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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)



168 words match “MARCH”

WAFER n.
ng hot out of the gleed. Chaucer. The curious work in pastry, the fine cakes, wafers, and marchpanes. Holland. A woman's oaths are wafers -- break with making B. Jonson.
WATER GRASS n.
A tall march perennial grass (Paspalum dilatatum) of the southern United States and the American tropics.
WAY n.
teep to scale. Milton. The season and ways were very improper for his majesty's forces to march so great a distance. Evelyn.
WEARISOME a.
Causing weariness; tiresome; tedious; weariful; as, a wearisome march; a wearisome day's work; a wearisome book. These high wild hills and rough uneven ways Draws out our miles, and makes them wearisome. Shak.
WEARY a.
relish, or contentment exhausted; tired; sick; -- with of before the cause; as, weary of marching, or of confinement; weary of study.
WHIFFLER n.
before procession to clear the way by blowing a horn, or otherwise; hence, any person who marched at the head of a procession; a harbinger. Which like a mighty whiffler 'fore the king, Seems to prepare his way. Shak.
WHIRL n.
that moves with a whirling motion. He saw Falmouth under gray, iron skies, and whirls of March dust. Carlyle.
WIRELESS a.
hers, the first commercially successful system was that of Guglielmo Marconi, patented in March, 1897. Marconi employed electric waves of high frequency set up by an induction coil in an oscillator, these waves being launched into space through a lofty antenna. The receiving apparatus consisted of another antenna in ci…
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