Name Report For First Name WARE:

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First name WARE's origin is English. WARE means "wary". You can find other first names and English words that rhymes with WARE below. Ryhme list involves the matching sounds according to the first letters, last letters and first&last letters of ware.(Brown names are of the same origin (English) with WARE and Red names are first names with English/Anglo-Saxon origin)

Rhymes with WARE - Names & Words

First Names Rhyming WARE

FIRST NAMES WHICH INCLUDES WARE AS A WHOLE:

andsware waren warenhari wareine

NAMES RHYMING WITH WARE (According to last letters):

Rhyming Names According to Last 3 Letters (are) - Names That Ends with are:

amare cesare baldassare clare ettare kesare mare adare are gare kildare caesare vare trillare hare delmare

Rhyming Names According to Last 2 Letters (re) - Names That Ends with re:

ebiere balere deirdre hannelore aure kore magaere pleasure terpsichore nyasore zere alexandre bedivere bellangere brangore saffire elidure moore gaothaire giollamhuire isidore macaire imre gilmore petre aedre aefre allaire amalure andere asthore audre aurore azzure baibre blaire ceire chere claire conchobarre dechtire dedre deidre desire desyre diandre diedre dierdre dore eastre eleonore eostre genevre guenevere guinevere gwenevere hilaire honore idurre izarre laire legarre lenore lore maire muire niaire pipere quinevere richere sapphire valere aegelmaere aethelmaere aghamore ainmire alistaire alixandre andre archere atmore attmore aundre avonmore

NAMES RHYMING WITH WARE (According to first letters):

Rhyming Names According to First 3 Letters (war) - Names That Begins with war:

war ward warda wardah warde wardell warden wardley warfield warford warian warleigh warley warner warrane warren warrick warton wartun warwick warwyk

Rhyming Names According to First 2 Letters (wa) - Names That Begins with wa:

wa'il wacfeld wachiru wachiwi wacian wacleah wacuman wada wadanhyll wade wadi wadley wadsworth waed waefreleah waelfwulf waer waerheall waeringawicum waescburne wafa' wafeeq wafeeqa wafid wafiq wafiqah wafiya wafiyy wafiyyah wagaye wagner wahanassatta wahchinksapa wahchintonka wahed wahibah wahid wahkan wain wainwright wait waite wajeeh wajeeha wajih wajihah wakanda wake wakefield wakeley wakeman waki wakil wakiza wakler walborga walborgd walbridge walbrydge walby walcot walcott walda waldburga waldemar waldemarr walden waldhramm waldhurga waldifrid waldmunt waldo waldon waldr waldrom waldron waleed waleis walford

NAMES BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH WARE:

First Names which starts with 'w' and ends with 'e':

wallace wallache wamblee wambli-waste wande wang'ombe washbourne washburne wattesone wayde wayne wayte weallere webbe webbestre welborne welcome welsie wendale weslee whitmore wiellaburne wigmaere wilde wilhelmine willesone willie wilone wilpe windgate wine wingate winifride winnie winslowe winswode wise wittahere wolfe wulfhere wulfsige wylie wyne wynne wynnie wynwode wythe

English Words Rhyming WARE

ENGLISH WORDS WHICH INCLUDES WARE AS A WHOLE:

awareadjective (a.) Watchful; vigilant or on one's guard against danger or difficulty.
 adjective (a.) Apprised; informed; cognizant; conscious; as, he was aware of the enemy's designs.

cogwarenoun (n.) A coarse, narrow cloth, like frieze, used by the lower classes in the sixteenth century.

cracklewarenoun (n.) See Crackle, n., 3.

delawarenoun (n.) An American grape, with compact bunches of small, amber-colored berries, sweet and of a good flavor.

delawaresnoun (n. pl.) A tribe of Indians formerly inhabiting the valley of the Delaware River, but now mostly located in the Indian Territory.

delftwarenoun (n.) Pottery made at the city of Delft in Holland; hence:
 noun (n.) Earthenware made in imitation of the above; any glazed earthenware made for table use, and the like.

earthenwarenoun (n.) Vessels and other utensils, ornaments, or the like, made of baked clay. See Crockery, Pottery, Stoneware, and Porcelain.

flatwarenoun (n.) Articles for the table, as china or silverware, that are more or less flat, as distinguished from hollow ware.
 noun (n.) Articles for the table, as china or silverware, that are more or less flat, as distinguished from hollow ware.

flintwarenoun (n.) A superior kind of earthenware into whose composition flint enters largely.

glasswarenoun (n.) Ware, or articles collectively, made of glass.

hardwarenoun (n.) Ware made of metal, as cutlery, kitchen utensils, and the like; ironmongery.

hardwaremannoun (n.) One who makes, or deals in, hardware.

henwarenoun (n.) A coarse, blackish seaweed. See Badderlocks.

honeywarenoun (n.) See Badderlocks.

ironwarenoun (n.) Articles made of iron, as household utensils, tools, and the like.

kelpwarenoun (n.) Same as Kelp, 2.

peltrywarenoun (n.) Peltry.

seawarenoun (n.) Seaweed; esp., coarse seaweed. See Ware, and Sea girdles.

silverwarenoun (n.) Dishes, vases, ornaments, and utensils of various sorts, made of silver.

stonewarenoun (n.) A species of coarse potter's ware, glazed and baked.

tablewarenoun (n.) Ware, or articles collectively, for table use.

tinwarenoun (n.) Articles made of tinned iron.

unawareadjective (a.) Not aware; not noticing; giving no heed; thoughtless; inattentive.
 adverb (adv.) Unawares.

unwareadjective (a.) Unaware; not foreseeing; being off one's guard.
 adjective (a.) Happening unexpectedly; unforeseen.

