Wab-wabi
"Xarah Wab-wabi" Famed and maligned Satta Warlock, master of Iswa.

Waigwa
"Mud Waigwa" Ordealman, a "monstrous" Holca thane.

Wainhail
"Swahon Wainhail" Swahon Wainhail is the Galeoth Earl of Kurigald , slain at the Fifth Battle of Mengedda .

Swahon Wainhail

Title(s): Earl of Kurigald
Lived: 4055 - 4111
Race: Men
Ethnicity: Norsirai
Nationality: Galeoth
Gender: Male
Occupation: Earl of Kurigald
Books: The Warrior-Prophet

Swahon Wainhail

Title(s): Earl of Kurigald
Lived: 4055 - 4111
Race: Men
Ethnicity: Norsirai
Nationality: Galeoth
Gender: Male
Occupation: Earl of Kurigald
Books: The Warrior-Prophet

War
"Compendium of First Holy War" The Compendium of the First Holy War is a work written by Drusas Achamian during the time between the end of The Thousandfold Thought (c. 4112) and the beginning of The Judging Eye (c. 4131), detailing the events of the Holy War . It has been banned by Anasûrimbor Kellhus .

Excerpts

"The author has often observed that in the genesis of great events, men generally possess no inkling of what their actions portend. The problem is not, as one might suppose, a result of men's blindness to the consequences of their actions. Rather it is a result of the mad way the dreadful turns on the trivial when the ends of one man cross the ends of another. The Schoolmen of the Scarlet Spires have an old saying: "When one man chases a hare, he finds a hare. But when many men chase a hare, they find a dragon ." In the prosecution of competing human interests, the result is always unknown, and all too often terrifying." "But despite stories of Fanim atrocities, the fact of the matter is that the Kianene, heathen or no, were suprisingly tolerant of Inrithi pilgrimages to Shimeh -- before the Holy War , that is. Why would a people devoted to the destruction of the Tusk extend this courtesy to "idolaters"? Perhaps they were partially motivated by the prospect of trade, as others have suggested. But the fundamental motive lies in their desert heritage. The Kianene word for a holy place is si'ihkhalis , which means, literally, "great oasis". On the open desert it is their strict custom to never begrudge travellers water, even if they be enemies." "What the Men of the Tusk never understand was that the Nansur and the Kianene were old enemies . When two civilized peoples find themselves at war for centuries, any number of common interests will arise in the midst of the pursuit of their greater antagonism. Ancestral foes share many things: mutual respect, a common history, triumph in stalemate, and a plethora of unspoken truces. The Men of the Tusk were interlopers, an impertinent flood that threatened to wash away the observed channels of a far older enmity." "...and in Old Sheyic, the language of the ruling and religious castes of the Nansurium, skilvenas means "catastrophe" or "apocalypse", as though the Scylvendi have somehow transcended the role of peoples in history and become a principle." "How shall one describe the terrible majesty of the Holy War? Even then, still unblooded, it was both frightening and wondrous to behold, a great beast whose limbs were comprised of entire nations -- Galeoth , Thunyerus , Ce Tydonn , Conriya , High Ainon , and the Nansurium -- and with the Scarlet Spires as the dragon's maw, no less. Not since the days of the Ceneian Empire or the Ancient North has the world witnessed such an assembly. Even diseased by politics, it was a thing of awe." "I have explained how Maithanet yoked the vast resources of the Thousand Temples to ensure the viability of the Holy War. I have described, in detail, the first steps taken by the Emperor to bind the Holy War to his imperial ambitions. I have attempted to reconstruct the initial reaction of the Cishaurim in Shimeh from their correspondence with the Padirajah in Nenciphon . And I have even mentioned the hated Consult , of whom I can at long last speak without ridicule. I have spoken, in other words, almost exclusively of powerful factions and their impersonal ends. What of vengeance? What of hope? Against the frame of competing nations and warring faiths, how did these small passions come to rule the Holy War?" "So who were the heroes and the cravens of the Holy War? There are already songs enough to answer that question. Needless to say, the Holy War provided further violent proof of Ajencis 's old proverb, "Though all men be equally frail before the world, the differences between them are terrifying."" "Many have condemned those who joined the Holy War for mercenary reasons, and doubtless, should this humble history find its way into their idle libraries, they will blast me as well. Admittedly, my reasons for joining the Holy War were "mercenary", if by that one means I joined in order to procure ends outside the destruction of the heathen and the reconquest of Shimeh. But there were a great many mercenaries such as myself, and like myself, they inadvertently furthered the Holy War by killing their fair share of heathen. The failure of the Holy War had nothing to do with us. Did I say failure? Perhaps "transformation" would be a better word." "Those of us who survived will always be bewildered when we recall his arrival. And not just because he was so different then. In a strange sense he never changed. We changed. If he seems so different to us now, it is because he was the figure that transformed the ground." "The event was unprecedented: not since the fall of Cenei to the Scylvendi hordes had so many potentates gathered in one place. But few knew Mankind itself lay upon the balance. And who could guess that a brief exchange of glances, not the Shriah's edict, would tip that balance? But is this not the very enigma of history? When one peers deep enough, one always finds that catastrophe and triumph, the proper objects of the historian's scrutiny, inevitably turn upon the small, the trivial, the nightmarishly accidental. When I reflect overmuch on this fact, I do not fear that we are "drunks at the sacred dance", as Protathis writes, but that there is no dance at all." "The Emperor, the consensus seems to be, was an excessively suspicious man. Fear has many forms, but it is never so dangerous as when it is combined with power and perpetual uncertainty." "...even though the skin-spies were exposed relatively early in the course of the Holy War, most believed the Cishaurim rather than the Consult to be responsible. This is the problem of all great revelations: their significance so often exceeds the frame of our comprehension. We understand only after, always after. Not simply when it is too late, but precisely because it is too late." "The days and weeks before battle are a strange thing. All the contingents, the Conriyans, the Galeoth, the Nansur, the Thunyeri, the Tydonni, the Ainoni, and the Scarlet Spires, marched to the fortress of Asgilioch , to the Southron Gates and the heathen frontier. And though many bent their thoughts to Skauras , the heathen Sapatishah who would contest us, he was still woven of the same cloth as a thousand other abstract concerns. One could still confuse war with everyday living..." "It seems a strange thing to recall these events, like waking to find I had narrowly missed a fatal fall in the darkness. Whenever I think back, I'm filled with wonder that I still live, and horror that I still travel by night." "One sorcerer , the ancients say, is worth a thousand warriors in battle and ten thousand sinners in Hell." "If one doubts that passion and unreason govern the fate of nations, one need only look to meetings between the Great. Kings and emperors are unused to treating with equals, and are often excessively relieved or repelled as a result. The Nilnameshi have a saying, "When princes meet, they find either brothers or themselves", which is to say, either peace or war. "The arrogance of the Inrithi waxed bright in the days following Anwurat . Though the sober-minded demanded they press the attack, the great majority clamored for respite. They though the Fanim doomed, just as they thought them doomed after Mengedda . But while the Men of the Tusk tarried the Padirajah plotted. He would make the world his shield." "For men, no circle is ever closed. We walk ever in spirals." "My heart shrivels even as my intellect bristles. Reasons -- I find myself desperate for reasons. Sometimes I think every word written is written for shame." "To merely recall the Apocalypse is to have survived it. This is what makes The Sagas , for all their cramped beauty, so monstrous. Despite their presentations, the poets who authored them do not tremble, even less do they grieve. They celebrate." "Some say I learned dread knowledge that night. But of this, as with so many other matters, I cannot write for fear of summary execution." "Ajencis, in the end, argued that ignorance was the only absolute. According to Parcis , he would tell his students that he knew only that he knew more than when he was an infant. This comparative assertion was the only nail, he would say, to which one could tie the carpenter-string of knowledge. This has come down to us as the famed "Ajencian Nail", and it is the only thing that prevented the Great Kyranean from falling into the tail-chasing scepticism of Nirsolfa , or the embarrassing dogmatism of well-nigh every philosopher and theologian who ever dared scratch ink across parchment. But even this metaphor, "nail", is faulty, a result of what happens when we confuse our notation with what is noted. Like the numeral "zero" used by the Nilnameshi mathematicians to work such wonders, ignorance is the occluded frame of all discourse, the unseen circumference of our every contention. Men are forever looking for the one point, the singular fulcrum they can use to dislodge all competing claims. Ignorance does not give us this. What it provides, rather, is the possibility of comparison, the assurance that not all claims are equal. And this, Ajencis would argue, is all that we need. For so long as we admit our ignorance, we can hope to improve our claims, and so long as we can improve our claims, we can aspire to the Truth, even if only in rank approximation. And this is why I mourn my love of the Great Kyranean. For despite the pull of his wisdom, there re many things of which I am absolutely certain, things that feed the hate which drives this very quill."

Wards
The name given to defensive sorceries in contradistinction to offensive sorceries, or Cants. The most common types of Wards (found in both Anagogic and Gnostic sorceries) are: Wards of Exposure, which provide advance warning of intruders or imminent attacks; Shield-Wards, which provide direct protection against offensive sorceries; and Skin-Wards, which provide “protection of last resort” against all types of threat.

Warnute
Warnute is a fiefdom of Ce Tydonn , one of the so-called Deep Marches of the upper River Swa . The Earl of Warnute is Sheorog Cerjulla .

Warring
"Age of Warring Cities" Age of Warring Cities is the era following the dissolution of Kyraneas ( c. 2158) until the rise of Cenei , characterized by perpetual warfare between the cities of the Kyranae Plains .

Warrior
"Warrior Prophet" The Warrior-Prophet is the second novel in both The Prince of Nothing trilogy and the The Second Apocalypse series. It was published in 2004.

Publisher’s Summary

The first battle against the heathen has been won, but while the Great Names plot and squabble over the spoils, Kellhus patiently extends his influence, drawing more followers to his banner. The sorcerer Achamian and his lover, Esmenet, submit entirely, only to have their faith tested in unimaginable ways. The warrior Cnaiür falls ever deeper into madness. The skin-spies of the Consult watch with growing trepidation. And as the vast host of the Holy War endures its sternest test in the searing wastes of the desert, a name—a title—begins to be whispered amongst the faithful. But who is the Warrior-Prophet: a dangerous heretic, who turns brother against brother? Or the only man who can avert the Second Apocalypse? The Holy War stands on a knife edge. If all is not to be lost the great powers will have to choose between their most desperate desires and their most ingrained prejudice. Between hatred and hope. Between the Warrior-Prophet and the end of the world …

The Holy War

Free of the Emperor ’s machinations, the Lords of the Holy War fall to squabbling among each other, and the Holy War fractures into its various nationalities as it marches toward the heathen frontier. Contingent by contingent, it gathers beneath Asgilioch on the heathen frontier. But Prince Coithus Saubon , the leader of the Galeoth contingent, is too impatient, and on the prophetic advice of Prince Anasûrimbor Kellhus , he marches with the Tydonni , the Thunyeri , and the Shrial Knights . The Imperial Army under Ikurei Conphas and the Conriyans under Prince Nersei Proyas remain at Asgilioch, awaiting the Ainoni and the all-important Scarlet Spires . Skauras ab Nalajan , the leader of the Kianene host, surprises Saubon and his impetuous peers on the Plains of Mengedda . A desperate battle follows, where, just as Prince Kellhus predicted, the Shrial Knights suffer grievously saving the Holy War from a cadre of Cishaurim . As the day wanes, the rest of the Holy War appears in the hills, and the Fanim host is completely routed. The Governorate of Gedea falls, though the Emperor manages to take her capital, Hinnereth , through trickery. The Men of the Tusk continue south. Broken by their defeat on the Plains of Mengedda, the Kianene fall back to the south bank of the River Sempis , yielding northern Shigek to the Inrithi invaders. Prince Kellhus begins giving regular sermons beneath the famed Ziggurats of Shigek . Many in the Holy War begin referring to him as the “Warrior-Prophet.” With Cnaiür urs Skiötha as their general, the Men of the Tusk cross the Sempis Delta, and a second great battle is fought beneath the Kianene fortress of Anwurat . Despite the dissolution of Cnaiür’s command and the martial cunning of Skauras, the Men of the Tusk prevail once again. The sons of Kian are hacked to ruin. Anxious to press the advantage, the Great Names then lead the Holy War south across the coastal deserts of Khemema , depending on the Imperial Fleet to keep them supplied with fresh water. The Padirajah , however, surprises the fleet at the Bay of Trantis , and the Men of the Tusk find themselves stranded in the burning wastes without water. Thousands upon thousands die. Only Prince Kellhus’s discovery of water beneath the dunes saves the Inrithi from total annihilation. The remnants of the Holy War drift from the desert and descend upon the great mercantile city of Caraskand . After a number of abortive assaults, the Men of the Tusk prepare for a long siege. The winter rains come, and with them, disease. At the height of the plague, hundreds of Inrithi perish every night. Only a Fanim traitor allows the Holy War to breach Caraskand’s mighty fortifications. The Men of the Tusk show no quarter. But even as the city falls, Kascamandri ab Tepherokar , the Padirajah himself, approaches with another great host. Suddenly the besiegers find themselves besieged in a sacked city. Diseases of malnutrition, then outright starvation soon begin afflicting them. Meanwhile, the tensions between traditional Inrithi and those acclaiming Prince Kellhus as a prophet—the Orthodox and the Zaudunyani —grow to the point of riot and violence. Incited by the accusations of Cutias Sarcellus and Ikurei Conphas, the Lords of the Holy War turn against Prince Kellhus. He is denounced, declared a False Prophet, and, in accordance with The Chronicle of the Tusk , seized and bound to the corpse of his wife, Serwë , who is executed by Sarcellus. He is then lashed to an iron ring—a circumfix—and hung from a tree . Thousands gather in solemn vigil. After Cnaiür reveals Sarcellus as a skin-spy , the Men of the Tusk repent, and the Warrior-Prophet is cut down from the Circumfix. Moved by a profound fervour, they assemble outside the gates of Caraskand. The Grandees of Kian charge their grim ranks and are utterly undone. The Padirajah himself falls before the Warrior-Prophet, though his son, Fanayal ab Kascamandri , survives to flee east with the remnants of the heathen army. The road to Holy Shimeh is now open. But far to the north, in the shadow of dread Golgotterath , the Consult rides openly once again, torturing those Men they find with a single, implacable question: “Who are the Dûnyain ?”

Drusas Achamian

Drusas Achamian faces a dilemma, the greatest he’s ever encountered. Using the Cants of Calling , he contacts the Mandate and informs them of his dread discovery beneath the Andiamine Heights , but he says nothing of Anasûrimbor Kellhus, even though the man’s name could very well mean the Celmomian Prophecy —that an Anasûrimbor would return at the end of the world—has been fulfilled. The omission torments him, but the more time he spends teaching Kellhus on the march, the more he finds himself in awe of the man. With strokes of a stick across the ground, Kellhus rewrites classical logic, devises new and more subtle geometries. He regularly anticipates the insights of Eärwa ’s greatest thinkers, even extends them in astonishing ways. And he never forgets anything. Achamian, especially after the debacle with Paro Inrau in Sumna , is under no illusions regarding his School . He knows what they would do with Prince Anasûrimbor Kellhus. So he convinces himself that he needs time to determine whether Kellhus is in fact the Harbinger of the Apocalypse . He decides to betray the Mandate, to risk the very future of humanity, for the sake of a single, remarkable man. While the Holy War awaits the arrival of the last stragglers about Asgilioch, he turns to drink and whores to silence his misgivings, only to find Esmenet among the camp-followers. Their reunion is both ardent and awkward. Afterward, Achamian takes her to his tent as his wife. After a lifetime of fruitless wandering, he finds himself terrified by the prospect of happiness. How can anyone be happy in the shadow of the Apocalypse? As the Holy War marches ever deeper into Fanim territory, he continues teaching Kellhus. During this time, Achamian and Esmenet make a game of interpreting Kellhus, becoming more and more convinced of his divinity. In the course of these ruminations, Achamian confesses his fear that Kellhus may be one of the Few —those who can work sorcery . When Kellhus claims as much shortly after, Achamian insists on proof, using a small, demon-haunted Wathi Doll he obtained in High Ainon. Krijates Xinemus is outraged by the blasphemous demonstration, and Achamian finds himself estranged from his old friend. When the Holy War reaches Shigek, Kellhus finally asks Achamian to teach him the Gnosis —something that would complete his betrayal of the Mandate. Needing solitude, Achamian travels alone to the Sareötic Library , where the sorcerers of the Scarlet Spires ambush and abduct him. The torment drags on for weeks. Heramari Iyokus , the lead interrogator, even captures and blinds Xinemus in an attempt to wring more information from Achamian. The Scarlet Spires, it seems, have learned of the events beneath the Andiamine Heights. They know about Skeaös and the skin-spies, and with the very future of his School at stake, Hanamanu Eleäzaras is desperate to extract as much intelligence as possible. Despite his sorcerous constraints, Achamian is able to call out to his Wathi Doll, which has been buried in the ruins of the Sareötic Library. After a long wait the Doll arrives and breaks the Uroborian Circle that imprisons him. Achamian at last shows the Gnosis to the Scarlet Spires. Though Iyokus escapes his vengeance, he and Xinemus are at last free. After recuperating, the two friends set out to rejoin the Holy War, their relationship now marred by the resentment Xinemus bears for losing his eyes. They find the Men of the Tusk trapped and starving in Caraskand and learn of the Circumfixion of Kellhus and Serwë. Achamian immediately sets out to find Esmenet, relieved beyond words to discover that she survived the desert. He finds her with the Zaudunyani. She tells him that she is pregnant with Kellhus’s child. Achamian goes to the ring-bound Kellhus thinking only of murder. Instead he learns that Consult skin-spies riddle the Holy War. Kellhus, it seems, can see them. He tells Achamian that the Second Apocalypse has in fact begun. Despite his sorrow and hatred, Achamian goes to Proyas arguing that Kellhus must be saved. Proyas agrees to summon the other Great Names, and Achamian presents his case, arguing that the world is doomed without Anasûrimbor Kellhus, only to be made a laughingstock by Ikurei Conphas. He fails to convince the Lords of the Holy War.

Esmenet

Thinking Achamian has repudiated her, Esmenet loses herself in the Holy War and eventually joins a troop of camp prostitutes. But at Asgilioch, she finds Achamian kneeling in the crowds, drunk and beaten. Never has she seen him so desperate. They reconcile, even though she cannot confess the truth of her affair with Sarcellus. He tells her about Skeaös and the events beneath the Andiamine Heights, about his failure to tell the Mandate about Kellhus. She consoles him even as she struggles to grasp the dread import of his words. He insists the Second Apocalypse is coming, and though it seems something too horrific, too abstract, to be real, she finds herself believing him. She joins him in his humble tent, and becomes his wife in spirit if not in ritual. Achamian introduces her to Kellhus, Serwë, Xinemus, and everyone else about their motley yet extraordinary camp fire. At first she regards Kellhus with suspicion, but she soon finds the wonder of the man as irresistible as everyone else. As the Holy War marches across Gedea, she watches as Kellhus grows in prestige and reputation, becoming more and more convinced that he must be the prophet he claims not to be. During the same time her love of Achamian deepens, though she has difficulty trusting it. Then, in Shigek, Kellhus asks Achamian to teach him the Gnosis. Since this would represent a final, ultimate betrayal of the Mandate, Achamian leaves for the Sareötic Library to meditate alone. He and Esmenet exchange hard words. The following night Kellhus awakens her with grim tidings: the Sareötic Library burns, and Achamian is missing. She mourns him the way she once mourned her dead daughter . While the Men of the Tusk assail the South Bank, she remains alone in Achamian’s tent, refusing, despite Xinemus’s entreaties, to rejoin the Holy War. How would Achamian find her if she moved? After the Battle of Anwurat , Kellhus comes to her with Serwë, and with reason and compassion convinces her to join them on the continued march. She finds their company awkward at first, but Kellhus is able to make sense of her melancholy, to give shape to the morass of accumulated sorrow that burdens her heart. He begins teaching her how to read—as a way to distract her, she suspects. As the weeks pass and the Holy War begins its disastrous march across the desert, she starts to resign herself to the fact that Achamian is dead. She also finds herself more and more attracted to Kellhus. Despite her shame, despite her resolutions, the chance intimacies accumulate. His words seem to carve her at the joints, cutting ever closer to truths she cannot bear. She admits her affair with Sarcellus, all her small betrayals of Achamian. Then, at last, overcome by shame and grief, she confesses the truth about her daughter: Mimara didn’t die all those years ago. Esmenet sold the girl to slavers to forestall starvation. She and Kellhus make love the following morning. The long suffering in the desert seems to sanctify their relationship. Everything appears transformed. She even casts away her Whore’s Shell, the contraceptive charm used by most prostitutes, something she never even considered with Achamian. Esmenet becomes the Warrior-Prophet’s second wife. For the first time in her life she feels shriven—pure. Caraskand is besieged and overcome. Serwë gives birth to the infant Anasûrimbor Moënghus II . And Kellhus yields Esmenet more and more power within the growing ranks of Zaudunyani, raising her above even his closest disciples, the Nascenti . She becomes pregnant. Then suddenly everything seems to collapse. The Padirajah traps the Holy War in Caraskand. Misery and riot own the streets. The Great Names execute Serwë and condemn Kellhus to the Circumfix. All seems lost … Until Achamian returns.

