WINN
First name WINN's origin is English. WINN means "friend". You can find other first names and English words that rhymes with WINN below. Ryhme list involves the matching sounds according to the first letters, last letters and first&last letters of winn.(Brown names are of the same origin (English) with WINN and Red names are first names with English/Anglo-Saxon origin)
First Names Rhyming WINN
FIRST NAMES WHICH INCLUDES WİNN AS A WHOLE:
edwinna winnieNAMES RHYMING WITH WİNN (According to last letters):
Rhyming Names According to Last 3 Letters (inn) - Names That Ends with inn:
caolabhuinn labhruinn martainn aislinn alinn ashlinn bebhinn caitlinn inghinn kaitlinn linn nighinn abhainn amhuinn bairrfhoinn cuinn finn flainn flinn floinn kevinn leachlainn maeleachlainn muirfinn ogilhinn quinn breanainn vinn katelinnRhyming Names According to Last 2 Letters (nn) - Names That Ends with nn:
caoilfhionn fynn cynn corann tuireann ceannfhionn eachann lachlann mazonn addilynn adelynn aislynn alynn angelynn annalynn aoibheann ashelynn ashlynn avlynn bethann brendalynn brilynn brooklynn brynn caitlynn caoilfhinnn carolann carolynn carynn charlynn cherilynn chrysann crisann daelynn dalynn danylynn davynn deann deeann diahann doireann dyann edlynn elynn erynn evelynn fionn geralynn gracelynn gwendalynn gwenn gwynn jacklynn jadalynn jaecilynn jaelynn jaimelynn jaslynn jaylynn jazlynn jazmynn jenalynn jennyann jerilynn jeslynn joann jonalynn jordynn josalynn joshlynn joycelynnNAMES RHYMING WITH WİNN (According to first letters):
Rhyming Names According to First 3 Letters (win) - Names That Begins with win:
win wincel winchell windell windgate windham windsor wine winef winefield winefrith winema winetorp winfield winfred winfrid winfrith wingate winif winifred winifreda winifrid winifride winola winona winslow winslowe winsor winston winswod winswode wintanweorth winter winth winthorp winthrop winton winward winwodem winwoodRhyming Names According to First 2 Letters (wi) - Names That Begins with wi:
wiatt wicasa wiccum wichamm wichell wickam wickley wicleah widad wido wiellaburne wiellaby wielladun wiellaford wiellatun wigburg wigmaere wigman wihakayda wijdan wikimak wikvaya wilbart wilber wilbert wilbur wilburn wilburt wilda wilde wildon wiley wilford wilfr wilfred wilfredo wilfrid wilfryd wilhelm wilhelmina wilhelmine will willa willaburh willamar willan willaperht willard willem willesone willhard william williamon williams williamson willie willifrid willimod willis willmarNAMES BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH WİNN:
First Names which starts with 'w' and ends with 'n':
wacian wacuman wahkan wain wakeman walden waldon waldron walten walton walwyn wanahton wann warden waren warian warren warton wartun washburn washington watson wattekinson wattikinson wattson waylan waylin waylon wayson welborn welburn weldon wellburn wellington welton wematin weolingtun werian westen westin weston westun weylin weylyn wharton whelan whiteman whitman willsn wilson wilton wissian wittatun witton woden woodman worden worthington worton wotan woudman wregan wryeton wyiltun wylltun wyman wynn wynston wynton wyrttunEnglish Words Rhyming WINN
ENGLISH WORDS WHICH INCLUDES WİNN AS A WHOLE:
breadthwinner | noun (n.) The member of a family whose labor supplies the food of the family; one who works for his living. |
swinney | noun (n.) See Sweeny. |
twinning | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Twin |
noun (n.) The assemblage of two or more crystals, or parts of crystals, in reversed position with reference to each other in accordance with some definite law; also, rarely, in artificial twinning (accomplished for example by pressure), the process by which this reversal is brought about. |
twinned | adjective (a.) Composed of parts united according to a law of twinning. See Twin, n., 4. |
(imp. & p. p.) of Twin |
twinner | noun (n.) One who gives birth to twins; a breeder of twins. |
winning | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Win |
noun (n.) The act of obtaining something, as in a contest or by competition. | |
noun (n.) The money, etc., gained by success in competition or contest, esp, in gambling; -- usually in the plural. | |
noun (n.) A new opening. | |
noun (n.) The portion of a coal field out for working. | |
adjective (a.) Attracting; adapted to gain favor; charming; as, a winning address. |
