It is not improbable that the Romans pronouced v as we do w, for their volvo is our wallow; and volo, velle, is the English will, G. wollen. But this is uncertain. The German v has the sound of the English f, and w that of the English v. NWAD W.2
1. A little mass of some soft or flexible material, such as hay, straw, tow, paper, or old ropeyarn, used for stopping the charge of powder in a gun and pressing it close to the shot, or for keeping the powder and shot close. NWAD WAD.2
2. A little mass, tuft or bundle, as of hay or peas. NWAD WAD.3
1. A wad, or the materials for wads; any pliable substance of which wads may be made. NWAD WADDING.2
2. A kind of soft stuff of loose texture, used for stuffing garments. NWAD WADDING.3
1. To move one way and the other in walking; to deviate to one side and the other; to vacillate; as, a child waddles when he begins to walk; very fat peole walk with a kind of waddling pace. So we say, a duck or a goose waddles. NWAD WADDLE.2
2. To walk with a waddling motion. NWAD WADDLE.3
And hardly waddles forth to cool NWAD WADDLE.4
1. To walk through any substance that yields to the feet; as, to wade through water; to wade through sand or snow;. To wade over a river, is to walk through on the bottom. Fowls that wade have long legs. NWAD WADE.2
2. To move or pass with difficulty or labor; as, judges wade through an intriccate law case. it is not my purpose to wade through these controversies. NWAD WADE.3
The kings admirable conduct has waded through all these difficulties. NWAD WADE.4
And wades through fumes and gropes his way. NWAD WADE.5
1. A thin cake or leaf; as a wafer of bread given by the Romanists in the Eucharist. NWAD WAFER.2
2. A thin leaf of paste, or a composition of flour, the white of eggs, isinglass and yeast, spread over with gumwater and dried; used in sealing letters. NWAD WAFER.3
1. To bear through a fluid or bouyant medium; to convey through water or air; as, a balloon was wafted over the channel. NWAD WAFT.2
Speed the soft intercourse from soul to soul, and waft a sigh from Indus to the pole. NWAD WAFT.3
2. To convey; as ships. NWAD WAFT.4
3. To bouy; to cause to float; to keep from sinking. NWAD WAFT.5
4. To beckon; to give notice by something in motion. [Not in use.] NWAD WAFT.6
[This verb is regular. But waft was formerly used by some writers for wafted.] NWAD WAFT.7
And now the shouts waft near the citadel. NWAD WAFT.9
1. He or that which wafts; a passage boat. NWAD WAFTER.2
2. The conductor of vessels at sea; an old word. NWAD WAFTER.3
Every one that passeth thereby shall be astonished, and wag his head. Jeremiah 18:16; Matthew 27:39. [Wag expresses particulary the motion of the head and body used in buffoonery, mirth, derision, sport and mockery. It is applied also to birds and beasts; as, to wag the tail.] NWAD WAG.2
1. To be quick in ludicrous motion; to stir. NWAD WAG.4
Tis merry in hall, where beards wag all. NWAD WAG.5
Tremble and start at wagging of a straw. NWAD WAG.6
2. To go; to depart; to pack offf. NWAD WAG.7
I will provoke him tot, or let him wag. NWAD WAG.8
3. To be moved one way and the other. NWAD WAG.9
The resty sieve waggd neer the more. NWAD WAG.10
We wink at wags, when they offend. NWAD WAG.12
The counselor never pleaded without a piece of packthread in his hand, which he used to twist about his finger all the while he was speaking; the wags used to call it the thread of his discourse. NWAD WAG.13
1. To lay; to bet; to throw down as a pledge; to stake; to put at hazard on the event of a contest. This is the common popular sense of the word in New England; as, to wage a dollar; to wage a horse. NWAD WAGE.2
2. To venture; to hazard. NWAD WAGE.3
To wake and wage a danger profitless. NWAD WAGE.4
3. To make; to begin; to carry on; that is, to go forward or advance to attack, as in invasion or aggression; used in the phrase, to wage war. he waged war with all his enemies. NWAD WAGE.5
He ponderd which of all his sons was fit NWAD WAGE.6
To reign, and wage immortal war with wit. NWAD WAGE.7
