Wolfheart
"Uskelt Wolfheart" Uskelt Wolfheart is one of the Chieftan-Kings named in the Tusk .

Uskelt Wolfheart

Title(s): Chieftan-King
Lived: ? - ?
Race: Men
Gender: Male
Occupation: Chieftan-King
Books: mentioned only

Uskelt Wolfheart

Title(s): Chieftan-King
Lived: ? - ?
Race: Men
Gender: Male
Occupation: Chieftan-King
Books: mentioned only

Womb
"Womb Plague" The Womb Plague was an epidemic that killed all the females of the Nonmen .

Overview

In the hope of achieving immortality, the Nonmen (specifically, the great Cû’jara-Cinmoi ) allowed the Inchoroi to live among them as their physicians. The Inchoroi moved freely among the Nonmen, dispensing their remedies, and the Nonmen did in fact attain immortality. However, a plague struck shortly afterwards, almost killing males and uniformly killing all females. The Nonmen call this tragic event the Nasamorgas, the “Death of Birth.” 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. In a Q/A the author explains the womb plague:

Womb Plague
The Womb Plague was an epidemic that killed all the females of the Nonmen .

Overview

In the hope of achieving immortality, the Nonmen (specifically, the great Cû’jara-Cinmoi ) allowed the Inchoroi to live among them as their physicians. The Inchoroi moved freely among the Nonmen, dispensing their remedies, and the Nonmen did in fact attain immortality. However, a plague struck shortly afterwards, almost killing males and uniformly killing all females. The Nonmen call this tragic event the Nasamorgas, the “Death of Birth.” 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. In a Q/A the author explains the womb plague:

Womb-Plague
The Womb Plague was an epidemic that killed all the females of the Nonmen .

Overview

In the hope of achieving immortality, the Nonmen (specifically, the great Cû’jara-Cinmoi ) allowed the Inchoroi to live among them as their physicians. The Inchoroi moved freely among the Nonmen, dispensing their remedies, and the Nonmen did in fact attain immortality. However, a plague struck shortly afterwards, almost killing males and uniformly killing all females. The Nonmen call this tragic event the Nasamorgas, the “Death of Birth.” 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. In a Q/A the author explains the womb plague:

Wonard
A member of the Skin Eaters.

World
The World is the name given to the planet on which the three (known) continents of Eärwa , Eänna and Kutnarmu are located. It is also a term used to distinguish everyday physical reality from the metaphysical realm of the Outside . According to the Inchoroi , the World is one of countless planets located in the universe, many circling other stars. Philosophers and priests fiercely deny this, preferring an interpretation that the Inchoroi themselves are Ciphrang from the Outside since this would fall within their pre-existing frame of reference rather than require the introduction of new concepts and ideas.

Worldhorn
Worldhorn is a ceremonial sorcerous artifact belonging to the Aörsic House of the Anasûrimbor and lost in the destruction of Shiarau in 2136.

Woyengar
Ordealman, Earl of Nangaelsa.

word
-definition

wo
-see woe.

woad
-an herbaceous cruciferous plant (isatis tinctoria). it was formerly cultivated for the blue coloring matter derived from its leaves.
-a blue dyestuff, or coloring matter, consisting of the powdered and fermented leaves of the isatis tinctoria. it is now superseded by indigo, but is somewhat used with indigo as a ferment in dyeing.

woad
-waxen
-a leguminous plant (genista tinctoria) of europe and russian asia, and adventitious in america;
-- called also greenwood, greenweed, dyer's greenweed, and whin, wood
-wash, wood
-wax, and wood
-waxen.

woaded
-colored or stained with woad.

woald
-see weld.

wobble
-see wabble.

wode
-mad. see wood, a.
-wood.

wodegeld
-a geld, or payment, for wood.

woden
-a deity corresponding to odin, the supreme deity of the scandinavians. wednesday is named for him. see odin.

woe
-grief; sorrow; misery; heavy calamity.
-a curse; a malediction.
-woeful; sorrowful.

woe
-begone
-beset or overwhelmed with woe; immersed in grief or sorrow; woeful.

woeful
-alt. of woful

woefully
-alt. of wofully

woefulness
-alt. of wofulness

woesome
-woeful.

woful
-full of woe; sorrowful; distressed with grief or calamity; afflicted; wretched; unhappy; sad.
-bringing calamity, distress, or affliction; as, a woeful event; woeful want.
-wretched; paltry; miserable; poor.

wofully
-in a woeful manner; sorrowfully; mournfully; miserably; dolefully.

wofulness
-the quality or state of being woeful; misery; wretchedness.

woke
-of wake
-wake.

wol
-see 2d will.

wold
-a wood; a forest.
-a plain, or low hill; a country without wood, whether hilly or not.
-see weld.

wolde
-imp. of will. see would.

