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Wot(imp.) of Weet
(pres. sing.) of Wit
Would(imp.) of Will
(v. t.) Commonly used as an auxiliary verb, either in the past tense or in the conditional or optative present
Woulfe bottle(n.) A kind of wash bottle with two or three necks
Wound(imp. & p. p.) of Wind
(n.) A hurt or injury caused by violence
Wove(imp.) of Weave
Wrack(n.) Any marine vegetation cast up on the shore, especially plants of the genera Fucus, Laminaria, and Zostera, which are most abundant on northern shores
(v. t.) To rack
Wraith(n.) An apparition of a person in his exact likeness, seen before death, or a little after
Wrangle(n.) An angry dispute
(v. i.) To argue
(v. t.) To involve in a quarrel or dispute
Wrap(n.) A wrapper
(v. t.) To conceal by enveloping or infolding
Wrath(v. t.) To anger
Wreak(v. i.) To reck
(v. t.) Revenge
Wreath(n.) A garland
Wreck(v. i.) To suffer wreck or ruin.
(v. t.) Destruction or injury of anything, especially by violence
Wren(n.) Any one of numerous species of small singing birds belonging to Troglodytes and numerous allied of the family Troglodytidae
Wrest(n.) Active or moving power.
(v. t.) To tune with a wrest, or key.
Wretch(v. t.) A miserable person
Wriggle(a.) Wriggling
(n.) Act of wriggling
(v. i.) To move the body to and fro with short, writhing motions, like a worm
(v. t.) To move with short, quick contortions
Wring(n.) A writhing, as in anguish
(v. i.) To writhe
(v. t.) Hence, to pain
Wrinkle(n.) A notion or fancy
(v. i.) To shrink into furrows and ridges.
(v. t.) Hence, to make rough or uneven in any way.
Wrinkly(a.) Full of wrinkles
Wrist(n.) A stud or pin which forms a journal
Writ(Archaic imp. & p. p.) of Write
(n.) An instrument in writing, under seal, in an epistolary form, issued from the proper authority, commanding the performance or nonperformance of some act by the person to whom it is directed
(obs.) 3d pers. sing. pres. of Write, for writeth.
Wrong(a.) Designed to be worn or placed inward
(adv.) In a wrong manner
(v. t.) To impute evil to unjustly
Wrote(imp.) of Write
(v. i.) To root with the snout.
Wroth(a.) Full of wrath
Wrought(a.) Worked
Wrung(imp. & p. p.) of Wring
Wry(a.) To twist
(superl.) Hence, deviating from the right direction
(v. i.) To deviate from the right way
(v. t.) To cover.
Wryneck(n.) Any one of several species of Old World birds of the genus Jynx, allied to the woodpeckers
Wulfenite(n.) Native lead molybdate occurring in tetragonal crystals, usually tabular, and of a bright orange-yellow to red, gray, or brown color
Wye(n.) A kind of crotch.
Wynd(n.) A narrow lane or alley.
Wynn(n.) A kind of timber truck, or carriage.
Xanthate(n.) A salt of xanthic
Xanthoma(n.) A skin disease marked by the development or irregular yellowish patches upon the skin, especially upon the eyelids
Xanthophyll(n.) A yellow coloring matter found in yellow autumn leaves, and also produced artificially from chlorophyll
Xebec(n.) A small three-masted vessel, with projecting bow stern and convex decks, used in the Mediterranean for transporting merchandise, etc
Xenon(n.) A very heavy, inert gaseous element occurring in the atmosphere in the proportion of one volume is about 20 millions
Xeroderma(n.) A skin disease characterized by the presence of numerous small pigmented spots resembling freckles, with which are subsequently mingled spots of atrophied skin
Xerophilous(a.) Drought-loving
Xerophthalmia(n.) An abnormal dryness of the eyeball produced usually by long-continued inflammation and subsequent atrophy of the conjunctiva
Xiphisternum(n.) The posterior segment, or extremity, of the sternum
Xiphoid(a.) Like a sword
Xylan(n.) A gummy substance of the pentosan class, present in woody tissue, and yielding xylose on hydrolysis
Xylem(n.) That portion of a fibrovascular bundle which has developed, or will develop, into wood cells
Xylene(n.) Any of a group of three metameric hydrocarbons of the aromatic series, found in coal and wood tar, and so named because found in crude wood spirit
Xylidine(n.) Any one of six metameric hydrocarbons, (CH3)2.C6H3.NH2, resembling aniline, and related to xylene
Xylograph(n.) An engraving on wood, or the impression from such an engraving
Xyloid(a.) Resembling wood
Xylophagous(a.) Eating, boring in, or destroying, wood
Xylophone(n.) An instrument common among the Russians, Poles, and Tartars, consisting of a series of strips of wood or glass graduated in length to the musical scale, resting on belts of straw, and struck with two small hammers
Xylose(n.) An unfermentable sugar of the pentose class, C5H10O5, formed by the hydrolysis of xylan
Xystus(n.) A long and open portico, for athletic exercises, as wrestling, running, etc., for use in winter or in stormy weather
Y(n.) A forked or bifurcated pipe fitting.
