waltz 
are usually made up of sections of eight or sixteen mea- 
sures. Several such sections are often written to be per- 
formed in succession, and are then provided with an in- 
troduction and a coda.— Deux-temps waltz. See deux- 
temptf. 
waltz (waits), f. /. [<ica/L-, H.] 1. To dance 
a waltz, or in the movement or step of a waltz. 
Some xealtz, some draw, some fathom the abyss 
Of metaphysics. Byron, Don Juan, xii. 62. 
2. To move liglitly or trippingly or swiftly as 
in a waltz : as, the young people waltzed into 
the room. [Slang.] 
waltzer (walt'ser), n. [< waU~ + -erl.] A per- 
son who waltzes. 
It may be said, without vanity, that I was an apt pupil, 
and ... in a single week I became an expert waltzer. 
Thackeray, Fitz-Boodle's Confessions, Dorothea. 
waluewite (wal'u-it), «. [Named from P. A. 
Waliiew. a Russian.] A variety of xanthophyl- 
lite, occurring in tabular crystals of a dull- 
green color. It is found in the Zlatoust mining 
region in the Urals. 
walwet, '■• A Middle English form of wal- 
waly', walie (wa'li), a. and n. [An extension 
of Kdle'^, (I., perhaps mixed with ME. tcely, well, 
< AS. iceUy, rich, wealthy, < wel, well: see icelV^.] 
1. (1. 1. Beautiful; excellent. 
I think them a' sae braw and walie. Hamilton. 
But T.am kenn'd what w as what fu' brawlie ; 
There was ae winsome wench and walie. 
Burns, Tarn o' Shanter. 
2. Large; ample; strong; robust. 
This waly boy will be na coof. 
Burns, There was a Lad. 
II. «.; pi. walies i-liz). Something pretty; 
an ornament ; a toy ; a gewgaw. 
Baith lads and lasses busked brawly 
To glowr at ilka bonny waly. 
Ramsay, Poems, II. 633. (Jamieson.) 
t Scotch in all senses.] 
y2 (wa'li), interj. [An abbr. var. of wella- 
wdj/.'i An interjection expressive of lamenta- 
tion; alas! [Obsolete or Scotch.] 
O tcaly, waly up the bank. 
And waly, waly down the brae. 
And waly, waly yon burn side, 
Where I and my love wont to gae. 
Waly, Waly, but Love be Botwi!/ (Child's Ballads, IV. 133). 
wamara (wii'ma-ril), n. [Native name.] The 
brown ebony of British Guiana. See ebony. 
wamble (wom'bl), v. i. ; pret. and pp. wambled, 
ppr. wambling. [Also dial, wammel, wmnmle; < 
ME. wamleii, < Dan. vamle, feel nausea (ct.vam- 
mel, mawkish) ; freq. of the verb seen in Icel. 
■vsemri = Sw. riimjas, refl., loathe, nauseate.] 1. 
To rumble, heave, or be disturbed with nausea : 
said of the stomach. 
What availeth to haue good meate, when onely the sight 
thereof nnnieth belkes, and makes the stomach wamble? 
Guevara, Letters (tr. by Hellowes, 1.W7), p. 132. 
•Some sighing elegie must ring his knell, 
Unlesse bright sunshine of thy grace revive 
His wambling stomack. 
Marston, Scourge of Villany, viii. 
2. To rumlile ; ferment, and make a distur- 
Vjance. 
And your cold sallads, without salt or vinegar. 
Lie watnbliny in your stomachs. 
Fletcher, Mad Lover, i. 1. 
[Obsolete or provincial in both uses.] 
wamble (wom'bl), u. [< wamble, v.] A rum- 
bling, heaving, or similar disturbance in the 
stomach; a feeling of nausea. [Obsolete or 
provincial.] 
Our meat going down into the stomach merrily, and with 
pleasure dissolveth incontinently all wambles. 
