AbstractPhil/geometric-vocab-english-full-a-to-z huggingface dataset:
wiredraw: to form (a piece of metal) into wire, by drawing it through a hole in a plate of steel.-hence, to draw by art or violence.-hence, also, to draw or spin out to great length and tenuity; as, to wiredraw an argument.-to pass, or to draw off, (as steam) through narrow ports, or the like, thus reducing its pressure or force by friction.
wireworm: one of the larvae of various species of snapping beetles, or elaters; -- so called from their slenderness and the uncommon hardness of the integument.  wireworms are sometimes very destructive to the roots of plants.  called also wire grub.-a galleyworm.
wiry: made of wire; like wire; drawn out like wire.-capable of endurance; tough; sinewy; as, a wiry frame or constitution.
wis: certainly; really; indeed.-to think; to suppose; to imagine; -- used chiefly in the first person sing. present tense, i wis.  see the note under ywis.
wisdom: the quality of being wise; knowledge, and the capacity to make due use of it; knowledge of the best ends and the best means; discernment and judgment; discretion; sagacity; skill; dexterity.-the results of wise judgments; scientific or practical truth; acquired knowledge; erudition.
wise: having knowledge; knowing; enlightened; of extensive information; erudite; learned.-hence, especially, making due use of knowledge; discerning and judging soundly concerning what is true or false, proper or improper; choosing the best ends and the best means for accomplishing them; sagacious.-versed in art or science; skillful; dexterous; specifically, skilled in divination.-hence, prudent; calculating; shrewd; wary; subtle; crafty.-dictated or guided by wisdom; containing or exhibiting wisdom; well adapted to produce good effects; judicious; discreet; as, a wise saying; a wise scheme or plan; wise conduct or management; a wise determination.-way of being or acting; manner; mode; fashion.
wise-hearted: wise; knowing; skillful; sapient; erudite; prudent.
wiseacre: a learned or wise man.-one who makes undue pretensions to wisdom; a would-be-wise person; hence, in contempt, a simpleton; a dunce.
wiseling: one who pretends to be wise; a wiseacre; a witling.
wisely: in a wise manner; prudently; judiciously; discreetly; with wisdom.
wish: to have a desire or yearning; to long; to hanker.-to desire; to long for; to hanker after; to have a mind or disposition toward.-to frame or express desires concerning; to invoke in favor of, or against, any one; to attribute, or cal down, in desire; to invoke; to imprecate.-to recommend; to seek confidence or favor in behalf of.-desire; eager desire; longing.-expression of desire; request; petition; hence, invocation or imprecation.-a thing desired; an object of desire.
wishbone: the forked bone in front of the breastbone in birds; -- called also merrythought, and wishing bone.  see merrythought, and furculum.
wishful: having desire, or ardent desire; longing.-showing desire; as, wishful eyes.-desirable; exciting wishes.
wishy-washy: thin and pale; weak; without strength or substance; -- originally said of liquids. fig., weak-minded; spiritless.-a weak or thin drink or liquor; wish-wash.
wisp: a small bundle, as of straw or other like substance.-a whisk, or small broom.-a will-o'-the-wisp; an ignis fatuus.-to brush or dress, an with a wisp.-to rumple.
wispen: formed of a wisp, or of wisp; as, a wispen broom.
wistaria: a genus of climbing leguminous plants bearing long, pendulous clusters of pale bluish flowers.
wistful: longing; wishful; desirous.-full of thought; eagerly attentive; meditative; musing; pensive; contemplative.
wit: of wit-to know; to learn.-mind; intellect; understanding; sense.-a mental faculty, or power of the mind; -- used in this sense chiefly in the plural, and in certain phrases; as, to lose one's wits; at one's wits' end, and the like.-felicitous association of objects not usually connected, so as to produce a pleasant surprise; also. the power of readily combining objects in such a manner.-a person of eminent sense or knowledge; a man of genius, fancy, or humor; one distinguished for bright or amusing sayings, for repartee, and the like.
witch: a cone of paper which is placed in a vessel of lard or other fat, and used as a taper.-one who practices the black art, or magic; one regarded as possessing supernatural or magical power by compact with an evil spirit, esp. with the devil; a sorcerer or sorceress; -- now applied chiefly or only to women, but formerly used of men as well.-an ugly old woman; a hag.-one who exercises more than common power of attraction; a charming or bewitching person; also, one given to mischief; -- said especially of a woman or child.-a certain curve of the third order, described by maria agnesi under the name versiera.-the stormy petrel.-to bewitch; to fascinate; to enchant.
