Lexicon: woman – wood

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woman (-'s, women), n. [OE wífmon.] (webplay: beauty, God, grown, man, modest, ornament, perish, show, soft, taken, tender, wife, years).

  1. Adult female.
  2. [Fig.] mother; female who has offspring.
  3. [Fig.] female who is man's consort.
  4. [Fig.] married lady; female spouse.
  5. [Fig.] lady responsible for domestic concerns [such as cooking, cleaning, and decorating.]
  6. [Fig.] one belonging to the gentle-sex; lady who personifies femininity; female with one or more feminine virtues, such as chastity, modesty, kindness, love, devotion, patience, long-suffering, beauty, goodness, gentleness, reverence, piety, docility, and a propensity to gossip.

wonder, n. [OE wundor.] (webplay: cease, fair, feeling, new, world).

  1. Wonderful and surprising event.
  2. Marvel; spectacle; amazing event; miraculous phenomena; astonishing occurrence.
  3. Musing; speculation; contemplation; reflection; meditation; consideration; awe mingled with curiosity.
  4. Surprise; unknown; strange; unfamiliar.

wonder (-ed, -ing), v. [OE wundrian.] (webplay: aggriev'd, amazement, appearance, arrests, cease, deep, esteem, fair, fearfully, feeling, love, show, sight, strange, try, world).

  1. Speculate; consider; inquire; muse; conjecture; imagine; theorize; [fig.] notice an absence.
  2. Be surprised, incredulous, perplexed, puzzled; question.

wonderful, adj. [late OE wunderfull.] (webplay: extent, feeling, show, working).

Grand; dramatic; sensational; awe-inspiring; glorious; magnificent; [fig.] beautiful; resplendent.

wondering, adj. [wonder, v. + -ing.] (webplay: strange).

Inquiring; pleading; appealing; petitioning; [fig.] open.

wondrous, adj. [alt. of wonders by analogy with marvellous.] (webplay: fair, new, peace).

Brilliant; exceptional; remarkable; phenomenal; out-of-the-ordinary;[fig.] immense; vast; extensive.

wondrous, adv. [see wondrous, adj.] (webplay: love).

Exceptionally; extremely; exceedingly; excessively; very.

wont, n. [see wont, adj.] (webplay: use).

Habit; custom; tradition; practice.

woo (-ed, -ing, -s), v. [Late OE wóasgian.] (webplay: court, love, song).

Court; solicit the love of; entreat romantic favor; [fig.] appeal; apply; persuade; petition; request; plead; supplicate.

wood (-en), adj. [see wood, n. + -en.] (webplay: bark, echo, house, stone).

  1. Made of wood; consisting of wood; [fig.] easily breakable.
  2. [Fig.] stiff; spiritless; unenthusiastic; hollow.