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[HOOPING-COUGH.] *whoôt, v. i. & t . [Here, as in whoop , the wis excrescent, the proper form being hoot (q. v.).] A. In trans .: To hoot; to make a hooting noise. ( Beaum . & Flet .: Spanish Curate , ii. 4.) B. Trans.: To hoot; to drive with hoots. "I would give the boys leave to whoot me out o' the parish." - Beaum . & Flet .: Rule a Wife , & c ., i. whop, v . t . & i . [WHAP.] A. Trans.: To strike, to beat. B. In trans.: To fall or come down suddenly; to plump down. sin, as; expect, Xenophon, exist. ph = f. IMG:content-0874.png:[blocks in formation] "See what a lovely shell, Madeso fairly well, 2. The fly of a spindel, generally made of wood, sometimes of hard stone. The same as VERTICIL. II. Bot .: A ring of organs all on the same plane. whõrled, a . [Eng. whorl; -ed.] Furnished with whorls; verticillate. *whot, *whote, *whott, adj . [Eng. hot , with excrescent w , as in whole (q. v.).] Hot. ( Brende : Quintus Curtius , fol. 61.) whum-mle, v . t . [A freq. from whelm (q. v.).] To overwhelm, to turn over, to turn upside down. "Your high-flying dominie bodie who whumles them outright."-M. Scott: Tom Cringle's Log , ch. xvi. whŭm-mle, s. [WHUMMLE, v.] An overturning, an overthrow. IMG:content-0875.png:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-0876.png:[blocks in formation] dog. 2. To make a growling or snarling noise like a whur, *whurr, 8. [WHUR, v.] IMG:content-0877.png:[blocks in formation] C. As subst.: The reason, cause, or purpose of anything. "The why the where-what boots it now to tell." Byron: Corsair, i. 14. Why so: (1) For what reason, wherefore, why. "And why so, my lord?" Shakesp.: Winter's Tale , ii. 1. (2) An expre ion of content or of unwilling acquiescence. IMG:content-0878.png:[blocks in formation] "They flapt the door full in my face, and gave me such a whurr here." - Vanburgh : Journey to London , ii. 1. 3. A driving or pre ing forward in haste; hurry. "Whippe and whurre never make good furre." IMG:content-0879.png:[blocks in formation] whûr-rỹ, v. t . [Eng. whur; -.] Tomove with rendered evil, as if from a verb wikken to make haste; to whisk along quickly; to hurry. whûrt, s . [WHORT.] A whortleberry. The American Dictionary and Cyclopedia "That same wicked bastard of Venus." Shakesp.: As You Like It , iv. 1. *3. Hurtful, pernicious, baneful, cursed. "As wicked dew as e'er my mother brush'd With raven's feather from unwholesome fen." Shakesp.: Tempest , i. 2. *4. Inhabited by or belonging to wicked persons. "Yet not for thy advice or threats I fly These wicked tents devoted." "Those tents thou sawest so pleasant, were the tents Of wickedne ." Milton: P. L. , xi. 607. wick'-ěn, wig'-gin, s. [A. S. wice , wice an .] Bot.: Pyrus aucuparia . IMG:content-0881.png:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-0882.png:[blocks in formation] 1. The object at which the bowler directs his ball, and before but a little to one side of which the batsman or striker stands. It consists of three stumps, having two bails set in grooves on their tops. [CRICKET.] "Flush'd with his rays beneath the noontide sun, In rival bands between the wickets run." wicket-door, s. The same as WICKET, І. 1. "Through the low wicket - door they glide." Scott . Rokeby , v. 29. wicket-gate, s. A small gate; a wicket. "I am going to yonder wicket - gate before me." yan: Pilgrim's Progre , i. wicket-keeper, s . IMG:content-0883.png:[blocks in formation] wick-ing, s. [Eng. wick (2), s.; -ing .] The ma- terial, especially loosely braided cotton thread, of which wicks are made. wick-le , adj . [Eng. wick (2), s.; -le .] Desti- tute of or having no wick; as, a wickle lamp. wick-stre-mi-a, wik-strō-mi-a, s . [Named after Wickstræm, a Swedish botanist (1789-1856).] Bot.: A genus of Thymelacese. Shrubs and small trees with deciduous leaves, axillary racemes or spikes of small flowers, a four-lobed calyx, eight stamens, an ovary with four small scales below it, and a bac- cate fruit with numer- ous seeds imbedded in the pulp. Wickstræ- mia indica is found on the coasts of Aus- tralia and the South Sea Islands. The fibers of the bark are made into fishing Fiji. Its bark is used externally for wounds and internally for coughs. An inferior sort of paper and rope IMG:content-0884.jpg:[blocks in formation] is made from W. virgata in Kumaon, in India. Wic'-liff-ite, Wick-liff-ite, s . [WYCLIFFITE.) wic-o-pỹ, s . [Native name (?).] IMG:content-0885.png:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-0886.png:[graphic] IMG:content-0887.jpg:[blocks in formation] narrow. *wide-skirted, a. Having wide borders; extensive. "With plenteous rivers and wide - skirted meads." Shakesp.: Lear , i. 1. wide-spread, a. 1. Spread to a great distance; extended. "How sweet to rest her wide - spread wings." Words worth: Ode. 2. Diffused or spread over a wide extent; exten sive. "Thus call forth a wide - spread movement in Arabia, carrying with it the Caliph himself."