Woulfe" bot`tle (?), n. (Chem.) A kind of wash bottle with two or three
necks; — so called after the inventor, Peter Woulfe, an English
chemist.
Wound (?), imp. & p. p. of Wind to twist, and Wind to sound by blowing.
Wound (?; 277), n. [OE. wounde, wunde, AS. wund; akin to OFries. wunde,
OS. wunda, D. wonde, OHG. wunta, G. wunde, Icel. und, and to AS., OS.,
& G. wund sore, wounded, OHG. wunt, Goth. wunds, and perhaps also to
Goth. winnan to suffer, E. win. √140. Cf. Zounds.]
1. A hurt or injury caused by violence; specifically, a breach of the
skin and flesh of an animal, or in the substance of any creature or
living thing; a cut, stab, rent, or the like. Chaucer.
Showers of blood Rained from the wounds of slaughtered Englishmen.
Shak.
2. Fig.: An injury, hurt, damage, detriment, or the like, to feeling,
faculty, reputation, etc.
3. (Criminal Law) An injury to the person by which the skin is divided,
or its continuity broken; a lesion of the body, involving some solution
of continuity.
Walker condemns the pronunciation woond as a "capricious novelty." It
is certainly opposed to an important principle of our language, namely,
that the Old English long sound written ou, and pronounced like French
ou or modern English oo, has regularly changed, when accented, into the
diphthongal sound usually written with the same letters ou in modern
English, as in ground, hound, round, sound. The use of ou in Old
English to represent the sound of modern English oo was borrowed from
the French, and replaced the older and Anglo-Saxon spelling with u. It
makes no difference whether the word was taken from the French or not,
provided it is old enough in English to have suffered this change to
what is now the common sound of ou; but words taken from the French at
a later time, or influenced by French, may have the French sound.
Wound gall (Zoöl.), an elongated swollen or tuberous gall on the
branches of the grapevine, caused by a small reddish brown weevil
(Ampeloglypter sesostris) whose larvæ inhabit the galls.
Wound (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Wounded; p. pr. & vb. n. Wounding.] [AS.
wundian. √140. See Wound, n.]
1. To hurt by violence; to produce a breach, or separation of parts,
in, as by a cut, stab, blow, or the like.
The archers hit him; and he was sore wounded of the archers.