Name Report For First Name WADE:

WADE

First name WADE's origin is English. WADE means "advancer: medieval given name from scandinavian mythology. also english surname referring to a water crossing". You can find other first names and English words that rhymes with WADE below. Ryhme list involves the matching sounds according to the first letters, last letters and first&last letters of wade.(Brown names are of the same origin (English) with WADE and Red names are first names with English/Anglo-Saxon origin)

Rhymes with WADE - Names & Words

First Names Rhyming WADE

FIRST NAMES WHICH INCLUDES WADE AS A WHOLE:

dwade

NAMES RHYMING WITH WADE (According to last letters):

Rhyming Names According to Last 3 Letters (ade) - Names That Ends with ade:

ade jibade hayley-jade jade trenade cade kade slade blade bertrade meade reade

Rhyming Names According to Last 2 Letters (de) - Names That Ends with de:

grishilde ode bertilde aude brighde adelaide brunhilde zenaide tunde mercede kaede akintunde babatunde dzigbode matunde berde kazemde ganymede davide adelheide bathilde beorhthilde bride candide clarimonde clotilde ede eldride emeraude enide ethelinde gerde gertrude griselde grisjahilde griswalde heide hildagarde hilde holde hulde ide isolde isoude jayde magnilde maitilde mathilde matilde maude mayde melisande mide odede otthilde rolande romhilde romilde rosalinde rosamonde rosemonde serihilde shayde sigfriede tibelde trude vande wande wilde winifride yolande ysolde andwearde attewode ayrwode birde calfhierde carmelide cinneide claude clyde ealdwode evinrude eweheorde forde gilbride giollabrighde heallstede

NAMES RHYMING WITH WADE (According to first letters):

Rhyming Names According to First 3 Letters (wad) - Names That Begins with wad:

wada wadanhyll wadi wadley wadsworth

Rhyming Names According to First 2 Letters (wa) - Names That Begins with wa:

wa'il wacfeld wachiru wachiwi wacian wacleah wacuman waed waefreleah waelfwulf waer waerheall waeringawicum waescburne wafa' wafeeq wafeeqa wafid wafiq wafiqah wafiya wafiyy wafiyyah wagaye wagner wahanassatta wahchinksapa wahchintonka wahed wahibah wahid wahkan wain wainwright wait waite wajeeh wajeeha wajih wajihah wakanda wake wakefield wakeley wakeman waki wakil wakiza wakler walborga walborgd walbridge walbrydge walby walcot walcott walda waldburga waldemar waldemarr walden waldhramm waldhurga waldifrid waldmunt waldo waldon waldr waldrom waldron waleed waleis walford walfr walfred walfrid walid walidah walker wallace wallache waller wallis walliyullah wally walmond walsh walt walten walter walthari walton waluyo walworth walwyn

NAMES BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH WADE:

First Names which starts with 'w' and ends with 'e':

wamblee wambli-waste wang'ombe warde ware wareine warrane washbourne washburne wattesone wayde wayne wayte weallere webbe webbestre welborne welcome welsie wendale weslee whitmore wiellaburne wigmaere wilhelmine willesone willie wilone wilpe windgate wine wingate winnie winslowe winswode wise wittahere wolfe wulfhere wulfsige wylie wyne wynne wynnie wynwode wythe

English Words Rhyming WADE

ENGLISH WORDS WHICH INCLUDES WADE AS A WHOLE:

wadenoun (n.) Woad.
 noun (n.) The act of wading.
 verb (v. i.) To go; to move forward.
 verb (v. i.) To walk in a substance that yields to the feet; to move, sinking at each step, as in water, mud, sand, etc.
 verb (v. i.) Hence, to move with difficulty or labor; to proceed /lowly among objects or circumstances that constantly /inder or embarrass; as, to wade through a dull book.
 verb (v. t.) To pass or cross by wading; as, he waded /he rivers and swamps.

wadernoun (n.) One who, or that which, wades.
 noun (n.) Any long-legged bird that wades in the water in search of food, especially any species of limicoline or grallatorial birds; -- called also wading bird. See Illust. g, under Aves.

ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH WADE (According to last letters):


Rhyming Words According to Last 3 Letters (ade) - English Words That Ends with ade:


accoladenoun (n.) A ceremony formerly used in conferring knighthood, consisting am embrace, and a slight blow on the shoulders with the flat blade of a sword.
 noun (n.) A brace used to join two or more staves.

alcadenoun (n.) Same as Alcaid.
 noun (n.) Var. of Alcaid.

alidadenoun (n.) The portion of a graduated instrument, as a quadrant or astrolabe, carrying the sights or telescope, and showing the degrees cut off on the arc of the instrument

arcadenoun (n.) A series of arches with the columns or piers which support them, the spandrels above, and other necessary appurtenances; sometimes open, serving as an entrance or to give light; sometimes closed at the back (as in the cut) and forming a decorative feature.
 noun (n.) A long, arched building or gallery.
 noun (n.) An arched or covered passageway or avenue.

arquebusadenoun (n.) The shot of an arquebus.
 noun (n.) A distilled water from a variety of aromatic plants, as rosemary, millefoil, etc.; -- originally used as a vulnerary in gunshot wounds.

aubadenoun (n.) An open air concert in the morning, as distinguished from an evening serenade; also, a pianoforte composition suggestive of morning.

balladenoun (n.) A form of French versification, sometimes imitated in English, in which three or four rhymes recur through three stanzas of eight or ten lines each, the stanzas concluding with a refrain, and the whole poem with an envoy.

balotadenoun (n.) See Ballotade.

balustradenoun (n.) A row of balusters topped by a rail, serving as an open parapet, as along the edge of a balcony, terrace, bridge, staircase, or the eaves of a building.

bambocciadenoun (n.) A representation of a grotesque scene from common or rustic life.

barracladenoun (n.) A home-made woolen blanket without nap.

barricadenoun (n.) A fortification, made in haste, of trees, earth, palisades, wagons, or anything that will obstruct the progress or attack of an enemy. It is usually an obstruction formed in streets to block an enemy's access.
 noun (n.) Any bar, obstruction, or means of defense.
 noun (n.) To fortify or close with a barricade or with barricades; to stop up, as a passage; to obstruct; as, the workmen barricaded the streets of Paris.

bastinadenoun (n.) See Bastinado, n.
 verb (v. t.) To bastinado.

bladenoun (n.) Properly, the leaf, or flat part of the leaf, of any plant, especially of gramineous plants. The term is sometimes applied to the spire of grasses.
 noun (n.) The cutting part of an instrument; as, the blade of a knife or a sword.
 noun (n.) The broad part of an oar; also, one of the projecting arms of a screw propeller.
 noun (n.) The scapula or shoulder blade.
 noun (n.) The principal rafters of a roof.
 noun (n.) The four large shell plates on the sides, and the five large ones of the middle, of the carapace of the sea turtle, which yield the best tortoise shell.
 noun (n.) A sharp-witted, dashing, wild, or reckless, fellow; -- a word of somewhat indefinite meaning.
 noun (n.) The flat part of the tongue immediately behind the tip, or point.
 verb (v. t.) To furnish with a blade.
 verb (v. i.) To put forth or have a blade.

blockadenoun (n.) Hence, to shut in so as to prevent egress.
 noun (n.) To obstruct entrance to or egress from.
 verb (v. t.) The shutting up of a place by troops or ships, with the purpose of preventing ingress or egress, or the reception of supplies; as, the blockade of the ports of an enemy.
 verb (v. t.) An obstruction to passage.
 verb (v. t. ) To shut up, as a town or fortress, by investing it with troops or vessels or war for the purpose of preventing ingress or egress, or the introduction of supplies. See note under Blockade, n.

boutadenoun (n.) An outbreak; a caprice; a whim.

bravadenoun (n.) Bravado.

brigadenoun (n.) A body of troops, whether cavalry, artillery, infantry, or mixed, consisting of two or more regiments, under the command of a brigadier general.
 noun (n.) Any body of persons organized for acting or marching together under authority; as, a fire brigade.
 verb (v. t.) To form into a brigade, or into brigades.

brocadenoun (n.) Silk stuff, woven with gold and silver threads, or ornamented with raised flowers, foliage, etc.; -- also applied to other stuffs thus wrought and enriched.

cadenoun (n.) A barrel or cask, as of fish.
 noun (n.) A species of juniper (Juniperus Oxycedrus) of Mediterranean countries.
 adjective (a.) Bred by hand; domesticated; petted.
 verb (v. t.) To bring up or nourish by hand, or with tenderness; to coddle; to tame.

caladenoun (n.) A slope or declivity in a manege ground down which a horse is made to gallop, to give suppleness to his haunches.

cameradenoun (n.) See Comrade.

camisadenoun (n.) Alt. of Camisado

cannonadenoun (n.) The act of discharging cannon and throwing ball, shell, etc., for the purpose of destroying an army, or battering a town, ship, or fort; -- usually, an attack of some continuance.
 noun (n.) Fig.; A loud noise like a cannonade; a booming.
 verb (v. t.) To attack with heavy artillery; to batter with cannon shot.
 verb (v. i.) To discharge cannon; as, the army cannonaded all day.
  (imp. & p. p.) of Cannonade

carbonadenoun (n.) Alt. of Carbonado
 verb (v. t.) To cut (meat) across for frying or broiling; to cut or slice and broil.
 verb (v. t.) To cut or hack, as in fighting.

