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Wagerer
() One who wagers, or lays a bet.
Wagering
() Hazarding; pertaining to the act of one who wagers.
Wages
() A compensation given to a hired person for services; price paid for labor; recompense; hire. See Wage, n., 2.
Waggel
() The young of the great black-backed gull (Larus marinus), formerly considered a distinct species.
Waggeries
() of Waggery
Waggery
() The manner or action of a wag; mischievous merriment; sportive trick or gayety; good-humored sarcasm; pleasantry; jocularity; as, the waggery of a schoolboy.
Waggie
() The pied wagtail.
Waggish
() Like a wag; mischievous in sport; roguish in merriment or good humor; frolicsome.
Waggish
() Done, made, or laid in waggery or for sport; sportive; humorous; as, a waggish trick.
Waggle
() To reel, sway, or move from side to side; to move with a wagging motion; to waddle.
Waggled
() of Waggle
Waggling
() of Waggle
Waggle
() To move frequently one way and the other; to wag; as, a bird waggles his tail.
Wag-halter
() One who moves or wears a halter; one likely to be hanged.
Wagnerite
() A fluophosphate of magnesia, occurring in yellowish crystals, and also in massive forms.
Wagon
() A wheeled carriage; a vehicle on four wheels, and usually drawn by horses; especially, one used for carrying freight or merchandise.
Wagon
() A freight car on a railway.
Wagon
() A chariot
Wagon
() The Dipper, or Charles's Wain.
Wagoned
() of Wagon
Wagoning
() of Wagon
Wagon
() To transport in a wagon or wagons; as, goods are wagoned from city to city.
Wagon
() To wagon goods as a business; as, the man wagons between Philadelphia and its suburbs.
Wagonage
() Money paid for carriage or conveyance in wagon.
Wagonage
() A collection of wagons; wagons, collectively.
Wagoner
() One who conducts a wagon; one whose business it is to drive a wagon.
Wagoner
() The constellation Charles's Wain, or Ursa Major. See Ursa major, under Ursa.
Wagonette
() A kind of pleasure wagon, uncovered and with seats extended along the sides, designed to carry six or eight persons besides the driver.
Wagonfuls
() of Wagonful
Wagonful
() As much as a wagon will hold; enough to fill a wagon; a wagonload.
Wagon-headed
() Having a top, or head, shaped like the top of a covered wagon, or resembling in section or outline an inverted U, thus /; as, a wagonheaded ceiling.
Wagonload
() Same as Wagonful.
Wagon-roofed
() Having a roof, or top, shaped like an inverted U; wagon-headed.
Wagonry
() Conveyance by means of a wagon or wagons.
Wagonwright
() One who makes wagons.
Wagtail
() 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.
Wah
() The panda.
Wahabee
() 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.
Waid
() Oppressed with weight; crushed; weighed down.
Waif
() 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.
Waif
() Hence, anything found, or without an owner; that which comes along, as it were, by chance.
Waif
() A wanderer; a castaway; a stray; a homeless child.
Waift
() A waif.
Wail
() To choose; to select.
Wailed
() of Wail
Wailing
() of Wail
Wail
() To lament; to bewail; to grieve over; as, to wail one's death.
Wail
() To express sorrow audibly; to make mournful outcry; to weep.
Wail
() Loud weeping; violent lamentation; wailing.
Wailer
() One who wails or laments.