warenoun (n.) Seaweed.
 noun (n.) The state of being ware or aware; heed.
 adjective (a.) 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.
 adjective (a.) A ware; taking notice; hence, wary; cautious; on one's guard. See Beware.
 verb (v. t.) To wear, or veer. See Wear.
 verb (v. t.) To make ware; to warn; to take heed of; to beware of; to guard against.
  (imp.) Wore.

warefuladjective (a.) Wary; watchful; cautious.

warefulnessnoun (n.) Wariness; cautiousness.

warehousenoun (n.) A storehouse for wares, or goods.
 verb (v. t.) To deposit or secure in a warehouse.
 verb (v. t.) To place in the warehouse of the government or customhouse stores, to be kept until duties are paid.

warehousingnoun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Warehouse
 noun (n.) The act of placing goods in a warehouse, or in a customhouse store.

warehousemannoun (n.) One who keeps a warehouse; the owner or keeper of a dock warehouse or wharf store.
 noun (n.) One who keeps a wholesale shop or store for Manchester or woolen goods.

warelessnoun (n.) Unwary; incautious; unheeding; careless; unaware.

warencenoun (n.) Madder.

wareroomnoun (n.) A room in which goods are stored or exhibited for sale.

waresnoun (n. pl.) See 4th Ware.

ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH WARE (According to last letters):


Rhyming Words According to Last 3 Letters (are) - English Words That Ends with are:


arenoun (n.) The unit of superficial measure, being a square of which each side is ten meters in length; 100 square meters, or about 119.6 square yards.
  () The present indicative plural of the substantive verb to be; but etymologically a different word from be, or was. Am, art, are, and is, all come from the root as.

barenoun (n.) Surface; body; substance.
 noun (n.) That part of a roofing slate, shingle, tile, or metal plate, which is exposed to the weather.
 adjective (a.) Without clothes or covering; stripped of the usual covering; naked; as, his body is bare; the trees are bare.
 adjective (a.) With head uncovered; bareheaded.
 adjective (a.) Without anything to cover up or conceal one's thoughts or actions; open to view; exposed.
 adjective (a.) Plain; simple; unadorned; without polish; bald; meager.
 adjective (a.) Destitute; indigent; empty; unfurnished or scantily furnished; -- used with of (rarely with in) before the thing wanting or taken away; as, a room bare of furniture.
 adjective (a.) Threadbare; much worn.
 adjective (a.) Mere; alone; unaccompanied by anything else; as, a bare majority.
 adjective (a.) To strip off the covering of; to make bare; as, to bare the breast.
  () Bore; the old preterit of Bear, v.
  () of Bear

bismarenoun (n.) Alt. of Bismer

blarenoun (n.) The harsh noise of a trumpet; a loud and somewhat harsh noise, like the blast of a trumpet; a roar or bellowing.
 verb (v. i.) To sound loudly and somewhat harshly.
 verb (v. t.) To cause to sound like the blare of a trumpet; to proclaim loudly.

capsquarenoun (n.) A metal covering plate which passes over the trunnions of a cannon, and holds it in place.

carenoun (n.) A burdensome sense of responsibility; trouble caused by onerous duties; anxiety; concern; solicitude.
 noun (n.) Charge, oversight, or management, implying responsibility for safety and prosperity.
 noun (n.) Attention or heed; caution; regard; heedfulness; watchfulness; as, take care; have a care.
 noun (n.) The object of watchful attention or anxiety.
 noun (n.) To be anxious or solicitous; to be concerned; to have regard or interest; -- sometimes followed by an objective of measure.

caviarenoun (n.) Alt. of Caviar

centarenoun (n.) A measure of area, the hundredth part of an are; one square meter, or about 1/ square yards.

centiarenoun (n.) See centare.

charenoun (n.) A narrow street.
 noun (n. & v.) A chore; to chore; to do. See Char.
 verb (v. t.) To perform; to do; to finish.
 verb (v. t.) To work or hew, as stone.
 verb (v. i.) To work by the day, without being a regularly hired servant; to do small jobs.

clarenoun (n.) A nun of the order of St. Clare.

cochlearenoun (n.) A spoon.
 noun (n.) A spoonful.

comparenoun (n.) Comparison.
 noun (n.) Illustration by comparison; simile.
 verb (v. t.) To examine the character or qualities of, as of two or more persons or things, for the purpose of discovering their resemblances or differences; to bring into comparison; to regard with discriminating attention.
 verb (v. t.) To represent as similar, for the purpose of illustration; to liken.
 verb (v. t.) To inflect according to the degrees of comparison; to state positive, comparative, and superlative forms of; as, most adjectives of one syllable are compared by affixing "- er" and "-est" to the positive form; as, black, blacker, blackest; those of more than one syllable are usually compared by prefixing "more" and "most", or "less" and "least", to the positive; as, beautiful, more beautiful, most beautiful.
 verb (v. i.) To be like or equal; to admit, or be worthy of, comparison; as, his later work does not compare with his earlier.
 verb (v. i.) To vie; to assume a likeness or equality.
 verb (v. t.) To get; to procure; to obtain; to acquire

cotgarenoun (n.) Refuse wool.

crarenoun (n.) A slow unwieldy trading vessel.

curarenoun (n.) Alt. of Curari

darenoun (n.) The quality of daring; venturesomeness; boldness; dash.
 noun (n.) Defiance; challenge.
 noun (n.) A small fish; the dace.
 verb (v. i.) To have adequate or sufficient courage for any purpose; to be bold or venturesome; not to be afraid; to venture.
 verb (v. t.) To have courage for; to attempt courageously; to venture to do or to undertake.
 verb (v. t.) To challenge; to provoke; to defy.
 verb (v. i.) To lurk; to lie hid.
 verb (v. t.) To terrify; to daunt.

