| way | 1. That by, upon, or along, which one passes or processes; opportunity or room to pass; place of passing; passage; road, street, track, or path of any kind; as, they built a way to the mine. "To find the way to heaven." "I shall him seek by way and eke by street." (Chaucer) "The way seems difficult, and steep to scale." (Milton) "The season and ways were very improper for his majesty's forces to march so great a distance." (Evelyn) 2. Length of space; distance; interval; as, a great way; a long way. "And whenever the way seemed long, Or his heart began to fail." (Longfellow) 3. A moving; passage; procession; journey. "I prythee, now, lead the way." (Shak) 4. Course or direction of motion or process; tendency of action; advance. "If that way be your walk, you have not far." (Milton) "And let eternal justice take the way." (Dryden) 5. The means by which anything is reached, or anything is accomplished; scheme; device; plan. "My best way is to creep under his gaberdine." (Shak) "By noble ways we conquest will prepare." (Dryden) "What impious ways my wishes took!" (Prior) 6. Manner; method; mode; fashion; style; as, the way of expressing one's ideas. 7. Regular course; habitual method of life or action; plan of conduct; mode of dealing. "Having lost the way of nobleness." "Her ways are ways of pleasantness, and all her paths are peace." (Prov. Iii. 17) "When men lived in a grander way." (Longfellow) 8. Sphere or scope of observation. "The public ministers that fell in my way." (Sir W. Temple) 9. Determined course; resolved mode of action or conduct; as, to have one's way. 10. Progress; as, a ship has way. The timbers on which a ship is launched. 11. <machinery> The longitudinal guides, or guiding surfaces, on the bed of a planer, lathe, or the like, along which a table or carriage moves. 12. Right of way. See below. By the way, in passing; apropos; aside; apart from, though connected with, the main object or subject of discourse. By way of, for the purpose of; as being; in character of. Covert way. A space left for the passage of the rounds between a rampart and the wall of a fortified town. Way pane, a pane for cartage in irrigated land. See Pane. Way passenger, a passenger taken up, or set down, at some intermediate place between the principal stations on a line of travel. Ways of God, his providential government, or his works. Way station, an intermediate station between principal stations on a line of travel, especially on a railroad. Way train, a train which stops at the intermediate, or way, stations; an accommodation train. Way warden, the surveyor of a road. Synonym: Street, highway, road. Way, Street, Highway, Road. Way is generic, denoting any line for passage or conveyance; a highway is literally one raised for the sake of dryness and convenience in traveling; a road is, strictly, a way for horses and carriages; a street is, etymologically, a paved way, as early made in towns and cities; and, hence, the word is distinctively applied to roads or highways in compact settlements. "All keep the broad highway, and take delight With many rather for to go astray." (Spenser) "There is but one road by which to climb up." (Addison) "When night Darkens the streets, then wander forth the sons Of Belial, flown with insolence and wine." (Milton) Origin: OE. Wey, way, AS. Weg; akin to OS, D, OHG, & G. Weg, Icel. Vegr, Sw. Vag, Dan. Vei, Goth. Wigs, L. Via, and AS. Wegan to move, L. Vehere to carry, Skr. Vah. Cf. Convex, Inveigh, Vehicle, Vex, Via, Voyage, Wag, Wagon, Wee, Weigh. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| way shaft | 1. <machinery> A rock shaft. 2. <chemical> An interior shaft, usually one connecting two levels. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| Way, Stanley | <person> British obstetrician-gynecologist. See: Stanley Way procedure. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Stanley Way | See: Way. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Stanley Way procedure | A radical vulvectomy. (05 Mar 2000) |
| two-way catheter | A catheter with two lumens, allowing irrigation and aspiration. Synonym: two-way catheter. (05 Mar 2000) |
