Wives (n.) pl. of Wife.
Wizard (n.) A wise man; a sage.
Wizard (n.) One devoted to the black art; a magician; a conjurer; a sorcerer; an enchanter.
Wizard (a.) Enchanting; charming.
Wizard (a.) Haunted by wizards.
Wizardly (a.) Resembling or becoming a wizard; wizardlike; weird.
Wizardry (n.) The character or practices o/ wizards; sorcery; magic.
Wizen (v. i.) To wither; to dry.
Wizen (a.) Wizened; thin; weazen; withered.
Wizen (n.) The weasand.
Wizened (a.) Dried; shriveled; withered; shrunken; weazen; as, a wizened old man.
Wizen-faced (a.) Having a shriveled, thin, withered face.
Wlatsome (a.) Loathsome; disgusting; hateful.
Wo (n. & a.) See Woe.
Woad (n.) An herbaceous cruciferous plant (Isatis tinctoria). It was formerly cultivated for the blue coloring matter derived from its leaves.
Woad (n.) A blue dyestuff, or coloring matter, consisting of the powdered and fermented leaves of the Isatis tinctoria. It is now superseded by indigo, but is somewhat used with indigo as a ferment in dyeing.
Woaded (a.) Colored or stained with woad.
Woad-waxen (n.) A leguminous plant (Genista tinctoria) of Europe and Russian Asia, and adventitious in America; -- called also greenwood, greenweed, dyer's greenweed, and whin, wood-wash, wood-wax, and wood-waxen.
Woald (n.) See Weld.
Wobble (v. i.) See Wabble.
Wode (a.) Mad. See Wood, a.
Wode (n.) Wood.
Wodegeld (n.) A geld, or payment, for wood.
Woden (n.) A deity corresponding to Odin, the supreme deity of the Scandinavians. Wednesday is named for him. See Odin.
Woe (n.) Grief; sorrow; misery; heavy calamity.
Woe (n.) A curse; a malediction.
Woe (a.) Woeful; sorrowful.
Woe-begone (a.) Beset or overwhelmed with woe; immersed in grief or sorrow; woeful.
Woeful (a.) Alt. of Woful
Woful (a.) Full of woe; sorrowful; distressed with grief or calamity; afflicted; wretched; unhappy; sad.
Woful (a.) Bringing calamity, distress, or affliction; as, a woeful event; woeful want.
Woful (a.) Wretched; paltry; miserable; poor.
Woefully (adv.) Alt. of Wofully
Wofully (adv.) In a woeful manner; sorrowfully; mournfully; miserably; dolefully.
Woefulness (n.) Alt. of Wofulness
Wofulness (n.) The quality or state of being woeful; misery; wretchedness.
Woesome (a.) Woeful.
Woke (imp. & p. p.) Wake.
Wol (v. t. & i.) See 2d Will.
Wold (n.) A wood; a forest.
Wold (n.) A plain, or low hill; a country without wood, whether hilly or not.
Wold (n.) See Weld.
Wolde () imp. of Will. See Would.
Wolves (pl. ) of Wolf
Wolf (a.) Any one of several species of wild and savage carnivores belonging to the genus Canis and closely allied to the common dog. The best-known and most destructive species are the European wolf (Canis lupus), the American gray, or timber, wolf (C. occidentalis), and the prairie wolf, or coyote. Wolves often hunt in packs, and may thus attack large animals and even man.
Wolf (a.) One of the destructive, and usually hairy, larvae of several species of beetles and grain moths; as, the bee wolf.
Wolf (a.) Fig.: Any very ravenous, rapacious, or destructive person or thing; especially, want; starvation; as, they toiled hard to keep the wolf from the door.
Wolf (a.) A white worm, or maggot, which infests granaries.
Wolf (a.) An eating ulcer or sore. Cf. Lupus.
Wolf (a.) The harsh, howling sound of some of the chords on an organ or piano tuned by unequal temperament.
Wolf (a.) In bowed instruments, a harshness due to defective vibration in certain notes of the scale.
Wolf (a.) A willying machine.
Wolfberry (n.) An American shrub (Symphoricarpus occidentalis) which bears soft white berries.
Wolffian (a.) Discovered, or first described, by Caspar Friedrich Wolff (1733-1794), the founder of modern embryology.
Wolfish (a.) Like a wolf; having the qualities or form of a wolf; as, a wolfish visage; wolfish designs.
Wolfkin (n.) A little or young wolf.
Wolfling (n.) A young wolf.
Wolfram (n.) Same as Wolframite.
Wolframate (n.) A salt of wolframic acid; a tungstate.
Wolframic (a.) Of or pertaining to wolframium. See Tungstic.
Wolframite (n.) Tungstate of iron and manganese, generally of a brownish or grayish black color, submetallic luster, and high specific gravity. It occurs in cleavable masses, and also crystallized. Called also wolfram.
Wolframium (n.) The technical name of the element tungsten. See Tungsten.
Wolfsbane (n.) A poisonous plant (Aconitum Lycoctonum), a kind of monkshood; also, by extension, any plant or species of the genus Aconitum. See Aconite.
Wolf's-claw (n.) A kind of club moss. See Lycopodium.
Wolf's-foot (n.) Club moss. See Lycopodium.
Wolf's-milk (n.) Any kind of spurge (Euphorbia); -- so called from its acrid milky juice.
Woll (v. t. & i.) See 2d Will.
Wollastonite (n.) A silicate of lime of a white to gray, red, or yellow color, occurring generally in cleavable masses, rarely in tabular crystals; tabular spar.
Wolle (n.) Wool.
Wolverene (n.) Alt. of Wolverine
Wolverine (n.) The glutton.
Wolverine (n.) A nickname for an inhabitant of Michigan.
Wolves (n.) pl. of Wolf.
Wolvish (a.) Wolfish.
Women (pl. ) of Woman
Woman (n.) An adult female person; a grown-up female person, as distinguished from a man or a child; sometimes, any female person.
Woman (n.) The female part of the human race; womankind.
Woman (n.) A female attendant or servant.
Woman (v. t.) To act the part of a woman in; -- with indefinite it.
Woman (v. t.) To make effeminate or womanish.
Woman (v. t.) To furnish with, or unite to, a woman.
Womanhead (n.) Alt. of Womanhede
Womanhede (n.) Womanhood.
Womanhood (n.) The state of being a woman; the distinguishing character or qualities of a woman, or of womankind.
Womanhood (n.) Women, collectively; womankind.
Womanish (a.) Suitable to a woman, having the qualities of a woman; effeminate; not becoming a man; -- usually in a reproachful sense. See the Note under Effeminate.
Womanize (v. t.) To make like a woman; to make effeminate.
Womankind (n.) The females of the human race; women, collectively.
Womanless (a.) Without a woman or women.
Womanlike (a.) Like a woman; womanly.
Womanliness (n.) The quality or state of being womanly.
Womanly (a.) Becoming a woman; feminine; as, womanly behavior.
Womanly (adv.) In the manner of a woman; with the grace, tenderness, or affection of a woman.
Womb (n.) The belly; the abdomen.
Womb (n.) The uterus. See Uterus.
Womb (n.) The place where anything is generated or produced.
Womb (n.) Any cavity containing and enveloping anything.
Womb (v. t.) To inclose in a womb, or as in a womb; to breed or hold in secret.
Wombat (n.) Any one of three species of Australian burrowing marsupials of the genus Phascolomys, especially the common species (P. ursinus). They are nocturnal in their habits, and feed mostly on roots.
Womby (a.) Capacious.