W

W

• • Waft

  • to wave, beckon
    To turn

  • Waftage

  • passage

  • Wafture

  • waving, beckoning

  • Wage

  • to reward as with wages

  • Wailful

  • lamentable

  • Waist

  • the middle of a ship

  • Wannion

  • 'with a vengeance.'

  • Wappened

  • withered, overworn

  • Ward

  • guard
    Prison

  • Warden

  • a large pear used for baking

  • Warder

  • truncheon

  • Warn

  • to summon

  • Wassail

  • a drinking bout
    Festivity

  • Wat

  • a familiar word for a hare

  • Watch

  • a watch light

  • Watch

  • to tame by keeping constantly awake

  • Water-gall

  • a secondary rainbow

  • Water-rug

  • a kind of dog

  • Water-work

  • painting in distemper

  • Wax

  • to grow

  • Waxen

  • perhaps, to hiccough

  • Wealth

  • weal, advantage

  • Wear

  • fashion

  • Weather-fend

  • to defend from the weather

  • Web And Pin

  • the cataract in the eye

  • Wee

  • small, tiny

  • Wee

  • to think

  • Weed

  • garment

  • Weet

  • to wit, know

  • Weigh Out

  • to outweigh

  • Welkin

  • the sky

  • Welkin

  • sky-blue

  • Well-liking

  • in good condition

  • Well Said

  • int. well done!

  • Wend

  • to go

  • Wesand

  • the wind-pipe

  • Whelk

  • a weal

  • Whelked

  • marked with whelks or protuberances

  • When

  • an exclamation of impatience

  • When

  • AS when

  • Where

  • whereas

  • Where

  • a place

  • Whiffler

  • an officer who clears the way in processions

  • While-ere

  • a little while ago

  • Whiles

  • until

  • Whip-stock

  • handle of a whip

  • Whist

  • hushed, silent

  • White

  • the centre of an archery butt

  • Whitely

  • pale-faced. A doubtful word

  • Whiting-time

  • bleaching time

  • Whitster

  • bleacher

  • Whittle

  • a clasp knife

  • Whoo-bub

  • hubbub

  • Whoop

  • to cry out with astonishment

  • Wicked

  • noisome, baneful

  • Widow

  • to give a jointure to

  • Widowhood

  • widow's jointure

  • Wight

  • person

  • Wild

  • weald

  • Wilderness

  • wildness

  • Wimpled

  • veiled, hooded

  • Window-bars

  • lattice-work across a woman's stomacher

  • Windring

  • winding

  • Winter-ground

  • to protect (a plant) from frost

  • Wis

  • in the compound 'I wis,' certainly

  • Wish

  • to commend

  • Wistly

  • wistfully

  • Wit

  • knowledge, wisdom

  • Without

  • beyond

  • Wits

  • five, the five senses

  • Wittol

  • a contented cuckold

  • Witty

  • intelligent

  • Woman-tired

  • hen-pecked

  • Wondered

  • marvellously gifted

  • Wood

  • mad

  • Woodcock

  • a simpleton

  • Woodman

  • a forester, huntsman
    A cant term for a wencher

  • Woolward

  • shirtless

  • Word

  • to flatter or put off with words
    To repeat the words of a song

  • World

  • 'To go to the world' is to get married
    So 'a woman of the world' is a married woman

  • Worm

  • a serpent

  • Worser

  • worse

  • Worship

  • to honour

  • Worth

  • wealth, fortune

  • Worts

  • cabbages

  • Wot

  • to know

  • Wound

  • twisted about

  • Wreak

  • vengeance

  • Wreak

  • to avenge

  • Wreakful

  • revengeful, avenging

  • Wrest

  • an instrument used for tuning a harp

  • Writ

  • gospel, truth

  • Writhled

  • shrivelled

  • Wroth

  • calamity, misfortune

  • Wrung

  • twisted, strained

  • Wry

  • to swerve