waker 
Late watchers are no early icakers. 
B, Jotigon, Tale of a Tub, i. 4. 
2. One who watehes ; a watcher. — 3. One who 
attends a wake. 
I'll have such men, like Irish tralterg, hired 
To sing old ** Habeas Corpus." Moure, Corruption. 
waker^t, a. [< ME. icai-^r, wakeful, < AS. mieor 
= Icel. vakr = Sw. wader, wakeful, watchful.] 
Watchful; vigilant. 
WaJcer howndes l)een profitable. 
Political Poems, etc. (ed. Furiiivall), p. 32. 
The tcaker goos, the cukkow ever unkyride. 
Chaucer, I'arlianient of Fowls, 1. 
358. 
Flowering Plant of Wake-robin ( 7>/7/j'«w 
frettNm ]. 
a, a flower, laid ofien ; *, the fruit, with 
the persistent scpaU. 
Mm. Brow II- 
In every plume that on her (a monster's] body sticks . . . 
As many waker eyes lurk underneath. 
So many moutlis to sjteak, and listening ears. 
Surrey, ^neid, iv. 
wakerife (wak'rif), a. {Also tea ukrife; <. wake^ 
+ n/el.] Wakeful. [Old Eng. and .Scotch.] 
Be wer, tharefor, with walkryfe Ee, 
And mend, geue ony niyster be. 
Lauder, Dewtie of Kyugis (E. E. T. S.), 1. 489. 
Wail thro' the dreary midnight hour 
Till traukri/e mom ! 
Bum^, On Capt. Matthew Henderson. 
wake-robin (wak'rob'iu), n. 1. In Great Brit- 
ain, the cuckoo- 
pint, Arum ma- 
culatum. The 
name is extend- 
ed also to the 
whole genus. — 
2. In the United 
States, a plant of 
the genus Trilli- 
um; birth-root, 
or three-leaved 
nightshade. — 
VlrKlnlan wake- 
rolmi. the arruw- 
titam^et/andra un- 
diilatit. See tucka- 
hie, 1.— West In- 
dian wake-robin, 
a plant of either of 
the genera Anthw- 
rium and Pkiloden- 
dron. See both ;aUo 
taU-Jhaer. 
wake-time 
(wak'tim), n. 
Time during which one is awake. 
IN//, Aurora Lei^h, ii. 
wakiki (wak'i-ki), w. A variety of shell-money 
used in New Caledonia and other islands of the 
Pacific. Compare wampum. 
waking (wa'king),7>, a. 1. Being awake; not 
sleeping. 
If you're waking call me early. 
Tennymn, May Queen, Xew Year's Eve. 
2. Rousing from sleep; exciting into motion 
or action. — 3. Passed in the waking .state; 
experienced while awake : as, wnking hours. 
Such 8ol>er certainty of icakinij bliss. 
Milton, Comus, 1. 2G3. 
Waking numbness, a numbness and tingling lasting fur 
a short time, sometimes exi>erienced up<jn first waking 
fr'iii sleep, but soon disappt.'aring. 
waking (wii'king), n. [< ME. wnkinije, wakijiige, 
wacuiige; verbal n. of irntcl, r.] 1. The act 
of passing from sliep to wakefulness, or of 
causing another so to pass. 
They sleep secure from leaking. 
Cou>jier, Friendship, 1. l'.iS. 
2. The state or period of being awake. 
His sleeps and his wakings are so much the same tliat 
he knows not how to distinguish them. 
S. Butler, Charat-ters. 
3t. Watch. 
Aboute the (onrth waking of the night. 
Wycli/, Mark vl. 48. 
4. A vigil; especially, the act of holding a 
wake, or of watching the dead. 
To speken of bodily peyne, it stant in preyeres, in wak- 
yngen, in fastyuges, in vertuouse techiii^es of orisouns. 
