Unlatching :: Unlatching (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Unlatc.

Urchin :: Urchin (n.) A hedgehog.

Urchin :: Urchin (n.) A sea urchin. See Sea urchin.

Urchin :: Urchin (n.) A mischievous elf supposed sometimes to take the form a hedgehog.

Urchin :: Urchin (n.) A pert or roguish child; -- now commonly used only of a boy.

Urchin :: Urchin (n.) One of a pair in a series of small card cylinders, arranged around a carding drum; -- so called from its fancied resemblance to the hedgehog..

Urchin :: Urchin (a.) Rough; pricking; piercing.

Urechitin :: Urechitin (n.) A glucoside extracted from the leaves of a certain plant (Urechitis suberecta) as a bitter white crystalline substance.

Urechitoxin :: Urechitoxin (n.) A poisonous glucoside found accompanying urechitin, and extracted as a bitter white crystalline substance..

Vouching :: Vouching (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Vouc.

Watching :: Watching (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Watc.

Water Chicken :: Water chicken () The common American gallinule.

Water Chickweed :: Water chickweed () A small annual plant (Montia fontana) growing in wet places in southern regions.

Water Chinquapin :: Water chinquapin () The American lotus, and its edible seeds, which somewhat resemble chinquapins. Cf. Yoncopin..

Welwitschia :: Welwitschia (n.) An African plant (Welwitschia mirabilis) belonging to the order Gnetaceae. It consists of a short, woody, topshaped stem, and never more than two leaves, which are the cotyledons enormously developed, and at length split into diverging segments..

Wenching :: Wenching (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Wenc.

Wichitas :: Wichitas (n. pl.) A tribe of Indians native of the region between the Arkansas and Red rivers. They are related to the Pawnees. See Pawnees.

Witching :: Witching (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Witc.

Witching :: Witching (a.) That witches or enchants; suited to enchantment or witchcraft; bewitching.

Wrenching :: Wrenching (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Wrenc.

Xenodochium :: Xenodochium (n.) A house for the reception of strangers.

Xenodochium :: Xenodochium (n.) In the Middle Ages, a room in a monastery for the reception and entertainment of strangers and pilgrims, and for the relief of paupers. [Called also Xenodocheion.].

Zechin :: Zechin (n.) See Sequin.

Zeugobranchiata :: Zeugobranchiata (n. pl.) Same as Zygobranchia.

Zygobranchia :: Zygobranchia (n. pl.) A division of marine gastropods in which the gills are developed on both sides of the body and the renal organs are also paired. The abalone (Haliotis) and the keyhole limpet (Fissurella) are examples.

Zygobranchiate :: Zygobranchiate (a.) Of or pertaining to the Zygobranchia.

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