wolf
-any one of several species of wild and savage carnivores belonging to the genus canis and closely allied to the common dog. the best
-known and most destructive species are the european wolf (canis lupus), the american gray, or timber, wolf (c. occidentalis), and the prairie wolf, or coyote. wolves often hunt in packs, and may thus attack large animals and even man.
-one of the destructive, and usually hairy, larvae of several species of beetles and grain moths; as, the bee wolf.
-fig.: any very ravenous, rapacious, or destructive person or thing; especially, want; starvation; as, they toiled hard to keep the wolf from the door.
-a white worm, or maggot, which infests granaries.
-an eating ulcer or sore. cf. lupus.
-the harsh, howling sound of some of the chords on an organ or piano tuned by unequal temperament.
-in bowed instruments, a harshness due to defective vibration in certain notes of the scale.
-a willying machine.

wolf's
-claw
-a kind of club moss. see lycopodium.

wolf's
-foot
-club moss. see lycopodium.

wolf's
-milk
-any kind of spurge (euphorbia);
-- so called from its acrid milky juice.

wolfberry
-an american shrub (symphoricarpus occidentalis) which bears soft white berries.

wolffian
-discovered, or first described, by caspar friedrich wolff (1733
-1794), the founder of modern embryology.

wolfish
-like a wolf; having the qualities or form of a wolf; as, a wolfish visage; wolfish designs.

wolfkin
-a little or young wolf.

wolfling
-a young wolf.

wolfram
-same as wolframite.

wolframate
-a salt of wolframic acid; a tungstate.

wolframic
-of or pertaining to wolframium. see tungstic.

wolframite
-tungstate of iron and manganese, generally of a brownish or grayish black color, submetallic luster, and high specific gravity. it occurs in cleavable masses, and also crystallized. called also wolfram.

wolframium
-the technical name of the element tungsten. see tungsten.

wolfsbane
-a poisonous plant (aconitum lycoctonum), a kind of monkshood; also, by extension, any plant or species of the genus aconitum. see aconite.

woll
-see 2d will.

wollastonite
-a silicate of lime of a white to gray, red, or yellow color, occurring generally in cleavable masses, rarely in tabular crystals; tabular spar.

wolle
-wool.

wolverene
-alt. of wolverine

wolverine
-the glutton.
-a nickname for an inhabitant of michigan.

wolves
-of wolf
-pl. of wolf.

wolvish
-wolfish.

woman
-an adult female person; a grown
-up female person, as distinguished from a man or a child; sometimes, any female person.
-the female part of the human race; womankind.
-a female attendant or servant.
-to act the part of a woman in;
-- with indefinite it.
-to make effeminate or womanish.
-to furnish with, or unite to, a woman.

womanhead
-alt. of womanhede

womanhede
-womanhood.

womanhood
-the state of being a woman; the distinguishing character or qualities of a woman, or of womankind.
-women, collectively; womankind.

womanish
-suitable to a woman, having the qualities of a woman; effeminate; not becoming a man;
-- usually in a reproachful sense. see the note under effeminate.

womanize
-to make like a woman; to make effeminate.

womankind
-the females of the human race; women, collectively.

womanless
-without a woman or women.

womanlike
-like a woman; womanly.

womanliness
-the quality or state of being womanly.

womanly
-becoming a woman; feminine; as, womanly behavior.
-in the manner of a woman; with the grace, tenderness, or affection of a woman.

womb
-the belly; the abdomen.
-the uterus. see uterus.
-the place where anything is generated or produced.
-any cavity containing and enveloping anything.
-to inclose in a womb, or as in a womb; to breed or hold in secret.

wombat
-any one of three species of australian burrowing marsupials of the genus phascolomys, especially the common species (p. ursinus). they are nocturnal in their habits, and feed mostly on roots.

womby
-capacious.

women
-of woman
-pl. of woman.

won
-of win
-imp. & p. p. of win.
-to dwell or abide.
-dwelling; wone.

won't
-a colloquial contraction of woll not. will not. see will.

wonder
-that emotion which is excited by novelty, or the presentation to the sight or mind of something new, unusual, strange, great, extraordinary, or not well understood; surprise; astonishment; admiration; amazement.
-a cause of wonder; that which excites surprise; a strange thing; a prodigy; a miracle.
-to be affected with surprise or admiration; to be struck with astonishment; to be amazed; to marvel.
-to feel doubt and curiosity; to wait with uncertain expectation; to query in the mind; as, he wondered why they came.
-wonderful.
-wonderfully.

wonder
-worker
-one who performs wonders, or miracles.

wonder
-working
-doing wonders or surprising things.

wondered
-of wonder
-having performed wonders; able to perform wonderful things.

wonderer
-one who wonders.

wonderful
-adapted to excite wonder or admiration; surprising; strange; astonishing.

wondering
-of wonder

wonderingly
-in a wondering manner.

wonderland
-a land full of wonders, or marvels.

wonderly
-wonderfully; wondrously.

wonderment
-surprise; astonishment; a wonderful appearance; a wonder.

wonderous
-same as wondrous.

wonders
-see wondrous.

wonderstruck
-struck with wonder, admiration, or surprise.

wonderwork
-a wonderful work or act; a prodigy; a miracle.

