Wallaroo (n.) Any one of several species of kangaroos of the genus Macropus, especially M. robustus, sometimes called the great wallaroo.
Wallbird (n.) The spotted flycatcher.
Waller (n.) One who builds walls.
Waller (n.) The wels.
Wallerian degeneration () A form of degeneration occurring in nerve fibers as a result of their division; -- so called from Dr. Waller, who published an account of it in 1850.
Wallet (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.
Wallet (n.) A pocketbook for keeping money about the person.
Wallet (n.) Anything protuberant and swagging.
Walleteer (n.) One who carries a wallet; a foot traveler; a tramping beggar.
Wall-eye (n.) An eye in which the iris is of a very light gray or whitish color; -- said usually of horses.
Wall-eye (n.) An American fresh-water food fish (Stizostedion vitreum) having large and prominent eyes; -- called also glasseye, pike perch, yellow pike, and wall-eyed perch.
Wall-eye (n.) A California surf fish (Holconotus argenteus).
Wall-eye (n.) The alewife; -- called also wall-eyed herring.
Wall-eyed (a.) Having an eye of a very light gray or whitish color.
Wallflower (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.
Wallflower (n.) A lady at a ball, who, either from choice, or because not asked to dance, remains a spectator.
Wallhick (n.) The lesser spotted woodpecker (Dryobates minor).
Walling (n.) The act of making a wall or walls.
Walling (n.) Walls, in general; material for walls.
Walloons (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.
Wallop (v. i.) To move quickly, but with great effort; to gallop.
Wallop (n.) A quick, rolling movement; a gallop.
Walloped (imp. & p. p.) of Wallop
Walloping (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Wallop
Wallop (v. i.) To boil with a continued bubbling or heaving and rolling, with noise.
Wallop (v. i.) To move in a rolling, cumbersome manner; to waddle.
Wallop (v. i.) To be slatternly.
Wallop (v. t.) To beat soundly; to flog; to whip.
Wallop (v. t.) To wrap up temporarily.
Wallop (v. t.) To throw or tumble over.
Wallop (n.) A thick piece of fat.
Wallop (n.) A blow.
Wallowed (imp. & p. p.) of Wallow
Wallowing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Wallow
Wallow (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.
Wallow (n.) To live in filth or gross vice; to disport one's self in a beastly and unworthy manner.
Wallow (n.) To wither; to fade.
Wallow (v. t.) To roll; esp., to roll in anything defiling or unclean.
Wallow (n.) A kind of rolling walk.
Wallower (n.) One who, or that which, wallows.
Wallower (n.) A lantern wheel; a trundle.
Wallowish (a.) Flat; insipid.
Wall-plat (n.) The spotted flycatcher. It builds its nest on walls.
Wall-sided (a.) Having sides nearly perpendicular; -- said of certain vessels to distinguish them from those having flaring sides, or sides tumbling home (see under Tumble, v. i.).
Wallwort (n.) The dwarf elder, or danewort (Sambucus Ebulus).
Walm (v. i.) To roll; to spout; to boil up.
Walnut (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.
Walrus (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.
Walter (v. i.) To roll or wallow; to welter.
Waltron (n.) A walrus.
Walty (a.) Liable to roll over; crank; as, a walty ship.
Waltz (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.
Waltzed (imp. & p. p.) of Waltz
Waltzing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Waltz
Waltz (v. i.) To dance a waltz.
Waltzer (n.) A person who waltzes.
Walwe (v.) To wallow.
Waly (interj.) An exclamation of grief.
Wamble (v. i.) To heave; to be disturbed by nausea; -- said of the stomach.
Wamble (v. i.) To move irregularly to and fro; to roll.
Wamble (n.) Disturbance of the stomach; a feeling of nausea.
Wamble-cropped (a.) Sick at the stomach; also, crestfallen; dejected.
Wammel (v. i.) To move irregularly or awkwardly; to wamble, or wabble.
Wamp (n.) The common American eider.
Wampee (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.
Wampee (n.) The pickerel weed.
Wampum (n.) Beads made of shells, used by the North American Indians as money, and also wrought into belts, etc., as an ornament.
Wan (imp.) Won.
Wan (a.) Having a pale or sickly hue; languid of look; pale; pallid.
Wan (n.) The quality of being wan; wanness.
Wan (v. i.) To grow wan; to become pale or sickly in looks.
Wand (n.) A small stick; a rod; a verge.
Wand (n.) A staff of authority.
Wand (n.) A rod used by conjurers, diviners, magicians, etc.
Wandered (imp. & p. p.) of Wander
Wandering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Wander
Wander (v. i.) To ramble here and there without any certain course or with no definite object in view; to range about; to stroll; to rove; as, to wander over the fields.
Wander (v. i.) To go away; to depart; to stray off; to deviate; to go astray; as, a writer wanders from his subject.
Wander (v. i.) To be delirious; not to be under the guidance of reason; to rave; as, the mind wanders.
Wander (v. t.) To travel over without a certain course; to traverse; to stroll through.
Wanderer (n.) One who wanders; a rambler; one who roves; hence, one who deviates from duty.
Wandering () a. & n. from Wander, v.
Wanderingly (adv.) In a wandering manner.
Wanderment (n.) The act of wandering, or roaming.
Wanderoo (n.) A large monkey (Macacus silenus) native of Malabar. It is black, or nearly so, but has a long white or gray beard encircling the face. Called also maha, silenus, neelbhunder, lion-tailed baboon, and great wanderoo.
Wandy (a.) Long and flexible, like a wand.
Waned (imp. & p. p.) of Wane
Waning (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Wane
Wane (v. i.) To be diminished; to decrease; -- contrasted with wax, and especially applied to the illuminated part of the moon.
Wane (v. i.) To decline; to fail; to sink.
Wane (v. t.) To cause to decrease.
Wane (n.) The decrease of the illuminated part of the moon to the eye of a spectator.
Wane (n.) Decline; failure; diminution; decrease; declension.
Wane (n.) An inequality in a board.
Waney (n.) A sharp or uneven edge on a board that is cut from a log not perfectly squared, or that is made in the process of squaring. See Wany, a.
Wang (n.) The jaw, jawbone, or cheek bone.
Wang (n.) A slap; a blow.
Wang (n.) See Whang.
Wangan (n.) A boat for conveying provisions, tools, etc.; -- so called by Maine lumbermen.
Wanger (n.) A pillow for the cheek; a pillow.