carronadenoun (n.) A kind of short cannon, formerly in use, designed to throw a large projectile with small velocity, used for the purpose of breaking or smashing in, rather than piercing, the object aimed at, as the side of a ship. It has no trunnions, but is supported on its carriage by a bolt passing through a loop on its under side.

cascadenoun (n.) A fall of water over a precipice, as in a river or brook; a waterfall less than a cataract.
 verb (v. i.) To fall in a cascade.
 verb (v. i.) To vomit.

cassonadenoun (n.) Raw sugar; sugar not refined.

cavalcadenoun (n.) A procession of persons on horseback; a formal, pompous march of horsemen by way of parade.

centigradeadjective (a.) Consisting of a hundred degrees; graduated into a hundred divisions or equal parts.
 adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the centigrade thermometer; as, 10¡ centigrade (or 10¡ C.).

chamadenoun (n.) A signal made for a parley by beat of a drum.

charadenoun (n.) A verbal or acted enigma based upon a word which has two or more significant syllables or parts, each of which, as well as the word itself, is to be guessed from the descriptions or representations.

ciliogradeadjective (a.) Moving by means of cilia, or cilialike organs; as, the ciliograde Medusae.

cirrigradeadjective (a.) Moving or moved by cirri, or hairlike appendages.

citigradenoun (n.) One of the Citigradae.
 adjective (a.) Pertaining to the Citigradae.

cockadenoun (n.) A badge, usually in the form of a rosette, or knot, and generally worn upon the hat; -- used as an indication of military or naval service, or party allegiance, and in England as a part of the livery to indicate that the wearer is the servant of a military or naval officer.

colonnadenoun (n.) A series or range of columns placed at regular intervals with all the adjuncts, as entablature, stylobate, roof, etc.

comradenoun (n.) A mate, companion, or associate.

cottonadenoun (n.) A somewhat stout and thick fabric of cotton.

couvadenoun (n.) A custom, among certain barbarous tribes, that when a woman gives birth to a child her husband takes to his bed, as if ill.

croisadenoun (n.) Alt. of Croisado

croupadenoun (n.) A leap in which the horse pulls up his hind legs toward his belly.

croustadenoun (n.) Bread baked in a mold, and scooped out, to serve minces upon.

crusadenoun (n.) Any one of the military expeditions undertaken by Christian powers, in the 11th, 12th, and 13th centuries, for the recovery of the Holy Land from the Mohammedans.
 noun (n.) Any enterprise undertaken with zeal and enthusiasm; as, a crusade against intemperance.
 noun (n.) A Portuguese coin. See Crusado.
 verb (v. i.) To engage in a crusade; to attack in a zealous or hot-headed manner.

decadenoun (n.) A group or division of ten; esp., a period of ten years; a decennium; as, a decade of years or days; a decade of soldiers; the second decade of Livy.

demibrigadenoun (n.) A half brigade.

digitigradenoun (n.) An animal that walks on its toes, as the cat, lion, wolf, etc.; -- distinguished from a plantigrade, which walks on the palm of the foot.
 adjective (a.) Walking on the toes; -- distinguished from plantigrade.

dragonnadenoun (n.) The severe persecution of French Protestants under Louis XIV., by an armed force, usually of dragoons; hence, a rapid and devastating incursion; dragoonade.

dragoonadenoun (n.) See Dragonnade.

ebrilladenoun (n.) A bridle check; a jerk of one rein, given to a horse when he refuses to turn.

ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH WADE (According to first letters):


Rhyming Words According to First 3 Letters (wad) - Words That Begins with wad:


wadnoun (n.) Woad.
 noun (n.) A little mass, tuft, or bundle, as of hay or tow.
 noun (n.) Specifically: A little mass of some soft or flexible material, such as hay, straw, tow, paper, or old rope yarn, used for retaining a charge of powder in a gun, or for keeping the powder and shot close; also, to diminish or avoid the effects of windage. Also, by extension, a dusk of felt, pasteboard, etc., serving a similar purpose.
 noun (n.) A soft mass, especially of some loose, fibrous substance, used for various purposes, as for stopping an aperture, padding a garment, etc.
 noun (n.) Alt. of Wadd
 verb (v. t.) To form into a mass, or wad, or into wadding; as, to wad tow or cotton.
 verb (v. t.) To insert or crowd a wad into; as, to wad a gun; also, to stuff or line with some soft substance, or wadding, like cotton; as, to wad a cloak.

