [OE hwelp]
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| whence | adv | from what place or from which; what source [OED (Formal/Archaic) , OE hwanon, ME Whenne & later Whannes/Whennes]
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| whilen | adj | transitory; [OE hwílen]
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| Whilom | adv, adj | adv: formerly, adj:former; erstwhile, in the past, previously [OED, OE: hwīlum]
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| Good wife and Health are a Man's Best Wealth ('A"). | pvb | love, friendship and health are one's greatest benefits in life.; [OE]
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| wifthing | n | an affair or matter relating to a wife or woman. 2. wedding nuptials. 3. sexual intercourse; [OE wife & thing.]
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| wight | n | animal; []
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| windfellow | n | ghost, spirit, phantom; ghost, shade, walking-dead [OE: wind & fellow]
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| wineberry | n | juicy fruit of the genus Vitis; grape [OE winberige]
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| wine-month | n | the tenth month of the year, when wine-drinking is common; October [Anglo-Saxon, from Wīn-Mōnath]
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| winkeler | n | haberdashery; [Dutch word; OE wincel = corner, nook]
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| wis | adj, adv | absolute in certainty; sure, certainly [archaic and rare, from OE gewis "that which is known"]
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| " A man who has learned but little, grows old like an ox; His flesh waxes, but his wisdom, not. | phr | pursue matters of mind, rather than simply the basic needs of life.; [OE]
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| wit | v | to know; [obsolete, from OE witan to know, be aware of]
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| witship | n | science; [from Dutch wetenschap and German wissenschaft]
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| withache | n | pity or compassoin felt for another's troubles, suffering, etc; sympathy [calque from german 'mitleid']
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| witherling | n | opponent; [wither + -ling]
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| witherlawwritly | adv | anticonstitutionally; [forbinding]
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| withwin | vb | to bring to belief, consent, action etc,by overcoming the doubts or hesitations of; convince [with+win (part calque)]
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| wlit | noun | looks, appearance; aspect, visage [OE. wlite]
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| wlitty | adj | beautiful/ fair looking; beauteous [OE. wlitig]
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| woath | n | voice; [OE wóþ]
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| 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 [Anglo-Saxon, from Wulf-Mōnath]
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| wome | n | noise; [OE wóma]
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| word-beginning | n | prefix; [O.E. word + beginning]
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| wordbirth | n | etymology; [O.E. word + birth]
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| wordbook | n | a book containing all, or a subsection of, the words in a language, with their meanings; dictionary, lexicon [revival, word + book]
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| wordbook-worthy | n | a word included, or about to be included in a dictionary, because it is widely used.; [revival, word + book+'worthy]
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| word-drunk | adj | prone to use obscure words or inkhorn terms; [neologism: word + drunk]
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| word-ending | adj | suffix; [neologism: word + ending.]
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| wordhoard | n | lexicon; vocabulary; wordstock [neologism: word + hoard]
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| word-middle | n | infix; [neologism: word +middle]
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| "A Man of Words, and Not of Deeds is like a Field of Weeds" | pvb | deeds speak louder than words; [OE]
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| wordstock | n | vocabulary; lexicon; wordhoard [neologism: word + stock]
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| wordwander | n | a word that goes on a voyage (into a new language); wanderword; world-wide word ['word' + wander']
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| work bed | n | the workplace of a sex worker; [O.E. work + bed]
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| worldkenning | n | encyclopedia; [world + kenning]
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| worldswink | n | earthly toil; misery; [OE woruldġeswinc]
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| wortcraft | n | the growing of plants and flowers, the craft and lore about growing plants; horticulture [compound of wort 'plant, herb' + -craft]
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| wortsmith | n | a rearer, grower, and seller of plants and flowers.; nursery-man [compound of wort 'plant, herb' + smith]
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| wough | n | a wall of a house a partition; in mining, the side of a vein; divider, panel, side [OE archaïsm]
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| woot [1] | vb | (1st & 3rd person) Know, knows; perceive, see, sense, recognize [ME Same word]
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| woost [2] | vb | (2nd person) know; be aware, woot, know of [ME]
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| wrongdeck | v | to analyze or judge disapprovingly; criticize [wrong+deck]
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| wryneck | n | a small woodpecker that can turn its head round almost 180°; [OE wrīġian to turn, twist]
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| wulder | n | glory; [OE wuldor]
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| wyrm | n | a small creeping animal with more or less slender, elongated bodies, and without limbs or with very short ones; worm, snake, serpent [revival, wyrm]
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