WAD 
osition, structure, and appearance ; indeed the name has 
een applied so indefinitely, that it has occasioned much 
confusion. See Mineralogy, 
WACKEN, Wakken, an inland town of West Flanders, 
near the river Lys, with 2200 inhabitants ; 16 miles south¬ 
west of Ghent. 
WACKERFIELD, a township of England, county of 
Durham, north-east of Staindrop. 
WACTON, a parish of England, county of Hereford; 
4J miles north-west-by-west of Bromyard. 
WACTON, a parish of England, in the county of Nor¬ 
folk 3 4 miles south-west-by-south of St. Mary Stratton. 
WAD, s. [peob, hay, Saxon.] A bundle of straw or 
other loose matter thrust close together.— Wadd, or black 
lead, is a mineral of great use and value. Woodward. [Sax. 
pab, sandyx, nigrica fabrilis. Ray .']—-Any thing crammed 
or stuffed in 3 as tow into a gun or cannon. [Icel. vad, 
vod, pannus proprid rudis, ad togas sufiarciendas. Lye .]— 
The'carved work [of the ship] is as rotten as touchwood, and 
will take fire even with a wad. Maydman .—Old English 
for wood; which see. Barret. 
WADBOROUGH, a hamlet of England, county of 
Worcester; 3 miles from Pershore. 
WADDESDON, a parish of England, in Buckingham¬ 
shire; 5f miles north-west-by-west of Aylesbury. Popu¬ 
lation 1020 . 
WA'DDING, s. [from vad, Icel.] A kind of soft stuff 
loosely woven, with which the skirts of coats are stuffed out. 
WADDINGHAM, a parish of England, in Lincolnshire; 
8 miles south-by-west of Glanford Bridge. 
WADDINGSVEEN, North and South, two adjoining 
villages of the Netherlands, in South Holland; 10 miles 
south-east of Leyden. 
WADDINGTON, a parish of England, in Lincolnshire; 
4 miles south of Lincoln. Population 727. 
WADDINGTON, a township of England, in the West 
Riding of Yorkshire, situated on the river Ribble, near Bow- 
land Forest; 19 miles west-south-west of Skipton. Popu¬ 
lation 1088. 
WADDINGWORTH, a parish of England, county of 
Lincoln; 5 miles west-by-north of Horncastle. 
To WA'DDLE, ». n. [wagghclen, Dutch, to waggle ; 
wedeln, Germ., or caudam motitare, to shake the tail as a 
beast.] To shake in walking from side to side; to deviate 
in motion from a right line.—She could have run and 
waddled all about. Shakspeare. 
WADDON, East and West, two small hamlets of 
England, in the parish of Abbotsbury, Dorsetshire. 
To WADE, v. n. [from vaduin, Latin, pronounced 
wadum .]-—To walk through the waters; to pass water with¬ 
out swimming.-—We’ll wade to the market-place in French¬ 
men’s blood. Shakspeare.—To pass difficultly and labori¬ 
ously. 
The wrathful God then plunges from above, 
And where in thickest waves the sparkles drove, 
There lights, and wades through fumes, and gropes his way. 
Half sing’d, half stifl’d. Dry den. 
WADE’S POINT, a cape of the United States, on the 
coast of North Carolina. Lat. 36. 7. N. long. 76. 20. W. 
WADEIJ, a town of Yemen, in Arabia; 80 miles south- 
south-west of Saade. 
WADELS, a river of England and Wales, which rises in 
Radnorshire; but falls into the Lug, near Combe, in Here¬ 
fordshire ; about three miles east of Presteign. 
WADENHOE, a.parish of England, in Northampton¬ 
shire ; on the river Nen; 3k miles north-by-east of Thraps- 
ton. 
WADENSCHWEIL, a town of Switzerland, on the south 
side of the lake of Zurich. It is well built, and contains 
3500 inhabitants; 9 miles south of Zurich. 
WADERN, a town of the Prussian province of the 
Lower Rhine; 18 miles east-south-east of Treves. 