4. To set to hire. NWAD WAGE.8
Thou must wage Thy works for wealth. [Not in use.] NWAD WAGE.9
5. To take to hire; to hire for pay; to employ for wages; as eaged soldiers. He was well waged and rewarded. NWAD WAGE.10
To wage oness law, to give security to make ones law. The defendent is then to swear that he owes nothing to the plaintiff, and eleven neighbors, called compurgators, are to avow upon their oaths, that they believe in their consciences he has declared the truth. This is called wager of law. NWAD WAGE.11
1. Something deposited, laid or hazarded on the event of a contest or some unsettled question; a bet. NWAD WAGER.2
Besides these plates for horseraces, the wagers may be as the persons please. NWAD WAGER.3
If any atheist can stake his soul for a wager against such an inexhaustible disproportion NWAD WAGER.4
2. Subject on which bets are laid. NWAD WAGER.5
3. In law, an offer to make oath of innocence or nonindebtedness; or the act of making oath, together with the oaths of eleven compurgators, to fortify the defendents oath. NWAD WAGER.6
Wager of battle, is when the tenant in a writ of right, offers to prove his right by the body of his champion, and throwing down his glove as a gage or pledge, thus wages or stipulates battle with the champion or demandant, who by taking up the glove, accepts the challenge. The champions, armed with batons enter the list, and taking each other by the hand, each swears to the justice of the cause of the party for whom he appears; they then fight till the stars appear, and if the champion of the tenant can defend himself till that time, his cause prevails. NWAD WAGER.7
Wagering policy, in commerce, a policy of insurance, insuring a sum of money when no property is at hazard; as a policy to insure money on a ship when no property is on board; that is, insurance, interest or no interest; or a wagering policy may be a policy to insure property that is already insured. Such policies in England, are by Statute 19 Geo. 3. made null and void. NWAD WAGERING.2
1. Hire; reward; that which is paid or stipulated for services; but chiefly for services by manual labor, or for military and naval services. We speak of servants wages, a laborers wages, or soldiers wages; but we never apply the word to the rewards given to men in office, which are called fees or salary. The word is however sometimes applied to the compensation given to representatives in the legislature. [U. States] NWAD WAGES.2
Tell me, what shall thy wages be? Genesis 29:15. NWAD WAGES.3
Be content with your wages. Luke 3:14. NWAD WAGES.4
2. Reward; fruit; recompense; that which is given or received in return. NWAD WAGES.5
The wages of sin is death. Romans 6:23. NWAD WAGES.6
1. A name given in Cornwall to the martinazzo, dunghunter, or dungbird, a species of Larus or seagull. NWAD WAGGEL.2
1. Mischievous merriment; sportive trick or gayety; sarcasm in good humor; frolicksome; as a company of waggish boys. NWAD WAGGISH.2
2. Done, made or laid in waggery or for sport; as a waggish trick. NWAD WAGGISH.3
Why do you go nodding and waggling so? NWAD WAGGLE.2
1. A vehicle moved on four wheels, and usually drawn by horses; used for the transportation of heavy commodities. In America, light wagons are used for the conveyance of families, and for carrying light commodities to market, particulary a very light kind drawn by one horse. NWAD WAGON.2
2. A chariot. [Not in use.] NWAD WAGON.3
1. One who conducts a wagon. NWAD WAGONER.2
2. A constellation, Charles wain. NWAD WAGONER.3
Or if no more her absent lord she wails-- NWAD WAIL.2
Therefore I will wail and howl. Micah 1:8. NWAD WAIL.4
There shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth. Matthew 13:42. NWAD WAILING.3
1. A wagon; a carriage for the transportation of goods on wheels. NWAD WAIN.2
2. A constellation, Charles wain. NWAD WAIN.3
1. To line with boards; as, to wainscot a hall. NWAD WAINSCOT.3
Music sounds better in chambers wainscoted than hanged. NWAD WAINSCOT.4
