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An American Dictionary of the English Language
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Springfield, Mass. · G. & C. Merriam · 1865
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Wēan'el, n. p. 1500A child or other animal newly weaned; a weanling. [Obs.] Milton.Wēan'ing-brāsh, n. p. 1500(Med.) A severe form of diarrhea, which supervenes, at times, on weaning. Dunglison.Wēan'ling, n. p. 1500A child or animal newly weaned; a weanel; a wean.Wēan'ling, a. p. 1500Recently weaned. “Weanling herds.” Milton.Wĕap'on, n. p. 1500An instrument of offensive or defensive combat; something to fight with; any thing used, or designed to be used, in destroying or annoying an enemy. The weapons of our warfare are not carnal. 2 Cor.…Wĕap'oned, a. p. 1500Furnished with weapons or arms; armed; equipped.Wĕap'on-less, a. p. 1500Having no weapon; unarmed.Wĕap'on-ry, n. p. 1500Weapons taken collectively; as, an array of weaponry. [Poet.]Wĕap'on-sälve, n. p. 1500A salve which was supposed to cure the wound by being applied to the weapon that made it. [Obs.] Boyle.Weâr (4), v. t. p. 1500To carry or bear upon the person; to bear upon one, as an article of clothing, decoration, warfare, or the like; to have appendant to one's body; to have on; as, to wear a coat or a robe; to wear a…Wear, v. i. p. 1500To endure or suffer use; to last under employment; to bear the consequences of use, as waste, consumption, or attrition; as, a coat wears well, or ill;—hence, sometimes applied to character…Weâr, n. p. 1500The act of wearing, or the state of being worn; consumption by use; diminution by friction; as, the wear of a garment. 2. The thing worn; style of dress; the fashion. Motley's your only wear. Shak.…Wēar, n. p. 1500A dam in a river to stop and raise the water, for conducting it to a mill, for taking fish, and the like. 2. A fence of stakes or twigs set in a stream for catching fish.Weâr'a-ble, a. p. 1500Capable of being worn; suitable to be worn.Weâr'er, n. p. 1500One who wears or carries as appendant to the body; as, the wearer of a cloak, a sword, or a crown. Cowls, hoods, and habits, with their wearers tossed, And flutt'red into rags. Milton. 2. That which…Wēa'ri-a-ble, a. p. 1500Capable of being wearied or fatigued. [Rare.] R. Hall.Wēa'ri-ful, a. p. 1500Full of, or causing, weariness; tedious; tiresome; wearisome. [Rare.]Wēa'ri-ful-ly, adv. p. 1500In a weariful manner; wearisomely. [Rare.]Wēa'ri-less, a. p. 1500Incapable of being wearied.Wēa'ri-ly, adv. p. 1500In a weary manner.Wēa’ri-ness, n. p. 1500State of being weary or tired; lassitude; exhaustion of strength; fatigue. “With weariness and wine oppressed.” Dryden. A man would die, though he were neither valiant nor miserable, only upon a…Weâr'ing, p. a. p. 1500Pertaining to, or designed for, wear; as, wearing apparel.Weâr'ing, n. p. 1500That which is worn; clothes; garments. [Obs.] Give me my nightly wearing and adieu. Shak. 2. The manner in which any thing wears; use; conduct; consumption. Belike he meant to ward, and there to see…Wēar'ish, a. p. 1500Boggy; watery; washy; hence, insipid; tasteless; unsavory. “Wearish as meat that is not well tasted.” Palsgrave. 2. Weak; withered; shrunk. “A wearish hand.” Ford. “A little, wearish old man, very…Wea'ri-sōme, a. p. 1500Causing weariness; tiresome; tedious; fatiguing; as, a wearisome march; a wearisome day's work. These high, wild hills, and rough, uneven ways, Draw out our miles, and make them wearisome. Shak.…Wēa'ri-sōme-ly, adv. p. 1500In a wearisome manner; tediously.Wēa'ri-sōme-ness, n. p. 1500The state or quality of being wearisome; tiresomeness; tediousness; as, the wearisomeness of toil, or of waiting long in anxious expectation.Wea'ry, a. p. 1500Having the strength exhausted by toil or exertion; worn out in respect to strength, endurance, patience, or the like; tired; fatigued. I care not for my spirits if my legs were not so weary. Shak. 2.