(literary, poetic or formal) Again, once more; afresh, in a new way, newly.
arew
arew
adv
(obsolete) In a row.
auew
awea
awed
awed
adj
Having or showing awe.
verb
simple past tense and past participle of awe
awee
awes
awes
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of awe
blew
blew
noun
Obsolete form of blue.
verb
(now colloquial) past participle of blow
simple past tense of blow
bowe
bowe
noun
Obsolete spelling of bow
brew
brew
noun
(Britain, dialect) An overhanging hill or cliff.
(Britain, slang) A cup of tea.
(slang) A single serving (can, bottle, etc.) of beer.
The mixture formed by brewing; that which is brewed; a brewage, such as tea or beer.
verb
(intransitive) To attend to the business, or go through the processes, of brewing or making beer.
(intransitive, of an unwelcome event) To be in a state of preparation; to be mixing, forming, or gathering.
(transitive) To foment or prepare, as by brewing
(transitive) To heat wine, infusing it with spices; to mull.
(transitive, intransitive) To make a hot soup by combining ingredients and boiling them in water.
(transitive, intransitive) To make beer by steeping a starch source in water and fermenting the resulting sweet liquid with yeast.
(transitive, intransitive) To make tea or coffee by mixing tea leaves or coffee beans with hot water.
(transitive, obsolete) To boil or seethe; to cook.
chew
chew
noun
(countable or uncountable) A plug or wad of chewing tobacco; chaw or a chaw.
(informal, uncountable) Chewing tobacco.
(uncountable, informal) The condition of something being torn or ground up mechanically.
A small sweet, such as a taffy, that is eaten by chewing.
Level of chewiness.
The act of chewing; mastication with the mouth.
verb
(informal) To think about something; to ponder; to chew over.
To crush with the teeth by repeated closing and opening of the jaws; done to food to soften it and break it down by the action of saliva before it is swallowed.
To grind, tear, or otherwise degrade or demolish something with teeth or as with teeth.
clew
clew
noun
(archaic) A ball of thread or yarn.
(in the plural) The sheets so attached to a sail.
(nautical) The lower corner(s) of a sail to which a sheet is attached for trimming the sail (adjusting its position relative to the wind); the metal loop or cringle in the corner of the sail, to which the sheet is attached. (on a triangular sail) The trailing corner relative to the wind direction.
(nautical, in the plural) The cords suspending a hammock.
(obsolete) A roughly spherical mass or body.
Obsolete spelling of clue
Yarn or thread as used to guide one's way through a maze or labyrinth; a guide, a clue.
verb
(nautical) (transitive and intransitive) to raise the lower corner(s) of (a sail)
(transitive) to roll into a ball
crew
crew
noun
(Britain, dialectal) A pen for livestock such as chickens or pigs
(Scouting) A group of Rovers.
(art) The group of workers on a dramatic production who are not part of the cast.
(art, plural: crew) A worker on a dramatic production who is not part of the cast.
(informal, often derogatory) A close group of friends.
(nautical, plural: crew) A member of a ship's company who is not an officer.
(obsolete) Any company of people; an assemblage; a throng.
(often derogatory) A set of individuals lumped together by the speaker.
(plural: crew) A member of the crew of a vessel or plant.
(rowing) A rowing team manning a single shell.
(slang, hip-hop) A hip-hop or b-boying group.
(sports, rowing, US, uncountable) The sport of competitive rowing.
A group of people (often staff) manning and operating a large facility or piece of equipment such as a factory, ship, boat, airplane, or spacecraft.
A group of people working together on a task.
The Manx shearwater.
verb
(Britain, archaic) simple past tense of crow (“make the characteristic sound of a rooster”).
(nautical) To do the proper work of a sailor
(nautical) To take on, recruit (new) crew
(transitive and intransitive) To be a member of a vessel's crew
To be a member of a work or production crew
To supply workers or sailors for a crew
dawe
dewi
dews
dews
noun
(archaic or poetic) plural of dew
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of dew
dewy
dewy
adj
Covered by dew.
Fresh and innocent.
