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3. One who is cognizant; a person who beholds, or otherwise has personal knowledge of, anything; as, an eyewitness; an earwitness. "Thyself art witness I am betrothed." Shak. Upon my looking round, I was witness to appearances which filled me with melancholy and regret. R. Hall.

4. (Law) (a) One who testifies in a cause, or gives evidence before a judicial tribunal; as, the witness in court agreed in all essential facts. (b) One who sees the execution of an instrument, and subscribes it for the purpose of confirming its authenticity by his testimony; one who witnesses a will, a deed, a marriage, or the like. Privileged witnesses. (Law) See under Privileged. — With a witness, effectually; to a great degree; with great force, so as to leave some mark as a testimony. [Colloq.] This, I confess, is haste with a witness. South.

WITNESS Wit"ness, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Witnessed; p. pr. & vb. n. Witnessing.]

1. To see or know by personal presence; to have direct cognizance of. This is but a faint sketch of the incalculable calamities and horrors we must expect, should we ever witness the triumphs of modern infidelity. R. Hall. General Washington did not live to witness the restoration of peace. Marshall.

2. To give testimony to; to testify to; to attest. Behold how many things they witness against thee. Mark xv. 4.

3. (Law)

Defn: To see the execution of, as an instrument, and subscribe it for the purpose of establishing its authenticity; as, to witness a bond or a deed.

WITNESS Wit"ness, v. i.

Defn: To bear testimony; to give evidence; to testify. Chaucer. The men of Belial witnessed against him. 1 Kings xxi. 13. The witnessing of the truth was then so generally attended with this event [martyrdom] that martyrdom now signifies not only to witness, but to witness to death. South.

WITNESSER Wit"ness*er, n.

Defn: One who witness.

WIT-SNAPPER Wit"-snap`per, n.

Defn: One who affects repartee; a wit-cracker. [Obs.] Shak.

WIT-STARVED Wit"-starved`, a.

Defn: Barren of wit; destitute of genius. Examiner.

WITTED Wit"ted, a.

Defn: Having (such) a wit or understanding; as, a quick-witted boy.

WITTICASTER Wit"tic*as`ter, n. Etym: [Formed like criticaster.]

Defn: A witling. [R.] Milton.

WITTICISM Wit"ti*cism, n. Etym: [From Witty.]

Defn: A witty saying; a sentence or phrase which is affectedly witty; an attempt at wit; a conceit. Milton. He is full of conceptions, points of epigram, and witticisms; all which are below the dignity of heroic verse. Addison.

WITTIFIED Wit"ti*fied, a. Etym: [Witty + -fy + -ed.]

Defn: Possessed of wit; witty. [R.] R. North.

WITTILY Wit"ti*ly, adv.

Defn: In a witty manner; wisely; ingeniously; artfully; with it; with a delicate turn or phrase, or with an ingenious association of ideas. Who his own harm so wittily contrives. Dryden.

WITTINESS Wit"ti*ness, n.

Defn: The quality of being witty.

WITTINGLY Wit"ting*ly, adv. Etym: [See Wit, v.]

Defn: Knowingly; with knowledge; by design.

WITTOL Wit"tol, n. Etym: [Said to be for white tail, and so called in allusion to its white tail; but cf. witwal.]

1. (Zoöl.)

Defn: The wheatear. [Prov. Eng.]

2. A man who knows his wife's infidelity and submits to it; a tame cuckold; — so called because the cuckoo lays its eggs in the wittol's nest. [Obs.] Shak.

WITTOLLY Wit"tol*ly, a.

Defn: Like a wittol; cuckoldly. [Obs.] Shak.

WITTS Witts, n. (Mining)

Defn: Tin ore freed from earthy matter by stamping. Knight.

WITTY Wit"ty, a. [Compar. Wittier; superl. Wittiest.] Etym: [AS. witig, wittig. See Wit, n.]

1. Possessed of wit; knowing; wise; skillful; judicious; clever; cunning. [Obs.] "The deep-revolving witty Buckingham." Shak.

2. Especially, possessing wit or humor; good at repartee; droll; facetious; sometimes, sarcastic; as, a witty remark, poem, and the like. "Honeycomb, who was so unmercifully witty upon the women." Addison.

Syn. — Acute; smart; sharp; arch; keen; facetious; amusing; humorous; satirical; ironical; taunting.

WITWAL; WITWALL Wit"wal`, Wit"wall`, n. Etym: [Akin to G. wittewal, wiedewall, MHG. witewal, D. wiedewaal, wielewaal, OD. weduwael, and perhaps the same word as OE. wodewale. Cf. Wood, n., Wittol.] (Zoöl.) (a) The golden oriole. (b) The greater spotted woodpecker. [Prov. Eng.]

WITWORM Wit"worm`, n.

Defn: One who, or that which, feeds on or destroys wit. [Obs.] B. Jonson.

WIVE Wive, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Wived; p. pr. & vb. n. Wiving.] Etym: [AS. wifian, gewifian. See Wite.]

Defn: To marry, as a man; to take a wife. Wherefore we pray you hastily to wive. Chaucer.

WIVE Wive, v. t.

1. To match to a wife; to provide with a wife. "An I could get me but a wife . . . I were manned, horsed, and wived." Shak.

2. To take for a wife; to marry. I have wived his sister. Sir W. Scott.

WIVEHOOD Wive"hood, n.

Defn: Wifehood. [Obs.] Spenser.

WIVELESS Wive"less, a.

Defn: Wifeless. [Obs.] Homilies.

WIVELY Wive"ly, a.

Defn: Wifely. [Obs.] Udall.

WIVER; WIVERN Wiv"er, Wiv"ern, n. Etym: [OE. wivere a serpent, OF. wivre, guivre, F. givre, guivre, wiver, from L. vipera; probably influenced by OHG. wipera, from the Latin. See Viper, and cf. Weever.]

1. (Her.)

Defn: A fabulous two-legged, winged creature, like a cockatrice, but having the head of a dragon, and without spurs. [Written also wyvern.] The jargon of heraldry, its griffins, its mold warps, its wiverns, and its dragons. Sir W. Scott.

2. (Zoöl.)

Defn: The weever.

WIVES Wives, n.

Defn: , pl of Wife.

WIZARD Wiz"ard, n. Etym: [Probably from wise + -ard.]

1. A wise man; a sage. [Obs.] See how from far upon the eastern road The star-led wizards [Magi] haste with odors sweet! Milton.

2. One devoted to the black art; a magician; a conjurer; a sorcerer; an enchanter. The wily wizard must be caught. Dryden.

WIZARD Wiz"ard, a.

1. Enchanting; charming. Collins.

2. Haunted by wizards. Where Deva spreads her wizard stream. Milton.

WIZARDLY Wiz"ard*ly, a.

Defn: Resembling or becoming a wizard; wizardlike; weird.

WIZARDRY Wiz"ard*ry, n.

Defn: The character or practices o "He acquired a reputation bordering on wizardry." J. A. Symonds.

WIZEN Wiz"en, v. i. Etym: [OE. wisenen, AS. wisnian akin to weornian to decay, OHG. wesan to grow dry, G. verwesen to rot, Icel. visna to wither, Sw. vissna, Dan. visne, and probably to L. virus an offensive odor, poison. Cf. Virus.]

Defn: To wither; to dry. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.]

WIZEN Wiz"en, a.

Defn: Wizened; thin; weazen; withered. A little lonely, wizen, strangely clad boy. Dickens.

WIZEN Wiz"en, n.

Defn: The weasand. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.]

WIZENED Wiz"ened, a.

Defn: Dried; shriveled; withered; shrunken; weazen; as, a wizened old man.

WIZEN-FACED Wiz"en-faced`, a.

Defn: Having a shriveled, thin, withered face.

WLATSOME Wlat"some, a. Etym: [AS. wlatian to disgust, irk, wl loathing.]

Defn: Loathsome; disgusting; hateful. [Obs.] Murder is . . . wlatsom and abhominable to God. Chaucer.

WO Wo, n. & a.

Defn: See Woe. [Obs.] Chaucer.

WOAD Woad, n. Etym: [OE. wod, AS. wad; akin to D. weede, G. waid, OHG. weit, Dan. vaid, veid, Sw. veide, L. vitrum.] [Written also wad, and wade.]

1. (Bot.)

Defn: An herbaceous cruciferous plant (Isatis tinctoria). It was formerly cultivated for the blue coloring matter derived from its leaves.

2. 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. Their bodies . . . painted with woad in sundry figures. Milton. Wild woad (Bot.), the weld (Reseda luteola). See Weld. — Woad mill, a mill grinding and preparing woad.

WOADED Woad"ed, a.

Defn: Colored or stained with woad. "Man tattoed or woaded, winter- clad in skins." Tennyson.

WOAD-WAXEN Woad"-wax`en, n. Etym: [Cf. Wood-wax.] (Bot.)

Defn: 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 Woald, n.

Defn: See Weld.

WOBBLE Wob"ble, v. i.

Defn: See Wabble.

WODE Wode, a. Etym: [AS. wod.]

Defn: Mad. See Wood, a. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] Chaucer.

WODE Wode, n.

Defn: Wood. Chaucer.

WODEGELD Wode"geld`, n. Etym: [See Wood, and Geld.] (O. Eng. Law)

Defn: A geld, or payment, for wood. Burrill.

WODEN Wo"den, n. Etym: [AS. Woden; akin to OS. Wodan, OHG. Wuotan, Icel. Othinn, and probably to E. wood, a. Cf. Wednesday.] (Northern Myth.)

Defn: A deity corresponding to Odin, the supreme deity of the Scandinavians. Wednesday is named for him. See Odin.

WOE Woe, n. Etym: [OE. wo, wa, woo, AS. wa, interj.; akin to D. wee, OS. & OHG. we, G. weh, Icel. vei, Dan. vee, Sw. ve, Goth. wai; cf. L. vae, Gr. Wail.] [Formerly written also wo.]

1. Grief; sorrow; misery; heavy calamity. Thus saying, from her side the fatal key, Sad instrument of all our woe, she took. Milton. [They] weep each other's woe. Pope.

2. A curse; a malediction. Can there be a woe or curse in all the stores of vengeance equal to the malignity of such a practice South.

Note: Woe is used in denunciation, and in exclamations of sorrow. " Woe is me! for I am undone." Isa. vi. 5. O! woe were us alive [i.e., in life]. Chaucer. Woe unto him that striveth with his Maker! Isa. xlv. 9. Woe worth, Woe be to. See Worth, v. i. Woe worth the chase, woe worth the day, That costs thy life, my gallant gray! Sir W. Scott.

WOE Woe, a.

Defn: Woeful; sorrowful. [Obs.] His clerk was woe to do that deed. Robert of Brunne. Woe was this knight and sorrowfully he sighed. Chaucer. And looking up he waxed wondrous woe. Spenser.

WOE-BEGONE Woe"-be*gone`, a. Etym: [OE. wo begon. See Woe, and Begone, p. p.]

Defn: Beset or overwhelmed with woe; immersed in grief or sorrow; woeful. Chaucer. So woe-begone was he with pains of love. Fairfax.

WOEFUL; WOFUL Woe"ful, Wo"ful, a.

1. Full of woe; sorrowful; distressed with grief or calamity; afflicted; wretched; unhappy; sad. How many woeful widows left to bow To sad disgrace! Daniel.

2. Bringing calamity, distress, or affliction; as, a woeful event; woeful want. O woeful day! O day of woe! Philips.

3. Wretched; paltry; miserable; poor. What woeful stuff this madrigal would be! Pope.

WOEFULLY; WOFULLY Woe"ful*ly, Wo"ful*ly, adv.

Defn: In a woeful manner; sorrowfully; mournfully; miserably; dolefully.

WOEFULNESS; WOFULNESS Woe"ful*ness, Wo"ful*ness, n.

Defn: The quality or state of being woeful; misery; wretchedness.

WOESOME Woe"some, a.

Defn: Woeful. [Obs.] Langhorne.

WOKE Woke, imp. & p. p.

Defn: Wake.

WOL Wol, v. t. & i.

Defn: See 2d Will. [Obs.] Chaucer.

WOLD Wold, n. Etym: [OE. wold, wald, AS. weald, wald, a wood, forest; akin to OFries. & OS. wald, D. woud, G. wald, Icel. völlr, a field, and probably to Gr. va a garden, inclosure. Cf. Weald.]

