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Of or pertaining to vines; producing, or abounding in, vines. P. Fletcher.

Violent. [Obs.] J. Fletcher.

y water to a distant place or country. I love a sea voyage and a blustering tempest. J. Fletcher. So steers the prudent crane Her annual voyage, borne on winds. Milton. All the voyage of their life Is bound in shallows and in miseries. Shak.

lls, in general; material for walls. Walling wax, a composition of wax and tallow used by etchers and engravers to make a bank, or wall, round the edge of a plate, so as to form a trough for holding the acid used in etching, and the like. Fairholt.

a bowl in which wassail was mixed, and placed upon the table. "Spiced wassail bowl." J. Fletcher. "When the cloth was removed, the butler brought in a huge silver vessel . . . Its appearance was hailed with acclamation, being the wassail bowl so renowned in Christmas festivity." W. Irving. -- Wassail cup, a cup from w…

wälsch foreign. -- Welsh parsley, hemp, or halters made from hemp. [Obs. & Jocular] J. Fletcher. -- Welsh rabbit. See under Rabbit.

s; to make fantastic; to craze. [R.] To have a man's brain whimsied with his wealth. J. Fletcher.

ion or quick puff. This first sad whisk Takes off thy dukedom; thou art but an earl. J. Fletcher.

To pass like a wire; to flow in a wirelike form, or in a tenuous stream. [R.] P. Fletcher.

Desirous. [Obs.] Ormulum. P. Fletcher.