winnard 2 | noun (n.) The redwing. |
winnebagoes | noun (n.) A tribe of North American Indians who originally occupied the region about Green Bay, Lake Michigan, but were driven back from the lake and nearly exterminated in 1640 by the IIlinnois. |
winner | noun (n.) One who wins, or gains by success in competition, contest, or gaming. |
winningness | noun (n.) The quality or state of being winning. |
winninish | noun (n.) The land-locked variety of the common salmon. |
winnowing | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Winnew |
noun (n.) The act of one who, or that which, winnows. |
winnew | noun (n.) To separate, and drive off, the chaff from by means of wind; to fan; as, to winnow grain. |
noun (n.) To sift, as for the purpose of separating falsehood from truth; to separate, as had from good. | |
noun (n.) To beat with wings, or as with wings. |
winnower | noun (n.) One who, or that which, winnows; specifically, a winnowing machine. |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH WİNN (According to last letters):
Rhyming Words According to Last 3 Letters (inn) - English Words That Ends with inn:
finn | adjective (a.) A native of Finland; one of the Finn/ in the ethnological sense. See Finns. |
inn | noun (n.) A place of shelter; hence, dwelling; habitation; residence; abode. |
noun (n.) A house for the lodging and entertainment of travelers or wayfarers; a tavern; a public house; a hotel. | |
noun (n.) The town residence of a nobleman or distinguished person; as, Leicester Inn. | |
noun (n.) One of the colleges (societies or buildings) in London, for students of the law barristers; as, the Inns of Court; the Inns of Chancery; Serjeants' Inns. | |
verb (v. i.) To take lodging; to lodge. | |
verb (v. t.) To house; to lodge. | |
verb (v. t.) To get in; to in. See In, v. t. |
jinn | noun (n.) See Jinnee. |
(pl. ) of Jinnee |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH WİNN (According to first letters):
Rhyming Words According to First 3 Letters (win) - Words That Begins with win:
win | adjective (a.) To gain by superiority in competition or contest; to obtain by victory over competitors or rivals; as, to win the prize in a gate; to win money; to win a battle, or to win a country. |
adjective (a.) To allure to kindness; to bring to compliance; to gain or obtain, as by solicitation or courtship. | |
adjective (a.) To gain over to one's side or party; to obtain the favor, friendship, or support of; to render friendly or approving; as, to win an enemy; to win a jury. | |
adjective (a.) To come to by toil or effort; to reach; to overtake. | |
adjective (a.) To extract, as ore or coal. | |
verb (v. i.) To gain the victory; to be successful; to triumph; to prevail. |
wincing | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Wince |
noun (n.) The act of washing cloth, dipping it in dye, etc., with a wince. |
wince | noun (n.) The act of one who winces. |
noun (n.) A reel used in dyeing, steeping, or washing cloth; a winch. It is placed over the division wall between two wince pits so as to allow the cloth to descend into either compartment. at will. | |
verb (v. i.) To shrink, as from a blow, or from pain; to flinch; to start back. | |
verb (v. i.) To kick or flounce when unsteady, or impatient at a rider; as, a horse winces. |
wincer | noun (n.) One who, or that which, winces, shrinks, or kicks. |
wincey | noun (n.) Linsey-woolsey. |
winch | noun (n.) A kick, as of a beast, from impatience or uneasiness. |
noun (n.) A crank with a handle, for giving motion to a machine, a grindstone, etc. | |
noun (n.) An instrument with which to turn or strain something forcibly. | |
noun (n.) An axle or drum turned by a crank with a handle, or by power, for raising weights, as from the hold of a ship, from mines, etc.; a windlass. | |
noun (n.) A wince. | |
verb (v. i.) To wince; to shrink; to kick with impatience or uneasiness. |
wincopipe | noun (n.) A little red flower, no doubt the pimpernel, which, when it opens in the morning, is supposed to bode a fair day. See Pimpernel. |
winding | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Wind |
noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Wind | |
noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Wind | |
noun (n.) A call by the boatswain's whistle. | |
noun (n.) A turn or turning; a bend; a curve; flexure; meander; as, the windings of a road or stream. | |
