Emily Dickinson Lexicon

WITY-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. Sidney. [It should be wifely.]

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

A kind of heraldic dragon. Thynne.

WIVES, plur.

of Wife.

WIZ'ARD, a.

1. Enchanting; charming. Collins. 'W
2. flaunted by wizards. Milton.

WIZ'ARD, n. [from wise.]

A conjurer; ea enchanter; sorcerer. Lev. u. The wily wizard must be caught. Dryden.

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

To wither; to dry. [Local.]

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

A plant of the genus hans, 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.

WOE, n. [Sax. wa; L. vo; Gr. {foreign} aval; W. gwae; G. weh; D. wee; Sw. ye.]

1. Grief; sorrow; misery; a heavy calamity. One woe is past; and behold there come two woes more hereafter. Rev. ix. They weep each other's woe. Pope.
2. A curse. Can there be a woe or curse in all the stores of vengeance, equal to the malignity of such a practice? South.
3. Woe is used in denunciation, and in exclamations of sorrow. Woe is me; for I am undone. Isa. vi. This is properly the Saxon dative, "woe is to me." "Woe worth the day," This is also the dative; woe be to the day; Sax. wurthan, weorthan or wyrtkan, to be, to become. Woe is a noun, and if used as an adjective, it is improperly v used. "Woe to you that are rich." "Woe to that man, by whom the offense cometh;" that is, misery, calamity, be v or will be to him.

WOE-BE-GONE, a. [woe, be, and gone.]

Overwhelmed y with woe; immersed in grief and sorrow. So woebegone was he with pains of love. Fairfax.

WOE-FUL, a.

1. Sorrowful; distressed with grief or calamity; afflicted. How many woeful widows left to bow To sad disgrace! Daniel.
2. Sorrowful; mournful; full of distress; as, woeful day. Jer. xvii.
3. Bringing calamity, distress or affliction; as, a woeful event; woeful want.
4. Wretched; paltry. What woeful stun this madrigal would be. Pope.

WOE-FUL-LY, adv.

1. Sorrowfully; mournfully; in a distressing manner.
2. Wretchedly; extremely; as, he will be woefully deceived.

WOE-FULNESS, n.

Misery; calamity.

WOE-SHAK-EN, a.

Shaken by woe.

WOE-SOME, a. wo'sum.

Woeful. [Not in use.] Langhorne.

WOFT,

for Waft. [Not in use.] Shak.

WOLD,

in Saxon, is the same as weld and weald, a wood, sometimes perhaps a lawn or plain. Wald signifies also power, dominion, from toaldan, to rule. These words occur in names.

WOLF, n. wull. [Sax. wulf; G. and D. wolf; Sw. self; Dan. ule; Russ. volk; L. vulpes, u fox, the same word differently applied. The Gr. is {foreign} aunraf.]

1. An animal of the genus Canis, a beast of prey that kills sheep and other small domestic animals; called sometimes the wild dog. The wolf is crafty, greedy and ravenous.
2. A small white worm or maggot, which infests granaries. Cyc.
3. An eating ulcer. Brown.

WOLF'-DOG, n.

1. A dog of a large breed, kept to guard sheep.
2. A dog supposed to be bred between a dog and a wolf. Johnson.

WOLF-FISH, n.

A fish, the Lupus marinus, [the Anarrhichas lupus of Linnaeus;] a fierce voracious fish of the northern seas. This fish is called also cat-fish and sea-wolf. Cyc.