Cnaiür urs Skiötha

Cnaiür urs Skiötha ’s torment deepens. Though the Men of the Tusk mean nothing to him, he sees his own undoing in their slow capitulation to Kellhus. He alone knows the truth of the Dûnyain, which means he knows that Kellhus will eventually betray him in the prosecution of his obscure ends. Just as he knows the man will betray the Holy War. As the Holy War marches deeper into Fanim territory, he tries to teach Prince Proyas the rudiments of war as practised by the Kianene. Assigned by Proyas to command a cohort of Conriyan outriders, he returns to the camp he shares with Kellhus, Achamian, and the others of the less and less. He knows that Kellhus now possesses Serwë body and soul, and when he returns, he finds himself punishing her for Kellhus’s outrage. Secretly he loves her, or so he tells himself. In the arid highlands of Gedea, he decides he can tolerate no more. He refuses to share Kellhus’s fire, and demands that Serwë, whom he claims as his prize, come with him. Kellhus denies him. Since concern for women is unmanly, Cnaiür relinquishes her, though she continues to tyrannize his thoughts. His madness burns brighter. Some nights he roams the countryside, raping and murdering indiscriminately. After the Holy War seizes the north bank of the River Sempis, the Lords of the Holy War assign Cnaiür the task of planning the assault on southern Shigek. Impressed by his insight and cunning, they acclaim him their general for the impending battle. Kellhus comes to him, offering Serwë in exchange for the secrets of battle. Cnaiür knows that his knowledge of war is the last advantage he possesses over the Dûnyain, the only thing Kellhus still needs from him, but Serwë has somehow become more important than anything. She is his prize, his proof … Cnaiür agrees. Riven by recriminations, he teaches Kellhus the principles of war. Despite all his efforts, Skauras outwits him on the battlefield; only determination and good fortune save the Holy War from defeat. Something breaks within Cnaiür. At the height of the crisis he leaves Kellhus and the others, abandons his command to collect his prize. But when he finds Serwë, another Kellhus is beating her, demanding information. He surprises the second Kellhus, stabbing him in the shoulder. The man flees, but not before Cnaiür glimpses his face crack open … Cnaiür seizes Serwë, begins dragging her to his camp. She rages at him, tells him that he beats her because she lies with Kellhus the way he had lain with Kellhus’s father. She tries to cut her own throat. Bewildered and undone, Cnaiür wanders aimlessly through the camp. Later that night, as the Men of the Tusk celebrate their victory, Kellhus finds him at the edge of the Meneanor , howling at the breakers. Thinking he is Anasûrimbor Moënghus , Cnaiür begs him to end his misery. The Dûnyain refuses. Throughout the disastrous desert march and the siege of Caraskand, madness rules Cnaiür’s heart. Not until the city falls does he recover some semblance of his former self. Fomenting against Kellhus, the Great Names come to him, hoping to confirm rumours that Kellhus is not a true prince of Atrithau . The estrangement between Cnaiür and Kellhus is no secret. Thinking the Holy War doomed, Cnaiür decides to take what compensation he can. He names Kellhus a “prince of nothing.” Only when Serwë is murdered by Sarcellus does he realize the consequences of his betrayal. “Lie made flesh,” Kellhus calls out to him before he is seized. “The hunt need not end.” Cnaiür flees, and in a moment of resurgent madness cuts a swazond across his own throat. He obsesses over the Dûnyain’s final words. When the Mandate Schoolman confronts the Lords of the Holy War with the severed head of a Consult skin-spy, he finally grasps their meaning. He follows Sarcellus, who hastens from the assembly to the temple-complex where his brother Shrial Knights guard Kellhus upon the Circumfix. Knowing he intends to kill the Dûnyain, Cnaiür intercepts him, and they duel before the starving masses gathered about the dying Warrior-Prophet. But the skin-spy is too fast, too skilled. Cnaiür is saved only when Incheiri Gotian , the Grandmaster of the Shrial Knights, distracts Sarcellus by demanding to know how he learned to fight so. Exhausted, bloodied, Cnaiür beheads the counterfeit Shrial Knight. Raising its severed head to the sky, he shows the Holy War the true face of the Warrior-Prophet’s adversary. The hunt for Moënghus need not end.

Anasûrimbor Kellhus

Anasûrimbor Kellhus requires three things to prepare for his father in Shimeh: knowledge of battle and of sorcery, and possession of the Holy War. From the outset, he uses his claim to caste-nobility to insinuate himself into the councils of Proyas and the other Great Names. He proceeds cautiously, patiently laying the groundwork of his domination. From his readings of Inrithi scripture, he learns what the Men of the Tusk expect from a prophetic figure, so he sets out to emulate—as far as he can—all of those characteristics. He becomes a pilot of souls, crafting others’ impressions of him with subtle inflections of word, tone, and expression. Soon, almost all those who know him find themselves in awe. Throughout the Holy War men whisper that a prophet walks among them. At the same time, he plies Achamian with particular care. While mining him for his knowledge of the Three Seas , Kellhus subtly conditions him, instilling the passions and beliefs that will eventually force him to do the impossible: teach Kellhus the Gnosis, the deadly sorcery of the Ancient North . In the course of his study, however, he discovers dozens of skin-spies mimicking men in various positions of power. He realizes, moreover, that they now know he can see them. One of them, a high-ranking Shrial Knight called Sarcellus, approaches him, probing for details. Kellhus uses the opportunity to make himself even more enigmatic, into a puzzle the Consult will be loath to destroy before solving. As long as he remains a benign mystery to the Consult, Kellhus realizes, they will not move against him. He needs time to consolidate his position. Until the Holy War is his, he cannot risk an open confrontation. He says nothing to Achamian for much the same reason. He knows the Mandate Schoolman believes him to be the Harbinger of the Second Apocalypse, and that the only thing preventing Achamian from telling this to his Mandate handlers is the recent death of his former student, Inrau, as a result of their machinations. Knowing that Kellhus could actually see Consult agents in their midst would prove too much. And as Achamian himself admits, the Mandate would likely seize Kellhus rather than treat with him as an equal. Once the Holy War secures Shigek, Kellhus begins asserting himself more and more, giving what are called the Sermons of the Ziggurat . Though many now refer to him openly as the Warrior-Prophet, he continues to insist he is simply a man like any other. Knowing that Achamian has succumbed—that he believes him to be the world’s only hope—Kellhus finally asks the Schoolman to teach him the Gnosis. But when Achamian leaves for the Sareötic Library to meditate on this request, he is abducted by the Scarlet Spires. Assuming Achamian lost, Kellhus turns to Esmenet, not out of any errant sense of lust, but because her extraordinary native intelligence makes her useful both as a subordinate and as a potential mate. The differences between the Dûnyain and the worldborn makes his bloodline invaluable. He knows that whatever sons he produces, especially by a woman of Esmenet’s intellect, will prove powerful tools. So he begins seducing her by teaching her to read, by showing the hidden truths of her own heart, and by drawing her ever deeper into his circle of power and influence. Far from proving an obstacle, her bereavement actually facilitates his plan by rendering her more emotionally vulnerable and prone to suggestion. By the time the Holy War enters the desert, she has willingly joined him and Serwë in their bed. Despite its calamities, the journey across the desert provides ample opportunity for him to exercise his otherworldly abilities. He rallies the Men of the Tusk with demonstrations of indomitable will and courage. He even saves them, using his preternatural senses to find well-springs beneath the sand. By the time the remnants of the Holy War fall upon Caraskand, thousands upon thousands openly hail him as the Warrior-Prophet. At long last he yields to the title. He names his followers the Zaudunyani, the “Tribe of Truth.” But now he faces an added danger. As the numbers of Zaudunyani swell, so too do the misapprehensions of the Great Names. For many, following the dictates of a living—as opposed to a long-dead—prophet proves too much. Ikurei Conphas becomes the de facto leader of the Orthodox, those Men of the Tusk who repudiate Kellhus and his revisionary Inrithism. Even Proyas finds himself increasingly troubled. The Consult, as well, have been watching Kellhus with growing trepidation. In the confusion of Caraskand’s fall, Sarcellus leads several of his brother skin-spies in an assassination attempt that very nearly costs Kellhus his life. Knowing that it might prove useful, Kellhus saves one of their severed heads. Shortly after this attempt, Kellhus is finally contacted by one of his father’s agents: a Cishaurim fleeing the Scarlet Spires. He tells Kellhus that he follows the Shortest Path, and that soon he will comprehend something called the Thousandfold Thought . Kellhus has innumerable questions, but it is too late: the Scarlet Spires approach. To avoid compromising his position, Kellhus beheads the man. When the Padirajah arrives and seals the Holy War up within Caraskand, the situation becomes even more dire. According to Conphas and the Orthodox, the God punishes the Men of the Tusk for following a False Prophet. To defuse their threat, Kellhus plots the assassination of both Conphas and Sarcellus. Neither attempt succeeds, and General Martemus , Conphas’s closest adviser, is killed. The dilemma now facing Kellhus is almost insuperable. The Holy War starves. The Zaudunyani and the Orthodox stand upon the brink of open war. And the Padirajah continues to assail Caraskand’s walls. For the first time, Kellhus is confronted by circumstances he cannot master. He sees only one possible way to unify the Holy War under his leadership: he must let the Men of the Tusk condemn him and Serwë, and trust that Cnaiür, driven to avenge Serwë, will save him. Only a dramatic reversal and vindication can possibly win over the Orthodox in time. He must make a leap of faith. Serwë is executed, and Kellhus is bound to her naked corpse. Then he is lashed to a circumfix and hung from a great tree to die of exposure. Visions of the No-God plague him, as does Serwë pressed dead against him. Never has he suffered so … For the first time, Anasûrimbor Kellhus weeps. Achamian comes to him wild with rage because of Esmenet. Kellhus tells him about the skin-spies, about his visions of the impending Apocalypse. Then, miraculously, he is cut down, and he knows that at last the Holy War is his, and that they will have the ardour and conviction they need to overcome the Padirajah. Standing before the exultant masses, he grasps the Thousandfold Thought.

Point of View Characters

Each chapter in the book is divided into sections of limited third person point of views of alternating characters. Some chapters include an omniscient third person point of view. The numbers in brackets indicate how many sections the character has in the novel. - Aëngelas (1)
- Anasûrimbor Kellhus (19)
- Aurang (2)
- Cnaiür urs Skiötha (22)
- Coithus Saubon (7)
- Drusas Achamian (36)
- Esmenet (20)
- Fustaras (1)
- Hanamanu Eleäzaras (6)
- Heramari Iyokus (1)
- Houlta (1)
- Ikurei Conphas (8)
- Ikurei Xerius III (2)
- Kascamandri ab Tepherokar (1)
- Krijates Xinemus (2)
- Mamaradda (1)
- Martemus (6)
- Nersei Proyas (6)
- Omniscient (24)
- Orange Tabby Cat (1)
- Serwë (8)
- Skauras ab Nalajan (1)
- Skin-spy (1)
- The-Thing-Called- Sarcellus ( Gaörta ) (4)
- Wathi Doll (1)

The Warrior-Prophet

Series: The Prince of Nothing #2 The Second Apocalypse #2
Author: R. Scott Bakker
Publisher: Penguin (Canada), Overlook (USA), Orbit (UK)
Released: 2004

The Warrior-Prophet

Series: The Prince of Nothing #2 The Second Apocalypse #2
Author: R. Scott Bakker
Publisher: Penguin (Canada), Overlook (USA), Orbit (UK)
Released: 2004

Warrior Hymn
Warrior Hymn is a war song of the Greal Ordeal . The Ordealmen sing in during the Resumption , as they greet their victorious Aspect-Emperor , unaware of the resurrection of the No-God . By the waters of Siol, we hung our lyres upon the willows, and abandoned song with our mountain. Ere the doom of Trysë, we hoisted our sons upon our knees, and counted scabs upon our hands and heart. In the fields of Cenei, we broke bread that we had stolen, and tasted the love of those who were dead. Beneath the Ark of horrors, we saw the sun rise upon gold as night fell, and mourned the captivity of tomorrow.

Warrior Prophet
The Warrior-Prophet is the second novel in both The Prince of Nothing trilogy and the The Second Apocalypse series. It was published in 2004.

Publisher’s Summary

The Holy War

Drusas Achamian

Esmenet

Cnaiür urs Skiötha

Anasûrimbor Kellhus

Point of View Characters

The Warrior-Prophet

Series: The Prince of Nothing #2 The Second Apocalypse #2
Author: R. Scott Bakker
Publisher: Penguin (Canada), Overlook (USA), Orbit (UK)
Released: 2004

The Warrior-Prophet

Series: The Prince of Nothing #2 The Second Apocalypse #2
Author: R. Scott Bakker
Publisher: Penguin (Canada), Overlook (USA), Orbit (UK)
Released: 2004

Warrior-Prophet
The Warrior-Prophet is the second novel in both The Prince of Nothing trilogy and the The Second Apocalypse series. It was published in 2004.

Publisher’s Summary

The Holy War

Drusas Achamian

Esmenet

Cnaiür urs Skiötha

Anasûrimbor Kellhus

Point of View Characters

The Warrior-Prophet

Series: The Prince of Nothing #2 The Second Apocalypse #2
Author: R. Scott Bakker
Publisher: Penguin (Canada), Overlook (USA), Orbit (UK)
Released: 2004

The Warrior-Prophet

Series: The Prince of Nothing #2 The Second Apocalypse #2
Author: R. Scott Bakker
Publisher: Penguin (Canada), Overlook (USA), Orbit (UK)
Released: 2004

Warrior/Chapter
"White-Luck Warrior/Chapter 15"

