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Milton. 
Quick, and irregular of motion. 
She as a veil dqwn to the slender waist 
' Her unadorned golden tresses wore, 
Dishevell’d, but in wanton ringlets wav’d, 
As the vine curls her tendrils. 
Luxuriant: superfluous. 
What we by day lop overgrown, 
One night or two, with wanton growth derides, 
Tending to wild. Milton. 
Not regular; turned fortuitously. 
The quaint mazes in the wanton green. 
For lack of tread are undistinguishable. Shakspeare. 
WANTON, s. A lascivious person; a strumpet; a 
whoremonger. 
To lip a wanton in a secure couch, 
And to suppose her chaste. Shakspeare. 
A trifler; an insignificant flutterer. 
Shall a beardless boy, 
A cocker’d, silken wanton brave your fields, 
Mocking the air with colours idly spread. 
And find no check ? Shakspeare. 
A word of slight endearment. 
Peace, my wantons; he will do 
More than you can aim unto. B. Jonson. 
To WANTON, v . n. To play lasciviously. 
He from his guards and midnight tent, 
Disguis’d o’er hills and vallies went, 
To wanton with the sprightly dame, 
And in his pleasure lost his fame. Prior. 
To revel; to play. In Otway it may be an adjective. 
Oh! I heard him wanton in his praise; 
Speak things of him might charm the ears. Otway. 
To move nimbly, and irregularly. 
To WANTON, v. a. To make wanton.—If he does 
win, it wantons him with overplus, and enters him into new 
ways of expence. Felt ham. 
To WA'NTONIZE, v. n. To behave wantonly or disso¬ 
lutely. 
Do not thyself betray 
With wantonizing years. Daniel. 
WANTONLY, adv. Lasciviously; frolicsomely; gayly; 
sportively; carelessly. 
Thou dost but try how far I can forbear, 
Nor art that monster which thou wouldst appear: 
But do not wantonly my passion move, 
I pardon nothing that relates to love. Dry den. 
WANTONNESS, s. Laciviousness; lechery.—The spi¬ 
rit of wantonness is scar’d out of him. Shakspeare.- —Spor¬ 
tiveness; frolic; humour. 
When I was in France, 
Young Leonatus would be sad as night. 
Only for wantonness. Shakspeare. 
Licentiousness; negligence of restraint. 
Wantonness and pride 
Raise out of friendship hostile deeds in peace. Milton. 
WANTSUM, a river of England, forming a branch of 
the great river Stour, in Kent. 
WANT WIT, s. A fool; an idiot. 
Such a wantwit sadness makes of me. 
That I have much ado to know myself. Shakspeare. 
WA'NTY, s. [Etymology unknown.] A broad girth 
of leather, by which the loacl is bound upon the horse; a 
surcingle. 
A panel and wanty, pack-saddle and ped. 
With line to fetch litter. Tusser. 
WANZENAU, a town of France, in Alsace, with a castle, 
and 1500 inhabitants; 6 miles north of Strasburg. 
Vox.. XXIV. No. 1656. 
WANZLEBEN, a town of Prussian Saxony, in the go¬ 
vernment of Magdeburg; 10 miles west-south-west of Mag¬ 
deburg. Population 2300. 
WAPAKONETTA, or Wapaghkanetta, an Indian 
town of the United States, in Ohio, on the Au-Glaize; 7 
miles south-east of Taway town. 
WAPATTOO Island, an island of North America, 
formed by the junction of the Multnomah with the Colum¬ 
bia; 20 miles long, and 10 broad. The land is high and 
extremely fertile, and on most parts is supplied with a heavy 
growth of cottonwood, ash, the large-leafed ash, and sweet 
willow; the black alder, common to the coast, having now 
disappeared. But the chief wealth of this island consists of 
the numerous ponds in the interior, abounding with the 
common arrowhead (sagittaria sagittifoliaj, to the root of 
which is attached a bulb growing beneath it in the mud. 
This bulb, to which the Indians give the name of wapattoo, 
is the great article of food, and almost the staple article of 
commerce on the Columbia. 
WA'PED, adj. Waped is corrupted for wappen'd, by 
way of paraphrase. 
WAPENBURY, a parish of England, in Warwickshire; 
5 miles north-north-west of Southam. 
WA'PENTAKE, s. [wapentakium , wapentagium, low 
Lat.] Wapentake is all one with what we call a hundred : 
as, upon a meeting for that purpose, they touched each 
other’s weapons, in token of their fidelity and allegiance. 
Cowel.— Hundred signifieth a hundred pledges, which were 
under the command and assurance of their alderman; which, 
as I suppose, was also called a wapentake, so named, of 
touching the weapon or spear of their alderman, and swearing 
to follow him faithfully, and serve their prince truly. But 
others think, that a wapentake was ten hundreds, or boroughs. 
Spenser. 
WAPESSAGA, a lake of Canada. Lat. 48. 10. N. long. 
71. 40. W. 
WAPITWAGO ISLANDS, a cluster of islands near the 
south coast of Labrador. Lat. 50. 4. N. long. 60. 20. W. 
WAPLEY, or Wapeley, a parish of England; 2 miles 
south-west-by-west of Chipping Sodbury. 
WAPLEY, a parish of England, in Yorkshire; 7 miles 
east of Guisbrough. 
WAPLINGTON, a township of England, in Yorkshire; 
2§- miles south-west of Pocklington. 
WAPOO CREEK, a river of North America, which 
flows into Lake St. Clair. 
WAPPENHAM, a parish of England, in Northampton¬ 
shire. Population 396. 
WA'PPERED, adj. Restless; fatigued. Spoken of a 
sick person, in Gloucestershire. Grose. Hence in Beau¬ 
mont and Fletcher unwappered , fresh. 
We come towards the gods. 
Young, and unwapper'd; not halting under crimes 
Many and stale. Beaum. and FI. 
WAPPING, a village and parish of England, in the 
county of Middlesex, on the east of the metropolis, and 
reckoned one of its out-parishes. It is situated on the north 
bank of the river Thames. The inhabitants are chiefly em¬ 
ployed in trades connected with the shipping of the port of 
London, such as slop-sellers, ship-carpenters, sail-makers, 
chandlers, &c. The new docks formed here, have been a 
great improvement to the place. The one called St. George’s 
dock, is capable of holding 200 sail of shipping ; and Shad- 
well dock, adjoining to it, is capable of holding 50 sail. 
But these will be surpassed by the Catharine docks now 
erecting. The entrance from the Thames is by three basons, 
sufficient to contain an immense quantity of small craft; and 
the inlets from the river into the basons are at the Old Her¬ 
mitage, Old Wapping, and Old Shadwell docks. At the 
eastern extremity are stupendous warehouses, belonging to 
the custom-house, although rented of the dock company, 
for warehousing tobacco; and the cellars are appropriated 
to housing of wines. There are various ranges of ware¬ 
houses for general merchandize. The church of Wapping 
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