1. A wood; a forest.

2. A plain, or low hill; a country without wood, whether hilly or not. And from his further bank Ætolia's wolds espied. Byron. The wind that beats the mountain, blows More softly round the open wold. Tennyson.

WOLD Wold, n.

Defn: See Weld.

WOLDE Wolde, obs.

Defn: imp. of Will. See Would.

WOLF Wolf, n.; pl. Wolves. Etym: [OE. wolf, wulf, AS. wulf; akin to OS. wulf, D. & G. wolf, Icel. ulfr, Sw. ulf, Dan. ulv, Goth. wulfs, Lith. vilkas, Russ. volk', L. lupus, Gr. ly`kos, Skr. vrska; also to Gr. "e`lkein to draw, drag, tear in pieces. sq. root286. Cf. Lupine, a., Lyceum.]

1. (Zoöl.)

Defn: 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.

2. (Zoöl.)

Defn: One of the destructive, and usually hairy, larvæ of several species of beetles and grain moths; as, the bee wolf.

3. Fig.: Any very ravenous, rapacious, or destructive person or thing; especially, want; starvation; as, they toiled hard to keep the wolf from the door.

4. A white worm, or maggot, which infests granaries.

5. An eating ulcer or sore. Cf. Lupus. [Obs.] If God should send a cancer upon thy face, or a wolf into thy side. Jer. Taylor.

6. (Mus.) (a) The harsh, howling sound of some of the chords on an organ or piano tuned by unequal temperament. (b) In bowed instruments, a harshness due to defective vibration in certain notes of the scale.

7. (Textile Manuf.)

Defn: A willying machine. Knight. Black wolf. (Zoöl.) (a) A black variety of the European wolf which is common in the Pyrenees. (b) A black variety of the American gray wolf. — Golden wolf (Zoöl.), the Thibetan wolf (Canis laniger); — called also chanco. — Indian wolf (Zoöl.), an Asiatic wolf (Canis pallipes) which somewhat resembles a jackal. Called also landgak. — Prairie wolf (Zoöl.), the coyote. — Sea wolf. (Zoöl.) See in the Vocabulary. — Strand wolf (Zoöl.) the striped hyena. — Tasmanian wolf (Zoöl.), the zebra wolf. — Tiger wolf (Zoöl.), the spotted hyena. — To keep the wolf from the door, to keep away poverty; to prevent starvation. See Wolf, 3, above. Tennyson. — Wolf dog. (Zoöl.) (a) The mastiff, or shepherd dog, of the Pyrenees, supposed by some authors to be one of the ancestors of the St. Bernard dog. (b) The Irish greyhound, supposed to have been used formerly by the Danes for chasing wolves. (c) A dog bred between a dog and a wolf, as the Eskimo dog. — Wolf eel (Zoöl.), a wolf fish. — Wolf fish (Zoöl.), any one of several species of large, voracious marine fishes of the genus Anarrhichas, especially the common species (A. lupus) of Europe and North America. These fishes have large teeth and powerful jaws. Called also catfish, sea cat, sea wolf, stone biter, and swinefish. — Wolf net, a kind of net used in fishing, which takes great numbers of fish. — Wolf's peach (Bot.), the tomato, or love apple (Lycopersicum esculentum). — Wolf spider (Zoöl.), any one of numerous species of running ground spiders belonging to the genus Lycosa, or family Lycosidæ. These spiders run about rapidly in search of their prey. Most of them are plain brown or blackish in color. See Illust. in App. — Zebra wolf (Zoöl.), a savage carnivorous marsupial (Thylacinus cynocephalus) native of Tasmania; — called also Tasmanian wolf.

WOLFBERRY Wolf"ber`ry, n. (Bot.)

Defn: An American shrub (Symphoricarpus occidentalis) which bears soft white berries.

WOLFFIAN Wolff"i*an, a (Anat.)

Defn: Discovered, or first described, by Caspar Friedrich Wolff (1733-1794), the founder of modern embryology. Wolffian body, the mesonephros. — Wolffian duct, the duct from the Wolffian body.

WOLFHOUND Wolf"hound`, n. (Zoöl.)

Defn: Originally, a large hound used in hunting wolves; now, any one of certain breeds of large dogs, some of which are nearly identical with the great Danes.

WOLFISH Wolf"ish, a.

Defn: Like a wolf; having the qualities or form of a wolf; as, a wolfish visage; wolfish designs. — Wolf"ish*ly, adv. — Wolf"ish*ness, n.

WOLFKIN Wolf"kin, n.

Defn: A little or young wolf. Tennyson.

WOLFLING Wolf"ling, n.

Defn: A young wolf. Carlyle.

WOLFRAM Wol"fram, n. Etym: [G.] (Min.)

Defn: Same as Wolframite.

WOLFRAMATE Wol"fram*ate, n. (Chem.)

Defn: A salt of wolframic acid; a tungstate.

WOLFRAMIC Wol*fram"ic, a. (Chem.)

Defn: Of or pertaining to wolframium. See Tungstic.

WOLFRAMITE Wol"fram*ite, n. Etym: [G., wolframit, wolfram; wolf wolf + rahm cream, soot; cf. G. wolfsruss wolfram, lit., wolf's soot.] (Min.)

Defn: 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 Wol*fra"mi*um, n. Etym: [NL. See Wolfram.] (Chem.)

Defn: The technical name of the element tungsten. See Tungsten.

WOLFRAM STEEL Wol"fram steel.

Defn: Same as Tungsten steel.

WOLFSBANE Wolfs"bane`, n. (Bot.)

Defn: 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 Wolf's"-claw`, n. (Bot.)

Defn: A kind of club moss. See Lycopodium.

WOLF'S-FOOT Wolf's"-foot`, n. (Bot.)

Defn: Club moss. See Lycopodium.

WOLF'S-MILK Wolf's"-milk`, n. (Bot.)

Defn: Any kind of spurge (Euphorbia); — so called from its acrid milky juice.

WOLL Woll, v. t. & i.

Defn: See 2d Will. [Obs.]

WOLLASTONITE Wol"las*ton*ite, n. Etym: [After Dr. W. H. Wollaston, an English chemist, who died in 1828.] (Min.)

Defn: A silicate of lime of a white to gray, red, or yellow color, occurring generally in cleavable masses, rarely in tabular crystals; tabular spar.

WOLLASTON'S DOUBLET Wol"las*ton's dou"blet. [After W. H. Wollaston, English physicist.] (Optics)

Defn: A magnifying glass consisting of two plano-convex lenses. It is designed to correct spherical aberration and chromatic dispersion.

WOLLE Wolle, n.

Defn: Wool. [Obs.] Chaucer.

WOLVERENE; WOLVERINE Wol`ver*ene", Wol`ver*ine", n. Etym: [From Wolf, with a dim suffix; prob. so called from its supposed wolfish qualities.]

1. (Zoöl.)

Defn: The glutton.

2. A nickname for an inhabitant of Michigan. [U. S.]

WOLVERENE STATE Wol`ver*ene" State.

Defn: Michigan; — a nickname.

WOLVES Wolves, n.,

Defn: pl. of Wolf.

WOLVISH Wolv"ish, a.

Defn: Wolfish. Shak.

WOMAN Wom"an n.; pl. Women. Etym: [OE. woman, womman, wumman, wimman, wifmon, AS. wifmann, wimmann; wif woman, wife + mann a man. See Wife, and Man.]

1. An adult female person; a grown-up female person, as distinguished from a man or a child; sometimes, any female person. Women are soft, mild pitiful, and flexible. Shak. And the rib, which the Lord God had taken from man, made he a woman. Gen. ii. 22. I have observed among all nations that the women ornament themselves more than the men; that, wherever found, they are the same kind, civil, obliging, humane, tender beings, inclined to be gay and cheerful, timorous and modest. J. Ledyard.

2. The female part of the human race; womankind. Man is destined to be a prey to woman. Thackeray.

3. A female attendant or servant. " By her woman I sent your message." Shak. Woman hater, one who hates women; one who has an aversion to the female sex; a misogynist. Swift.

WOMAN Wom"an, v. t.

1. To act the part of a woman in; — with indefinite it. Daniel.

2. To make effeminate or womanish. [R.] Shak.

3. To furnish with, or unite to, a woman. [R.] "To have him see me woman'd." Shak.

WOMANHEAD; WOMANHEDE Wom"an*head, Wom"an*hede, n.

Defn: Womanhood. [Obs.] Chaucer.

WOMANHOOD Wom"an*hood, n.

1. The state of being a woman; the distinguishing character or qualities of a woman, or of womankind. Unspotted faith, and comely womanhood. Spenser. Perhaps the smile and the tender tone Came out of her pitying womanhood. Tennyson.

2. Women, collectively; womankind.

WOMANISH Wom"an*ish, a.

Defn: 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. " Thy tears are womanish." Shak. " Womanish entreaties." Macaulay. A voice not soft, weak, piping, and womanish, but audible, strong, and manlike. Ascham. — Wom"an*ish*ly, adv. — Wom"an*ish*ness, n.

WOMANIZE Wom"an*ize, v. t.

Defn: To make like a woman; to make effeminate. [Obs.] V. Knox.

WOMANKIND Wom"an*kind`, n.

Defn: The females of the human race; women, collectively. A sanctuary into which womankind, with her tools of magic, the broom and mop, has very infrequent access. Hawthorne.

WOMANLESS Wom"an*less, a.

Defn: Without a woman or women.

WOMANLIKE Wom"an*like, a.

Defn: Like a woman; womanly. Womanlike, taking revenge too deep. Tennyson.

WOMANLINESS Wom"an*li*ness, n.

Defn: The quality or state of being womanly. There is nothing wherein their womanliness is more honestly garnished than with silence. Udall.

WOMANLY Wom"an*ly, a.

Defn: Becoming a woman; feminine; as, womanly behavior. Arbuthnot. A blushing, womanly discovering grace. Donne.

WOMANLY Wom"an*ly, adv.

Defn: In the manner of a woman; with the grace, tenderness, or affection of a woman. Gascoigne.

WOMAN'S CHRISTIAN TEMPERANCE UNION Woman's Christian Temperance Union.

Defn: An association of women formed in the United States in 1874, for the advancement of temperance by organizing preventive, educational, evangelistic, social, and legal work.

WOMB Womb, n. Etym: [OE. wombe, wambe, AS. wamb, womb; akin to D. wam belly, OS. & OHG. wamba, G. wamme, wampe, Icel. vömb, Sw. v&mb, Dan. vom, Goth. wamba.]

1. The belly; the abdomen. [Obs.] Chaucer. And he coveted to fill his woman of the cods that the hogs eat, and no man gave him. Wyclif (Luke xv. 16). An I had but a belly of any indifferency, I were simply the most active fellow in Europe. My womb, my womb, my womb undoes me. Shak.

2. (Anat.)

Defn: The uterus. See Uterus.

3. The place where anything is generated or produced. The womb of earth the genial seed receives. Dryden.

4. Any cavity containing and enveloping anything. The center spike of gold Which burns deep in the bluebell's womb. R. Browning.

WOMB Womb, v. t.

Defn: To inclose in a womb, or as in a womb; to breed or hold in secret. [Obs.] Shak.

WOMBAT Wom"bat, n. Etym: [From the native name, womback, wombach, in Australia.] (Zoöl.)

Defn: 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 Womb"y, a.

Defn: Capacious. [Obs.] Shak.

WOMEN Wom"en, n.,

Defn: pl. of Woman.

WON Won,

Defn: imp. & p. p. of Win.

WON Won, v. i. Etym: [See 1st Wone.]

Defn: To dwell or abide. [Obs. or Scot.] " Where he wans in forest wild." Milton. This land where I have woned thus long. Spenser.

WON Won, n.

Defn: Dwelling; wone. [Obs.] Spenser.

WONDER Won"der, n. Etym: [OE. wonder, wunder, AS. wundor; akin to D. wonder, OS. wundar, OHG. wuntar, G. wunder, Icel. undr, Sw. & Dan. under, and perhaps to Gr.

1. 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. They were filled with wonder and amazement at that which had happened unto him. Acts iii. 10. Wonder is the effect of novelty upon ignorance. Johnson.

