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mentous. "For sundry weighty reasons." Shak. Let me have your advice in a weighty affair. Swift.

anager; an actual occupant. [Ireland. Obs.] "The welder . . . who . . . lives miserably." Swift.

as clad. Chaucer. There are times wherein a man ought to be cautious as well as innocent. Swift.

hiffler in a laced coat who frequents the chocolate house shall talk of the constitution. Swift.

Government by Whigs. [Cont] Swift.

nceit. "The whimsies of poets and painters." Ray. Men's folly, whimsies, and inconstancy. Swift. Mistaking the whimseys of a feverish brain for the calm revelation of truth. Bancroft.

To move hastily or swiftly. But whirled away to shun his hateful sight. Dryden.

rd current in the center; a vortex of air. It usually has a rapid progressive motion. The swift dark whirlwind that uproots the woods. And drowns the villages. Bryant.

a humming or hissing sound, like an arrow or ball flying through the air; to fly or move swiftly with a sharp hissing or whistling sound. [Written also whizz.] It flew, and whizzing, cut the liquid way. Dryden.

; as, the wideness of a room. "I landed in a small creek about the wideness of my canoe." Swift.

Swift; nimble; agile; strong and active. [Obs. or Poetic] 'T is full wight, God wot, as is a roe. Chaucer. He was so wimble and so wight. Spenser. They were Night and Day, and Day and Night, Pilgrims wight with steps forthright. Emerson.

Swiftly; nimbly; quickly. [Obs.]

ary; visionary; crazy. "Valor grown wild by pride." Prior. "A wild, speculative project." Swift. What are these So withered and so wild in their attire Shak. With mountains, as with weapons, armed; which makes Wild work in heaven. Milton. The wild winds howl. Addison. Search then the ruling passion, there, alone The wi…

led about anything; to assume a convolved or spiral form; as, vines wind round a pole. So swift your judgments turn and wind. Dryden.

Swift; rapid. "Bear this sealed brief with winged haste to the lord marshal." Shak.

Having wings attached to the feet; as, wing-footed Mercury; hence, swift; moving with rapidity; fleet. Drayton.

e eyelids, often those of one eye only. Wink at the footman to leave him without a plate. Swift.

A gibe; a jeer; a severe sarcasm. Swift.

ous. Lifting up one of my sashes, I cast many a wistful, melancholy look towards the sea. Swift.

oman hater, one who hates women; one who has an aversion to the female sex; a misogynist. Swift.