witch-hazel: the wych-elm.-an american shrub or small tree (hamamelis virginica), which blossoms late in autumn.
witchcraft: the practices or art of witches; sorcery; enchantments; intercourse with evil spirits.-power more than natural; irresistible influence.
witchery: sorcery; enchantment; witchcraft.-fascination; irresistible influence; enchantment.
witching: of witch-that witches or enchants; suited to enchantment or witchcraft; bewitching.
witcraft: art or skill of the mind; contrivance; invention; wit.-the art of reasoning; logic.
wite: of wit-to reproach; to blame; to censure; also, to impute as blame.-blame; reproach.
witenagemote: a meeting of wise men; the national council, or legislature, of england in the days of the anglo-saxons, before the norman conquest.
with: see withe.-with denotes or expresses some situation or relation of nearness, proximity, association, connection, or the like.-to denote a close or direct relation of opposition or hostility; -- equivalent to against.-to denote association in respect of situation or environment; hence, among; in the company of.-to denote a connection of friendship, support, alliance, assistance, countenance, etc.; hence, on the side of.-to denote the accomplishment of cause, means, instrument, etc; -- sometimes equivalent to by.-to denote association in thought, as for comparison or contrast.-to denote simultaneous happening, or immediate succession or consequence.-to denote having as a possession or an appendage; as, the firmament with its stars; a bride with a large fortune.
withal: with this; with that.-together with this; likewise; at the same time; in addition; also.-with; -- put after its object, at the end of sentence or clause in which it stands.
withamite: a variety of epidote, of a reddish color, found in scotland.
withdraw: to take back or away, as what has been bestowed or enjoyed; to draw back; to cause to move away or retire; as, to withdraw aid, favor, capital, or the like.-to take back; to recall or retract; as, to withdraw false charges.-to retire; to retreat; to quit a company or place; to go away; as, he withdrew from the company.
withdrawing-room: a room for retirement from another room, as from a dining room; a drawing-room.
withe: a flexible, slender twig or branch used as a band; a willow or osier twig; a withy.-a band consisting of a twig twisted.-an iron attachment on one end of a mast or boom, with a ring, through which another mast or boom is rigged out and secured; a wythe.-a partition between flues in a chimney.-to bind or fasten with withes.
withe-rod: a north american shrub (viburnum nudum) whose tough osierlike shoots are sometimes used for binding sheaves.
wither: to fade; to lose freshness; to become sapless; to become sapless; to dry or shrivel up.-to lose or want animal moisture; to waste; to pin/ away, as animal bodies.-to lose vigor or power; to languish; to pass away.-to cause to fade, and become dry.-to cause to shrink, wrinkle, or decay, for want of animal moisture.-to cause to languish, perish, or pass away; to blight; as, a reputation withered by calumny.
witherband: a piece of iron in a saddle near a horse's withers, to strengthen the bow.
withered: of wither-faded; dried up; shriveled; wilted; wasted; wasted away.
witherite: barium carbonate occurring in white or gray six-sided twin crystals, and also in columnar or granular masses.
withernam: a second or reciprocal distress of other goods in lieu of goods which were taken by a first distress and have been eloigned; a taking by way of reprisal; -- chiefly used in the expression capias in withernam, which is the name of a writ used in connection with the action of replevin (sometimes called a writ of reprisal), which issues to a defendant in replevin when he has obtained judgment for a return of the chattels replevied, and fails to obtain them on the writ of return.
withers: the ridge between the shoulder bones of a horse, at the base of the neck.  see illust. of horse.
withhold: to hold back; to restrain; to keep from action.-to retain; to keep back; not to grant; as, to withhold assent to a proposition.-to keep; to maintain; to retain.
within: in the inner or interior part of; inside of; not without; as, within doors.-in the limits or compass of; not further in length than; as, within five miles; not longer in time than; as, within an hour; not exceeding in quantity; as, expenses kept within one's income.-hence, inside the limits, reach, or influence of; not going outside of; not beyond, overstepping, exceeding, or the like.-in the inner part; inwardly; internally.-in the house; in doors; as, the master is within.
without: on or at the outside of; out of; not within; as, without doors.-out of the limits of; out of reach of; beyond.-not with; otherwise than with; in absence of, separation from, or destitution of; not with use or employment of; independently of; exclusively of; with omission; as, without labor; without damage.-unless; except; -- introducing a clause.-on or art the outside; not on the inside; not within; outwardly; externally.-outside of the house; out of doors.
