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321. wal n.(1)

260 quotations in 8 senses
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(a) An upright enclosing structure, usu. constructed of stone, brick, etc., serving to bound or demarcate the limits of a town, castle with its outbuildings, monastery, etc.; also, a high, relatively…

322. wappen v.(2)

17 quotations in 1 sense
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(a) To wrap (sth. around sth.) (b) to enwrap (sb. or sth. in sth.), enfold; enshroud (a body in sth.); also, of a belt: encircle (sb.) [quot. a1450]; ppl. wappede, of a child: swaddled; also, anat.

323. wapping(e ger.(1)

Additional spellings: wappinge
2 quotations in 1 sense
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A covering of some sort; also, anat. ?a cavity or an enclosure.

324. wā̆ter-gā̆te n.(2)

Additional spellings: watergate
7 quotations in 1 sense
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(a) A channel for water, waterway; a channel at the eaves or on the roof of a building for carrying off rain water, gutter (b) anat. one of the two ducts conveying urine from the kidney to the…

325. web n.

83 quotations in 4 senses
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(a) Woven fabric; a piece of woven fabric; also fig. & in fig. context; web bem, q.v.; web garn (threde), weaver’s yarn (thread); web lome, q.v.; web werk, the activity of weaving; spunne web, ?spun…

326. wẹ̄de n.(2)

91 quotations in 1 sense
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(a) A garment, an article of clothing; also, coll. & pl. clothes, apparel, attire; also fig. & in fig. context; wede brech [cp. OE wǣd-brēc], some kind of covering for the loins; cloth wede; hali-dai

327. wei n.(1)

744 quotations in 19 senses
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(a) An established road, a main thoroughfare, highway; a principal road between cities; a city street; also, the surface of a road, roadbed; brod wei; commune (private) wei; pleine wei, level roadway…

328. wel(le n.

Additional spellings: welle
232 quotations in 9 senses
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(a) A natural source of water, forming a fountain, pool, or stream; a natural spring; the water produced or contained in such a spring or pool; also fig. and in fig. context; also, a fabulous or…

329. wen n.

24 quotations in 4 senses
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Pathol. (a) A lump or an excrescence on the human body; a cyst; a wart; also, an internal swelling in an animal’s body; also, a pustule [quot. a1400, 2nd]; blak wen, ?a dark lesion; ?a pigmented spot…

330. werk n.(1)

563 quotations in 23 senses
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(a) A discrete act performed or undertaken by someone, (someone’s) deed; coll. & pl. (one’s) individual acts, deeds, or actions, the things one does or has done in one’s life, (one’s) doings; also…

331. werking(e ger.(1)

Additional spellings: werkinge
192 quotations in 10 senses
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(a) The doing of an act or action; acting (in a certain way), (one’s) behavior; also, that which one does or has done, (one’s) acts or doings; an act, a deed; werking togeder; a merveillous werking

332. wēsaunt(e n.

Additional spellings: wesaunte
15 quotations in 1 sense
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Anat.: (a) The human esophagus, the gullet; also, the esophagus of an animal or a fowl; also, the throat or neck in general [quot. c1475 Mankind] (b) coll. arteries;—?error for wosen n. (a); (c)…

333. wēving(e ger.(1)

Additional spellings: wevinge
25 quotations in 1 sense
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(a) The craft of producing fabric by interlacing yarn or other fibrous material, weaving; also fig. [quot. c1443]; weving craft (werk); weving hous, a building where weaving is done; weving sleie, a…

334. whirler n.

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(a) One who wanders aimlessly; (b) anat. a joint or suture of the skull, characterized by irregularly shaped, interlocking edges.

335. whīt n.

118 quotations in 12 senses
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(a) The color white, white as the color opposite to black; also, a pale or whitish color; also, whiteness, whiteness as the opposite of blackness; her. ?the color argent; bright (shininge) whit, a…

336. whīt adj.

655 quotations in 18 senses
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(a) Of a substance, structure, an object: white in color; whitish, pale-colored, light-colored; of the moon, a star: silvery-white; of a book or register: bound in a white or light-colored binding; of…

337. whītnes(se n.

Additional spellings: whitnesse
47 quotations in 5 senses
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(a) The quality of whiteness; the condition of being white; the color white, a white color; also, an off-white or whitish color, the white or whitish color (of teeth, hair, a bodily fluid, morbid…

338. wīdenes(se n.

Additional spellings: widenesse
19 quotations in 1 sense
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(a) Width, breadth;—sometimes with phrase specifying a certain width (b) vastness, spaciousness, capaciousness; also fig.; also, an open place [quot. a1382]; widenes of the world, the whole world;…

339. wiket n.

31 quotations in 3 senses
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(a) A small door, usu. set within a larger door or gate; a small doorway; also fig.; also, an opening into a beehive [quot. ?1440]; wiket gate (b) an opening in a wall, a window [sometimes difficult…

340. wīld(e adj.

Additional spellings: wilde
319 quotations in 11 senses
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Of a person, the flesh, etc.: (a) lacking in restraint, undisciplined; unmanageable, recalcitrant; riotous, rowdy; headstrong, rash, impetuous; also, ill brought up, unruly;—used of a child; wild