Plot

Achamian dreamed again, he was Anasûrimbor Nau-Cayûti and he was inside a stone sarcophagus panicking he began to gasp and beat his prison for lack of air then the sarcophagus tilted and fell down a slope and suddenly Nau-Cayûti found himself in the middle of a commotion of rock fragments, his sarcophagus had exploded into pieces and one of them remained on him, cutting off his breathing, calming himself he began to look around him contemplating the darkness of the night and the moon, he saw around him bodies and torches scattered on the ground, even his sword was there. Then he fixed his gaze on his assailant who loomed over him in all his monstrosity, it was the Inchoroi Aurang . This creature lifted Nau-Cayûti and raising him up to his eyes smiled and told him that no one escaped Golgotterath … Achamian and the rest of the company of Scalpers were awakened by the shouts of the Captain Kosoter , jokes and shouts of the Captain who told his men that finally that day ended their Slog , the Coffers awaited them. Kosoter and Cleric took Achamian away from the others and threatening him with the Chorae untied him and reminded him of certain lies that he himself did not remember about the Coffers, the Captain resolved to send Achamian accompanied by Cleric, if something went wrong or there was treason the Nonman would kill the Wizard. And furthermore Lord Kosoter threatened to kill Mimara and the baby inside her if the Wizard tried anything. Walking among the barrows of ruins protruding from the earth the Wizard found an unexpected serenity in walking with the Nonman, surprised also that the figure walking beside him had survived countless generations long enough to crack under the weight of memories and time. Straining to speak Achamian finally asked the Nonman the reason behind his names Incariol and Cleric, the Nonman replied that the former was because he wandered and the latter because of the tradition among the Siqû of taking a human name. Achamian told him that his real name was Nil’giccas the last King of the Mansions, but the Nonman told him that Nil'giccas was dead, something flatly denied by the Wizard since Nil'giccas was by his side. Realizing the majesty that enveloped the Nonman Achamian knelt in the same manner as Seswatha had done in the past in that same city to pay homage to Nil'giccas, the King of Ishterebinth . Mimara watched as Achamian and Cleric walked away and disappeared into the ruins, as she waited she began to fear and pray for the wizard. The kneeling of Achamian is dismissed by Cleric who did not give it much importance, but Achamian did not desist and offered to be the new Elju of the Nonman wielding the memories of Seswatha as a guarantee against betrayal but the Nonman told him that to do such a thing would only bring him the absolute oblivion of his memories, Only then Achamian remembered that he could not offer himself as the tool of the Nonman since he and Mimara were the ultimate objects of the deal of Cleric with Lord Kosoter who offered the Nonman the memories of a long lost friend and a long lost love. It was thanks to them that the Nonman would remember a little more. Then the old Wizard finally gave up on convincing him and gave in to thoughts and plans to avoid dying at the hands of Cleric. The Nonman surprised him by suddenly telling him that he regretted due to what he had become because of fate, the Wizard asked him about Ishterebinth to which the Nonman replied that due to lack of memories, his Nonmen brothers had turned to Min-Uroikas, to the tyranny of Golgotterath. Cleric did not join his brothers out of sheer pride, instead he set out into the world to find someone to love and destroy. Mimara could feel the atmosphere around the Scalpers change, something hidden among the men had changed, a motive. Then Galian began to rebuke with questions to Captain Kosoter, like how many riches would correspond to them or what would they do with the Nonman and the Qirri, all of them with a tone of foolishness and audacity to the Captain who with a somber and silent deliberation reflected in his eyes seen by Mimara decides to kill Galian, but Galian has also seen it and knows it, he recognizes that his Captain has decided to kill him. And Galian imitates the tone of voice of his Captain arousing the laughter of the other Scalpers, only then Mimara recognizes with horror what changed in the men, recognized the savage form of the conspiracy and the conspirators. Galian reveals to the Captain that all the men supported the treason, he had always thought of killing the Captain every time he saw him, telling him all this as he approached Lord Kosoter with obscene contempt. Then an arrow hit the Captain in the mouth skewering the lower half of his face, the arrow was shot by Xonghis , the Captain only manages to laugh with sardonic glee through blood and teeth, A second arrow is stuck in his neck making him turn on his waist to finally collapse on the humus of the ground, there he convulses with bestial violence as if his spirit was trying to escape from his body, scratching the ground, spitting saliva, blood and with his eyes glistening with effort and fury. Galian himself who was watching the scene was frightened and drew his sword, the Captain launched a last roar to the sky and calming down he let his head fall to the ground and remained motionless, the silence took over the place. And Mimara watched breathlessly in amazement, realizing that the Captain, Lord Kosoter, was mortal after all. The King Nonman and the old wizard finally entered the ruins of the Library in an experience that the Wizard found surreal, he was walking through two worlds, one real and in ruins and the other the one of his dreams. Achamian told Cleric that he had seen the citadel fall and the Nonman replied that all of Ishterebinth mourned when they learned of the fall of Sauglish , and with melancholy the Wizard asked him why he mourned the death of men if it was men who destroyed the Nonmen Mansions, Cleric told him that the Nonmen always knew that they would not survive Men, only then did the Wizard remember that it was like that "Because our dooms are one." Finally they reached the ruins of a Turret where Cleric recognized some ancient and weak sorcery, the Wizard reminded him that the Coffers were under the ruins along with the guardians that protected them and these were not weak nor did they age, lies he continued to tell. The Wizard did not dare to attack Cleric not until he knew he would not need to, and they began to look for a way down, as they continued the Wizard was haunted by vivid memories of the No-God that assaulted him as he ascended the ruins, Cleric was already waiting for him at the top and from there he told the Wizard that something was wrong, when Achamian finally reached his side he was surprised to see that the inside, the center of the Turret was a huge funnel, a pit with an immense blackness at the bottom. They both recognized a certain smell emanating from there, sulfur. The Scalpers still surprised by what happened, discuss among themselves if the Captain was really dead, Sarl pokes and moves the face of Lord Kosoter with a branch, he turns to Mimara and tells her that he is not dead, Pokwas tells Galian that the Captain is too much, even for hell. They both descended the shaft down a steeply inclined slope, to the Wizard it reminded him of a rabbit hole but imbued with a sulfurous mystery, slowly they made their way down the pit through the rubble and packed earth revealing split passageways, open chambers and cut off chambers facing the shaft, Cleric pointed out to the Wizard one side of the tunnel, Achamian had already seen it, the three scythe-like gashes in the rock on one side of the tunnel. Achamian recognized it as the symbol of Triamis the Great , the spoor of Dragons. Numb and expectant Mimara clutched her knees even tighter, Sarl had decapitated Lord Kosoter and was clinging to his head like a doll, Galian now led the Scalpers and told them all that they would wait for Cleric to return and then they would kill him and seize the pouch of the Qirri, Xonghis seizes the two Chorae from the body of the Captain and Galian with a sour look and a lecherous smile that Mimara already knows very well, tells the others that while they wait they will feast on peach. Upon finally arriving at the Great Gate of Wheels, having seen the Upper Pausal in complete ruins before and now seeing the knotted remains of the Coffers Achamian stood still, he was dismayed he thought of his lies that had caused suffering and deaths alike were for naught, a part of him came to think that he would survive all the vicissitudes of the road and find the Coffers intact, he knew that his destiny was always to be trapped in the machinations of his enemy all wrapped up in his absurd hopes, he had only found on his way some madmen and a dragon of yesteryear. Without a word the Wizard and the Nonman entered the Coffers and immediately their eyes burned from the stench of sulfur and rot, they could hear the heavy breathing of the creature in the darkness, a part of Achamian refused to see the horror that awaited them and as they reached a hillside of rubble and climbed to its top the Nonman summoned a Surillic Point and the blackness escaped illuminating a huge chamber whose ceiling had collapsed down the center, treasure and debris were piled in the center of the chamber and of it all the only thing that seemed to gleam was the dragon, in a tan and pale color of dirt. Achamian realized that the beast was excessively ancient and of considerable size, turning to Cleric the Wizard discovered him thoughtful and enraptured, suddenly the Nonman muttered that they were in the place where he was destined to die, Achamian replied that apparently he would also die there, which raised an unexpected laughter from the Nonman who remembered the wisdom of Seswatha in Achamian, both were interrupted by words that resounded in their heads with force and immensity, It was the dragon that had begun to move over the rubble, he raised his armored chest and directing his saurian head in their direction he spoke under the gloom again telling them that the dragons had flown looking for inhabited cities but they had only found ruins and filthy Sranc, asking Cleric if the world had ended he answered that the world still lived in the far south. The dragon moved again exposing his huge throat sure of his invulnerability exhaling wisps of fire lowered his head and exposing his eyes to the light agreed with what Cleric had said, unfortunately the world still lived. Achamian wanted to retreat but could not, such was the rapture of his terror, he heard Cleric mutter that the beast was dead and blind, straining to get a closer look at the beast, Achamian did not believe what the Nonman had said as he could see and hear the beast breathing, The Wizard saw stumps and scar tissue on the right eyebrow of the beast and the eye under that eyebrow was rotting, where its left eye should be there was only an empty socket, observing the body of the dragon he saw how the bronze skin was detached from the flesh underneath as if it were a warped coping, the gums of the immense snout were dry and shrunken. The dragon responded to their scrutiny by telling them that his curse was to breathe as long as the world lived and warned them to get out of there and return to their homes and tell the others that they had survived. Achamian understood that the dragon was mad, half dead and that there was no going back from that place. The Wizard shouted that he needed a map, a trinket that the dragon did not need, but the dragon replied that he would not part with any tiny fraction of his treasure, that he should come back for it when the world had truly ended. Achamian refused to leave empty-handed marveling at his courage and provocation, something that provoked laughter from the dragon who told him that greed and need always confuse the souls of men but the Wizard replied that he was driven only by need and in the blink of an eye he thought of the weeks of travel, the lies told, of the dead men and the dangers he had exposed Mimara to, all for that moment, then he shouted to the dragon that he was offering him a bargain, he offered him a Truth as all he possessed, the dragon rose further from his mound and told the Wizard that he smelled his suffering, forgotten deeds and fears and concluded that perhaps he did indeed have something to offer him. The dragon descended from the top dragging debris and jewels in his wake and told the Wizard to show him a Truth and only then could he have a fraction of his treasure, the map he sought. Backing away and stumbling before the advancing beast the Magician resisted lying to him, realizing that the beast was both spirit and flesh, perhaps the dead could see or hear the lies of the living. So he began to describe his dreams, but quickly became entangled in explanations that piled on more explanations, causing the eyeless creature yawned and asked him again about the map he was looking for and its Truth, Achamian fed up answered that what he was looking for as an ultimate goal was revenge against Anasûrimbor Kellhus, the dragon asked him about the crime that this guy committed to be now the object of revenge, Achamian answered that he has said more than enough and the dragon laughed mockingly that the truths are infinite while he took a step closer to the Wizard. Then Cleric surprised Achamian by putting a hand on his shoulder, he tells him that the dragon is just playing with him, the beast was too evil and had been living there too long, an abomination he called Wutteät . And the dragon began to laugh praising the cunning of the Nonman, Cleric then tells Achamian that "He dies from the outside, because Hell sustains him from within." and he remembered it from his past, he had seen something similar before. Achamian, not knowing what to do, looked for the gaze of the Nonman and saw his eyes shining with a kind of black humor and without saying a word he saw him advance towards the creature. And turning his gaze in passing over his shoulder Nil'giccas told Achamian to run to save them, his wife and child. Mimara found herself remembering the brothel in Carythusal where she worked as a prostitute, she remembered her bed and the walls of her room, how the clients chose her over and over again, she remembered the numbness that came over her as she worked with someone, a feeling that reminded her of the effects of the Qirri, the wide smile of the Scalper Galian reminded her of it all and she thought how easy it would be to die then. But the Wizard did not leave, he found himself following the Nonman muttering Wards as he passed, the dragon simply watched them approach, Achamian listened as Cleric called him again and again by his name, Wutteät. A name Achamian recognized from the ancient wars, Wutteät the Father of Dragons. They watched as the dragon retracted its head and body and vomited golden fire, the outer Wards of Achamian simply disappeared instantly and the innermost ones cracked, the point of the light of Cleric was extinguished. And shouting more Wards and climbing up a sloping lintel climbing up to the overture in the roof lintels Achamian listened as below Cleric shouted at the dragon having killed five of his kind before, that he was Cleric, tthe King Nil'giccas and that he would force him to listen to his sermon. But the Wizard did not leave, he found himself following the Nonman muttering Wards as he passed, the dragon simply watched them approach, Achamian listened as Cleric called him again and again by his name, Wutteät. A name Achamian recognized from the ancient wars, Wutteät the Father of Dragons. They watched as the dragon retracted its head and body and vomited golden fire, the outer Wards of Achamian simply disappeared instantly and the innermost ones cracked, the point of the light of Cleric was extinguished. And shouting more Wards and climbing up a sloping lintel climbing up to the overture in the roof lintels Achamian listened as below Cleric shouted at the dragon having killed five of his kind before, telling the beast that he was Nil'giccas, Cleric and that he would force him to listen to his sermon. The dragon only taunted the Qûya, hiding between the lintels of the ceiling the wizard watched the Nonman run in circles between the pillars as the fire of the dragon illuminated the ruined spaces of the chamber, listened as each mocked the other with pompous statements, watched as the dragon spun in the center of the chamber to the sound of the voice of Cleric who used the blindness of the dragon to his own advantage. The Wizard then knew that Cleric was distracting the dragon with provocations and taunts all so that Achamian could do something, but the wizard did not know what to do. The beast was spinning in circles trying to anticipate the Nonman spitting golden fire, Cleric simply laughed at his attempts telling him it had always been like that, spinning in circles forgetting the desolate ages, the dragon replied that desolation and murder were his birthright, unlike the Nonmen he remembered, how he writhed as they traveled through the void, how he had descended with his creators in world after world and reduced the inhabitants of each world to one hundred and forty-four thousand, he was the first along with King Sil to have left the Incû-Holoinas in that world which was the promised land. But Cleric replied that he had come to that land broken and exhausted and because of his failure he was now hiding blind and curled up in the shit of forgotten times. The dragon roared at him that the reason for that was because the world he was in refused to die. High above Achamian finally made up his mind and began the War-Cant of Noviratic Spike, the dragon shook his head from side to side in panic as the light of the Cant gathered crimson in the palms of the Wizard, the dragon finally saw Achamian the moment the Cant was completed and released, it ended up hitting the left shoulder of the creature staggering over its mound, despite being crushed the dragon continued to hurl its fire towards the ceiling of the chamber causing large parts to collapse and warp even more. Achamian still in his position continued raising Wards around him and throwing Noviratic Spikes at the dragon, through the shrieks of the dragon Achamian heard the Qûya world destroying chant of the Nonman. To the surprise of the Wizard the dragon did not shrink to protect itself but leapt towards the remaining lintels in the hole in the ceiling facing Achamian, spread its wings and opening its maw spat fire at the Wizard, despite its blindness it knew exactly where it was. The Wards of the Wizard dissolved and the false floor beneath his feet gave way and the Wizard fell somersaulting into the center of the Chamber over the treasures and debris of the beast. The Wizard was too stunned by the fall that for a few moments unable to lift Wards around him he was exposed, with his hair and beard on fire the Wizard felt an arm lift him up and watched Cleric looking at him with concern and relief, as the noise of the conflagration was heard and the crashing of the collapse he saw the world shrink and collapse upon them. The Wards of the Nonman shielded them from the deadly rain and so they stood in complete darkness replete with dust and ringing ears, the Nonman King told Achamian that they had been buried. Mimara undresses in front of the Scalpers, leaving only the wire Cirumfix she had found on her skin, the only protection she had left, even though she knew it to be false. The five remaining Scalpers seem countless to her, watching her motionless with licentious hunger. Mimara thought the Qirri had dulled her feelings, that she would overcome what was about to happen but she knew better and shuddering with a shame she had never felt before she knew she had always been a slave, no matter all the lies and roles she had assumed for herself. She was completely naked, she was nothing. Crouching low the Wizard and the Nonman listened as the rubble settled over them and using ethereal geometries both began to push aside masses of rock and masonry, wielding Cants adapted to the movement of the earth. They advanced through the thundering rubble dredging their way out, they managed to clear a gap through which they observed the devastation of the Coffers, the chamber was still dripping with debris above them. Stopping at the higher rocks Cleric told Achamian that the dragon was waiting to ambush them when they came out, they both decided that one of them should shield while the other dealt with the fire. Turning toward the high void Achamian watched as the dragon emerged from the coils of smoke with claws and wings outstretched and maw open. Achamian raised his arms and braced himself to meet the conflagration. Mimara asks Galian what he sees, he replies that he sees her, the Coffers and the feast he plans to take with everything, Mimara also asks him about his soul and Galian replies that his soul will not be worse for what he was about to do to her, approaching her with long strides. Mimara smiles and through silent tears touches the curve of his belly and for the first time thinks of the being inside her as something tangible. Galian takes her by the throat and with a certain tenderness in his voice admires her beauty but that it is a pity that the worm inside her, the grub will not survive. Amidst the nervous laughter of Pokwas and Xonghis Mimara pleads with Galian even to Mother Yatwer and directing her gaze into the eyes of the Scalper the Judging Eye opens again and Mimara observes the sins and transgressions of the man and finds herself fearing for him, for the damnation that awaits him. Realizing her strange scrutiny Galian opens his eyes even wider with fury and panic reflected in them, but Mimara stops his intentions by telling him that it is not too late, that he can still be saved, for he has no idea what awaits him. The Columnist only mocks the hell she predicts accusing her of being a witch, hiding his horror with a smile, holding her tightly by the neck he throws her against the floor, and between the screams of the girl he separates her legs and gropes the belt of his pants, feeling the discomfort in his naked body against the roughness of the floor, listening to the agitated breathing of the man who begins to hover over her Mimara resolves to shout in his ear that she forgives him "Frees him of this final sin." Both resisted the incipient onslaught back to back, they fought against the blinding fire that fell on and around them, the dragon itself pounced on them tearing again and again the Wards that the Nonman and the Wizard raised around them. As the beast charged them furiously with claws and teeth it spat fire that coagulated the rocks and amidst that din the Wizard shouted to the Nonman that the beast was only guided by his hearing, the Nonman King began to howl in his ancient tongue and his sorcerous attack opened a breach through the molten inferno to his right, the Wizard watched as Wutteät flailed backwards with sorcerous fire pouring from his eye socket. And then at a shout from Achamian they both attacked the head of the dragon with incandescent sorceries and drove the beast back again into another part of the chamber, where the beleaguered dragon again flailed like a moth, thrashing and clawing at the ceiling trying to bury them back into the rock, spitting its fire left and right. The Wizard ascended one of the leaning pillars and the Nonman began to sail in circles around the beast, so both from their positions burned and struck the dragon with their Cants until they saw its iron bones and its head ended up looking like a charred stump possessing only jaws, the beast collapsed and Achamian rushed in jubilation but soon fled with alacrity as he saw the dragon launch a deadly claw in his direction, emitting pitiful growls the dragon rushed towards the Nonman and went through the remains of the sorcery towards the gaps between the rubble of the exit, They both gave chase but the dragon was fast and they could already hear its wings flapping away, as they reached the top coughing and out of breath, Achamian found himself back on top of the central ring of the Turret and squinting in the glow of the sunset he saw Wutteät lurching, crashing into the trees and walls of the ruined Library, finally amidst wild shrill shrieks and spitting blasts of fire the beast caught the wind with its shredded wings and in the light of the dusk flashing on its scales Wutteät spiraled up into the sky and disappeared into the distance among the clouds. Achamian and Cleric watched in amazement as the beast fled, Achamian shouted his triumph, one worthy of The Sagas , but then he realized that perhaps that glory would be worth nothing to the Nonman as the Nonman would surely not remember it. Cleric told him that he would only remember the shadow cast through the pain that followed him. The Wizard nodded and told him that Seswatha loved him too. Galian was on top of her and in an instant he was no longer, Mimara rose from the ground and saw Koll on top of Galian, he had stabbed him in the back below the left shoulder blade, Xonghis and Pokwas pounced on Koll as Sarl clung even tighter to the head of his Captain and began to cackle as light flashed beyond him through the forest foliage followed by a shrill roar. Koll easily dodges the Pokwas Sword-Dancer to his complete disbelief and somersaulting and spinning Koll approaches the body of the Captain and pulls " Squirrel " from his backpack, Sarl only steps aside, Koll takes a low stance with the sword heading towards Pokwas' Tulwar and Xonghis' drawn bow, more explosions and roars shake the sky in the distance. Koll lets out a laugh that sounds like wolf cries and tries to parry the arrow shot by Xonghis with Squirrel but misses and the shaft sticks in his neck. Staggering backwards Koll recovers and screams again this time opening the fingers that were his face, Koll was a Skin-Spy . Then Mimara gets up and stumbles with the dying Galian, Pokwas is on the thing-called-Koll tracing poetry with his Tulwar nicking Squirrel , Xonghis launches more arrows reaching with one a thigh of the thing, that to the eye barely manages to resist the onslaught of Pokwas' Tulwar. Mimara, out of breath and enraged, approaches Xonghis who hears her and turns to her and shoots an arrow at her head but misses, Mimara stabs him with the sword of Galian under his armpit killing him instantly. Sarl continues with his phlegmatic howling and laughing while beyond him the forest burns in flames around the ruins. The Tulwar of Pokwas severed a leg of the thing-called-Koll that was in the midst of jumping, causing it to fall badly on the remaining leg and end up on the ground, Pokwas howls in triumph as he approaches to finish the thing off, unable to hear the naked death approaching him from behind. Smoke and sparks of fire engulfed the Wizard and the Nonman, Cleric ripped his pouch of Qirri and to the disbelief and horror of Achamian emptied the contents of the pouch which soon vanished in the wind. Achamian told him he did not have to but Cleric replied that he had to, for all he could remember was defeat, betrayal and ruin. The Wizard indignant at the absurdities of the Nonman shouted at him that he would be his book to read, but Cleric only laughed and told the Wizard that he would listen to his sermon and began to mutter sorcerous Cants that lit up his eyes and mouth, rising in the wind above the forest fire, from there he told the Wizard to desist from his attempts to address Nil'giccas for such a subject was not a truth to awaken nor a memory to retrieve for Nil'giccas did not exist, they were not only Incariol or Cleric they were legion, and they claimed to be the truth. All this while Achamian realized that the Nonman was serious, he was preparing to kill him, Achamian was weary from the contest with the dragon and knew that even fully rested he would not dare to face the Nonman. And resisting attacking the Nonman only raised glowing Wards around him, as the Nonman accumulated spell-meanings that gathered beneath him and lifted the rocks. Spiraling the Nonman ended up hanging over the frame of the ruined Turret, his words rumbled and his head was wrapped in crimson light then his abstractions shook the air and Achamian Wards, as he attacked him Cleric told the Wizard that only when the past died could everyone shed the burden of their soul. More lights enveloped the Nonman and more abstractions reverberated and hissed through the Wards of Achamian, the forests around him were consumed by the fire that embraced even the ruins, Achamian gave in to tears and told Cleric that despite everything the Nonman sought memories, seeking to be something, the Nonman replied that he was right that only that meant singing in the darkness without hindrance, that was being . Pokwas recognizes Mimara as he drops his Tulwar and blood oozes from his mouth in a strange grimace of a smile as Sergeant Sarl howls the Slog of Slogs to the sky and Pokwas simply falls to his knees watching the bodies of Galian and Xonghis, the he just collapse dead. Mimara goes around him and approaches the thing-called-Koll, a part of her finds herself crying for the thing asking it why it saved her, why it sacrificed itself for her. The Skin-Spy just begs it between gasps asking her to kill him, but then Mimara is horrified at what it was doing, taking pity on such an aberration of the flesh, and is overcome with revulsion and turns away from the Skin-Spy and walks into the smoke, she watches from there as the spasms shake the thing and suddenly Sarl rushes out of nowhere and thrusts his sword through the chest of the creature, it clings to the sword throwing blows at Sarl that gradually weaken until they cease and the fingers on the face of the Skin-Spy loosen and open, then Sarl drops the sword and with a maniacal laugh draws his knife and crawls over the creature and begins to saw off the head of the spider-face, while continuing to snarl at the reward that awaits him. Mimara watches him dumbfounded and thinking about the madness of the situation begins to run in no direction, nakedly walking away from the madness. Everything around her was in flames. Finally the Wizard faced the Nonman alone with his Wards, Cleric hurled murderous lights at him that crashed into the Wards of the Wizard who struggled to deflect them to the outside, debris from the walls flew over the Wizard who screamed between gasps one Ward after another that were soon crushed by the relentless incandescence of the Nonman until Achamian was out of breath stuttering the weakest Wards. The Nonman paused for an instant and the Wizard shouted at him that madness was not part of the Nonman but Cleric replied that all the appeals he made to him only goaded him because it made him love him more, would kill him and remember him. The Wizard refused to attack Cleric with sorcery who for an instant seemed confused by it, a moment Achamian took advantage of to stun the Nonman with an Odaini Concussion Cant hitting the Nonman as he floated over some craggy ruins, he watched him fall down and slowly slide to the ground where flames embraced his arrival. The old wizard extinguished the flames with a sorcerous shout and ran in sobs through the streams of smoke and found the Nonman King prostrate next to a semi-ruined wall, similar to if he had fallen out of bed. Large parts of his body were black, there were blisters on his cheek and scalp and blood soaked his Hauberk nimil. Nil'giccas asked the Wizard spitting blood with every word what had happened, Achamian replied that he had found glory and reached out to touch the cheek of the Nonman and saw the light of life leave Nil'giccas' eyes. The body of the Nonman twitched once as blood pooled among the remains of clothing on Cleric. Looking around Achamian realized that this was how it would end, between love and fire. Mimara continued running through the foliage of the forest, when she reached a low promontory she climbs it trying to escape from the permanent smoke that stabs her eyes and lungs. Climbing even higher she manages to spot sorcerous flashes in the same direction she had come running, she manages to see Cleric hanging in the sky above some ruined walls, then Mimara turns around and goes back the way she had come. The Wizard returned to where the Skin Eaters had been and fell to his knees at the sight of the carnage, Achamian was looking at the dead Galian, Pokwas, Xonghis and Captain Kosoter, the Wizard asks the crazed Sarl what had happened but he only gesticulates squawking the imminent looting of the Coffers while shaking with his right hand the head of the Skin-Spy, desperate the Wizard shakes Sarl asking him where was Mimara, where was his daughter, but in the eyes of Sarl he only saw the complicit look of a madman. And by sheer instinct Achamian turned to the smoke screen of the forest and saw Mimara emerge naked, she ran to him and they both embraced while Achamian smiled and blurted out pointing to the nakedness of Mimara, she only gave him a reproachful look. They both agreed that they were all dead, even Sergeant Sarl. They fled the fire with the swiftness of looters, Mimara retrieved Squirrel and the two Chorae from Xonghis neck, and Achamian what little clothing he could and together they left the scene stumbling over the smoking ground. There only Sergeant Sarl was left cradling the head of his Captain and rocking in his own madness. At night Mimara and Achamian share the remaining Qirri of Cleric left in their pouch, again they are pierced by the relief that the substance dispenses. They constructed a coffin of scorched wood and brush by piling them up to shoulder height, there at the top they placed the body of King Nil'giccas and set fire to it. Then they climbed the punished ruins of the Turret and descended into the blackness of the Coffers. There Achamian uttered a Bar of Heaven and they both proceeded to scavenge through the rubble and treasures under the Sorcerous Light. Mimara gets hold of a bronze knife covered in glowing runes and a golden coat of mail that Achamian recognizes as an ancient gift from the School of Mihtrûl . Finally Achamian manages to find the golden case of his dreams, it was broken but the Mage manages to extract the map from inside. They both leave the Coffers at dawn totally covered in dust, they still see tails of smoke rising from the woods, they approach the pyre of Nil'giccas of which all that remains is his Hauberk Nimil, under his Hauberk they find another type of whiter ash which Mimara carefully picks up with her new knife keeping the chalk in the pouch of the Nonman King. Achamian sees Sarl again, the madman watches them in the distance, he has braided the hairs of the Head of the Captain into his own beard, now the severed head bobbed in the groin of the Sergeant. They both watch him sobbing to the scorched plains, the last survivor of the Skin Eaters. Once Mimara finishes collecting the ash the Wizard gets hold of the Hauberk of the Nonman and puts it on over his ruined rags, Sarl continues to watch them in the distance as the sun continues to warm the world. Getting ready to leave once more Achamian and Mimara share the new Qirri, tasting it from the finger of the other as father and daughter, but this new ash comforts them by thrilling them with a melancholy tenor. As they continue on their way mimara turns to look at Sarl and the Captain one last time and in an inexplicable impulse decides to leave some Qirri carefully wrapped in a leaf on the remains of a marble statue. Then they hear Sranc horns in the distance and holding her belly Mimara says to the old Wizard "come, I tire of Sauglish."

The Library of Sauglish

Number: 15
Location: Ruins of the Library of Sauglish
Date: Late Summer, 20 New Imperial Year (4132 Year-of-the-Tusk )
Characters: Drusas Achamian , Mimara , Nil’giccas , Wutteät , Lord Kosoter and the five remaining Skin Eaters

The Library of Sauglish

Warrior/Interlude
"White-Luck Warrior/Interlude"

Plot

Mimara and Achamian had been fleeing across the lands of Kûniüri for a week before the Sranc caught up with them and they were harassed day and night. The Wizard and Mimara took refuge when they could in high places from which the Wizard would pepper the Sranc with his deadly lights, also both would often take refuge in a bubble of Wards letting the Sranc build up around them to then slice them with Compasses of Noshainrau, but despite the countless and heinous slaughter the inhumans continued to come after them. And on the rare nights when the Sranc did not appear Mimara dreamed of them. Food was scarce and often they both ended up eating strange tasting unknown oxen and deer, They did not sleep much at night and so they doubled their ration of Qirri , sometimes Mimara would whisper prayers for Nil’giccas , though she knew that the soul of the Nonman was Damned and he was screaming somewhere in hell. The Sranc attacks subsided when they reached the Demua mountains, and peaceful days followed the closer they got to the mountains, after checking the Map they both set off north following the foothills of the Demua. Mimara thought more and more about her incipient pregnancy, she knew hers was different, she could feel it was due to the Qirri and avoided thinking about what the soot could be doing to her child. One day they came across a herd of deer and after enjoying the feast they prepared more food and then finally went into the mountains, two days later the Wizard checked the map and murmuring with joy he pointed out to Mimara a distant glacier between two mountains, the snow ramp that climbed it was the door to Ishuäl. That night they heard a Sranc horn and Mimara recognized it as from a mobbing and soon both found themselves fleeing in the dark, relying on the Qirri to hold them up they followed the high mountain ridges as the starlight shone down on them, they slid down ravines and stumbled over gorges, the closer they got to the glacier the Sranc horns echoed closer to them as well. They reached the ice just as the sun began to rise on the eastern horizon, the climb was arduous so much so that Mimara lost count of the times she had fallen, when they finally reached the top of the glacier itself they crossed chasms and blue pits that echoed with hidden waters. Now they need only look back to see the Sranc invading the ice like a plague, both continuing to climb through snow and ice until their legs went numb and their hearts thundered like tin. They reached slopes of melting snow, with safe ground beneath their feet the Wizard turned to face the inhuman masses, but upon receiving the first wizardly onslaughts the Sranc scattered spreading out across the ice to prevent the Wizard from being able to attack them all, climbing up the icy slopes trying to outflank the Wizard who was beginning to find himself outnumbered, Mimara notices that there is no Chorae among the inhuman masses and tells the Wizard but he seems to already know, more echoes resounded down the slope approaching them from the east there were more Sranc, when the Wizard turns to them he sees them disappear in the snow and ice and they are all devoured by an avalanche. Buried but able to move Mimara and the Wizard begin to trudge through the snow as the liquid melted by the sorcerous lights accumulated on their feet. Drenched and shivering they climb back to the surface and dazzled by the absolute whiteness of the snow they notice the absence of Sranc. Recovering from the struggle they both continued their trek across the ice-stepped plains, following the mountain peaks they finally reached a ridge that descended from the heights to snow-free slopes that gave way to moss-covered slopes and pine forests, at the top they both beheld a huge green and black valley, a valley that seemed rooted to a nearby plateau to their left, on the plateau they saw bastions and walls torn down to the foundations, they knew they had reached Ishuäl , the home of the Dûnyain , the birthplace of Anasûrimbor Kellhus , they reached "another dead place."

