WA'IL
First name WA'IL's origin is Arabic. WA'IL means "coming back for shelter". You can find other first names and English words that rhymes with WA'IL below. Ryhme list involves the matching sounds according to the first letters, last letters and first&last letters of wail.(Brown names are of the same origin (Arabic) with WA'IL and Red names are first names with English/Anglo-Saxon origin)
First Names Rhyming WA'IL
FIRST NAMES WHICH INCLUDES WAŻL AS A WHOLE:
kawailaniNAMES RHYMING WITH WAŻL (According to last letters):
Rhyming Names According to Last 3 Letters (ail) - Names That Ends with ail:
abigail fudail isma'il isra'il mika'il suhail gouvernail cinnfhail mikhail abagail abichail avagail avigail dearbhail gail marcail ail coireail gouveniail maichail neakail vail isobail iseabailRhyming Names According to Last 2 Letters (il) - Names That Ends with il:
goneril aimil daffodil mikil asil nabil siraj-al-leil tawil abdul-jalil jalil jamil kahil kalil kamil khalil wakil hueil bohumil bodil micheil akil keril emil abril amil april averil avichayil avril cibil lil rahil soleil sybil akhil ancil aveneil basil bidziil birdhil bssil cyril danil darneil denzil gil kahleil kahlil kermichil merril neil nikhil orvil phil raymil renneil virgil yigil leil fil caramichil stil brasil tentagil romil ril bathil mathil adil fadil jibril yagil zemil xipilNAMES RHYMING WITH WAŻL (According to first letters):
Rhyming Names According to First 3 Letters (wai) - Names That Begins with wai:
wain wainwright wait waiteRhyming Names According to First 2 Letters (wa) - Names That Begins with wa:
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 wajeeh wajeeha wajih wajihah wakanda wake wakefield wakeley wakeman waki wakiza wakler walborga walborgd walbridge walbrydge walby walcot walcott walda waldburga waldemar waldemarr walden waldhramm waldhurga waldifrid waldmunt waldo waldon waldr waldrom waldron waleed waleis walford walfr walfred walfrid walid walidah walker wallace wallache waller wallis walliyullah wally walmond walsh walt walten walter walthari walton waluyo walworth walwyn wambleeNAMES BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH WAŻL:
First Names which starts with 'w' and ends with 'l':
wardell waydell weardhyll weddell wendall wendel wendell wichell will wincel winchell windell wisal withypoll worrell wynchell wyndellEnglish Words Rhyming WA'IL
ENGLISH WORDS WHICH INCLUDES WAŻL AS A WHOLE:
aswail | noun (n.) The sloth bear (Melursus labiatus) of India. |
bewailing | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Bewail |
adjective (a.) Wailing over; lamenting. |
bewailable | adjective (a.) Such as may, or ought to, be bewailed; lamentable. |
bewailer | noun (n.) One who bewails or laments. |
bewailment | noun (n.) The act of bewailing. |
wailing | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Wail |
wail | noun (n.) Loud weeping; violent lamentation; wailing. |
verb (v. t.) To choose; to select. | |
verb (v. t.) To lament; to bewail; to grieve over; as, to wail one's death. | |
verb (v. i.) To express sorrow audibly; to make mournful outcry; to weep. |
wailer | noun (n.) One who wails or laments. |
waileress | noun (n.) A woman who wails. |
wailful | adjective (a.) Sorrowful; mournful. |
wailment | noun (n.) Lamentation; loud weeping; wailing. |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH WAŻL (According to last letters):
Rhyming Words According to Last 3 Letters (ail) - English Words That Ends with ail:
abigail | noun (n.) A lady's waiting-maid. |
agnail | noun (n.) A corn on the toe or foot. |
noun (n.) An inflammation or sore under or around the nail; also, a hangnail. |
ail | noun (n.) Indisposition or morbid affection. |
verb (v. t.) To affect with pain or uneasiness, either physical or mental; to trouble; to be the matter with; -- used to express some uneasiness or affection, whose cause is unknown; as, what ails the man? I know not what ails him. | |
verb (v. i.) To be affected with pain or uneasiness of any sort; to be ill or indisposed or in trouble. |
avail | noun (n.) Profit; advantage toward success; benefit; value; as, labor, without economy, is of little avail. |
noun (n.) Proceeds; as, the avails of a sale by auction. | |
verb (v. t.) To turn to the advantage of; to be of service to; to profit; to benefit; to help; as, artifices will not avail the sinner in the day of judgment. | |
verb (v. t.) To promote; to assist. | |
verb (v. i.) To be of use or advantage; to answer the purpose; to have strength, force, or efficacy sufficient to accomplish the object; as, the plea in bar must avail, that is, be sufficient to defeat the suit; this scheme will not avail; medicines will not avail to check the disease. | |
verb (v. t. & i.) See Avale, v. |
aventail | noun (n.) The movable front to a helmet; the ventail. |
bail | noun (n.) A bucket or scoop used in bailing water out of a boat. |
noun (n.) Custody; keeping. | |
