(historical) An archaic stringed instrument associated particularly with Wales, though once played widely in Europe, and characterized by a vaulted back and enough space for the player to stop each of the six strings on the fingerboard. Played variously by plucking or bowing.
cwlth
hewet
lewth
lewth
noun
(now rare, dialectal) Shelter.
lowth
lowth
noun
(UK dialectal) (in the plural) Lowlands.
(UK dialectal, Northern England) Lowness.
mowth
owght
rowth
swath
swath
noun
(often figuratively) A broad sweep or expanse, such as of land or of people.
The track cut out by a scythe in mowing.
swith
swith
adj
(dialectal or obsolete) Strong; vehement.
adv
(dialectal or obsolete) Quickly, speedily, promptly.
(dialectal or obsolete) Strongly; vehemently; very.
tchwi
thawn
thaws
thaws
noun
plural of thaw
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of thaw
thawy
thawy
adj
Becoming liquid; thawing; inclined to or tending to thaw.
Conducive to thawing.
theow
theow
noun
(historical) A bondman or bondwoman; a slave.
thews
thews
noun
plural of thew
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of thew
thewy
thewy
adj
Muscular; brawny.
Sinewy.
thowt
thowt
noun
Archaic spelling of thought.
verb
(archaic) simple past tense and past participle of think
thraw
threw
threw
verb
(colloquial, nonstandard) past participle of throw
simple past tense of throw
throw
throw
noun
(obsolete) A moment, time, occasion.
(obsolete) A period of time; a while.
(veterinary medicine) The act of giving birth in animals, especially in cows.
A distance travelled; displacement.
A piece of fabric used to cover a bed, sofa or other soft furnishing.
A single instance, occurrence, venture, or chance.
Obsolete spelling of throe
One's ability to throw.
The act of throwing something.
The flight of a thrown object.
verb
(American football) Synonym of pass
(baseball, slang, of a team, a manager, etc.) To select (a pitcher); to assign a pitcher to a given role (such as starter or reliever).
(ceramics) To make (a pot) by shaping clay as it turns on a wheel.
(figuratively) To send desperately.
(martial arts) To lift the opponent off the ground and bring him back down, especially into a position behind the thrower.
(obsolete, Scotland, Northern England) To twist or turn.
(sports, video games) To intentionally lose a game.
(transitive) To cause a certain number on the die or dice to be shown after rolling it.
(transitive) To eject or cause to fall off.
(transitive) To hurl; to cause an object to move rapidly through the air.
(transitive) To imprison.
(transitive) To install (a bridge).
(transitive) To move to another position or condition; to displace.
(transitive) To project or send forth.
(transitive) To show sudden emotion, especially anger.
(transitive, bridge) To discard.
(transitive, computing) To send (an error) to an exception-handling mechanism in order to interrupt normal processing.
(transitive, cricket, of a bowler) To deliver (the ball) illegally by straightening the bowling arm during delivery.
(transitive, informal) To confuse or mislead.
(transitive, intransitive) To roll (a die or dice).
(transitive, of a punch or boxing combination) To deliver.
(transitive, said of one's voice) To change in order to give the illusion that the voice is that of someone else.
(transitive, veterinary medicine) Of animals: to give birth to (young).
To organize an event, especially a party.
To put on hastily; to spread carelessly.
To twist two or more filaments of (silk, etc.) so as to form one thread; to twist together, as singles, in a direction contrary to the twist of the singles themselves; sometimes applied to the whole class of operations by which silk is prepared for the weaver.
tihwa
walth
warth
warth
noun
(UK, dialect) A ford.
watch
watch
noun
(nautical) A group of sailors and officers aboard a ship or shore station with a common period of duty: starboard watch, port watch.
(nautical) A period of time on duty, usually four hours in length; the officers and crew who tend the working of a vessel during the same watch. (FM 55–501).
A particular time period when guarding is kept.
A period of wakefulness between the two sleeps of a biphasic sleep pattern (the dead sleep or first sleep and morning sleep or second sleep): the first waking.
A person or group of people who guard.
A portable or wearable timepiece.
The act of guarding and observing someone or something.
The act of seeing, or viewing, for a period of time.
The post or office of a watchman; also, the place where a watchman is posted, or where a guard is kept.
verb
(intransitive) To act as a lookout.
(intransitive) To be vigilant or on one's guard.
(intransitive) To remain awake with a sick or dying person; to maintain a vigil.
(nautical, of a buoy) To serve the purpose of a watchman by floating properly in its place.
(obsolete, intransitive) To be awake.
(transitive) To attend to dangers to or regarding.
(transitive) To be wary or cautious of.
(transitive) To mind, attend, or guard.
(transitive) To observe over a period of time; to notice or pay attention.
(transitive, intransitive) To look at, see, or view for a period of time.
(transitive, obsolete) To be on the lookout for; to wait for expectantly.
watha
watha
Proper noun
A town in North Carolina.
wecht
wecht
noun
(Scotland) A form of sieve used to winnow grain; the weight of its contents.
verb
(Scotland) To winnow grain using such a device.
whart
whata
whatd
whats
whats
noun
plural of what; used as a stand-in to collectively pluralize arbitrary instances of things. Often used along with whys, hows, etc.
wheat
wheat
adj
Wheaten, of a light brown colour, like that of wheat.
noun
(countable) Any of several cereal grains, of the genus Triticum, that yields flour as used in bakery.
