Weapon :: Weapon (n.) Fig.: The means or instrument with which one contends against another; as, argument was his only weapon..

Weapon :: Weapon (n.) A thorn, prickle, or sting with which many plants are furnished..

Weaponed :: Weaponed (a.) Furnished with weapons, or arms; armed; equipped..

Weaponless :: Weaponless (a.) Having no weapon.

Weaponry :: Weaponry (n.) Weapons, collectively; as, an array of weaponry..

Well-spoken :: Well-spoken (a.) Speaking well; speaking with fitness or grace; speaking kindly.

Well-spoken :: Well-spoken (a.) Spoken with propriety; as, well-spoken words..

Whereupon :: Whereupon (adv.) Upon which; in consequence of which; after which.

Whip-poor-will :: Whip-poor-will (n.) An American bird (Antrostomus vociferus) allied to the nighthawk and goatsucker; -- so called in imitation of the peculiar notes which it utters in the evening.

Whirlpool :: Whirlpool (n.) An eddy or vortex of water; a place in a body of water where the water moves round in a circle so as to produce a depression or cavity in the center, into which floating objects may be drawn; any body of water having a more or less circular motion caused by its flowing in an irregular channel, by the coming together of opposing currents, or the like..

Whirlpool :: Whirlpool (n.) A sea monster of the whale kind.

White-pot :: White-pot (n.) A kind of food made of milk or cream, eggs, sugar, bread, etc., baked in a pot..

Xanthocarpous :: Xanthocarpous (a.) Having yellow fruit.

Xanthopous :: Xanthopous (a.) Having a yellow stipe, or stem..

Xylocarpous :: Xylocarpous (a.) Bearing fruit which becomes hard or woody.

Yapock :: Yapock (n.) A South American aquatic opossum (Chironectes variegatus) found in Guiana and Brazil. Its hind feet are webbed, and its fore feet do not have an opposable thumb for climbing. Called also water opossum..

Yapon :: Yapon (n.) Same as Yaupon.

Yaupon :: Yaupon (n.) A shrub (Ilex Cassine) of the Holly family, native from Virginia to Florida. The smooth elliptical leaves are used as a substitute for tea, and were formerly used in preparing the black drink of the Indians of North Carolina. Called also South-Sea tea..

Youpon :: Youpon (n.) Same as Yaupon.

Ypocras :: Ypocras (n.) Hippocras.

Yupon :: Yupon (n.) Same as Yaupon.

Zampogna :: Zampogna (n.) A sort of bagpipe formerly in use among Italian peasants. It is now almost obsolete.

Zapotilla :: Zapotilla (n.) See Sapodilla.

Zinco-polar :: Zinco-polar (a.) Electrically polarized like the surface of the zinc presented to the acid in a battery, which has zincous affinity..

Zoosporangium :: Zoosporangium (n.) A spore, or conceptacle containing zoospores..

Zoospore :: Zoospore (n.) A spore provided with one or more slender cilia, by the vibration of which it swims in the water. Zoospores are produced by many green, and by some olive-brown, algae. In certain species they are divided into the larger macrozoospores and the smaller microzoospores. Called also sporozoid, and swarmspore..

Zoospore :: Zoospore (n.) See Swarmspore.

Zoosporic :: Zoosporic (a.) Of or pertaining to zoospores; of the nature of zoospores.

Zygapophyses :: Zygapophyses (pl. ) of Zygapophysi.

Zygapophysis :: Zygapophysis (n.) One of the articular processes of a vertebra, of which there are usually four, two anterior and two posterior. See under Vertebra..

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