wondrous
-in a wonderful or surprising manner or degree; wonderfully.
-wonderful; astonishing; admirable; marvelous; such as excite surprise and astonishment; strange.

wone
-to dwell; to abide.
-dwelling; habitation; abode.
-custom; habit; wont; use; usage.

wong
-a field.

wonger
-see wanger.

woning
-dwelling.

wont
-using or doing customarily; accustomed; habituated; used.
-custom; habit; use; usage.
-of wont
-of wont
-to be accustomed or habituated; to be used.
-to accustom;
-- used reflexively.

wonted
-of wont
-accustomed; customary; usual.

wontedness
-the quality or state of being accustomed.

wonting
-of wont

wontless
-unaccustomed.

woo
-to solicit in love; to court.
-to court solicitously; to invite with importunity.
-to court; to make love.

wood
-mad; insane; possessed; rabid; furious; frantic.
-to grow mad; to act like a madman; to mad.
-a large and thick collection of trees; a forest or grove;
-- frequently used in the plural.
-the substance of trees and the like; the hard fibrous substance which composes the body of a tree and its branches, and which is covered by the bark; timber.
-the fibrous material which makes up the greater part of the stems and branches of trees and shrubby plants, and is found to a less extent in herbaceous stems. it consists of elongated tubular or needle
-shaped cells of various kinds, usually interwoven with the shinning bands called silver grain.
-trees cut or sawed for the fire or other uses.
-to supply with wood, or get supplies of wood for; as, to wood a steamboat or a locomotive.
-to take or get a supply of wood.

wood tick
-any one of several species of ticks of the genus ixodes whose young cling to bushes, but quickly fasten themselves upon the bodies of any animal with which they come in contact. when they attach themselves to the human body they often produce troublesome sores. the common species of the northern united states is ixodes unipunctata.

wood's metal
-a fusible alloy consisting of one or two parts of cadmium, two parts of tin, four of lead, with seven or eight part of bismuth. it melts at from 66¡ to 71¡ c. see fusible metal, under fusible.

wood
-bound
-incumbered with tall, woody hedgerows.

wood
-layer
-a young oak, or other timber plant, laid down in a hedge among the whitethorn or other plants used in hedges.

wood
-note
-a wild or natural note, as of a forest bird.

wood
-sare
-a kind of froth seen on herbs.

wood
-sere
-the time when there no sap in the trees; the winter season.

wood
-wash
-alt. of wood
-waxen

wood
-wax
-alt. of wood
-waxen

wood
-waxen
-same as woadwaxen.

woodbind
-woodbine.

woodbine
-a climbing plant having flowers of great fragrance (lonicera periclymenum); the honeysuckle.
-the virginia creeper. see virginia creeper, under virginia.

woodbury
-type
-a process in photographic printing, in which a relief pattern in gelatin, which has been hardened after certain operations, is pressed upon a plate of lead or other soft metal. an intaglio impression in thus produced, from which pictures may be directly printed, but by a slower process than in common printing.
-a print from such a plate.

woodchat
-any one of several species of asiatic singing birds belonging to the genera ianthia and larvivora. they are closely allied to the european robin. the males are usually bright blue above, and more or less red or rufous beneath.
-a european shrike (enneoctonus rufus). in the male the head and nape are rufous red; the back, wings, and tail are black, varied with white.

woodchuck
-a common large north american marmot (arctomys monax). it is usually reddish brown, more or less grizzled with gray. it makes extensive burrows, and is often injurious to growing crops. called also ground hog.
-the yaffle, or green woodpecker.

woodcock
-any one of several species of long
-billed limicoline birds belonging to the genera scolopax and philohela. they are mostly nocturnal in their habits, and are highly esteemed as game birds.
-fig.: a simpleton.

woodcracker
-the nuthatch.

woodcraft
-skill and practice in anything pertaining to the woods, especially in shooting, and other sports in the woods.

woodcut
-an engraving on wood; also, a print from it. same as wood cut, under wood.

woodcutter
-a person who cuts wood.
-an engraver on wood.

woodcutting
-the act or employment of cutting wood or timber.
-the act or art of engraving on wood.

wooded
-of wood
-supplied or covered with wood, or trees; as, land wooded and watered.

wooden
-made or consisting of wood; pertaining to, or resembling, wood; as, a wooden box; a wooden leg; a wooden wedding.
-clumsy; awkward; ungainly; stiff; spiritless.

woodenly
-clumsily; stupidly; blockishly.

woodenness
-quality of being wooden; clumsiness; stupidity; blockishness.

woodhack
-alt. of woodhacker

woodhacker
-the yaffle.

woodhole
-a place where wood is stored.

woodhouse
-a house or shed in which wood is stored, and sheltered from the weather.

woodiness
-the quality or state of being woody.

wooding
-of wood

woodknacker
-the yaffle.

woodland
-land covered with wood or trees; forest; land on which trees are suffered to grow, either for fuel or timber.
-of or pertaining to woods or woodland; living in the forest; sylvan.

woodlander
-a dweller in a woodland.

woodless
-having no wood; destitute of wood.

woodly
-in a wood, mad, or raving manner; madly; furiously.

woodman
-a forest officer appointed to take care of the king's woods; a forester.
-a sportsman; a hunter.
-one who cuts down trees; a woodcutter.
-one who dwells in the woods or forest; a bushman.

woodmeil
-see wadmol.

woodmen
-of woodman

woodmonger
-a wood seller.

woodness
-anger; madness; insanity; rage.

woodnewer
-a woodpecker.

woodpeck
-a woodpecker.

woodpecker
-any one of numerous species of scansorial birds belonging to picus and many allied genera of the family picidae.

woodrock
-a compact woodlike variety of asbestus.

woodroof
-a little european herb (asperula odorata) having a pleasant taste. it is sometimes used for flavoring wine. see illust. of whorl.

woodruff
-alt. of woodroof

woodsman
-a woodman; especially, one who lives in the forest.

woodsmen
-of woodsman

woodstone
-a striped variety of hornstone, resembling wood in appearance.

woodsy
-of or pertaining to the woods or forest.

woodwall
-the yaffle.

woodward
-an officer of the forest, whose duty it was to guard the woods.

woodwardia
-a genus of ferns, one species of which (woodwardia radicans) is a showy plant in california, the azores, etc.

woodwork
-work made of wood; that part of any structure which is wrought of wood.

woodworm
-see wood worm, under wood.

woody
-abounding with wood or woods; as, woody land.
-consisting of, or containing, wood or woody fiber; ligneous; as, the woody parts of plants.
-of or pertaining to woods; sylvan.

wooed
-of woo

wooer
-one who wooes; one who courts or solicits in love; a suitor.

woof
-the threads that cross the warp in a woven fabric; the weft; the filling; the thread usually carried by the shuttle in weaving.
-texture; cloth; as, a pall of softest woof.

woofell
-the european blackbird.

woofy
-having a close texture; dense; as, a woofy cloud.

woohoo
-the sailfish.

wooing
-of woo

wooingly
-in a wooing manner; enticingly; with persuasiveness.

wook
-woke.

wool
-the soft and curled, or crisped, species of hair which grows on sheep and some other animals, and which in fineness sometimes approaches to fur;
-- chiefly applied to the fleecy coat of the sheep, which constitutes a most essential material of clothing in all cold and temperate climates.
-short, thick hair, especially when crisped or curled.
-a sort of pubescence, or a clothing of dense, curling hairs on the surface of certain plants.

wool
-dyed
-dyed before being made into cloth, in distinction from piece
-dyed; ingrain.

wool
-hall
-a trade market in the woolen districts.

woold
-to wind, or wrap; especially, to wind a rope round, as a mast or yard made of two or more pieces, at the place where it has been fished or scarfed, in order to strengthen it.

woolded
-of woold

woolder
-a stick used to tighten the rope in woolding.
-one of the handles of the top, formed by a wooden pin passing through it. see 1st top, 2.

woolding
-of woold
-the act of winding or wrapping anything with a rope, as a mast.
-a rope used for binding masts and spars.

wooled
-having (such) wool; as, a fine
-wooled sheep.

woolen
-made of wool; consisting of wool; as, woolen goods.
-of or pertaining to wool or woolen cloths; as, woolen manufactures; a woolen mill; a woolen draper.
-cloth made of wool; woollen goods.

woolenet
-a thin, light fabric of wool.

woolert
-the barn owl.

woolfell
-a skin with the wool; a skin from which the wool has not been sheared or pulled.

woolgathering
-indulging in a vagrant or idle exercise of the imagination; roaming upon a fruitless quest; idly fanciful.
-indulgence in idle imagination; a foolish or useless pursuit or design.

woolgrower
-one who raises sheep for the production of wool.

woolhead
-the buffel duck.

woolliness
-the quality or state of being woolly.

woolly
-consisting of wool; as, a woolly covering; a woolly fleece.
-resembling wool; of the nature of wool.
-clothed with wool.
-clothed with a fine, curly pubescence resembling wool.

woolly
-head
-a negro.

woolman
-one who deals in wool.

woolmen
-of woolman

woolpack
-a pack or bag of wool weighing two hundred and forty pounds.

woolsack
-a sack or bag of wool; specifically, the seat of the lord chancellor of england in the house of lords, being a large, square sack of wool resembling a divan in form.

woolsey
-linsey
-woolsey.

woolstock
-a heavy wooden hammer for milling cloth.

woolward
-in wool; with woolen raiment next the skin.

woolward
-going
-a wearing of woolen clothes next the skin as a matter of penance.

woon
-dwelling. see wone.

woorali
-same as curare.

woosy
-oozy; wet.

wootz
-a species of steel imported from the east indies, valued for making edge tools; indian steel. it has in combination a minute portion of alumina and silica.

wooyen
-see yuen.

wopen
-wept.

worble
-see wormil.

