Name Report For First Name WALFORD:

WALFORD

First name WALFORD's origin is English. WALFORD means "from the welshman's ford". You can find other first names and English words that rhymes with WALFORD below. Ryhme list involves the matching sounds according to the first letters, last letters and first&last letters of walford.(Brown names are of the same origin (English) with WALFORD and Red names are first names with English/Anglo-Saxon origin)

Rhymes with WALFORD - Names & Words

First Names Rhyming WALFORD

FIRST NAMES WHICH INCLUDES WALFORD AS A WHOLE:

 

NAMES RHYMING WITH WALFORD (According to last letters):

Rhyming Names According to Last 6 Letters (alford) - Names That Ends with alford:

salford talford alford halford

Rhyming Names According to Last 5 Letters (lford) - Names That Ends with lford:

watelford wilford telford welford gilford milford tilford

Rhyming Names According to Last 4 Letters (ford) - Names That Ends with ford:

ashford pickford ransford rexford stanford aescford aisford berford biecaford biford blandford blanford burhford clyford guifford haraford harford heanford huxeford jefford linford lynford oxnaford picford raedford rangford redford reeford rockford rufford ryscford salhford stamford steathford stefford twiford weiford wiellaford wylingford watford warford twyford sanford stafford safford rushford ruford radford oxford huxford hartford hanford gifford clifford byford burford bickford beresford hlaford bradford crawford ford hrytherford hwitford langford lawford orford rumford rutherford stratford whitford rayford

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

alvord cord kord raynord rexlord word ord

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

ballard cyneheard bard gotthard ceneward willard bayard cinnard kinnard reynard

NAMES RHYMING WITH WALFORD (According to first letters):

Rhyming Names According to First 6 Letters (walfor) - Names That Begins with walfor:

Rhyming Names According to First 5 Letters (walfo) - Names That Begins with walfo:

Rhyming Names According to First 4 Letters (walf) - Names That Begins with walf:

walfr walfred walfrid

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

walborga walborgd walbridge walbrydge walby walcot walcott walda waldburga waldemar waldemarr walden waldhramm waldhurga waldifrid waldmunt waldo waldon waldr waldrom waldron waleed waleis walid walidah walker wallace wallache waller wallis walliyullah wally walmond walsh walt walten walter walthari walton waluyo walworth walwyn

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

wa'il wacfeld wachiru wachiwi wacian wacleah wacuman wada wadanhyll wade wadi wadley wadsworth 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

NAMES BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH WALFORD:

First Names which starts with 'wal' and ends with 'ord':

First Names which starts with 'wa' and ends with 'rd':

ward

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

warfield wayland weard wegland weifield weyland whitfield widad wilfred wilfrid wilfryd willhard willifrid willimod wilmod winefield winfield winfred winfrid winifred winifrid winswod winward winwood woodward wudoweard wyifrid wynfield wynfrid wynward

English Words Rhyming WALFORD

ENGLISH WORDS WHICH INCLUDES WALFORD AS A WHOLE:



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


Rhyming Words According to Last 6 Letters (alford) - English Words That Ends with alford:



Rhyming Words According to Last 5 Letters (lford) - English Words That Ends with lford:


telfordadjective (a.) Designating, or pert. to, a road pavement having a surface of small stone rolled hard and smooth, distinguished from macadam road by its firm foundation of large stones with fragments of stone wedged tightly, in the interstices; as, telford pavement, road, etc.


Rhyming Words According to Last 4 Letters (ford) - English Words That Ends with ford:


crawfordnoun (n.) A Crawford peach; a well-known freestone peach, with yellow flesh, first raised by Mr. William Crawford, of New Jersey.

hartfordnoun (n.) The Hartford grape, a variety of grape first raised at Hartford, Connecticut, from the Northern fox grape. Its large dark-colored berries ripen earlier than those of most other kinds.

herefordnoun (n.) One of a breed of cattle originating in Herefordshire, England. The Herefords are good working animals, and their beef-producing quality is excellent.

oxfordadjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the city or university of Oxford, England.


