way 
ten tinder weigh.— Waisingbam wayt. Same as Milky 
Way. See Galaxy^ 1. 
The commonalty believed the Galaxias, or (what is called 
in the sky) Milky Way, was appointed by Providence to 
point out the particular place and residence of the Virgin, 
beyond all other places, and was, on that account, gener- 
ally In that age called M'alsittffham Way; and I have 
heard old people of this country so to call and distinguish 
it some years past. 
Btoimfield, HisL Norfolk, ix. (in Rock's Church of our 
[Fathers, III. 287, note. 
Way of the cross, (a) a series of stations or represen- 
tations, as in relief or painting, of the successive acts or 
stages of Christ's progress to Calvary, arranged around the 
interior of a church or on the way to a cross or shrine. 
(6) A series of devotions used at these stations.— Way Of 
the Kami. See A-am».— Way of the rounds, in /ort, a. 
space left for passiige between a rampart and the wall of 
a fortified town.— Ways and means, (a) Means and 
methods of accomplishing some end ; resources ; facilities. 
Then eyther pryuce sought the wayes d; meanys howe 
eytlier oftheym myght dyscontent other. 
Fabyan, Chron., an. 1335. 
(6) Specifically, in leijislaiion, means for raising money; 
metliods of procuring funds or supplies for the support of 
the government. See committee of wayg and mea»«, above. 
— Wet way. See we(l.=Syn. 1. Way, Road, Street, Ptts- 
srt(/e, /'«ss,Pa(A,3'r«cfc, 7' rai/, thoroughfare, channel, route. 
Way is tlie generic word for a place to pass ; a road is a 
public way broad enough and gfwd enough for vehicles; a 
gtreet is a main road in a village, town, or city, as contrasted 
with a la7te or alley ; passage suggests an avenue or nar- 
rower way through, as for foot-passengers ; a pass is a way 
tin-uugh wbere tlie difficulties to be surmounted are on 
an iniposiug scale : as, to find or open a new pass through 
the Andes ; a ]tath is a way f oi- passing on foot ; a track is 
a path or road as yet but little worn or used : as, a cart- 
track through the woods. See def. of trail. — 9 and 10. 
Method, Mode, etc. See manner'^. 
wayif (wa), r. [< wn.i/1, «.] I. trans. 1. To go 
ill, .along, or tlirougli ; traverse. 
And now it is plauutid ouere in desert, in loond not 
wayed (or not hauntid), Wyclif, Ezeli. xix. 13. 
2. To put in the way; teach to go in the way ; 
break or train to tlie road : said of horses. 
He . . . is like a horse that ia not well ?cayed; he starts 
at every bird that flies out of a hedge. 
Sclden, Table Talk, p. 39. 
II. intrans. To go one's way ; wayfare ; jour- 
ney. 
On a time, as they together way'd. 
Spenser, F. (J.,IV. ii. 12. 
way2 (wa), adf. [< ME. way, wey; by aphere- 
sis from away.'] Same as away: now only 
colloquial or vulgar, and commonly printed 
with an apostrophe: as, go 'way! touy back. 
Do loey y(jure handes. Chaucer, Miller's Tale, 1. 101. 
way-'t, V. An old spelling of iceif/h'^. 
wayaka (wa-yii'ka), n. [Polynesian.] See 
yaiii-hcaii. 
■way-bag^age (wa'bag'aj), )(. The baggage or 
effects ot a way-passenger on a railroad or in a 
stage-eoaeli. [U. S.] 
way-barleyt (wa'bilr-li), n. The wall-barley or 
mouse-barley, Hordeum mitrinum. Also way- 
hciit, tcay-hciuiet. 
way-beaten (wa'be''''tn), a. Way-worn; tired. 
Tile way-beaten couple, master and man, sat them down. 
Janus, tr. of Don Quixote, II. iv. 7. {Davies.} 
way-bennett, way-bentt (wa'ben-et, -bent), «. 
See Kay-barley. 
way-bill (wa'bil), n. A list of the names of 
passengers who are carried in a public convey- 
ance, or the description of goods sent with a 
common carrier by land. 