waddingnoun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Wad
 noun (n.) A wad, or the materials for wads; any pliable substance of which wads may be made.
 noun (n.) Any soft stuff of loose texture, used for stuffing or padding garments; esp., sheets of carded cotton prepared for the purpose.

waddnoun (n.) An earthy oxide of manganese, or mixture of different oxides and water, with some oxide of iron, and often silica, alumina, lime, or baryta; black ocher. There are several varieties.
 noun (n.) Plumbago, or black lead.

waddlingnoun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Waddle

waddlernoun (n.) One who, or that which, waddles.

wadingnoun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Wade
  () a. & n. from Wade, v.

wadmolnoun (n.) A coarse, hairy, woolen cloth, formerly used for garments by the poor, and for various other purposes.

wadsetnoun (n.) A kind of pledge or mortgage.

wadsetternoun (n.) One who holds by a wadset.

wadynoun (n.) A ravine through which a brook flows; the channel of a water course, which is dry except in the rainy season.

waddienoun (n. & v.) See Waddy.

waddynoun (n.) An aboriginal war club.
 noun (n.) A piece of wood; stick; peg; also, a walking stick.
 verb (v. t.) To attack or beat with a waddy.

waddyingnoun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Waddy

waddywoodnoun (n.) An Australian tree (Pittosporum bicolor); also, its wood, used in making waddies.

ENGLISH WORDS BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH WADE:

English Words which starts with 'w' and ends with 'e':

wabblenoun (n.) A hobbling, unequal motion, as of a wheel unevenly hung; a staggering to and fro.
 verb (v. i.) To move staggeringly or unsteadily from one side to the other; to vacillate; to move the manner of a rotating disk when the axis of rotation is inclined to that of the disk; -- said of a turning or whirling body; as, a top wabbles; a buzz saw wabbles.

wackenoun (n.) Alt. of Wacky

waenoun (n.) A wave.

wafflenoun (n.) A thin cake baked and then rolled; a wafer.
 noun (n.) A soft indented cake cooked in a waffle iron.

waftagenoun (n.) Conveyance on a buoyant medium, as air or water.

wafturenoun (n.) The act of waving; a wavelike motion; a waft.

waggienoun (n.) The pied wagtail.

wagneritenoun (n.) A fluophosphate of magnesia, occurring in yellowish crystals, and also in massive forms.

wagonagenoun (n.) Money paid for carriage or conveyance in wagon.
 noun (n.) A collection of wagons; wagons, collectively.

wagonettenoun (n.) A kind of pleasure wagon, uncovered and with seats extended along the sides, designed to carry six or eight persons besides the driver.

wahabeenoun (n.) A follower of Abdel Wahab (b. 1691; d. 1787), a reformer of Mohammedanism. His doctrines prevail particularly among the Bedouins, and the sect, though checked in its influence, extends to most parts of Arabia, and also into India.

wainableadjective (a.) Capable of being plowed or cultivated; arable; tillable.

wainagenoun (n.) A finding of carriages, carts, etc., for the transportation of goods, produce, etc.
 noun (n.) See Gainage, a.

wainbotenoun (n.) See Cartbote. See also the Note under Bote.

waivurenoun (n.) See Waiver.

waiwodenoun (n.) See Waywode.

wakenoun (n.) The track left by a vessel in the water; by extension, any track; as, the wake of an army.
 noun (n.) The act of waking, or being awaked; also, the state of being awake.
 noun (n.) The state of forbearing sleep, especially for solemn or festive purposes; a vigil.
 noun (n.) An annual parish festival formerly held in commemoration of the dedication of a church. Originally, prayers were said on the evening preceding, and hymns were sung during the night, in the church; subsequently, these vigils were discontinued, and the day itself, often with succeeding days, was occupied in rural pastimes and exercises, attended by eating and drinking, often to excess.
 noun (n.) The sitting up of persons with a dead body, often attended with a degree of festivity, chiefly among the Irish.
 verb (v. i.) To be or to continue awake; to watch; not to sleep.
 verb (v. i.) To sit up late festive purposes; to hold a night revel.
 verb (v. i.) To be excited or roused from sleep; to awake; to be awakened; to cease to sleep; -- often with up.
 verb (v. i.) To be exited or roused up; to be stirred up from a dormant, torpid, or inactive state; to be active.
 verb (v. t.) To rouse from sleep; to awake.
 verb (v. t.) To put in motion or action; to arouse; to excite.
 verb (v. t.) To bring to life again, as if from the sleep of death; to reanimate; to revive.
 verb (v. t.) To watch, or sit up with, at night, as a dead body.

waketimenoun (n.) Time during which one is awake.

