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A warrener. [Obs.] Piers Plowman.

To throw; hence, to send forth, or throw out, as words; to utter. [Obs.] Piers Plowman.

other person not entering by his permission. Spelman. They wend both warren and in waste. Piers Plowman.

Lost for want of occupiers or use; superfluous. And strangled with her waste fertility. Milton. Waste gate, a gate by which the superfluous water of a reservoir, or the like, is discharged. -- Waste paper. See under Paper. -- Waste pipe, a pipe for carrying off waste, or superfluous, water or other fluids. Specifical…

ting with twigs; also, the network so formed. Made with a wattling of canes or sticks. Dampier.

A pledge; a pawn. [Obs.] Gower. Piers Plowman. Let him be ware, his neck lieth to wed [i. e., for a security]. Chaucer.

A certain measure of weight. [Eng.] "A weye of Essex cheese." Piers Plowman.

ssels may lie close alongside to receive and discharge cargo, passengers, etc.; a quay; a pier. Commerce pushes its wharves into the sea. Bancroft. Out upon the wharfs they came, Knight and burgher, lord and dame. Tennyson.

The fee or duty paid for the privilege of using a wharf for loading or unloading goods; pierage, collectively; quayage.

Whether. [Sometimes written whe'r.] [Obs.] Piers Plowman. Men must enquire (this is mine assent), Wher she be wise or sober or dronkelewe. Chaucer.

Any one of numerous species of butterflies belonging to Pieris, and allied genera in which the color is usually white. See Cabbage butterfly, under Cabbage. Black and white. See under Black. -- Flake white, Paris white, etc. See under Flack, Paris, etc. -- White of a seed (Bot.), the albumen. See Albumen, 2. -- Whit…

Whosoever. Piers Plowman. Whoso shrinks or falters now, . . . Brand the craven on his brow! Whittier.

Wicked. [Obs.] Piers Plowman. "With full wikke intent." Chaucer.

n or beside a door or gate, or the door which is used to close such entrance or aperture. Piers Plowman. "Heaven's wicket." Milton. And so went to the high street, . . . and came to the great tower, but the gate and wicket was fast closed. Ld. Berners. The wicket, often opened, knew the key. Dryden.…

ce or extent; as, his fame was spread wide. [I] went wyde in this world, wonders to hear. Piers Plowman.

mpounds and phrases, as alewife, fishwife, goodwife, and the like. " Both men and wives." Piers Plowman. On the green he saw sitting a wife. Chaucer.

To bore or pierce, as with a wimble. "A foot soldier . . . wimbled also a hole through said coffin." Wood.

squeezing out their juice, and (usually) allowing it to ferment. "Red wine of Gascoigne." Piers Plowman. Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging, and whosoever is deceived thereby is not wise. Prov. xx. 1. Bacchus, that first from out the purple grape Crushed the sweet poison of misused wine. Milton.…

Having the taste or qualities of wine; vinous; as, grapes of a winy taste. Dampier.

r moral force; as, to withstand an attack of troops; to withstand eloquence or arguments. Piers Plowman. I withstood him to the face. Gal. ii. 11. Some village Hampden, that, with dauntless breast. The little tyrant of his fields withstood. Gray.