withsay: to contradict; to gainsay; to deny; to renounce.
withstand: to stand against; to oppose; to resist, either with physical or moral force; as, to withstand an attack of troops; to withstand eloquence or arguments.
withstander: one who withstands, or opposes; an opponent; a resisting power.
withy: the osier willow (salix viminalis).  see osier, n. (a).-a withe.  see withe, 1.-made of withes; like a withe; flexible and tough; also, abounding in withes.
witily: in a witty manner; wisely; ingeniously; artfully; with it; with a delicate turn or phrase, or with an ingenious association of ideas.
witless: destitute of wit or understanding; wanting thought; hence, indiscreet; not under the guidance of judgment.
witling: a person who has little wit or understanding; a pretender to wit or smartness.
witness: attestation of a fact or an event; testimony.-that which furnishes evidence or proof.-one who is cognizant; a person who beholds, or otherwise has personal knowledge of, anything; as, an eyewitness; an earwitness.-one who testifies in a cause, or gives evidence before a judicial tribunal; as, the witness in court agreed in all essential facts.-one who sees the execution of an instrument, and subscribes it for the purpose of confirming its authenticity by his testimony; one who witnesses a will, a deed, a marriage, or the like.-to see or know by personal presence; to have direct cognizance of.-to give testimony to; to testify to; to attest.-to see the execution of, as an instrument, and subscribe it for the purpose of establishing its authenticity; as, to witness a bond or a deed.-to bear testimony; to give evidence; to testify.
witted: having (such) a wit or understanding; as, a quick-witted boy.
witticism: a witty saying; a sentence or phrase which is affectedly witty; an attempt at wit; a conceit.
wittol: the wheatear.-a man who knows his wife's infidelity and submits to it; a tame cuckold; -- so called because the cuckoo lays its eggs in the wittol's nest.
witty: possessed of wit; knowing; wise; skillful; judicious; clever; cunning.-especially, possessing wit or humor; good at repartee; droll; facetious; sometimes, sarcastic; as, a witty remark, poem, and the like.
wive: to marry, as a man; to take a wife.-to match to a wife; to provide with a wife.-to take for a wife; to marry.
wivern: a fabulous two-legged, winged creature, like a cockatrice, but having the head of a dragon, and without spurs.-the weever.
wizard: a wise man; a sage.-one devoted to the black art; a magician; a conjurer; a sorcerer; an enchanter.-enchanting; charming.-haunted by wizards.
wizen: to wither; to dry.-wizened; thin; weazen; withered.-the weasand.
wizened: dried; shriveled; withered; shrunken; weazen; as, a wizened old man.
woad: an herbaceous cruciferous plant (isatis tinctoria). it was formerly cultivated for the blue coloring matter derived from its leaves.-a blue dyestuff, or coloring matter, consisting of the powdered and fermented leaves of the isatis tinctoria. it is now superseded by indigo, but is somewhat used with indigo as a ferment in dyeing.
woad-waxen: a leguminous plant (genista tinctoria) of europe and russian asia, and adventitious in america; -- called also greenwood, greenweed, dyer's greenweed, and whin, wood-wash, wood-wax, and wood-waxen.
woden: a deity corresponding to odin, the supreme deity of the scandinavians.  wednesday is named for him.  see odin.
woe: grief; sorrow; misery; heavy calamity.-a curse; a malediction.-woeful; sorrowful.
woe-begone: beset or overwhelmed with woe; immersed in grief or sorrow; woeful.
woful: full of woe; sorrowful; distressed with grief or calamity; afflicted; wretched; unhappy; sad.-bringing calamity, distress, or affliction; as, a woeful event; woeful want.-wretched; paltry; miserable; poor.
wofully: in a woeful manner; sorrowfully; mournfully; miserably; dolefully.
wold: a wood; a forest.-a plain, or low hill; a country without wood, whether hilly or not.-see weld.
wolf: any one of several species of wild and savage carnivores belonging to the genus canis and closely allied to the common dog. the best-known and most destructive species are the european wolf (canis lupus), the american gray, or timber, wolf (c. occidentalis), and the prairie wolf, or coyote. wolves often hunt in packs, and may thus attack large animals and even man.-one of the destructive, and usually hairy, larvae of several species of beetles and grain moths; as, the bee wolf.-fig.: any very ravenous, rapacious, or destructive person or thing; especially, want; starvation; as, they toiled hard to keep the wolf from the door.-a white worm, or maggot, which infests granaries.-an eating ulcer or sore.  cf. lupus.-the harsh, howling sound of some of the chords on an organ or piano tuned by unequal temperament.-in bowed instruments, a harshness due to defective vibration in certain notes of the scale.-a willying machine.
