Worthless (a.) Destitute of worth; having no value, virtue, excellence, dignity, or the like; undeserving; valueless; useless; vile; mean; as, a worthless garment; a worthless ship; a worthless man or woman; a worthless magistrate.
worthwhile (adj.) Worth the time or effort spent.
Worthy (n.) Having worth or excellence; possessing merit; valuable; deserving; estimable; excellent; virtuous.
Worthy (n.) Having suitable, adapted, or equivalent qualities or value; -- usually with of before the thing compared or the object; more rarely, with a following infinitive instead of of, or with that; as, worthy of, equal in excellence, value, or dignity to; entitled to; meriting; -- usually in a good sense, but sometimes in a bad one.
Worthy (n.) Of high station; of high social position.
Worthies (pl. ) of Worthy
Worthy (n.) A man of eminent worth or value; one distinguished for useful and estimable qualities; a person of conspicuous desert; -- much used in the plural; as, the worthies of the church; political worthies; military worthies.
Worthy (v. t.) To render worthy; to exalt into a hero.
Wost () 2d pers. sing. pres. of Wit, to know.
Wot () 1st & 3d pers. sing. pres. of Wit, to know. See the Note under Wit, v.
Wotest () Alt. of Wottest
Wottest () 2d pers. sing. pres. of Wit, to know.
Woteth () Alt. of Wotteth
Wotteth () 3d pers. sing. pres. of Wit, to know.
Woul (v. i.) To howl.
Would (v. t.) Commonly used as an auxiliary verb, either in the past tense or in the conditional or optative present. See 2d & 3d Will.
Would (n.) See 2d Weld.
Would-be (a.) Desiring or professing to be; vainly pretending to be; as, a would-be poet.
Woulding (n.) Emotion of desire; inclination; velleity.
Wouldingness (n.) Willingness; desire.
Woulfe bottle (n.) A kind of wash bottle with two or three necks; -- so called after the inventor, Peter Woulfe, an English chemist.
Wound () imp. & p. p. of Wind to twist, and Wind to sound by blowing.
Wound (n.) A hurt or injury caused by violence; specifically, a breach of the skin and flesh of an animal, or in the substance of any creature or living thing; a cut, stab, rent, or the like.
Wound (n.) Fig.: An injury, hurt, damage, detriment, or the like, to feeling, faculty, reputation, etc.
Wound (n.) An injury to the person by which the skin is divided, or its continuity broken; a lesion of the body, involving some solution of continuity.
Wounded (imp. & p. p.) of Wound
Wounding (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Wound
Wound (n.) To hurt by violence; to produce a breach, or separation of parts, in, as by a cut, stab, blow, or the like.
Wound (n.) To hurt the feelings of; to pain by disrespect, ingratitude, or the like; to cause injury to.
Woundable (a.) Capable of being wounded; vulnerable.
Wounder (n.) One who, or that which, wounds.
Woundily (adv.) In a woundy manner; excessively; woundy.
Woundless (a.) Free from wound or hurt; exempt from being wounded; invulnerable.
Woundwort (n.) Any one of certain plants whose soft, downy leaves have been used for dressing wounds, as the kidney vetch, and several species of the labiate genus Stachys.
Woundy (a.) Excessive.
Woundy (adv.) Excessively; extremely.
Wourali (n.) Same as Curare.
Wou-wou (n.) The agile, or silvery, gibbon; -- called also camper. See Gibbon.
Wove () p. pr. & rare vb. n. of Weave.
Woven () p. p. of Weave.
Wowe (v. t. & i.) To woo.
Wowf (a.) Disordered or unsettled in intellect; deranged.
Wowke (n.) Week.
Wow-wow (n.) See Wou-wou.
Wox () imp. of Wax.
Woxen () p. p. of Wax.
Wrack (n.) A thin, flying cloud; a rack.
Wrack (v. t.) To rack; to torment.
Wrack (n.) Wreck; ruin; destruction.
