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tralian aborigines, consisting of a cigar-shaped stick fastened at one end to a flexible twig. It weighs in all about two ounces, and is about two feet long.

ey are also able to dive and swim rapidly. The larva is aquatic. Called also weaver, whirlwig, and whirlwig beetle.

A small bunch of grass, straw, twigs, hair, or the like, used for a brush; hence, a brush or small besom, as of broom corn.

A small pliant twig or osier; a rod for making basketwork and the like; a withe.

A texture of osiers, twigs, or rods; articles made of such a texture.

A rope or halter made of flexible twigs, or withes, as of birch. [Scot.]

ndle; hence, to use or employ; as, to wield a sword; to wield the scepter. Base Hungarian wight! wilt thou the spigot wield! Shak. Part wield their arms, part curb the foaming steed. Milton. Nothing but the influence of a civilized power could induce a savage to wield a spade. S. S. Smith. To wield the scepter, to gove…

Prov. Eng. & U. S.] Despots have wilted the human race into sloth and imbecility. Dr. T. Dwight.

A flexible, slender twig or branch used as a band; a willow or osier twig; a withy.

Knowledge. [Obs.] "Withouten witing of any other wight." Chaucer.

To reveal; to disclose. [Obs.] To no wight thou shalt this counsel wray. Chaucer.

The dried twigs of a Syrian tree (Balsamodendron Gileadense). U. S. Disp.

, or yclept, is perhaps the only word not entirely obsolete which shows this use. That no wight mighte it see neither yheere. Chaucer. Neither to ben yburied nor ybrent. Chaucer.

A branch; a twig. [Obs.] The bitter frosts with the sleet and rain Destroyed hath the green in every yerd. Chaucer.