Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter W - Page 35

Wisher (n.) One who wishes or desires; one who expresses a wish.

Wishful (a.) Having desire, or ardent desire; longing.

Wishful (a.) Showing desire; as, wishful eyes.

Wishful (a.) Desirable; exciting wishes.

Wishing () a. & n. from Wish, v. t.

Wishly (adv.) According to desire; longingly; with wishes.

Wishtonwish (n.) The prairie dog.

Wish-wash (n.) Any weak, thin drink.

Wishy-washy (a.) Thin and pale; weak; without strength or substance; -- originally said of liquids. Fig., weak-minded; spiritless.

Wishy-washy (n.) A weak or thin drink or liquor; wish-wash.

Wisket (n.) A whisket, or basket.

Wisly (adv.) Certainly.

Wisp (n.) A small bundle, as of straw or other like substance.

Wisp (n.) A whisk, or small broom.

Wisp (n.) A Will-o'-the-wisp; an ignis fatuus.

Wisped (imp. & p. p.) of Wisp

Wisping (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Wisp

Wisp (v. t.) To brush or dress, an with a wisp.

Wisp (v. t.) To rumple.

Wispen (a.) Formed of a wisp, or of wisp; as, a wispen broom.

Wisse (a.) To show; to teach; to inform; to guide; to direct.

Wist (v.) Knew.

Wistaria (n.) A genus of climbing leguminous plants bearing long, pendulous clusters of pale bluish flowers.

Wistful (a.) Longing; wishful; desirous.

Wistful (a.) Full of thought; eagerly attentive; meditative; musing; pensive; contemplative.

Wistit (n.) A small South American monkey; a marmoset.

Wistly (adv.) Attentively; observingly.

Wistonwish (n.) See Wishtonwish.

Wit (inf.) of Wit

Wot (pres. sing.) of Wit

Wite (pl.) of Wit

Wist(e) (imp.) of Wit

Wist (p. p.) of Wit

Wit(t)ing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Wit

Wit (n.) To know; to learn.

Wit (v.) Mind; intellect; understanding; sense.

Wit (v.) A mental faculty, or power of the mind; -- used in this sense chiefly in the plural, and in certain phrases; as, to lose one's wits; at one's wits' end, and the like.

Wit (v.) Felicitous association of objects not usually connected, so as to produce a pleasant surprise; also. the power of readily combining objects in such a manner.

Wit (v.) A person of eminent sense or knowledge; a man of genius, fancy, or humor; one distinguished for bright or amusing sayings, for repartee, and the like.

Witch (n.) A cone of paper which is placed in a vessel of lard or other fat, and used as a taper.

Witch (n.) One who practices the black art, or magic; one regarded as possessing supernatural or magical power by compact with an evil spirit, esp. with the Devil; a sorcerer or sorceress; -- now applied chiefly or only to women, but formerly used of men as well.

Witch (n.) An ugly old woman; a hag.

Witch (n.) One who exercises more than common power of attraction; a charming or bewitching person; also, one given to mischief; -- said especially of a woman or child.

Witch (n.) A certain curve of the third order, described by Maria Agnesi under the name versiera.

Witch (n.) The stormy petrel.

Witched (imp. & p. p.) of Witch

Witching (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Witch

Witch (v. t.) To bewitch; to fascinate; to enchant.

Witchcraft (n.) The practices or art of witches; sorcery; enchantments; intercourse with evil spirits.

Witchcraft (n.) Power more than natural; irresistible influence.

Witch-elm (n.) See Wych-elm.

Witcheries (pl. ) of Witchery

Witchery (n.) Sorcery; enchantment; witchcraft.

Witchery (n.) Fascination; irresistible influence; enchantment.

Witch-hazel (n.) The wych-elm.

Witch-hazel (n.) An American shrub or small tree (Hamamelis Virginica), which blossoms late in autumn.

Witching (a.) That witches or enchants; suited to enchantment or witchcraft; bewitching.

Witch-tree (n.) The witch-hazel.

Witchuck (n.) The sand martin, or bank swallow.

Wit-cracker (n.) One who breaks jests; a joker.

Witcraft (n.) Art or skill of the mind; contrivance; invention; wit.

Witcraft (n.) The art of reasoning; logic.

Wite (v.) To reproach; to blame; to censure; also, to impute as blame.

Wite (v.) Blame; reproach.

Witeless (a.) Blameless.

Witen () pl. pres. of Wit.

Witenagemote (n.) A meeting of wise men; the national council, or legislature, of England in the days of the Anglo-Saxons, before the Norman Conquest.

Witfish (n.) The ladyfish (a).

Witful (a.) Wise; sensible.

With (n.) See Withe.

With (prep.) With denotes or expresses some situation or relation of nearness, proximity, association, connection, or the like.

With (prep.) To denote a close or direct relation of opposition or hostility; -- equivalent to against.

With (prep.) To denote association in respect of situation or environment; hence, among; in the company of.

With (prep.) To denote a connection of friendship, support, alliance, assistance, countenance, etc.; hence, on the side of.

With (prep.) To denote the accomplishment of cause, means, instrument, etc; -- sometimes equivalent to by.

With (prep.) To denote association in thought, as for comparison or contrast.

With (prep.) To denote simultaneous happening, or immediate succession or consequence.

With (prep.) To denote having as a possession or an appendage; as, the firmament with its stars; a bride with a large fortune.

Withal (adv.) With this; with that.

Withal (adv.) Together with this; likewise; at the same time; in addition; also.

Withal (prep.) With; -- put after its object, at the end of sentence or clause in which it stands.

Withamite (n.) A variety of epidote, of a reddish color, found in Scotland.

Withdrew (imp.) of Withdraw

Withdrawn (p. p.) of Withdraw

Withdrawing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Withdraw

Withdraw (v. t.) To take back or away, as what has been bestowed or enjoyed; to draw back; to cause to move away or retire; as, to withdraw aid, favor, capital, or the like.

Withdraw (v. t.) To take back; to recall or retract; as, to withdraw false charges.

Withdraw (v. i.) To retire; to retreat; to quit a company or place; to go away; as, he withdrew from the company.

Withdrawal (n.) The act of withdrawing; withdrawment; retreat; retraction.

Withdrawer (n.) One who withdraws; one who takes back, or retracts.

Withdrawing-room (n.) A room for retirement from another room, as from a dining room; a drawing-room.

Withdrawment (n.) The act of withdrawing; withdrawal.

Withe (n.) A flexible, slender twig or branch used as a band; a willow or osier twig; a withy.

Withe (n.) A band consisting of a twig twisted.

Withe (n.) An iron attachment on one end of a mast or boom, with a ring, through which another mast or boom is rigged out and secured; a wythe.

Withe (n.) A partition between flues in a chimney.

Withed (imp. & p. p.) of Withe

Withing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Withe

Withe (v. t.) To bind or fasten with withes.

Withered (imp. & p. p.) of Wither

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