wolf's-milk: any kind of spurge (euphorbia); -- so called from its acrid milky juice.
wolfberry: an american shrub (symphoricarpus occidentalis) which bears soft white berries.
wolffian: discovered, or first described, by caspar friedrich wolff (1733-1794), the founder of modern embryology.
wolfish: like a wolf; having the qualities or form of a wolf; as, a wolfish visage; wolfish designs.
wolframite: tungstate of iron and manganese, generally of a brownish or grayish black color, submetallic luster, and high specific gravity. it occurs in cleavable masses, and also crystallized. called also wolfram.
wolfsbane: a poisonous plant (aconitum lycoctonum), a kind of monkshood; also, by extension, any plant or species of the genus aconitum.  see aconite.
wollastonite: a silicate of lime of a white to gray, red, or yellow color, occurring generally in cleavable masses, rarely in tabular crystals; tabular spar.
woman: an adult female person; a grown-up female person, as distinguished from a man or a child; sometimes, any female person.-the female part of the human race; womankind.-a female attendant or servant.-to act the part of a woman in; -- with indefinite it.-to make effeminate or womanish.-to furnish with, or unite to, a woman.
womanhood: the state of being a woman; the distinguishing character or qualities of a woman, or of womankind.-women, collectively; womankind.
womanish: suitable to a woman, having the qualities of a woman; effeminate; not becoming a man; -- usually in a reproachful sense.  see the note under effeminate.
womanly: becoming a woman; feminine; as, womanly behavior.-in the manner of a woman; with the grace, tenderness, or affection of a woman.
womb: the belly; the abdomen.-the uterus.  see uterus.-the place where anything is generated or produced.-any cavity containing and enveloping anything.-to inclose in a womb, or as in a womb; to breed or hold in secret.
wombat: any one of three species of australian burrowing marsupials of the genus phascolomys, especially the common species (p. ursinus).  they are nocturnal in their habits, and feed mostly on roots.
won: of win-imp. & p. p. of win.-to dwell or abide.-dwelling; wone.
won't: a colloquial contraction of woll not. will not.  see will.
wonder: that emotion which is excited by novelty, or the presentation to the sight or mind of something new, unusual, strange, great, extraordinary, or not well understood; surprise; astonishment; admiration; amazement.-a cause of wonder; that which excites surprise; a strange thing; a prodigy; a miracle.-to be affected with surprise or admiration; to be struck with astonishment; to be amazed; to marvel.-to feel doubt and curiosity; to wait with uncertain expectation; to query in the mind; as, he wondered why they came.-wonderful.-wonderfully.
wondrous: in a wonderful or surprising manner or degree; wonderfully.-wonderful; astonishing; admirable; marvelous; such as excite surprise and astonishment; strange.
wone: to dwell; to abide.-dwelling; habitation; abode.-custom; habit; wont; use; usage.
wont: using or doing customarily; accustomed; habituated; used.-custom; habit; use; usage.-of wont-of wont-to be accustomed or habituated; to be used.-to accustom; -- used reflexively.
woo: to solicit in love; to court.-to court solicitously; to invite with importunity.-to court; to make love.
wood: mad; insane; possessed; rabid; furious; frantic.-to grow mad; to act like a madman; to mad.-a large and thick collection of trees; a forest or grove; -- frequently used in the plural.-the substance of trees and the like; the hard fibrous substance which composes the body of a tree and its branches, and which is covered by the bark; timber.-the fibrous material which makes up the greater part of the stems and branches of trees and shrubby plants, and is found to a less extent in herbaceous stems. it consists of elongated tubular or needle-shaped cells of various kinds, usually interwoven with the shinning bands called silver grain.-trees cut or sawed for the fire or other uses.-to supply with wood, or get supplies of wood for; as, to wood a steamboat or a locomotive.-to take or get a supply of wood.
wood tick: any one of several species of ticks of the genus ixodes whose young cling to bushes, but quickly fasten themselves upon the bodies of any animal with which they come in contact. when they attach themselves to the human body they often produce troublesome sores. the common species of the northern united states is ixodes unipunctata.
