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- English Word Washingtonian Definition Pertaining to, or characteristic of, George Washington; as, a Washingtonian policy.
- English Word Washingtonian Definition Designating, or pertaining to, a temperance society and movement started in Baltimore in 1840 on the principle of total abstinence.
- English Word Washingtonian Definition A member of the Washingtonian Society.
- English Word Washout Definition The washing out or away of earth, etc., especially of a portion of the bed of a road or railroad by a fall of rain or a freshet; also, a place, especially in the bed of a road or railroad, where the earth has been washed away.
- English Word Washpot Definition A pot or vessel in which anything is washed.
- English Word Washpot Definition A pot containing melted tin into which the plates are dipped to be coated.
- English Word Washstand Definition A piece of furniture holding the ewer or pitcher, basin, and other requisites for washing the person.
- English Word Washtub Definition A tub in which clothes are washed.
- English Word Washy Definition Watery; damp; soft.
- English Word Washy Definition Lacking substance or strength; weak; thin; dilute; feeble; as, washy tea; washy resolutions.
- English Word Washy Definition Not firm or hardy; liable to sweat profusely with labor; as, a washy horse.
- English Word Wasite Definition A variety of allanite from Sweden supposed to contain wasium.
- English Word Wasium Definition A rare element supposed by Bahr to have been extracted from wasite, but now identified with thorium.
- English Word Wasp Definition Any one of numerous species of stinging hymenopterous insects, esp. any of the numerous species of the genus Vespa, which includes the true, or social, wasps, some of which are called yellow jackets.
- English Word Waspish Definition Resembling a wasp in form; having a slender waist, like a wasp.
- English Word Waspish Definition Quick to resent a trifling affront; characterized by snappishness; irritable; irascible; petulant; snappish.
- English Word Wassail Definition An ancient expression of good wishes on a festive occasion, especially in drinking to some one.
- English Word Wassail Definition An occasion on which such good wishes are expressed in drinking; a drinking bout; a carouse.
- English Word Wassail Definition The liquor used for a wassail; esp., a beverage formerly much used in England at Christmas and other festivals, made of ale (or wine) flavored with spices, sugar, toast, roasted apples, etc.; -- called also lamb's wool.
- English Word Wassail Definition A festive or drinking song or glee.
- English Word Wassail Definition Of or pertaining to wassail, or to a wassail; convivial; as, a wassail bowl.
- English Word Wassail Definition To hold a wassail; to carouse.
- English Word Wassailer Definition One who drinks wassail; one who engages in festivity, especially in drinking; a reveler.
- English Word Wast Definition The second person singular of the verb be, in the indicative mood, imperfect tense; -- now used only in solemn or poetical style. See Was.
- English Word Wastage Definition Loss by use, decay, evaporation, leakage, or the like; waste.
- English Word Waste Definition Desolate; devastated; stripped; bare; hence, dreary; dismal; gloomy; cheerless.
- English Word Waste Definition Lying unused; unproductive; worthless; valueless; refuse; rejected; as, waste land; waste paper.
- English Word Waste Definition Lost for want of occupiers or use; superfluous.
- English Word Waste Definition To bring to ruin; to devastate; to desolate; to destroy.
- English Word Waste Definition To wear away by degrees; to impair gradually; to diminish by constant loss; to use up; to consume; to spend; to wear out.