wipe, wype

t. [A. S. wipian =to wipe, from a hypothetical wip =a wisp of straw; cf. Low Ger. wiep =a wisp of straw, a rag to wipe anything with.] [WISP.] 1. To rub with something soft for cleaning; to clean by gentle rubbing. "Hire over lippe wiped she so clene." Chaucer: C. T., 134. (Prol.) 2. To strike or brush off gently. (Often with away , from , off , up , & c. ) " Wiping the tears from her suffused eyes." Spenser: F. Q., III. vii. 10. *3. To cleanse, as from evil practices or abuses. (2 Kings xxi. 13.) 4. To efface, to obliterate, to remove. "One who will wipe your sorrow from your eyes." Thomson: Castle of Indolence, ii. 70. *5. To cheat, to defraud, to trick. (With out .) "The next bordering lords commonly encroach one upon another, as one is stronger, or lie still in wait to wipe them out of their lands." -Spenser. State of Ireland. 1. To wipe away : To remove by rubbing or tersion; hence, figuratively, to remove, to remove or take away generally. 2. To wipe one's eye: (1) Trans.: To shoot game which another has mi ed; hence, to obtain an advantage by superior activity. ( Slang .) (2) In trans.: To take another drink. ( Slang .) (3) To wipe out : To efface, to obliterate, to exterminate. "Death, which wipes out man, Finds him with many an unsolved plan." Matthew Arnold: Resignation. wipe (1), s. [WIPE, v.] 1. The act of rubbing for the purpose of cleaning. 2. A blow, a stroke. ( Slang.) *3. A gibe, a sneer; a severe sarcasm. "To touch with a satiric wipe That symbol of thy power, the pipe." Cowper: To Rev. William Bull . *4. A mark or note of infamy; a brand. "Worse than a slavish wipe or birth-hour's blot." Shakesp.: Rape of Lucrece , 537. 5. A handkerchief. ( Slang.) "This here warment's prigged your wipe ." Barham: In golds by Legends; The Forlorn One. (2), s . [ Sw.vip a =the lapwing; Dan. vibe ; Botany : 1. (Sing.): (1) The genus Pyrola (q. v.); (2) the genus Trientalis (q. v.); (3) Gaultheria procumbens . 2. ( Pl . ) : The order Pyrolaceae (q. v.). ( Lindley .) win'-ter-ing, s. [Eng. winter; -ing.] 1. The act of one who winters. 2. Food or fodder to support cattle during the winter. winter-lý, a . [Eng. winter (1), s.; -ly .] Such as is suitable to winter; of a wintry kind; wintry, cheerle , uncomfortable, cold. "The air growing more winterly ."-Camden: Hist . Eliz abeth (an. 1595). wing or peewit (q. v.). (Prov.) wip'-er, s . [Eng. wip ( e ), v.; -er.] I. Ordinary Language : 1. One who wipes. 2. That which is used for wiping. "And the wipers for their noses." II. Technically : Ben Jonson. Masque of Owles. 1. Mach .: A cam which projects from a horizontal shaft and acts periodically upon a toe whose elevation lifts the valve-rod and puppet-valve. The wiper has usually a rotary reciprocation; when the pine, pit, sire, sir, marine; gō, pot, rotary motion is continuous, it becomes a wiper wheel (q. v.), which may have a number of cams acting consecutively in the course of a revolution. 2. Small - arms : A worm or sponge. wiper-wheel, s. Mach.: A cam-wheel placed below the shank of a tilt-hammer to lift it periodically, allowing it to fall by its own weight. The motion is found in many other machines, such as stamping-mills for ore and stone, . wire, *wier, *wir, *wyer, *wyr, *wyre, subst . [A. S. wir a wire; cogn. with Icel. virr =wire; Sw. vire to wind, to twist; cf. O. H. Ger. wiara , M. Н. German wiere =an ornament of refined gold; Lat. viriæ armlets of metal; Icelandic viravirki =wirework, filigree-work.] 1. A metallic rod, thread, or filament of small and uniform diameter. The largest size, numbered 0000, of the Birmingham wire-gauge, has a diameter of *454 inch; but smaller sizes even than this, except when drawn out to considerable lengths, are generally known as bars or rods. Lead-wire for the manufacture of bullets may considerably exceed the above diameter. Wire is usually cylindrical, but it is also made of various other forms, as oval, half-round, square, and triangular, and of more complicated shapes for small pinions; for forming the pattern on blocks used in calico-printing, and for other purposes. "With golden wire to weave her curled head." Spenser: F. Q., III., viii. 7. 2. Used absolutely for telegraph wire, and hence, colloquially, applied to the telegraph itself; as, to send a me age by wire . 3. Hence applied to a me age sent by telegraph; a telegram; as, He sent me a wire. ( Colloq.) 4. Used in hunting language for wire-fencing. 5. A pickpocket. ( Slang .) Wire of Lapland : A shining slender substance made from the sinews of the reindeer, soaked in water, beaten and spun into thread. Being then coated with tin, it is used by the Lap landers to embroider their clothes. ( Ogilvie .)