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rd of a vassal, and partly to the next of kin. It was paid by the murderer. [Written also weregeld, weregelt, etc.] Blackstone.

ether by supernatural influences, by witchcraft, or voluntarily; a lycanthrope. Belief in werewolves, formerly general, is not now extinct. The werwolf went about his prey. William of Palerne. The brutes that wear our form and face, The werewolves of the human race. Longfellow.

See Work. [Obs.]

To refuse. [Obs.] He is too great a niggard that will wern A man to light a candle at his lantern. Chaucer.

Of or pertaining to A. G. Werner, The German mineralogist and geologist, who classified minerals according to their external characters, and advocated the theory that the strata of the earth's crust were formed by depositions from water; designating, or according to, Werner's system.

The common grayish or white variety of soapolite.

An Australian lorikeet (Ptilosclera versicolor) noted for the variety of its colors; -- called also varied lorikeet.

War. [Obs.] Chaucer.

To warray. [Obs.] Chaucer.

See Verst.

lar, indicative and subjunctive moods, imperfect tense, of the verb be. It is formed from were, with the ending -t, after the analogy of wast. Now used only in solemn or poetic style.

See Wariangle. [Obs.] Chaucer.

See Weasand. [Obs.]

Washed. Chaucer.

See Weasand. [Obs.]

Of or pertaining to Wesley or Wesleyanism.

The system of doctrines and church polity inculcated by John Wesley (b. 1703; d. 1791), the founder of the religious sect called Methodist; Methodism. See Methodist, n., 2.

ft hand of a person facing north; the point directly opposite to east. And fresh from the west is the free wind's breath. Bryant.

Belonging or relating to the West Indies. West India tea (Bot.), a shrubby plant (Capraria biflora) having oblanceolate toothed leaves which are sometimes used in the West Indies as a substitute for tea.

A native of, or a dweller in, the West Indies.