Emily Dickinson Lexicon

WIT-SNAP-PER, n. [wit and snap.]

One who affects repartee. [Not in use.] – Shak.

WIT'-STARV-ED, a.

Barren of wit; destitute of genius. – Examiner.

WIT'TED, a.

Having wit or understanding; as, a quick witted boy.

WIT'TE-NA-GE-MOTE, n. [Sax. witan, to know, and gemot, a meeting, a council.]

A meeting of wise men; the national council or legislature of England, in the days of the Saxons, before the conquest.

WIT'TI-CISM, n. [from wit.]

A sentence or phrase which is affectedly witty; a low kind of wit. He is full of conceptions, points of epigram, and witticisms; all which are below the dignity of heroic verse. – Addison.

WIT'TI-LY, adv. [from wit.]

1. With wit; with a delicate turn or phrase, or with an ingenious association of ideas. – Sidney.
2. Ingeniously; cunningly; artfully. Who his own harm so wittily contrives. – Dryden.

WIT'TI-NESS, n. [from witty.]

The quality of being witty. – Spenser.

WIT'TING-LY, adv. [See Wit.]

Knowingly; with knowledge; by design. He knowingly and wittingly brought evil into the world. – More.

WIT'TOL, n. [Sax. from witan, to know.]

A man who knows his wife's infidelity and submits to it; a tame cuckold. – Shak.

WIT'TOL-LY, adv.

Like a tame cuckold. – Shak.

WIT'TY, a. [from wit.]

1. Possessed of wit; full of wit; as, a witty poet.
2. Judicious; ingenious; inventive.
3. Sarcastic; full of taunts. Honeycomb was unmercifully witty upon the women. – Spectator.

WIT'WALL, n.

A bird, the great spotted woodpecker. – Ainsworth. Cyc.

WIT'-WORM, n. [wit and worm.]

One that feeds on wit. [Not in use.] – B. Jonson.

WIVE, v.i. [from wife.]

To marry, [Not in use.] – Shak.

WIVE, v.t.

1. To match to a wife. – Shak.
2. To take for a wife. [Not in use.] – Shak.

WIVE-HOOD, a.

Behavior becoming a wife. [Obs.] – Spenser. [It should be wifehood.]

WIVE-LESS, a.

Not having a wife. [It should be wifeless.]

WIVE-LY, a.

Pertaining to a wife. [It should be wifely.] – Sidney.

WIV-ER, or WIV'ER-IN, n.

A kind of heraldic dragon. – Thynne.

WIVES, n. [plur. of Wife.]

WIZ'ARD, a.

1. Enchanting; charming. – Collins.
2. Haunted by wizards. – Milton.

WIZ'ARD, n. [from wise.]

A conjurer; an enchanter; a sorcerer. – Lev. xx. The wily wizard must be caught. – Dryden.

WIZ'EN, v.i. [Sax. wisnian, weosnian.]

To wither; to dry. [Local.]

WOAD, n. [Sax. wad or waad; G. waid, weid; D. weede; Fr. guede; It. guado. Qu. weed.]

A plant of the genus Isatis, cultivated for the use of dyers. The woad blue is a very deep blue, and is the base of many other colors or shades of color. Woad is first bruised in a mill, and then made into balls. It grows wild in France and along the coasts of the Baltic. The term woad is applied to the Reseda, weld or wold, and to the Genista tinctoria or dyer's broom. – Cyc.

WOAD-MILL, n.

A mill for bruising and preparing woad.