Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Dictionary: WEAV-ER – WED'LOCK-ED
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WEAV-ER, n.
- One who weaves; one whose occupation is to weave.
- The common name of the genus Ploceus, of several species, passerine birds, natives of Africa and the East Indies; so called because they construct curious and often pensile nests, by interweaving twigs and fibers. Ed. Encyc.
WEAV-ER-FISH, n.
A kind of fish, a species of Trachinus, of which about four species are well known. They inflict wounds with the spines of their first dorsal fin, which are much dreaded. Their flesh is esteemed. [See Weever.] Ainsworth.
WEAV-ING, n.
- The act or art of forming cloth in a loom by the union or intertexture of threads.
- The task or work to be done in making cloth.
WEAV-ING, ppr.
Forming cloth by intermixture of threads.
WEB, n. [Sax. web; Sw. vaf,: See Weave.]
- Texture of threads; plexus; any thing woven. Penelope devised a web to deceive her wooers. Spenser.
- Locally, a piece of linen cloth. England. Ireland.
- A dusky film that forms over the eye and hinders the sight; suffusion. Shak.
- Some part of a sword. Qu. net-work of the handle or hilt. Shak. Fairfax.
- In ship-building, the thin partition on the inside of the rim, and between the spokes of a sheave. Cyc.
- In ornithology, the membrane which unites the toes of many water-fowls. Spider's web, a plexus of very delicate threads or filaments which a spider spins from its bowels, and which serves as a net to catch flies or other insects for its food. Web of a coulter, is the thin sharp part.
WEB'BED, a. [from web.]
Having the toes united by a membrane, or web; as, the webbed feet of aquatic fowls.
WEB'-FOOT-ED, a. [web and foot.]
Having webbed feet; palmiped. A goose, or duck, is a web-footed fowl.
WED, n.
A pledge.
WED, v.i.
To marry; to contract matrimony. When shall I wed? Shak.
WED, v.t. [Sax. weddian, to covenant, to promise, to marry; Sw. vadja; Dan. vedder, to wager; W. gwezu; L. vador, to give bail, or faedus, a league; probably both are of one family.]
- To marry; to take for husband or for wife. Since the day I saw thee first, and wedded thee. Milton.
- To join in marriage. And Adam, wedded to another Eve, Shall live with her. Milton.
- To unite closely in affection; to attach firmly. We are apt to be wedded to our own customs and opinions. Men are wedded to their lusts. Tillotson.
- To unite for ever. Thou art wedded to calamity. Shak.
- To espouse; to take part with. They wedded his cause. [Obs.] Clarendon.
WED'DED, pp.
Married; closely attached.
WED'DING, n.
Marriage; nuptials; nuptial ceremony; nuptial festivities. Let her beauty be her wedding dower. Shak.
WED'DING, ppr.
Marrying; uniting with in matrimony.
WED'DING-CLOTHES, n. [wedding and clothes.]
Garments for a bride or a bridegroom, to be worn at marriage.
WED'DING-DAY, n. [wedding and day.]
The day of marriage.
WED'DING-FEAST, n. [wedding and feast.]
A feast or entertainment prepared for the guests at a wedding.
WEDGE, n. [Sax. wecg, waecg; Dan. veg; Sw. vigg; D. wig. This word signifies a mass, a lump.]
- A mass of metal; as, a wedge of gold or silver. Josh. vii.
- A piece of metal, particularly iron, thick at one end and sloping to a thin edge at the other, used in splitting wood, rocks, &c. This is one of the five mechanical powers. A like piece of wood is by some persons called a wedge, or a glut.
- Something in the form of a wedge. Sometimes bodies of troops are drawn up in the form of a wedge.
WEDGE, v.t.
- To cleave with a wedge; to rive. [Little used.]
- To drive as a wedge is driven; to crowd or compress closely. We were wedged in by the crowd.
- To force, as a wedge forces its way; as, to wedge one's way. Milton.
- To fasten with a wedge or with wedges; as, to wedge on a sythe; to wedge in a rail or a piece of timber.
- To fix in the manner of a wedge. Wedg'd in the rocky shoals, and sticking fast. Dryden.
WEDG'ED, pp.
Split with a wedge; fastened with a wedge; closely compressed.
WEDGE-SHAP-ED, a. [wedge and shape.]
Having the shape of a wedge; cuneiform. A wedge-shaped leaf is broad and truncate at the summit, and tapering down to the base. Smith.
WEDGE'WOOD-WARE, n.
A superior kind of white earthen ware, made at Henley, in England, and so called from its inventor, whose name was Wedgewood.
WEDG'ING, ppr.
Cleaving with a wedge; fastening with wedges; compressing closely.
WED'LOCK, n. [Qu. wed and lock, or Sax. lac, a gift.]
Marriage; matrimony. Addison.
WED'LOCK, v.t.
To marry. [Little used.] Millon.
WED'LOCK-ED, pp.
United in marriage. [Little used.] Milton.