Note: Wonder expresses less than astonishment, and much less than amazement. It differs from admiration, as now used, in not being necessarily accompanied with love, esteem, or approbation.

2. A cause of wonder; that which excites surprise; a strange thing; a prodigy; a miracle. " Babylon, the wonder of all tongues." Milton. To try things oft, and never to give over, doth wonders. Bacon. I am as a wonder unto many. Ps. lxxi. 7. Seven wonders of the world. See in the Dictionary of Noted Names in Fiction.

WONDER Won"der, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Wondered; p. pr. & vb. n. Wondering.] Etym: [AS. wundrian.]

1. To be affected with surprise or admiration; to be struck with astonishment; to be amazed; to marvel. I could not sufficiently wonder at the intrepidity of these diminutive mortals. Swift. We cease to wonder at what we understand. Johnson.

2. To feel doubt and curiosity; to wait with uncertain expectation; to query in the mind; as, he wondered why they came. I wonder, in my soul, What you would ask me, that I should deny. Shak.

WONDER Won"der, a.

Defn: Wonderful. [Obs.] Gower. After that he said a wonder thing. Chaucer.

WONDER Won"der, adv.

Defn: Wonderfully. [Obs.] Chaucer.

WONDERED Won"dered, a.

Defn: Having performed wonders; able to perform wonderful things. [Obs.] Shak.

WONDERER Won"der*er, n.

Defn: One who wonders.

WONDERFUL Won"der*ful, a.

Defn: Adapted to excite wonder or admiration; surprising; strange; astonishing.

Syn. — Marvelous; amazing. See Marvelous. — Won"der*ful*ly, adv. — Won"der*ful*ness, n.

WONDERINGLY Won"der*ing*ly, adv.

Defn: In a wondering manner.

WONDERLAND Won"der*land`, n.

Defn: A land full of wonders, or marvels. M. Arnold.

WONDERLY Won"der*ly, adv. Etym: [AS. wundorlice.]

Defn: Wonderfully; wondrously. [Obs.] Chaucer.

WONDERMENT Won"der*ment, n.

Defn: Surprise; astonishment; a wonderful appearance; a wonder. Bacon. All the common sights they view, Their wonderment engage. Sir W. Scott.

WONDEROUS Won"der*ous, a.

Defn: Same as Wondrous.

WONDERS Won"ders, adv.

Defn: See Wondrous. [Obs.] They be wonders glad thereof. Sir T. More.

WONDERSTRUCK Won"der*struck`, a.

Defn: Struck with wonder, admiration, or surprise. Dryden.

WONDERWORK Won"der*work`, n. Etym: [AS. wundorweorc.]

Defn: A wonderful work or act; a prodigy; a miracle. Such as in strange land He found in wonderworks of God and Nature's hand. Byron.

WONDER-WORKER Won"der-work`er, n.

Defn: One who performs wonders, or miracles.

WONDER-WORKING Won"der-work`ing, a.

Defn: Doing wonders or surprising things.

WONDROUS Won"drous, adv. Etym: [OE. wonders, adv. (later also adj.). See Wonder, n., and cf. -wards.]

Defn: In a wonderful or surprising manner or degree; wonderfully. For sylphs, yet mindful of their ancient race, Are, as when women, wondrous fond of place. Pope. And now there came both mist and snow, And it grew wondrous cold. Coleridge.

WONDROUS Won"drous, a.

Defn: Wonderful; astonishing; admirable; marvelous; such as excite surprise and astonishment; strange. That I may . . . tell of all thy wondrous works. Ps. xxvi. 7. — Won"drous*ly, adv. — Won"drous*ness, n. Chloe complains, and wondrously's aggrieved. Granville.

WONE Wone, v. i. Etym: [OE. wonen, wunen, wonien, wunien, AS. wunian. Wont, a.]

Defn: To dwell; to abide. [Obs.] Piers Plowman. Their habitation in which they woned. Chaucer.

WONE Wone, n. Etym: [OE. See Wone, v. i., Wont, a.]

1. Dwelling; habitation; abode. [Obs.] Chaucer.

2. Custom; habit; wont; use; usage. [Obs.] To liven in delight was all his wone. Chaucer.

WONG Wong, n. Etym: [AS. wang, wong.]

Defn: A field. [Obs.] Spelman. "Woods and wonges." Havelok the Dane.

WONGER Wong"er, n.

Defn: See Wanger. [Obs.] Chaucer.

WONING Won"ing, n.

Defn: Dwelling. [Obs.] Chaucer.

WON'T Won't.

Defn: A colloquial contraction of woll not. Will not. See Will.

Note: Often pronounced wûnt in New England.

WONT Wont, a. Etym: [For woned, p. p. of won, wone, to dwell, AS. wunian; akin to D. wonen, OS. wun, OHG, won, G. wohnen, and AS. wund, gewuna, custom, habit; orig. probably, to take pleasure; cf. Icel. una to dwell, to enjoy, Goth. wunan to rejoice (in unwunands sad); and akin to Skr. van to like, to wish. Wean, Win.]

Defn: Using or doing customarily; accustomed; habituated; used. "As he was wont to go." Chaucer. If the ox were wont to push with his horn. Ex. xxi. 29.

WONT Wont, n.

Defn: Custom; habit; use; usage. They are . . . to be called out to their military motions, under sky or covert, according to the season, as was the Roman wont. Milton. From childly wont and ancient use. Cowper.

WONT Wont, v. i. [imp. Wont, p. p. Wont, or Wonted; p. pr. & vb. n. Wonting.]

Defn: To be accustomed or habituated; to be used. A yearly solemn feast she wont to make. Spenser.

WONT Wont, v. t.

Defn: To accustom; — used reflexively.

WONTED Wont"ed, a.

Defn: Accustomed; customary; usual. Again his wonted weapon proved. Spenser. Like an old piece of furniture left alone in its wonted corner. Sir W. Scott. She was wonted to the place, and would not remove. L'Estrange.

WONTEDNESS Wont"ed*ness, n.

Defn: The quality or state of being accustomed. [R.] Eikon Basilike.

WONTLESS Wont"less, a.

Defn: Unaccustomed. [Obs.] Spenser.

WOO Woo, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Wooed; p. pr. & vb. n. Wooing.] Etym: [OE. wowen, wo, AS. w, fr. w bent, crooked, bad; akin to OS. wah evil, Goth. unwahs blameless, Skr. va to waver, and perhaps to E. vaccilate.]

1. To solicit in love; to court. Each, like the Grecian artist, wooes The image he himself has wrought. Prior.

2. To court solicitously; to invite with importunity. Thee, chantress, oft the woods among I woo, to hear thy even song. Milton. I woo the wind That still delays his coming. Bryant.

WOO Woo, v. i.

Defn: To court; to make love. Dryden.

WOOD Wood, a. Etym: [OE. wod, AS. w; akin to OHG. wuot, Icel. , Goth. w, D. woede madness, G. wuth, wut, also to AS. w song, Icel. , L. vates a seer, a poet. Cf. Wednesday.]

Defn: Mad; insane; possessed; rabid; furious; frantic. [Obs.] [Written also wode.] Our hoste gan to swear as [if] he were wood. Chaucer.

WOOD Wood, v. i.

Defn: To grow mad; to act like a madman; to mad. Chaucer.

WOOD Wood, n. Etym: [OE. wode, wude, AS. wudu, wiodu; akin to OHG. witu, Icel. vi, Dan. & Sw. ved wood, and probably to Ir. & Gael. fiodh, W. gwydd trees, shrubs.]

1. A large and thick collection of trees; a forest or grove; — frequently used in the plural. Light thickens, and the crow Makes wing to the rooky wood. Shak.

2. 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. "To worship their own work in wood and stone for gods." Milton.

3. (Bot.)

Defn: 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.

Note: Wood consists chiefly of the carbohydrates cellulose and lignin, which are isomeric with starch.