Holland, tr. of Plutarch, p. 675. 
wamble-cropped (wom'bl-kropt), a. Sick at 
the stomach; figuratively, wretched; humili- 
ated. [Vulgar.] 
wambles (wom'blz), n. Milk-sickness. 
wamblinglyt (wom'tjling-li), adv. With wam- 
l)ling. or a nauseating effect. 
If we shtnild make good their resemblances, how then 
should we please the stomach of God? who hath indeed 
brooked and borne us a long time. I d(}aht\>\lt wamblingly. 
Rev. S. Ward, Sermons and Treatises, p. 90. 
wame (wam), n. A dialectal form of womb. 
wametow (wam'to), n. [< wnme + toicl.] A 
t)elly-biuid or girth: as, a mule with a pad 
secured on its back with a ivametow. [Prov. 
Eng.] 
wammelt, wammlet, ''• '• Dialectal variants 
of iniinhle. 
wammus (wam'us), ». [Also wnmus; < 6. 
wamms. warns, a doublet, waistcoat, jerkin, < 
MHG. wambes, wambei.i, < OF. gambais, a lea- 
thern doublet: see gambeson.'] A warm knit- 
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ted jacket resembling a cardigan 
and western U. S.] 
This [wagon-spoke] he put into the baggy part of his 
wamus, or hunting-jacket — the part above the belt into 
which he had often thrust prairie-chickens when he had no 
game-bag. E. Eggleston, The Graysons, xiviii. 
wamp (womp), 11. [Supposed to be < Massa- 
chusetts Ind. wonwi, white : see wampum.] The 
American eider-duck: so called from the ap- 
pearance of the drake. [Massachusetts.] 
wampee (wom-pe'), n. [Also whampee; Chi- 
nese, < liwang, yellow, -I- pi, skin.] 1. The fruit 
of a tree, Clausena IVampi, of the Butacex, tribe 
Aurantiese, thus allied to the orange. Tlie native 
country of the tree is unknown, but it is cultivated in 
China, India, and Malaya for the fruit, which is borne in 
clusters, and is of the size and somewhat the taste of a 
gi'ape, with an additional pleasant flavor of its own. The 
tree is of a sweet terebinthine odor, its leaves pinnate 
with five to nine smooth and shining leaflets. 
2. See Pontederia. 
wampish (wom'pish), v. t. [Origin obscure.] 
To toss about in a threatening, boasting, or 
frantic manner; wave violently; brandish; 
flourish. Scott. [Scotch.] 
wampum (wom'pum), m. [Formerly also wam- 
pom, rcampame, wompam ; < Amer. Ind. *wam- 
pum, wompam, < Massachusetts Ind. wompi, 
Delaware wapi, white.] Small shell beads 
wander 
[Southern wan^ (won), a. [< ME. wan, wanne, < AS. wann, 
wonn, dark, black, lurid (as an epithet of the 
raven, the sea, flame, night, also of shadows, 
ornaments, clothes, etc.): connections uncer- 
tain. According to some, orig. 'deficient,' sc. 
in color, and so connected with AS. watt, de- 
ficient: see wan- and wane^, wane^. But cf. 
W. gwan, Bret, gwan = Jr. Gael./ann, faint, fee- 
ble. According to others (a view highly im- 
probable), orig. 'worn out with toil, tired out,' < 
AS. winnan (pret. wan, won), strive, fight: see 
win.'] 1. Dark; black; gloomy: applied to the 
weather, to water, streams, pools, etc. 
There leuit thay laike, and the laund past : 
Ffor the wedur so wete, and the wan showres. 
Destruction of Troy (E. E. T. H.), h 9668. 
And they hae had him to the wan water. 
For a' men call it Clyde. 
Earl Richard (Child's Ballads, IIL 5). 
