A wedge wainscot is fittest and most proper for cleaving of an oaken
tree.
Urquhart.
Inclosed in a chest of wainscot.
J. Dart.
2. (Arch.) A wooden lining or boarding of the walls of apartments,
usually made in panels.
3. (Zoöl.) Any one of numerous species of European moths of the family
Leucanidæ.
They are reddish or yellowish, streaked or lined with black and white.
Their larvæ feed on grasses and sedges.
Wain"scot, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Wainscoted; p. pr. & vb. n.
Wainscoting.] To line with boards or panelwork, or as if with
panelwork; as, to wainscot a hall.
Music soundeth better in chambers wainscoted than hanged.
Bacon.
The other is wainscoted with looking- glass.
Addison.
Wain"scot*ing, n. 1. The act or occupation of covering or lining with
boards in panel.
2. The material used to wainscot a house, or the wainscot as a whole;
panelwork.
Wain"wright` (?), n. Same as Wagonwright.
Wair (?), n. (Carp.) A piece of plank two yard&?; long and a foot
broad. Bailey.
Waist (?), n. [OE. wast; originally, growth, akin to AS. weaxan to
grow; cf. AS. wæstm growth. See Wax to grow.]
1. That part of the human body which is immediately below the ribs or
thorax; the small part of the body between the thorax and hips.
Chaucer.