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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

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794 words match “CARE”

WISE a. 6 definitions

be penuriously wise As to make money, that's my slave, my idol. Beau. & Fl. Lords do not care for me: I am too wise to die yet. Ford.

WIT n. 5 definitions

n in any other part of Greece, I find but only two sorts of writings which the magistrate cared to take notice of; those either blasphemous and atheistical, or libelous. Milton. Intemperate wits will spare neither friend nor foe. L'Estrange. A wit herself, Amelia weds a wit. Young. The five wits, the five senses; also,…

WITHER v. 6 definitions

rish, or pass away; to blight; as, a reputation withered by calumny. The passions and the cares that wither life. Bryant.

WITHIN adv. 5 definitions

In the inner part; inwardly; internally. "The wound festers within." Carew. Ills from within thy reason must prevent. Dryden.

WOODMAN n. 4 definitions

A forest officer appointed to take care of the king's woods; a forester. [Eng.]

WORRY v. 5 definitions

To harass or beset with importunity, or with care an anxiety; to vex; to annoy; to torment; to tease; to fret; to trouble; to plague. "A church worried with reformation." South. Let them rail, And worry one another at their pleasure. Rowe. Worry him out till he gives consent. Swift.

WORSHIP v. 10 definitions

reme submission, as a lover; to adore; to idolize. With bended knees I daily worship her. Carew.

WRAP v. 5 definitions

lve, as an effect or consequence; to be followed by. Wise poets that wrap truth in tales. Carew. To be wrapped up in, to be wholly engrossed in; to be entirely dependent on; to be covered with. Leontine's young wife, in whom all his happiness was wrapped up, died in a few days after the death of her daughter. Addison.…

WREAK v. 4 definitions

To reck; to care. [Obs.] Shak.

WRINKLE v. 7 definitions

nkle or wrinkles in; to corrugate; as, wrinkle the skin or the brow. "Sport that wrinkled Care derides." Milton. Her wrinkled form in black and white arrayed. Pope.

YELP v. 3 definitions

To boast. [Obs.] I keep [care] not of armes for to yelpe. Chaucer.

YOUNG a. 4 definitions

young and tender was of age. Chaucer. "Whom the gods love, die young," has been too long carelessly said; . . . whom the gods love, live young forever. Mrs. H. H. Jackson.

ZEAL n. 3 definitions

knowledge. Rom. x. 2. A zeal for liberty is sometimes an eagerness to subvert with little care what shall be established. Johnson.

Not having a zone; ungirded. The reeling goddess with the zoneless waist. Cowper. In careless folds, loose fell her zoneless vest. Mason.