4. Trees cut or sawed for the fire or other uses. Wood acid, Wood vinegar (Chem.), a complex acid liquid obtained in the dry distillation of wood, and containing large quantities of acetic acid; hence, specifically, acetic acid. Formerly called pyroligneous acid. — Wood anemone (Bot.), a delicate flower (Anemone nemorosa) of early spring; — also called windflower. See Illust. of Anemone. — Wood ant (Zoöl.), a large ant (Formica rufa) which lives in woods and forests, and constructs large nests. — Wood apple (Bot.). See Elephant apple, under Elephant. — Wood baboon (Zoöl.), the drill. — Wood betony. (Bot.) (a) Same as Betony. (b) The common American lousewort (Pedicularis Canadensis), a low perennial herb with yellowish or purplish flowers. — Wood borer. (Zoöl.) (a) The larva of any one of numerous species of boring beetles, esp. elaters, longicorn beetles, buprestidans, and certain weevils. See Apple borer, under Apple, and Pine weevil, under Pine. (b) The larva of any one of various species of lepidopterous insects, especially of the clearwing moths, as the peach-tree borer (see under Peach), and of the goat moths. (c) The larva of various species of hymenopterous of the tribe Urocerata. See Tremex. (d) Any one of several bivalve shells which bore in wood, as the teredos, and species of Xylophaga. (e) Any one of several species of small Crustacea, as the Limnoria, and the boring amphipod (Chelura terebrans). — Wood carpet, a kind of floor covering made of thin pieces of wood secured to a flexible backing, as of cloth. Knight. — Wood cell (Bot.), a slender cylindrical or prismatic cell usually tapering to a point at both ends. It is the principal constituent of woody fiber. — Wood choir, the choir, or chorus, of birds in the woods. [Poetic] Coleridge. — Wood coal, charcoal; also, lignite, or brown coal. — Wood cricket (Zoöl.), a small European cricket (Nemobius sylvestris). — Wood culver (Zoöl.), the wood pigeon. — Wood cut, an engraving on wood; also, a print from such an engraving. — Wood dove (Zoöl.), the stockdove. — Wood drink, a decoction or infusion of medicinal woods. — Wood duck (Zoöl.) (a) A very beautiful American duck (Aix sponsa). The male has a large crest, and its plumage is varied with green, purple, black, white, and red. It builds its nest in trees, whence the name. Called also bridal duck, summer duck, and wood widgeon. (b) The hooded merganser. (c) The Australian maned goose (Chlamydochen jubata). — Wood echo, an echo from the wood. — Wood engraver. (a) An engraver on wood. (b) (Zoöl.) Any of several species of small beetles whose larvæ bore beneath the bark of trees, and excavate furrows in the wood often more or less resembling coarse engravings; especially, Xyleborus xylographus. — Wood engraving. (a) The act or art engraving on wood; xylography. (b) An engraving on wood; a wood cut; also, a print from such an engraving. — Wood fern. (Bot.) See Shield fern, under Shield. — Wood fiber. (a) (Bot.) Fibrovascular tissue. (b) Wood comminuted, and reduced to a powdery or dusty mass. — Wood fretter (Zoöl.), any one of numerous species of beetles whose larvæ bore in the wood, or beneath the bark, of trees. — Wood frog (Zoöl.), a common North American frog (Rana sylvatica) which lives chiefly in the woods, except during the breeding season. It is drab or yellowish brown, with a black stripe on each side of the head. — Wood germander. (Bot.) See under Germander. — Wood god, a fabled sylvan deity. — Wood grass. (Bot.) See under Grass. — Wood grouse. (Zoöl.) (a) The capercailzie. (b) The spruce partridge. See under Spruce. — Wood guest (Zoöl.), the ringdove. [Prov. Eng.] — Wood hen. (Zoöl.) (a) Any one of several species of Old World short-winged rails of the genus Ocydromus, including the weka and allied species. (b) The American woodcock. — Wood hoopoe (Zoöl.), any one of several species of Old World arboreal birds belonging to Irrisor and allied genera. They are closely allied to the common hoopoe, but have a curved beak, and a longer tail. — Wood ibis (Zoöl.), any one of several species of large, long- legged, wading birds belonging to the genus Tantalus. The head and neck are naked or scantily covered with feathers. The American wood ibis (Tantalus loculator) is common in Florida. — Wood lark (Zoöl.), a small European lark (Alauda arborea), which, like, the skylark, utters its notes while on the wing. So called from its habit of perching on trees. — Wood laurel (Bot.), a European evergreen shrub (Daphne Laureola). — Wood leopard (Zoöl.), a European spotted moth (Zeuzera æsculi) allied to the goat moth. Its large fleshy larva bores in the wood of the apple, pear, and other fruit trees. — Wood lily (Bot.), the lily of the valley. — Wood lock (Naut.), a piece of wood close fitted and sheathed with copper, in the throating or score of the pintle, to keep the rudder from rising. — Wood louse (Zoöl.) (a) Any one of numerous species of terrestrial isopod Crustacea belonging to Oniscus, Armadillo, and related genera. See Sow bug, under Sow, and Pill bug, under Pill. (b) Any one of several species of small, wingless, pseudoneuropterous insects of the family Psocidæ, which live in the crevices of walls and among old books and papers. Some of the species are called also book lice, and deathticks, or deathwatches. — Wood mite (Zoöl.), any one of numerous small mites of the family Oribatidæ. They are found chiefly in woods, on tree trunks and stones. — Wood mote. (Eng. Law) (a) Formerly, the forest court. (b) The court of attachment. — Wood nettle. (Bot.) See under Nettle. — Wood nightshade (Bot.), woody nightshade. — Wood nut (Bot.), the filbert. — Wood nymph. (a) A nymph inhabiting the woods; a fabled goddess of the woods; a dryad. "The wood nymphs, decked with daisies trim." Milton. (b) (Zoöl.) Any one of several species of handsomely colored moths belonging to the genus Eudryas. The larvæ are bright-colored, and some of the species, as Eudryas grata, and E. unio, feed on the leaves of the grapevine. (c) (Zoöl.) Any one of several species of handsomely colored South American humming birds belonging to the genus Thalurania. The males are bright blue, or green and blue. — Wood offering, wood burnt on the altar. We cast the lots . . . for the wood offering. Neh. x. 34. — Wood oil (Bot.), a resinous oil obtained from several East Indian trees of the genus Dipterocarpus, having properties similar to those of copaiba, and sometimes substituted for it. It is also used for mixing paint. See Gurjun. — Wood opal (Min.), a striped variety of coarse opal, having some resemblance to wood. — Wood paper, paper made of wood pulp. See Wood pulp, below. — Wood pewee (Zoöl.), a North American tyrant flycatcher (Contopus virens). It closely resembles the pewee, but is smaller. — Wood pie (Zoöl.), any black and white woodpecker, especially the European great spotted woodpecker. — Wood pigeon. (Zoöl.) (a) Any one of numerous species of Old World pigeons belonging to Palumbus and allied genera of the family Columbidæ. (b) The ringdove. — Wood puceron (Zoöl.), a plant louse. — Wood pulp (Technol.), vegetable fiber obtained from the poplar and other white woods, and so softened by digestion with a hot solution of alkali that it can be formed into sheet paper, etc. It is now produced on an immense scale. — Wood quail (Zoöl.), any one of several species of East Indian crested quails belonging to Rollulus and allied genera, as the red- crested wood quail (R. roulroul), the male of which is bright green, with a long crest of red hairlike feathers. — Wood rabbit (Zoöl.), the cottontail. — Wood rat (Zoöl.), any one of several species of American wild rats of the genus Neotoma found in the Southern United States; — called also bush rat. The Florida wood rat (Neotoma Floridana) is the best-known species. — Wood reed grass (Bot.), a tall grass (Cinna arundinacea) growing in moist woods. — Wood reeve, the steward or overseer of a wood. [Eng.] — Wood rush (Bot.), any plant of the genus Luzula, differing from the true rushes of the genus Juncus chiefly in having very few seeds in each capsule. — Wood sage (Bot.), a name given to several labiate plants of the genus Teucrium. See Germander. — Wood screw, a metal screw formed with a sharp thread, and usually with a slotted head, for insertion in wood. — Wood sheldrake (Zoöl.), the hooded merganser. — Wood shock (Zoöl.), the fisher. See Fisher, 2. — Wood shrike (Zoöl.), any one of numerous species of Old World singing birds belonging to Grallina, Collyricincla, Prionops, and allied genera, common in India and Australia. They are allied to the true shrikes, but feed upon both insects and berries. — Wood snipe. (Zoöl.) (a) The American woodcock. (b) An Asiatic snipe (Gallinago nemoricola). — Wood soot, soot from burnt wood. — Wood sore. (Zoöl.) See Cuckoo spit, under Cuckoo. — Wood sorrel (Bot.), a plant of the genus Oxalis (Oxalis Acetosella), having an acid taste. See Illust. (a) of Shamrock. — Wood spirit. (Chem.) See Methyl alcohol, under Methyl. — Wood stamp, a carved or engraved block or stamp of wood, for impressing figures or colors on fabrics. — Wood star (Zoöl.), any one of several species of small South American humming birds belonging to the genus Calothorax. The male has a brilliant gorget of blue, purple, and other colors. — Wood sucker (Zoöl.), the yaffle. — Wood swallow (Zoöl.), any one of numerous species of Old World passerine birds belonging to the genus Artamus and allied genera of the family Artamidæ. They are common in the East Indies, Asia, and Australia. In form and habits they resemble swallows, but in structure they resemble shrikes. They are usually black above and white beneath. — Wood tapper (Zoöl.), any woodpecker. — Wood tar. See under Tar. — Wood thrush, (Zoöl.) (a) An American thrush (Turdus mustelinus) noted for the sweetness of its song. See under Thrush. (b) The missel thrush. — Wood tick. See in Vocabulary. — Wood tin. (Min.). See Cassiterite. — Wood titmouse (Zoöl.), the goldcgest. — Wood tortoise (Zoöl.), the sculptured tortoise. See under Sculptured. — Wood vine (Bot.), the white bryony. — Wood vinegar. See Wood acid, above. — Wood warbler. (Zoöl.) (a) Any one of numerous species of American warblers of the genus Dendroica. See Warbler. (b) A European warbler (Phylloscopus sibilatrix); — called also green wren, wood wren, and yellow wren. — Wood worm (Zoöl.), a larva that bores in wood; a wood borer. — Wood wren. (Zoöl.) (a) The wood warbler. (b) The willow warbler.

WOOD Wood, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Wooded; p. pr. & vb. n. Wooding.]

Defn: To supply with wood, or get supplies of wood for; as, to wood a steamboat or a locomotive.

WOOD Wood, v. i.

Defn: To take or get a supply of wood.

WOODBIND Wood"bind`, n.

Defn: Woodbine. Dryden. A garland . . . of woodbind or hawthorn leaves. Chaucer.

WOODBINE Wood"bine`, n. Etym: [AS. wudubind black ivy; — so named as binding about trees. See Wood, and Bind, v. t.] (Bot.) (a) A climbing plant having flowers of great fragrance (Lonicera Periclymenum); the honeysuckle. (b) The Virginia creeper. See Virginia creeper, under Virginia. [Local, U. S.] Beatrice, who even now Is couched in the woodbine coverture. Shak.

WOOD-BOUND Wood"-bound`, a.

Defn: Incumbered with tall, woody hedgerows.

WOODBURY-TYPE Wood"bur*y-type`, n. Etym: [After the name of the inventor, W. Woodbury.]

1. 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.

2. A print from such a plate.

WOODCHAT Wood"chat`, n. (Zoöl.) (a) 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. (b) 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 Wood"chuck`, n.

1. (Zoöl.)

Defn: 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.

2. (Zoöl.)

Defn: The yaffle, or green woodpecker. [Prov. Eng.]

WOODCOCK Wood"cock`, n. Etym: [AS. wuducoc.]

1. (Zoöl.)

Defn: 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.

Note: The most important species are the European (Scolopax rusticola) and the American woodcock (Philohela minor), which agree very closely in appearance and habits.

2. Fig.: A simpleton. [Obs.] If I loved you not, I would laugh at you, and see you Run your neck into the noose, and cry, "A woodcock!" Beau. & Fl. Little woodcock. (a) The common American snipe. (b) The European snipe. — Sea woodcock fish, the bellows fish. — Woodcock owl, the short-eared owl (Asio brachyotus). — Woodcock shell, the shell of certain mollusks of the genus Murex, having a very long canal, with or without spines. — Woodcock snipe. See under Snipe.

WOODCRACKER Wood"crack`er, n. (Zoöl.)

Defn: The nuthatch. [Prov. Eng.]

WOODCRAFT Wood"craft`, n.

Defn: Skill and practice in anything pertaining to the woods, especially in shooting, and other sports in the woods. Men of the glade and forest! leave Your woodcraft for the field of fight. Bryant.

WOODCUT Wood"cut`, n.

Defn: An engraving on wood; also, a print from it. Same as Wood cut, under Wood.

WOODCUTTER Wood"cut`ter, n.

1. A person who cuts wood.

2. An engraver on wood. [R.]

WOODCUTTING Wood"cut`ting, n.

1. The act or employment of cutting wood or timber.

2. The act or art of engraving on wood. [R.]

WOODED Wood"ed, a.

Defn: Supplied or covered with wood, or trees; as, land wooded and watered. The brook escaped from the eye down a deep and wooded dell. Sir W. Scott.

WOODEN Wood"en, a.

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

2. Clumsy; awkward; ungainly; stiff; spiritless. When a bold man is out of countenance, he makes a very wooden figure on it. Collier. His singing was, I confess, a little wooden. G. MacDonald. Wooden spoon. (a) (Cambridge University, Eng.) The last junior optime who takes a university degree, — denoting one who is only fit to stay at home and stir porridge. "We submit that a wooden spoon of our day would not be justified in calling Galileo and Napier blockheads because they never heard of the differential calculus." Macaulay. (b) In some American colleges, the lowest appointee of the junior year; sometimes, one especially popular in his class, without reference to scholarship. Formerly, it was a custom for classmates to present to this person a wooden spoon with formal ceremonies. — Wooden ware, a general name for buckets, bowls, and other articles of domestic use, made of wood. — Wooden wedding. See under Wedding.

WOODENLY Wood"en*ly, adv.

Defn: Clumsily; stupidly; blockishly. R. North.

WOODENNESS Wood"en*ness, n.

Defn: Quality of being wooden; clumsiness; stupidity; blockishness. We set our faces against the woodenness which then characterized German philology. Sweet.

WOOD GUM Wood gum. (Chem.)

Defn: Xylan.

WOODHACK; WOODHACKER Wood"hack`, Wood"hack`er, n. (Zoöl.)

Defn: The yaffle. [Prov. Eng.]

WOODHEWER Wood"hew`er, n. (Zoöl.)

Defn: A woodpecker.

WOODHOLE Wood"hole`, n.

Defn: A place where wood is stored.

WOODHOUSE Wood"house`, n.

Defn: A house or shed in which wood is stored, and sheltered from the weather.

WOOD HYACINTH Wood hyacinth.

Defn: A European squill (Scilla nonscripta) having a scape bearing a raceme of drooping blue, purple, white, or sometimes pink, bell- shaped flowers.

WOODINESS Wood"i*ness, n.

Defn: The quality or state of being woody. Evelyn.

WOODKNACKER Wood"knack`er, n. (Zoöl.)

Defn: The yaffle.

WOODLAND Wood"land, n.

Defn: Land covered with wood or trees; forest; land on which trees are suffered to grow, either for fuel or timber. Here hills and vales, the woodland and the plain, Here earth and water seem to strive again. Pope. Woodlands and cultivated fields are harmoniously blended. Bancroft.

WOODLAND Wood"land, a.

Defn: Of or pertaining to woods or woodland; living in the forest; sylvan. She had a rustic, woodland air. Wordsworth. Like summer breeze by woodland stream. Keble. Woodland caribou. (Zoöl.) See under Caribou.

WOODLANDER Wood"land*er, n.

Defn: A dweller in a woodland.

WOOD-LAYER Wood"-lay`er, n. (Bot.)

Defn: A young oak, or other timber plant, laid down in a hedge among the whitethorn or other plants used in hedges.

WOODLESS Wood"less, a.

Defn: Having no wood; destitute of wood. Mitford. — Wood"less*ness, n.

WOODLY Wood"ly, adv.

Defn: In a wood, mad, or raving manner; madly; furiously. [Obs.] Chaucer.

WOODMAN Wood"man, n.; pl. Woodmen (. [Written also woodsman.]