noun (n.) The person or persons who procure the release of a prisoner from the custody of the officer, or from imprisonment, by becoming surely for his appearance in court. | |
noun (n.) The security given for the appearance of a prisoner in order to obtain his release from custody of the officer; as, the man is out on bail; to go bail for any one. | |
noun (n.) The arched handle of a kettle, pail, or similar vessel, usually movable. | |
noun (n.) A half hoop for supporting the cover of a carrier's wagon, awning of a boat, etc. | |
noun (n.) A line of palisades serving as an exterior defense. | |
noun (n.) The outer wall of a feudal castle. Hence: The space inclosed by it; the outer court. | |
noun (n.) A certain limit within a forest. | |
noun (n.) A division for the stalls of an open stable. | |
noun (n.) The top or cross piece ( or either of the two cross pieces) of the wicket. | |
verb (v. t.) To lade; to dip and throw; -- usually with out; as, to bail water out of a boat. | |
verb (v. t.) To dip or lade water from; -- often with out to express completeness; as, to bail a boat. | |
verb (v./t.) To deliver; to release. | |
verb (v./t.) To set free, or deliver from arrest, or out of custody, on the undertaking of some other person or persons that he or they will be responsible for the appearance, at a certain day and place, of the person bailed. | |
verb (v./t.) To deliver, as goods in trust, for some special object or purpose, upon a contract, expressed or implied, that the trust shall be faithfully executed on the part of the bailee, or person intrusted; as, to bail cloth to a tailor to be made into a garment; to bail goods to a carrier. |
blackmail | noun (n.) A certain rate of money, corn, cattle, or other thing, anciently paid, in the north of England and south of Scotland, to certain men who were allied to robbers, or moss troopers, to be by them protected from pillage. |
noun (n.) Payment of money exacted by means of intimidation; also, extortion of money from a person by threats of public accusation, exposure, or censure. | |
noun (n.) Black rent, or rent paid in corn, flesh, or the lowest coin, a opposed to "white rent", which paid in silver. | |
verb (v. t.) To extort money from by exciting fears of injury other than bodily harm, as injury to reputation, distress of mind, etc.; as, to blackmail a merchant by threatening to expose an alleged fraud. |
blacktail | noun (n.) A fish; the ruff or pope. |
noun (n.) The black-tailed deer (Cervus / Cariacus Columbianus) of California and Oregon; also, the mule deer of the Rocky Mountains. See Mule deer. |
bobtail | noun (n.) An animal (as a horse or dog) with a short tail. |
adjective (a.) Bobtailed. |
brail | noun (n.) A thong of soft leather to bind up a hawk's wing. |
noun (n.) Ropes passing through pulleys, and used to haul in or up the leeches, bottoms, or corners of sails, preparatory to furling. | |
noun (n.) A stock at each end of a seine to keep it stretched. | |
verb (v. t.) To haul up by the brails; -- used with up; as, to brail up a sail. |
brantail | noun (n.) The European redstart; -- so called from the red color of its tail. |
breastrail | noun (n.) The upper rail of any parapet of ordinary height, as of a balcony; the railing of a quarter-deck, etc. |
bristletail | noun (n.) An insect of the genera Lepisma, Campodea, etc., belonging to the Thysanura. |
camail | noun (n.) A neck guard of chain mall, hanging from the bascinet or other headpiece. |
noun (n.) A hood of other material than mail; | |
noun (n.) a hood worn in church services, -- the amice, or the like. |
cocktail | noun (n.) A beverage made of brandy, whisky, or gin, iced, flavored, and sweetened. |
noun (n.) A horse, not of pure breed, but having only one eighth or one sixteenth impure blood in his veins. | |
noun (n.) A mean, half-hearted fellow; a coward. | |
noun (n.) A species of rove beetle; -- so called from its habit of elevating the tail. |
cottontail | noun (n.) The American wood rabbit (Lepus sylvaticus); -- also called Molly cottontail. |
countervail | noun (n.) Power or value sufficient to obviate any effect; equal weight, strength, or value; equivalent; compensation; requital. |
verb (v. t.) To act against with equal force, power, or effect; to thwart or overcome by such action; to furnish an equivalent to or for; to counterbalance; to compensate. |
crail | noun (n.) A creel or osier basket. |
culvertail | noun (n.) Dovetail. |
curtail | noun (n.) The scroll termination of any architectural member, as of a step, etc. |
verb (v. t.) To cut off the end or tail, or any part, of; to shorten; to abridge; to diminish; to reduce. |
detail | noun (n.) A minute portion; one of the small parts; a particular; an item; -- used chiefly in the plural; as, the details of a scheme or transaction. |
noun (n.) A narrative which relates minute points; an account which dwells on particulars. | |
noun (n.) The selection for a particular service of a person or a body of men; hence, the person or the body of men so selected. | |
