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anything collected for future use; abundance; plenty. We have treasures in the field, of wheat and of barley, and of oil and of honey. Jer. xli. 8.

A genus of grasses including the various species of wheat.

An old measure of wheat equal to two thirds of a bushel. Bailey.

To winnow; to fan; as, to ventilate wheat.

The flour of a hard and small-grained wheat made into dough, and forced through small cylinders or pipes till it takes a slender, wormlike form, whence the Italian name. When the paste is made in larger tubes, it is called macaroni.

To thrash; to beat out, as grain, by striking; as, to whip wheat.

he United States. In the United States, whisky is generally distilled from maize, rye, or wheat, but in Scotland and Ireland it is often made from malted barley. Bourbon whisky, corn whisky made in Bourbon County, Kentucky. -- Crooked whisky. See under Crooked. -- Whisky Jack (Zoöl.), the Canada jay (Perisoreus Canad…

The wheatear.

The finest flour made from white wheat.

The wheatear. [Prov. Eng.]

species. The latter is called also baldhead, baldpate, baldface, baldcrown, smoking duck, wheat, duck, and whitebelly. Bald-faced, or Green-headed, widgeon, the American widgeon. -- Black widgeon, the European tufted duck. -- Gray widgeon. (a) The gadwall. (b) The pintail duck. -- Great headed widgeon, the poachard.…

-- Winter wagtail (Zoöl.), the gray wagtail (Motacilla melanope). [Prov. Eng.] -- Winter wheat, wheat sown in autumn, which lives during the winter, and ripens in the following summer. -- Winter wren (Zoöl.), a small American wren (Troglodytes hiemalis) closely resembling the common wren.

To kill by the cold, or exposure to the inclemency of winter; as, the wheat was winterkilled. [U. S.]

The wheatear. [Prov. Eng.]

ose. My fowls, which well enough, I, as before, found feeding at their trough Their yoted wheat. Chapman.

d the adjacent parts of Mexico and California. They are agricultural, and cultivate corn, wheat, barley, melons, etc.

A kind of ancient malt beverage; a liquor made from malt and wheat. [Written also zythem.]