Having the quality of bearing droplets of water.
drew
drew
verb
(colloquial, nonstandard) past participle of draw
simple past tense of draw
duwe
enew
enew
verb
(falconry, transitive) To drive back to the water; to pursue.
enow
enow
adv
(archaic) Just now.
(archaic, Scotland) Soon.
det
Archaic form of enough.
ewan
ewen
ewer
ewer
noun
A kind of widemouthed pitcher or jug with a shape like a vase and a handle.
ewes
ewes
noun
plural of ewe
ewos
ewry
ewry
noun
Alternative form of ewery
ewte
ewte
verb
(dialectal) To pour; pour in
fawe
fawe
Adjective
fain; glad; delighted
flew
flew
adj
(UK, dialect) shallow; flat
noun
(chiefly plural) The thick, dangling upper lip of certain breeds of dog, or the canine equivalent of the upper lip.
verb
simple past tense of fly
glew
glew
noun
Obsolete form of glue.
verb
(nonstandard) simple past tense of glow
grew
grew
verb
(colloquial, nonstandard) past participle of grow
Alternative form of grue (“shudder with fear”)
simple past tense of grow
gwen
hdwe
hewe
hewe
noun
(obsolete) A domestic; a servant or retainer.
hewn
hewn
adj
Having been cut or mown down.
Made or crafted by cutting, whittling down.
verb
past participle of hew
hews
hews
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of hew
hewt
howe
howe
noun
Alternative form of how (a tumulus, a bowl barrow).
ibew
jews
jews
noun
Nonstandard spelling of Jews.
plural of jew
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of jew
jewy
jewy
Adjective
Characteristic of a Jew or (the) Jews; Jewish
knew
knew
verb
(colloquial, nonstandard) past participle of know
simple past tense of know
kwei
lewd
lewd
adj
(obsolete) Base, vile, reprehensible.
(obsolete) Lay; not clerical.
(obsolete) Uneducated.
(obsolete) Vulgar, common; typical of the lower orders.
Lascivious, sexually promiscuous, rude.
noun
A sexually suggestive image, particularly one which does not involve full nudity.
verb
(slang) Alternative form of lude (“take the drug quaalude”)
To express lust; to behave in a lewd manner.
liew
llew
lowe
lowe
noun
Alternative form of low ("flame").
lwei
lwei
noun
a monetary unit of Angola used from 1975-1990, one hundredth of a kwanza.
meaw
meaw
noun
Obsolete form of mew (“seagull”).
verb
Dated form of meow.
meow
meow
intj
Said in reply to a spiteful or catty comment.
Said to denote seductiveness, mimicking a growl.
The cry of a cat.
noun
(UK, slang, uncountable) The drug mephedrone.
verb
(intransitive) Of a cat, to make its cry.
mewl
mewl
noun
A soft cry or whimper; an act of mewling.
verb
To cry weakly with a soft, high-pitched sound; to whimper; to whine.
mews
mews
noun
(Britain) An alley where there are stables; a narrow passage; a confined place.
(falconry) A place where birds of prey are housed.
plural of mew
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of mew
mowe
news
news
noun
(computing, Internet) Posts published on newsgroups
Information about current events disseminated via media.
New information of interest.
verb
(transitive, archaic) To report; to make known.
newt
newt
noun
A small lizard-like amphibian in the family Salamandridae that lives in the water as an adult.
owed
owed
adj
That owes.
verb
simple past tense and past participle of owe
owen
owen
Proper noun
name of origin, possibly derived from Eugene, cognate to Gaelic Eòghan.
derived from the given name.
from the Gaelic Mac Eoghain.
A town in South Australia
A town in Baden-Württemberg, Germany
A town in Indiana
A city in Wisconsin
ower
ower
adj
(Tyneside) overly, too
noun
A person who owes something, especially money.
prep
(Tyneside) over
owes
owes
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of owe
owse
pews
pews
noun
plural of pew
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of pew
pewy
phew
phew
intj
Used to express relief of tension, fatigue, or surprise.