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


abordnoun (n.) Manner of approaching or accosting; address.
 verb (v. t.) To approach; to accost.

backswordnoun (n.) A sword with one sharp edge.
 noun (n.) In England, a stick with a basket handle, used in rustic amusements; also, the game in which the stick is used. Also called singlestick.

bedcordnoun (n.) A cord or rope interwoven in a bedstead so as to support the bed.

bordnoun (n.) A board; a table.
 noun (n.) The face of coal parallel to the natural fissures.
 noun (n.) See Bourd.

broadswordnoun (n.) A sword with a broad blade and a cutting edge; a claymore.

bywordnoun (n.) A common saying; a proverb; a saying that has a general currency.
 noun (n.) The object of a contemptuous saying.

catchwordnoun (n.) Among theatrical performers, the last word of the preceding speaker, which reminds one that he is to speak next; cue.
 noun (n.) The first word of any page of a book after the first, inserted at the right hand bottom corner of the preceding page for the assistance of the reader. It is seldom used in modern printing.
 noun (n.) A word or phrase caught up and repeated for effect; as, the catchword of a political party, etc.

chordnoun (n.) The string of a musical instrument.
 noun (n.) A combination of tones simultaneously performed, producing more or less perfect harmony, as, the common chord.
 noun (n.) A right line uniting the extremities of the arc of a circle or curve.
 noun (n.) A cord. See Cord, n., 4.
 noun (n.) The upper or lower part of a truss, usually horizontal, resisting compression or tension.
 verb (v. t.) To provide with musical chords or strings; to string; to tune.
 verb (v. i.) To accord; to harmonize together; as, this note chords with that.

clarichordnoun (n.) A musical instrument, formerly in use, in form of a spinet; -- called also manichord and clavichord.

clavichordnoun (n.) A keyed stringed instrument, now superseded by the pianoforte. See Clarichord.

concordnoun (n.) A state of agreement; harmony; union.
 noun (n.) Agreement by stipulation; compact; covenant; treaty or league.
 noun (n.) Agreement of words with one another, in gender, number, person, or case.
 noun (n.) An agreement between the parties to a fine of land in reference to the manner in which it should pass, being an acknowledgment that the land in question belonged to the complainant. See Fine.
 noun (n.) An agreeable combination of tones simultaneously heard; a consonant chord; consonance; harmony.
 noun (n.) A variety of American grape, with large dark blue (almost black) grapes in compact clusters.
 verb (v. i.) To agree; to act together.

cordnoun (n.) A string, or small rope, composed of several strands twisted together.
 noun (n.) A solid measure, equivalent to 128 cubic feet; a pile of wood, or other coarse material, eight feet long, four feet high, and four feet broad; -- originally measured with a cord or line.
 noun (n.) Fig.: Any moral influence by which persons are caught, held, or drawn, as if by a cord; an enticement; as, the cords of the wicked; the cords of sin; the cords of vanity.
 noun (n.) Any structure having the appearance of a cord, esp. a tendon or a nerve. See under Spermatic, Spinal, Umbilical, Vocal.
 noun (n.) See Chord.
 verb (v. t.) To bind with a cord; to fasten with cords; to connect with cords; to ornament or finish with a cord or cords, as a garment.
 verb (v. t.) To arrange (wood, etc.) in a pile for measurement by the cord.
  (imp. & p. p.) of Core

decachordnoun (n.) Alt. of Decachordon

disaccordnoun (n.) Disagreement.
 verb (v. i.) To refuse to assent.

discordnoun (n.) To disagree; to be discordant; to jar; to clash; not to suit.
 verb (v. i.) Want of concord or agreement; absence of unity or harmony in sentiment or action; variance leading to contention and strife; disagreement; -- applied to persons or to things, and to thoughts, feelings, or purposes.
 verb (v. i.) Union of musical sounds which strikes the ear harshly or disagreeably, owing to the incommensurability of the vibrations which they produce; want of musical concord or harmony; a chord demanding resolution into a concord.

disordnoun (n.) Disorder.

fiordnoun (n.) A narrow inlet of the sea, penetrating between high banks or rocks, as on the coasts of Norway and Alaska.

fjordnoun (n.) See Fiord.

forewordnoun (n.) A preface.