noun (n.) A line- or ribbon-shaped material (as wire, string, or bandaging) wound around an object; as, the windings (conducting wires) wound around the armature of an electric motor or generator. | |
noun (n.) The material, as wire or rope, wound or coiled about anything, or a single round or turn of the material; | |
noun (n.) a series winding, or one in which the armature coil, the field-magnet coil, and the external circuit form a continuous conductor; a shunt winding, or one of such a character that the armature current is divided, a portion of the current being led around the field-magnet coils. | |
adjective (a.) Twisting from a direct line or an even surface; circuitous. |
wind | noun (n.) The act of winding or turning; a turn; a bend; a twist; a winding. |
noun (n.) Air naturally in motion with any degree of velocity; a current of air. | |
noun (n.) Air artificially put in motion by any force or action; as, the wind of a cannon ball; the wind of a bellows. | |
noun (n.) Breath modulated by the respiratory and vocal organs, or by an instrument. | |
noun (n.) Power of respiration; breath. | |
noun (n.) Air or gas generated in the stomach or bowels; flatulence; as, to be troubled with wind. | |
noun (n.) Air impregnated with an odor or scent. | |
noun (n.) A direction from which the wind may blow; a point of the compass; especially, one of the cardinal points, which are often called the four winds. | |
noun (n.) A disease of sheep, in which the intestines are distended with air, or rather affected with a violent inflammation. It occurs immediately after shearing. | |
noun (n.) Mere breath or talk; empty effort; idle words. | |
noun (n.) The dotterel. | |
noun (n.) The region of the pit of the stomach, where a blow may paralyze the diaphragm and cause temporary loss of breath or other injury; the mark. | |
verb (v. t.) To turn completely, or with repeated turns; especially, to turn about something fixed; to cause to form convolutions about anything; to coil; to twine; to twist; to wreathe; as, to wind thread on a spool or into a ball. | |
verb (v. t.) To entwist; to infold; to encircle. | |
verb (v. t.) To have complete control over; to turn and bend at one's pleasure; to vary or alter or will; to regulate; to govern. | |
verb (v. t.) To introduce by insinuation; to insinuate. | |
verb (v. t.) To cover or surround with something coiled about; as, to wind a rope with twine. | |
verb (v. i.) To turn completely or repeatedly; to become coiled about anything; to assume a convolved or spiral form; as, vines wind round a pole. | |
verb (v. i.) To have a circular course or direction; to crook; to bend; to meander; as, to wind in and out among trees. | |
verb (v. i.) To go to the one side or the other; to move this way and that; to double on one's course; as, a hare pursued turns and winds. | |
verb (v. t.) To expose to the wind; to winnow; to ventilate. | |
verb (v. t.) To perceive or follow by the scent; to scent; to nose; as, the hounds winded the game. | |
verb (v. t.) To drive hard, or force to violent exertion, as a horse, so as to render scant of wind; to put out of breath. | |
verb (v. t.) To rest, as a horse, in order to allow the breath to be recovered; to breathe. | |
verb (v. t.) To blow; to sound by blowing; esp., to sound with prolonged and mutually involved notes. |
windage | noun (n.) The difference between the diameter of the bore of a gun and that of the shot fired from it. |
noun (n.) The sudden compression of the air caused by a projectile in passing close to another body. |
windas | noun (n.) See 3d Windlass. |
windbore | noun (n.) The lower, or bottom, pipe in a lift of pumps in a mine. |
windbound | adjective (a.) prevented from sailing, by a contrary wind. See Weatherbound. |
winder | noun (n.) One who, or that which, winds; hence, a creeping or winding plant. |
noun (n.) An apparatus used for winding silk, cotton, etc., on spools, bobbins, reels, or the like. | |
noun (n.) One in a flight of steps which are curved in plan, so that each tread is broader at one end than at the other; -- distinguished from flyer. | |
noun (n.) A blow taking away the breath. | |
verb (v. t. & i.) To fan; to clean grain with a fan. | |
verb (v. i.) To wither; to fail. |
windfall | noun (n.) Anything blown down or off by the wind, as fruit from a tree, or the tree itself, or a portion of a forest prostrated by a violent wind, etc. |
