WER SUPPLEMENT. WRI 



an injured person or his next of kin, within I impunity cannot constitute the innocence or 



cerUin limits of propinquity, in the law of I weaken the guilt or immorality of will 



Scotland to the present day in the form of|either before or alter the act. [J. A. S.] 



what is technically called an action fori WII.SOMTK, a hydrated silicate of 



assythment and damages; for the lawjalumina, with potash, and also soda and 



rightly holds that a culpable (for that Is the j lime in smaller proportion. 



element of liability) offenderdoes not satisfy \Vu,L'ITE, a synonym of grossular. 



the requirements of justice by merely pay- WlSBBiTM, a hydrated fibrous variety of 



ing the penalty of the criminal law; he [carbonate of magnesia. 



must also satisfy the civil law for the injury j W/STABLA, a genus of leguminous 



he has doue as far as his means will allow, [climbing shrubs, of which the W. Sinentis of 



Thus, if a thief possessed of property steal .China, and W. Frutescens of America, with 



a hundred pounds from any one, and spend their beautiful blue racemes, are now well 



or waste it, to give him sentence of three jknown flowering plants on walls. 



years' imprisonment would be no compen- \Vl I en HI-:M>\{.<. Abnormal growths upon 



sation to the injured person; he has a the Pinut Sylvettria, distorting the foliage 



right to recover against the criminal's estate and branches into bunches, occasioned by 



for the amount of his loss in his private the attacks of the fungus Peridermium 



interest, in addition to the criminal law's elatinum, have received this popular name. 



exaction for protection of the public interest. wri'OH .MKAI, or LYOOfODlUX, the 



This principle forms the complete feature of pollen of the club moss, or Lycopoditim cla- 



the Christian atonement, and is thereby lully vatum, called also vegetable sulphur. It is 



illustrated. Christ first fulfilled the law used as a coating for pills, and also as 



Which man had broken, and made It honour- theatrical lightning, from the rapidity with 



able, (i. e., vindicated ils justice,) and He which it flashes into a blaze when thrown 



next paid the penalty man had incurred for, into a flame. 



breaking it. [J. A. S.] | WITEXAC; EMOTE, the meeting of the 



WERXERITE, a synonym of scapolite, ; councillors of the Anglo-Sa'xon monarchies, 

 a silicate of alumina, oxide of iron, and representative of the who:e nation, as dis- 

 lime. tinguished from the folkmote or meeting of 



WHEEL ANIMALCULE, the ordinary the nation itself. 



name of the Rotifers or Vorticelli, g. v. 



WHEEL-OKE, macled Bournonite. 



WHERRY, a small boat with both bow 

 and stern pointed. 



VViXHAJliTE, a ferro-silicate of alumina. 



WOHLEHITE, a mineral composed of 

 columbate of zirconia, silicate of soda, and 

 silicate of lime. 



WHETSSTOXK, a talc slate containing a WOLCHITE, a native arsenio-sulphjde of 

 mixture of silica, It is a good set stone or lead, copper, and antimony, 

 houe, though now much superseded by "VVOL* SHANE, a synonym of monkshood 

 the superior qualities of Arkansas stone jor aconite. 

 and some other of the American marbles. WOODBINE, tbeCaprifoUumpericMj/me- 



Wn KY, the watery portion of milk sepa- \nurn, or honeysuckle. 



rated from the curd, which contains a small WOODRUFF or WOODROOF, the Atpe- 

 proportion of sugar of milk (over three per rula odorata, or woodrow. 



WOOD sjMLtiT, pyroxylic spirit, used 



cnt.). 



WHITE AXTIMOXY ORE, valentinite, 

 o native oxide of antimony. 



WJIITK AIISEMC, arsenious acid, 



in forming methylated alcohol. 



VTOOTZ, a superior kind of Indian steel, 

 said to have been the source of the celebrated 



ovide of arsenic. sword-blade manufacture ot Damascus. Its 



WILL or VOLITION, freedom of, a great 'production is very ancient, und was made 

 question of ethics, which has been much by melting small quantities of wrought iron 

 obscured by the wordy mystifications of together with twigs of trees in suitable 

 metaphysicians, who have generally mixed crucibles, covered with green leaves and 

 it up more or less with freedom of action, closely luted with cl:;y. The nodules of steel 

 with which it has absolutely nothing to do ; produced are little larger than a pigeon's 

 for, (to apply the poet's sentiment,) to the egg, and required to be beaten out into thin 

 will itself "stone walls do nota prison makt, ribbon-like pieces, which were welded to- 

 nor iron bars a cage." The will may be per- gether, and thus subjected to much hammer- 

 fectly free, though but two alternatives be ing and working up for the sword blades 

 actually before it, for the freedom of the will'which obtained so high a reputation, 

 Is not limited In its operation to a re- WORM BARK, the medicinal bark of the 

 stricted sphere of practical action. Thus the'cabbage bark tree, Andira inei-mii. 

 amount of actual and perpetrated crime inl WoR>nvooi>,the.4rt<;mwfa.dfcnf/iiM, 

 the world is very far from the true measure from which the bitter medical principle 

 of human iniquity. The man who would absinthine is obtained, which is the flavour- 

 commit a theft or murder if he were sure of ing element of creme d'absinthe. 

 impunity, isquite as morally vile and guilty vVitisT DROP, a disease generated among 

 as if the impunity were assured ; for the mere compositors from the lead poison introduced 

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