waldgravenoun (n.) In the old German empire, the head forest keeper.

walenoun (n.) A streak or mark made on the skin by a rod or whip; a stripe; a wheal. See Wheal.
 noun (n.) A ridge or streak rising above the surface, as of cloth; hence, the texture of cloth.
 noun (n.) A timber bolted to a row of piles to secure them together and in position.
 noun (n.) Certain sets or strakes of the outside planking of a vessel; as, the main wales, or the strakes of planking under the port sills of the gun deck; channel wales, or those along the spar deck, etc.
 noun (n.) A wale knot, or wall knot.
 verb (v. t.) To mark with wales, or stripes.
 verb (v. t.) To choose; to select; specifically (Mining), to pick out the refuse of (coal) by hand, in order to clean it.

walkableadjective (a.) Fit to be walked on; capable of being walked on or over.

wamblenoun (n.) Disturbance of the stomach; a feeling of nausea.
 verb (v. i.) To heave; to be disturbed by nausea; -- said of the stomach.
 verb (v. i.) To move irregularly to and fro; to roll.

wampeenoun (n.) A tree (Cookia punctata) of the Orange family, growing in China and the East Indies; also, its fruit, which is about the size of a large grape, and has a hard rind and a peculiar flavor.
 noun (n.) The pickerel weed.

wanenoun (n.) The decrease of the illuminated part of the moon to the eye of a spectator.
 noun (n.) Decline; failure; diminution; decrease; declension.
 noun (n.) An inequality in a board.
 noun (n.) The natural curvature of a log or of the edge of a board sawed from a log.
 verb (v. i.) To be diminished; to decrease; -- contrasted with wax, and especially applied to the illuminated part of the moon.
 verb (v. i.) To decline; to fail; to sink.
 verb (v. t.) To cause to decrease.

wangheenoun (n.) The Chinese name of one or two species of bamboo, or jointed cane, of the genus Phyllostachys. The slender stems are much used for walking sticks.

wanhopenoun (n.) Want of hope; despair; also, faint or delusive hope; delusion. [Obs.] Piers Plowman.

wankleadjective (a.) Not to be depended on; weak; unstable.

wantagenoun (n.) That which is wanting; deficiency.

wapentakenoun (n.) In some northern counties of England, a division, or district, answering to the hundred in other counties. Yorkshire, Lincolnshire, and Nottinghamshire are divided into wapentakes, instead of hundreds.

warblenoun (n.) A small, hard tumor which is produced on the back of a horse by the heat or pressure of the saddle in traveling.
 noun (n.) A small tumor produced by the larvae of the gadfly in the backs of horses, cattle, etc. Called also warblet, warbeetle, warnles.
 noun (n.) See Wormil.
 noun (n.) A quavering modulation of the voice; a musical trill; a song.
 verb (v. t.) To sing in a trilling, quavering, or vibratory manner; to modulate with turns or variations; to trill; as, certain birds are remarkable for warbling their songs.
 verb (v. t.) To utter musically; to modulate; to carol.
 verb (v. t.) To cause to quaver or vibrate.
 verb (v. i.) To be quavered or modulated; to be uttered melodiously.
 verb (v. i.) To sing in a trilling manner, or with many turns and variations.
 verb (v. i.) To sing with sudden changes from chest to head tones; to yodel.

wardmotenoun (n.) Anciently, a meeting of the inhabitants of a ward; also, a court formerly held in each ward of London for trying defaults in matters relating to the watch, police, and the like.

warenoun (n.) Seaweed.
 noun (n.) The state of being ware or aware; heed.
 adjective (a.) Articles of merchandise; the sum of articles of a particular kind or class; style or class of manufactures; especially, in the plural, goods; commodities; merchandise.
 adjective (a.) A ware; taking notice; hence, wary; cautious; on one's guard. See Beware.
 verb (v. t.) To wear, or veer. See Wear.
 verb (v. t.) To make ware; to warn; to take heed of; to beware of; to guard against.
  (imp.) Wore.

warehousenoun (n.) A storehouse for wares, or goods.
 verb (v. t.) To deposit or secure in a warehouse.
 verb (v. t.) To place in the warehouse of the government or customhouse stores, to be kept until duties are paid.

warencenoun (n.) Madder.

warfarenoun (n.) Military service; military life; contest carried on by enemies; hostilities; war.
 noun (n.) Contest; struggle.
 verb (v. i.) To lead a military life; to carry on continual wars.

warhableadjective (a.) Fit for war.

warianglenoun (n.) The red-backed shrike (Lanius collurio); -- called also wurger, worrier, and throttler.

warinenoun (n.) A South American monkey, one of the sapajous.