Chaucer, I'iirson's Talc. 
wakon-bird (wa'kon-berd), H. A fabulous bird 
among the American Indians, or some actual 
bird regarded with superstition or used in re- 
ligious ceremonial. Various unsuccessful attempts 
have been made to identify it. The quetzal of Central 
America has been sometimes so called, or reganied as one 
of the wakons. Compare 6\ii\bird{e\ and thumJer-l/int, 'I. 
Walachian, «. and «. See Jf'iilliifliiari. 
walawaf, interj. Same as wclluirini. 
Walcheren fever. A severe form of malarial 
fever: so called from Walcheren, an island of 
the Netherlands, where it at one time iirevaileil. 
burtng the Walcheren exiiedition, in 14<ft>. the Kngtish 
loit thousands of troops by a fever caused (as was be- 
lieved) by the badness of tlie water, this loss leading t<i the 
entire failure of the exjiedition. 
6807 
Walchia (wal'ki-a), 11. A generic name given 
by Sternberg (in" 1825) to a fossil i)lant very 
abundant in, and characteristic of, the Permian 
series. This plant belongs to the Conifera. and lias a 
close resenildance in its general appearance to the Arau- 
cariea; but, since its oro:ans of fructification are unknown, 
its position has not as yet lieen exactly determined. It 
is in certain respects allied to livachyphylhim and Pagio- 
phylluin, conifers found in the Triassic and Jurassic. 
Schenk (1884) makes a separate division (the Walchiene) 
of certain conifers, in which he includes the genera Wal- 
chia, UUmannia, and Pagiophyllum of Keer {Pachyphyl- 
turn of Saporta). UUmannia is also a characteristic plant 
of the Permian, being found in numerous localities in the 
Kupferschiefer ; while Pagiophyllum occurs in the Trias 
of the Uniteil .States, in various places in Europe in the 
Triassic and Jmassic, and in India in the Gondwana series. 
walchowite (wal'ko-it), «. [< Walcliow (see 
def.) -t- -itc'^.] A yellow translucent mineral 
resin, occurring in the brown coal of Walehow 
in Moravia; retinite. 
waldt, ". A Middle English form of KoUn. 
waldemar (wol'de-miir), n. A variety of vel- 
veteen, or cotton velvet, apparently a superior 
quality of fustian. 
Waldenberg's apparatus. Ac apparatus con- 
structed on the principle of a gasometer, used 
for compressing or rarefying air which is in- 
haled, or into which the patient exhales. 
Waldenses (wol-deu'sez), n. pi. [Also Val- 
rfe»i.sv.s-. Cf. F. Vamlois = Sp. Pg. It. Valdense ; 
< ML. Vahlcii.ics, pi., so called from Peter Valdo 
or Jl'alflo of Lyons, the founder of the sect.] 
The Waldensians. 
Waldensian (wol-den'sian), a. and n. [Also 
Vahiciiaiaii (see def.); i Waldenses + -tn«.] 
I. a. Of or pertaining to the Waldensians or 
Waldenses. 
Tlie important point of the origin of the ira;(feii«i'a7i 
Church is clearly established, being referred to Waldo, in 
opposition to the fanciful theories which tried to carry it 
back through mysterious paths to the primitive Christian 
times. The Academy, No. 888, p. SW. 
II. II. A member of a reforming body of 
Christians, followers of Peter Waldo (Valdo) of 
Lyons, formed about 11 70. Its chief seats were in the 
alpine valleys of Piedmont, Dauphine, and Provence (hence 
the French name Vaudois des Alpes, or Vaiidois). The 
Waldenses joined the Keformation movement, and were 
often severely persecuted, especially in the sixteenth and 
seventeenth centuries. Tlie Waldensian church in Italy 
now numl>ers about 2ii,0<K) members. 
waldflute (wold'flot), ». [< G. wahlfliite, < walil. 
forest, +fl<>tc, flute.] In oryan-huildiiKj. a flute- 
stop giving soft but very resonant tones. 
waldgrave (wold'grav), «. [< G. wdldj/rnf, < 
wald, forest, -t- graf, grave: see wold^ and 
grille'^, graf.~\ In the old (Jerman empire, a 
head forest-ranger; also, a German title of no- 
bility. 