Ishuäl

Location: Kûniüri , Ishuäl
Date: Late Summer, 20 New Imperial Year (4132 Year-of-the-Tusk )
Characters: Mimara and Drusas Achamian

Ishuäl

Location: Kûniüri , Ishuäl
Date: Late Summer, 20 New Imperial Year (4132 Year-of-the-Tusk )
Characters: Mimara and Drusas Achamian

Wars
"Cuno-Inchoroi Wars" Cûno-Inchoroi Wars are the protracted series of wars between the Nonmen and the Inchoroi following the ancient arrival of the latter.

The Fall of the Incû-Holoinas

According to the Isûphiryas , the Incû-Holoinas , the “Ark-of-the-Skies,” plunged to earth to the west of the Sea of Neleöst in land ruled by Nin’janjin , the Nonman King of Viri . The letter sent by Nin’janin to Cû’jara-Cinmoi , the King of Siöl , is recorded as follows: Rather than send aid to Nin’janjin, Cû’jara-Cinmoi assembled an army and invaded the lands of Viri. Nin’janjin and his Ishroi capitulated without battle; Viri became a bloodless tributary of Siöl. The western lands of Viri, however, remained shrouded in cloud and ash. Survivors from the region spoke of a fiery vessel streaking across the skies. So Cû’jara-Cinmoi commanded Ingalira , a hero of Siöl, to lead an expedition to find this Ark. What happened to Ingalira on this expedition is not recorded, but he returned to Siöl some three months later and presented two inhuman captives to Cû’jara-Cinmoi. Ingalira called these captives Inchoroi, or “People of Emptiness,” both because the sounds they made were empty of meaning and because they fell from the emptiness of the sky. He spoke of flattened forests and gouged plains, of mountains thrown into a ring, and of two golden horns rearing from a molten sea, so mighty they brushed the clouds. Repelled by the obscene aspect of the Inchoroi, Cû’jara-Cinmoi had them put to death, and set a Watch upon the Incû-Holoinas, the Ark-of-the-Skies. Years passed, and the power of Cû’jara-Cinmoi and the High Mansion of Siöl waxed. The Mansion of Nihrimsul was subdued, and her King, Sin’niroiha , “First Among Peoples,” was forced to wash the sword of Cû’jara-Cinmoi. With the subsequent conquest of Cil-Aujas to the south, Siöl and her High King commanded an empire that ranged from the Yimaleti Mountains to the Sea of Meneanor . During this time, the Watch was kept on the Ark. The land cooled. The skies cleared.

The Destruction of the Watch

Either because of original inconsistencies or because of subsequent corruptions, extant version of the Isûphiryas are unclear as to the subsequent order of events. At some point a secret embassy of Inchoroi reached Nin’janjin at Viri. Unlike the Inchoroi brought to Cû’jara-Cinmoi by Ingalira, these possessed the ability to speak Ihrimsû. They reminded Nin’janjin of Cû’jara-Cinmoi’s treachery in his time of need, and offered an alliance to break the yoke of Siöl over Viri. They would undo, the Inchoroi said, the misfortune their coming had wrought upon the Cûnuroi of Viri. Despite the warnings of his Ishroi, Nin’janjin accepted the Inchoroi terms. Viri revolted. The Siölan Ishroi within its halls were slain; the rest were enslaved. At the same time, the Inchoroi swarmed from the Ark, overwhelming the Watch. Only Oirinas and his twin, Oirûnas , survived, riding hard to warn Cû’jara-Cinmoi.

The Slaying of Sil

Sil , the Inchoroi King, and Nin’janjin assembled their hosts to meet Cû’jara-Cinmoi on the Fields of Pir Pahal , which Men would call Eleneöt in a later age. According to the Isûphiryas, the Nonmen of Viri were dismayed by the sight of their allies, who wore fierce and festering bodies as garments of war. Gin’gûrima , the greatest hero among them, pointed to Nin’janjin and declared, “Hate has blinded him.” This treason within a treason was repeated by others, until it became a thundering chorus. Nin’janjin fled, seeking protection from Sil. The Inchoroi then turned upon their allies, hoping to destroy the host of Viri before Cû’jara-Cinmoi and the great host of Siöl could close with them. Overmatched by the Inchoroi and their weapons of light, the Nonmen of Viri were driven back with horrendous losses. Only Cû’jara-Cinmoi and his Ishroi Chariots saved them from utter destruction. The chroniclers of the Isûphiryas claim the battle raged through the night and into the following morning. Eventually, all but the most powerful of the Inchoroi were overwhelmed by the valour, sorceries , and numbers of the host of Siöl. Cû’jara-Cinmoi himself struck down Sil, and wrested from him his great weapon, Suörgil, “Shining Death,” which Men in a latter age would call the Heron Spear . Much reduced, the Inchoroi fled back to their Ark, taking Nin’janjin with them. Cû’jara-Cinmoi hunted them within sight of the Ring Mountains , but was forced to abandon his pursuit when word of further disasters reached him. Emboldened by Siöl’s distraction, Nihrimsul and Cil-Aujas had revolted.

The Second Watch

Weakened by the Battle of Pir Pahal , Cû’jara-Cinmoi was hard pressed to recover his empire. A Second Watch was put upon the Holoinas, but no attempt was made to breach the gold-grooved faces of the Ark. After years of hard campaigning, Cû’jara-Cinmoi finally brought the Ishroi of Cil-Aujas to heel, but King Sin’niroiha and the Ishroi of Nihrimsul continued to resist him. The Isûphiryas chronicles dozens of bloody yet indecisive confrontations between the two Kings: the Battle of Ciphara, the Battle of Hilcyri, the Siege of Asargoi. Proud beyond reason, Cû’jara-Cinmoi refused to relent, and put to death every embassy Sin’niroiha sent to him. Only when Sin’niroiha became King of Ishoriöl through marriage did the High King of Siöl concede. “A King of Three Mansions,” he is said to have declared, “may be Brother to a King of Two.” The Isûphiryas mentions the Inchoroi only once during this time. Unwilling to assign desperately needed Ishroi to the Second Watch, Cû’jara-Cinmoi had charged Oirinas and Oirûnas, the sole survivors of the First Watch, with recruiting Men for the duty. Among these Halaroi was a “criminal” named Sirwitta . Apparently Sirwitta had seduced the wife of a high-ranking Ishroi and conceived by her a daughter named Cimoira . The Judges of the Ishroi were perplexed: such a thing had never happened before. The truth of Cimoira was suppressed, and despite her mannish blood she was accepted as Cûnuroi. Sirwitta himself was banished to the Second Watch. Somehow (the Isûphiryas does not go into detail) Sirwitta managed to enter the Incû-Holoinas. A month passed, and all thought him lost. Then he reappeared, deranged, screeching claims so alarming that Oirinas and Oirûnas brought him directly to Cû’jara-Cinmoi. What was said between Sirwitta and the High King of Siöl is not recorded. The chroniclers say only that Cû’jara-Cinmoi, after hearing Sirwitta speak, ordered him put to death. A later entry, however, described Sirwitta as “tongueless and imprisoned.” It appears the High King, for some unknown reason, had rescinded his warrant. Many years of peace followed. From their fortresses in the Ring Mountains, the Ishroi of Siöl guarded the Ark. Whether the Inchoroi lived still or had perished, no one knew. Cû’jara-Cinmoi grew old, for the Nonmen of those days were still mortal. His eyesight dimmed, and his once-mighty limbs began to fail him. Death whispered to him.

The Womb-Plague

Then Nin’janjin returned. Invoking the ancient codes, he appeared before Cû’jara-Cinmoi begging Mercy and Penance. When the High King of Siöl bid Nin’janjin come near so he might see him, he was astonished to discover his old adversary had not aged. Then Nin’janjin revealed his true reason for coming to Siöl. The Inchoroi, he said, were too terrified of Cû’jara-Cinmoi’s might to leave their Ark, so they dwelt in confinement and misery. They had sent him, he claimed, to sue for peace. They wished to know what tribute might temper the High King’s fury. To which Cû’jara-Cinmoi replied: “I would be young of heart, face, and limb. I would banish Death from the halls of my people." The Second Watch was disbanded and the Inchoroi moved freely among the Cûnuroi of Siöl, becoming their physicians. They ministered to all, dispensing the remedies that would at once make the Nonmen immortal and doom them. Soon all the Cûnuroi of Eärwa , even those who had initially questioned Cû’jara-Cinmoi’s wisdom, had succumbed to the Inchoroi and their nostrums. According to the Isûphiryas, the first victim of the Womb-Plague was Hanalinqû , Cû’jara-Cinmoi’s legendary wife. The chronicler actually praises the diligence and skill of the High King’s Inchoroi physicians. But as the Womb-Plague killed more and more Cûnuroi women, this praise becomes condemnation. Soon all the women of the Cûnuroi, wives and maidens both, were dying. The Inchoroi fled the Mansions, returning to their ruined vessel.

The Fall of Cû’jara-Cinmoi

Ishroi from across Eärwa answered Cû’jara-Cinmoi’s call to war, even though many held the High King responsible for the deaths of their beloved. Grieved almost to madness, the High King led them through the Ring Mountains and arrayed them across the Inniür-Shigogli , the “Black Furnace Plain.” Then he laid Hanalinqû’s corpse before the unholy Ark and demanded the Inchoroi answer his fury. But the Inchoroi had not been idle over the long years since the Battle of Pir Pahal. They had delved deep into the earth, beneath the Inniür-Shigogli and out into the Ring Mountains. Within these galleries they had massed hordes of twisted creatures unlike any the Cûnuroi had ever seen: Sranc , Bashrags , and mighty Dragons . The Ishroi of the Nine High Mansions of Eärwa, who had come to destroy the diminished survivors of Pir Pahal, found themselves beset on all sides. The Sranc withered before the sinew and sorcery of the Ishroi, but their numbers seemed inexhaustible. The Bashrags and the Dragons exacted a horrifying toll. More terrible still were those few Inchoroi who ventured out into battle, hanging above the tumult, sweeping the earth with their weapons of light, apparently unaffected by the sorceries of the Ishroi. After the disaster of Pir Pahal, the Inchoroi had seduced the practitioners of the Aporos , who had been forbidden from pursuing their art. Poisoned by knowledge, they devised the first of the Chorae to render their masters immune to Cûnuroi magic. But all the heroes of Eärwa stood upon the Black Furnace Plain. With his bare hands, Ciögli the Mountain , the strongest of the Ishroi, broke the neck of Wutteät the Black , the Father of Dragons. Oirinas and Oirûnas fought side by side, working great carnage among the Sranc and Bashrags. Ingalira, the hero of Siöl, strangled Vshikcrû , mighty among the Inchoroi, and cast his burning body into the Sranc. The mighty closed with the mighty, and innumerable battles were fought. But no matter how hard the Inchoroi pressed, the Cûnuroi would yield no ground. Their fury was that of those who have lost wives and daughters. Then Nin’janjin struck down Cû’jara-Cinmoi. The Copper Tree of Siöl fell into pitching masses of Sranc, and the Cûnuroi were dismayed. Sin’niroiha, the High King of Nihrimsul and Ishoriöl, fought his way to Cû’jara-Cinmoi’s position, but found only his headless body. Then the hero Gin’gûrima fell, gored by a Dragon. And after him Ingalira, who had been the first to lay eyes upon the Inchoroi. Then Oirinas, his body sundered by an Inchoroi spear of light. Realizing their plight, Sin’niroiha rallied his people and began fighting his way into the Ring Mountains. A greater part of the surviving Cûnuroi followed him. Once clear of their foe, the glorious Ishroi of Eärwa fled, gripped by a mad fear. Either too weakened or suspecting a trap, the Inchoroi did not pursue.

The War of Extermination

For five hundred years the Cûnuroi and the Inchoroi waged a war of extermination, the Cûnuroi to avenge their murdered wives and the eventual death of their race, and the Inchoroi for reasons they alone could fathom. No longer did the Cûnuroi speak of the Incû-Holoinas, the Ark-of-the-Skies. Instead they spoke of Min-Uroikas, “the Pit of Obscenities”—what would later be called Golgotterath by Men. For centuries it seemed the abominations had the upper hand, and the poets of the Isûphiryas record defeat after defeat. But slowly, as the Inchoroi exhausted their fell weapons and relied more and more on their vile slaves, the Cûnuroi and their Halaroi servants gained the advantage. Then at long last the surviving Ishroi of Eärwa trapped the last of their diminished foe within the Incû-Holoinas. For twenty years they warred through the Ark’s labyrinthine halls, finally hunting the last of the Inchoroi into the deep places of the earth. Unable to destroy the vessel, Nil’giccas instructed the remaining Qûya to raise a powerful glamour about the hated place. He and the surviving kings of the Nine Mansions forbade their peoples from mentioning the Inchoroi or their nightmarish legacy. The last Cûnuroi of Eärwa withdrew to their Mansions to await their inevitable doom.

Warthût
"Warthût Ganrikka" Warthût Ganrikka is a client thane of Hoga Gothyelk .

Warthût Ganrikka

Lived: 4070 -
Race: Men
Ethnicity: Norsirai
Nationality: Tydonni
Gender: Male
Occupation: Client thane of Hoga Gothyelk
Books: The Warrior-Prophet

Warthût Ganrikka

Lived: 4070 -
Race: Men
Ethnicity: Norsirai
Nationality: Tydonni
Gender: Male
Occupation: Client thane of Hoga Gothyelk
Books: The Warrior-Prophet

Warthût Ganrikka
Warthût Ganrikka is a client thane of Hoga Gothyelk .

Warthût Ganrikka

Lived: 4070 -
Race: Men
Ethnicity: Norsirai
Nationality: Tydonni
Gender: Male
Occupation: Client thane of Hoga Gothyelk
Books: The Warrior-Prophet

Warthût Ganrikka

Lived: 4070 -
Race: Men
Ethnicity: Norsirai
Nationality: Tydonni
Gender: Male
Occupation: Client thane of Hoga Gothyelk
Books: The Warrior-Prophet

Wathi
"Wathi Doll" Wathi Doll is a sorcerous artifact common to Sansori witches , also known as a “murder doll,” either because a human sacrifice is required for its manufacture (a soul is imprisoned as the artifact’s animus) or because the Dolls are often used as remote assassins. Drusas Achamian possessed a Wathi Doll. He first used it to test whether Anasûrimbor Kellhus was one of the Few ; then later to escape imprisonment by the Scarlet Spires .

Wathi Doll
Wathi Doll is a sorcerous artifact common to Sansori witches , also known as a “murder doll,” either because a human sacrifice is required for its manufacture (a soul is imprisoned as the artifact’s animus) or because the Dolls are often used as remote assassins. Drusas Achamian possessed a Wathi Doll. He first used it to test whether Anasûrimbor Kellhus was one of the Few ; then later to escape imprisonment by the Scarlet Spires .

Way
"Karian Way" An old Ceneian road running through the province of Massentia that once linked Sumna to Cenei during the reign of the Aspect-Emperors .

w
-the twenty
-third letter of the english alphabet, is usually a consonant, but sometimes it is a vowel, forming the second element of certain diphthongs, as in few, how. it takes its written form and its name from the repetition of a v, this being the original form of the roman capital letter which we call u. etymologically it is most related to v and u. see v, and u. some of the uneducated classes in england, especially in london, confuse w and v, substituting the one for the other, as weal for veal, and veal for weal; wine for vine, and vine for wine, etc. see guide to pronunciation, // 266
-268.

wa'n't
-a colloquial contraction of was not.

waag
-the grivet.

waahoo
-the burning bush;
-- said to be called after a quack medicine made from it.

wabble
-to move staggeringly or unsteadily from one side to the other; to vacillate; to move the manner of a rotating disk when the axis of rotation is inclined to that of the disk;
-- said of a turning or whirling body; as, a top wabbles; a buzz saw wabbles.
-a hobbling, unequal motion, as of a wheel unevenly hung; a staggering to and fro.

wabbly
-inclined to wabble; wabbling.

wacke
-alt. of wacky

wacky
-a soft, earthy, dark
-colored rock or clay derived from the alteration of basalt.

wad
-woad.
-a little mass, tuft, or bundle, as of hay or tow.
-specifically: a little mass of some soft or flexible material, such as hay, straw, tow, paper, or old rope yarn, used for retaining a charge of powder in a gun, or for keeping the powder and shot close; also, to diminish or avoid the effects of windage. also, by extension, a dusk of felt, pasteboard, etc., serving a similar purpose.
-a soft mass, especially of some loose, fibrous substance, used for various purposes, as for stopping an aperture, padding a garment, etc.
-to form into a mass, or wad, or into wadding; as, to wad tow or cotton.
-to insert or crowd a wad into; as, to wad a gun; also, to stuff or line with some soft substance, or wadding, like cotton; as, to wad a cloak.
-alt. of wadd

wadd
-an earthy oxide of manganese, or mixture of different oxides and water, with some oxide of iron, and often silica, alumina, lime, or baryta; black ocher. there are several varieties.
-plumbago, or black lead.

wadding
-of wad
-a wad, or the materials for wads; any pliable substance of which wads may be made.
-any soft stuff of loose texture, used for stuffing or padding garments; esp., sheets of carded cotton prepared for the purpose.

waddle
-to walk with short steps, swaying the body from one side to the other, like a duck or very fat person; to move clumsily and totteringly along; to toddle; to stumble; as, a child waddles when he begins to walk; a goose waddles.
-to trample or tread down, as high grass, by walking through it.

waddled
-of waddle

waddler
-one who, or that which, waddles.

waddling
-of waddle

waddlingly
-in a waddling manner.

wade
-woad.
-to go; to move forward.
-to walk in a substance that yields to the feet; to move, sinking at each step, as in water, mud, sand, etc.
-hence, to move with difficulty or labor; to proceed /lowly among objects or circumstances that constantly /inder or embarrass; as, to wade through a dull book.
-to pass or cross by wading; as, he waded /he rivers and swamps.
-the act of wading.

waded
-of wad
-of wade

wader
-one who, or that which, wades.
-any long
-legged bird that wades in the water in search of food, especially any species of limicoline or grallatorial birds;
-- called also wading bird. see illust. g, under aves.

wadies
-of wady

wading
-of wade
-a. & n. from wade, v.

wadmol
-a coarse, hairy, woolen cloth, formerly used for garments by the poor, and for various other purposes.

wadset
-a kind of pledge or mortgage.

wadsetter
-one who holds by a wadset.

wady
-a ravine through which a brook flows; the channel of a water course, which is dry except in the rainy season.

wae
-a wave.

waeg
-the kittiwake.

wafer
-a thin cake made of flour and other ingredients.
-a thin cake or piece of bread (commonly unleavened, circular, and stamped with a crucifix or with the sacred monogram) used in the eucharist, as in the roman catholic church.
-an adhesive disk of dried paste, made of flour, gelatin, isinglass, or the like, and coloring matter,
-- used in sealing letters and other documents.
-to seal or close with a wafer.

wafered
-of wafer

waferer
-a dealer in the cakes called wafers; a confectioner.

wafering
-of wafer

waffle
-a thin cake baked and then rolled; a wafer.
-a soft indented cake cooked in a waffle iron.

waft
-to give notice to by waving something; to wave the hand to; to beckon.
-to cause to move or go in a wavy manner, or by the impulse of waves, as of water or air; to bear along on a buoyant medium; as, a balloon was wafted over the channel.
-to cause to float; to keep from sinking; to buoy.
-to be moved, or to pass, on a buoyant medium; to float.
-a wave or current of wind.
-a signal made by waving something, as a flag, in the air.
-an unpleasant flavor.
-a knot, or stop, in the middle of a flag.

waftage
-conveyance on a buoyant medium, as air or water.

wafted
-of waft

wafter
-one who, or that which, wafts.
-a boat for passage.

wafting
-of waft

wafture
-the act of waving; a wavelike motion; a waft.

wag
-to move one way and the other with quick turns; to shake to and fro; to move vibratingly; to cause to vibrate, as a part of the body; as, to wag the head.
-to move one way and the other; to be shaken to and fro; to vibrate.
-to be in action or motion; to move; to get along; to progress; to stir.
-to go; to depart; to pack oft.
-the act of wagging; a shake; as, a wag of the head.
-a man full of sport and humor; a ludicrous fellow; a humorist; a wit; a joker.

wag
-halter
-one who moves or wears a halter; one likely to be hanged.

wagati
-a small east indian wild cat (felis wagati), regarded by some as a variety of the leopard cat.

wage
-to pledge; to hazard on the event of a contest; to stake; to bet, to lay; to wager; as, to wage a dollar.
-to expose one's self to, as a risk; to incur, as a danger; to venture; to hazard.
-to engage in, as a contest, as if by previous gage or pledge; to carry on, as a war.
-to adventure, or lay out, for hire or reward; to hire out.
-to put upon wages; to hire; to employ; to pay wages to.
-to give security for the performance of.
-to bind one's self; to engage.
-that which is staked or ventured; that for which one incurs risk or danger; prize; gage.
-that for which one labors; meed; reward; stipulated payment for service performed; hire; pay; compensation;
-- at present generally used in the plural. see wages.

waged
-of wage

wagel
-see waggel.

wagenboom
-a south african proteaceous tree (protea grandiflora); also, its tough wood, used for making wagon wheels.

wager
-something deposited, laid, or hazarded on the event of a contest or an unsettled question; a bet; a stake; a pledge.
-a contract by which two parties or more agree that a certain sum of money, or other thing, shall be paid or delivered to one of them, on the happening or not happening of an uncertain event.
-that on which bets are laid; the subject of a bet.
-to hazard on the issue of a contest, or on some question that is to be decided, or on some casualty; to lay; to stake; to bet.
-to make a bet; to lay a wager.

wagered
-of wager

wagerer
-one who wagers, or lays a bet.

wagering
-of wager
-hazarding; pertaining to the act of one who wagers.

wages
-a compensation given to a hired person for services; price paid for labor; recompense; hire. see wage, n., 2.

wagged
-of wag

waggel
-the young of the great black
-backed gull (larus marinus), formerly considered a distinct species.

waggeries
-of waggery

waggery
-the manner or action of a wag; mischievous merriment; sportive trick or gayety; good
-humored sarcasm; pleasantry; jocularity; as, the waggery of a schoolboy.

waggie
-the pied wagtail.

wagging
-of wag

waggish
-like a wag; mischievous in sport; roguish in merriment or good humor; frolicsome.
-done, made, or laid in waggery or for sport; sportive; humorous; as, a waggish trick.

waggle
-to reel, sway, or move from side to side; to move with a wagging motion; to waddle.
-to move frequently one way and the other; to wag; as, a bird waggles his tail.

waggled
-of waggle

waggling
-of waggle

waging
-of wage

wagnerite
-a fluophosphate of magnesia, occurring in yellowish crystals, and also in massive forms.

