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See Wearish. [Obs.]

See Weasel.

Wet. [Obs.] Chaucer.

The wryneck; -- so called from its cry. [Prov. Eng.]

The common European sandpiper.

Knowingly. [Obs.] Spenser.

Unknowing; also, unknown; unmeaning. [Obs.] Spenser.

aborigines, consisting of a cigar-shaped stick fastened at one end to a flexible twig. It weighs in all about two ounces, and is about two feet long.

Any one of several species of edible marine fishes belonging to the genus Trachinus, of the family Trachinidæ. They have a broad spinose head, with the eyes looking upward. The long dorsal fin is supported by numerous strong, sharp spines which cause painful wounds.

ome of the species live in nuts, fruit, and grain by eating out the interior, as the plum weevil, or curculio, the nut weevils, and the grain weevil (see under Plum, Nut, and Grain). The larvæ of other species bore under the bark and into the pith of trees and various other plants, as the pine weevils (see under Pine).…

Infested by weevils; as, weeviled grain. [Written also weevilled.]

Having weevils; weeviled. [Written also weevilly.]

See Weasel.

A thing waved, waived, or cast away; a waif. [Obs.] "A forlorn weft." Spenser.

Texture. [Obs.] Grew.

Excessive use of the pronoun we; -- called also weism. [Colloq. or Cant]

See Weregild.

See Werewolf.

rden shrub (Diervilla Japonica) belonging to the Honeysuckle family, with withe or red flowers. It was introduced from China.

A corruption of Way, used only in the phrase under weigh. An expedition was got under weigh from New York. Thackeray. The Athenians . . . hurried on board and with considerable difficulty got under weigh. Jowett (Thucyd.).