Anglish wordbook/W
From The Anglish Moot
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| wanhope | n | the overwhelming feeling of loss beyond repair or redemption; hopelessness, despair [rare, from WAN- + hope]
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| wanderword | n | a word that has spread to many different languages; wanderwort(german cognate) [neologism, from wander & word]
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| weasand | n | the oesophagus; trachea; gullet,windpipe, the throat generally [rare, OE weasend; OHG weisant]
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| weed-month | n | the eighth month of the year, when the word "weed" meant all kinds of greenery; August [Anglo-Saxon, from Wēod-Mōnath]
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| wen | n | a lump or protuberance on the body; excresence on a tree, spot, stain; fig: moral stain, defilement; cyst, tumour, blemish [OE (wen)]
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| whelp | n | young of the dog; the young of various wild animals, as the lion, bear, tiger, wolf. Also applied to the off-spring of noxious creatures; low fellow; suckling, pup,cub [OE hwelp]
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| wine-month | n | the tenth month of the year, when wine-drinking is common; October [Anglo-Saxon, from Wīn-Mōnath]
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| wolf-month | n | the first month of the year (so called when the bitter cold of winter brought the wolves into the villages to forage for food); January [Anglo-Saxon, from Wulf-Mōnath]
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| wordbook | n | a book containing all, or a subsection of, the words in a language, with their meanings; dictionary, lexicon [revival, word + book]
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| wortcraft | n | the growing of plants and flowers, the craft and lore about growing plants; horticulture [compound of wort 'plant, herb' + -craft]
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| wough | n | a wall of a house a partition; in mining, the side of a vein; divider, panel, side [OE archaism]
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| wyrm | n | a small creeping animal with more or less slender, elongated bodies, and without limbs or with very short ones; worm, snake, serpent [revival, wyrm]
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