noun (n.) An unexpected legacy, or other gain. |
windfallen | adjective (a.) Blown down by the wind. |
windflower | noun (n.) The anemone; -- so called because formerly supposed to open only when the wind was blowing. See Anemone. |
windgall | noun (n.) A soft tumor or synovial swelling on the fetlock joint of a horse; -- so called from having formerly been supposed to contain air. |
windhover | noun (n.) The kestrel; -- called also windbibber, windcuffer, windfanner. |
windiness | noun (n.) The quality or state of being windy or tempestuous; as, the windiness of the weather or the season. |
noun (n.) Fullness of wind; flatulence. | |
noun (n.) Tendency to generate wind or gas; tendency to produce flatulence; as, the windiness of vegetables. | |
noun (n.) Tumor; puffiness. |
windlace | noun (n. & v.) See Windlass. |
windlass | noun (n.) A winding and circuitous way; a roundabout course; a shift. |
noun (n.) A machine for raising weights, consisting of a horizontal cylinder or roller moving on its axis, and turned by a crank, lever, or similar means, so as to wind up a rope or chain attached to the weight. In vessels the windlass is often used instead of the capstan for raising the anchor. It is usually set upon the forecastle, and is worked by hand or steam. | |
noun (n.) An apparatus resembling a winch or windlass, for bending the bow of an arblast, or crossbow. | |
verb (v. i.) To take a roundabout course; to work warily or by indirect means. | |
verb (v. t. & i.) To raise with, or as with, a windlass; to use a windlass. |
windle | noun (n.) A spindle; a kind of reel; a winch. |
noun (n.) The redwing. |
windless | adjective (a.) Having no wind; calm. |
adjective (a.) Wanting wind; out of breath. |
windlestrae | noun (n.) Alt. of Windlestraw |
windlestraw | noun (n.) A grass used for making ropes or for plaiting, esp. Agrostis Spica-ventis. |
windmill | noun (n.) A mill operated by the power of the wind, usually by the action of the wind upon oblique vanes or sails which radiate from a horizontal shaft. |
windore | noun (n.) A window. |
window | noun (n.) An opening in the wall of a building for the admission of light and air, usually closed by casements or sashes containing some transparent material, as glass, and capable of being opened and shut at pleasure. |
noun (n.) The shutter, casement, sash with its fittings, or other framework, which closes a window opening. | |
noun (n.) A figure formed of lines crossing each other. | |
verb (v. t.) To furnish with windows. | |
verb (v. t.) To place at or in a window. |
windowing | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Window |
windowed | adjective (a.) Having windows or openings. |
(imp. & p. p.) of Window |
windowless | adjective (a.) Destitute of a window. |
windowpane | noun (n.) See Pane, n., (3) b. |
noun (n.) A thin, spotted American turbot (Pleuronectes maculatus) remarkable for its translucency. It is not valued as a food fish. Called also spotted turbot, daylight, spotted sand flounder, and water flounder. |
windowy | adjective (a.) Having little crossings or openings like the sashes of a window. |
windpipe | noun (n.) The passage for the breath from the larynx to the lungs; the trachea; the weasand. See Illust. under Lung. |
windrow | noun (n.) A row or line of hay raked together for the purpose of being rolled into cocks or heaps. |
noun (n.) Sheaves of grain set up in a row, one against another, that the wind may blow between them. | |
noun (n.) The green border of a field, dug up in order to carry the earth on other land to mend it. | |
verb (v. t.) To arrange in lines or windrows, as hay when newly made. |
windrowing | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Windrow |
windsor | noun (n.) A town in Berkshire, England. |
windstorm | noun (n.) A storm characterized by high wind with little or no rain. |
windtight | adjective (a.) So tight as to prevent the passing through of wind. |
windward | noun (n.) The point or side from which the wind blows; as, to ply to the windward; -- opposed to leeward. |
adjective (a.) Situated toward the point from which the wind blows; as, the Windward Islands. | |
adverb (adv.) Toward the wind; in the direction from which the wind blows. |
wine | noun (n.) The expressed juice of grapes, esp. when fermented; a beverage or liquor prepared from grapes by squeezing out their juice, and (usually) allowing it to ferment. |