noun (n.) To relate in particulars; to particularize; to report minutely and distinctly; to enumerate; to specify; as, he detailed all the facts in due order. | |
noun (n.) To tell off or appoint for a particular service, as an officer, a troop, or a squadron. | |
noun (n.) A minor part, as, in a building, the cornice, caps of the buttresses, capitals of the columns, etc., or (called larger details) a porch, a gable with its windows, a pavilion, or an attached tower. | |
noun (n.) A detail drawing. |
doornail | noun (n.) The nail or knob on which in ancient doors the knocker struck; -- hence the old saying, "As dead as a doornail." |
dovetail | noun (n.) A flaring tenon, or tongue (shaped like a bird's tail spread), and a mortise, or socket, into which it fits tightly, making an interlocking joint between two pieces which resists pulling a part in all directions except one. |
verb (v. t.) To cut to a dovetail. | |
verb (v. t.) To join by means of dovetails. | |
verb (v. t.) To fit in or connect strongly, skillfully, or nicely; to fit ingeniously or complexly. |
entail | noun (n.) That which is entailed. |
noun (n.) An estate in fee entailed, or limited in descent to a particular class of issue. | |
noun (n.) The rule by which the descent is fixed. | |
noun (n.) Delicately carved ornamental work; intaglio. | |
noun (n.) To settle or fix inalienably on a person or thing, or on a person and his descendants or a certain line of descendants; -- said especially of an estate; to bestow as an heritage. | |
noun (n.) To appoint hereditary possessor. | |
noun (n.) To cut or carve in a ornamental way. |
entrail | noun (n.) Entanglement; fold. |
verb (v. t.) To interweave; to intertwine. |
fantail | noun (n.) A variety of the domestic pigeon, so called from the shape of the tail. |
noun (n.) Any bird of the Australian genus Rhipidura, in which the tail is spread in the form of a fan during flight. They belong to the family of flycatchers. |
firetail | noun (n.) The European redstart; -- called also fireflirt. |
flail | noun (n.) An instrument for threshing or beating grain from the ear by hand, consisting of a wooden staff or handle, at the end of which a stouter and shorter pole or club, called a swipe, is so hung as to swing freely. |
noun (n.) An ancient military weapon, like the common flail, often having the striking part armed with rows of spikes, or loaded. |
foresail | noun (n.) The sail bent to the foreyard of a square-rigged vessel, being the lowest sail on the foremast. |
noun (n.) The gaff sail set on the foremast of a schooner. | |
noun (n.) The fore staysail of a sloop, being the triangular sail next forward of the mast. |
forktail | noun (n.) One of several Asiatic and East Indian passerine birds, belonging to Enucurus, and allied genera. The tail is deeply forking. |
noun (n.) A salmon in its fourth year's growth. |
foxtail | noun (n.) The tail or brush of a fox. |
noun (n.) The name of several kinds of grass having a soft dense head of flowers, mostly the species of Alopecurus and Setaria. | |
noun (n.) The last cinders obtained in the fining process. |
frail | noun (n.) A basket made of rushes, used chiefly for containing figs and raisins. |
noun (n.) The quantity of raisins -- about thirty-two, fifty-six, or seventy-five pounds, -- contained in a frail. | |
noun (n.) A rush for weaving baskets. | |
(superl) Easily broken; fragile; not firm or durable; liable to fail and perish; easily destroyed; not tenacious of life; weak; infirm. | |
(superl) Tender. | |
(superl) Liable to fall from virtue or be led into sin; not strong against temptation; weak in resolution; also, unchaste; -- often applied to fallen women. |
gilttail | noun (n.) A yellow-tailed worm or larva. |
governail | noun (n.) Management; mastery. |
grail | noun (n.) A book of offices in the Roman Catholic Church; a gradual. |
noun (n.) A broad, open dish; a chalice; -- only used of the Holy Grail. | |
noun (n.) Small particles of earth; gravel. | |
noun (n.) One of the small feathers of a hawk. |
hail | noun (n.) Small roundish masses of ice precipitated from the clouds, where they are formed by the congelation of vapor. The separate masses or grains are called hailstones. |
noun (n.) A wish of health; a salutation; a loud call. | |
adjective (a.) Healthy. See Hale (the preferable spelling). | |
verb (v. i.) To pour down particles of ice, or frozen vapors. | |
verb (v. t.) To pour forcibly down, as hail. | |
verb (v. t.) To call loudly to, or after; to accost; to salute; to address. | |
verb (v. t.) To name; to designate; to call. | |
verb (v. i.) To declare, by hailing, the port from which a vessel sails or where she is registered; hence, to sail; to come; -- used with from; as, the steamer hails from New York. | |
verb (v. i.) To report as one's home or the place from whence one comes; to come; -- with from. | |
verb (v. t.) An exclamation of respectful or reverent salutation, or, occasionally, of familiar greeting. |
