Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter W - Page 14

Waxen (a.) Resembling wax; waxy; hence, soft; yielding.

Waxiness (n.) Quality or state of being waxy.

Waxwing (n.) Any one of several species of small birds of the genus Ampelis, in which some of the secondary quills are usually tipped with small horny ornaments resembling red sealing wax. The Bohemian waxwing (see under Bohemian) and the cedar bird are examples. Called also waxbird.

Waxwork (n.) Work made of wax; especially, a figure or figures formed or partly of wax, in imitation of real beings.

Waxwork (n.) An American climbing shrub (Celastrus scandens). It bears a profusion of yellow berrylike pods, which open in the autumn, and display the scarlet coverings of the seeds.

Waxworker (n.) One who works in wax; one who makes waxwork.

Waxworker (n.) A bee that makes or produces wax.

Waxy (a.) Resembling wax in appearance or consistency; viscid; adhesive; soft; hence, yielding; pliable; impressible.

Way (adv.) Away.

Way (n.) That by, upon, or along, which one passes or processes; opportunity or room to pass; place of passing; passage; road, street, track, or path of any kind; as, they built a way to the mine.

Way (n.) Length of space; distance; interval; as, a great way; a long way.

Way (n.) A moving; passage; procession; journey.

Way (n.) Course or direction of motion or process; tendency of action; advance.

Way (n.) The means by which anything is reached, or anything is accomplished; scheme; device; plan.

Way (n.) Manner; method; mode; fashion; style; as, the way of expressing one's ideas.

Way (n.) Regular course; habitual method of life or action; plan of conduct; mode of dealing.

Way (n.) Sphere or scope of observation.

Way (n.) Determined course; resolved mode of action or conduct; as, to have one's way.

Way (n.) Progress; as, a ship has way.

Way (n.) The timbers on which a ship is launched.

Way (n.) The longitudinal guides, or guiding surfaces, on the bed of a planer, lathe, or the like, along which a table or carriage moves.

Way (n.) Right of way. See below.

Way (v. t.) To go or travel to; to go in, as a way or path.

Way (v. i.) To move; to progress; to go.

Waybill (n.) A list of passengers in a public vehicle, or of the baggage or gods transported by a common carrier on a land route. When the goods are transported by water, the list is called a bill of lading.

Waybread (n.) The common dooryard plantain (Plantago major).

Waybung (n.) An Australian insessorial bird (Corcorax melanorhamphus) noted for the curious actions of the male during the breeding season. It is black with a white patch on each wing.

Wayed (a.) Used to the way; broken.

Wayfare (v. i.) To journey; to travel; to go to and fro.

Wayfare (n.) The act of journeying; travel; passage.

Wayfarer (n.) One who travels; a traveler; a passenger.

Wayfaring (a.) Traveling; passing; being on a journey.

Waygate (n.) The tailrace of a mill.

Way-going (a.) Going away; departing; of or pertaining to one who goes away.

Way-goose (n.) See Wayz-goose, n., 2.

Wayk (a.) Weak.

Waylaid (imp. & p. p.) of Waylay

Waylaying (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Waylay

Waylay (v. t.) To lie in wait for; to meet or encounter in the way; especially, to watch for the passing of, with a view to seize, rob, or slay; to beset in ambush.

Waylayer (n.) One who waylays another.

Wayless (a.) Having no road or path; pathless.

Wayleway (interj.) See Welaway.

Waymaker (n.) One who makes a way; a precursor.

Waymark (n.) A mark to guide in traveling.

Waymented (imp. & p. p.) of Wayment

Waymenting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Wayment

Wayment (v. i.) To lament; to grieve; to wail.

Wayment (n.) Grief; lamentation; mourning.

Way shaft () A rock shaft.

Way shaft () An interior shaft, usually one connecting two levels.

-ways () A suffix formed from way by the addition of the adverbial -s (see -wards). It is often used interchangeably with wise; as, endways or endwise; noways or nowise, etc.

Wayside (n.) The side of the way; the edge or border of a road or path.

Wayside (a.) Of or pertaining to the wayside; as, wayside flowers.

Wayward (a.) Taking one's own way; disobedient; froward; perverse; willful.

Way-wise (a.) Skillful in finding the way; well acquainted with the way or route; wise from having traveled.

Waywiser (n.) An instrument for measuring the distance which one has traveled on the road; an odometer, pedometer, or perambulator.

Waywode (n.) Originally, the title of a military commander in various Slavonic countries; afterwards applied to governors of towns or provinces. It was assumed for a time by the rulers of Moldavia and Wallachia, who were afterwards called hospodars, and has also been given to some inferior Turkish officers.