daymarenoun (n.) A kind of incubus which occurs during wakefulness, attended by the peculiar pressure on the chest which characterizes nightmare.

deciarenoun (n.) A measure of area, the tenth part of an are; ten square meters.

eelfarenoun (n.) A brood of eels.

fanfarenoun (n.) A flourish of trumpets, as in coming into the lists, etc.; also, a short and lively air performed on hunting horns during the chase.

farenoun (n.) To go; to pass; to journey; to travel.
 noun (n.) To be in any state, or pass through any experience, good or bad; to be attended with any circummstances or train of events, fortunate or unfortunate; as, he fared well, or ill.
 noun (n.) To be treated or entertained at table, or with bodily or social comforts; to live.
 noun (n.) To happen well, or ill; -- used impersonally; as, we shall see how it will fare with him.
 noun (n.) To behave; to conduct one's self.
 verb (v.) A journey; a passage.
 verb (v.) The price of passage or going; the sum paid or due for conveying a person by land or water; as, the fare for crossing a river; the fare in a coach or by railway.
 verb (v.) Ado; bustle; business.
 verb (v.) Condition or state of things; fortune; hap; cheer.
 verb (v.) Food; provisions for the table; entertainment; as, coarse fare; delicious fare.
 verb (v.) The person or persons conveyed in a vehicle; as, a full fare of passengers.
 verb (v.) The catch of fish on a fishing vessel.

felltarenoun (n.) The fieldfare.

fibularenoun (n.) The bone or cartilage of the tarsus, which articulates with the fibula, and corresponds to the calcaneum in man and most mammals.

fieldfarenoun (n.) a small thrush (Turdus pilaris) which breeds in northern Europe and winters in Great Britain. The head, nape, and lower part of the back are ash-colored; the upper part of the back and wing coverts, chestnut; -- called also fellfare.

firebarenoun (n.) A beacon.

flarenoun (n.) An unsteady, broad, offensive light.
 noun (n.) A spreading outward; as, the flare of a fireplace.
 noun (n.) Leaf of lard.
 noun (n.) A defect in a photographic objective such that an image of the stop, or diaphragm, appears as a fogged spot in the center of the developed negative.
 verb (v. i.) To burn with an unsteady or waving flame; as, the candle flares.
 verb (v. i.) To shine out with a sudden and unsteady light; to emit a dazzling or painfully bright light.
 verb (v. i.) To shine out with gaudy colors; to flaunt; to be offensively bright or showy.
 verb (v. i.) To be exposed to too much light.
 verb (v. i.) To open or spread outwards; to project beyond the perpendicular; as, the sides of a bowl flare; the bows of a ship flare.

foursquareadjective (a.) Having four sides and four equal angles.

garenoun (n.) Coarse wool on the legs of sheep.

glarenoun (n.) A bright, dazzling light; splendor that dazzles the eyes; a confusing and bewildering light.
 noun (n.) A fierce, piercing look or stare.
 noun (n.) A viscous, transparent substance. See Glair.
 noun (n.) A smooth, bright, glassy surface; as, a glare of ice.
 noun (n.) Smooth and bright or translucent; -- used almost exclusively of ice; as, skating on glare ice.
 verb (v. i.) To shine with a bright, dazzling light.
 verb (v. i.) To look with fierce, piercing eyes; to stare earnestly, angrily, or fiercely.
 verb (v. i.) To be bright and intense, as certain colors; to be ostentatiously splendid or gay.
 verb (v. t.) To shoot out, or emit, as a dazzling light.

harenoun (n.) A rodent of the genus Lepus, having long hind legs, a short tail, and a divided upper lip. It is a timid animal, moves swiftly by leaps, and is remarkable for its fecundity.
 noun (n.) A small constellation situated south of and under the foot of Orion; Lepus.
 verb (v. t.) To excite; to tease, or worry; to harry.

hectarenoun (n.) A measure of area, or superficies, containing a hundred ares, or 10,000 square meters, and equivalent to 2.471 acres.

hektarenoun (n.) Alt. of Hektometer

infarenoun (n.) A house-warming; especially, a reception, party, or entertainment given by a newly married couple, or by the husband upon receiving the wife to his house.

jacarenoun (n.) A cayman. See Yacare.

larenoun (n.) Lore; learning.
 noun (n.) Pasture; feed. See Lair.
 verb (v. t.) To feed; to fatten.

marenoun (n.) The female of the horse and other equine quadrupeds.
 noun (n.) Sighing, suffocative panting, intercepted utterance, with a sense of pressure across the chest, occurring during sleep; the incubus; -- obsolete, except in the compound nightmare.

misfarenoun (n.) Misfortune.
 verb (v. i.) To fare ill.

myriarenoun (n.) A measure of surface in the metric system containing ten thousand ares, or one million square meters. It is equal to about 247.1 acres.

narenoun (n.) A nostril.

nightmarenoun (n.) A fiend or incubus formerly supposed to cause trouble in sleep.
 noun (n.) A condition in sleep usually caused by improper eating or by digestive or nervous troubles, and characterized by a sense of extreme uneasiness or discomfort (as of weight on the chest or stomach, impossibility of motion or speech, etc.), or by frightful or oppressive dreams, from which one wakes after extreme anxiety, in a troubled state of mind; incubus.
 noun (n.) Hence, any overwhelming, oppressive, or stupefying influence.

overcarenoun (n.) Excessive care.

pharenoun (n.) A beacon tower; a lighthouse.
 noun (n.) Hence, a harbor.

picaparenoun (n.) The finfoot.

plowsharenoun (n.) Alt. of Ploughshare

ploughsharenoun (n.) The share of a plow, or that part which cuts the slice of earth or sod at the bottom of the furrow.

