Wedge (n.) Anything in the form of a wedge, as a body of troops drawn up in such a form.
Wedge (n.) The person whose name stands lowest on the list of the classical tripos; -- so called after a person (Wedgewood) who occupied this position on the first list of 1828.
Wedged (imp. & p. p.) of Wedge
Wedging (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Wedge
Wedge (v. t.) To cleave or separate with a wedge or wedges, or as with a wedge; to rive.
Wedge (v. t.) To force or drive as a wedge is driven.
Wedge (v. t.) To force by crowding and pushing as a wedge does; as, to wedge one's way.
Wedge (v. t.) To press closely; to fix, or make fast, in the manner of a wedge that is driven into something.
Wedge (v. t.) To fasten with a wedge, or with wedges; as, to wedge a scythe on the snath; to wedge a rail or a piece of timber in its place.
Wedge (v. t.) To cut, as clay, into wedgelike masses, and work by dashing together, in order to expel air bubbles, etc.
Wedgebill (n.) An Australian crested insessorial bird (Sphenostoma cristatum) having a wedge-shaped bill. Its color is dull brown, like the earth of the plains where it lives.
Wedge-formed (a.) Having the form of a wedge; cuneiform.
Wedge-shaped (a.) Having the shape of a wedge; cuneiform.
Wedge-shaped (a.) Broad and truncate at the summit, and tapering down to the base; as, a wedge-shaped leaf.
Wedge-shell (n.) Any one of numerous species of small marine bivalves belonging to Donax and allied genera in which the shell is wedge-shaped.
Wedge-tailed (a.) Having a tail which has the middle pair of feathers longest, the rest successively and decidedly shorter, and all more or less attenuate; -- said of certain birds. See Illust. of Wood hoopoe, under Wood.
Wedgewise (adv.) In the manner of a wedge.
Wedgwood ware () A kind of fine pottery, the most remarkable being what is called jasper, either white, or colored throughout the body, and capable of being molded into the most delicate forms, so that fine and minute bas-reliefs like cameos were made of it, fit even for being set as jewels.
Wedgy (a.) Like a wedge; wedge-shaped.
Wedlock (v. i.) The ceremony, or the state, of marriage; matrimony.
Wedlock (v. i.) A wife; a married woman.
Wedlock (v. t.) To marry; to unite in marriage; to wed.
Wednesday (a.) The fourth day of the week; the next day after Tuesday.
Wee (n.) A little; a bit, as of space, time, or distance.
Wee (a.) Very small; little.
Weech-elm (n.) The wych-elm.
Weed (n.) A garment; clothing; especially, an upper or outer garment.
Weed (n.) An article of dress worn in token of grief; a mourning garment or badge; as, he wore a weed on his hat; especially, in the plural, mourning garb, as of a woman; as, a widow's weeds.
Weed (n.) A sudden illness or relapse, often attended with fever, which attacks women in childbed.
Weed (n.) Underbrush; low shrubs.
Weed (n.) Any plant growing in cultivated ground to the injury of the crop or desired vegetation, or to the disfigurement of the place; an unsightly, useless, or injurious plant.
Weed (n.) Fig.: Something unprofitable or troublesome; anything useless.
Weed (n.) An animal unfit to breed from.
Weed (n.) Tobacco, or a cigar.
Weeded (imp. & p. p.) of Weed
Weeding (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Weed
Weed (v. t.) To free from noxious plants; to clear of weeds; as, to weed corn or onions; to weed a garden.
Weed (v. t.) To take away, as noxious plants; to remove, as something hurtful; to extirpate.
Weed (v. t.) To free from anything hurtful or offensive.
Weed (v. t.) To reject as unfit for breeding purposes.
Weeder (n.) One who, or that which, weeds, or frees from anything noxious.
Weedery (n.) Weeds, collectively; also, a place full of weeds or for growing weeds.
Weeding () a. & n. from Weed, v.
Weeding-rhim (n.) A kind of implement used for tearing up weeds esp. on summer fallows.
Weedless (a.) Free from weeds or noxious matter.
Weedy (superl.) Of or pertaining to weeds; consisting of weeds.
