Wattle, s. The barbs, or loose red flesh that hangs below the cock’s bill; a hurdle.
Wax, s. The thick tenacious matter gathered by the bees; any tenacious mass, such as is used to fasten letters; the substance that exudes from the ear.
In this country, one hundred pounds of honey-comb will yield from three to five or six pounds of wax; in some of the southern countries nearly double that quantity. Transparent white honey is to be preferred to the higher coloured; new to old, and that of the spring to the summer or autumnal honey.
The wax being crumbled or pressed, must be boiled in water, and then strained from bags into a tub of water. The water being strained when the wax is cold, it may be collected, boiled, and when cool, will be found in a cake on the surface. It is refined by repeated boilings in fair water.—Moubray.
Wax, v. To smear, to join with wax.
Weald, s. A wood, a grove. Old Saxon.
Wean, v. To put from the breast; to withdraw from any habit or desire.
Weanling, s. An animal newly weaned.
Weasand, s. The windpipe, the passage through which the breath is drawn and emitted.
Weasel, s. A small animal that eats corn and kills rats and mice.