1. A forest officer appointed to take care of the king's woods; a forester. [Eng.]

2. A sportsman; a hunter. [The duke] is a better woodman than thou takest him for. Shak.

3. One who cuts down trees; a woodcutter. Woodman, spare that tree. G. P. Morris.

4. One who dwells in the woods or forest; a bushman.

WOODMEIL Wood"meil, n.

Defn: See Wadmol.

WOODMONGER Wood"mon`ger, n.

Defn: A wood seller. [Obs.]

WOODNESS Wood"ness, n. Etym: [From Wood mad.]

Defn: Anger; madness; insanity; rage. [Obs.] Spenser. Woodness laughing in his rage. Chaucer.

WOOD-NOTE Wood"-note`, n. Etym: [Wood, n. + note.]

Defn: A wild or natural note, as of a forest bird. [R.] Or sweetest Shakespeare, fancy's child, Warble his native wood-notes wild. Milton.

WOOD PARTRIDGE Wood partridge. (a) Any of several small partridges of Java, Sumatra, Borneo, and neighboring regions belonging to the genera Caloperdix, Rollulus, and Melanoperdix. (b) The Canada grouse. [Local, U. S.]

WOODPECK Wood"peck`, n. (Zoöl.)

Defn: A woodpecker. [Obs.]

WOODPECKER Wood"peck`er, n. (Zoöl.)

Defn: Any one of numerous species of scansorial birds belonging to Picus and many allied genera of the family Picidæ.

Note: These birds have the tail feathers pointed and rigid at the tip to aid in climbing, and a strong chisellike bill with which they are able to drill holes in the bark and wood of trees in search of insect larvæ upon which most of the species feed. A few species feed partly upon the sap of trees (see Sap sucker, under Sap), others spend a portion of their time on the ground in search of ants and other insects. The most common European species are the greater spotted woodpecker (Dendrocopus major), the lesser spotted woodpecker (D. minor), and the green woodpecker, or yaffle (see Yaffle). The best- known American species are the pileated woodpecker (see under Pileated), the ivory-billed woodpecker (Campephilus principalis), which is one of the largest known species, the red-headed woodpecker, or red-head (Melanerpes erythrocephalus), the red-bellied woodpecker (M. Carolinus) (see Chab), the superciliary woodpecker (M. superciliaris), the hairy woodpecker (Dryobates villosus), the downy woodpecker (D. pubescens), the three-toed, woodpecker (Picoides Americanus), the golden-winged woodpecker (see Flicker), and the sap suckers. See also Carpintero. Woodpecker hornbill (Zoöl.), a black and white Asiatic hornbill (Buceros pica) which resembles a woodpecker in color.

WOODROCK Wood"rock`, n. (Min.)

Defn: A compact woodlike variety of asbestus.

WOODRUFF; WOODROOF Wood"ruff`, Wood"roof`, n. Etym: [AS. wudurofe. See Wood, n., and cf. Ruff a plaited collar.] (Bot.)

Defn: A little European herb (Asperula odorata) having a pleasant taste. It is sometimes used for flavoring wine. See Illust. of Whorl.

WOOD-SARE Wood"-sare`, n. Etym: [Wood + Prov. E. sare for sore.] (Bot.)

Defn: A kind of froth seen on herbs. [Obs.]

WOOD-SERE Wood"-sere`, n.

Defn: The time when there no sap in the trees; the winter season. [Written also wood-seer.] [Obs.] Tusser.

WOODSMAN Woods"man, n.; pl. Woodsmen (.

Defn: A woodman; especially, one who lives in the forest.

WOOD'S METAL Wood's" met"al.

Defn: A fusible alloy consisting of one or two parts of cadmium, two parts of tin, four of lead, with seven or eight part of bismuth. It melts at from 66º to 71º C. See Fusible metal, under Fusible.

WOODSTONE Wood"stone`, n. (Min.)

Defn: A striped variety of hornstone, resembling wood in appearance.

WOODSY Woods"y, a.

Defn: Of or pertaining to the woods or forest. [Colloq. U. S.] It [sugar making] is woodsy, and savors of trees. J. Burroughs.

WOOD TICK Wood" tick`. (Zoöl.)

Defn: Any one of several species of ticks of the genus Ixodes whose young cling to bushes, but quickly fasten themselves upon the bodies of any animal with which they come in contact. When they attach themselves to the human body they often produce troublesome sores. The common species of the Northern United States is Ixodes unipunctata.

WOODWALL Wood"wall`, n. (Zoöl.)

Defn: The yaffle. [Written also woodwale, and woodwele.]

WOODWARD Wood"ward`, n. (Eng. Forest Law)

Defn: An officer of the forest, whose duty it was to guard the woods.

WOODWARDIA Wood*war"di*a, n. Etym: [NL. After Thomas J. Woodward, an English botanist.] (Bot.)

Defn: A genus of ferns, one species of which (Woodwardia radicans) is a showy plant in California, the Azores, etc.

WOOD-WASH; WOOD-WAX; WOOD-WAXEN Wood"-wash`, Wood"-wax`, Wood"-wax`en, n. Etym: [AS. wuduweaxe.] (Bot.)

Defn: Same as Woadwaxen.

WOODWORK Wood"work`, n.

Defn: Work made of wood; that part of any structure which is wrought of wood.

WOODWORM Wood"worm`, n. (Zoöl.)

Defn: See Wood worm, under Wood.

WOODY Wood"y, a.

1. Abounding with wood or woods; as, woody land. "The woody wilderness." Bryant. Secret shades Of woody Ida's inmost grove. Milton.

2. Consisting of, or containing, wood or woody fiber; ligneous; as, the woody parts of plants.

3. Of or pertaining to woods; sylvan. [R.] "Woody nymphs, fair Hamadryades." Spenser. Woody fiber. (Bot.) (a) Fiber or tissue consisting of slender, membranous tubes tapering at each end. (b) A single wood cell. See under Wood. Goodale. — Woody nightshade. (Bot.). See Bittersweet, 3 (a). — Woody pear (Bot.), the inedible, woody, pear-shaped fruit of several Australian proteaceous trees of the genus Xylomelum; — called also wooden pear.

WOOER Woo"er, n. Etym: [AS. wogere. See Woo, v. t.]

Defn: One who wooes; one who courts or solicits in love; a suitor. "A thriving wooer." Gibber.

WOOF Woof, n. Etym: [OE. oof, AS. , , aweb; on, an, on + wef, web, fr. wefan to weave. The initial w is due to the influence of E. weave. See On, Weave, and cf. Abb.]

1. The threads that cross the warp in a woven fabric; the weft; the filling; the thread usually carried by the shuttle in weaving.

2. Texture; cloth; as, a pall of softest woof. Pope.

WOOFELL Woo"fell, n. (Zoöl.)

Defn: The European blackbird. "The woofell near at hand that hath a golden bill." Drayton.

WOOFY Woof"y, a.

Defn: Having a close texture; dense; as, a woofy cloud. J. Baillie.

WOOHOO Woo`hoo", n. (Zoöl.)

Defn: The sailfish.

WOOINGLY Woo"ing*ly, adv.

Defn: In a wooing manner; enticingly; with persuasiveness. Shak.

WOOK Wook", obs. imp. of Wake.

Defn: Woke. Chaucer.

WOOL Wool, n. Etym: [OE. wolle, wulle, AS. wull; akin to D. wol, OHG. wolla, G. wolle, Icel. & Sw. ull, Dan. uld, Goth, wulla, Lith. vilna, Russ. volna, L. vellus, Skr. wool, Flannel, Velvet.]

1. The soft and curled, or crisped, species of hair which grows on sheep and some other animals, and which in fineness sometimes approaches to fur; — chiefly applied to the fleecy coat of the sheep, which constitutes a most essential material of clothing in all cold and temperate climates.

Note: Wool consists essentially of keratin.

2. Short, thick hair, especially when crisped or curled. Wool of bat and tongue of dog. Shak.

3. (Bot.)

Defn: A sort of pubescence, or a clothing of dense, curling hairs on the surface of certain plants. Dead pulled wool, wool pulled from a carcass. — Mineral wool. See under Mineral. — Philosopher's wool. (Chem.) See Zinc oxide, under Zinc. — Pulled wool, wool pulled from a pelt, or undressed hide. — Slag wool. Same as Mineral wool, under Mineral. — Wool ball, a ball or mass of wool. — Wool burler, one who removes little burs, knots, or extraneous matter, from wool, or the surface of woolen cloth. — Wool comber. (a) One whose occupation is to comb wool. (b) A machine for combing wool. — Wool grass (Bot.), a kind of bulrush (Scirpus Eriophorum) with numerous clustered woolly spikes. — Wool scribbler. See Woolen scribbler, under Woolen, a. — Wool sorter's disease (Med.), a disease, resembling malignant pustule, occurring among those who handle the wool of goats and sheep. — Wool staple, a city or town where wool used to be brought to the king's staple for sale. [Eng.] — Wool stapler. (a) One who deals in wool. (b) One who sorts wool according to its staple, or its adaptation to different manufacturing purposes. — Wool winder, a person employed to wind, or make up, wool into bundles to be packed for sale.

WOOLD Woold, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Woolded; p. pr. & vb. n. Woolding.] Etym: [D. woelen, bewoelen; akin to G. wuhlen, bewuhlen. *146.] (Naut.)

Defn: To wind, or wrap; especially, to wind a rope round, as a mast or yard made of two or more pieces, at the place where it has been fished or scarfed, in order to strengthen it.

WOOLDER Woold"er, n.

1. (Naut.)

Defn: A stick used to tighten the rope in woolding.

2. (Rope Making)

Defn: One of the handles of the top, formed by a wooden pin passing through it. See 1st Top, 2.

WOOLDING Woold"ing, n. (Naut.) (a) The act of winding or wrapping anything with a rope, as a mast. (b) A rope used for binding masts and spars.

WOOL-DYED Wool"-dyed`, a.

Defn: Dyed before being made into cloth, in distinction from piece- dyed; ingrain.

WOOLED Wooled, a.

Defn: Having (such) wool; as, a fine-wooled sheep.

WOOLEN Wool"en, a. Etym: [OE. wollen; cf. AS. wyllen. See Wool.] [Written also woollen.]

1. Made of wool; consisting of wool; as, woolen goods.

2. Of or pertaining to wool or woolen cloths; as, woolen manufactures; a woolen mill; a woolen draper. Woolen scribbler, a machine for combing or preparing wool in thin, downy, translucent layers.

WOOLEN Wool"en, n. Etym: [Written also woollen.]

Defn: Cloth made of wool; woollen goods.

WOOLENET Wool`en*et", n.

Defn: A thin, light fabric of wool. [Written also woollenet, woolenette, and woollenette.]

WOOLERT Woo"lert, n. (Zoöl.)

Defn: The barn owl. [Prov. Eng.] [Written also oolert, and owlerd.]

WOOLFELL Wool"fell`, n. Etym: [Wool + fell a skin.]

Defn: A skin with the wool; a skin from which the wool has not been sheared or pulled. [Written also woolfel.]

WOOLGATHERING Wool"gath`er*ing, a.

Defn: Indulging in a vagrant or idle exercise of the imagination; roaming upon a fruitless quest; idly fanciful.

WOOLGATHERING Wool"gath`er*ing, n.

Defn: Indulgence in idle imagination; a foolish or useless pursuit or design. His wits were a woolgathering, as they say. Burton.

WOOLGROWER Wool"grow`er, n.

Defn: One who raises sheep for the production of wool. — Wool"grow`ing, n.

WOOL-HALL Wool"-hall`, n.

Defn: A trade market in the woolen districts. [Eng.]

WOOLHEAD Wool"head`, n. (Zoöl.)

Defn: The buffel duck.

WOOLLINESS Wool"li*ness, n.

Defn: The quality or state of being woolly.

WOOLLY Wool"ly, a.

1. Consisting of wool; as, a woolly covering; a woolly fleece.

2. Resembling wool; of the nature of wool. "My fleece of woolly hair." Shak.

3. Clothed with wool. "Woolly breeders." Shak.

4. (Bot.)

