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An indolent, encysted tumor of the skin; especially, a sebaceous cyst.

The higher literary idiom of Chinese, that of the canonical books and of all composition pretending to literary standing. It employs a classical or academic diction, and a more condensed and sententious style than Mandarin, and differs also in the doubling and arrangement of words.

A young woman; a girl; a maiden. Shak. Lord and lady, groom and wench. Chaucer. That they may send again My most sweet wench, and gifts to boot. Chapman. He was received by the daughter of the house, a pretty, buxom, blue- eyed little wench. W. Black.

One who wenches; a lewd man.

Being without a wench. Shak.

p. p. of Wene. Chaucer.

imp. of Wene. Chaucer.

The language of the Wends.

Of or pertaining the Wends, or their language.

A Slavic tribe which once occupied the northern and eastern parts of Germany, of which a small remnant exists.

To ween. [Obs.] Chaucer.

The middle subdivision of the Upper Silurian in Great Britain; -- so named from the typical locality in Shropshire.

See Weanel. [Obs.] Tusser.

Having the nature of a wen; resembling a wen; as, a wennish excrescence.

A sand snake (Charina plumbea) of Western North America, of the family Erycidæ.

imp. & p. p. of Wend; -- now obsolete except as the imperfect of go, with which it has no etymological connection. See Go. To the church both be they went. Chaucer.

Any one of numerous species of elegant, usually white, marine shells of the genus Scalaria, especially Scalaria pretiosa, which was formerly highly valued; -- called also staircase shell. See Scalaria.

A prostitute; a courtesan; a strumpet. [Low] Smart.

A hard, compact variety of serpentine found in Rhode Island. It is of a light green color and resembles jade.

Five-twenty bonds of the United States (bearing six per cent interest), issued in 1862, '64, and '65, redeemable after five and payable in twenty years.