2. To line with different materials. NWAD WAINSCOT.5
The other is wainscoted with looking-glass. NWAD WAINSCOT.6
1. That part of the human body which is immediately below the ribs or thorax; or the small part of the body between the thorax and hips. NWAD WAIST.2
2. That part of a ship which is between the quarter deck and forecastle. But in many ships now built, there is no quarter deck, and in such the waist is the middle part of the ship. NWAD WAIST.3
1. To stay or rest in expectation; to stop or remain stationary, till the arrival of some person or event. Thus we say, I went to the place of meeting, and there waited an hour for the moderator or chairman. I will go to the hotel, and there wait till you come. We will wait for the mail. NWAD WAIT.2
2. To stay proceedings, or suspend any business, in expectation of some person, event, or the arrival of some hour. The court was obliged to wait for a witness. NWAD WAIT.3
3. To rest in expectation and patience. NWAD WAIT.4
All the days of my appointed time will I wait, till my change come. Job 14:14. NWAD WAIT.5
4. To stay; not to depart. NWAD WAIT.6
Haste, my dear father, tis no time to wait. NWAD WAIT.7
5. To stay; to continue by reason of hindrance. NWAD WAIT.8
6. To lie in ambush, as an enemy. NWAD WAIT.9
Such ambush waited to intercept thy way. NWAD WAIT.10
To wait on or upon, to attend, as a servant; to perform menial services for; as, to wait on a gentleman; to wait on the table. NWAD WAIT.11
To wait on, NWAD WAIT.12
1. To attend; to go to see; to visit on business or for ceremony. Tell the gentleman I will wait on him at ten o’clock. NWAD WAIT.13
2. To pay servile or submissive attendance. NWAD WAIT.14
3. To follow, as a consequence; as the ruin that waits on such a supine temper. [Instead of this, we use await.] NWAD WAIT.15
4. To look watchfully. NWAD WAIT.16
It is a point of cunning to wait on him with whom you speak, with your eye. [Unusual.] NWAD WAIT.17
5. To attend to; to perform. NWAD WAIT.18
Aaron and his sons shall wait on their priests office. Numbers 3:10; Numbers 8:24; Romans 12:7. NWAD WAIT.19
6. To be ready to serve; to obey. Psalm 25:3; Proverbs 20:22. NWAD WAIT.20
To wait at, to attend in service; to perform service at. 1 Corinthians 9:13. NWAD WAIT.21
To wait for, to watch, as an enemy. Job 15:22. NWAD WAIT.22
1. To stay for; to rest or remain stationary in expectation of the arrival of. NWAD WAIT.24
Awd with these words, in camps they still abide, and wait with longing eyes their promisd guide. [Elliptical for wait for.] NWAD WAIT.25
2. To attend; to accompany with submission or respect. NWAD WAIT.26
He chose a thousand horse, the flowr of all his warlike troops, to wait the funeral. [This use is not justifiable, but by poetical license.] NWAD WAIT.27
3. To attend as a consequence of something. NWAD WAIT.28
Such doom waits luxury-- NWAD WAIT.29
[Not in use. In this sense we use attend or attend on.] NWAD WAIT.30
In wait, is used in a like sense by Milton. NWAD WAIT.32
To lay wait, to set an ambush. Jeremiah 9:8. NWAD WAIT.33
1. One who waits; an attendant; a servant in attendance. NWAD WAITER.2
The waiters stand in ranks; the yeoman cry, make room, as if a duke were passing by. NWAD WAITER.3
2. A server; a vessel on which tea furniture, etc. is carried. NWAD WAITER.4
Waiting on, attending; accompanying; serving. NWAD WAITING.2
Waiting for, staying for the arrival of. NWAD WAITING.3
Waiting at, staying or attending at in expectation or in service. NWAD WAITING.4
In waiting, in attendance. NWAD WAITING.5
1. Itinerant nocturnal musicians. [Not in use.] NWAD WAITS.2
2. Nocturnal musicians who attended great men. NWAD WAITS.3
1. To be awake; to continue awake; to watch; not to sleep. Psalm 127:1. NWAD WAKE.2
The father waketh for the daughter. NWAD WAKE.3
Though wisdom wakes, suspicion sleeps. NWAD WAKE.4
I cannot think any time, waking or sleeping, without being sensible of it. NWAD WAKE.5
2. To be excited or roused from sleep; to awake; to be awakened. He wakes at the slightest noise. NWAD WAKE.6