wagon
-a wheeled carriage; a vehicle on four wheels, and usually drawn by horses; especially, one used for carrying freight or merchandise.
-a freight car on a railway.
-a chariot
-the dipper, or charles's wain.
-to transport in a wagon or wagons; as, goods are wagoned from city to city.
-to wagon goods as a business; as, the man wagons between philadelphia and its suburbs.

wagon
-headed
-having a top, or head, shaped like the top of a covered wagon, or resembling in section or outline an inverted u, thus /; as, a wagonheaded ceiling.

wagon
-roofed
-having a roof, or top, shaped like an inverted u; wagon
-headed.

wagonage
-money paid for carriage or conveyance in wagon.
-a collection of wagons; wagons, collectively.

wagoned
-of wagon

wagoner
-one who conducts a wagon; one whose business it is to drive a wagon.
-the constellation charles's wain, or ursa major. see ursa major, under ursa.

wagonette
-a kind of pleasure wagon, uncovered and with seats extended along the sides, designed to carry six or eight persons besides the driver.

wagonful
-as much as a wagon will hold; enough to fill a wagon; a wagonload.

wagonfuls
-of wagonful

wagoning
-of wagon

wagonload
-same as wagonful.

wagonry
-conveyance by means of a wagon or wagons.

wagonwright
-one who makes wagons.

wagtail
-any one of many species of old world singing birds belonging to motacilla and several allied genera of the family motacillidae. they have the habit of constantly jerking their long tails up and down, whence the name.

wah
-the panda.

wahabee
-a follower of abdel wahab (b. 1691; d. 1787), a reformer of mohammedanism. his doctrines prevail particularly among the bedouins, and the sect, though checked in its influence, extends to most parts of arabia, and also into india.

waid
-oppressed with weight; crushed; weighed down.

waif
-goods found of which the owner is not known; originally, such goods as a pursued thief threw away to prevent being apprehended, which belonged to the king unless the owner made pursuit of the felon, took him, and brought him to justice.
-hence, anything found, or without an owner; that which comes along, as it were, by chance.
-a wanderer; a castaway; a stray; a homeless child.

waift
-a waif.

wail
-to choose; to select.
-to lament; to bewail; to grieve over; as, to wail one's death.
-to express sorrow audibly; to make mournful outcry; to weep.
-loud weeping; violent lamentation; wailing.

wailed
-of wail

wailer
-one who wails or laments.

waileress
-a woman who wails.

wailful
-sorrowful; mournful.

wailing
-of wail

wailingly
-in a wailing manner.

wailment
-lamentation; loud weeping; wailing.

waiment
-see wayment.

wain
-a four
-wheeled vehicle for the transportation of goods, produce, etc.; a wagon.
-a chariot.

wainable
-capable of being plowed or cultivated; arable; tillable.

wainage
-a finding of carriages, carts, etc., for the transportation of goods, produce, etc.
-see gainage, a.

wainbote
-see cartbote. see also the note under bote.

wainscot
-oaken timber or boarding.
-a wooden lining or boarding of the walls of apartments, usually made in panels.
-any one of numerous species of european moths of the family leucanidae.
-to line with boards or panelwork, or as if with panelwork; as, to wainscot a hall.

wainscoted
-of wainscot

wainscoting
-of wainscot
-the act or occupation of covering or lining with boards in panel.
-the material used to wainscot a house, or the wainscot as a whole; panelwork.

wainwright
-same as wagonwright.

wair
-a piece of plank two yard/ long and a foot broad.

waist
-that part of the human body which is immediately below the ribs or thorax; the small part of the body between the thorax and hips.
-hence, the middle part of other bodies; especially (naut.), that part of a vessel's deck, bulwarks, etc., which is between the quarter
-deck and the forecastle; the middle part of the ship.
-a garment, or part of a garment, which covers the body from the neck or shoulders to the waist line.
-a girdle or belt for the waist.

waistband
-the band which encompasses the waist; esp., one on the upper part of breeches, trousers, pantaloons, skirts, or the like.
-a sash worn by women around the waist.

waistcloth
-a cloth or wrapper worn about the waist; by extension, such a garment worn about the hips and passing between the thighs.
-a covering of canvas or tarpaulin for the hammocks, stowed on the nettings, between the quarterdeck and the forecastle.

waistcoat
-a short, sleeveless coat or garment for men, worn under the coat, extending no lower than the hips, and covering the waist; a vest.
-a garment occasionally worn by women as a part of fashionable costume.

waistcoateer
-one wearing a waistcoat; esp., a woman wearing one uncovered, or thought fit for such a habit; hence, a loose woman; strumpet.

waistcoating
-a fabric designed for waistcoats; esp., one in which there is a pattern, differently colored yarns being used.

waister
-a seaman, usually a green hand or a broken
-down man, stationed in the waist of a vessel of war.

wait
-to watch; to observe; to take notice.
-to stay or rest in expectation; to stop or remain stationary till the arrival of some person or event; to rest in patience; to stay; not to depart.
-to stay for; to rest or remain stationary in expectation of; to await; as, to wait orders.
-to attend as a consequence; to follow upon; to accompany; to await.
-to attend on; to accompany; especially, to attend with ceremony or respect.
-to cause to wait; to defer; to postpone;
-- said of a meal; as, to wait dinner.
-the act of waiting; a delay; a halt.
-ambush.
-one who watches; a watchman.
-hautboys, or oboes, played by town musicians; not used in the singular.
-musicians who sing or play at night or in the early morning, especially at christmas time; serenaders; musical watchmen.

waited
-of wait

waiter
-one who, or that which, waits; an attendant; a servant in attendance, esp. at table.
-a vessel or tray on which something is carried, as dishes, etc.; a salver.

waiting
-of wait
-a. & n. from wait, v.

waitingly
-by waiting.

waitress
-a female waiter or attendant; a waiting maid or waiting woman.

waive
-a waif; a castaway.
-a woman put out of the protection of the law. see waive, v. t., 3 (b), and the note.
-to relinquish; to give up claim to; not to insist on or claim; to refuse; to forego.
-to throw away; to cast off; to reject; to desert.
-to throw away; to relinquish voluntarily, as a right which one may enforce if he chooses.
-to desert; to abandon.
-to turn aside; to recede.

waived
-of waive

waiver
-the act of waiving, or not insisting on, some right, claim, or privilege.

waiving
-of waive

waivure
-see waiver.

waiwode
-see waywode.

wake
-the track left by a vessel in the water; by extension, any track; as, the wake of an army.
-to be or to continue awake; to watch; not to sleep.
-to sit up late festive purposes; to hold a night revel.
-to be excited or roused from sleep; to awake; to be awakened; to cease to sleep;
-- often with up.
-to be exited or roused up; to be stirred up from a dormant, torpid, or inactive state; to be active.
-to rouse from sleep; to awake.
-to put in motion or action; to arouse; to excite.
-to bring to life again, as if from the sleep of death; to reanimate; to revive.
-to watch, or sit up with, at night, as a dead body.
-the act of waking, or being awaked; also, the state of being awake.
-the state of forbearing sleep, especially for solemn or festive purposes; a vigil.
-an annual parish festival formerly held in commemoration of the dedication of a church. originally, prayers were said on the evening preceding, and hymns were sung during the night, in the church; subsequently, these vigils were discontinued, and the day itself, often with succeeding days, was occupied in rural pastimes and exercises, attended by eating and drinking, often to excess.
-the sitting up of persons with a dead body, often attended with a degree of festivity, chiefly among the irish.

wake
-robin
-any plant of the genus arum, especially, in england, the cuckoopint (arum maculatum).

waked
-of wake

wakeful
-not sleeping; indisposed to sleep; watchful; vigilant.

waken
-to wake; to cease to sleep; to be awakened.
-to excite or rouse from sleep; to wake; to awake; to awaken.
-to excite; to rouse; to move to action; to awaken.

wakened
-of waken

wakener
-one who wakens.

wakening
-of waken
-the act of one who wakens; esp., the act of ceasing to sleep; an awakening.
-the revival of an action.

waker
-one who wakes.

waketime
-time during which one is awake.

waking
-of wake
-the act of waking, or the state or period of being awake.
-a watch; a watching.

walaway
-see welaway.

wald
-a forest;
-- used as a termination of names. see weald.

waldenses
-a sect of dissenters from the ecclesiastical system of the roman catholic church, who in the 13th century were driven by persecution to the valleys of piedmont, where the sect survives. they profess substantially protestant principles.

waldensian
-of or pertaining to the waldenses.
-one holding the waldensian doctrines.

waldgrave
-in the old german empire, the head forest keeper.

waldheimia
-a genus of brachiopods of which many species are found in the fossil state. a few still exist in the deep sea.

wale
-a streak or mark made on the skin by a rod or whip; a stripe; a wheal. see wheal.
-a ridge or streak rising above the surface, as of cloth; hence, the texture of cloth.
-a timber bolted to a row of piles to secure them together and in position.
-certain sets or strakes of the outside planking of a vessel; as, the main wales, or the strakes of planking under the port sills of the gun deck; channel wales, or those along the spar deck, etc.
-a wale knot, or wall knot.
-to mark with wales, or stripes.
-to choose; to select; specifically (mining), to pick out the refuse of (coal) by hand, in order to clean it.

walhalla
-see valhalla.

waling
-same as wale, n., 4.

walk
-to move along on foot; to advance by steps; to go on at a moderate pace; specifically, of two
-legged creatures, to proceed at a slower or faster rate, but without running, or lifting one foot entirely before the other touches the ground.
-to move or go on the feet for exercise or amusement; to take one's exercise; to ramble.
-to be stirring; to be abroad; to go restlessly about;
-- said of things or persons expected to remain quiet, as a sleeping person, or the spirit of a dead person; to go about as a somnambulist or a specter.
-to be in motion; to act; to move; to wag.
-to behave; to pursue a course of life; to conduct one's self.
-to move off; to depart.
-to pass through, over, or upon; to traverse; to perambulate; as, to walk the streets.
-to cause to walk; to lead, drive, or ride with a slow pace; as to walk one's horses.
-to subject, as cloth or yarn, to the fulling process; to full.
-the act of walking, or moving on the feet with a slow pace; advance without running or leaping.
-the act of walking for recreation or exercise; as, a morning walk; an evening walk.
-manner of walking; gait; step; as, we often know a person at a distance by his walk.
-that in or through which one walks; place or distance walked over; a place for walking; a path or avenue prepared for foot passengers, or for taking air and exercise; way; road; hence, a place or region in which animals may graze; place of wandering; range; as, a sheep walk.
-a frequented track; habitual place of action; sphere; as, the walk of the historian.
-conduct; course of action; behavior.
-the route or district regularly served by a vender; as, a milkman's walk.

walk
-mill
-a fulling mill.

walk
-over
-in racing, the going over a course by a horse which has no competitor for the prize; hence, colloquially, a one
-sided contest; an uncontested, or an easy, victory.

walkable
-fit to be walked on; capable of being walked on or over.

walked
-of walk

walker
-one who walks; a pedestrian.
-that with which one walks; a foot.
-a forest officer appointed to walk over a certain space for inspection; a forester.
-a fuller of cloth.
-any ambulatorial orthopterous insect, as a stick insect.

walking
-of walk
-a. & n. from walk, v.

walkyr
-see valkyria.

wall
-a kind of knot often used at the end of a rope; a wall knot; a wale.
-a work or structure of stone, brick, or other materials, raised to some height, and intended for defense or security, solid and permanent inclosing fence, as around a field, a park, a town, etc., also, one of the upright inclosing parts of a building or a room.
-a defense; a rampart; a means of protection; in the plural, fortifications, in general; works for defense.
-an inclosing part of a receptacle or vessel; as, the walls of a steam
-engine cylinder.
-the side of a level or drift.
-the country rock bounding a vein laterally.
-to inclose with a wall, or as with a wall.
-to defend by walls, or as if by walls; to fortify.
-to close or fill with a wall, as a doorway.

wall
-eye
-an eye in which the iris is of a very light gray or whitish color;
-- said usually of horses.
-an american fresh
-water food fish (stizostedion vitreum) having large and prominent eyes;
-- called also glasseye, pike perch, yellow pike, and wall
-eyed perch.
-a california surf fish (holconotus argenteus).
-the alewife;
-- called also wall
-eyed herring.

wall
-eyed
-having an eye of a very light gray or whitish color.

wall
-plat
-the spotted flycatcher. it builds its nest on walls.

wall
-sided
-having sides nearly perpendicular;
-- said of certain vessels to distinguish them from those having flaring sides, or sides tumbling home (see under tumble, v. i.).

wallaba
-a leguminous tree (eperua falcata) of demerara, with pinnate leaves and clusters of red flowers. the reddish brown wood is used for palings and shingles.

wallabies
-of wallaby

wallaby
-any one of numerous species of kangaroos belonging to the genus halmaturus, native of australia and tasmania, especially the smaller species, as the brush kangaroo (h. bennettii) and the pademelon (h. thetidis). the wallabies chiefly inhabit the wooded district and bushy plains.

wallah
-a black variety of the jaguar;
-- called also tapir tiger.

wallaroo
-any one of several species of kangaroos of the genus macropus, especially m. robustus, sometimes called the great wallaroo.

wallbird
-the spotted flycatcher.

walled
-of wall

waller
-one who builds walls.
-the wels.

wallerian degeneration
-a form of degeneration occurring in nerve fibers as a result of their division;
-- so called from dr. waller, who published an account of it in 1850.

wallet
-a bag or sack for carrying about the person, as a bag for carrying the necessaries for a journey; a knapsack; a beggar's receptacle for charity; a peddler's pack.
-a pocketbook for keeping money about the person.
-anything protuberant and swagging.

walleteer
-one who carries a wallet; a foot traveler; a tramping beggar.

wallflower
-a perennial, cruciferous plant (cheiranthus cheiri), with sweet
-scented flowers varying in color from yellow to orange and deep red. in europe it very common on old walls.
-a lady at a ball, who, either from choice, or because not asked to dance, remains a spectator.

wallhick
-the lesser spotted woodpecker (dryobates minor).

walling
-of wall
-the act of making a wall or walls.
-walls, in general; material for walls.

walloons
-a romanic people inhabiting that part of belgium which comprises the provinces of hainaut, namur, liege, and luxembourg, and about one third of brabant; also, the language spoken by this people. used also adjectively.

wallop
-to move quickly, but with great effort; to gallop.
-a quick, rolling movement; a gallop.
-to boil with a continued bubbling or heaving and rolling, with noise.
-to move in a rolling, cumbersome manner; to waddle.
-to be slatternly.
-to beat soundly; to flog; to whip.
-to wrap up temporarily.
-to throw or tumble over.
-a thick piece of fat.
-a blow.

walloped
-of wallop

walloping
-of wallop

wallow
-to roll one's self about, as in mire; to tumble and roll about; to move lazily or heavily in any medium; to flounder; as, swine wallow in the mire.
-to live in filth or gross vice; to disport one's self in a beastly and unworthy manner.
-to wither; to fade.
-to roll; esp., to roll in anything defiling or unclean.
-a kind of rolling walk.

wallowed
-of wallow

wallower
-one who, or that which, wallows.
-a lantern wheel; a trundle.

wallowing
-of wallow

wallowish
-flat; insipid.

wallwort
-the dwarf elder, or danewort (sambucus ebulus).

walm
-to roll; to spout; to boil up.

walnut
-the fruit or nut of any tree of the genus juglans; also, the tree, and its timber. the seven or eight known species are all natives of the north temperate zone.

walrus
-a very large marine mammal (trichecus rosmarus) of the seal family, native of the arctic ocean. the male has long and powerful tusks descending from the upper jaw. it uses these in procuring food and in fighting. it is hunted for its oil, ivory, and skin. it feeds largely on mollusks. called also morse.

walter
-to roll or wallow; to welter.

waltron
-a walrus.

walty
-liable to roll over; crank; as, a walty ship.

waltz
-a dance performed by two persons in circular figures with a whirling motion; also, a piece of music composed in triple measure for this kind of dance.
-to dance a waltz.

waltzed
-of waltz

waltzer
-a person who waltzes.

waltzing
-of waltz

walwe
-to wallow.

waly
-an exclamation of grief.

wamble
-to heave; to be disturbed by nausea;
-- said of the stomach.
-to move irregularly to and fro; to roll.
-disturbance of the stomach; a feeling of nausea.

wamble
-cropped
-sick at the stomach; also, crestfallen; dejected.

wammel
-to move irregularly or awkwardly; to wamble, or wabble.

wamp
-the common american eider.

wampee
-a tree (cookia punctata) of the orange family, growing in china and the east indies; also, its fruit, which is about the size of a large grape, and has a hard rind and a peculiar flavor.
-the pickerel weed.

wampum
-beads made of shells, used by the north american indians as money, and also wrought into belts, etc., as an ornament.

wan
-won.
-having a pale or sickly hue; languid of look; pale; pallid.
-the quality of being wan; wanness.
-to grow wan; to become pale or sickly in looks.
-of win

wand
-a small stick; a rod; a verge.
-a staff of authority.
-a rod used by conjurers, diviners, magicians, etc.

wander
-to ramble here and there without any certain course or with no definite object in view; to range about; to stroll; to rove; as, to wander over the fields.
-to go away; to depart; to stray off; to deviate; to go astray; as, a writer wanders from his subject.
-to be delirious; not to be under the guidance of reason; to rave; as, the mind wanders.
-to travel over without a certain course; to traverse; to stroll through.

wandered
-of wander

wanderer
-one who wanders; a rambler; one who roves; hence, one who deviates from duty.

wandering
-of wander
-a. & n. from wander, v.

wanderingly
-in a wandering manner.

wanderment
-the act of wandering, or roaming.

wanderoo
-a large monkey (macacus silenus) native of malabar. it is black, or nearly so, but has a long white or gray beard encircling the face. called also maha, silenus, neelbhunder, lion
-tailed baboon, and great wanderoo.

wandy
-long and flexible, like a wand.

wane
-to be diminished; to decrease;
-- contrasted with wax, and especially applied to the illuminated part of the moon.
-to decline; to fail; to sink.
-to cause to decrease.
-the decrease of the illuminated part of the moon to the eye of a spectator.
-decline; failure; diminution; decrease; declension.
-an inequality in a board.

waned
-of wane

waney
-a sharp or uneven edge on a board that is cut from a log not perfectly squared, or that is made in the process of squaring. see wany, a.

wang
-the jaw, jawbone, or cheek bone.
-a slap; a blow.
-see whang.

wangan
-a boat for conveying provisions, tools, etc.;
-- so called by maine lumbermen.

wanger
-a pillow for the cheek; a pillow.

wanghee
-the chinese name of one or two species of bamboo, or jointed cane, of the genus phyllostachys. the slender stems are much used for walking sticks.

wango
-a boomerang.

wanhope
-want of hope; despair; also, faint or delusive hope; delusion. [obs.] piers plowman.

wanhorn
-an east indian plant (kaempferia galanga) of the ginger family. see galanga.

waniand
-the wane of the moon.

waning
-of wane
-the act or process of waning, or decreasing.

wanion
-a word of uncertain signification, used only in the phrase with a wanion, apparently equivalent to with a vengeance, with a plague, or with misfortune.

wankle
-not to be depended on; weak; unstable.

wanly
-in a wan, or pale, manner.

wanned
-made wan, or pale.

wanness
-the quality or state of being wan; a sallow, dead, pale color; paleness; pallor; as, the wanness of the cheeks after a fever.

wannish
-somewhat wan; of a pale hue.

want
-the state of not having; the condition of being without anything; absence or scarcity of what is needed or desired; deficiency; lack; as, a want of power or knowledge for any purpose; want of food and clothing.
-specifically, absence or lack of necessaries; destitution; poverty; penury; indigence; need.
-that which is needed or desired; a thing of which the loss is felt; what is not possessed, and is necessary for use or pleasure.
-a depression in coal strata, hollowed out before the subsequent deposition took place.
-to be without; to be destitute of, or deficient in; not to have; to lack; as, to want knowledge; to want judgment; to want learning; to want food and clothing.
-to have occasion for, as useful, proper, or requisite; to require; to need; as, in winter we want a fire; in summer we want cooling breezes.
-to feel need of; to wish or long for; to desire; to crave.
-to be absent; to be deficient or lacking; to fail; not to be sufficient; to fall or come short; to lack;
-- often used impersonally with of; as, it wants ten minutes of four.
-to be in a state of destitution; to be needy; to lack.

wantage
-that which is wanting; deficiency.

wanted
-of want

wanting
-of want
-absent; lacking; missing; also, deficient; destitute; needy; as, one of the twelve is wanting; i shall not be wanting in exertion.

wantless
-having no want; abundant; fruitful.

wanton
-untrained; undisciplined; unrestrained; hence, loose; free; luxuriant; roving; sportive.
-wandering from moral rectitude; perverse; dissolute.
-specifically: deviating from the rules of chastity; lewd; lustful; lascivious; libidinous; lecherous.
-reckless; heedless; as, wanton mischief.
-a roving, frolicsome thing; a trifler;
-- used rarely as a term of endearment.
-one brought up without restraint; a pampered pet.
-a lewd person; a lascivious man or woman.
-to rove and ramble without restraint, rule, or limit; to revel; to play loosely; to frolic.
-to sport in lewdness; to play the wanton; to play lasciviously.
-to cause to become wanton; also, to waste in wantonness.

wantoned
-of wanton

wantoning
-of wanton

wantonize
-to behave wantonly; to frolic; to wanton.

wantonly
-in a wanton manner; without regularity or restraint; loosely; sportively; gayly; playfully; recklessly; lasciviously.
-unintentionally; accidentally.

wantonness
-the quality or state of being wanton; negligence of restraint; sportiveness; recklessness; lasciviousness.

wantrust
-failing or diminishing trust; want of trust or confidence; distrust.

wantwit
-one destitute of wit or sense; a blockhead; a fool.

wanty
-a surcingle, or strap of leather, used for binding a load upon the back of a beast; also, a leather tie; a short wagon rope.

wany
-to wane.
-waning or diminished in some parts; not of uniform size throughout;
-- said especially of sawed boards or timber when tapering or uneven, from being cut too near the outside of the log.
-spoiled by wet;
-- said of timber.

wanze
-to wane; to wither.

wap
-to beat; to whap.
-a blow or beating; a whap.

wapacut
-the american hawk owl. see under hawk.

wapatoo
-the edible tuber of a species of arrowhead (sagittaria variabilis);
-- so called by the indians of oregon.

waped
-cast down; crushed by misery; dejected.

wapentake
-in some northern counties of england, a division, or district, answering to the hundred in other counties. yorkshire, lincolnshire, and nottinghamshire are divided into wapentakes, instead of hundreds.

