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Waitingly
() By waiting.
Waitress
() A female waiter or attendant; a waiting maid or waiting woman.
Waive
() A waif; a castaway.
Waive
() A woman put out of the protection of the law. See Waive, v. t., 3 (b), and the Note.
Waived
() of Waive
Waiving
() of Waive
Waive
() To relinquish; to give up claim to; not to insist on or claim; to refuse; to forego.
Waive
() To throw away; to cast off; to reject; to desert.
Waive
() To throw away; to relinquish voluntarily, as a right which one may enforce if he chooses.
Waive
() To desert; to abandon.
Waive
() To turn aside; to recede.
Waiver
() The act of waiving, or not insisting on, some right, claim, or privilege.
Waivure
() See Waiver.
Waiwode
() See Waywode.
Wake
() The track left by a vessel in the water; by extension, any track; as, the wake of an army.
Waked
() of Wake
Woke
() of Wake
Waking
() of Wake
Wake
() To be or to continue awake; to watch; not to sleep.
Wake
() To sit up late festive purposes; to hold a night revel.
Wake
() To be excited or roused from sleep; to awake; to be awakened; to cease to sleep; -- often with up.
Wake
() To be exited or roused up; to be stirred up from a dormant, torpid, or inactive state; to be active.
Wake
() To rouse from sleep; to awake.
Wake
() To put in motion or action; to arouse; to excite.
Wake
() To bring to life again, as if from the sleep of death; to reanimate; to revive.
Wake
() To watch, or sit up with, at night, as a dead body.
Wake
() The act of waking, or being awaked; also, the state of being awake.
Wake
() The state of forbearing sleep, especially for solemn or festive purposes; a vigil.
Wake
() 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.
Wake
() The sitting up of persons with a dead body, often attended with a degree of festivity, chiefly among the Irish.
Wakeful
() Not sleeping; indisposed to sleep; watchful; vigilant.
Wakened
() of Waken
Wakening
() of Waken
Waken
() To wake; to cease to sleep; to be awakened.
Waken
() To excite or rouse from sleep; to wake; to awake; to awaken.
Waken
() To excite; to rouse; to move to action; to awaken.
Wakener
() One who wakens.
Wakening
() The act of one who wakens; esp., the act of ceasing to sleep; an awakening.
Wakening
() The revival of an action.
Waker
() One who wakes.
Wake-robin
() Any plant of the genus Arum, especially, in England, the cuckoopint (Arum maculatum).
Waketime
() Time during which one is awake.
Waking
() The act of waking, or the state or period of being awake.
Waking
() A watch; a watching.
Walaway
() See Welaway.
Wald
() A forest; -- used as a termination of names. See Weald.
Waldenses
() A sect of dissenters from the ecclesiastical system of the Roman Catholic Church, who in the 13th century were driven by persecution to the valleys of Piedmont, where the sect survives. They profess substantially Protestant principles.
Waldensian
() Of or pertaining to the Waldenses.
Waldensian
() One Holding the Waldensian doctrines.
Waldgrave
() In the old German empire, the head forest keeper.