"It's so on the way-bill," replied the guard. Dickens. 
way-bit (wa'bit), n. [ Wso tv cabit, now ivceb it; 
< jcai/i + i/('-2.] A little bit ; a bittook. [North. 
Eng. and Scotch.] 
Ours fl. e., our miles] have but eight [furlongs], unless it 
be in Wales, wlieye they are allowed better Measure, or in 
the North Parts, where there is a M'ea-bit to every Mile. 
Howell, Letters, iv. 28. 
I have heard him prefer divers, and very seriously, be- 
fore himself, who came short a mile and a u'ay-bit. 
lip. Uacket, Abp. Williams, i. fiQ. (Davies.) 
wayboard (wii'bord), ». In mining, a bed of 
tenacious clay formed by the decomposition of 
the toadstone. Also written weigh-board. [Der- 
bysliire, Eng.] 
waybread (wa'bred), n. [Also waybred; < ME. 
weyhrcde, wi-ibrede, < AS. iceijbriede (= MLG. 
wei/ehrede, ictt/ehreide, LG. wccijhreu — OHO. 
v;(.-f/ahreita, MHG . wcgnhreite, (i. ieegebreit z= Sw. 
rdjihreda = Dan. vejbred), plantain ; appar. so 
called as spreading along roads, < wcg, way, 
road, 4- briedan, spread, < brad, broad: see 
hread^.'\ The common plantain, /'/««<«(/(» major. 
See cut under plantain. 
waybung ( wa'bung), n. [Native name (?).] An 
Australian corvine bird. Corcorax niilaiiorliam- 
plim, a sort of chough, noted for the singular 
actions of the male in puiring-time. It is 16 inches 
long, .sooty-idack with a slight purplish gloss, and has a 
large white alar speculum formed by the inner weljs of the 
6856 
primaries; the bill and feet are black, the eyes scarlet. 
'Tlie female is similar, buta little smaller. This bird is the 
Australian type or representative of the Asiatic desert- 
choughs (see Podoees), and of the European Alpine and 
conmion red-legged choughs. 
way-doort (wa'dor), n. A street-door. 
He must needs his posts with blood embrue. 
And on his way-door fix the homed head. 
Bp. Hall, Satires, III. iv. 7. 
wayfare (wa'far), v. i. [< ME. weyfarcn, orig. 
in ppr. weyfarand, < AS. wegfarende (= Icel. 
veyfarandi = Sw. vdgfarande = Dan. vejfarende), 
< weg, way, + farcnde, ppr. of faran, go : see 
wai/l and/rtrel. Cf. icay/are, «.] To journey; 
travel, especially on foot : now only in the 
present participle or the verbal noun. 
A certain Laconian, as he way-fared, came unto a place 
where there dwelt an old friend of his. 
Holland, tr. of Plutarch, p. 390. 
Farewell, honest Antony! — Pleasant be your wayfar- 
ing, prosperous your return ! 
Irving, Knickerbocker, p. 416. 
wayfarer (wa'far'er), II. [< ME. weyfarere, a 
wayfarer ; < waj/l + farer. ] One who wayf ares, 
journej's, or travels; a traveler, especially one 
who travels on foot ; a passenger. li.Carew. 
The peasant is recommended [1362] to give to the needy 
wayfarer in preference to the beggar. 
Uibton-Turner, Vagrants and Vagrancy, p. 54. 
The wayfarer, at noon reposing. 
Shall bless its shadow on the grass. 
Lowell, On Planting a Tree at Inverara. 
wayfaring (wa'far'ing), 2>- a- [Early mod. E. 
also wai/aring; < ME. wayferande, also iccyvtr- 
inde, wayverindc, wayfaring, < AS. icegfarendc 
(= Icel. vegfarandi, etc.), also wegferend, way- 
faring: see wayfare, v.'] Journeying; travel- 
ing, especially on foot. 
The wayferande frekez, on fote & on liors. 
Alliterative Poems (ed. Morris), ii. 79. 
