Wapiti
(Wap"i*ti) n. [Probably the Iroquois name. Bartlett.] (Zoöl.) The American elk (Cervus Canadensis).
It is closely related to the European red deer, which it somewhat exceeds in size.
By some writers it is thought to be a variety of the red deer, but it is considered a distinct species by
others. It is noted for the large, branching antlers of the male.
Wapp
(Wapp) n. [CF. Prov. E. wap to wrap up.] (Naut.) (a) A fair-leader. (b) A rope with wall knots
in it with which the shrouds are set taut.
Wappato
(Wap"pa*to) n. (Bot.) See Wapatoo.
Wappened
(Wap"pened) a. [Cf. Waped, Wapper.] A word of doubtful meaning used once by Shakespeare.
This [gold] is it
That makes the wappen'd widow wed again.
It is conjectured by some that it is an error for wappered, meaning tremulous or exhausted.
Wapper
(Wap"per) v. t. & i. [freq. of wap, v.; cf. dial. G. wappern, wippern, to move up and down, to
rock.] To cause to shake; to tremble; to move tremulously, as from weakness; to totter. [Obs.]
Wapper
(Wap"per) n. (Zoöl.) A gudgeon. [Prov. Eng.]
Wappet
(Wap"pet) n. A small yelping cur. [Prov. Eng.]
Wapping
(Wap"ping) n. Yelping. [R.] Fuller.
War
(War) a. Ware; aware. [Obs.] Chaucer.
War
(War) n. [OE. & AS. werre; akin to OHG. werra scandal, quarrel, sedition, werran to confound,
mix, D. warren, G. wirren, verwirren, to embroil, confound, disturb, and perhaps to E. worse; cf. OF.
werre war, F. querre, of Teutonic origin. Cf. Guerrilla, Warrior.]
1. A contest between nations or states, carried on by force, whether for defence, for revenging insults
and redressing wrongs, for the extension of commerce, for the acquisition of territory, for obtaining and
establishing the superiority and dominion of one over the other, or for any other purpose; armed conflict
of sovereign powers; declared and open hostilities.
Men will ever distinguish war from mere bloodshed.
F. W. Robertson. As war is the contest of nations or states, it always implies that such contest is authorized by the monarch
or the sovereign power of the nation. A war begun by attacking another nation, is called an offensive
war, and such attack is aggressive. War undertaken to repel invasion, or the attacks of an enemy, is
called defensive.
2. (Law) A condition of belligerency to be maintained by physical force. In this sense, levying war against
the sovereign authority is treason.
3. Instruments of war. [Poetic]
His complement of stores, and total war.
Prior. 4. Forces; army. [Poetic]
On their embattled ranks the waves return,
And overwhelm their war.
Milton.
