Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter W - Page 33

Wine (n.) The effect of drinking wine in excess; intoxication.

Wineberry (n.) The red currant.

Wineberry (n.) The bilberry.

Wineberry (n.) A peculiar New Zealand shrub (Coriaria ruscifolia), in which the petals ripen and afford an abundant purple juice from which a kind of wine is made. The plant also grows in Chili.

Winebibber (n.) One who drinks much wine.

Wineglass (n.) A small glass from which to drink wine.

Wineglassfuls (pl. ) of Wineglassful

Wineglassful () As much as a wineglass will hold; enough to fill a wineglass. It is usually reckoned at two fluid ounces, or four tablespoonfuls.

Wineless (a.) destitute of wine; as, wineless life.

Winery (n.) A place where grapes are converted into wine.

Wing (n.) One of the two anterior limbs of a bird, pterodactyl, or bat. They correspond to the arms of man, and are usually modified for flight, but in the case of a few species of birds, as the ostrich, auk, etc., the wings are used only as an assistance in running or swimming.

Wing (n.) Any similar member or instrument used for the purpose of flying.

Wing (n.) One of the two pairs of upper thoracic appendages of most hexapod insects. They are broad, fanlike organs formed of a double membrane and strengthened by chitinous veins or nervures.

Wing (n.) One of the large pectoral fins of the flying fishes.

Wing (n.) Passage by flying; flight; as, to take wing.

Wing (n.) Motive or instrument of flight; means of flight or of rapid motion.

Wing (n.) Anything which agitates the air as a wing does, or which is put in winglike motion by the action of the air, as a fan or vane for winnowing grain, the vane or sail of a windmill, etc.

Wing (n.) An ornament worn on the shoulder; a small epaulet or shoulder knot.

Wing (n.) Any appendage resembling the wing of a bird or insect in shape or appearance.

Wing (n.) One of the broad, thin, anterior lobes of the foot of a pteropod, used as an organ in swimming.

Wing (n.) Any membranaceous expansion, as that along the sides of certain stems, or of a fruit of the kind called samara.

Wing (n.) Either of the two side petals of a papilionaceous flower.

Wing (n.) One of two corresponding appendages attached; a sidepiece.

Wing (n.) A side building, less than the main edifice; as, one of the wings of a palace.

Wing (n.) The longer side of crownworks, etc., connecting them with the main work.

Wing (n.) A side shoot of a tree or plant; a branch growing up by the side of another.

Wing (n.) The right or left division of an army, regiment, etc.

Wing (n.) That part of the hold or orlop of a vessel which is nearest the sides. In a fleet, one of the extremities when the ships are drawn up in line, or when forming the two sides of a triangle.

Wing (n.) One of the sides of the stags in a theater.

Winged (imp. & p. p.) of Wing

Winging (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Wing

Wing (v. t.) To furnish with wings; to enable to fly, or to move with celerity.

Wing (v. t.) To supply with wings or sidepieces.

Wing (v. t.) To transport by flight; to cause to fly.

Wing (v. t.) To move through in flight; to fly through.

Wing (v. t.) To cut off the wings of; to wound in the wing; to disable a wing of; as, to wing a bird.

Winged (a.) Furnished with wings; transported by flying; having winglike expansions.

Winged (a.) Soaring with wings, or as if with wings; hence, elevated; lofty; sublime.

Winged (a.) Swift; rapid.

Winged (a.) Wounded or hurt in the wing.

Winged (a.) Furnished with a leaflike appendage, as the fruit of the elm and the ash, or the stem in certain plants; alate.

Winged (a.) Represented with wings, or having wings, of a different tincture from the body.

Winged (a.) Fanned with wings; swarming with birds.

Winger (n.) One of the casks stowed in the wings of a vessel's hold, being smaller than such as are stowed more amidships.

Wingfish (n.) A sea robin having large, winglike pectoral fins. See Sea robin, under Robin.

