walwet

A Middle English form of wal low1. waly1, walie (wa'li), a. and n. [An extension of wale2, a., perhaps mixed with ME. wely, weli, I think them a' sae braw and walie . Hamilton . IMG:content-2040.png:[blocks in formation] 6814 ted jacket resembling a cardigan. [Southern and western U. S.] This [wagon-spoke] he put into the baggy part of his wamus , or hunting-jacket-the part above the belt into which he had often thrust prairie-chickens when he had no game-bag. E. Eggleston , The Graysons, xxviii. wamp (womp), n. [Supposed to be wompi , white: see wampum .] The American eider-duck: so called from the appearance of the drake. [Ma achusetts.] wampee (wom-pē'), n. [Also whampee ; Chinese, hwang , yellow, + pi , skin.] 1. The fruit of a tree, Clausena Wampi , of the Rutaceæ , tribe Aurantieæ , thus allied to the orange. The native country of the tree is unknown, but it is cultivated in China, India, and Malaya for the fruit, which is borne in clusters, and is of the size and somewhat the taste of a grape, with an additional pleasant flavor of its own. The tree is of a sweet terebinthine odor, its leaves pinnate with five to nine smooth and shining leaflets. 2. See Pontederia . wander