-London Daily Tel egraph. *wide-stretched, a . Large; extensive. ( Shake speare : Henry V. , ii. 4.) *wide-where, adv . Widely; far and near. wide-ly, adv. [Eng. wide; -ly.] 1. In a wide manner or degree; with great extent each way; far and wide; extensively. "The huge size and venerable age of the trees, the beauty of the gardens, the abundance of the springs, were widely famed." -Macaulay : Hist . Eng ., ch. x. *2. So as to leave a wide space between. " Widely shun the Lilybean strand." Dryden : Virgil's Æneid , iii. 927. 3. Very much; to a great degree or extent. and sides of neck bright reddish-brown; sides of breast and back reddish-olive, darkly spotted and marked; lower back, center of tail, and under side below the breast black; sides grayish-white, striped with dark-brown; upper wing-coverts reddish brown, secondary quills olive-brown with green edges; quills and tail-feathers greenish-black. According to Schomburgk ( Reisen , i. 407, iii. 762), the natives of British Guiana call this bird Vis -sis si , from its cry. [VICISSY-DUCK.] widow-hunter, subst. One who seeks or courts widows for their fortunes. "The widow- hunters about town often afford them great diversion."- Add is on. IMG:content-0888.png:[blocks in formation] "Their tempers differed widely ."- Macaulay : Hist . Eng ., animal by the Creoles, ch. xi. 4. Remotely, far. "The light which the remote parts of truth will give to one another, will so a ist his judgment, that he will seldom be widely out."- Locke . wid-en, v. t. & i. [Eng. wid ( e ); -en.] A. Transitive: 1. To make wide; to cause to extend in breadth; to cause to spread; to increase in width; to enlarge. "To widen the market, and to narrow the competition." -Smith: Wealth of Nations, bk. i., ch. xi. 2. To throw open. "So now the gates are ope; now prove good seconds; 'Tis for the followers fortune widens them." Shakesp.: Coriolanus , i. 4. B. In trans.: To grow or become wider or broader; to enlarge, to spread; to extend itself. "The general tendency of schism is to widen ." -Macaulay: Hist. Eng . , ch. xi. who see in the whitene of the face, neck, and arms some resemblance to the veil, handkerchief, and gloves worn by widows of their IMG:content-0889.jpg:[blocks in formation] might be buried with her husband and accompany him to the world of spirits. This practice is mentioned as existing among the Greeks by Euripi des ( Supl . , 983) and Pausanias (iv. 2), and from Cæsar (de Bello Gall ., vi. 19) it may be inferred that it existed also in Gaul. Widow-sacrifice is still the custom in many African tribes; traces of it may be found in China; it lingered till late in the first half wide'-ne , *wyde-ne e, [Eng. wide; -ne .] nineteenth century in Fiji, and though IMG:content-0890.jpg:[blocks in formation] *4. To be a widow to; to survive as the widow of. "Let me be married to three kings in a forenoon, and widow them all." -Shakesp .: Antony and Cleopatra, i. 2. wid-ōwed, pa . par . & a. [WIDOW, v .] A. As pa . par .: (See the verb.) B. As adjective : 1. Reduced to or being in the state or position of a widow; bereft of her husband. "The daughter of a widowed housekeeper." -London Daily Telegraph . 2. Deprived of support. "Sees thee like the weak, and widow'd vine, Winding thy blasting tendrils o'er the plain." Mason: Ode to Independence. 3. Pertaining to a widow. "Sleeple e. in her now widow'd bed." May: Lucan; Pharsalia, v. wid-ōw-er, *wid-ew-er, *wid-wer, *wyd-ew er, *wyd-ow-er, s . [Eng. widow (1), s.; -er .] 1. A man who has lost his wife by death and re- mains unmarried. "Tell him, in hope he'll prove a widower shortly, I'll wear the willow garland for his sake. IMG:content-0891.png:[graphic] *2. (See extract). Shakesp.: Henry VI ., Pt . III ., iii. 3. "Let there be widowers , which you call releevers, appointed everywhere to the church-service." -Bp . Hall : Apologie against Brownists , § 19. wid-ōw-er-hood, s. [Eng. widower; -hood.] The state of a widower.