Walaheimia (wokl-hi'mi-a), n. [NL., named 
after Fischer von Waldheim, a German natu- 
ralist.] 1. A genus of hymenopteious insects. 
Unilli', 1846. — 2. A genus of brachiopods, such 
as IV. aitxlrali.i, containing a few living as well 
structure of ll'nldhejiniti australis, Literal view. 
ti, dorsal surface ; b, ventral surface : c, anterior wall of perivisceral 
cavity : d, brachial appendages : cf , right lateral portion of the same ; 
t, irre.1t limchial canal ; f. small brachial canal ; g, brachial ^roitved 
rifli^e ; h, sheath of tr.insversc portion of calcareous loop : i,J, poste- 
rior anil anterior occliisors or adductors : *, divaricators: *', accessory 
divaricators: *", ends of divaricators attached to cardinal process: 
/, /'. ventral and dorsal adiustors; fn, peduncle; n, j)eduncular 
slieath ; c, peduncular muscle: /, esophaijiis: (j. stomach; r, right 
hepatic mass ; s, c;ecal intestine : /. /', gastroparietal band ; u, ven- 
tral mesentery : it , its upper part ; tj, pseudo-heart : ^tl, genital pavil- 
ion ; y, blood-sinus in mesenteric membrane ; z, esophageal ganglia. 
as many extinct species, and foi'ming the type 
of the family IVaUlliciiiiiid!^. Also called J/i/f/f'/- 
liiiiiii. See iilso cut under f/W//f?('»»(, King, 1849. 
Waldheiiniidae(wold-hi-mi'i-de), «. pi. [XL., 
< ll'iildliciiiiiii + -ida:'\ A family of arthropo- 
niatoiis brachiopods. closely related to Tcrcbra- 
tiilidse, and by most naturalists combined with 
that family, but characterized by the elongated 
bracliiiil ajipendages. 
waldhom (wold'honi), ». [G., < wahl. forest, 
-I- Imrii, liorn : sec (CoWl and lioni.] The old 
hunting-horn, without valves, from which the 
modern orcliestral or French horn was derived ; 
the corno di caccia. See liiirii. 
wale-piece 
Waldsteinia (wold-sti'ni-a), «. [NL. (Willde- 
uow, 179!)), named after Count l^ranz A. von 
WaUIMein (1759-1823), alierman botanist.] Age- 
nus of rosaceous plants, of the tribe I'otentilleee. 
It is characterized by flowers with numerous triseriate 
rigid liei-sisteut stamens, and two to six carpels, their 
styles not elongated. The 4 species are natives of central 
and eastern Eurojie, Siberia, and North America. They 
are herbs with creeping or stoloniferous stems, suggest- 
ing the stra\vberry-i)lant, l>earing alternate long-petioled 
leaves, which are entire, cleft, or compound, sometimes 
with three to five crenate or incised leaflets, and large 
niemt)ranous stipules. The yellow flowers are borne, two 
to five together, on a bracted scape, often with curving 
pedicels. 11'. fragarioides is the barren strawberry of 
the Ignited .States, widely diffused through northern and 
mountainous parts of the Eastern and Central States. 
Walel (wal), II. [Also weal, iniprop. wheal ; < 
ME. icale, < AS. icalu (pi. wahi), a weal, mark 
of a blow ; found also in eomp, wijrt-wala, root, 
prop, stump of a root (orig. 'rod'), = OFries. 
wain, a rod, staff (as in walu-hera, walehera, 
staff-bearer, pilgrim), = North Fries, waal, 
staff, = MLG. ivol (in wolhrodci; pilgrim) = 
Icel. rijlr (val-), a I'ound stick, staff, = Sw. dial. 
val, a stick, flail-liandle, = Goth, walus, statt'.] 
l.Arod. HalHwell. [Prov. Eng.] — 2. A ridge 
or plank along the edge of a ship. Compare 
gunwale. 
