Wykehamist, wik′am-ist, n. a student, or former student, of Winchester College, founded by William of Wykeham, Bishop of Winchester (died 1404).
Wylie-coat, wī′li-kōt, n. (Scot.) a flannel undervest or petticoat.
Wynd, wīnd, n. (Scot.) a lane: narrow alley in a town. [Same as Wind (2).]
Wyvern, wī′vrn, n. (her.) a fictitious monster allied to the dragon and the griffin, and having its two legs and feet like those of the eagle. [O. Fr. wivre, a viper—L. vipera.]
the twenty-fourth letter in our alphabet, having in modern English the value of ks, which it had in Anglo-Saxon—except at the beginning of a word, where it is pronounced like z. As a numeral X stands for ten,
Xantheine, zan′the-in, n. the yellow colouring matter of flowers. [From Gr. xanthos, yellow.]
Xanthian, zan′thi-an, adj. pertaining to Xanthus, the capital of ancient Lycia, in Asia Minor.