Waywodeship (n.) The office, province, or jurisdiction of a waywode.

Wayworn (a.) Wearied by traveling.

Wayz-goose (n.) A stubble goose.

Wayz-goose (n.) An annual feast of the persons employed in a printing office.

We (obj.) The plural nominative case of the pronoun of the first person; the word with which a person in speaking or writing denotes a number or company of which he is one, as the subject of an action expressed by a verb.

Weak (v. i.) Wanting physical strength.

Weak (v. i.) Deficient in strength of body; feeble; infirm; sickly; debilitated; enfeebled; exhausted.

Weak (v. i.) Not able to sustain a great weight, pressure, or strain; as, a weak timber; a weak rope.

Weak (v. i.) Not firmly united or adhesive; easily broken or separated into pieces; not compact; as, a weak ship.

Weak (v. i.) Not stiff; pliant; frail; soft; as, the weak stalk of a plant.

Weak (v. i.) Not able to resist external force or onset; easily subdued or overcome; as, a weak barrier; as, a weak fortress.

Weak (v. i.) Lacking force of utterance or sound; not sonorous; low; small; feeble; faint.

Weak (v. i.) Not thoroughly or abundantly impregnated with the usual or required ingredients, or with stimulating and nourishing substances; of less than the usual strength; as, weak tea, broth, or liquor; a weak decoction or solution; a weak dose of medicine.

Weak (v. i.) Lacking ability for an appropriate function or office; as, weak eyes; a weak stomach; a weak magistrate; a weak regiment, or army.

Weak (v. i.) Not possessing or manifesting intellectual, logical, moral, or political strength, vigor, etc.

Weak (v. i.) Feeble of mind; wanting discernment; lacking vigor; spiritless; as, a weak king or magistrate.

Weak (v. i.) Resulting from, or indicating, lack of judgment, discernment, or firmness; unwise; hence, foolish.

Weak (v. i.) Not having full confidence or conviction; not decided or confirmed; vacillating; wavering.

Weak (v. i.) Not able to withstand temptation, urgency, persuasion, etc.; easily impressed, moved, or overcome; accessible; vulnerable; as, weak resolutions; weak virtue.

Weak (v. i.) Wanting in power to influence or bind; as, weak ties; a weak sense of honor of duty.

Weak (v. i.) Not having power to convince; not supported by force of reason or truth; unsustained; as, a weak argument or case.

Weak (v. i.) Wanting in point or vigor of expression; as, a weak sentence; a weak style.

Weak (v. i.) Not prevalent or effective, or not felt to be prevalent; not potent; feeble.

Weak (v. i.) Lacking in elements of political strength; not wielding or having authority or energy; deficient in the resources that are essential to a ruler or nation; as, a weak monarch; a weak government or state.

Weak (v. i.) Tending towards lower prices; as, a weak market.

Weak (v. i.) Pertaining to, or designating, a verb which forms its preterit (imperfect) and past participle by adding to the present the suffix -ed, -d, or the variant form -t; as in the verbs abash, abashed; abate, abated; deny, denied; feel, felt. See Strong, 19 (a).

Weak (v. i.) Pertaining to, or designating, a noun in Anglo-Saxon, etc., the stem of which ends in -n. See Strong, 19 (b).

Weak (a.) To make or become weak; to weaken.

Weakened (imp. & p. p.) of Weaken

Weakening (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Weaken

Weaken (v. t.) To make weak; to lessen the strength of; to deprive of strength; to debilitate; to enfeeble; to enervate; as, to weaken the body or the mind; to weaken the hands of a magistrate; to weaken the force of an objection or an argument.

Weaken (v. t.) To reduce in quality, strength, or spirit; as, to weaken tea; to weaken any solution or decoction.

Weaken (v. i.) To become weak or weaker; to lose strength, spirit, or determination; to become less positive or resolute; as, the patient weakened; the witness weakened on cross-examination.

Weakener (n.) One who, or that which, weakens.

Weakfish (n.) Any fish of the genus Cynoscion; a squeteague; -- so called from its tender mouth. See Squeteague.

Weak-hearted (a.) Having little courage; of feeble spirit; dispirited; faint-hearted.

Weakish (a.) Somewhat weak; rather weak.

Weakishness (n.) Quality or state of being weakish.

Weak-kneed (a.) Having weak knees; hence, easily yielding; wanting resolution.

Weakling (n.) A weak or feeble creature.

Weakling (a.) Weak; feeble.

Weakly (adv.) In a weak manner; with little strength or vigor; feebly.

Weakly (superl.) Not strong of constitution; infirm; feeble; as, a weakly woman; a man of a weakly constitution.

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