Name Report For First Name WAKE:
WAKE
First name WAKE's origin is Other. WAKE means "alert". You can find other first names and English words that rhymes with WAKE below. Ryhme list involves the matching sounds according to the first letters, last letters and first&last letters of wake.(Brown names are of the same origin (Other) with WAKE and Red names are first names with English/Anglo-Saxon origin)
Rhymes with WAKE - Names & Words
First Names Rhyming WAKE
FIRST NAMES WHICH INCLUDES WAKE AS A WHOLE:
wakeman wakeley wakefieldNAMES RHYMING WITH WAKE (According to last letters):
Rhyming Names According to Last 3 Letters (ake) - Names That Ends with ake:
kandake kanake blake drake harlake jake evelakeRhyming Names According to Last 2 Letters (ke) - Names That Ends with ke:
federikke anke brooke nike erssike ferike irenke haloke morenike obike shermarke vandyke chike jumoke moke oke peterke mordke annikke asenke elke frederike larke lilike perke viheke bourke burke clarke deke duke falke hillocke locke meinke mike nyke parke pike renke rocke rorke rourke sike sparke tasunke thorndike thorndyke driske evike perzsike ilke helike dike vibeke ulrike fiske stoke ike zeke berkeNAMES RHYMING WITH WAKE (According to first letters):
Rhyming Names According to First 3 Letters (wak) - Names That Begins with wak:
wakanda waki wakil wakiza waklerRhyming 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 walborga walborgd walbridge walbrydge walby walcot walcott walda waldburga waldemar waldemarr walden waldhramm waldhurga waldifrid waldmunt waldo waldon waldr waldrom waldron waleed waleis walford walfr walfred walfrid walid walidah walker wallace wallache waller wallis walliyullah wally walmond walsh walt walten walter walthari walton waluyo walworth walwyn wamblee wambleesha wambli-wasteNAMES BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH WAKE:
First Names which starts with 'w' and ends with 'e':
wande wang'ombe warde ware wareine warrane 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 wytheEnglish Words Rhyming WAKE
ENGLISH WORDS WHICH INCLUDES WAKE AS A WHOLE:
| awake | adjective (a.) Not sleeping or lethargic; roused from sleep; in a state of vigilance or action. |
| verb (v. t.) To rouse from sleep; to wake; to awaken. | |
| verb (v. t.) To rouse from a state resembling sleep, as from death, stupidity., or inaction; to put into action; to give new life to; to stir up; as, to awake the dead; to awake the dormant faculties. | |
| verb (v. i.) To cease to sleep; to come out of a state of natural sleep; and, figuratively, out of a state resembling sleep, as inaction or death. |
| awakening | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Awaken |
| noun (n.) The act of awaking, or ceasing to sleep. Specifically: A revival of religion, or more general attention to religious matters than usual. | |
| adjective (a.) Rousing from sleep, in a natural or a figurative sense; rousing into activity; exciting; as, the awakening city; an awakening discourse; the awakening dawn. |
| awakener | noun (n.) One who, or that which, awakens. |
| awakenment | noun (n.) An awakening. |
| forwaked | adjective (p. p. & a.) Tired out with excessive waking or watching. |
| kittiwake | noun (n.) A northern gull (Rissa tridactyla), inhabiting the coasts of Europe and America. It is white, with black tips to the wings, and has but three toes. |
| latewake | noun (n.) See Lich wake, under Lich. |
| sleepwaker | noun (n.) On in a state of magnetic or mesmeric sleep. |
| 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. |
| wakeful | adjective (a.) Not sleeping; indisposed to sleep; watchful; vigilant. |
| wakening | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Waken |
| noun (n.) The act of one who wakens; esp., the act of ceasing to sleep; an awakening. | |
| noun (n.) The revival of an action. |
| wakener | noun (n.) One who wakens. |
| waker | noun (n.) One who wakes. |