gordnoun (n.) An instrument of gaming; a sort of dice.

harpsichordnoun (n.) A harp-shaped instrument of music set horizontally on legs, like the grand piano, with strings of wire, played by the fingers, by means of keys provided with quills, instead of hammers, for striking the strings. It is now superseded by the piano.

heptachordnoun (n.) A system of seven sounds.
 noun (n.) A lyre with seven chords.
 noun (n.) A composition sung to the sound of seven chords or tones.

hexachordnoun (n.) A series of six notes, with a semitone between the third and fourth, the other intervals being whole tones.

koordnoun (n.) See Kurd.

landlordnoun (n.) The lord of a manor, or of land; the owner of land or houses which he leases to a tenant or tenants.
 noun (n.) The master of an inn or of a lodging house.

loordnoun (n.) A dull, stupid fellow; a drone.

lordnoun (n.) A hump-backed person; -- so called sportively.
 noun (n.) One who has power and authority; a master; a ruler; a governor; a prince; a proprietor, as of a manor.
 noun (n.) A titled nobleman., whether a peer of the realm or not; a bishop, as a member of the House of Lords; by courtesy; the son of a duke or marquis, or the eldest son of an earl; in a restricted sense, a boron, as opposed to noblemen of higher rank.
 noun (n.) A title bestowed on the persons above named; and also, for honor, on certain official persons; as, lord advocate, lord chamberlain, lord chancellor, lord chief justice, etc.
 noun (n.) A husband.
 noun (n.) One of whom a fee or estate is held; the male owner of feudal land; as, the lord of the soil; the lord of the manor.
 noun (n.) The Supreme Being; Jehovah.
 noun (n.) The Savior; Jesus Christ.
 verb (v. t.) To invest with the dignity, power, and privileges of a lord.
 verb (v. t.) To rule or preside over as a lord.
 verb (v. i.) To play the lord; to domineer; to rule with arbitrary or despotic sway; -- sometimes with over; and sometimes with it in the manner of a transitive verb.

miswordnoun (n.) A word wrongly spoken; a cross word.
 verb (v. t.) To word wrongly; as, to misword a message, or a sentence.

monochordnoun (n.) An instrument for experimenting upon the mathematical relations of musical sounds. It consists of a single string stretched between two bridges, one or both of which are movable, and which stand upon a graduated rule for the purpose of readily changing and measuring the length of the part of the string between them.

milordnoun (n.) Lit., my lord; hence (as used on the Continent), an English nobleman or gentleman.

naywordnoun (n.) A byword; a proverb; also, a watchword.

neurochordadjective (a.) Alt. of Neurochordal

neurocordnoun (n.) A cordlike organ composed of elastic fibers situated above the ventral nervous cord of annelids, like the earthworm.

notochordnoun (n.) An elastic cartilagelike rod which is developed beneath the medullary groove in the vertebrate embryo, and constitutes the primitive axial skeleton around which the centra of the vertebrae and the posterior part of the base of the skull are developed; the chorda dorsalis. See Illust. of Ectoderm.

octachordnoun (n.) An instrument of eight strings; a system of eight tones.

octochordnoun (n.) See Octachord.

ordnoun (n.) An edge or point; also, a beginning.

overlordnoun (n.) One who is lord over another or others; a superior lord; a master.

passwordnoun (n.) A word to be given before a person is allowed to pass; a watchword; a countersign.

pentachordnoun (n.) An ancient instrument of music with five strings.
 noun (n.) An order or system of five sounds.

polychordnoun (n.) A musical instrument of ten strings.
 noun (n.) An apparatus for coupling two octave notes, capable of being attached to a keyed instrument.
 adjective (a.) Having many strings.

rheochordnoun (n.) A metallic wire used for regulating the resistance of a circuit, or varying the strength of an electric current, by inserting a greater or less length of it in the circuit.

seabordnoun (n. & a.) See Seaboard.

smallswordnoun (n.) A light sword used for thrusting only; especially, the sword worn by civilians of rank in the eighteenth century.

soordnoun (n.) Skin of bacon.

sordnoun (n.) See Sward.

