To Wreck, rk. v. a.
To destroy by dashing on rocks or sands; to ruin.
To Wreck, rk. v. n.
To suffer wreck.
Wren, rn. s. (474)
A small bird.
To Wrench, rnsh. v. a.
To pull by violence; to wrest, to force; to sprain, to distort.
Wrench, rnsh. s. (474)
A violent pull or twist; a sprain.
To Wrest, rst. v. a.
To twist by violence, to extort by writhing or force; to distort, to writhe, to force.
Wrest, rst. s. (474)
Distortion, violence.
Wrester, rs′tr. s.
He who wrests.
To Wrestle, rs′sl. v. n. (472)
To contend who shall throw the other down; to struggle, to contend.
Wrestler, rs′lr. s. (98)
One who wrestles, one who professes the athletick art; one who contends in wrestling.
Wretch, rtsh. s.
A miserable mortal; a worthless sorry creature; it is used by way of slight ironical pity or contempt.
Wretched, rtsh′d. a. (366)
Miserable, unhappy; calamitous, afflictive; sorry, pitiful, paltry, worthless; despicable, hatefully contemptible.
Wretchedly, rtsh′d-l. ad.
Miserably, unhappily; meanly, despicably.
Wretchedness, rtsh′d-ns. s.
Misery, unhappiness, afflicted state; pitifulness, despicableness.
To Wriggle, rg′gl. v. n. (405)
To move to and fro with short motions.
To Wriggle, rg′gl. v. a. (474)
To put in a quick reciprocating motion.
A workman, an artificer, a maker, a manufacturer.
To Wring, rng, v. a.
Pret. and Part. pass. Wringed and Wrung. To twist, to turn round by violence; to force out of any body by contortion; to squeeze, to press; to writhe, to pinch; to force by violence, to extort; to harass, to distress, to torture; to distort, to turn to a wrong purpose; to persecute with extortion.
To Wring, rng. v. n. (474)
To writhe with anguish.
Wringer, rng′r. s. (98)
One who squeezes the water out of clothes.
Wrinkle, rng′kl. s. (405)
Corrugation or furrow of the skin in the face; any roughness.
To Wrinkle, rnk′kl. v. a.
To corrugate, to contract into furrows; to make rough or uneven.
Wrist, rst. s. (474)
The joint by which the hand is joined to the arm.
Wristband, rst′bnd. s.
The fastening of the shirt at the hand.
Writ, rt. s. (474)
Any thing written, Scripture. This sense is now chiefly used in speaking of the Bible. A judicial process; a legal instrument.
Writ, rt.
The Pret. of Write.
To Write, rte. v. a.
Pret. Writ or Wrote; Part. pass. Written, Writ, or Wrote. To express by means of letters; to engrave, to impress; to produce as an author; to tell by letter.
To Write, rte. v. n. (474)
To perform the act of writing; to play the author; to tell in books; to send letters; to call one's self, to be entitled, to use the style of; to compose, to form compositions.
Writer, r′tr. s. (98)
One who practises the art of writing; an author.
To Writhe, rthe. v. a. (467)
To distort, to deform with distortion; to twist with violence; to wrest, to force by violence; to twist.
To Writhe, rthe. v. n.
To be convolved with agony or torture.
Writing, r′tng. s. (410)
A legal instrument; a composure, a book; a written paper of any kind.
Writingmaster, r'tng-ms'tr. s.
One who teaches to write.
Written, rt′tn. a. (103)
The Part. pass. of Write.
Wrong, rng. s.
A injury, a designed or known detriment; errour, not right.
Wrong, rng. a. (474)
Not morally right, not agreeable to propriety or truth; not physically right, unfit, unsuitable.
Wrong, rng. ad.
Not rightly, amiss.
To Wrong, rng. v. a.
To injure, to use unjustly.
Wrongdoer, rng′d-r. s.
An injurious person.
He that injures, he that does wrong.
Wrongful, rng′fl. a.
Injurious, unjust.
Wrongfully, rng′fl-. ad.
Unjustly.
Wronghead, rng′hd. Wrongheaded, rng-hd′d. a.
Having a perverse understanding.
Wrongly, rng′l. ad.
Unjustly amiss.
Wronglessly, rng′ls-l. ad.
Without injury to any.
Wrote, rte.
Pret. and Part. of Write.
Wroth, rth. a.—See Wrath.
Angry. Out of use.
Wrought, rwt.
Wrung, rng.
The pret. and Part. pass. of Wring.
Wry. r. a. (474)
Crooked, deviating from the right direction; distorted; wrung, perverted, wrested.
To Wry, r. v. n.
To be contorted and writhed, to deviate from the right direction.
X.
X, says Johnson, is a letter which, though found in Saxon words, begins no word in the English language.
☞ It may be observed, that in words from the Greek, where it is initial, it is always pronounced like Z. For the true pronunciation of this letter, when medial or final in English words, See Principles, No. 476.
Xerocollyrium, z-r-kl-lr′r-m. s.
A dry plaster for sore eyes.
Xerodes, z-r′dz. s.
Any tumour attended with dryness.
Xeromirum, zr--m′rm. s. (503)
A drying ointment.
Xerophagy, z-rf′-j. s. (518)
The eating of dry meats, a sort of fast among the Primitive Christians.
Xerophthalmy, z-rp′thl-m. s.
A dry red soreness or itching in the eyes, without any dropping or swelling.
Xerotes, z-r′tz. s. (503)
A dry habit or disposition of body.
Xiphias, zf′-s. s.
The sword fish; also a comet shaped like a sword.
Xiphoides, z-f′dz. s.
The pointed sword-like cartilage or gristle of the breast bone.
Xylobalsamum, z-l-bl′s-mm. s.
The wood of the balsam tree.
Xyster, zs′tr. s.
A surgeon's instrument to scrape and shave bones with.