| waketime | noun (n.) Time during which one is awake. |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH WAKE (According to last letters):
Rhyming Words According to Last 3 Letters (ake) - English Words That Ends with ake:
| ake | noun (n. & v.) See Ache. |
| alestake | noun (n.) A stake or pole projecting from, or set up before, an alehouse, as a sign; an alepole. At the end was commonly suspended a garland, a bunch of leaves, or a "bush." |
| bake | noun (n.) The process, or result, of baking. |
| verb (v. t.) To prepare, as food, by cooking in a dry heat, either in an oven or under coals, or on heated stone or metal; as, to bake bread, meat, apples. | |
| verb (v. t.) To dry or harden (anything) by subjecting to heat, as, to bake bricks; the sun bakes the ground. | |
| verb (v. t.) To harden by cold. | |
| verb (v. i.) To do the work of baking something; as, she brews, washes, and bakes. | |
| verb (v. i.) To be baked; to become dry and hard in heat; as, the bread bakes; the ground bakes in the hot sun. |
| barleybrake | noun (n.) Alt. of Barleybreak |
| beadsnake | noun (n.) A small poisonous snake of North America (Elaps fulvius), banded with yellow, red, and black. |
| black snake | noun (n.) Alt. of Blacksnake |
| blacksnake | noun (n.) A snake of a black color, of which two species are common in the United States, the Bascanium constrictor, or racer, sometimes six feet long, and the Scotophis Alleghaniensis, seven or eight feet long. |
| brake | noun (n.) A fern of the genus Pteris, esp. the P. aquilina, common in almost all countries. It has solitary stems dividing into three principal branches. Less properly: Any fern. |
| noun (n.) A thicket; a place overgrown with shrubs and brambles, with undergrowth and ferns, or with canes. | |
| verb (v. t.) An instrument or machine to break or bruise the woody part of flax or hemp so that it may be separated from the fiber. | |
| verb (v. t.) An extended handle by means of which a number of men can unite in working a pump, as in a fire engine. | |
| verb (v. t.) A baker's kneading though. | |
| verb (v. t.) A sharp bit or snaffle. | |
| verb (v. t.) A frame for confining a refractory horse while the smith is shoeing him; also, an inclosure to restrain cattle, horses, etc. | |
| verb (v. t.) That part of a carriage, as of a movable battery, or engine, which enables it to turn. | |
| verb (v. t.) An ancient engine of war analogous to the crossbow and ballista. | |
| verb (v. t.) A large, heavy harrow for breaking clods after plowing; a drag. | |
| verb (v. t.) A piece of mechanism for retarding or stopping motion by friction, as of a carriage or railway car, by the pressure of rubbers against the wheels, or of clogs or ratchets against the track or roadway, or of a pivoted lever against a wheel or drum in a machine. | |
| verb (v. t.) An apparatus for testing the power of a steam engine, or other motor, by weighing the amount of friction that the motor will overcome; a friction brake. | |
| verb (v. t.) A cart or carriage without a body, used in breaking in horses. | |
| verb (v. t.) An ancient instrument of torture. | |
| () imp. of Break. | |
| () of Break |
| bridecake | noun (n.) Rich or highly ornamented cake, to be distributed to the guests at a wedding, or sent to friends after the wedding. |
| bridestake | noun (n.) A stake or post set in the ground, for guests at a wedding to dance round. |
| cake | noun (n.) A small mass of dough baked; especially, a thin loaf from unleavened dough; as, an oatmeal cake; johnnycake. |
| noun (n.) A sweetened composition of flour and other ingredients, leavened or unleavened, baked in a loaf or mass of any size or shape. | |
| noun (n.) A thin wafer-shaped mass of fried batter; a griddlecake or pancake; as buckwheat cakes. | |
| noun (n.) A mass of matter concreted, congealed, or molded into a solid mass of any form, esp. into a form rather flat than high; as, a cake of soap; an ague cake. | |
| verb (v. i.) To form into a cake, or mass. | |
| verb (v. i.) To concrete or consolidate into a hard mass, as dough in an oven; to coagulate. | |
