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.