wapinschaw
-an exhibition of arms. according to the rank of the individual, by all persons bearing arms;
-- formerly made at certain seasons in each district.

wapiti
-the american elk (cervus canadensis). it is closely related to the european red deer, which it somewhat exceeds in size.

wapp
-a fair
-leader.
-a rope with wall knots in it with which the shrouds are set taut.

wappato
-see wapatoo.

wappened
-a word of doubtful meaning used once by shakespeare.

wapper
-to cause to shake; to tremble; to move tremulously, as from weakness; to totter.
-a gudgeon.

wappet
-a small yelping cur.

wapping
-yelping.

war
-ware; aware.
-a contest between nations or states, carried on by force, whether for defence, for revenging insults and redressing wrongs, for the extension of commerce, for the acquisition of territory, for obtaining and establishing the superiority and dominion of one over the other, or for any other purpose; armed conflict of sovereign powers; declared and open hostilities.
-a condition of belligerency to be maintained by physical force. in this sense, levying war against the sovereign authority is treason.
-instruments of war.
-forces; army.
-the profession of arms; the art of war.
-a state of opposition or contest; an act of opposition; an inimical contest, act, or action; enmity; hostility.
-to make war; to invade or attack a state or nation with force of arms; to carry on hostilities; to be in a state by violence.
-to contend; to strive violently; to fight.
-to make war upon; to fight.
-to carry on, as a contest; to wage.

war
-beaten
-warworn.

warble
-a small, hard tumor which is produced on the back of a horse by the heat or pressure of the saddle in traveling.
-a small tumor produced by the larvae of the gadfly in the backs of horses, cattle, etc. called also warblet, warbeetle, warnles.
-see wormil.
-to sing in a trilling, quavering, or vibratory manner; to modulate with turns or variations; to trill; as, certain birds are remarkable for warbling their songs.
-to utter musically; to modulate; to carol.
-to cause to quaver or vibrate.
-to be quavered or modulated; to be uttered melodiously.
-to sing in a trilling manner, or with many turns and variations.
-to sing with sudden changes from chest to head tones; to yodel.
-a quavering modulation of the voice; a musical trill; a song.

warbled
-of warble

warbler
-one who, or that which, warbles; a singer; a songster;
-- applied chiefly to birds.
-any one of numerous species of small old world singing birds belonging to the family sylviidae, many of which are noted songsters. the bluethroat, blackcap, reed warbler (see under reed), and sedge warbler (see under sedge) are well
-known species.
-any one of numerous species of small, often bright colored, american singing birds of the family or subfamily mniotiltidae, or sylvicolinae. they are allied to the old world warblers, but most of them are not particularly musical.

warbling
-of warble

warblingly
-in a warbling manner.

warburg's tincture
-a preparation containing quinine and many other ingredients, often used in the treatment of malarial affections. it was invented by dr. warburg of london.

ward
-the act of guarding; watch; guard; guardianship; specifically, a guarding during the day. see the note under watch, n., 1.
-one who, or that which, guards; garrison; defender; protector; means of guarding; defense; protection.
-the state of being under guard or guardianship; confinement under guard; the condition of a child under a guardian; custody.
-a guarding or defensive motion or position, as in fencing; guard.
-one who, or that which, is guarded.
-a minor or person under the care of a guardian; as, a ward in chancery.
-a division of a county.
-a division, district, or quarter of a town or city.
-a division of a forest.
-a division of a hospital; as, a fever ward.
-a projecting ridge of metal in the interior of a lock, to prevent the use of any key which has not a corresponding notch for passing it.
-a notch or slit in a key corresponding to a ridge in the lock which it fits; a ward notch.
-to keep in safety; to watch; to guard; formerly, in a specific sense, to guard during the day time.
-to defend; to protect.
-to defend by walls, fortifications, etc.
-to fend off; to repel; to turn aside, as anything mischievous that approaches;
-- usually followed by off.
-to be vigilant; to keep guard.
-to act on the defensive with a weapon.

ward
-corn
-the duty of keeping watch and ward (see the note under watch, n., 1) with a horn to be blown upon any occasion of surprise.

wardcorps
-guardian; one set to watch over another.

warded
-of ward

warden
-a keeper; a guardian; a watchman.
-an officer who keeps or guards; a keeper; as, the warden of a prison.
-a head official; as, the warden of a college; specifically (eccl.), a churchwarden.
-a large, hard pear, chiefly used for baking and roasting.

wardenry
-alt. of wardenship

wardenship
-the office or jurisdiction of a warden.

warder
-one who wards or keeps; a keeper; a guard.
-a truncheon or staff carried by a king or a commander in chief, and used in signaling his will.

wardian
-designating, or pertaining to, a kind of glass inclosure for keeping ferns, mosses, etc., or for transporting growing plants from a distance; as, a wardian case of plants;
-- so named from the inventor, nathaniel b. ward, an englishman.

warding
-of ward

wardmote
-anciently, a meeting of the inhabitants of a ward; also, a court formerly held in each ward of london for trying defaults in matters relating to the watch, police, and the like.

wardrobe
-a room or apartment where clothes are kept, or wearing apparel is stored; a portable closet for hanging up clothes.
-wearing apparel, in general; articles of dress or personal decoration.
-a privy.

wardroom
-a room occupied as a messroom by the commissioned officers of a war vessel. see gunroom.
-a room used by the citizens of a city ward, for meetings, political caucuses, elections, etc.

wardship
-the office of a ward or keeper; care and protection of a ward; guardianship; right of guardianship.
-the state of begin under a guardian; pupilage.

wardsman
-a man who keeps ward; a guard.

wardsmen
-of wardsman

ware
-wore.
-to wear, or veer. see wear.
-seaweed.
-articles of merchandise; the sum of articles of a particular kind or class; style or class of manufactures; especially, in the plural, goods; commodities; merchandise.
-a ware; taking notice; hence, wary; cautious; on one's guard. see beware.
-the state of being ware or aware; heed.
-to make ware; to warn; to take heed of; to beware of; to guard against.

wareful
-wary; watchful; cautious.

warefulness
-wariness; cautiousness.

warega fly
-a brazilian fly whose larvae live in the skin of man and animals, producing painful sores.

warehouse
-a storehouse for wares, or goods.
-to deposit or secure in a warehouse.
-to place in the warehouse of the government or customhouse stores, to be kept until duties are paid.

warehoused
-of warehouse

warehouseman
-one who keeps a warehouse; the owner or keeper of a dock warehouse or wharf store.
-one who keeps a wholesale shop or store for manchester or woolen goods.

warehousemen
-of warehouseman

warehouses
-of warehouse

warehousing
-of warehouse
-the act of placing goods in a warehouse, or in a customhouse store.

wareless
-unwary; incautious; unheeding; careless; unaware.

warely
-cautiously; warily.

warence
-madder.

wareroom
-a room in which goods are stored or exhibited for sale.

wares
-see 4th ware.

warfare
-military service; military life; contest carried on by enemies; hostilities; war.
-contest; struggle.
-to lead a military life; to carry on continual wars.

warfarer
-one engaged in warfare; a military man; a soldier; a warrior.

warhable
-fit for war.

wariangle
-the red
-backed shrike (lanius collurio);
-- called also wurger, worrier, and throttler.

warily
-in a wary manner.

wariment
-wariness.

warine
-a south american monkey, one of the sapajous.

wariness
-the quality or state of being wary; care to foresee and guard against evil; cautiousness.

warish
-to protect from the effects of; hence, to cure; to heal.
-to be cured; to recover.

warison
-preparation; protection; provision; supply.
-reward; requital; guerdon.

wark
-work; a building.

warkloom
-a tool; an implement.

warlike
-fit for war; disposed for war; as, a warlike state; a warlike disposition.
-belonging or relating to war; military; martial.

warlikeness
-quality of being warlike.

warling
-one often quarreled with;
-- / word coined, perhaps, to rhyme with darling.

warlock
-a male witch; a wizard; a sprite; an imp.
-of or pertaining to a warlock or warlock; impish.

warlockry
-impishness; magic.

warly
-warlike.

warm
-having heat in a moderate degree; not cold as, warm milk.
-having a sensation of heat, esp. of gentle heat; glowing.
-subject to heat; having prevalence of heat, or little or no cold weather; as, the warm climate of egypt.
-fig.: not cool, indifferent, lukewarm, or the like, in spirit or temper; zealous; ardent; fervent; excited; sprightly; irritable; excitable.
-violent; vehement; furious; excited; passionate; as, a warm contest; a warm debate.
-being well off as to property, or in good circumstances; forehanded; rich.
-in children's games, being near the object sought for; hence, being close to the discovery of some person, thing, or fact concealed.
-having yellow or red for a basis, or in their composition;
-- said of colors, and opposed to cold which is of blue and its compounds.
-to communicate a moderate degree of heat to; to render warm; to supply or furnish heat to; as, a stove warms an apartment.
-to make engaged or earnest; to interest; to engage; to excite ardor or zeal; to enliven.
-to become warm, or moderately heated; as, the earth soon warms in a clear day summer.
-to become ardent or animated; as, the speake/ warms as he proceeds.
-the act of warming, or the state of being warmed; a warming; a heating.

warm
-blooded
-having warm blood;
-- applied especially to those animals, as birds and mammals, which have warm blood, or, more properly, the power of maintaining a nearly uniform temperature whatever the temperature of the surrounding air. see homoiothermal.

warm
-hearted
-having strong affection; cordial; sincere; hearty; sympathetic.

warmed
-of warm

warmer
-one who, or that which, warms.

warmful
-abounding in capacity to warm; giving warmth; as, a warmful garment.

warming
-of warm
-a. & n. from warm, v.

warmly
-in a warm manner; ardently.

warmness
-warmth.

warmonger
-one who makes ar a trade or business; a mercenary.

warmouth
-an american freshwater bream, or sunfish (chaenobryttus gulosus);
-- called also red
-eyed bream.

warmth
-the quality or state of being warm; gentle heat; as, the warmth of the sun; the warmth of the blood; vital warmth.
-a state of lively and excited interest; zeal; ardor; fervor; passion; enthusiasm; earnestness; as, the warmth of love or piety; he replied with much warmth.
-the glowing effect which arises from the use of warm colors; hence, any similar appearance or effect in a painting, or work of color.

warmthless
-being without warmth; not communicating warmth; cold.

warn
-to refuse.
-to make ware or aware; to give previous information to; to give notice to; to notify; to admonish; hence, to notify or summon by authority; as, to warn a town meeting; to warn a tenant to quit a house.
-to give notice to, of approaching or probable danger or evil; to caution against anything that may prove injurious.
-to ward off.

warned
-of warn

warner
-one who warns; an admonisher.
-a warrener.

warning
-of warn
-giving previous notice; cautioning; admonishing; as, a warning voice.
-previous notice.
-caution against danger, or against faults or evil practices which incur danger; admonition; monition.

warningly
-in a warning manner.

warnstore
-to furnish.

warp
-to throw; hence, to send forth, or throw out, as words; to utter.
-to turn or twist out of shape; esp., to twist or bend out of a flat plane by contraction or otherwise.
-to turn aside from the true direction; to cause to bend or incline; to pervert.
-to weave; to fabricate.
-to tow or move, as a vessel, with a line, or warp, attached to a buoy, anchor, or other fixed object.
-to cast prematurely, as young;
-- said of cattle, sheep, etc.
-to let the tide or other water in upon (lowlying land), for the purpose of fertilization, by a deposit of warp, or slimy substance.
-to run off the reel into hauls to be tarred, as yarns.
-to arrange (yarns) on a warp beam.
-to turn, twist, or be twisted out of shape; esp., to be twisted or bent out of a flat plane; as, a board warps in seasoning or shrinking.
-to turn or incline from a straight, true, or proper course; to deviate; to swerve.
-to fly with a bending or waving motion; to turn and wave, like a flock of birds or insects.
-to cast the young prematurely; to slink;
-- said of cattle, sheep, etc.
-to wind yarn off bobbins for forming the warp of a web; to wind a warp on a warp beam.
-the threads which are extended lengthwise in the loom, and crossed by the woof.
-a rope used in hauling or moving a vessel, usually with one end attached to an anchor, a post, or other fixed object; a towing line; a warping hawser.
-a slimy substance deposited on land by tides, etc., by which a rich alluvial soil is formed.
-a premature casting of young;
-- said of cattle, sheep, etc.
-four; esp., four herrings; a cast. see cast, n., 17.
-the state of being warped or twisted; as, the warp of a board.

warpage
-the act of warping; also, a charge per ton made on shipping in some harbors.

warpath
-the route taken by a party of indians going on a warlike expedition.

warped
-of warp

warper
-one who, or that which, warps or twists out of shape.
-one who, or that which, forms yarn or thread into warps or webs for the loom.

warping
-of warp
-the act or process of one who, or that which, warps.
-the art or occupation of preparing warp or webs for the weaver.

warproof
-valor tried by war.

warragal
-the dingo.

warrandice
-the obligation by which a person, conveying a subject or a right, is bound to uphold that subject or right against every claim, challenge, or burden arising from circumstances prior to the conveyance; warranty.

warrant
-that which warrants or authorizes; a commission giving authority, or justifying the doing of anything; an act, instrument, or obligation, by which one person authorizes another to do something which he has not otherwise a right to do; an act or instrument investing one with a right or authority, and thus securing him from loss or damage; commission; authority.
-a writing which authorizes a person to receive money or other thing.
-a precept issued by a magistrate authorizing an officer to make an arrest, a seizure, or a search, or do other acts incident to the administration of justice.
-an official certificate of appointment issued to an officer of lower rank than a commissioned officer. see warrant officer, below.
-that which vouches or insures for anything; guaranty; security.
-that which attests or proves; a voucher.
-right; legality; allowance.
-to make secure; to give assurance against harm; to guarantee safety to; to give authority or power to do, or forbear to do, anything by which the person authorized is secured, or saved harmless, from any loss or damage by his action.
-to support by authority or proof; to justify; to maintain; to sanction; as, reason warrants it.
-to give a warrant or warranty to; to assure as if by giving a warrant to.
-to secure to, as a grantee, an estate granted; to assure.
-to secure to, as a purchaser of goods, the title to the same; to indemnify against loss.
-to secure to, as a purchaser, the quality or quantity of the goods sold, as represented. see warranty, n., 2.
-to assure, as a thing sold, to the purchaser; that is, to engage that the thing is what it appears, or is represented, to be, which implies a covenant to make good any defect or loss incurred by it.

warrantable
-authorized by commission, precept, or right; justifiable; defensible; as, the seizure of a thief is always warrantable by law and justice; falsehood is never warrantable.

warranted
-of warrant

warrantee
-the person to whom a warrant or warranty is made.

warranter
-one who warrants, gives authority, or legally empowers.
-one who assures, or covenants to assure; one who contracts to secure another in a right, or to make good any defect of title or quality; one who gives a warranty; a guarantor; as, the warranter of a horse.

warranties
-of warranty

warranting
-of warrant

warrantise
-authority; security; warranty.
-to warrant.

warrantor
-one who warrants.

warranty
-a covenant real, whereby the grantor of an estate of freehold and his heirs were bound to warrant and defend the title, and, in case of eviction by title paramount, to yield other lands of equal value in recompense. this warranty has long singe become obsolete, and its place supplied by personal covenants for title. among these is the covenant of warranty, which runs with the land, and is in the nature of a real covenant.
-an engagement or undertaking, express or implied, that a certain fact regarding the subject of a contract is, or shall be, as it is expressly or impliedly declared or promised to be. in sales of goods by persons in possession, there is an implied warranty of title, but, as to the quality of goods, the rule of every sale is, caveat emptor.
-a stipulation or engagement by a party insured, that certain things, relating to the subject of insurance, or affecting the risk, exist, or shall exist, or have been done, or shall be done. these warranties, when express, should appear in the policy; but there are certain implied warranties.
-justificatory mandate or precept; authority; warrant.
-security; warrant; guaranty.
-to warrant; to guarantee.

warray
-to make war upon. [obs.] fairfax.

warre
-worse.

warred
-of war

warren
-a place privileged, by prescription or grant the king, for keeping certain animals (as hares, conies, partridges, pheasants, etc.) called beasts and fowls of warren.
-a privilege which one has in his lands, by royal grant or prescription, of hunting and taking wild beasts and birds of warren, to the exclusion of any other person not entering by his permission.
-a piece of ground for the breeding of rabbits.
-a place for keeping flash, in a river.

warrener
-the keeper of a warren.

warriangle
-see wariangle.

warrie
-see warye.

warrin
-an australian lorikeet (trichoglossus multicolor) remarkable for the variety and brilliancy of its colors;
-- called also blue
-bellied lorikeet, and blue
-bellied parrot.

warring
-of war

warrior
-a man engaged or experienced in war, or in the military life; a soldier; a champion.

warrioress
-a female warrior.

warry
-see warye.

warsaw
-the black grouper (epinephelus nigritus) of the southern coasts of the united states.
-the jewfish;
-- called also guasa.

wart
-a small, usually hard, tumor on the skin formed by enlargement of its vascular papillae, and thickening of the epidermis which covers them.
-an excrescence or protuberance more or less resembling a true wart; specifically (bot.), a glandular excrescence or hardened protuberance on plants.

wart hog
-either one of two species of large, savage african wild hogs of the genus phacoch/rus. these animals have a pair of large, rough, fleshy tubercles behind the tusks and second pair behind the eyes. the tusks are large and strong, and both pairs curve upward. the body is scantily covered with bristles, but there is long dorsal mane. the south african species (phacoch/rus aethiopicus) is the best known. called also vlacke vark. the second species (p. aeliani) is native of the coasts of the red sea.

warted
-having little knobs on the surface; verrucose; as, a warted capsule.

wartless
-having no wart.

wartweed
-same as wartwort.

wartwort
-a name given to several plants because they were thought to be a cure for warts, as a kind of spurge (euphorbia helioscopia), and the nipplewort (lampsana communis).

warty
-having warts; full of warts; overgrow with warts; as, a warty leaf.
-of the nature of warts; as, a warty excrescence.

warwickite
-a dark brown or black mineral, occurring in prismatic crystals imbedded in limestone near warwick, new york. it consists of the borate and titanate of magnesia and iron.

warworn
-worn with military service; as, a warworn soldier; a warworn coat.

wary
-cautious of danger; carefully watching and guarding against deception, artifices, and dangers; timorously or suspiciously prudent; circumspect; scrupulous; careful.
-characterized by caution; guarded; careful.

warye
-to curse; to curse; to execrate; to condemn; also, to vex.

was
-of be
-the first and third persons singular of the verb be, in the indicative mood, preterit (imperfect) tense; as, i was; he was.

wase
-a bundle of straw, or other material, to relieve the pressure of burdens carried upon the head.

wash
-to cleanse by ablution, or dipping or rubbing in water; to apply water or other liquid to for the purpose of cleansing; to scrub with water, etc., or as with water; as, to wash the hands or body; to wash garments; to wash sheep or wool; to wash the pavement or floor; to wash the bark of trees.
-to cover with water or any liquid; to wet; to fall on and moisten; hence, to overflow or dash against; as, waves wash the shore.
-to waste or abrade by the force of water in motion; as, heavy rains wash a road or an embankment.
-to remove by washing to take away by, or as by, the action of water; to drag or draw off as by the tide;
-- often with away, off, out, etc.; as, to wash dirt from the hands.
-to cover with a thin or watery coat of color; to tint lightly and thinly.
-to overlay with a thin coat of metal; as, steel washed with silver.
-to perform the act of ablution.
-to clean anything by rubbing or dipping it in water; to perform the business of cleansing clothes, ore, etc., in water.
-to bear without injury the operation of being washed; as, some calicoes do not wash.
-to be wasted or worn away by the action of water, as by a running or overflowing stream, or by the dashing of the sea;
-- said of road, a beach, etc.
-the act of washing; an ablution; a cleansing, wetting, or dashing with water; hence, a quantity, as of clothes, washed at once.
-a piece of ground washed by the action of a sea or river, or sometimes covered and sometimes left dry; the shallowest part of a river, or arm of the sea; also, a bog; a marsh; a fen; as, the washes in lincolnshire.
-substances collected and deposited by the action of water; as, the wash of a sewer, of a river, etc.
-waste liquid, the refuse of food, the collection from washed dishes, etc., from a kitchen, often used as food for pigs.
-the fermented wort before the spirit is extracted.
-a mixture of dunder, molasses, water, and scummings, used in the west indies for distillation.
-that with which anything is washed, or wetted, smeared, tinted, etc., upon the surface.
-a liquid cosmetic for the complexion.
-a liquid dentifrice.
-a liquid preparation for the hair; as, a hair wash.
-a medical preparation in a liquid form for external application; a lotion.
-a thin coat of color, esp. water color.
-a thin coat of metal laid on anything for beauty or preservation.
-the blade of an oar, or the thin part which enters the water.
-the backward current or disturbed water caused by the action of oars, or of a steamer's screw or paddles, etc.
-the flow, swash, or breaking of a body of water, as a wave; also, the sound of it.
-ten strikes, or bushels, of oysters.
-washy; weak.
-capable of being washed without injury; washable; as, wash goods.

wash
-off
-capable of being washed off; not permanent or durable;
-- said of colors not fixed by steaming or otherwise.

washable
-capable of being washed without damage to fabric or color.

washboard
-a fluted, or ribbed, board on which clothes are rubbed in washing them.
-a board running round, and serving as a facing for, the walls of a room, next to the floor; a mopboard.
-a broad, thin plank, fixed along the gunwale of boat to keep the sea from breaking inboard; also, a plank on the sill of a lower deck port, for the same purpose;
-- called also wasteboard.

washbowl
-a basin, or bowl, to hold water for washing one's hands, face, etc.

washdish
-a washbowl.
-same as washerwoman, 2.

washed
-of wash
-appearing as if overlaid with a thin layer of different color;
-- said of the colors of certain birds and insects.

washen
-p. p. of wash.

washer
-one who, or that which, washes.
-a ring of metal, leather, or other material, or a perforated plate, used for various purposes, as around a bolt or screw to form a seat for the head or nut, or around a wagon axle to prevent endwise motion of the hub of the wheel and relieve friction, or in a joint to form a packing, etc.
-a fitting, usually having a plug, applied to a cistern, tub, sink, or the like, and forming the outlet opening.
-the common raccoon.
-same as washerwoman, 2.

washerman
-a man who washes clothes, esp. for hire, or for others.

washermen
-of washerman

washerwoman
-a woman who washes clothes, especially for hire, or for others.
-the pied wagtail;
-- so called in allusion to its beating the water with its tail while tripping along the leaves of water plants.

