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- English Word -ward Definition Alt. of -wards
- English Word -wards Definition See -ward.
- English Word -wards Definition Suffixes denoting course or direction to; motion or tendency toward; as in backward, or backwards; toward, or towards, etc.
- English Word -ways Definition A suffix formed from way by the addition of the adverbial -s (see -wards). It is often used interchangeably with wise; as, endways or endwise; noways or nowise, etc.
- English Word -women Definition of Bedeswoman
- English Word Wa'n't Definition A colloquial contraction of was not.
- English Word Waag Definition The grivet.
- English Word Waahoo Definition The burning bush; -- said to be called after a quack medicine made from it.
- English Word Wabble Definition To move staggeringly or unsteadily from one side to the other; to vacillate; to move the manner of a rotating disk when the axis of rotation is inclined to that of the disk; -- said of a turning or whirling body; as, a top wabbles; a buzz saw wabbles.
- English Word Wabble Definition A hobbling, unequal motion, as of a wheel unevenly hung; a staggering to and fro.
- English Word Wabbly Definition Inclined to wabble; wabbling.
- English Word Wacke Definition Alt. of Wacky
- English Word Wacky Definition A soft, earthy, dark-colored rock or clay derived from the alteration of basalt.
- English Word Wad Definition Woad.
- English Word Wad Definition A little mass, tuft, or bundle, as of hay or tow.
- English Word Wad Definition Specifically: A little mass of some soft or flexible material, such as hay, straw, tow, paper, or old rope yarn, used for retaining a charge of powder in a gun, or for keeping the powder and shot close; also, to diminish or avoid the effects of windage. Also, by extension, a dusk of felt, pasteboard, etc., serving a similar purpose.
- English Word Wad Definition A soft mass, especially of some loose, fibrous substance, used for various purposes, as for stopping an aperture, padding a garment, etc.
- English Word Wad Definition To form into a mass, or wad, or into wadding; as, to wad tow or cotton.
- English Word Wad Definition To insert or crowd a wad into; as, to wad a gun; also, to stuff or line with some soft substance, or wadding, like cotton; as, to wad a cloak.
- English Word Wad Definition Alt. of Wadd
- English Word Wadd Definition An earthy oxide of manganese, or mixture of different oxides and water, with some oxide of iron, and often silica, alumina, lime, or baryta; black ocher. There are several varieties.
- English Word Wadd Definition Plumbago, or black lead.
- English Word Wadding Definition of Wad
- English Word Wadding Definition Any soft stuff of loose texture, used for stuffing or padding garments; esp., sheets of carded cotton prepared for the purpose.
- English Word Wadding Definition A wad, or the materials for wads; any pliable substance of which wads may be made.
- English Word Waddle Definition To walk with short steps, swaying the body from one side to the other, like a duck or very fat person; to move clumsily and totteringly along; to toddle; to stumble; as, a child waddles when he begins to walk; a goose waddles.
- English Word Waddle Definition To trample or tread down, as high grass, by walking through it.
- English Word Waddled Definition of Waddle
- English Word Waddler Definition One who, or that which, waddles.
- English Word Waddling Definition of Waddle