Wiz"ened (?), a. Dried; shriveled; withered; shrunken; weazen; as, a
wizened old man.
Wiz"en-faced` (?), a. Having a shriveled, thin, withered face.
Wlat"some (?), a. [AS. wlatian to disgust, irk, wl&?;tta loathing.]
Loathsome; disgusting; hateful. [Obs.]
Murder is . . . wlatsom and abhominable to God.
Chaucer.
Wo (?), n. & a. See Woe. [Obs.] Chaucer.
Woad (?), n. [OE. wod, AS. wd; akin to D. weede, G. waid, OHG. weit,
Dan. vaid, veid, Sw. veide, L. vitrum.] [Written also wad, and wade.]
1. (Bot.) An herbaceous cruciferous plant (Isatis tinctoria). It was
formerly cultivated for the blue coloring matter derived from its
leaves.
2. A blue dyestuff, or coloring matter, consisting of the powdered and
fermented leaves of the Isatis tinctoria. It is now superseded by
indigo, but is somewhat used with indigo as a ferment in dyeing.
Their bodies . . . painted with woad in sundry figures.
Milton.
Wild woad (Bot.), the weld (Reseda luteola). See Weld. — Woad mill, a
mill grinding and preparing woad.
Woad"ed, a. Colored or stained with woad. "Man tattoed or woaded,
winter-clad in skins." Tennyson.
Woad"-wax`en (?), n. [Cf. Wood-wax.] (Bot.) A leguminous plant (Genista
tinctoria) of Europe and Russian Asia, and adventitious in America; —
called also greenwood, greenweed, dyer's greenweed, and whin,
wood-wash, wood-wax, and wood- waxen.
Woald (?), n. See Weld.
Wob"ble (?), v. i. See Wabble.
Wode (?), a. [AS. wd.] Mad. See Wood, a. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] Chaucer.
Wode, n. Wood. Chaucer.
Wode"geld` (?), n. [See Wood, and Geld.] (O. Eng. Law) A geld, or
payment, for wood. Burrill.
Wo"den (?), n. [AS. Wden; akin to OS. Wdan, OHG. Wuotan, Icel. Oðinn,
and probably to E. wood, a. Cf. Wednesday.] (Northern Myth.) A deity
corresponding to Odin, the supreme deity of the Scandinavians.
Wednesday is named for him. See Odin.
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Woe (?), n. [OE. wo, wa, woo, AS. w, interj.; akin to D. wee, OS. &
OHG. w, G. weh, Icel. vei, Dan. vee, Sw. ve, Goth. wai; cf. L. vae, Gr.
&?;. √128. Cf. Wail.] [Formerly written also wo.]