Woo"ra*li (?), n. Same as Curare.
Woos"y (?), a. Oozy; wet. [Obs.] Drayton.
Wootz (wts), n. [Perhaps a corruption of Canarese ukku steel.] A
species of steel imported from the East Indies, valued for making edge
tools; Indian steel. It has in combination a minute portion of alumina
and silica.
Woo"yen (?), n. (Zoöl.) See Yuen.
Wo"pen (?), obs. p. p. of Weep. Wept. Chaucer.
Wor"ble (?), n. (Zoöl.) See Wormil.
Word (?), n. [AS. word; akin to OFries. & OS. word, D. woord, G. wort,
Icel. orð, Sw. & Dan. ord, Goth. waúrd, OPruss. wirds, Lith. vardas a
name, L. verbum a word; or perhaps to Gr. "rh`twr an orator. Cf. Verb.]
1. The spoken sign of a conception or an idea; an articulate or vocal
sound, or a combination of articulate and vocal sounds, uttered by the
human voice, and by custom expressing an idea or ideas; a single
component part of human speech or language; a constituent part of a
sentence; a term; a vocable. "A glutton of words." Piers Plowman.
You cram these words into mine ears, against The stomach of my sense.
Shak.
Amongst men who confound their ideas with words, there must be endless
disputes.
Locke.
2. Hence, the written or printed character, or combination of
characters, expressing such a term; as, the words on a page.