hairtail | noun (n.) Any species of marine fishes of the genus Trichiurus; esp., T. lepterus of Europe and America. They are long and like a band, with a slender, pointed tail. Called also bladefish. |
hangnail | noun (n.) A small piece or silver of skin which hangs loose, near the root of finger nail. |
hardtail | noun (n.) See Jurel. |
headsail | noun (n.) Any sail set forward of the foremast. |
hobnail | noun (n.) A short, sharp-pointed, large-headed nail, -- used in shoeing houses and for studding the soles of heavy shoes. |
noun (n.) A clownish person; a rustic. | |
verb (v. t.) To tread down roughly, as with hobnailed shoes. |
horntail | noun (n.) Any one of family (Uroceridae) of large hymenopterous insects, allied to the sawflies. The larvae bore in the wood of trees. So called from the long, stout ovipositors of the females. |
horsenail | noun (n.) A thin, pointed nail, with a heavy flaring head, for securing a horsehoe to the hoof; a horsehoe nail. |
horsetail | noun (n.) A leafless plant, with hollow and rushlike stems. It is of the genus Equisetum, and is allied to the ferns. See Illust. of Equisetum. |
noun (n.) A Turkish standard, denoting rank. |
jail | noun (n.) A kind of prison; a building for the confinement of persons held in lawful custody, especially for minor offenses or with reference to some future judicial proceeding. |
verb (v. t.) To imprison. |
jeofail | noun (n.) An oversight in pleading, or the acknowledgment of a mistake or oversight. |
kail | noun (n.) A kind of headless cabbage. Same as Kale, 1. |
noun (n.) Any cabbage, greens, or vegetables. | |
noun (n.) A broth made with kail or other vegetables; hence, any broth; also, a dinner. |
longtail | noun (n.) An animal, particularly a log, having an uncut tail. Cf. Curtail. Dog. |
lugsail | noun (n.) A square sail bent upon a yard that hangs obliquely to the mast and is raised or lowered with the sail. |
lymail | noun (n.) See Limaille. |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH WAŻL (According to first letters):
Rhyming Words According to First 3 Letters (wai) - Words That Begins with wai:
waid | adjective (a.) Oppressed with weight; crushed; weighed down. |
waif | noun (n.) Goods found of which the owner is not known; originally, such goods as a pursued thief threw away to prevent being apprehended, which belonged to the king unless the owner made pursuit of the felon, took him, and brought him to justice. |
noun (n.) Hence, anything found, or without an owner; that which comes along, as it were, by chance. | |
noun (n.) A wanderer; a castaway; a stray; a homeless child. |
waift | noun (n.) A waif. |
waiment | noun (v. & n.) See Wayment. |
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. |
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. |
wainscot | noun (n.) Oaken timber or boarding. |
noun (n.) A wooden lining or boarding of the walls of apartments, usually made in panels. | |
noun (n.) Any one of numerous species of European moths of the family Leucanidae. | |
verb (v. t.) To line with boards or panelwork, or as if with panelwork; as, to wainscot a hall. |
wainscoting | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Wainscot |
noun (n.) The act or occupation of covering or lining with boards in panel. | |
noun (n.) The material used to wainscot a house, or the wainscot as a whole; panelwork. |
wainwright | noun (n.) Same as Wagonwright. |
wair | noun (n.) A piece of plank two yard/ long and a foot broad. |
waist | noun (n.) That part of the human body which is immediately below the ribs or thorax; the small part of the body between the thorax and hips. |
noun (n.) Hence, the middle part of other bodies; especially (Naut.), that part of a vessel's deck, bulwarks, etc., which is between the quarter-deck and the forecastle; the middle part of the ship. | |
noun (n.) A garment, or part of a garment, which covers the body from the neck or shoulders to the waist line. | |
noun (n.) A girdle or belt for the waist. |
waistband | noun (n.) The band which encompasses the waist; esp., one on the upper part of breeches, trousers, pantaloons, skirts, or the like. |
noun (n.) A sash worn by women around the waist. |
waistcloth | noun (n.) A cloth or wrapper worn about the waist; by extension, such a garment worn about the hips and passing between the thighs. |
noun (n.) A covering of canvas or tarpaulin for the hammocks, stowed on the nettings, between the quarterdeck and the forecastle. |
waistcoat | noun (n.) A short, sleeveless coat or garment for men, worn under the coat, extending no lower than the hips, and covering the waist; a vest. |
noun (n.) A garment occasionally worn by women as a part of fashionable costume. |
waistcoateer | noun (n.) One wearing a waistcoat; esp., a woman wearing one uncovered, or thought fit for such a habit; hence, a loose woman; strumpet. |
waistcoating | noun (n.) A fabric designed for waistcoats; esp., one in which there is a pattern, differently colored yarns being used. |
