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Any tree having pendulous branches.

Ripe for weeping; ready to weep. [Obs.] Shak.

In a weeping manner.

See Wearish. [Obs.]

See Weasel.

Wet. [Obs.] Chaucer.

The wryneck; -- so called from its cry. [Prov. Eng.]

The common European sandpiper.

Knowingly. [Obs.] Spenser.

Unknowing; also, unknown; unmeaning. [Obs.] Spenser.

A throwing toy, or implement, of the Australian 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.

Any one of several species of edible marine fishes belonging to the genus Trachinus, of the family Trachinidæ. They have a broad spinose head, with the eyes looking upward. The long dorsal fin is supported by numerous strong, sharp spines which cause painful wounds.

ome of the species live in nuts, fruit, and grain by eating out the interior, as the plum weevil, or curculio, the nut weevils, and the grain weevil (see under Plum, Nut, and Grain). The larvæ of other species bore under the bark and into the pith of trees and various other plants, as the pine weevils (see under Pine).…

Infested by weevils; as, weeviled grain. [Written also weevilled.]

Having weevils; weeviled. [Written also weevilly.]

See Weasel.

One who has an advowson. Cowell.

Goutweed.

Between. [Archaic] Spenser. Tennyson.

The person who has a right to present to a benefice; the patron; an advowee. See Advowson.