wayl (wa)

[Early mod. E. also waye, waie; Men seyn that the Wlcanes ben Weyes of Helle. Mandeville, Travels, p. 55. A grene wey thou schalt fynde, That geth as euene as he may to paradys the on ende; Ther bizonde thi Modur and ich. Holy Rood (E. E. T. S.), p. 23. The worst wayes that ever I travelled in all my life in the Sommer were those betwixt Chamberie and A i gue belle. Coryat , Crudities, I. 83. I fear I shall never find the way to church, because the bells hang so far. Dekker and Webster , Northward Ho, ii. 1. The road to resolution lies by doubt; The next way home 's the farthest way about. Quarles, Emblems, iv., Epig. 2. I hope our way does not lie over any of these [hills), for I dread a precipice. Cotton , in Walton's Angler, ii. 228. If prince or peer cro Darrell's way , He'll beard him in his pride. IMG:content-2152.jpg:[graphic] Scott , Rokeby, v. 27. 2. A pa age along some particular path or course; progre ; journey; transit; coming or going. The Lord per thy way . ... will send his angel with thee, and prosGen. xxiv. 40. Shut the doors against his way . Shak., C. of E., iv. 3. 92. The next day we again set sail, and made the best of our way , till we were forced, by contrary winds, into St. Remo, a very pretty town in the Genoese dominions. Add is on, Remarks on Italy (ed. Bohn), I. 359. The ship (barring accidents) will touch at no other port on her way out. W. Collins, Moonstone, vi. 5. 3. Length of space; distance: as, the church is but a little way from here. In this sense, in colloquial use, often erroneously ways. Thy servant will go a little way over Jordan. 2 Sam. xix. 36. in King Henry's Chapel. Quoted in Ashton's Social Life in Reign of Queen Anne, [I. 283. 2. pl. A place where a collection of such figures is exhibited.-3. The climbing bittersweet, Celastrus scandens: so named on account of the waxy scarlet aril of the fruit. See Celas trus and staff - tree. Also called Roxbury wax work. IMG:content-2153.png:[blocks in formation] I here first saw the hills a considerable way off to the Damascus. Pococke , Description of the East, II. i. 138. IMG:content-2154.png:[blocks in formation] way 6. Pursuit; calling; line of busine . [Colloq.] Men of his way should be most liberal. Shak., Hen. VIII., i. 3. 61. Thinking that this would prove a busy day in the just icing way, I am come, Sir Jacob, to lend you a hand. Foote, Mayor of Garratt, i. 1. Is not Gus Hoskins, my brother-in-law, partner with his excellent father in the leather way ? Thackeray , Great Hoggarty Diamond, xiii. 7. Respect; point or particular: with in expre ed or understood. You wrong me every way . Shak., J. C., iv. 3. 55. The office of a man That's truly valiant is considerable, Three ways : the first is in respect of matter. B. Jonson, New Inn, iv. 3. Thus farr, and many other waies were his Counsels and preparations before hand with us, either to a civil Warr, if it should happ'n, or to subdue us without a Warr. Milton , Eikon ok las tes, x. 8. Condition; state: as, he has recovered a little, but is still in a very bad way. [Colloq.] When ever you see a thorough Libertine, you may al most swear he is in a rising way, and that the Poet intends to make him a great Man. Jeremy Collier , Short View (ed. 1698), p. 211. You must tell him to keep up his spirits; everybody almost is in the same way . Sheridan , School for Scandal, i. 1. 9. Course of action or procedure; means by which anything is to be reached, attained, or accomplished; scheme; device; plan; course. Of Taxations, properly so called, there were never fewer in any King's Reign; but of Ways to draw Money from the Subject, never more. Baker , Chronicles, p. 66. By noble ways we conquest will prepare; First offer peace, and, that refused, make war. Dryden, Indian Emperor, i. 1. 10. Method or manner of proceeding; mode; style; fashion; wise: as, the right or the wrong way of doing something. God hath so many times and ways spoken to men. Hooker . I will one way or other make you amends. Shak., M. W. of W., iii. 1. 89. One ould imagine the Ethiopians either had two alphabets, on that they had two ways of writing most things. Pococke , Description of the East, I. 227. 6855 14. Progre ; advancement. Socialism in any systematic or definite form, as a scheme for superseding the institution of Capital, had not in my opinion made any serious way . Nineteenth Century , XXVI. 730. 15. Naut., progre or motion through the water; headway: as, a ve el is under way when she begins to move, she gathers way when her rate of sailing increases, and loses way when it diminishes. Towards night it grew very calm and a great fog, so as our ships made no way . Winthrop, Hist. New England, I. 8. Soundings are usually taken from the ve el, and while there is some way on. Sir C. W. Thomson , Depths of the Sea, p. 206. A ship, so long as she can keep way on her, and can steer, need not fear an enemy's ram. Sci. Amer ., N. S., LXIII. 