Used to show disgust.
plew
plew
noun
(Canada, US) beaver pelt
powe
prew
rowe
seow
sewn
sewn
verb
past participle of sew
sews
sews
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of sew
shew
shew
verb
(East Anglia) simple past tense of show
Archaic spelling of show.
Nonstandard spelling of shoo.
skew
skew
adj
(comparable, statistics) Of a distribution: asymmetrical about its mean.
(not comparable) Neither parallel nor perpendicular to a certain line; askew.
(not comparable, geometry) Of two lines in three-dimensional space: neither intersecting nor parallel.
adv
(rare) Askew, obliquely; awry.
noun
(architecture) A stone at the foot of the slope of a gable, the offset of a buttress, etc., cut with a sloping surface and with a check to receive the coping stones and retain them in place; a skew-corbel.
(architecture, obsolete) One of the stones placed over the end of a gable, or forming the coping of a gable.
(chiefly Scotland, architecture) The coping of a gable.
(electronics) A phenomenon in synchronous digital circuit systems (such as computers) in which the same sourced clock signal arrives at different components at different times.
(statistics) A state of asymmetry in a distribution; skewness.
A bias or distortion in a particular direction.
A kind of wooden vane or cowl in a chimney which revolves according to the direction of the wind and prevents smoking.
A piece of rock lying in a slanting position and tapering upwards which overhangs a working-place in a mine and is liable to fall.
A squint or sidelong glance.
An oblique or sideways movement.
Something that has an oblique or slanted position.
verb
(intransitive) To jump back or sideways in fear or surprise; to shy, as a horse.
(intransitive) To look at obliquely; to squint; hence, to look slightingly or suspiciously.
(intransitive) To move obliquely; to move sideways, to sidle; to lie obliquely.
(statistics) To cause (a distribution) to be asymmetrical.
(transitive) To bias or distort in a particular direction.
(transitive) To form or shape in an oblique way; to cause to take an oblique position.
(transitive, Northumbria, Yorkshire) To hurl or throw.
slew
slew
noun
(US) A large amount.
A change of position.
A device used for slewing.
A wet place; a river inlet.
The act, or process of slewing.
verb
(intransitive) To pivot.
(intransitive) To skid.
(transitive) To insert extra ticks or skip some ticks of a clock to slowly correct its time.
(transitive) To veer a vehicle.
(transitive, Britain, slang) To make a public mockery of someone through insult or wit.
(transitive, nautical) To rotate or turn something about its axis.
(transitive, rail transport) To move something (usually a railway line) sideways.
simple past tense of slay
smew
smew
noun
A small compact diving duck, Mergus albellus, that breeds in the northern taiga of Europe and Asia and winters on sheltered coasts or inland lakes.
snew
snew
verb
(dialectal) simple past tense of snow
(intransitive, obsolete) To abound.
(intransitive, obsolete) To snow.
spew
spew
noun
(slang) Ejaculate or ejaculation.
A white powder or dark crystals that appear on the surface of improperly tanned leather.
Adhesive that is squeezed from a joint under pressure and held across the joint by a fillet, thereby strengthening the joint.
Material that has been ejected in a stream, or the act of spewing.
Nonsense or lies.
verb
(intransitive) To be forcibly ejected.
(intransitive) To be written or spoken voluminously.
(intransitive) To ejaculate.
(intransitive, informal) To vomit.
(intransitive, leather-working) To develop a white powder or dark crystals on the surface of finished leather, as a result from improper tanning.
(transitive) To eject forcibly and in a stream,
(transitive) To speak or write quickly and voluminously, especially words that are not worth listening to or reading.
stew
stew
noun
(Sussex) A pool in which fish are kept in preparation for eating.
(US, regional) An artificial bed of oysters.
(archaic) A brothel.
(informal) A steward or stewardess on an airplane or boat.
(now historical) A heated bath-room or steam-room; also, a hot bath.
(obsolete) A cooking-dish used for boiling; a cauldron.
(slang) A state of agitated excitement, worry, and/or confusion.
(uncountable, countable) A dish cooked by stewing.
verb
(intransitive, figuratively) To be in a state of elevated anxiety or anger.
