WISE

Name Report For First Name WISE:

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

Rhymes with WISE - Names & Words

First Names Rhyming WISE

FIRST NAMES WHICH INCLUDES W�SE AS A WHOLE:

NAMES RHYMING WITH W�SE (According to last letters):

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

ingelise heloise adelise ailise alise aloise amarise analise annalise annelise cerise chalise charise charlise cherise danise denise dennise dorise elise eloise emma-lise francoise janise jenise kaise labhaoise lise louise luise marise marlise marquise mavise mertise minoise morise naylise sherise treise blaise cochise plaise steise

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

alesandese libuse nourbese omorose anneliese alsoomse aase melesse thutmose ambrose lasse seoirse agnese ailse alese alisse allyse alyse alysse anlienisse annaliese ayalisse blisse bluinse blysse caresse celesse chayse cherese cheresse cherisse clarisse denisse denyse ellesse else elyse hausisse hortense ilse ilyse lssse maddy-rose margawse morgawse promyse therese blase case chase jesse jose kesegowaase morse neese reese

NAMES RHYMING WITH W�SE (According to first letters):

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

wisal wisnu wissian

Rhyming 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 willmar willmarr willoughby willow willsn willy wilma wilmar wilmer wilmod wilmot wilona wilone wilpe wilpert wilson wilton win wincel winchell windell windgate windham windsor wine winef winefield winefrith winema winetorp winfield winfred winfrid winfrith wingate winif winifred winifreda

NAMES BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH W�SE:

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

wade waescburne wagaye waite wake walbridge walbrydge wallace wallache wamblee wambli-waste wande wang'ombe warde ware wareine warrane washbourne washburne wattesone wayde wayne wayte weallere webbe webbestre welborne welcome welsie wendale weslee whitmore winifride winnie winslowe winswode wittahere wolfe wulfhere wulfsige wylie wyne wynne wynnie wynwode wythe

English Words Rhyming WISE

ENGLISH WORDS WHICH INCLUDES W�SE AS A WHOLE:

afterwise

adjective (a.) Wise after the event; wise or knowing, when it is too late.

jewise

noun (n.) Same as Juise.

juwise

noun (n.) Same as Juise.

likewise

noun (n.) In like manner; also; moreover; too. See Also.

nowise

noun (n.) Not in any manner or degree; in no way; noways.

overwise

adjective (a.) Too wise; affectedly wise.

rightwise	adjective (a.) Righteous.
	verb (v. t.) To make righteous.

rightwiseness

noun (n.) Righteousness.

unrightwise

adjective (a.) Unrighteous.

unwise

adjective (a.) Not wise; defective in wisdom; injudicious; indiscreet; foolish; as, an unwise man; unwise kings; unwise measures.

waywiser

noun (n.) An instrument for measuring the distance which one has traveled on the road; an odometer, pedometer, or perambulator.

weatherwise

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

weatherwiser

noun (n.) Something that foreshows the weather.

wiseling

noun (n.) One who pretends to be wise; a wiseacre; a witling.

wiseness

noun (n.) Wisdom.

worldlywise

adjective (a.) Wise in regard to things of this world.

ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH W�SE (According to last letters):

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

aguise	noun (n.) Dress.
	verb (v. t.) To dress; to attire; to adorn.

amortise

noun (n.) Alt. of Amortisement

anise	noun (n.) An umbelliferous plant (Pimpinella anisum) growing naturally in Egypt, and cultivated in Spain, Malta, etc., for its carminative and aromatic seeds.
	noun (n.) The fruit or seeds of this plant.

apprise	noun (n.) Notice; information.
	verb (v. t.) To give notice, verbal or written; to inform; -- followed by of; as, we will apprise the general of an intended attack; he apprised the commander of what he had done.

arise	noun (n.) Rising.
	verb (v. i.) To come up from a lower to a higher position; to come above the horizon; to come up from one's bed or place of repose; to mount; to ascend; to rise; as, to arise from a kneeling posture; a cloud arose; the sun ariseth; he arose early in the morning.
	verb (v. i.) To spring up; to come into action, being, or notice; to become operative, sensible, or visible; to begin to act a part; to present itself; as, the waves of the sea arose; a persecution arose; the wrath of the king shall arise.
	verb (v. i.) To proceed; to issue; to spring.

bise	noun (n.) A pale blue pigment, prepared from the native blue carbonate of copper, or from smalt; -- called also blue bice.
	noun (n.) A cold north wind which prevails on the northern coasts of the Mediterranean and in Switzerland, etc.; -- nearly the same as the mistral.
	noun (n.) See Bice.

