Any one of numerous species of snout beetles, or Rhynchophora, in which the head is elongated and usually curved downward. Many of the species are very injurious to cultivated plants. The larvae of some of the species live in nuts, fruit, and grain by eating out the interior, as the plum weevil, or curculio, the nut weevils, and the grain weevil (see under Plum, Nut, and Grain). The larvae of other species bore under the bark and into the pith of trees and various other plants, as the pine weevils (see under Pine). See also Pea weevil, Rice weevil, Seed weevil, under Pea, Rice, and Seed.

Infested by weevils; as, weeviled grain.

Having weevils; weeviled.

See Weasel.

imp. & p. p. of Wave.

A thing waved, waived, or cast away; a waif.

The woof of cloth; the threads that cross the warp from selvage to selvage; the thread carried by the shuttle in weaving.

A web; a thing woven.

Texture.

Excessive use of the pronoun we; -- called also weism.

Alt. of Wehrgelt

See Weregild.

See Werewolf.

Alt. of Weigelia

A hardy garden shrub (Diervilla Japonica) belonging to the Honeysuckle family, with white or red flowers. It was introduced from China.

A corruption of Way, used only in the phrase under weigh.

of Weigh

of Weigh

To bear up; to raise; to lift into the air; to swing up; as, to weigh anchor.

To examine by the balance; to ascertain the weight of, that is, the force with which a thing tends to the center of the earth; to determine the heaviness, or quantity of matter of; as, to weigh sugar; to weigh gold.

To be equivalent to in weight; to counterbalance; to have the heaviness of.

To pay, allot, take, or give by weight.

To examine or test as if by the balance; to ponder in the mind; to consider or examine for the purpose of forming an opinion or coming to a conclusion; to estimate deliberately and maturely; to balance.

To consider as worthy of notice; to regard.

To have weight; to be heavy.

To be considered as important; to have weight in the intellectual balance.

To bear heavily; to press hard.

To judge; to estimate.

A certain quantity estimated by weight; an English measure of weight. See Wey.

Capable of being weighed.