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A vagabond musician. [Obs.] You are an ass, a twire-pipe. Beau. & Fl. You looked like Twire-pipe, the taborer. Chapman.

Tattle; gabble. L'Estrange.

Any fresh-water gastropod of the genus Valvata.

Formed like a vase, or like a common flowerpot.

Of or pertaining to a viceroy or viceroyalty. Macaulay.

Covered with vines.

Any plant of the genus Arum, especially, in England, the cuckoopint (Arum maculatum).

Sick at the stomach; also, crestfallen; dejected. [Slang]

Worn by the waves. The shore that o'er his wave-worn basis bowed. Shak.

Having the form of a wedge; cuneiform. Wedge-formed characters. See Arrow-headed characters, under Arrowheaded.

Broad and truncate at the summit, and tapering down to the base; as, a wedge-shaped leaf.

s of small marine bivalves belonging to Donax and allied genera in which the shell is wedge-shaped.

or 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 ros…

See White-face.

The wheatear.

encircled by a ring of white feathers, whence the name. Called also bush creeper, and white-eyed tit.

white mark in the forehead of a horse, descending almost to the nose; -- called also white-blaze.

A white mark on the foot of a horse, between the fetlock and the coffin.

Having a white front; as, the white-fronted lemur. White- fronted goose (Zoöl.), the white brant, or snow goose. See Snow goose, under Snow.

A somewhat heart-shaped cherry with a whitish skin.