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  • wise woman
    [OED a woman skilled in magic, now dial, or arch.; Scots a witch or herbalist CSD; cf. also Haitian fanm-say, Fr. sage-femme
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  • wire weed
    [DJE, W3 different sp.; from its wiry stems] n. a small shrub, Sida carpinifolia, with yellow flowers whose stems are used
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  • wire-peg
    [cf. PEG] n. a fish spear: 1977 The early settlers caught some [fish] with hand lines, and speared some with
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  • wipe off
    [OED idem obs. → 1672] v. to cut off with a blow: 1918 Hunterman draw his long knife, an' he
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  • wipe-off
    n. washing the body with a cloth without using a tub or shower: Catch a wipe-off (Exuma). = CAT WASH,
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  • winter('s) cherry
    n. a plant, Physalis linkiana: 1889 (Gardner 396). (Exuma)
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  • wing-worm
    n. 1. [from the wing-like appendages with which it propels itself] a sea creature, the pteropod (Clio sp.): 1788 Two species
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  • wingey
    /wínji/ [W Car,; cf. WINGE] adj. small, puny: He give me one li'l wingey piece o' melon (Nassau). cf. SQUINCHY, TINCHY
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  • winge
    /winj/ [cf. Brit. dial. East winge to shrivel, as fruit kept too long obs. 1 v, to wilt (a plant)
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  • wing
     [OED, occasionally applied to the enlarged fins of flying fishes; DHS wing an arm, nautical]. n. 1. the fin of a
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