英文英文字典
英文英文字典
古腾堡计划中的在线英语-英语词典
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Wedge
(v. t.)
To cleave or separate with a wedge or wedges, or as with
a wedge; to rive.
Wedge
(v. t.)
To force or drive as a wedge is driven.
Wedge
(v. t.)
To force by crowding and pushing as a wedge does; as, to
wedge one's way.
Wedge
(v. t.)
To press closely; to fix, or make fast, in the manner of
a wedge that is driven into something.
Wedge
(v. t.)
To fasten with a wedge, or with wedges; as, to wedge a
scythe on the snath; to wedge a rail or a piece of timber in its place.
Wedge
(v. t.)
To cut, as clay, into wedgelike masses, and work by
dashing together, in order to expel air bubbles, etc.
Wedge-formed
(a.)
Having the form of a wedge; cuneiform.
Wedge-shaped
(a.)
Having the shape of a wedge; cuneiform.
Wedge-shaped
(a.)
Broad and truncate at the summit, and tapering down
to the base; as, a wedge-shaped leaf.
Wedge-shell
(n.)
Any one of numerous species of small marine bivalves
belonging to Donax and allied genera in which the shell is
wedge-shaped.
Wedge-tailed
(a.)
Having a tail which has the middle pair of feathers
longest, the rest successively and decidedly shorter, and all more or
less attenuate; -- said of certain birds. See Illust. of Wood hoopoe,
under Wood.
Wedgebill
(n.)
An Australian crested insessorial bird (Sphenostoma
cristatum) having a wedge-shaped bill. Its color is dull brown, like
the earth of the plains where it lives.
Wedged
(imp. & p. p.)
of Wedge
Wedgewise
(adv.)
In the manner of a wedge.
Wedging
(p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Wedge
A kind of fine pottery, the most remarkable being what
is called jasper, either white, or colored throughout the body, and
capable of being molded into the most delicate forms, so that fine and
minute bas-reliefs like cameos were made of it, fit even for being set
as jewels.
Wedgy
(a.)
Like a wedge; wedge-shaped.
Wedlock
(v. i.)
The ceremony, or the state, of marriage; matrimony.
Wedlock
(v. i.)
A wife; a married woman.
Wedlock
(v. t.)
To marry; to unite in marriage; to wed.