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 102 HAMPSHIBE aLOSSA&T. Wigg [wig], sh, a small oval cake, with honey in ihe middle. — T. W. R, in N. and Q. 5th Ser. il 138. Wik [wik], 8h. a week. ♦Ak. Wild Spinage [weild-apin'ij], sb. Chenopodium Bonu&-Henricu8, — Dr. Bromfield m Phyidogist, 0. S. ilL 753.— J. B. Wild Vine [weild-yein], sh, Bryonia dioiea. Dr. Bromfield's MSS. T. B. Willy-basket [wili-baasknit], $h. a basket made of willow, used for carrying chad.— N. H. Wim [wim], t;. to winnow, to dean com. — ^Cooper. Wimble [wimb'l], sb. (1) An auger. (2) An instrument with which to take up faggots or trusses of hay. — ^Wise, New Forest, Windle [win-dl], v, to dwindle ; to waste or pine away. — N. and Q. X. 401. Wind*row [win-roa], sb. a row of mown grass, raked together after being tedded, i, e. in order to expose it to tiie wind. Ex. * We've got the main o' un into windrow9,* — N. H. Winniok [win-ik], v, to fret ; to cry peevishly, as an infant. — N. H. Wint, Went [wint, wenti, sb. two furrows ploughed by the horses going to one end of the neld and back again. — Cooper. Wint, Went [wint, went], v, to go to and from. (See above.) Cf. 'The cursed land, where many wend amiss;' Spenser^s Faerie Queene, * Wend you with this letter ; ' Meaa. for Meas, iv. 3. — Cooper. With [widh], sb, a twisted willow-wand, with which faggots are bound. A.S. toi^^e. *Ak. Generally used in the pi. in NTh. Withs [widhz], sb, pi. the flexible boughs of the willow with which bavins are tieil See Bavin. Ex. * We*d better fetch some wHhs and tie they bavins.' — ^N. H. Withwind [widh-weind], sb, wild convolvulus, bindweed. — ^Wise. New Forest, p. 166. A.S. wiiS-mnde, bindweed. Also called hithwind in New Forest. See Bithwind. Withy [widh'i], sb. (1) Various species of SaJix, — HoUoway's Dictionary, — J. B. (2) The common willow. 8alix Alba.—'N. H. Withy-Wind [widh'i-weind], sb, Myrica gale, — ^Pratt's Flowering FlanU of Great Britain,^ J. B. Wiwer [wivnir], v, to move, to veer round. — K H. Wiwery [wivuri], adj. giddy, dixzy. ' Weavery^ from the clack and tlunim of the loom ; or, more probably, a softer form of quivery.* — ^Blackmore's Cfradock Nowell, i p. 211 note. These derivations seem fkr-fetched. It is manifestlv derived from the verb, to wiver, whin^ seems to have some relation to waver. — ^W. H. C. Wobble. See Wabble.