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"This beggar woman's weed." Tennyson. He on his bed sat, the soft weeds he wore Put off. Chapman.

room and wench. Chaucer. That they may send again My most sweet wench, and gifts to boot. Chapman. He was received by the daughter of the house, a pretty, buxom, blue- eyed little wench. W. Black.

Nakedness. [Obs.] Chapman.

t. Then quick did dress His half milk up for cheese, and in a press Of wicker pressed it. Chapman.

ean warbler (Phylloscopus trochilus); -- called also bee bird, haybird, golden wren, pettychaps, sweet William, Tom Thumb, and willow wren.

According to wish; conformably to desire. [Obs.] Chapman.

Desirable; exciting wishes. [R.] Chapman. -- Wish"ful*ly, adv. -- Wish"ful*ness, n.

According to desire; longingly; with wishes. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] Chapman.

Wise; sensible. [R.] Chapman.

A withered person; one who is decrepit. [Obs.] Chapman.

an emblem of immensity, a great multitude or quantity; a large number. "A world of men." Chapman. "A world of blossoms for the bee." Bryant. Nor doth this wood lack worlds of company. Shak. A world of woes dispatched in little space. Dryden. All . . . in the world, all that exists; all that is possible; as, all the pr…

A garland; a chaplet, esp. one given to a victor. Conquest doth grant He dear wreath to the Grecian combatant. Chapman. Far back in the ages, The plow with wreaths was crowned. Bryant.

fowls, which well enough, I, as before, found feeding at their trough Their yoted wheat. Chapman.