wouwou

Same as wow-wow. wove (wov). Preterit and occasional past participle of weavel. woven (wõ'vn). Past participle of weavel. wow (wou), interj. An exclamation of pleasure, surprise, or wonder. O whan he slew his berry-brown steed, Wow but his heart was sair! King Henry (Child's Ballads, I. 148). And, wow ! Tam saw an unco sight! Burns, Tam o' Shanter. wowelt, wowert. Obsolete forms of woo , wooer . wowe2t, n. A Middle English form of waw2 . wo-weriet, a. See woe - weary . wowf (wouf), a . [Cf. waff 3.] Wild; deranged; disordered in intellect. [Scotch.] He will be as wouf as ever his father was. Scott , Pirate, ix. wow-wow (wou'wou), n. [Native name.] 1. The active gibbon of Sumatra, Hylobates agilis . Also won - wou , ungaputi , and oungha .-2. The silvery gibbon of Java, Hylobates leuciscus . Also wou - wou , wau - wau , wa -wah. woxt, woxet, v. i. Obsolete forms of wax1 . woxent. Old preterit and past participle of wax1 . So woundable is the dragon under the left wing. Fuller, Ch. Hist., IV. i. 5. wp. A contraction of worship . The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia: The Century dictionary wpful. (also rack ); wpful. A contraction of worshipful. wrack1 (rak), n. [Also wreck (also rac wrak, wrek, wrec, something me thing cast ashore, a kind of seaweed, also shipwreck shipwreck (> F.varech, seaweed cast ashore, pieces of a wrecked ship cast ashore); partly lected for manure and sometimes for making kelp. Those found most plentifully on the shores of the British islands are F. vesiculosus and F. nodosus. See sea - wrack, 2, and cut under Fucus, (b) Wreckage. 2t. The destruction of a ship by winds or rocks or by the force of the waves; shipwreck. See wreck1. Ring the alarum-bell! Blow wind! come wrack ! Shak ., Macbeth, v. 5. 51. Nay, some of them run ashore before the pursuer, glad that with wrack of ship and lo e of goods they may prolong a despised life. Sandys, Travailes (1652), p. 2. 3. Destruction; ruin. Forgetting shame's pure blush and honour's wrack . 6986 wrang2. An obsolete or provincial preterit of wring. wrangle (rang'gl), gerang g'gl), r.; pret. and pp. wrangled, ppr. wrangling wrangling. [ I am ready to distrust mine eyes, And wrangle with my reason. Shak ., T. N., iv. 3. 14. I have been atoning two most wrangling neighbours. Fletcher , Spanish Curate, iii. 4. Tho' among ourselves with too much Heat We sometimes wrangle , when we should debate. Prior, To Boileau Despreaux (1704). 2. To engage in discu ion and disputation; argue; debate; hence, formerly, in some universities, to dispute publicly; defend or oppose a thesis by argument. The Philosophers, as they scorne to delight, so must they bee content little to mooue; sauing wrangling whether Vertue bee the chiefe or the onely good; whether the contemplatiue or the active life doe excell. Sir P. Sidney, Apol. for Poetrie (ed. Arber), p. 41. Then, in the scale of reas'ning life, 'tis plain, There must be, somewhere, such a rank as man: And all the question ( wrangle e'er so long) Is only this, if God has placed him wrong. Pope , E ay on Man, i. 49. =Syn. 1. To bicker, spar, jangle. See quarrell , n. II.t trans. To contest or dispute, especially Shak ., Venus and Adonis, 1. 558. in the usually brawling manner of the schools. Nor only Paradise In this commotion, but the starry cope Of heaven perhaps, or all the elements Sir Philip, while they wrangle out their cause, let us agree. Brome, Northern La , v. 8. wrangle (rang'gl), n. [ wrangle , v .] An angry At least had gone to wrack , disturb'd and torn With violence of this conflict. Milton , P. L., iv. 994. dispute; a noisy quarrel. Moaning and wailing for an heir to rule After him, lest the realm should go to wrack . Tennyson, Coming of Arthur. Cart-wrack, various large algæ thrown up by the sea. [Scotch.]-Kelp-wrack, Fucus nodosus .-Lady-wrack, Fucus vesiculosus . See cut under Fucus . wrack1t (rak), v. t. [ What proffits it the well built ship to ride Vpon the surging billowes of the maine,.. If, ere it iornies end it doth attaine, Sea wrackt it perish in the raging floud? Times' Whistle (E. E. T. S.), p. 129. Oh, what a second ruthle sea of woes Wracks me within my haven! Chapman, Monsieur D'Olive, i. 1.