(intransitive, figuratively) To suffer under uncomfortably hot conditions.
(transitive or intransitive or ergative) To cook (food) by slowly boiling or simmering.
(transitive) To brew (tea) for too long, so that the flavour becomes too strong.
suwe
swec
swed
swee
swee
noun
A species of finch, Coccopygia melanotis, found in sub-Saharan Africa.
swen
swep
tewa
tews
tews
noun
plural of tew
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of tew
thew
thew
noun
(specifically) A good characteristic or habit; a virtue.
A way of behaving; hence, a characteristic, a trait.
An aspect of the body which indicates physical strength; hence, muscle and/or sinew; muscular development.
An attractive physical attribute; also, physical, mental, or moral strength or vigour.
verb
(transitive, obsolete) To instruct (someone) in morals or values; also (more generally) to chastise or discipline (someone); to teach or train (someone).
trew
trew
adj
Obsolete form of true.
twae
twee
twee
adj
(Britain, derogatory) Overly quaint, dainty, cute or nice.
twie
view
view
noun
(Internet) An individual viewing of a web page or a video etc. by a user.
(computing, databases) A virtual or logical table composed of the result set of a query in relational databases.
(computing, programming) The part of a computer program which is visible to the user and can be interacted with
(obsolete) Appearance; show; aspect.
A mental image.
A picture, drawn or painted; a sketch.
A point of view.
A wake.
A way of understanding something, an opinion, a theory.
An intention or prospect.
Something to look at, such as scenery.
The act of seeing or looking at something.
The range of vision.
verb
(transitive) To look at.
(transitive) To regard in a stated way.
wabe
wace
wace
Proper noun
A Jersey-born writer of the 12th century.
wade
wade
noun
(colloquial) A ford; a place to cross a river.
An act of wading.
Obsolete form of woad.
verb
(intransitive) To enter recklessly.
(intransitive) to progress with difficulty
(intransitive) to walk through water or something that impedes progress.
(transitive) to walk through (water or similar impediment); to pass through by wading
waeg
waeg
noun
(obsolete) kittiwake
waer
waes
waes
noun
plural of wae
wage
wage
noun
(often in plural) An amount of money paid to a worker for a specified quantity of work, usually calculated on an hourly basis and expressed in an amount of money per hour.
verb
(obsolete, law, UK) To give security for the performance of
(transitive) To adventure, or lay out, for hire or reward; to hire out.
(transitive) To conduct or carry out (a war or other contest).
(transitive, obsolete) To employ for wages; to hire.
(transitive, obsolete) To expose oneself to, as a risk; to incur, as a danger; to venture; to hazard.
(transitive, obsolete) To wager, bet.
wake
wake
noun
(aviation) The turbulent air left behind a flying aircraft.
(figuratively) The area behind something, typically a rapidly-moving object.
(historical, Church of England) A yearly parish festival formerly held in commemoration of the dedication of a church. Originally, prayers were said on the evening preceding, and hymns were sung during the night, in the church; subsequently, these vigils were discontinued, and the day itself, often with succeeding days, was occupied in rural pastimes and exercises, attended by eating and drinking.
(nautical) The path left behind a ship on the surface of the water.
(often obsolete or poetic) The act of waking, or state of being awake.
A number of vultures assembled together.
A period after a person's death before or after the body is buried, cremated, etc.; in some cultures accompanied by a party and/or collectively sorting through the deceased's personal effects.
The movement of water created when an animal or a person moves through water.
The state of forbearing sleep, especially for solemn or festive purposes; a vigil.
verb
(intransitive) (often followed by up) To stop sleeping.
(intransitive, figurative) To be excited or roused up; to be stirred up from a dormant, torpid, or inactive state; to be active.
(obsolete) To be alert; to keep watch
(obsolete) To sit up late for festive purposes; to hold a night revel.
(transitive) (often followed by up) To make somebody stop sleeping; to rouse from sleep.
(transitive, figurative) To put in motion or action; to arouse; to excite.
To be or remain awake; not to sleep.
To watch, or sit up with, at night, as a dead body.
wale
wale
noun
(Scotland, Northern England) Something selected as being the best, preference; choice.