3. To cease to sleep; to awake. NWAD WAKE.7
4. To be quick; to be alive or active. NWAD WAKE.8
5. To be excited from a torpid state; to be put in motion. The dormant powers of nature wake from their frosty slumbers. NWAD WAKE.9
Gentle airs to fan the earth now wakd. NWAD WAKE.10
1. To rouse from sleep. NWAD WAKE.12
The angel that talked with me, came again and waked me. Zechariah 4:1. NWAD WAKE.13
2. To arouse; to excite; to put in motion or action. NWAD WAKE.14
Prepare war, wake up the mighty men. Joel 3:9. NWAD WAKE.15
[The use of up is common, but not necessary.] NWAD WAKE.16
To wake the soul by tender strokes of art. NWAD WAKE.17
3. To bring to life again, as if from the sleep of death. NWAD WAKE.18
To second life wakd in the renovation of the just. NWAD WAKE.19
1. The feast of the dedication of the church, formerly kept by watching all night. NWAD WAKE.21
2. Vigils; state of forbearing sleep. NWAD WAKE.22
--Their merry wakes and pastimes keep. NWAD WAKE.23
3. Act of waking. [Old song.] NWAD WAKE.24
Wake of a ship, the track it leaves in the water, formed by the meeting of the water, which rushes from each side to fill the space which the ship makes in passing through it. NWAD WAKE.25
To be in the wake of a ship, is to be in her track, or in a line with her keel. NWAD WAKE.26
1. Not sleeping; indisposed to sleep. NWAD WAKEFUL.2
Dissembling sleep, but wakeful with the fright-- NWAD WAKEFUL.3
2. Watchful; vigilant. NWAD WAKEFUL.4
1. Indisposition to sleep. NWAD WAKEFULNESS.2
2. Forbearance of sleep; want of sleep. NWAD WAKEFULNESS.3
Early Turnus wakning with the light. NWAD WAKEN.2
1. To excite or rouse from sleep. NWAD WAKEN.4
Go, waken Eve. NWAD WAKEN.5
2. To excite to action or motion. NWAD WAKEN.6
Then Homers and Tyraeus martial muse wakend the world. NWAD WAKEN.7
3. To excite; to produce; to rouse into action. NWAD WAKEN.8
They introduce their sacred song, and waken raptures high. NWAD WAKEN.9
1. Being awake; not sleeping. NWAD WAKING.2
2. Rousing from sleep; exciting into motion or action. NWAD WAKING.3
1. The period of being awake. NWAD WAKING.5
2. Watch. NWAD WAKING.6
1. In cloth, a ridge or streak rising above the rest. We say, cloth is wove with a wale. NWAD WALE.2
2. A streak or stripe; the mark of a rod or whip on animal flesh. NWAD WALE.3
Wales of a ship, an assemblage of strong planks, extending along a ships sides throughout the whole length, at different heights, and serving to strengthen the decks and form the curves. They are distinguished into the main wale and the channel wale. NWAD WALE.4
1. To move slowly on the feet; to step slowly along; to advance by steps moderately repeated; as animals. Walking in men differs from running only in the rapidity and length of the steps; but in quadrupeds, the motion or order of the feet is sometimes changed. NWAD WALK.2
At the end of twelve months, he walked in the palace of the kingdom of Babylon. Daniel 4:29. NWAD WALK.3
When Peter had come down out of the ship, he walked on the water, to go to Jesus. Matthew 14:29. NWAD WALK.4
2. To move or go on the feet for exercise or amusement. Hundreds of students daily walk on Downing terrace in Cambridge. NWAD WALK.5
3. To appear, as a specter. NWAD WALK.6
The spirits of the dead may walk again. NWAD WALK.7
4. To act on any occasion. NWAD WALK.8
Do you think Id walk in any plot? NWAD WALK.9
5. To be in motion, as a clamorous tongue. NWAD WALK.10
Her tongue did walk in foul reproach. NWAD WALK.11
6. To act or move on the feet in sleep. NWAD WALK.12
When was it she last walkd? [But this is unusual. When we speak of noctambulation, we say, to walk in sleep.] NWAD WALK.13
7. To range; to be stirring. NWAD WALK.14
Affairs that walk, as they say spirits do at midnight. [Unusual.] NWAD WALK.15
8. To move off; to depart. NWAD WALK.16
When he comes forth he will make their cows and garrans walk. [Not elegant.] NWAD WALK.17
9. In Scripture, to live and act or behave; to pursue a particular course of life. NWAD WALK.18
