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Worthful (?), a. Full of worth; worthy; deserving. Marston.
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Worthily (?), adv. In a worthy manner; excellently; deservedly; according to merit; justly; suitably; becomingly.
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You worthily succeed not only to the honors of your ancestors, but also to their virtues. Dryden.
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Some may very worthily deserve to be hated. South.
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Worthiness, n. The quality or state of being worthy; desert; merit; excellence; dignity; virtue; worth.
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Who is sure he hath a soul, unless
It see, and judge, and follow worthiness? Donne.
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She is not worthy to be loved that hath not some feeling of her own worthiness. Sir P. Sidney.
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The prayers which our Savior made were for his own worthiness accepted. Hooker.
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Worthless (?), a. [AS. weorðleás.] Destitute of worth; having no value, virtue, excellence, dignity, or the like; undeserving; valueless; useless; vile; mean; as, a worthless garment; a worthless ship; a worthless man or woman; a worthless magistrate.
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'T is a worthless world to win or lose. Byron.
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-- Worthlessly, adv. -- Worthlessness, n.
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Worthy (?), a. [Compar. Worthier (�); superl. Worthiest.] [OE. worthi, wurþi, from worth, wurþ, n.; cf. Icel. verðugr, D. waardig, G. würdig, OHG. wirdīg. See , n.]
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1. Having worth or excellence; possessing merit; valuable; deserving; estimable; excellent; virtuous.
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Full worthy was he in his lordes war. Chaucer.
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These banished men that I have kept withal
Are men endued with worthy qualities. Shak.
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Happier thou mayst be, worthier canst not be. Milton.
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This worthy mind should worthy things embrace. Sir J. Davies.
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2. Having suitable, adapted, or equivalent qualities or value; -- usually with of before the thing compared or the object; more rarely, with a following infinitive instead of of, or with that; as, worthy of, equal in excellence, value, or dignity to; entitled to; meriting; -- usually in a good sense, but sometimes in a bad one.
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No, Warwick, thou art worthy of the sway. Shak.
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The merciless Macdonwald,
Worthy to be a rebel. Shak.
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Whose shoes I am not worthy to bear. Matt. iii. 11.
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And thou art worthy that thou shouldst not know
More happiness. Milton.
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The lodging is well worthy of the guest. Dryden.
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3. Of high station; of high social position. [Obs.]
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Worthy women of the town. Chaucer.
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Coloq. Worthiest of blood (Eng. Law of Descent), most worthy of those of the same blood to succeed or inherit; -- applied to males, and expressive of the preference given them over females. Burrill.
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Worthy, n.; pl. Worthies (�). A man of eminent worth or value; one distinguished for useful and estimable qualities; a person of conspicuous desert; -- much used in the plural; as, the worthies of the church; political worthies; military worthies.
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The blood of ancient worthies in his veins. Cowper.
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Worthy, v. t. To render worthy; to exalt into a hero. [Obs.] Shak.
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Wost (?), 2d pers. sing. pres. of , to know. [Obs.] Spenser.
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Wot (?), 1st & 3d pers. sing. pres. of , to know. See the under , v. [Obs.]
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Brethren, I wot that through ignorance ye did it. Acts iii. 17.
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{ Wotest (?), Wottest, } 2d pers. sing. pres. of , to know. [Obs.]
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{ Woteth (?), Wotteth, } 3d pers. sing. pres. of , to know. [Obs.] “He wotteth neither what he babbleth, nor what he meaneth.” Tyndale.
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Woul (?), v. i. To howl. [Obs.] Wyclif.
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Would (?), imp. of . [OE. & AS. wolde. See , v. t.] Commonly used as an auxiliary verb, either in the past tense or in the conditional or optative present. See 2d & 3d .
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☞ Would was formerly used also as the past participle of .
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Right as our Lord hath would. Chaucer.
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Would (?), n. See 2d .
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Would-be (�), a. Desiring or professing to be; vainly pretending to be; as, a would-be poet.