word
-the spoken sign of a conception or an idea; an articulate or vocal sound, or a combination of articulate and vocal sounds, uttered by the human voice, and by custom expressing an idea or ideas; a single component part of human speech or language; a constituent part of a sentence; a term; a vocable.
-hence, the written or printed character, or combination of characters, expressing such a term; as, the words on a page.
-talk; discourse; speech; language.
-account; tidings; message; communication; information;
-- used only in the singular.
-signal; order; command; direction.
-language considered as implying the faith or authority of the person who utters it; statement; affirmation; declaration; promise.
-verbal contention; dispute.
-a brief remark or observation; an expression; a phrase, clause, or short sentence.
-to use words, as in discussion; to argue; to dispute.
-to express in words; to phrase.
-to ply with words; also, to cause to be by the use of a word or words.
-to flatter with words; to cajole.

word
-catcher
-one who cavils at words.

wordbook
-a collection of words; a vocabulary; a dictionary; a lexicon.

worded
-of word

worder
-a speaker.

wordily
-in a wordy manner.

wordiness
-the quality or state of being wordy, or abounding with words; verboseness.

wording
-of word
-the act or manner of expressing in words; style of expression; phrasing.

wordish
-respecting words; full of words; wordy.

wordle
-one of several pivoted pieces forming the throat of an adjustable die used in drawing wire, lead pipe, etc.

wordless
-not using words; not speaking; silent; speechless.

wordsman
-one who deals in words, or in mere words; a verbalist.

wordy
-of or pertaining to words; consisting of words; verbal; as, a wordy war.
-using many words; verbose; as, a wordy speaker.
-containing many words; full of words.

wore
-of wear
-imp. of wear.
-imp. of ware.

work
-exertion of strength or faculties; physical or intellectual effort directed to an end; industrial activity; toil; employment; sometimes, specifically, physically labor.
-the matter on which one is at work; that upon which one spends labor; material for working upon; subject of exertion; the thing occupying one; business; duty; as, to take up one's work; to drop one's work.
-that which is produced as the result of labor; anything accomplished by exertion or toil; product; performance; fabric; manufacture; in a more general sense, act, deed, service, effect, result, achievement, feat.
-specifically: (a) that which is produced by mental labor; a composition; a book; as, a work, or the works, of addison. (b) flowers, figures, or the like, wrought with the needle; embroidery.
-structures in civil, military, or naval engineering, as docks, bridges, embankments, trenches, fortifications, and the like; also, the structures and grounds of a manufacturing establishment; as, iron works; locomotive works; gas works.
-the moving parts of a mechanism; as, the works of a watch.
-manner of working; management; treatment; as, unskillful work spoiled the effect.
-the causing of motion against a resisting force. the amount of work is proportioned to, and is measured by, the product of the force into the amount of motion along the direction of the force. see conservation of energy, under conservation, unit of work, under unit, also foot pound, horse power, poundal, and erg.
-ore before it is dressed.
-performance of moral duties; righteous conduct.
-to exert one's self for a purpose; to put forth effort for the attainment of an object; to labor; to be engaged in the performance of a task, a duty, or the like.
-hence, in a general sense, to operate; to act; to perform; as, a machine works well.
-hence, figuratively, to be effective; to have effect or influence; to conduce.
-to carry on business; to be engaged or employed customarily; to perform the part of a laborer; to labor; to toil.
-to be in a state of severe exertion, or as if in such a state; to be tossed or agitated; to move heavily; to strain; to labor; as, a ship works in a heavy sea.
-to make one's way slowly and with difficulty; to move or penetrate laboriously; to proceed with effort;
-- with a following preposition, as down, out, into, up, through, and the like; as, scheme works out by degrees; to work into the earth.
-to ferment, as a liquid.
-to act or operate on the stomach and bowels, as a cathartic.
-to labor or operate upon; to give exertion and effort to; to prepare for use, or to utilize, by labor.
-to produce or form by labor; to bring forth by exertion or toil; to accomplish; to originate; to effect; as, to work wood or iron into a form desired, or into a utensil; to work cotton or wool into cloth.
-to produce by slow degrees, or as if laboriously; to bring gradually into any state by action or motion.
-to influence by acting upon; to prevail upon; to manage; to lead.
-to form with a needle and thread or yarn; especially, to embroider; as, to work muslin.
-to set in motion or action; to direct the action of; to keep at work; to govern; to manage; as, to work a machine.
-to cause to ferment, as liquor.

workable
-capable of being worked, or worth working; as, a workable mine; workable clay.

workaday
-see workyday.

workbag
-a bag for holding implements or materials for work; especially, a reticule, or bag for holding needlework, and the like.

workbasket
-a basket for holding materials for needlework, or the like.

workbench
-a bench on which work is performed, as in a carpenter's shop.

workbox
-a box for holding instruments or materials for work.

workday
-a day on which work is performed, as distinguished from sunday, festivals, etc., a working day.

