wool winder (wulwinder)

A person employed to wind wool or make it up into bundles to be packed for sale. Words are but the current tokens or marks of popular notions of things. Bacon , Advancement of Learning, ii. 215. Words are sensible signs nece ary for communication. Locke, Human Understanding, III. ii. 1. The deeper and more complex parts of human nature can be exhibited by means of words alone. Macaulay , Moore's Byron. Words, which are a set of clickings, hi ings, lispings, and so on, mean very little, compared to tones and ex- pre ion of the features. O. W. Holmes, Profe or, viii. 2. The letter or letters or other characters, written or printed, which represent such a vo- cable: as, a word misprinted.-3. Speech; talk; discourse; conversation: commonly in Whan Melior that meke mayde herd A lisa und rines wordes , sche was gretly gladed of hire gode bi-hest. I would not, in plain terms, from this time forth, Have you so slander any moment's leisure As to give words or talk with the Lord Hamlet. The Men began to murmur against Captain Swan for perswading them to come this Voyage; but he gave them Dampier , Voyages, I. 282. Can there be no sympathy without the gabble of words ? Lamb , Quakers' Meeting. Thou, my Word , begotten Son, by thee This I perform. Milton , P. L., vii. 163. (b) [ cap . or l. c.] The Holy Scripture, or a part of Scripture: as, the Word of God, or God's Word. For, when tribulation or persecution ariseth because of the Word , by and by he is offended. Mat. xiii. 21. Deliuered in Six Sermons at Steeple-Ashton in Wilt- shire by George Webbe, Preacher of the Word and Pastor there. The Practice of Quietne (1615). The sword and the word ! do you study them both, mas- ter parson? Shak., M. W. of W., iii. 1. 44. You say there must be no Human Invention in the Selden, Table-Talk, p. 58. 4. Saying; remark; expre ion: as, a word of Church, nothing but the pure word . comfort or sympathy; a word of reproach. Him wil I cheare with chaunting al this night; And with that word she gan to cleare hir throate. Gas coigne, Philomene (ed. Arber), p. 88. 5. A symbol of thought, as distinguished from thought itself; sound as opposed to sense. Des cartes, Prin. of Philos. (tr. by Veitch), i. § 74. Life is short, and conversation apt to run to mere words . O. W. Holmes, Profe or, ii. words , are but ancient history. N. A. Rev., CXLIII. 23. 6. Intelligence; information; tidings; report: without an article, and used only as a singular: as, to send word of one's arrival. Ye noblist of nome that neuer man a douted, The worde of your wekes & your wight dedis, And the prise of your prowes pa es o fer! Destruction of Troy (E. E. T. S), 1. 1098. I'll send him certain word of my succe . Shak., M. for M., i. 4. 89. Word is to the kitchen gane, And word is to the ha', And word is to the noble room, Amang the ladyes a'. I did give them an account dismayed them all, and word was carried in to the King. Pepys , Diary, II. 440. 7. An expre ion of will or decision; an in- junction; command; order. Sharp 's the word ; egad, I'll own the thing. Vanburgh , The Mistake, iii. 1. In my time a father's word was law. Tennyson, Dora. 8. A pa word;; a watchword; a war-ery; a signal, or term of recognition, even when con- sisting of several words. Advance our standards, set upon our foes; Our ancient word of courage, fair Saint George, Inspire us with the spleen of fiery dragons! worct, worcht. Middle English forms of work . Worcester porcelain. See porcelain1 . worchert, n. A Middle English form of worker . word1 (werd), n . [Early mod. E. also woord ; , weord (pl. word , wordes ), word (pl. word ) = OS.word = OFries. word , werd, wird = D. LG. woord = OHG. MHG. G. wort = Icel. orth (for * vord ) = Sw. Dan. ord = Goth. waurd , a word, = Lith. ward as , a name, = L. ver- bum , a word, verb; orig. 'athing spoken'; cf. Gr. είρειν , speak, ἐρεῖν , question, ῥήτωρ , speaker, etc. (see rhetor). Doublet of verb .] 