Defn: Clothed with a fine, curly pubescence resembling wool. Woolly bear (Zoöl.), the hairy larva of several species of bombycid moths. The most common species in the United States are the salt-marsh caterpillar (see under Salt), the black and red woolly bear, or larva of the Isabella moth (see Illust., under Isabella Moth), and the yellow woolly bear, or larva of the American ermine moth (Spilosoma Virginica). — Woolly butt (Bot.), an Australian tree (Eucalyptus longifolia), so named because of its fibrous bark. — Woolly louse (Zoöl.), a plant louse (Schizoneura, or Erisoma, lanigera) which is often very injurious to the apple tree. It is covered with a dense coat of white filaments somewhat resembling fine wool or cotton. In exists in two forms, one of which infests the roots, the other the branches. See Illust. under Blight. — Woolly macaco (Zoöl.), the mongoose lemur. — Woolly maki (Zoöl.), a long-tailed lemur (Indris laniger) native of Madagascar, having fur somewhat like wool; — called also avahi, and woolly lemur. — Woolly monkey (Zoöl.), any South American monkey of the genus Lagothrix, as the caparro. — Woolly rhinoceros (Paleon.), an extinct rhinoceros (Rhinoceros tichorhinus) which inhabited the arctic regions, and was covered with a dense coat of woolly hair. It has been found frozen in the ice of Siberia, with the flesh and hair well preserved.

WOOLLY-HEAD Wool"ly-head`, n.

Defn: A negro. [Low]

WOOLMAN Wool"man, n.; pl. Woolmen (.

Defn: One who deals in wool.

WOOLPACK Wool"pack`, n.

Defn: A pack or bag of wool weighing two hundred and forty pounds.

WOOLSACK Wool"sack`, n.

Defn: A sack or bag of wool; specifically, the seat of the lord chancellor of England in the House of Lords, being a large, square sack of wool resembling a divan in form.

WOOLSEY Wool"sey, n. Etym: [From Wool.]

Defn: Linsey-woolsey.

WOOLSTOCK Wool"stock`, n.

Defn: A heavy wooden hammer for milling cloth.

WOOLWARD Wool"ward, adv. Etym: [Wool + -ward.]

Defn: In wool; with woolen raiment next the skin. [Obs.]

WOOLWARD-GOING Wool"ward-go`ing, n.

Defn: A wearing of woolen clothes next the skin as a matter of penance. [Obs.] Their . . . woolward-going, and rising at midnight. Tyndale.

WOON Woon, n.

Defn: Dwelling. See Wone. [Obs.]

WOORALI Woo"ra*li, n.

Defn: Same as Curare.

WOOSY Woos"y, a.

Defn: Oozy; wet. [Obs.] Drayton.

WOOTZ Wootz (woots), n. Etym: [Perhaps a corruption of Canarese ukku steel.]

Defn: A species of steel imported from the East Indies, valued for making edge tools; Indian steel. It has in combination a minute portion of alumina and silica.

WOOYEN Woo"yen, n. (Zoöl.)

Defn: See Yuen.

WOPEN Wo"pen, obs. p. p. of Weep.

Defn: Wept. Chaucer.

WORBLE Wor"ble, n. (Zoöl.)

Defn: See Wormil.

WORD Word, n. Etym: [AS. word; akin to OFries. & OS. word, D. woord, G. wort, Icel. oredh, Sw. & Dan. ord, Goth. waúrd, OPruss. wirds, Lith. vardas a name, L. verbum a word; or perhaps to Gr. "rh`twr an orator. Cf. Verb.]

1. The spoken sign of a conception or an idea; an articulate or vocal sound, or a combination of articulate and vocal sounds, uttered by the human voice, and by custom expressing an idea or ideas; a single component part of human speech or language; a constituent part of a sentence; a term; a vocable. "A glutton of words." Piers Plowman. You cram these words into mine ears, against The stomach of my sense. Shak. Amongst men who confound their ideas with words, there must be endless disputes. Locke.

2. Hence, the written or printed character, or combination of characters, expressing such a term; as, the words on a page.

3. pl.

Defn: Talk; discourse; speech; language. Why should calamity be full of words Shak. Be thy words severe; Sharp as he merits, but the sword forbear. Dryden.

4. Account; tidings; message; communication; information; — used only in the singular. I pray you . . . bring me word thither How the world goes. Shak.

5. Signal; order; command; direction. Give the word through. Shak.

6. Language considered as implying the faith or authority of the person who utters it; statement; affirmation; declaration; promise. Obey thy parents; keep thy word justly. Shak. I know you brave, and take you at your word. Dryden. I desire not the reader should take my word. Dryden.

7. pl.

Defn: Verbal contention; dispute. Some words there grew 'twixt Somerset and me. Shak.

8. A brief remark or observation; an expression; a phrase, clause, or short sentence. All the law is fulfilled in one word, even in this; Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. Gal. v. 14. She said; but at the happy word "he lives," My father stooped, re- fathered, o'er my wound. Tennyson. There is only one other point on which I offer a word of remark. Dickens. By word of mouth, orally; by actual speaking. Boyle. — Compound word. See under Compound, a. — Good word, commendation; favorable account. "And gave the harmless fellow a good word." Pope. — In a word, briefly; to sum up. — In word, in declaration; in profession. "Let us not love in word, . . . but in deed and in truth." 1 John iii. 8. — Nuns of the Word Incarnate (R. C. Ch.), an order of nuns founded in France in 1625, and approved in 1638. The order, which also exists in the United States, was instituted for the purpose of doing honor to the "Mystery of the Incarnation of the Son of God." — The word, or The Word. (Theol.) (a) The gospel message; esp., the Scriptures, as a revelation of God. "Bold to speak the word without fear." Phil. i. 14. (b) The second person in the Trinity before his manifestation in time by the incarnation; among those who reject a Trinity of persons, some one or all of the divine attributes personified. John i. 1. — To eat one's words, to retract what has been said. — To have the words for, to speak for; to act as spokesman. [Obs.] "Our host hadde the wordes for us all." Chaucer. — Word blindness (Physiol.), inability to understand printed or written words or symbols, although the person affected may be able to see quite well, speak fluently, and write correctly. Landois & Stirling. — Word deafness (Physiol.), inability to understand spoken words, though the person affected may hear them and other sounds, and hence is not deaf. — Word dumbness (Physiol.), inability to express ideas in verbal language, though the power of speech is unimpaired. — Word for word, in the exact words; verbatim; literally; exactly; as, to repeat anything word for word. — Word painting, the act of describing an object fully and vividly by words only, so as to present it clearly to the mind, as if in a picture. — Word picture, an accurate and vivid description, which presents an object clearly to the mind, as if in a picture. — Word square, a series of words so arranged that they can be read vertically and horizontally with like results.

Syn. — See Term.

WORD Word, v. i.

Defn: To use words, as in discussion; to argue; to dispute. [R.]

WORD Word, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Worded; p. pr. & vb. n. Wording.]

1. To express in words; to phrase. The apology for the king is the same, but worded with greater deference to that great prince. Addison.

2. To ply with words; also, to cause to be by the use of a word or words. [Obs.] Howell.

3. To flatter with words; to cajole. [Obs.] Shak. To word it, to bandy words; to dispute. [Obs.] "To word it with a shrew." L'Estrange.

WORDBOOK Word"book`, n. Etym: [Cf. D. woordenboek, G. wörterbuch.]

Defn: A collection of words; a vocabulary; a dictionary; a lexicon.

WORD-CATCHER Word"-catch`er, n.

Defn: One who cavils at words.

WORDER Word"er, n.

Defn: A speaker. [Obs.] Withlock.

WORDILY Word"i*ly, adv.

Defn: In a wordy manner.

WORDINESS Word"i*ness, n.

Defn: The quality or state of being wordy, or abounding with words; verboseness. Jeffrey.

WORDING Word"ing, n.

Defn: The act or manner of expressing in words; style of expression; phrasing. It is believed this wording was above his known style. Milton.

WORDISH Word"ish, a.

Defn: Respecting words; full of words; wordy. [R.] Sir P. Sidney. — Word"ish*ness, n. The truth they hide by their dark woordishness. Sir K. Digby.

WORDLE Wor"dle, n.

Defn: One of several pivoted pieces forming the throat of an adjustable die used in drawing wire, lead pipe, etc. Knight.

WORDLESS Word"less, a.

Defn: Not using words; not speaking; silent; speechless. Shak.

WORD METHOD Word method. (Education)

Defn: A method of teaching reading in which words are first taken as single ideograms and later analyzed into their phonetic and alphabetic elements; — contrasted with the alphabet and sentence methods.

WORDPLAY Word"play`, n.

Defn: A more or less subtle playing upon the meaning of words.

WORDSMAN Words"man, n.

Defn: One who deals in words, or in mere words; a verbalist. [R.] "Some speculative wordsman." H. Bushnell.

WORDY Word"y, a. [Compar. Wordier; superl. Wordiest.]

1. Of or pertaining to words; consisting of words; verbal; as, a wordy war. Cowper.

2. Using many words; verbose; as, a wordy speaker.

3. Containing many words; full of words. We need not lavish hours in wordy periods. Philips.

WORE Wore,

Defn: imp. of Wear.

WORE Wore,

Defn: imp. of Ware.

WORK Work, n. Etym: [OE. work, werk, weork, AS. weorc, worc; akin to OFries. werk, wirk, OS., D., & G. werk, OHG. werc, werah, Icel. & Sw. verk, Dan. værk, Goth. gawaúrki, Gr. verez to work. Bulwark, Energy, Erg, Georgic, Liturgy, Metallurgy, Organ, Surgeon, Wright.]

1. Exertion of strength or faculties; physical or intellectual effort directed to an end; industrial activity; toil; employment; sometimes, specifically, physically labor. Man hath his daily work of body or mind Appointed. Milton.

2. The matter on which one is at work; that upon which one spends labor; material for working upon; subject of exertion; the thing occupying one; business; duty; as, to take up one's work; to drop one's work. Come on, Nerissa; I have work in hand That you yet know not of. Shak. In every work that he began . . . he did it with all his heart, and prospered. 2 Chron. xxxi. 21.

3. That which is produced as the result of labor; anything accomplished by exertion or toil; product; performance; fabric; manufacture; in a more general sense, act, deed, service, effect, result, achievement, feat. To leave no rubs or blotches in the work. Shak. The work some praise, And some the architect. Milton. Fancy . . . Wild work produces oft, and most in dreams. Milton. The composition or dissolution of mixed bodies . . . is the chief work of elements. Sir K. Digby.

4. Specifically: (a) That which is produced by mental labor; a composition; a book; as, a work, or the works, of Addison. (b) Flowers, figures, or the like, wrought with the needle; embroidery. I am glad I have found this napkin; . . . I'll have the work ta'en out, And give 't Iago. Shak. (c) pl.

Defn: Structures in civil, military, or naval engineering, as docks, bridges, embankments, trenches, fortifications, and the like; also, the structures and grounds of a manufacturing establishment; as, iron works; locomotive works; gas works. (d) pl.

Defn: The moving parts of a mechanism; as, the works of a watch.

5. Manner of working; management; treatment; as, unskillful work spoiled the effect. Bp. Stillingfleet.

6. (Mech.)

Defn: The causing of motion against a resisting force. The amount of work is proportioned to, and is measured by, the product of the force into the amount of motion along the direction of the force. See Conservation of energy, under Conservation, Unit of work, under Unit, also Foot pound, Horse power, Poundal, and Erg. Energy is the capacity of doing work . . . Work is the transference of energy from one system to another. Clerk Maxwell.

7. (Mining)

Defn: Ore before it is dressed. Raymond.

8. pl. (Script.)

Defn: Performance of moral duties; righteous conduct. He shall reward every man according to his works. Matt. xvi. 27. Faith, if it hath not works, is dead. James ii. 17. Muscular work (Physiol.), the work done by a muscle through the power of contraction. — To go to work, to begin laboring; to commence operations; to contrive; to manage. "I 'll go another way to work with him." Shak. — To set on work, to cause to begin laboring; to set to work. [Obs.] Hooker. — To set to work, to employ; to cause to engage in any business or labor.

WORK Work, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Worked, or Wrought (; p. pr. & vb. n. Working.] Etym: [AS. wyrcean (imp. worthe, wrohte, p. p. geworht, gewroht); akin to OFries. werka, wirka, OS. wirkian, D. werken, G. wirken, Icel. verka, yrkja, orka, Goth. waúrkjan. *145. See Work, n.]