To walk with God, to live in obedience to his commands, and have communion with him. Genesis 5:24. NWAD WALK.19
To walk in darkness, to live in ignorance, error and sin, without comfort. 1 John 1:6. NWAD WALK.20
To walk in the light, to live in the practice of religion, and to enjoy its consolations. 1 John 1:7. NWAD WALK.21
To walk by faith, to live in the firm belief of the gospel and its promises, and to rely on Christ for salvation. 2 Corinthians 5:7. NWAD WALK.22
To walk through the fire, to be exercised with severe afflictions. Isaiah 43:2. NWAD WALK.23
To walk after the flesh, to indulge sensual appetites, and to live in sin. Romans 8:1. NWAD WALK.24
To walk after the Spirit, to be guided by the counsels and influences of the Spirit and by the word of God, and to live a life of holy deportment. NWAD WALK.25
To walk in the flesh, to live this natural life, which is subject to infirmities and calamities. 2 Corinthians 10:3. NWAD WALK.26
To walk in, to enter, as a house. Walk in, gentlemen. NWAD WALK.27
1. To pass through or upon; as, to walk the streets. [This is elliptical for to walk in or through the street.] NWAD WALK.29
2. To cause to walk or step slowly; to lead, drive or ride with a slow pace. He found the road so bad he was obliged to walk his horse. The coachman walked his horses from Woodbridge to Princeton. NWAD WALK.30
1. The act of walking; the act of moving on the feet with a slow pace. NWAD WALK.32
2. The act of walking for air or exercise; as a morning walk; an evening walk. NWAD WALK.33
3. Manner of walking; gait; step. We often know a person in a distant apartment by his walk. NWAD WALK.34
4. Length of way or circuit through which one walks; or a place for walking; as a long walk; a short walk. The gardens of the Tuilerie and of the Luxemburgh are very pleasant walks. NWAD WALK.35
5. An avenue set with trees. NWAD WALK.36
6. Way; road; range; place of wandering. NWAD WALK.37
The mountains are his walks. NWAD WALK.38
The starry walks above. NWAD WALK.39
7. Region; space. NWAD WALK.40
He opened a boundless walk for his imagination. NWAD WALK.41
8. Course of life or pursuit. This is not within the walk of the historian. NWAD WALK.42
9. The slowest pace of a horse, ox or other quadruped. NWAD WALK.43
10. A fish. [A mistake for whelk.] NWAD WALK.44
11. In the West Indies, a plantation of canes, etc. NWAD WALK.45
A sheep walk, so called, is high and dry land where sheep pasture. NWAD WALK.46
1. One who walks. NWAD WALKER.2
2. In our mother tongue, a fuller. NWAD WALKER.3
3. In law, a forest officer appointed to walk over a certain space for inspection; a forester. NWAD WALKER.4
4. One who deports himself in a particular manner. NWAD WALKER.5
5. A fulling-mill. [Not in use or local.] NWAD WALKER.6
1. A work or structure of stone, brick or other materials, raised to some highth, and intended for a defense or security. Walls of stone, with or without cement, are much used in America for fences on farms; walls are laid as the foundations of houses and the security of cellars. Walls of stone or brick form the exterior of buildings, and they are often raised round cities and forts as a defense against enemies. NWAD WALL.2
2. Walls, in the plural, is used for fortifications in general; works for defense. NWAD WALL.3
I rush undaunted to defend the walls. NWAD WALL.4
3. A defense; means of security or protection. 1 Samuel 25:16. NWAD WALL.5
To take the wall, to take the upper or most honorable place. NWAD WALL.6
I will take the wall of any man or maid of Montagues. NWAD WALL.7
1. To inclose with a wall; as, to wall a city. NWAD WALL.9
2. To defend by walls. NWAD WALL.10
And terror of his name that walls us in from danger. NWAD WALL.11
3. To fill up with a wall. NWAD WALL.12
1. A plant of the genus Arabis. NWAD WALL-CRESS.2
2. A plant of the genus Turritis. NWAD WALL-CRESS.3
1. A disease in the crystaline humor of the eye; the glaucoma. NWAD WALL-EYE.2
2. In horses, an eye in which the iris is of a very light gray color. NWAD WALL-EYE.3