waister | noun (n.) A seaman, usually a green hand or a broken-down man, stationed in the waist of a vessel of war. |
waiting | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Wait |
() a. & n. from Wait, v. |
waiter | noun (n.) One who, or that which, waits; an attendant; a servant in attendance, esp. at table. |
noun (n.) A vessel or tray on which something is carried, as dishes, etc.; a salver. |
waitress | noun (n.) A female waiter or attendant; a waiting maid or waiting woman. |
waiving | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Waive |
waiver | noun (n.) The act of waiving, or not insisting on, some right, claim, or privilege. |
waivure | noun (n.) See Waiver. |
waiwode | noun (n.) See Waywode. |
ENGLISH WORDS BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH WAŻL:
English Words which starts with 'w' and ends with 'l':
wadmol | noun (n.) A coarse, hairy, woolen cloth, formerly used for garments by the poor, and for various other purposes. |
wagel | noun (n.) See Waggel. |
waggel | noun (n.) The young of the great black-backed gull (Larus marinus), formerly considered a distinct species. |
wagonful | noun (n.) As much as a wagon will hold; enough to fill a wagon; a wagonload. |
wagtail | noun (n.) Any one of many species of Old World singing birds belonging to Motacilla and several allied genera of the family Motacillidae. They have the habit of constantly jerking their long tails up and down, whence the name. |
wakeful | adjective (a.) Not sleeping; indisposed to sleep; watchful; vigilant. |
wall | noun (n.) A kind of knot often used at the end of a rope; a wall knot; a wale. |
noun (n.) A work or structure of stone, brick, or other materials, raised to some height, and intended for defense or security, solid and permanent inclosing fence, as around a field, a park, a town, etc., also, one of the upright inclosing parts of a building or a room. | |
noun (n.) A defense; a rampart; a means of protection; in the plural, fortifications, in general; works for defense. | |
noun (n.) An inclosing part of a receptacle or vessel; as, the walls of a steam-engine cylinder. | |
noun (n.) The side of a level or drift. | |
noun (n.) The country rock bounding a vein laterally. | |
verb (v. t.) To inclose with a wall, or as with a wall. | |
verb (v. t.) To defend by walls, or as if by walls; to fortify. | |
verb (v. t.) To close or fill with a wall, as a doorway. |
wareful | adjective (a.) Wary; watchful; cautious. |
warmful | adjective (a.) Abounding in capacity to warm; giving warmth; as, a warmful garment. |
warragal | noun (n.) The dingo. |
washbowl | noun (n.) A basin, or bowl, to hold water for washing one's hands, face, etc. |
wassail | noun (n.) An ancient expression of good wishes on a festive occasion, especially in drinking to some one. |
noun (n.) An occasion on which such good wishes are expressed in drinking; a drinking bout; a carouse. | |
noun (n.) The liquor used for a wassail; esp., a beverage formerly much used in England at Christmas and other festivals, made of ale (or wine) flavored with spices, sugar, toast, roasted apples, etc.; -- called also lamb's wool. | |
noun (n.) A festive or drinking song or glee. | |
adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to wassail, or to a wassail; convivial; as, a wassail bowl. | |
verb (v. i.) To hold a wassail; to carouse. |
wasteful | adjective (a.) Full of waste; destructive to property; ruinous; as, wasteful practices or negligence; wasteful expenses. |
adjective (a.) Expending, or tending to expend, property, or that which is valuable, in a needless or useless manner; lavish; prodigal; as, a wasteful person; a wasteful disposition. | |
adjective (a.) Waste; desolate; unoccupied; untilled. |
wastel | noun (n.) A kind of white and fine bread or cake; -- called also wastel bread, and wastel cake. |
wastorel | noun (n.) See Wastrel. |
wastrel | noun (n.) Any waste thing or substance |
noun (n.) Waste land or common land. | |
noun (n.) A profligate. | |
noun (n.) A neglected child; a street Arab. | |
noun (n.) Anything cast away as bad or useless, as imperfect bricks, china, etc. |
watchful | adjective (a.) Full of watch; vigilant; attentive; careful to observe closely; observant; cautious; -- with of before the thing to be regulated or guarded; as, to be watchful of one's behavior; and with against before the thing to be avoided; as, to be watchful against the growth of vicious habits. |
waterfall | noun (n.) A fall, or perpendicular descent, of the water of a river or stream, or a descent nearly perpendicular; a cascade; a cataract. |
noun (n.) An arrangement of a woman's back hair over a cushion or frame in some resemblance to a waterfall. | |
noun (n.) A certain kind of neck scarf. |
waterfowl | noun (n.) Any bird that frequents the water, or lives about rivers, lakes, etc., or on or near the sea; an aquatic fowl; -- used also collectively. |