swordnoun (n.) An offensive weapon, having a long and usually sharp/pointed blade with a cutting edge or edges. It is the general term, including the small sword, rapier, saber, scimiter, and many other varieties.
 noun (n.) Hence, the emblem of judicial vengeance or punishment, or of authority and power.
 noun (n.) Destruction by the sword, or in battle; war; dissension.
 noun (n.) The military power of a country.
 noun (n.) One of the end bars by which the lay of a hand loom is suspended.

tetrachordnoun (n.) A scale series of four sounds, of which the extremes, or first and last, constituted a fourth. These extremes were immutable; the two middle sounds were changeable.

trichordnoun (n.) An instrument, as a lyre or harp, having three strings.

urochordnoun (n.) The central axis or cord in the tail of larval ascidians and of certain adult tunicates.

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


Rhyming Words According to First 6 Letters (walfor) - Words That Begins with walfor:



Rhyming Words According to First 5 Letters (walfo) - Words That Begins with walfo:



Rhyming Words According to First 4 Letters (walf) - Words That Begins with walf:



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


waldnoun (n.) A forest; -- used as a termination of names. See Weald.

waldensesnoun (n. pl.) A sect of dissenters from the ecclesiastical system of the Roman Catholic Church, who in the 13th century were driven by persecution to the valleys of Piedmont, where the sect survives. They profess substantially Protestant principles.

waldensiannoun (n.) One Holding the Waldensian doctrines.
 adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the Waldenses.

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

waldheimianoun (n.) A genus of brachiopods of which many species are found in the fossil state. A few still exist in the deep sea.

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.

walhallanoun (n.) See Valhalla.

walingnoun (n.) Same as Wale, n., 4.

walkingnoun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Walk
  () a. & n. from Walk, v.

walknoun (n.) The act of walking, or moving on the feet with a slow pace; advance without running or leaping.
 noun (n.) The act of walking for recreation or exercise; as, a morning walk; an evening walk.
 noun (n.) Manner of walking; gait; step; as, we often know a person at a distance by his walk.
 noun (n.) That in or through which one walks; place or distance walked over; a place for walking; a path or avenue prepared for foot passengers, or for taking air and exercise; way; road; hence, a place or region in which animals may graze; place of wandering; range; as, a sheep walk.
 noun (n.) A frequented track; habitual place of action; sphere; as, the walk of the historian.
 noun (n.) Conduct; course of action; behavior.
 noun (n.) The route or district regularly served by a vender; as, a milkman's walk.
 noun (n.) In coffee, coconut, and other plantations, the space between them.
 noun (n.) A place for keeping and training puppies.
 noun (n.) An inclosed area of some extent to which a gamecock is confined to prepare him for fighting.
 verb (v. i.) To move along on foot; to advance by steps; to go on at a moderate pace; specifically, of two-legged creatures, to proceed at a slower or faster rate, but without running, or lifting one foot entirely before the other touches the ground.
 verb (v. i.) To move or go on the feet for exercise or amusement; to take one's exercise; to ramble.
 verb (v. i.) To be stirring; to be abroad; to go restlessly about; -- said of things or persons expected to remain quiet, as a sleeping person, or the spirit of a dead person; to go about as a somnambulist or a specter.
 verb (v. i.) To be in motion; to act; to move; to wag.
 verb (v. i.) To behave; to pursue a course of life; to conduct one's self.
 verb (v. i.) To move off; to depart.
 verb (v. t.) To pass through, over, or upon; to traverse; to perambulate; as, to walk the streets.
 verb (v. t.) To cause to walk; to lead, drive, or ride with a slow pace; as to walk one's horses.
 verb (v. t.) To subject, as cloth or yarn, to the fulling process; to full.
 verb (v. t.) To put or keep (a puppy) in a walk; to train (puppies) in a walk.
 verb (v. t.) To move in a manner likened to walking.