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Woulding, n. Emotion of desire; inclination; velleity. [Obs.] Hammond.
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Wouldingness, n. Willingness; desire. [Obs.]
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Woulfe bottle (?), n. (Chem.) A kind of wash bottle with two or three necks; -- so called after the inventor, Peter Woulfe, an English chemist.
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Wound (?), imp. & p. p. of to twist, and to sound by blowing.
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Wound (?; 277), n. [OE. wounde, wunde, AS. wund; akin to OFries. wunde, OS. wunda, D. wonde, OHG. wunta, G. wunde, Icel. und, and to AS., OS., & G. wund sore, wounded, OHG. wunt, Goth. wunds, and perhaps also to Goth. winnan to suffer, E. win. √140. Cf. Zounds.]
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1. A hurt or injury caused by violence; specifically, a breach of the skin and flesh of an animal, or in the substance of any creature or living thing; a cut, stab, rent, or the like. Chaucer.
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Showers of blood
Rained from the wounds of slaughtered Englishmen. Shak.
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2. Fig.: An injury, hurt, damage, detriment, or the like, to feeling, faculty, reputation, etc.
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3. (Criminal Law) An injury to the person by which the skin is divided, or its continuity broken; a lesion of the body, involving some solution of continuity.
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☞ Walker condemns the pronunciation woond as a “capricious novelty.” It is certainly opposed to an important principle of our language, namely, that the Old English long sound written ou, and pronounced like French ou or modern English oo, has regularly changed, when accented, into the diphthongal sound usually written with the same letters ou in modern English, as in ground, hound, round, sound. The use of ou in Old English to represent the sound of modern English oo was borrowed from the French, and replaced the older and Anglo-Saxon spelling with u. It makes no difference whether the word was taken from the French or not, provided it is old enough in English to have suffered this change to what is now the common sound of ou; but words taken from the French at a later time, or influenced by French, may have the French sound.
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Coloq. Wound gall (Zoöl.), an elongated swollen or tuberous gall on the branches of the grapevine, caused by a small reddish brown weevil (Ampeloglypter sesostris) whose larvæ inhabit the galls.
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Wound (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Wounded; p. pr. & vb. n. Wounding.] [AS. wundian. √140. See , n.]
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1. To hurt by violence; to produce a breach, or separation of parts, in, as by a cut, stab, blow, or the like.
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The archers hit him; and he was sore wounded of the archers. 1 Sam. xxxi. 3.
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2. To hurt the feelings of; to pain by disrespect, ingratitude, or the like; to cause injury to.
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When ye sin so against the brethren, and wound their weak conscience, ye sin against Christ. 1 Cor. viii. 12.
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Woundable (?), a. Capable of being wounded; vulnerable. [R.] Fuller.
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Wounder (?), n. One who, or that which, wounds.
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Woundily (?), adv. In a woundy manner; excessively; woundy. [Obs.]
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Woundless (?), a. Free from wound or hurt; exempt from being wounded; invulnerable. “Knights whose woundless armor rusts.” Spenser.
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[Slander] may miss our name,
And hit the woundless air. Shak.
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Woundwort (?), n. (Bot.) Any one of certain plants whose soft, downy leaves have been used for dressing wounds, as the kidney vetch, and several species of the labiate genus Stachys.
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Woundy (?), a. Excessive. [Obs.]
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Such a world of holidays, that 't a woundy hindrance to a poor man that lives by his labor. L'Estrange.
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Woundy, adv. Excessively; extremely. [Obs.]
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A am woundy cold. Ford.
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Wourali (?), n. Same as Curare.
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Wou-wou (?), n. [So called from its cry.] (Zoöl.) The agile, or silvery, gibbon; -- called also camper. See . [Written also wow-wow.]
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Wove (?), p. pr. & rare vb. n. of .
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Woven (?), p. p. of .
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Coloq. Woven paper , or Coloq. Wove paper , writing paper having an even, uniform surface, without watermarks.
