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Veftren, inf. m. v. Sax. to tend toward the west, T.

ii. 906.

Vete, adj. Sax. wet, 2903.

Vete, v. Sax. to wet, T. iii. 1121.

Vete, v. Sax. to know, 7096, 10305.

Tether, n. Sax. the weather, 10366-a caftrated ram, 3542; T. iv. 1374

(eting, n. Sax. knowledge, 1613, 6231.

Teve, v. Sax. to weave, L. W. 2341.

Yeve, v. Sax. to put off, to prevent, T. ii. 1050. See W'eive.

Vex, pa. t. of waxe or wexe, v. Sax. waxed, grew, 4232.

Vexing, part. pr. increafing, 2080.

Veyeden, pa. t. pl. weighed, 456. See Waye.

What, pron. interrog. Sax. is often used by itfelf as a fort of interjection; 856, what! welcome be the cutte-3477, what! Nicholas! what how, man!3491, what! thinke on God.-See also 3900, 6496, 7820.

That, pron. indef, fomething; a little rubat, Bo. iv. pr. 6, Mixpov Ti; what for love and for diftrefs, 1455, partly for love and partly f. d. See 3965, 4441, 23 F. ii, 43; wete ye what? 10305,17031, do ye know fomething? ne elles what? F. iii. 651, nor any thing elfe, oud' anλws T.-What, when joined to a n. fubft, (cither expreffed or understood) is a mere adj. anfwering to qualis, Lat. quel, Fr. 40, 41; what they weren, 1705, what men they were what fo, 524, 6873, what that, 5602, 7113, whatsoever. Vheder, conj. Sax. whether, 9838, 15141. Whelm, v. Sax. T. i. 139, to fink, to deprefs. Whelmyn a veffell; fupprimo, Prompt. Parv. Whennes, adv. Sax. whence, 12269. Wher, conj. Sax. whether, 7032, 10893.

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Wher, adv. Sax. where, 423, 899.

Ther

Wher, in compofition, fignifies which. See Here and -Wherfore, 8533; wherin, 13732; wherthrough, R. 3733; wherwith, 304-or what, when ufed interrogatively; wherof, 5654; wherwith, 5713.

Whether, adj. Sax. which of two, 1858, 6816.
Whette, part. pa. of whet,v. Sax. sharpened, T. v. 1759-
Whiche, pron. rel. Sax. who, 16482; whom, 13083-
adj. what, what sort of, 2677, 5621, 6875.

While, n. Sax. time; in this mene while, 7027, in the mean time-how he might quite hire zubile, 5004, how he might requite her time, pains, &c. L. W. 2225; R. 1542, God can ful wel your while quite,

fo mf. Hunter.

Whilere, adv. Sax. fometime before, 16796.
Whilke, adj. Sax. which, 4076, 4169.

Whilom, adv. Sax. once, on a time, 861, 9121. Whine, v. Sax. to utter a plaintive cry, 5968. See An. 158.

White, adj. Sax. fair, specious, T. iii. 1573.

White, v. to grow white, T. v. 276.

Who, pron. interrog. Sax. 1350, 1456.

Whos, gen. ca. fing. 5438.

Who, pron. rel. Sax. 3154, it is generally expreffed by that.

Whos, gen. ca. fing. 7908, 9047. Who, pron. indef. T. iii. 268;

For wel thou woft the name as yet of her

Amonges the people, as who fayth halowed is. where as who fayth feems to be equivalent to as one fhould fay. See alfo Du. 559; in Bo. iii. pr. 4, the fame phrafe is ufed to introduce a fuller explanation of a paffage, as we might ufe-that is to faywho fo, 743, zube that, 807, whofoever: in ver.

4298 there is a phrafe which I know not how to explain grammatically, but fikerly the n'ifte who was cho. See alfo C. D. 1305, 6.

Wide-where, adv. Sax. widely, far and near, 4556; T. iii. 405; Conf. Am. 162.

Wierdes, n. pl. Sax. the Fates or Deflinies, Parea, T. iii. 618.

Wif, n. Sax, a wife, 2260-a woman, 6580.
Wifbood, n. Sax. the ftate of a wife, 10064.
Wifles, adj. Sax. unmarried, 9112, 9124.
Wifly, adj. Sax. becoming a wife, 8305.

Wight, n. Sax. a perfon male or female, 2108, 13917, 4234-a fmail space of time, 4281-weight, T. ii. 1385-a witch; 3484, wytch cleped nyght mare; epialtes, Prompt Parv.

Wight, adj. Sax. active, fwift, 4084, 14273; of hem
that ben deliver and wight, Conf. Am. 177, b.
Wightes, n. pl. witches, 3479. See the note.
Wike, n. for aweke, T. ii. 1273.