| benign dry pleurisy | An acute infectious disease usually occurring in epidemic form, characterised by paroxysms of pain, usually in the chest, and associated with strains of Enterovirus coxsackievirus type B. Synonym: benign dry pleurisy, Bornholm disease, Daae's disease, devil's grip, diaphragmatic pleurisy, epidemic benign dry pleurisy, epidemic diaphragmatic pleurisy, epidemic myalgia, epidemic myositis, myositis epidemica acuta, epidemic transient diaphragmatic spasm, Sylvest's disease. (05 Mar 2000) |
| bone dry | Having zero percent moisture content. Wood heated in an oven at a constant temperature of 212 degrees F or above until its weight stabilises is considered bone dry or oven dry. (05 Dec 1998) |
| bone dry unit | A quantity of wood residue which weighs 2,400 pounds at zero percent moisture content. (05 Dec 1998) |
| wet and dry bulb thermometer | An instrument for measuring the tension of the aqueous vapor in the atmosphere, being essentially a wet and dry bulb hygrometer. Origin: Gr. Psychros cold: cf. F. Psychrometre. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| dry | 1. Free from moisture; having little humidity or none; arid; not wet or moist; deficient in the natural or normal supply of moisture, as rain or fluid of any kind; said especially: Of the weather: Free from rain or mist. "The weather, we agreed, was too dry for the season." (Addison) Of vegetable matter: Free from juices or sap; not succulent; not green; as, dry wood or hay. Of animals: Not giving milk; as, the cow is dry. Of persons: Thirsty; needing drink. "Give the dry fool drink." (Shak) Of the eyes: Not shedding tears. "Not a dry eye was to be seen in the assembly. <medicine> " (Prescott) Of certain morbid conditions, in which there is entire or comparative absence of moisture; as, dry gangrene; dry catarrh. 2. Destitute of that which interests or amuses; barren; unembellished; jejune; plain. "These epistles will become less dry, more susceptible of ornament." (Pope) 3. Characterised by a quality somewhat severe, grave, or hard; hence, sharp; keen; shrewd; quaint; as, a dry tone or manner; dry wit. "He was rather a dry, shrewd kind of body." (W. Irving) 4. Exhibiting a sharp, frigid preciseness of execution, or the want of a delicate contour in form, and of easy transition in colouring. <medicine> Dry area See Cupping. Dry dock. See Dock. Dry fat. See Dry vat (below). Dry light, pure unobstructed light; hence, a clear, impartial view. "The scientific man must keep his feelings under stern control, lest they obtrude into his researches, and colour the dry light in which alone science desires to see its objects." (J. C. Shairp) Dry masonry. See Masonry. Dry measure, a system of measures of volume for dry or coarse articles, by the bushel, peck, etc. Dry pile, a rent reserved by deed, without a clause of distress. Dry rot, a decay of timber, reducing its fibres to the condition of a dry powdery dust, often accompanied by the presence of a peculiar fungus (Merulius lacrymans), which is sometimes considered the cause of the decay; but it is more probable that the real cause is the decomposition of the wood itself. Called also sap rot, and, in the United States, powder post. Dry stove, a hothouse adapted to preserving the plants of arid climates. Dry vat, a vat, basket, or other receptacle for dry articles. Dry wine, that in which the saccharine matter and fermentation were so exactly balanced, that they have wholly neutralized each other, and no sweetness is perceptible; opposed to sweet wine, in which the saccharine matter is in excess. Origin: OE. Drue, druye, drie, AS. Dryge; akin to LG. Droge, D. Droog, OHG. Trucchan, G. Trocken, Icel. Draugr a dry log. Cf. Drought, Drouth, 3d Drug Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| dry abscess | The remains of an abscess after the pus is absorbed. (05 Mar 2000) |
| dry amputation | Amputation in which, by means of a tourniquet, the escape of blood from the cut surfaces is slight. Synonym: dry amputation. (05 Mar 2000) |
| dry beriberi | Paraplegic beriberi, affecting chiefly the peripheral nerves; its clinical pattern is predominantly that of a polyneuropathy without associated congestive failure. (05 Mar 2000) |
| dry bronchiectasis | Bronchiectasis characterised by lack of productive cough and by occasional haemoptysis. Synonym: bronchiectasia sicca. (05 Mar 2000) |