W I L 
Let Richard be restor’d to his blood, 
As will the rest; so willeth Winchester. Shakspeare. 
To be inclined or resolved to have. 
She’s too rough for me; 
There, there, Hortensio, will you any wife? Shakspeare. 
To command ; to direct. 
How rarely does it meet with this time’s guise, 
When man was willed to love his enemies ? Shakspeare. 
It has a loose and slight signification.—Let the circum¬ 
stances of life be what, or where they will, a man should 
never neglect improvement. Watts. —It is one of the signs 
of the future tense; of which it is difficult to show or limit 
the signification .—-I will come. I am determined to come ; 
importing choice.— Thou wilt come. It must be so that thou 
must come, importing necessity; or it shall be that thou 
shalt come, importing choice.— Wilt thou come ? Hast thou 
determined to come ? importing choice.— He will come. He 
is resolved to come; or it must be that he must come, im¬ 
porting either choice or necessity.— It will come. It must 
so be that it must come; importing necessity. The plural 
follows the analogy of the singular. 
To WILL, v. n. To dispose of effects by will.—The 
which willed in his testament. Brand. 
WILL’S COVE, a creek on the north-east coast of the 
island of St. Christopher, to the south-west of Muddy point. 
WILL’S CREEK, a small river of North America, which 
falls into the Muskingum, a tributary stream of the Ohio. 
WILL’S CREEK, a river of the United States, which 
rises in Pennsylvania, and runs south by west into the Poto¬ 
mac, at Cumberland, in Maryland. 
WILLAERT (Adrian), the disciple of John Mouton, and 
master of Zarlino, has long been placed at the head of the 
Venetian school of counterpoint by the Italians themselves. 
He was born at Bruges in Flanders. 
Zarlino (P. iii. p. 268.) assigns to Adriano the invention of 
pieces for two or more choirs; and Piccitoni (Guida Armo- 
nica) says, that he was the first who made the bases in com¬ 
positions of eight parts, move in unisons or octaves; parti¬ 
cularly when divided into two choirs, and performed at a 
distance from each other, as then they had occasion for a 
powerful guide. The dexterity and resources of this author, 
in the construction of canons, are truly wonderful, as is, in¬ 
deed, his total want of melody; for it is scarcely possible to 
arrange musical sounds, diatonically, with less air or mean¬ 
ing, in the single parts. But there are many avenues through 
which a musician may travel to the temple of Fame; and he 
that pursues the track which the learned have marked out, 
will perhaps not find it the most circuitous and tedious; at 
least theorists, who are the most likely to record the adven¬ 
tures of passengers on that road, will be the readiest to give 
him a cast. A learned and elaborate style conceals the want 
of genius and invention, more than the free and fanciful pro¬ 
ductions of the present times. 
He lived to a great age, and filled a very high musical 
station, maestro di capella of St. Mark’s church at Venice. 
His works and scholars were very numerous; and among 
those to whom he communicated the principles of his art, 
there were several who afterwards arrived at great eminence; 
such as Cipriano Rore, Zarlino, and Costanzo Porta. In the 
title of a book, published at Venice, 1549, there are “ Fan- 
tasie,” or “ Ricercari,” composed dallo excellentissimo Ad¬ 
rian Vuigliart, and Cipriano Rore, suo discepolo. P. Martini, 
in his Saggio di Contrappunto, P. ii. p. 266, calls Adrian 
Willaert the master of Costanzo Porta. Burney. 
WILLAFANS, a small town of France, department of the 
Doubs; 14 miles south-east of Besan 5 on. Population 1000. 
WILLAMANTIC, a river of the United States, in Con¬ 
necticut. It is a principal branch of the Shetucket, which it 
joins north of Lebanon. 
WILLAND, a parish of England, in Devonshire; 21- 
miles north-north-east of Columpton. 
WILLANMEZ’S ISLE, a small island off the north coast 
of New Britain. It is high in the centre, low at the sides, 
and wooded. This island is supposed to be inhabited. Lat. 
5. 15. S. long. 147. 39. E. 
