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eling. [Obs.] Nations have interknowledge of one another by voyage into foreign parts, or strangers that come to them. Bacon.

in sport; roguish in merriment or good humor; frolicsome. "A company of waggish boys." L'Estrange.

side; to move with a wagging motion; to waddle. Why do you go nodding and waggling so L'Estrange.

To heave; to be disturbed by nausea; -- said of the stomach. L'Estrange.

To act on the defensive with a weapon. She redoubling her blows drove the stranger to no other shift than to ward and go back. Sir P. Sidney.

tice. "At a month's warning." Dryden. A great journey to take upon so short a warning. L'Estrange.

to assure as if by giving a warrant to. [My neck is] as smooth as silk, I warrant ye. L' Estrange.

A guttural pronunciation of the letter r; a burr. See Burr, n., 6. A strange, uncouth wharling in their speech. Fuller.

Full of, or characterized by, whims; actuated by a whim; having peculiar notions; queer; strange; freakish. "A whimsical insult." Macaulay. My neighbors call me whimsical. Addison.

into, out, up, off, and the like. She, in a hurry, whips up her darling under her arm. L'Estrange. He whips out his pocketbook every moment, and writes descriptions of everything he sees. Walpole.

atheistical, or libelous. Milton. Intemperate wits will spare neither friend nor foe. L'Estrange. A wit herself, Amelia weds a wit. Young. The five wits, the five senses; also, sometimes, the five qualities or faculties, common wit, imagination, fantasy, estimation, and memory. Chaucer. Nares. But my five wits nor my…

Wizened; thin; weazen; withered. A little lonely, wizen, strangely clad boy. Dickens.

s excited by novelty, or the presentation to the sight or mind of something new, unusual, strange, great, extraordinary, or not well understood; surprise; astonishment; admiration; amazement. They were filled with wonder and amazement at that which had happened unto him. Acts iii. 10. Wonder is the effect of novelty up…

Adapted to excite wonder or admiration; surprising; strange; astonishing.

A wonderful work or act; a prodigy; a miracle. Such as in strange land He found in wonderworks of God and Nature's hand. Byron.

Wonderful; astonishing; admirable; marvelous; such as excite surprise and astonishment; strange. That I may . . . tell of all thy wondrous works. Ps. xxvi. 7. -- Won"drous*ly, adv. -- Won"drous*ness, n. Chloe complains, and wondrously's aggrieved. Granville.

in its wonted corner. Sir W. Scott. She was wonted to the place, and would not remove. L'Estrange.

[Obs.] Shak. To word it, to bandy words; to dispute. [Obs.] "To word it with a shrew." L'Estrange.

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

A Spartan institution which prohibited strangers from residing in Sparta without permission, its object probably being to preserve the national simplicity of manners.