WAFT to wave, beckon To turn

WAFTAGE passage

WAFTURE waving, beckoning

WAGE to reward as with wages

WAILFUL lamentable

WAIST the middle of a ship

WANNION 'with a vengeance.'

WAPPENED withered, overworn

WARD guard Prison

WARDEN a large pear used for baking

WARDER truncheon

WARN to summon

WASSAIL a drinking bout Festivity

WAT a familiar word for a hare

WATCH a watch light

WATCH to tame by keeping constantly awake

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 give a jointure to

WIDOWHOOD widow's jointure

WIGHT person

WILD weald

WILDERNESS wildness

WIMPLED veiled, hooded

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

WINDRING winding

WINTER-GROUND to protect (a plant) from frost

WIS in the compound 'I wis,' certainly

WISH to commend

WISTLY wistfully

WIT knowledge, wisdom

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

WOODMAN a forester, huntsman A cant term for a wencher

WOOLWARD shirtless

WORD to flatter or put off with words To repeat the words of a song

WORLD 'To go to the world' is to get married So 'a woman of the world' is a married woman

WORM a serpent

WORSER worse

WORSHIP to honour

WORTH wealth, fortune

WORTS cabbages

WOT to know

WOUND twisted about

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