Warrie (v. t.) See Warye.
Warrin (n.) An Australian lorikeet (Trichoglossus multicolor) remarkable for the variety and brilliancy of its colors; -- called also blue-bellied lorikeet, and blue-bellied parrot.
Warrior (n.) A man engaged or experienced in war, or in the military life; a soldier; a champion.
Warrioress (n.) A female warrior.
Warry (v. t.) See Warye.
Warsaw (n.) The black grouper (Epinephelus nigritus) of the southern coasts of the United States.
Warsaw (n.) The jewfish; -- called also guasa.
Wart (n.) A small, usually hard, tumor on the skin formed by enlargement of its vascular papillae, and thickening of the epidermis which covers them.
Wart (n.) An excrescence or protuberance more or less resembling a true wart; specifically (Bot.), a glandular excrescence or hardened protuberance on plants.
Warted (a.) Having little knobs on the surface; verrucose; as, a warted capsule.
Wart hog () Either one of two species of large, savage African wild hogs of the genus Phacoch/rus. These animals have a pair of large, rough, fleshy tubercles behind the tusks and second pair behind the eyes. The tusks are large and strong, and both pairs curve upward. The body is scantily covered with bristles, but there is long dorsal mane. The South African species (Phacoch/rus Aethiopicus) is the best known. Called also vlacke vark. The second species (P. Aeliani) is native of the coasts of the Red Sea.
Wartless (a.) Having no wart.
Wartweed (n.) Same as Wartwort.
Wartwort (n.) A name given to several plants because they were thought to be a cure for warts, as a kind of spurge (Euphorbia Helioscopia), and the nipplewort (Lampsana communis).
Warty (a.) Having warts; full of warts; overgrow with warts; as, a warty leaf.
Warty (a.) Of the nature of warts; as, a warty excrescence.
Warwickite (n.) A dark brown or black mineral, occurring in prismatic crystals imbedded in limestone near Warwick, New York. It consists of the borate and titanate of magnesia and iron.
Warworn (a.) Worn with military service; as, a warworn soldier; a warworn coat.
Wary (a.) Cautious of danger; carefully watching and guarding against deception, artifices, and dangers; timorously or suspiciously prudent; circumspect; scrupulous; careful.
Wary (a.) Characterized by caution; guarded; careful.
Warye (v. t.) To curse; to curse; to execrate; to condemn; also, to vex.
Was (v.) The first and third persons singular of the verb be, in the indicative mood, preterit (imperfect) tense; as, I was; he was.
Wase (n.) A bundle of straw, or other material, to relieve the pressure of burdens carried upon the head.
Washed (imp. & p. p.) of Wash
Washing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Wash
Wash (v. t.) To cleanse by ablution, or dipping or rubbing in water; to apply water or other liquid to for the purpose of cleansing; to scrub with water, etc., or as with water; as, to wash the hands or body; to wash garments; to wash sheep or wool; to wash the pavement or floor; to wash the bark of trees.
Wash (v. t.) To cover with water or any liquid; to wet; to fall on and moisten; hence, to overflow or dash against; as, waves wash the shore.
Wash (v. t.) To waste or abrade by the force of water in motion; as, heavy rains wash a road or an embankment.
Wash (v. t.) To remove by washing to take away by, or as by, the action of water; to drag or draw off as by the tide; -- often with away, off, out, etc.; as, to wash dirt from the hands.
Wash (v. t.) To cover with a thin or watery coat of color; to tint lightly and thinly.
Wash (v. t.) To overlay with a thin coat of metal; as, steel washed with silver.
Wash (v. i.) To perform the act of ablution.
Wash (v. i.) To clean anything by rubbing or dipping it in water; to perform the business of cleansing clothes, ore, etc., in water.
Wash (v. i.) To bear without injury the operation of being washed; as, some calicoes do not wash.
Wash (v. i.) To be wasted or worn away by the action of water, as by a running or overflowing stream, or by the dashing of the sea; -- said of road, a beach, etc.
Wash (n.) The act of washing; an ablution; a cleansing, wetting, or dashing with water; hence, a quantity, as of clothes, washed at once.
Wash (n.) A piece of ground washed by the action of a sea or river, or sometimes covered and sometimes left dry; the shallowest part of a river, or arm of the sea; also, a bog; a marsh; a fen; as, the washes in Lincolnshire.
Wash (n.) Substances collected and deposited by the action of water; as, the wash of a sewer, of a river, etc.
Wash (n.) Waste liquid, the refuse of food, the collection from washed dishes, etc., from a kitchen, often used as food for pigs.
Wash (n.) The fermented wort before the spirit is extracted.
Wash (n.) A mixture of dunder, molasses, water, and scummings, used in the West Indies for distillation.
Wash (n.) That with which anything is washed, or wetted, smeared, tinted, etc., upon the surface.
Wash (n.) A liquid cosmetic for the complexion.
Wash (n.) A liquid dentifrice.
Wash (n.) A liquid preparation for the hair; as, a hair wash.