W I £ 663 
WILLASTON, a township of England, in the parish of 
Wybunbury, Cheshire. 
WILLASTON, or Woollaston, a township inthe above 
county ; 3 miles east of Great Neston. 
WILLAWAKY, an Indian town of the United States, on 
the north-west coast of Lake Michigan. Lat. 47. 45. N. 
long. 87. 10. W. 
WILLCRICK, a parish of England, in Monmouthshire; 
4 miles east-south-east of Caerleon. 
WILLEBADESSEN, a town of Prussian Westphalia, in' 
the government of Minden, on the Nette; 13 miles east-south¬ 
east of Paderborn, with 1200 inhabitants. 
WILLEBROCKE, an inland town of the Netherlands, 
situated on the river Ruppel, and the canal of Mechlin ; 15 
miles north of Brussels. It contains 1700 inhabitants. 
WILLEMANTIC, or Willemanset, in the United 
States, rapids in Connecticut river, Massachusetts ; about 
a mile below South Hadley canal. They are avoided 
by opening a channel, a mile in length, on the western 
shore. 
WILLEMBERG, or Wielbark, a town of East Prussia; 
79 miles north of Warsaw. Population 1400. 
WILLEN, or Wyllif.n, a parish of England, in Buck¬ 
inghamshire ; 2 miles south of Newport Pagnell. 
WILLENHALL, a township of England, in Warwick¬ 
shire; 2J miles south-east of Coventry.—2. A township in 
Staffordshire; 3 miles west of Walsall. Population 3523. 
WILLEQUENGAUGUM, a lake in the United States, on 
the east side of Maine, at the sources of the St. Croix. 
WI'LLER, s. One that wills.—Cast a glance on two 
considerations. 1. What the will is, to which 2d, who the 
wilier is, to whom we must submit. Barrow. 
WILLERBY, a township of England, East Riding of 
Yorkshire; 6 miles south-by-west of Scarborough.—2. An¬ 
other township in the same Riding; 5| miles west-north¬ 
west of Kingston-upon-Hull. 
WILLERSEY, a parish of England, in Gloucestershire; 
3 miles west of Chipping Campden.—2. A parish of En¬ 
gland, in Herefordshire; 8 miles west-south-west of Weo- 
bley. 
WILLESBOROUGH, a parish of England, in Kent, 
near the river Stour; 2 miles east-south-east of Ashford. 
Population 435. 
WILLESDEN, or Wilsdon, a parish of England, in 
Middlesex ; 8 miles north-west of St. Paul’s, London. Po¬ 
pulation 671. 
WILLESLEY, a parish of England, in Leicestershire ; 2,i 
miles south-west of Ashby-de-la-Zouch. 
WILLET, a township of the United States, in Courtland 
county, New York. 
WILLET’S BAY, a bay on the north-west coast of the 
island of St. Christopher, about a mile to the south-west of 
Dieppe bay. 
WILLEY, a township of England, in Herefordshire; 2 
miles north of Presteign, Radnor.—2. A parish in Salop; 4 
miles north-by-west of Bridgnorth.—3. A parish in War¬ 
wickshire ; 7 miles north-by-west of Rugby. 
WILLGOTTHEIM, a village of France, in Alsace, with 
1800 inhabitants. 
WILLHALL, a hamlet of England, in the parish of 
Alton, Southamptonshire. 
WILLHAMPSTEAD, a parish of England, in Bedford¬ 
shire; 3 j miles from Bedford. 
WFLLI and Vili, among the English Saxons, as vide 
at this day among the Germans, signified many. So Wil/i- 
elmus is the defender of many ; Wilfred, peace to many ; 
which are answered in sense and signification by Polymachus, 
Polycrates, and Polyphilus. Gibson's Camden. 
WILLIAM of Nassau, prince of Orange, and founder of 
the Dutch republic, was born in Germany in 1533, and de¬ 
scended from Lutheran parents, though, being introduced 
into the service of Mary queen of Hungary, and afterwards 
of Charles V., he conformed to the Catholic religion. See 
Holland. 
WILLIAM of Wykeham, an English prelate, was born in 
1324, 