Moreover, for the refreshing of waifaring men, he or- 
dained cups of yron or l>rasse to be fastened by such cleare 
wells and fountains as did runne by the waie's side. Stow. 
wayfaring-tree (wa'far''ing-tre), «. A much- 
branched European shrub of large size, Vibur- 
num Lantana, with dense cymes of small white 
flowers. The foliage and young shoots are thickly cov- 
ered with soft mealy down (hence sometimes mealy-tree). 
The name was invented by Gerard, with reference to its 
abundance along roads. Also triptoe. The American 
wayfaring-tree is the hobble-bush, Viburnum lantanoides, 
way-gate (wa'gat), n. The tail-race of a mill. 
waygoing (wa'go'ing), «. Going away; de- 
parting; of, pertaining to, or belonging to one 
who goes away: as, waygoing baggage — Way- 
going crop. See away-going crop, under away-going. 
waygOOSe (wa'gos), n. [A corruption of way:- 
goo.'tc for wasc-goosc.'i Same as way:goose. 
way-grass ( wa'gi'as), «. The knot-grass, Polygo- 
num acicularc. [Prov. Eng.] 
wayket, waykent. Old forms of weal;, weaken. 
waylawayt, iutcrj. See wellau-ay. 
waylay (wa-la' or wa'la), v. t.; pret. and pp. 
waylaid, ppr. waylaying. [< tcay^ + lay^ ; a 
peculiar formation, expressing a notion not de- 
rivable from way -f lay taken in their proper 
sense, and prob. due to confusion with lay wait, 
lie in wait.'] 1. To lie in wait for in the way, 
in order to lay hold of for some purpose ; par- 
ticularly, to lie in wait for with the view of 
accosting, seizing, assaulting, robbing, or slay- 
ing ; take in ambush : as, to waylay a traveler. 
I will waylay thee going home ; where if it be thy chance 
to kill me . . . thou killest me like a rogue and a villain. 
Shak.,"!. N., iii. 4, 176. 
But ray Lord St. Albans, and the Queen, and Ambassa- 
dor Montagu did way-lay them at their lodgings, till the 
difference was made up, to my Lord's honour. 
Pepys, Diary, I. 152. 
Tuchin, too, who wrote a poem on the death of James 
II., was waylaid, and so frightfully beaten that he died 
from its effects. 
J. Ashton, Social Life in Reign of Queen Anne, II. 64. 
On quitting the house, I was waylaid by Mrs. Fitz-Adam, 
who had also her confidence to make. 
Mrs. Gaskell, Crauford, xiv. 
I mind the time when men used to waylay Fanny Single- 
ton in the cloak-room. Lawrence, Gay Livingstone, p. xxv. 
2. To beset with ambushes or ambuscades; am- 
buscade. [Rare.] 
How think'st thou? — Is otn' path way-laid? 
Or hath thy sire my trust betrayed ? 
Scott, Rokeby, ii. 13. 
waylayer (wa-la'er or wa'la''''er), «. One who 
waylays ; one who lies in wait for another. 
Wherever there are rich way-farers there also are sly 
and alert way-layers. 
Landor, Imag. Cunv., Asiuius PoUio and Licinius Calvus, i. 
way-leavet (wa'lev), n. Right of way. 
Another thing that is remarkable is their wayteares; 
for, when men have jiieces of ground between the colliery 
wayward 
and the river, they sell leave to lead coals over their 
ground. Roger North, Lord Guilford, I. 265. (Daviet.) 
wayleSB(wa'les), a. [<way^ + -less.] Having 
no way or path ; pathless ; trackless. 
As though the peopled towns had way-less deserts been. 
Drayton, Polyolbion, iL 164. 
way-maker (wa'ma"k6r), n. One who makes a 
way ; a pioneer ; a pathfinder. 
Tliose famous U'ay-»iaAr«r« to the . . . restitution of the 
evangelical truth. Bp. Hall, Cases of Conscience, iii. 10. 
way-mark (wa'mark), n. A finger-post, guide- 
post, milestone, or the like. 
She was so liable to fits of absence that she was likely 
enough to let her way-marks pass unnoticed. 
