wen, wenne

[A. S. wenn; cogn. with Dutch wen; Low. Ger. ween; Prov. Ger. wenne, wehne, wäne.] 1. Ord. Lang. & Surg .: A tumor in the form of a bag or cyst varying in the character of its contents, and occurring on some part of the human body, very frequently in the neck. [GOITER.] Some are filled with a thin fetid brown fluid, interspersed with flakes of fibrum, some of serum, others of cal careous matter, or of a black fluid, or, as in the case of their occurrence near the eyebrows, even of hair. They can only be removed by a surgical operation. 2. Fig .: An excrescence. "I do allow this wen to be as familiar with me as my dog." --Shakesp.: Henry IV ., Pt . II ., ii. 2. wěnch, *wěnche, s . [Prop. wenchel , from A. S. wencle a maid, a daughter; allied to wencel , wen cele weak; wancol , woncol = tottery, unstable; M. H. Ger. wankel ; O. H. Ger. wanchal ; Prov. Ger. wankel = tottering, unstable; Ger. wanken = to totter, to reel, to stagger, to waddle.] 1. A general term for a young girl or woman; a maid. "Bear thou my hand, sweet wench, between thy teeth." Shakesp.: Titus Andronicus, iii. 1. 2. Now generally applied to a bold, forward girl; a girl of loose character. "But the rude wench her answered nought at all." Spenser: F. Q., L. iii. 11. 3. A mistre . "He #2. Confusion. "I leave the whole busine in a frightful welter ."Carlyle: French Revol ., pt. iii., bk. iv., ch. iii. Used adjectively in horse-racing, and applied to the heaviest weighted race of the meeting. (In old racing lists the word is swelter .) Wel-witsch (or was v), s. [See compound.] Welwitsch's bat, s. Zool.: Vespertilio († Scotophil us ) welwitschii, a bat of variegated colors-brown, orange, yellow, and black described by Gray from a specimen sent from Angola by Dr. Welwitsch. IMG:content-0794.png:[blocks in formation] *wench'-er, s. [Eng. wench , v.; -er.] One who wenches; a fornicator; a lecherous man. "The fellow that was a great wencher."- Selden : Table Talk ; Clergy . after women of loose character; lecherous. *wench-ing, a. [Eng. wench; -ing.] Running "What's become of the wenching rogues?"- Shakesp .. Troilus and Cre ida , v. 4. *wench-le , a. [Eng. wench: -le .] Having no wenches or women of loose character. ( Special coinage .) "We lost too much money this mart, by being too wench le ."- Shakesp .: Pericles , iv. 3. wěnd, v . i . & t . [A. S. wend an =(1) to turn, to go, from wand , pa. t. of wind an =to wind; cogn. with Dut. wenden =to turn, to tack; Icel. vend a wend, turn, change; Dan. vende ; Swedish vända ; Goth. wandjan ; Ger. wenden .] IMG:content-0795.png:[graphic][merged small] "The le er [ship] will turn her broadside twice, before the greater can wend once."-Raleigh. 2. To go, to pa , to travel; to take one's way. "For know that on a pilgrimage Wend I, my comrade and this page." B Transitive : Scott: Lord of the Isles , iii. 24. *1. To undertake, as a journey; to accomplish in travel. "Uncompanied, great voyages to wend ." Surrey: Virgil's Æneid, iv. 2. To go, to direct, to turn. "Now back they wend their watery way." Scott: Lady of the Lake, ii. 26. *wend (1), s. [WEND, v.] A certain quantity or circuit of ground.