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Wany
() Waning or diminished in some parts; not of uniform size throughout; -- said especially of sawed boards or timber when tapering or uneven, from being cut too near the outside of the log.
Wany
() Spoiled by wet; -- said of timber.
Wanze
() To wane; to wither.
Wap
() To beat; to whap.
Wap
() A blow or beating; a whap.
Wapacut
() The American hawk owl. See under Hawk.
Wapatoo
() The edible tuber of a species of arrowhead (Sagittaria variabilis); -- so called by the Indians of Oregon.
Waped
() Cast down; crushed by misery; dejected.
Wapentake
() In some northern counties of England, a division, or district, answering to the hundred in other counties. Yorkshire, Lincolnshire, and Nottinghamshire are divided into wapentakes, instead of hundreds.
Wapinschaw
() An exhibition of arms. according to the rank of the individual, by all persons bearing arms; -- formerly made at certain seasons in each district.
Wapiti
() The American elk (Cervus Canadensis). It is closely related to the European red deer, which it somewhat exceeds in size.
Wapp
() A fair-leader.
Wapp
() A rope with wall knots in it with which the shrouds are set taut.
Wappato
() See Wapatoo.
Wappened
() A word of doubtful meaning used once by Shakespeare.
Wapper
() To cause to shake; to tremble; to move tremulously, as from weakness; to totter.
Wapper
() A gudgeon.
Wappet
() A small yelping cur.
Wapping
() Yelping.
War
() Ware; aware.
War
() A contest between nations or states, carried on by force, whether for defence, for revenging insults and redressing wrongs, for the extension of commerce, for the acquisition of territory, for obtaining and establishing the superiority and dominion of one over the other, or for any other purpose; armed conflict of sovereign powers; declared and open hostilities.
War
() A condition of belligerency to be maintained by physical force. In this sense, levying war against the sovereign authority is treason.
War
() Instruments of war.
War
() Forces; army.
War
() The profession of arms; the art of war.
War
() a state of opposition or contest; an act of opposition; an inimical contest, act, or action; enmity; hostility.
Warred
() of War
Warring
() of War
War
() To make war; to invade or attack a state or nation with force of arms; to carry on hostilities; to be in a state by violence.
War
() To contend; to strive violently; to fight.
War
() To make war upon; to fight.
War
() To carry on, as a contest; to wage.
War-beaten
() Warworn.
Warble
() A small, hard tumor which is produced on the back of a horse by the heat or pressure of the saddle in traveling.
Warble
() A small tumor produced by the larvae of the gadfly in the backs of horses, cattle, etc. Called also warblet, warbeetle, warnles.
Warble
() See Wormil.
Warbled
() of Warble
Warbling
() of Warble
Warble
() To sing in a trilling, quavering, or vibratory manner; to modulate with turns or variations; to trill; as, certain birds are remarkable for warbling their songs.
Warble
() To utter musically; to modulate; to carol.
Warble
() To cause to quaver or vibrate.
Warble
() To be quavered or modulated; to be uttered melodiously.
Warble
() To sing in a trilling manner, or with many turns and variations.
Warble
() To sing with sudden changes from chest to head tones; to yodel.
Warble
() A quavering modulation of the voice; a musical trill; a song.
Warbler
() One who, or that which, warbles; a singer; a songster; -- applied chiefly to birds.
Warbler
() Any one of numerous species of small Old World singing birds belonging to the family Sylviidae, many of which are noted songsters. The bluethroat, blackcap, reed warbler (see under Reed), and sedge warbler (see under Sedge) are well-known species.
Warbler
() Any one of numerous species of small, often bright colored, American singing birds of the family or subfamily Mniotiltidae, or Sylvicolinae. They are allied to the Old World warblers, but most of them are not particularly musical.
Warblingly
() In a warbling manner.
Warburg's tincture
() A preparation containing quinine and many other ingredients, often used in the treatment of malarial affections. It was invented by Dr. Warburg of London.