VVRE

nor 167, n3t 103— tube 171, tfib 172, bull 11

fT The first pronunciation of this word is by far

* (he more usual, but the iftat is more analogical. The

tv lias no power over the a, for the same reason as inthe preceding word. A want of attending to this,and, perhaps, confounding this word with the obsoleteadjective wroth, are the reasons of the present cur-rency of this erroneous pronunciation. Mr. Sheridan,Mr. Scott, W. Johnston, Dr. Kenrick, Mr. Hares,and Mr. Smith, adopt the first sound ; and Mr Perryalone the last; but, in a case where analogy is soclear, his authority ought, in my opinion, to outweighthem ad.

WRATHFUL, rita'ful, or rafk'ful, a. An-gry, furious, raging.

WRATH FULLY, rftf/i'ful-e, or raUi'ful-le,ad. Furiously, passionately.WRATHLESS, rulh'les, or ral/i'ies, a.Free from anger.

To WREAK, reke, v. a. ; ol dpret. and part.pass. Wroke. To revenge $ to execute anyviolent design.

£3* The diphthong in this word has the sound I havegiven it, in Sheridan, Scott, W. Johnston, Dr. Kenrick, Perry, Smith, and Barclay.

WREAK, reke, s. 474. Revenge, venge-ance ; passion, furious fit.

WREAKFUL, reke'ful, a. Revengeful,

annry.

WREATH , ref/t, orreTHe, s. 467. Anything

curled or twisted ; a garland, a chaplet.

£3* I have placed what I think the best usual modeof pronouncing this word first, because I think it somuch more agreeable to analogy than the second.Nouns and verba spelled alike, and ending with ahissing consonant, seem, throughout the whole lan-guage, to be distinguished from each other by the for-mer eiving the sharp and the Utter the flat sound tothe consonant.—See Principles, Nos. 4*57, 467, 499*

To WREATH , reTHe, v. a.; prel. Wreathed ;part. pass. Wreathed, Wreathen. To curl, totwist, to convolve ; to interweave, to entwineone in another ; to encircle as a garland ; toencircle as with a garland.

WREATIIY, re'THe, a. Spiral, curled,

twisted.

WRECK, rik, s. 474. Destruction by

being driven on rocks or shallows at sea;dissolution by violence ; ruin, destruction.—See Shipioreck.

£3" Mr, Sheridan alone Iras given the sound of a tothe e in this word ; Mr. Scott* W. Johnston, Dr. Ken-rick, Mr. Perry, ami Mr. Smith, pronounce it a& Ihave flume.

To WRECK, 1 -ek, v. a. To destroy by dash-ing on rocks or sands ; to ruin.

To WRECK, rlk,e. n. To suffer wreck.WREN, rln, s. 474. A small bird.

To WRENCH , rensh, r. a. To pull byviolence, to wrest, to force ; to sprain, todistort.

WRENCH , rensh , s. 474. A violent pullor twist; a sprain.

To WREST, rest, i\ «. To twist by vio-lence, to extort by writhing or force ; to dis-tort, to writhe, to force.

WREST, rest, s. 474. Distortion, violence.WRESTER, res'tur, s. He who vests.

To WRESTLE, rls'sl, v. n. 472. To con-tend who shall throw the other down; tostruggle, to contend.

WRESTLER, reslur, s. 98. One who wres-tles, one who professes the athletick art; onewho contends in wrestling.

703

WRI

t—oil 299— pound 313— thin 466, this 469.

WRETCH, retsh, s. A miserable mortal;a worthless sorry creature ; it is used by wayof slight ironical pity or contempt.WRETCHED, ritsh'ed, a. 366. Miserable,unhappy; calamitous, afflictive; sorry, piti-ful, paltry, worthless; despicable, hatefullycontemptible.

WRETCHEDLY, retsh'ed-le, ad. Miser-ably, unhappily ; meanlv, despicably.WRETCHEDNESS, retsVed-nes, Y Mi-sery, unhappiness, afflicted state ; pitifulness,despicableness

To WRIGGLE, rig'gl, n. 405. To moveto and fro with short motions.

To WRIGGLE, rig'gl, v. a. 474. To put ina quick reciprocating motion.

WRIGHT, rite, s. 2D3,474. A workman,an arlificer, a maker, a manufacturer.

To WRING, ring, v.a. • pret. and part. past.Wringed and Wrung. To twist, to turn roundby violence; to force out of any body bycontortion ; to squeeze, to press ; to writhe;to pinch ; to force by violence, to extort; toharass, to distress, to torture; to distort, toturn to a wrong purpose; to persecute withextortion.

To WRING, ring, r. n. 474. To writhewith anguish.

WRINGER, ring'ur, s. 98. One whosqueezes the water out of clothes.WRINKLE, rink'kl, s. 405. Corrugationor furrow of the skin in the face ; anyroughness.

To WRINKLE, rink'kl, r. a. To corru-gate, to contract into furrows; to make roughor uneven.

WRIST, rist, s. 474. The joint by whichthe hand is joined to the arm.

WRISTBAND, rist'band, s. The fastening

of tlie shirt at the hand.

WRIT, rit, s. 474. Any thing written,Scripture. This sense is now chiefly used inspeaking of the Bible . A judicial process; alegal instrument.

WRIT, rit. The pret. of Write.

To WRITE, rite, v. a. ; pret. Writ or Wrote;

part. pass. Written, Writ, or Wrote. To ex-press by means of letters ; to engrave, to im-press ; to produce as an author; to tell byetter.

To WRITE, rite, v. n. 474. To perform theact of writing ; to play the author ; to tell inbooks ; to send letters ; to call one’s self, tobe entitled, to use the style of; to compose,to form compositions.

WRITER, ri'tur, s . 98. One who practisesthe art of writing ; an author.

To WRITHE, riTHe, v, a. 467. To distort,to deform with distortion ; to twist with vio-lence ; to wrest, to force by violence ; totwist.

To WRITHE, riTHe, v. n. To be convolved

with agony or torture.

WRITING, n'ting, s. 410. A legal instni.ment ; a composure, a book ; a written paperof any kind.

WRITINGMASTER, ming-mas'tar, «.

One who teaches to write.

WRITTEN, rlt't’n, a. 103. The part, pass,of Write.