noun (n.) A liquor or beverage prepared from the juice of any fruit or plant by a process similar to that for grape wine; as, currant wine; gooseberry wine; palm wine. | |
noun (n.) The effect of drinking wine in excess; intoxication. |
wineberry | noun (n.) The red currant. |
noun (n.) The bilberry. | |
noun (n.) A peculiar New Zealand shrub (Coriaria ruscifolia), in which the petals ripen and afford an abundant purple juice from which a kind of wine is made. The plant also grows in Chili. |
winebibber | noun (n.) One who drinks much wine. |
wineglass | noun (n.) A small glass from which to drink wine. |
wineless | adjective (a.) destitute of wine; as, wineless life. |
winery | noun (n.) A place where grapes are converted into wine. |
wing | noun (n.) One of the two anterior limbs of a bird, pterodactyl, or bat. They correspond to the arms of man, and are usually modified for flight, but in the case of a few species of birds, as the ostrich, auk, etc., the wings are used only as an assistance in running or swimming. |
noun (n.) Any similar member or instrument used for the purpose of flying. | |
noun (n.) One of the two pairs of upper thoracic appendages of most hexapod insects. They are broad, fanlike organs formed of a double membrane and strengthened by chitinous veins or nervures. | |
noun (n.) One of the large pectoral fins of the flying fishes. | |
noun (n.) Passage by flying; flight; as, to take wing. | |
noun (n.) Motive or instrument of flight; means of flight or of rapid motion. | |
noun (n.) Anything which agitates the air as a wing does, or which is put in winglike motion by the action of the air, as a fan or vane for winnowing grain, the vane or sail of a windmill, etc. | |
noun (n.) An ornament worn on the shoulder; a small epaulet or shoulder knot. | |
noun (n.) Any appendage resembling the wing of a bird or insect in shape or appearance. | |
noun (n.) One of the broad, thin, anterior lobes of the foot of a pteropod, used as an organ in swimming. | |
noun (n.) Any membranaceous expansion, as that along the sides of certain stems, or of a fruit of the kind called samara. | |
noun (n.) Either of the two side petals of a papilionaceous flower. | |
noun (n.) One of two corresponding appendages attached; a sidepiece. | |
noun (n.) A side building, less than the main edifice; as, one of the wings of a palace. | |
noun (n.) The longer side of crownworks, etc., connecting them with the main work. | |
noun (n.) A side shoot of a tree or plant; a branch growing up by the side of another. | |
noun (n.) The right or left division of an army, regiment, etc. | |
noun (n.) That part of the hold or orlop of a vessel which is nearest the sides. In a fleet, one of the extremities when the ships are drawn up in line, or when forming the two sides of a triangle. | |
noun (n.) One of the sides of the stags in a theater. | |
noun (n.) Any surface used primarily for supporting a flying machine in flight, whether by edge-on motion, or flapping, or rotation; specif., either of a pair of supporting planes of a flying machine. | |
verb (v. t.) To furnish with wings; to enable to fly, or to move with celerity. | |
verb (v. t.) To supply with wings or sidepieces. | |
verb (v. t.) To transport by flight; to cause to fly. | |
verb (v. t.) To move through in flight; to fly through. | |
verb (v. t.) To cut off the wings of; to wound in the wing; to disable a wing of; as, to wing a bird. |
winging | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Wing |
winged | adjective (a.) Furnished with wings; transported by flying; having winglike expansions. |
adjective (a.) Soaring with wings, or as if with wings; hence, elevated; lofty; sublime. | |
adjective (a.) Swift; rapid. | |
adjective (a.) Wounded or hurt in the wing. | |
adjective (a.) Furnished with a leaflike appendage, as the fruit of the elm and the ash, or the stem in certain plants; alate. | |
adjective (a.) Represented with wings, or having wings, of a different tincture from the body. | |
adjective (a.) Fanned with wings; swarming with birds. | |
(imp. & p. p.) of Wing |
ENGLISH WORDS BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH WİNN:
English Words which starts with 'w' and ends with 'n':
wagon | noun (n.) A wheeled carriage; a vehicle on four wheels, and usually drawn by horses; especially, one used for carrying freight or merchandise. |
noun (n.) A freight car on a railway. | |
noun (n.) A chariot | |
