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635 words match “LAME”

WAILMENT n.
Lamentation; loud weeping; wailing. [Obs.] Bp. Hacket.
WALKER n.
That with which one walks; a foot. [Obs.] Lame Mulciber, his walkers quite misgrown. Chapman.
WARYE v.
e; to condemn; also, to vex. [Obs.] [Spelled also warrie, warry, and wary.] "Whom I thus blame and warye." Chaucer.
WATER FLANNEL n.
A floating mass formed in pools by the entangled filaments of a European fresh-water alga (Cladophora crispata).
WAVY a.
Playing to and fro; undulating; as, wavy flames. Let her glad valleys smile with wavy corn. Prior.
WAYMENT v. 2 definitions
To lament; to grieve; to wail. [Written also waiment.] [Obs.] Thilke science . . . maketh a man to waymenten. Chaucer. For what boots it to weep and wayment, When ill is chanced Spenser.
WEEP v. 2 definitions
To lament; to complain. "They weep unto me, saying, Give us flesh, that we may eat." Num. xi. 13.
WEEPFUL a.
Full of weeping or lamentation; grieving. [Obs.] Wyclif.
WEEPING n. 3 definitions
The act of one who weeps; lamentation with tears; shedding of tears.
WITE v. 2 definitions
To reproach; to blame; to censure; also, to impute as blame. [Obs. or Scot.] Spenser. Though that I be jealous, wite me not. Chaucer. There if that I misspeak or say, Wite it the ale of Southwark, I you pray. Chaucer.
WITELESS a.
Blameless. [Obs.] Spenser.
WOOLLY a.
ich is often very injurious to the apple tree. It is covered with a dense coat of white filaments somewhat resembling fine wool or cotton. In exists in two forms, one of which infests the roots, the other the branches. See Illust. under Blight. -- Woolly macaco (Zoöl.), the mongoose lemur. -- Woolly maki (Zoöl.), a l…
YAMA n.
presented as of a green color, with red garments, having a crown on his head, his eyes inflamed, and sitting on a buffalo, with a club and noose in his hands.
YEARN v.
To pain; to grieve; to vex. [Obs.] "She laments, sir, for it, that it would yearn your heart to see it." Shak. It yearns me not if men my garments wear. Shak.
YEAST n.
ells, or granules, about one three-thousandth of an inch in diameter, often united into filaments which reproduce by budding, and under certain circumstances by the formation of spores. The name is extended to other ferments of the same genus. See Saccharomyces. -- Yeast powder, a baling powder, -- used instead of yea…
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