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Was
() of Be
Went
() of Go
women
() of Herdswoman
We
() of I
Waag
() The grivet.
Waahoo
() The burning bush; -- said to be called after a quack medicine made from it.
Wabble
() To move staggeringly or unsteadily from one side to the other; to vacillate; to move the manner of a rotating disk when the axis of rotation is inclined to that of the disk; -- said of a turning or whirling body; as, a top wabbles; a buzz saw wabbles.
Wabble
() A hobbling, unequal motion, as of a wheel unevenly hung; a staggering to and fro.
Wabbly
() Inclined to wabble; wabbling.
Wacke
() Alt. of Wacky
Wacky
() A soft, earthy, dark-colored rock or clay derived from the alteration of basalt.
Wad
() Woad.
Wad
() A little mass, tuft, or bundle, as of hay or tow.
Wad
() Specifically: A little mass of some soft or flexible material, such as hay, straw, tow, paper, or old rope yarn, used for retaining a charge of powder in a gun, or for keeping the powder and shot close; also, to diminish or avoid the effects of windage. Also, by extension, a dusk of felt, pasteboard, etc., serving a similar purpose.
Wad
() A soft mass, especially of some loose, fibrous substance, used for various purposes, as for stopping an aperture, padding a garment, etc.
Waded
() of Wad
Wadding
() of Wad
Wad
() To form into a mass, or wad, or into wadding; as, to wad tow or cotton.
Wad
() To insert or crowd a wad into; as, to wad a gun; also, to stuff or line with some soft substance, or wadding, like cotton; as, to wad a cloak.
Wad
() Alt. of Wadd
Wadd
() An earthy oxide of manganese, or mixture of different oxides and water, with some oxide of iron, and often silica, alumina, lime, or baryta; black ocher. There are several varieties.
Wadd
() Plumbago, or black lead.
Wadding
() A wad, or the materials for wads; any pliable substance of which wads may be made.
Wadding
() Any soft stuff of loose texture, used for stuffing or padding garments; esp., sheets of carded cotton prepared for the purpose.
Waddled
() of Waddle
Waddling
() of Waddle
Waddle
() To walk with short steps, swaying the body from one side to the other, like a duck or very fat person; to move clumsily and totteringly along; to toddle; to stumble; as, a child waddles when he begins to walk; a goose waddles.
Waddle
() To trample or tread down, as high grass, by walking through it.
Waddler
() One who, or that which, waddles.
Waddlingly
() In a waddling manner.
Wade
() Woad.
Waded
() of Wade
Wading
() of Wade
Wade
() To go; to move forward.
Wade
() To walk in a substance that yields to the feet; to move, sinking at each step, as in water, mud, sand, etc.
Wade
() Hence, to move with difficulty or labor; to proceed /lowly among objects or circumstances that constantly /inder or embarrass; as, to wade through a dull book.
Wade
() To pass or cross by wading; as, he waded /he rivers and swamps.
Wade
() The act of wading.
Wader
() One who, or that which, wades.
Wader
() Any long-legged bird that wades in the water in search of food, especially any species of limicoline or grallatorial birds; -- called also wading bird. See Illust. g, under Aves.
Wading
() a. & n. from Wade, v.
Wadmol
() A coarse, hairy, woolen cloth, formerly used for garments by the poor, and for various other purposes.
Wadset
() A kind of pledge or mortgage.
Wadsetter
() One who holds by a wadset.
Wadies
() of Wady
Wady
() A ravine through which a brook flows; the channel of a water course, which is dry except in the rainy season.
Wae
() A wave.
Waeg
() The kittiwake.
Wafer
() A thin cake made of flour and other ingredients.
Wafer
() A thin cake or piece of bread (commonly unleavened, circular, and stamped with a crucifix or with the sacred monogram) used in the Eucharist, as in the Roman Catholic Church.