Wing-footed (a.) Having wings attached to the feet; as, wing-footed Mercury; hence, swift; moving with rapidity; fleet.

Wing-footed (a.) Having part or all of the feet adapted for flying.

Wing-footed (a.) Having the anterior lobes of the foot so modified as to form a pair of winglike swimming organs; -- said of the pteropod mollusks.

Wing-handed (a.) Having the anterior limbs or hands adapted for flight, as the bats and pterodactyls.

Wing-leaved (a.) Having pinnate or pinnately divided leaves.

Wingless (a.) Having no wings; not able to ascend or fly.

Winglet (n.) A little wing; a very small wing.

Winglet (n.) A bastard wing, or alula.

Wingmanship (n.) Power or skill in flying.

Wing-shell (n.) Any one of various species of marine bivalve shells belonging to the genus Avicula, in which the hinge border projects like a wing.

Wing-shell (n.) Any marine gastropod shell of the genus Strombus. See Strombus.

Wing-shell (n.) Any pteropod shell.

Wingy (a.) Having wings; rapid.

Wingy (a.) Soaring with wings, or as if with wings; volatile airy.

Winked (imp. & p. p.) of Wink

Winking (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Wink

Wink (v. i.) To nod; to sleep; to nap.

Wink (v. i.) To shut the eyes quickly; to close the eyelids with a quick motion.

Wink (v. i.) To close and open the eyelids quickly; to nictitate; to blink.

Wink (v. i.) To give a hint by a motion of the eyelids, often those of one eye only.

Wink (v. i.) To avoid taking notice, as if by shutting the eyes; to connive at anything; to be tolerant; -- generally with at.

Wink (v. i.) To be dim and flicker; as, the light winks.

Wink (v. t.) To cause (the eyes) to wink.

Wink (n.) The act of closing, or closing and opening, the eyelids quickly; hence, the time necessary for such an act; a moment.

Wink (n.) A hint given by shutting the eye with a significant cast.

Winker (n.) One who winks.

Winker (n.) A horse's blinder; a blinker.

Winkingly (adv.) In a winking manner; with the eye almost closed.

Winkle (n.) Any periwinkle.

Winkle (n.) Any one of various marine spiral gastropods, esp., in the United States, either of two species of Fulgar (F. canaliculata, and F. carica).

Winkle-hawk (n.) A rectangular rent made in cloth; -- called also winkle-hole.

Winnard 2 (n.) The redwing.

Winnebagoes (n.) A tribe of North American Indians who originally occupied the region about Green Bay, Lake Michigan, but were driven back from the lake and nearly exterminated in 1640 by the IIlinnois.

Winner (n.) One who wins, or gains by success in competition, contest, or gaming.

Winning (a.) Attracting; adapted to gain favor; charming; as, a winning address.

Winning (n.) The act of obtaining something, as in a contest or by competition.

Winning (n.) The money, etc., gained by success in competition or contest, esp, in gambling; -- usually in the plural.

Winning (n.) A new opening.

Winning (n.) The portion of a coal field out for working.

Winningly (adv.) In a winning manner.

Winningness (n.) The quality or state of being winning.

Winninish (n.) The land-locked variety of the common salmon.

Winnowed (imp. & p. p.) of Winnew

Winnowing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Winnew

Winnew (n.) To separate, and drive off, the chaff from by means of wind; to fan; as, to winnow grain.

Winnew (n.) To sift, as for the purpose of separating falsehood from truth; to separate, as had from good.

Winnew (n.) To beat with wings, or as with wings.

Winnow (v. i.) To separate chaff from grain.

Winnower (n.) One who, or that which, winnows; specifically, a winnowing machine.

Winnowing (n.) The act of one who, or that which, winnows.

Winrow (n.) A windrow.

Winsing (a.) Winsome.

Winsome (a.) Cheerful; merry; gay; light-hearted.

Winsome (a.) Causing joy or pleasure; gladsome; pleasant.

Winsomeness (n.) The characteristic of being winsome; attractiveness of manner.

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