English English Dictionary

A pack or bag of wool weighing two hundred and forty pounds.

A sack or bag of wool; specifically, the seat of the lord chancellor of England in the House of Lords, being a large, square sack of wool resembling a divan in form.

Linsey-woolsey.

A heavy wooden hammer for milling cloth.

In wool; with woolen raiment next the skin.

A wearing of woolen clothes next the skin as a matter of penance.

Dwelling. See Wone.

Same as Curare.

Oozy; wet.

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.

See Yuen.

Wept.

See Wormil.

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.

Hence, the written or printed character, or combination of characters, expressing such a term; as, the words on a page.

Talk; discourse; speech; language.

Account; tidings; message; communication; information; -- used only in the singular.

Signal; order; command; direction.

Language considered as implying the faith or authority of the person who utters it; statement; affirmation; declaration; promise.

Verbal contention; dispute.