Emily Dickinson Lexicon

WEATH'ER-TINT-ED, a.

Tinted by the weather.

WEATH'ER-WISE, a. [weather and wise.]

Skillful in foreseeing the changes or state of the weather.

WEATH'ER-WIS-ER, n.

Something that foreshows the weather. [Not used.] – Derham.

WEAVE, v.i.

To practice weaving; to work with a loom.

WEAVE, v.t. [pret. wove; pp. woven, wove. The regular form, weaved, is rarely or never used. Sax. wefan; G. weben; D. weeven; Sw. väfva; Dan. væver; Pers. baftan; Gr. υφαω.]

1. To unite threads of any kind in such a manner as to form cloth. This is done by crossing the threads by means of a shuttle. The modes of weaving, and the kinds of texture, are various. The threads first laid in length are called the warp; those which cross them in the direction of the breadth, are called the weft or woof.
2. To unite any thing flexible; as, to weave twigs.
3. To unite by intermixture or close connection; as, a form of religion woven into the civil government. – Addison.
4. To interpose; to insert. This weaves itself perforce into my business. – Shak.

WEAV'ER, n.

1. One who weaves; one whose occupation is to weave.
2. 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.

1. The act or art of forming cloth in a loom by the union or intertexture of threads.
2. The task or work to be done in making cloth.

WEAV'ING, ppr.

Forming cloth by intermixture of threads.

WEB, n. [Sax. web; Sw. väf. See Weave.]

1. Texture of threads; plexus; any thing woven. Penelope devised a web to deceive her wooers. – Spenser.
2. Locally, a piece of linen cloth. – England. Ireland.
3. A dusky film that forms over the eye and hinders the sight; suffusion. – Shak.
4. Some part of a sword. Qu. net-work of the handle or hilt. – Shak. Fairfax.
5. In ship-building, the thin partition on the inside of the rim, and between the spokes of a sheave. – Cyc.
6. 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. vädja; Dan. vedder, to wager; W. gwezu; L. vador, to give bail, or fœdus, a league; probably both are of one family.]

1. To marry; to take for husband or for wife. Since the day / I saw thee first, and wedded thee. – Milton.
2. To join in marriage. And Adam, wedded to another Eve, / Shall live with her. – Milton.
3. 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.
4. To unite for ever. Thou art wedded to calamity. – Shak.
5. 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, wæcg; Dan. veg; Sw. vigg; D. wig. This word signifies a mass, a lump.]

1. A mass of metal; as, a wedge of gold or silver. – Josh. vii.
2. 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.
3. Something in the form of a wedge. Sometimes bodies of troops are drawn up in the form of a wedge.

WEDGE, v.t.

1. To cleave with a wedge; to rive. [Little used.]
2. To drive as a wedge is driven; to crowd or compress closely. We were wedged in by the crowd.
3. To force, as a wedge forces its way; as, to wedge one's way. – Milton.
4. To fasten with a wedge or with wedges; as, to wedge on a sythe; to wedge in a rail or a piece of timber.
5. 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.