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Causing weariness; tiresome. "Weary way." Spenser. "There passed a weary time." Coleridge.

Eaten into, defaced, or worn, by exposure to the weather. Coleridge.

ckey at a race; to weight a whip handle. The arrows of satire, . . . weighted with sense. Coleridge.

. [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. Longfellow.

whimsical. The study of Rabbinical literature either finds a man whimmy or makes him so. Coleridge.

A hissing and humming sound. Like the whiz of my crossbow. Coleridge.

strongly wished or desired. What's your will, good friar Shak. The mariner hath his will. Coleridge.

r you wis." R. Browning. Nor do I know how long it is (For I have lain entranced, I wis). Coleridge.

ything to force. Ames. Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom. Coleridge.

to the subject. Dryden. Wit which discovers partial likeness hidden in general diversity. Coleridge. Wit lying most in the assemblage of ideas, and putting those together with quickness and variety wherein can be found any resemblance or congruity, thereby to make up pleasant pictures in the fancy. Locke.…

us fond of place. Pope. And now there came both mist and snow, And it grew wondrous cold. Coleridge.

ent of woody fiber. -- Wood choir, the choir, or chorus, of birds in the woods. [Poetic] Coleridge. -- Wood coal, charcoal; also, lignite, or brown coal. -- Wood cricket (Zoöl.), a small European cricket (Nemobius sylvestris). -- Wood culver (Zoöl.), the wood pigeon. -- Wood cut, an engraving on wood; also, a prin…

k every nerve. Addison. The mariners all 'gan work the ropes, Where they were wont to do. Coleridge.

The quality of being worthy to be worshiped. [R.] Coleridge.

his sword from him. Shak. Forthwith this frame of mine was wrenched With a woeful agony. Coleridge.

The morning of yesterday. Coleridge.

State or character of a zany; buffoonery. Coleridge. H. Morley.

ms the tendency of the German; zeal, zealotry, of the English; fanaticism, of the French. Coleridge.