Weedy (superl.) Abounding with weeds; as, weedy grounds; a weedy garden; weedy corn.
Weedy (superl.) Scraggy; ill-shaped; ungainly; -- said of colts or horses, and also of persons.
Weedy (a.) Dressed in weeds, or mourning garments.
Week (n.) A period of seven days, usually that reckoned from one Sabbath or Sunday to the next.
Weekly (a.) Of or pertaining to a week, or week days; as, weekly labor.
Weekly (a.) Coming, happening, or done once a week; hebdomadary; as, a weekly payment; a weekly gazette.
Weeklies (pl. ) of Weekly
Weekly (n.) A publication issued once in seven days, or appearing once a week.
Weekly (adv.) Once a week; by hebdomadal periods; as, each performs service weekly.
Weekwam (n.) See Wigwam.
Weel (a. & adv.) Well.
Weel (n.) A whirlpool.
Weel () Alt. of Weely
Weely () A kind of trap or snare for fish, made of twigs.
Ween (v. i.) To think; to imagine; to fancy.
Weep (n.) The lapwing; the wipe; -- so called from its cry.
Weep () imp. of Weep, for wept.
Wept (imp. & p. p.) of Weep
Weeping (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Weep
Weep (v. i.) Formerly, to express sorrow, grief, or anguish, by outcry, or by other manifest signs; in modern use, to show grief or other passions by shedding tears; to shed tears; to cry.
Weep (v. i.) To lament; to complain.
Weep (v. i.) To flow in drops; to run in drops.
Weep (v. i.) To drop water, or the like; to drip; to be soaked.
Weep (v. i.) To hang the branches, as if in sorrow; to be pendent; to droop; -- said of a plant or its branches.
Weep (v. t.) To lament; to bewail; to bemoan.
Weep (v. t.) To shed, or pour forth, as tears; to shed drop by drop, as if tears; as, to weep tears of joy.
Weeper (n.) One who weeps; esp., one who sheds tears.
Weeper (n.) A white band or border worn on the sleeve as a badge of mourning.
Weeper (n.) The capuchin. See Capuchin, 3 (a).
Weepful (a.) Full of weeping or lamentation; grieving.
Weeping (n.) The act of one who weeps; lamentation with tears; shedding of tears.
Weeping (a.) Grieving; lamenting; shedding tears.
Weeping (a.) Discharging water, or other liquid, in drops or very slowly; surcharged with water.
Weeping (a.) Having slender, pendent branches; -- said of trees; as, weeping willow; a weeping ash.
Weeping (a.) Pertaining to lamentation, or those who weep.
Weepingly (adv.) In a weeping manner.
Weeping-ripe (a.) Ripe for weeping; ready to weep.
Weerish (a.) See Wearish.
Weesel (n.) See Weasel.
Weet (a. & n.) Wet.
Wot (imp.) of Weet
Weet (v. i.) To know; to wit.
Weet-bird (n.) The wryneck; -- so called from its cry.
Weetingly (adv.) Knowingly.
Weetless (a.) Unknowing; also, unknown; unmeaning.
Weet-weet (n.) The common European sandpiper.
Weet-weet (n.) The chaffinch.
Weever (n.) Any one of several species of edible marine fishes belonging to the genus Trachinus, of the family Trachinidae. They have a broad spinose head, with the eyes looking upward. The long dorsal fin is supported by numerous strong, sharp spines which cause painful wounds.
Weevil (n.) Any one of numerous species of snout beetles, or Rhynchophora, in which the head is elongated and usually curved downward. Many of the species are very injurious to cultivated plants. The larvae of some of the species live in nuts, fruit, and grain by eating out the interior, as the plum weevil, or curculio, the nut weevils, and the grain weevil (see under Plum, Nut, and Grain). The larvae of other species bore under the bark and into the pith of trees and various other plants, as the pine weevils (see under Pine). See also Pea weevil, Rice weevil, Seed weevil, under Pea, Rice, and Seed.
Weeviled (a.) Infested by weevils; as, weeviled grain.
Weevily (a.) Having weevils; weeviled.
Weezel (n.) See Weasel.
Weft () imp. & p. p. of Wave.
Weft (n.) A thing waved, waived, or cast away; a waif.