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

walkernoun (n.) One who walks; a pedestrian.
 noun (n.) That with which one walks; a foot.
 noun (n.) A forest officer appointed to walk over a certain space for inspection; a forester.
 verb (v. t.) A fuller of cloth.
 verb (v. t.) Any ambulatorial orthopterous insect, as a stick insect.

walkyrnoun (n.) See Valkyria.

wallnoun (n.) A kind of knot often used at the end of a rope; a wall knot; a wale.
 noun (n.) A work or structure of stone, brick, or other materials, raised to some height, and intended for defense or security, solid and permanent inclosing fence, as around a field, a park, a town, etc., also, one of the upright inclosing parts of a building or a room.
 noun (n.) A defense; a rampart; a means of protection; in the plural, fortifications, in general; works for defense.
 noun (n.) An inclosing part of a receptacle or vessel; as, the walls of a steam-engine cylinder.
 noun (n.) The side of a level or drift.
 noun (n.) The country rock bounding a vein laterally.
 verb (v. t.) To inclose with a wall, or as with a wall.
 verb (v. t.) To defend by walls, or as if by walls; to fortify.
 verb (v. t.) To close or fill with a wall, as a doorway.

wallingnoun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Wall
 noun (n.) The act of making a wall or walls.
 noun (n.) Walls, in general; material for walls.

wallabanoun (n.) A leguminous tree (Eperua falcata) of Demerara, with pinnate leaves and clusters of red flowers. The reddish brown wood is used for palings and shingles.

wallabynoun (n.) Any one of numerous species of kangaroos belonging to the genus Halmaturus, native of Australia and Tasmania, especially the smaller species, as the brush kangaroo (H. Bennettii) and the pademelon (H. thetidis). The wallabies chiefly inhabit the wooded district and bushy plains.

wallahnoun (n.) A black variety of the jaguar; -- called also tapir tiger.

wallaroonoun (n.) Any one of several species of kangaroos of the genus Macropus, especially M. robustus, sometimes called the great wallaroo.

wallbirdnoun (n.) The spotted flycatcher.

wallernoun (n.) One who builds walls.
 noun (n.) The wels.

walletnoun (n.) A bag or sack for carrying about the person, as a bag for carrying the necessaries for a journey; a knapsack; a beggar's receptacle for charity; a peddler's pack.
 noun (n.) A pocketbook for keeping money about the person.
 noun (n.) Anything protuberant and swagging.

walleteernoun (n.) One who carries a wallet; a foot traveler; a tramping beggar.

wallflowernoun (n.) A perennial, cruciferous plant (Cheiranthus Cheiri), with sweet-scented flowers varying in color from yellow to orange and deep red. In Europe it very common on old walls.
 noun (n.) A lady at a ball, who, either from choice, or because not asked to dance, remains a spectator.
 noun (n.) In Australia, the desert poison bush (Gastrolobium grandiflorum); -- called also native wallflower.

wallhicknoun (n.) The lesser spotted woodpecker (Dryobates minor).

walloonsnoun (n. pl.) A Romanic people inhabiting that part of Belgium which comprises the provinces of Hainaut, Namur, Liege, and Luxembourg, and about one third of Brabant; also, the language spoken by this people. Used also adjectively.

wallopnoun (n.) A quick, rolling movement; a gallop.
 noun (n.) A thick piece of fat.
 noun (n.) A blow.
 verb (v. i.) To move quickly, but with great effort; to gallop.
 verb (v. i.) To boil with a continued bubbling or heaving and rolling, with noise.
 verb (v. i.) To move in a rolling, cumbersome manner; to waddle.
 verb (v. i.) To be slatternly.
 verb (v. t.) To beat soundly; to flog; to whip.
 verb (v. t.) To wrap up temporarily.
 verb (v. t.) To throw or tumble over.

wallopingnoun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Wallop

wallowingnoun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Wallow

wallownoun (n.) To roll one's self about, as in mire; to tumble and roll about; to move lazily or heavily in any medium; to flounder; as, swine wallow in the mire.
 noun (n.) To live in filth or gross vice; to disport one's self in a beastly and unworthy manner.
 noun (n.) To wither; to fade.
 noun (n.) A kind of rolling walk.
 noun (n.) Act of wallowing.
 noun (n.) A place to which an animal comes to wallow; also, the depression in the ground made by its wallowing; as, a buffalo wallow.
 verb (v. t.) To roll; esp., to roll in anything defiling or unclean.

