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  • English Word Withdrawing-room Definition A room for retirement from another room, as from a dining room; a drawing-room.
  • English Word Withdrawment Definition The act of withdrawing; withdrawal.
  • English Word Withdrawn Definition of Withdraw
  • English Word Withdrew Definition of Withdraw
  • English Word Withe Definition A flexible, slender twig or branch used as a band; a willow or osier twig; a withy.
  • English Word Withe Definition A band consisting of a twig twisted.
  • English Word Withe Definition 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.
  • English Word Withe Definition A partition between flues in a chimney.
  • English Word Withe Definition To bind or fasten with withes.
  • English Word Withe-rod Definition A North American shrub (Viburnum nudum) whose tough osierlike shoots are sometimes used for binding sheaves.
  • English Word Withed Definition of Withe
  • English Word Wither Definition To fade; to lose freshness; to become sapless; to become sapless; to dry or shrivel up.
  • English Word Wither Definition To lose or want animal moisture; to waste; to pin/ away, as animal bodies.
  • English Word Wither Definition To lose vigor or power; to languish; to pass away.
  • English Word Wither Definition To cause to fade, and become dry.
  • English Word Wither Definition To cause to shrink, wrinkle, or decay, for want of animal moisture.
  • English Word Wither Definition To cause to languish, perish, or pass away; to blight; as, a reputation withered by calumny.
  • English Word Wither-wrung Definition Injured or hurt in the withers, as a horse.
  • English Word Witherband Definition A piece of iron in a saddle near a horse's withers, to strengthen the bow.
  • English Word Withered Definition of Wither
  • English Word Withered Definition Faded; dried up; shriveled; wilted; wasted; wasted away.
  • English Word Withering Definition of Wither
  • English Word Withering Definition Tending to wither; causing to shrink or fade.
  • English Word Witherite Definition Barium carbonate occurring in white or gray six-sided twin crystals, and also in columnar or granular masses.
  • English Word Witherling Definition A withered person; one who is decrepit.
  • English Word Withernam Definition 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.
  • English Word Withers Definition The ridge between the shoulder bones of a horse, at the base of the neck. See Illust. of Horse.
  • English Word Withheld Definition of Withhold
  • English Word Withheld Definition of Withhold
  • English Word Withhold Definition To hold back; to restrain; to keep from action.