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Veracious
  • (a.) Characterized by truth

    Veracity
  • (n.) The quality or state of being veracious

    Veranda
  • (n.) An open, roofed gallery or portico, adjoining a dwelling house, forming an out-of-door sitting room

    Veratrine
  • (n.) A poisonous alkaloid obtained from the root hellebore (Veratrum) and from sabadilla seeds as a white crystalline powder, having an acrid, burning taste

    Verb
  • (n.) A word

    Verdant
  • (a.) Covered with growing plants or grass

    Verdict
  • (n.) Decision

    Verdigris
  • (n.) A green poisonous substance used as a pigment and drug, obtained by the action of acetic acid on copper, and consisting essentially of a complex mixture of several basic copper acetates
  • (v. t.) To cover, or coat, with verdigris.

    Verdin
  • (n.) A small yellow-headed bird (Auriparus flaviceps) of Lower California, allied to the titmice

    Verditer
  • (n.) Either one of two pigments (called blue verditer, and green verditer) which are made by treating copper nitrate with calcium carbonate (in the form of lime, whiting, chalk, etc

    Verdure
  • (n.) Green

    Verecund
  • (a.) Rashful

    Verge
  • (n.) A border, limit, or boundary of a space
  • (v. i.) To border upon

    Veridical
  • (a.) Truth-telling

    Verify
  • (v. t.) To confirm or establish the authenticity of by examination or competent evidence

    Verily
  • (adv.) In very truth

    Verisimilar
  • (a.) Having the appearance of truth

    Verisimilitude
  • (n.) The quality or state of being verisimilar

    Veritable
  • (a.) Agreeable to truth or to fact

    Verity
  • (n.) That which is true

    Verjuice
  • (n.) Tartness

    Vermeil
  • (n.) A liquid composition applied to a gilded surface to give luster to the gold.

    Vermicelli
  • (n.) The flour of a hard and small-grained wheat made into dough, and forced through small cylinders or pipes till it takes a slender, wormlike form, whence the Italian name

    Vermicide
  • (n.) A medicine which destroys intestinal worms

    Vermicular
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to a worm or worms

    Vermiculate
  • (a.) Crawling or creeping like a worm
  • (v. t.) To form or work, as by inlaying, with irregular lines or impressions resembling the tracks of worms, or appearing as if formed by the motion of worms

    Vermiculation
  • (n.) A very fine wavy crosswise color marking, or a patch of such markings, as on the feathers of birds

    Vermiculite
  • (n.) A group of minerals having, a micaceous structure. They are hydrous silicates, derived generally from the alteration of some kind of mica

    Vermiform
  • (a.) Resembling a worm in form or motions

    Vermifuge
  • (n.) A medicine or substance that expels worms from animal bodies

    Vermilion
  • (n.) A bright red pigment consisting of mercuric sulphide, obtained either from the mineral cinnabar or artificially
  • (v. t.) To color with vermilion, or as if with vermilion

    Vermination
  • (n.) A griping of the bowels.

    Verminous
  • (a.) Caused by, or arising from the presence of, vermin

    Vermivorous
  • (a.) Devouring worms

    Vernacular
  • (a.) Belonging to the country of one's birth
  • (n.) The vernacular language

    Vernation
  • (n.) The arrangement of the leaves within the leaf bud, as regards their folding, coiling, rolling, etc

    Vernicle
  • (n.) A Veronica.

    Vernier
  • (n.) A short scale made to slide along the divisions of a graduated instrument, as the limb of a sextant, or the scale of a barometer, for indicating parts of divisions

    Veronica
  • (n.) A genus scrophulariaceous plants

    Verruca
  • (n.) A wart.

    Verrucose
  • (a.) Covered with wartlike elevations

    Vers
  • (n. sing. & pl.) A verse or verses.

    Vert
  • (n.) Everything that grows, and bears a green leaf, within the forest

    Vervain
  • (n.) Any plant of the genus Verbena.

    Verve
  • (n.) Excitement of imagination such as animates a poet, artist, or musician, in composing or performing

    Very
  • (adv.) In a high degree
  • (v. t.) True

    Vesica
  • (n.) A bladder.