potsharenoun (n.) A potsherd.

preparenoun (n.) Preparation.
 verb (v. t.) To fit, adapt, or qualify for a particular purpose or condition; to make ready; to put into a state for use or application; as, to prepare ground for seed; to prepare a lesson.
 verb (v. t.) To procure as suitable or necessary; to get ready; to provide; as, to prepare ammunition and provisions for troops; to prepare ships for defence; to prepare an entertainment.
 verb (v. i.) To make all things ready; to put things in order; as, to prepare for a hostile invasion.
 verb (v. i.) To make one's self ready; to get ready; to take the necessary previous measures; as, to prepare for death.

rareadjective (a.) Early.
 superlative (superl.) Nearly raw; partially cooked; not thoroughly cooked; underdone; as, rare beef or mutton.
 superlative (superl.) Not frequent; seldom met with or occurring; unusual; as, a rare event.
 superlative (superl.) Of an uncommon nature; unusually excellent; valuable to a degree seldom found.
 superlative (superl.) Thinly scattered; dispersed.
 superlative (superl.) Characterized by wide separation of parts; of loose texture; not thick or dense; thin; as, a rare atmosphere at high elevations.

radiopharenoun (n.) A radiotelegraphic station serving solely for determining the position of ships. The radius of operation of such stations was restricted by the International Radiotelegraphic Convention (1912) to 30 nautical miles.

ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH WARE (According to first letters):


Rhyming Words According to First 3 Letters (war) - Words That Begins with war:


warnoun (n.) 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.
 noun (n.) A condition of belligerency to be maintained by physical force. In this sense, levying war against the sovereign authority is treason.
 noun (n.) Instruments of war.
 noun (n.) Forces; army.
 noun (n.) The profession of arms; the art of war.
 noun (n.) a state of opposition or contest; an act of opposition; an inimical contest, act, or action; enmity; hostility.
 adjective (a.) Ware; aware.
 verb (v. i.) 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.
 verb (v. i.) To contend; to strive violently; to fight.
 verb (v. t.) To make war upon; to fight.
 verb (v. t.) To carry on, as a contest; to wage.

warringnoun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of War

warblenoun (n.) A small, hard tumor which is produced on the back of a horse by the heat or pressure of the saddle in traveling.
 noun (n.) A small tumor produced by the larvae of the gadfly in the backs of horses, cattle, etc. Called also warblet, warbeetle, warnles.
 noun (n.) See Wormil.
 noun (n.) A quavering modulation of the voice; a musical trill; a song.
 verb (v. t.) 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.
 verb (v. t.) To utter musically; to modulate; to carol.
 verb (v. t.) To cause to quaver or vibrate.
 verb (v. i.) To be quavered or modulated; to be uttered melodiously.
 verb (v. i.) To sing in a trilling manner, or with many turns and variations.
 verb (v. i.) To sing with sudden changes from chest to head tones; to yodel.

warblingnoun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Warble

warblernoun (n.) One who, or that which, warbles; a singer; a songster; -- applied chiefly to birds.
 noun (n.) 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.
 noun (n.) 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.

wardnoun (n.) One who, or that which, guards; garrison; defender; protector; means of guarding; defense; protection.
 noun (n.) The state of being under guard or guardianship; confinement under guard; the condition of a child under a guardian; custody.
 noun (n.) A guarding or defensive motion or position, as in fencing; guard.
 noun (n.) One who, or that which, is guarded.
 noun (n.) A minor or person under the care of a guardian; as, a ward in chancery.
 noun (n.) A division of a county.
 noun (n.) A division, district, or quarter of a town or city.
 noun (n.) A division of a forest.
 noun (n.) A division of a hospital; as, a fever ward.
 noun (n.) 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.
 noun (n.) A notch or slit in a key corresponding to a ridge in the lock which it fits; a ward notch.
 noun (n.) To keep in safety; to watch; to guard; formerly, in a specific sense, to guard during the day time.
 noun (n.) To defend; to protect.
 noun (n.) To defend by walls, fortifications, etc.
 noun (n.) To fend off; to repel; to turn aside, as anything mischievous that approaches; -- usually followed by off.
 adjective (a.) The act of guarding; watch; guard; guardianship; specifically, a guarding during the day. See the Note under Watch, n., 1.
 verb (v. i.) To be vigilant; to keep guard.
 verb (v. i.) To act on the defensive with a weapon.

wardingnoun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Ward

wardcorpsnoun (n.) Guardian; one set to watch over another.

wardennoun (n.) A keeper; a guardian; a watchman.
 noun (n.) An officer who keeps or guards; a keeper; as, the warden of a prison.
 noun (n.) A head official; as, the warden of a college; specifically (Eccl.), a churchwarden.
 noun (n.) A large, hard pear, chiefly used for baking and roasting.

wardenrynoun (n.) Alt. of Wardenship

wardenshipnoun (n.) The office or jurisdiction of a warden.

wardernoun (n.) One who wards or keeps; a keeper; a guard.
 noun (n.) A truncheon or staff carried by a king or a commander in chief, and used in signaling his will.

wardianadjective (a.) 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.

wardmotenoun (n.) 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.

wardroomnoun (n.) A room occupied as a messroom by the commissioned officers of a war vessel. See Gunroom.
 noun (n.) A room used by the citizens of a city ward, for meetings, political caucuses, elections, etc.

wardshipnoun (n.) The office of a ward or keeper; care and protection of a ward; guardianship; right of guardianship.
 noun (n.) The state of begin under a guardian; pupilage.

wardsmannoun (n.) A man who keeps ward; a guard.

warfarenoun (n.) Military service; military life; contest carried on by enemies; hostilities; war.
 noun (n.) Contest; struggle.
 verb (v. i.) To lead a military life; to carry on continual wars.

