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t? 359. Fite 73, far 77, (all 83,fit 81— mi03, mil 95—pine 105, pin 107—no 162, move, 107,
WHOLE, hole, a. 474. All, total, contain-ing ait; uninjured, unimpaired; well of anyhurt or sickness.
WHOLE, bile, s. The totality, no partomitted.
W HOLES ALE, h&le'sale, s. Sale in thelump, not in separate small parcels.WHOLESOME, hole'sfim, a. 1G5. Sound,contributing to health; preferring, salutary;kindly, pleasing.
W HOLESOMELY, hile'sum-le, ad. Salu-briously, salutiferously.
WHOLESOMENESS,hole'sum-n&s, s. Qua-
lity of conducing to health, salubrity*, sulu-tariness, conduciveness to good.
WHOLLY, hole'e, ad. 474. Completely, per-fectly ; totally, in all the parts or kinds,fcj From an iU*jmtge<! omission of the silent e inthis word, its sound bus beta corrupted as if writtenhnlly : but it ought undoubtedly to be written wholely,and pronounced like the adjective holy, and so as tocorrespond and rhyme with solely.
WHOM, h66m. The Accusative of Who,singular and plural.
WHOMSOEVER, h&om-so-ev'Sr,pron. Any
without exception.
WHOOBUB, hub bub, Hubbub.WHOOP, b&fcp, s. A shout of pursuit; abird.
To WHOOP, hS^p, v. n. To shout withscorn ; to shout insultingly ; to shout in thechase.
WHORE, h65r, or bore, s. A woman whoconverses unlawfully with men, a fornicatress,an adultress, a strumpet; a prostitute, a wo-man who receives men for money.
£5* If there can be a polite pronunciation of thisvolgar word, it is the first of these, rhyming with poor .The stage has followed this pronunciation; Mr. She*ridau has adopted it; hut Dr. Kenriek and Mr. Scottgive the preference to (ho last; and W. Johnston, Mr.Elphinston, Mr. l\rry, ami Barclay, adopt only thelast, rhyitimg with more. This, it must be confessed,is the moat analogical; but, as it is used by the vulgar,the polite world think they depart a little from thevulgarity of the word by departing from its genuinepronunciation.
To WHORE, h55r, v. n. To converse unlaw-fully with the other sex*
To WHORE, hS8r, v. a. To coirupt withregard to chastity.
WHOREDOM, h&&i'dum, s. Fornica-tion.
WHOREM ASTER, hoiVm3s-t8r, ) s.One
WHOREMONGER, h&6r'mung-gur,) whokeeps whores, or converses with a forni-catress.
WHORESON, ho&r's?in, s. A bastard.WHO KISH, hSdr'ish, a. Unchaste, incon-tinent.
WHORTLEBERRY, hw8r'tl-ber-r4, s. Bil-berry.
WHOSE, hSSz. Genitive of Who ; Genitiveof Which. * v
WHOSO, hSS'si, 7 pron. Any
WHOSOEVER, h66-si-£v'fir, j without re-striction.
WHURT, hwfirt, s. A whortleberry, a bil-berry.
WHY, hwl, ad. 397, 475. For what reason ?interrogatively ; for which reason, relatively ;for what reason, relatively ; it is sometimesused emphatically.
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WHYNOT, hwi'ntjt, s. A cant word fur vio-lent or peremptory procedure.
WICK, vvik, s. The substance round whichis applied the wax or tallow of a torch orcandle.
WICKED, wlk'Id, a. 90. Given to vice, fla-gitious, morally bad ; it is a word of ludicrousor slight blame ; cursed, baneful, pernicious,had iu effect.
WICKE D LY, wlkld-le, ad. Criminally, cor-
ruptly.
WICKEDNESS, wSk'Id-nes,«. Corruptionof manners, guilt, moral ill.
WICKER, wlk'ur, «. 98. Made of smallsticks.
WICKET, wlk'lt, s. 99. A small gate.WIDE, wide, a. Broad, extended far eachway ; broad to a certain degree, as, threeinches Vv ide ; deviating, remote.
WIDE, wide, ad. At a distance; with greatextent.
WIDELY, wlde'le, ad. With great extenteach way ; remotely, far.
To WIDEN, wl'd’n, v. a. 103. To makewide, to extend.
To WIDEN, wi'd’n, i\ n. To grow wide, to
extend itself.
WIDENF.SS, wlde'nes, s. Breadth, largeextent each way, comparative breadth.WIDGEON,wid'jin, s. 259. A water-fowlnot unlike a wild duck, but not so large.WIDOW, wld'i, s . 327. A woman whosehusband is dead.
To WIDOW, vvid'o, v. «. To deprive of ahusband; to endow with a widow-right; tostrip of any tiling good.
WIDOWER, wid'o-ur, «. 98. One who haslost his wife.
WIDOWHOOD, wld'6-hud, s. The state ofa widow ; estate settled on a widow.
WIDOW HUNTER, wid'4-hunt-ur, s. One
who courts w idows for a jointure.WIDOWMAKER, wid'A-ma-kur, s. Onewho deprives women ot their husbands.WIDTH, width, s. Breadth, wideness.
To WIELD, wield, v. a. 275. To use withfull command, as a tiling not too heavy.
WIELDY, wcil'di, a. Manageable.WIERY, wl're, a.
py When this word signifies made of wire, or drawninto wire, Dr. Johnson says it were belter writtenwiry; but ought not Jiery, for the same reason, to bewritten Jiry f Wuen it signifies wet y wearish, or moist ,perhaps i» should be pronounced like weary , fa-tigued.
WIFE, wife, s.; plur . Wives. A womanthat has a husband ; it is used for a womanof low employment.
WIG , wig, s. False hair worn on the head ;a sort of cake.
WIGHT, wite, s . 393. A person, a being,now used only in irony or contempt.
WILD, wild, a. Not tame, not domestick;propagated by nature, not cultivated ; desert,uninhabited ; savage, uncivilized ; turbulent,tempestuous, irregular ; licentious, ungovern-ed ; inconstant, mutable, fickle ; inordinate,loose; uncouth, strange; done or made with-out any consistent order ot plan ; merely ima-ginary.
WILD, wild, s. A desert, a tract uncultivated and uninhabited.