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Skillful in finding the way; well acquainted with the way or route; wise from having traveled.

tance which one has traveled on the road; an odometer, pedometer, or perambulator. The waywiser to a coach, exactly measuring the miles, and showing them by an index. Evelyn.

Skillful in forecasting the changes of the weather. Hakluyt.

Something that foreshows the weather. [Obs.] Derham.

In the manner of a wedge.

In a working position or manner; as, a T rail placed workwise, i.e., resting on its base.

Wise in regard to things of this world. Bunyan.

something to him; as, Mr. Clay was accredited with these views; they accredit him with a wise saying.

Property acquired by purchase, gift, or otherwise than by inheritance. Bouvier.

From side to side; athwart; crosswise, or in a direction opposed to the length; quite over; as, a bridge laid across a river. Dryden. To come across, to come upon or meet incidentally. Freeman. -- To go across the country, to go by a direct course across a region without following the roads.

ody by another; agency; activity; operation; as, the action of heat; a man of action. One wise in council, one in action brave. Pope.

, or to specify or describe a thing, as distinct from something else. Thus, in phrase, "a wise ruler," wise is the adjective, expressing a property of ruler.

circumstances, things adverse. Happy were it for us all if we bore prosperity as well and wisely as we endure an adverse fortune. Southey. Adverse possession (Law), a possession of real property avowedly contrary to some claim of title in another person. Abbott.

In an adverse manner; inimically; unfortunately; contrariwise.

With advice; wisely.

Of all; -- used in composition; as, alderbest, best of all, alderwisest, wisest of all. [Obs.] Chaucer.

At full length; lenghtwise. Chaucer.

Otherwise; otherwise called; -- a term used in legal proceedings to connect the different names of any one who has gone by two or more, and whose true name is for any cause doubtful; as, Smith, alias Simpson.

By the length; in a line with the length; lengthwise. Some laid along . . . on spokes of wheels are hung. Dryden.

Of or relating to Alphonso X., the Wise, King of Castile (1252- 1284). Alphonsine tables, astronomical tables prepared under the patronage of Alphonso the Wise. Whewell.