Weak-minded (a.) Having a weak mind, either naturally or by reason of disease; feebleminded; foolish; idiotic.
Weakness (n.) The quality or state of being weak; want of strength or firmness; lack of vigor; want of resolution or of moral strength; feebleness.
Weakness (n.) That which is a mark of lack of strength or resolution; a fault; a defect.
Weal (n.) The mark of a stripe. See Wale.
Weal (v. t.) To mark with stripes. See Wale.
Weal (adv.) A sound, healthy, or prosperous state of a person or thing; prosperity; happiness; welfare.
Weal (adv.) The body politic; the state; common wealth.
Weal (v. t.) To promote the weal of; to cause to be prosperous.
Weal-balanced (a.) Balanced or considered with reference to public weal.
Weald (n.) A wood or forest; a wooded land or region; also, an open country; -- often used in place names.
Wealden (a.) Of or pertaining to the lowest division of the Cretaceous formation in England and on the Continent, which overlies the Oolitic series.
Wealden (n.) The Wealden group or strata.
Wealdish (a.) Of or pertaining to a weald, esp. to the weald in the county of Kent, England.
Wealful (a.) Weleful.
Wealsmen (pl. ) of Wealsman
Wealsman (n.) A statesman; a politician.
Wealth (n.) Weal; welfare; prosperity; good.
Wealth (n.) Large possessions; a comparative abundance of things which are objects of human desire; esp., abundance of worldly estate; affluence; opulence; riches.
Wealthful (a.) Full of wealth; wealthy; prosperous.
Wealthily (adv.) In a wealthy manner; richly.
Wealthiness (n.) The quality or state of being wealthy, or rich; richness; opulence.
Wealthy (superl.) Having wealth; having large possessions, or larger than most men, as lands, goods, money, or securities; opulent; affluent; rich.
Wealthy (superl.) Hence, ample; full; satisfactory; abundant.
Weaned (imp. & p. p.) of Wean
Weaning (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Wean
Wean (a.) To accustom and reconcile, as a child or other young animal, to a want or deprivation of mother's milk; to take from the breast or udder; to cause to cease to depend on the mother nourishment.
Wean (a.) Hence, to detach or alienate the affections of, from any object of desire; to reconcile to the want or loss of anything.
Wean (n.) A weanling; a young child.
Weanedness (n.) Quality or state of being weaned.
Weanel (n.) A weanling.
Weanling () a. & n. from Wean, v.
Weanling (n.) A child or animal newly weaned; a wean.
Weanling (a.) Recently weaned.
Weapon (n.) An instrument of offensive of defensive combat; something to fight with; anything used, or designed to be used, in destroying, defeating, or injuring an enemy, as a gun, a sword, etc.
Weapon (n.) Fig.: The means or instrument with which one contends against another; as, argument was his only weapon.
Weapon (n.) A thorn, prickle, or sting with which many plants are furnished.
Weaponed (a.) Furnished with weapons, or arms; armed; equipped.
Weaponless (a.) Having no weapon.
Weaponry (n.) Weapons, collectively; as, an array of weaponry.
Wear (n.) Same as Weir.
Wear (v. t.) To cause to go about, as a vessel, by putting the helm up, instead of alee as in tacking, so that the vessel's bow is turned away from, and her stern is presented to, the wind, and, as she turns still farther, her sails fill on the other side; to veer.
Wore (imp.) of Wear
Worn (p. p.) of Wear
Wearing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Wear
Weared (imp. & p. p.) of Wear
Wear (v. t.) To carry or bear upon the person; to bear upon one's self, as an article of clothing, decoration, warfare, bondage, etc.; to have appendant to one's body; to have on; as, to wear a coat; to wear a shackle.
Wear (v. t.) To have or exhibit an appearance of, as an aspect or manner; to bear; as, she wears a smile on her countenance.
Wear (v. t.) To use up by carrying or having upon one's self; hence, to consume by use; to waste; to use up; as, to wear clothes rapidly.
Wear (v. t.) To impair, waste, or diminish, by continual attrition, scraping, percussion, on the like; to consume gradually; to cause to lower or disappear; to spend.
Wear (v. t.) To cause or make by friction or wasting; as, to wear a channel; to wear a hole.
Wear (v. t.) To form or shape by, or as by, attrition.
Wear (v. i.) To endure or suffer use; to last under employment; to bear the consequences of use, as waste, consumption, or attrition; as, a coat wears well or ill; -- hence, sometimes applied to character, qualifications, etc.; as, a man wears well as an acquaintance.