wallowernoun (n.) One who, or that which, wallows.
 noun (n.) A lantern wheel; a trundle.

wallowishadjective (a.) Flat; insipid.

wallwortnoun (n.) The dwarf elder, or danewort (Sambucus Ebulus).

walnutnoun (n.) The fruit or nut of any tree of the genus Juglans; also, the tree, and its timber. The seven or eight known species are all natives of the north temperate zone.

walrusnoun (n.) A very large marine mammal (Trichecus rosmarus) of the Seal family, native of the Arctic Ocean. The male has long and powerful tusks descending from the upper jaw. It uses these in procuring food and in fighting. It is hunted for its oil, ivory, and skin. It feeds largely on mollusks. Called also morse.

waltronnoun (n.) A walrus.

waltyadjective (a.) Liable to roll over; crank; as, a walty ship.

waltznoun (n.) A dance performed by two persons in circular figures with a whirling motion; also, a piece of music composed in triple measure for this kind of dance.
 verb (v. i.) To dance a waltz.

waltzingnoun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Waltz

waltzernoun (n.) A person who waltzes.

walernoun (n.) A horse imported from New South Wales; also, any Australian horse.

wallachiannoun (n.) An inhabitant of Wallachia; also, the language of the Wallachians; Roumanian.
 adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to Wallachia, a former principality, now part of the kingdom, of Roumania.

wallacknoun (a. & n.) See Wallachian.

ENGLISH WORDS BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH WALFORD:

English Words which starts with 'wal' and ends with 'ord':



English Words which starts with 'wa' and ends with 'rd':

wardnoun (n.) One who, or that which, guards; garrison; defender; protector; means of guarding; defense; protection.
 noun (n.) The state of being under guard or guardianship; confinement under guard; the condition of a child under a guardian; custody.
 noun (n.) A guarding or defensive motion or position, as in fencing; guard.
 noun (n.) One who, or that which, is guarded.
 noun (n.) A minor or person under the care of a guardian; as, a ward in chancery.
 noun (n.) A division of a county.
 noun (n.) A division, district, or quarter of a town or city.
 noun (n.) A division of a forest.
 noun (n.) A division of a hospital; as, a fever ward.
 noun (n.) A projecting ridge of metal in the interior of a lock, to prevent the use of any key which has not a corresponding notch for passing it.
 noun (n.) A notch or slit in a key corresponding to a ridge in the lock which it fits; a ward notch.
 noun (n.) To keep in safety; to watch; to guard; formerly, in a specific sense, to guard during the day time.
 noun (n.) To defend; to protect.
 noun (n.) To defend by walls, fortifications, etc.
 noun (n.) To fend off; to repel; to turn aside, as anything mischievous that approaches; -- usually followed by off.
 adjective (a.) The act of guarding; watch; guard; guardianship; specifically, a guarding during the day. See the Note under Watch, n., 1.
 verb (v. i.) To be vigilant; to keep guard.
 verb (v. i.) To act on the defensive with a weapon.

washboardnoun (n.) A fluted, or ribbed, board on which clothes are rubbed in washing them.
 noun (n.) A board running round, and serving as a facing for, the walls of a room, next to the floor; a mopboard.
 noun (n.) A broad, thin plank, fixed along the gunwale of boat to keep the sea from breaking inboard; also, a plank on the sill of a lower deck port, for the same purpose; -- called also wasteboard.

wasteboardnoun (n.) See Washboard, 3.

watchwordnoun (n.) A word given to sentinels, and to such as have occasion to visit the guards, used as a signal by which a friend is known from an enemy, or a person who has a right to pass the watch from one who has not; a countersign; a password.
 noun (n.) A sentiment or motto; esp., one used as a rallying cry or a signal for action.

waterboardnoun (n.) A board set up to windward in a boat, to keep out water.

wattlebirdnoun (n.) Any one of several species of honey eaters belonging to Anthochaera and allied genera of the family Meliphagidae. These birds usually have a large and conspicuous wattle of naked skin hanging down below each ear. They are natives of Australia and adjacent islands.
 noun (n.) The Australian brush turkey.

waywardadjective (a.) Taking one's own way; disobedient; froward; perverse; willful.