whurry; see [whirry].
whust, to keep silence; ‘They whusted all’, Phaer, tr. of Aeneid, ii. 1; to leave anything unsaid, ‘The libertie of an hystorie requireth that all shoulde bee related and nothing whusted’, Holinshed’s Chronicles (Nares); Stanyhurst, tr. of Aeneid, i. 357. See [whist].
wicker, pliant; ‘Bird! how she flutters with her wicker wings!’, B. Jonson, Sad Sheph. i. 2 (Æglamour).
widow, to endow with a widow’s right, to jointure. Meas. for M. v. 6. 153.
widowhood, a widow’s right, a jointure. Tam. Shrew, ii. 1. 125.
wigher, to neigh as a horse. Beaumont and Fl., Faithful Friends, iii. 2 (Dindimus). Cp. G. wiehern, to neigh.
wight, wyght, active. Morte Arthur, leaf 172, back, 30; bk. ix, c. 4; ‘Wyght or stronge, fort’, Palsgrave; Spenser, Shep. Kal., March, 91. In prov. use in the north of England (EDD.). ME. wight, active (Chaucer, C. T. B. 3457). See Dict. M. and S. (s.v. Wight).
Wild: the Wild of Kent, the Weald of Kent, 1 Hen. IV, ii. 1. 60; ‘I was borne in the wylde of Kent’, Lyly, Euphues (ed. Arber, 268). In EDD. we find that the Weald of Sussex is always spoken of as The Wild by the people who live in the Downs, and the inhabitants of the Downs call the dwellers of ‘The Wild’ the wild people. ‘The Wild of Surrey’ is described in Marshall’s Review (1817, v. 355). The same word as the adj. ‘wild’, see Dict. (s.v. Weald).
wildered, bewildered. Dryden, Hind and Panther, ii. 682. In prov. use in Scotland (EDD.).
wilding, a crab-apple. B. Jonson, Sad Sheph. ii. 2 (Maudlin); Warner, Albion’s England, iv. 20. Still in prov. use in the Midlands and in the west country (EDD.).