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Of or pertaining to thaumaturgy; magical; wonderful. Burton.

One who deals in wonders, or believes in them; a wonder worker. Carlyle.

The act or art of performing something wonderful; magic; legerdemain. T. Warton.

ere to my flatterer." Shak. Made his masters and others . . . to consider him to a little wonder. Walton.

To walk; to go; to travel. [Obs.] Not wont on foot with heavy arms to trace. Spenser.

Derivation by descent; propagation. [R.] If by traduction came thy mind, Our wonder is the less to find A soul so charming from a stock so good. Dryden.

ported with some fit Of passion. Milton. We shall then be transported with a nobler . . . wonder. South.

it. And save the expense of long litigious laws, Where suits are traversed, and so little won That he who conquers is but last undone. Dryden. To traverse a yard (Naut.), to brace it fore and aft.

To have trust; to be credulous; to be won to confidence; to confide. More to know could not be more to trust. Shak.

between dinner and supper. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] Betwixt undern and noon was the field all won. R. of Brunne. In a bed of worts still he lay Till it was past undern of the day. Chaucer.

s of saltpeter. Evelyn. In come some other undertakes, and promise us the same or greater wonders. South.

h a prize. W. Howitt. You did indeed dissemble, you urchin you; but where's the girl that won't dissemble for an husband Goldsmith.

To be wont or accustomed; to be in the habit or practice; as, he used to ride daily; -- now disused in the present tense, perhaps because of the similarity in sound, between "use to," and "used to." They use to place him that shall be their captain on a stone. Spenser. Fears use to be represented in an imaginary. Bacon…

lished by law; one who exacts an exorbitant rate of interest for the use of money. He was wont to call me usurer. Shak.

n shame." Cowley. Innocence and virgin modesty . . . That would be wooed, and unsought be won. Milton.

us of life; long-lived. [Obs.] Hitherto the English bishops have been vivacious almost to wonder. . . . But five died for the first twenty years of her [Queen Elizabeth's] reign. Fuller. The faith of Christianity is far more vivacious than any mere ravishment of the imagination can ever be. I. Taylor.…

Won. Chaucer.

A quavering modulation of the voice; a musical trill; a song. And he, the wondrous child, Whose silver warble wild Outvalued every pulsing sound. Emerson.

Worse. [Obs.] They say the world is much warre than it wont. Spenser.

nt; mute; still; quiet. "So whist and dead a silence." Sir J. Harrington. The winds, with wonder whist, Smoothly the waters kissed. Milton.