…Wēa'ry, v. t. p. 1500To reduce or exhaust the physical strength or endurance of; to tire; to fatigue; as, to weary one's self with labor or traveling. So shall he waste his means, weary his soldiers. Shak. 2. To make…Wēa'sand, n. p. 1501The windpipe or trachea; the canal through which air passes to and from the lungs; the throttle. [Formerly written also wesand, wezand, and wesil.] Cut his weasand with thy knife. Shak.Wēa'sel, n. p. 1501(Zoöl.) A small quadruped of the genus Mustela (M. vulgaris), about six inches in length, with a tail about two inches long. It is remarkable for its slender form and agile movements. It preys upon…Wēa'sel-cōot, n. p. 1501(Ornith.) The red-headed smew, or Mergus minutus.Wēa'sel-fā'ced, a. p. 1501Having a thin, sharp face, like a weasel.Wēa'si-ness, n. p. 1501The state or quality of being weasy; full feeding; sensual indulgence. [Obs.] Joye.Wea'sy, a. p. 1501Given to sensual indulgence; gluttonous. [Obs. and rare.] Joye.Weath'er, n. p. 1501The air or atmosphere with respect to its state as regards heat or cold, wetness or dryness, calm or storm, clearness or cloudiness, or any other meteorological phenomena; meteorological condition of…Wēath'er, v. t. p. 1501To expose to the air; to air; to season by exposure to air. Like to an eagle soaring To weather his broad sails. Spencer. This gear lacks weathering. Latimer. 2. (Naut.) To sail to the windward of…Wēath'er, v. i. p. 1501To undergo or endure the action of the atmosphere; to suffer meteorological influences; sometimes, to wear away or alter under atmospheric influences. The organisms . . . seem indestructible, while…Wēath’er, a. p. 1501(Naut.) Toward the wind, or windward; — often used in composition; as, weather-bow, weather-braces, weather-gage, weather-lifts, weather-quarter, weather-shrouds, and the like. To carry a weather…Wēath'er-bēat'en, a. p. 1501Beaten or harassed by the weather; worn by exposure to the weather, especially to severe weather.Wēath’er-bīt, n. p. 1501(Naut.) A turn of the cable about the end of the windlass, without the bits.Wēath'er-bīt, v. t. p. 1501(Naut.) To take another turn with, as a cable around a windlass. Totten.Wēath'er-bit'ten, a. p. 1501Defaced or worn by exposure to the weather. Coleridge.Wēath’er-bōard, n. p. 1501(Naut.) (a.) That side of a ship which is toward the wind; the windward side. (b.) A piece of plank placed in the ports of a ship, when laid up in ordinary, and serving as a protection from bad…Weath'er-bōard, v. t. p. 1501(Arch.) To nail boards upon so as to lap one over another, in order to exclude rain, snow, and the like. Gwilt.Weath’er-board’ing, n. p. 1501The act of nailing up boards, lapping one over another; also, the boards themselves, when so nailed.Weath'er-bound, a. p. 1501Delayed by bad weather.Weath'er-breed'er, n. p. 1501A fine day which is supposed to presage foul weather.Weath'er-clŏth, n. p. 1501(Naut.) A long piece of canvas or tarpaulin used to preserve the hammocks from injury by the weather when stowed, or to defend persons from the wind and spray. Mar. Dict.Weath'er-cock, n. p. 1501A vane, or weather-vane; — so called because originally often in the figure of a cock, turning on the top of a spire with the wind, and showing its direction. Noisy weather-cocks rattled and sang of…Weath'er-driv'en, a. p. 1501Driven by winds or storms; forced by stress of weather. Carew.Weath'ered, a. p. 1501(Arch.) Made sloping, so as to throw off water; —said of horizontal parts of stone-work, as window-sills, cornices, and the like, when so formed. 2. (Geol.) Having the surface altered in color…Weath'er-fēnd, v. t. p. 1501To defend from the weather; to shelter. [Obs.]Wĕath'er-gāge, n. p. 1501The position of a ship to the windward of another; hence, a position of advantage or superiority. To veer, and tack, and steer a cause Against the weather-gage of laws. Hudibras.Weath’er-gall, n. p. 1501A watery appearance accompanying the rainbow; a secondary or broken rainbow; a water-gall. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.Wĕath'er-glass, n. p. 1501An instrument to indicate the state of the atmosphere, especially changes of atmospheric pressure, and hence changes of weather; a barometer, baroscope, or the like.Weath'er-hĕlm, n. p. 1501(Naut.) A tendency in steering to come up into the wind, rendering it necessary to put the helm up. Dana.Weath'er-house, n. p. 1501A mechanical contrivance, in the form of a house, to show the state of the weather. Peace to the artist whose ingenious thought Devised the weather-house, that useful toy. Cooper.Weath'er-ing, n. p. 1501(Geol.) The action of the elements on a rock in altering its color, texture, or composition, or in rounding off its edges. Dana.Weath'er-ly, a. p. 1501(Naut.) Working well to the windward; as, a weatherly ship. J. F. Cooper.