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- English Word Wringstaff Definition A strong piece of plank used in applying wringbolts.
- English Word Wringstaves Definition of Wringstaff
- English Word Wrinkle Definition A winkle.
- English Word Wrinkle Definition A small ridge, prominence, or furrow formed by the shrinking or contraction of any smooth substance; a corrugation; a crease; a slight fold; as, wrinkle in the skin; a wrinkle in cloth.
- English Word Wrinkle Definition hence, any roughness; unevenness.
- English Word Wrinkle Definition A notion or fancy; a whim; as, to have a new wrinkle.
- English Word Wrinkle Definition To contract into furrows and prominences; to make a wrinkle or wrinkles in; to corrugate; as, wrinkle the skin or the brow.
- English Word Wrinkle Definition Hence, to make rough or uneven in any way.
- English Word Wrinkle Definition To shrink into furrows and ridges.
- English Word Wrinkled Definition of Wrinkle
- English Word Wrinkling Definition of Wrinkle
- English Word Wrinkly Definition Full of wrinkles; having a tendency to be wrinkled; corrugated; puckered.
- English Word Wrist Definition The joint, or the region of the joint, between the hand and the arm; the carpus. See Carpus.
- English Word Wrist Definition A stud or pin which forms a journal; -- also called wrist pin.
- English Word Wristband Definition The band of the sleeve of a shirt, or other garment, which covers the wrist.
- English Word Wrister Definition A covering for the wrist.
- English Word Wristlet Definition An elastic band worn around the wrist, as for the purpose of securing the upper part of a glove.
- English Word Writ Definition 3d pers. sing. pres. of Write, for writeth.
- English Word Writ Definition imp. & p. p. of Write.
- English Word Writ Definition That which is written; writing; scripture; -- applied especially to the Scriptures, or the books of the Old and New testaments; as, sacred writ.
- English Word Writ Definition 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; as, a writ of entry, of error, of execution, of injunction, of mandamus, of return, of summons, and the like.
- English Word Writ Definition of Write
- English Word Writability Definition Ability or capacity to write.
- English Word Writable Definition Capable of, or suitable for, being written down.
- English Word Writative Definition Inclined to much writing; -- correlative to talkative.
- English Word Write Definition To set down, as legible characters; to form the conveyance of meaning; to inscribe on any material by a suitable instrument; as, to write the characters called letters; to write figures.
- English Word Write Definition To set down for reading; to express in legible or intelligible characters; to inscribe; as, to write a deed; to write a bill of divorcement; hence, specifically, to set down in an epistle; to communicate by letter.
- English Word Write Definition Hence, to compose or produce, as an author.
- English Word Write Definition To impress durably; to imprint; to engrave; as, truth written on the heart.
- English Word Write Definition To make known by writing; to record; to prove by one's own written testimony; -- often used reflexively.