worked
-of work

worker
-one who, or that which, works; a laborer; a performer; as, a worker in brass.
-one of the neuter, or sterile, individuals of the social ants, bees, and white ants. the workers are generally females having the sexual organs imperfectly developed. see ant, and white ant, under white.

workfellow
-one engaged in the same work with another; a companion in work.

workfolk
-people that labor.

workful
-full of work; diligent.

workhouse
-a house where any manufacture is carried on; a workshop.
-a house in which idle and vicious persons are confined to labor.
-a house where the town poor are maintained at public expense, and provided with labor; a poorhouse.

workhouses
-of workhouse

working
-of work
-a & n. from work.

working
-day
-pertaining to, or characteristic of, working days, or workdays; everyday; hence, plodding; hard
-working.

workingman
-a laboring man; a man who earns his daily support by manual labor.

workingmen
-of workingman

workless
-without work; not laboring; as, many people were still workless.
-not carried out in practice; not exemplified in fact; as, workless faith.

workman
-a man employed in labor, whether in tillage or manufactures; a worker.
-hence, especially, a skillful artificer or laborer.

workmanlike
-becoming a workman, especially a skillful one; skillful; well performed.

workmanly
-becoming a skillful workman; skillful; well performed; workmanlike.
-in a skillful manner; in a manner becoming a skillful workman.

workmanship
-the art or skill of a workman; the execution or manner of making anything.
-that which is effected, made, or produced; manufacture, something made by manual labor.

workmaster
-the performer of any work; a master workman.

workmen
-of workman

workroom
-any room or apartment used especially for labor.

workship
-workmanship.

workshop
-a shop where any manufacture or handiwork is carried on.

worktable
-a table for holding working materials and implements; esp., a small table with drawers and other conveniences for needlework, etc.

workwoman
-a woman who performs any work; especially, a woman skilled in needlework.

workwomen
-of workwoman

workyday
-a week day or working day, as distinguished from sunday or a holiday. also used adjectively.

world
-the earth and the surrounding heavens; the creation; the system of created things; existent creation; the universe.
-any planet or heavenly body, especially when considered as inhabited, and as the scene of interests analogous with human interests; as, a plurality of worlds.
-the earth and its inhabitants, with their concerns; the sum of human affairs and interests.
-in a more restricted sense, that part of the earth and its concerns which is known to any one, or contemplated by any one; a division of the globe, or of its inhabitants; human affairs as seen from a certain position, or from a given point of view; also, state of existence; scene of life and action; as, the old world; the new world; the religious world; the catholic world; the upper world; the future world; the heathen world.
-the customs, practices, and interests of men; general affairs of life; human society; public affairs and occupations; as, a knowledge of the world.
-individual experience of, or concern with, life; course of life; sum of the affairs which affect the individual; as, to begin the world with no property; to lose all, and begin the world anew.
-the inhabitants of the earth; the human race; people in general; the public; mankind.
-the earth and its affairs as distinguished from heaven; concerns of this life as distinguished from those of the life to come; the present existence and its interests; hence, secular affairs; engrossment or absorption in the affairs of this life; worldly corruption; the ungodly or wicked part of mankind.
-as an emblem of immensity, a great multitude or quantity; a large number.

world
-wide
-extended throughout the world; as, world
-wide fame.

worldliness
-the quality of being worldly; a predominant passion for obtaining the good things of this life; covetousness; addictedness to gain and temporal enjoyments; worldly
-mindedness.

worldling
-a person whose soul is set upon gaining temporal possessions; one devoted to this world and its enjoyments.

worldly
-relating to the world; human; common; as, worldly maxims; worldly actions.
-pertaining to this world or life, in contradistinction from the life to come; secular; temporal; devoted to this life and its enjoyments; bent on gain; as, worldly pleasures, affections, honor, lusts, men.
-lay, as opposed to clerical.
-with relation to this life; in a worldly manner.

worldly
-minded
-devoted to worldly interests; mindful of the affairs of the present life, and forgetful of those of the future; loving and pursuing this world's goods, to the exclusion of piety and attention to spiritual concerns.

worldlywise
-wise in regard to things of this world.

worm
-a creeping or a crawling animal of any kind or size, as a serpent, caterpillar, snail, or the like.
-any small creeping animal or reptile, either entirely without feet, or with very short ones, including a great variety of animals; as, an earthworm; the blindworm.
-any helminth; an entozoon.
-any annelid.
-an insect larva.
-same as vermes.
-an internal tormentor; something that gnaws or afflicts one's mind with remorse.
-a being debased and despised.
-anything spiral, vermiculated, or resembling a worm
-the thread of a screw.
-a spiral instrument or screw, often like a double corkscrew, used for drawing balls from firearms.
-a certain muscular band in the tongue of some animals, as the dog; the lytta. see lytta.
-the condensing tube of a still, often curved and wound to economize space. see illust. of still.
-a short revolving screw, the threads of which drive, or are driven by, a worm wheel by gearing into its teeth or cogs. see illust. of worm gearing, below.
-to work slowly, gradually, and secretly.
-to effect, remove, drive, draw, or the like, by slow and secret means;
-- often followed by out.
-to clean by means of a worm; to draw a wad or cartridge from, as a firearm. see worm, n. 5 (b).
-to cut the worm, or lytta, from under the tongue of, as a dog, for the purpose of checking a disposition to gnaw. the operation was formerly supposed to guard against canine madness.
-to wind rope, yarn, or other material, spirally round, between the strands of, as a cable; to wind with spun yarn, as a small rope.

