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- English Word Widowly Definition Becoming or like a widow.
- English Word Width Definition The quality of being wide; extent from side to side; breadth; wideness; as, the width of cloth; the width of a door.
- English Word Widual Definition Of or pertaining to a widow; vidual.
- English Word Widwe Definition A widow.
- English Word Wield Definition To govern; to rule; to keep, or have in charge; also, to possess.
- English Word Wield Definition To direct or regulate by influence or authority; to manage; to control; to sway.
- English Word Wield Definition To use with full command or power, as a thing not too heavy for the holder; to manage; to handle; hence, to use or employ; as, to wield a sword; to wield the scepter.
- English Word Wieldable Definition Capable of being wielded.
- English Word Wieldance Definition The act or power of wielding.
- English Word Wielded Definition of Wield
- English Word Wielder Definition One who wields or employs; a manager; a controller.
- English Word Wielding Definition of Wield
- English Word Wielding Definition Power; authority; rule.
- English Word Wieldless Definition Not to be wielded; unmanageable; unwieldy.
- English Word Wieldsome Definition Admitting of being easily wielded or managed.
- English Word Wieldy Definition Capable of being wielded; manageable; wieldable; -- opposed to unwieldy.
- English Word Wier Definition Same as Weir.
- English Word Wierangle Definition Same as Wariangle.
- English Word Wiery Definition Wet; moist; marshy.
- English Word Wiery Definition Wiry.
- English Word Wife Definition A woman; an adult female; -- now used in literature only in certain compounds and phrases, as alewife, fishwife, goodwife, and the like.
- English Word Wife Definition The lawful consort of a man; a woman who is united to a man in wedlock; a woman who has a husband; a married woman; -- correlative of husband.
- English Word Wifehood Definition Womanhood.
- English Word Wifehood Definition The state of being a wife; the character of a wife.
- English Word Wifeless Definition Without a wife; unmarried.
- English Word Wifelike Definition Of, pertaining to, or like, a wife or a woman.
- English Word Wifely Definition Becoming or life; of or pertaining to a wife.
- English Word Wig Definition A covering for the head, consisting of hair interwoven or united by a kind of network, either in imitation of the natural growth, or in abundant and flowing curls, worn to supply a deficiency of natural hair, or for ornament, or according to traditional usage, as a part of an official or professional dress, the latter especially in England by judges and barristers.
- English Word Wig Definition An old seal; -- so called by fishermen.
- English Word Wig Definition To censure or rebuke; to hold up to reprobation; to scold.