waltz song

A song written to the rhythm and movement of a waltz. IMG:content-0641.png:[blocks in formation] wa-ly, interj . [A shortened form of A. S. wdla - wd =welaway (q. v.).] Alas! welaway! ( Scotch .) *wam-bais, s . [GAMBESON.] wamble, *wam-mle, *wammel, *wam-le, v . i . [Dan. vamle =to nauseate, to become squeamish; vammel =nauseous; Icel. væma =to nauseate, to loathe; væma =nausea.] 1. To rumble, heave, or be affected with nausea. (Said of the stomach.) "Then shall ye sometime see there some other, ., theyr bod ye frete, their stomake wamble ."- Sir T. More : Works , p. 322. 2. To move irregularly to and fro; to roll, to wriggle. "When your cold salads without salt or vinegar Be wambling in your stomachs." Beaum. & Flet.: Mad Lover, i. 3. To move in an undulating, serpentine, or eel like manner; to wriggle. ( Prov .) *wamble-cropped, a. Lit., sick at the stomach; hence, fig., wretched, humiliated. wam-ble, s. [WAMBLE, v.] A heaving or rumbling in the stomach; a feeling of nausea; squeamishne . "Di olveth incontinently all wambles ."-P. Holland : Plutarch , p. 575. *wam-brace, 8. [VAMBRACE.] wame, s. [A. S. wamb =the belly, the stomach, the womb.) The womb, belly. ( Lit. & & fig.) (Scotch.) "At the back of the dyke, in a wealth o' snaw, or in the wame o' a wave, what signifies how the auld gaberlunzie dies?"-Scott: Antiquary , ch. vii. wame'-fû', wame'-foû', subst. [Scotch wame = womb, and fu ', fou ' =full.] A belly full. ( Scotch.) "This may do-maun do, Sir, wi' them wha Maun please the great folk for a wamefou ." Burns : A Dedication ; To Gavin Hamilton, Esq.