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- English Word Wharfage Definition A wharf or wharfs, collectively; wharfing.
- English Word Wharfed Definition of Wharf
- English Word Wharfing Definition of Wharf
- English Word Wharfing Definition Wharfs, collectively.
- English Word Wharfing Definition A mode of facing sea walls and embankments with planks driven as piles and secured by ties.
- English Word Wharfinger Definition A man who owns, or has the care of, a wharf.
- English Word Wharfs Definition of Wharf
- English Word Wharl Definition Alt. of Wharling
- English Word Wharling Definition A guttural pronunciation of the letter r; a burr. See Burr, n., 6.
- English Word Wharp Definition A kind of fine sand from the banks of the Trent, used as a polishing powder.
- English Word Wharves Definition of Wharf
- English Word What Definition As an interrogative pronoun, used in asking questions regarding either persons or things; as, what is this? what did you say? what poem is this? what child is lost?
- English Word What Definition As an exclamatory word: -- (a) Used absolutely or independently; -- often with a question following.
- English Word What Definition Used adjectively, meaning how remarkable, or how great; as, what folly! what eloquence! what courage!
- English Word What Definition Sometimes prefixed to adjectives in an adverbial sense, as nearly equivalent to how; as, what happy boys!
- English Word What Definition As a relative pronoun
- English Word What Definition Used substantively with the antecedent suppressed, equivalent to that which, or those [persons] who, or those [things] which; -- called a compound relative.
- English Word What Definition Used adjectively, equivalent to the . . . which; the sort or kind of . . . which; rarely, the . . . on, or at, which.
- English Word What Definition Used adverbially in a sense corresponding to the adjectival use; as, he picked what good fruit he saw.
- English Word What Definition Whatever; whatsoever; what thing soever; -- used indefinitely.
- English Word What Definition Used adverbially, in part; partly; somewhat; -- with a following preposition, especially, with, and commonly with repetition.
- English Word What Definition Something; thing; stuff.
- English Word What Definition Why? For what purpose? On what account?
- English Word Whate'er Definition A contraction of what-ever; -- used in poetry.
- English Word Whatever Definition Anything soever which; the thing or things of any kind; being this or that; of one nature or another; one thing or another; anything that may be; all that; the whole that; all particulars that; -- used both substantively and adjectively.
- English Word Whatnot Definition A kind of stand, or piece of furniture, having shelves for books, ornaments, etc.; an etagere.
- English Word Whatso Definition Whatsoever; whosoever; whatever; anything that.
- English Word Whatsoe'er Definition A contraction of whatsoever; -- used in poetry.
- English Word Whatsoever Definition Whatever.
- English Word Whaul Definition Same as Whall.