    Vesicle
  • (n.) A bladderlike vessel

    Vesicular
  • (a.) Containing, or composed of, vesicles or vesiclelike structures

    Vesiculate
  • (a.) Bladdery
  • (v. t.) To form vesicles in, as lava.

    Vesper
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to the evening, or to the service of vespers
  • (n.) The evening star

    Vespiary
  • (n.) A nest, or habitation, of insects of the wasp kind.

    Vessel
  • (n.) A continuous tube formed from superposed large cylindrical or prismatic cells (tracheae), which have lost their intervening partitions, and are usually marked with dots, pits, rings, or spirals by internal deposition of secondary membranes
  • (v. t.) To put into a vessel.

    Vest
  • (n.) An article of clothing covering the person
  • (v. i.) To come or descend

    Vesuvian
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to Vesuvius, a volcano near Naples.
  • (n.) A kind of match or fusee for lighting cigars, etc.

    Vetch
  • (n.) Any leguminous plant of the genus Vicia, some species of which are valuable for fodder. The common species is V

    Veteran
  • (a.) Long exercised in anything, especially in military life and the duties of a soldier
  • (n.) One who has been long exercised in any service or art, particularly in war

    Veterinarian
  • (n.) One skilled in the diseases of cattle or domestic animals

    Veterinary
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to the art of healing or treating the diseases of domestic animals, as oxen, horses, sheep, etc

    Vetiver
  • (n.) An East Indian grass (Andropogon muricatus)

    Veto
  • (n.) A document or message communicating the reasons of the executive for not officially approving a proposed law
  • (v. t.) To prohibit

    Vex
  • (v. i.) To be irritated
  • (v. t.) To make angry or annoyed by little provocations

    Vexation
  • (n.) A harassing by process of law

    Vexatious
  • (a.) Causing vexation

    Vexed
  • (a.) Annoyed

    Vexillum
  • (n.) A banner.

    Via
  • (n.) A road way.
  • (prep.) By the way of

    Viable
  • (a.) Capable of living

    Viaduct
  • (n.) A structure of considerable magnitude, usually with arches or supported on trestles, for carrying a road, as a railroad, high above the ground or water

    Vial
  • (n.) A small bottle, usually of glass
  • (v. t.) To put in a vial or vials.

    Viand
  • (n.) An article of food

    Viaticum
  • (n.) An allowance for traveling expenses made to those who were sent into the provinces to exercise any office or perform any service

    Vibrant
  • (a.) Vibrating

    Vibrate
  • (imp. & p. p.) of Vibrate
  • (v. i.) To have the constituent particles move to and fro, with alternate compression and dilation of parts, as the air, or any elastic body
  • (v. t.) To affect with vibratory motion

    Vibratile
  • (a.) Adapted to, or used in, vibratory motion

    Vibration
  • (n.) A limited reciprocating motion of a particle of an elastic body or medium in alternately opposite directions from its position of equilibrium, when that equilibrium has been disturbed, as when a stretched cord or other body produces musical notes, or particles of air transmit sounds to the ear

    Vibrative
  • (a. Vibrating)

    Vibrator
  • (n.) A device for vibrating the pen of a siphon recorder to diminish frictional resistance on the paper

    Vibrio
  • (n.) A genus of motile bacteria characterized by short, slightly sinuous filaments and an undulatory motion

    Vibrissa
  • (n.) One of the specialized or tactile hairs which grow about the nostrils, or on other parts of the face, in many animals, as the so-called whiskers of the cat, and the hairs of the nostrils of man

    Viburnum
  • (n.) A genus of shrubs having opposite, petiolate leaves and cymose flowers, several species of which are cultivated as ornamental, as the laurestine and the guelder-rose

    Vicar
  • (n.) One deputed or authorized to perform the functions of another

    Vice
  • (n.) A defect
  • (prep.) Denoting one who in certain cases may assume the office or duties of a superior
  • (v. t.) To hold or squeeze with a vice, or as if with a vice.

    Vicinal
  • (a.) Near

    Vicinity
  • (n.) That which is near, or not remote

    Vicious
  • (a.) Addicted to vice

    Vicissitude
  • (n.) Irregular change

    Victim
  • (n.) A living being sacrificed to some deity, or in the performance of a religious rite

    Victor
  • (a.) Victorious.
  • (n.) A destroyer.

