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[WERE GELD.] *weren, v. i. [WERE, v.] wêre-na, v . i. [See def.] Were not. (Scotch.) "I trow, gin ye werena blinded wi' the graces and favours, and services and enjoyments, and employments and inheritances of this wicked world."- Scott: Waver ley , ch. xxxvi. were wolf, *wer-wolf, subst . [A. S. werewulf , from wer a man, and wulf a wolf; cogn. with Ger, währwolf; M. H. Ger. werwolf .] Anthrop.: A person supposed to have the power of transforming himself at certain seasons into a wolf, and a uming all the ferocity of that animal, joined to the practice of disinterring and feeding on dead bodies. [LYCANTHROPIA, LYCANTHROPY.] In Bulgaria the legends of werewolves are inextricably mixed up with those of the vampires [VAMPIRE, A. I. 1.], and the same sign-the meeting of the eyebrows, as if the soul were about to take Dana includes in this species Nuttallite, Chelmsfordite, and Glaucolite, and as altered forms, A the rias tite, Stroganovite, Algerite, Wilsonite, Terenite, Micarelle, and Gabronite (see these words). We-row-ănçe, s. [North American Indian.] A name given in Virginia and Maryland by the Indians to their head chief. wersh, warsch, adj. [Prob. the same as WEARISH.] 1. Insipid, tastele . 2. Delicate; having a pale and sickly look. ( Scotch .) *werst, *werste, a . [WORST, a.] wert, v. i. [Sce def.] The second person singular of were.[WERE (1), v.] A. Wert he man; -ite ( Min.).] werth-e-man-ite (werth as vert), s. [After Min.: A ma ive mineral related to alumin i to (q. v.); specific gravity, 2.80; color white. Composition: A hydrated sulphate of alumina, e. g ., sul phuric acid, 34:50; alumina, 450; sesquioxide of iron, 1.25; water, 19-25=100, which gives the formula Al2SO+3aq.: this differs from aluminite in containing le water. Found in a bed of clay near Chachapoyas, Peru. *wert her i an (as vêr-tër-i-an), a. [After the hero of Goethe's Sorrows of Werther .] Sentimental, nam by pam by. we'şe, v . i . (See def.] We shall. ( Scotch .) "Weel, weel, we'se no dispute that e'ennow."- Scott : Antiquary, ch. xli. *wesh, *weshe, pret . of v. [WASH, υ.] *we-sil, s. [WEASAND.] The windpipe. Wes-ley-an, a. & s . [See def.] Ecclesiology and Church History : A. As adj .: Of or belonging to John Wesley or the sect founded by him. [WESLEY AN METHODISM.] B. As subst.: A Wesley an Methodist (q.v.). Wesley an Methodism, s. Ecclesiol. & Church Hist .: The largest and most important British Methodist denomination, and the parent of some smaller religious bodies now independent of its government. [METHODISM.] Wesley an Methodist, s. Ecclesiol. & Church Hist .: A member or adherent of Wesley an Methodism (q. v.) Used also adient tively in the same sense as WESLEY AN, A. (q. v.). Wěs-ley-an-işm, s. [Eng. Wesley an ; -ism .] Church Hist: The doctrines and polity of the Wesley ans; Methodism generally (q. v.). "To the historian of Wesley an ism the volume is little short of indispensable." -Atheneum , Nov. 26, 1887, p. 706. IMG:content-0799.png:[blocks in formation] " West of this forest."” Shakesp.: Henry IV., Pt. II ., iv. 1. 1. Empire of the West : The western portion of the Roman Empire, the capital of which was Rome, when the Empire was divided between his two sons, Honor i us and Arcadius, by Theodosius in A. D. 395. 2. The West End : The aristocratic or fashionable quarter of London, and of many other cities. (Often used adjectively.) West African river-shrew, s . Zool.: Potamogale velox. [POTAMOGALE.] West Indian, s. Geog.: Of or pertaining to the West Indies (q. v.). West Indian Firefly: Entom .: Pyrophorus noctilucus .