warlikeadjective (a.) Fit for war; disposed for war; as, a warlike state; a warlike disposition.
 adjective (a.) Belonging or relating to war; military; martial.

warpagenoun (n.) The act of warping; also, a charge per ton made on shipping in some harbors.

warrandicenoun (n.) The obligation by which a person, conveying a subject or a right, is bound to uphold that subject or right against every claim, challenge, or burden arising from circumstances prior to the conveyance; warranty.

warrantableadjective (a.) Authorized by commission, precept, or right; justifiable; defensible; as, the seizure of a thief is always warrantable by law and justice; falsehood is never warrantable.

warranteenoun (n.) The person to whom a warrant or warranty is made.

warrantisenoun (n.) Authority; security; warranty.
 verb (v. t.) To warrant.

warreadjective (a.) Worse.

warrianglenoun (n.) See Wariangle.

warwickitenoun (n.) A dark brown or black mineral, occurring in prismatic crystals imbedded in limestone near Warwick, New York. It consists of the borate and titanate of magnesia and iron.

wasenoun (n.) A bundle of straw, or other material, to relieve the pressure of burdens carried upon the head.

washableadjective (a.) Capable of being washed without damage to fabric or color.

washhousenoun (n.) An outbuilding for washing, esp. one for washing clothes; a laundry.

wasitenoun (n.) A variety of allanite from Sweden supposed to contain wasium.

wastagenoun (n.) Loss by use, decay, evaporation, leakage, or the like; waste.

wastenoun (n.) Material derived by mechanical and chemical erosion from the land, carried by streams to the sea.
 adjective (a.) Desolate; devastated; stripped; bare; hence, dreary; dismal; gloomy; cheerless.
 adjective (a.) Lying unused; unproductive; worthless; valueless; refuse; rejected; as, waste land; waste paper.
 adjective (a.) Lost for want of occupiers or use; superfluous.
 adjective (a.) To bring to ruin; to devastate; to desolate; to destroy.
 adjective (a.) To wear away by degrees; to impair gradually; to diminish by constant loss; to use up; to consume; to spend; to wear out.
 adjective (a.) To spend unnecessarily or carelessly; to employ prodigally; to expend without valuable result; to apply to useless purposes; to lavish vainly; to squander; to cause to be lost; to destroy by scattering or injury.
 adjective (a.) To damage, impair, or injure, as an estate, voluntarily, or by suffering the buildings, fences, etc., to go to decay.
 verb (v. i.) To be diminished; to lose bulk, substance, strength, value, or the like, gradually; to be consumed; to dwindle; to grow less.
 verb (v. i.) To procure or sustain a reduction of flesh; -- said of a jockey in preparation for a race, etc.
 verb (v.) The act of wasting, or the state of being wasted; a squandering; needless destruction; useless consumption or expenditure; devastation; loss without equivalent gain; gradual loss or decrease, by use, wear, or decay; as, a waste of property, time, labor, words, etc.
 verb (v.) That which is wasted or desolate; a devastated, uncultivated, or wild country; a deserted region; an unoccupied or unemployed space; a dreary void; a desert; a wilderness.
 verb (v.) That which is of no value; worthless remnants; refuse. Specifically: Remnants of cops, or other refuse resulting from the working of cotton, wool, hemp, and the like, used for wiping machinery, absorbing oil in the axle boxes of railway cars, etc.
 verb (v.) Spoil, destruction, or injury, done to houses, woods, fences, lands, etc., by a tenant for life or for years, to the prejudice of the heir, or of him in reversion or remainder.
 verb (v.) Old or abandoned workings, whether left as vacant space or filled with refuse.

watchhousenoun (n.) A house in which a watch or guard is placed.
 noun (n.) A place where persons under temporary arrest by the police of a city are kept; a police station; a lockup.

wateragenoun (n.) Money paid for transportation of goods, etc., by water.

waterhorsenoun (n.) A pile of salted fish heaped up to drain.

waterienoun (n.) The pied wagtail; -- so called because it frequents ponds.

waterscapenoun (n.) A sea view; -- distinguished from landscape.

wattlenoun (n.) A twig or flexible rod; hence, a hurdle made of such rods.
 noun (n.) A rod laid on a roof to support the thatch.
 noun (n.) A naked fleshy, and usually wrinkled and highly colored, process of the skin hanging from the chin or throat of a bird or reptile.
 noun (n.) Barbel of a fish.
 noun (n.) The astringent bark of several Australian trees of the genus Acacia, used in tanning; -- called also wattle bark.
 noun (n.) The trees from which the bark is obtained. See Savanna wattle, under Savanna.
 noun (n.) Material consisting of wattled twigs, withes, etc., used for walls, fences, and the like.
 noun (n.) In Australasia, any tree of the genus Acacia; -- so called from the wattles, or hurdles, which the early settlers made of the long, pliable branches or of the split stems of the slender species.
 verb (v. t.) To bind with twigs.
 verb (v. t.) To twist or interweave, one with another, as twigs; to form a network with; to plat; as, to wattle branches.
 verb (v. t.) To form, by interweaving or platting twigs.

