(a) Eccl. Pentecost, the festival celebrated by the church on the seventh Sunday after Easter in commemoration of the descent of the Holy Spirit on the disciples, Whitsunday; also, as adv.: on……

(a) A woman’s headdress covering the top, back, and sides of the head, including the cheeks and chin, and wrapped so as to cover the neck; also, a veil; also, a wimple as part of a nun’s official……

(a) Some kind of roller or pulley; (b) a deep shaft or pit dug in order to extract water; some type of well; winche pit, water winche; winche water; helle winche, hell; (c) ?in surnames. …

(a) In combs.: Win-chestre bed, some kind of bed, presumably equipped with a canopy, made or originating in Winchester in Hampshire; Win-chestre feire, a fair held at St. Giles’s down, near……

(a) In comb.: Windsore heraud, an office or officer of the town or castle of Windsor in Berkshire; (b) in surname and place names [see Smith PNElem. 2.268]. …

(a) In combs.: wir tre [OE wīr-trēow], myrtle; wir treen [OE wīr-trēowen], derived from the myrtle tree; (b) in surnames and place names [see Smith PNElem. 2.270]. …

(a) A tree of the genus Salix, a willow (b) a pliant branch or shoot of a willow, a withe, an osier; in a with wise, in the manner of a withe; (c) a scourge made of willow branches; a rod of willow;……

(a) A tree of the genus Salix, a willow; withen tre; withen nail, a nail made from willow wood; (b) in surnames and place names [see Smith PNElem. 2.271]. …

(a) A tree of the genus Salix, a willow; withi tre; withi bed [OE wīþig-bed(d], a place where willows grow, an osier bed; withi bough; withi leves (b) the blossom of a willow tree;—also coll.; (c)……

(a) Wise, prudent; knowledgeable; also, cunning, skilled, able [the precise gloss is determined by the context]; witter and wale (ware, wise), wise and witter; witter of eie, observant (b) requiring……

(a) ?A woodland glade or clearing; under wode-leie, in the woods, under cover of woods (b) a secluded grove as a place for furtive or illicit pleasures;—used in proverbs and prov. expressions; (c) in……

(a) A manorial or royal officer with authority over woodland, a forester, forest keeper; wode-ward wike, = wode-wardship n.; (b) as surname; (c) ?in place name. …

(a) A wooded region, forested land, the woods; ?a wooded tract, forest preserve [quot. c1330]; also, the forest as a wild place; wilde woldes (b) open country, a plain, meadow; also, grassy fields,……

(a) A piece or tract of land; a field, plain, meadow, etc.; wong stede [OE wang-stede], a place, locale; corner wong; lond (mede) wong, meadow land (b) ?length; (c) in surnames; (d) in place names……

(a) Woolen cloth of some kind used for making clothing, furnishings, etc., worsted; also, such cloth as a commodity; also, a certain quantity of worsted fabric [quot. 1428-9]; al worsted, made……

(a) Any plant or herb; an uncultivated grass, root, or vegetable; also, a wild plant, herb, etc. used as food; wortes of herbes (grasses, grenes) (b) a cultivated plant, garden plant;—also coll. &……

(a) An enclosed area, a court or courtyard; (b) in surnames and place names [see Smith PNElem. 2.273-5; for others see worsted n.] …

(a) Subjected to hardship, misfortune, etc.; miserable, unfortunate, unhappy (b) characterized by hardship or wretchedness; wrecche dom, ?grievous punishment; ?= wrecchedom n. (a); (c) poor,……

(a) To cause (sth.) to become corrugated, produce wrinkles in (sth.); wrinklen togeder; maken wrinkled, wrinkle (sth.) (b) med. to cause (the eyelids) to shrink up or shrivel; (c) ben wrinkled, to be……

Warbling, twittering. …