noun (n.) The Dipper, or Charles's Wain. | |
verb (v. t.) To transport in a wagon or wagons; as, goods are wagoned from city to city. | |
verb (v. i.) To wagon goods as a business; as, the man wagons between Philadelphia and its suburbs. |
wain | noun (n.) A four-wheeled vehicle for the transportation of goods, produce, etc.; a wagon. |
noun (n.) A chariot. | |
() A kind of large broad-wheeled wagon, usually covered, for traveling in soft soil and on prairies. |
waldensian | noun (n.) One Holding the Waldensian doctrines. |
adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the Waldenses. |
waltron | noun (n.) A walrus. |
wan | noun (n.) The quality of being wan; wanness. |
adjective (a.) Having a pale or sickly hue; languid of look; pale; pallid. | |
verb (v. i.) To grow wan; to become pale or sickly in looks. | |
(imp.) Won. | |
() of Win |
wangan | noun (n.) A boat for conveying provisions, tools, etc.; -- so called by Maine lumbermen. |
wanhorn | noun (n.) An East Indian plant (Kaempferia Galanga) of the Ginger family. See Galanga. |
wanion | noun (n.) A word of uncertain signification, used only in the phrase with a wanion, apparently equivalent to with a vengeance, with a plague, or with misfortune. |
wanton | noun (n.) A roving, frolicsome thing; a trifler; -- used rarely as a term of endearment. |
noun (n.) One brought up without restraint; a pampered pet. | |
noun (n.) A lewd person; a lascivious man or woman. | |
verb (v. t.) Untrained; undisciplined; unrestrained; hence, loose; free; luxuriant; roving; sportive. | |
verb (v. t.) Wandering from moral rectitude; perverse; dissolute. | |
verb (v. t.) Specifically: Deviating from the rules of chastity; lewd; lustful; lascivious; libidinous; lecherous. | |
verb (v. t.) Reckless; heedless; as, wanton mischief. | |
verb (v. i.) To rove and ramble without restraint, rule, or limit; to revel; to play loosely; to frolic. | |
verb (v. i.) To sport in lewdness; to play the wanton; to play lasciviously. | |
verb (v. t.) To cause to become wanton; also, to waste in wantonness. |
warden | noun (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. |
wardian | adjective (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. |
wardsman | noun (n.) A man who keeps ward; a guard. |
warehouseman | noun (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. |
warren | noun (n.) A place privileged, by prescription or grant the king, for keeping certain animals (as hares, conies, partridges, pheasants, etc.) called beasts and fowls of warren. |
noun (n.) A privilege which one has in his lands, by royal grant or prescription, of hunting and taking wild beasts and birds of warren, to the exclusion of any other person not entering by his permission. | |
noun (n.) A piece of ground for the breeding of rabbits. | |
noun (n.) A place for keeping flash, in a river. |
warrin | noun (n.) An Australian lorikeet (Trichoglossus multicolor) remarkable for the variety and brilliancy of its colors; -- called also blue-bellied lorikeet, and blue-bellied parrot. |
warworn | adjective (a.) Worn with military service; as, a warworn soldier; a warworn coat. |
washerman | noun (n.) A man who washes clothes, esp. for hire, or for others. |
washerwoman | noun (n.) A woman who washes clothes, especially for hire, or for others. |
noun (n.) The pied wagtail; -- so called in allusion to its beating the water with its tail while tripping along the leaves of water plants. |
washingtonian | noun (n.) A member of the Washingtonian Society. |
adjective (a.) Pertaining to, or characteristic of, George Washington; as, a Washingtonian policy. | |
adjective (a.) Designating, or pertaining to, a temperance society and movement started in Baltimore in 1840 on the principle of total abstinence. |
watchman | noun (n.) One set to watch; a person who keeps guard; a guard; a sentinel. |
noun (n.) Specifically, one who guards a building, or the streets of a city, by night. |
waterlandian | noun (n.) One of a body of Dutch Anabaptists who separated from the Mennonites in the sixteenth century; -- so called from a district in North Holland denominated Waterland. |
waterman | noun (n.) A man who plies for hire on rivers, lakes, or canals, or in harbors, in distinction from a seaman who is engaged on the high seas; a man who manages fresh-water craft; a boatman; a ferryman. |
noun (n.) An attendant on cab stands, etc., who supplies water to the horses. | |
