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Willingness; desire. [Obs.]

A kind of wash bottle with two or three necks; -- so called after the inventor, Peter Woulfe, an English chemist.

r living thing; a cut, stab, rent, or the like. Chaucer. Showers of blood Rained from the wounds of slaughtered Englishmen. Shak.

Capable of being wounded; vulnerable. [R.] Fuller.

One who, or that which, wounds.

In a woundy manner; excessively; woundy. [Obs.]

Free from wound or hurt; exempt from being wounded; invulnerable. "Knights whose woundless armor rusts." Spenser. [Slander] may miss our name, And hit the woundless air. Shak.

Any one of certain plants whose soft, downy leaves have been used for dressing wounds, as the kidney vetch, and several species of the labiate genus Stachys.

Excessive. [Obs.] Such a world of holidays, that 't a woundy hindrance to a poor man that lives by his labor. L'Estrange.

Same as Curare.

p. pr. & rare vb. n. of Weave.

p. p. of Weave. Woven paper, or Wove paper, writing paper having an even, uniform surface, without watermarks.

See Wou-wou.

To woo. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Disordered or unsettled in intellect; deranged. [Scot.] Sir W. Scott.

Week. [Obs.] Chaucer.

imp. of Wax. Gower.

p. p. of Wax. Chaucer.

A carnivorous quadruped (Proteles Lalandii), of South Africa, resembling the fox and hyena. See Proteles.

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