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whicli is oflfii parted on thin cloth, and fixed in frames, to 

 prevent its being fpoilcd by the dampnefs of the wall, 

 or elfe it is finilhed with ilucco. Walls (hould be tho- 

 roughly dry before they are wainfcotted, and the Huff of 

 which the wainfcot is made (hould be dry and well fea- 

 foiied. 



Some joiners put charcoal behind the panels of tlic wain- 

 fcot, to prevent the fweat of (lone and brick-walls from 

 unghiing the joints of the panels. Others ufe wool for the 

 fame purpofe. But neither the one nor the other is fuffi- 

 cient for fome houfes : the only fure way, is by priming 

 over the backfides of the joints with white lead, or Spanifh 

 brown and linfeed oil. 



Wainfcotting is meafured by the fquare yard of nine 

 feet ; and in taking dimenfions, they ufe a firing, which 

 they prefs into all the mouldings ; it being a rule, that they 

 are to be paid for all where the plane goes. 



The cornice is meafured and paid by the foot in 

 length. 



WAIORA, in Geography, a town of Africa, in Kaarta. 

 N.lat. 14°48'. W. long. 6° I o'. 



WAISCHOWIZ, a town of Moravia, in the circle of 

 Olmutz ; 3 miles S.S.E. of Profnitz. 



WAIST, in Ship-building, a name given to that part of 

 the topfide of a (hip, above the upper-deck, between the main 

 and fore drifts: or it is that part which is contained be- 

 tween the quarter-deck and fore-cadle, being ufually a hollow 

 fpace, with an afcent of feveral fteps to either of thofe 

 places. When the waift of a merchant-fhip has only one 

 or two (leps of defcent from the quarter-deck and fore- 

 caftle, (he is faid to be galley-built ; but when it is con- 

 fiderably deeper, as with fix or feven fteps, (he is called 

 frigate-built. Falconer. 



WAIT's River, in Geography, a river of Vermont, 

 which runs into the Connefticut, N. lat. 43° 58'. W. long. 

 72° 5'. 



WAITS, in Mujlc, attendant muficians on great perfon- 

 ages, mayors, and bodies corporate, generally furni(hed with 

 fuperb dreffes, or fplendid cloaks. We have an account in 

 Rymer's Foedera, (tom.ix. " De Miniitrielles propter Sola- 

 tium Regis providendis," ) and in the " Liber niger Domus 

 Regis," of the edablifhment of the mindrels and waits, in 

 the fervice of the court during the reign of Edward IV. The 

 account of the allowances to the waits at this early period 

 is curious. 



" A wayte, that nightelye from Mychelmas to Shreve 

 Thorfdaye pipethe the watche withen this courte fowcr 

 'ymes ; in the fomere nyghtes iij tymes, and makethe 

 bon gayte at every chamhere-doare and offyce, as well for 

 feare of pyckeres and pillcrs. He eateth in the halle with 

 myndrielies, and taketlic lyvcrey at nighte a loffe, a galone 

 of alle, and for fomere nightes ij candles picli, a buflicl of 

 coles ; and for wintere nightes half aloafeof bread, a galone 

 of ale, iiij candles piche, a bufhel of coles ; daylye whilfte lie is 

 prefente in courte for his wages in cheque roale allowed iiij d. 

 ob. or elfe iij d. by the difcrefshon of th'- deuarde and tref- 

 forere,and that,aftere hiscominge and difcruingc; alfo cloath- 

 inge with the lion(hold yeomen or myndrielies lykc to the 

 wages that he takethc ; and he be fyke he taketh twoe loves, 

 ij melfe of great mcate, one gallon of ale. Alfo he partethe 

 with the hou(holde of general gyfts, and hathc his beddingc 

 carried by the comptrollers affygment ; and under this yeo- 

 man to be a groome watere. Yf he can cxcufc the yeoman 

 in his abfcnce, then he takctherewardc, clotheinge, meat, and 

 all other things lykc to other grooms of houfliold. Alfo 

 this ycoman-waighte, at the makingc of knightcs of the 

 batlie, for his attendance upon them by ni^htc-tymc, in 



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watchingc in the chappelle, hathe to his fee all the watchinge- 

 clothing tjiat the knight fliall wear uppon him." 