noun (n.) A water demon. |
watermelon | noun (n.) The very large ovoid or roundish fruit of a cucurbitaceous plant (Citrullus vulgaris) of many varieties; also, the plant itself. The fruit sometimes weighs many pounds; its pulp is usually pink in color, and full of a sweet watery juice. It is a native of tropical Africa, but is now cultivated in many countries. See Illust. of Melon. |
waterworn | adjective (a.) Worn, smoothed, or polished by the action of water; as, waterworn stones. |
waveson | noun (n.) Goods which, after shipwreck, appear floating on the waves, or sea. |
waveworn | adjective (a.) Worn by the waves. |
waxen | adjective (a.) Made of wax. |
adjective (a.) Covered with wax; waxed; as, a waxen tablet. | |
adjective (a.) Resembling wax; waxy; hence, soft; yielding. | |
() of Wax |
wayworn | adjective (a.) Wearied by traveling. |
wealden | noun (n.) The Wealden group or strata. |
adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the lowest division of the Cretaceous formation in England and on the Continent, which overlies the Oolitic series. |
wealsman | noun (n.) A statesman; a politician. |
wean | noun (n.) A weanling; a young child. |
adjective (a.) To accustom and reconcile, as a child or other young animal, to a want or deprivation of mother's milk; to take from the breast or udder; to cause to cease to depend on the mother nourishment. | |
adjective (a.) Hence, to detach or alienate the affections of, from any object of desire; to reconcile to the want or loss of anything. |
weapon | noun (n.) An instrument of offensive of defensive combat; something to fight with; anything used, or designed to be used, in destroying, defeating, or injuring an enemy, as a gun, a sword, etc. |
noun (n.) Fig.: The means or instrument with which one contends against another; as, argument was his only weapon. | |
noun (n.) A thorn, prickle, or sting with which many plants are furnished. |
weatherworn | adjective (a.) Worn by the action of, or by exposure to, the weather. |
weazen | adjective (a.) Thin; sharp; withered; wizened; as, a weazen face. |
wekeen | noun (n.) The meadow pipit. |
welchman | noun (n.) See Welshman. |
welkin | noun (n.) The visible regions of the air; the vault of heaven; the sky. |
welshman | noun (n.) A native or inhabitant of Wales; one of the Welsh. |
noun (n.) A squirrel fish. | |
noun (n.) The large-mouthed black bass. See Black bass. |
wepen | noun (n.) Weapon. |
wernerian | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to A. G. Werner, The German mineralogist and geologist, who classified minerals according to their external characters, and advocated the theory that the strata of the earth's crust were formed by depositions from water; designating, or according to, Werner's system. |
wesleyan | noun (n.) One who adopts the principles of Wesleyanism; a Methodist. |
adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to Wesley or Wesleyanism. |
western | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the west; situated in the west, or in the region nearly in the direction of west; being in that quarter where the sun sets; as, the western shore of France; the western ocean. |
adjective (a.) Moving toward the west; as, a ship makes a western course; coming from the west; as, a western breeze. |
whaleman | noun (n.) A man employed in the whale fishery. |
wheaten | adjective (a.) Made of wheat; as, wheaten bread. |
wheelman | noun (n.) One who rides a bicycle or tricycle; a cycler, or cyclist. |
wheen | noun (n.) A quantity; a goodly number. |
whin | noun (n.) Gorse; furze. See Furze. |
noun (n.) Woad-waxed. | |
noun (n.) Same as Whinstone. |
whipperin | noun (n.) A huntsman who keeps the hounds from wandering, and whips them in, if necessary, to the of chase. |
noun (n.) Hence, one who enforces the discipline of a party, and urges the attendance and support of the members on all necessary occasions. |
whiskin | noun (n.) A shallow drinking bowl. |
whitethorn | noun (n.) The hawthorn. |
whitson | adjective (a.) See Whitsun. |
whitsun | adjective (a.) Of, pertaining to, or observed at, Whitsuntide; as, Whitsun week; Whitsun Tuesday; Whitsun pastorals. |
whoreson | noun (n.) A bastard; colloquially, a low, scurvy fellow; -- used generally in contempt, or in coarse humor. Also used adjectively. |