304. 16. pl . In mach., etc., the line or course along which anything worked on is caused to move. See cut under sho shaper . (a) The timbers on which a ship is launched: as, a new ship on the ways . See cut under launching - way . (b) Skids on which weights, barrels, etc., are moved up or down, as on an inclined plane. - A furlong wayt. See furlong .-- A lion in the way. See lion.- Appian Way. See Appian . A way of nece ity, a way which the law allows for pa age to and from land not oth- erwise acce ible. It arises only over one of two parcels of land of both of which the grantor was the owner when he conveyed the other; and it arises in favor of the parcel con- veyed when this is wholly surrounded by what had been the grantor's other land, or partly by this and partly by that of a stranger.- By all wayst, in all respects; in every way. My lady gaf me al hooly The noble gift of her mercy, Saving her worship, by alle weyes. Chaucer, Death of Blanche, 1. 1271. By the way. See byl. - By way of, for the purpose of; to serve as. See also byl. The Kyng of that Contree, ones every zeer, zevethe leve to pore men to gon in to the Lake, to gadre hem precyous Stones and Perles, be we ye of Aleme e, for the love of God, that made Adam. Mandeville , Travels, p. 199. That this gift of perpetual youth should pa from men to serpents seems added by way of ornament. Bacon , Physical Fables, ii., Expl. By way of being, doing, etc., in the condition of being, doing, etc.; so as to be, do, etc. [Eng.] - Come your ways. See come. Committee of Ways and Means. (a) In the British Parliament, a committee of the whole house which considers the ways and means of raising the Swift, Tale of a Tub, Apol. supplies. (b) One of the most important of the standing This answerer had, in a way not to be pardoned, drawn his pen against a certain great man then alive. Thou say'st an undisputed thing In such a solemn way . O. W. Holmes, To an Insect. 'Tis not so much the gallant who woos, As the gallant's way of wooing! W. S. Gilbert, Way of Wooing. Way in this sense is equivalent to wise, and in certain colloquial phrases is confused with it, appearing in the apparent plural ways, which really represents wise: as, no ways, lengthways, endways, etc. To him [God] we can not exhibit ouermuch praise, nor belye him any wayes , vnle e it be in abasing his excellencie by scarsitie of praise. Putten ham , Arte of Eng. Poesie, p. 22. He could no way stir. Bacon , Physical Fables, ii. Hee at that time could be no way esteem'd the Father of his Countrey, but the destroyer. Milton , Eikon ok las tes, xxi. Simon Glen dinning... bit the dust, no way disparaging in his death that ancient race from which he claimed his descent. Scott , Monastery, ii. 11. Regular or usual method or manner, as in acting or speaking; habitual or peculiar mode or manner of doing or saying things: as, that is only his way; an odd way he has; women's ways. We call it only pretty Fanny's way. Parnell, Elegy to an Old Beauty. It is my way to write down all the good things I have heard in the last conversation, to furnish my paper. Steele , Tatler, No. 45. Before I departed, the good priest ask'd me my name, that they might pray in the church for my good journey, which is only a way they have of desiring charity. Pococke , Description of the East, I. 138. He was imperious sometimes still; but I did not mind that; I saw it was his way . Charlotte Brontë , Jane Eyre, xv. All her little womanly ways , budding out of her like blo oms on a young fruit-tree. Hawthorne, Seven Gables, ix. 12. Resolved plan or mode of action or conduct; a course insisted upon as one's own. IMG:content-2155.png:[blocks in formation] committees of the United States House of Representatives: to it are referred bills relating to the raising of the revenue. Common way. See common.- Covered way. See cover1.-Direct way around, dry way, Duns table way. See the adjectives.-High way. See highway. In a small way. See small. - In the family way. See family. - In the way. (a) Along the road; on the way; as one proceeds. And as we wenten thus in the we ye wordyng togyderes, Thanne seye we a Samaritan sittende on a mule, Rydynge ful rapely the rigt we ye we zeden. Piers Plowman (B), xvii. 47. The next morning, going to Cumæ through a very pleasant path, by the Mare Mortuum and the Elysian Fields, we saw in our way a great many ruins of sepulchres and other ancient edifices. Add is on, Remarks on Italy (ed. Bohn), I. 452. (b) On hand; present. When your master or lady calls a servant by name, if that servant be not in the way , none of you are to answer. Swift , Advice to Servants (General Directions). (c) In such a position or of such a nature as to obstruct, impede, or hinder: as, a meddler is always in the way; there are difficulties in the way. I never seemed in his way ; he did not take fits of chilling hauteur; when he met me unexpectedly, the encoun ter seemed welcome - he had always a word and sometimes a smile for me. Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre, xv. In the way of. (a) So as to meet or fall in with; in a favorable position for doing or getting: as, I can put you in the way of a profitable investment. (b) In the matter or busine of; as regards; in respect of. What my tongue can do I the way of flattery. Shak ., Cor., iii. 2. 137. Mean wayt. See means . - Milky Way. See Galaxy , 1. Once in a way. See once 1. - On the way, in going or traveling along; hence, in progre or advance toward completion or accomplishment. My lord, I over-rode him on the way. Shak ., 2 Hen. IV., i. 1. 30. Out of the way. (a) Out of the road or path; so as not to obstruct or hinder. Take up the stumbling block out of the way of my people. Isa. Ivii. 14. (b) At a distance from; clear of: as, to keep out of the way of a carriage. The embroylments and factions that were then amongst made us desirous to keep as far as po ible the Arabs. out of their way. Maundrell , Aleppo to Jerusalem, p. 56. (c) Not in the proper course; in such a position or condition as to mi one's object; away from the mark; aside; astray; hence, improper; wrong. We are quite out of the way when we think that things contain within themselves the qualities that appear to us in them. Locke. He that knows but a little of them [matters of speculation or practice), and is very confident of his own strength, way is more out of the way of true knowledge than if he knew nothing at all. Bp . Atterbury , Sermons, I. v. (d) Not in its proper place, or where it can be found or met with; hence, mislaid, hidden, or lost. Is 't lost? is 't gone? speak, is it out o ' the way? Shak ., Othello, iii. 4. 80. (e) Out of the beaten track; not in the usual, ordinary, or regular course; hence, extraordinary; remarkable: as, her accomplishments are nothing out of the way: often used attributively. Compare to put one's self out of the way, below. This seemed to us then to be a place out of the way, where we might lye snug for a while. Dampier , Voyages, I. 389. It is probable they formerly had some staple commodity here, and that they bestowed great expences on their public games, in order to make people resort to a place which was so much out of the way . Pococke , Description of the East, II. ii. 71. Permanent way, in rail . , a finished road-bed and track, including switches, cro ings, bridges, viaducts, etc., as distinguished from a temporary way, such as is used in construction, in removing the soil of cuttings, etc. - Private way, a right which one or more persons, as distinguished from the public generally, have of pa ing to and fro acro land of another. It may exist by grant, by long usage, or by proceedings, sanctioned by law in some states, to acquire a nece ary acce and egre on making compensation.-Right of way. (a) Aright to pa and repa over real property of another. (b) The right to pa over a path or way, to the temporary exclusion of others: as, an expre -train has the right of way as against a freight-train. (c) The strip of land of which a railway-company acquires either the ownership or the use for the laying of its tracks. -Second covered way, in fort., the way beyond the second ditch. The Way, in the New Testament, the Christian religion or church; Christianity. The phrase is rendered in the authorized version (except once) "this way" or "that way"; in the revised version (except Acts xxii. 4, where it has the demonstrative "this"), "the Way." Acts ix. 2; xix. 9, 23; xxii. 4; xxiv. 14, 22.- To break a way. See break. - To clear the way. See clear. - Το devour the way. See devour1. To gather way. See gather. To give way, to grant pa age; allow to pa ; hence, to yield: generally with to. Open your gates and give the victors way . Shak ., K. John, ii. 1. 324. They happen'd to meet on a long narrow bridge, And neither of them would give way. Robin Hood and Little John (Child's Ballads, V. 217). We give too much way to our pa ions. Burton , Anat. of Mel., p. 329. Suet on i us, though else a worthie man, overproud of his Victorie, gave too much way to his anger against the Britans. Milton , Hist. Eng., ii. The senate, forced to yield to the tribunes of the people, thought it their wisest course also to give way to the time. Swift . To go one's way or ways. See go. - To go the way of all the earth, to die. 1 Ki. ii. 2. To go the way of nature. See nature. - To have one's way. See def. 12. - To keep wayt, to keep pace. When there be not stonds [stops] and restivene in a man's nature, the wheels of his mind keep way with the wheels of his fortune. Bacon, Fortune (ed. 1887). To labor on the way. See labor1. - To lead the way, to be the first or most forward in a march, progre , or the like; act the part of a leader, guide, etc. He tried each art, reproved each dull delay, Allured to brighter worlds, and led the way . Goldsmith, Des. Vil., 1. 