(pron.) I.
Ya(adv.) Yea.
Yacht(n.) A light and elegantly furnished vessel, used either for private parties of pleasure, or as a vessel of state to convey distinguished persons from one place to another
(v. i.) To manage a yacht
Yahoo(n.) A raw countryman
Yak(n.) A bovine mammal (Poephagus grunnies) native of the high plains of Central Asia. Its neck, the outer side of its legs, and its flanks, are covered with long, flowing, fine hair
Yakut(n.) The Turkish language of the Yakuts, a Mongolian people of northeastern Siberia, which is lingua franca over much of eastern Siberia
Yam(n.) A large, esculent, farinaceous tuber of various climbing plants of the genus Dioscorea
Yamen(n.) In China, the official headquarters or residence of a mandarin, including court rooms, offices, gardens, prisons, etc
Yang(n.) The cry of the wild goose
(v. i.) To make the cry of the wild goose.
Yank(n.) A jerk or twitch.
(v. t.) To twitch
Yap(n.) A bark
(v. i.) To bark
Yard(n.) An inclosure
(v. i.) A branch
(v. t.) To confine (cattle) to the yard
Yare(adv.) Soon.
(n.) Ready
Yarn(n.) A story told by a sailor for the amusement of his companions
Yarrow(n.) An American and European composite plant (Achillea Millefolium) with very finely dissected leaves and small white corymbed flowers
Yataghan(n.) A long knife, or short saber, common among Mohammedan nations, usually having a double curve, sometimes nearly straight
Yaup(n.) A cry of distress, rage, or the like, as the cry of a sickly bird, or of a child in pain.
(v. i.) To cry out like a child
Yautia(n.) In Porto Rico, any of several araceous plants or their starchy edible roots, which are cooked and eaten like yams or potatoes, as the taro
Yaw(n.) A movement of a vessel by which she temporarily alters her course
(v. i.) To rise in blisters, breaking in white froth, as cane juice in the clarifiers in sugar works
(v. i. & t.) To steer wild, or out of the line of her course
Yawl(n.) A small ship's boat, usually rowed by four or six oars.
(v. i.) To cry out like a dog or cat
Yawn(n.) A chasm, mouth, or passageway.
(v. i.) To be eager
Yaws(n.) A disease, occurring in the Antilles and in Africa, characterized by yellowish or reddish tumors, of a contagious character, which, in shape and appearance, often resemble currants, strawberries, or raspberries
Yea(adv.) More than this
(n.) An affirmative vote
Yean(v. t. & i.) To bring forth young, as a goat or a sheep
Year(n.) Age, or old age
Yeast(n.) A form of fungus which grows as indvidual rounded cells, rather than in a mycelium, and reproduces by budding
Yell(n.) A sharp, loud, hideous outcry.
(v. i.) To cry out, or shriek, with a hideous noise
(v. t.) To utter or declare with a yell
Yelp(n.) A sharp, quick cry
(v. i.) To boast.
Yen(n.) The unit of value and account in Japan. Since Japan's adoption of the gold standard, in 1897, the value of the yen has been about 50 cents
Yeoman(n.) A common man, or one of the commonly of the first or most respectable class
Yer(prep.) Ere
Yerba(n.) An herb
Yes(adv.) Ay
Yester(a.) Last
Yet(adv.) At the same time
(conj.) Before some future time
(n.) Any one of several species of large marine gastropods belonging to the genus Yetus, or Cymba
Yew(a.) Of or pertaining to yew trees
(n.) A bow for shooting, made of the yew.
Yiddish(n.) A language used by German and other Jews, being a Middle German dialect developed under Hebrew and Slavic influence
Yield(n.) Amount yielded
(v. i.) To comply with
(v. t.) To admit to be true
Yin(n.) A Chinese weight of 2/ pounds.
Yodle(n.) A song sung by yodeling, as by the Swiss mountaineers.
(v. t. & i.) To sing in a manner common among the Swiss and Tyrolese mountaineers, by suddenly changing from the head voice, or falsetto, to the chest voice, and the contrary
Yoga(n.) A species of asceticism among the Hindoos, which consists in a complete abstraction from all worldly objects, by which the votary expects to obtain union with the universal spirit, and to acquire superhuman faculties
Yogi(n.) A follower of the yoga philosophy
Yoicks(interj.) A cry of encouragement to foxhounds.