WADERO, a small island on the west coast of Sweden, 
in the North sea. Lat. 56. 24. N. long. 12. 30. E. 
WAD 527 
WADESBOROUGH, a post township of the United 
States, and capital of Anson county, North Carolina; 70 
miles south-south-east of Salisbury, and 76 west of Fayette¬ 
ville. 
WADEY, a country of Central Africa, situated to the 
west of Fezzan, and east of Fittre and Begarmee. 
WADEY ABASSI, a small river of Arabia, which falls 
into the Red sea; 10 miles south-south-east of Hodeida. 
WADEY EL ARKIK, a small river of Arabia, which 
waters the city of Medina. 
WADEY ELMAHAN, a small river of Arabia, which 
loses itself in the sands, unless in the west season, when it 
reaches the Red sea; 25 miles south-south-east of Hodeida. 
WADEY FAR AN, a small river of Arabia, which falls 
into the sed Rea ; 25 miles north-west of Tor. 
WADEY FATIMA, a small river of Upper Egypt, 
which runs to the north-west of Mecca. 
WADEY GAMUS, or Valley of Buffaloes, a valley 
of Egypt, on the eastern side of the Nile. 
WADEY EL KEBIR, a small river of Arabia, which, 
in rainy seasons, reaches the Red sea, near Mocha. 
WADEY EL LATORN, a watering place on the borders 
of the Lybian desert, on the caravan route between Cairo 
and Mourzouk, 
WADEY ZEBID, a river of Arabia, which, in a particu¬ 
lar season overflows and fertilizes its banks. It passes by 
Zebid, and finally loses itself in the sands. 
WADHAM ISLANDS, a cluster of small islands near 
the north-east of Newfoundland. Lat. 49. 57. N. long. 53. 
37. W. 
WADHURST, a parish of England, in the county of 
Sussex; 5 miles from Tunbridge Wells. Population 1815. 
WADING (Luke), an Irish ecclesiastic, more distinguished 
for probity and piety than for discrimination of judgment, 
resided at Rome, where he died in the year 1655. His works, 
in which he has occasionally intermixed fabulous relations, 
are “ Annals of his Order,” which was that of St. Francis, 
in 8 vols. folio, continued by other authors till they 
amounted to 17 vols. folio ; and a “ Bibliotheca of Writers 
of the Franciscan Order,” 1630, folio, held in considerable 
estimation. Moreri. 
WADING RIVER, a village of the United States, in 
Riverhead, New York. 
WADJO, or Waju, a state of confederacy in the island 
of Celebes, situated to the north of the Buggess territories, 
named Boni. 
WADMELAW, a river of the United States, in South 
Carolina, which separates the island of St. John from the 
continent. 
WADMELAW, a small island of the United States, on 
the coast of South Carolina, which communicates with St. 
John’s island by means of a bridge. 
WADON, a hamlet of England, in the parish of Croy¬ 
don, county of Surrey. 
WADOWICE, a small town of Austrian Poland, in the 
circle of Myslenice, on the river Skawa. 
WADREAG, a district of Sahara, to the south of Algiers, 
on which it depends. It contains neither fountains nor 
rivulets: but water is uniformly obtained, by digging to the 
depth of from 100 to 200 fathoms. This is called by the 
natives the Sea under ground. 
WADSETT, a term applied to an ancient sort of tenure 
or lease of land, in the Highland parts of Scotland. Wad- 
setts were, at a former period, frequent and numerous there; 
but they have now been mostly resumed, the price being 
paid up so soon as the term of redemption arrived. These 
wadsetts were commonly, it is said, granted to the younger 
sons and near relations of the great barons, and for these rea¬ 
sons:—1st, Being more attached to the head of the tribe than 
any other description of men, they were appointed the offi¬ 
cers of the clan, when an expedition was undertaken; 2 d, 
The scarcity of money made it more convenient for the needy 
nobility or chieftains to borrow or raise money in this way 
than in any other, or to give their children a patrimony, 
when about to settle in life; and 3d, When every man’s oc¬ 
cupation 