waxbill | noun (n.) Any one of numerous species of finchlike birds belonging to Estrelda and allied genera, native of Asia, Africa, and Australia. The bill is large, conical, and usually red in color, resembling sealing wax. Several of the species are often kept as cage birds. |
waybill | noun (n.) A list of passengers in a public vehicle, or of the baggage or gods transported by a common carrier on a land route. When the goods are transported by water, the list is called a bill of lading. |
weal | noun (n.) The mark of a stripe. See Wale. |
verb (v. t.) To mark with stripes. See Wale. | |
adverb (adv.) A sound, healthy, or prosperous state of a person or thing; prosperity; happiness; welfare. | |
adverb (adv.) The body politic; the state; common wealth. | |
verb (v. t.) To promote the weal of; to cause to be prosperous. |
wealful | adjective (a.) Weleful. |
wealthful | adjective (a.) Full of wealth; wealthy; prosperous. |
weanel | noun (n.) A weanling. |
weariful | adjective (a.) Abounding in qualities which cause weariness; wearisome. |
weasel | noun (n.) Any one of various species of small carnivores belonging to the genus Putorius, as the ermine and ferret. They have a slender, elongated body, and are noted for the quickness of their movements and for their bloodthirsty habit in destroying poultry, rats, etc. The ermine and some other species are brown in summer, and turn white in winter; others are brown at all seasons. |
wedgebill | noun (n.) An Australian crested insessorial bird (Sphenostoma cristatum) having a wedge-shaped bill. Its color is dull brown, like the earth of the plains where it lives. |
weel | noun (n.) A whirlpool. |
adverb (a. & adv.) Well. | |
() Alt. of Weely |
weepful | adjective (a.) Full of weeping or lamentation; grieving. |
weesel | noun (n.) See Weasel. |
weevil | noun (n.) Any one of numerous species of snout beetles, or Rhynchophora, in which the head is elongated and usually curved downward. Many of the species are very injurious to cultivated plants. The larvae of some of the species live in nuts, fruit, and grain by eating out the interior, as the plum weevil, or curculio, the nut weevils, and the grain weevil (see under Plum, Nut, and Grain). The larvae of other species bore under the bark and into the pith of trees and various other plants, as the pine weevils (see under Pine). See also Pea weevil, Rice weevil, Seed weevil, under Pea, Rice, and Seed. |
weezel | noun (n.) See Weasel. |
weleful | adjective (a.) Producing prosperity or happiness; blessed. |
well | adjective (a.) Good in condition or circumstances; desirable, either in a natural or moral sense; fortunate; convenient; advantageous; happy; as, it is well for the country that the crops did not fail; it is well that the mistake was discovered. |
adjective (a.) Being in health; sound in body; not ailing, diseased, or sick; healthy; as, a well man; the patient is perfectly well. | |
adjective (a.) Being in favor; favored; fortunate. | |
adjective (a.) Safe; as, a chip warranted well at a certain day and place. | |
verb (v. i.) An issue of water from the earth; a spring; a fountain. | |
verb (v. i.) A pit or hole sunk into the earth to such a depth as to reach a supply of water, generally of a cylindrical form, and often walled with stone or bricks to prevent the earth from caving in. | |
verb (v. i.) A shaft made in the earth to obtain oil or brine. | |
verb (v. i.) Fig.: A source of supply; fountain; wellspring. | |
verb (v. i.) An inclosure in the middle of a vessel's hold, around the pumps, from the bottom to the lower deck, to preserve the pumps from damage and facilitate their inspection. | |
verb (v. i.) A compartment in the middle of the hold of a fishing vessel, made tight at the sides, but having holes perforated in the bottom to let in water for the preservation of fish alive while they are transported to market. | |
verb (v. i.) A vertical passage in the stern into which an auxiliary screw propeller may be drawn up out of water. | |
verb (v. i.) A depressed space in the after part of the deck; -- often called the cockpit. | |
verb (v. i.) A hole or excavation in the earth, in mining, from which run branches or galleries. | |
verb (v. i.) An opening through the floors of a building, as for a staircase or an elevator; a wellhole. | |
verb (v. i.) The lower part of a furnace, into which the metal falls. | |
verb (v. i.) To issue forth, as water from the earth; to flow; to spring. | |
verb (v. t.) To pour forth, as from a well. | |
verb (v. t.) In a good or proper manner; justly; rightly; not ill or wickedly. | |
verb (v. t.) Suitably to one's condition, to the occasion, or to a proposed end or use; suitably; abundantly; fully; adequately; thoroughly. | |
verb (v. t.) Fully or about; -- used with numbers. | |
verb (v. t.) In such manner as is desirable; so as one could wish; satisfactorily; favorably; advantageously; conveniently. | |
verb (v. t.) Considerably; not a little; far. |
wennel | noun (n.) See Weanel. |
wesil | noun (n.) See Weasand. |
wevil | noun (n.) See Weevil. |
