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Wedge
v. t.
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To cleave or separate with a wedge or wedges, or as with a wedge; to rive.
Wedge
v. t.
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To force or drive as a wedge is driven.
Wedge
v. t.
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To force by crowding and pushing as a wedge does; as, to wedge one's way.
Wedge
v. t.
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To press closely; to fix, or make fast, in the manner of a wedge that is driven into something.
Wedge
v. t.
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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.
Wedge
v. t.
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To cut, as clay, into wedgelike masses, and work by dashing together, in order to expel air bubbles, etc.
Wedgebill
n.
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An Australian crested insessorial bird (Sphenostoma cristatum) having a wedge-shaped bill. Its color is dull brown, like the earth of the plains where it lives.
Wedge-formed
a.
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Having the form of a wedge; cuneiform.
Wedge-shaped
a.
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Having the shape of a wedge; cuneiform.
Wedge-shaped
a.
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Broad and truncate at the summit, and tapering down to the base; as, a wedge-shaped leaf.
Wedge-shell
n.
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Any one of numerous species of small marine bivalves belonging to Donax and allied genera in which the shell is wedge-shaped.
Wedge-tailed
a.
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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.
Wedgewise
adv.
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In the manner of a wedge.
Wedgwood ware
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A kind of fine pottery, the most remarkable being what is called jasper, either white, or colored throughout the body, and capable of being molded into the most delicate forms, so that fine and minute bas-reliefs like cameos were made of it, fit even for being set as jewels.
Wedgy
a.
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Like a wedge; wedge-shaped.
Wedlock
v. i.
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The ceremony, or the state, of marriage; matrimony.
Wedlock
v. i.
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A wife; a married woman.
Wedlock
v. t.
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To marry; to unite in marriage; to wed.
Wednesday
a.
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The fourth day of the week; the next day after Tuesday.
Wee
n.
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A little; a bit, as of space, time, or distance.
Wee
a.
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Very small; little.
Weech-elm
n.
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The wych-elm.
Weed
n.
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A garment; clothing; especially, an upper or outer garment.
Weed
n.
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An article of dress worn in token of grief; a mourning garment or badge; as, he wore a weed on his hat; especially, in the plural, mourning garb, as of a woman; as, a widow's weeds.
Weed
n.
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A sudden illness or relapse, often attended with fever, which attacks women in childbed.
Weed
n.
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Underbrush; low shrubs.
Weed
n.
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Any plant growing in cultivated ground to the injury of the crop or desired vegetation, or to the disfigurement of the place; an unsightly, useless, or injurious plant.
Weed
n.
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Fig.: Something unprofitable or troublesome; anything useless.
Weed
n.
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An animal unfit to breed from.
Weed
n.
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Tobacco, or a cigar.