willow myrtle (wilomer"tl)

A myrtaceous tree with willow-like leaves, Agonis flexuosa, of western Australia, growing 40 feet high. willow-oak (wil'ō-ōk), n. An American oak, Quercus Phellos, found from New York near the IMG:content-2394.jpg:[blocks in formation] toward the other end, acquire the character of complete medusoids. Huxley , Anat. Invert., p. 132. Will ugh be i a (wil-ō-bēi), n. [NL. (Rox- burgh, 1819), named for Francis Will ugh by, 3. To resolve; determine. To penaunce and to pouerte he mot putte hym-selue, And muche wo in this worlde wilnen and suffren. 1635-72, an English naturalist, who wrote on the use of sap in plants.] A genus of gamo- petalous plants, of the order Apocynaceæ and tribe Cari eæ . It is characterized by climbing stems, flowers in dense cymes with a five-parted salver-shaped corolla bearing its stamens near the base of its tube, and followed by a large globose berry with hard pericarp and abundant pulp, in appearance resembling an orange. By its axillary (not terminal) cymes it is further dist in- guished from the related climbing genus of india-rubber plants, Landolphia , for which the name Will ugh be i a has also been used. The genus includes 8 or 10 species, na- tose shrubs i a generally tendril-bearing and climb in get great heights. The leaves are opposite, short-petioled, and feather-veined. The W. elastic a of many writers, an india-rubber plant of Borneo, is now cla ed as Urceola . will-willet (wil'wil"et), n. [Cf. willet , pill- willet .] 1. Same as pill - willet . -2t. The Amer- ican oyster-catcher: as, "the will - willet or oys- ter-catcher," Bartram , Travels (ed. 1791). Law- son , 1709. will-with-a-wisp, n. Same as will -o'-the-wisp, 1. will-worship (wil'wer"ship), n. [A lit. render- ing of Gr. εθελοθρησκεία; worship .] Worship according to one's own fancy; wor- ship imposed merely by human will, not by di- vine authority; supererogatory worship. Which things have indeed a shew of wisdom in will worship. Col. ii. 23. Let not the obstinacy of our halfe Obedience and will Worship bring forth that Viper of Sedition that for these Foure-score Years hath been breeding to eat through the Same as entrals of our Peace. Milton , Reformation in Eng., ii. will-worshiper (wil'wership-ėr), n. One who practises will-worship. willow-slug (wil'ō-slug), n. The larva of any saw-fly, as Nematus ventral is , which infests wil- lows. That of the species named, more fully called yel- low-spotted willow - slug , has some economic consequence in connection with the osier industry. willow-sparrow (wil'ō-sparō), n. willow-warbler. [Local, Eng.] willow-thorn (wil'ō-thorn), n. low-thorn. See Hippophaë . willow-warbler (wil'ō-warbler), n. A small sylviine bird of Europe, Sylvia or Phyllos cop us trochilus ; the willow-wren. It is about 5 inches long, greenish above, whitish below, and very abundant in sum mer in the British Islands in woods and copses. See chiff chaff. Yellow-browed barred willow-warbler. See yellow- browed warbler , under warbler . willow-weed (wil'ō-wed), n. 1. One of various species of Polygonum , or knotweed, as P. amphi- bium , P. Persicaria , or P. lap at hi folium . Britten and Holland. [Prov. Eng.]-2. The purple loosestrife, Lythrum Salicaria . willyl (wil'i), a. [ willy , will i (=G. willig , willing); will1 + -y1.] 1t. Willing; ready; eager. All wight men in wer, willy to fight, And boldly the bekirt, britnet there fos. If a man haue synned longe bifore, And axe mercy And a-mende his mys, Repente, and wilne to synne no more, Of that man god gladder is Than of a child synlees y-bore. II. in trans. To have a desire; long (for); yearn or seek (after). The cherl.higt it hastely to haue what it wold gerne, Appeles & alle thinges that childern after wilnen. wilsomel (wil's um), a. [ Thus was the kowherd out of kare kindeli holpen, He & his wilsum wif wel to liuen for euer. Mony wylsum way he rode, The bok as I herde say. Sir Gawayne and the Green Knight (E. E. T. S.), 1. 