warfarernoun (n.) One engaged in warfare; a military man; a soldier; a warrior.

warhableadjective (a.) Fit for war.

warianglenoun (n.) The red-backed shrike (Lanius collurio); -- called also wurger, worrier, and throttler.

warimentnoun (n.) Wariness.

warinenoun (n.) A South American monkey, one of the sapajous.

warinessnoun (n.) The quality or state of being wary; care to foresee and guard against evil; cautiousness.

warknoun (n.) Work; a building.

warkloomnoun (n.) A tool; an implement.

warlikeadjective (a.) Fit for war; disposed for war; as, a warlike state; a warlike disposition.
 adjective (a.) Belonging or relating to war; military; martial.

warlikenessnoun (n.) Quality of being warlike.

warlingnoun (n.) One often quarreled with; -- / word coined, perhaps, to rhyme with darling.

warlocknoun (n.) A male witch; a wizard; a sprite; an imp.
 adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to a warlock or warlock; impish.

warlockrynoun (n.) Impishness; magic.

warlyadjective (a.) Warlike.

warmingnoun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Warm
  () a. & n. from Warm, v.

warmnoun (n.) The act of warming, or the state of being warmed; a warming; a heating.
 adjective (a.) To communicate a moderate degree of heat to; to render warm; to supply or furnish heat to; as, a stove warms an apartment.
 adjective (a.) To make engaged or earnest; to interest; to engage; to excite ardor or zeal; to enliven.
 superlative (superl.) Having heat in a moderate degree; not cold as, warm milk.
 superlative (superl.) Having a sensation of heat, esp. of gentle heat; glowing.
 superlative (superl.) Subject to heat; having prevalence of heat, or little or no cold weather; as, the warm climate of Egypt.
 superlative (superl.) Fig.: Not cool, indifferent, lukewarm, or the like, in spirit or temper; zealous; ardent; fervent; excited; sprightly; irritable; excitable.
 superlative (superl.) Violent; vehement; furious; excited; passionate; as, a warm contest; a warm debate.
 superlative (superl.) Being well off as to property, or in good circumstances; forehanded; rich.
 superlative (superl.) In children's games, being near the object sought for; hence, being close to the discovery of some person, thing, or fact concealed.
 superlative (superl.) 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.
 verb (v. i.) To become warm, or moderately heated; as, the earth soon warms in a clear day summer.
 verb (v. i.) To become ardent or animated; as, the speake/ warms as he proceeds.

warmernoun (n.) One who, or that which, warms.

warmfuladjective (a.) Abounding in capacity to warm; giving warmth; as, a warmful garment.

warmnessnoun (n.) Warmth.

warmongernoun (n.) One who makes ar a trade or business; a mercenary.

warmouthnoun (n.) An American freshwater bream, or sunfish (Chaenobryttus gulosus); -- called also red-eyed bream.

warmthnoun (n.) The quality or state of being warm; gentle heat; as, the warmth of the sun; the warmth of the blood; vital warmth.
 noun (n.) 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.
 noun (n.) The glowing effect which arises from the use of warm colors; hence, any similar appearance or effect in a painting, or work of color.

warmthlessadjective (a.) Being without warmth; not communicating warmth; cold.

warningnoun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Warn
 noun (n.) Previous notice.
 noun (n.) Caution against danger, or against faults or evil practices which incur danger; admonition; monition.
 adjective (a.) Giving previous notice; cautioning; admonishing; as, a warning voice.

warnernoun (n.) One who warns; an admonisher.
 noun (n.) A warrener.

warpingnoun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Warp
 noun (n.) The act or process of one who, or that which, warps.
 noun (n.) The art or occupation of preparing warp or webs for the weaver.

warpagenoun (n.) The act of warping; also, a charge per ton made on shipping in some harbors.

warpathnoun (n.) The route taken by a party of Indians going on a warlike expedition.

warpernoun (n.) One who, or that which, warps or twists out of shape.
 noun (n.) One who, or that which, forms yarn or thread into warps or webs for the loom.

warproofnoun (n.) Valor tried by war.

warragalnoun (n.) The dingo.

warrandicenoun (n.) 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.

ENGLISH WORDS BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH WARE:

English Words which starts with 'w' and ends with 'e':

wabblenoun (n.) A hobbling, unequal motion, as of a wheel unevenly hung; a staggering to and fro.
 verb (v. i.) 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.

wackenoun (n.) Alt. of Wacky

wadenoun (n.) Woad.
 noun (n.) The act of wading.
 verb (v. i.) To go; to move forward.
 verb (v. i.) To walk in a substance that yields to the feet; to move, sinking at each step, as in water, mud, sand, etc.
 verb (v. i.) 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.
 verb (v. t.) To pass or cross by wading; as, he waded /he rivers and swamps.

waenoun (n.) A wave.

wafflenoun (n.) A thin cake baked and then rolled; a wafer.
 noun (n.) A soft indented cake cooked in a waffle iron.

waftagenoun (n.) Conveyance on a buoyant medium, as air or water.

wafturenoun (n.) The act of waving; a wavelike motion; a waft.

waggienoun (n.) The pied wagtail.

wagneritenoun (n.) A fluophosphate of magnesia, occurring in yellowish crystals, and also in massive forms.

wagonagenoun (n.) Money paid for carriage or conveyance in wagon.
 noun (n.) A collection of wagons; wagons, collectively.

wagonettenoun (n.) A kind of pleasure wagon, uncovered and with seats extended along the sides, designed to carry six or eight persons besides the driver.

wahabeenoun (n.) 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.

wainableadjective (a.) Capable of being plowed or cultivated; arable; tillable.