While and Purple Wampum. (From specimen in American 
Museum of Natural History, New York City.) 
pierced and strung, used as money and for or- 
nament by the North American Indians. The 
shell was cut away, leaving only a cylinder like a Euro- 
pean bugle. Watupum was of two kinds, white and black 
or dark-purple. An imitation of wampum consisting of 
white porcelain beads of the same shape has been made 
by Europeans for sale to the Indians. See the second quo- wail-^t (w'an). 
tation under wampumpeag. 
Ye said Narigansets . . . should pay . . . 2000 f athome 
of good white wainpame. 
Bradford, Plymouth Plantation, p. 437. 
Sachems of Long Island came voluntarily, and brought 
a tribute to us of twenty fathom of wampom, each of them. 
Winthrop, Hist. New England, I. 283. 
The Indians are ignorant of Europes Coyne ; yet they 
have given a name to ours, and call it monfeash from the 
English money. Their owne is of two sorts : one white, 
which they make of the stem or stocke of the Periwincle, 
which they call Meteafthock, when all the shell is broken 
off : and of this sort six of their small Beads (which they 
make with holes to string the bracelets) are currant with 
the English for a Peny. The second is black, inclining to 
blew, which is made of the shell of a fish, which some 
English call Hens, Poquatthock, and of this sort three 
make an English peny. . . . This one fathom of this their 
stringed money, now worth of the English but five shil- 
lings (sometimes more), some few yeeres since was worth 
nine, and sometimes ten shillings per Fathome. . . . Obs 
'Their white they call Womparn 
their black Suckanhock ■~- ' ' 
2. Colorless ; pallid ; pale ; sickly of hue. 
As pale and wan as ashes were his looke. 
Spenser, F. (J., n. xL 22. 
3t. Sorrowful; sad. 
In maters that meuys the with might for to stir, 
There is no worship in wepiug, ne in wan teres ; 
But desyre thi redresse all with derfe strokis. 
Destruction of Troy (E. E. T. 8.), 1. 3602. 
4t. Frightful; awful; great. 
Then come thai to Calcas the cause forto wete, 
Of the wedur so wikkid, and the wan stormys. 
Destruction of Troy (E. E. T. S.), L ISWa 
=Syn. 2. Pallid, etc. (see palei), ashy, cadaverous, 
wan^ (won), )'.; pret. and pp. wanned, ppr. wan- 
ning. [< «)o»i, a.] I. trans. To render wan. 
II. intrans. To grow or become wan. 
AH his visage timnn'd. Shale., Hamlet, li. 2. 580. 
A vast speculation had fail'd. 
And ever he muttcr'd and madden'd, and ever wann'd with 
despair. Tennyson, Maud, L S. 
[Bare in both uses.] 
An old preterit of ifi«l. 
wan-. [< ME. wan-, < AS. wan- = MD. D. wan- 
— OHG. MHG. wan-, G. wahn- = Icel. van- = 
Sw. Dan. van-, a negative prefix, being the adj. 
AS. wan = OFries. wan, won = MLG. wan 
= OHG. wan = Icel. vanr : see wane^, wane^, 
wanfi, wanse. AS. compounds with wan- were 
numerous : wanheelth, want of health, wanhdl, 
unhealthy, wanhygd, heedlessness, etc. : see 
wanbelief, wanhope, wanspeed, wanton, wan- 
trnst, wanwit, etc.] A prefix of Anglo-Saxon 
origin, frequent in Middle English, meaning 
'wanting, deficient, lacking,' and used as a 
negative, like t/n-l, with which it often inter- 
changed. It differs from «n-l in denoting more em- 
phatically the fact of privation. It still exists as a recog- 
nized pri'fii in provincial use, aJid in literaJy use, unrecog- 
nized as a prefix, in wanton. 
wanbelieft, n. [ME. wanbeleve; < wan- + be- 
'omj^am (which signifies white): ,,w- j Lack of faith. Prompt. Parv., j,. 515. 
antongst themselves, as £othI'l"glSf and Dutch ?* Wanbelievert,«. One who disbelieves. Prompt. 
blacke petiy is two pence white. Parv., p. 515. 