| verb (v. i.) To cackle as a goose. |
| canebrake | noun (n.) A thicket of canes. |
| clake | noun (n.) Alt. of Claik |
| clambake | noun (n.) The backing or steaming of clams on heated stones, between layers of seaweed; hence, a picnic party, gathered on such an occasion. |
| clapcake | noun (n.) Oatmeal cake or bread clapped or beaten till it is thin. |
| corncrake | noun (n.) A bird (Crex crex or C. pratensis) which frequents grain fields; the European crake or land rail; -- called also corn bird. |
| cowquake | noun (n.) A genus of plants (Briza); quaking grass. |
| crake | noun (n.) A boast. See Crack, n. |
| noun (n.) Any species or rail of the genera Crex and Porzana; -- so called from its singular cry. See Corncrake. | |
| verb (v. t. & i.) To cry out harshly and loudly, like the bird called crake. | |
| verb (v. t. & i.) To boast; to speak loudly and boastfully. |
| creamcake | noun (n.) A kind of cake filled with custard made of cream, eggs, etc. |
| drake | noun (n.) The male of the duck kind. |
| noun (n.) The drake fly. | |
| noun (n.) A dragon. | |
| noun (n.) A small piece of artillery. | |
| noun (n.) Wild oats, brome grass, or darnel grass; -- called also drawk, dravick, and drank. |
| earthdrake | noun (n.) A mythical monster of the early Anglo-Saxon literature; a dragon. |
| earthquake | noun (n.) A shaking, trembling, or concussion of the earth, due to subterranean causes, often accompanied by a rumbling noise. The wave of shock sometimes traverses half a hemisphere, destroying cities and many thousand lives; -- called also earthdin, earthquave, and earthshock. |
| adjective (a.) Like, or characteristic of, an earthquake; loud; starling. |
| fake | noun (n.) One of the circles or windings of a cable or hawser, as it lies in a coil; a single turn or coil. |
| noun (n.) A trick; a swindle. | |
| verb (v. t.) To coil (a rope, line, or hawser), by winding alternately in opposite directions, in layers usually of zigzag or figure of eight form,, to prevent twisting when running out. | |
| verb (v. t.) To cheat; to swindle; to steal; to rob. | |
| verb (v. t.) To make; to construct; to do. | |
| verb (v. t.) To manipulate fraudulently, so as to make an object appear better or other than it really is; as, to fake a bulldog, by burning his upper lip and thus artificially shortening it. |
| firedrake | noun (n.) A fiery dragon. |
| noun (n.) A fiery meteor; an ignis fatuus; a rocket. | |
| noun (n.) A worker at a furnace or fire. |
| flake | noun (n.) A paling; a hurdle. |
| noun (n.) A platform of hurdles, or small sticks made fast or interwoven, supported by stanchions, for drying codfish and other things. | |
| noun (n.) A small stage hung over a vessel's side, for workmen to stand on in calking, etc. | |
| noun (n.) A loose filmy mass or a thin chiplike layer of anything; a film; flock; lamina; layer; scale; as, a flake of snow, tallow, or fish. | |
| noun (n.) A little particle of lighted or incandescent matter, darted from a fire; a flash. | |
| noun (n.) A sort of carnation with only two colors in the flower, the petals having large stripes. | |
| noun (n.) A flat layer, or fake, of a coiled cable. | |
| verb (v. t.) To form into flakes. | |
| verb (v. i.) To separate in flakes; to peel or scale off. |
| fleshquake | noun (n.) A quaking or trembling of the flesh; a quiver. |
| griddlecake | noun (n.) A cake baked or fried on a griddle, esp. a thin batter cake, as of buckwheat or common flour. |
| hake | noun (n.) A drying shed, as for unburned tile. |
| noun (n.) One of several species of marine gadoid fishes, of the genera Phycis, Merlucius, and allies. The common European hake is M. vulgaris; the American silver hake or whiting is M. bilinearis. Two American species (Phycis chuss and P. tenius) are important food fishes, and are also valued for their oil and sounds. Called also squirrel hake, and codling. | |
| verb (v. t.) To loiter; to sneak. |
