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WAINHOUSEi waggon-houfes ftill retain the 



ancient name. 

 WAKE ; a company of neighbours fitting up all 



night with the dead : a cuftom which is ftill pre- 

 valent. 



WALKER ; a fuller. 

 WALK-MILL ; a fulling-mill. 

 WALLANEERING ; an txpreffion of pity. 

 WALSH; infipid ; wanting fait, or fomc other fea- 



foning : oppofed torelifliing. 

 WANKLE j unftable j not to be depended upon ; 



as wankle weather, a wankle feat, &c. 

 WAR, or WARSE ; worfe. 

 WARBLES ; maggots in the backs of cattle. 

 To WARE; to lay out ; as money at a market. 

 To WAR K j to ache : hence " head-wark" " teeth- 



wark;" head-achetooth-ache. 

 WARK ; work, in its general fenfe. But what is 



noticeable, the verb to wo>i t and the fubftantive 



worker^ take the eftablifhed pronunciation. 

 WARK-DAY (pr on. war day) ; week-day; in con- 



tradiftin&ion to Sunday : " Sunday and war-day." 

 WARRIDGE ; the withers of a horfe. 

 WATH ; the common name of a ford, 

 WATTLES ; rods laid on a roof to thatch upon. 

 WAVERS; young timberlings left ftanding in a 



fallen wood. 



To WAW (the w articulate); to mew as a cat. 

 To WAWL ; to cry audibly, but not loudly. 



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