washerwomen
-of washerwoman

washhouse
-an outbuilding for washing, esp. one for washing clothes; a laundry.

washiness
-the quality or state of being washy, watery, or weak.

washing
-of wash
-the act of one who washes; the act of cleansing with water; ablution.
-the clothes washed, esp. at one time; a wash.

washingtonian
-pertaining to, or characteristic of, george washington; as, a washingtonian policy.
-designating, or pertaining to, a temperance society and movement started in baltimore in 1840 on the principle of total abstinence.
-a member of the washingtonian society.

washout
-the washing out or away of earth, etc., especially of a portion of the bed of a road or railroad by a fall of rain or a freshet; also, a place, especially in the bed of a road or railroad, where the earth has been washed away.

washpot
-a pot or vessel in which anything is washed.
-a pot containing melted tin into which the plates are dipped to be coated.

washstand
-a piece of furniture holding the ewer or pitcher, basin, and other requisites for washing the person.

washtub
-a tub in which clothes are washed.

washy
-watery; damp; soft.
-lacking substance or strength; weak; thin; dilute; feeble; as, washy tea; washy resolutions.
-not firm or hardy; liable to sweat profusely with labor; as, a washy horse.

wasite
-a variety of allanite from sweden supposed to contain wasium.

wasium
-a rare element supposed by bahr to have been extracted from wasite, but now identified with thorium.

wasp
-any one of numerous species of stinging hymenopterous insects, esp. any of the numerous species of the genus vespa, which includes the true, or social, wasps, some of which are called yellow jackets.

waspish
-resembling a wasp in form; having a slender waist, like a wasp.
-quick to resent a trifling affront; characterized by snappishness; irritable; irascible; petulant; snappish.

wassail
-an ancient expression of good wishes on a festive occasion, especially in drinking to some one.
-an occasion on which such good wishes are expressed in drinking; a drinking bout; a carouse.
-the liquor used for a wassail; esp., a beverage formerly much used in england at christmas and other festivals, made of ale (or wine) flavored with spices, sugar, toast, roasted apples, etc.;
-- called also lamb's wool.
-a festive or drinking song or glee.
-of or pertaining to wassail, or to a wassail; convivial; as, a wassail bowl.
-to hold a wassail; to carouse.

wassailer
-one who drinks wassail; one who engages in festivity, especially in drinking; a reveler.

wast
-the second person singular of the verb be, in the indicative mood, imperfect tense;
-- now used only in solemn or poetical style. see was.

wastage
-loss by use, decay, evaporation, leakage, or the like; waste.

waste
-desolate; devastated; stripped; bare; hence, dreary; dismal; gloomy; cheerless.
-lying unused; unproductive; worthless; valueless; refuse; rejected; as, waste land; waste paper.
-lost for want of occupiers or use; superfluous.
-to bring to ruin; to devastate; to desolate; to destroy.
-to wear away by degrees; to impair gradually; to diminish by constant loss; to use up; to consume; to spend; to wear out.
-to spend unnecessarily or carelessly; to employ prodigally; to expend without valuable result; to apply to useless purposes; to lavish vainly; to squander; to cause to be lost; to destroy by scattering or injury.
-to damage, impair, or injure, as an estate, voluntarily, or by suffering the buildings, fences, etc., to go to decay.
-to be diminished; to lose bulk, substance, strength, value, or the like, gradually; to be consumed; to dwindle; to grow less.
-to procure or sustain a reduction of flesh;
-- said of a jockey in preparation for a race, etc.
-the act of wasting, or the state of being wasted; a squandering; needless destruction; useless consumption or expenditure; devastation; loss without equivalent gain; gradual loss or decrease, by use, wear, or decay; as, a waste of property, time, labor, words, etc.
-that which is wasted or desolate; a devastated, uncultivated, or wild country; a deserted region; an unoccupied or unemployed space; a dreary void; a desert; a wilderness.
-that which is of no value; worthless remnants; refuse. specifically: remnants of cops, or other refuse resulting from the working of cotton, wool, hemp, and the like, used for wiping machinery, absorbing oil in the axle boxes of railway cars, etc.
-spoil, destruction, or injury, done to houses, woods, fences, lands, etc., by a tenant for life or for years, to the prejudice of the heir, or of him in reversion or remainder.
-old or abandoned workings, whether left as vacant space or filled with refuse.

wastebasket
-a basket used in offices, libraries, etc., as a receptacle for waste paper.

wasteboard
-see washboard, 3.

wastebook
-a book in which rough entries of transactions are made, previous to their being carried into the journal.

wasted
-of waste

wasteful
-full of waste; destructive to property; ruinous; as, wasteful practices or negligence; wasteful expenses.
-expending, or tending to expend, property, or that which is valuable, in a needless or useless manner; lavish; prodigal; as, a wasteful person; a wasteful disposition.
-waste; desolate; unoccupied; untilled.

wastel
-a kind of white and fine bread or cake;
-- called also wastel bread, and wastel cake.

wasteness
-the quality or state of being waste; a desolate state or condition; desolation.
-that which is waste; a desert; a waste.

waster
-one who, or that which, wastes; one who squanders; one who consumes or expends extravagantly; a spendthrift; a prodigal.
-an imperfection in the wick of a candle, causing it to waste;
-- called also a thief.
-a kind of cudgel; also, a blunt
-edged sword used as a foil.

wastethrift
-a spendthrift.

wasteweir
-an overfall, or weir, for the escape, or overflow, of superfluous water from a canal, reservoir, pond, or the like.

wasting
-of waste
-causing waste; also, undergoing waste; diminishing; as, a wasting disease; a wasting fortune.

wastor
-a waster; a thief.

wastorel
-see wastrel.

wastrel
-any waste thing or substance
-waste land or common land.
-a profligate.
-a neglected child; a street arab.
-anything cast away as bad or useless, as imperfect bricks, china, etc.

watch
-the act of watching; forbearance of sleep; vigil; wakeful, vigilant, or constantly observant attention; close observation; guard; preservative or preventive vigilance; formerly, a watching or guarding by night.
-one who watches, or those who watch; a watchman, or a body of watchmen; a sentry; a guard.
-the post or office of a watchman; also, the place where a watchman is posted, or where a guard is kept.
-the period of the night during which a person does duty as a sentinel, or guard; the time from the placing of a sentinel till his relief; hence, a division of the night.
-a small timepiece, or chronometer, to be carried about the person, the machinery of which is moved by a spring.
-an allotted portion of time, usually four hour for standing watch, or being on deck ready for duty. cf. dogwatch.
-that part, usually one half, of the officers and crew, who together attend to the working of a vessel for an allotted time, usually four hours. the watches are designated as the port watch, and the starboard watch.
-to be awake; to be or continue without sleep; to wake; to keep vigil.
-to be attentive or vigilant; to give heed; to be on the lookout; to keep guard; to act as sentinel.
-to be expectant; to look with expectation; to wait; to seek opportunity.
-to remain awake with any one as nurse or attendant; to attend on the sick during the night; as, to watch with a man in a fever.
-to serve the purpose of a watchman by floating properly in its place;
-- said of a buoy.
-to give heed to; to observe the actions or motions of, for any purpose; to keep in view; not to lose from sight and observation; as, to watch the progress of a bill in the legislature.
-to tend; to guard; to have in keeping.

watchdog
-a dog kept to watch and guard premises or property, and to give notice of the approach of intruders.

watched
-of watch

watcher
-one who watches; one who sits up or continues; a diligent observer; specifically, one who attends upon the sick during the night.

watches
-the leaves of saracenia flava. see trumpets.

watchet
-pale or light blue.

watchful
-full of watch; vigilant; attentive; careful to observe closely; observant; cautious;
-- with of before the thing to be regulated or guarded; as, to be watchful of one's behavior; and with against before the thing to be avoided; as, to be watchful against the growth of vicious habits.

watchhouse
-a house in which a watch or guard is placed.
-a place where persons under temporary arrest by the police of a city are kept; a police station; a lockup.

watchhouses
-of watchhouse

watching
-of watch

watchmaker
-one whose occupation is to make and repair watches.

watchman
-one set to watch; a person who keeps guard; a guard; a sentinel.
-specifically, one who guards a building, or the streets of a city, by night.

watchmen
-of watchman

watchtower
-a tower in which a sentinel is placed to watch for enemies, the approach of danger, or the like.

watchword
-a word given to sentinels, and to such as have occasion to visit the guards, used as a signal by which a friend is known from an enemy, or a person who has a right to pass the watch from one who has not; a countersign; a password.
-a sentiment or motto; esp., one used as a rallying cry or a signal for action.

water
-the fluid which descends from the clouds in rain, and which forms rivers, lakes, seas, etc.
-a body of water, standing or flowing; a lake, river, or other collection of water.
-any liquid secretion, humor, or the like, resembling water; esp., the urine.
-a solution in water of a gaseous or readily volatile substance; as, ammonia water.
-the limpidity and luster of a precious stone, especially a diamond; as, a diamond of the first water, that is, perfectly pure and transparent. hence, of the first water, that is, of the first excellence.
-a wavy, lustrous pattern or decoration such as is imparted to linen, silk, metals, etc. see water, v. t., 3, damask, v. t., and damaskeen.
-an addition to the shares representing the capital of a stock company so that the aggregate par value of the shares is increased while their value for investment is diminished, or "diluted."
-to wet or supply with water; to moisten; to overflow with water; to irrigate; as, to water land; to water flowers.
-to supply with water for drink; to cause or allow to drink; as, to water cattle and horses.
-to wet and calender, as cloth, so as to impart to it a lustrous appearance in wavy lines; to diversify with wavelike lines; as, to water silk. cf. water, n., 6.
-to add water to (anything), thereby extending the quantity or bulk while reducing the strength or quality; to extend; to dilute; to weaken.
-to shed, secrete, or fill with, water or liquid matter; as, his eyes began to water.
-to get or take in water; as, the ship put into port to water.

water adder
-the water moccasin.
-the common, harmless american water snake (tropidonotus sipedon). see illust. under water snake.

water agrimony
-a kind of bur marigold (bidens tripartita) found in wet places in europe.

water aloe
-see water soldier.

water antelope
-see water buck.

water arum
-an aroid herb (calla palustris) having a white spathe. it is an inhabitant of the north temperate zone.

water back
-see under 1st back.

water bailiff
-an officer of the customs, whose duty it is to search vessels.

water ballast
-water confined in specially constructed compartments in a vessel's hold, to serve as ballast.

water barometer
-a barometer in which the changes of atmospheric pressure are indicated by the motion of a column of water instead of mercury. it requires a column of water about thirty
-three feet in height.

water bath
-a device for regulating the temperature of anything subjected to heat, by surrounding the vessel containing it with another vessel containing water which can be kept at a desired temperature; also, a vessel designed for this purpose.

water battery
-a voltaic battery in which the exciting fluid is water.
-a battery nearly on a level with the water.

water bear
-any species of tardigrada, 2. see illust. of tardigrada.

water bed
-a kind of mattress made of, or covered with, waterproof fabric and filled with water. it is used in hospitals for bedridden patients.

water beech
-the american hornbeam. see hornbeam.

water beetle
-any one of numerous species of aquatic beetles belonging to dytiscus and allied genera of the family dytiscidae, and to various genera of the family hydrophilidae. these beetles swim with great agility, the fringed hind legs acting together like oars.

water bellows
-same as tromp.

water bird
-any aquatic bird; a water fowl.

water blackbird
-the european water ousel, or dipper.

water boatman
-a boat bug.

water brain
-a disease of sheep; gid.

water brash
-see under brash.

water breather
-any arthropod that breathes by means of gills.

water bridge
-see water table.

water buck
-a large, heavy antelope (kobus ellipsiprymnus) native of central africa. it frequents the banks of rivers and is a good swimmer. it has a white ring around the rump. called also photomok, water antelope, and waterbok.

water buffalo
-the european buffalo.

water bug
-the croton bug.
-any one of numerous species of large, rapacious, aquatic, hemipterous insects belonging to belostoma, benacus, zaitha, and other genera of the family belostomatidae. their hind legs are long and fringed, and act like oars. some of these insects are of great size, being among the largest existing hemiptera. many of them come out of the water and fly about at night.

water butt
-a large, open
-headed cask, set up on end, to contain water.

water caltrop
-the water chestnut.

water can
-any one of several species of nuphar; the yellow frog lily;
-- so called from the shape of the seed vessel. see nuphar, and cf. candock.

water canker
-see canker, n., 1.

water carriage
-transportation or conveyance by water; means of transporting by water.
-a vessel or boat.

water cart
-a cart carrying water; esp., one carrying water for sale, or for sprinkling streets, gardens, etc.

water cavy
-the capybara.

water celery
-a very acrid herb (ranunculus sceleratus) growing in ditches and wet places;
-- called also cursed crowfoot.

water cell
-a cell containing water; specifically (zool.), one of the cells or chambers in which water is stored up in the stomach of a camel.

water cement
-hydraulic cement.

water chestnut
-the fruit of trapa natans and trapa bicornis, old world water plants bearing edible nutlike fruits armed with several hard and sharp points; also, the plant itself;
-- called also water caltrop.

water chevrotain
-a large west african chevrotain (hyaemoschus aquaticus). it has a larger body and shorter legs than the other allied species. called also water deerlet.

water chicken
-the common american gallinule.

water chickweed
-a small annual plant (montia fontana) growing in wet places in southern regions.

water chinquapin
-the american lotus, and its edible seeds, which somewhat resemble chinquapins. cf. yoncopin.

water clock
-an instrument or machine serving to measure time by the fall, or flow, of a certain quantity of water; a clepsydra.

water cock
-a large gallinule (gallicrex cristatus) native of australia, india, and the east indies. in the breeding season the male is black and has a fleshy red caruncle, or horn, on the top of its head. called also kora.

water color
-a color ground with water and gum or other glutinous medium; a color the vehicle of which is water;
-- so called in distinction from oil color.
-a picture painted with such colors.

water course
-a stream of water; a river or brook.
-a natural channel for water; also, a canal for the conveyance of water, especially in draining lands.
-a running stream of water having a bed and banks; the easement one may have in the flowing of such a stream in its accustomed course. a water course may be sometimes dry.

water craft
-any vessel or boat plying on water; vessels and boats, collectively.

water crake
-the dipper.
-the spotted crake (porzana maruetta). see illust. of crake.
-the swamp hen, or crake, of australia.

water crane
-a goose
-neck apparatus for supplying water from an elevated tank, as to the tender of a locomotive.

water cress
-a perennial cruciferous herb (nasturtium officinale) growing usually in clear running or spring water. the leaves are pungent, and used for salad and as an antiscorbutic.

water crow
-the dipper.
-the european coot.

water crowfoot
-an aquatic kind of buttercup (ranunculus aquatilis), used as food for cattle in parts of england.

water cure
-hydropathy.
-a hydropathic institution.

water deck
-a covering of painting canvas for the equipments of a dragoon's horse.

water deer
-a small chinese deer (hydropotes inermis). both sexes are destitute of antlers, but the male has large, descending canine tusks.
-the water chevrotain.

water deerlet
-see water chevrotain.

water devil
-the rapacious larva of a large water beetle (hydrophilus piceus), and of other similar species. see illust. of water beetle.

water dock
-a tall, coarse dock growing in wet places. the american water dock is rumex orbiculatus, the european is r. hydrolapathum.

water doctor
-one who professes to be able to divine diseases by inspection of the urine.
-a physician who treats diseases with water; an hydropathist.

water dog
-a dog accustomed to the water, or trained to retrieve waterfowl. retrievers, waters spaniels, and newfoundland dogs are so trained.
-the menobranchus.
-a small floating cloud, supposed to indicate rain.
-a sailor, esp. an old sailor; an old salt.

water drain
-a drain or channel for draining off water.

water drainage
-the draining off of water.

water dressing
-the treatment of wounds or ulcers by the application of water; also, a dressing saturated with water only, for application to a wound or an ulcer.

water dropwort
-a european poisonous umbelliferous plant (enanthe fistulosa) with large hollow stems and finely divided leaves.

water eagle
-the osprey.

water elder
-the guelder
-rose.

water elephant
-the hippopotamus.

water engine
-an engine to raise water; or an engine moved by water; also, an engine or machine for extinguishing fires; a fire engine.

water feather
-alt. of water feather
-foil

water feather
-foil
-the water violet (hottonia palustris); also, the less showy american plant h. inflata.

water flag
-a european species of iris (iris pseudacorus) having bright yellow flowers.

water flannel
-a floating mass formed in pools by the entangled filaments of a european fresh
-water alga (cladophora crispata).

water flea
-any one of numerous species of small aquatic entomostraca belonging to the genera cyclops, daphnia, etc;
-- so called because they swim with sudden leaps, or starts.

water flounder
-the windowpane (pleuronectes maculatus).

water fox
-the carp;
-- so called on account of its cunning.

water frame
-a name given to the first power spinning machine, because driven by water power.

water furrow
-a deep furrow for conducting water from the ground, and keeping the surface soil dry.

water gage
-see water gauge.

water gall
-a cavity made in the earth by a torrent of water; a washout.
-a watery appearance in the sky, accompanying the rainbow; a secondary or broken rainbow.

water gang
-a passage for water, such as was usually made in a sea wall, to drain water out of marshes.

water gas
-see under gas.

water gate
-a gate, or valve, by which a flow of water is permitted, prevented, or regulated.

water gauge
-a wall or bank to hold water back.
-an instrument for measuring or ascertaining the depth or quantity of water, or for indicating the height of its surface, as in the boiler of a steam engine. see gauge.

water gavel
-a gavel or rent paid for a privilege, as of fishing, in some river or water.

water germander
-a labiate plant (teucrium scordium) found in marshy places in europe.

water gilding
-the act, or the process, of gilding metallic surfaces by covering them with a thin coating of amalgam of gold, and then volatilizing the mercury by heat;
-- called also wash gilding.

water glass
-see soluble glass, under glass.

water god
-a fabulous deity supposed to dwell in, and preside over, some body of water.

water gruel
-a liquid food composed of water and a small portion of meal, or other farinaceous substance, boiled and seasoned.

water hammer
-a vessel partly filled with water, exhausted of air, and hermetically sealed. when reversed or shaken, the water being unimpeded by air, strikes the sides in solid mass with a sound like that of a hammer.
-a concussion, or blow, made by water in striking, as against the sides of a pipe or vessel containing it.

water hare
-a small american hare or rabbit (lepus aquaticus) found on or near the southern coasts of the united states;
-- called also water rabbit, and swamp hare.

water hemlock
-a poisonous umbelliferous plant (cicuta virosa) of europe; also, any one of several plants of that genus.
-a poisonous plant (/nanthe crocata) resembling the above.

water hemp
-see under hemp.

water hen
-any gallinule.
-the common american coot.

water hog
-the capybara.

water horehound
-bugleweed.

water hyacinth
-either of several tropical aquatic plants of the genus eichhornia, related to the pickerel weed.

water ice
-water flavored, sweetened, and frozen, to be eaten as a confection.

water inch
-same as inch of water, under water.

water joint
-a joint in a stone pavement where the stones are left slightly higher than elsewhere, the rest of the surface being sunken or dished. the raised surface is intended to prevent the settling of water in the joints.

water junket
-the common sandpiper.

water laverock
-the common sandpiper.

water leg
-see leg, 7.

water lemon
-the edible fruit of two species of passion flower (passiflora laurifolia, and p. maliformis);
-- so called in the west indies.

water lettuce
-a plant (pistia stratiotes) which floats on tropical waters, and forms a rosette of spongy, wedge
-shaped leaves.

water level
-the level formed by the surface of still water.
-a kind of leveling instrument. see under level, n.

water lily
-a blossom or plant of any species of the genus nymphaea, distinguished for its large floating leaves and beautiful flowers. see nymphaea.

water lime
-hydraulic lime.

water line
-any one of certain lines of a vessel, model, or plan, parallel with the surface of the water at various heights from the keel.
-any one of several lines marked upon the outside of a vessel, corresponding with the surface of the water when she is afloat on an even keel. the lowest line indicates the vessel's proper submergence when not loaded, and is called the light water line; the highest, called the load water line, indicates her proper submergence when loaded.

water lizard
-any aquatic lizard of the genus varanus, as the monitor of the nile. see monitor, n., 3.

water locust
-a thorny leguminous tree (gleditschia monosperma) which grows in the swamps of the mississippi valley.

water meadow
-a meadow, or piece of low, flat land, capable of being kept in a state of fertility by being overflowed with water from some adjoining river or stream.

water measure
-a measure formerly used for articles brought by water, as coals, oysters, etc. the water
-measure bushel was three gallons larger than the winchester bushel.

water measurer
-any one of numerous species of water; the skater. see skater, n., 2.

water meter
-a contrivance for measuring a supply of water delivered or received for any purpose, as from a street main.

water milfoil
-any plant of the genus myriophyllum, aquatic herbs with whorled leaves, the submersed ones pinnately parted into capillary divisions.

water mill
-a mill whose machinery is moved by water;
-- distinguished from a windmill, and a steam mill.

water mint
-a kind of mint (mentha aquatica) growing in wet places, and sometimes having a perfume resembling bergamot.

water mite
-any of numerous species of aquatic mites belonging to hydrachna and allied genera of the family hydrachnidae, usually having the legs fringed and adapted for swimming. they are often red or red and black in color, and while young are parasites of fresh
-water insects and mussels. called also water tick, and water spider.

water moccasin
-a venomous north american snake (ancistrodon piscivorus) allied to the rattlesnake but destitute of a rattle. it lives in or about pools and ponds, and feeds largely of fishes. called also water snake, water adder, water viper.

water mole
-the shrew mole. see under shrew.
-the duck mole. see under duck.

water monitor
-a very large lizard (varanaus salvator) native of india. it frequents the borders of streams and swims actively. it becomes five or six feet long. called also two
-banded monitor, and kabaragoya. the name is also applied to other aquatic monitors.

water motor
-a water engine.
-a water wheel; especially, a small water wheel driven by water from a street main.

water mouse
-any one of several species of mice belonging to the genus hydromys, native of australia and tasmania. their hind legs are strong and their toes partially webbed. they live on the borders of streams, and swim well. they are remarkable as being the only rodents found in australia.

water murrain
-a kind of murrain affecting cattle.

water newt
-any one of numerous species of aquatic salamanders; a triton.

water nymph
-a goddess of any stream or other body of water, whether one of the naiads, nereids, or oceanides.
-a water lily (nymphaea).

water oat
-indian rice. see under rice.

water opossum
-see yapock, and the note under opossum.

water ordeal
-same as ordeal by water. see the note under ordeal, n., 1.