George Eliot, Mill on the Floss, vi. 13. 
waymentt, waymentingt. See waiment, wai- 
mcnting. 
waynelf, »• -Aji obsolete spelling of wain^. 
Spenser, F. Q., 1. v. 41. 
way-passenger (wa'pas"en-j6r), n. A passen- 
ger taken up or set do wn by the way — that is, 
at a way-station or at some place intermediate 
between the principal stopping-places or sta- 
tions. 
way-post (wa'post), n. A finger-post; a guide- 
post. 
You have more roads than a way-post. 
Colman, The Spleen, i. (Daviet.) 
An old way-post ahow'd 
Where the Lavington road 
Branch'd off to the left from the one to Devizes. 
Barham, Ingoldsby Legends, II. 172. 
way-shaft (wa'shaft), «. In steam-engines, the 
rocking-shaft for working the slide-valve from 
the eccentric. 
wayside (wa'sid), n. and a. [< way^ + side^. 
Earlier way's side: see way^.'] I. n. The side 
of the way ; the border or edge of the road or 
highway. 
They are enbuschede one bloukkes, with bauers dis- 
playede, 
In 3one bechene wode appone the tcaye gydes. 
Morte Arthure (E. E. T. 8.), L 1713. 
II. o. Of or pertaining to the wayside ; grow- 
ing, lying, situated, or found on, by, or near the 
side of the way : as, wayside flowers ; a way- 
side spring. 
Little clusters of such vehicles were gathered round the 
stalde-yard or baiting-place of every way-side tavern. 
Dickens, Martin Chuzzlewit, xlii. 
The windows of the wayside inn 
Gleamed red with fire-light through the leaves. 
Longfellow, Wayside Inn, Prelude. 
And earth, which seemed to the fathers meant 
But as a pilgrim's wayside tent. 
Whittier, The Preacher. 
way-sliding (wa'sli"ding), n. Sliding from the 
right way; deviation. [Rare.] 
Though I will neither exalt myself nor pull down 
others, I wish eveiy man and woman in this land had 
kept the true testimony, and the middle and straight 
path, as it were, on the ridge of a hill, where wind and 
water shears, avoiding right-hand snares and extremes, 
and left-hand way-slidings. 
Scott, Heart of Mid-Lothian, xviii. 
way-station (wa'sta^shou), «. A station inter- 
mediate between principal stations on a rail- 
road. [U. S.] 
waytt V. and w. An obsolete spelling of wait. 
waytht, n. See icathe^. 
way-thistle (wa'thls'l), n. See thistle. 
way-thorn (wa'thom), n. See thorn. 
way-train (wa'tran), «. A train which stops at 
all or most of the stations on the line over which 
it passes; an accommodation train. [U.S.] 
wayward (wa'wiird), «. [< ME. weyward, 
iceiward, by apheresis from "awayward, adj., < 
awayward, aweiward, adv.: see awayward, and 
cf. froward.'] 1. Full of caprices or whims; 
froward; perverse. 
• Bot jif thyn eije he ipeyicard, al thi body shal be derk- 
fuL Wyclif, Mat. vi. 23. 
You know my father 's wayward, and his humour 
Must not receive a check. 
B. Jonxon, Case is Altered, i. 2. 
In vain, to soothe his waytrard fate, 
The cloister oped her pitying gate. 
ScoU, L. of the L., iii. 6. 
2. Irregular; vacillating; unsteady, undnlat- 
ijig. or fluctuating: as, the wayward flight of 
certain birds. 
Send its rough wayward roots in all directions. 
Smithso7i, Useful Book for Farmers, p. 32. (Encyc. Diet.) 
= Syn. Wayward, Wilful, Contrary, Untoicard, head- 
strong, intractable, uurul.v. The italicized words tend 
toward the same meaning by different ways. Wayward. 
by (lerivation, applies to one who turns aicay from what 
he is desired or expected to be or to do ; but. from its seeni- 
ing'derivation, it has come to apply more often to one who 
turns tt^ward ways that suit himself, whether or not they 
happen to be what othei-a desire. Wilful suggests that 