170. To lie in the or one's way. See liel. -To look both ways for Sunday, to squint. [Colloq.] - To look nine ways. See nine. - To lose way. See lose 1. To make one's way. See makel. To make the best of one's way. See best. To make way. (a) To give room for pa ing; give place; stand aside to permit another to pa . Ther was no romayn so hardy ne so myghty but he made hym wey . Merlin (E. E. T. S.), iii. 655. Make way there for the prince . Shak., Hen. VIII., v. 4. 91. The petty squadrons which had till now hara ed the coast of Britain made way for hosts larger than had fallen on any country in the west. J. R. Green, Conq. of Eng., p. 84. (b) To open a path through obstacles; overcome resistance, hindrance, or difficulties. With this little arm and this good sword, I have made my way through more impediments Than twenty times your stop. Shak., Othello, v. 2. 263. (c) To advance; move forward. We, seeing them prepare to a ault vs, left our Oares and made way with our sayle to in counter them. Quoted in Capt. John Smith's Works, I. 181. To pave the way. See pave. To put one's self out of the way, to give one's self trouble. Don't put yourself out of the way , on our accounts. Dickens, Oliver Twist, xxx i. To take one's way. (a) To set out; go. They, hand in hand, with wandering steps and slow, Through Eden took their solitary way . Milton , P. L., xii. 649. (b) To follow one's own plan, opinion, inclination, or fancy. Doctor, your service for this time is ended; Take your own way . Shak ., Cymbeline, i. 5. 31. Under way, in progre ; in motion: said of a ve el that has weighed her anchor or has left her moorings and is making progre through the water; hence, generally, making progre ; having started: often erroneously writ way ten under weigh. - Wal singh am wayt. Same as Milky Way. See Galaxy, 1. The commonalty believed the Galax i as, or (what is called in the sky) Milky Way, was appointed by Providence to point out the particular place and residence of the Virgin, beyond all other places, and was, on that account, gener ally in that age called Wal singh am Way ; and I have heard old people of this country so to call and distinguish it some years past. Blomejield, Hist. Norfolk, ix. (in Rock's Church of our [Fathers, III. 287, note. Way of the cro . (a) A series of stations or represen tations, as in relief or painting, of the succe ive acts or stages of Christ's progre to Calvary, arranged around the interior of a church or on the way to a cro or shrine. (b) A series of devotions used at these stations. - Way of the Kami. See kami. - Way of the rounds, in fort., a space left for pa age between a rampart and the wall of a fortified town. - Ways and means. (a) Means and methods of accomplishing some end; resources; facilities. Then eyther prynce sought the wayes & meanys howe eyther of theym myght dyscontent other. Fabyan , Chron., an. 1335. (b) Specifically, in legislation, means for raising money; methods of procuring funds or supplies for the support of the government. See committee of ways and means, above. - Wet way. See wet1.=Syn. 1. Way, Road, Street, Pas sage, Pa , Path, Track, Trail, thoroughfare, channel, route. Way is the generic word for a place to pa ; a road is a public way broad enough and good enough for vehicles; a street is a main road in a village, town, or city, as contrasted with a lane or alley; pa age suggests an avenue or narrower way through, as for foot-pa engers; a pa is a way through where the difficulties to be surmounted are on an imposing scale: as, to find or open a new pa through the Andes; a path is a way for pa ing on foot; a track is a path or road as yet but little worn or used: as, a cart IMG:content-2156.png:[blocks in formation] track through the woods. See def. of trail.-9 and 10. waylt (wa), v. [ And now it is plauntid ouere in desert, in loond not wayed (or not hauntid). Wyclif , Ezek. xix. 13. 2. To put in the way; teach to go in the way; break or train to the road: said of horses. He. is like a horse that is not well wayed; he starts at every bird that flies out of a hedge. Selden, Table Talk, p. 39. II. in trans. To go one's way; wayfare; journey. On a time, as they together way'd . Spenser, F. Q., IV. ii. 12. way2 (wa), adv. [ Do wey youre handes. Chaucer, Miller's Tale, 1. 101. way3t, v. An old spelling of weigh1 . wayaka (wä-yäkä), n. yam- bean. [Polynesian.] See