Emily Dickinson Lexicon

WAY'-LEAVE, n.

A provincial term for the ground purchased for a wagon-way between coal-pits and a river. [Local.] – Cyc.

WAY'LESS, a.

Having no road or path; pathless; trackless. – Drayton.

WAY-MAK-ER, n.

One who makes a way; a precursor. – Bacon.

WAY-MARK, n. [way and mark.]

A mark to guide in traveling. – Jer. xxxi.

WAY'MENT, v.i. [Sax. wa, woe.]

To lament. [Not in use.] – Spenser.

WAY'-PANE, n.

A slip left for cartage in watered land. [Local.] – Cyc.

WAY'-THIS-TLE, n.

A troublesome plant or perennial weed. – Cyc.

WAY'WARD, a. [way and ward.]

Froward; peevish; perverse; liking his own way. Wayward beauty doth not fancy move. – Fairfax.

WAY-WAR-DEN, n.

In local usage, the surveyor of a road.

WAY'WARD-LY, adv.

Frowardly; perversely. – Sidney.

WAY'WARD-NESS, n.

Frowardness; perverseness. – Wotton.

WAY-WIS-ER, n.

An instrument for measuring the distance which one has traveled on the road; called also perambulator, and podometer, or pedometer. – Cyc.

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.

WAY'WODE-SHIP, n.

The province or jurisdiction of a waywode. – Eton.

WAY-WORN, a.

Wearied by traveling.

WE, pron.

Plural of I; or rather a different word, denoting the person speaking and another or others with him. I and John, the speaker calls we, or I and John and Thomas; or I and many others. In the objective case, us. We is used to express men in general, including the speaker. Vice seen too oft, familiar with her face / We first endure, then pity, then embrace. – Pope.

WEAK, a. [Sax. waac, wace; G. weich, schwach; D. zwak; Dan. veeg, væg; Sw. vek. The primary sense of the root is to yield, fail, give way, recede, or to be soft.]

1. Having little physical strength; feeble. Children are born weak; men are rendered weak by disease.
2. Infirm; not healthy; as, a weak constitution.
3. Not able to bear a great weight; as, a weak bridge; weak timber.
4. Not strong; not compact; easily broken; as, a weak ship; a weak rope.
5. Not able to resist a violent attack; as, a weak fortress.
6. Soft; pliant; not stiff.
7. Low; small; feeble: as, a weak voice.
8. Feeble of mind; wanting spirit; wanting vigor of understanding; as, a weak prince; a weak magistrate. To think every thing disputable, is a proof of a weak mind and captious temper. – Beattie.
9. Not much impregnated with ingredients, or with things that excite action, or with stimulating and nourishing substances; as, weak broth; weak tea; weak toddy; a weak solution; weak decoction.
10. Not politically powerful; as, a weak nation or state.
11. Not having force of authority or energy; as, a weak government.
12. Not having moral force or power to convince; not well supported by truth or reason; as, a weak argument.
13. Not well supported by argument; as, weak reasoning.
14. Unfortified; accessible; impressible; as, the weak side of a person.
15. Not having full conviction or confidence; as, weak in faith.
16. Weak land is land of a light thin soil. – Cyc. [I believe never used in New England.]

WEAK, v.i.

To become weak. [Not used.] – Chaucer.

WEAK, v.t.

To make weak. [Not used.]

WEAK'EN, v.t. [week'n; Sax. wacan, to languish, to vacillate.]

1. To lessen the strength of, or to deprive of strength; to debilitate; to enfeeble; as, to weaken the body; to weaken the mind; to weaken the hands of the magistrate; to weaken: the force of an objection or an argument.
2. To reduce in strength or spirit; as, to weaken tea; to, weaken any solution or decoction.

WEAK'EN-ED, pp.

Debilitated; enfeebled; reduced in strength.

WEAK'EN-ER, n.

He or that which weakens.

WEAK'EN-ING, ppr.

1. Debilitating; enfeebling; reducing the strength or vigor of anything.
2. adj. Having the quality of reducing strength.

WEAK-EY-ED, a.

Having weak eyes.

WEAK'-HEAD-ED, a.

Having a weak intellect.