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One who wails or laments.

A woman who wails. [Obs.]

One of the Australian wattle trees (Acacia colletioides), so called from the impenetrability of the thicket which it makes.

, especially in drinking; a reveler. The rudeness and swilled insolence Of such late wassailers. Milton.

as a mechanical power; also, the place where water is, or may be, so used. See under Privilege.

Incapable of being wearied.

less attenuate; -- said of certain birds. See Illust. of Wood hoopoe, under Wood. Wedge-tailed eagle, an Australian eagle (Aquila audax) which feeds on various small species of kangaroos, and on lambs; -- called also mountain eagle, bold eagle, and eagle hawk. -- Wedge-tailed gull, an arctic gull (Rhodostethia rosea)…

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

The green woodpecker, or yaffle. See Yaffle. [Prov. Eng.]

Space of time, or continued duration, esp. when short; a time; as, one while we thought him innocent. "All this while." Shak. This mighty queen may no while endure. Chaucer. [Some guest that] hath outside his welcome while, And tells the jest without the smile. Coleridge. I will go forth and breathe the air a while. Lo…

A little while ago; recently; just now; erewhile. [Obs.] Helpeth me now as I did you whilere. Chaucer. He who, with all heaven's heraldry, whilere Entered the world. Milton.

Meanwhile; meantime. [R.] The good knight whiles humming to himself the lay of some majored troubadour. Sir. W. Scott.

The yaffle. [Prov. Eng.]

rick or stratagem practiced for insnaring or deception; a sly, insidious; artifice; a beguilement; an allurement. Put on the whole armor of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil. Eph. vi. 11. Not more almighty to resist our might, Than wise to frustrate all our plots and wiles. Milton.…

Full of wiles; trickish; deceitful.

Having some or all of the tail quills terminated in a long, slender, pointed shaft, without a web or barbules.

Worth the time or effort spent. See worth while. worthy. -- worthwhileness.

Same as Parkesine.

Having the characteristic of Zoilus, a bitter, envious, unjust critic, who lived about 270 years before Christ.

void of sense, to fill up the meter A merry heart goes all the day, Your sad tires in a mile-a. Shak.