in the United States of America. : 529 
tion, wicked. The compound ugly-tempered is sometimes used. They 
are both used by the illiterate. Vew England. 
UNFEELING, z. want of feeling. This word is censured in the Monthly Ans 
thology, vol. iv. p.281. I never saw it in any other instance than the one 
there referred to. 
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VENDUE;; auction, New England. This word was formerly more common 
than auction. Itis now chiefly used in legal proceedings, in conformity 
with the phraseology of ancient statutes of the different States. Itis neither 
in Mr. Webster’ 8, nor the English dictionaries; but it has been added to 
- Some of the American editions of Johnson and Walker. 
w. 
To WAGE; “to lay a wager,” &c. Webst.. The English use the verb ¢o 
bet. Dr. Johnson indeed says, that the verb to wage “is now only used in 
the phrase to wage war ;” and does not give it in the sense of daying a wa- 
Ser, but has only the verb to wager. Bailey, however, and Entick, and 
some others have ¢o wage in this sense. 
Seppe lil of wharf. We always make the plural of this noun, wharves ; 
the 2 “say wharfs. “There were not in London used so many 
wharf or ‘eye for the landing of merchants" goods.” Child, as Ched by 
Johnson. “ Something that is artificial, as keys and wharfe, &c. Lord 
Hale, De Portibus Maris, ch. 2. “This occasioned the statutes.....which 
enable the crown by commission to ascertain the limits of all ports and to 
“assign proper wharfy and quays in each port, ke. Blackst. Com. i. 264, 
“ The Legislature must have supposed that the warehouses, quays, and 
' wharfe would not be so constructed, kc. Lord Ellenborough in the case of 
Harden ys, Smith, 8 East’s Reports, 20. The word guay (anifpeasty a 
“nounced key) is in more common use in London, thanwharf. iiss 
7% ebchll to ged This is \frevinctal in the South and West of ‘cage 
oi ‘ 
Prov. Gloss. It j is not in the dictionaries. : tic othe 
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