(nautical) A horizontal ridge or ledge on the outside planking of a wooden ship. (See gunwale, chainwale)
A horizontal timber used for supporting or retaining earth.
A raised rib in knit goods or fabric, especially corduroy.
A ridge on the outside of a horse collar.
A ridge or low barrier.
A ridge or streak produced on skin by a cane or whip.
A timber bolted to a row of piles to secure them together and in position.
The texture of a piece of fabric.
verb
(Scotland, Northern England) To choose, select.
To beat a person, especially as punishment or out of anger.
To give a surface a texture of wales or welts.
To strike the skin in such a way as to produce a wale or welt.
wame
wame
noun
(Scotland, Northern England) The belly.
(Scotland, Northern England) The womb.
wane
wane
noun
(Scotland, slang) A child.
(chiefly Northern England and Scotland, obsolete) A house or dwelling.
(literary) The end of a period.
(woodworking) A rounded corner caused by lack of wood, often showing bark.
A gradual diminution in power, value, intensity etc.
The lunar phase during which the sun seems to illuminate less of the moon as its sunlit area becomes progressively smaller as visible from Earth.
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verb
(intransitive) Said of a time period that comes to an end.
(intransitive) Said of light that dims or diminishes in strength.
(intransitive) To progressively lose its splendor, value, ardor, power, intensity etc.; to decline.
(intransitive, archaic) To decrease physically in size, amount, numbers or surface.
(intransitive, astronomy) Said of the Moon as it passes through the phases of its monthly cycle where its surface is less and less visible.
(transitive, obsolete) To cause to decrease.
ware
ware
adj
(obsolete) Wary; cautious.
(poetic) Aware.
noun
(Ireland) Crockery.
(countable, archaeology) A style or genre of artifact.
(in the plural) See wares.
(obsolete) The state of being aware; heed.
(obsolete, UK, dialect) Seaweed.
(uncountable) Pottery or metal goods.
(uncountable, usually in combination) Goods or a type of goods offered for sale or use.
verb
(nautical) To wear, or veer.
(obsolete or dialectal) To be ware or mindful of something.
(obsolete) To protect or guard (especially oneself); to be on guard, be wary.
Old eye dialect spelling of were.
wase
wase
noun
(UK, dialect) A bundle of straw, or other material, to relieve the pressure of burdens carried upon the head.
wave
wave
noun
(figuratively) A sudden, but temporary, uptick in something.
(physics) A moving disturbance in the energy level of a field.
(poetic) The ocean.
(usually "the wave") A group activity in a crowd imitating a wave going through water, where people in successive parts of the crowd stand and stretch upward, then sit.
(video games, by extension) One of the successive swarms of enemies sent to attack the player in certain games.
A loose back-and-forth movement, as of the hands.
A moving disturbance in the level of a body of liquid; an undulation.
A shape that alternatingly curves in opposite directions.
Any of a number of species of moths in the geometrid subfamily Sterrhinae, which have wavy markings on the wings.
verb
(intransitive) To have an undulating or wavy form.
(intransitive) To move back and forth repeatedly and somewhat loosely.
(intransitive) To move one’s hand back and forth (generally above the shoulders) in greeting or departure.
(intransitive, baseball) To swing and miss at a pitch.
(intransitive, ergative) To move like a wave, or by floating; to waft.
(intransitive, obsolete) To fluctuate; to waver; to be in an unsettled state.
(transitive) To cause to move back and forth repeatedly.
(transitive) To produce waves to the hair.
(transitive) To raise into inequalities of surface; to give an undulating form or surface to.
(transitive, metonymically) To call attention to, or give a direction or command to, by a waving motion, as of the hand; to signify by waving; to beckon; to signal; to indicate.
(transitive, metonymically) To signal (someone or something) with a waving movement.
Obsolete spelling of waive
weak
weak
adj
(Germanic languages, of adjectives) Definite in meaning, often used with a definite article or similar word.
(Germanic languages, of nouns) Showing less distinct grammatical endings.
