Westlock (John), a quondam pupil of Mr. Pecksniff (“architect and land surveyor”). John Westlock marries Ruth, the sister of Tom Pinch.--C. Dickens, Martin Chuzzlewit (1843).
Westmoreland, according to fable, is West-Mar-land. Mar or Marius, son of Arvirăgus, was king of the British, and overthrew Rodric, the Scythian, in the north-west of England, where he set up a stone with an inscription of this victory, “both of which remain to this day.”--Geoffrey, British History, iv. 17 (1142).
Westward Hoe, a comedy by Thomas Dekker (1607). The Rev. Charles Kingsley published a novel in 1854, entitled Westward Ho! or The Voyages and Adventures of Sir Amyas Leigh in the Reign of Queen Elizabeth. (See Eastward Hoe.)
Wetheral (Stephen), surnamed “Stephen Steelheart,” in the troop of Lord Waldemar Fitzurse (a baron following Prince John).--Sir W. Scott, Ivanhoe (time, Richard I.).
Wetherell (Elizabeth), Miss Susan Warner, authoress of The Wide, Wide World (1852), Queechy (1853), etc.
Wetzweiler (Tid), or Le Glorieux, the court jester of Charles, “The Bold,” duke of Burgundy.--Sir W. Scott, Quentin Durward (time, Edward IV.).
Whachum, journeyman to Sidrophel. He was Richard Green, who published a pamphlet of base ribaldry, called Hudibras in a Snare (1667).
A paltry wretch he had, half-starved,
That him in place of zany served,
Hight Whachum.