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  • way: he ways on
    (Nassau); his way is on (San Sal.) [cf. Scots way anger CSD; DES in a way in a state of
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  • way
    See WHERE.
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  • waxinate
    See VACCINATE.
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  • wattle tree
    [cf. DIE wattle-wood (Laetia thamnia)] n. a tree (sp?) whose branches are used in making certain kinds of STRAW WORK.
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  • wattles
    [OED, stakes used to form wails and roofs] n. a heavy forked stick used to support a house. cf. CRUTCH
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  • Watling's Island
    [see quot.] n. the former name of San Salvador, a major island of the Bahamas: 1786 Watling I. (Fenning &
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  • water top
    [W Car.; also Gul. (Gonzales 1924:57)] n. the surface of the water.
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  • water pussley
    [cf. OED water purslane (Ludwigia palustris) and PUSSLEY]  n. an edible plant (sp?) which grows in swamps. (Andros)
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  • water-head baby
    n. a hydrocephalic infant: They get bout three water-head baby in the
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  • watergate
    [DHS female pudenda; perhaps influ-enced by the CS political scandal of the 1970's; cf. EIDNE II] n. an American woman
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