    Victual
  • (n.) Food
  • (v. t.) To supply with provisions for subsistence

    Videlicet
  • (adv.) To wit

    Vidette
  • (n.) Same Vedette.

    Vie
  • (n.) A contest for superiority
  • (v. i.) To stake a sum upon a hand of cards, as in the old game of gleek.
  • (v. t.) To do or produce in emulation, competition, or rivalry

    View
  • (n.) Appearance
  • (v. t.) To see

    Vigesimal
  • (a.) Twentieth

    Vigil
  • (v. i.) Abstinence from sleep, whether at a time when sleep is customary or not

    Vignette
  • (n.) A decorative design, originally representing vine branches or tendrils, at the head of a chapter, of a manuscript or printed book, or in a similar position
  • (v. t.) To make, as an engraving or a photograph, with a border or edge insensibly fading away

    Vigor
  • (n.) Active strength or force of body or mind
  • (v. t.) To invigorate.

    Viking
  • (n.) One belonging to the pirate crews from among the Northmen, who plundered the coasts of Europe in the eighth, ninth, and tenth centuries

    Vile
  • (superl.) Low

    Vilify
  • (v. t.) To degrade or debase by report

    Vilipend
  • (v. t.) To value lightly

    Vill
  • (n.) A small collection of houses

    Vim
  • (n.) Power

    Vinaceous
  • (a.) Belonging to, or like, wine or grapes.

    Vinaigrette
  • (n.) A sauce, made of vinegar, oil, and other ingredients

    Vinasse
  • (n.) The waste liquor remaining in the process of making beet sugar

    Vincible
  • (a.) Capable of being overcome or subdued

    Vinculum
  • (n.) A band or bundle of fibers

    Vindicable
  • (a.) Capable of being vindicated.

    Vindicate
  • (v. t.) To avenge

    Vindication
  • (n.) The act of vindicating, or the state of being vindicated

    Vindicatory
  • (a.) Inflicting punishment

    Vindictive
  • (a.) Disposed to revenge

    Vine
  • (n.) Any woody climbing plant which bears grapes.

    Viniculture
  • (n.) The cultivation of the vine, esp. for making wine

    Vinification
  • (n.) The conversion of a fruit juice or other saccharine solution into alcohol by fermentation

    Vinosity
  • (n.) The quality or state of being vinous.

    Vinous
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to wine

    Vintage
  • (n.) The act or time of gathering the crop of grapes, or making the wine for a season.

    Vintner
  • (n.) One who deals in wine

    Vinyl
  • (n.) The hypothetical radical C2H3, regarded as the characteristic residue of ethylene and that related series of unsaturated hydrocarbons with which the allyl compounds are homologous

    Viol
  • (n.) A large rope sometimes used in weighing anchor.

    Viper
  • (a.) A dangerous, treacherous, or malignant person.

    Virelay
  • (n.) An ancient French song, or short poem, wholly in two rhymes, and composed in short lines, with a refrain

    Vireo
  • (n.) Any one of numerous species of American singing birds belonging to Vireo and allied genera of the family Vireonidae

    Virescent
  • (a.) Beginning to be green

    Virgate
  • (a.) Having the form of a straight rod
  • (n.) A yardland, or measure of land varying from fifteen to forty acres.

    Virgin
  • (a.) Being a virgin
  • (n.) A female insect producing eggs from which young are hatched, though there has been no fecundation by a male
  • (v. i.) To act the virgin

    Virgo
  • (n.) A constellation of the zodiac, now occupying chiefly the sign Libra, and containing the bright star Spica

    Virgulate
  • (a.) Shaped like a little twig or rod.

    Virgule
  • (n.) A comma.

    Virid
  • (a.) Green.

    Virile
  • (a.) Having the nature, properties, or qualities, of an adult man

    Virility
  • (n.) The quality or state of being virile

    Virtu
  • (n.) A love of the fine arts

    Virulent
  • (a.) Extremely poisonous or venomous

    Virus
  • (v. i.) Contagious or poisonous matter, as of specific ulcers, the bite of snakes, etc.

    Vis
  • (n.) Force

    Visa
  • (v. t.) To indorse, after examination, with the word vise, as a passport

    Viscera
  • (n.) pl. of Viscus.

