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WOOLLINESS n.
The quality or state of being woolly.
WOOLLY a. 4 definitions
Consisting of wool; as, a woolly covering; a woolly fleece.
WOOLLY-HEAD n.
A negro. [Low]
WOOLMAN n.
One who deals in wool.
WOOLPACK n.
A pack or bag of wool weighing two hundred and forty pounds.
WOOLSACK n.
A sack or bag of wool; specifically, the seat of the lord chancellor of England in the House of Lords, being a large, square sack of wool resembling a divan in form.
WOOLSEY n.
Linsey-woolsey.
WOOLSTOCK n.
A heavy wooden hammer for milling cloth.
WOOLWARD adv.
In wool; with woolen raiment next the skin. [Obs.]
WOOLWARD-GOING n.
A wearing of woolen clothes next the skin as a matter of penance. [Obs.] Their . . . woolward-going, and rising at midnight. Tyndale.
WOON n.
Dwelling. See Wone. [Obs.]
WOORALI n.
Same as Curare.
WOOSY a.
Oozy; wet. [Obs.] Drayton.
WOOTZ n.
A species of steel imported from the East Indies, valued for making edge tools; Indian steel. It has in combination a minute portion of alumina and silica.
WOOYEN n.
See Yuen.
WOPEN p.
Wept. Chaucer.
WORBLE n.
See Wormil.
WORD n. 12 definitions
an speech or language; a constituent part of a sentence; a term; a vocable. "A glutton of words." Piers Plowman. You cram these words into mine ears, against The stomach of my sense. Shak. Amongst men who confound their ideas with words, there must be endless disputes. Locke.
WORD METHOD n.
A method of teaching reading in which words are first taken as single ideograms and later analyzed into their phonetic and alphabetic elements; -- contrasted with the alphabet and sentence methods.
WORD-CATCHER n.
One who cavils at words.
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