Wear (v. i.) To be wasted, consumed, or diminished, by being used; to suffer injury, loss, or extinction by use or time; to decay, or be spent, gradually.
Wear (n.) The act of wearing, or the state of being worn; consumption by use; diminution by friction; as, the wear of a garment.
Wear (n.) The thing worn; style of dress; the fashion.
Wearable (a.) Capable of being worn; suitable to be worn.
Wearer (n.) One who wears or carries as appendant to the body; as, the wearer of a cloak, a sword, a crown, a shackle, etc.
Wearer (n.) That which wastes or diminishes.
Weariable (a.) That may be wearied.
Weariful (a.) Abounding in qualities which cause weariness; wearisome.
Weariless (a.) Incapable of being wearied.
Wearily (adv.) In a weary manner.
Weariness (n.) The quality or state of being weary or tried; lassitude; exhaustion of strength; fatigue.
Wearing (n.) The act of one who wears; the manner in which a thing wears; use; conduct; consumption.
Wearing (n.) That which is worn; clothes; garments.
Wearing (a.) Pertaining to, or designed for, wear; as, wearing apparel.
Wearish (a.) Weak; withered; shrunk.
Wearish (a.) Insipid; tasteless; unsavory.
Wearisome (a.) Causing weariness; tiresome; tedious; weariful; as, a wearisome march; a wearisome day's work; a wearisome book.
Weary (superl.) Having the strength exhausted by toil or exertion; worn out in respect to strength, endurance, etc.; tired; fatigued.
Weary (superl.) Causing weariness; tiresome.
Weary (superl.) Having one's patience, relish, or contentment exhausted; tired; sick; -- with of before the cause; as, weary of marching, or of confinement; weary of study.
Wearied (imp. & p. p.) of Weary
Wearying (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Weary
Weary (v. t.) To reduce or exhaust the physical strength or endurance of; to tire; to fatigue; as, to weary one's self with labor or traveling.
Weary (v. t.) To make weary of anything; to exhaust the patience of, as by continuance.
Weary (v. t.) To harass by anything irksome.
Weary (v. i.) To grow tired; to become exhausted or impatient; as, to weary of an undertaking.
Weasand (n.) The windpipe; -- called also, formerly, wesil.
Weasel (n.) Any one of various species of small carnivores belonging to the genus Putorius, as the ermine and ferret. They have a slender, elongated body, and are noted for the quickness of their movements and for their bloodthirsty habit in destroying poultry, rats, etc. The ermine and some other species are brown in summer, and turn white in winter; others are brown at all seasons.
Weasel-faced (a.) Having a thin, sharp face, like a weasel.
Weaser (n.) The American merganser; -- called also weaser sheldrake.
Weasiness (n.) Quality or state of being weasy; full feeding; sensual indulgence.
Weasy (a.) Given to sensual indulgence; gluttonous.
Weather (n.) The state of the air or atmosphere with respect to heat or cold, wetness or dryness, calm or storm, clearness or cloudiness, or any other meteorological phenomena; meteorological condition of the atmosphere; as, warm weather; cold weather; wet weather; dry weather, etc.
Weather (n.) Vicissitude of season; meteorological change; alternation of the state of the air.
Weather (n.) Storm; tempest.
Weather (n.) A light rain; a shower.
Weathered (imp. & p. p.) of Weather
Weathering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Weather
Weather (v. t.) To expose to the air; to air; to season by exposure to air.
Weather (v. t.) Hence, to sustain the trying effect of; to bear up against and overcome; to sustain; to endure; to resist; as, to weather the storm.
Weather (v. t.) To sail or pass to the windward of; as, to weather a cape; to weather another ship.
Weather (v. t.) To place (a hawk) unhooded in the open air.
Weather (v. i.) To undergo or endure the action of the atmosphere; to suffer meteorological influences; sometimes, to wear away, or alter, under atmospheric influences; to suffer waste by weather.
Weather (a.) Being toward the wind, or windward -- opposed to lee; as, weather bow, weather braces, weather gauge, weather lifts, weather quarter, weather shrouds, etc.
Weather-beaten (a.) Beaten or harassed by the weather; worn by exposure to the weather, especially to severe weather.
Weather-bit (n.) A turn of the cable about the end of the windlass, without the bits.
Weatherbit (v. t.) To take another turn with, as a cable around a windlass.
Weather-bitten (a.) Eaten into, defaced, or worn, by exposure to the weather.