    Viscid
  • (a.) Sticking or adhering, and having a ropy or glutinous consistency

    Viscosimeter
  • (n.) An instrument for measuring the degree of viscosity of liquids, as solutions of gum.

    Viscosity
  • (n.) A quality analogous to that of a viscous fluid, supposed to be caused by internal friction, especially in the case of gases

    Viscount
  • (a.) A nobleman of the fourth rank, next in order below an earl and next above a baron

    Viscous
  • (a.) Adhesive or sticky, and having a ropy or glutinous consistency

    Viscus
  • (n.) One of the organs, as the brain, heart, or stomach, in the great cavities of the body of an animal

    Vise
  • (n.) An indorsement made on a passport by the proper authorities of certain countries on the continent of Europe, denoting that it has been examined, and that the person who bears it is permitted to proceed on his journey
  • (v. t.) To examine and indorse, as a passport

    Vishnu
  • (n.) A divinity of the modern Hindu trimurti, or trinity. He is regarded as the preserver, while Brahma is the creator, and Siva the destroyer of the creation

    Visibility
  • (n.) The quality or state of being visible.

    Visible
  • (a.) Noticeable

    Visigoth
  • (n.) One of the West Goths.

    Vision
  • (v.) Especially, that which is seen otherwise than by the ordinary sight, or the rational eye
  • (v. t.) To see in a vision

    Visit
  • (v. i.) To make a visit or visits
  • (v. t.) The act of going to view or inspect

    Visive
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to the sight

    Visor
  • (n.) A mask used to disfigure or disguise.

    Vista
  • (n.) A view

    Visual
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to sight

    Vital
  • (a.) Being the seat of life
  • (n.) A vital part

    Vitellin
  • (n.) An albuminous body, belonging to the class of globulins, obtained from yolk of egg, of which it is the chief proteid constituent, and from the seeds of many plants

    Vitellus
  • (n.) Perisperm in an early condition.

    Vitiate
  • (v. t.) To cause to fail of effect, either wholly or in part

    Viticulture
  • (n.) The cultivation of the vine

    Vitiligo
  • (n.) A rare skin disease consisting in the development of smooth, milk-white spots upon various parts of the body

    Vitreous
  • (a.) Consisting of, or resembling, glass

    Vitrescent
  • (a.) Capable of being formed into glass

    Vitric
  • (a.) Having the nature and qualities of glass

    Vitriform
  • (a.) Having the form or appearance of glass

    Vitrify
  • (v. t.) To become glass

    Vitrine
  • (n.) A glass show case for displaying fine wares, specimens, etc.

    Vitriol
  • (n.) A sulphate of any one of certain metals, as copper, iron, zinc, cobalt. So called on account of the glassy appearance or luster

    Vitta
  • (n.) A band, or stripe, of color.

    Vituline
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to a calf or veal.

    Vituperate
  • (v. t.) To find fault with

    Vituperation
  • (n.) The act of vituperating

    Viva
  • (interj.) Lit., (long) live
  • (n.) The word viva, or a shout or sound made in uttering it.

    Vivid
  • (a.) Forming brilliant images, or painting in lively colors

    Vivify
  • (v. t.) To endue with life

    Viviparous
  • (a.) Producing young in a living state, as most mammals, or as those plants the offspring of which are produced alive, either by bulbs instead of seeds, or by the seeds themselves germinating on the plant, instead of falling, as they usually do

    Vivisect
  • (v. t.) To perform vivisection upon

    Viz
  • (adv.) To wit

    Vizard
  • (n.) A mask

    Vizier
  • (n.) A councilor of state

    Vocable
  • (n.) A word

    Vocabulary
  • (n.) A list or collection of words arranged in alphabetical order and explained

    Vocal
  • (a.) Consisting of, or characterized by, voice, or tone produced in the larynx, which may be modified, either by resonance, as in the case of the vowels, or by obstructive action, as in certain consonants, such as v, l, etc
  • (n.) A man who has a right to vote in certain elections.

    Vocation
  • (n.) A call

    Vocative
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to calling
  • (n.) The vocative case.