(uncountable) A light brown colour, like that of wheat.
wheft
wheft
noun
(nautical) A waft (flag used to indicate wind direction or, with a knot tied in the center, as a signal)
whets
whets
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of whet
whewt
whift
whipt
whipt
verb
(archaic) simple past tense and past participle of whip
whist
whist
adj
(rare) Silent, hushed.
intj
Alternative spelling of whisht. Silence!, quiet!, hush!, shhh!, shush!
noun
A session of playing this card game.
Any of several four-player card games, similar to bridge.
verb
(intransitive, rare) To become silent.
(transitive, rare) To hush, shush, or whisht; to still.
white
white
adj
(archaic) Characterized by freedom from that which disturbs, and the like; fortunate; happy; favourable.
(board games, chess) The standard denomination of the playing pieces of a board game deemed to belong to the white set, no matter what the actual colour.
(chiefly historical) Designated for use by Caucasians.
(obsolete) Regarded with especial favour; favourite; darling.
(of a person or skin) Lacking coloration (tan) from ultraviolet light; not tanned.
(of a set of armor) Alwhite, pertaining to white armor.
(of an animal) Affected by leucism.
(of coffee or tea) Containing cream, milk, or creamer.
(of tea) Made from immature leaves and shoots.
(politics) Pertaining to constitutional or anti-revolutionary political parties or movements.
(sometimes capitalized) Of or relating to Caucasians, people of European descent with light-coloured skin.
(typography) Not containing characters; see white space.
(typography) Said of a symbol or character outline, not solid, not filled with color. Compare black (“said of a character or symbol filled with color”).
Bright and colourless; reflecting equal quantities of all frequencies of visible light.
Characterised by the presence of snow.
Grey, as from old age; having silvery hair; hoary.
Honourable, fair; decent.
Pale or pallid, as from fear, illness, etc.
Pertaining to an ecclesiastical order whose adherents dress in white habits; Cistercian.
Relatively light or pale in colour.
noun
(anatomy) The sclera, white of the eye.
(archery) The central part of the butt, which was formerly painted white; the centre of a mark at which a missile is shot.
(countable and uncountable) White coffee
(countable and uncountable) White wine.
(slang, US, UK) Cocaine
(sports, billiards, snooker, pool) The cue ball in cue games.
A feather, from the wing of the cock ostrich, that is of the palest possible shade.
A person of European descent with light-coloured skin.
A white bean
A white pigment.
Any butterfly of the subfamily Pierinae in the family Pieridae.
The albumen of bird eggs (egg white).
The color/colour of snow or milk; the colour of light containing equal amounts of all visible wavelengths.
The enclosed part of a letter of the alphabet, especially when handwritten.
The snow- or ice-covered "green" in snow golf.
verb
(transitive) To make white; to whiten; to bleach.
whits
whits
noun
plural of whit
whitt
whity
whity
adj
Close to white in colour.
noun
Alternative spelling of whitey
whoot
whoot
verb
(obsolete) To hoot.
whort
whort
noun
(botany) The whortleberry, or bilberry.
whute
whyte
whyte
adj
(obsolete, revived on the internet) Alternative spelling of white
wicht
width
width
noun
(cricket) The horizontal distance between a batsman and the ball as it passes him.
(sports) The use of all the width of the pitch, from one side to the other.
A piece of material measured along its smaller dimension, especially fabric.
The measurement of the extent of something from side to side.
The state of being wide.
wight
wight
adj
(UK dialectal, obsolete) Strong; stout; active.
(archaic, except in dialects) Brave, valorous, strong.
noun
(archaic) A living creature, especially a human being.
(fantasy) A wraith-like creature.
(paganism) A being of one of the Nine Worlds of Heathen belief, especially a nature spirit, elf or ancestor.
(poetic) A ghost, deity or other supernatural entity.
wirth
wisht
wisht
adj
(West Country, Cornwall, Devon) Sickly, weak.
verb
(obsolete) simple past tense and past participle of wish
witch
witch
noun
(figurative, derogatory) An ugly or unpleasant woman.
(geometry) A certain curve of the third order, described by Maria Agnesi under the name versiera.
(now usually particularly) A woman who is learned in and actively practices witchcraft.
A cone of paper which is placed in a vessel of lard or other fat and used as a taper.
A person who practices witchcraft.
Arnoglossus scapha, found near New Zealand.
Glyptocephalus cynoglossus (Torbay sole), found in the North Atlantic.
Lepidorhombus whiffiagonis (megrim), found in the North Atlantic.
One given to mischief, especially a woman or child.
One who exercises more-than-common power of attraction; a charming or bewitching person.
The Indomalayan butterfly Araotes lapithis, of the family Lycaenidae.
The storm petrel.
verb
(intransitive) To dowse for water.
(obsolete, intransitive) To practise witchcraft.
(transitive) To bewitch.
witha
withe
withe
noun
(architecture) A partition between flues in a chimney.
(nautical) An iron attachment on one end of a mast or boom, with a ring, through which another mast or boom is rigged out and secured.
A band of twisted twigs.
A flexible, slender twig or shoot, especially when used as a band or for binding; a withy.
An elastic handle to a tool to save the hand from the shock of blows.
verb
To beat with withes.
To bind with withes.
withy
withy
adj
(archaic) Flexible, like a withe.
noun
A long flexible twig of the osier; a withe.
The osier (Salix viminalis), a type of willow.
worth
worth
adj
(obsolete, except in Scots) Valuable, worthwhile.
Deserving of.
Having a value of; proper to be exchanged for.
Making a fair equivalent of, repaying or compensating.
noun
(countable) Value.
(uncountable) An amount that could be achieved or produced in a specified time.