English English Dictionary

English English Dictionary

The online English-English dictionary from The Project Gutenberg

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Wlatsome (a.)

Loathsome; disgusting; hateful.

Wo (n. & a.)

See Woe.

Woad (n.)

An herbaceous cruciferous plant (Isatis tinctoria). It was formerly cultivated for the blue coloring matter derived from its leaves.

Woad (n.)

A blue dyestuff, or coloring matter, consisting of the powdered and fermented leaves of the Isatis tinctoria. It is now superseded by indigo, but is somewhat used with indigo as a ferment in dyeing.

Woad-waxen (n.)

A leguminous plant (Genista tinctoria) of Europe and Russian Asia, and adventitious in America; -- called also greenwood, greenweed, dyer's greenweed, and whin, wood-wash, wood-wax, and wood-waxen.

Woaded (a.)

Colored or stained with woad.

Woald (n.)

See Weld.

Wobble (v. i.)

See Wabble.

Wode (a.)

Mad. See Wood, a.

Wode (n.)

Wood.

Wodegeld (n.)

A geld, or payment, for wood.

Woden (n.)

A deity corresponding to Odin, the supreme deity of the Scandinavians. Wednesday is named for him. See Odin.

Woe (n.)

Grief; sorrow; misery; heavy calamity.

Woe (n.)

A curse; a malediction.

Woe (a.)

Woeful; sorrowful.

Woe-begone (a.)

Beset or overwhelmed with woe; immersed in grief or sorrow; woeful.

Woeful (a.)

Alt. of Woful

Woefully (adv.)

Alt. of Wofully

Woefulness (n.)

Alt. of Wofulness

Woesome (a.)

Woeful.