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of Washington, and 51 south-south-west of Pittsburg.—2. 
A post township of the United States, in Augusta county, 
Virginia; 12 miles east-south-east of Staunton.—3. A post 
town of the United States, and capital of Wayne county. 
North Carolina, on theNeuse; 50 miles south-east of Ra¬ 
leigh.—4. A post town of the United States, and capital of 
Burke county, Georgia; 24 miles east-north-east of Louis¬ 
ville, 28 south-south-west of Augusta, and about 100 north¬ 
west of Savannah. 
WAYNESBURG, a post township of the United States, 
in Franklin county, Pennsylvania. 
WAYNESV1LLE, a post town of the United States, in 
Warren county, Ohio, on the Little Miami; 40 miles north¬ 
east of Cincinnati.—2. A township of the United States, 
in Lycoming county, Pennsylvania, on the west branch of 
the Susquehanna; 2 miles below Pine creek.—3. A post 
village of the United States, in Haywood county. North 
Carolina. 
WAYTE, a rocky islet in the straits of Macassar, near the 
west coast of Celebes. Lat. 0. 40. S. long.119. 18. E. 
WAYTO, a town on the south-east coast of the isle of 
Timor. Lat. 8. 39. S. long. 126. 9. E. 
WAYTON, a lake of North America, west of the Rocky 
mountains. Lat. 48. N. long. 117. W. 
WA'YWARD, adj. [pa, woe, and peapb, Saxon.] Fro¬ 
ward; peevish; morose; vexatious; liking his own way. 
How wayward is this foolish love. 
That, like a testy babe, will scratch the nurse, 
And presently all humbled, kiss the rod. Shakspeare. 
WA'YWARDLY, adv. Frowardly perversely.— Wup¬ 
wardly proud ; and therefore bold: because extremely faulty. 
Sidney. 
WA'YWARDNESS; s. Frowardness ; perverseness.— 
Such the behaviour of ladies, as builded their chastity not 
upon waywardness, but choice of worthiness. Sidney .— 
The best of his time hath been but rash; then must we look 
from his age to receive not alone the imperfections of long 
engrafted condition, but the unruly waywardness, that in¬ 
firm and cholerick years bring. Shakspeare. —A child will 
have as much wit as he hath waywardness. Watt on. 
WAY-WISER, [from way and weisen, Germ.] An in¬ 
strument for measuring the road, or distance gone; called 
also perambulator, and podometer, or pedometer. 
WE, pronoun . In oblique cases us. See I. [weis, Goth.] 
The plural of I. 
Fair and noble hostess, 
We are your guests to-night. Shakspeare. 
■ I and others, indefinitely.— We first endure, then pity, 
then embrace. Pope. —Improperly and ungrammatically 
for the oblique case, us. 
To poor me. 
Thine enmity’s most capital. Shakspeare. 
WEAK, adj. [psec, Saxon; week, Dutch; from the Su. 
Goth, wika, to fail, to give way. Mr. H. Tooke, in like 
manner, refers to the Sax. verb pican, the same.] Feeble; 
not strong. 
Here only weak 
Against the charm'of beauty’s powerful glance. Milton . 
Infirm; not healthy. 
Here I stand your brave, 
A poor, infirm, weak, and despis’d old man. Shakspeare. 
Soft; pliant; not stiff; low of sound; Feeble of mind; 
wanting spirit; wanting discernment.—She first his weak 
indulgence will accuse. Milton. —Not much impregnated 
with any ingredient: as, a weak tincture, weak beer. Not 
powerful; not potent. 
I must make fair weather yet a while. 
Till Henry be more weak and I more strong. Shakspeare. 
Not well supported by argument.—A case so weak and 
feeble hath been much persisted in. Hooker. —Unfor¬ 
tified. 
To quell the tyrant love, and guard thy heart 
On this weak side, where most our nature fails. 
Would be a conquest worthy Cato’s son. Addison.. 
To WEAK, v. a. To render weak. Obsolete. 
We must toil to make our doctrine good. 
Which will impair the flesh, and weak the knee. More. 
To WEAKEN, ». n. To become weak. Obsolete. — 
Somewhat to weken gan the pain. Chaucer. 
To WEA'KEN, v. a. To debilitate; to enfeeble; to 
deprive of strength.—The first which weakened them was 
their security. Hooker. —Their hands shall be weakened 
from the work that it be not done. Nek. 
Intestine broils. 
Weakening the sceptre of old night. Milton . 
Every violence offered to the body weakens and impairs 
it, and renders it less durable. Ray. 
Let us not weaken still the weaker side 
By our divisions. Addison. 
Solemn impressions that seem to weaken the mind, may, 
by proper reflection, be made to strengthen it. Richardson. 
WEAKENER, s. That which makes weak; that 
which lessens the effects.—Fastings and mortifications, no 
question, rightly managed, are huge helps to piety, and 
great weakeners of sin, and furtherances to a man in his 
Christian course. South. 
WEAK. LING, s. A feeble creature. 
Thou art no Atlas for so great a weight; 
And, weakling, Warwick takes his gift again, 
And Henry is my king, Warwick his subject. Shakspeare . 
WEAKLY, ado. Feebly; faintly; without strength. 
—With want of efficacy. 
Was plighted faith so weakly seal’d above, 
That for one error, I must lose your love. Dry den. 
Indiscreetly; injudiciously; timorously; with feebleness 
of mind. 
This high gift of strength committed to me, 
Under the seal of silence, could not keep, 
But weakly to a woman must reveal it. Milton. 
WEAKLY, adj. Not strong; not healthy.—Being old 
and weakly, twenty years in prison, it was ten to one that 
ever I should have returned. Ralegh. 
WEAKNESS, s. Want of strength; want of force; 
feebleness.—Troy in our weakness lives, not in her strength. 
Shakspeare. —Want of spriteliness. 
New graces yearly like thy works display. 
Soft without weakness, without glaring gay. Pope. 
Want of steadiness.—By such a review we shall discern 
and strengthen our weaknesses with good resolution, and so 
order our future conversation as may render us least exposed 
to falling. Rogers. —Infirmity; unhealthiness.—Persons in 
those posts derive a weakness of constitution from the ease 
and luxury of their ancestors, and the delicacy of their own 
education. Temple. —Want of cogency.—She seems to be 
conscious of the weakness of those testimonies. Tillotson . 
—Want of judgment; want of resolution; foolishness of 
mind. 
A woman and thence weak.- 
- Weakness is thy excuse. 
And I believe it; weakness to resist 
Philistian gold; if weakness may excuse, 
What murderer, what traitor, parricide. 
Incestuous, sacrilegious, but may plead it ? 
All wickedness is weakness. • Milton. 
Defect; failing.—Many find a pleasure in contradicting 
the common reports of fame, and in spreading abroad the 
weakness of an exalted character. Addison. 
WEAKSI'DE, s. Foible; deficience; infirmity.—Trade 
has increased their shipping, which they found to be their 
weakside in their last attempts. Temple. 
WEAL, 