Yoke(n.) A band shaped to fit the shoulders or the hips, and joined to the upper full edge of the waist or the skirt
(v. i.) To be joined or associated
(v. t.) To couple
Yolk(n.) An oily secretion which naturally covers the wool of sheep.
Yon(a.) At a distance, but within view
(adv.) Yonder.
Yond(a.) Furious
Yoni(n.) The symbol under which Sakti, or the personification of the female power in nature, is worshiped
Yore(adv.) In time long past
Yorkshire(n.) A county in the north of England.
You(dat. & obj.) The pronoun of the second person, in the nominative, dative, and objective case, indicating the person or persons addressed
Young(n.) The offspring of animals, either a single animal or offspring collectively.
(superl.) Being in the first part, pr period, of growth
Younker(a.) A young person
Your(pron. & a.) The form of the possessive case of the personal pronoun you.
Youth(n.) A young person
Yow(pron.) You.
Yowl(n.) A loud, protracted, and mournful cry, as that of a dog
(v. i.) To utter a loud, long, and mournful cry, as a dog
Ytterbium(n.) A rare element of the boron group, sometimes associated with yttrium or other related elements, as in euxenite and gadolinite
Yttria(n.) The oxide, Y2O3, or earth, of yttrium.
Yttriferous(a.) Bearing or containing yttrium or the allied elements
Yttrium(n.) A rare metallic element of the boron-aluminium group, found in gadolinite and other rare minerals, and extracted as a dark gray powder
Yucca(n.) A genus of American liliaceous, sometimes arborescent, plants having long, pointed, and often rigid, leaves at the top of a more or less woody stem, and bearing a large panicle of showy white blossoms
Yuck(v. i.) To itch.
(v. t.) To scratch.
Yuga(n.) Any one of the four ages, Krita, or Satya, Treta, Dwapara, and Kali, into which the Hindoos divide the duration or existence of the world
Yulan(n.) A species of Magnolia (M. conspicua) with large white blossoms that open before the leaves.
Yule(n.) Christmas or Christmastide
Yuman(a.) Designating, or pertaining to, an important linguistic stock of North American Indians of the southwestern United States and northwestern Mexico, nearly all agriculturists and adept potters and basket makers
Zaffer(n.) A pigment obtained, usually by roasting cobalt glance with sand or quartz, as a dark earthy powder
Zamia(n.) A genus of cycadaceous plants, having the appearance of low palms, but with exogenous wood.
Zamindar(n.) A landowner
Zander(n.) A European pike perch (Stizostedion lucioperca) allied to the wall-eye
Zany(n.) A merry-andrew
(v. t.) To mimic.
Zaratite(n.) A hydrous carbonate of nickel occurring as an emerald-green incrustation on chromite
Zareba(n.) An improvised stockade
Zarf(n.) A metallic cuplike stand used for holding a finjan.
Zax(n.) A tool for trimming and puncturing roofing slates.
Zeal(n.) A zealot.
(v. i.) To be zealous.
Zebrawood(n.) A kind of cabinet wood having beautiful black, brown, and whitish stripes, the timber of a tropical American tree (Connarus Guianensis)
Zebu(n.) A bovine mammal (Ros Indicus) extensively domesticated in India, China, the East Indies, and East Africa
Zed(n.) The letter Z
Zedoary(n.) A medicinal substance obtained in the East Indies, having a fragrant smell, and a warm, bitter, aromatic taste
Zein(n.) A nitrogenous substance of the nature of gluten, obtained from the seeds of Indian corn (Zea) as a soft, yellowish, amorphous substance
Zeitgeist(n.) The spirit of the time
Zemstvo(n.) In Russia, an elective local district and provincial administrative assembly. Originally it was composed of representatives elected by the peasantry, the householders of the towns, and the landed proprietors
Zenana(n.) The part of a dwelling appropriated to women.
Zend(n.) Properly, the translation and exposition in the Huzv/resh, or literary Pehlevi, language, of the Avesta, the Zoroastrian sacred writings
Zenith(n.) hence, figuratively, the point of culmination
Zeolite(n.) A term now used to designate any one of a family of minerals, hydrous silicates of alumina, with lime, soda, potash, or rarely baryta
Zephyr(n.) The west wind
Zeppelin(n.) A dirigible balloon of the rigid type, consisting of a cylindrical trussed and covered frame supported by internal gas cells, and provided with means of propulsion and control
Zero(n.) A cipher
Zest(n.) A piece of orange or lemon peel, or the aromatic oil which may be squeezed from such peel, used to give flavor to liquor, etc
(v. t.) To cut into thin slips, as the peel of an orange, lemon, etc.
Zeta(n.) A Greek letter corresponding to our z.