whall | noun (n.) A light color of the iris in horses; wall-eye. |
wharl | noun (n.) Alt. of Wharling |
whaul | noun (n.) Same as Whall. |
wheal | noun (n.) A pustule; a whelk. |
noun (n.) A more or less elongated mark raised by a stroke; also, a similar mark made by any cause; a weal; a wale. | |
noun (n.) Specifically (Med.), a flat, burning or itching eminence on the skin, such as is produced by a mosquito bite, or in urticaria. | |
noun (n.) A mine. |
wheel | noun (n.) A circular frame turning about an axis; a rotating disk, whether solid, or a frame composed of an outer rim, spokes or radii, and a central hub or nave, in which is inserted the axle, -- used for supporting and conveying vehicles, in machinery, and for various purposes; as, the wheel of a wagon, of a locomotive, of a mill, of a watch, etc. |
noun (n.) Any instrument having the form of, or chiefly consisting of, a wheel. | |
noun (n.) A spinning wheel. See under Spinning. | |
noun (n.) An instrument of torture formerly used. | |
noun (n.) A circular frame having handles on the periphery, and an axle which is so connected with the tiller as to form a means of controlling the rudder for the purpose of steering. | |
noun (n.) A potter's wheel. See under Potter. | |
noun (n.) A firework which, while burning, is caused to revolve on an axis by the reaction of the escaping gases. | |
noun (n.) The burden or refrain of a song. | |
noun (n.) A bicycle or a tricycle; a velocipede. | |
noun (n.) A rolling or revolving body; anything of a circular form; a disk; an orb. | |
noun (n.) A turn revolution; rotation; compass. | |
verb (v. t.) To convey on wheels, or in a wheeled vehicle; as, to wheel a load of hay or wood. | |
verb (v. t.) To put into a rotatory motion; to cause to turn or revolve; to cause to gyrate; to make or perform in a circle. | |
verb (v. i.) To turn on an axis, or as on an axis; to revolve; to more about; to rotate; to gyrate. | |
verb (v. i.) To change direction, as if revolving upon an axis or pivot; to turn; as, the troops wheeled to the right. | |
verb (v. i.) To go round in a circuit; to fetch a compass. | |
verb (v. i.) To roll forward. |
wherewithal | noun (adv. & n.) Wherewith. |
whimbrel | noun (n.) Any one of several species of small curlews, especially the European species (Numenius phaeopus), called also Jack curlew, half curlew, stone curlew, and tang whaup. See Illustration in Appendix. |
whimsical | adjective (a.) Full of, or characterized by, whims; actuated by a whim; having peculiar notions; queer; strange; freakish. |
adjective (a.) Odd or fantastic in appearance; quaintly devised; fantastic. |
whirlpool | noun (n.) An eddy or vortex of water; a place in a body of water where the water moves round in a circle so as to produce a depression or cavity in the center, into which floating objects may be drawn; any body of water having a more or less circular motion caused by its flowing in an irregular channel, by the coming together of opposing currents, or the like. |
noun (n.) A sea monster of the whale kind. |
whitebill | noun (n.) The American coot. |
whitetail | noun (n.) The Virginia deer. |
noun (n.) The wheatear. |
whitewall | noun (n.) The spotted flycatcher; -- so called from the white color of the under parts. |
whitwall | noun (n.) Same as Whetile. |
whorl | noun (n. & v.) A circle of two or more leaves, flowers, or other organs, about the same part or joint of a stem. |
noun (n. & v.) A volution, or turn, of the spire of a univalve shell. | |
noun (n. & v.) The fly of a spindle. |
widual | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to a widow; vidual. |
wileful | adjective (a.) Full of wiles; trickish; deceitful. |
wilful | noun (n.) Alt. of Wilfulness |
will | noun (n.) To form a distinct volition of; to determine by an act of choice; to ordain; to decree. |
noun (n.) To enjoin or command, as that which is determined by an act of volition; to direct; to order. | |
noun (n.) To give or direct the disposal of by testament; to bequeath; to devise; as, to will one's estate to a child; also, to order or direct by testament; as, he willed that his nephew should have his watch. | |
verb (v.) The power of choosing; the faculty or endowment of the soul by which it is capable of choosing; the faculty or power of the mind by which we decide to do or not to do; the power or faculty of preferring or selecting one of two or more objects. | |
verb (v.) The choice which is made; a determination or preference which results from the act or exercise of the power of choice; a volition. | |
verb (v.) The choice or determination of one who has authority; a decree; a command; discretionary pleasure. | |
verb (v.) Strong wish or inclination; desire; purpose. | |
verb (v.) That which is strongly wished or desired. | |
verb (v.) Arbitrary disposal; power to control, dispose, or determine. | |