worm
-eaten
-eaten, or eaten into, by a worm or by worms; as, worm
-eaten timber.
-worn
-out; old; worthless.

worm
-shaped
-shaped like a worm; /hick and almost cylindrical, but variously curved or bent; as, a worm
-shaped root.

worm
-shell
-any species of vermetus.

wormal
-see wormil.

wormed
-of worm
-penetrated by worms; injured by worms; worm
-eaten; as, wormed timber.

wormhole
-a burrow made by a worm.

wormian
-discovered or described by olanus wormius, a danish anatomist.

wormil
-any botfly larva which burrows in or beneath the skin of domestic and wild animals, thus producing sores. they belong to various species of hypoderma and allied genera. domestic cattle are often infested by a large species. see gadfly. called also warble, and worble.
-see 1st warble, 1 (b).

worming
-of worm

wormling
-a little worm.

wormseed
-any one of several plants, as artemisia santonica, and chenopodium anthelminticum, whose seeds have the property of expelling worms from the stomach and intestines.

wormul
-see wornil.

wormwood
-a composite plant (artemisia absinthium), having a bitter and slightly aromatic taste, formerly used as a tonic and a vermifuge, and to protect woolen garments from moths. it gives the peculiar flavor to the cordial called absinthe. the volatile oil is a narcotic poison. the term is often extended to other species of the same genus.
-anything very bitter or grievous; bitterness.

wormy
-containing a worm; abounding with worms.
-like or pertaining to a worm; earthy; groveling.

worn
-of wear
-p. p. of wear.

worn
-out
-consumed, or rendered useless, by wearing; as, worn
-out garments.

wornil
-see wormil.

worral
-alt. of worrel

worrel
-an egyptian fork
-tongued lizard, about four feet long when full grown.

worried
-of worry

worrier
-one who worries.

worries
-of worry

worriment
-trouble; anxiety; worry.

worrisome
-inclined to worry or fret; also, causing worry or annoyance.

worrit
-to worry; to annoy.
-worry; anxiety.

worry
-to harass by pursuit and barking; to attack repeatedly; also, to tear or mangle with the teeth.
-to harass or beset with importunity, or with care an anxiety; to vex; to annoy; to torment; to tease; to fret; to trouble; to plague.
-to harass with labor; to fatigue.
-to feel or express undue care and anxiety; to manifest disquietude or pain; to be fretful; to chafe; as, the child worries; the horse worries.
-a state of undue solicitude; a state of disturbance from care and anxiety; vexation; anxiety; fret; as, to be in a worry.

worrying
-of worry

worryingly
-in a worrying manner.

worse
-bad, ill, evil, or corrupt, in a greater degree; more bad or evil; less good; specifically, in poorer health; more sick;
-- used both in a physical and moral sense.
-loss; disadvantage; defeat.
-that which is worse; something less good; as, think not the worse of him for his enterprise.
-in a worse degree; in a manner more evil or bad.
-to make worse; to put disadvantage; to discomfit; to worst. see worst, v.

worsen
-to make worse; to deteriorate; to impair.
-to get the better of; to worst.
-to grow or become worse.

worser
-worse.

worship
-excellence of character; dignity; worth; worthiness.
-honor; respect; civil deference.
-hence, a title of honor, used in addresses to certain magistrates and others of rank or station.
-the act of paying divine honors to the supreme being; religious reverence and homage; adoration, or acts of reverence, paid to god, or a being viewed as god.
-obsequious or submissive respect; extravagant admiration; adoration.
-an object of worship.
-to respect; to honor; to treat with civil reverence.
-to pay divine honors to; to reverence with supreme respect and veneration; to perform religious exercises in honor of; to adore; to venerate.
-to honor with extravagant love and extreme submission, as a lover; to adore; to idolize.
-to perform acts of homage or adoration; esp., to perform religious service.

worshipability
-the quality of being worthy to be worshiped.

worshipable
-capable of being worshiped; worthy of worship.

worshiped
-of worship

worshiper
-one who worships; one who pays divine honors to any being or thing; one who adores.

worshipful
-entitled to worship, reverence, or high respect; claiming respect; worthy of honor;
-- often used as a term of respect, sometimes ironically.

worshiping
-of worship

worshipped
-of worship

worshipping
-of worship

worst
-bad, evil, or pernicious, in the highest degree, whether in a physical or moral sense. see worse.
-that which is most bad or evil; the most severe, pernicious, calamitous, or wicked state or degree.
-to gain advantage over, in contest or competition; to get the better of; to defeat; to overthrow; to discomfit.
-to grow worse; to deteriorate.