Zeugma(n.) A figure by which an adjective or verb, which agrees with a nearer word, is, by way of supplement, referred also to another more remote
Zeus(n.) The chief deity of the Greeks, and ruler of the upper world (cf. Hades). He was identified with Jupiter
Zigzag(a.) Having short, sharp turns
(n.) A molding running in a zigzag line
(v. i.) To move in a zigzag manner
(v. t.) To form with short turns.
Zillah(n.) A district or local division, as of a province.
Zinc(n.) An abundant element of the magnesium-cadmium group, extracted principally from the minerals zinc blende, smithsonite, calamine, and franklinite, as an easily fusible bluish white metal, which is malleable, especially when heated
(v. t.) To coat with zinc
Zinkenite(n.) A steel-gray metallic mineral, a sulphide of antimony and lead.
Zinnia(n.) Any plant of the composite genus Zinnia, Mexican herbs with opposite leaves and large gay-colored blossoms
Zion(n.) A hill in Jerusalem, which, after the capture of that city by the Israelites, became the royal residence of David and his successors
Zip(n.) A hissing or sibilant sound such as that made by a flying bullet.
(v. i.) To make, or move with, such a sound.
Zircon(n.) A mineral occurring in tetragonal crystals, usually of a brown or gray color. It consists of silica and zirconia
Zither(n.) An instrument of music used in Austria and Germany. It has from thirty to forty wires strung across a shallow sounding-board, which lies horizontally on a table before the performer, who uses both hands in playing on it
Zodiac(n.) A figure representing the signs, symbols, and constellations of the zodiac.
Zohar(n.) A Jewish cabalistic book attributed by tradition to Rabbi Simon ben Yochi, who lived about the end of the 1st century, a
Zoisite(n.) A grayish or whitish mineral occurring in orthorhombic, prismatic crystals, also in columnar masses
Zollverein(n.) Literally, a customs union
Zonal(a.) Of or pertaining to a zone
Zonate(a.) Divided by parallel planes
Zone(n.) A band or area of growth encircling anything
(v. t.) To girdle
Zonule(n.) A little zone, or girdle.
Zoogeography(n.) The study or description of the geographical distribution of animals.
Zoography(n.) A description of animals, their forms and habits.
Zooid(a.) Pertaining to, or resembling, an animal.
(n.) An animal in one of its inferior stages of development, as one of the intermediate forms in alternate generation
Zoolatry(n.) The worship of animals.
Zoological(a.) Of or pertaining to zoology, or the science of animals.
Zoologist(n.) One who is well versed in zoology.
Zoology(n.) A treatise on this science.
Zoomorphism(n.) The quality of representing or using animal forms
Zoophagous(a.) Feeding on animals.
Zoophyte(v. i.) Any one of numerous species of invertebrate animals which more or less resemble plants in appearance, or mode of growth, as the corals, gorgonians, sea anemones, hydroids, bryozoans, sponges, etc
Zoosperm(n.) One of the spermatic particles
Zoosporangium(n.) A spore, or conceptacle containing zoospores.
Zoospore(n.) A spore provided with one or more slender cilia, by the vibration of which it swims in the water
Zootomy(n.) The dissection or the anatomy of animals
Zorilla(n.) Either one of two species of small African carnivores of the genus Ictonyx allied to the weasels and skunks
Zoroastrianism(n.) The religious system of Zoroaster, the legislator and prophet of the ancient Persians, which was the national faith of Persia
Zoster(n.) Shingles.
Zouave(n.) Hence, one of a body of soldiers who adopt the dress and drill of the Zouaves, as was done by a number of volunteer regiments in the army of the United States in the Civil War, 1861-65
Zounds(interj.) An exclamation formerly used as an oath, and an expression of anger or wonder.
Zulu(n.) Any member of the tribe of Zulus
Zwieback(n.) A kind of biscuit or rusk first baked in a loaf and afterwards cut and toasted.
Zwinglian(a.) Of or pertaining to Ulric Zwingli (1481-1531), the reformer of German Switzerland, who maintained that in the Lord's Supper the true body of Christ is present by the contemplation of faith but not in essence or reality, and that the sacrament is a memorial without mystical elements
(n.) A follower of Zwingli.
Zygoma(n.) The jugal, malar, or cheek bone.
Zygospore(n.) A spore formed by the union of several zoospores
Zymase(n.) A soluble ferment, or enzyme.
Zymogen(n.) A mother substance, or antecedent, of an enzyme or chemical ferment
Zymology(n.) A treatise on the fermentation of liquors, or the doctrine of fermentation.
Zymolysis(n.) The action of enzymes
Zymosis(n.) A fermentation
Zymotic(a.) Designating, or pertaining to, a certain class of diseases.
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