Woolsey
(Wool"sey) n. [From Wool.] Linsey-woolsey.
Woolstock
(Wool"stock`) n. A heavy wooden hammer for milling cloth.
Woolward
(Wool"ward) adv. [Wool + - ward.] In wool; with woolen raiment next the skin. [Obs.]
Woolward-going
(Wool"ward-go`ing) n. A wearing of woolen clothes next the skin as a matter of penance.
[Obs.]
Their . . . woolward-going, and rising at midnight.
Tyndale. Woon
(Woon) n. Dwelling. See Wone. [Obs.]
Woorali
(Woo"ra*li) n. Same as Curare.
Woosy
(Woos"y) a. Oozy; wet. [Obs.] Drayton.
Wootz
(Wootz) n. [Perhaps a corruption of Canarese ukku steel.] A species of steel imported from
the East Indies, valued for making edge tools; Indian steel. It has in combination a minute portion of
alumina and silica.
Wooyen
(Woo"yen) n. (Zoöl.) See Yuen.
Wopen
(Wo"pen) obs. p. p. of Weep. Wept. Chaucer.
Worble
(Wor"ble) n. (Zoöl.) See Wormil.
Word
(Word) n. [AS. word; akin to OFries. & OS. word, D. woord, G. wort, Icel. orð, Sw. & Dan.
ord, Goth. waúrd, OPruss. wirds, Lith. vardas a name, L. verbum a word; or perhaps to Gr. "rh`twr
an orator. Cf. Verb.]
1. The spoken sign of a conception or an idea; an articulate or vocal sound, or a combination of articulate
and vocal sounds, uttered by the human voice, and by custom expressing an idea or ideas; a single
component part of human speech or language; a constituent part of a sentence; a term; a vocable. "A
glutton of words." Piers Plowman.
You cram these words into mine ears, against
The stomach of my sense.
Shak.
Amongst men who confound their ideas with words, there must be endless disputes.
Locke. 2. Hence, the written or printed character, or combination of characters, expressing such a term; as, the
words on a page.
3. pl. Talk; discourse; speech; language.
Why should calamity be full of words?
Shak.
Be thy words severe;
Sharp as he merits, but the sword forbear.
Dryden. 4. Account; tidings; message; communication; information; — used only in the singular.
I pray you . . . bring me word thither
How the world goes.
Shak. 5. Signal; order; command; direction.
Give the word through.
Shak.
