Woe - WO, n. [G.]
1. Grief; sorrow; misery; a heavy calamity.
One who is past; and behold, there come two woes more hereafter. Revelations 9.
They weep each others wo.
2. A curse.
Can there be a wo or curse in all the stores of vengeance, equal to the malignity of such a practice?
3. Wo is used in denunciation, and in exclamations of sorrow.
Wo is me; for I am undone. Isa 6.
This is properly the Saxon dative, wo is to me.
Wo worth the day. This is also the dative; wo be to the day.
Wo is a noun, and if used as an adjective, it is improperly used. Wo to you that are rich. Wo to that man, by whom the offense cometh; that is, misery, calamity, be or will be to him.
Wont - WONT, a contraction of woll not, that is, will not.
WONT, a. [wont is strictly the participle passive of won, wone. G. See the Verb.] Accustomed; habituated; using or doing customarily.
If the ox were wont to push with his horn-- Exo 21.
They were wont to speak in old time, saying-- 2 Sam 20. Mat 27. Luke 22:39.
WONT, n. Custom; habit; use.
WONT, v.i. To be accustomed or habituated; to be used.
A yearly solemn feast she wont to make.
Wherewith he wont to soar s high.
Work - WORK, v.i. [G., Gr.]
1. In a general sense, to move, or to move one way and the other; to perform; as in popular language it is said, a mill or machine works well.
2. To labor; to be occupied in performing manual labor, whether severe or moderate. One man works better than another; one man works hare; another works lazily.
3. To be in action or motion; as the working of the heart.
4. To act; to carry on operations.
Our better part remains to work in close design.
5. To operate; to carry on business; to be customarily engaged or employed in. Some work in the mines, others in the loom, others at the anvil.
They that work in fine flax. Isa 19.
6. To ferment; as, unfermented liquors work violently in hot weather.
7. To operate; to produce effects by action or influence.
All things work together for good to them that love God. Rom 8.
This so wrought upon the child, that afterwards he desired to be taught.
8. To obtain by diligence. [Little used.]
9. To act or operate on the stomach and bowels; as a cathartic.
10. To labor; to strain; to move heavily; as, a ship works in a tempest.
11. To be tossed or agitated.
Confusd with working sands and rolling waves.
12. To enter by working; as, to work into the earth.
To work on, to act on; to influence.
To work up, to make way.
Body shall up to spirit work.
To work tot windward, among seamen, to sail or ply against the wind; to beat.
WORK, v.t.
1. To move; to stir and mix; as, to work mortar.
2. To form by labor; to mold, shape or manufacture; as, to work wood or iron into a form desired, or into an utensil; to work cotton or wool into cloth.
3. To bring into any state by action. A foul stream, or new wine or cider, works itself clear.
4. To influence by acting upon; to manage; to lead.
An work your royal father to his ruin.
5. To make by action, labor or violence. A stream works a passage or a new channel.
Sidelong he works his way.
6. To produce by action, labor or exertion.
We might work any effect--only by the unity of nature.
Each herb he knew, that works or good or ill.
7. To embroider; as, to work muslin.
8. To direct the movements of, by adapting the sails to the wind; as, to work a ship.
9. To put to labor; to exert.
Work every nerve.
10. To cause to ferment, as liquor.
To work out,
1. To effect by labor and exertion.
Work out your own salvation with fear and trembling. Phil 2.
2. To expend in any work, as materials. They have worked up all the stock.
To work double tides, in the language of seamen, to perform the labor of three days in two; a phrase taken from the practice of working by the night tide as well as by the day.
To work into, to make way, or to insinuate; as, to work ones self into favor or confidence.
To work a passage, among seamen, to pay for a passage by doing duty on board of the ship.
WORK, n. [G., Gr.]
1. Labor; employment; exertion of strength; particularly in man, manual labor.
2. State of labor; as, to be at work.
3. Awkward performance. What work you make!
4. That which is made or done; as good work, or bad work.
5. Embroidery; flowers or figures wrought with the needle.
6. Any fabric or manufacture
7. The matter on which one is at work. In rising she dropped her work.
8. Action; deed; feat; achievement; as the works of bloody Mars.
9. Operation.
As to the composition or dissolution of mixed bodies, which is the chief work of elements--
10. Effect; that which proceeds from agency.
Fancy wild work produces oft, and most in dreams.
11. Management; treatment.
12. That which is produced by mental labor; a composition; a book; as the works of Addison.
13. Works, in the plural, walls, trenches and the like, made for fortifications.
14. In theology, moral duties or external performances, as distinct from grace.
To set to work, To set on work, to employ; to engage in any business.
Wound -
WOUND, n. [G.]
1. A breach of the skin and flesh of an animal, or of the bark and wood of a tree, or of the bark and substance of other plants, caused by violence or external force. The self-healing power of living beings, animal or vegetable, by which the parts separated in wounds, tend to unite and become sound, is a remarkable proof of divine benevolence and wisdom.
2. Injury; hurt; as a wound given to credit or reputation.
WOUND, v.t. To hurt by violence; as, to wound the head or the arm; to wound a tree.
He was wounded for our transgressions. Isa 53.
WOUND, pret. and pp. of wind.
Wrong - WRONG, a. Literally wrung, twisted or turned from a straight line or even surface. Hence,
1. Not physically right; not fit or suitable; as the wrong side of a garment. You hold the book the wrong end uppermost. There may be something wrong in the construction of a watch or an edifice.
2. Not morally right; that deviates from the line of rectitude prescribed by God; not just or equitable; not right or proper;
not legal; erroneous; as a wrong practice; wrong ideas; a wrong course of life; wrong measures; wrong inclinations and desires; a wrong application of talents; wrong judgment. Hab 1.
3. Erroneous; not according to truth; as a wrong statement.
WRONG, n. Whatever deviates from moral rectitude; any injury done to another; a trespass; a violation of right. Wrongs are private or public. Private wrongs are civil injuries, immediately affecting individuals; public wrongs are crimes and misdemeanors which affect the community.
Sarai said to Abraham, my wrong be on thee. Gen 16.
Friend, I do thee no wrong. Mat 20.
The obligation to redress a wrong, is at least as binding as that of paying a debt.
WRONG, adv. Not rightly; amiss; morally ill; erroneously.
Ten censure wrong for one that writes amiss.
WRONG, v.t.
1. To injure; to treat with injustice; to deprive of some right, or to withhold some act of justice from. We wrong a man, when we defraud him, and when we trespass on his property. We wrong a man, when we neglect to pay him his due. Phile 18.
2. To do injustice to by imputation; to impute evil unjustly. If you suppose me capable of a base act, you wrong me.