wood's metal: a fusible alloy consisting of one or two parts of cadmium, two parts of tin, four of lead, with seven or eight part of bismuth. it melts at from 66¡ to 71¡ c.  see fusible metal, under fusible.
wood-layer: a young oak, or other timber plant, laid down in a hedge among the whitethorn or other plants used in hedges.
woodbine: a climbing plant having flowers of great fragrance (lonicera periclymenum); the honeysuckle.-the virginia creeper.  see virginia creeper, under virginia.
woodbury-type: a process in photographic printing, in which a relief pattern in gelatin, which has been hardened after certain operations, is pressed upon a plate of lead or other soft metal. an intaglio impression in thus produced, from which pictures may be directly printed, but by a slower process than in common printing.-a print from such a plate.
woodchat: any one of several species of asiatic singing birds belonging to the genera ianthia and larvivora. they are closely allied to the european robin. the males are usually bright blue above, and more or less red or rufous beneath.-a european shrike (enneoctonus rufus). in the male the head and nape are rufous red; the back, wings, and tail are black, varied with white.
woodchuck: a common large north american marmot (arctomys monax). it is usually reddish brown, more or less grizzled with gray. it makes extensive burrows, and is often injurious to growing crops. called also ground hog.-the yaffle, or green woodpecker.
woodcock: any one of several species of long-billed limicoline birds belonging to the genera scolopax and philohela. they are mostly nocturnal in their habits, and are highly esteemed as game birds.-fig.: a simpleton.
woodcraft: skill and practice in anything pertaining to the woods, especially in shooting, and other sports in the woods.
woodcut: an engraving on wood; also, a print from it. same as wood cut, under wood.
woodcutting: the act or employment of cutting wood or timber.-the act or art of engraving on wood.
wooded: of wood-supplied or covered with wood, or trees; as, land wooded and watered.
wooden: made or consisting of wood; pertaining to, or resembling, wood; as, a wooden box; a wooden leg; a wooden wedding.-clumsy; awkward; ungainly; stiff; spiritless.
woodenness: quality of being wooden; clumsiness; stupidity; blockishness.
woodland: land covered with wood or trees; forest; land on which trees are suffered to grow, either for fuel or timber.-of or pertaining to woods or woodland; living in the forest; sylvan.
woodman: a forest officer appointed to take care of the king's woods; a forester.-a sportsman; a hunter.-one who cuts down trees; a woodcutter.-one who dwells in the woods or forest; a bushman.
woodpecker: any one of numerous species of scansorial birds belonging to picus and many allied genera of the family picidae.
woodroof: a little european herb (asperula odorata) having a pleasant taste. it is sometimes used for flavoring wine.  see illust. of whorl.
woodwardia: a genus of ferns, one species of which (woodwardia radicans) is a showy plant in california, the azores, etc.
woody: abounding with wood or woods; as, woody land.-consisting of, or containing, wood or woody fiber; ligneous; as, the woody parts of plants.-of or pertaining to woods; sylvan.
wooer: one who wooes; one who courts or solicits in love; a suitor.
woof: the threads that cross the warp in a woven fabric; the weft; the filling; the thread usually carried by the shuttle in weaving.-texture; cloth; as, a pall of softest woof.
wool: the soft and curled, or crisped, species of hair which grows on sheep and some other animals, and which in fineness sometimes approaches to fur; -- chiefly applied to the fleecy coat of the sheep, which constitutes a most essential material of clothing in all cold and temperate climates.-short, thick hair, especially when crisped or curled.-a sort of pubescence, or a clothing of dense, curling hairs on the surface of certain plants.
wool-dyed: dyed before being made into cloth, in distinction from piece-dyed; ingrain.
woold: to wind, or wrap; especially, to wind a rope round, as a mast or yard made of two or more pieces, at the place where it has been fished or scarfed, in order to strengthen it.
woolder: a stick used to tighten the rope in woolding.-one of the handles of the top, formed by a wooden pin passing through it.  see 1st top, 2.
woolding: of woold-the act of winding or wrapping anything with a rope, as a mast.-a rope used for binding masts and spars.
woolen: made of wool; consisting of wool; as, woolen goods.-of or pertaining to wool or woolen cloths; as, woolen manufactures; a woolen mill; a woolen draper.-cloth made of wool; woollen goods.
woolfell: a skin with the wool; a skin from which the wool has not been sheared or pulled.
woolgathering: indulging in a vagrant or idle exercise of the imagination; roaming upon a fruitless quest; idly fanciful.-indulgence in idle imagination; a foolish or useless pursuit or design.