    Vociferate
  • (v. i.) To cry out with vehemence
  • (v. t.) To utter with a loud voice

    Vociferous
  • (a.) Making a loud outcry

    Vodka
  • (n.) A Russian drink distilled from rye.

    Vogue
  • (n.) Influence

    Voice
  • (n.) A particular mode of inflecting or conjugating verbs, or a particular form of a verb, by means of which is indicated the relation of the subject of the verb to the action which the verb expresses
  • (v. i.) To clamor
  • (v. t.) To fit for producing the proper sounds

    Void
  • (a.) Being without
  • (n.) An empty space
  • (v. i.) To be emitted or evacuated.

    Volant
  • (a.) Nimble

    Volar
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to the palm of the hand or the sole of the foot.

    Volatile
  • (a.) Capable of wasting away, or of easily passing into the aeriform state
  • (n.) A winged animal

    Volatilize
  • (v. t.) To render volatile

    Volcanic
  • (a.) Changed or affected by the heat of a volcano.

    Volcanism
  • (n.) Volcanic power or action

    Volcanize
  • (v. t.) To subject to, or cause to undergo, volcanic heat, and to be affected by its action.

    Volcano
  • (n.) A mountain or hill, usually more or less conical in form, from which lava, cinders, steam, sulphur gases, and the like, are ejected

    Vole
  • (n.) A deal at cards that draws all the tricks.
  • (v. i.) To win all the tricks by a vole.

    Volitation
  • (n.) The act of flying

    Volition
  • (n.) The act of willing or choosing

    Volitive
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to the will

    Volkslied
  • (n.) A popular song, or national air.

    Volley
  • (n.) A burst or emission of many things at once
  • (v. i.) To be thrown out, or discharged, at once
  • (v. t.) To discharge with, or as with, a volley.

    Volost
  • (n.) In the greater part of Russia, a division for local government consisting of a group of mirs, or village communities

    Volplane
  • (v. i.) To glide in a flying machine.

    Volt
  • (n.) A circular tread

    Voluble
  • (a.) Changeable

    Volume
  • (n.) Amount, fullness, quantity, or caliber of voice or tone.

    Voluminous
  • (a.) Consisting of many folds, coils, or convolutions.

    Voluntarism
  • (n.) Any theory which conceives will to be the dominant factor in experience or in the constitution of the world

    Voluntary
  • (n.) A piece played by a musician, often extemporarily, according to his fancy
  • (v. t.) Done by design or intention

    Volunteer
  • (a.) A grantee in a voluntary conveyance
  • (v. i.) To enter into, or offer for, any service of one's own free will, without solicitation or compulsion
  • (v. t.) To offer or bestow voluntarily, or without solicitation or compulsion

    Voluptuary
  • (a.) Voluptuous
  • (n.) A voluptuous person

    Voluptuous
  • (a.) Full of delight or pleasure, especially that of the senses

    Volute
  • (n.) Any voluta.

    Volution
  • (n.) A spiral turn or wreath.

    Volva
  • (n.) A saclike envelope of certain fungi, which bursts open as the plant develops.

    Volvox
  • (n.) A genus of minute, pale-green, globular, organisms, about one fiftieth of an inch in diameter, found rolling through water, the motion being produced by minute colorless cilia

    Volvulus
  • (n.) Any twisting or displacement of the intestines causing obstruction

    Vomer
  • (n.) A bone, or one of a pair of bones, beneath the ethmoid region of the skull, forming a part a part of the partition between the nostrils in man and other mammals

    Vomit
  • (n.) Matter that is vomited
  • (v. t.) Hence, to eject from any hollow place

    Voodoo
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to voodooism, or a voodoo
  • (n.) One who practices voodooism

    Voracious
  • (a.) Greedy in eating

    Vortex
  • (n.) A mass of fluid, especially of a liquid, having a whirling or circular motion tending to form a cavity or vacuum in the center of the circle, and to draw in towards the center bodies subject to its action

    Vortical
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to a vortex or vortexes

    Vorticella
  • (n.) Any one of numerous species of ciliated Infusoria belonging to Vorticella and many other genera of the family Vorticellidae

    Vorticose
  • (a.) Vortical

    Vortiginous
  • (a.) Moving rapidly round a center

    Votary
  • (a.) Consecrated by a vow or promise
  • (n.) One devoted, consecrated, or engaged by a vow or promise

