welt leather (weltlerHer)

Leather from the shoulders of tanned hides, used for making the welts of boots and shoes. The demand for welt leather is greater than the supply. U. S. Cons . Rep . , No. lix. (1885), p. 442. welt-machine (welt'ma-shen"), n. In shoe manuf ., a machine for cutting leather into strips suitable for welts. The welts are afterward pa ed through the welt-cutter. Welts may also be cut and trimmed with hand-tools called welt -trimmers. welt-shoulders (welt's holderz), n . pl . Same as welt - leather . wel-willyt, a. See well -willy. Welwitschia (wel-wich'i-ä), n. Hooker, 1863), named after Fried rich Wel- witsch (1806-72), an Austrian botanist and traveler.] A genus of gymnospermous plants, of the order Gnetaceæ , among the most remark- able in the vegetable kingdom, distinguished by diœcio us many-flowered imbricated cone- like spikes, panicled at the margin of a short woody trunk. The only species, W. mirabilis , is a of sandy regions of southwestern tropical Africa, in Ben- guela and Damara-land, between 14° and 23° south latitude. IMG:content-2237.png:[blocks in formation] The clawes drie and scabbed olde busely Kytte all away, and kepe up that is wely . IMG:content-2238.png:[blocks in formation] He bad his gang therefore command us.. To probe its [the Trojan horse's] wem with wedge and beetle. Cotton , Scarronides, p. 7. ( Davies .) wemle t (wem'les), a. [ wemles , wem me- les, wemlees, wamleás , womleás, without spot or blemish, wam , spot, + -leás =E. -le .] Spotle ; stainle ; immaculate. Thou Virgin wemmeles , Bar of thy body, and dweltest mayden pure. Chaucer, Second Nun's Tale, 1. 47. wem mył (wem'i), a. [ The mustie wheate, the sowre wine, the ratt-eaten bread, the wemmie cheese. Guevara , Letters (tr. by Hellowes, 1577), p. 257. wen (wen), n. [ wenne , wen = D. wen = LG. wen , ween = G. dial. wenne , wehne , wähne , a wen, wart.] A circumscribed benign tumor of mod- erate size, occurring on any part of the body, but especially on the scalp, consisting of a well- defined sac inclosing sebaceous matter. wench1 (wench), n. [ wenche , shortened form of wenchel , orig. a child, prob. wen- cel , a child, represented by the once occurring winclo, pl., children, prob. for * wencelu , neut. pl. of the adj. wencel , wencele , weak (found once, in dat. pl. wencelum , applied to widows), var. of wancol, woncol, unstable, > E. wankle : see wan- kle. The AS. wencle , a wench, a daughter, given by Somner, is an error based upon the above forms.] 1. A child (of either sex). 2. A female child; a girl; a maid or damsel; a young woman in general. [ Wench had originally no depreciatory implication, and continued to be used in a respectful sense, especially as a familiar termelong after acquired implication specific ployment; and it is still commonly so used in provincial English, and sometimes archaically in literature.] William & his worth i wenche [a prince ] than were blithe Of the help that the i hade of this wild best. William of Palerne (E. E. T. S.), 1. 1901. Go ze awey, for the wenche is nat dead, but slepith. Wyclif, Mat. ix. 24. Now, how dost thou look now? O ill-starr'd wench [Des- demon a]! Shak ., Othello, v. 2. 272. 3. Specifically- ( a ) A girl or young woman IMG:content-2239.png:[blocks in formation] For so is this worlde went with hem that han powere. Piers Plowman (B), iii. 280. At the wendyng [turning of the furrow] slake The yoke, thyne oxen neckes for to cole. Palladius , Husbondrie (E. E. T. S.), p. 44. The le er [ship] will turn her broadsides twice before the greater can wend once. Raleigh . 2. To take one's way or course; proceed; go. For every wyght which that to Rome went [wendeth] Halt nat o path or alwey o manere. Chaucer , Troilus, ii. 36. Chaucer, Troilus, v. 444. As fer as any wight hath ever went . Hopele and helple doth Ægeon wend , But to procrastinate his lifele end. He putte thee doun, thou mzhtist not rise; Thi str eng the, thi witt, awei is went ! Wendish (wen'dish), a. [ Wendisch ; as Wend2+ -ish1.] Of or pertaining to the Wends; Wendic. The original Wendish towns which the conquerors found became German. already established W. Wilson , State, § 441. (b) A lewd or immodest woman; a mistre ; a concubine; a strumpet. [This use was early developed, and is always indicated by the con- text. It is obsolescent.] A lodging of your providing! to be called a lieutenant's or a captain's wench ! Dekker and Webster , Northward Ho, i. 2. (c) A colored woman of any age; a negre or mulattre , especially one in service. [Colloq., U. S.] wench1 (wench), v. i. [ IMG:content-2240.png:[blocks in formation] wengt, n. An obsolete form of wing . Wenham prism. See prism . weniont, n. Same as wanion . Wenlock group. up. See group1 . wennish (wen ish), a. [ Sir H. Wotton. wenny (wen'i), a. [ wen + -y1.] Same as wennish. Wiseman , Surgery. wenona (wēnō'nä), n. [N. Amer. Ind.] A small American serpent, Char in a plumbea , na- tive of California and Mexico. It is a sort of sand- snake related to and formerly placed in the family Ery- cidæ , but represents a different family, Charinida. went1t (went), n. [ wend1 (cf. bent1, n., In wo to bedde he wente, And made or it was day ful many a wente. Chaucer, Troilus, ii. 63. He knew the diverse went of mortall wayes. Spenser, F. Q., VI. vi. 3. wench2t, n. wencher (wen'cher), n. [ My cozen Roger-told us... that the Archbishop of Canterbury... is as very a wencher as can be. Hit forth wente Doun by a floury grene wente Ful thikke of gras, ful softe and sweet. But here my wearie tee me, nigh over spent, Shall breath it selfe awhile after so long a went . wend1 (wend), v.; pret. and pp. wended (for- merly also went ), ppr. wending . Went , which is really the preterit of this verb (like sent from 3. A furlong of land. Hall i well . send ), is now detached from it and used as pretwent (went). See wend1 and go . erit of go . [ wenden , wend an , tr. went3+, wentet. An obsolete preterit and past turn, intr. turn oneself, proceed, go, = OS. wen- dian, wendean = OFries. wend a = D. wenden , turn, tack, OHG. went an , MHG. G. wenden, cause to turn, = Icel. vend a , wend, turn, change, = Sw. vända = Dan. vende = Goth. wandjan , cause to turn; caus. of AS. wind an , etc., turn, wentletrap a turning ( wept. An obsolete preterit of weep1. wepelyt, a. See weeply. wepent, wepnet, weppont, weppynt, etc., n. Obsolete forms of weapon. wept (wept). Preterit and past participle of weep1.