*Water-sparrow. Salicaria phragmitis, the Sedge Warbler. Cp. Brook-sparrow.—S.W. (Deverill.)
Whinnock. To whimper.—N.W.
Whinnocky. A whinnocky child is one that is always ailing and whimpering.—N.W. (Clyffe Pypard.)
White-livered. Add:—S.W. (Deverill.)
Winter-stuff. Winter-greens.—N.W.
*Witch-hazel. Ulmus montana, Sm.
'In Yorkshire is plenty of trees, which they call elmes; but they are wich-hazells, as we call them in Wilts.'—Aubrey's Nat. Hist. Wilts, p. 54, ed. Brit.
Wrastle. Add:—Measles, for instance, 'wrastles' all over the face very quickly.
*Zwail. To shake about: to swing the arms.—S.W. (Deverill, &c.)