Waxen, sosh, penetrable, i. 452.
Way of life, periphrasis for life, iii. 511.
Wealth, weal, advantage, i. 435.
Wear, the fashion, ii. 615.
Wearing the hat at meals, i. 439.
Web and pin, the cataract in the eye, iii, 89.
Wee, diminutive, i. 647.
Weed, robe or garment, iii. 740, 771.
Week, in by the, a saying, i. 85.
Weening, thinking, imagining, ii. 302.
Weep a good, to cry in good earnest, i. 35.
Weet, to wit, to know, iii. 530.
Weigh out, outweigh, ii. 671.
Weird, prophetic, fatal, iii. 474.
Welkin eye, sky-coloured eye, iii. 200.
Well, an expression applied to the dead, iii. 243.
Well appeared, rendered apparent, iii. 168.
Well-liking, in good bodily condition, i. 89.
Well said, well done, i. 601, ii, 143, 319, iii. 625.
Well seen, well versed, i. 238.
Westward ho! a cry of the Thames watermen, and the title of
a comedy, ii. 279.
What, for what? why? iii. 601.
What make you ? what do you ? i. 674.
What the good year! an exclamation, i. 701.
Wheel, refrain, burden of a ballad, iii. 382.
Whelked, having protuberances, iii. 101.
When ! an exclamation of impatience, i. 449, ii. 443. iii. 13, 422.
When Arthur first in court began, a ballad, i. 626.
When? can you tell? a proverbial query, i. 127, 521.
When griping grief, &c. the beginning of an old song,
i. 205.
When that I was and a little tiny boy, ii. 281.
Whenas, when, i. 140.
Where, whereas, i. 21, 424, ii. 324, 345, 371.
Where is the life that late I led, i, 257, 622.
Wherein, in that, ii. 133.
Whifler, a fifer, or piper, ii. 120.
Whiles, until, ii. 270.
Whipping-cheer, flogging, i. 622.
Whipstock, the handle of a whip, or the whip itself, ii. 195, 246.
Whist, silent, at peace, hushed, iii. 15.
White, to hit the, in archery, i. 273.
Whiting-time, bleaching time, i. 666.
Whitster, a bleacher of linen, i. 663.
Whittle, a clasped knife, ii, 501.
Whoobub, hubbub, iii. 238.
Whoop, do me no harm, a tune or burden, iii. 232.
Whooping, out of all, ii. 150.
Wicked, baneful, iii. 13, 48.
Widow-hood, a dower, i. 243.
Widows' and widowers' vows of chastity, i. 44.
Wilderness, wildness, ii. 613.
Wild-goose chase, a sort of barbarous horse-race, or sterple
Winter-ground, a technical term for protecting a plant from
frost, ii. 748.
Wis, I, certainly, truly, i. 275. 413.
Wise-woman, a witch, i. 678.
Wish, to commend, i. 234, iii. 534.
Wisp of straw, a punishment for a scold, ii. 417.
Wistly, wistfully, i. 490.
Wit, knowledge, wisdom, i. 400, 712, ii. 301, iii. 349.
Wit, whither wilt? a proverbial saying, ii. 160.
Wit-cracker, a joker, i. 739.
Wit-snapper, one who affects repartee, i. 423.
Witches sailing in sieves, iii. 517.
With himself, not beside himself, iii. 603.
With the manner, in the fact, i. 54.
Withering of bay trees, an evil prognostic, i. 499.
Without, beyond, i. 371, ii. 23, iii. 45.
Witnessed, evidenced, iii. 508.
Wits five, the five senses, i. 696.
Wittol, a contented cuckold, i. 658.
Witty, discerning, judicious, ii. 405.
Woman-tired, hen pecked, iii. 213.
Woman of the world, a married woman, i. 707, ii. 11, 166.
Wood, mad, crazed, wild, i. 13, 353, ii. 321, iii. 729.
Woodcock, a simpleton, i. 733.
Wooden, blockish, ii. 326.
Woodman, cant term for a wencher, ii. 627.
Woodman, huntsman, ii. 741, iii. 744.
Woolward, wearing a woollen garment next the skin, going
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