wishbone

[WISHING-BONE.] wish-child, s. Anthropology: 1. An adopted child. 2. The child of a wish-wife (q.v.). ( Grimm .) fate, fat, färe, amidst, what, fall, wish-maiden, s. Anthrop.: A valkyr (q. v.). The Norse Odinn too has these marvellous children (Eng. ed.), i. 143. wish-wife, s. Anthropology: 1. A female deity; especially one acting as a handmaid to the gods, and as a revealer and guardian to men. 2. A supernatural being whose presence her mortal lover can procure by wishing for it. (Grimm.) wish-a-ble, a . [Eng. wish , v.; -able .] Capable or worthy of being wished for or desired; desirable. "The glad and wish able tidinges of saluacion."- Udall : Luke iv. wished, pa.par.ora. [WISH, v.] *wish-ed-ly, adv. [Eng. wished; -ly.] According to desire. "What could have happened unto him more wishedly , than with his great honor to keep the town still?" Knolles : Hist. of Turkes. wish-er, s. [English wish, v.; -er.] One who wishes; one who expre es a wish or desire. IMG:content-0954.png:[blocks in formation] "I sat looking wishfully at the clock."- Idler , No. 67. wish-fül-ne , s. [Eng. wishful; -ne .] The quality or state of being wishful; longing; strong in ardent desire. "Sadne and softne , hopefulne , wishfulne ." Taylor: Isaac Comenus, iii. 1. wish'-ing, pr. par., a. & s. [WISH, v.] A. & B. As pr. par. & particip. adj.: 1. Ord. Lang.: (See the verb.) 2. Anthrop.: Connected with or bestowed by Wish [WISH, 8., II.]; bestowing the best that the heart can wish. The expre ion is borrowed from Scand in avian and Teutonic mythology, though the idea is found in the folk-tales of many other races. Grimm ( Deut . Mythol .) identifies the wishing purse of For tun at us, which was never empty, with the Cornucopia; his wishing cap, which transported him from place to place, with the petasus of Hermes; and in the wishing rod, credited with the power of enabling its owner to discover and obtain gold or other treasure buried in the earth, he sees a reference to the Caduceus. C. As subst.: A wish, a desire; the expre ion of a wish. "Her longings, wishings , hopes, all finished be." Davies: Immort . of the Soul , xxx. wishing-bone, wish-bone, s. The forked bone in a fowl's breast; the merry-thought (q. v.). wishing-cap, s. [WISHING, 2.] wishing-purse, s. [WISHING, 2.] wishing-rod, s. [WISHING, 2.] *wish ly, wis he-ly, adv . [Eng. wish (1), s.; -ly .] Earnestly. "Pore better and more wishely with his olde eyen vpon Saynt Johns ghospell."-Sir T. More: Workes , p. 1,134. wish-ton-wish, s. [North Amer. Indian.] Zool.: Cynomys ludo vic i an us . ( Ripley & Dana .) [PRAIRIE-DOG.] twish'-wash, s. [A reduplication of wash.] Any weak thin liquor for drinking.