wateriness, n. aquosity.

waterless, a. anhydrous.

water-lily, n. Nymphae.

waterman, n. ferryman, boatman.

water-nymph, n. Naiad, hydriad.

water on the brain. hydrocephalus.

water on the chest. hydrothorax.

water plant. aquatic, hydrophyte. Associated Word: hydrophytology.

water-pox, n. varicella, swine-pox.

water-qualm, n. water brash, pyrosis.

watershed, n. divide.

water sports. aquatics.

water wheel. tympanum, turbine.

watery, a. aqueous; ichorous, serous, sanious.

watery discharge. hydrorrhea.

wattle, n. gill, caruncle.

wave, n. undulation, surge, eagre, bore, swell, billow, breaker;
ripple; whitecap; signal, flourish; swelling, excitement, tide.
Associated Words: rote, trough, rut, crest.

wave, v. undulate, float, flutter; flourish, brandish; beckon,
signal.

waver, v. vacillate, fluctuate, veer, oscillate, hesitate.

wavering, a. vacillating, fluctuating, oscillating, unstable,
irresolute, uncertain.

wavering, n. vacillation, fluctuation, indecision, irresolution,
oscillation, hesitancy.

wavy, a. undulatory, undulating, undulated.

wax, n. beeswax; spermaceti; adipocere (grave wax); ozocerite,
mineral wax. Associated words: cerography, ceroplastics, ceroplasty,
cerograph, cerographist, cerotic, ceromancy, cerate, encaustic, ceroma,
inceration, cerotene, incerative, cerographic, ceroplastic, cetin.

wax, v. cere; increase, grow, develop, become larger.

waxy, a. waxen, ceraceous, ceral; facile, pliable, fictile,
impressible, plastic.

way, n. manner, method, mode, fashion, style, guise, custom,
habitude, wont, practice; distance, interval, space; passage, transit,
progression, advance; means, device, expedient, contrivance; direction;
road, track, path, thoroughfare.

wayfarer, n. traveler, pilgrim, passenger, wanderer.

wayfaring, a. traveling, passing.

way in. entrance.

waylay, v. ambush.

way out. exit, egress.

wayward, a. disobedient, perverse, froward, willful, intractable,
headstrong.

waywiser, n. odometer, pedometer, perambulator.

weak, a. feeble, infirm, debilitated, weakly, fragile, delicate,
invalid, emasculated, enervated; vulnerable, assailable, unguarded,
unprotected, exposed; frail, pliant, tender; peccable, fallible, errable,
erring, indiscreet; impotent, ineffectual, inefficacious, ineffective;
illogical, unsustained, inconclusive, lame, unsatisfactory; vacillating,
irresolute, wavering, unstable; diluted, thin, insipid, vapid; s