Waive (v. t.) A woman put out of the protection of the law. See Waive, v. t., 3 (b), and the Note.
Waived (imp. & p. p.) of Waive
Waiving (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Waive
Waive (v. t.) To relinquish; to give up claim to; not to insist on or claim; to refuse; to forego.
Waive (v. t.) To throw away; to cast off; to reject; to desert.
Waive (v. t.) To throw away; to relinquish voluntarily, as a right which one may enforce if he chooses.
Waive (v. t.) To desert; to abandon.
Waive (v. i.) To turn aside; to recede.
Waiver (n.) The act of waiving, or not insisting on, some right, claim, or privilege.
Waivure (n.) See Waiver.
Waiwode (n.) See Waywode.
Wake (n.) The track left by a vessel in the water; by extension, any track; as, the wake of an army.
Waked (imp. & p. p.) of Wake
Woke () of Wake
Waking (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Wake
Wake (v. i.) To be or to continue awake; to watch; not to sleep.
Wake (v. i.) To sit up late festive purposes; to hold a night revel.
Wake (v. i.) To be excited or roused from sleep; to awake; to be awakened; to cease to sleep; -- often with up.
Wake (v. i.) To be exited or roused up; to be stirred up from a dormant, torpid, or inactive state; to be active.
Wake (v. t.) To rouse from sleep; to awake.
Wake (v. t.) To put in motion or action; to arouse; to excite.
Wake (v. t.) To bring to life again, as if from the sleep of death; to reanimate; to revive.
Wake (v. t.) To watch, or sit up with, at night, as a dead body.
Wake (n.) The act of waking, or being awaked; also, the state of being awake.
Wake (n.) The state of forbearing sleep, especially for solemn or festive purposes; a vigil.
Wake (n.) An annual parish festival formerly held in commemoration of the dedication of a church. Originally, prayers were said on the evening preceding, and hymns were sung during the night, in the church; subsequently, these vigils were discontinued, and the day itself, often with succeeding days, was occupied in rural pastimes and exercises, attended by eating and drinking, often to excess.
Wake (n.) The sitting up of persons with a dead body, often attended with a degree of festivity, chiefly among the Irish.
Wakeful (a.) Not sleeping; indisposed to sleep; watchful; vigilant.
Wakened (imp. & p. pr.) of Waken
Wakening (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Waken
Waken (v. i.) To wake; to cease to sleep; to be awakened.
Waken (v. t.) To excite or rouse from sleep; to wake; to awake; to awaken.
Waken (v. t.) To excite; to rouse; to move to action; to awaken.
Wakener (n.) One who wakens.
Wakening (n.) The act of one who wakens; esp., the act of ceasing to sleep; an awakening.
Wakening (n.) The revival of an action.
Waker (n.) One who wakes.
Wake-robin (n.) Any plant of the genus Arum, especially, in England, the cuckoopint (Arum maculatum).
Waketime (n.) Time during which one is awake.
Waking (n.) The act of waking, or the state or period of being awake.
Waking (n.) A watch; a watching.
Walaway (interj.) See Welaway.
Wald (n.) A forest; -- used as a termination of names. See Weald.
Waldenses (n. pl.) A sect of dissenters from the ecclesiastical system of the Roman Catholic Church, who in the 13th century were driven by persecution to the valleys of Piedmont, where the sect survives. They profess substantially Protestant principles.
Waldensian (a.) Of or pertaining to the Waldenses.
Waldensian (n.) One Holding the Waldensian doctrines.
Waldgrave (n.) In the old German empire, the head forest keeper.
Waldheimia (n.) A genus of brachiopods of which many species are found in the fossil state. A few still exist in the deep sea.
Wale (n.) A streak or mark made on the skin by a rod or whip; a stripe; a wheal. See Wheal.
Wale (n.) A ridge or streak rising above the surface, as of cloth; hence, the texture of cloth.
Wale (n.) A timber bolted to a row of piles to secure them together and in position.
Wale (n.) Certain sets or strakes of the outside planking of a vessel; as, the main wales, or the strakes of planking under the port sills of the gun deck; channel wales, or those along the spar deck, etc.
Wale (n.) A wale knot, or wall knot.