WAI "SF'ELD, in Geography, a town of America, in 

 the date of Vermont, and county of Chittenden ; containing 

 647 inhabitants. 



WAITZEN, or Vaitz, a town of Hungary, fitiiated 

 on the Dan'.be ; the fee of a bilhop, founded in the year 

 1074. This town chiefly owes its profperity to a large 

 annual f;\ir, and a good market for cattle. The number of 

 mhabitants is about 8000 ; 72 miles E.S.E. of Prcft)urg. N 

 lat. 47° 29'. E. long. 18° 38'. 



WAITZENKIRCH, a town of Audri. ; 4 mUes 

 W.N.W. of Efferding. 



WAIVE, in Law, a woman that is put out of the pro- 

 teftion of the law. 



She is called waive, as being forfaken of the law ; and 

 not outlaw, as a man is ; by reafon women cannot be of the 

 decenna, and are not fworn in leets to the ki. g, nor to the 

 law, as men are ; who are therefore within the law ; whereas 

 women are not, and fo cannot be outlawed, (ince they never 

 were within it. 



In this fenfe we meet with waviarla mulierh, as of the fame 

 import with utlegatio viri. 



WAIWODE, or Waywode, the appellation that dif- 

 tmguilhes, in the Ottoman empire, the governor of a fmall 

 province, or of a town, which not forming part of a pa- 

 chalik, is fometimes the appendage of a fultana, of the grand 

 vifir, of the captain-pacha, or of any other great officer of 

 the empire. He enjoys all the prerogatives of a pacha with 

 two tails, but occupies an inferior rank. When he is re- 

 quired to march at the head of the armed force of his de- 

 partment, he joins his colours to thofe of the pacha with 

 three tails. Both the one and the other are charged with 

 carrying into execution, in their provinces, the fentences pro- 

 nounced by the judges. 



In the iflands of the Archipelago, the Muffulmen or Greeks 

 fimply charged by the Porte with the gathering of the tax, 

 and with the poUce of the place, arelikewife didinguidied by 

 the name of waiwode. 



The palatines, or governors of provinces in Poland, alfo 

 bear the quality of waywoJes, or waiwoiUj. See Pala- 

 tine. 



The Poles likewife call the princes of Walachia and l/lo\- 

 davia TDiyrwo^/w ; as edecming them no other than on the 

 foot of governors ; pretending that Walachia and Moldavia 

 are provmces of Poland, which have withdrawn themfelvcs 

 from the obedience of the repubUc. Every where elfe thefe 

 are called hojpodars. 



Du Cange fays, that the name waywoile is ufcd in Dal- 

 matia, Croatia, and Hungary, for a general of an army ; and 

 Lennclavius, in his Pandcds of Turkey, tells us, it ufually 

 fignifies eaptain or commander. 



WAKARI, in Geography, a fmall ifland on the ead 

 fide of the gulf of Bothnia. N. lat. 60" 51'. E. long. 

 20° 47'. 



WAKAYGAGH, or Four, a river of America, 

 which runs into lake Michigan, N. lat. 42° 58'. W. long. 

 87^9'. 



WAKE, William, in Biography, a famous Engli(h pre- 

 late, was born at Blandford, in the county of Dorfet, in 

 1657, and admitted at Chriilchurch college, at Oxford, in 

 1672, where he took his degrees in arts, and entered into 

 lioly orders. He afterwards accompanied his fellow-collegian, 

 lord vifconnt Prellon, to France, as Iuh chaplain, and return- 

 ing from thence to England after the accelTion of .Fames II. 

 was elctlcd preacher to the fociety of Gray's Inn. In 1686 

 he pubhihcd " An Expofition of the Dottrine of the Church 



