Wedge-tailed

1. a. Having a tail which has the middle pair of feathers longest, the rest successively and decidedly shorter, and all more or less attenuate; — said of certain birds. See Illust. of Wood hoopoe, under Wood.

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Wedging

1. p. pr. & vb. n. of Wedge

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Wedder

1. n. See Wether.

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Weder

1. n. Weather.

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Wedge

1. n. The person whose name stands lowest on the list of the classical tripos; — so called after a person (Wedgewood) who occupied this position on the first list of 1828.
2. n. A piece of metal, or other hard material, thick at one end, and tapering to a thin edge at the other, used in splitting wood, rocks, etc., in raising heavy bodies, and the like. It is one of the six elementary machines called the mechanical powers. See Illust. of Mechanical powers, under Mechanical.
3. n. A solid of five sides, having a rectangular base, two rectangular or trapezoidal sides meeting in an edge, and two triangular ends.
4. n. A mass of metal, especially when of a wedgelike form.
5. n. Anything in the form of a wedge, as a body of troops drawn up in such a form.
6. v. t. To fasten with a wedge, or with wedges; as, to wedge a scythe on the snath; to wedge a rail or a piece of timber in its place.

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Wedged

1. imp. & p. p. of Wedge

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Webform

1. n. Any one of various species of moths whose gregarious larvae eat the leaves of trees, and construct a large web to which they retreat when not feeding.

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Wed

1. n. A pledge; a pawn.
2. n. To take for husband or for wife by a formal ceremony; to marry; to espouse.
3. n. To join in marriage; to give in wedlock.
4. n. Fig.: To unite as if by the affections or the bond of marriage; to attach firmly or indissolubly.
5. n. To take to one’s self and support; to espouse.

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Wedded

1. p. p. of Wed
2. imp. of Wed

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Wedding

1. p. pr. & vb. n. of Wed

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