Wash (n.) A medical preparation in a liquid form for external application; a lotion.
Wash (n.) A thin coat of color, esp. water color.
Wash (n.) A thin coat of metal laid on anything for beauty or preservation.
Wash (n.) The blade of an oar, or the thin part which enters the water.
Wash (n.) The backward current or disturbed water caused by the action of oars, or of a steamer's screw or paddles, etc.
Wash (n.) The flow, swash, or breaking of a body of water, as a wave; also, the sound of it.
Wash (n.) Ten strikes, or bushels, of oysters.
Wash (a.) Washy; weak.
Wash (a.) Capable of being washed without injury; washable; as, wash goods.
Washable (a.) Capable of being washed without damage to fabric or color.
Washboard (n.) A fluted, or ribbed, board on which clothes are rubbed in washing them.
Washboard (n.) A board running round, and serving as a facing for, the walls of a room, next to the floor; a mopboard.
Washboard (n.) A broad, thin plank, fixed along the gunwale of boat to keep the sea from breaking inboard; also, a plank on the sill of a lower deck port, for the same purpose; -- called also wasteboard.
Washbowl (n.) A basin, or bowl, to hold water for washing one's hands, face, etc.
Washdish (n.) A washbowl.
Washdish (n.) Same as Washerwoman, 2.
Washed (a.) Appearing as if overlaid with a thin layer of different color; -- said of the colors of certain birds and insects.
Washen () p. p. of Wash.
Washer (n.) One who, or that which, washes.
Washer (n.) A ring of metal, leather, or other material, or a perforated plate, used for various purposes, as around a bolt or screw to form a seat for the head or nut, or around a wagon axle to prevent endwise motion of the hub of the wheel and relieve friction, or in a joint to form a packing, etc.
Washer (n.) A fitting, usually having a plug, applied to a cistern, tub, sink, or the like, and forming the outlet opening.
Washer (n.) The common raccoon.
Washer (n.) Same as Washerwoman, 2.
Washermen (pl. ) of Washerman
Washerman (n.) A man who washes clothes, esp. for hire, or for others.
Washerwomen (pl. ) of Washerwoman
Washerwoman (n.) A woman who washes clothes, especially for hire, or for others.
Washerwoman (n.) The pied wagtail; -- so called in allusion to its beating the water with its tail while tripping along the leaves of water plants.
Washhouse (n.) An outbuilding for washing, esp. one for washing clothes; a laundry.
Washiness (n.) The quality or state of being washy, watery, or weak.
Washing (n.) The act of one who washes; the act of cleansing with water; ablution.
Washing (n.) The clothes washed, esp. at one time; a wash.
Washingtonian (a.) Pertaining to, or characteristic of, George Washington; as, a Washingtonian policy.
Washingtonian (a.) Designating, or pertaining to, a temperance society and movement started in Baltimore in 1840 on the principle of total abstinence.
Washingtonian (n.) A member of the Washingtonian Society.
Wash-off (a.) Capable of being washed off; not permanent or durable; -- said of colors not fixed by steaming or otherwise.
Washout (n.) The washing out or away of earth, etc., especially of a portion of the bed of a road or railroad by a fall of rain or a freshet; also, a place, especially in the bed of a road or railroad, where the earth has been washed away.
Washpot (n.) A pot or vessel in which anything is washed.
Washpot (n.) A pot containing melted tin into which the plates are dipped to be coated.
Washstand (n.) A piece of furniture holding the ewer or pitcher, basin, and other requisites for washing the person.
Washtub (n.) A tub in which clothes are washed.
Washy (a.) Watery; damp; soft.
Washy (a.) Lacking substance or strength; weak; thin; dilute; feeble; as, washy tea; washy resolutions.
Washy (a.) Not firm or hardy; liable to sweat profusely with labor; as, a washy horse.
Wasite (n.) A variety of allanite from Sweden supposed to contain wasium.
Wasium (n.) A rare element supposed by Bahr to have been extracted from wasite, but now identified with thorium.
Wasp (n.) Any one of numerous species of stinging hymenopterous insects, esp. any of the numerous species of the genus Vespa, which includes the true, or social, wasps, some of which are called yellow jackets.
Waspish (a.) Resembling a wasp in form; having a slender waist, like a wasp.
Waspish (a.) Quick to resent a trifling affront; characterized by snappishness; irritable; irascible; petulant; snappish.
Wassail (n.) An ancient expression of good wishes on a festive occasion, especially in drinking to some one.
Wassail (n.) An occasion on which such good wishes are expressed in drinking; a drinking bout; a carouse.
Wassail (n.) The liquor used for a wassail; esp., a beverage formerly much used in England at Christmas and other festivals, made of ale (or wine) flavored with spices, sugar, toast, roasted apples, etc.; -- called also lamb's wool.
Wassail (n.) A festive or drinking song or glee.
Wassail (a.) Of or pertaining to wassail, or to a wassail; convivial; as, a wassail bowl.
Wassail (v. i.) To hold a wassail; to carouse.