689. Allas! what ayles that feende Thus wilsom wayes make vs to wende. IMG:content-2395.jpg:[blocks in formation] Be the whilke ilke man that is willy May wynne the liffe that laste schall ay. I have a ayde zowr suster, and I fonde her never so stande cleer. Paston Letters, I. 88. Wilson's bluebird. The common eastern blue- bird of the United States, Sialia sial is (formerly S. wilson i). See cut under Sialia . Wilson's fly-catching warbler. See warbler , and cut under Myiodioctes . 2. Self-willed; wilful. Jamie son. [Scotch.] willy2 (wil'i), n. A dialectal variant of willow1 . willys (wil'i), n. [ vilie , wilige , a basket made of willow twigs, welig , a willow: Wilson's sandpiper. See sandpiper , and cut see willow1 . Cf. weel2.].) A willow basket; a Wilson's snipe. See snipel , and cut under of willow1 . Wilson's phalarope. See Steganopus (with cut). IMG:content-2396.png:[merged small][merged small][merged small][subsumed][merged small][ocr errors][subsumed][subsumed][subsumed][merged small] IMG:content-2397.jpg:[blocks in formation] But, oh! for Hogarth's magic pow'r! To show Sir Bardie's willyart glow'r, And how he star'd and stammer'd. [Scotch in both senses.] willying-machine (wil'i-ing - ma - shēn"), n. Same as willowing -machine. willy-mufty, willie-muftie (wil'i-muf'ti), n. The willow-warbler. [Local, Eng.] willy-nilly (wil'i-nil'i), a . or adv . 1. Will he or will he not; will ye or will ye not; willing or unwilling. See nilll , will2. - 2. Vacillating; shilly-shallying. Someone saw thy willy - nilly nun Vying a tre against our golden fern. Also nilly -willy. willy-wagtail (wil'i-wag'tal), n. The white or pied wagtail. [Local, Eng.] willywaw, n. See williwaw . Wilmot proviso. See proviso . wilnt, v. [ wilnen , wilnien , wilnian , will an , wish, desire: see will , will2 .] I. trans. 1. To wish; desire. If she wilneth fro the for to pa e, Thanne is she fals, so love here wel the la e. like themselves by means of proliferating sto- lons; also, a designation of such medusoids. In the example figured the stolons are developed at the And wylnest to have alle the World at thi commande- bifurcation of each of the four principal radiating canals ment, that schalle leve the with outen fayle, or thou leve of the swimming-bell, each stolon ending in a knob with it. Mandeville , Travels, p. 295. a bunch of thread-cells, and giving rise along one side to a series of buds which succe ively, from the free end 2. To receive willingly; consent or submit to. Wilson's stint. See stint , 3. Wilson's stormy petrel. See Oceanites . Wilson's tern. See tern1 and Sterna (with cut). Wilson's theorem. See theorem. Wilson's thrush. See veery (with cut). wilt1 (wilt), v. [Also welt , dial. variants of wilk , welk (= G. welk , withered, verwelken , fade, wither): see welk1 .] I. in trans. 1. To droop or fade, as plants or flowers when cut or plucked; wither. wiluite (wil'u-īt), n. [ Wilui (see def.) + -ite2.] 1. A variety of gro ular garnet from the Wilui (Vilui) river in eastern Siberia.-2. A variety of vesuvianite from the same locality. Also viluite . wily (wi'li), a . [Early mod. E. also wilie , wylie ; But aboue all (for Gods sake), Son, beware, Be not in trapt in Womens wylie snare. Sylvester , tr. of Du Bartas's Weeks, ii., The Magnificence. IMG:content-2398.png:[graphic] wily Just where the breath of life his nostrils drew, A charge of snuff the wily virgin threw. Pope, R. of the L., v. 82. =Syn. Cunning , Artful , Sly , etc. (see cunning1 ), designing, deceitful, foxy, diplomatic, delusive, insidious. wily-beguilet, n. The deceiving of one's self 'in attempting to deceive another: used only in the phrase to play wily- beguile (or wily - be guily ). They, playing wily - beguile themselves, think it enough inwardly to favour the truth, though outwardly they curry favour. J. Bradford, Writings (Parker Soc., 1848), I. 375. "Playing wily- beguile ": deceiving. A proverbial expre ion. Vide Ray , Proverbs (ed. 1817), p. 46. (Note to the above pa age.) Ch . I am fully resolved. P. Well, yet Cherea looke to it, that you play not now wily beguily your selfe. wim (wim), v. Terence in English (1614). ( Nares.) [Cf. wimble2.] To winnow = 6931 win Specifically-(a) To gain by competition or conquest; take, as from an opponent or enemy; obtain as victor. The Emperour Alex a under Aunterid to come; He wan all the world & at his wille aght. Destruction of Troy (E. E. Τ. 8.), 1. 