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nd of peace (Scots Law), a wand, or staff, carried by the messenger of a court, which he breaks when deforced (that is, hindered from executing process), as a symbol of the deforcement, and protest for remedy of law. Burrill.

The flow, swash, or breaking of a body of water, as a wave; also, the sound of it.

A broad, thin plank, fixed along the gunwale of boat to keep the sea from breaking inboard; also, a plank on the sill of a lower deck port, for the same purpose; -- called also wasteboard. Mar. Di

The undulating line or streak of luster on cloth watered, or calendered, or on damask steel.

comb, and construct silken galleries among the fragments. The moth has dusky gray wings streaked with brown near the outer edge. The larva is yellowish white with brownish dots. Called also bee moth. -- Wax myrtle. (Bot.) See Bayberry. -- Wax painting, a kind of painting practiced by the ancients, under the name of e…

weeds; as, weedy grounds; a weedy garden; weedy corn. See from the weedy earth a rivulet break. Bryant.

Having whelks, ridges, or protuberances; hence, streaked; striated.

Out of which. [R.] The cleft whereout the lightning breaketh. Holland.

A sudden turn or start of the mind; a temporary eccentricity; a freak; a fancy; a capricious notion; a humor; a caprice. Let every man enjoy his whim. Churchill.

A whim; a freak; a capricious notion, a fanciful or odd conceit. "The whimsies of poets and painters." Ray. Men's folly, whimsies, and inconstancy. Swift. Mistaking the whimseys of a feverish brain for the calm revelation of truth. Bancroft.

or characterized by, whims; actuated by a whim; having peculiar notions; queer; strange; freakish. "A whimsical insult." Macaulay. My neighbors call me whimsical. Addison.

In a whimsical manner; freakishly.

The quality or state of being whimsical; freakishness; whimsical disposition.

A whim, or whimsey; a freak.

sinewy substance in the head of sperm whales, just above the upper jaw and extending in streaks into the junk above it. It resembles blubber, but contains no oil. Also, the part of the head in which it occurs.

A wave whose crest breaks into white foam, as when the wind is freshening.

One who breaks jests; a joker. [Obs.] Shak.

Wreak. [Obs.] Chaucer.

See 2d & 3d Wreak.

See 2d Wreak. [Obs.]