| hardbake | noun (n.) A sweetmeat of boiled brown sugar or molasses made with almonds, and flavored with orange or lemon juice, etc. |
| hawebake | noun (n.) Probably, the baked berry of the hawthorn tree, that is, coarse fare. See 1st Haw, 2. |
| hayrake | noun (n.) A rake for collecting hay; especially, a large rake drawn by a horse or horses. |
| headshake | noun (n.) A significant shake of the head, commonly as a signal of denial. |
| heartquake | noun (n.) Trembling of the heart; trepidation; fear. |
| hoecake | noun (n.) A cake of Indian meal, water, and salt, baked before the fire or in the ashes; -- so called because often cooked on a hoe. |
| hornsnake | noun (n.) A harmless snake (Farancia abacura), found in the Southern United States. The color is bluish black above, red below. |
| horserake | noun (n.) A rake drawn by a horse. |
| icequake | noun (n.) The crash or concussion attending the breaking up of masses of ice, -- often due to contraction from extreme cold. |
| intake | noun (n.) The place where water or air is taken into a pipe or conduit; -- opposed to outlet. |
| noun (n.) the beginning of a contraction or narrowing in a tube or cylinder. | |
| noun (n.) The quantity taken in; as, the intake of air. |
| johnnycake | noun (n.) A kind of bread made of the meal of maize (Indian corn), mixed with water or milk, etc., and baked. |
| keepsake | noun (n.) Anything kept, or given to be kept, for the sake of the giver; a token of friendship. |
| lake | noun (n.) A pigment formed by combining some coloring matter, usually by precipitation, with a metallic oxide or earth, esp. with aluminium hydrate; as, madder lake; Florentine lake; yellow lake, etc. |
| noun (n.) A kind of fine white linen, formerly in use. | |
| noun (n.) A large body of water contained in a depression of the earth's surface, and supplied from the drainage of a more or less extended area. | |
| verb (v. i.) To play; to sport. |
| lapstrake | adjective (a.) Made with boards whose edges lap one over another; clinker-built; -- said of boats. |
| make | noun (n.) A companion; a mate; often, a husband or a wife. |
| noun (n.) Structure, texture, constitution of parts; construction; shape; form. | |
| verb (v. t.) To cause to exist; to bring into being; to form; to produce; to frame; to fashion; to create. | |
| verb (v. t.) To form of materials; to cause to exist in a certain form; to construct; to fabricate. | |
| verb (v. t.) To produce, as something artificial, unnatural, or false; -- often with up; as, to make up a story. | |
| verb (v. t.) To bring about; to bring forward; to be the cause or agent of; to effect, do, perform, or execute; -- often used with a noun to form a phrase equivalent to the simple verb that corresponds to such noun; as, to make complaint, for to complain; to make record of, for to record; to make abode, for to abide, etc. | |
| verb (v. t.) To execute with the requisite formalities; as, to make a bill, note, will, deed, etc. | |
| verb (v. t.) To gain, as the result of one's efforts; to get, as profit; to make acquisition of; to have accrue or happen to one; as, to make a large profit; to make an error; to make a loss; to make money. | |
| verb (v. t.) To find, as the result of calculation or computation; to ascertain by enumeration; to find the number or amount of, by reckoning, weighing, measurement, and the like; as, he made the distance of; to travel over; as, the ship makes ten knots an hour; he made the distance in one day. | |
| verb (v. t.) To put a desired or desirable condition; to cause to thrive. | |
| verb (v. t.) To cause to be or become; to put into a given state verb, or adjective; to constitute; as, to make known; to make public; to make fast. | |
| verb (v. t.) To cause to appear to be; to constitute subjectively; to esteem, suppose, or represent. | |
| verb (v. t.) To require; to constrain; to compel; to force; to cause; to occasion; -- followed by a noun or pronoun and infinitive. | |
