Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter W - Page 38

Women (n.) pl. of Woman.

Won () imp. & p. p. of Win.

Won (v. i.) To dwell or abide.

Won (n.) Dwelling; wone.

Wonder (n.) That emotion which is excited by novelty, or the presentation to the sight or mind of something new, unusual, strange, great, extraordinary, or not well understood; surprise; astonishment; admiration; amazement.

Wonder (n.) A cause of wonder; that which excites surprise; a strange thing; a prodigy; a miracle.

Wondered (imp. & p. p.) of Wonder

Wondering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Wonder

Wonder (v. i.) To be affected with surprise or admiration; to be struck with astonishment; to be amazed; to marvel.

Wonder (v. i.) To feel doubt and curiosity; to wait with uncertain expectation; to query in the mind; as, he wondered why they came.

Wonder (a.) Wonderful.

Wonder (adv.) Wonderfully.

Wondered (a.) Having performed wonders; able to perform wonderful things.

Wonderer (n.) One who wonders.

Wonderful (a.) Adapted to excite wonder or admiration; surprising; strange; astonishing.

Wonderingly (adv.) In a wondering manner.

Wonderland (n.) A land full of wonders, or marvels.

Wonderly (adv.) Wonderfully; wondrously.

Wonderment (n.) Surprise; astonishment; a wonderful appearance; a wonder.

Wonderous (a.) Same as Wondrous.

Wonders (adv.) See Wondrous.

Wonderstruck (a.) Struck with wonder, admiration, or surprise.

Wonderwork (n.) A wonderful work or act; a prodigy; a miracle.

Wonder-worker (n.) One who performs wonders, or miracles.

Wonder-working (a.) Doing wonders or surprising things.

Wondrous (n.) In a wonderful or surprising manner or degree; wonderfully.

Wondrous (a.) Wonderful; astonishing; admirable; marvelous; such as excite surprise and astonishment; strange.

Wone (a.) To dwell; to abide.

Wone (a.) Dwelling; habitation; abode.

Wone (a.) Custom; habit; wont; use; usage.

Wong (n.) A field.

Wonger (n.) See Wanger.

Woning (n.) Dwelling.

Won't () A colloquial contraction of woll not. Will not. See Will.

Wont (a.) Using or doing customarily; accustomed; habituated; used.

Wont (n.) Custom; habit; use; usage.

Wont (imp.) of Wont

Wont (p. p.) of Wont

Wonted () of Wont

Wonting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Wont

Wont (v. i.) To be accustomed or habituated; to be used.

Wont (v. t.) To accustom; -- used reflexively.

Wonted (a.) Accustomed; customary; usual.

Wontedness (n.) The quality or state of being accustomed.

Wontless (a.) Unaccustomed.

Wooed (imp. & p. p.) of Woo

Wooing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Woo

Woo (v. t.) To solicit in love; to court.

Woo (v. t.) To court solicitously; to invite with importunity.

Woo (v. i.) To court; to make love.

Wood (a.) Mad; insane; possessed; rabid; furious; frantic.

Wood (v. i.) To grow mad; to act like a madman; to mad.

Wood (n.) A large and thick collection of trees; a forest or grove; -- frequently used in the plural.

Wood (n.) The substance of trees and the like; the hard fibrous substance which composes the body of a tree and its branches, and which is covered by the bark; timber.

Wood (n.) The fibrous material which makes up the greater part of the stems and branches of trees and shrubby plants, and is found to a less extent in herbaceous stems. It consists of elongated tubular or needle-shaped cells of various kinds, usually interwoven with the shinning bands called silver grain.

Wood (n.) Trees cut or sawed for the fire or other uses.

Wooded (imp. & p. p.) of Wood

Wooding (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Wood

Wood (v. t.) To supply with wood, or get supplies of wood for; as, to wood a steamboat or a locomotive.

Wood (v. i.) To take or get a supply of wood.

Woodbind (n.) Woodbine.

Woodbine (v. t.) A climbing plant having flowers of great fragrance (Lonicera Periclymenum); the honeysuckle.

Woodbine (v. t.) The Virginia creeper. See Virginia creeper, under Virginia.

Wood-bound (a.) Incumbered with tall, woody hedgerows.

Woodbury-type (n.) A process in photographic printing, in which a relief pattern in gelatin, which has been hardened after certain operations, is pressed upon a plate of lead or other soft metal. An intaglio impression in thus produced, from which pictures may be directly printed, but by a slower process than in common printing.

Woodbury-type (n.) A print from such a plate.

Woodchat (n.) Any one of several species of Asiatic singing birds belonging to the genera Ianthia and Larvivora. They are closely allied to the European robin. The males are usually bright blue above, and more or less red or rufous beneath.

Woodchat (n.) A European shrike (Enneoctonus rufus). In the male the head and nape are rufous red; the back, wings, and tail are black, varied with white.

Woodchuck (n.) A common large North American marmot (Arctomys monax). It is usually reddish brown, more or less grizzled with gray. It makes extensive burrows, and is often injurious to growing crops. Called also ground hog.

Woodchuck (n.) The yaffle, or green woodpecker.

Woodcock (n.) Any one of several species of long-billed limicoline birds belonging to the genera Scolopax and Philohela. They are mostly nocturnal in their habits, and are highly esteemed as game birds.

Woodcock (n.) Fig.: A simpleton.

Woodcracker (n.) The nuthatch.

Woodcraft (n.) Skill and practice in anything pertaining to the woods, especially in shooting, and other sports in the woods.

Woodcut (n.) An engraving on wood; also, a print from it. Same as Wood cut, under Wood.

Woodcutter (n.) A person who cuts wood.

Woodcutter (n.) An engraver on wood.

Woodcutting (n.) The act or employment of cutting wood or timber.

Woodcutting (n.) The act or art of engraving on wood.

Wooded (a.) Supplied or covered with wood, or trees; as, land wooded and watered.

Wooden (a.) Made or consisting of wood; pertaining to, or resembling, wood; as, a wooden box; a wooden leg; a wooden wedding.

Wooden (a.) Clumsy; awkward; ungainly; stiff; spiritless.

Woodenly (adv.) Clumsily; stupidly; blockishly.

Woodenness (n.) Quality of being wooden; clumsiness; stupidity; blockishness.

Woodhack (n.) Alt. of Woodhacker

Woodhacker (n.) The yaffle.

Woodnewer (n.) A woodpecker.

Woodhole (n.) A place where wood is stored.

Woodhouse (n.) A house or shed in which wood is stored, and sheltered from the weather.

Woodiness (n.) The quality or state of being woody.

Woodknacker (n.) The yaffle.

Woodland (n.) Land covered with wood or trees; forest; land on which trees are suffered to grow, either for fuel or timber.

Woodland (a.) Of or pertaining to woods or woodland; living in the forest; sylvan.

Woodlander (n.) A dweller in a woodland.

Wood-layer (n.) A young oak, or other timber plant, laid down in a hedge among the whitethorn or other plants used in hedges.

Woodless (a.) Having no wood; destitute of wood.

Woodly (adv.) In a wood, mad, or raving manner; madly; furiously.

Woodmen (pl. ) of Woodman

Woodman (n.) A forest officer appointed to take care of the king's woods; a forester.

Woodman (n.) A sportsman; a hunter.

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