Wiket, n. Fr. a wicket, 9919.

Wikke, adj. Sax. wicked, 5448, 15429..

William St. Amour, pr. n. R. 6763, a doctor of the Sor bonne in the 13th century, who took a principal part in the difpute between the university of Paris and the Dominican friars. See Moreri in v. Willy, adj. Sax. favourable, B. K. 628.

Wiln, for willen, pl. n. of wille, v. Sax. 6870, 12848. Wilne, v. Sax. to defire, 2566,

Wimple, n. Fr. a covering for the neck; it is diftinguished from a veil, which covered the head alo, R. 3864;

Wering a vaile inftede of wimple,

As nonnes don in hir abbey.

Windas, n. Fr. guindal, an engine to raise stones, &c. 10498.

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Winde, v. Sax. to turn round, 6684. as Wende, to go, R. 2055.

Wine of Ape, 16993. See the note.

Winne, R. 3674, v. Sax. to gain, 715, 7003; to winne
to, R. 3674, to attain. See L.W. 2416.
Wirry, v. Sax. to worry, R. 6264.
Wis, adv. Sax. certainly, 11780. See Twis.
Wife, n. Sax. manner, 1663; T. ii. 921.
Willy, adv. Sax. certainly, 1865, 3992.

Wife, v. Sax. to teach, to direct, 6590, 6991; fo God me wife, 7440, fo may God direct me; wyfyn or ledyn, dirigo, Prompt. Parv.

Wife, pa. t. of zvifte, v. Sax. knew, 1158, 8690. Wite, v. Sax. to know, 9614; R. 7661—to blame, 10051, 14588-to impute to; wite it the ale of Southwark, 3142, impute it to the a. o. S.-or blame the a. o. S. for it, 14756.

Wite, n. Sax. blame, 16421.

With, prep.Sax. is used in the sense of by, 4895; was with the leon frette, was devoured by the lionin with his thought, 9460, in with hire bofom, 9818, within his t. within her b.-with mefchance, 5316, 7797; with mefchance and with misaventure,6916; with forwe and with mefchance, 4410; with forwe, 5890, 5922, are phrases of the fame import as God yeve him mefchance, 5334; God yeve me forwe, 5733 they are all to be confidered as parenthetical curfes, ufed with more or less seriousness; and fo are the following phrases, with evil prefe, 5829; with harde grace, 7810; with fory grace, 12810. Withholde, v. Sax. to ftop, 14002.

Withholden, withhold, part. pa. retained, detained, 513; M. 246; 15813.

Withfain, inf. m. of withfay, v. Sax. 1142.

Withfaye, withfeye, v. to contradict, to deny, 15915;
L.W. 367.

Witneffe, n. Sax. teftimony, a witnefs; witnese on
Mida, 6533; ritneffe on Mathew, 12568.
Witnesfully, adv. Sax. evidently, Bo. iv. pr. 5.
Witte, n. Sax. understanding, capacity, 748; to my
qvitte, 11187, F. ii. 194, in my judgment.
Wittes, n. pl. Sax. the fenfes of man, M. 284.
Wive, n. for wif, 1862.

Wivere, n. Sax. a ferpent, T. iii. 1012.
Wlatfom, adj. Sax. loathfome, 14542, 15059.
Wo, n. Sax. wo, forrow, 1360, 1384; wo were us,
8015, wher me were wo, 10893, are expreffions de-
rived from the Saxon language, in which us and me
were equivalent to nobis and mihi, without the ad-
dition of the prep. to.

Wo, adj. Sax. forrowful, R. 312; C. L. 32.

Wo-begon, 3372, 3658, far gone in wo. See Begon. Wode, wood, adj. Sax. mad, 3507, violent, 3517; for wode, L. W. 2409, F. iii. 657, like any thing mad. See ver. 2952; into the fire, that brent as it were wood.

Wode, v. Sax. to grow mad, 15935; Bo. iv. m. 5. Wodewale, R. 658, pr. n. of a bird; riderael, Belg. oriolus, Kilian.-According to Ray our witwall is a fort of woodpecker. Synop. Av. p. 43.

Wol, v. auxil. Sax. to will, 42, 805; it is used fometimes by itself, the infin. v. being understood, 10810; as fhe to water wolde, i. e. would diffolve into w. 1093; and to the wood he rvol, i. e. will go, 16453; ful many a man hath he begiled er this, and zvol, i. e. will beguile.

Wolde, pa. t. would, 144; wolden, pl. 4666—pa. t. fubj.m. wolde God! 9932, 5, God wolde! Du.665,

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