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a monastery here. Previous to this period, its name was 
simply Hampton; but it now began to be distinguished 
by the appellation of Wulfrune’s Hampton, since modified 
or corrupted into the term Wolverhampton. The principal 
market day is Wednesday; but an inferior one is likewise 
held on Saturday. Two canals, the Staffordshire and 
Worcestershire Grand Trunk, and the Birmingham canal, 
pass in this immediate vicinity, and form a junction about a 
mile to the north. The fair is on the 10th July. The po¬ 
pulation of the town alone, 14,836 persons, viz. 7355 
males, and 7481 females. Of this number, 2989 families 
were returned as employed in the various branches of trade 
and manufactures; 16 miles south of Stafford, and 130J 
north-west of London. 
WOLVERLEY, , a township of England, in Worcester¬ 
shire; lb mile north-west of Kidderminster. Population 
1164. 
WOLVERTON, a parish of England, in Buckingham¬ 
shire; 1 mile east-north-east of Stony Stratford.—2. A pa¬ 
rish in Norfolk ; 2| miles north of Castle Rising.—3. A pa¬ 
rish in Somersetshire ; 4 miles north-by-east of Frome.—4. 
A parish in Warwickshire; 5J miles west-south-west of 
Warwick. 
WOLVES ISLANDS, a cluster of small islands of the 
United States, near the east coast of Maine. Lat. 45. 4. N. 
long. 65, 50. W. 
WOLVES, Newton, a parish of England, in Monmouth¬ 
shire ; 5 miles from Usk. 
WOLVEY, a village and parish of England, in the county 
of Warwick; 5£ miles south-east-by-east of Nuneaton. Po¬ 
pulation 803. 
WO'LVISH, adj. Resembling a wolf. 
Why in this wolvish gown do I stand here, 
To beg of Hob and Dick ? Shakspeare. 
WOLVISTON, a township of England, in Durham; 4 b 
miles north-by east of Stockton-upon-Tees. 
WOLXHEIM, a village in the north-east of France, in 
Alsace. Population 900. 
WOMAN, s. [pipman, pimman, Saxon; whence we 
yet pronounce women in the plural, toimmen. Skinner and 
Wallis.'] —The female of the human race. 
That man who hath a tongue is no man. 
If with his tongue he caunot win a woman. Shakspeare. 
A female attendant on a person of rank. 
I could not personally deliver to her 
What you commanded me; but by her woman, 
I sent your message. Shakspeare. 
To WO'MAN, v. a. To make pliant like a woman. 
I’ve felt such quirks of joy and grief, 
That the first face of neither on the start 
Can woman me unto’t. Shakspeare. 
WO'MANED, adj. Accompanied or united with a woman. 
I do attend here on the general. 
And think it no addition, nor my wish, 
To have him see me woman'd. Shakspeare. 
WO'MANHATER, s. One that has an aversion to the 
female sex. 
How could it come into your mind, 
To pitch on me of all mankind, 
Against the sex to write a satire ; 
And brand me for a womanhater. Swift. 
WO'MANHEAD, or Wo'maniiood, s. The character 
and collective qualities of a woman. Obsolete. 
Ne in her speech, ne in her haviour, 
Was lightness seen, or looser vanity, 
But gracious womanhood and gravity. Spenser. 
WO'MANISH, adj. Suitable to a woman; having the 
qualities of a woman ; resembling a woman. 
The godlike hero, in his breast 
Disdain’d, or was asham’d to show 
So weak, so womanish a woe. Dry den. 
W O M 
WO'MANISHLY, adv. In a womanish manner.—His 
hair curled, and womanishly dishevelled. Comment on 
Chaucer. 
WO'MANISIINESS, s. State or quality of being wo¬ 
manish.—Effeminacy and womanishness of heart. Ham¬ 
mond. 
To WO'MANIZE, v. a. To emasculate ; to effeminate ; 
to soften. Proper, but not used.—This effeminate love of 
a woman doth womanize a man. Sidney. 
WO'MANKIND, s. The female sex; the race of women. 
Musidorus had over bitterly glanced against the reputation of 
womankind. Sidney. 
Because thou doat’dst on womankind, admiring 
Their shape, their colour, and attractive grace, 
None are, thou think’st, but taken with such toys. Milton. 
WO'MANLY, adj. Becoming a woman; suiting a 
woman ; feminine, not masculine. 
I’m in this earthly world, where to do harm 
Is often laudable ; to do good sometime 
Accounted dangerous folly : why then, alas ! 
Do I put up that womanly defence. 
To say I’d done no harm ? Shakspeare. 
Not childish ; not girlish.—Young persons, under a wo¬ 
manly age, are often troubled with some of the same symp¬ 
toms. Arbuthnot. 
WO'MANLY, adv. In the manner of a woman; effem¬ 
inately. 
Sing lullabies as women do. 
With which they charm their babes to rest; 
And lullaby can I sing too, 
As womanly as can the best. Gascoigne. 
WOMAT POINT, a rocky projection of Cape-Barren- 
Island, between Van Diemen’s Land and the south-west coast 
of New Holland. 
WOMB, s. \wamba, Goth., pamb, Sax., wamb, Icel.] 
The place of the foetus in the mother.—When yet he was but 
tender-bodied, and the only son of my womb. Shakspeare. 
—The place whence any thing is produced. 
The earth was form’d, but, in the womb as yet 
Of waters embryon immature involv’d. 
Appeared not. Milton. 
Any cavity. 
An amphitheatre unpeopled Rome, 
And held, uncrowded, nations in its womb. Addison. 
To WOMB, v. a. To enclose; to breed in secret. 
Not for all the sun sees, or 
The close earth wombs, will I break my oath 
To this my fair belov’d. Shakspeare. 
WOMBDON, a village of England, in Somersetshire; 1J 
mile from Bridgewater. 
WOMBINELLORE, a town of the south of India, district 
of Salem. Lat. 11. 44. N. long. 78. 10. E. 
WOMBLETON, a township of England, in Yorkshire; 4 
miles east of Helmsley. 
WOMBOURNE, a parish of England, in Staffordshire; 
4 miles south-west of Wolverhampton. Population 989. 
WOMBRIDGE, or Wambkidge, a parish of England, 
in Salop ; 2 miles east of Wellington. Population 1944. 
WOMBWELL, a township of England, West Riding of 
Yorkshire; 5 miles south-east of Barnesly. Population 745. 
WO'MBY, adj. Capacious. Not in use. 
He’ll call you to so hot an answer for it, 
That caves and womby vaultages of France 
Shall chide your trespass, and return your mock, 
In second accent to his ordnance. Shakspeare. 
WOMELSDORF, a post township) of the United States, 
in Berks county, Pennsylvania; 68 miles west-north-west of 
Philadelphia. 
WO'MEN. Plural of woman. 
Thus it shall befal 
Him who to worth in women over-trusts. Milton. 
WOMENSWOLD, 
