Wagonage, provender, and a piece or two of cannon.
Carlyle.
Wag"on*er (?), n. 1. One who conducts a wagon; one whose business it is
to drive a wagon.
2. (Astron.) The constellation Charles's Wain, or Ursa Major. See Ursa
major, under Ursa.
Wag`on*ette" (?), n. A kind of pleasure wagon, uncovered and with seats
extended along the sides, designed to carry six or eight persons
besides the driver.
Wag"on*ful (?), n.; pl. Wagonfuls (&?;). As much as a wagon will hold;
enough to fill a wagon; a wagonload.
Wag"on-head`ed (?), a. Having a top, or head, shaped like the top of a
covered wagon, or resembling in section or outline an inverted U, thus
&?;; as, a wagonheaded ceiling.
Wag"on*load` (?), n. Same as Wagonful.
Wag"on-roofed` (?), a. Having a roof, or top, shaped like an inverted
U; wagon- headed.
Wag"on*ry (?), n. Conveyance by means of a wagon or wagons. [Obs.]
Milton.
Wag"on*wright` (?), n. One who makes wagons.
Wag"tail` (?), n. (Zoöl.) Any one of many species of Old World singing
birds belonging to Motacilla and several allied genera of the family
Motacillidæ. They have the habit of constantly jerking their long tails
up and down, whence the name.
Field wagtail, any one of several species of wagtails of the genus
Budytes having the tail shorter, the legs longer, and the hind claw
longer and straighter, than do the water wagtails. Most of the species
are yellow beneath. Called also yellow wagtail. — Garden wagtail, the
Indian black-breasted wagtail (Nemoricola Indica). — Pied wagtail, the
common European water wagtail (Motacilla lugubris). It is variegated
with black and white. The name is applied also to other allied species
having similar colors. Called also pied dishwasher. — Wagtail
flycatcher, a true flycatcher (Sauloprocta motacilloides) common in
Southern Australia, where it is very tame, and frequents stock yards
and gardens and often builds its nest about houses; — called also black
fantail. — Water wagtail. (a) Any one of several species of wagtails of
the restricted genus Motacilla. They live chiefly on the shores of
ponds and streams. (b) The American water thrush. See Water thrush. —
Wood wagtail, an Asiatic wagtail; (Calobates sulphurea) having a
slender bill and short legs.
Wah (wä), n. (Zoöl.) The panda.
Wa*ha"bee (?), n. [Ar. wahbi.] A follower of Abdel Wahab (b. 1691; d.
1787), a reformer of Mohammedanism. His doctrines prevail particularly
among the Bedouins, and the sect, though checked in its influence,
extends to most parts of Arabia, and also into India. [Written also
Wahaby.]
Waid (?), a. [For weighed.] Oppressed with weight; crushed; weighed
down. [Obs.] Tusser.
Waif (?), n. [OF. waif, gaif, as adj., lost, unclaimed, chose gaive a
waif, LL. wayfium, res vaivae; of Scand. origin. See Waive.]
1. (Eng. Law.) Goods found of which the owner is not known; originally,
such goods as a pursued thief threw away to prevent being apprehended,
which belonged to the king unless the owner made pursuit of the felon,
took him, and brought him to justice. Blackstone.
2. Hence, anything found, or without an owner; that which comes along,
as it were, by chance. "Rolling in his mind old waifs of rhyme."
Tennyson.