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A colloquial contraction of woll not. Will not. See Will.

not well understood; surprise; astonishment; admiration; amazement. They were filled with wonder and amazement at that which had happened unto him. Acts iii. 10. Wonder is the effect of novelty upon ignorance. Johnson.

One who performs wonders, or miracles.

Doing wonders or surprising things.

Having performed wonders; able to perform wonderful things. [Obs.] Shak.

One who wonders.

Adapted to excite wonder or admiration; surprising; strange; astonishing.

In a wondering manner.

A land full of wonders, or marvels. M. Arnold.

Wonderfully; wondrously. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Surprise; astonishment; a wonderful appearance; a wonder. Bacon. All the common sights they view, Their wonderment engage. Sir W. Scott.

Same as Wondrous.

See Wondrous. [Obs.] They be wonders glad thereof. Sir T. More.

Struck with wonder, admiration, or surprise. Dryden.

A wonderful work or act; a prodigy; a miracle. Such as in strange land He found in wonderworks of God and Nature's hand. Byron.

In a wonderful or surprising manner or degree; wonderfully. For sylphs, yet mindful of their ancient race, Are, as when women, wondrous fond of place. Pope. And now there came both mist and snow, And it grew wondrous cold. Coleridge.

To dwell; to abide. [Obs.] Piers Plowman. Their habitation in which they woned. Chaucer.

A field. [Obs.] Spelman. "Woods and wonges." Havelok the Dane.

See Wanger. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Dwelling. [Obs.] Chaucer.