| waeg | <zoology> The kittiwake. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| wafer | 1. A thin cake made of flour and other ingredients. "Wafers piping hot out of the gleed." (Chaucer) "The curious work in pastry, the fine cakes, wafers, and marchpanes." (Holland) "A woman's oaths are wafers break with making" (B. Jonson) 2. A thin cake or piece of bread (commonly unleavened, circular, and stamped with a crucifix or with the sacred monogram) used in the Eucharist, as in the Roman Catholic Church. 3. An adhesive disk of dried paste, made of flour, gelatin, isinglass, or the like, and colouring matter, used in sealing letters and other documents. Wafer cake, a sweet, thin cake. Wafer irons, or Wafer tongs, a pincher-shaped contrivance, having flat plates, or blades, between which wafers are baked. Wafer woman, a woman who sold wafer cakes; also, one employed in amorous intrigues. Origin: OE. Wafre, OF. Waufre, qaufre, F. Qaufre; of Teutonic origin; cf. LG. & D. Wafel, G. Waffel, Dan. Vaffel, Sw. Vaffla; all akin to G. Wabe a honeycomb, OHG. Waba, being named from the resemblance to a honeycomb. G. Wabe is probably akin to E. Weave. See Weave, and cf. Waffle, Gauffer. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| wagati | <zoology> A small East Indian wild cat (Felis wagati), regarded by some as a variety of the leopard cat. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| wage | 1. That which is staked or ventured; that for which one incurs risk or danger; prize; gage. "That warlike wage." 2. That for which one labors; meed; reward; stipulated payment for service performed; hire; pay; compensation; at present generally used in the plural. See Wages. "My day's wage." . "At least I earned my wage." . "Pay them a wage in advance." . "The wages of virtue." . "By Tom Thumb, a fairy page, He sent it, and doth him engage, By promise of a mighty wage, It secretly to carry." (Drayton) "Our praises are our wages." (Shak) "Existing legislation on the subject of wages." (Encyc. Brit) Wage is used adjectively and as the first part of compounds which are usually self-explaining; as, wage worker, or wage-worker; wage-earner, etc. Board wages. See 1st Board. Synonym: Hire, reward, stipend, salary, allowance, pay, compensation, remuneration, fruit. Origin: OF. Wage, gage, guarantee, engagement. See Wage. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| wagel | <zoology> See Waggel. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| wagenboom | <botany> A south African proteaceous tree (Protea grandiflora); also, its tough wood, used for making wagon wheels. Origin: D, literally, wagon tree. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| waggel | <zoology> The young of the great black-backed gull (Larus marinus), formerly considered a distinct species. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| Wagner | Hans, Swiss ophthalmologist, *1905. See: Wagner's disease, Wagner's syndrome. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Wagner's disease | Progressive liquefaction and destruction of the vitreous humor with grayish-white preretinal membranes, myopia, cataract, retinal detachment, and hyper-and hypopigmentation; autosomal dominant inheritance. Synonym: Wagner's disease, Wagner's syndrome. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Wagner's syndrome | Progressive liquefaction and destruction of the vitreous humor with grayish-white preretinal membranes, myopia, cataract, retinal detachment, and hyper-and hypopigmentation; autosomal dominant inheritance. Synonym: Wagner's disease, Wagner's syndrome. (05 Mar 2000) |
| wagnerite | <chemical> A fluophosphate of magnesia, occurring in yellowish crystals, and also in massive forms. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| wagon | 1. A wheeled carriage; a vehicle on four wheels, and usually drawn by horses; especially, one used for carrying freight or merchandise. In the United States, light wagons are used for the conveyance of persons and light commodities. 2. A freight car on a railway. 3. A chariot 4. <astronomy> The Dipper, or Charles's Wain. This word and its compounds are often written with two g's (waggon, waggonage, etc), chiefly in England. The forms wagon, wagonage, etc, are, however, etymologically preferable, and in the United States are almost universally used. Wagon boiler. See the Note under Boiler. Wagon ceiling See 1st Vault. Origin: D. Wagen. See Wain. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| wagoner | 1. One who conducts a wagon; one whose business it is to drive a wagon. 2. <astronomy> The constellation Charles's Wain, or Ursa Major. See Ursa major, under Ursa. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| wagr syndrome | <syndrome> Wilms' tumour with aniridia, genitourinary abnormalities, and mental retardation. It is associated with hemizygous deletions of chromosome region 11p13. (12 Dec 1998) |
| Wagstaffe | William, English surgeon, 1843-1910. See: Wagstaffe's fracture. (05 Mar 2000) |