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W A C 
\\T is a letter of which the form is not to be found in the 
” ’ 9 alphabets of the learned languages; though it is 
not improbable that by our to is expressed the sound of the 
Roman v, and the Eolic f. Both the form and sound are 
excluded from the languages derived from the Latin .—W is 
sometimes improperly used in diphthongs as a vowel, for u, 
view; strew: the sound of to consonant, if it be a con¬ 
sonant, is uniform. 
WAABE, a river of Germany, in the duchy of Bruns¬ 
wick, which falls into the Ocker. 
WAACKHAUSEN, a village of Hanover, in the duchy 
of Bremen, near the river Hamme. 
WAAG, a large river of the west of Hungary, which rises 
at the foot of the lofty mountain of Krivan, in the palatinate 
of Lyptau, flows through the palatinates of Thurotz, Trent- 
schin, and Neutra, and falls into the Danube six miles below 
Comorn. 
WAAG, the bay on the west coast of Norway, on which 
is the town of Bergen. 
WAAGOE, one of the Faroe islands, to the west of Stro- 
moe, belonging to Denmark. 
WAALIA, a collection of villages on the top of a hill in 
Abyssinia, between Gondar and Tcherkin. 
WAALWYK, a town of the Netherlands, in North 
Brabant, with 1400 inhabitants; 10 miles west of Bois le 
Due. 
WAARSCHOOT, an inland town of the Netherlands, in 
East Flanders; 9 miles north-west of Ghent. Population 
5300. 
WAATSCH, or Vazhe, a small town of Austrian Illyria, 
in Carniola, situated on a lofty hill; 10 miles east-north-east 
of Laybach. 
WABASH, a river of the United States, in Indiana, which 
waters the middle and western parts of the state, and flows 
into the Ohio, 30 miles above Cumberland river. 
WABASH, Little, a river of the United States, in In¬ 
diana, which runs south-east into the Wabash, a few miles 
above the Ohio. 
WABBERTHWAITE, a parish of England, in Cumber¬ 
land, near Ravenglass. 
To WA'BBLE, v. n. [A low barbarous word.] To 
move from side to side; to change direction.—If in your 
work you find it wabble; that is, that one side of the flat 
inclines to the right or left hand, with soft blows of an 
hammer set it to rights, and then screw it hard up. Moxon. 
WABISAPENGUN, a river of the United States, in 
Louisiana, which runs into the Mississippi. Lat. 41. 40. N. 
WABISINEKAN, a river of the United States, in the 
Missouri territory, which runs into the Mississippi above the 
Missouri, on the eastern branch. 
WABUSKAGAMA, a river of Canada, which runs into 
the Saguenay. Lat. 48. 20. N. long. 70. 18. W. 
WACAHATCHA, a river of Louisiana, in the district of 
Opelousas, which falls into the Sabine. 
WACHAS, a lake of the United States, in Louisiana, 
which lies to the west of the Mississippi; and 22 miles 
from New Orleans. 
WACHENDEN, a hamlet of England, in the parish of 
Biddenden, county of Kent. 
WACHENDORFIA [so named byBurmanin honour of 
Everh. Job. Van WachendorfF, professor of Botany at 
Utrecht], in Botany, a genus of the class triandria, order 
monogynia, natural order of ensatae, irides (Juss .)—Generic 
Character. Calyx : spathes two-valved. Corolla: six-pe- 
talled, unequal ; petals oblong; the three upper ones more 
erect, three lower spreading. Nectary of two bristles at the 
inner sides of the upper petal, Stamina: filaments three, 
filiform, declined, shorter than the corolla. Anthers incum¬ 
bent. Pistil: germ superior, roundish, three-cornered. Style 
filiform, declined. Stigma simple. Pericarp: capsule sub- 
ovate, three-sided, obtuse, three-celled, three-valved. Seeds 
solitary, rough haired. — Essential Character. Corolla 
six-petalled, unequal, inferior. Capsule three-celled, su¬ 
perior. 
1. Wachendorfia thyrsiflora, or simple-stalked Wachen- 
dorfia.—Scape almost simple, panicle contracted, leaves en- 
siform, five-nerved, plaited smooth. Root thick, tuberous, 
reed-like, of a deep-red colour, sending out many perpendi¬ 
cular fibres of the same colour, and spreading into several 
offsets. 
2. Wachendorfia paniculata, or panicled Wachendorfia.— 
Scape many-clustered, panicle spreading, leaves ensiform, 
three-nerved, plaited smooth. Plant when in flower a 
foot high. Root perennial, a little creeping; furnished 
with oblong cylindrical and nearly perpendicular tu¬ 
bercles. 
3. Wachendorfia hirsuta, or hairy Wachendorfia.—Scape 
many-clustered, panicle spreading, leaves ensiform, three- 
neryed, plaited villose. This seems chiefly to differ from 
the preceding in having hairy leaves. 
4. Wachendorfia tenella, or delicate Wachendorfia.— 
Scape many-clustered, panicle spreading, leaves linear, three- 
nerved, smooth. 
5. Wachendorfia graminea, or grass-leaved Wachendorfia. 
—Scape many-clustered, panicle spreading, leaves ensiform, 
channelled, smooth,—All these are natives of the Cape of 
Good Hope. 
Propagation and Culture. —These plants may be in¬ 
creased by offsets, which are sent out from the main head, 
after the same manner as some of the flag-leaved Irises. 
Take them off at the end of August or the beginning of 
September, and plant them in pots filled with soft loamy 
earth mixed with a little sea sand; and if the season prove 
hot and dry, place the pots where they may have only the 
morning sun, until the offsets have put out new roots; then 
they may be placed in a sheltered situation, where they may 
enjoy the full sun. Here they may remain until there is 
danger of frosty mornings: then they should be placed in 
a frame with Ixias, &c., and treated in the manner directed 
for them. 
WACHENHE1M, a small but pleasant town of the 
Bavarian circle of the Rhine, at the foot of the Harlz moun¬ 
tain ; 12 miles west of Manheim. 
WACHOVIA, or Dobb’s Parish, a track of land in 
the United States, in North Carolina. It contains the 
villages of Salem, Bethany, and Bethabara. 
WACHSHURST, or Wagshurst, a village of Germany, 
in Baden; 10 miles east-by-north of Strasburg. 
WACHTENDONK, a walled town of Prusian West¬ 
phalia, on the river Niers; 20 miles north-west of Dusseldorf. 
Population 1400. 
WACHTERSBACH, a town of Germany, in Hesse- 
Cassel, on the Kinzig; 20 miles east-by-north of Hanau. 
Population 1100. 
WACHUSETT, a mountain of the United States, in 
Princeton, Massachusetts, about 2000 feet above the level of 
the sea. 
WACKE, or Wacken, a name given to a rock nearly 
allied to basalt, and which may properly be regarded as a 
more soft and earthy variety of the latter rock: it passes both 
into basalt and green-stone.—See Mineralogy. 
WACKE, Grey, or Grey Waclce, or Wacce, a name 
given by later geologists to a very extensive series of rocks, 
the members of which differ greatly from each other in com¬ 
position,' 