| verb (v. t.) To become; to be, or to be capable of being, changed or fashioned into; to do the part or office of; to furnish the material for; as, he will make a good musician; sweet cider makes sour vinegar; wool makes warm clothing. | |
| verb (v. t.) To compose, as parts, ingredients, or materials; to constitute; to form; to amount to. | |
| verb (v. t.) To be engaged or concerned in. | |
| verb (v. t.) To reach; to attain; to arrive at or in sight of. | |
| verb (v. i.) To act in a certain manner; to have to do; to manage; to interfere; to be active; -- often in the phrase to meddle or make. | |
| verb (v. i.) To proceed; to tend; to move; to go; as, he made toward home; the tiger made at the sportsmen. | |
| verb (v. i.) To tend; to contribute; to have effect; -- with for or against; as, it makes for his advantage. | |
| verb (v. i.) To increase; to augment; to accrue. | |
| verb (v. i.) To compose verses; to write poetry; to versify. |
| mandrake | noun (n.) A low plant (Mandragora officinarum) of the Nightshade family, having a fleshy root, often forked, and supposed to resemble a man. It was therefore supposed to have animal life, and to cry out when pulled up. All parts of the plant are strongly narcotic. It is found in the Mediterranean region. |
| noun (n.) The May apple (Podophyllum peltatum). See May apple under May, and Podophyllum. |
| merrimake | noun (n.) See Merrymake, n. |
| verb (v. i.) See Merrymake, v. |
| merrymake | noun (n.) Mirth; frolic; a meeting for mirth; a festival. |
| verb (v. i.) To make merry; to be jolly; to feast. |
| mistake | noun (n.) An apprehending wrongly; a misconception; a misunderstanding; a fault in opinion or judgment; an unintentional error of conduct. |
| noun (n.) Misconception, error, which when non-negligent may be ground for rescinding a contract, or for refusing to perform it. | |
| verb (v. t.) To make or form amiss; to spoil in making. | |
| verb (v. t.) To take or choose wrongly. | |
| verb (v. t.) To take in a wrong sense; to misunderstand misapprehend, or misconceive; as, to mistake a remark; to mistake one's meaning. | |
| verb (v. t.) To substitute in thought or perception; as, to mistake one person for another. | |
| verb (v. t.) To have a wrong idea of in respect of character, qualities, etc.; to misjudge. | |
| verb (v. i.) To err in knowledge, perception, opinion, or judgment; to commit an unintentional error. |
| namesake | noun (n.) One that has the same name as another; especially, one called after, or named out of regard to, another. |
| nocake | noun (n.) Indian corn parched, and beaten to powder, -- used for food by the Northern American Indians. |
| oatcake | noun (n.) A cake made of oatmeal. |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH WAKE (According to first letters):
Rhyming Words According to First 3 Letters (wak) - Words That Begins with wak:
| waking | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Wake |
| noun (n.) The act of waking, or the state or period of being awake. | |
| noun (n.) A watch; a watching. |
| wakf | noun (n.) The granting or dedication of property in trust for a pious purpose, that is, to some object that tends to the good of mankind, as to support a mosque or caravansary, to provide for support of one's family, kin, or neighbors, to benefit some particular person or persons and afterward the poor, etc.; also, the trust so created, or the property in trust. |
| wakif | noun (n.) The person creating a wakf. |
ENGLISH WORDS BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH WAKE:
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. |
| 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. |
| weatherwise | adjective (a.) Skillful in forecasting the changes of the weather. |
| 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. |
| wherefore | noun (n.) the reason why. |
| adverb (adv. & conj.) For which reason; so; -- used relatively. | |
| adverb (adv. & conj.) For what reason; why; -- used interrogatively. |
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