1. To exert one's self for a purpose; to put forth effort for the attainment of an object; to labor; to be engaged in the performance of a task, a duty, or the like. O thou good Kent, how shall I live and work, To match thy goodness Shak. Go therefore now, and work; for there shall no straw be given you. Ex. v. 18. Whether we work or play, or sleep or wake, Our life doth pass. Sir J. Davies.

2. Hence, in a general sense, to operate; to act; to perform; as, a machine works well. We bend to that the working of the heart. Shak.

3. Hence, figuratively, to be effective; to have effect or influence; to conduce. We know that all things work together for good to them that love God. Rom. viii. 28. This so wrought upon the child, that afterwards he desired to be taught. Locke. She marveled how she could ever have been wrought upon to marry him. Hawthorne.

4. To carry on business; to be engaged or employed customarily; to perform the part of a laborer; to labor; to toil. They that work in fine flax . . . shall be confounded. Isa. xix. 9.

5. To be in a state of severe exertion, or as if in such a state; to be tossed or agitated; to move heavily; to strain; to labor; as, a ship works in a heavy sea. Confused with working sands and rolling waves. Addison.

6. To make one's way slowly and with difficulty; to move or penetrate laboriously; to proceed with effort; — with a following preposition, as down, out, into, up, through, and the like; as, scheme works out by degrees; to work into the earth. Till body up to spirit work, in bounds Proportioned to each kind. Milton.

7. To ferment, as a liquid. The working of beer when the barm is put in. Bacon.

8. To act or operate on the stomach and bowels, as a cathartic. Purges . . . work best, that is, cause the blood so to do, . . . in warm weather or in a warm room. Grew.

To work at, to be engaged in or upon; to be employed in. — To work to windward (Naut.), to sail or ply against the wind; to tack to windward. Mar. Dict.

WORK Work, v. t.

1. To labor or operate upon; to give exertion and effort to; to prepare for use, or to utilize, by labor. He could have told them of two or three gold mines, and a silver mine, and given the reason why they forbare to work them at that time. Sir W. Raleigh.

2. To produce or form by labor; to bring forth by exertion or toil; to accomplish; to originate; to effect; as, to work wood or iron into a form desired, or into a utensil; to work cotton or wool into cloth. Each herb he knew, that works or good or ill. Harte.

3. To produce by slow degrees, or as if laboriously; to bring gradually into any state by action or motion. "Sidelong he works his way." Milton. So the pure, limpid stream, when foul with stains Of rushing torrents and descending rains, Works itself clear, and as it runs, refines, Till by degrees the floating mirror shines. Addison.

4. To influence by acting upon; to prevail upon; to manage; to lead. "Work your royal father to his ruin." Philips.

5. To form with a needle and thread or yarn; especially, to embroider; as, to work muslin.

6. To set in motion or action; to direct the action of; to keep at work; to govern; to manage; as, to work a machine. Knowledge in building and working ships. Arbuthnot. Now, Marcus, thy virtue's the proof; Put forth thy utmost strength, work every nerve. Addison. The mariners all 'gan work the ropes, Where they were wont to do. Coleridge.

7. To cause to ferment, as liquor. To work a passage (Naut.), to pay for a passage by doing work. — To work double tides (Naut.), to perform the labor of three days in two; — a phrase which alludes to a practice of working by the night tide as well as by the day. — To work in, to insert, introduce, mingle, or interweave by labor or skill. — To work into, to force, urge, or insinuate into; as, to work one's self into favor or confidence. — To work off, to remove gradually, as by labor, or a gradual process; as, beer works off impurities in fermenting. — To work out. (a) To effect by labor and exertion. "Work out your own salvation with fear and trembling." Phil. ii. 12. (b) To erase; to efface. [R.] Tears of joy for your returning spilt, Work out and expiate our former guilt. Dryden. (c) To solve, as a problem. (d) To exhaust, as a mine, by working. — To work up. (a) To raise; to excite; to stir up; as, to work up the passions to rage. The sun, that rolls his chariot o'er their heads, Works up more fire and color in their cheeks. Addison. (b) To expend in any work, as materials; as, they have worked up all the stock. (c) (Naut.) To make over or into something else, as yarns drawn from old rigging, made into spun yarn, foxes, sennit, and the like; also, to keep constantly at work upon needless matters, as a crew in order to punish them. R. H. Dana, Jr.

WORKABLE Work"a*ble, a.

Defn: Capable of being worked, or worth working; as, a workable mine; workable clay.

WORKADAY Work"a*day`, n.

Defn: See Workyday.

WORKBAG Work"bag`, n.

Defn: A bag for holding implements or materials for work; especially, a reticule, or bag for holding needlework, and the like.

WORKBASKET Work"bas`ket, n.

Defn: A basket for holding materials for needlework, or the like.

WORKBENCH Work"bench`, n.

Defn: A bench on which work is performed, as in a carpenter's shop.

WORKBOX Work"box`, n.

Defn: A box for holding instruments or materials for work.

WORKDAY Work"day`, n. & a. Etym: [AS. weorcdæg.]

Defn: A day on which work is performed, as distinguished from Sunday, festivals, etc., a working day.

WORKER Work"er, n.

1. One who, or that which, works; a laborer; a performer; as, a worker in brass. Professors of holiness, but workers of iniquity. Shak.

2. (Zoöl.)

Defn: One of the neuter, or sterile, individuals of the social ants, bees, and white ants. The workers are generally females having the sexual organs imperfectly developed. See Ant, and White ant, under White.

WORKFELLOW Work"fel`low, n.

Defn: One engaged in the same work with another; a companion in work.

WORKFOLK Work"folk`, n.

Defn: People that labor.

WORKFUL Work"ful, a.

Defn: Full of work; diligent. [R.]

WORKHOUSE Work"house`, n.; pl. Workhouses. Etym: [AS. weorch.]

1. A house where any manufacture is carried on; a workshop.

2. A house in which idle and vicious persons are confined to labor.

3. A house where the town poor are maintained at public expense, and provided with labor; a poorhouse.

WORKING Work"ing,

Defn: a & n. from Work. The word must cousin be to the working. Chaucer. Working beam. See Beam, n. 10. — Working class, the class of people who are engaged in manual labor, or are dependent upon it for support; laborers; operatives; — chiefly used in the plural. — Working day. See under Day, n. — Working drawing, a drawing, as of the whole or part of a structure, machine, etc., made to a scale, and intended to be followed by the workmen. Working drawings are either general or detail drawings. — Working house, a house where work is performed; a workhouse. — Working point (Mach.), that part of a machine at which the effect required; the point where the useful work is done.

WORKING-DAY Work"ing-day, a.

Defn: Pertaining to, or characteristic of, working days, or workdays; everyday; hence, plodding; hard-working. O, how full of briers in this working-day world. Shak.

WORKINGMAN Work"ing*man, n.; pl. Workingmen (.

Defn: A laboring man; a man who earns his daily support by manual labor.

WORKLESS Work"less, a.

1. Without work; not laboring; as, many people were still workless.

2. Not carried out in practice; not exemplified in fact; as, workless faith. [Obs.] Sir T. More.

WORKMAN Work"man, n.; pl. Workmen. Etym: [AS. weorcmann.]

1. A man employed in labor, whether in tillage or manufactures; a worker.

2. Hence, especially, a skillful artificer or laborer.

WORKMANLIKE Work"man*like`, a.

Defn: Becoming a workman, especially a skillful one; skillful; well performed.

WORKMANLY Work"man*ly, a.

Defn: Becoming a skillful workman; skillful; well performed; workmanlike.

WORKMANLY Work"man*ly, adv.

Defn: In a skillful manner; in a manner becoming a skillful workman. Shak.

WORKMANSHIP Work"man*ship, n.

1. The art or skill of a workman; the execution or manner of making anything. Due reward For her praiseworthy workmanship to yield. Spenser. Beauty is nature's brag, and must be shown . . . Where most may wonder at the workmanship. Milton.

2. That which is effected, made, or produced; manufacture, something made by manual labor. Not any skilled in workmanship embossed. Spenser. By how much Adam exceeded all men in perfection, by being the immediate workmanship of God. Sir W. Raleigh.

WORKMASTER Work"mas`ter, n.

Defn: The performer of any work; a master workman. [R.] Spenser.

WORKMEN'S COMPENSATION ACT Workmen's compensation act. (Law)

Defn: A statute fixing the compensation that a workman may recover from an employer in case of accident, esp. the British act of 6 Edw. VII. c. 58 (1906) giving to a workman, except in certain cases of "serious and willful misconduct," a right against his employer to a certain compensation on the mere occurrence of an accident where the common law gives the right only for negligence of the employer.

WORKROOM Work"room`, n.

Defn: Any room or apartment used especially for labor.

WORKSHIP Work"ship, n.

Defn: Workmanship. [R.]

WORKSHOP Work"shop`, n.

Defn: A shop where any manufacture or handiwork is carried on.

WORKTABLE Work"ta`ble, n.

Defn: A table for holding working materials and implements; esp., a small table with drawers and other conveniences for needlework, etc.

WORKWAYS; WORKWISE Work"ways`, Work"wise`, adv.

Defn: In a working position or manner; as, a T rail placed workwise, i.e., resting on its base.

WORKWOMAN Work"wom`an, n.; pl. Workwomen (, n.

Defn: A woman who performs any work; especially, a woman skilled in needlework.

WORKYDAY Work"y*day`, n. Etym: [See Workday, Workingday.]

Defn: A week day or working day, as distinguished from Sunday or a holiday. Also used adjectively. [Written also workiday, and workaday.] [Obs. or Colloq.] Prithee, tell her but a workyday fortune. Shak.

WORLD World, n. Etym: [OE. world, werld, weorld, weoreld, AS. weorold, worold; akin to OS. werold, D. wereld, OHG. weralt, worolt, werolt, werlt, G. welt, Icel. veröld, Sw. verld, Dan. verden; properly, the age of man, lifetime, humanity; AS. wer a man + a word akin to E. old; cf. AS. yld lifetime, age, ylde men, humanity. Cf. Werewolf, Old.]

1. The earth and the surrounding heavens; the creation; the system of created things; existent creation; the universe. The invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen. Rom. 1. 20. With desire to know, What nearer might concern him, how this world Of heaven and earth conspicuous first began. Milton.

2. Any planet or heavenly body, especially when considered as inhabited, and as the scene of interests analogous with human interests; as, a plurality of worlds. "Lord of the worlds above." I. Watts. Amongst innumerable stars, that shone Star distant, but high-hand seemed other worlds. Milton. There may be other worlds, where the inhabitants have never violated their allegiance to their almighty Sovereign. W. B. Sprague.

3. The earth and its inhabitants, with their concerns; the sum of human affairs and interests. That forbidden tree, whose mortal taste Brought death into the world, and all our woe. Milton.

4. In a more restricted sense, that part of the earth and its concerns which is known to any one, or contemplated by any one; a division of the globe, or of its inhabitants; human affairs as seen from a certain position, or from a given point of view; also, state of existence; scene of life and action; as, the Old World; the New World; the religious world; the Catholic world; the upper world; the future world; the heathen world. One of the greatest in the Christian world Shall be my surety. Shak. Murmuring that now they must be put to make war beyond the world's end — for so they counted Britain. Milton.

5. The customs, practices, and interests of men; general affairs of life; human society; public affairs and occupations; as, a knowledge of the world. Happy is she that from the world retires. Waller. If knowledge of the world makes man perfidious, May Juba ever live in ignorance. Addison.

6. Individual experience of, or concern with, life; course of life; sum of the affairs which affect the individual; as, to begin the world with no property; to lose all, and begin the world anew.

7. The inhabitants of the earth; the human race; people in general; the public; mankind. Since I do purpose to marry, I will think nothing to any purpose that the world can say against it. Shak. Tell me, wench, how will the world repute me For undertaking so unstaid a journey Shak.

8. The earth and its affairs as distinguished from heaven; concerns of this life as distinguished from those of the life to come; the present existence and its interests; hence, secular affairs; engrossment or absorption in the affairs of this life; worldly corruption; the ungodly or wicked part of mankind. I pray not for the world, but for them which thou hast given me; for they are thine. John xvii. 9. Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world. 1 John ii. 15, 16.

