| witchuck | <zoology> The sand martin, or bank swallow. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| witfish | <zoology> The ladyfish. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| withamit | <chemical> A variety of epidote, of a reddish colour, found in Scotland. Origin: From its discoverer, H. Witham. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| withdraw | 1. To take back or away, as what has been bestowed or enjoyed; to draw back; to cause to move away or retire; as, to withdraw aid, favor, capital, or the like. "Impossible it is that God should withdraw his presence from anything." (Hooker) 2. To take back; to recall or retract; as, to withdraw false charges. Origin: With against + draw. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| withdrawal | 1. <psychology> A pathological retreat from interpersonal contact and social involvement, as may occur in schizophrenia, depression or schizoid avoidant and schizotypal personality disorders. 2. <pharmacology> A substance specific organic brain syndrome that follows the cessation of use or reduction in intake of a psychoactive substance that had been regularly used to induce a state of intoxication. (06 Oct 1997) |
| withdrawal reflex | Flexion of ankle, knee, and hip when the foot is painfully stimulated; the crossed extension reflex occurs in association with it. Synonym: defense reflex, nociceptive reflex, withdrawal reflex. (05 Mar 2000) |
| withdrawal symptoms | A group of morbid symptom's, predominantly erethistic, occurring in an addict who is deprived of his accustomed dose of the addicting agent. Synonym: abstinence symptoms. (05 Mar 2000) |
| withdrawal syndrome | <syndrome> The development of a substance-specific syndrome that follows the cessation of, or reduction in, intake of a psychoactive substance that the person previously used regularly; e.g., clinical syndrome of disorientation, perceptual disturbance, and psychomotor agitation following the cessation of chronic use of excessive quantities of alcohol is termed alcohol withdrawal syndrome. The syndrome that develops varies according to the psychoactive substance used. Common symptoms include anxiety, restlessness, irritability, insomnia, and impaired attention. See: abstinence syndrome. (05 Mar 2000) |
| withe-rod | <botany> A North American shrub (Viburnum nudum) whose tough osierlike shoots are sometimes used for binding sheaves. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| wither | 1. To fade; to lose freshness; to become sapless; to become sapless; to dry or shrivel up. "Shall he hot pull up the roots thereof, and cut off the fruit thereof, that it wither?" (Ezek. Xvii. 9) 2. To lose or want animal moisture; to waste; to pin away, as animal bodies. "This is man, old, wrinkled, faded, withered." (Shak) "There was a man which had his hand withered." (Matt. Xii. 10) "Now warm in love, now with'ring in the grave." (Dryden) 3. To lose vigor or power; to languish; to pass away. "Names that must not wither." "States thrive or wither as moons wax and wane." (Cowper) Origin: OE. Wideren; probably the same word as wederen to weather (see Weather, &); or cf. G. Verwittern to decay, to be weather-beaten, Lith. Vysti to wither. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| witherband | <veterinary> A piece of iron in a saddle near a horse's withers, to strengthen the bow. Origin: Withers + band. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| Withering, William | <person> William Withering, the son and grandson of successful physicians, popularised foxglove (Digitalis purpurea, (fairies thimbles), although its proposal to be used for "the dropsy" (excess body fluid) first appeared in the third London Pharmacopeia in 1677. William Withering was a botanist, chemist, musician (bagpipes, flute, harpsichord), geologist, and a well-to-do busy medical practitioner of Birmingham, England. He was a graduate of the University of Edinburgh. He discovered barium carbonate, which was named Witherite in his honor. He was so very busy that it was necessary for him to travel many nights, so he equipped his carriage with a light, and studied while he rode along the countryside. Once a month he joined E. Darwin, J. Priestley, and J. Watt for dinner and lively discussions. This was called the Lunar Society, and they the learned Lunatics. In 1775, he learned from a "grand old dame" of Shropshire that she had a successful formula mixture of some 20 drugs for the treatment of dropsy. She was unable to differentiate between renal, cardiac, hepatic or cerebral dropsy. Botanist Withering perceived that the recipe had foxglove in it. Withering then undertook a careful study of the effects, administering infusions and powders from the foxglove leaf, stems, and the roots of the plant. After cautioning of the toxicity, he provided quantities of the drug for his fellow physicians to try, but heedless that in their administration quite a number of people were evidently being "poisoned" by it with symptoms of nausea, vomiting, yellow vision, diarrhea, and slow pulse. The drug was temporarily depopularised. So Withering produced his, "An Account of the Fox Glove and Some of its Medical Uses" (1785) to let people know how to properly use it. Withering wrote, "Time will fix the real value upon this discovery, and determine whether I have imposed upon myself and others, or contributed to the benefit of science and mankind." The last 15 years of his life, he suffered frequent episodes of haemoptysis, dyspnoea, and fevers. A friend visited him who related of this celebrated botanist-physician, "The flower of English physicians is indeed Withering." Lived: 1741-1799. (18 Nov 1997) |
| witherite | <chemical> Barium carbonate occurring in white or gray six-sided twin crystals, and also in columnar or granular masses. Origin: So called after Dr. W. Withering. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| withers | The region of the back of an animal, particularly of the horse, which lies between the shoulder blades. Origin: A.S. Wither, against Fistulous withers, a fistula, caused by bacterial infection, of the withers. (05 Mar 2000) |
| withhold | 1. To hold back; to restrain; to keep from action. "Withhold, O sovereign prince, your hasty hand From knitting league with him." (Spenser) 2. To retain; to keep back; not to grant; as, to withhold assent to a proposition. "Forbid who will, none shall from me withhold Longer thy offered good." (Milton) 3. To keep; to maintain; to retain. "To withhold it the more easily in heart." (Chaucer) Origin: Withheld; Withheld, Withholden; Withholding] [With again, against, back + hold. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| window |
An area on the screen that displays information, including user documents as well as communications such as alert boxes and dialog boxes. The user can open or close a window; move it around on the desktop; and sometimes change its size, scroll through it, and edit its contents.
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| window |
(1) In a printed product, a die-cut hole revealing an image on the sheet behind it. (2) On a mechanical, an area that has been marked for placement of a piece of artwork.
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| wing |
an airplane's airfoil; the wing produces lift as the craft moves through the air and has two movable controls: ailerons and flaps
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| wisdom tooth |
The eighth (also the last tooth) tooth from the middle of the jaw.
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| wild type |
A normal, nonmutant form of a macromolecule, cell, or organism.
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| WI | North American plant similar to true licorice and having a root with similar properties |
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| WI | stout perennial of eastern and central North America having palmate leaves and showy racemose blue flowers |
| WI | Eurasian herb with ample panicles of small white flowers |
| WI | a person who is not socialized |
| WI | North American herb with poisonous root stock and edible though insipid fruit |
| WI | African tree with edible yellow fruit resembling mangos |
| WI | African tree with edible yellow fruit resembling mangos |
| WI | aromatic Eurasian perennial |
| WI | common lily of the eastern United States having nodding yellow or reddish flowers spotted with brown |
| WI | small deciduous tree of southern Africa having edible fruit |
| WI | small deciduous tree of southern Africa having edible fruit |
| WI | weakly climbing European perennial with white or pink flowers |