Word Meanings - WADING - Book Publishers vocabulary database
a. & n. from Wade, v. Wading bird. See Wader, 2.
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- WADDYWOOD
An Australian tree ; also, its wood, used in making waddies. - WADMOL
A coarse, hairy, woolen cloth, formerly used for garments by - WADDIE
See WADDY - WADER
Any long-legged bird that wades in the water in search of food, especially any species of limicoline or grallatorial birds; -- called also wading bird. See Illust. g, under Aves. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, wades. - WADDLE
To walk with short steps, swaying the body from one side to the other, like a duck or very fat person; to move clumsily and totteringly along; to toddle; to stumble; as, a child waddles when he begins to walk; a goose waddles. Shak. She drawls her - WAD
Woad. - WADING
a. & n. from Wade, v. Wading bird. See Wader, 2. - WADDLINGLY
In a waddling manner. - WADSET
A kind of pledge or mortgage. - WAD; WADD
An earthy oxide of manganese, or mixture of different oxides and water, with some oxide of iron, and often silica, alumina, lime, or baryta; black ocher. There are several varieties. Plumbago, or black lead. - WADDING
1. A wad, or the materials for wads; any pliable substance of which wads may be made. 2. Any soft stuff of loose texture, used for stuffing or padding garments; esp., sheets of carded cotton prepared for the purpose. - WADY
A ravine through which a brook flows; the channel of a water course, which is dry except in the rainy season. - WADE
Woad. Mortimer. - WADDY
1. An aboriginal war club. 2. A piece of wood; stick; peg; also, a walking stick. - WADSETTER
One who holds by a wadset. - WADDLER
One who, or that which, waddles. - SWADDLE
Anything used to swaddle with, as a cloth or band; a swaddling band. They put me in bed in all my swaddles. Addison. - HOWADJI
1. A traveler. 2. A merchant; -- so called in the East because merchants were formerly the chief travelers. - TWADDY
Idle trifling; twaddle. - SWADDLER
A term of contempt for an Irish Methodist. Shipley. - NOWADAYS
In these days; at the present time. What men of spirit, nowadays, Come to give sober judgment of new plays Garrick. - SWADDLEBILL
The shoveler. - TWADDLE
To talk a weak and silly manner, like one whose faculties are decayed; to prate; to prattle. Stanyhurst. - TWADDELL; TWADDELL'S HYDROMETER
A form of hydrometer for liquids heavier than water, graduated with an arbitrary scale such that the readings when multiplied by .005 and added to unity give the specific gravity. - UNSWADDLE
To take a swaddle from; to unswathe.