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- English Word Wattling Definition The act or process of binding or platting with twigs; also, the network so formed.
- English Word Wattmeter Definition An instrument for measuring power in watts, -- much used in measuring the energy of an electric current.
- English Word Waucht Definition Alt. of Waught
- English Word Waught Definition A large draught of any liquid.
- English Word Waul Definition To cry as a cat; to squall; to wail.
- English Word Waur Definition Worse.
- English Word Wave Definition See Waive.
- English Word Wave Definition To play loosely; to move like a wave, one way and the other; to float; to flutter; to undulate.
- English Word Wave Definition To be moved to and fro as a signal.
- English Word Wave Definition To fluctuate; to waver; to be in an unsettled state; to vacillate.
- English Word Wave Definition To move one way and the other; to brandish.
- English Word Wave Definition To raise into inequalities of surface; to give an undulating form a surface to.
- English Word Wave Definition To move like a wave, or by floating; to waft.
- English Word Wave Definition To call attention to, or give a direction or command to, by a waving motion, as of the hand; to signify by waving; to beckon; to signal; to indicate.
- English Word Wave Definition An advancing ridge or swell on the surface of a liquid, as of the sea, resulting from the oscillatory motion of the particles composing it when disturbed by any force their position of rest; an undulation.
- English Word Wave Definition A vibration propagated from particle to particle through a body or elastic medium, as in the transmission of sound; an assemblage of vibrating molecules in all phases of a vibration, with no phase repeated; a wave of vibration; an undulation. See Undulation.
- English Word Wave Definition Water; a body of water.
- English Word Wave Definition Unevenness; inequality of surface.
- English Word Wave Definition A waving or undulating motion; a signal made with the hand, a flag, etc.
- English Word Wave Definition The undulating line or streak of luster on cloth watered, or calendered, or on damask steel.
- English Word Wave Definition Fig.: A swelling or excitement of thought, feeling, or energy; a tide; as, waves of enthusiasm.
- English Word Wave Definition Woe.
- English Word Waved Definition of Wave
- English Word Waved Definition Exhibiting a wavelike form or outline; undulating; intended; wavy; as, waved edge.
- English Word Waved Definition Having a wavelike appearance; marked with wavelike lines of color; as, waved, or watered, silk.
- English Word Waved Definition Having undulations like waves; -- said of one of the lines in heraldry which serve as outlines to the ordinaries, etc.
- English Word Waveless Definition Free from waves; undisturbed; not agitated; as, the waveless sea.
- English Word Wavelet Definition A little wave; a ripple.
- English Word Wavellite Definition A hydrous phosphate of alumina, occurring usually in hemispherical radiated forms varying in color from white to yellow, green, or black.
- English Word Waver Definition To play or move to and fro; to move one way and the other; hence, to totter; to reel; to swing; to flutter.