Water-bound :: Water-bound (a.) Prevented by a flood from proceeding.
Weather-bound :: Weather-bound (a.) Kept in port or at anchor by storms; delayed by bad weather; as, a weather-bound vessel..
Whitsunday :: Whitsunday (n.) The seventh Sunday, and the fiftieth day, after Easter; a festival of the church in commemoration of the descent of the Holy Spirit on the day of Pentecost; Pentecost; -- so called, it is said, because, in the primitive church, those who had been newly baptized appeared at church between Easter and Pentecost in white garments..
Whitsunday :: Whitsunday (n.) See the Note under Term, n., 12..
Windbound :: Windbound (a.) prevented from sailing, by a contrary wind. See Weatherbound..
Winter-ground :: Winter-ground (v. t.) To coved over in the season of winter, as for protection or shelter; as, to winter-ground the roods of a plant..
Wood-bound :: Wood-bound (a.) Incumbered with tall, woody hedgerows..
Wound :: Wound () imp. & p. p. of Wind to twist, and Wind to sound by blowing..
Wound :: Wound (n.) A hurt or injury caused by violence; specifically, a breach of the skin and flesh of an animal, or in the substance of any creature or living thing; a cut, stab, rent, or the like..
Wound :: Wound (n.) Fig.: An injury, hurt, damage, detriment, or the like, to feeling, faculty, reputation, etc..
Wound :: Wound (n.) An injury to the person by which the skin is divided, or its continuity broken; a lesion of the body, involving some solution of continuity..
Wound :: Wound (n.) To hurt by violence; to produce a breach, or separation of parts, in, as by a cut, stab, blow, or the like..
Wound :: Wound (n.) To hurt the feelings of; to pain by disrespect, ingratitude, or the like; to cause injury to..