wokent

A Middle English form of weaken. wok us (wõ'kus), n. [N. Amer. Ind.] A coarse meal made by the Indians of the northwest from the seeds of Nymphæa ( Nuphar ) poly sep alum, the yellow pond-lily of that region. See pond lily, 1. Old Chaloquin carried his bag of wok us for food. This is the roasted and ground seeds of the yellow water-lily, and looks something like cracked wheat. Amer. Nat., Nov., 1889, p. 971. woll, v. An obsolete or dialectal form of willl. wol2, adv. An obsolete or dialectal form of well2. wold'1 d'1 (wold), n. [Formerly also would; also dial. old; OF. gaut, brushwood?), = Icel. völlr (gen. vallar for * valdar ), a field, plain; perhaps orig. a hunting-ground, considered as a po e ion,' and so connected with AS. geweald (= G. gewalt =Icel. vald ), power, dominion, actly similar, both topographically and geologically, to the downs of the more southern parts of England. The Cotswold Hills, in Gloucestershire, closely resemble the downs of Kent and Su ex and the wolds of Yorkshire and Lincoln shire in every respect except the geological age of the formations by which they are underlain, which, in the case of the Cotswolds, is a calcareous rock of Jura ic, and not of Cretaceous age, as is the case with the other-mentioned wolds and downs. Who sees not a great difference betwixt... the Wolds in Lincoln shire and the Fens? Burton, Anat. of Mel., p. 259. Each hill and dale, each deepening glen and wold. Byron, Childe Harold, ii. 88. The notes of the robin and bluebird Long fellow , Evangeline, ii. 4. Sounded sweet upon wold and in wood. The wolds [of Yorkshire] constitute properly but one region, sloping from a curved summit, whose extremities touch the sea at Flam borough Head, and the Humber at Ferriby; but this crescent of hills is cut through by one continuous hollow, - the great Wold Valley from Sett ring ton to Bridling ton. Phillips , Yorkshire, p. 41. = Lith. wilkas = L. lupus (> It. lupo = Sp. Pg. lobo = F. loup ) = Gr. λύκος = Skt. vrika, a wolf; orig. type prob. * walk a, * wark a, altered variously into * wlaka (Gr. λύκος), * wlapa (L. lupus ), * walpa (AS. wulf, etc.), orig. 'tearer, render,' EETS Common Wolf (Canis lupus). turbed by a dog or a man, and exhibiting great cunning in the avoidance of traps. Wolves are still numerous in some parts of Europe, as France, Hungary, Spain, Turkey, and Ru ia; they probably ceased to exist in England about the end of the fifteenth century, and in Scotland in the first part of the eighteenth century; the latter date probably marks also the disappearance of wolves in Ireland. The wolves of North America are of two very distinct species. One of these is scarcely different from the European, but is generally regarded as a variety, under the name of C. 1. occidental is. The usual color is a grizzled gray, but it sports in many colors, as reddish and blackish. Most strains of the American wolf are larger and stouter than those of Europe. The gray wolf is also called the buffalo wolf, from its former abundance in the buffalo-range, and timber - wolf, as distinguished from the prairie-wolf or coyote, Canis latrans, a much smaller and very different animal, which lives chiefly in open country, in burrows in the ground, and in some respects resembles the jackal. (See coyote, with cut.) Yet other wolves, of rather numerous species, inhabit most parts of the world; some grade into jackals (see Thous ), others toward foxes (see fox - wolf ); and most of them interbreed easily with some varieties of the dog of the countries they respectively inhabit, the wolf - dog, 2). dog itself being a composite of a mixed wolf ancestry (see 2. A person noted for ravenousne , cruelty, cunning, or the like: used in opprobrium. Rescued is Orleans from the English wolves. Shak., 1 Hen. VI. (ed. Knight), i. 6. 2. 3. In entom.: (a) A small naked caterpillar, the larva of Tinea granella, the wolf-moth, which infests granaries. (b) The larva of a bot-fly; a warble.-4. A tuberculous excrescence which rapidly eats away the flesh. See lupus1, 3. A tree that cureth the wolfe with the shauings of the wood groweth in these parts. Hakluyt's Voyages, I. 364. If God should send a cancer upon thy face, or a wolf into thy side, if he should spread a crust of leprosy upon thy skin, what wouldst thou give to be but as now thou art? Jer. Taylor, Holy Living, ii. 6. 5. In music: (a) The harsh discord heard in certain chords of keyboard-instruments, especially the organ, when tuned on some system of unequal temperament. In the mean-tone system, as usually applied, five intervals in each octave were dis. cordant-namely, G-E, B-Eb, F-B, C-F, and G-C. Under the modern system of equal temperament, the wolf is evenly distributed, and so practically unnoticed. (b) A chord or interval in which such a discord appears. (c) In instruments of the viol cla , a discordant or false vibration in a string when stopped at a certain point, usually due to a defect in the structure or adjustment of the Roger North , Lord Guilford, II. 2. ( Davies .) To have a wolf in the stomach, to eat ravenously. Hall i well. - To keep the wolf from the door, to keep out hunger or want. - To see a wolf, to lose one's voice: in allusion to the belief of the ancients (see Virgil, Ecl. ix.) that if a man saw a wolf before the wolf saw him he lost his voice, at least for a time. "What! are you mute?" I said-a waggish guest, "Perhaps she's seen a wolf ," rejoin'd in jest. Fawkes , tr. of Idylliums of Theocritus, xiv. "Our young companion has seen a wolf ," said Lady Hame line, alluding to an ancient superstition, "and has lost his tongue in consequence." Scott , Quentin Durward, xviii. White wolf, a whitish variety of the common wolf of North America. - Zebra wolf. See zebra - wolf . (See also prairie - wolf , timber - wolf .) wolf (wulf), v. [ The stock in trade of a party engaged in wolfing consists in flour, bacon, and strychnine, the first two articles named for their own consumption, the last for the wolves. Sportsman's Gazetteer , p. 13. II. trans. To devour ravenously: as, to wolf down food. [Slang.] wolfberry (wülf'ber"i), n.; pl. wolfberries (-iz). A shrub, Symphoricarpos occidental is , of northern North America, in the United States ranging from Michigan and Illinois to the Rocky Mountains. It is sometimes cultivated for ornament, mainly on account of its white berries, which are borne in axillary and terminal spikes.