wanl (won)

[ There leu it thay laike, and the laund past: Ffor the wedur so wete, and the wan showres. Destruction of Troy (E. E. T. S.), 1. 9658. And they hae had him to the wan water, For a' men call it Clyde. Earl Richard (Child's Ballads, III. 5). 2. Colorle ; pallid; pale; sickly of hue. As pale and wan as ashes were his looke. Spenser, F. Q., II. xi. 22. wampish (wom'pish), v. t. [Origin obscure.] To to about in a threatening, boasting, or frantic manner; wave violently; brandish; 3t. Sorrowful; sad. flourish. Scott. [Scotch.] In maters that meuys the with might for to stir, There is no worship in weping, ne in wan teres; But desyre thi redre e all with derfe strokis. wampum (wom'pum), n. [Formerly also wam- pom , wampame , wompam ; * wam- pum , wompam , wompi , Delaware wap i , white.] Small shell beads 41. Frightful; awful; great. White and Purple Wampum. (From specimen in American Museum of Natural History, New York City.) Baith lads and la es busked brawly To glowr at ilka bonny waly . Ramsay, Poems, II. 533. (Jamie son.) [Scotch in all senses.] waly2 (wa'li), interj. [An abbr. var. of well a way.] An interjection expre ive of lamentation; alas! [Obsolete or Scotch.] O waly , waly up the bank, And waly , waly down the brae, And waly , waly you burn side, Where I and my love wont to gae. Waly, Waly, but Love be Bonny (Child's Ballads, IV. 133). wamara (wä'ma-rä), n. [Native name.] The brown ebony of British Guiana. See ebony . wamble (wom'bl), v . i .; pret. and pp. wambled , ppr . wambling . [Also dial.wammel, wammle ; wamlen , vamle , feel nausea ( cf.vam mel , mawkish); freq. of the verb seen in Icel. væma = Sw. vämjas , refl., loathe, nauseate.] 1. To rumble, heave, or be disturbed with nausea: said of the stomach. What availeth to haue good meate, when onely the sight thereof moueth belkes, and makes the stomach wamble? Guevara, Letters (tr. by Hellowes, 1577), p. 132. Some sighing elegie must ring his knell, Unle e bright sunshine of thy grace revive His wambling stomack. Marston, Scourge of Villany, viii. 2. To rumble; ferment, and make a disturbance. And your cold sallads, without salt or vinegar, Lie wambling in your stomachs. Fletcher, Mad Lover, i. 1. [Obsolete or provincial in both uses.] wamble (wom'bl), n. [ wamble , v.] A rumbling, heaving, or similar disturbance in the stomach; a feeling of nausea. [Obsolete or provincial.] Our meat going down into the stomach merrily, and with pleasure di olveth incontinently all wambles . Holland, tr. of Plutarch, p. 575. wamble-cropped (wom'bl-kropt), a . Sick at the stomach; figuratively, wretched; humiliated. [Vulgar.] wambles (wom'blz), n. Milk-sickne . wamblinglyt (wom'bling-li), adv . With wambling, or a nauseating effect. If we should make good their resemblances, how then should we please the stomach of God? who hath indeed brooked and borne us a long time. I doubt but wamblingly . Rev. S. Ward, Sermons and Treatises, p. 90. A dialectal form of womb .