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- English Word Werewolf Definition A person transformed into a wolf in form and appetite, either temporarily or permanently, whether by supernatural influences, by witchcraft, or voluntarily; a lycanthrope. Belief in werewolves, formerly general, is not now extinct.
- English Word Werewolves Definition of Werewolf
- English Word Werk Definition Alt. of Werke
- English Word Werke Definition See Work.
- English Word Wern Definition To refuse.
- English Word Wernerian Definition Of or pertaining to A. G. Werner, The German mineralogist and geologist, who classified minerals according to their external characters, and advocated the theory that the strata of the earth's crust were formed by depositions from water; designating, or according to, Werner's system.
- English Word Wernerite Definition The common grayish or white variety of soapolite.
- English Word Weroole Definition An Australian lorikeet (Ptilosclera versicolor) noted for the variety of its colors; -- called also varied lorikeet.
- English Word Werre Definition War.
- English Word Werrey Definition To warray.
- English Word Werst Definition See Verst.
- English Word Wert Definition The second person singular, indicative and subjunctive moods, imperfect tense, of the verb be. It is formed from were, with the ending -t, after the analogy of wast. Now used only in solemn or poetic style.
- English Word Wert Definition A wart.
- English Word Weryangle Definition See Wariangle.
- English Word Wesand Definition See Weasand.
- English Word Wesh Definition Washed.
- English Word Wesil Definition See Weasand.
- English Word Wesleyan Definition Of or pertaining to Wesley or Wesleyanism.
- English Word Wesleyan Definition One who adopts the principles of Wesleyanism; a Methodist.
- English Word Wesleyanism Definition The system of doctrines and church polity inculcated by John Wesley (b. 1703; d. 1791), the founder of the religious sect called Methodist; Methodism. See Methodist, n., 2.
- English Word West Definition The point in the heavens where the sun is seen to set at the equinox; or, the corresponding point on the earth; that one of the four cardinal points of the compass which is in a direction at right angles to that of north and south, and on the left hand of a person facing north; the point directly opposite to east.
- English Word West Definition A country, or region of country, which, with regard to some other country or region, is situated in the direction toward the west.
- English Word West Definition The Westen hemisphere, or the New World so called, it having been discovered by sailing westward from Europe; the Occident.
- English Word West Definition Formerly, that part of the United States west of the Alleghany mountains; now, commonly, the whole region west of the Mississippi river; esp., that part which is north of the Indian Territory, New Mexico, etc. Usually with the definite article.
- English Word West Definition Lying toward the west; situated at the west, or in a western direction from the point of observation or reckoning; proceeding toward the west, or coming from the west; as, a west course is one toward the west; an east and west line; a west wind blows from the west.
- English Word West Definition Westward.
- English Word West Definition To pass to the west; to set, as the sun.
- English Word West Definition To turn or move toward the west; to veer from the north or south toward the west.
- English Word West India Definition Alt. of West Indian
- English Word West Indian Definition Belonging or relating to the West Indies.