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A division of serpents which includes the true vipers of the Old World and the rattlesnakes and moccasin snakes of America; -- called also Viperina.

ity. H. I believe the girl has virtue. M. And if she has, I should be the last man in the world to attempt to corrupt it. Goldsmith.

ve life to; to animate; to revive; to vivify. [R.] God vivificates and actuates the whole world. Dr. H. More.

Literally, world's speech; the name of an artificial language invented by Johan Martin Schleyer, of Constance, Switzerland, about 1879.

hich conceives will to be the dominant factor in experience or in the constitution of the world; -- contrasted with intellectualism. Schopenhauer and Fichte are typical exponents of the two types of metaphysical voluntarism, Schopenhauer teaching that the evolution of the universe is the activity of a blind and irratio…

move; to get along; to progress; to stir. [Colloq.] "Thus we may see," quoth he, "how the world wags." Shak.

Any one of many species of Old World singing birds belonging to Motacilla and several allied genera of the family Motacillidæ. They have the habit of constantly jerking their long tails up and down, whence the name. Field wagtail, any one of several species of wagtails of the genus Budytes having the tail shorter, the…

o rouse; to move to action; to awaken. Then Homer's and Tyrtæus' martial muse Wakened the world. Roscommon. Venus now wakes, and wakens love. Milton. They introduce Their sacred song, and waken raptures high. Milton.

Any one of numerous species of small Old World singing birds belonging to the family Sylviidæ, many of which are noted songsters. The bluethroat, blackcap, reed warbler (see under Reed), and sedge warbler (see under Sedge) are well-known species.

faults or evil practices which incur danger; admonition; monition. Could warning make the world more just or wise. Dryden.

Worse. [Obs.] They say the world is much warre than it wont. Spenser.

The fruit of Trapa natans and Trapa bicornis, Old World water plants bearing edible nutlike fruits armed with several hard and sharp points; also, the plant itself; -- called also water caltrop.

ll; to wail. [Written also wawl.] The helpless infant, coming wauling and crying into the world. Sir W. Scott.

; a comparative abundance of things which are objects of human desire; esp., abundance of worldly estate; affluence; opulence; riches. I have little wealth to lose. Shak. Each day new wealth, without their care, provides. Dryden. Wealth comprises all articles of value and nothing else. F. A. Walker. Active wealth. See…

id time." Shak. For the public all this weight he bears. Milton. [He] who singly bore the world's sad weight. Keble.

ded well to you." Dryden. Know In measure what the mind may well contain. Milton. All the world speaks well of you. Pope.

Lit., world view; a conception of the course of events in, and of the purpose of, the world as a whole, forming a philosophical view or apprehension of the universe; the general idea embodied in a cosmology.

Sorrow or sadness over the present or future evils or woes of the world in general; sentimental pessimism.

The Westen hemisphere, or the New World so called, it having been discovered by sailing westward from Europe; the Occident.

to cajole; to flatter; to coax. The unlucky art of wheedling fools. Dryden. And wheedle a world that loves him not. Tennyson.