Wyghtly one the wale thav wye np thaire ankers. 
Moi-te AHhure(E. E. T. S.), 1. 740. 
3. A timber bolted to a row of piles to secure 
them together and in position ; a wale-piece. — 
4t. A wale-knot. Holland. — 5. A ridge in cloth, 
formed by a thread or a group of threads ; hence, 
a stripe or strain implying quality. 
Thou art rougher far 
And of a coarser u'ale, fuller of pride. 
Beau, and Ft., Four Plays in One. 
By my troth, e.vceeding good cloth ; a good wale 't 'as, 
Middleton, Michaelmas Term, ii. 3. 
6. A streak or stripe produced on the skin by 
the stroke of a rod or whip. 
The ivales or marks of stripes and lashes were all red. 
Holland, tr. of Plutarch, p. 547. 
7. A tumor, or large swelling. Halliicell. 
[Prov. Eng.] —Wales of a ship. See hend^, 3 (d). 
wale^ (wal), r. /.; pret. and pp. waled, ppr, ical- 
i'ng. [Also improp.«i//a?<"; < tcrt/el, »(.] 1. To 
mark with wales or stripes. 
A wycked wound bath ine walled. 
And traveyld me from topp to too. 
Political Potmn, etc. (ed. Furnivall), p. 216. 
Thy sacred body was stripped of thy garments, and 
waled with Idoody stripes. Bp. Hall, C'hrist before Pilate. 
2, To weave or make the web of, as a gabion, 
with more than two rods at a time. 
wale'-* (wal), n. [< ME. wale, < Icel. val = 
OHG. wala, MHG. iral, G. walil, choice; from 
the root of iri//l.] A jiicking or choosing ; the 
choice ; the pick or pink of anything ; the best. 
[Obsolete or Scotch.] 
Von got your wale o' se'en sisters. 
And I gtjt mine o' live. 
Lord B'xrnahij (Child's Ballads, II. 310). 
To wale, at choice ; in al>undance. 
Wilde bestes to wale was there enow. 
Destructuin of Troy (E. E. T. S.), 1. 332. 
wale- (wal), r. I. ; pret. and pp. waled, pjir. wal- 
ing. [Sc. also ii'ail ; < ME. walcn, wclen = OHG. 
wellen, MHG. wcln, wellcii, G. wdlilen = Icel. 
relja = Sw. rdlja = Dan. raplge = Goth, waljan, 
choose ; from the noun : see wale^, «.] To 
seek; choose: select; court; woo. [Obsolete 
or Scotch.] 
" Where schulde I wale the? " tiuoth Gauan ; "where is thy 
place ? 
I wot iieuer where thon wonyes." 
SirGawayne and theGrccn Knight (E. E. T. S.), 1. 308. 
A noble man for the noiiest [is] namet Pellens. 
Tliat worthy hade a wyfe walit hyni-seluon, 
The truthe for to telle, Tetyda she heglit. 
Destruction of Troy (E. E. T. S.), I. 10,1. 
Of choys men syne, walit by cut (lot), thai tuke 
A gret nmnbyr, and hyd in bylgis dern. 
Alliterative Poems {^A. Morris), Gloss., p. 208. 
[(G. Douglas, i. 72.) 
He \caleK a portion with judicious care. 
Burns, Cottar's Saturdity Night. 
wale- (Will), a. [< ME. wale; from the same 
source as H-«?c2_ H.] Choice; good; excellent. 
llalliwcll. [Prov. Eng.] 
Myche woo bade the wegh for the wale knight. 
Dertruction o/Tioy(K E. T. S.), 1. 1288. 
wale-H, ". An obsolete form of weal. 
wale-knott (wal'not), n. Same as wall-knot. 
wale-piece (wal'pes), H. [< walr'^ -\- jiieee.'\ A 
horizontal timber of a f|uay or .ietty. bolted to 
the vertical timbers or secured by anchor-rods 
to the masonry to receive the imjiact of vessels 
coming or lying alongsiile. A.'. //. Knii/lit. 