    Vote
  • (n.) An ardent wish or desire
  • (v. i.) To express or signify the mind, will, or preference, either viva voce, or by ballot, or by other authorized means, as in electing persons to office, in passing laws, regulations, etc
  • (v. t.) To choose by suffrage

    Votive
  • (a.) Given by vow, or in fulfillment of a vow

    Vouch
  • (n.) Warrant
  • (v. i.) To assert
  • (v. t.) To back

    Voussoir
  • (n.) One of the wedgelike stones of which an arch is composed.

    Vow
  • (n.) A solemn promise made to God, or to some deity
  • (v. i.) To make a vow, or solemn promise.

    Vowel
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to a vowel
  • (n.) A vocal, or sometimes a whispered, sound modified by resonance in the oral passage, the peculiar resonance in each case giving to each several vowel its distinctive character or quality as a sound of speech

    Voyage
  • (n.) Course
  • (v. i.) To take a voyage
  • (v. t.) To travel

    Vraisemblance
  • (n.) The appearance of truth

    Vulcan
  • (n.) The god of fire, who presided over the working of metals

    Vulgar
  • (a.) Belonging or relating to the common people, as distinguished from the cultivated or educated
  • (n.) One of the common people

    Vulgate
  • (a.) An ancient Latin version of the Scripture, and the only version which the Roman Church admits to be authentic

    Vulnerable
  • (a.) Capable of being wounded

    Vulnerary
  • (a.) Useful in healing wounds
  • (n.) A vulnerary remedy.

    Vulpine
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to the fox

    Vulture
  • (n.) Any one of numerous species of rapacious birds belonging to Vultur, Cathartes, Catharista, and various other genera of the family Vulturidae

    Vulturine
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to a vulture

    Vulva
  • (n.) The external parts of the female genital organs

    Vulvitis
  • (n.) Inflammation of the vulva.

    Wabble
  • (n.) A hobbling, unequal motion, as of a wheel unevenly hung
  • (v. i.) To move staggeringly or unsteadily from one side to the other

    Wad
  • (n.) A little mass, tuft, or bundle, as of hay or tow.
  • (v. t.) To form into a mass, or wad, or into wadding

    Wadding
  • (n.) Any soft stuff of loose texture, used for stuffing or padding garments

    Waddle
  • (v. i.) To walk with short steps, swaying the body from one side to the other, like a duck or very fat person
  • (v. t.) To trample or tread down, as high grass, by walking through it.

    Waddy
  • (n.) An aboriginal war club.
  • (v. t.) To attack or beat with a waddy.

    Wade
  • (n.) The act of wading.
  • (v. i.) Hence, to move with difficulty or labor
  • (v. t.) To pass or cross by wading

    Wafer
  • (n.) An adhesive disk of dried paste, made of flour, gelatin, isinglass, or the like, and coloring matter
  • (v. t.) To seal or close with a wafer.

    Waffle
  • (n.) A soft indented cake cooked in a waffle iron.

    Waft
  • (n.) A knot, or stop, in the middle of a flag.
  • (v. i.) To be moved, or to pass, on a buoyant medium
  • (v. t.) To cause to float

    Wag
  • (v.) A man full of sport and humor
  • (v. i.) To be in action or motion
  • (v. t.) To move one way and the other with quick turns

    Wage
  • (v. i.) To bind one's self
  • (v. t.) That for which one labors

    Waggle
  • (n.) A waggling or wagging
  • (v. i.) To reel, sway, or move from side to side
  • (v. t.) To move frequently one way and the other

    Wagnerian
  • (a.) Of, pertaining to, or resembling the style of, Richard Wagner, the German musical composer

    Wagon
  • (n.) A chariot
  • (v. i.) To wagon goods as a business
  • (v. t.) To transport in a wagon or wagons

    Wagtail
  • (n.) Any one of many species of Old World singing birds belonging to Motacilla and several allied genera of the family Motacillidae

    Wahoo
  • (n.) A certain shrub (Evonymus atropurpureus) having purple capsules which in dehiscence expose the scarlet-ariled seeds

    Waif
  • (n.) A wanderer

    Wail
  • (n.) Loud weeping
  • (v. i.) To express sorrow audibly
  • (v. t.) To choose

    Wain
  • (n.) A chariot.

