Wreck :: Wreck (v. t.) To destroy, disable, or seriously damage, as a vessel, by driving it against the shore or on rocks, by causing it to become unseaworthy, to founder, or the like; to shipwreck..

Wreck :: Wreck (v. t.) To bring wreck or ruin upon by any kind of violence; to destroy, as a railroad train..

Wreck :: Wreck (v. t.) To involve in a wreck; hence, to cause to suffer ruin; to balk of success, and bring disaster on..

Wreck :: Wreck (v. i.) To suffer wreck or ruin.

Wreck :: Wreck (v. i.) To work upon a wreck, as in saving property or lives, or in plundering..

Wreck-master :: Wreck-master (n.) A person appointed by law to take charge of goods, etc., thrown on shore after a shipwreck..

Wreckage :: Wreckage (n.) The act of wrecking, or state of being wrecked..

Wreckage :: Wreckage (n.) That which has been wrecked; remains of a wreck.

Wrecked :: Wrecked (imp. & p. p.) of Wrec.

Wrecker :: Wrecker (n.) One who causes a wreck, as by false lights, and the like..

Wrecker :: Wrecker (n.) One who searches fro, or works upon, the wrecks of vessels, etc. Specifically: (a) One who visits a wreck for the purpose of plunder. (b) One who is employed in saving property or lives from a wrecked vessel, or in saving the vessel; as, the wreckers of Key West..

Wrecker :: Wrecker (n.) A vessel employed by wreckers.

Wreckfish :: Wreckfish (n.) A stone bass.

Wreckful :: Wreckful (a.) Causing wreck; involving ruin; destructive.

Wrecking :: Wrecking (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Wrec.

Wrecking :: Wrecking () a. & n. from Wreck, v..

Wryneck :: Wryneck (n.) A twisted or distorted neck; a deformity in which the neck is drawn to one side by a rigid contraction of one of the muscles of the neck; torticollis.

Wryneck :: Wryneck (n.) Any one of several species of Old World birds of the genus Jynx, allied to the woodpeckers; especially, the common European species (J. torguilla); -- so called from its habit of turning the neck around in different directions. Called also cuckoo's mate, snakebird, summer bird, tonguebird, and writheneck..

Wrynecked :: Wrynecked (a.) Having a distorted neck; having the deformity called wryneck.

Xebec :: Xebec (n.) A small three-masted vessel, with projecting bow stern and convex decks, used in the Mediterranean for transporting merchandise, etc. It carries large square sails, or both. Xebecs were formerly armed and used by corsairs..

Zebec :: Zebec (n.) See Xebec.

Zechin :: Zechin (n.) See Sequin.

Zechstein :: Zechstein (n.) The upper division of the Permian (Dyas) of Europe. The prevailing rock is a magnesian limestone.

Zooecia :: Zooecia (pl. ) of Zooeciu.

Zooecium :: Zooecium (n.) One of the cells or tubes which inclose the feeling zooids of Bryozoa. See Illust. of Sea Moss.

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