braise	noun (n.) Alt. of Braize
	noun (n.) Alt. of Braize
	verb (v. t.) To stew or broil in a covered kettle or pan.

bruise	noun (n.) An injury to the flesh of animals, or to plants, fruit, etc., with a blunt or heavy instrument, or by collision with some other body; a contusion; as, a bruise on the head; bruises on fruit.
	verb (v. t.) To injure, as by a blow or collision, without laceration; to contuse; as, to bruise one's finger with a hammer; to bruise the bark of a tree with a stone; to bruise an apple by letting it fall.
	verb (v. t.) To break; as in a mortar; to bray, as minerals, roots, etc.; to crush.
	verb (v. i.) To fight with the fists; to box.

cerise

adjective (a.) Cherry-colored; a light bright red; -- applied to textile fabrics, especially silk.

chaise	noun (n.) A two-wheeled carriage for two persons, with a calash top, and the body hung on leather straps, or thorough-braces. It is usually drawn by one horse.
	noun (n.) a carriage in general.

chemise	noun (n.) A shift, or undergarment, worn by women.
	noun (n.) A wall that lines the face of a bank or earthwork.

compromise	noun (n.) A mutual agreement to refer matters in dispute to the decision of arbitrators.
	noun (n.) A settlement by arbitration or by mutual consent reached by concession on both sides; a reciprocal abatement of extreme demands or rights, resulting in an agreement.
	noun (n.) A committal to something derogatory or objectionable; a prejudicial concession; a surrender; as, a compromise of character or right.
	noun (n.) To bind by mutual agreement; to agree.
	noun (n.) To adjust and settle by mutual concessions; to compound.
	noun (n.) To pledge by some act or declaration; to endanger the life, reputation, etc., of, by some act which can not be recalled; to expose to suspicion.
	verb (v. i.) To agree; to accord.
	verb (v. i.) To make concession for conciliation and peace.

concise

adjective (a.) Expressing much in a few words; condensed; brief and compacted; -- used of style in writing or speaking.

cotise

noun (n.) See Cottise.

cottise

noun (n.) A diminutive of the bendlet, containing one half its area or one quarter the area of the bend. When a single cottise is used alone it is often called a cost. See also Couple-close.

counterpoise	noun (n.) A weight sufficient to balance another, as in the opposite scale of a balance; an equal weight.
	noun (n.) An equal power or force acting in opposition; a force sufficient to balance another force.
	noun (n.) The relation of two weights or forces which balance each other; equilibrium; equiponderance.
	verb (v. t.) To act against with equal weight; to equal in weight; to balance the weight of; to counterbalance.
	verb (v. t.) To act against with equal power; to balance.

croise	noun (n.) A pilgrim bearing or wearing a cross.
	noun (n.) A crusader.

cruise	noun (n.) See Cruse, a small bottle.
	noun (n.) A voyage made in various directions, as of an armed vessel, for the protection of other vessels, or in search of an enemy; a sailing to and fro, as for exploration or for pleasure.
	verb (v. i.) To sail back and forth on the ocean; to sail, as for the potection of commerce, in search of an enemy, for plunder, or for pleasure.
	verb (v. i.) To wander hither and thither on land.
	verb (v. i.) To inspect forest land for the purpose of estimating the quantity of lumber it will yield.
	verb (v. t.) To cruise over or about.
	verb (v. t.) To explore with reference to capacity for the production of lumber; as, to cruise a section of land.

demise	noun (n.) Transmission by formal act or conveyance to an heir or successor; transference; especially, the transfer or transmission of the crown or royal authority to a successor.
	noun (n.) The decease of a royal or princely person; hence, also, the death of any illustrious person.
	noun (n.) The conveyance or transfer of an estate, either in fee for life or for years, most commonly the latter.
	verb (v. t.) To transfer or transmit by succession or inheritance; to grant or bestow by will; to bequeath.
	verb (v. t.) To convey; to give.
	verb (v. t.) To convey, as an estate, by lease; to lease.

