Index of English words, starting with "we"

(1) - Weanling (a.) Recently weaned.
(2) - Weanling (n.) A child or animal newly weaned; a wean.
(3) - Weanling () a. & n. from Wean, v.

(1) - Weapon (n.) A thorn, prickle, or sting with which many plants are furnished.
(2) - Weapon (n.) Fig.: The means or instrument with which one contends against another; as, argument was his only weapon.
(3) - Weapon (n.) An instrument of offensive of defensive combat; something to fight with; anything used, or designed to be used, in destroying, defeating, or injuring an enemy, as a gun, a sword, etc.

(1) - Weaponless (a.) Having no weapon.

(1) - Weaponry (n.) Weapons, collectively; as, an array of weaponry.

(1) - Wear (n.) A long notch with a horizontal edge, as in the top of a vertical plate or plank, through which water flows, -- used in measuring the quantity of flowing water.
(2) - Wear (n.) A fence of stakes, brushwood, or the like, set in a stream, tideway, or inlet of the sea, for taking fish.
(3) - Wear (n.) A dam in a river to stop and raise the water, for the purpose of conducting it to a mill, forming a fish pond, or the like.
(4) - Wear (v. t.) To cause to go about, as a vessel, by putting the helm up, instead of alee as in tacking, so that the vessel's bow is turned away from, and her stern is presented to, the wind, and, as she turns still farther, her sails fill on the other side; to veer.
(5) - Wear (n.) Same as Weir.
(6) - Wear (n.) The thing worn; style of dress; the fashion.
(7) - Wear (n.) The act of wearing, or the state of being worn; consumption by use; diminution by friction; as, the wear of a garment.
(8) - Wear (v. i.) To be wasted, consumed, or diminished, by being used; to suffer injury, loss, or extinction by use or time; to decay, or be spent, gradually.
(9) - Wear (v. i.) To endure or suffer use; to last under employment; to bear the consequences of use, as waste, consumption, or attrition; as, a coat wears well or ill; -- hence, sometimes applied to character, qualifications, etc.; as, a man wears well as an acquaintance.
(10) - Wear (v. t.) To form or shape by, or as by, attrition.
(11) - Wear (v. t.) To cause or make by friction or wasting; as, to wear a channel; to wear a hole.
(12) - Wear (v. t.) To impair, waste, or diminish, by continual attrition, scraping, percussion, on the like; to consume gradually; to cause to lower or disappear; to spend.
(13) - Wear (v. t.) To use up by carrying or having upon one's self; hence, to consume by use; to waste; to use up; as, to wear clothes rapidly.
(14) - Wear (v. t.) To have or exhibit an appearance of, as an aspect or manner; to bear; as, she wears a smile on her countenance.
(15) - Wear (v. t.) To carry or bear upon the person; to bear upon one's self, as an article of clothing, decoration, warfare, bondage, etc.; to have appendant to one's body; to have on; as, to wear a coat; to wear a shackle.