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A veil; a thin covering; also, material for making veils.

A tribe of edentates comprising the South American ant-eaters. The tongue is long, slender, exsertile, and very flexible, whence the name.

Any small leguminous plant of the genus Lathyrus, especially L. Nissolia.

Of or pertaining to victuals, or provisions; supplying provisions; as, a victualing ship.

In a waddling manner.

In a wailing manner.

Same as Wale, n., 4.

Walls, in general; material for walls. Walling wax, a composition of wax and tallow used by etchers and engravers to make a bank, or wall, round the edge of a plate, so as to form a trough for holding the acid used in etching, and the like. Fairholt.

In a warbling manner.

One often quarreled with; -- darling. [Obs.] Better be an old man's darling than a young man's warling. Camde

r process of binding or platting with twigs; also, the network so formed. Made with a wattling of canes or sticks. Dampier.

A weak or feeble creature. Shak. "All looking on him as a weakling, which would post to the grave." Fuller. We may not be weaklings because we have a strong enemy. Latimer.

a. & n. from Wean, v. The weaning of the whelp is the great test of the skill of the kennel man. J. H. Walsh. Weaning brash. (Med.) See under Brash.

A riding boot for men, the front of which came above the knee; also, a similar shorter boot worn under the trousers.

A name given to the "big trees" (Sequoia gigantea) of California, and still used in England. See Sequoia.

A kind of long boots for men.

A westerner. [R.]

Pertaining to, or employed in, the pursuit of whales; as, a whaling voyage; a whaling vessel.

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

The act of conveying anything, or traveling, on wheels, or in a wheeled vehicle.