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GLOSSARY

for, v. N.E.D. 'wait' I4a,b); WISENESS, wisdom ('ironical
2. 2. 269 N.E.D.); 5. 1. 257
WAKE (vb.), sit up late for pleasure, WIT, understanding, acumen; 2. 2.
turn night into day; I. 4. 8 905 3. 2. 322
WAN (vb.), grow pale; 2. 2. 557 WITCHING, appropriate to witch-
WANTON (sb.), a spoilt child, a craft or supernatural occur-
pampered pet; 5. 2. 297 rences; 3. 2. 391
WARRANT, 'of warrant'= warrant- WITHDRAW WITH, take aside, be
ed to succeed; 2. 1. 38 private with; 3. 2. 348
WASSAIL, carousal; 1. 4. 9 WITHERS, the part of the back
WASTE, the desolate hours about between the shoulder blades;
midnight (v. note); I. 2. 198 3. 2. 241
WATCH (sb.), insomnia, sleepless- WONDER (sb.), great distress or
ness; 2. 2. 148 grief (N.E.D. 5 c quotes from
WATER-FLY, midge, 'busy trifler' 1600 'As woe and wonder be
(Johnson); 5. 2. 84 them amonge'); 4. 5. 88;
WEAKNESS, weakmindedness; 2. 5. 2. 362
2. 148, 605 WOODCOCK, a bird very easily
WEEDS, garments distinctive of a caught in a snare; 1. 3. 115;
person's state of life (N.E.D, 5)5 5. 2. 304
4- 7' 79 WOO'T, wilt. A frequent Shake-
WHARF, bank (of a river); x. 5. 33 spearian form(v.note); 5.1.269,
WHEEJL, burden, refrain (with a 270
quibble on 'Fortune's wheel,' WORD, (i) motto (v. note); 1. 5.
v. note); 4. 5. 171 110; (ii) promise, pledge; 4. 5.
WHOLESOME, (i) sound, healthy; 105
1. 5. 70; 2. 2. 449; 3. 2. 260; WORK (vb.), think; 1. 1. 67
(ii) sensible, reasonable; 3.2.317 WORKING, action, operation, func-
WHORESON, 'a coarsely abusive tion (of the mind); 2. 2. 137
epithet...also sometimes ex- (v. note), 557
pressing familiarity or com- WOCTNDLESS, invulnerable; 4. 1. 44
mendation' (N.E.D.); 5. 1.166, WRECK (vb.), ruin; 2. 1. 110
170
WILD, agitated, full of excitement; YAW, lit. (of a vessel) to deviate
5.2.392 _ _ < from the course, to turn from
WINDLASS, lit. a circuit to intercept side to side, hence to proceed
game in hunting, (hence) round- unsteadily so as to fall behind
about way, crafty device (not something else; 5. 2. 119
related to 'windlass' — a me- YEASTY, frothy, light and super-
chanical device); 2. 1. 62 ficial; 5. 2. 192
WINNOWED, tested, freed from YIELDING (sb.), consent; 1. 3. 23
inferior or worthless elements;
ZONE, V. burning zone} 5. I. 276