Wale (v. t.) To mark with wales, or stripes.
Wale (v. t.) To choose; to select; specifically (Mining), to pick out the refuse of (coal) by hand, in order to clean it.
Walhalla (n.) See Valhalla.
Waling (n.) Same as Wale, n., 4.
Walked (imp. & p. p.) of Walk
Walking (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Walk
Walk (v. i.) To move along on foot; to advance by steps; to go on at a moderate pace; specifically, of two-legged creatures, to proceed at a slower or faster rate, but without running, or lifting one foot entirely before the other touches the ground.
Walk (v. i.) To move or go on the feet for exercise or amusement; to take one's exercise; to ramble.
Walk (v. i.) To be stirring; to be abroad; to go restlessly about; -- said of things or persons expected to remain quiet, as a sleeping person, or the spirit of a dead person; to go about as a somnambulist or a specter.
Walk (v. i.) To be in motion; to act; to move; to wag.
Walk (v. i.) To behave; to pursue a course of life; to conduct one's self.
Walk (v. i.) To move off; to depart.
Walk (v. t.) To pass through, over, or upon; to traverse; to perambulate; as, to walk the streets.
Walk (v. t.) To cause to walk; to lead, drive, or ride with a slow pace; as to walk one's horses.
Walk (v. t.) To subject, as cloth or yarn, to the fulling process; to full.
Walk (n.) The act of walking, or moving on the feet with a slow pace; advance without running or leaping.
Walk (n.) The act of walking for recreation or exercise; as, a morning walk; an evening walk.
Walk (n.) Manner of walking; gait; step; as, we often know a person at a distance by his walk.
Walk (n.) That in or through which one walks; place or distance walked over; a place for walking; a path or avenue prepared for foot passengers, or for taking air and exercise; way; road; hence, a place or region in which animals may graze; place of wandering; range; as, a sheep walk.
Walk (n.) A frequented track; habitual place of action; sphere; as, the walk of the historian.
Walk (n.) Conduct; course of action; behavior.
Walk (n.) The route or district regularly served by a vender; as, a milkman's walk.
Walkable (a.) Fit to be walked on; capable of being walked on or over.
Walker (n.) One who walks; a pedestrian.
Walker (n.) That with which one walks; a foot.
Walker (n.) A forest officer appointed to walk over a certain space for inspection; a forester.
Walker (v. t.) A fuller of cloth.
Walker (v. t.) Any ambulatorial orthopterous insect, as a stick insect.
Walking () a. & n. from Walk, v.
Walk-mill (n.) A fulling mill.
Walk-over (n.) In racing, the going over a course by a horse which has no competitor for the prize; hence, colloquially, a one-sided contest; an uncontested, or an easy, victory.
Walkyr (n.) See Valkyria.
Wall (n.) A kind of knot often used at the end of a rope; a wall knot; a wale.
Wall (n.) A work or structure of stone, brick, or other materials, raised to some height, and intended for defense or security, solid and permanent inclosing fence, as around a field, a park, a town, etc., also, one of the upright inclosing parts of a building or a room.
Wall (n.) A defense; a rampart; a means of protection; in the plural, fortifications, in general; works for defense.
Wall (n.) An inclosing part of a receptacle or vessel; as, the walls of a steam-engine cylinder.
Wall (n.) The side of a level or drift.
Wall (n.) The country rock bounding a vein laterally.
Walled (imp. & p. p.) of Wall
Walling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Wall
Wall (v. t.) To inclose with a wall, or as with a wall.
Wall (v. t.) To defend by walls, or as if by walls; to fortify.
Wall (v. t.) To close or fill with a wall, as a doorway.
Wallaba (n.) A leguminous tree (Eperua falcata) of Demerara, with pinnate leaves and clusters of red flowers. The reddish brown wood is used for palings and shingles.
Wallabies (pl. ) of Wallaby
Wallaby (n.) Any one of numerous species of kangaroos belonging to the genus Halmaturus, native of Australia and Tasmania, especially the smaller species, as the brush kangaroo (H. Bennettii) and the pademelon (H. thetidis). The wallabies chiefly inhabit the wooded district and bushy plains.
Wallah (n.) A black variety of the jaguar; -- called also tapir tiger.