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he transportation of goods, produce, etc.; a wagon. The wardens see nothing but a wain of hay. Jeffrey. Driving in ponderous wains their household goods to the seashore. Longfellow.

One whose business it is to weigh ore, hay, merchandise, etc.; one licensed as a public weigher.

To convey on wheels, or in a wheeled vehicle; as, to wheel a load of hay or wood.

(Zoöl.), a very small European warbler (Phylloscopus trochilus); -- called also bee bird, haybird, golden wren, pettychaps, sweet William, Tom Thumb, and willow wren.

A row or line of hay raked together for the purpose of being rolled into cocks or heaps.

ze. -- Wire grass (Bot.), either of the two common grasses Eleusine Indica, valuable for hay and pasture, and Poa compressa, or blue grass. See Blue grass. -- Wire grub (Zoöl.), a wireworm. -- Wire iron, wire rods of iron. -- Wire lathing, wire cloth or wire netting applied in the place of wooden lathing for holdin…

A small bundle, as of straw or other like substance. In a small basket, on a wisp of hay. Dryden.

ed right. Shak. The merchant adventures have been often wronged and wringed to the quick. Hayward.