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Wowe (?), v. t. & i. To woo. [Obs.] Chaucer.
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Wowf (?), a. Disordered or unsettled in intellect; deranged. [Scot.] Sir W. Scott.
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Wowke (?), n. Week. [Obs.] Chaucer.
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Wow-wow (?), n. (Zoöl.) See .
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Wox (?), obs. imp. of . Gower.
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Woxen (?), obs. p. p. of . Chaucer.
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Wrack (?), n. A thin, flying cloud; a rack.
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Wrack, v. t. To rack; to torment. [R.]
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Wrack, n. [OE. wrak wreck. See .]
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1. Wreck; ruin; destruction. [Obs.] Chaucer. “A world devote to universal wrack.” Milton.
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2. Any marine vegetation cast up on the shore, especially plants of the genera Fucus, Laminaria, and Zostera, which are most abundant on northern shores.
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3. (Bot.) Coarse seaweed of any kind.
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Coloq. Wrack grass , or Coloq. Grass wrack (Bot.), eelgrass.
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Wrack, v. t. To wreck. [Obs.] Dryden.
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Wrackful (?), a. Ruinous; destructive. [Obs.]
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Wrain-bolt (?), n. Same as .
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Wraith (?), n. [Scot. wraith, warth; probably originally, a guardian angel, from Icel. vörðr a warden, guardian, akin to E. ward. See a guard.]
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1. An apparition of a person in his exact likeness, seen before death, or a little after; hence, an apparition; a specter; a vision; an unreal image. [Scot.]
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She was uncertain if it were the gypsy or her wraith. Sir W. Scott.
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O, hollow wraith of dying fame. Tennyson.
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2. Sometimes, improperly, a spirit thought to preside over the waters; -- called also water wraith. M. G. Lewis.
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Wrangle (?), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Wrangled (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Wrangling (?).] [OE. wranglen to wrestle. See , .]
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1. To argue; to debate; to dispute. [Obs.]
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2. To dispute angrily; to quarrel peevishly and noisily; to brawl; to altercate. “In spite of occasional wranglings.” Macaulay.
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For a score of kingdoms you should wrangle. Shak.
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He did not know what it was to wrangle on indifferent points. Addison.
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Wrangle, v. t. To involve in a quarrel or dispute; to embroil. [R.] Bp. Sanderson.
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Wrangle (?), n. An angry dispute; a noisy quarrel; a squabble; an altercation.
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Syn. -- Altercation; bickering; brawl; jar; jangle; contest; controversy. See .
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Wrangler (?), n. 1. An angry disputant; one who disputes with heat or peevishness. “Noisy and contentious wranglers.” I. Watts.
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2. One of those who stand in the first rank of honors in the University of Cambridge, England. They are called, according to their rank, senior wrangler, second wrangler, third wrangler, etc. Cf. .
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Wranglership, n. The honor or position of being a wrangler at the University of Cambridge, England.
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Wranglesome (?), a. Contentious; quarrelsome. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.
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{ Wrannock (?), Wranny (?), } n. (Zoöl.) The common wren. [Prov. Eng.]
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Wrap (?), v. t. [A corrupt spelling of rap.] To snatch up; transport; -- chiefly used in the p. p. wrapt.
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Lo! where the stripling, wrapt in wonder, roves. Beattie.
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Wrap, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Wrapped (?) or Wrapt; p. pr. & vb. n. Wrapping.] [OE. wrappen, probably akin to E. warp. √144. Cf. .]
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1. To wind or fold together; to arrange in folds.
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Then cometh Simon Peter, . . . and seeth . . . the napkin that was about his head, not lying with the linen clothes, but wrapped together in a place by itself. John xx. 6, 7.
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Like one that wraps the drapery of his couch
About him, and lies down to pleasant dreams. Bryant.
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2. To cover by winding or folding; to envelop completely; to involve; to infold; -- often with up.
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I . . . wrapt in mist
Of midnight vapor, glide obscure. Milton.