(Germanic languages, of verbs) Regular in inflection, lacking vowel changes and having a past tense with -d- or -t-.
(chemistry) That does not ionize completely into anions and cations in a solution.
(mathematics, logic) Having a narrow range of logical consequences; narrowly applicable. (Often contrasted with a strong statement which implies it.)
(photography) Lacking contrast.
(physics) One of the four fundamental forces associated with nuclear decay.
(slang) Bad or uncool.
(stock exchange) Tending towards lower prices.
Dilute, lacking in taste or potency.
Lacking in force (usually strength) or ability.
Lacking in vigour or expression.
Not having power to convince; not supported by force of reason or truth; unsustained.
Not prevalent or effective, or not felt to be prevalent; not potent; feeble.
Resulting from, or indicating, lack of judgment, discernment, or firmness; unwise; hence, foolish.
Unable to sustain a great weight, pressure, or strain.
Unable to withstand temptation, urgency, persuasion, etc.; easily impressed, moved, or overcome; accessible; vulnerable.
weal
weal
noun
(by extension) Boon, benefit.
(literary) Welfare, prosperity.
(obsolete) Wealth, riches.
A raised, longitudinal wound, usually purple, on the surface of flesh caused by a stroke of a rod or whip; a welt.
Specifically, the general happiness of a community, country etc. (often with qualifying word).
verb
To mark with stripes; to wale.
weam
wean
wean
noun
(Scotland, Ulster) A small child.
verb
(intransitive) To cease to depend on the mother's milk for nutrition.
(intransitive, by extension) To cease to depend.
(transitive) To cease giving breast milk to an offspring; to accustom and reconcile (a child or young animal) to a want or deprivation of mother's milk; to take from the breast or udder.
(transitive, by extension, normally "wean off") To cause to quit something to which one is addicted, dependent, or habituated.
(transitive, by extension, obsolete) To raise, to help grow toward maturity
wear
wear
noun
(uncountable) (in combination) clothing
(uncountable) damage to the appearance and/or strength of an item caused by use over time
(uncountable) fashion
Dated form of weir.
verb
(colloquial, with "it") To overcome one's reluctance and endure a (previously specified) situation.
(intransitive) To last or remain durable under hard use or over time; to retain usefulness, value, or desirable qualities under any continued strain or long period of time; sometimes said of a person, regarding the quality of being easy or difficult to tolerate.
(intransitive, colloquial) (in the phrase "wearing on (someone)") To cause annoyance, irritation, fatigue, or weariness near the point of an exhaustion of patience.
(intransitive, copulative) To undergo gradual deterioration; become impaired; be reduced or consumed gradually due to any continued process, activity, or use.
(intransitive, of time) To pass slowly, gradually or tediously.
(nautical) To bring (a sailing vessel) onto the other tack by bringing the wind around the stern (as opposed to tacking when the wind is brought around the bow); to come round on another tack by turning away from the wind. Also written "ware". Past: weared, or wore/worn.
(now chiefly UK dialectal, transitive) To conduct or guide with care or caution, as into a fold or place of safety.
(now chiefly UK dialectal, transitive) To defend; protect.
(now chiefly UK dialectal, transitive) To guard; watch; keep watch, especially from entry or invasion.
(now chiefly UK dialectal, transitive) To ward off; prevent from approaching or entering; drive off; repel.
To bear or display in one's aspect or appearance.
To carry or have equipped on or about one's body, as an item of clothing, equipment, decoration, etc.
To eat away at, erode, diminish, or consume gradually; to cause a gradual deterioration in; to produce (some change) through attrition, exposure, or constant use.
To exhaust, fatigue, expend, or weary.
To have or carry on one's person habitually, consistently; or, to maintain in a particular fashion or manner.
webb
webs
webs
noun
plural of web
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of web
weco
wede
weds
weds
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of wed
weed
weed
noun
(Scotland) A sudden illness or relapse, often attended with fever, which befalls those who are about to give birth, are giving birth, or have recently given birth or miscarried or aborted.
(Scotland) Lymphangitis in a horse.
(archaic) A garment or piece of clothing.
