WOULDINGNESS
Would"ing*ness, n.
Defn: Willingness; desire. [Obs.]
WOULFE BOTTLE
Woulfe" bot`tle, n. (Chem.)
Defn: A kind of wash bottle with two or three necks; — so called after the inventor, Peter Woulfe, an English chemist.
WOUND
Wound,
Defn: imp. & p. p. of Wind to twist, and Wind to sound by blowing.
WOUND
Wound, n. Etym: [OE. wounde, wunde, AS. wund; akin to OFries. wunde,
OS. wunda, D. wonde, OHG. wunta, G. wunde, Icel. und, and to AS.,
OS., & G. wund sore, wounded, OHG. wunt, Goth. wunds, and perhaps
also to Goth. winnan to suffer, E. win. *140. Cf. Zounds.]
1. A hurt or injury caused by violence; specifically, a breach of the skin and flesh of an animal, or in the substance of any creature or living thing; a cut, stab, rent, or the like. Chaucer. Showers of blood Rained from the wounds of slaughtered Englishmen. Shak.
2. Fig.: An injury, hurt, damage, detriment, or the like, to feeling, faculty, reputation, etc.
3. (Criminal Law)