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_Dunbar._

Teut. _wersel-en_, reniti, obniti; _wars_, contrarius.

~Wa.r.s.ell~, ~Warstle~, _s._ Struggle, S.

_Burns._

Wa.r.s.eT, _adj._ A dog employed by a thief for watching deer.

_For. Lawes._

A. S. _ware_, observation, and _sett-an_, to set.

WART, in composition of adverbs, is the same with _ward_, E.; as, _inwart_, inward, Moes. G. _wairths_, A. S. _weard_, Isl. _vert_, versus.

WART, WARD, _s._ A tumulus or mound thrown up on high ground, in the Orkney and Shetland islands, for the purpose of conveying intelligence.

_Barry._

Isl. _vard_, Su. G. _waard_, excubiae, custodia.

WARTWEIL, WRATWEL, _s._ The skin above the nail, when fretted, S.

WARWOLF, WERWOUF, _s._

1. A person supposed to be transformed into a wolf.

_Philotus._

2. A puny child, or an ill-grown person of whatever age; p.r.o.n.

_warwoof_, Ang.

A. S. _were-wulf_, Su. G. _warulf_, Germ. _werwolf_, vir-lupus, lycanthropos, man-wolf.

WASH, WESCHE, _s._ Stale urine; especially as used for the purpose of steeping clothes, in order to their being washed, S.

Teut. _wasch_, lotura.

_Lyndsay._

WASIE, _adj._ Sagacious, quick of apprehension, Ang.

Alem. _wa.s.s_, Su. G. _hwa.s.s_, denoting quickness of apprehension.

Wa.s.sALAGE, _s._ Great achievement; also valour.

V. ~Va.s.salage~.

WASTELL, _s._ Bread used with the wastell-bowl.

_Chalm. Air._

L. B. _wastell-us_, id. Fr. _gasteau_.

WASTING, _s._ A consumption, a decline, S.

_To_ WAT, _v. n._ To know.

V. ~Wait~.

WATE, _adj._ Wet, moist, S.

_Douglas._

A. S. _waet_, humidus; _waet-an_, humectare.

WATE, _s._

1. A watchman, a centinel; wait, S.

_Douglas._

2. Now applied to the minstrels who go about playing in the night season, S.

Teut. _wachte_, excubiae; et vigiles, excubitores.

3. A place of ambush.

_At the wate_, in wait.

_Douglas._

WATER, WATTER, _s._

1. A river, or pretty large body of running water, S.

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