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- English Word Wedded Definition of Wed
- English Word Wedded Definition of Wed
- English Word Wedded Definition Joined in wedlock; married.
- English Word Wedded Definition Of or pertaining to wedlock, or marriage.
- English Word Wedder Definition See Wether.
- English Word Wedding Definition of Wed
- English Word Wedding Definition Nuptial ceremony; nuptial festivities; marriage; nuptials.
- English Word Weder Definition Weather.
- English Word Wedge Definition A piece of metal, or other hard material, thick at one end, and tapering to a thin edge at the other, used in splitting wood, rocks, etc., in raising heavy bodies, and the like. It is one of the six elementary machines called the mechanical powers. See Illust. of Mechanical powers, under Mechanical.
- English Word Wedge Definition A solid of five sides, having a rectangular base, two rectangular or trapezoidal sides meeting in an edge, and two triangular ends.
- English Word Wedge Definition A mass of metal, especially when of a wedgelike form.
- English Word Wedge Definition Anything in the form of a wedge, as a body of troops drawn up in such a form.
- English Word Wedge Definition The person whose name stands lowest on the list of the classical tripos; -- so called after a person (Wedgewood) who occupied this position on the first list of 1828.
- English Word Wedge Definition To cleave or separate with a wedge or wedges, or as with a wedge; to rive.
- English Word Wedge Definition To force or drive as a wedge is driven.
- English Word Wedge Definition To force by crowding and pushing as a wedge does; as, to wedge one's way.
- English Word Wedge Definition To press closely; to fix, or make fast, in the manner of a wedge that is driven into something.
- English Word Wedge Definition To fasten with a wedge, or with wedges; as, to wedge a scythe on the snath; to wedge a rail or a piece of timber in its place.
- English Word Wedge Definition To cut, as clay, into wedgelike masses, and work by dashing together, in order to expel air bubbles, etc.
- English Word Wedge-formed Definition Having the form of a wedge; cuneiform.
- English Word Wedge-shaped Definition Having the shape of a wedge; cuneiform.
- English Word Wedge-shaped Definition Broad and truncate at the summit, and tapering down to the base; as, a wedge-shaped leaf.
- English Word Wedge-shell Definition Any one of numerous species of small marine bivalves belonging to Donax and allied genera in which the shell is wedge-shaped.
- English Word Wedge-tailed Definition Having a tail which has the middle pair of feathers longest, the rest successively and decidedly shorter, and all more or less attenuate; -- said of certain birds. See Illust. of Wood hoopoe, under Wood.
- English Word Wedgebill Definition An Australian crested insessorial bird (Sphenostoma cristatum) having a wedge-shaped bill. Its color is dull brown, like the earth of the plains where it lives.
- English Word Wedged Definition of Wedge
- English Word Wedgewise Definition In the manner of a wedge.
- English Word Wedging Definition of Wedge
- English Word Wedgwood ware Definition A kind of fine pottery, the most remarkable being what is called jasper, either white, or colored throughout the body, and capable of being molded into the most delicate forms, so that fine and minute bas-reliefs like cameos were made of it, fit even for being set as jewels.
- English Word Wedgy Definition Like a wedge; wedge-shaped.