wainagenoun (n.) A finding of carriages, carts, etc., for the transportation of goods, produce, etc.
 noun (n.) See Gainage, a.

wainbotenoun (n.) See Cartbote. See also the Note under Bote.

waivurenoun (n.) See Waiver.

waiwodenoun (n.) See Waywode.

wakenoun (n.) The track left by a vessel in the water; by extension, any track; as, the wake of an army.
 noun (n.) The act of waking, or being awaked; also, the state of being awake.
 noun (n.) The state of forbearing sleep, especially for solemn or festive purposes; a vigil.
 noun (n.) 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.
 noun (n.) The sitting up of persons with a dead body, often attended with a degree of festivity, chiefly among the Irish.
 verb (v. i.) To be or to continue awake; to watch; not to sleep.
 verb (v. i.) To sit up late festive purposes; to hold a night revel.
 verb (v. i.) To be excited or roused from sleep; to awake; to be awakened; to cease to sleep; -- often with up.
 verb (v. i.) To be exited or roused up; to be stirred up from a dormant, torpid, or inactive state; to be active.
 verb (v. t.) To rouse from sleep; to awake.
 verb (v. t.) To put in motion or action; to arouse; to excite.
 verb (v. t.) To bring to life again, as if from the sleep of death; to reanimate; to revive.
 verb (v. t.) To watch, or sit up with, at night, as a dead body.

waketimenoun (n.) Time during which one is awake.

waldgravenoun (n.) In the old German empire, the head forest keeper.

walenoun (n.) A streak or mark made on the skin by a rod or whip; a stripe; a wheal. See Wheal.
 noun (n.) A ridge or streak rising above the surface, as of cloth; hence, the texture of cloth.
 noun (n.) A timber bolted to a row of piles to secure them together and in position.
 noun (n.) 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.
 noun (n.) A wale knot, or wall knot.
 verb (v. t.) To mark with wales, or stripes.
 verb (v. t.) To choose; to select; specifically (Mining), to pick out the refuse of (coal) by hand, in order to clean it.

walkableadjective (a.) Fit to be walked on; capable of being walked on or over.

wamblenoun (n.) Disturbance of the stomach; a feeling of nausea.
 verb (v. i.) To heave; to be disturbed by nausea; -- said of the stomach.
 verb (v. i.) To move irregularly to and fro; to roll.

wampeenoun (n.) 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.
 noun (n.) The pickerel weed.

wanenoun (n.) The decrease of the illuminated part of the moon to the eye of a spectator.
 noun (n.) Decline; failure; diminution; decrease; declension.
 noun (n.) An inequality in a board.
 noun (n.) The natural curvature of a log or of the edge of a board sawed from a log.
 verb (v. i.) To be diminished; to decrease; -- contrasted with wax, and especially applied to the illuminated part of the moon.
 verb (v. i.) To decline; to fail; to sink.
 verb (v. t.) To cause to decrease.

wangheenoun (n.) 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.

wanhopenoun (n.) Want of hope; despair; also, faint or delusive hope; delusion. [Obs.] Piers Plowman.

wankleadjective (a.) Not to be depended on; weak; unstable.

wantagenoun (n.) That which is wanting; deficiency.

wapentakenoun (n.) 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.

warrantableadjective (a.) 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.

warranteenoun (n.) The person to whom a warrant or warranty is made.

warrantisenoun (n.) Authority; security; warranty.
 verb (v. t.) To warrant.

warreadjective (a.) Worse.

warrianglenoun (n.) See Wariangle.

warwickitenoun (n.) 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.

wasenoun (n.) A bundle of straw, or other material, to relieve the pressure of burdens carried upon the head.

washableadjective (a.) Capable of being washed without damage to fabric or color.

washhousenoun (n.) An outbuilding for washing, esp. one for washing clothes; a laundry.

wasitenoun (n.) A variety of allanite from Sweden supposed to contain wasium.

wastagenoun (n.) Loss by use, decay, evaporation, leakage, or the like; waste.

wastenoun (n.) Material derived by mechanical and chemical erosion from the land, carried by streams to the sea.
 adjective (a.) Desolate; devastated; stripped; bare; hence, dreary; dismal; gloomy; cheerless.
 adjective (a.) Lying unused; unproductive; worthless; valueless; refuse; rejected; as, waste land; waste paper.
 adjective (a.) Lost for want of occupiers or use; superfluous.
 adjective (a.) To bring to ruin; to devastate; to desolate; to destroy.
 adjective (a.) To wear away by degrees; to impair gradually; to diminish by constant loss; to use up; to consume; to spend; to wear out.
 adjective (a.) 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.
 adjective (a.) To damage, impair, or injure, as an estate, voluntarily, or by suffering the buildings, fences, etc., to go to decay.
 verb (v. i.) To be diminished; to lose bulk, substance, strength, value, or the like, gradually; to be consumed; to dwindle; to grow less.
 verb (v. i.) To procure or sustain a reduction of flesh; -- said of a jockey in preparation for a race, etc.
 verb (v.) 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.
 verb (v.) 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.
 verb (v.) 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.
 verb (v.) 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.
 verb (v.) Old or abandoned workings, whether left as vacant space or filled with refuse.

watchhousenoun (n.) A house in which a watch or guard is placed.
 noun (n.) A place where persons under temporary arrest by the police of a city are kept; a police station; a lockup.

wateragenoun (n.) Money paid for transportation of goods, etc., by water.

waterhorsenoun (n.) A pile of salted fish heaped up to drain.

waterienoun (n.) The pied wagtail; -- so called because it frequents ponds.

waterscapenoun (n.) A sea view; -- distinguished from landscape.

