Weregild, were'-gild, s

among the Anglo-Saxons, the Franks and other Teutonic peoples, the price of homicide, a compensation, varying in amount, paid partly to the king and partly to the next of kin (A.S. wer, aman, and geld, compensation, satisfaction), 751 ] wolf, or a wolfish nature with wolfish appetites (A.S. wer, and wolf). German mineralogist and geologist, who cla ified minerals according to their external characters, and advocated the theory that the strata of the earth's crust were formed by depositions from water; Neptunian, which see. polite. imperfect subjunctive of Be. (Werther, an early hero of Goe the's). system, or his sect: s. one belonging to the sect of Armenian Methodists founded by Wesley. Wesley an ism, wes'-le-an-izm, s. the system of Wesley. that opposite the east, and at which the sun sets at the equinoxes; a country situated in the region toward the sunsetting with respect to another: a. being in a line toward the point in the horizon where the sun sets when in the equator; coming or moving from the west or western regions, as a west a wind: ad. to the western region; at the westward; more westward: v.n. to pa to the west to set, a as the sun; to change to the west. West-end, the fashionable quarter of London: a. belonging to the situated in the western region; coming from the west: ad. tending toward the west. region nearly in the direction of the west, or where the sun sets; moving westward; coming from the west. a moisture liquid upon or the humidity surface; in rainy a considerable: s. water or wetne degree;; a rainy or misty weather: v.a. to fill or moisten with water or other liquid; to sprinkle; to dip or soak in liquor; to moisten with drink (A.S. wat). Wetne , wet'-nes, s. the state of being wet; a watery or moist always kept afloat. a child. which differs in different articles: of wool, 182 lbs.; of corn or salt, 40 bushels; of oats or barley, 48 bushels the Green land whale, when fully grown, being from 50 to 70 feet in length, and from 30 to 40 feet in its greatest circumference (A.S. hwal, related to wheel). boat used by whalemen. taken from the upper jaw of the whale. a Whale-fishery,hwale'-fish-er-e, s. the fishery or occupation of taking whales. the cetaceans, attaching itself by means of its a claws. whale fishery. fishery; a seaman employed in the whale fishery. a Whall, hwawl, s. a greenish-white state of the eyes. Seawall-eye. to be at. dicular bank, ormound of timber or stone and earth, raised on the shore of a harbour, river, canal, ., for the convenience of lading and unlading: v.a. to guard or secure by a wharf or firm wall of timber or stone; to lodge on wharf (A.S. hwarf)