Chapter Waxberry to Waywodeship of W by Webster's Dictionary (1913 Edition)

Wayfare
(Way"fare`), n. The act of journeying; travel; passage. [Obs.] Holland.

Wayfarer
(Way"far`er) n. One who travels; a traveler; a passenger.

Wayfaring
(Way"far`ing), a. Traveling; passing; being on a journey. "A wayfaring man." Judg. xix. 17.

Wayfaring tree (Bot.), a European shrub (Viburnum lantana) having large ovate leaves and dense cymes of small white flowers. — American wayfaring tree (Bot.), the

Waygate
(Way"gate`) n. The tailrace of a mill. Knight.

Way-going
(Way"-go`ing) a. Going away; departing; of or pertaining to one who goes away.

Way-going crop (Law of Leases), a crop of grain to which tenants for years are sometimes entitled by custom; grain sown in the fall to be reaped at the next harvest; a crop which will not ripen until after the termination of the lease. Burrill.

Way-goose
(Way"-goose`) n. See Wayz- goose, n., 2. [Eng.]

Wayk
(Wayk) a. Weak. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Waylay
(Way"lay`) v. t. [imp. & p. p. Waylaid ; p. pr. & vb. n. Waylaying.] [Way + lay.] To lie in wait for; to meet or encounter in the way; especially, to watch for the passing of, with a view to seize, rob, or slay; to beset in ambush.

Falstaff, Bardolph, Peto, and Gadshill shall rob those men that we have already waylaid.

Shak.

She often contrived to waylay him in his walks.

Sir W. Scott.

Waylayer
(Way"lay`er) n. One who waylays another.

Wayless
(Way"less), a. Having no road or path; pathless.

Wayleway
(Way"le*way) interj. See Welaway. [Obs.]

Waymaker
(Way"mak`er) n. One who makes a way; a precursor. [R.] Bacon.

Waymark
(Way"mark`) n. A mark to guide in traveling.

Wayment
(Way"ment) v. i. [imp. & p. p. Waymented; p. pr. & vb. n. Waymenting.] [OE. waymenten, OF. waimenter, gaimenter, guaimenter, from wai, guai, woe! (of Teutonic origin; see Woe) and L. lamentari to lament. See Lament.] To lament; to grieve; to wail. [Written also waiment.] [Obs.]

Thilke science . . . maketh a man to waymenten.

Chaucer.

For what boots it to weep and wayment,
When ill is chanced?

Spenser.

Wayment
(Way"ment), n. Grief; lamentation; mourning. [Written also waiment.] [Obs.] Spenser.

- ways
(-ways) A suffix formed from way by the addition of the adverbial -s It is often used interchangeably with wise; as, endways or endwise; noways or nowise, etc.

Way shaft
(Way" shaft`)

1. (Mach.) A rock shaft.

2. (Mining) An interior shaft, usually one connecting two levels. Raymond.