wavellitenoun (n.) A hydrous phosphate of alumina, occurring usually in hemispherical radiated forms varying in color from white to yellow, green, or black.

wavurenoun (n.) See Waivure.

wavenoun (n.) Woe.
 noun (n.) Something resembling or likened to a water wave, as in rising unusually high, in being of unusual extent, or in progressive motion; a swelling or excitement, as of feeling or energy; a tide; flood; period of intensity, usual activity, or the like; as, a wave of enthusiasm.
 verb (v. t.) See Waive.
 verb (v. i.) To play loosely; to move like a wave, one way and the other; to float; to flutter; to undulate.
 verb (v. i.) To be moved to and fro as a signal.
 verb (v. i.) To fluctuate; to waver; to be in an unsettled state; to vacillate.
 verb (v. t.) To move one way and the other; to brandish.
 verb (v. t.) To raise into inequalities of surface; to give an undulating form a surface to.
 verb (v. t.) To move like a wave, or by floating; to waft.
 verb (v. t.) To call attention to, or give a direction or command to, by a waving motion, as of the hand; to signify by waving; to beckon; to signal; to indicate.
 verb (v. i.) An advancing ridge or swell on the surface of a liquid, as of the sea, resulting from the oscillatory motion of the particles composing it when disturbed by any force their position of rest; an undulation.
 verb (v. i.) A vibration propagated from particle to particle through a body or elastic medium, as in the transmission of sound; an assemblage of vibrating molecules in all phases of a vibration, with no phase repeated; a wave of vibration; an undulation. See Undulation.
 verb (v. i.) Water; a body of water.
 verb (v. i.) Unevenness; inequality of surface.
 verb (v. i.) A waving or undulating motion; a signal made with the hand, a flag, etc.
 verb (v. i.) The undulating line or streak of luster on cloth watered, or calendered, or on damask steel.
 verb (v. i.) Fig.: A swelling or excitement of thought, feeling, or energy; a tide; as, waves of enthusiasm.

wawenoun (n.) A wave.

wayfarenoun (n.) The act of journeying; travel; passage.
 verb (v. i.) To journey; to travel; to go to and fro.

waygatenoun (n.) The tailrace of a mill.

waysidenoun (n.) The side of the way; the edge or border of a road or path.
 adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the wayside; as, wayside flowers.

waywodenoun (n.) Originally, the title of a military commander in various Slavonic countries; afterwards applied to governors of towns or provinces. It was assumed for a time by the rulers of Moldavia and Wallachia, who were afterwards called hospodars, and has also been given to some inferior Turkish officers.

wearableadjective (a.) Capable of being worn; suitable to be worn.

weariableadjective (a.) That may be wearied.

wearisomeadjective (a.) Causing weariness; tiresome; tedious; weariful; as, a wearisome march; a wearisome day's work; a wearisome book.

weatherwiseadjective (a.) Skillful in forecasting the changes of the weather.

weavenoun (n.) A particular method or pattern of weaving; as, the cassimere weave.
 verb (v. t.) To unite, as threads of any kind, in such a manner as to form a texture; to entwine or interlace into a fabric; as, to weave wool, silk, etc.; hence, to unite by close connection or intermixture; to unite intimately.
 verb (v. t.) To form, as cloth, by interlacing threads; to compose, as a texture of any kind, by putting together textile materials; as, to weave broadcloth; to weave a carpet; hence, to form into a fabric; to compose; to fabricate; as, to weave the plot of a story.
 verb (v. i.) To practice weaving; to work with a loom.
 verb (v. i.) To become woven or interwoven.

webeyenoun (n.) See Web, n., 8.

websteritenoun (n.) A hydrous sulphate of alumina occurring in white reniform masses.

