Defn: Wide. [Obs.] Chaucer.

WYE
Wye, n.; pl. Wyes (.

1. The letter Y.

2. A kind of crotch. See Y, n. (a).

WYKE
Wyke, n.

Defn: Week. [Obs.] Chaucer.

WYLA
Wy"la, n. (Zoöl.)

Defn: A helmeted Australian cockatoo (Calyptorhynchus funereus); — called also funeral cockatoo.

WYN; WYNN; WEN
Wyn, Wynn, n. Also Wen. [AS. wen.]

Defn: One of the runes adopted into the Anglo-Saxon, or Old English, alphabet. It had the value of modern English w, and was replaced from about a. d. 1280 at first by uu, later by w.