water ousel
-alt. of water ouzel

water ouzel
-any one of several species of small insessorial birds of the genus cinclus (or hydrobates), especially the european water ousel (c. aquaticus), and the american water ousel (c. mexicanus). these birds live about the water, and are in the habit of walking on the bottom of streams beneath the water in search of food.

water parsnip
-any plant of the aquatic umbelliferous genus sium, poisonous herbs with pinnate or dissected leaves and small white flowers.

water partridge
-the ruddy duck.

water pennywort
-marsh pennywort. see under marsh.

water pepper
-smartweed.
-waterwort.

water pheasant
-the pintail. see pintail, n., 1.
-the goosander.
-the hooded merganser.

water piet
-the water ousel.

water pig
-the capybara.
-the gourami.

water pillar
-a waterspout.

water pimpernel
-a small white
-flowered shrub; brookweed.

water pipe
-a pipe for conveying water.

water pitcher
-a pitcher for water.
-one of a family of plants having pitcher
-shaped leaves. the sidesaddle flower (sarracenia purpurea) is the type.

water plant
-a plant that grows in water; an aquatic plant.

water plantain
-a kind of plant with acrid leaves. see under 2d plantain.

water plate
-a plate heated by hot water contained in a double bottom or jacket.

water poa
-meadow reed grass. see under reed.

water poise
-a hydrometer.

water pore
-a pore by which the water tubes of various invertebrates open externally.
-one of certain minute pores in the leaves of some plants. they are without true guardian cells, but in other respects closely resemble ordinary stomata.

water power
-the power of water employed to move machinery, etc.
-a fall of water which may be used to drive machinery; a site for a water mill; a water privilege.

water pox
-a variety of chicken pox, or varicella.

water privilege
-the advantage of using water as a mechanical power; also, the place where water is, or may be, so used. see under privilege.

water purslane
-see under purslane.

water qualm
-see water brash, under brash.

water rabbit
-see water hare.

water radish
-a coarse yellow
-flowered plant (nasturtium amphibium) related to the water cress and to the horse
-radish.

water rail
-any one of numerous species of rails of the genus rallus, as the common european species (rallus aquaticus). see illust. of rail.

water ram
-an hydraulic ram.

water rat
-the water vole. see under vole.
-the muskrat.
-the beaver rat. see under beaver.
-a thief on the water; a pirate.

water rate
-a rate or tax for a supply of water.

water rattle
-alt. of water rattler

water rattler
-the diamond rattlesnake (crotalus adamanteus);
-- so called from its preference for damp places near water.

water rice
-indian rice. see under rice.

water rocket
-a cruciferous plant (nasturtium sylvestre) with small yellow flowers.
-a kind of firework to be discharged in the water.

water sail
-a small sail sometimes set under a studding sail or under a driver boom, and reaching nearly to the water.

water sapphire
-a deep blue variety of iolite, sometimes used as a gem;
-- called also saphir d'eau.

water scorpion
-see nepa.

water screw
-a screw propeller.

water shield
-an aquatic american plant (brasenia peltata) having floating oval leaves, and the covered with a clear jelly.

water shrew
-any one of several species of shrews having fringed feet and capable of swimming actively. the two common european species (crossopus fodiens, and c. ciliatus) are the best known. the most common american water shrew, or marsh shrew (neosorex palustris), is rarely seen, owing to its nocturnal habits.

water snail
-any aquatic pulmonate gastropod belonging to planorbis, limnaea, and allied genera; a pond snail.
-the archimedean screw.

water snake
-a common north american colubrine snake (tropidonotus sipedon) which lives chiefly in the water.
-any species of snakes of the family homalopsidae, all of which are aquatic in their habits.

water soldier
-an aquatic european plant (stratiotes aloides) with bayonet
-shaped leaves.

water souchy
-a dish consisting of small fish stewed and served in a little water.

water spaniel
-a curly
-haired breed of spaniels, naturally very fond of the water.

water sparrow
-the reed warbler.
-the reed bunting.

water speedwell
-a kind of speedwell (veronica anagallis) found in wet places in europe and america.

water spider
-an aquatic european spider (argyoneta aquatica) which constructs its web beneath the surface of the water on water plants. it lives in a bell
-shaped structure of silk, open beneath like a diving bell, and filled with air which the spider carries down in the form of small bubbles attached one at a time to the spinnerets and hind feet. called also diving spider.
-a water mite.
-any spider that habitually lives on or about the water, especially the large american species (dolomedes lanceolatus) which runs rapidly on the surface of water;
-- called also raft spider.

water spinner
-the water spider.

water sprite
-a sprite, or spirit, imagined as inhabiting the water.

water star grass
-an aquatic plant (schollera graminea) with grassy leaves, and yellow star
-shaped blossoms.

water starwort
-see under starwort.

water supply
-a supply of water; specifically, water collected, as in reservoirs, and conveyed, as by pipes, for use in a city, mill, or the like.

water tabby
-a kind of waved or watered tabby. see tabby, n., 1.

water table
-a molding, or other projection, in the wall of a building, to throw off the water,
-- generally used in the united states for the first table above the surface of the ground (see table, n., 9), that is, for the table at the top of the foundation and the beginning of the upper wall.

water thermometer
-a thermometer filled with water instead of mercury, for ascertaining the precise temperature at which water attains its maximum density. this is about 39¡ fahr., or 4¡ centigrade; and from that point down to 32¡ fahr., or 0¡ centigrade, or the freezing point, it expands.

water thief
-a pirate.

water thrush
-a north american bird of the genus seiurus, belonging to the warbler family, especially the common species (s. noveboracensis).
-the european water ousel.
-the pied wagtail.

water thyme
-see anacharis.

water tick
-same as water mite.

water tiger
-a diving, or water, beetle, especially the larva of a water beetle. see illust. b of water beetle.

water torch
-the common cat
-tail (typha latifolia), the spike of which makes a good torch soaked in oil.

water tower
-a large metal pipe made to be extended vertically by sections, and used for discharging water upon burning buildings.

water tree
-a climbing shrub (tetracera alnifolia, / potatoria) of western africa, which pours out a watery sap from the freshly cut stems.

water trefoil
-the buck bean.

water tu tuyere
-a tuyere kept cool by water circulating within a casing. it is used for hot blast.

water tu twist
-yarn made by the throstle, or water frame.

water tube
-one of a system of tubular excretory organs having external openings, found in many invertebrates. they are believed to be analogous in function to the kidneys of vertebrates. see illust. under trematodea, and sporocyst.

water tupelo
-a species of large tupelo (nyssa aquatica) growing in swamps in the southern of the united states. see ogeechee lime.

water turkey
-the american snakebird. see snakebird.

water vine
-any plant of the genus phytocrene, climbing shrubs of asia and africa, the stems of which are singularly porous, and when cut stream with a limpid potable juice.

water violet
-see under violet.

water viper
-see water moccasin.

water vole
-see under vole.

water wagtail
-see under wagtail.

water way
-same as water course.

water wheel
-any wheel for propelling machinery or for other purposes, that is made to rotate by the direct action of water;
-- called an overshot wheel when the water is applied at the top, an undershot wheel when at the bottom, a breast wheel when at an intermediate point; other forms are called reaction wheel, vortex wheel, turbine wheel, etc.
-the paddle wheel of a steam vessel.
-a wheel for raising water; a noria, or the like.

water willow
-an american aquatic plant (dianthera americana) with long willowlike leaves, and spikes of small purplish flowers.

water wing
-one of two walls built on either side of the junction of a bridge with the bank of a river, to protect the abutment of the bridge and the bank from the action of the current.

water witch
-the dabchick.
-the stormy petrel.

water
-bearer
-the constellation aquarius.

water
-bound
-prevented by a flood from proceeding.

water
-closet
-a privy; especially, a privy furnished with a contrivance for introducing a stream of water to cleanse it.

water
-colorist
-one who paints in water colors.

water
-furrow
-to make water furrows in.

water
-laid
-having a left
-hand twist;
-- said of cordage; as, a water
-laid, or left
-hand, rope.

water
-logged
-filled or saturated with water so as to be heavy, unmanageable, or loglike;
-- said of a vessel, when, by receiving a great quantity of water into her hold, she has become so heavy as not to be manageable by the helm.

water
-ret
-to ret, or rot, in water, as flax; to water
-rot.

water
-retted
-of water
-ret

water
-retting
-of water
-ret

water
-rot
-to rot by steeping in water; to water
-ret; as, to water
-rot hemp or flax.

water
-rotted
-of water
-rot

water
-rotting
-of water
-rot

water
-soak
-to soak water; to fill the interstices of with water.

water
-standing
-tear
-filled.

water
-tight
-so tight as to retain, or not to admit, water; not leaky.

water
-white
-a vinelike plant (vitis caribaea) growing in parched districts in the west indies, and containing a great amount of sap which is sometimes used for quenching thirst.

waterage
-money paid for transportation of goods, etc., by water.

waterboard
-a board set up to windward in a boat, to keep out water.

waterbok
-a water buck.

watered
-of water

waterer
-one who, or that which, waters.

waterfall
-a fall, or perpendicular descent, of the water of a river or stream, or a descent nearly perpendicular; a cascade; a cataract.
-an arrangement of a woman's back hair over a cushion or frame in some resemblance to a waterfall.
-a certain kind of neck scarf.

waterflood
-a flood of water; an inundation.

waterfowl
-any bird that frequents the water, or lives about rivers, lakes, etc., or on or near the sea; an aquatic fowl;
-- used also collectively.

waterhorse
-a pile of salted fish heaped up to drain.

waterie
-the pied wagtail;
-- so called because it frequents ponds.

wateriness
-the quality or state of being watery; moisture; humidity.

watering
-of water
-a. & n. from water, v.

waterish
-resembling water; thin; watery.
-somewhat watery; moist; as, waterish land.

waterishness
-the quality of being waterish.

waterlander
-alt. of waterlandian

waterlandian
-one of a body of dutch anabaptists who separated from the mennonites in the sixteenth century;
-- so called from a district in north holland denominated waterland.

waterleaf
-any plant of the american genus hydrophyllum, herbs having white or pale blue bell
-shaped flowers.

waterless
-destitute of water; dry.

waterman
-a man who plies for hire on rivers, lakes, or canals, or in harbors, in distinction from a seaman who is engaged on the high seas; a man who manages fresh
-water craft; a boatman; a ferryman.
-an attendant on cab stands, etc., who supplies water to the horses.
-a water demon.

watermark
-a mark indicating the height to which water has risen, or at which it has stood; the usual limit of high or low water.
-a letter, device, or the like, wrought into paper during the process of manufacture.
-see water line, 2.

watermelon
-the very large ovoid or roundish fruit of a cucurbitaceous plant (citrullus vulgaris) of many varieties; also, the plant itself. the fruit sometimes weighs many pounds; its pulp is usually pink in color, and full of a sweet watery juice. it is a native of tropical africa, but is now cultivated in many countries. see illust. of melon.

watermen
-of waterman

waterpot
-a vessel for holding or conveying water, or for sprinkling water on cloth, plants, etc.

waterproof
-proof against penetration or permeation by water; impervious to water; as, a waterproof garment; a waterproof roof.
-a substance or preparation for rendering cloth, leather, etc., impervious to water.
-cloth made waterproof, or any article made of such cloth, or of other waterproof material, as rubber; esp., an outer garment made of such material.
-to render impervious to water, as cloth, leather, etc.

waterproofing
-the act or process of making waterproof.
-same as waterproof, n., 1.

waterscape
-a sea view;
-- distinguished from landscape.

watershed
-the whole region or extent of country which contributes to the supply of a river or lake.
-the line of division between two adjacent rivers or lakes with respect to the flow of water by natural channels into them; the natural boundary of a basin.

watershoot
-a sprig or shoot from the root or stock of a tree.
-that which serves to guard from falling water; a drip or dripstone.
-a trough for discharging water.

waterspout
-a remarkable meteorological phenomenon, of the nature of a tornado or whirlwind, usually observed over the sea, but sometimes over the land.

watertath
-a kind of coarse grass growing in wet grounds, and supposed to be injurious to sheep.

waterway
-heavy plank or timber extending fore and aft the whole length of a vessel's deck at the line of junction with the sides, forming a channel to the scuppers, which are cut through it. in iron vessels the waterway is variously constructed.

waterweed
-see anacharis.

waterwork
-painting executed in size or distemper, on canvas or walls,
-- formerly, frequently taking the place of tapestry.
-an hydraulic apparatus, or a system of works or fixtures, by which a supply of water is furnished for useful or ornamental purposes, including dams, sluices, pumps, aqueducts, distributing pipes, fountains, etc.;
-- used chiefly in the plural.

waterworn
-worn, smoothed, or polished by the action of water; as, waterworn stones.

waterwort
-any plant of the natural order elatineae, consisting of two genera (elatine, and bergia), mostly small annual herbs growing in the edges of ponds. some have a peppery or acrid taste.

watery
-of or pertaining to water; consisting of water.
-abounding with water; wet; hence, tearful.
-resembling water; thin or transparent, as a liquid; as, watery humors.
-hence, abounding in thin, tasteless, or insipid fluid; tasteless; insipid; vapid; spiritless.

watt
-a unit of power or activity equal to 107 c.g.s. units of power, or to work done at the rate of one joule a second. an english horse power is approximately equal to 746 watts.

wattle
-a twig or flexible rod; hence, a hurdle made of such rods.
-a rod laid on a roof to support the thatch.
-a naked fleshy, and usually wrinkled and highly colored, process of the skin hanging from the chin or throat of a bird or reptile.
-barbel of a fish.
-the astringent bark of several australian trees of the genus acacia, used in tanning;
-- called also wattle bark.
-the trees from which the bark is obtained. see savanna wattle, under savanna.
-to bind with twigs.
-to twist or interweave, one with another, as twigs; to form a network with; to plat; as, to wattle branches.
-to form, by interweaving or platting twigs.

wattlebird
-any one of several species of honey eaters belonging to anthochaera and allied genera of the family meliphagidae. these birds usually have a large and conspicuous wattle of naked skin hanging down below each ear. they are natives of australia and adjacent islands.
-the australian brush turkey.

wattled
-of wattle
-furnished with wattles, or pendent fleshy processes at the chin or throat.

wattling
-of wattle
-the act or process of binding or platting with twigs; also, the network so formed.

wattmeter
-an instrument for measuring power in watts,
-- much used in measuring the energy of an electric current.

waucht
-alt. of waught

waught
-a large draught of any liquid.

waul
-to cry as a cat; to squall; to wail.

waur
-worse.

wave
-see waive.
-to play loosely; to move like a wave, one way and the other; to float; to flutter; to undulate.
-to be moved to and fro as a signal.
-to fluctuate; to waver; to be in an unsettled state; to vacillate.
-to move one way and the other; to brandish.
-to raise into inequalities of surface; to give an undulating form a surface to.
-to move like a wave, or by floating; to waft.
-to call attention to, or give a direction or command to, by a waving motion, as of the hand; to signify by waving; to beckon; to signal; to indicate.
-an advancing ridge or swell on the surface of a liquid, as of the sea, resulting from the oscillatory motion of the particles composing it when disturbed by any force their position of rest; an undulation.
-a vibration propagated from particle to particle through a body or elastic medium, as in the transmission of sound; an assemblage of vibrating molecules in all phases of a vibration, with no phase repeated; a wave of vibration; an undulation. see undulation.
-water; a body of water.
-unevenness; inequality of surface.
-a waving or undulating motion; a signal made with the hand, a flag, etc.
-the undulating line or streak of luster on cloth watered, or calendered, or on damask steel.
-fig.: a swelling or excitement of thought, feeling, or energy; a tide; as, waves of enthusiasm.
-woe.

waved
-of wave
-exhibiting a wavelike form or outline; undulating; intended; wavy; as, waved edge.
-having a wavelike appearance; marked with wavelike lines of color; as, waved, or watered, silk.
-having undulations like waves;
-- said of one of the lines in heraldry which serve as outlines to the ordinaries, etc.

waveless
-free from waves; undisturbed; not agitated; as, the waveless sea.

wavelet
-a little wave; a ripple.

wavellite
-a hydrous phosphate of alumina, occurring usually in hemispherical radiated forms varying in color from white to yellow, green, or black.

waver
-to play or move to and fro; to move one way and the other; hence, to totter; to reel; to swing; to flutter.
-to be unsettled in opinion; to vacillate; to be undetermined; to fluctuate; as, to water in judgment.
-a sapling left standing in a fallen wood.

wavered
-of waver

waverer
-one who wavers; one who is unsettled in doctrine, faith, opinion, or the like.

wavering
-of waver

waveringly
-in a wavering manner.

waveringness
-the quality or state of wavering.

waveson
-goods which, after shipwreck, appear floating on the waves, or sea.

waveworn
-worn by the waves.

wavey
-the snow goose.

waviness
-the quality or state of being wavy.

waving
-of wave

wavure
-see waivure.

wavy
-rising or swelling in waves; full of waves.
-playing to and fro; undulating; as, wavy flames.
-undulating on the border or surface; waved.

wawaskeesh
-the wapiti, or wapiti, or american elk.

wawe
-a wave.

wawl
-see waul.

wax
-to increase in size; to grow bigger; to become larger or fuller;
-- opposed to wane.
-to pass from one state to another; to become; to grow; as, to wax strong; to wax warmer or colder; to wax feeble; to wax old; to wax worse and worse.
-a fatty, solid substance, produced by bees, and employed by them in the construction of their comb;
-- usually called beeswax. it is first excreted, from a row of pouches along their sides, in the form of scales, which, being masticated and mixed with saliva, become whitened and tenacious. its natural color is pale or dull yellow.
-hence, any substance resembling beeswax in consistency or appearance.
-cerumen, or earwax.
-a waxlike composition used for uniting surfaces, for excluding air, and for other purposes; as, sealing wax, grafting wax, etching wax, etc.
-a waxlike composition used by shoemakers for rubbing their thread.
-a substance similar to beeswax, secreted by several species of scale insects, as the chinese wax. see wax insect, below.
-a waxlike product secreted by certain plants. see vegetable wax, under vegetable.
-a substance, somewhat resembling wax, found in connection with certain deposits of rock salt and coal;
-- called also mineral wax, and ozocerite.
-thick sirup made by boiling down the sap of the sugar maple, and then cooling.
-to smear or rub with wax; to treat with wax; as, to wax a thread or a table.

waxberry
-the wax
-covered fruit of the wax myrtle, or bayberry. see bayberry, and candleberry tree.

waxbill
-any one of numerous species of finchlike birds belonging to estrelda and allied genera, native of asia, africa, and australia. the bill is large, conical, and usually red in color, resembling sealing wax. several of the species are often kept as cage birds.

waxbird
-the waxwing.

waxed
-of wax
-of wax
-of wax

waxen
-of wax
-made of wax.
-covered with wax; waxed; as, a waxen tablet.
-resembling wax; waxy; hence, soft; yielding.

waxiness
-quality or state of being waxy.

waxing
-of wax
-of wax

waxwing
-any one of several species of small birds of the genus ampelis, in which some of the secondary quills are usually tipped with small horny ornaments resembling red sealing wax. the bohemian waxwing (see under bohemian) and the cedar bird are examples. called also waxbird.

waxwork
-work made of wax; especially, a figure or figures formed or partly of wax, in imitation of real beings.
-an american climbing shrub (celastrus scandens). it bears a profusion of yellow berrylike pods, which open in the autumn, and display the scarlet coverings of the seeds.

waxworker
-one who works in wax; one who makes waxwork.
-a bee that makes or produces wax.

waxy
-resembling wax in appearance or consistency; viscid; adhesive; soft; hence, yielding; pliable; impressible.

way
-away.
-that by, upon, or along, which one passes or processes; opportunity or room to pass; place of passing; passage; road, street, track, or path of any kind; as, they built a way to the mine.
-length of space; distance; interval; as, a great way; a long way.
-a moving; passage; procession; journey.
-course or direction of motion or process; tendency of action; advance.
-the means by which anything is reached, or anything is accomplished; scheme; device; plan.
-manner; method; mode; fashion; style; as, the way of expressing one's ideas.
-regular course; habitual method of life or action; plan of conduct; mode of dealing.
-sphere or scope of observation.
-determined course; resolved mode of action or conduct; as, to have one's way.
-progress; as, a ship has way.
-the timbers on which a ship is launched.
-the longitudinal guides, or guiding surfaces, on the bed of a planer, lathe, or the like, along which a table or carriage moves.
-right of way. see below.
-to go or travel to; to go in, as a way or path.
-to move; to progress; to go.

way shaft
-a rock shaft.
-an interior shaft, usually one connecting two levels.

way
-going
-going away; departing; of or pertaining to one who goes away.

way
-goose
-see wayz
-goose, n., 2.

way
-wise
-skillful in finding the way; well acquainted with the way or route; wise from having traveled.

waybill
-a list of passengers in a public vehicle, or of the baggage or gods transported by a common carrier on a land route. when the goods are transported by water, the list is called a bill of lading.

waybread
-the common dooryard plantain (plantago major).

waybung
-an australian insessorial bird (corcorax melanorhamphus) noted for the curious actions of the male during the breeding season. it is black with a white patch on each wing.

wayed
-used to the way; broken.

wayfare
-to journey; to travel; to go to and fro.
-the act of journeying; travel; passage.

wayfarer
-one who travels; a traveler; a passenger.

wayfaring
-traveling; passing; being on a journey.

waygate
-the tailrace of a mill.

wayk
-weak.

waylaid
-of waylay

waylay
-to lie in wait for; to meet or encounter in the way; especially, to watch for the passing of, with a view to seize, rob, or slay; to beset in ambush.

waylayer
-one who waylays another.

waylaying
-of waylay

wayless
-having no road or path; pathless.

wayleway
-see welaway.

waymaker
-one who makes a way; a precursor.

waymark
-a mark to guide in traveling.

wayment
-to lament; to grieve; to wail.
-grief; lamentation; mourning.

waymented
-of wayment

waymenting
-of wayment

wayside
-the side of the way; the edge or border of a road or path.
-of or pertaining to the wayside; as, wayside flowers.

wayward
-taking one's own way; disobedient; froward; perverse; willful.

waywiser
-an instrument for measuring the distance which one has traveled on the road; an odometer, pedometer, or perambulator.

waywode
-originally, the title of a military commander in various slavonic countries; afterwards applied to governors of towns or provinces. it was assumed for a time by the rulers of moldavia and wallachia, who were afterwards called hospodars, and has also been given to some inferior turkish officers.

waywodeship
-the office, province, or jurisdiction of a waywode.

wayworn
-wearied by traveling.

wayz
-goose
-a stubble goose.
-an annual feast of the persons employed in a printing office.