Wam"ble, n. Disturbance of the stomach; a feeling of nausea. Holland.
Wam"ble-cropped` (?), a. Sick at the stomach; also, crestfallen;
dejected. [Slang]
Wam"mel (?), v. i. To move irregularly or awkwardly; to wamble, or
wabble. [Prov. Eng.]
Wamp (?), n. [From the North American Indian name.] (Zoöl.) The common
American eider.
Wam*pee" (?), n. (Bot.) (a) A tree (Cookia punctata) of the Orange
family, growing in China and the East Indies; also, its fruit, which is
about the size of a large grape, and has a hard rind and a peculiar
flavor. (b) The pickerel weed. [Southern U. S.]
Wam"pum (?), n. [North American Indian wampum, wompam, from the Mass.
wómpi, Del. wpe, white.] Beads made of shells, used by the North
American Indians as money, and also wrought into belts, etc., as an
ornament.
Round his waist his belt of wampum.
Longfellow.
Girded with his wampum braid.
Whittier.
These beads were of two kinds, one white, and the other black or dark
purple. The term wampum is properly applied only to the white; the dark
purple ones are called suckanhock. See Seawan. "It [wampum] consisted
of cylindrical pieces of the shells of testaceous fishes, a quarter of
an inch long, and in diameter less than a pipestem, drilled . . . so as
to be strung upon a thread. The beads of a white color, rated at half
the value of the black or violet, passed each as the equivalent of a
farthing in transactions between the natives and the planters."
Palfrey.
Wan (?), obs. imp. of Win. Won. Chaucer.
Wan (&?;), a. [AS. wann, wonn, wan, won, dark, lurid, livid, perhaps
originally, worn out by toil, from winnan to labor, strive. See Win.]
Having a pale or sickly hue; languid of look; pale; pallid. "Sad to
view, his visage pale and wan." Spenser.
My color . . . [is] wan and of a leaden hue.
Chaucer.
Why so pale and wan, fond lover?
Suckling.
With the wan moon overhead.
Longfellow.