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A mineral occurring in yellowish, and ruby-red hexagonal crystals. It consist of lead vanadate with a small proportion of lead chloride.

A small yellow-headed bird (Auriparus flaviceps) of Lower California, allied to the titmice; -- called also goldtit.

A commercial name for green aniline dye.

See Farthingale. [Spelled also verdingall.] [Obs.]

Subject to vicissitudes. Donne.

Full of, or subject to, changes.

A cheap claret, used as a table wine in France.

of a mixture of several metameric compounds which are higher derivatives of the base pyridine.

which is voided; that which is ejected or evacuated; a remnant; a fragment. [R.] Rowe. Voiding knife, a knife used for gathering up fragments of food to put them into a voider.

Any soft stuff of loose texture, used for stuffing or padding garments; esp., sheets of carded cotton prepared for the purpose.

a. & n. from Wade, v. Wading bird. (Zoöl.) See Wader, 2.

The act, or the process, of gilding metallic surfaces by covering them with a thin coating of amalgam of gold, and then volatilizing the mercury by heat; -- called also wash gilding.

Tear-filled. [R.] "Many an orphan's water-standing eye." Shak.

The covering or siding of a building, formed of boards lapping over one another, to exclude rain, snow, etc.

Nuptial ceremony; nuptial festivities; marriage; nuptials. Simple and brief was the wedding, as that of Ruth and of Boaz. Longfellow.

a. & n. from Weed, v. Weeding chisel, a tool with a divided chisel-like end, for cutting the roots of large weeds under ground. -- Weeding forceps, an instrument for taking up some sorts of plants in weeding. -- Weeding fork, a strong, three-pronged fork, used in clearing ground of weeds; -- called also weeding iron.…

A kind of implement used for tearing up weeds esp. on summer fallows. [Prov. Eng.]

Power; authority; rule. [Obs.] To have them in your might and in your wielding. Chaucer.

, a wild apple tree or crab apple; also, the fruit of such a plant. Spenser. Ten ruddy wildings in the wood I found. Dryden. The fruit of the tree . . . is small, of little juice, and bad quality. I presume it to be a wilding. Landor.

The quality or state of being windy or tempestuous; as, the windiness of the weather or the season.