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GLOSSARY 299
VILLAIN, (i) serf; 3. 7. jy WEAL, commonwealth, state;
(?embracing (ii)); 4. 6. 244} 1.4. 211
(ii) mod. sense; 3. 7. 86 WEAR OUT, outlive (cf. O.E.D.
VIRTUE, power, efficacy; 4. 4. 'wear' 9); 5. 3. 17
16 WEB, 'the web and the piq'=
VOR' (dial.), warrant; 4. 6.238 cataract of the eye; 3. 4.
VULGAR, commonly known 116-17
and spoken of; 4. 6. 208 WEEDS, clothes; 4. 7.7.
WEIGHT, grief; 5. 3. 323
WAGE, (i) stake in wager (so) WELL-FAVOURED, pleasing in
risk; 1. 1. 1555 (H) contend; appearance; 2. 4. 252
2. 4. 205 WHAT, (i) whatever; 3. 6.113;
WAGTAIL (fig.), (a) obsequious (ii) who; 4. 6. 48, 2185 5. 3.
person continually bowing 118, 124, 163; (iii) who-
to superiors (On.), (b) profli- ever; 5. 3. 98
gate man or woman (see WHELKED, twisted and con-
O.E.D. 3, 36); 2. 2. 65 voluted like a whelk, i.e. a
WAKE, parish festival observed spiral shelled-mollusc; 4. 6.
with, village sports, etc.; 3.
6 WHERE, (i) whereas; 1. 2. 84;
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WALK, withdraw (cf. Wint. I. (ii) to whom; 3. 7. 9; (iii)
2. 172; Oth, 4. 3. 4; Cym. wherever; 4. 5. 10
1. 1. 176)5 4. 7. 83 WHISTLING (vbl. sb.) fig.
WALL-NEWT, ?=lizard; 3. 4. <' whistle'=(a) entice, al-
130 lure (see O.E.D. 7), (b) wait
WANTON (sb.), skittish re- for (O.E.D. 9); 4. 2. 29
fractory creature; 2. 4. 1205 WHITE, almost ready for har-
(adj.), playfully unrestrained; vesting (cf. St John iv. 35)}
4. 1. 36 3.4. 118
WARPED, twisted; 3. 6. 52 WIDE (SC. of the mark), fig.
WATCH, (i) keep awake; 2. 2. astray; 4. 7. 50
1525 'o'erwatched'=having WIDE-SKIRTED, extensive; 1.
been too long without sleep; 1. 64
2. 2. 1675 (ii) keep awake on WIELD, express; 1. 1. 54
the look-out; 2. 1. 21; 4. 7. WILD, desert, uncultivated,
unfruitful; 3. 4. 112
WAT'RISH, (a) well-watered, WILL, desire,' lust; 4. 6.
(b) weak, thin (cf. Oth. 3. 3. 268
15 'waterish diet')—poss. WINDOWED, full of window-
alluding to its narrow shape; like holes; 3. 4. 31
1. 1.257 WISDOM, sanity (cf. O.E.D.
WAWL (vb.), 'utter the loud 4, Meas, 4. 4. 4)5 1. 4.
harsh cry characteristic of 93
cats or of new-born babies' WISE, (a) mod. sense, (b) sane}
(O.E.D.); 4. 6. 179 1.5.44