wattlenoun (n.) A twig or flexible rod; hence, a hurdle made of such rods.
 noun (n.) A rod laid on a roof to support the thatch.
 noun (n.) A naked fleshy, and usually wrinkled and highly colored, process of the skin hanging from the chin or throat of a bird or reptile.
 noun (n.) Barbel of a fish.
 noun (n.) The astringent bark of several Australian trees of the genus Acacia, used in tanning; -- called also wattle bark.
 noun (n.) The trees from which the bark is obtained. See Savanna wattle, under Savanna.
 noun (n.) Material consisting of wattled twigs, withes, etc., used for walls, fences, and the like.
 noun (n.) In Australasia, any tree of the genus Acacia; -- so called from the wattles, or hurdles, which the early settlers made of the long, pliable branches or of the split stems of the slender species.
 verb (v. t.) To bind with twigs.
 verb (v. t.) To twist or interweave, one with another, as twigs; to form a network with; to plat; as, to wattle branches.
 verb (v. t.) To form, by interweaving or platting twigs.

wavellitenoun (n.) A hydrous phosphate of alumina, occurring usually in hemispherical radiated forms varying in color from white to yellow, green, or black.

wavurenoun (n.) See Waivure.

wavenoun (n.) Woe.
 noun (n.) Something resembling or likened to a water wave, as in rising unusually high, in being of unusual extent, or in progressive motion; a swelling or excitement, as of feeling or energy; a tide; flood; period of intensity, usual activity, or the like; as, a wave of enthusiasm.
 verb (v. t.) See Waive.
 verb (v. i.) To play loosely; to move like a wave, one way and the other; to float; to flutter; to undulate.
 verb (v. i.) To be moved to and fro as a signal.
 verb (v. i.) To fluctuate; to waver; to be in an unsettled state; to vacillate.
 verb (v. t.) To move one way and the other; to brandish.
 verb (v. t.) To raise into inequalities of surface; to give an undulating form a surface to.
 verb (v. t.) To move like a wave, or by floating; to waft.
 verb (v. t.) 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.
 verb (v. i.) 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.
 verb (v. i.) 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.
 verb (v. i.) Water; a body of water.
 verb (v. i.) Unevenness; inequality of surface.
 verb (v. i.) A waving or undulating motion; a signal made with the hand, a flag, etc.
 verb (v. i.) The undulating line or streak of luster on cloth watered, or calendered, or on damask steel.
 verb (v. i.) Fig.: A swelling or excitement of thought, feeling, or energy; a tide; as, waves of enthusiasm.

wawenoun (n.) A wave.

wayfarenoun (n.) The act of journeying; travel; passage.
 verb (v. i.) To journey; to travel; to go to and fro.

waygatenoun (n.) The tailrace of a mill.

waysidenoun (n.) The side of the way; the edge or border of a road or path.
 adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the wayside; as, wayside flowers.

waywodenoun (n.) 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.

wearableadjective (a.) Capable of being worn; suitable to be worn.

weariableadjective (a.) That may be wearied.

wearisomeadjective (a.) Causing weariness; tiresome; tedious; weariful; as, a wearisome march; a wearisome day's work; a wearisome book.

weatherwiseadjective (a.) Skillful in forecasting the changes of the weather.

weavenoun (n.) A particular method or pattern of weaving; as, the cassimere weave.
 verb (v. t.) To unite, as threads of any kind, in such a manner as to form a texture; to entwine or interlace into a fabric; as, to weave wool, silk, etc.; hence, to unite by close connection or intermixture; to unite intimately.
 verb (v. t.) To form, as cloth, by interlacing threads; to compose, as a texture of any kind, by putting together textile materials; as, to weave broadcloth; to weave a carpet; hence, to form into a fabric; to compose; to fabricate; as, to weave the plot of a story.
 verb (v. i.) To practice weaving; to work with a loom.
 verb (v. i.) To become woven or interwoven.

webeyenoun (n.) See Web, n., 8.

websteritenoun (n.) A hydrous sulphate of alumina occurring in white reniform masses.

wedgenoun (n.) A piece of metal, or other hard material, thick at one end, and tapering to a thin edge at the other, used in splitting wood, rocks, etc., in raising heavy bodies, and the like. It is one of the six elementary machines called the mechanical powers. See Illust. of Mechanical powers, under Mechanical.
 noun (n.) A solid of five sides, having a rectangular base, two rectangular or trapezoidal sides meeting in an edge, and two triangular ends.
 noun (n.) A mass of metal, especially when of a wedgelike form.
 noun (n.) Anything in the form of a wedge, as a body of troops drawn up in such a form.
 noun (n.) The person whose name stands lowest on the list of the classical tripos; -- so called after a person (Wedgewood) who occupied this position on the first list of 1828.
 verb (v. t.) To cleave or separate with a wedge or wedges, or as with a wedge; to rive.
 verb (v. t.) To force or drive as a wedge is driven.
 verb (v. t.) To force by crowding and pushing as a wedge does; as, to wedge one's way.
 verb (v. t.) To press closely; to fix, or make fast, in the manner of a wedge that is driven into something.
 verb (v. t.) To fasten with a wedge, or with wedges; as, to wedge a scythe on the snath; to wedge a rail or a piece of timber in its place.
 verb (v. t.) To cut, as clay, into wedgelike masses, and work by dashing together, in order to expel air bubbles, etc.

weenoun (n.) A little; a bit, as of space, time, or distance.
 adjective (a.) Very small; little.

weftagenoun (n.) Texture.

weighableadjective (a.) Capable of being weighed.

weighagenoun (n.) A duty or toil paid for weighing merchandise.

weighbridgenoun (n.) A weighing machine on which loaded carts may be weighed; platform scales.

