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Waggery
The manner or action of a wag; mischievous merriment; sportive trick or gayety; good-humored sarcasm; pleasantry; jocularity; .
Wagonette
A kind of pleasure wagon, uncovered and with seats extended along the sides, designed to carry six or eight persons besides the driver.
Waiting
from ,
Walhalla
See .
Wallhick
The lesser spotted woodpecker ().
Wallow
A kind of rolling walk.
Wanned
Made wan, or pale.
Warling
One often quarreled with; -- word coined, perhaps, to rhyme with .
Warpage
The act of warping; also, a charge per ton made on shipping in some harbors.
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.
Water antelope
See .
Watercourse
One of the holes in floor or other plates to permit water to flow through.
Water craft
Any vessel or boat plying on water; vessels and boats, collectively.
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.
Water leg
See , 7.
Water newt
Any one of numerous species of aquatic salamanders; a triton.
Water pipe
A pipe for conveying water.
Water star grass
An aquatic plant () with grassy leaves, and yellow star-shaped blossoms.
Water tower
A large metal pipe made to be extended vertically by sections, and used for discharging water upon burning buildings.
Wearer
One who wears or carries as appendant to the body; .
Weather
Being toward the wind, or windward -- opposed to ; .
Weatherboarding
The covering or siding of a building, formed of boards lapping over one another, to exclude rain, snow, etc.
Webby
Of or pertaining to a web or webs; like a web; filled or covered with webs.
Webster
A weaver; originally, a female weaver.
weeping tree broom
a small shrubby tree of New Zealand having weeping branches and racemes of white to violet flowers followed by woolly indehiscent 2-seeded pods.
Wehrwolf
See .
Well-being
The state or condition of being well; welfare; happiness; prosperity; .
Wepen
Weapon.
Westerner
A native or inhabitant of the west.
Wevil
See .
Whaler
One who whales, or beats; a big, strong fellow; hence, anything of great or unusual size.
Wheeze
To breathe hard, and with an audible piping or whistling sound, as persons affected with asthma.
Whewer
The European widgeon.
Whiggarchy
Government by Whigs.
Whinny
To utter the ordinary call or cry of a horse; to neigh.
White-foot
A white mark on the foot of a horse, between the fetlock and the coffin.
White person
A person of the Caucasian race ().
Whurt
See .
Wicked
Having a wick; -- used chiefly in composition; .
Wier
Same as .
Wistonwish
See .
Wolfish
Like a wolf; having the qualities or form of a wolf;
Wolfling
A young wolf.
womanise
Same as .
Woodlander
A dweller in a woodland.
Woodrock
A compact woodlike variety of asbestus.
Wood-sere
The time when there no sap in the trees; the winter season.
Woolfell
A skin with the wool; a skin from which the wool has not been sheared or pulled.
Wooyen
See .
Workroom
Any room or apartment used especially for labor.
Wrie
See .
Wrynecked
Having a distorted neck; having the deformity called .
Wurmal
See .
Wype
The wipe, or lapwing.