wedgenoun (n.) A piece of metal, or other hard material, thick at one end, and tapering to a thin edge at the other, used in splitting wood, rocks, etc., in raising heavy bodies, and the like. It is one of the six elementary machines called the mechanical powers. See Illust. of Mechanical powers, under Mechanical.
 noun (n.) A solid of five sides, having a rectangular base, two rectangular or trapezoidal sides meeting in an edge, and two triangular ends.
 noun (n.) A mass of metal, especially when of a wedgelike form.
 noun (n.) Anything in the form of a wedge, as a body of troops drawn up in such a form.
 noun (n.) The person whose name stands lowest on the list of the classical tripos; -- so called after a person (Wedgewood) who occupied this position on the first list of 1828.
 verb (v. t.) To cleave or separate with a wedge or wedges, or as with a wedge; to rive.
 verb (v. t.) To force or drive as a wedge is driven.
 verb (v. t.) To force by crowding and pushing as a wedge does; as, to wedge one's way.
 verb (v. t.) To press closely; to fix, or make fast, in the manner of a wedge that is driven into something.
 verb (v. t.) To fasten with a wedge, or with wedges; as, to wedge a scythe on the snath; to wedge a rail or a piece of timber in its place.
 verb (v. t.) To cut, as clay, into wedgelike masses, and work by dashing together, in order to expel air bubbles, etc.

weenoun (n.) A little; a bit, as of space, time, or distance.
 adjective (a.) Very small; little.

weftagenoun (n.) Texture.

weighableadjective (a.) Capable of being weighed.

weighagenoun (n.) A duty or toil paid for weighing merchandise.

weighbridgenoun (n.) A weighing machine on which loaded carts may be weighed; platform scales.

welcomenoun (n.) Received with gladness; admitted willingly to the house, entertainment, or company; as, a welcome visitor.
 noun (n.) Producing gladness; grateful; as, a welcome present; welcome news.
 noun (n.) Free to have or enjoy gratuitously; as, you are welcome to the use of my library.
 noun (n.) Salutation to a newcomer.
 noun (n.) Kind reception of a guest or newcomer; as, we entered the house and found a ready welcome.
 verb (v. t.) To salute with kindness, as a newcomer; to receive and entertain hospitably and cheerfully; as, to welcome a visitor; to welcome a new idea.

weldableadjective (a.) Capable of being welded.

welenoun (n.) Prosperity; happiness; well-being; weal.

welfarenoun (n.) Well-doing or well-being in any respect; the enjoyment of health and the common blessings of life; exemption from any evil or calamity; prosperity; happiness.

wellfarenoun (n.) See Welfare.

wellholenoun (n.) The open space in a floor, to accommodate a staircase.
 noun (n.) The open space left beyond the ends of the steps of a staircase.
 noun (n.) A cavity which receives a counterbalancing weight in certain mechanical contrivances, and is adapted also for other purposes.

welsomeadjective (a.) Prosperous; well.

werenoun (n.) A weir. See Weir.
 noun (n.) A man.
 noun (n.) A fine for slaying a man; the money value set upon a man's life; weregild.
 verb (v. t. & i.) To wear. See 3d Wear.
 verb (v. t.) To guard; to protect.
  () The imperfect indicative plural, and imperfect subjunctive singular and plural, of the verb be. See Be.

werneritenoun (n.) The common grayish or white variety of soapolite.

weroolenoun (n.) An Australian lorikeet (Ptilosclera versicolor) noted for the variety of its colors; -- called also varied lorikeet.

werrenoun (n.) War.

weryanglenoun (n.) See Wariangle.

whalenoun (n.) Any aquatic mammal of the order Cetacea, especially any one of the large species, some of which become nearly one hundred feet long. Whales are hunted chiefly for their oil and baleen, or whalebone.

whalebonenoun (n.) A firm, elastic substance resembling horn, taken from the upper jaw of the right whale; baleen. It is used as a stiffening in stays, fans, screens, and for various other purposes. See Baleen.

whamenoun (n.) A breeze fly.

whangheenoun (n.) See Wanghee.

wharfagenoun (n.) The fee or duty paid for the privilege of using a wharf for loading or unloading goods; pierage, collectively; quayage.
 noun (n.) A wharf or wharfs, collectively; wharfing.

wheelhousenoun (n.) A small house on or above a vessel's deck, containing the steering wheel.
 noun (n.) A paddle box. See under Paddle.

wheezenoun (n.) A piping or whistling sound caused by difficult respiration.
 noun (n.) An ordinary whisper exaggerated so as to produce the hoarse sound known as the "stage whisper." It is a forcible whisper with some admixture of tone.
 verb (v. i.) To breathe hard, and with an audible piping or whistling sound, as persons affected with asthma.

wherenoun (n.) Place; situation.
 adverb (adv.) At or in what place; hence, in what situation, position, or circumstances; -- used interrogatively.
 adverb (adv.) At or in which place; at the place in which; hence, in the case or instance in which; -- used relatively.
 adverb (adv.) To what or which place; hence, to what goal, result, or issue; whither; -- used interrogatively and relatively; as, where are you going?
  (pron. & conj.) Whether.
  (conj.) Whereas.