(archaic) An article of dress worn in token of grief; a mourning garment or badge.
(archaic) Clothing collectively; clothes, dress.
(archaic) Especially in the plural as widow's weeds: (female) mourning apparel.
(countable) A weak horse, which is therefore unfit to breed from.
(countable) Any plant unwanted at the place where and at the time when it is growing.
(countable, Britain, informal) A puny person; one who has little physical strength.
(countable, figuratively) Something unprofitable or troublesome; anything useless.
(obsolete, countable) A cigar.
(uncountable, archaic or obsolete) Underbrush; low shrubs.
(with "the", uncountable, slang) Tobacco.
Short for duckweed.
verb
(figurative) To pilfer the best items from a collection.
(library science) To systematically remove materials from a library collection based on a set of criteria.
To remove unwanted vegetation from a cultivated area.
simple past tense and past participle of wee
week
week
adj
(postpositive) Seven days after (sometimes before) a specified date.
noun
A period of five days beginning with Monday.
A period of seven days beginning with Sunday or Monday.
A subdivision of the month into longer periods of work days punctuated by shorter weekend periods of days for markets, rest, or religious observation such as a sabbath.
Any period of seven consecutive days.
weel
weel
noun
(dialectal or obsolete) A whirlpool.
A kind of trap for catching fish; a weely.
verb
Pronunciation spelling of will, representing Latino-accented English.
weem
weem
verb
(West Country, Bristol) we are
ween
ween
noun
(obsolete) Doubt; conjecture.
(slang) penis
(slang) wiener dog, dachshund
verb
(Northern England, Scotland, rare) To weep or cry.
(archaic) To suppose, imagine; to think, believe.
(dated) To expect, hope or wish.
(obsolete) To lament.
Misspelling of wean.
weep
weep
noun
A lapwing; wipe, especially, a northern lapwing (Vanellus vanellus).
A session of crying.
A sob.
verb
(medicine, of a wound or sore) To produce secretions.
(obsolete, transitive) To weep over; to bewail.
To cry; to shed tears, especially when accompanied with sobbing or other difficulty speaking, as an expression of emotion such as sadness or joy.
To flow in drops; to run in drops.
To give off moisture in small quantities, e.g. due to condensation.
To hang the branches, as if in sorrow; to be pendent; to droop; said of a plant or its branches.
To lament; to complain.
weer
weer
adj
comparative form of wee: more wee
wees
wees
noun
plural of wee
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of wee
weet
weet
verb
(intransitive, archaic) To know.
weft
weft
noun
(hairdressing) A hair extension that is glued directly to a person′s natural hair.
(obsolete) Something cast away; a waif.
(weaving) The horizontal threads that are interlaced through the warp in a woven fabric.
(weaving) The yarn used for the weft; the fill.
wega
wehr
weig
weil
wein
weir
weir
noun
(obsolete) Seaweed.
A fence placed across a river to catch fish.
An adjustable dam placed across a river to regulate the flow of water downstream.
weka
weka
noun
The Lord Howe woodhen or woodhen, a flightless bird of New Zealand.
weki
weki
noun
Alternative form of wheki (“the tree fern Dicksonia squarrosa”)
weld
weld
noun
A herb (Reseda luteola) related to mignonette, growing in Europe, and to some extent in America, used to make a yellow dye.
The joint made by welding.
The yellow coloring matter or dye extracted from this plant.
verb
(transitive) To bind together inseparably; to unite closely or intimately.
(transitive) To join two materials (especially two metals) together by applying heat, pressure and filler, either separately or in any combination.
(transitive, obsolete) To wield.
welf
weli
welk
welk
noun
Alternative form of whelk
verb
(dialectal) to soak, steep.
(dialectal) to thrash, beat severely.
(obsolete) Of a plant: to wither, wilt, decay.
(obsolete) To diminish; to lose brightness, to wane.
(transitive) To form into wrinkles or ridges.
To contract; to shorten.
well
well
adj
(archaic) Prudent; good; well-advised.
(archaic, now chiefly Bermuda) Good to eat; tasty, delicious.
(hypercorrect) Good, content.