Wrack (n.) Any marine vegetation cast up on the shore, especially plants of the genera Fucus, Laminaria, and Zostera, which are most abundant on northern shores.
Wrack (n.) Coarse seaweed of any kind.
Wrack (v. t.) To wreck.
Wrackful (a.) Ruinous; destructive.
Wrain-bolt (n.) Same as Wringbolt.
Wraith (n.) An apparition of a person in his exact likeness, seen before death, or a little after; hence, an apparition; a specter; a vision; an unreal image.
Wraith (n.) Sometimes, improperly, a spirit thought to preside over the waters; -- called also water wraith.
Wrangled (imp. & p. p.) of Wrangle
Wrangling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Wrangle
Wrangle (v. i.) To argue; to debate; to dispute.
Wrangle (v. i.) To dispute angrily; to quarrel peevishly and noisily; to brawl; to altercate.
Wrangle (v. t.) To involve in a quarrel or dispute; to embroil.
Wrangle (n.) An angry dispute; a noisy quarrel; a squabble; an altercation.
Wrangler (n.) An angry disputant; one who disputes with heat or peevishness.
Wrangler (n.) One of those who stand in the first rank of honors in the University of Cambridge, England. They are called, according to their rank, senior wrangler, second wrangler, third wrangler, etc. Cf. Optime.
Wranglership (n.) The honor or position of being a wrangler at the University of Cambridge, England.
Wranglesome (a.) Contentious; quarrelsome.
Wrannock (n.) Alt. of Wranny
Wranny (n.) The common wren.
Wrap (v. t.) To snatch up; transport; -- chiefly used in the p. p. wrapt.
Wrapped (imp. & p. p.) of Wrap
Wrapt () of Wrap
Wrapping (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Wrap
Wrap (v. t.) To wind or fold together; to arrange in folds.
Wrap (v. t.) To cover by winding or folding; to envelop completely; to involve; to infold; -- often with up.
Wrap (v. t.) To conceal by enveloping or infolding; to hide; hence, to involve, as an effect or consequence; to be followed by.
Wrap (n.) A wrapper; -- often used in the plural for blankets, furs, shawls, etc., used in riding or traveling.
Wrappage (n.) The act of wrapping.
Wrappage (n.) That which wraps; envelope; covering.
Wrapper (n.) One who, or that which, wraps.
Wrapper (n.) That in which anything is wrapped, or inclosed; envelope; covering.
Wrapper (n.) Specifically, a loose outer garment; an article of dress intended to be wrapped round the person; as, a morning wrapper; a gentleman's wrapper.
Wraprascal (n.) A kind of coarse upper coat, or overcoat, formerly worn.
Wrasse (n.) Any one of numerous edible, marine, spiny-finned fishes of the genus Labrus, of which several species are found in the Mediterranean and on the Atlantic coast of Europe. Many of the species are bright-colored.
Wrastle (v. i.) To wrestle.
Wrath (a.) Violent anger; vehement exasperation; indignation; rage; fury; ire.
Wrath (a.) The effects of anger or indignation; the just punishment of an offense or a crime.
Wrath (a.) See Wroth.
Wrath (v. t.) To anger; to enrage; -- also used impersonally.
Wrathful (a.) Full of wrath; very angry; greatly incensed; ireful; passionate; as, a wrathful man.
Wrathful (a.) Springing from, or expressing, wrath; as, a wrathful countenance.
Wrathily (adv.) In a wrathy manner; very angrily; wrathfully.
Wrathless (a.) Free from anger or wrath.
Wrathy (a.) Very angry.
Wraw (a.) Angry; vexed; wrathful.
Wrawful (a.) Ill-tempered.
Wrawl (v. i.) To cry, as a cat; to waul.
Wrawness (n.) Peevishness; ill temper; anger.
Wray (v. t.) To reveal; to disclose.
Wreak (v. i.) To reck; to care.
Wreaked (imp. & p. p.) of Wreak