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WOE. See Wo. 
WOE, worth the. See To Worth. 
WOERAMATTA, a small island in the Eastern seas. 
Lat. 7. 2. S. long. 131.36. E. 
WOERDEN, a small town of the Netherlands, in the 
province of Utrecht, situated on the Old Rhine. It is for¬ 
tified ; 15 miles south of Amsterdam. Population 2700. 
WO'FUL, adj. Sorrowful; afflicted; mourning.—The 
woful Gynecia, to whom rest was no ease, had left her lothed 
lodging, and gotten herself into the solitary places those de- 
sarts were full of. Sidney .—O woeful day ! O day of woe! 
Philips .—Wretched; paltry; sorry. 
What woeful stuff this madrigal would be. 
In some starv’d hackney-sonneteer, or me ? 
But let a lord once own the happy lines. 
How the wit brightens! how the style refines ! Pope. 
WO'FULLY, adv. Sorrowfully; mournfully.—Wretch¬ 
edly: in a sense of contempt.—He who would pass such a 
judgement upon his condition, as shall be confirmed at that 
great tribunal, from which there lies no appeal, will find 
himself wofully deceived, if he judges of his spiritual estate 
by any of these measures. South. 
WO'FULNESS, s. Misery; calamity.—I would you to 
be void of care and wofulness. Martin. 
WOGGORA, a small high province on the eastern coast 
of the lake of Dembea. It is all sown with wheat, and forms 
one of the granaries of Abyssinia. 
WOHLAU, a principality of Prussian Silesia, to the north 
of that of Breslau, containing about 630 square miles, with 
50,000 inhabitants. 
WOHLAU, a town of Prussian Silesia, and the chief place 
of the above principality; 23 miles north-west of Breslau. 
Population 1300. 
WOHYN, a small town of Poland, in the palatinate of 
Podlacbia ; 33 miles south-south-east of Siedlec. 
WOKEFIELD, a hamlet in the parish of Sulhampstead, 
Berkshire. 
WOREY, or Okey, a village and parish of England, in 
Somersetshire, within two miles of Wells, containing 859 in¬ 
habitants. On the north side of the village, in the lower 
part of the Mendip hills, is a remarkable dark cavern, called 
Wokey Hole, about 200 yards in length. 
WOKING, a parish of England, in Surrey, on the Wey ; 
2J miles west by-north of Ripley. 
WOKINGHAM, or Oakingham, a town of England, 
in the county of Berks, within the precincts of Windsor Fo¬ 
rest. It consists of three streets, which centre in a spacious 
area, where the market-house is situated. This is an ancient 
building, framed with timber, and open at the bottom, with 
a hall above, wherein the public business is transacted. The 
church is a large, handsome edifice, with 3 aisles, supported 
within by handsome pillars, and containing several monu¬ 
ments. Wokingham has a good free school, and a charity 
school; and about one mile from the town, on Luckley 
Green, is an hospital, founded in 1663, for a chaplain or 
master, and as many poor men as the funds will support, un¬ 
der the direction of the draper’s company of London. Arch¬ 
bishop Laud gave an estate, the rent of which, amounting to 
about 40/. a year, is paid every third year to three servant girls, 
aged 18, natives of the town, who shall have served one mas¬ 
ter or mistress faithfully for three years successively; and the 
other years it is to be applied to the apprenticing of five 
boys. Dr. Charles Palmer, who died in 1717, founded a 
school for 20 boys, to be qualified for apprentices to mecha¬ 
nic trades; and Mrs. Martha Palmer founded a school for 12 
girls, in 1723. This town was incorporated by James 1., 
under an alderman, high steward, recorder, burgesses, and 
to^vn clerk; and here all the courts for Windsor Forest are 
held. For many years there has been a singular custom of 
baiting two bulls in the market-place, on St. Thomas’s day, 
for which purpose, a small estate was left by Mr. Staverton, 
for the purchase of a bull, to be given to the poor after being 
baited. The market on Tuesday is noted for its great supply 
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of poultry. Its fairs are the Thursday after Shrove Tuesday, 
21st April, 11th June, 10th October, and 2d November. 
