2. An annual feast of the persons employed in a printing office.
[Written also way-goose.] [Eng.]
We (w), pron.; pl. of I. [Poss. Our (our) or Ours (ourz); obj. Us (s).
See I.] [As. w; akin to OS. w, OFries. & LG. wi, D. wij, G. wir, Icel.
vr, Sw. & Dan. vi, Goth. weis, Skr. vayam. √190.] The plural nominative
case of the pronoun of the first person; the word with which a person
in speaking or writing denotes a number or company of which he is one,
as the subject of an action expressed by a verb.
We is frequently used to express men in general, including the speaker.
We is also often used by individuals, as authors, editors, etc., in
speaking of themselves, in order to avoid the appearance of egotism in
the too frequent repetition of the pronoun I. The plural style is also
in use among kings and other sovereigns, and is said to have been begun
by King John of England. Before that time, monarchs used the singular
number in their edicts. The German and the French sovereigns followed
the example of King John in a. d. 1200.
Weak (wk), a. [Compar. Weaker (-r); superl. Weakest.] [OE. weik, Icel.
veikr; akin to Sw. vek, Dan. veg soft, flexible, pliant, AS. wc weak,
soft, pliant, D. week, G. weich, OHG. weih; all from the verb seen in
Icel. vkja to turn, veer, recede, AS. wcan to yield, give way, G.
weichen, OHG. whhan, akin to Skr. vij, and probably to E. week, L.
vicis a change, turn, Gr. e'i`kein to yield, give way. √132. Cf. Week,
Wink, v. i. Vicissitude.]