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WATER - consumable liquid; tears; the lustre of a diamond

WATER-FLY - fly that hovers over water; idle person

WATER-GALL - a secondary rainbow

WATER-RUG - a kind of dog

WATER-WORK - painting in distemper

WAX - to grow

WAXEN - perhaps, to hiccough

WEALTH - weal, advantage

WEAR - fashion

WEATHER-FEND - to defend from the weather

WEB AND PIN - the cataract in the eye

WEE - small, tiny

WEE - to think

WEED - garment

WEET - to wit, know

WEIGH OUT - to outweigh

WELKIN - the sky

WELKIN - sky-blue

WELL-LIKING - in good condition

WELL SAID - int well done!

WEND - to go

WESAND - the wind-pipe

WHELK - a weal

WHELKED - marked with whelks or protuberances

WHEN - an exclamation of impatience

WHEN AS - when

WHERE - whereas

WHERE - a place

WHIFFLER - an officer who clears the way in processions

WHILE-ERE - a little while ago

WHILES - until

WHIP-STOCK - handle of a whip

WHIST - hushed, silent

WHITE - the centre of an archery butt

WHITELY - pale-faced A doubtful word

WHITING-TIME - bleaching time

WHITSTER - bleacher

WHITTLE - a clasp knife

WHOO-BUB - hubbub

WHOOP - to cry out with astonishment

WICKED - noisome, baneful

WIDOW - to settle a jointure upon; to become a widow

WIDOWHOOD - the estate belonging to a widow

WIGHT - man, person

WILD - weald

WILDERNESS - wildness

WIMPLED - veiled, blindfolded

WINDOW-BARS - lattice-work across a woman's bodice

WINDRING - winding

WINTER-GROUND - to protect (a plant) from frost

WIS - 'I'

WISH - to commend

WISTLY - wistfully

WIT - knowledge, wisdom; sound judgement

WITHOUT - beyond

WITS - five, the five senses

WITTOL - a contented cuckold

WITTY - intelligent

WOMAN-TIRED - hen-pecked

WONDERED - marvellously gifted

WOOD - mad

WOODCOCK - a simpleton, fool

WOODMAN - a hunter

WOOLWARD - shirtless

WORD - to flatter or put off with words

WORLD - life, condition of existence; 'to go to the world' is to get married

WORM - a serpent

WORSER - worse

WORSHIP - to honour

WORTH - wealth, fortune

WORTS - cabbages

WOT - to know

WOUND - entwined

WREAK - vengeance

WREAK - to avenge

WREAKFUL - revengeful, avenging

WREST - an instrument used for tuning a harp

WRIT - gospel, truth

WRITHLED - shrivelled

WROTH - calamity, misfortune

WRUNG - twisted, strained

WRY - to swerve

WRY-NECK'D - head awkwardly turned sideways

X

XANTHIPPE Socrate's scolding wife

Y

YARE - ready, nimble, brisk

YARELY - adv readily

YAW - unsteady

YCLAD - clad, clothed

YCLEPED - called, named

YCLIPPED - do

YE – you

YEARN - to grieve, vex

YEDWARD - a form of "Edward"

YELLOWNESS - jealousy

YELLOWS - jaundice in horses

YEOMAN - a sheriff's officer

YERK - to thrust or push

YEST - foam on disturbed water

YESTY - foamy; frothy

YEW - a tree frequently planted in churchyards The wood is poisonous

YIELD - to bring forth; to reward

YORE - once upon a time

YOKE - pair of oxen; to be combined, coupled

YOND - yonder

YOUNKER - novice

YRAVISH - to ravish

YSLAKED - to silence; to renender inactive

Z

ZANY - a buffoon who imitates fools and jesters

ZEAL - zeal of

ZENITH - highest point of one's fortune

ZODIAC - used for "year"

ZONE - path of the sun (see Hamlet Vi304)

ZOUNDS - God's wounds (Swounds)

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