dervise

noun (n.) Alt. of Dervis

devise	noun (n.) The act of giving or disposing of real estate by will; -- sometimes improperly applied to a bequest of personal estate.
	noun (n.) A will or testament, conveying real estate; the clause of a will making a gift of real property.
	noun (n.) Property devised, or given by will.
	noun (n.) Device. See Device.
	verb (v. t.) To form in the mind by new combinations of ideas, new applications of principles, or new arrangement of parts; to formulate by thought; to contrive; to excogitate; to invent; to plan; to scheme; as, to devise an engine, a new mode of writing, a plan of defense, or an argument.
	verb (v. t.) To plan or scheme for; to purpose to obtain.
	verb (v. t.) To say; to relate; to describe.
	verb (v. t.) To imagine; to guess.
	verb (v. t.) To give by will; -- used of real estate; formerly, also, of chattels.
	verb (v. i.) To form a scheme; to lay a plan; to contrive; to consider.

disguise	noun (n.) A dress or exterior put on for purposes of concealment or of deception; as, persons doing unlawful acts in disguise are subject to heavy penalties.
	noun (n.) Artificial language or manner assumed for deception; false appearance; counterfeit semblance or show.
	noun (n.) Change of manner by drink; intoxication.
	noun (n.) A masque or masquerade.
	verb (v. t.) To change the guise or appearance of; especially, to conceal by an unusual dress, or one intended to mislead or deceive.
	verb (v. t.) To hide by a counterfeit appearance; to cloak by a false show; to mask; as, to disguise anger; to disguise one's sentiments, character, or intentions.
	verb (v. t.) To affect or change by liquor; to intoxicate.

ecossaise

noun (n.) A dancing tune in the Scotch style.

emprise	noun (n.) An enterprise; endeavor; adventure.
	noun (n.) The qualifies which prompt one to undertake difficult and dangerous exploits.
	verb (v. t.) To undertake.

entermise

noun (n.) Mediation.

enterprise	noun (n.) That which is undertaken; something attempted to be performed; a work projected which involves activity, courage, energy, and the like; a bold, arduous, or hazardous attempt; an undertaking; as, a manly enterprise; a warlike enterprise.
	noun (n.) Willingness or eagerness to engage in labor which requires boldness, promptness, energy, and like qualities; as, a man of great enterprise.
	verb (v. t.) To undertake; to begin and attempt to perform; to venture upon.
	verb (v. t.) To treat with hospitality; to entertain.
	verb (v. i.) To undertake an enterprise, or something hazardous or difficult.

equipoise	noun (n.) Equality of weight or force; hence, equilibrium; a state in which the two ends or sides of a thing are balanced, and hence equal; state of being equally balanced; -- said of moral, political, or social interests or forces.
	noun (n.) Counterpoise.

excise	noun (n.) In inland duty or impost operating as an indirect tax on the consumer, levied upon certain specified articles, as, tobacco, ale, spirits, etc., grown or manufactured in the country. It is also levied to pursue certain trades and deal in certain commodities. Certain direct taxes (as, in England, those on carriages, servants, plate, armorial bearings, etc.), are included in the excise. Often used adjectively; as, excise duties; excise law; excise system.
	noun (n.) That department or bureau of the public service charged with the collection of the excise taxes.
	verb (v. t.) To lay or impose an excise upon.
	verb (v. t.) To impose upon; to overcharge.
	verb (v. t.) To cut out or off; to separate and remove; as, to excise a tumor.

exercise	noun (n.) The act of exercising; a setting in action or practicing; employment in the proper mode of activity; exertion; application; use; habitual activity; occupation, in general; practice.
	noun (n.) Exertion for the sake of training or improvement whether physical, intellectual, or moral; practice to acquire skill, knowledge, virtue, perfectness, grace, etc.
	noun (n.) Bodily exertion for the sake of keeping the organs and functions in a healthy state; hygienic activity; as, to take exercise on horseback.
	noun (n.) The performance of an office, a ceremony, or a religious duty.
	noun (n.) That which is done for the sake of exercising, practicing, training, or promoting skill, health, mental, improvement, moral discipline, etc.; that which is assigned or prescribed for such ends; hence, a disquisition; a lesson; a task; as, military or naval exercises; musical exercises; an exercise in composition.
	noun (n.) That which gives practice; a trial; a test.
	verb (v. t.) To set in action; to cause to act, move, or make exertion; to give employment to; to put in action habitually or constantly; to school or train; to exert repeatedly; to busy.
	verb (v. t.) To exert for the sake of training or improvement; to practice in order to develop; hence, also, to improve by practice; to discipline, and to use or to for the purpose of training; as, to exercise arms; to exercise one's self in music; to exercise troops.
	verb (v. t.) To occupy the attention and effort of; to task; to tax, especially in a painful or vexatious manner; harass; to vex; to worry or make anxious; to affect; to discipline; as, exercised with pain.
	verb (v. t.) To put in practice; to carry out in action; to perform the duties of; to use; to employ; to practice; as, to exercise authority; to exercise an office.
	verb (v. i.) To exercise one's self, as under military training; to drill; to take exercise; to use action or exertion; to practice gymnastics; as, to exercise for health or amusement.

