Emily Dickinson Lexicon

WOVE, v. [pret. of Weave, sometimes the participle.]

WOX, or WOX'EN, pp. [for Waxed. Not used.]

WRACK, or WRECK, n. [Note. W before r is always silent. See Wreck.]

A name given to a marine plant which is of great utility as a manure. It is sometimes called sea-wrack or sea-wreck, and sea-oak and sea-tangle. It is the Fucus vesiculosus of Linnæus, a plant found on rocks left dry at low water. The stalk runs along the middle of the leaf, and is terminated by watery bladders. – Cyc. The grass wrack is of the genus Zostera. – Lee. Wrack, and to wrack. [See Wreck.]

WRACK'FUL, ppr.

Ruinous; destructive.

WRAIN-BOLT, n. [See WRING-BOLT.]

WRAITH, n.

An apparition. – Scottish.

WRAN'GLE, n.

An angry dispute; a noisy quarrel. – Swift.

WRANGLE, v.i. [from the root of wring, Sw. vränga; that is, to wring, to twist, to struggle, to contend; or it is from the root of ring, to sound.]

To dispute angrily; to quarrel peevishly and noisily; to brawl; to altercate. For a score of kingdoms you should wrangle. – Shak. He did not know what it was to wrangle on indifferent points. – Addison.

WRAN'GLE, v.t.

To involve in contention. [Little used.] – Sanderson.

WRAN'GLER, n.

An angry disputant; one who disputes with beat or peevishness; as, a noisy contentious wrangler. – Watts. Senior wrangler, in the university of Cambridge, the student who passes the best examination in the senate house. Then follow the second, third, &c. wranglers.

WRANG'LE-SOME, a.

Contentious; quarrelsome. – Moore.

WRAN'GLING, n.

The act of disputing angrily.

WRANG'LING, ppr.

Disputing or contending angrily.

WRAP, v.t. [pret. and pp. wrapped or wrapt.]

1. To wind or fold together. – John xx.
2. To involve; to cover by winding something round; often with up; as, to wrap up a child in its blanket; wrap the body well with flannel in winter. – I, wrapt in mist / Of midnight vapor, glide obscure. – Milton.
3. To involve; to hide; as, truth wrapt in tales.
4. To comprise; to contain. Leontine's young wife, in whom all his happiness was wrapped up, died in a few days after the death of her daughter. – Addison.
5. To involve totally. Things reflected on in grass end transiently, are thought to be wrapped in impenetrable obscurity. – Locke.
6. To inclose.
7. To snatch up; to transport. This is an error. It ought to be rapt. [See Rap and Rapt.]

WRAP'PAGE, n.

That which wraps.

WRAP'PED, or WRAPT, pp.

Wound; folded; inclosed.

WRAP'PER, n.

1. One that wraps.
2. That in which any thing is wrapped or inclosed.

WRAP'PING, ppr.

1. Winding; folding; involving; inclosing.
2. adj. Used or designed for wrapping or covering; as, wrapping paper.

WRAP'-RAS-CAL, n.

An upper coat. – Jamieson.

WRASS, or WRASSE, n.

A fish, the Labrus tinca of Linnæus, called by authors, Turdus vulgaris, or Tinca marina the sea-tench, and sometimes old-wife. It resembles the carp in figure, and is covered with large scales. The name is also applied to other species of the genus Labrus. Cyc. – Ed. Encyc.

WRATH, n. [Sax. wrath, wræth; Sw. and D. vrede; W. irad, of which L. ira is a contraction; Ar. أَرَّثَ eratha; Gr. ερεθω, to provoke. Class Rd, No. 36.]

1. Violent anger; vehement exasperation; indignation; the wrath of Achilles. When the wrath of king Ahasuerus was appeased. – Esth. ii. O Lord … in wrath remember mercy. – Hab. iii.
2. The effects of anger. – Prov. xxvii.
3. The just punishment of an offense or crime. – Rom. xiii. God's wrath, in Scripture, is his holy and just indignation against sin. – Rom. i.

WRATH-FUL, a.

1. Very angry; greatly incensed. The king was very wrathful.
2. Springing from wrath, or expressing it; as, wrathful passions; a wrathful countenance.

WRATH-FUL-LY, adv.

With violent anger. – Shak.

WRATH-FUL-NESS, n.

Vehement anger.

WRATH'I-LY, adv.

Very angrily.