Index of English words, starting with "wa"

(1) - Waftage (n.) Conveyance on a buoyant medium, as air or water.

(1) - Wafter (n.) A boat for passage.
(2) - Wafter (n.) One who, or that which, wafts.

(1) - Wafture (n.) The act of waving; a wavelike motion; a waft.

(1) - Wag (v.) A man full of sport and humor; a ludicrous fellow; a humorist; a wit; a joker.
(2) - Wag (v.) The act of wagging; a shake; as, a wag of the head.
(3) - Wag (v. i.) To go; to depart; to pack oft.
(4) - Wag (v. i.) To be in action or motion; to move; to get along; to progress; to stir.
(5) - Wag (v. i.) To move one way and the other; to be shaken to and fro; to vibrate.
(6) - Wag (v. t.) To move one way and the other with quick turns; to shake to and fro; to move vibratingly; to cause to vibrate, as a part of the body; as, to wag the head.

(1) - Wage (v. t.) That for which one labors; meed; reward; stipulated payment for service performed; hire; pay; compensation; -- at present generally used in the plural. See Wages.
(2) - Wage (v. t.) That which is staked or ventured; that for which one incurs risk or danger; prize; gage.
(3) - Wage (v. i.) To bind one's self; to engage.
(4) - Wage (v. t.) To give security for the performance of.
(5) - Wage (v. t.) To put upon wages; to hire; to employ; to pay wages to.
(6) - Wage (v. t.) To adventure, or lay out, for hire or reward; to hire out.
(7) - Wage (v. t.) To engage in, as a contest, as if by previous gage or pledge; to carry on, as a war.
(8) - Wage (v. t.) To expose one's self to, as a risk; to incur, as a danger; to venture; to hazard.
(9) - Wage (v. t.) To pledge; to hazard on the event of a contest; to stake; to bet, to lay; to wager; as, to wage a dollar.