Emily Dickinson Lexicon

WAY'WODE, or WAI'WODE, n.

1. In the Ottoman empire, the governor of a small town or province, which not forming a pashawlic, is the appendage of some great officer; also, a mussulman charged with the collection of taxes, or with the police of a place.
2. In Poland, the governor of a province. – Cyc.