Glossary.
Letter W
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- WAFT
- to wave, beckon
- To turn
- WAFTAGE
- passage
- WAFTURE
- waving, beckoning
- WAGE
- to reward as with wages
- WAILFUL
- lamentable
- WAIST
- the middle of a ship
- WAPPENED
- withered, overworn
- WARD
- guard
- Prison
- WARDEN
- a large pear used for baking
- WARDER
- truncheon
- WARN
- to summon
- WASSAIL
- a drinking bout
- Festivity
- WAT
- a familiar word for a hare
- WATCH
- a watch light
- WATCH
- to tame by keeping constantly awake
- WATER-GALL
- a secondary rainbow
- WATER-RUG
- a kind of dog
- WATER-WORK
- painting in distemper
- WAX
- to grow
- WAXEN
- perhaps, to hiccough
- WEALTH
- weal, advantage
- WEAR
- fashion
- WEATHER-FEND
- to defend from the weather
- WEB AND PIN
- the cataract in the eye
- WEE
- small, tiny
- WEE
- to think
- WEED
- garment
- WEET
- to wit, know
- WEIGH OUT
- to outweigh
- WELKIN
- the sky
- WELKIN
- sky-blue
- WELL-LIKING
- in good condition
- WELL SAID
- int. well done!
- WEND
- to go
- WESAND
- the wind-pipe
- WHELK
- a weal
- WHELKED
- marked with whelks or protuberances
- WHEN AS
- when
- WHIFFLER
- an officer who clears the way in processions
- WHILE-ERE
- a little while ago
- WHILES
- until
- WHIP-STOCK
- handle of a whip
- WHIST
- hushed, silent
- WHITE
- the centre of an archery butt
- WHITELY
- pale-faced. A doubtful word
- WHITING-TIME
- bleaching time
- WHITSTER
- bleacher
- WHITTLE
- a clasp knife
- WHOO-BUB
- hubbub
- WHOOP
- to cry out with astonishment
- WICKED
- noisome, baneful
- WIDOW
- to give a jointure to
- WIDOWHOOD
- widow's jointure
- WIGHT
- person
- WILD
- weald
- WILDERNESS
- wildness
- WIMPLED
- veiled, hooded
- WINDOW-BARS
- lattice-work across a woman's stomacher
- WINDRING
- winding
- WINTER-GROUND
- to protect (a plant) from frost
- WIS
- in the compound 'I wis,' certainly
- WISH
- to commend
- WISTLY
- wistfully
- WIT
- knowledge, wisdom
- WITHOUT
- beyond
- WITS
- five, the five senses
- WITTOL
- a contented cuckold
- WITTY
- intelligent
- WOMAN-TIRED
- hen-pecked
- WONDERED
- marvellously gifted
- WOOD
- mad
- WOODCOCK
- a simpleton
- WOODMAN
- a forester, huntsman
- A cant term for a wencher
- WOOLWARD
- shirtless
- WORD
- to flatter or put off with words
- To repeat the words of a song
- So 'a woman of the world' is a married woman
- WORM
- a serpent
- WORSER
- worse
- WORSHIP
- to honour
- WORTH
- wealth, fortune
- WORTS
- cabbages
- WOT
- to know
- WOUND
- twisted about
- WREAK
- vengeance
- WREAK
- to avenge
- WREAKFUL
- revengeful, avenging
- WREST
- an instrument used for tuning a harp
- WRIT
- gospel, truth
- WRITHLED
- shrivelled
- WROTH
- calamity, misfortune
- WRUNG
- twisted, strained
- WRY
- to swerve