wiring machine

An apparatus for securing a soda-water, beer, or other bottle while the cork is being wired. *wir-ry, v . t . [WORRY, v . ] 4527 wisdom and received it, wealth being superadded (vii. 7-13). God directed him to build a temple on the holy mount on the model of the Tabernacle (ix. 8), from all which it is obvious that the author claims to be Solomon, the son of David, King of Israel. The book is now divided into nineteen chapters. The first of these exhorts judges to love righteousne , and commends wisdom to them and others. The second denounces the unbelief of the ungodly, and traces to this source the wickedne of their lives. The third, fourth, and fifth point out that for the righteous there is a happy future, while an opposite destiny awaits the wicked. wir'-, *wier-y, *wir-ie, adj . [Eng. wir(e), Chaptersvi.-ix. highly commend wisdom. Portions 8.-.] 1. Made of wire; like wire. "Rending her yellow locks like wirie gold." Spenser: Ruines of Time, 10. 2. Lean but sinewy; tough. "Mounted on wiry station horses."-London Globe. wis, adv . [See def.] A fictitious verb given in many dictionaries, with a pa. t. wist , and with the meanings to know, to be aware, to think, . The mistake arose from the adverb iwis , ywis certainly, in which the prefix (like most other prefixes) was frequently written apart from the rest of the of them resemble corresponding exhortations and descriptions in the Books of Proverbs (cf. Wisd. vi. 12-15, with Prov. viii. 17-21; ix. 9 with Prov. viii. 25-30). The advantages of wisdom are shown in chapters x.-xii. by illustrations taken from the history recorded in the Pent a teuch (it is remark. able that the author adds no more modern exam ples). In chapters xiii.-xv. the folly of idolatry is exhibited in language of great beauty and force, and a philosophic explanation of its origin is at tempted. (Cf. Wisd. xiii. 11-16 with Isaiah xliv. 12-20). The last four chapters contrast the provi dence which watches over the wise and the pious word, and not infrequently the i was represented with the judgments which overtake idolaters and by a capital I. so that it appeared as I wis . Hence the I been mistaken for the first personal pronoun and the verb wis created. [YWIS.]