315. Those proud titles thou hast won of me. IMG:content-2399.jpg:[graphic] Shak., 1 Hen. IV., v. 4. 79. from King Richard wan another strong hold, whence ye Monks being expulsed, he reposed there all his store. Hakluyt's Voyages , II. 22. It had been an ancient maxim of the Greeks that no more acceptable gifts can be offered in the temples of the gods than the trophies won from an enemy in battle. Lecky , Europ. Morals, II. 262. (b) To earn: as, to win one's bread. He syneweth nat that so wynneth his fode. Piers Plowman (C), xxiii. 15. IMG:content-2400.jpg:[blocks in formation] grain. Hall i well. [Prov. Eng.] wimberry, n. See win berry. wimblel (wim'bl), n. [Also Sc. wimmle, wumil, wummle, wummel; ME. gymlet, > E. gimlet, gimblet: see gimlet.] 1. A gimlet. Unto the pith a ffren h wymble in bore, Threste in a braunche of roggy wilde olyve, Threste ynne it faste. Palladius , Husbondrie (E. E. T. S.), p. 190. 'Tis but like the little Wimble , to let in the greater Auger. Selden, Table-Talk, p. 26. 2. In mining , an instrument by which the rubbish is extracted from a bore-hole: a kind of shell-auger. Some varieties of wimble, suitable for boring into soft clay, are called wim ble - scoops .-3. A marble-workers' brace for drilling holes in marble. IMG:content-2401.jpg:[blocks in formation] Chaucer, Gen. Prol. to C. T., 1. 151. Whan she saugh hem com, she roos a-geins hem as she that was curteys and well lerned, and voyded hir wymple . Merlin (E. E. T. S.), ii. 361. White was her wimple , and her veil, And her loose locks a chaplet pale Of whitest roses bound. Scott , L. of L. M., v. 17. 2. A plait or fold. [Scotch.] -3t. A loose or fluttering piece of cloth of any sort; a pennon or flag. Weale . wimple (wim'pl), v.; pret. and pp. wimpled, ppr. wimpling . [ wimplen ; wimple , n.] I. trans. 1. To cover with or as with a wimple'or a game or a battle. Th' report of his great acts that over Europe ran, In that most famous Field he with the Emperor wan. Drayton, Polyolbion, iv. 314. He that would win the race must guide his horse Obedient to the customs of the course. Cowper , Truth, 1. 13. 4. To accomplish by effort; achieve, effect, or execute; e; succeed in making or doing. He coulde neuer in one hole daye with a meately good wynde wynne one myle of the course of the water. Peter Martyr (tr. in Eden's First Books on America, [ed. Arber, p. 163). Thickening their ranks, and wedged in firm array, The close-compacted Britons win their way. Add is on, The Campaign. veil; deck with a wimple; hide with a wimple. 5. To reach; attain to; arrive at, as a goal or Upon an amblere esily she sat, Ywimpled wel, and on hir heed an hat As brood as is a bokeler or a targe. Chaucer, Gen. Prol. to C. T., 1. 470. Fleming... fell asleep that night thinking of the nuns who once had slept in the same quiet cells; but neither wimpled nun nor cowled monk appeared to him in his dreams. Long fellow , Hyper i on, iii. 3. 2. To hoodwink. [Rare.] This wimpled , whining, purblind, wayward boy. Shak., L. L. L., iii. 1. 181. wymmelen (= MD. wemelen ), bore, pierce with a wimble; from the noun.] To bore or perforate with or as with a wimble. Thus we se Mars furiouse, thus Greeks euery harbory scaling, Vp fretting the pilers, warding long wymbeled entryes. Stan i hurst, Æneid, ii. Wood. And wimbled also a hole thro' the said coffin. wimble2 (wim'bl), v . t .; pret. and pp. wimbled , ppr . wimbling . [Perhaps a corruption of winnow.] To winnow. Withal's Dict . (ed. 1608), p. 83.