verb (v.) The legal declaration of a person's mind as to the manner in which he would have his property or estate disposed of after his death; the written instrument, legally executed, by which a man makes disposition of his estate, to take effect after his death; testament; devise. See the Note under Testament, 1. | |
adverb (adv.) To wish; to desire; to incline to have. | |
adverb (adv.) As an auxiliary, will is used to denote futurity dependent on the verb. Thus, in first person, "I will" denotes willingness, consent, promise; and when "will" is emphasized, it denotes determination or fixed purpose; as, I will go if you wish; I will go at all hazards. In the second and third persons, the idea of distinct volition, wish, or purpose is evanescent, and simple certainty is appropriately expressed; as, "You will go," or "He will go," describes a future event as a fact only. To emphasize will denotes (according to the tone or context) certain futurity or fixed determination. | |
verb (v. i.) To be willing; to be inclined or disposed; to be pleased; to wish; to desire. | |
verb (v. i.) To exercise an act of volition; to choose; to decide; to determine; to decree. |
willful | adjective (a.) Of set purpose; self-determined; voluntary; as, willful murder. |
adjective (a.) Governed by the will without yielding to reason; obstinate; perverse; inflexible; stubborn; refractory; as, a willful man or horse. |
wimbrel | noun (n.) The whimbrel. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
wishful | adjective (a.) Having desire, or ardent desire; longing. |
adjective (a.) Showing desire; as, wishful eyes. | |
adjective (a.) Desirable; exciting wishes. |
wistful | adjective (a.) Longing; wishful; desirous. |
adjective (a.) Full of thought; eagerly attentive; meditative; musing; pensive; contemplative. |
witful | adjective (a.) Wise; sensible. |
withdrawal | noun (n.) The act of withdrawing; withdrawment; retreat; retraction. |
wittol | noun (n.) The wheatear. |
noun (n.) A man who knows his wife's infidelity and submits to it; a tame cuckold; -- so called because the cuckoo lays its eggs in the wittol's nest. |
witwal | noun (n.) Alt. of Witwall |
witwall | noun (n.) The golden oriole. |
noun (n.) The greater spotted woodpecker. |
woeful | adjective (a.) Alt. of Woful |
woful | adjective (a.) Full of woe; sorrowful; distressed with grief or calamity; afflicted; wretched; unhappy; sad. |
adjective (a.) Bringing calamity, distress, or affliction; as, a woeful event; woeful want. | |
adjective (a.) Wretched; paltry; miserable; poor. |
wonderful | adjective (a.) Adapted to excite wonder or admiration; surprising; strange; astonishing. |
woodmeil | noun (n.) See Wadmol. |
woodwall | noun (n.) The yaffle. |
woofell | noun (n.) The European blackbird. |
wool | noun (n.) The soft and curled, or crisped, species of hair which grows on sheep and some other animals, and which in fineness sometimes approaches to fur; -- chiefly applied to the fleecy coat of the sheep, which constitutes a most essential material of clothing in all cold and temperate climates. |
noun (n.) Short, thick hair, especially when crisped or curled. | |
noun (n.) A sort of pubescence, or a clothing of dense, curling hairs on the surface of certain plants. |
woolfell | noun (n.) A skin with the wool; a skin from which the wool has not been sheared or pulled. |
workful | adjective (a.) Full of work; diligent. |
wormal | noun (n.) See Wormil. |
wormil | noun (n.) Any botfly larva which burrows in or beneath the skin of domestic and wild animals, thus producing sores. They belong to various species of Hypoderma and allied genera. Domestic cattle are often infested by a large species. See Gadfly. Called also warble, and worble. |
noun (n.) See 1st Warble, 1 (b). |
wormul | noun (n.) See Wornil. |
wornil | noun (n.) See Wormil. |
worral | noun (n.) Alt. of Worrel |
worrel | noun (n.) An Egyptian fork-tongued lizard, about four feet long when full grown. |
worshipful | adjective (a.) Entitled to worship, reverence, or high respect; claiming respect; worthy of honor; -- often used as a term of respect, sometimes ironically. |
worthful | adjective (a.) Full of worth; worthy; deserving. |
wrackful | adjective (a.) Ruinous; destructive. |
wraprascal | noun (n.) A kind of coarse upper coat, or overcoat, formerly worn. |
wrathful | adjective (a.) Full of wrath; very angry; greatly incensed; ireful; passionate; as, a wrathful man. |
adjective (a.) Springing from, or expressing, wrath; as, a wrathful countenance. |
wrawful | adjective (a.) Ill-tempered. |
wreakful | adjective (a.) Revengeful; angry; furious. |
wreckful | adjective (a.) Causing wreck; involving ruin; destructive. |
wretchful | adjective (a.) Wretched. |
wrongful | adjective (a.) Full of wrong; injurious; unjust; unfair; as, a wrongful taking of property; wrongful dealing. |
wrybill | noun (n.) See Crookbill. |
wurbagool | noun (n.) A fruit bat (Pteropus medius) native of India. It is similar to the flying fox, but smaller. |
wurmal | noun (n.) See Wormil. |
wynkernel | noun (n.) The European moor hen. |