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WAVRE, an inland town of the Netherlands, in South 
Brabant; 12 miles south of Louvain. Population 4100. 
WA'VY, adj. Rising in waves. 
For thee the ocean smiles, and smooths her wavy breast; 
And heav’n itself with more serene and purer light is blest. 
Dry den. 
Playing to and fro, as in undulations. 
Let her glad valleys smile with wavy corn ; 
Let fleecy flocks her rising hills adorn. Prior, 
Winding.—The sides of this fissure are firm solid rock, 
perpendicular and smooth, only seeming to lie in a wavy 
form all down, as it were to comply with the motion of the 
water. Maundrell. 
WAWAY, a small island in the Eastern seas, near the east 
coast of the island of Celebes, about 40 miles in circumfer¬ 
ence. Lat. 4. 8. S. long. 123. 30. E. 
WAWES, or Waes, s. [A word used by Spenser and 
Wicliffe, according to the Saxon pronunciation.] Waves. 
Whilst they fly that gulf’s devouring jaws, 
They on this rock are rent, and sunk in helpless wawes. 
Spenser. 
To WAWL, v.n. [ pa, grief. Sax. Dr. Johnson.'] To 
cry; to howl. 
The first time that we smell the air. 
We wawl and cry. Shahspeare. 
WAWRA, a small town of Kaarta, su rounded by high 
walls. It is inhabited by negroes, but tributary to Sudamar; 
60 miles east-south-east of Benowm. 
WAWUL, a town of Hindostan, province of Gujerat. 
It contains about 300 houses, and is situated on the banks 
of the Sereswati river, a few miles south-east of Rahdun- 
pore. 
WAX, s. [paexe, Saxon ; wax, Danish ; wacks, Dutch.] 
The thick tenacious matter gathered by the bee, and formed 
into cells for the reception of the honey. 
While visits shall be paid on solemn days. 
When num’rous wax lights in bright order blaze ; 
So long my honour, name, and praise shall live. Pope. 
Any tenacious mass, such as is used to fasten letters.—We 
soften the wax, before we set on the seal. More. —A kind 
of concretion in the flesh.—A fontanel in her neck was much 
inflamed, and many w«.r-kernels about it. Wiseman. 
To WAX, v. a. To smear; to join with wax. 
Ile'form’d the reeds, proportion’d as they are ; 
Unequal in their length, and wax'd with care, 
They still retain the name of his ungrateful fair. Dryden. 
To WAX, v.n. pret. wox, waxed, part. pass, waxed, 
waxen, [peaxan. Sax.; wachsen. Germ.] To grow; to in¬ 
crease ; to become bigger, or more. Used of the moon, in 
opposition to wane, and figuratively of things which grow 
by turns bigger and less. 
They way? and wane 
’Twixt thrift and penury. Parew. 
To pass into any state; to become; to grow. It is in 
cither sense now almost disused.~— Art thou like the addei 
waxen deaf ? Shakspeare. 
WA'XCHANDLER, s. A maker of wax candles. 
WA'XEN, adj. Made of wax. 
Swarming next appear’d 
The female bee, that feeds her husband drone 
Deliciously, and builds her waxen cells, 
With honey stor'd. Milton. 
WAXHAM, a parish of England, in Norfolk; 12 miles 
east-south-east of North Walsham. 
WAXHAM, a small village of England, on the Yorkshire 
coast, near Portrington. . . 
WAXHQLM, a town of Sweden, in the Baltic, situated 
on an island of the same name, at the entrance of a narrow 
passage leading to Stockholm. It has a strong castle, built 
in 1649, to guard the entrance to the capital; 16 miles east 
of Stockholm. Lat. 51. 29. N, long. 18. 16. E. Popula¬ 
tion 1000. 
WAY 
WA'XY, adj. Soft like wax; yielding.—He is servile itJ 
imitation, waxy to persuasion. Bp. Hall. —That the softer 
waxy part of you may receive some impression from this 
discourse, let us close all with an application. Hammond. 
WA'XWORK, s. Figures formed of wax in imitation of 
the substances which they represent.—I never saw so great an 
assembly of spectators as were met together at the opening of 
this great piece of waxwork. Addison. 
WAY, s. [paej, Saxon; weigh, Dutch ; vig, or wig, M. 
Goth, via, Lat. Vox antiquissima, pluribusque linguis com¬ 
munis. Serenius.] The road in which one travels. This 
word is applied in many relations which seem unlike one 
another, but have all the original of road or travel, noting 
either progression or the mode of progression, local or intel¬ 
lectual. 
I am amaz’d, and lose my way. 
Among the thorns and dangers of this world. Shakspeare. 
Road made for passengers. 
Know’st thou the way to Dover ? — 
—Both stile and gate, horse-way and foot-path. Shakspeare. 
Birnbaumer forest extends a great way, wherein are many 
deer, wild-boars, foxes, wolves, and bears. Brown. —Course; 
direction of motion ; local tendency. 
I now go toward him, therefore follow me, 
And mark what way I make. Shakspeare. 
Advance in life.—The boy was to know his father’s cir¬ 
cumstances, and that he was to make his way by his own 
industry. Spectator. —Passage; power of progression made 
or given. 
Back do I toss these treasons to thy head: 
This sword of mine shall give them instant way. 
Where they shall rest for ever. Shakspeare. 
Vacancy made by timorous or respectful recession.—There 
would be left no difference between truth and falsehood, if 
what we certainly know, give way to what we may possibly 
be mistaken in. Locke. —Course; regular progression.- 
But give me leave to seize my destin’d prey, 
And let eternal justice take the way. Dryden. 
Course or progress considered as obstructed or hindered. 
—The imagination being naturally tumultuous, interposeth 
itself without asking leave, casting thoughts in our way, and 
forcing the understanding to reflect upon them. Duppa. — 
Tendency to any meaning, or act.—There is nothing in the 
words that sound that way, or points particularly at perse¬ 
cution. Atterbury. —Access; means of admittance.—Being 
once at liberty, ’twas said, having made my way with 
some foreign prince, I would turn pirate. Ralegh. —Sphere 
of observation.—The general officers, and the public minis¬ 
ters that fell in my way, were generally subject to the gout. 
Temple. —Means; mediate instrument; intermediate step. 
By noble ways we conquest will prepare; 
First offer peace, and that refus’d, make war. Dryden. 
Method; scheme of management.—He durst not take 
open way against them, and as hard it was to take a secret, 
they being so continually followed by the best and every way 
ablest of that region. Sidney .—Private determination; 
particular will or humour. 
If I had my way. 
He had mew’d in flames at home, not i’ th’ senate ; 
1 had sing’d his furs by this time. B. Jonson. 
Manner; mode.—His way of expressing and applying 
them, not his invention of them, is what we admire. 
Addison. —Method; manner of practice. 
Taught 
To live the easiest way, not with perplexing thoughts. 
Milton. 
Method or plan of life, conduct or action. 
To attain 
The height and depth of thy eternal ways. 
All human thought comes short. Milton. 
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