welcomenoun (n.) Received with gladness; admitted willingly to the house, entertainment, or company; as, a welcome visitor.
 noun (n.) Producing gladness; grateful; as, a welcome present; welcome news.
 noun (n.) Free to have or enjoy gratuitously; as, you are welcome to the use of my library.
 noun (n.) Salutation to a newcomer.
 noun (n.) Kind reception of a guest or newcomer; as, we entered the house and found a ready welcome.
 verb (v. t.) To salute with kindness, as a newcomer; to receive and entertain hospitably and cheerfully; as, to welcome a visitor; to welcome a new idea.

weldableadjective (a.) Capable of being welded.

welenoun (n.) Prosperity; happiness; well-being; weal.

welfarenoun (n.) Well-doing or well-being in any respect; the enjoyment of health and the common blessings of life; exemption from any evil or calamity; prosperity; happiness.

wellfarenoun (n.) See Welfare.

wellholenoun (n.) The open space in a floor, to accommodate a staircase.
 noun (n.) The open space left beyond the ends of the steps of a staircase.
 noun (n.) A cavity which receives a counterbalancing weight in certain mechanical contrivances, and is adapted also for other purposes.

welsomeadjective (a.) Prosperous; well.

werenoun (n.) A weir. See Weir.
 noun (n.) A man.
 noun (n.) A fine for slaying a man; the money value set upon a man's life; weregild.
 verb (v. t. & i.) To wear. See 3d Wear.
 verb (v. t.) To guard; to protect.
  () The imperfect indicative plural, and imperfect subjunctive singular and plural, of the verb be. See Be.

werneritenoun (n.) The common grayish or white variety of soapolite.

weroolenoun (n.) An Australian lorikeet (Ptilosclera versicolor) noted for the variety of its colors; -- called also varied lorikeet.

werrenoun (n.) War.

weryanglenoun (n.) See Wariangle.

whalenoun (n.) Any aquatic mammal of the order Cetacea, especially any one of the large species, some of which become nearly one hundred feet long. Whales are hunted chiefly for their oil and baleen, or whalebone.

whalebonenoun (n.) A firm, elastic substance resembling horn, taken from the upper jaw of the right whale; baleen. It is used as a stiffening in stays, fans, screens, and for various other purposes. See Baleen.

whamenoun (n.) A breeze fly.

whangheenoun (n.) See Wanghee.

wharfagenoun (n.) The fee or duty paid for the privilege of using a wharf for loading or unloading goods; pierage, collectively; quayage.
 noun (n.) A wharf or wharfs, collectively; wharfing.

wheelhousenoun (n.) A small house on or above a vessel's deck, containing the steering wheel.
 noun (n.) A paddle box. See under Paddle.

wheezenoun (n.) A piping or whistling sound caused by difficult respiration.
 noun (n.) An ordinary whisper exaggerated so as to produce the hoarse sound known as the "stage whisper." It is a forcible whisper with some admixture of tone.
 verb (v. i.) To breathe hard, and with an audible piping or whistling sound, as persons affected with asthma.

wherenoun (n.) Place; situation.
 adverb (adv.) At or in what place; hence, in what situation, position, or circumstances; -- used interrogatively.
 adverb (adv.) At or in which place; at the place in which; hence, in the case or instance in which; -- used relatively.
 adverb (adv.) To what or which place; hence, to what goal, result, or issue; whither; -- used interrogatively and relatively; as, where are you going?
  (pron. & conj.) Whether.
  (conj.) Whereas.

whereforenoun (n.) the reason why.
 adverb (adv. & conj.) For which reason; so; -- used relatively.
 adverb (adv. & conj.) For what reason; why; -- used interrogatively.

whetilenoun (n.) The green woodpecker, or yaffle. See Yaffle.

whetstonenoun (n.) A piece of stone, natural or artificial, used for whetting, or sharpening, edge tools.

whewellitenoun (n.) Calcium oxalate, occurring in colorless or white monoclinic crystals.

wheyfacenoun (n.) One who is pale, as from fear.

whifflenoun (n.) A fife or small flute.
 verb (v. i.) To waver, or shake, as if moved by gusts of wind; to shift, turn, or veer about.
 verb (v. i.) To change from one opinion or course to another; to use evasions; to prevaricate; to be fickle.
 verb (v. t.) To disperse with, or as with, a whiff, or puff; to scatter.
 verb (v. t.) To wave or shake quickly; to cause to whiffle.

whiffletreenoun (n.) Same as Whippletree.

whiggamorenoun (n.) A Whig; -- a cant term applied in contempt to Scotch Presbyterians.

whilenoun (n.) Space of time, or continued duration, esp. when short; a time; as, one while we thought him innocent.
 noun (n.) That which requires time; labor; pains.
 verb (v. t.) To cause to pass away pleasantly or without irksomeness or disgust; to spend or pass; -- usually followed by away.
 verb (v. i.) To loiter.
  (conj.) During the time that; as long as; whilst; at the same time that; as, while I write, you sleep.
  (conj.) Hence, under which circumstances; in which case; though; whereas.
 prep (prep.) Until; till.

whinenoun (n.) A plaintive tone; the nasal, childish tone of mean complaint; mean or affected complaint.
 verb (v. i.) To utter a plaintive cry, as some animals; to moan with a childish noise; to complain, or to tell of sorrow, distress, or the like, in a plaintive, nasal tone; hence, to complain or to beg in a mean, unmanly way; to moan basely.
 verb (v. t.) To utter or express plaintively, or in a mean, unmanly way; as, to whine out an excuse.

whinstonenoun (n.) A provincial name given in England to basaltic rocks, and applied by miners to other kind of dark-colored unstratified rocks which resist the point of the pick. -- for example, to masses of chert. Whin-dikes, and whin-sills, are names sometimes given to veins or beds of basalt.