foolhardise

noun (n.) Foolhardiness.

fraise	noun (n.) A large and thick pancake, with slices of bacon in it.
	noun (n.) A defense consisting of pointed stakes driven into the ramparts in a horizontal or inclined position.
	noun (n.) A fluted reamer for enlarging holes in stone; a small milling cutter.
	verb (v. t.) To protect, as a line of troops, against an onset of cavalry, by opposing bayonets raised obliquely forward.

franchise	adjective (a.) Exemption from constraint or oppression; freedom; liberty.
	adjective (a.) A particular privilege conferred by grant from a sovereign or a government, and vested in individuals; an imunity or exemption from ordinary jurisdiction; a constitutional or statutory right or privilege, esp. the right to vote.
	adjective (a.) The district or jurisdiction to which a particular privilege extends; the limits of an immunity; hence, an asylum or sanctuary.
	adjective (a.) Magnanimity; generosity; liberality; frankness; nobility.
	verb (v. t.) To make free; to enfranchise; to give liberty to.

froise

noun (n.) A kind of pancake. See 1st Fraise.

fadaise

noun (n.) A vapid or meaningless remark; a commonplace; nonsense.

galliardise

adjective (a.) Excessive gayety; merriment.

gise	noun (n.) Guise; manner.
	verb (v. t.) To feed or pasture.

grise	noun (n.) See Grice, a pig.
	noun (n.) A step (in a flight of stairs); a degree.
	(pl. ) of Gree

guise	noun (n.) Customary way of speaking or acting; custom; fashion; manner; behavior; mien; mode; practice; -- often used formerly in such phrases as: at his own guise; that is, in his own fashion, to suit himself.
	noun (n.) External appearance in manner or dress; appropriate indication or expression; garb; shape.
	noun (n.) Cover; cloak; as, under the guise of patriotism.

hollandaise

noun (n.) A sauce consisting essentially of a seasoned emulsion of butter and yolk of eggs with a little lemon juice or vinegar.

intermise

noun (n.) Interference; interposition.

juise

noun (n.) Judgment; justice; sentence.

lyonnaise

adjective (a.) Applied to boiled potatoes cut into small pieces and heated in oil or butter. They are usually flavored with onion and parsley.

mainprise	noun (n.) A writ directed to the sheriff, commanding him to take sureties, called mainpernors, for the prisoner's appearance, and to let him go at large. This writ is now obsolete.
	noun (n.) Deliverance of a prisoner on security for his appearance at a day.
	verb (v. t.) To suffer to go at large, on his finding sureties, or mainpernors, for his appearance at a day; -- said of a prisoner.

malaise

noun (n.) An indefinite feeling of uneasiness, or of being sick or ill at ease.

marquise

noun (n.) The wife of a marquis; a marchioness.

marseillaise	noun (n. f.) A native or inhabitant of Marseilles.
	adjective (a. f.) Of or pertaining to Marseilles, in France, or to its inhabitants.

mayonnaise

noun (n.) A sauce compounded of raw yolks of eggs beaten up with olive oil to the consistency of a sirup, and seasoned with vinegar, pepper, salt, etc.; -- used in dressing salads, fish, etc. Also, a dish dressed with this sauce.

merchandise	noun (n.) The objects of commerce; whatever is usually bought or sold in trade, or market, or by merchants; wares; goods; commodities.
	noun (n.) The act or business of trading; trade; traffic.
	verb (v. i.) To trade; to carry on commerce.
	verb (v. t.) To make merchandise of; to buy and sell.

mesprise	noun (n.) Contempt; scorn.
	noun (n.) Misadventure; ill-success.

migniardise

noun (n.) Delicate fondling.

ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH W�SE (According to first letters):

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

wisard

noun (n.) See Wizard.

wisdom	adjective (a.) The quality of being wise; knowledge, and the capacity to make due use of it; knowledge of the best ends and the best means; discernment and judgment; discretion; sagacity; skill; dexterity.
	adjective (a.) The results of wise judgments; scientific or practical truth; acquired knowledge; erudition.

wishing	noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Wish
	() a. & n. from Wish, v. t.

wish	noun (n.) Desire; eager desire; longing.
	noun (n.) Expression of desire; request; petition; hence, invocation or imprecation.
	noun (n.) A thing desired; an object of desire.
	verb (v. t.) To have a desire or yearning; to long; to hanker.
	verb (v. t.) To desire; to long for; to hanker after; to have a mind or disposition toward.
	verb (v. t.) To frame or express desires concerning; to invoke in favor of, or against, any one; to attribute, or cal down, in desire; to invoke; to imprecate.
	verb (v. t.) To recommend; to seek confidence or favor in behalf of.

wishable

adjective (a.) Capable or worthy of being wished for; desirable.

wishbone

noun (n.) The forked bone in front of the breastbone in birds; -- called also merrythought, and wishing bone. See Merrythought, and Furculum.

wisher

noun (n.) One who wishes or desires; one who expresses a wish.

wishful	adjective (a.) Having desire, or ardent desire; longing.
	adjective (a.) Showing desire; as, wishful eyes.
	adjective (a.) Desirable; exciting wishes.

wishtonwish

noun (n.) The prairie dog.

wisket

noun (n.) A whisket, or basket.

wisp	noun (n.) A small bundle, as of straw or other like substance.
	noun (n.) A whisk, or small broom.
	noun (n.) A Will-o'-the-wisp; an ignis fatuus.
	verb (v. t.) To brush or dress, an with a wisp.
	verb (v. t.) To rumple.

wisping

noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Wisp

wispen

adjective (a.) Formed of a wisp, or of wisp; as, a wispen broom.

wisse

adjective (a.) To show; to teach; to inform; to guide; to direct.

wistaria

noun (n.) A genus of climbing leguminous plants bearing long, pendulous clusters of pale bluish flowers.

wistful	adjective (a.) Longing; wishful; desirous.
	adjective (a.) Full of thought; eagerly attentive; meditative; musing; pensive; contemplative.

wistit

noun (n.) A small South American monkey; a marmoset.

wistonwish

noun (n.) See Wishtonwish.

ENGLISH WORDS BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH W�SE:

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

wabble	noun (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.

wacke

noun (n.) Alt. of Wacky

wade	noun (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.

wae

noun (n.) A wave.

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

waftage

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

wafture

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

waggie

noun (n.) The pied wagtail.

wagnerite

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

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

wagonette

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

wahabee

noun (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.

wainable

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

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

wainbote

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

waivure

noun (n.) See Waiver.

waiwode

noun (n.) See Waywode.

wake	noun (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.

waketime

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

waldgrave

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

wale	noun (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.

walkable

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

wamble	noun (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.

wampee	noun (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.

wane	noun (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.

wanghee

noun (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.

wanhope

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

wankle

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

wantage

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

wapentake

noun (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.

warble	noun (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.

wardmote

noun (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.

ware	noun (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.

warehouse	noun (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.

warence

noun (n.) Madder.

warfare	noun (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.

warhable

adjective (a.) Fit for war.

wariangle

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

warine

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

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

warpage

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

warrandice

noun (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.

warrantable

adjective (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.

warrantee

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

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

warre

adjective (a.) Worse.

warriangle

noun (n.) See Wariangle.

warwickite

noun (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.

wase

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

washable

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

washhouse

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

wasite

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

wastage

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

waste	noun (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.

watchhouse	noun (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.

waterage

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

waterhorse

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

waterie

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

waterscape

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

wattle	noun (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.

wavellite

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

wavure

noun (n.) See Waivure.

wave	noun (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.

wawe

noun (n.) A wave.

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

waygate

noun (n.) The tailrace of a mill.

wayside	noun (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.

waywode

noun (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.

wearable

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

weariable

adjective (a.) That may be wearied.

wearisome

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

weave	noun (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.

webeye

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

websterite

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

wedge	noun (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.

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

weftage

noun (n.) Texture.

weighable

adjective (a.) Capable of being weighed.

weighage

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

weighbridge

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

welcome	noun (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.

weldable

adjective (a.) Capable of being welded.

wele

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

welfare

noun (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.

wellfare

noun (n.) See Welfare.

wellhole	noun (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.

welsome

adjective (a.) Prosperous; well.

were	noun (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.

wernerite

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

weroole

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

werre

noun (n.) War.

weryangle

noun (n.) See Wariangle.

whale

noun (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.

whalebone

noun (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.

whame

noun (n.) A breeze fly.

whanghee

noun (n.) See Wanghee.

wharfage	noun (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.

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

wheeze	noun (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.

where	noun (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.

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