Roger Williams, Key to Amer. Lang. , xxiv. wanchancy (won-chan'si ),a. [< wan- + cManey. 
Striped wampum, a kind of wampum-snake, ^iia«(or Cf. unchancy.] Unlucky; unchancy; wicked. 
erythroyrammtts of S'orth .\merica. [Scotch ] 
wampumpeag (wom'pum-peg), n. [Amer. .^a^^^ (^-ond) „ [< ME. ifond, wond, < Icel. 
Ind., < wompam, white, + i>cag, strung beads.] „^„^^ (vand-), a wand, a switch, = OSw. wand 
Strings of (originally white) wampum formerly 
used as tokens of value by the American In- 
dians, and by the whites, especially in trade 
with the Indians. 
He gave to the governonr a good quantity of icampom- 
peague. Winthrop, Hist. New England, I. 143. 
There was no currency, before this time, . . . unless we 
choose to give the name of currency to the toamptim, or 
wampumpeage (as it is more properly called), of the In- 
dians. . . . Peage was the name of the suljstance, which 
was of two kinds- black and white. Wampum, or worn- 
puiii, is the Indian word for white, and as the white kind 
was the most common, wampumpeage got to be the com- 
mon name of this substance, which was usually abbrevi- 
ated into wampum. The black peage consisted of the small 
round spot in the inside of the shell, which is still usual- 
ly called in this neighborhood by its Indian name of quahog. 
These round pieces were broken away from the rest of 
the shell, brought to a smooth and regular shape, drilled 
through the center, and strung on threads. The white 
peage was tlie twisted end of several small shells, broken 
olf from the main part. These portions of shell, thus 
strung, were worn as bracelets and necklaces, and wrought 
into belts of curious workmanship. They thus possessed 
an intrinsic value with the natives, for the purposes of or- 
nament ; and they were readily taken l)y them in exchange 
for their furs. E. Everett, ttrations, I. 124. 
wampum-snake (wom'pum-snak),)i. The red- 
bellied snake, Farancia abacura, a harmless 
colubrine serpent of the United States. See 
cut under Farancia. 
wamsutta (wom-sut'a), «. Cotton cloth made 
at the Wamsutta Mills, New Bedford, Massa- 
chusetts. 
wamus (wam'us), n. Same as wammus. 
= Dan. vaand = Goth, wandus, a rod; so called 
from its pliancy, < AS. windan (pret. wand), 
etc., wind: see windK] 1. A slender stick; 
a rod. 
A toppe of it to sette other a wwide 
Ys holdon best right in Apriles ende. 
When grene, and juce upon hem dothe ascende. 
Palladius, Huslmndrie (E. E. T. S.), p. 123. 
His spear, to equal which the tallest pine, 
Hewn on Norwegian hills to be the mast 
Of some great ammiral, were but a wand. 
Milton, P. L., i. 294. 
2t. A twig; a bough. 
O sweetly sang the nightingale. 
As she sat on the wand. 
The Clerk's twa Sons o' Oicsenford (Child's Ballads, IL 65). 
3. A rod, or staff having some special use or 
character. Specifically- (a) A staff of authority. 
Though he had both spurs and wand, they seemed rather 
marks of sovereignty than instruments of punishment. 
Sir P. Sidney. 
(b) A rod used by conjurers or diviners. 
Nay, Lady, sit ; if I but wave this inimJ, 
Your nerves are all chained up in alabaster. 
MiltoTi, Comus, 1. 659. 
(c) A small baton which forms part of the insignia of the 
messenger of a court of justice in Scotland, and which he 
must exhibit before executing a caption : called more 
fully wand of peace, (d) The baton used by a musical con- 
ductor.— Electric wand, an electrophorus in the form of 
a baton. See eicrfro^iAon/s.—KunlC wand. See rtmici. 
wander (won'der), v. [< ME. wanderer), wan- 
dren, wondrien, < AS. wandrian, wander, = OS. 