    Waist
  • (n.) A garment, or part of a garment, which covers the body from the neck or shoulders to the waist line

    Wait
  • (v. i.) Ambush.
  • (v. t.) To attend as a consequence

    Waive
  • (v. i.) To turn aside
  • (v. t.) A waif

    Wake
  • (n.) An annual parish festival formerly held in commemoration of the dedication of a church. Originally, prayers were said on the evening preceding, and hymns were sung during the night, in the church
  • (v. i.) To be excited or roused from sleep
  • (v. t.) To bring to life again, as if from the sleep of death

    Waldenses
  • (n. pl.) A sect of dissenters from the ecclesiastical system of the Roman Catholic Church, who in the 13th century were driven by persecution to the valleys of Piedmont, where the sect survives

    Wale
  • (n.) A ridge or streak rising above the surface, as of cloth
  • (v. t.) To choose

    Walk
  • (n.) A frequented track
  • (v. i.) To behave
  • (v. t.) To cause to walk

    Wall
  • (n.) A defense
  • (v. t.) To close or fill with a wall, as a doorway.

    Walnut
  • (n.) The fruit or nut of any tree of the genus Juglans

    Walrus
  • (n.) A very large marine mammal (Trichecus rosmarus) of the Seal family, native of the Arctic Ocean

    Waltz
  • (n.) A dance performed by two persons in circular figures with a whirling motion
  • (v. i.) To dance a waltz.

    Wampum
  • (n.) Beads made of shells, used by the North American Indians as money, and also wrought into belts, etc

    Wan
  • (a.) Having a pale or sickly hue
  • (imp.) Won.
  • (n.) The quality of being wan
  • (v. i.) To grow wan

    Wand
  • (n.) A rod used by conjurers, diviners, magicians, etc.

    Wane
  • (n.) An inequality in a board.
  • (v. i.) To be diminished
  • (v. t.) To cause to decrease.

    Want
  • (v. i.) A depression in coal strata, hollowed out before the subsequent deposition took place.
  • (v. t.) To be without

    Wapiti
  • (n.) The American elk (Cervus Canadensis). It is closely related to the European red deer, which it somewhat exceeds in size

    War
  • (a.) Ware
  • (n.) A condition of belligerency to be maintained by physical force. In this sense, levying war against the sovereign authority is treason
  • (v. i.) To contend
  • (v. t.) To carry on, as a contest

    Warble
  • (n.) A quavering modulation of the voice
  • (v. i.) To be quavered or modulated
  • (v. t.) To cause to quaver or vibrate.

    Ward
  • (a.) The act of guarding
  • (n.) A division, district, or quarter of a town or city.
  • (v. i.) To act on the defensive with a weapon.

    Ware
  • (a.) Articles of merchandise
  • (imp.) Wore.
  • (n.) Seaweed.
  • (v. t.) To make ware

    Warfare
  • (n.) Contest
  • (v. i.) To lead a military life

    Warison
  • (v. t.) Preparation

    Warlike
  • (a.) Belonging or relating to war

    Warlock
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to a warlock or warlock
  • (n.) A male witch

    Warm
  • (a.) To communicate a moderate degree of heat to
  • (n.) The act of warming, or the state of being warmed
  • (superl.) Being well off as to property, or in good circumstances
  • (v. i.) To become ardent or animated

    Warn
  • (v. t.) To give notice to, of approaching or probable danger or evil

    Warp
  • (v.) A premature casting of young
  • (v. i.) To cast the young prematurely
  • (v. t.) To arrange (yarns) on a warp beam.

    Warrant
  • (n.) An official certificate of appointment issued to an officer of lower rank than a commissioned officer

    Warren
  • (n.) A piece of ground for the breeding of rabbits.

    Warrior
  • (n.) A man engaged or experienced in war, or in the military life

    Warsaw
  • (n.) The black grouper (Epinephelus nigritus) of the southern coasts of the United States.

    Wart
  • (n.) An excrescence or protuberance more or less resembling a true wart

    Wary
  • (a.) Cautious of danger


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