WAMBLE-CROPPED
Wam"ble-cropped`, a.
Defn: Sick at the stomach; also, crestfallen; dejected. [Slang]
WAMMEL
Wam"mel, v. i.
Defn: To move irregularly or awkwardly; to wamble, or wabble. [Prov.
Eng.]
WAMP
Wamp, n. Etym: [From the North American Indian name.] (Zoöl.)
Defn: The common American eider.
WAMPEE Wam*pee", n. (Bot.) (a) A tree (Cookia punctata) of the Orange family, growing in China and the East Indies; also, its fruit, which is about the size of a large grape, and has a hard rind and a peculiar flavor. (b) The pickerel weed. [Southern U.S.]
WAMPUM
Wam"pum, n. Etym: [North American Indian wampum, wompam, from the
Mass. wómpi, Del. wape, white.]
Defn: Beads made of shells, used by the North American Indians as
money, and also wrought into belts, etc., as an ornament.
Round his waist his belt of wampum. Longfellow.
Girded with his wampum braid. Whittier.
Note: These beads were of two kinds, one white, and the other black or dark purple. The term wampum is properly applied only to the white; the dark purple ones are called suckanhock. See Seawan. "It [wampum] consisted of cylindrical pieces of the shells of testaceous fishes, a quarter of an inch long, and in diameter less than a pipestem, drilled . . . so as to be strung upon a thread. The beads of a white color, rated at half the value of the black or violet, passed each as the equivalent of a farthing in transactions between the natives and the planters." Palfrey.