1. A sound, or combination of sounds, used in any language as the sign of a conception, or of a conception toge- ther with its grammatical relations; the small- est bit of human language forming a grammati- cal part of speech; a vocable; a term. A word may be any part of speech, as verb, noun, particle, etc.; it may be radical, as love , or derivative, as lover , lovely , loveline , or an inflected form, as loves , loved ; it may be simple, or compound, as love-sick. Anything is a word that can be used as an individual member of a sentence, and that is not separable into parts usable independently and coördinately in making a sentence. A word is a spoken sign that has arrived at its value as used in any language by a series of historical changes, and that holds its value by virtue of usage, being exposed to such fur- ther changes, of form and of meaning, as usage may pre- scribe. The conception involved in a word may be of any grade, from the simplest, as one , to the most derived and complicated, as political , and the grammatical relations of you it may be done, because my word's at stake. involved may also be of any degree, from true to untruth- fulne , or from (Latin) ama to am abitur . I have the word ; sentonel, do thou stand; Thou shalt not need to call, I'll be at hand. Fletcher and Rowley , Maid in the Mill, iv. 3. Let the word be: Not without mustard; your crest is very rare, sir. B. Jonson, Every Man out of his Humour, iii. 1. 9t. A brief or pithy remark or saying; a prov- erb; a motto. The old word is "What the eye views not, the heart rues not." Bp . Hall , Balm of Gilead, xi. § 5. Geffray the letters after breke and rayd, Fro wurde unto wurd . Rom . of Partenay (E. E. T. S.), 1. 3187. Sixe wordes out of which all the whole dittie is made, euery of those sixe commencing and ending his verse by Putten ham , Arte of Eng. Poesie, p. 72. course. 10. Affirmation; promise; obligation; good faith; a terin or phrase implying or contain- ing an a ertion, declaration, a urance, or the like, which involves the faith or honor of the utterer of it: with a po e ive: as, I pledge you my word ; on my word , sir. They are not men o' their words. Shak . , Lear, iv. 6. 106. Madam, I dare pa my word for her truth. Beau. and Fl . , King and No King, ii. 1. Doll . Alas, Master Allum, 't is but poor fifty pound! All . If that be all, you shall upon your word take up so much with me; another time I'll run as far in your books. Dekker and Webster, Northward Ho, ii. 1.. Dryden, Conquest of Granada, II., ii. i. I hope you'l think it no way improper, and must beg E. Gibson , in Ellis's Lit. Letters, p. 230. Our royal word upon it, 11. Utterances or terms interchanged expres- sive of anger, contention, or reproach: in the plural, and often qualified by high , hot , hard , sharp , or the like. A play upon words. See play1.- At short wordst. See short . A word and a blow, a threat and its immedi- ate execution; hastine in action: also used adjectively. I find there is nothing but a word and a blow with you. Swift , Polite Conversation, i. ( Davies .) A Napoleon-like promptitude of action, which the un- learned operatives described by calling him " a word -and- a- blow man." Mrs. Trollope , Michael Armstrong, iv. ( Davies .) By word of mouth. See mouth . Sir T. More, Utopia, Ded. to Peter Giles, p. 8. "This," he said, "is not a court in which written charges are exhibited. Our proceedings are summary, and by word of mouth ." Macaulay , Hist. Eng., vi. Fallacy in words. See semi logical fallacy , under fallacy . -God's Word. Same as the Word of God , below. - Good word, favorable account or mention; expre ion of good opinion; commendation; praise: as, to speak a good word for one. Where your good word cannot advantage him, Your slander never can endamage him. Let us not love in word , neither in tongue; but in deed and in truth. 1 John iii. 18. Mind the word. See mind1 . - Precatory words. See precatory. The Comfortable Words. See comfortable . The Word of God, the Bible; the Scriptures. This use is rejected by the Society of Friends, who limit the phrase to the meaning given in def. 12 (a). An account of a personal pre ure brought to bear upon Fisher by the King, who pointed out to him that his obe. dience was limited by the condition "so far as the Word of God allowed." Nineteenth Century, XXVI. 885. To be as good as one's word. See good. - To break one's word, to break wordt. See break . - To eat one's words. See eat . - To have a word with a person, to have some conversation with him. To have the words fort, to act as spokesman for. Our hoste hadde the wordes for us alle. To make words. See makel . To pa one's word. See pa . Word and endt, from beginning to end; every- thing. Of al this werk he tolde hym worde and ende. Chaucer, Troilus, iii. 702. Word for word, in the exact words or terms; verbatim; IMG:content-2549.png:[blocks in formation] word Word of command, word of honor, words of inheritance, words of limitation. See command, etc.Words of institution. See institution, 8 (a). =Syn. 1. Phrase, etc. See term.