9. As an emblem of immensity, a great multitude or quantity; a large number. "A world of men." Chapman. "A world of blossoms for the bee." Bryant. Nor doth this wood lack worlds of company. Shak. A world of woes dispatched in little space. Dryden. All . . . in the world, all that exists; all that is possible; as, all the precaution in the world would not save him. — A world to see, a wonder to see; something admirable or surprising to see. [Obs.] O, you are novices; 't is a world to see How tame, when men and women are alone, A meacock wretch can make the curstest shrew. Shak. — For all the world. (a) Precisely; exactly. (b) For any consideration. — Seven wonders of the world. See in the Dictionary of Noted Names in Fiction. — To go to the world, to be married. [Obs.] "Thus goes every one to the world but I . . . ; I may sit in a corner and cry heighho for a husband!" Shak. — World's end, the end, or most distant part, of the world; the remotest regions. — World without end, eternally; forever; everlastingly; as if in a state of existence having no end. Throughout all ages, world without end. Eph. iii. 21.

WORLDLINESS World"li*ness, n.

Defn: The quality of being worldly; a predominant passion for obtaining the good things of this life; covetousness; addictedness to gain and temporal enjoyments; worldly-mindedness.

WORLDLING World"ling, Etym: [World + -ling.]

Defn: A person whose soul is set upon gaining temporal possessions; one devoted to this world and its enjoyments. A foutre for the world and worldlings base. Shak. If we consider the expectations of futurity, the worldling gives up the argument. Rogers. And worldlings blot the temple's gold. Keble.

WORLDLY World"ly, a. Etym: [AS. woroldlic.]

1. Relating to the world; human; common; as, worldly maxims; worldly actions. "I thus neglecting worldly ends." Shak. Many years it hath continued, standing by no other worldly mean but that one only hand which erected it. Hooker.

2. Pertaining to this world or life, in contradistinction from the life to come; secular; temporal; devoted to this life and its enjoyments; bent on gain; as, worldly pleasures, affections, honor, lusts, men. With his soul fled all my worldly solace. Shak.

3. Lay, as opposed to clerical. [Obs.] Chaucer.

WORLDLY World"ly, adv.

Defn: With relation to this life; in a worldly manner. Subverting worldly strong and worldly wise By simply meek. Milton.

WORLDLY-MINDED World"ly-mind`ed, a.

Defn: Devoted to worldly interests; mindful of the affairs of the present life, and forgetful of those of the future; loving and pursuing this world's goods, to the exclusion of piety and attention to spiritual concerns. — World"ly*mind`ed*ness, n.

WORLDLYWISE; WORLDLY-WISE World"ly*wise`, World"ly`-*wise`, a.

Defn: Wise in regard to things of this world. Bunyan.

WORLD-WIDE World"-wide`, a.

Defn: Extended throughout the world; as, world-wide fame. Tennyson.

WORM Worm (wûrm), n. Etym: [OE. worm, wurm, AS. wyrm; akin to D. worm, OS. & G. wurm, Icel. ormr, Sw. & Dan. orm, Goth. waúrms, L. vermis, Gr. Vermicelli, Vermilion, Vermin.]

1. A creeping or a crawling animal of any kind or size, as a serpent, caterpillar, snail, or the like. [Archaic] There came a viper out of the heat, and leapt on his hand. When the men of the country saw the worm hang on his hand, they said, This man must needs be a murderer. Tyndale (Acts xxviii. 3, 4). 'T is slander, Whose edge is sharper than the sword, whose tongue Outvenoms all the worms of Nile. Shak. When Cerberus perceived us, the great worm, His mouth he opened and displayed his tusks. Longfellow.

2. Any small creeping animal or reptile, either entirely without feet, or with very short ones, including a great variety of animals; as, an earthworm; the blindworm. Specifically: (Zoöl.) (a) Any helminth; an entozoön. (b) Any annelid. (c) An insect larva. (d) pl.

Defn: Same as Vermes.

3. An internal tormentor; something that gnaws or afflicts one's mind with remorse. The worm of conscience still begnaw thy soul! Shak.

4. A being debased and despised. I am a worm, and no man. Ps. xxii. 6.

5. Anything spiral, vermiculated, or resembling a worm; as: (a) The thread of a screw. The threads of screws, when bigger than can be made in screw plates, are called worms. Moxon.

(b) A spiral instrument or screw, often like a double corkscrew, used for drawing balls from firearms. (c) (Anat.) A certain muscular band in the tongue of some animals, as the dog; the lytta. See Lytta. (d) The condensing tube of a still, often curved and wound to economize space. See Illust. of Still. (e) (Mach.) A short revolving screw, the threads of which drive, or are driven by, a worm wheel by gearing into its teeth or cogs. See Illust. of Worm gearing, below. Worm abscess (Med.), an abscess produced by the irritation resulting from the lodgment of a worm in some part of the body. — Worm fence. See under Fence. — Worm gear. (Mach.) (a) A worm wheel. (b) Worm gearing. — Worm gearing, gearing consisting of a worm and worm wheel working together. — Worm grass. (Bot.) (a) See Pinkroot, 2 (a). (b) The white stonecrop (Sedum album) reputed to have qualities as a vermifuge. Dr. Prior. — Worm oil (Med.), an anthelmintic consisting of oil obtained from the seeds of Chenopodium anthelminticum. — Worm powder (Med.), an anthelmintic powder. — Worm snake. (Zoöl.) See Thunder snake (b), under Thunder. — Worm tea (Med.), an anthelmintic tea or tisane. — Worm tincture (Med.), a tincture prepared from dried earthworms, oil of tartar, spirit of wine, etc. [Obs.] — Worm wheel, a cogwheel having teeth formed to fit into the spiral spaces of a screw called a worm, so that the wheel may be turned by, or may turn, the worm; — called also worm gear, and sometimes tangent wheel. See Illust. of Worm gearing, above.

WORM Worm, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Wormed; p. pr. & vb. n. Worming.]

Defn: To work slowly, gradually, and secretly. When debates and fretting jealousy Did worm and work within you more and more, Your color faded. Herbert.

WORM Worm, v. t.

1. To effect, remove, drive, draw, or the like, by slow and secret means; — often followed by out. They find themselves wormed out of all power. Swift. They . . . wormed things out of me that I had no desire to tell. Dickens.

2. To clean by means of a worm; to draw a wad or cartridge from, as a firearm. See Worm, n. 5 (b).

3. To cut the worm, or lytta, from under the tongue of, as a dog, for the purpose of checking a disposition to gnaw. The operation was formerly supposed to guard against canine madness. The men assisted the laird in his sporting parties, wormed his dogs, and cut the ears of his terrier puppies. Sir W. Scott.

4. (Naut.)

Defn: To wind rope, yarn, or other material, spirally round, between the strands of, as a cable; to wind with spun yarn, as a small rope. Ropes . . . are generally wormed before they are served. Totten. To worm one's self into, to enter into gradually by arts and insinuations; as, to worm one's self into favor.

WORMAL Wor"mal, n. (Zoöl.)

Defn: See Wormil.

WORM-EATEN Worm"-eat`en, a.

1. Eaten, or eaten into, by a worm or by worms; as, worm-eaten timber. Concave as a covered goblet, or a worm-eaten nut. Shak.

2. Worn-out; old; worthless. [R.] Sir W. Raleigh. — Worm"-eat`en*ness, n. [R.] Dr. John Smith.

WORMED Wormed, a.

Defn: Penetrated by worms; injured by worms; worm-eaten; as, wormed timber.

WORMHOLE Worm"hole`, n.

Defn: A burrow made by a worm.

WORMIAN Wor"mi*an, a. (Anat.)

Defn: Discovered or described by Olanus Wormius, a Danish anatomist. Wormian bones, small irregular plates of bone often interposed in the sutures between the large cranial bones.

WORMIL Wor"mil, n. Etym: [Cf. 1st Warble.]

1. (Zoöl.)

Defn: Any botfly larva which burrows in or beneath the skin of domestic and wild animals, thus producing sores. They belong to various species of Hypoderma and allied genera. Domestic cattle are often infested by a large species. See Gadfly. Called also warble, and worble. [Written also wormal, wormul, and wornil.]

2. (Far.)

Defn: See 1st Warble, 1 (b).

WORMLING Worm"ling, n.

Defn: A little worm. O dusty wormling! dost thou strive and stand With heaven's high monarch Sylvester.

WORMSEED Worm"seed`, n. (Bot.)

Defn: Any one of several plants, as Artemisia santonica, and Chenopodium anthelminticum, whose seeds have the property of expelling worms from the stomach and intestines. Wormseed mustard, a slender, cruciferous plant (Erysinum cheiranthoides) having small lanceolate leaves.

WORM-SHAPED Worm"-shaped`, a.

Defn: Shaped like a worm; as, a worm-shaped root.

WORM-SHELL Worm"-shell`, n. (Zoöl.)

Defn: Any species of Vermetus.

WORMUL Wor"mul, n. (Zoöl.)

Defn: See Wornil.

WORMWOOD Worm"wood, n. Etym: [AS. werm, akin to OHG. wermuota, wormuota, G. wermuth, wermut; of uncertain origin.]

1. (Bot.)

Defn: A composite plant (Artemisia Absinthium), having a bitter and slightly aromatic taste, formerly used as a tonic and a vermifuge, and to protect woolen garments from moths. It gives the peculiar flavor to the cordial called absinthe. The volatile oil is a narcotic poison. The term is often extended to other species of the same genus.

2. Anything very bitter or grievous; bitterness. Lest there should be among you a root that beareth gall and wormwood. Deut. xxix. 18. Roman wormwood (Bot.), an American weed (Ambrosia artemisiæfolia); hogweed. — Tree wormwood (Bot.), a species of Artemisia (probably Artemisia variabilis) with woody stems. — Wormwood hare (Zoöl.), a variety of the common hare (Lepus timidus); — so named from its color.

WORMY Worm"y, a. [Compar. Wormier; superl. Wormiest.]

1. Containing a worm; abounding with worms. "Wormy beds." Shak.

2. Like or pertaining to a worm; earthy; groveling.

WORN Worn,

Defn: p. p. of Wear. Worn land, land that has become exhausted by tillage, or which for any reason has lost its fertility.

WORNIL Wor"nil, n. (Zoöl.)

Defn: See Wormil.

WORN-OUT Worn"-out`, a.

Defn: Consumed, or rendered useless, by wearing; as, worn-out garments.

WORRAL; WORREL Wor"ral, Wor"rel, n. (Zoöl.)

Defn: An Egyptian fork-tongued lizard, about four feet long when full grown.

WORRIER Wor"ri*er, n.

Defn: One who worries.

WORRIMENT Wor"ri*ment, n. Etym: [See Worry.]

Defn: Trouble; anxiety; worry. [Colloq. U. S.]

WORRISOME Wor"ri*some, a.

Defn: Inclined to worry or fret; also, causing worry or annoyance.

WORRIT Wor"rit, v. t.

Defn: To worry; to annoy. [Illiterate]

WORRIT Wor"rit, n.

Defn: Worry; anxiety. [Illiterate]

WORRY Wor"ry, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Worried; p. pr. & vb. n. Worrying.] Etym: [OE. worowen, wirien, to strangle, AS. wyrgan in awyrgan; akin to D. worgen, wurgen, to strangle, OHG. wurgen, G. würgen, Lith. verszti, and perhaps to E. wring.]

1. To harass by pursuit and barking; to attack repeatedly; also, to tear or mangle with the teeth. A hellhound that doth hunt us all to death; That dog that had his teeth before his eyes, To worry lambs and lap their gentle blood. Shak.

2. To harass or beset with importunity, or with care an anxiety; to vex; to annoy; to torment; to tease; to fret; to trouble; to plague. "A church worried with reformation." South. Let them rail, And worry one another at their pleasure. Rowe. Worry him out till he gives consent. Swift.

3. To harass with labor; to fatigue. [Colloq.]

WORRY Wor"ry, v. i.

Defn: To feel or express undue care and anxiety; to manifest disquietude or pain; to be fretful; to chafe; as, the child worries; the horse worries.

WORRY Wor"ry, n.; pl. Worries (.