widgeon | noun (n.) Any one of several species of fresh-water ducks, especially those belonging to the subgenus Mareca, of the genus Anas. The common European widgeon (Anas penelope) and the American widgeon (A. Americana) are the most important species. The latter is called also baldhead, baldpate, baldface, baldcrown, smoking duck, wheat, duck, and whitebelly. |
wigan | noun (n.) A kind of canvaslike cotton fabric, used to stiffen and protect the lower part of trousers and of the skirts of women's dresses, etc.; -- so called from Wigan, the name of a town in Lancashire, England. |
wigeon | noun (n.) A widgeon. |
wintergreen | noun (n.) A plant which keeps its leaves green through the winter. |
wispen | adjective (a.) Formed of a wisp, or of wisp; as, a wispen broom. |
wivern | noun (n.) A fabulous two-legged, winged creature, like a cockatrice, but having the head of a dragon, and without spurs. |
noun (n.) The weever. |
wizen | noun (n.) The weasand. |
adjective (a.) Wizened; thin; weazen; withered. | |
verb (v. i.) To wither; to dry. |
woden | noun (n.) A deity corresponding to Odin, the supreme deity of the Scandinavians. Wednesday is named for him. See Odin. |
wolffian | adjective (a.) Discovered, or first described, by Caspar Friedrich Wolff (1733-1794), the founder of modern embryology. |
wolfkin | noun (n.) A little or young wolf. |
woman | noun (n.) An adult female person; a grown-up female person, as distinguished from a man or a child; sometimes, any female person. |
noun (n.) The female part of the human race; womankind. | |
noun (n.) A female attendant or servant. | |
verb (v. t.) To act the part of a woman in; -- with indefinite it. | |
verb (v. t.) To make effeminate or womanish. | |
verb (v. t.) To furnish with, or unite to, a woman. |
women | noun (n.) pl. of Woman. |
(pl. ) of Herdswoman | |
(pl. ) of Woman |
won | noun (n.) Dwelling; wone. |
verb (v. i.) To dwell or abide. | |
(imp. & p. p.) of Win | |
() imp. & p. p. of Win. |
wooden | adjective (a.) Made or consisting of wood; pertaining to, or resembling, wood; as, a wooden box; a wooden leg; a wooden wedding. |
adjective (a.) Clumsy; awkward; ungainly; stiff; spiritless. |
woodman | noun (n.) A forest officer appointed to take care of the king's woods; a forester. |
noun (n.) A sportsman; a hunter. | |
noun (n.) One who cuts down trees; a woodcutter. | |
noun (n.) One who dwells in the woods or forest; a bushman. |
woodsman | noun (n.) A woodman; especially, one who lives in the forest. |
woolen | noun (n.) Cloth made of wool; woollen goods. |
adjective (a.) Made of wool; consisting of wool; as, woolen goods. | |
adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to wool or woolen cloths; as, woolen manufactures; a woolen mill; a woolen draper. |
woolman | noun (n.) One who deals in wool. |
woon | noun (n.) Dwelling. See Wone. |
wooyen | noun (n.) See Yuen. |
wordsman | noun (n.) One who deals in words, or in mere words; a verbalist. |
workingman | noun (n.) A laboring man; a man who earns his daily support by manual labor. |
workman | noun (n.) A man employed in labor, whether in tillage or manufactures; a worker. |
noun (n.) Hence, especially, a skillful artificer or laborer. |
workwoman | noun (n.) A woman who performs any work; especially, a woman skilled in needlework. |
wormian | adjective (a.) Discovered or described by Olanus Wormius, a Danish anatomist. |
wreathen | adjective (a.) Twisted; made into a wreath. |
(Archaic) of Wreathe |
wren | noun (n.) Any one of numerous species of small singing birds belonging to Troglodytes and numerous allied of the family Troglodytidae. |
noun (n.) Any one of numerous species of small singing birds more or less resembling the true wrens in size and habits. |
writhen | adjective (a.) Having a twisted distorted from. |
() of Writhe |
wynn | noun (n.) A kind of timber truck, or carriage. |
() Alt. of Wen |
wyvern | noun (n.) Same as Wiver. |
wagnerian | adjective (a.) Of, pertaining to, or resembling the style of, Richard Wagner, the German musical composer. |
wallachian | noun (n.) An inhabitant of Wallachia; also, the language of the Wallachians; Roumanian. |
adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to Wallachia, a former principality, now part of the kingdom, of Roumania. |
witan | noun (n. pl.) Lit., wise men; |
noun (n. pl.) the members of the national, or king's, council which sat to assist the king in administrative and judicial matters; also, the council. |