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3. To conceal by enveloping or infolding; to hide; hence, to involve, as an effect or consequence; to be followed by.
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Wise poets that wrap truth in tales. Carew.
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Coloq. To be wrapped up in , to be wholly engrossed in; to be entirely dependent on; to be covered with.
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Leontine's young wife, in whom all his happiness was wrapped up, died in a few days after the death of her daughter. Addison.
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Things reflected on in gross and transiently . . . are thought to be wrapped up in impenetrable obscurity. Locke.
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Wrap, n. A wrapper; -- often used in the plural for blankets, furs, shawls, etc., used in riding or traveling.
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Wrappage (?; 48), n. 1. The act of wrapping.
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2. That which wraps; envelope; covering.
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Wrapper (?), n. 1. One who, or that which, wraps.
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2. That in which anything is wrapped, or inclosed; envelope; covering.
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3. Specifically, a loose outer garment; an article of dress intended to be wrapped round the person; as, a morning wrapper; a gentleman's wrapper.
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Wraprascal (?), n. A kind of coarse upper coat, or overcoat, formerly worn.
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Wrasse (?), n. [W. gwrachen.] (Zoöl.) Any one of numerous edible, marine, spiny-finned fishes of the genus Labrus, of which several species are found in the Mediterranean and on the Atlantic coast of Europe. Many of the species are bright-colored.
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☞ Among the European species are the ballan wrasse (Labrus maculatus), the streaked wrasse (Labrus lineatus), the red wrasse (Labrus mixtus), the comber wrasse (Labrus comber), the blue-striped, or cook, wrasse (see Peacock fish, under ), the rainbow wrasse (Labrus vulgaris), and the seawife.
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Wrastle (?), v. i. [OE. wrastlen. See .] To wrestle. [Obs. or Prov. Eng. & Colloq. U. S.]
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Who wrastleth best naked, with oil enoint. Chaucer.
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Wrath (?; 277), n. [OE. wrathe, wraþþe, wrethe, wræððe, AS. wrǣððo, fr. wrāð wroth; akin to Icel. reiði wrath. See , a.]
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1. Violent anger; vehement exasperation; indignation; rage; fury; ire.
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Wrath is a fire, and jealousy a weed. Spenser.
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When the wrath of king Ahasuerus was appeased. Esther ii. 1.
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Now smoking and frothing
Its tumult and wrath in. Southey.
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2. The effects of anger or indignation; the just punishment of an offense or a crime. “A revenger to execute wrath upon him that doeth evil.” Rom. xiii. 4.
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Syn. -- Anger; fury; rage; ire; vengeance; indignation; resentment; passion. See .
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Wrath, a. See . [Obs.]
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Wrath, v. t. To anger; to enrage; -- also used impersonally. [Obs.] “I will not wrathen him.” Chaucer.
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If him wratheth, be ywar and his way shun. Piers Plowman.
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Wrathful (?), a. 1. Full of wrath; very angry; greatly incensed; ireful; passionate; as, a wrathful man.
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2. Springing from, or expressing, wrath; as, a wrathful countenance. “Wrathful passions.” Sprat.
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Syn. -- Furious; raging; indignant; resentful.
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-- Wrathfully, adv. -- Wrathfulness, n.
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Wrathily (?), adv. In a wrathy manner; very angrily; wrathfully. [Colloq.]
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Wrathless, a. Free from anger or wrath. Waller.
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Wrathy (?), a. Very angry. [Colloq.]
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Wraw (?), a. [Cf. dial. Sw. vrå willful, disobedient.] Angry; vexed; wrathful. [Obs.]
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With this speech the cock wex wroth and wraw. Chaucer.
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Wrawful (?), a. Ill-tempered. [Obs.] Chaucer.
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Wrawl (?), v. i. [Cf. Dan. vraale, Sw. vråla to brawl, to roar, Dan. vraal a bawling, roaring, vræle to cry, weep, whine.] To cry, as a cat; to waul. [Obs.] Spenser.
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