About 4 miles distant are the vestiges of a Roman entrench¬ 
ment, called Caasar’s camp. 
WOLA, a village of Poland, half a mile from Warsaw. 
WOLANY, a small town of European Turkey, in Wal- 
lachia. 
WOLBORCZ, a town of Poland; 66 miles south-west of 
Warsaw. Population 900. 
WOLCHENBURG, a town of Prussia, in the New Mark 
of Brandenburg, situated on a lake; 116 miles east-north¬ 
east of Berlin. Population 1800. 
WOLCOTT, a post township of the United States, in 
Orleans county, Vermont. Population 124.—2. A town¬ 
ship of Newhaven county, Connecticut. Population 952.— 
3. A township of Cayuga county, New York, on south side 
ofUke Ontario ; 200 miles west of Albany. Population 
WOLD, s. [Wold , whether singly or jointly, in the 
names of places, signifies a plain open country; from the 
Saxon polb, a plain and a place without wood. Gibson.'] 
—A plain open country; downs.—St. Withold footed thrice 
the wold. Shakspeare. —Who sees not a great difference be¬ 
twixt the wolds in Lincolnshire and the fens. Burton. _ 
Wold and wald with the Saxons signified a ruler or gover- 
nour; from whence Bcrtwold is a famous governour; Ethel- 
wold a noble governour; Htrwald, and by inversion wald- 
her, a general of an army. Gibson's Camden. 
WOLD, or Old, a parish of England, in Northampton¬ 
shire. Population 374. 
WOLDECK, or Woldegge, a town of Germany; 21 
miles east-by-north of Strehtz. Population 1800. 
WOLDENBERG, a town of the Prussian province of 
Brandenburg; 54 miles east-north-east of Kustrin. Popu¬ 
lation 1700. 
WOLDHAM, a parish of England, in Kent; 2J- miles 
south-west of Rochester. 
WOLDINGHAM, a parish of England, in Surrey; 3 
miles north-east-by-north of Godstone. 
WOLD NEWTON, a parish of England, in Lincoln¬ 
shire ; 1D miles north-by-east of Great Driffield. 
WOLEIN, a town of Moravia; 34 miles west-north-west 
of Brunn. Population 1100. 
WOLEN, a large village in the north of Switzerland, in 
the canton of Aargau. 
WOLF, s. [palp, Saxon; wolf, Dutch; from the M. 
Goth, wilwan, rapere, diripere. Serenius.] —A kind of 
wild dog that devours sheep: thence any thing ravenous or 
destructive. See Cams. 
Advance our waving colours on the walls, 
Rescu’d is Orleans from the English wolves. Shakspeare. 
An eating ulcer.—How dangerous it is in sensible things to 
use metaphorical expressions; and what absurd conceits the 
vulgar will swallow in the literals, an example we have in 
our profession, who having called an eating ulcer by the 
name of wolf, common apprehension conceives a reality 
therein. Brown. 
WOLF (Christian), an eminent mathematician and philo¬ 
sopher, was born at Breslau in 1679, and well educated under 
able masters in different branches of literature and science. 
At the age of 21 he was entered at the university of Jena, 
which was then in high reputation; and, quitting Jena in 
1702, he prosecuted his studies at Leipsic, where, in the fol¬ 
lowing year, he took his degree of master of arts, publishing 
on the occasion a dissertation, intitled “ Philosophia practica 
Universalis Mathematico modo conscripta.” In 1704 he pub¬ 
lished another dissertation, on the differential and infinitesi¬ 
mal calculus. Having studied theology as well as philosophy 
at Leipsic, he officiated as a preacher; and being invited to 
undertake the office of pastor in a country village, he was 
advised by Leibnitz to decline it, and to pursue the study of 
philosophy. As he commenced his literary career with great 
reputation, he was proposed to be an associate in the perio¬ 
dical work, intitled “ Acta Eruditorum ;” and in this con¬ 
nection 