In good health.
adv
(degree) To a significant degree.
(degree, Britain, slang) Very (as a general-purpose intensifier).
(manner) Accurately, competently, satisfactorily.
(manner) Completely, fully.
In a desirable manner; so as one could wish; satisfactorily; favourably; advantageously.
intj
(Hiberno-English) Used as a greeting
An exclamation of indignance.
An exclamation of sarcastic surprise (often doubled or tripled and spoken in a lowering intonation).
Used as a question to demand an answer from someone reluctant to answer.
Used in speech to express the overcoming of reluctance to say something.
Used in speech to fill gaps, particularly at the beginning of a response to a question; filled pause.
Used to acknowledge a statement or situation.
noun
(architecture) An opening through the floors of a building, as for a staircase or an elevator; a wellhole.
(biology) In a microtiter plate, each of the small equal circular or square sections which serve as test tubes.
(figurative) A source of supply.
(metalworking) The lower part of a furnace, into which the metal falls.
(military) A hole or excavation in the earth, in mining, from which run branches or galleries.
(nautical) A compartment in the middle of the hold of a fishing vessel, made tight at the sides, but having holes perforated in the bottom to let in water to keep fish alive while they are transported to market.
(nautical) A vertical passage in the stern into which an auxiliary screw propeller may be drawn up out of the water.
(nautical) A vertical, cylindrical trunk in a ship, reaching down to the lowest part of the hull, through which the bilge pumps operate.
(nautical) The cockpit of a sailboat.
(video games) The playfield of Tetris and similar video games, into which the blocks fall.
A hole sunk into the ground as a source of water, oil, natural gas or other fluids.
A place where a liquid such as water surfaces naturally; a spring.
A small depression suitable for holding liquid or other objects.
A well drink.
The open space between the bench and the counsel tables in a courtroom.
verb
(intransitive) To have something seep out of the surface.
(intransitive) To issue forth, as water from the earth; to flow; to spring.
wels
wels
noun
The wels catfish (Silurus glanis)
welt
welt
noun
(heraldry) A narrow border, as of an ordinary, but not extending around the ends.
(shoemaking) A strip of leather set into the seam between the outsole of a shoe and the upper, through which these parts are joined by stitching or stapling.
A feature resembling a welt.
A ridge or lump on the skin, as caused by a blow.
A strip of material or covered cord applied to a seam or garment edge to strengthen or cover it.
In carpentry, a strip of wood fastened over a flush seam or joint, or an angle, to strengthen it.
In machine-made stockings, a strip, or flap, of which the heel is formed.
In steam boilers and sheet-iron work, a strip riveted upon the edges of plates that form a butt joint.
verb
(UK, dialect, archaic, intransitive) To become stringy.
(UK, dialect, archaic, intransitive) To decay.
(intransitive, obsolete) To roll; revolve
To cause to have welts; to beat.
To install welt (a welt or welts) to reinforce.
wend
wend
noun
(obsolete, UK, law) A large extent of ground; a perambulation; a circuit
verb
(intransitive, obsolete) To pass away; disappear; depart; vanish.
(intransitive, obsolete) To turn; make a turn; go round; veer.
(transitive) To direct (one's way or course); pursue one's way; proceed upon some course or way.
(transitive, obsolete) To turn; change, to adapt.
wene
wenn
wens
wens
noun
plural of wen
went
went
noun
(obsolete) A course; a way, a path; a journey.
verb
(archaic) simple past tense and past participle of wend
(nonstandard) past participle of go
simple past tense of go
wenz
wept
wept
verb
simple past tense and past participle of weep
wera
were
were
noun
(fandom slang) The collective name for any kind of person that changes into another form under certain conditions, including the werewolf.
Alternative form of wer (“man; wergeld”)
verb
(Northern England) first/third-person singular simple past indicative of be.
first/second/third-person plural simple past indicative of be
first/second/third-person singular/plural simple present/past subjunctive of be
second-person singular simple past indicative of be
werf
weri
wert
wert
verb
(archaic) second-person singular simple past indicative of be
(archaic) second-person singular simple past subjunctive of be