*Wild Willow. Epilobium hirsutum, L., Great Hairy Willow-herb (Great Estate, ch. ii).
Will-jill. An impotent person or hermaphrodite.—N.W. Compare Wilgil and John-and-Joan in Hal.
*Willow-wind. (1) Convolvulus, Bindweed (Great Estate, ch. viii). (2) Polygonum Fagopyrum, L., Buckwheat (Ibid.).
Wiltshire Weed, The. The Common Elm. See notice in Athenaeum, 1873, of Jefferies' Goddard Memoir, also Wilts Arch. Mag. vol. x. p. 160. This is a term frequently occurring in books and articles on Wilts, but it would not be understood by the ordinary Wiltshire folk.
Wim. To winnow.—S.W.
Wind-mow. A cock of a waggon-load or more, into which hay is sometimes put temporarily in catchy weather (D.), containing about 15 cwt. in N. Wilts, and a ton elsewhere.—N. & S.W.
Wing-wang. See Wag-wants.
Winter-proud. Of wheat, too rank (D.), as is frequently the case after a mild winter. See Proud.—N.W.
Wirral, Worral, or Wurral. Ballota nigra, L., Black Horehound.—S.W. (Som. bord.)