Index of English words, starting with "wi"

(1) - Wipe (n.) Stain; brand.
(2) - Wipe (n.) A handkerchief.
(3) - Wipe (n.) A gibe; a jeer; a severe sarcasm.
(4) - Wipe (n.) A blow; a stroke; a hit; a swipe.
(5) - Wipe (n.) Act of rubbing, esp. in order to clean.
(6) - Wipe (v. t.) To cheat; to defraud; to trick; -- usually followed by out.
(7) - Wipe (v. t.) To remove by rubbing; to rub off; to obliterate; -- usually followed by away, off or out. Also used figuratively.
(8) - Wipe (v. t.) To rub with something soft for cleaning; to clean or dry by rubbing; as, to wipe the hands or face with a towel.
(9) - Wipe (n.) The lapwing.

(1) - Wiper (n.) A rod, or an attachment for a rod, for holding a rag with which to wipe out the bore of the barrel.
(2) - Wiper (n.) A piece generally projecting from a rotating or swinging piece, as an axle or rock shaft, for the purpose of raising stampers, lifting rods, or the like, and leaving them to fall by their own weight; a kind of cam.
(3) - Wiper (n.) Something used for wiping, as a towel or rag.
(4) - Wiper (n.) One who, or that which, wipes.

(1) - Wire (v. i.) To send a telegraphic message.
(2) - Wire (v. i.) To pass like a wire; to flow in a wirelike form, or in a tenuous stream.
(3) - Wire (v. t.) To send (a message) by telegraph.
(4) - Wire (v. t.) To snare by means of a wire or wires.
(5) - Wire (v. t.) To put upon a wire; as, to wire beads.
(6) - Wire (v. t.) To bind with wire; to attach with wires; to apply wire to; as, to wire corks in bottling liquors.
(7) - Wire (n.) A telegraph wire or cable; hence, an electric telegraph; as, to send a message by wire.
(8) - Wire (n.) A thread or slender rod of metal; a metallic substance formed to an even thread by being passed between grooved rollers, or drawn through holes in a plate of steel.