worsted
-of worst
-well
-twisted yarn spun of long
-staple wool which has been combed to lay the fibers parallel, used for carpets, cloth, hosiery, gloves, and the like.
-fine and soft woolen yarn, untwisted or lightly twisted, used in knitting and embroidery.

worsting
-of worst

wort
-a plant of any kind.
-cabbages.
-an infusion of malt which is unfermented, or is in the act of fermentation; the sweet infusion of malt, which ferments and forms beer; hence, any similar liquid in a state of incipient fermentation.

worth
-to be; to become; to betide;
-- now used only in the phrases, woe worth the day, woe worth the man, etc., in which the verb is in the imperative, and the nouns day, man, etc., are in the dative. woe be to the day, woe be to the man, etc., are equivalent phrases.
-valuable; of worthy; estimable; also, worth while.
-equal in value to; furnishing an equivalent for; proper to be exchanged for.
-deserving of;
-- in a good or bad sense, but chiefly in a good sense.
-having possessions equal to; having wealth or estate to the value of.
-that quality of a thing which renders it valuable or useful; sum of valuable qualities which render anything useful and sought; value; hence, often, value as expressed in a standard, as money; equivalent in exchange; price.
-value in respect of moral or personal qualities; excellence; virtue; eminence; desert; merit; usefulness; as, a man or magistrate of great worth.

worthful
-full of worth; worthy; deserving.

worthies
-of worthy

worthily
-in a worthy manner; excellently; deservedly; according to merit; justly; suitably; becomingly.

worthiness
-the quality or state of being worthy; desert; merit; excellence; dignity; virtue; worth.

worthless
-destitute of worth; having no value, virtue, excellence, dignity, or the like; undeserving; valueless; useless; vile; mean; as, a worthless garment; a worthless ship; a worthless man or woman; a worthless magistrate.

worthy
-having worth or excellence; possessing merit; valuable; deserving; estimable; excellent; virtuous.
-having suitable, adapted, or equivalent qualities or value;
-- usually with of before the thing compared or the object; more rarely, with a following infinitive instead of of, or with that; as, worthy of, equal in excellence, value, or dignity to; entitled to; meriting;
-- usually in a good sense, but sometimes in a bad one.
-of high station; of high social position.
-a man of eminent worth or value; one distinguished for useful and estimable qualities; a person of conspicuous desert;
-- much used in the plural; as, the worthies of the church; political worthies; military worthies.
-to render worthy; to exalt into a hero.

wost
-2d pers. sing. pres. of wit, to know.

wot
-of weet
-of wit
-1st & 3d pers. sing. pres. of wit, to know. see the note under wit, v.

wotest
-alt. of wottest

woteth
-alt. of wotteth

wottest
-2d pers. sing. pres. of wit, to know.

wotteth
-3d pers. sing. pres. of wit, to know.

wou
-wou
-the agile, or silvery, gibbon;
-- called also camper. see gibbon.

woul
-to howl.

would
-of will
-commonly used as an auxiliary verb, either in the past tense or in the conditional or optative present. see 2d & 3d will.
-see 2d weld.

would
-be
-desiring or professing to be; vainly pretending to be; as, a would
-be poet.

woulding
-emotion of desire; inclination; velleity.

wouldingness
-willingness; desire.

woulfe bottle
-a kind of wash bottle with two or three necks;
-- so called after the inventor, peter woulfe, an english chemist.

wound
-of wind
-of wind
-imp. & p. p. of wind to twist, and wind to sound by blowing.
-a hurt or injury caused by violence; specifically, a breach of the skin and flesh of an animal, or in the substance of any creature or living thing; a cut, stab, rent, or the like.
-fig.: an injury, hurt, damage, detriment, or the like, to feeling, faculty, reputation, etc.
-an injury to the person by which the skin is divided, or its continuity broken; a lesion of the body, involving some solution of continuity.
-to hurt by violence; to produce a breach, or separation of parts, in, as by a cut, stab, blow, or the like.
-to hurt the feelings of; to pain by disrespect, ingratitude, or the like; to cause injury to.

woundable
-capable of being wounded; vulnerable.

wounded
-of wound

wounder
-one who, or that which, wounds.

woundily
-in a woundy manner; excessively; woundy.

wounding
-of wound

woundless
-free from wound or hurt; exempt from being wounded; invulnerable.

woundwort
-any one of certain plants whose soft, downy leaves have been used for dressing wounds, as the kidney vetch, and several species of the labiate genus stachys.

woundy
-excessive.
-excessively; extremely.

wourali
-same as curare.

wove
-of weave
-of weave
-p. pr. & rare vb. n. of weave.

woven
-of weave
-p. p. of weave.

wow
-wow
-see wou
-wou.

wowe
-to woo.

wowf
-disordered or unsettled in intellect; deranged.

wowke
-week.

wox
-imp. of wax.

woxen
-p. p. of wax.

women
-of herdswoman

worthwhile
-worth the time or effort spent.