| wamble | 1. To heave; to be disturbed by nausea; said of the stomach. 2. To move irregularly to and fro; to roll. Origin: Cf. Dan. Vamle, and vammel squeamish, ready to vomit, Icel. Vaema to feel nausea, vaeminn nauseous. Disturbance of the stomach; a feeling of nausea. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| wamble-cropped | Sick at the stomach; also, crestfallen; dejected. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| wamp | <zoology> The common American eider. Origin: From the North American Indian name. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| wampee | <botany> A tree (Cookia punctata) of the Orange family, growing in China and the East Indies; also, its fruit, which is about the size of a large grape, and has a hard rind and a peculiar flavor. The pickerel weed. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| wampum | Beads made of shells, used by the North American Indians as money, and also wrought into belts, etc, as an ornament. "Round his waist his belt of wampum." (Longfellow) "Girded with his wampum braid." (Whittier) These beads were of two kinds, one white, and the other black or dark purple. The term wampum is properly applied only to the white; the dark purple ones are called suckanhock. See Seawan. "It [wampum] consisted of cylindrical pieces of the shells of testaceous fishes, a quarter of an inch long, and in diameter less than a pipestem, drilled . . . So as to be strung upon a thread. The beads of a white colour, rated at half the value of the black or violet, passed each as the equivalent of a farthing in transactions between the natives and the planters." Origin: North American Indian wampum, wompam, from the Mass. Wompi, Del. Wape, white. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |