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In a wandering manner.

a. & n. from Water, v. Watering call (Mil.), a sound of trumpet or bugle summoning cavalry soldiers to assemble for the purpose of watering their horses. -- Watering cart, a sprinkling cart. See Water. -- Watering place. (a) A place where water may be obtained, as for a ship, for cattle, etc. (b) A place where there…

In a wavering manner.

The quality or state of wavering.

Traveling; passing; being on a journey. "A wayfaring man." Judg. xix. 17. Wayfaring tree (Bot.), a European shrub (Viburnum lantana) having large ovate leaves and dense cymes of small white flowers. -- American wayfaring tree (Bot.), the (Viburnum lantanoides).

thing wears; use; conduct; consumption. Belike he meant to ward, and there to see his wearing. Latimer.

The action of the elements on a rock in altering its color, texture, or composition, or in rounding off its edges.

Faring well; prosperous; thriving. [Obs.] "A welfaring person." Chaucer.

A fountain; a spring; a source of continual supply. Understanding is a wellspring of life unto him that hath it; but the instruction of fools is folly. Prov. xvi. 22.

Passing to the west. Toward heaven's descent had sloped his westering wheel. Milton.

The retention of the afterbirth in cows. Gardner.

A conspiracy of distillers and government officials during the administration of President Grant to defraud the government of the excise taxes. The frauds were detected in 1875 through the efforts of the Secretary of the Treasury. B. H. Bristow, and most of the offenders were convicted.

a. & n. from Whisper. v. t. Whispering gallery, or Whispering dome, one of such a form that sounds produced in certain parts of it are concentrated by reflection from the walls to another part, so that whispers or feeble sounds are audible at a much greater distance than under ordinary circumstances.…

In a whisper, or low voice; in a whispering manner; with whispers. Tennyson.

A plant growing in a state of nature; especially, one which has run wild, or escaped from cultivation.

The act of one that wires anything.

Tending to wither; causing to shrink or fade. -- With"er*ing*ly, adv.

In a wondering manner.

nce in idle imagination; a foolish or useless pursuit or design. His wits were a woolgathering, as they say. Burton.

compress; to turn and strain with violence; to writhe; to squeeze hard; to pinch; as, to wring clothes in washing. "Earnestly wringing Waverley's hand." Sir W. Scott. "Wring him by the nose." Shak. [His steed] so sweat that men might him wring. Chaucer. The king began to find where his shoe did wring him. Bacon. The pr…