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- English Word Wheelwork Definition A combination of wheels, and their connection, in a machine or mechanism.
- English Word Wheelwright Definition A man whose occupation is to make or repair wheels and wheeled vehicles, as carts, wagons, and the like.
- English Word Wheely Definition Circular; suitable to rotation.
- English Word Wheen Definition A quantity; a goodly number.
- English Word Wheeze Definition To breathe hard, and with an audible piping or whistling sound, as persons affected with asthma.
- English Word Wheeze Definition A piping or whistling sound caused by difficult respiration.
- English Word Wheeze Definition An ordinary whisper exaggerated so as to produce the hoarse sound known as the "stage whisper." It is a forcible whisper with some admixture of tone.
- English Word Wheezed Definition of Wheeze
- English Word Wheezing Definition of Wheeze
- English Word Wheezy Definition Breathing with difficulty and with a wheeze; wheezing. Used also figuratively.
- English Word Wheft Definition See Waft, n., 4.
- English Word Whelk Definition Any one numerous species of large marine gastropods belonging to Buccinum and allied genera; especially, Buccinum undatum, common on the coasts both of Europe and North America, and much used as food in Europe.
- English Word Whelk Definition A papule; a pustule; acne.
- English Word Whelk Definition A stripe or mark; a ridge; a wale.
- English Word Whelked Definition Having whelks; whelky; as, whelked horns.
- English Word Whelky Definition Having whelks, ridges, or protuberances; hence, streaked; striated.
- English Word Whelky Definition Shelly.
- English Word Whelm Definition To cover with water or other fluid; to cover by immersion in something that envelops on all sides; to overwhelm; to ingulf.
- English Word Whelm Definition Fig.: To cover completely, as if with water; to immerse; to overcome; as, to whelm one in sorrows.
- English Word Whelm Definition To throw (something) over a thing so as to cover it.
- English Word Whelmed Definition of Whelm
- English Word Whelming Definition of Whelm
- English Word Whelp Definition One of the young of a dog or a beast of prey; a puppy; a cub; as, a lion's whelps.
- English Word Whelp Definition A child; a youth; -- jocosely or in contempt.
- English Word Whelp Definition One of the longitudinal ribs or ridges on the barrel of a capstan or a windless; -- usually in the plural; as, the whelps of a windlass.
- English Word Whelp Definition One of the teeth of a sprocket wheel.
- English Word Whelp Definition To bring forth young; -- said of the female of the dog and some beasts of prey.
- English Word Whelp Definition To bring forth, as cubs or young; to give birth to.
- English Word Whelped Definition of Whelp
- English Word Whelping Definition of Whelp