waly, wallie, wally, II, 363, 1, line 1; IV, 109 f., 5, 8; 293, A 1, 2, 7, 9 (oh and a waly); V, [195], 8; [197], 9, 10, 11: exclamation of admiration. O braw wallie, IV, 296, F 1: literally, O good, lucky! or, O good luck! but, as before, an exclamation of admiration.
waly, wally, II, 363, 1, line 3; IV, 92, 1, 3; 94, 1; 95, 1, etc.: interjection of lamentation (probably A. S. wá lá!). the wally o’t, IV, 290, D b 1: sorrow, pity of it! waly’s my love! V, [208], 1, 2, etc.
wamb(e), wame, II, 130, 2; 183, 24; 189, 27; 195, 33; III, 437, 23: womb. See weam.
wan, one.
wan, dark-colored, pallid, colorless, white. II, 92, 3, 4, 9; 97, 11; 144, 13; 147, 10; 150, 14: dark-colored. II, 74, E 6; 79, 28; 185, 33; 187, 16; 399, 2: pallid. wan water (as contrasted with wine), II, 70, 17; 74, D 7; 75, 10; 92, 4; 96, J 7, 8: colorless. far got ye that water that washes ye so wan, II, 191, 23: white (ye wad never be so white, 24).
wan, wane, pret. of win, I, 73, 53; II, 21, 4; 123, 22; III, 474, 32; IV, 180, 7. he wan free, V, [300], 11: got free.
wan, p. p. of win, IV, 385, 26.
wand, II, 146, 13; 147, 14; 150, E 9; 151, G 4: of (willow) twigs, staff made of the wand, II, 118, 22 (very nearly verbiage): made of a rod.
wane, I, 334, 7; III, 63, 148: habitation. in my bower there is a wane, IV, 446, 5: wane, says Jamieson, denotes not only a dwelling (Old Eng. wone), but “different apartments in the same habitation;” if so, in my house there is a room, is the sense here. wan, in the wake there is a wan, IV, 447, 5: should at least be, in the wane there is a wake, as the rhyme shows, and as we have at 446, 5. In, at the wake there is a wane, I, 107, 5, wane was meant by Scott to be understood as a collection of people (wheen). See wake.
wane, III, 309, 36: “quantity, multitude; a single arrow out of a vast quantity.” Skeat (quantity as in Chaucer’s wone, see wheen). This is to me quite unsatisfactory, but I have no better interpretation to offer. Wain, in the sense of a vehicle for a missile, ballista, catapult, would be what is wanted, but I have not succeeded in finding a case.