Wag: Definition and part of speech

Wag

  1. v. A man full of sport and humor; a ludicrous fellow; a humorist; a wit; a joker.
  2. 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.
  3. v. i. To move one way and the other; to be shaken to and fro; to vibrate.
  4. v. i. To be in action or motion; to move; to get along; to progress; to stir.
  5. v. i. To go; to depart; to pack oft.
  6. v. The act of wagging; a shake; as, a wag of the head.
  7. The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

Waft: Definition and part of speech

Waft

  1. n. A knot, or stop, in the middle of a flag.
  2. v. t. To give notice to by waving something; to wave the hand to; to beckon.
  3. v. t. To cause to move or go in a wavy manner, or by the impulse of waves, as of water or air; to bear along on a buoyant medium; as, a balloon was wafted over the channel.
  4. v. t. To cause to float; to keep from sinking; to buoy.
  5. v. i. To be moved, or to pass, on a buoyant medium; to float.
  6. n. A wave or current of wind.
  7. n. A signal made by waving something, as a flag, in the air.
  8. n. An unpleasant flavor.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

Waffle: Definition and part of speech

Waffle

  1. n. A soft indented cake cooked in a waffle iron.
  2. n. A thin cake baked and then rolled; a wafer.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

Wafer: Definition and part of speech

Wafer

  1. n. An adhesive disk of dried paste, made of flour, gelatin, isinglass, or the like, and coloring matter, — used in sealing letters and other documents.
  2. n. A thin cake made of flour and other ingredients.
  3. n. A thin cake or piece of bread (commonly unleavened, circular, and stamped with a crucifix or with the sacred monogram) used in the Eucharist, as in the Roman Catholic Church.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.